Life is not a battlefield, and there is no constant war.

The next few days were unsmoky, and the days passed unusually peacefully, so calm that it seemed that Mark was so desperate to get rid of his original body that it was a very stupid thing to do.

But Su Xian did not slack off, he not only made up a lot of books in the secret room, but also collected all the newspapers in the past month, and browsed them from beginning to end.

Newspapers record the past, and are good treasures to explore and miss.

He first cut out the reports of the first seven murders related to the "Gray Gang Lane Dry Corpse Incident", and then nailed them together into a book.

Then cut out all the hot news related to the "Big Eye Detective Agency" and compile another volume.

After that, the two volumes of incident records were pushed aside and left alone for the time being.

Then he began to look for similar special events, and the results soon came – thanks to the special typography of the Morning News.

Basically, the city of Brut is a relatively unorganized city, where people disappear almost every day, and if no one goes to report the crime, or the body is not found, it does not cause a sensation of a certain size, and it does not even appear in the newspapers.

On the other hand, as long as it appears in the newspaper, the "dead man incident" basically has a certain scale.

In addition to the "serial corpse cases", including the "Gray Gang Lane Dry Corpse Incident", there have also been a series of very strange cases of missing people in the past month.

The police named it "Mysterious Disappearance".

The population disappeared without warning.

According to one of the unnamed witnesses, he saw a man walking against a wall and suddenly disappear into thin air, without warning or scarring.

He rushed over and groped for the wall, but couldn't find anything.

Similar to him, the other witnesses were almost identical in their wording.

The key word is walls. Almost everyone who disappears into thin air is clinging to the wall, walking or stopping. If it weren't for the collective lying of the eyewitnesses, it would have been the work of extraordinary power.

"Serial Dried Corpse Case" and "Mysterious Disappearance Case", these two cases should involve extraordinary powers.

plus Andre, who was robbed of the "nose ring of the Minotaur" by Su Xian, and Catwoman who fled in a hurry, as well as the assassin who can "self-detonate......

The frequent appearance of supernatural powers has been foreshadowed enough.

"The crux of the matter is, where do all these people's extraordinary powers come from?"

Su Xian was not interested in solving the case, he wanted to know more about the source of those extraordinary powers.

"My supernatural powers come from sacrificing to the gods, will they do too?"

"It's a pity that I haven't been able to enter the graveyard of the gods since last time, and I can't see the condition of those tombs, otherwise I will have more information."

However, these have also been pushed aside for the time being.

There was another thing that caught his attention in the Morning News Today.

The impact level of this incident is very low, and it is very low in the ranking in today's morning newspaper, if it is not for it to appear more than three times in a row, Su Xian would hardly have paid attention to it.

He cut out the messages and lined them up.

Since early June, a group of strangely dressed people have been seen walking in the alleys.

It was like the group was going to a masquerade ball.

Someone has an apple nose on his head, like a clown.

Someone wore a black cloak and dressed like a vampire count.

Some people are completely naked, wearing only a pair of briefs and a triangular mask on their face, like a pervert.

Of course, there are also people who dress up and wear suits and leather shoes, but such serious people walk among that group of unserious people, but it looks particularly strange.

Witnesses suspect that the group was conducting an illegal assembly.

Newspaper reporters once wanted to interview some of them, but were decisively refused.

The reporter wanted to continue to follow, but was directly beaten and thrown to the corner of the alley.

No one saw where the group ended up, but no one was hurt by it except for the hapless journalist.

The police did not pay attention to the incident, and the newspaper did not pay enough attention to it.

Su Xian thought about it for a while, so he named it "Masquerade Incident".

"This masquerade incident always feels a bit evil. Teach the taste of assembly...... It would be nice to know where they were meeting. ”

Doubt is not the same as certainty.

He pinned these pieces of information and compiled them into a book.

……

Saturday, July 13th.

When it was time for the evening meal, it suddenly got dark and it was raining outside.

When Su Xian heard the sound of rain, he beckoned the decoration workers to enter the store to take shelter from the rain.

After a few days of renovation, the Rare Treasure Antiquities Shop has basically been restored to new condition, and the entrance to the secret room has also been repaired - of course, Su Xian is no longer ready to treat it as a secret room.

Today's renovation is already the final stage, which is to renovate the appearance of the storefront, and hang magic lamps under the eaves of the entrance so that the signboard of the "Rare Treasure Antiquities Shop" can be lit up.

Of course, the switch of the magic lamp is in the store.

In addition to this, Su Xian also asked them to strengthen the four walls of the antiquities shop and set up a small fence around it.

Now just wait for the rain to stop and finish the final process, and these renovation workers can check out and leave.

However, Su Xian plans to invite them to have a good drink tonight, which will be counted as a celebration of completion.

A person's image is erected from all sides, and if you can create a generous enough impression to make outsiders feel better about you, they will not think that you are in a profiteering business!

This is the business experience that Su Xian took from Mark's memory.

Because of the antique store, most of the bargains and a small number of high-end goods are found from a fixed number of places.

High-end goods fill the façade, while bargain goods are exaggerated and sold at high prices.

An antique shop that doesn't sell imitations is already a very conscientious shop.

The vast majority of customers in this era actually don't understand these at all, and what the seller says is what it is.

Therefore, whether the antiquities store can really make money depends not on the quality of the goods, but on the eloquence and reputation of the owner.

In order to be able to collect more rare antiquities, Su Xian has decided to run this antiquities shop well, so that his reputation will become more famous in the circle, so as to attract more people to take the initiative to present rare antiquities......

But his calculations tonight seem to be failing.

Because of this rain, there is no sign of stopping!

It was getting darker and the rain was getting heavier.

The night spread out an infinite net, swallowing up the last shred of light on the horizon.

Gradually, thunder roared, lightning tore the sky, and there were faint fierce beasts roaring in the clouds, like the sky was furious, and the pale thunder teeth tore the sky.

The city of Brut ushered in a rare heavy rainstorm.