Chapter 17: The Night Road

Saya was taken to the police hospital during the day, and was guarded by police and gang personnel, either overtly or covertly. But soon, Sanjay's king pressured the police through diplomatic and private channels, and with written authorization from Saya's parents, she was removed from the hospital without difficulty. The Tianwen team didn't even have time to stop it.

When it was approaching dusk, because no one else wanted to participate, Xiao Yan could only go to some specific places alone to conduct investigations. Galadia and the others plan to continue to expand their influence in Gothic City, while also inquiring about the Ripper.

"Is there really no one going with me?" Xiao Yan muttered while packing up his equipment, this time he didn't know why this action made his heart very uneasy.

"Do you want me to come with you?" Galadia sat at the long table to the side and watched as he loaded the sewer map and a large amount of C4 explosives into his personal space, "Are you really going to the Investigation Station, aren't the Street Girls going to be bomb maniacs?" ”

"Huh? I just think that the bomb is very artistic~" Xiao Yan looked at the girl's delicate face, and couldn't help but move her eyes down.

"I've changed my mind! Go yourself! Galadia put her arms in front of her chest and glared at him, "If I turn around and find out that you really fooled around, I'll deduct you two hundred points!" ”

"What's the perfect score?"

"Out of 100. And you're almost failing now! ”

"When did I drop so many points?"

"Humph!" Hei Changzhi thought about his experience in the woods by the Shangluo River not long ago, and got angry, "I will deduct five more points from you!" ”

……

"Your girls are not very good~" Xiao Yan looked at the several sick street girls standing in front of him.

This is the brothel to which one of the victims belongs, and it is ostensibly a legal bar.

As long as he paid enough money, the waiter would take the customer to the back room and introduce him to the girl from the restaurant.

"Change the batch." The waiter dismissed the girl in front of him and beckoned outside.

"What about the girl named Mary? She's ok, call her over. Xiao Yan reported the victim's name and threw a few shillings to the waiter.

"Unfortunately, sir, we are unable to grant you this wish." The waiter quickly took the shilling, and there was no trace of regret on his face, "Miss Mary has been murdered in a cruel case, and we are all saddened by it. ”

"Case?"

"That's right, sir, it's the good thing done by that pervert who eats women's internal organs." The waiter whispered. A few shillings of extra income gave him the incentive to speak a few more words to the generous gentleman before the new girl came in.

"Interesting, well, I mean it's horrifying." Xiao Yan had a lewd, curious, and lewd look on his face, which was not very difficult to pretend, "I'm curious. ”

"Miss Mary was taken out one night by a guest." The waiter looked outside and said, "When he came back from that gentleman's house, he met with misfortune in a small alley. This kind of thing is not uncommon in the city, and the girls take their lives to save a few car dollars. ”

"Has anyone witnessed the crime?"

"No, at least the police have investigated for a while and found nothing." The waiter shook his head, "There was a girl at the Boxing Cat Bar two blocks away who had the same thing. Everyone said that the police really ate rice. ”

"Isn't it?" Xiao Yan saw that the new girls had already arrived, "Do you pay tribute to the police?" ”

"Surely, not a penny is missing." The waiter pouted, "What's more, the police still have our girl's records." ”

"Oh?"

"Yes! We're a legal bar, and the girls here have a police roster. The waiter whispered, "Register in the name of a beer salesman." ”

This is not surprising, when Xiao Yan first looked for bait, he also obtained the information of the girls through the police registration information. It's just that I didn't expect the coverage of the Gothic City Police Department to be quite extensive.

The new girls looked better than before, but they still couldn't catch the eye. Ah......h Even if I did, I didn't plan to do anything. Xiao Yan remembered Galadia's threat, and couldn't help but shake his head, leaving the two girls to drink a beer with him and ask some about Mary by the way, and then dropped a few shillings to them, got up and left the bar.

……

At the boxing cat bar two blocks away, Xiao Yan found that their situation was very similar. The woman who was killed was also killed after being called out, and the police hastily deleted the names from the records and did not conduct further investigations.

However, the bartenders and guards here are not very welcoming to anyone who inquires. Although Xiao Yan had a completely curious and obscene expression, he was kicked out of the bar after not long on the topic of the victim.

……

It's really a disappointment~

Xiao Yan flipped through the sticky notes as he walked towards the next planned place.

There is a huge obvious problem in the pattern of behavior of the ripper, how does he choose the victims and the location of the crime?

There are hundreds of bars or companies that manage prostitutes in Gothic City, with street girls ranging from a dozen to hundreds. Although the number of these girls is considerable, it is not easy to catch one in a megacity like Gothic City and kill them in the right place without being discovered.

If you wander around aimlessly, it's not uncommon to not wait for an opportunity all night.

The murderer kills prostitutes in a row with an extremely regular rhythm, and if he is not a client or a person close to him, he may well have access to the pattern of the girls' movements and kill them when they return home or from a trip. It is even possible that the murderer came from the Gothic police force, after all, they also had access to the information of the prostitutes.

……

"Lexington Abbey." Xiao Yan took out a police uniform from his personal space and put it under his thick coat, looked at the wooden sign on the dilapidated door, and knocked on the doorman's window.

"Is Sister Susan here today?"

The ugly doorman with a sarcoma on his nose looked at Xiao Yan and said "no" with a disgusted expression.

Xiao Yan threw a shilling over, "Where did she go?" ”

If the coin doesn't work, I'll show my uniform, Xiao Yan thought to himself. Don't look for a fight.

The doorman accepted the shilling, "Ike Hotel three blocks away, it's been an hour since we left." I suggest you wait for her here. ”

Sister Susan has two identities.

During the day she is a nun, and by night she is a call girl in a nun's dress.

Because she is a real nun and does not just wear a nun's costume to play, she is favored by many prostitutes with special hobbies. Since she is very famous in the industry, Xiao Yan also included her in the interview list to see if she can get any clues from their circle.

Xiao Yan walked along the dark street. The old gas lamps on the street have not been replaced by new ones, and they flicker on and off, and even occasionally encounter a period of complete darkness.

The broken pavement was covered with stagnant water, and there was a sound of crackling water as it passed.

There seemed to be something snooping on him in the shadows not far away, and the more he walked, the more gloomy it became, and several times Xiao Yan stopped and looked around. He's not a coward who is afraid of the dark, but he also feels weirdly uneasy in this environment.

"Hey~ I'm on the wrong path." Xiao Yan unconsciously walked into a forked path. The side of the road here was sturdier and smoother, and he mistakenly thought that this was the main road.

In the faint darkness, Xiao Yan could barely see the front not far ahead, so he groped his way through.

"If you go straight along the road, you will get lost, and it's a shame to pass it out."

"Plop!" Xiao Yan suddenly stepped into the air and fell into a big pit.

The pit was a meter and a half deep, and the dirt fell down with a clatter, leaving him in disgrace.

What the hell is this place. Xiao Yan looked around and found that there was a wooden plank under his feet, and when he fell down, he stepped on it with one foot and stepped on the thin plank.

"Why is there a board here?" Xiao Yan moved his feet, only to see that under the plank, a pale-faced man with wide eyes was looking at him through the hole without saying a word.

"I'll go!" Xiao Yan jumped up in fright, "Sir, you...... You ......"

The man under the plank was motionless, his eyes and face lifeless. It's a corpse......

Xiao Yan checked and found himself standing in the tomb of the dead gentleman. Judging from the surrounding situation, this gentleman should have just been buried today, and he has not had time to fill in the earth.

"Rest in peace." The very thin coffin board was stepped on with a large hole. Xiao Yan hesitated for a moment, and reached out to close his eyes for the gentleman who had been disturbed by his own sleep.

Suddenly, something bounced on the side of his leg and touched Xiao Yan's knee, Xiao Yan, who was already like a frightened bird, jumped up like a rabbit, and crawled out of the dirt pit with his hands and feet.

Xiao Yan was unusually agile and rushed to the outside of the pit and turned his head to look, only to see that the deceased's right hand bounced up strangely, and it hit Xiao Yan's knee just now.

"If you bring Galadia here, it will be exciting......" Xiao Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead.

At this moment, there was an extremely sharp and strange cry in his ears, hovering in Xiao Yan's ears in the silent night.

"Tss Twitter!! ”

Xiao Yan immediately pulled out his light sword and retreated to the edge of a stone tablet in a fighting posture.

Creepy, high-pitched sounds echoed in the air, faintly mixed with screams, like the cries of wild cats and owls, or the cries of young children.

Xiao Yan only felt that his scalp was hairy, and he pulled his legs and rushed to the main road on the side.

Xiao Yan, who gradually got used to the darkness, finally saw the nearby environment clearly.

This is a cemetery! A messy cemetery with tombstones erected.

Xiao Yan stumbled over several tombstones and shallow pits, and the sharp and terrifying voice gradually became clear.

"Help! Come...... Someone! A woman's cries for help were mixed with strange screams.

Through the faint and hazy light, Xiao Yan saw the black dress appear in the corner in front of her, a bit like a nun's costume.

The dress flickered, and then, as if it was being grabbed by something, it was suddenly dragged back and disappeared around the corner.

(End of chapter)

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