"Oh my God, Bill, where are you going?"

Old Wei jumped up from his chair again excitedly, although he didn't want to interfere in Bill's private life, but this young man was too unreassuring.

"Bill, listen to me, you shouldn't be messing around anymore. ”

"You almost had an accident when you went out this time, you should recuperate at home for a while, and then find a friend to go out with you when your body and emotions are completely relaxed......

Bill scratched the back of his head, suddenly got up and took out an earthy yellow folder from the mezzanine of the bedside table, and reached out directly to Lao Wei.

"I know you're concerned about me, but don't worry, this time I'm really just going out to do some personal business, and I will never make myself like this again. ”

"It's not something to talk about, but I don't think there's anything to hide, I have to go out and get what belongs to me. ”

Lao Wei, who took the file bag, hurriedly opened it, and Langes also came to his side, still holding the half-peeled apple in his hand, and looked hard at the documents that had not yet been taken out of the file bag.

Bill paid attention to Langes's every move and expression, and thought that he needed to do something to help himself and Lao Wei solve their worries.

When Williams pulled out the blank paper from his file bag and began to read the reason for Bill's departure again, he and Langus gasped almost at the same time.

"It's a manor!"

"Bill, you've inherited a manor house in Ceylon!"

"No, no......"

Lao Wei's surprise was palpable, but he quickly realized that he shouldn't be happy, after all, this is not a wealth that fell from the sky.

This is an inheritance, and the money of the dead can be called an inheritance.

"I'm sorry, Bill, I'm sorry for your father's sudden death, you owe it to you to return to your hometown and do your duty as the eldest son to your family. ”

“...... Thank you for your understanding. ”

Bill thinks that this is not the time to refute Williams's comfort and apologies for him, although Williams's father has nothing to do with him, but it seems cold-blooded to reject Williams's kindness.

Langes, on the side, didn't speak, just stared at the list of items that Bill could inherit in the inheritance book.

"Manors, Fields and Brick Buildings......"

"The mill, the fishpond, and more than five thousand gold pounds in cash!"

"I really ate shit, wasn't this guy Williams a poor bastard before, how did he suddenly become the farmer's son again!"

"He used to be playing tricks on me!?"

Struggling to maintain his apparent calm, Langes' hands holding the inheritance were shaking unconsciously, but his heart was roaring wildly.

It wasn't until Old Wei was about to be pulled away from the document he was holding tightly that Langus suddenly came back to his senses.

"Hey, Langes, you should be careful. ”

"Inheritance documents are precious, don't crumple them, or it will become a hassle when you hand over the property. ”

"No, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. ”

Langus hides his embarrassment with a smirk and hands Bill the peeled apple aside, pretending to care for Bill.

"I'm sorry to hear that. ”

"Oh, thanks. ”

Unobtrusive response, Bill turned out to be an apple and took a bite of it as a matter of course.

The apples are sweet and crunchy, just very tasty.

"...... Talk"

"I remember that the estates in Ceylon seemed to be very expensive, and it would cost about a thousand gold pounds to buy the most fertile land in the south?"

Langus tried to ask, but was indifferent to what happened to Bill while he was away.

He is constantly using the wealth that belongs to Bill to determine his failed life, and he is increasingly feeling envy and resentment.

The beating heart trembled slightly, which was called jealousy in the brain!

Langus remembers having had such intense moments of jealousy before, but that had happened when he was very young.

Bill knew why Langes cared about this, and without any cover-up, he directly told him the real price.

"A thousand gold pounds is the worst land on the margins, and the average price for the most fertile land is about 1,800 gold pounds to 2,000 gold pounds. ”

"So I have to get back as soon as possible, or these things will be treated as ownerless and go into the auction house to fill the government's pockets." ”

Lao Wei breathed out helplessly, he couldn't find any reason to persuade Bill not to go, so he could only silently pray in his heart that his good friend would not have an accident this time.

"By the way, I just wanted to ask, why did you come to me at this time, isn't the visiting time of Xishan Psychiatric Hospital from two to four o'clock in the afternoon?"

Bill asked casually, and took the important document bag from Lao Wei's hand, and began to get out of bed to pack his things, and take out the prepared normal people's clothes from the cabinet.

"We also felt very strange about this, Langes and I came over early in the morning and saw that the asylum was full of strange people. ”

"Then a couple of policemen came up and stopped us, and when they learned that we were coming to visit you, they locked us up in a room and just let us out to see you......"

Lao Wei slowly lowered his voice, followed Bill to clean up his busyness, and leaned into his ear to ask him secretly.

"Bill, did you think something was going on here?"

"Is there a homicide......

Bill paused, shook his head, and responded as he took off his hospital gown and changed into a black satin shirt.

"I don't know, I don't know what's going on here, but I heard from Miss Nurse that it seems that the administrator sent to this mental hospital by the Holy See of Ode is missing. ”

"But I don't know exactly what's going on, and I'm not interested in knowing. ”

"I just want to get out early and go home to deal with all those troublesome things, maybe I'll have to pay a lot of inheritance tax, after all, I don't have much experience with this kind of thing. ”

After saying that, he had already changed his clothes, loosened his slightly long curly hair to the back of his head, and fixed his hairstyle with a head ointment that even the nurse didn't know where to get it.

These are of course items that Bill threw into the shadow space before, and now they can come in handy, which is really convenient.

Just as Bill was getting dressed, Miss Nurse arrived with good news, so fast that even Bill himself didn't expect it.

"Congratulations, Mr. Cliff, you'll be discharged tonight!"

"Huh?"

"Mr. Cliff, did you pack your things so quickly and leave, you already knew you ......"

"Well, Dr. Alfred just told me to pack up and get out of here. ”

“...... Well, Mr. Cliff, congratulations again. ”

Miss Nurse sighed in joy, glad that Bill had misdiagnosed him, and felt disappointed that she would not be able to take care of this man in the future.

Still, she dutifully handed Bill the certificate of diagnosis from Dr. Alfred and helped him straighten his neckline and sleeves.

Bill doesn't care about the female nurse's reluctance, and until the special situation of the flesh is resolved, no matter how many women are vain existence.

He was just thinking about why he was released from the psychiatric hospital so quickly.

"Probably because Hoover was a member of the Holy See of Ode, and there were all kinds of indications that Hoover had done a lot of stupid things, so after the government personnel also learned about these things, the Holy See of Ode was eager to release me to make up for his previous wrongdoing. 」

"Maybe that's what the government thinks, they must be worried that when I come into contact with the Holy See, I accidentally leak the coal core, and then they will be unlucky!"

"Hey, I don't know if I'm glad or proud to be like this all of a sudden. 」

He nodded to the nurse in thanks, although the nurses here are basically old women over thirty or forty years old, and because of their background, they have never had the concept of maintenance, so they look rough skin and old-fashioned hairstyles.

But the nurses did take good care of themselves, and even though they looked vicious, they were still kind, unlike the outward Miss Marselan.

Everything was quickly sorted out, and Bill didn't have anything to carry with him other than the inheritance papers.

At the top of the mountain, the night was cool, and under the stars, several female nurses stood in front of the gate and waved goodbye to Bill, who smiled in his most polite way and said goodbye to the men and the hospital.

......

The carriage jolted, and Old Williams and Langus sent Bill back to his villa at the foot of the hill and left, after a full day in a mental hospital, they had to get back to work as soon as possible.

When Bill returned to the villa, it was midnight, and he noticed that the messy yard had changed at some point.

What was once a weed disappeared and turned into clumps of climbing roses?? The road leading to the villa is also paved with small stones, and two newly transplanted pines are planted on both sides of the courtyard, accompanied by other flowers and plants, which make the courtyard uneven.

Even on the right side of the courtyard, Bill saw a two-person swing made of stakes, chains, and rattan, glowing in the moonlight.

"Did Esther do it?"

"When did she become so tasteful?"

"No, I should ask, where did she get the money to renovate my yard?"

With this doubt in mind, Bill knocked on the door.

The keys to the house had long since been lost, so he tried to call Esther first, because there was not a single light on in the villa at the moment, so he couldn't be sure if Esther had slept or hadn't returned.

After waiting a little and paying no attention, Bill was able to make sure Esther wasn't at home and used his shadow to open the door from the inside.

Finally back home, he began to prepare for what he had to do next, for there were a few things that had to be done before he could leave Brittus.

And the first thing he had to do was to go back to his study and take out the Book of Shadows, which he hadn't used for a long time, and write down the object of his suspicions.

"The forces that attack me in the mining area can be ruled out for the time being by the Holy See and the new government. ”

Thinking of this, Bill put these two names on the Book of Shadows and crossed them with an ink pen, and wrote down other organizations or institutions that might be related to the matter.

"The Royal Norman Academy of Natural Sciences, the military in close solidarity with the outside world, and the ......"

"Could it have anything to do with the Brotherhood or the magician Jack, or even the Black Street?"

Bill thought at the end of his pen that he was most familiar with these organizations was the Institute, and trying to infer the organization that murdered him first had to consider the root cause.

"Which of them would want me to die or be locked up?"

There was not a glimmer of light in the dark study, and the tip of the pen swiped across the white paper of the Book of Shadows, and the light friction sound was somewhat muddy, echoing in the lonely and silent darkness.

Bill, who could see in the dark, hesitated for a long time, and finally crossed the names of Jack and Black Street, and two thick black ink stained the paper.

"I have no conflict of interest with Black Street, although the bounty order has always existed, if they want to kill me, they can't just throw me down the mine, they should know that the capable will not be killed easily. ”

"Besides, my head is still there, and without my head, those killers can't make a deal, let alone get a commission from the hirer. ”

"The same goes for Jack the mad magician, although it is not known if he is affiliated with an organization, but it is clear that he and Williams are old acquaintances. ”

"Because he and I are the same kind of people, I know that the death he is seeking will not be so simple, and besides, he seems to have a tendency to torture and kill passers-by, and this time it has nothing to do with him. ”

"Then the organization that has a reason to murder me, now there are only three other ...... left"

Taking a deep breath and thinking, the feeling of enjoying the silence in the dark alone is not much to enjoy as if it were smoking a cigar.

When Bill's eyes were half-closed, a faint black mist emerged from his nostrils and followed his breath in and out of his body, seemingly becoming a part of the body.

These black mist possess the same spirituality as the shadows, and they will vibrate their surroundings with their bodies curiously, attaching themselves to their favorite objects.

Like what......

A small robot ornament on the desk.

Bill picked up the little robot casually, his fingers fiddling with their nimble joints and weapons and continuing to speculate, and the black mist soaked into the little robot's joints little by little, like ......

"It shouldn't be the Institute, and as much as it wants to monopolize the technology for safe coal mining, the Institute doesn't have the ability to work with others to plan a near-perfect operation unless they find the way to the organization they want to deal with me. ”

"So the most they did was to fall into the trap when they learned that I might be crazy, so that they could go back on the contract they had signed with me for the distribution of the benefits of coal mining. ”

"So which one will be the Norman military and the fraternity that has been hiding in all corners of society?"

Rubbing his eyelids helplessly, Bill felt a pain in his head, so he could only rest for a while before continuing to think.

As he slowly exhaled a cloudy breath, the black mist in the exhaust air was exhaled even more, and they followed Bill's fingertips into the little robot, which seemed to rely on the tendency to be inside.

Bill was a little curious about this phenomenon, because through this magical image, he suddenly thought of himself.

As a shadow creature, did he also dip into Williams's body little by little like this, and then completely gain control?

Thinking of this, Bill wakes up the shadow circle and summons more black mist to appear.

Suddenly, the dark study was filled with black fog, and everything became a fogged picture......