Old Dunling, suburbs, Phoenix Territory.

As a protector of the Glorious War, this territory near Old Dunling was given to the Phoenix family by the Queen at that time, and over the course of generations, it has become a hidden castle of grandeur.

For ease of travel, there is a railway track that leads to the heart of Old Dunling, on which runs an armed train converted from the mechanical institute, an express train that belongs only to the Phoenix family, and can be reached in half an hour, despite the distance between the two.

The man stood on the edge of the balcony and sighed slightly as he looked at the end of the sky.

He was a standard Ingwig man, with gray hair, very neatly combed, a classic but now somewhat outdated sheriff's beard, and when he was young, he must have been a man who had fallen for thousands of women, but unfortunately time did not let him go, and his once handsome face was full of wrinkles.

At first, the Phoenix family only obtained this land for retirement, and the duke at that time was not only old, but also deteriorating due to the pain of the war, in order not to leave the power center of Invig, and wanted to find a pure land, so he chose this place.

It's really good here, unlike the dark clouds of the old Dunling, you can enjoy the rare sunshine here, and there is no exhaust gas released because of charcoal, the air is fresh, compared with the old Dunling, this is simply a pure land in a fairy tale.

But with the continuous expansion of the old Dunling over the years, the man can already see the towering steam tower at the end of the line of sight from the balcony.

That's not a good thing, maybe in a few decades, the hellish clouds will be over the land.

A man loves the sun, and the longer he stays in Old Dunling, the more precious the so-called sunbathing becomes, and because of his old age, he wants his offspring to be able to bathe in this sunshine.

After all, in the eyes of the Duke of Phoenix, the longer he stayed in Old Dunling, the more damp and rotten he became, and finally mixed with the gray city.

"It's so sad......"

The current owner of the Phoenix family, the current Duke Evra Phoenix, sighed powerlessly.

"What about Eve? she's finally being honest?"

"The young lady is still in the room, maybe this incident has really hit her. ”

The butler on the side answered the duke's question in a timely manner.

"On the contrary, I think that the bigger the blow, the better, if I don't go to college, I have to be a police detective, and it would be great if she could give up after this incident. ”

Obviously, the father is strongly opposed to Eve's dream of being a police detective.

"Perhaps, Miss just longs for you and wants to go on your path?"

The butler didn't seem to expect the duke's response to be so strong, and his love for Eve for many years made him subconsciously say good things for Eve.

"My way? You mean to be a soldier? The glorious war is over, and too many people have died in the Phoenix family for this war. ”

Evra's eyes were lowered and his face was serious.

"War, soldiers, detectives...... Everything that has to do with weapons is not a good thing, she should be a princess of Phoenix, find someone who loves her and marry her for the rest of her life, I have even saved up money to buy her an island as a dowry, she can take her children to sleep peacefully on the sunset seashore, there is no rumbling steam engine, deadly epidemics, and the air with smoke and dust, it will be beautiful like a paradise. ”

Although he strongly disagrees with his daughter's dream, the doting affection in his words is clearly visible.

"This is the trajectory of Eve's life, not to mingle with the three religions and nine streams of the old Dunling. ”

Evra said viciously.

"Why do you think we Phoenix are the Immortal Birds? It's just that we survived the Glorious War. Only those who survive will be glorified, and those who die are dead, nothing. ”

The Glorious War has taken too many lives, and Evra's brothers, sisters, fathers, and grandfathers have used up all the corpses of the Phoenix family to pile up the current family of immortals, and Evra's anger is difficult to contain every time he thinks about it.

"Go and inform Su Yalan's hall, and I'll give them a month to find a way to dispel her idea of becoming a police detective. ”

......

Now that the old Dunlin has entered autumn, the cold winter is on the way.

Yellowed leaves fill the pavement, paved with gold in the sun. It was a sight that was hard to see in the old Dunling, and Eve was in a rare mood when she saw it, and she wore a long yellow dress with lace trims, and kicked the leaves like a child, causing them to dance in the wind.

She is the ruby of the Phoenix family, the brightest red feather on the wings of the immortal bird, the light that illuminates the gloom of the old Dunling.

But now the princess is not very happy, although the gold piled up by the fallen leaves is beautiful, but this happiness is also short-lived, touching her empty neck, her heart is still indescribably irritable.

The lost necklace is important, at least to Eve. It belonged to her mother, a gift from Duke Evra when he married her mother, and was worn by Duke Evra himself on the day Eve became an adult after her mother died.

Fortunately, Evra didn't approve of Eve becoming a police detective, and the two had been in a cold war for this time, so Evra still hadn't seen anything missing from Eve's neck.

Phoenix Manor is so big that two people who live here day and night can't see each other for nearly a month.

The brain was already in a mess, Eve thought for a long time and finally speculated that it was lost in the lower city, but if it was lost there, it was basically impossible to find it, maybe the necklace had been disassembled and assembled, turned into a brand new jewelry and placed on a counter in the outer city.

My thoughts were sad to the extreme, but at this moment, the bell rang, and not far away, a train slowly stopped on the small platform outside the gate of the manor, and the guards gathered and guarded nearby.

This is a limited express train dedicated to the Phoenix family, which is dedicated to transporting things related to the Phoenix family, and the maids usually carry it out to buy food in a big way, and some guests from afar will also take it to arrive, but the carriage will be much more gorgeous than this.

It is one of the important links between the Phoenix Territory and Old Dunling, and it can transport daily supplies as well as those with bad intentions, so the guards are nervous every time the train arrives.

Under the steam, the daily necessities and food items for the next month were transported off the platform, and under the interception of the guards, those staff could only watch the legendary territory from afar, envy the beauty of this place and be in awe.

The crowd was bustling, and the empty manor was suddenly crowded, and everyone was busy, after all, behind the grandeur of Phoenix was the industrious operation of nearly a hundred ordinary people, and they also needed to eat.

Eve watched from afar, but at some point a person had come to him, holding a folded ladder, wearing a dark green garden suit, and a large pair of scissors around his waist.

He hung his head down, his body covered with leaves and branches, and the corners of his clothes were soaked with sweat.

It was all the more normal, and Eve didn't even take it to heart until the familiar voice sounded.

"You know, I did an experiment where you could go in and out of most of Old Dunling as long as you had a ladder. ”

The gardener suddenly stood beside Eve, took off his stuffy hat and said to himself.

"I've used a ladder to get into Sualan Hall, City Hall, movie theaters, and of course, Phoenix Manor. They all thought I was here to fix things. ”

With a pale blonde face under his short pale blonde hair, he looked at Eve with a smile on his face.

"That's what I learned when I was at the Royal College of Art, that people usually ignore people who are used to it, like when you open a window and a cup falls to the ground, you subconsciously think that the wind blows it down, and subconsciously you explain these 'anomalies'.

That's the principle, those who are accustomed to life will become 'wind', I just have to carry a ladder and hold scissors and you will think that I am a gardener, you don't need any explanation, your brain will explain my appearance, as long as I am properly dressed and the scene is appropriate, there will be no flaws. ”

Sweat stains are randomly picked with water, and the leaves and branches on the body are rolled out of the ground at will.

The girl's expression grew frightened, but then she seemed to realize something, and she tried to calm down, and then lifted the pale yellow dress, and removed the pistol from the ribbon that was tightly tied to her thighs in the gardener's bewilderment.

"Did you guess that?"

Eve has a straight face, she is the princess of the Phoenix family, but this does not mean that she is a well-behaved vase. This is Phoenix Manor, her territory, and at the sound of Eve's gunshot, eight thousand axemen will rush out and chop this damned gardener into pulp.

"To tell you the truth, in my not-so-long detective career, I've seen someone hiding stolen money under a long skirt, and I really haven't seen someone hiding a pistol...... You've given me some new ideas in my career. ”

There was no time to look back on the beauty of the skirt, and the gardener raised his hands very interestingly.

"Then you see it now, Mr. Lorenzo Holmes. ”

Looking at those gray-blue eyes, Eve felt that her precarious career as a police detective was about to take a turn for the better.