"Yes, I do know that no one on Blackwater Island can escape the panicked eyes and ears of those drunks, and then the rumors spread all over the town. Mrs. Vincent did not hire anyone, in fact, Mr. Vincent came to the town to buy the planks, which means that the windows were not sealed by Mrs. Vincent, but by Mr. Vincent. ”

"But why are there so many homeless people on this small island? I saw that the docks were full of drunks doing nothing, and I talked to one of them, and he told me that the fish were gone, and that the Leviathan was still there, and that sounded like gibberish. So he pulled out his lockpicking tool, expertly inserted it into the keyhole, and began to twist from side to side.

There is no moonlight at night on Blackwater Island, and it is almost pitch black on Crow's Nest Mountain. The road was winding and steep, and Jonny walked ahead with an oil lamp, and Pierce silently followed him, and the two had nothing to say.

Pierce turned his head to look at the foot of the hill, and the lights of the town were sparsely lit, faint as the breath of a dying man.

"This place is almost finished," he thought. He looked closely, and the toys were neatly arranged, they were all facing the doorway, as if they were guarding the high table in the corner, and there were indeed no toys placed under the high table.

"Well, nothing." Maybe it's pickled food, so it can repel maggots.

"It stinks, it's ...... Is it their last supper? Illuminated by the oil lamp, Pierce saw unfinished dishes on the long table, late summer, hot air, and the official time of death of the Vincents was weeks ago, meaning that the food had been sitting here for a long time, and had become a paradise for maggots.

"It's spooky, isn't it?" As if reading through Pierce's thoughts, Jonny smiled at him.

The two pushed open the door of the nearest room, this room was not large, and the bed was also small, it should be Bapur's room.

"Yes, it must have been so, and that explains why, although Mr. Vincent survived the fire, he had to pretend to be dead, and had been operating in the shadows, and he must have been running away from these men, until he was finally murdered in the sewers...... If so, then these men are truly heinous demons, oh my God, their brutality is disgusting. ”

"You know a lot, I was only sent to this ruined island ten years ago, and I heard from the local elders that there was a severe famine here twenty years ago, and when people were already in despair, it was Captain Carpenol and his Endeavour who caught an unprecedentedly large whale, which made Blackwater Island survive that crisis, so that harvest was called 'miracle fishing', and even made up a song." As he spoke, Pierce didn't spare his hands, and soon picked the lock open.

"Let's go." The two of them went into Vincent's house together. Pierce was about to dig into the pocket of his coat, when he remembered that he had been washed in the underground river for so long, and the lockpicking tool had been washed away, and he groped in his pocket with trepidation, awesome, the thing was still there.

"Ah, there it is." As he spoke, he pulled out a plastic bag from his belt bag, which contained a golden pendant with a broken chain.

Pierce took a closer look at the pendant, it was a golden octopus, very finely made, and the suction cups on the tentacles were visible.

The octopus's eyes are replaced by two emeralds, which shimmer in a cold glow under the light of an oil lamp. Its eight tentacles are intertwined with each other, messy but orderly, forming a circle with its head.

"It stinks, it's ...... Is it their last supper? Illuminated by the oil lamp, Pierce saw unfinished dishes on the long table, late summer, hot air, and the official time of death of the Vincents was weeks ago, meaning that the food had been sitting here for a long time, and had become a paradise for maggots.

"Well, what you said makes sense, in fact, if it were in normal times, I would have been lying in bed by this time...... Why don't we go to the second floor and find a place that is less affected by the fire...... And where it doesn't smell so much, get together for a night? After saying that, Johnny was affected by the fire, and seemed to think of the stench of rotten food in the restaurant, and quickly picked up a sentence later.

Pierce was sleepy too, and the scene seemed to reassure him a lot after learning about the duties of the toys, and for a moment he thought he could curl up under the high table tonight, but immediately, he smiled ashamedly at his childish thoughts.

He looked at Jonny beside him, he seemed to be staring at the high table thoughtfully, what he didn't know was that at this moment, Jonny's heart actually had the same thought as him.

"This gesture is professional enough, are you really a detective? Could it be a thief? ”

"This gesture is professional enough, are you really a detective? Could it be a thief? ”

"Oh, this, Captain Carpenrol told me that Mr. Vincent is a descendant of pirates."

"Yes, it must have been so, and that explains why, although Mr. Vincent survived the fire, he had to pretend to be dead, and had been operating in the shadows, and he must have been running away from these men, until he was finally murdered in the sewers...... If so, then these men are truly heinous demons, oh my God, their brutality is disgusting. ”

"Well, let's assume that when the fire broke out, there were only three members of Vincent's family in this room, and then Vincent's husband and wife had an argument for some reason...... Hmm, is this necklace Mr. Vincent generally worn around his neck? They returned to the lobby, where there was a spiral staircase leading to the second floor, and they went up the stairs into another hallway, which was barely affected by any fire.

Pierce took the plastic bag containing the pendant and examined the pendant and the chain together, believing that it was most likely two pieces of the same necklace, and handed the chain to Jonny to keep it in a new plastic bag.

"Hah, after all, you're a drunk." He thought of the drunken homeless people he had seen on the edge of the dock, and it seemed that there were a lot of homeless people here, right?

But now was not the time to heed the two voices of contention in his heart, and he watched as Jonny walked up the stone steps at the entrance of Vincent's house with an oil lamp, and held it up to examine it carefully.

"It's true, but you don't have direct evidence of that, and we don't even have evidence that there were only three people in this room at the time of the fire...... Perhaps, by the way, Pierce, think about it, the Vincents boarded all the windows of the mansion from the inside, maybe it was to defend against some or some foreign invaders, and these invaders still found a way to invade Vincent's house, and suddenly appeared during their dinner, so the Vincents gave up dinner and fled, but they were forced into this room by the invaders, and in the process of arguing with the invaders, Mr. Chinese Mr. Cent's necklace was torn and the oil lamp was knocked over and caused a fire. Jonny seized his sudden inspiration, and his tone was very excited, yes, induced by the report, everyone preconceived that there were only Vincent's family of three in the mansion at the time of the fire, maybe this was not the real situation, and there may be other uninvited dangerous guests at the scene.

"It seems that human prejudice will always inadvertently root distorted reality in their own minds", Pierce thought to himself, and perhaps it was his own paranoia that made Mr. Vincent a monster.

Pierce followed his hand and saw a hazy black shadow on the hillside, like a giant beast dormant in the dark, and if Johnny hadn't let him see it, he wouldn't have noticed, even though Johnny had clearly told him that it was the Pearson family's house, and the thought of the beast staring at them in the darkness still lingered in his mind.

"Ah, there it is." As he spoke, he pulled out a plastic bag from his belt bag, which contained a golden pendant with a broken chain.

Pierce took a closer look at the pendant, it was a golden octopus, very finely made, and the suction cups on the tentacles were visible.

The octopus's eyes are replaced by two emeralds, which shimmer in a cold glow under the light of an oil lamp. Its eight tentacles are intertwined with each other, messy but orderly, forming a circle with its head.