Ranffindor Farm covers an area of about 5 hectares, and is an upper-average family farm around the city of Preston, with 12 permanent workers in the entire farm, and depending on the busyness of the time, most of them are hired from nearby towns.

Donald, led by Goren, went to the livestock area to investigate the disappearance of cattle and sheep.

"Mr. Grant, the fence here was a collapse of about half a meter when we found out about the first case of missing cattle and sheep, and there were scratches like here, and there were scratches here. ”

Pointing to the fence that had been repaired on the periphery, Golen compared to the previous state, but in this repaired place, the original traces had long been destroyed, and there was no other situation at all.

"What about the broken sticks?"

"What?"

"It's the wooden board that was replaced during the previous restoration, didn't you say there were scratches on it?"

"It was taken away by the police, and they said they would go back and compare and find the corresponding animal. ”

The farm called the police first, and the police station in the town took some things back for inspection.

"Didn't find a match, did you? What the mark looked like, do you remember?"

Stepping on the grass, both hands grabbed the old wooden fence next to it and shook it, it was quite stable, even with seventy percent of the force, it could not shake it, it seemed that the stake was very deep.

It takes a lot of effort to break a wooden fence of this magnitude.

"The scratches were all five, creatures with five fingers, and I remember a hole cut out of the middle of the plank. ”

"Do you think there's a beast near the farm that can break such a thick plank...... It's summer, so there's no shortage of food in the mountains, right?"

Stealing cattle and sheep, the first object of suspicion of ordinary people is naturally the fierce beasts in the mountains, and there are indeed mountains and forests in the south of Lanffindor Farm, and the area is not small.

It's just that the season is not right, there are many animals in the mountains and forests in summer, and wild animals also know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and they will not rashly break into the human world until they are at the end of the road.

Goren couldn't say anything about this, so he could only spread his hands to show that he didn't know.

"I remember the morning you said that someone had seen a monster during the vigil, where was he?"

Almost all the trace information left at the scene is in the hands of the police, the town is more than half an hour away from the farm, and the other party is not necessarily willing to show it to his detective assistant.

Instead of wasting that effort, it's better to look for clues nearby.

Moreover, according to Godot, the first case of the disappearance of cattle and sheep occurred two weeks ago, and the police department has not found any results for so long, and Donald has not expected what he can do.

Along the fence, through the flocks of sheep, it was getting nearly evening, and workers began to drive their livestock into the barn nearby, and it was certainly not okay to leave them outside in such a rainy day.

"Gorlen, what kind of person is Miss Audrey?"

"Miss Audrey, though she is not very good-looking, she is a kind-hearted girl, and she never puts on a show with us workers and servants, and she has no one to speak ill of her on the Ranffindor Farm. ”

It seems that Audrey's daily style is good, but how bad she looks is to make people mention it so specially......

"By the way, I remember that there was a case of corpses on the roof of the Lanfondo Farm, right? Can you tell me about the situation, you know, detectives like me like to hear about strange cases, listen to people...... It's not easy, is it?"

"Hey, how can it be said that it is not simple, it was called a strange thing at the time, I still remember that when we first came to Lanffindor, just after getting familiar with the operation of the farm, there was such an incident, it seemed that there were 10 people who died at that time, but it frightened us, and because of this incident, the people in the town thought that we were a disaster, I knew that someone used this place as a place to kill people, and Mr. Bartley would definitely not buy it. ”

Speaking of this kind of thing, Golen's mood was very high, after all, it happened a few years ago, and the panic and fear had long since dissipated, leaving behind some wonderful memories.

"10? Didn't the newspaper say seven?"

On the way here, Donald was still reading the report about the corpse on the roof of the shed, and it hadn't been long since his memory was confused, right?

"I remember wrong? I remember what the boss said at the beginning, 10 died, and let's not panic, the case has been solved, and the murderer has been caught...... When I arrived, your words reminded me that Bob was not only a witness to the disappearance of cattle and sheep, but also seemed to have seen the criminal in the case of the corpse crushing on the roof of the shed, and was called by the police station to hear the news for a while, but when he came back, he said that he couldn't remember anything, which was also strange, he was a second fright, and now he is probably sitting on the bed in a daze, tsk, it doesn't seem to hurt to scare the monster like this, right? Not only can you rest, but you can also get compensation afterwards, 5 shillings, enough to go to the tavern for a few pastimes. ”

Most of the permanent workers on the farm are bachelors, who do not have a family, and live the same anywhere, while the farm side is full of food and shelter, and the extra work is only night shifts.

The house provided for the workers to live in was like a partition house that was common on a construction site in the previous life, except that it was made of brick and stone, and it was a larger scale, after all, it was a permanent residence, and there was a large wooden table and a stone fire pit outside, and a bracket was built out of iron rods.

"You all live here?"

"Yes, don't look at the outside doesn't seem to be good, in fact, the interior decoration is not bad, everyone lives together is also lively, the farm is so big, if you live in one place alone, it is really not practical to sleep at night. ”

Pong~

The two were talking, and suddenly there was a sound on the second floor, like pots and pans and something like falling to the ground, the sound was not soft, not like it was inadvertently caused to the ground.

"What's the matter, some people have to lose their temper when they rest?"

Goren trotted upstairs, listening to the meaning of his words, and the location where the voice came from was supposed to be Bob's residence.

Lifted his clothes, opened the pistol safety stuck in his waist, and rushed up the stairs outside the house after Goren.

"Goren, the monster is coming! I can feel it, it's nearby!"

Before I reached the door, I heard someone talking loudly in a house in front of me, and I didn't rush into the house, but stayed at the door.

In the corner of the bed in the room was a man shrunk into the corner, and the man who worked on the farm was certainly not thin, but such a man, but now he was squatting there with a pale face, and he still had a short knife in his hand, and an iron basin was overturned on the ground.

What could scare this man to such an extent?

Wow!

The dog barked outside the window, and Donald stood in the room looking at the man on the bed and kept muttering to himself.

"Mr. Bob, I have a few questions for you. ”

"It's coming, it's coming......"

Repeating the sentence, the man on the bed was not in a stable mental state, but it was the third day since he was attacked, and it was only an arm injury, so why did there be a problem with his brain?

"Hey, Bob, what are you nervous about in front of me? I saw you were fine yesterday, and you became a fool all night? Who are you fooling?"

Golen frowned when he looked at it, outsiders may not know, but they have worked together for so long, he knows very well what kind of character Bob is, he is usually a lazy guy, he was injured and rested a few days ago, and no one can say anything, but this is the third day, yesterday the state was normal, and today they came to ask stupidly.

Isn't this a trick?

"Don't you see, Goren, that monster, it's nearby, behind you! It's in that cupboard!"

Sudden throat, so that Goren and Donald were both startled, although they knew that what Bob said was unlikely, the two of them still had a cold back, Donald also deliberately took a step closer to the cabinet, listening to the movement, Goren opened the cabinet door with his backhand.

Of course, there can't be any monsters inside.

"Mr. Bob, calm down, we're not here to ask you to work, we just have a few questions. ”

Donald also has a headache when he meets such an uncooperative person.

"Monsters! monsters...... Outside the window, do you hear a dog barking? That's my dog, it's protecting me!"

Wow!

As if to match Bob, there was another barrage of barking outside the window.

"Why, you still have an assistant actor, so should I choose to turn a blind eye to the performance with you?

Goren was a little angry, he felt that he had never seen such a thick-skinned person, and his perception of Bob used to affect his current judgment.

Donald stood at the window at this time, and there was indeed something else outside.

The maid with a bamboo basket stood at the edge of the tree, and a yellow earth dog was barking at her.

"Who's that?"

He patted Goren on the shoulder and pointed to the people outside.

"Oh, Miss Furla, why is she here, that dog is really looking for death, I will stew it sooner or later. ”

Goren trotted out of the house, and when he saw that he was about to go to the hero to save the beauty, Donald didn't leave, just stayed in the room and watched Bob.

"When did that monster target you?"

Sitting down on a small stool next to the bed, Donald simply followed Bob's words.

"The day before yesterday...... Yesterday...... It's not going to give me a way to live, it's going to kill me! You know, it's staring at me right there!"

Bob turned his head, his eyes shaking behind his hair, and his hands clutched the short knife, as if a real monster was about to pounce somewhere.

With a slurred word, Donald glanced at the bedside table next to him, with a bamboo basket and some loose coins, reached for two shillings, and put them in his pocket in front of Bob.

The movements were very slow, for fear that he would not be able to see.

No response...... Bob was still sitting and muttering to himself.

Donald confirmed at this point that he was indeed mentally wrong, and if he really played stupid and saw his money being taken away, he would react anyway, even if it was just by pretending to be stupid to stop him.