Riding the bus was a very good experience - everyone who doesn't have a car says so.

When he arrived at the police station, Chang Wei saw that the door of Duke's office was open, and the voice of Big Jim came from inside. Linda, who came out of the archives with a stack of papers, nodded to him, "Big Jim has a discussion with Duke. ”

"Every time I come, unless I'm with you, I'm sure I'll see you at the police station." Chang Wei poured a glass of water and said to Linda with a smile.

"The police station is my home." Linda brought the papers into Duke's office.

Not long after, she came out.

"What did the bald guy talk to Duke about?" Chang Wei quietly inquired.

Linda gave him a blank look: "It's about propane." ”

"Propane?"

"That's right." Linda said: "Big Jim wants to move Duke and increase propane purchases. ”

"Buying more?" Chang Wei was surprised: "Is it missing?" ”

"There is no shortage." Linda said, "So Duke doesn't agree. ”

After a while, Big Jim walked out angrily, and deliberately glanced at Chang Wei when he passed by.

"Do you often arrive? Let him in. Duke's voice came from the office.

Chang Wei stood up and walked in.

Duke waved his hand and sat him down: "Big Jim wants to increase propane purchases, and I refuse." I told him I was retiring soon, and let him talk to you about it. ”

Chang Wei was stunned: "Talk to me?" ”

"That's right." Duke nodded: "I have decided to go to Chicago as soon as possible for surgery to replace the pacemaker, and start to handle the retirement, and you will take over my work immediately." ”

"So fast?" Chang Wei joked: "Don't it's because of Lakeside Town, right?" ”

Unexpectedly, Duke nodded: "Yes." ”

Chang Wei was dumbfounded.

I heard Duke continue: "I'm too old to run or jump, and shooting is a burden on my body. If it weren't for you, just Linda, I might have to continue to hold on, and since I have you, why should I embarrass myself? ”

"If that's what you want, that's right." Chang Wei said.

Duke laughed, "You're the most confident person I've ever met. Whether it's ability, mentality, or means, you are the most suitable. ”

"Should I say thank you?" Chang Wei said with a smile.

"There's no need." Duke moved and sat up straight: "After I leave my job, I won't stay in Mill Town, I'll go to Chicago to settle down." You might wonder why I should be leaving because I'm supposed to be the one who is particularly gripping the Mill Town. The next words, out of my mouth and into your ears, even Linda, don't tell her if it's not necessary. ”

Chang Wei's expression was straight: "I'm listening." ”

Duke stood up, closed the doors and windows himself, closed the curtains, and for a moment, the office was dimly lit.

He sat down again, holding his coffee cup in both hands, his elbows propped up on the table, and his expression solemn.

"When should I start with, thirty-five years ago?"

His voice deepened: "I remember I told you that thirty-five years ago, I was a college student, right?" ”

Chang Wei said: "Yes, you said it. Say it's camping with your classmates. ”

"yes." He sighed: "There were five people camping at the time, plus me. We are good friends. Do you know my full name? ”

Chang Wei shook his head, not understanding why Duke asked this.

"My name is Duke Kurt Perkins. They all called me Kurt at the time. Duke laughed: "There are five of us, three men and two women, and in addition to me, the other two men, one is called Liszt Martin Kirkins, and the other is called Holden." Two women, one named Agatha Jolie Seagrave and the other Pauline Dinah Scott. ”

Chang Wei said: "Liszt Martin Kirkins, it's a priest, right?" What is Agatha Jolie Seagrave related to Maxine Seagrave? ”

"Mother and daughter." Duke smiled, "And Pauline Dinah Scott, she later became Poleyn Rainey. James Rainey, Big Jim's wife, Junior's mother. ”

Chang Wei sketched a diagram of the relationship between these people in his mind, and said, "There was no mill town at that time, you came here to camp, something happened?" ”

"Yes." Duke said: "I came up with the camping spot. I've heard that it's a nice place, with beekeepers and wooden houses. So here we are. I didn't expect that..."

With that, he closed his eyes and kept his fear from showing.

"Even after all these years, I'm still terrified of what happened to that camping trip." "We encountered many legendary monsters, zombies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and so on," he said. Only then did we know that the five of us were actually the chosen sacrifices. ”

"Sacrifice?!" Chang Wei remembered the altar he had destroyed in the cave at the bottom of the lake, and the things that Junier had talked to himself in the woods late at night.

"yes." Duke's face was a little distorted: "Holden died first, and we want to escape." But this place is locked down by some powerful technological artifact, like... The invisible wall, I hit the thing and fainted. ”

After a pause, he said, "Then we were saved." Except for Høden, who died first, all four of us survived. ”

Chang Wei felt Duke's words, a kind of anticlimactic taste. It seems that many things, in a word, are not clearly explained.

Duke smiled reluctantly, "You might think I'm talking in generalities, right?" Well, let me tell you, just under this land, there is a huge prison. This prison is not a murderer, not a solitary trader, but the legendary gods, demons and ghosts of the past! ”

There was a deep fear in his eyes.

Chang Wei's expression froze: "The gods and devils you said in the morning destroy the world?" ”

"Yes!" Duke took a deep breath, barely suppressed the ominousness in his heart, and said, "These old world masters were suppressed here in the era when they lost them. I don't know who put them here, but I do know that this prison is not safe. Every year, the government chooses five suitable people to sacrifice to them to appease these irascible demons and pray that they will not come out and destroy the world! ”

"We, me and Liszt, are sacrifices." Duke laughed at himself and shook his head, "But they picked the wrong one, and in fact we weren't suitable." ”

"That..."Chang Wei wanted to ask, how did they survive in the end. What's going on in Mill Town.

Duke gave him an answer: "Because we chose the wrong five sacrifices, the old Lord was angry, and he overthrew the earth to break through the sky and exterminate mankind. The government had no choice but to compromise in the end. ”

"Compromise?" Chang Wei narrowed his eyes: "It should be a compromise with a third party, right?" If I were the master of the old days, now that I have come out, I will definitely not want to go back. ”

"That's right." Duke said very simply: "It's a third party." ”