Knock knock!

Visibly anxious when he didn't get the response he was expecting, Dino grabbed the knocker again and knocked three times at a fast pace.

"It should be here......" Dino was a little suspicious, opened the paper ball and compared it to the number on the door number over and over again, as if talking to himself, "No. 22 Lily of the Valley Road, the reporter of the missing child: Iscola. Maruna, the victim's own mother, she lives here......"

“…… Maybe no one is home? "Draenor came up with another possibility.

"No, for the residents of Lily of the Valley, this is the only place to live. They couldn't go anywhere in the middle of the night, and if they weren't pretending to be no, they were picking up customers. Dino said no, and just as he was about to knock on the door for the third time, Delano walked up first, and said in a gentle tone:

"Hello, Lady Maruna, we need your help, there happens to be ten deli here, I hope we can make a deal."

It was clear that an impatient inquiry like Dino's would not go unanswered, but it was a lady who needed his respect, whatever her profession. If you need something more tangible than that, money is undoubtedly the best option.

At last, the door moved inwards invisibly, and a timid, hostile gray eye looked at the two of them through the crack in the door, and she quickly fell on the gold coin in Lenlano's hand, and before she could see the other's appearance, she opened the door and screamed.

"Damn bastard!"

The two were a little surprised, and Draenor subconsciously turned his head to look at the side of the street, he didn't want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings.

"You finally know you're coming to me...... What does that mean? Do you think ten deli can buy a child's life? He is already twelve years old, do you know how our mother and son have come over in the past twelve years? We don't need your kindness! Grab your stinky money and fuck off! ”

Draenor hurriedly took a step forward, stretched out his foot and stuck in the crack of the door when the other party didn't completely close the door, patiently and slightly panicked, and explained to the other party: "No, we're just here to help you......"

"We don't need much help!"

The woman cut off his words before the other party was finished, and after a few seconds of silence, she seemed to realize something, and quickly calmed down, with a strange tenderness in her eyes. She slowly pulled up the corners of her light brown skirt, stretched her thighs out of the crack in the door, and said to the other party in a whisper-soft voice, "You should be a guest...... I'm sorry, but there was some accident during this time, and I probably didn't have the heart to entertain you, so come back in a few days! ”

What does that mean? Draenor felt a little dazed for a moment, but the moment he looked back at the embarrassed expression on Dino's face, he finally understood the meaning of the sentence.

He cleared his throat, took the iron badge from his waist and stuffed it into the crack of the door, and explained to the woman with a professional smirk, "We are not guests, knights of the Certon Greyti Expedition, Chadwick. Draenor, this is my captain, Mr. Dino. We learned of the disappearance of children at No. 22 Lily of the Valley Road and rushed to investigate the situation. ”

After a moment of silence, the woman finally raised her head to take a closer look at Errao's face, and Draenor could clearly hear a sigh coming from inside the door. Then the door slowly opened, and the woman in the tight skirt took a few steps back and gestured towards the room.

"Two knights, please forgive me for my faux pas...... Please come in. ”

Draenor nodded slightly, withdrew the sore ball of his foot from the door frame, and followed Dino into the room.

After looking around, he was almost certain that this was no ordinary residence. There was no living room, only a messy wrought iron bed facing the door, and beyond that, a fireplace barely enough to keep warm, and the soup in the pot had become sticky and charred black, and I don't know how many times it had been heated repeatedly.

After looking around the door, the woman relaxed and closed the door, took a match from the cloth pocket on her chest, raised her leg and struck a few strokes on the heel of her shoe to light the candle at the door.

"I'm sorry, I don't have any tea to entertain the two of you, and I don't have the heart to do business...... You're welcome, please sit casually. ”

The two looked in the direction that Ms. Maruna was pointing, where there was a bench with deliberately polished marks around it, which seemed to have been converted from an abandoned crib.

Turning to his seat with the captain, Draenor noticed the daguerreotype on the wall. Above is a mother and son, a young woman sitting in a gazebo with a five- or six-year-old child in her arms, and for some reason, he feels that the background in the photo seems to have been seen somewhere, and the child also looks somewhat familiar......

"Ah, it was taken in the guild garden, and in our arms is my son, Miliusa. He is twelve years old this year...... "Iscola. Maruna took a deep breath and seemed to force herself to restrain the sadness in her heart, "This kid is not like me, not at all! Both his appearance and personality follow his father, and he can't stop running around for a moment. ”

"The father of this child?" Delaeno was a little confused, and he looked back at the boy in the photograph again, indeed resembling an acquaintance...... But I can't think of that name.

Maruna rubbed her tired eyes, looked at the woman in the mirror, whose skin was already a little loose, and turned to take the picture from the wall and held it in her arms.

"To be precise, he didn't have a father. There was a guest a few years ago...... He may also be a knight, I don't know who it is...... It was supposed to pay afterwards, but he ...... Forget it, it's all in the past. I only know that Miliusa is my dearest son, my hope, my only ......"

The moment the woman finished, Draenor quickly leaned forward and stared at the boy in the photograph and compared it with the "acquaintance" in his memory...... The eye sockets are sunken on either side of the bridge of the nose, and the cheekbones are as angular as bricks...... It's going to be the old guy!

He felt a little overwhelmed in his heart, and suddenly felt some sympathy for what had happened to Maruna—another victim of Mikhail!

No wonder she had been so resistant when she saw her armor before, Maruna must have thought of herself as the merry old knight.

"So, tell us a little bit about it." The captain put his hands on his knees and looked at the poor mother solemnly, "The place, the time, the impression of the last side, the more detailed the better." ”

"All right, sir......," Maruna lowered her head and recalled for a moment, recounting the incident to the two of them as fluently as if she were reading, "Last Wednesday night, at the same hour, I called Miliusa to the attic after dinner, as usual, after work, after all, I still can't let him see what is going on downstairs during work...... Then I started to prepare for the evening's work, tidying up the house, putting on new clothes and standing at the door waiting for the guests.

"But you should also know that the traffic on weekdays is terrible. After waiting for more than two hours, no one came to the door, and the only guests who could see it stopped when they walked to the road ahead...... I was ready to close the door and give Miliusa something to eat, but when I got to the attic I found that he had disappeared...... It's just that it's gone, it's not an exaggeration at all, it's like it never existed! ”

Maruna became more and more excited, tearing her hair from her chest, hoping that the two knights would believe in her.

"Please calm down, Lady Maruna, people can't disappear into thin air. Are there any clues left? Dino calmly asked the other party.

"The attic has been cleaned, but I remember the details very well! The books were spread out on the table, the ink had not yet completely dried, and the round windows of the attic were half-hidden......"

No matter how detailed the other party's description is, it is better to see it with your own eyes...... Draenor closed the notebook, got up, walked to the side door of the room, and pointed overhead.

"Take us up to the attic."