It didn't take long for two more officers to arrive, one of them who had previously appeared at the door of Sheriff Red's house, and the other a new face, presumably someone from the reinforcements who had stayed behind to support the local policing efforts.

As soon as these two men were in place, the mustache immediately assigned them the task of checking all the vacant rooms in the entire area, and not missing a single room, especially the basement and the barn. Of course, Qiao Wei and I also have to help find it together.

There are a lot of houses to be built in the area, and each house is so far apart that it takes a lot of time to inspect all of them. Before the mustache called the person to come, Qiao Wei and I had already started to inspect each house one by one, but we had only finished inspecting one house, and the results were not abnormal.

In order to improve efficiency, the five of us were divided into five groups, and each person was responsible for inspecting a house individually, and if there was anything unusual, we immediately called others together.

However, the time of the meeting never came, and it took us nearly two hours to scrutinize all the houses in the real area, and except for the one we first entered, there was nothing sticky or smelly in the other houses.

And when we returned to the original house, we were surprised to find that all the sticky things that had been in the room were gone, and if it weren't for the smell that still permeated the house, no one would even know that there was such a disgusting thing in that room.

Maybe the slimy stuff has the ability to disappear on its own, but I'd rather believe that something sneaked it all out while we were looking for clues in other houses.

Bearded Deputy Sergeant said that there used to be many small farms in this area, each of which would build barns and stables, but in recent years the town has grown rapidly, and young people have given up their original farming life and started to work in London, so those small farms have gradually become abandoned, and the residential area where we are now is built is built on one of the largest farms.

The deputy sheriff's words immediately reminded me of Reed's prophecy.

Reed said he saw me and Qiao Wei have a duel, and the end result was that I killed Qiao Wei in a barn with chains and hooks hanging here and there.

Thinking of this, I immediately asked Deputy Sheriff Mustache if there were any surviving warehouses and stables in the vicinity.

The mustache nodded and pointed towards the hilly woodland over there, "There will be a meadow through the woods over there, and then you can see a lot of old houses to the south, but most of them have been broken, and there are not many preserved, and they are also scattered, but if you look carefully, you will definitely be able to find it, if five people split up, it is estimated that it will ......"

The deputy sergeant rubbed the corner of his beard and estimated the time, "I guess we should be able to check the warehouses in that area before the sun sets." ”

The sun sets, and this is not a second.

Qiao Wei's father wants us to go home before dark, and I know very well that it is very dangerous for me to stay in the town, but Qiao Wei and I know one thing better, every day we delay, more townspeople will be replaced by Eden, and it will be difficult to stop them when the main gods of Norse really come to the town.

After a short period of consideration, I also made up my mind, and said to Qiao Wei: "I think I should check with the deputy sheriff here, at least find the warehouse that Reed predicted before, what is your opinion?" ”

Qiao Wei smiled at me, "Do you think I'm a person who will back down?" And it's better for me when it's dark! ”

Opinions were unanimous, and a few of us immediately took action. After passing through a hilly area to the south, there is an open plain where it is easy to see a few wooden houses scattered together. The five of us continued to divide into groups, only this time in three groups because we only had three cars.

Qiao Wei and I walked to the wilderness on the left, and according to Deputy Sheriff Mustache, that direction was the gathering place of the former small farms, and the remaining stables and barns would be slightly more and more dense, which was very much in line with my description of the hut that Reed had prophesied.

It's true that no one has been here for a long time, and there is no road to walk at all, but fortunately the trees are just sprouting now, and they will not cause any obstacles to the movement of the car, just some bumps.

Soon we were at the nearest hut.

From a distance, it doesn't seem like a big room, but when you look closer, it's far from it. The wooden shed is almost more than four meters high, although it is a deserted wooden house here, but it still looks very sturdy, it is estimated that if it is not for strong natural weather such as hurricanes, this shed may not collapse in the next ten or twenty years.

Qiao Wei and I got out of the car and pushed the door into the wooden shed to take a look, it was empty, there was nothing, and we couldn't smell any peculiar smell. We double-checked the floor in the shed and everything in the corners, and when we made sure there was no basement or anything like that, we got back to the car and drove to the next wooden shed.

We searched for seven wooden sheds in a row, and what we saw was basically the same, all of them were empty rooms, and there were not even a shovel or other tools left in them. There was nothing of value to be found, but half of the sun's face had already reached the horizon.

I snuggled up to the car and looked at a small house by the woods in the distance, and at the same time estimated the distance we would get there, in this kind of open place, there will be a kind of deviation in people's vision, you feel as if it is very close, in fact, it takes a lot of time to drive over, similar things have happened to us several times just now.

"I guess there's Zuihou." We didn't even eat at noon from morning to night, and I'm really a little tired and thirsty now.

Qiao Wei's state is not much better than mine, and the word "tired" has been clearly written on his face. He curled his lips with his tongue, and then said in a low voice, "If you don't find us again, go back, even if you don't go back to London, you have to eat something in town, I'm about to run out of energy." ”

Qiao Wei agreed with this suggestion 100%, I nodded slightly, and then got into the car again and set off towards the southernmost woods.

As the car approached the woods, the already faint sunlight was completely blocked, making the edge of the woods seem much darker than the open field.

The hut at the edge of the forest was like a log cabin in the woods, not the kind of barn or stables we had seen before, because the house was not very large, so Qiao Wei did not turn off the fire at all—neither of us thought that anything special would be found in this hut, so we only planned to go in and take a look and then go back.

But when I got out of the car and pushed open the small door of the wooden house, I couldn't help but be stunned by the scene in front of me, there were tables, chairs, beds, kettles, and fireplaces, and there was a half-burned firewood in the fireplace, and there was a haode quilt on the bed, and a set of thick fur coats hanging at the head of the bed.

Obviously, this cottage is occupied!

I hurriedly turned around and shouted at Qiao Wei in the car: "This wooden house is inhabited, and there are ...... inside."

Before I could finish my sentence, suddenly a long neighing of a horse came from the woods, and it seemed to be far away.

Qiao Wei obviously heard the sound as well, and he glanced in the direction of the horse's barking, and then immediately waved his hand to signal me to go back to the car. I quickly ran back to the car, and the car immediately started and went straight into the woods.

The trees in the forest are not very dense, but it is impossible to move quickly in the woods, so we can only slow down and lower the windows to listen carefully to the movement in the woods. The sound of wheels crushing against the grass was noisy, making it difficult for us to hear other sounds in the woods, and the sound of horses barking was no longer there.

After about five minutes of the car in the woods, a small lake appeared in front of us, and on the other side of the lake there was a small pier, and behind the pier there was a large wooden barnhouse. Police cars don't have the function of walking on water, so we can only walk along the shore of the lake to see if there is a way to get around.

We were lucky, we didn't go far before we saw a wooden bridge over the lake, but the bridge was so narrow that cars would not be able to drive it. We had to park at the head of the bridge, get out of the car and walk across the bridge to the other side, and then walk towards the warehouse we had seen earlier.