11:55 a.m.

At this moment, there are still five minutes before midnight, and the bustle of the inner city is beginning to come to an end, and there are few pedestrians on the streets, and the mounted police patrol a specific route with iron sentry and rifles.

Although the prosperity began to fall, you can still hear the singing that surrounds the buildings, and the intoxicating smell of wine makes the air sweet. A thick white mist rose slowly, steam from the ground, but unlike the simple and crude way of emitting it in the outer city, it silently surged from the cracks in the ground, enveloping everything beneath it.

Eve rarely sees the innercity late at night, usually when she's already nestled in her soft bed, rather than hanging out with a neurotic detective.

Looking to the side, Lorenzo beside him seemed to be waiting for something, constantly looking at the time on his pocket watch.

Lorenzo had been like this since the two of them left the restaurant, the great detective kept looking at the time and the surroundings as if he was looking for something, and without saying a word, Eve could only follow him like this.

The fog covered everything, and from the zeppelin above the night sky, there was a sea of white, and the minarets and bell towers rose from the gray mist, and the lights of electricity were like fireflies.

"Here we are. ”

Suddenly, Lorenzo said this, and stood on the side of the road with Eve.

"Here?"

Eve was a little puzzled, they were on a platform where the steam tram was stationed, and from the stop sign, the last train had stopped two hours earlier.

All around was a hazy gray mist, and the scorching steam heated the evening breeze and blew on Eve's face, the warmth of which seemed like a monster lurking behind the mist.

The girl subconsciously grabbed her skirt, and what was hidden under it was not a beautiful thigh, but a dangerous weapon.

"Yes, here. ”

Lorenzo said suddenly, looking behind the mist.

"The steam tram in Old Dunling has actually been at a loss, and the fare for transporting passengers is simply not enough for the cost, and it has always been the tax revenue of those big entrepreneurs to support these, so in order to alleviate it, the steam tram is also rented out and sold. ”

Eyes moved to the platform, where the metal rails shone brightly, but the glow trembled as Lorenzo watched.

"This is something that you should be able to reach the aristocratic class, the company will rent or sell carriages to private people, and when they need to travel, they will directly call the locomotive to run, and you Phoenix family is stronger, you just get a train.

The nobles usually decorated the carriages with great sumptude, like a small palace, and when there was a banquet, the moving palace would stop in front of the guests' houses, and the attendants would bow and salute and wait for them to arrive. ”

Lorenzo said something that Eve wouldn't know.

"But there would be other uses, such as an earl, who would hug each other in the carriage with his lover, and the carriage would be completely isolated from the wheelhouse, and the driver would not know what was going on in the carriage behind him, and they would keep walking on the railroad tracks of Old Tunlin until the earl asked to go home. ”

Eve frowned slightly, revealing a somewhat disgusted expression.

"How do you know?"

"For the count's lady is my client, and you may not believe it, but I am very popular with the rich women. ”

Lorenzo's eyebrows fluttered.

After the first mistress case was over, the lady introduced Lorenzo to more noble ladies who were troubled by it, and they admired Lorenzo's rough and comfortable way of handling cases, and for a time a detective named "Mistress Killer" circulated in the upper social circles.

The case of the count was the pinnacle of Lorenzo's career as a junior, and the employer knew that his husband had done a good thing, but he couldn't catch it, so he entrusted it to Lorenzo, and Lorenzo followed him for a long time before he found out that the count had actually bought a carriage for the mobile palace.

In the end, Lorenzo gives his employer a location, where he creates an accident where the tram derails.

"You'll never know the expressions on those two faces as they fall out of the carriage naked!"

Looking at Loren's excited appearance, Eve's face was black, this detective is no longer a problem of bad character.

"Then why don't you go ahead and do it?"

"It's too bad to do this, and it's inevitable that there will be three knives and six holes. ”

Lorenzo looked noble, but the actual answer was that the count spent three months on psychological treatment, after all, standing in the crowd suddenly and no one's spirit could withstand the impact, and the first thing he did after recovery was to buy Lorenzo's dog's life, for which Lorenzo hid in the shrike for nearly a month.

The atmosphere was much livening under Lorenzo's, and the damp coldness receded slightly.

"Do you still have a place there?"

Pointing to Eve's skirt, Lorenzo said suddenly, unaware of his unreasonableness.

"You...... What are you going to do?"

Eve's cheeks flushed, this detective is really a psychopath, you never know what he's going to do in the next second.

I saw that Lorenzo took out a silver-white revolver out of nowhere, and the bullet nest was depicted with ghosts and gods, heavy, and filled with ammunition.

"I need you to help me hide it, Sabo is a rude Viking, but under the influence of the culture of the old Dunling, he has learned some etiquette. At his ball, he would search men thoroughly, even if the blade was caught in the ditch, but he wouldn't be disrespectful to women. ”

Give the revolver to Eve, and Lorenzo stands by her side. After carefully sorting out his clothes, the next thing is the main event, he needs to be serious.

Eve didn't understand a little, but she still obediently tied the revolver to the ribbon, there were no white thighs, and under the long skirt was tight casual clothes, as long as Eve needed it, she could directly tear off the long skirt and enter the battle.

Short dagger and gun, Eve has never been an ordinary aristocratic girl, as a child of the Phoenix family, other nobles were born with a golden spoon, so Eve was born with a bullet.

The Phoenix family is an immortal bird that rises from the ruins of the Glorious War, even if it is the princess of the immortal bird, Eve is still stained with the pungent smell of sulfur, which is engraved in the blood.

"It's time. ”

Lorenzo said suddenly, Eve still didn't know what was happening, she hadn't understood the development of events since she and Lorenzo walked out of the restaurant, but then the bell rang.

It was a long and silent song, from the tallest building in the inner city, and the murmur of the long song wandered back and forth in the streets and alleys, like a ghost that refused to go away for a long time.

A strange feeling welled up in Eve's mind, and she was suddenly frightened.

The cold eroded the thin long skirt, and the cold caressed her waist like a ghost's claw.

I don't know when only she and Lorenzo were left on the street, and there was a gentle sound of horses' hooves in the distance, it was the mounted police who were on guard at night, but Eve couldn't see anything under the thick fog, only the street lamps were scattered into a large halo, and behind the gray fog it seemed to be the shining eyes of a monster.

Then a cold wind blew across Eve's cheeks.

Looking back, Eve felt like she was almost suffocating.

The pitch-black steam tram stopped in front of the platform at some point, and the fog obscured its arrival, and there was no sound, not even the lights, only the freshly released steam heated the surroundings, as if it were a ghost from afar.

At this time, it stands to reason that there was no steam tram running, but now there was such a strange steam tram parked in front of her eyes, with no license plate, no markings, and even the windshield was pitch black, and Eve was not even sure if there was anyone inside.

"Holding my hand, we are a couple in tonight's script. ”

Lorenzo's voice came from the side, and he raised his arm to gesture to Eve.

Couple?

Eve immediately wanted to draw a gun and shoot the damn detective, in which case Eve was already nervous, but the sudden opening of the car door interrupted her thoughts.

It was a squire dressed in black, and when he saw Lorenzo nodding slightly, Lorenzo skillfully took out two coins and handed them to him.

The coin was engraved not with a lion, but with a thorny shrike in its mouth, as if it were some pass, and the attendant turned his body sideways to make way for the two of them, and the door was pitch black, and nothing could be seen, as if it were going to the bottomless abyss.

"Luo ......"

Eve still wanted to say something, the uneasiness in her heart had been scratching at her, she had always trusted her instincts, but at this moment Lorenzo did not give her any chance to speak, and took her hand with a smile and boarded the steam tram.

The steam tram started slowly, without any sound, and just silently sank into the gray fog, as if it had never appeared.