017 Map

Rorschach and Jessica drove the police car to a gas station off Route 49, where the missing were last seen, where one of the missing had called his father.

By questioning the gas station staff, Rorschach learned that two men and two women (the missing persons) had passed by in an old Ford sedan two days earlier, and after filling up the gas, they drove away, and then it rained heavily.

Although the gas station employees did not know where they drove to, they provided a clue that there was a small town called "Weilou" in the vicinity, and it is very likely that the missing person went to the town to escape the torrential rain.

Rorschach and Jessica decide to go to the town, and Jessica checks the information and finds that this town called "Willo" is in a semi-deserted state, and now the population is very sparse, with less than a hundred people.

Coming down from Route 49, the road to the town was a little muddy due to the heavy rain of the previous day, and after continuing for a while, a sign appeared on the side of the road.

Jessica pointed to the sign on the side of the road in front of her, frowned, and said:

"Look at the sign."

Rorschach looked up and saw a huge sign depicting a grinning clown in a top hat with the words "Ahead: Spalding: Museum of Monsters and Maniacs".

"A museum of monsters and madmen?"

Jessica stared at the sign.

Rorschach narrowed his eyes and didn't make a sound, just nodded.

Soon, the two saw the entrance to the town.

The town is very quiet, there is not a single person in sight, and the streets are lined with rows of abandoned houses.

Jessica looked left and right, puzzled:

"The town looks like it's uninhabited, but it's weird that the sign I saw just now was freshly painted."

Rorschach says:

"Let's go to that museum."

Jessica nodded.

Rorschach drove the police car on, and soon saw a large building, two stories high, the first floor has no windows, with a neon sign on it, which reads "Spalding Monster and Maniac Museum", there is an exit similar to a playground haunted house below, and there is a ticket hall next to it, and there is a clown doll more than one person tall at the door, constantly bending down and waving, the doll is wearing red pajamas, with a white face and red nose, which makes people feel indescribably funny and weird.

Rorschach parked the police car in front of the ticket hall, pushed the door open, stepped out of the police car, and looked left and right.

Jessica also stepped out of the police car and looked around, with doubts in her eyes, and said:

"This is a museum, and it looks like a haunted house for scary people."

"Go in and have a look."

Rorschach glanced at the clown figure who bent down and waved at him, "I hope the guy who runs this place can provide some useful clues." ”

He and Jessica walked into the ticket hall, which was not only for ticket sales, but also for a small supermarket and souvenir shop, with merchandise shelves on one side and a variety of strange souvenir counters on the other, with various animal specimens, dolls, and some extremely disgusting things in the glass windows, but there were no sales staff in sight.

Jessica frowned, she was a woman after all, and she was a little naturally repulsive to disgusting things, she looked around and said:

"These things are so annoying, will anyone buy them home?"

"Who knows."

Rorschach walked to the cash register, saw a metal bell next to a gothic-shaped counterfeit detector, raised his hand and began to clap.

Bell! Bell! Bell!

Behind the cash register, there was a shout of swearing coming from the room with a red curtain on one side.

"Oh my God! Why would someone ring the bell when I'm pooping, and when I come out, that person had better disappear...... Otherwise, I'll tear your balls! ”

The red curtain was lifted, and a middle-aged white man with a thick white foundation and clown makeup on his face poked his head out.

However, when he saw Rorschach and Jessica in black police uniforms in front of the cash register, his face immediately switched to a bright smile.

"Oh, it turned out to be sir! I'm Captain Spalding, can I help with anything? ”

Jessica glared at him and said:

"We have some questions for you."

"Sir, please tell me what I know."

Rorschach pulled out an A4 copy of paper from his pocket, with a photo of one of the missing girls, and asked:

"Have you seen this girl in the last 48 hours?"

Spalding the Clown took the copy paper and laughed.

"I've seen it, a cute girl, even though it's not my type, I like that they have more meat on them, and the more meat they have, the more cool it will be, Oye, Oye!"

Jessica frowned as she watched Spalding's disgusting movements.

Seeing this, Spalding the Clown grinned at her, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.

Jessica took a breath, suppressed the urge to beat someone in her heart, and said:

"Listen, Spalding, we just need you to answer the questions and not say anything irrelevant, especially your sex life, do you hear that!?"

Spalding the Clown nodded hurriedly.

"Understood, understood."

Rorschach narrowed his eyes and said:

"Stop talking nonsense, I just want to hear the facts."

"Huh?"

Spalding the Clown was stunned for a moment.

Rorschach raised his eyebrows, the guy in front of him was obviously pretending to be stupid, he stared at Spalding and asked:

"What do you see? Who is she with? Where did you go? ”

Spalding the clown noticed that Rorschach's face was displeased, and hurriedly waved his hand and said:

"Sir, I don't know! It's true! She just passed by with three stupid kids, stopped by to look at the museum, and asked a bunch of stupid questions. ”

"Questions about what?"

"Hey......"

Spalding the Clown shook his head and sighed, "It's a stupid question about" Doctor Satan ". ”

Rorschach's eyes narrowed.

"Doctor Satan?"

Spalding the Clown shrugged his shoulders and said slowly:

"It's a local legend, Quentin Quill, Doctor Satan, murderer, sadist, and master of surgery. Quill was a trainee doctor, and there used to be a Willo psychiatric hospital, known locally as "Weeping Velo" because of the endless cries of pain. There, through brain surgery, Quill believes he can create a "superman", so he experiments among psychosis until the matter is revealed and a fair trial comes, and he is taken away and hanged on a crooked neck tree. However, the next day, his body disappeared, and there is no trace of Dr. Satan's doctor until now, but who knows what will happen in the future? Maybe he's still in this town......"

Jessica shouted from the sidelines:

"We're not here to hear your story!"

"I don't know why they're interested in this story!"

Spalding the Clown pouted, "There was a stupid, curious boy among them who wanted to see the crooked neck tree that hanged Dr. Satan, and I told him that he should forget about it, but he said to me, come on, that's what I'm living for...... I was so annoyed that I had no choice, so I drew him a map, which was to go to a farm called "Rotten Wood", anyway, I just drew blindly, as long as I could play them. ”

"They went to the "Rotten Wood" farm? ”

"I don't know ......"

Spalding the Clown spread his hands and shook his head, "I guess those stupid kids might be spinning around and getting lost." ”

Rorschach asked:

"Nothing else? Have you figured it all out? ”

Spalding the Clown rubbed his temples and thought about it.

"Sir, I really don't know, they've been here for a short time."

"Then redraw the map you drew for them."

"Okay, okay! I'll draw it right away. ”

Spalding the clown hurriedly picked up the sticky note paper and the pen, and said as he drawn:

"Follow the road up, turn right here, turn left, go through here, go down...... That's it, the chief drew it. ”

Rorschach took the sticky note and glanced at it, then beckoned Jessica to leave.