Chapter 195: Reappearing
The eastern sky was white, and it was already dawn, Mu Lan was lying on the bed in the guest room, looking at the curtains that were gradually illuminated by the light.
She barely slept all night, occasionally casting a detection spell to sense her surroundings, wondering if the townsfolk would ever reappear.
Lin Yiyi was talking in her dreams, she slept over and over again this night, and it seemed that the quality of sleep was very bad, Ah Feng had the same idea as Mu Lan, he also wanted to find out the truth about the disappearance of the townspeople, but he didn't have a mental power spell to use, so he could only wander around the town, and he didn't come back until now, so he should have been watching for a night.
I have hardly slept well since I came to this copy, Mu Lan rubbed her dry eyes, and she knew that she must have dark circles under her eyes without looking in the mirror.
It can be sensed in the spell that these townspeople still haven't appeared, Mu Lan took out the toiletries in the carry-on space, and after washing her face, she still has an important task, which is to visit Leon's family, the family that entrusted Dr. Bourne to visit the doctor.
When he opened the door, he saw Professor Leonard walking out of the room in a daze, and he looked at Mu Lan suspiciously.
"Why does my head hurt so much? What happened yesterday? ”
I didn't expect Ah Feng to be so heavy, and he actually let him fall asleep all night, which is comparable to the effect of sleeping pills.
Mu Lan smiled and said, "Professor, don't you remember what happened last night?" ”
"Last night?" Professor Leonard rubbed his swollen neck, his expression lost in thought, and after a moment he said slowly:
"I seem to have some vague memories ......"
"I wanted to study that church, they have a very special architectural style, it's not Orthodox or our Anglican Church in Britain...... I think it has something to do with the mystical religion of those cultists, and then ......"
Leonard hesitated for a moment, then wondered, "I can't remember the rest of the story." ”
"Professor." Mu Lan reminded: "I know you secretly brought the crown, but that thing has an evil nature, please don't touch it again." ”
Professor Leonard immediately panicked, "You, how do you know ......"
Mu Lan didn't explain to him, but continued to warn: "Those who come into contact with the crown will fall into an inexplicable state of madness, will see something they have never seen before, and may lose their minds and transform into those fanatical believers. ”
Professor Leonard was deep in thought, when there was a noise in the room, and Lin Yiyi finally got up.
"Lan Lan, you got up so early!" Lin Yiyi stretched out of the room, she put on her nightgown, poked her head out of the door, and said hello when she saw Professor Leonard:
"Little old... Professor Leonard, you're awake! ”
"Good morning." Professor Leonard replied listlessly, and returned to his room with a thoughtful look.
"What's wrong with him? Was beaten by Ah Feng with sequelae? Lin Yiyi said curiously.
"I should be thinking about the crown of my head...... Mu Lan said, and then something suddenly appeared in her perception, and she immediately returned to the windowsill, opened the curtain and looked outside.
The townsfolk have appeared out of thin air again!
They all came from one direction, and there were more than two hundred people, much more than they had seen during the day, and they all returned to their homes in silence.
Suppressing the question of where they went last night, Mu Lan thought about it again, she found that these townspeople were all twenty to forty years old, and the whole town seemed to have never seen an old man.
The innkeeper also came back from the south, and he glanced up at Mu Lan before coming to the inn, as if smiling.
Under the light of the early morning, his deformed and distorted face was clearer than last night, and his bulging eyes seemed to fall to the ground, this smile pulled his cheeks without wrinkles, and there was a feeling of not smiling, Mu Lan felt a little infiltrated.
The innkeeper was also between thirty and fifty years old, and his smooth, wrinkled face was easy to tell of his age, but in short, he certainly did not belong to the old man.
Where have all the old people in Herzros gone?
Mu Lan remembered the photo of the owner on the hotel counter, he was no different from ordinary people in his youth, but as he grew older, his face became more and more strange, moving closer to the typical "Herzrose look", Mu Lan began to wonder, what will the people of Herzross become when they get old, and where have they all gone now?
The townsfolk came back to the rich area to the south, where there were mansions and imposing courtyards in the center of the town, in the direction of the bottomless cavern.
Mu Lan regretted a little why she didn't keep an eye there, and wanted to explore while resting, but she didn't rest well or saw the first moment when the townspeople appeared, Ah Feng didn't come back at this time, and she didn't know where others went.
With Lin Yiyi, who had just changed her clothes, and Leonard, who was carrying a suitcase, Mu Lan couldn't wait to walk down the stairs, where the innkeeper was wiping the table, and when she saw Mu Lan going downstairs, she glanced at it, and said hello in a hoarse voice.
"Good morning, guests."
"Excuse me......"
Mu Lan hesitated for a moment and still didn't ask the question of where they went, now there are many clues to be clarified, it is not the time for a showdown, and then she said: "Excuse me, where does the Leon family live, we have something to visit." ”
"House Leon?" The innkeeper stared at Mu Lan with a strange expression, and he didn't answer for a long time.
The pair of dead fish-eye-like protrusions looked at her motionlessly, Mu Lan had goosebumps a little, not fear, but physical discomfort, and she also noticed that the innkeeper's eyes seemed to have never blinked, just kept looking at her exaggeratedly.
"Are you public servants?" The innkeeper glanced at Professor Leonard, then said hoarsely, "Robert Leon may be working in the center of town during the day, or he may be playing with flowers and plants in his mansion, but he can always be found in these two places." ”
Through the innkeeper's inquiry, Mu Lan learned that Robert Leon is the mayor of the town, and the Leon family is a prominent family in Herzrose Town, their family made a fortune fifty years ago, and since then they have taken root in Herzrose Town, and later control all aspects of the town, and even the innkeeper has a bit of an in-law relationship with their family. ”
There is no record in Robert Leon's file, and the administrator sent by the Lanstershire is not this name, Mu Lan walked on the way to the Leon family's mansion, and she thought in her heart that whether it was the truth about Dr. Byrne's disappearance, or the reason for the disappearance of the townspeople, all of this had to do with the Leon family, and even the strange phenomena of Herzrose Town today, could be solved there.
There was no one in the mansion, so they could only come to the courtyard of Leon's house, where a few cute-looking children were playing in the vegetable garden, and they were squatting on the ground playing with bugs.
The appearance of these children is very normal, and even cute and cute, Lin Yiyi called them and asked them to call an adult to open the door.
Ah Feng suddenly walked out of a small alley, he still didn't have any expression, Mu Lan was a little curious about what he had seen this night.
After waiting for a long time, a veiled woman walked out of the building, Mu Lan pressed to ask Ah Feng's thoughts, and then looked at the woman.
She walked through the courtyard to the door, glanced at the four people expressionlessly, and said slowly:
"You're the strangers who came here yesterday, guests, the mayor has been waiting for him for a long time."