Chapter 23: Doubts
Leaving the town square, Rodin did not immediately go to William's house, but reported to the training camp first as planned, and then began normal training. The breakthrough www.biquge.info the Rock Breathing Method was as expected, but this breakthrough was not mainly reflected in the extension of time, but the fact that he could finally use the breathing method in a state of motion. Rodin's attempt was to practice the breathing technique while practicing the sword, and although the breathing method lasted for a much smaller time, the efficiency of the use of time was several times greater.
Greedy and insufficient, he wanted to go directly through the first stage of the breathing method and combine the second stage of the guidance movement with the breathing method, but as soon as the guidance action began, there was a strong stabbing pain in the abdomen, and the breathing method was automatically interrupted.
"Sure enough, it's still too naΓ―ve. However, he is still quite satisfied with his progress, and his physical fitness has also improved to a certain extent under the breakthrough of breathing. After ravaging poor Fletcher several times, he found that his strength and reflexes were more than three times that of ordinary people. Counting that it has only been more than half a year since he came to this world, his body has really undergone earth-shaking changes, and he can't help but feel quite emotional, but this is far from enough. He plans to increase his workout even more.
He practiced until nightfall, and after dinner, he immediately rushed to the house of his client, William. He seems to be more fond of running errands at night now.
Elm Street is in the easternmost part of the town, and most of the households are engaged in livestock farming. When I was far away, I smelled a thick smell of feces. But Luo Dan didn't mind, in his last life, his grandmother's house was in the countryside, and when he smelled this smell, he was quite nostalgic.
Along the road, there are cowsheds, sheepfolds, chicken coops, excrement can be seen everywhere, and occasionally there is a rooster and a dog barking. Rodin walked cautiously along the way, and if he stepped on a landmine in his leather shoes, it would be called a sour.
"Bang bang,"
"Hello, is anyone home?"
The door opened, revealing the face of an old middle-aged man, which should be the farmer William.
"Please come in, it's Lord Rodin, are you here for Ryan's disappearance?" said with a look of surprise on his face.
When did I become so famous, Rodin leaned sideways into the cabin. The cabin is clean and spacious, and there are four people sitting in front of the fire in the center. In addition to the middle-aged man who opened the door, there was a woman with red eyes, a little boy of five or six years old, and the last one made Rodin's eyes shine. This is a girl of about fifteen or sixteen years old, with brown hair, a pretty double ponytail, fair skin, small and delicate facial features, and a slender figure full of vitality. But at this moment, she is like a middle-aged woman, her expression looks quite sad, and she gently wrinkles Xiaoqiong's nose, which is endearing and pitiful. She's Cynthia, the sister who lost her child.
"As you can see, since Ryan's disappearance yesterday, Erica has been in tears all night, not only her, but also my family. Poor child Cynthia, who has been guilty of her brother's disappearance. β
"What's going on, I have to tell me more about it. β
William's expression was sad, and he began to speak slowly, "It was about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, and the kid and Galle were harvesting corn in the cornfield outside town, and I was feeding in the sheepfold, and Cynthia was playing with little Ryan in her arms. Everything was fine, but suddenly I heard Cynthia's cry and learned from her that little Ryan was missing, so I hurriedly went to inform the child's mother, and by the way, I handed over the neighbors to help search together, but found nothing. β
When Cynthia, the girl with two ponytails, shrugged her shoulders, couldn't help but sob, and blamed herself: "It's all my fault, it's me who didn't take a good look at little Ryan, my brother, and I hurt him." β
Rodin gently comforted: "If something has been eyeing you a long time ago, no matter how you resist the page, it will not help, so it's not your fault, don't blame yourself too much, the top priority is to find little Ryan as soon as possible." β
"Woo, Ryan, my poor boy, can we still find him? It's been a day, is he still alive?"
"Don't give up hope, I'm here to help you. Rodin decided not to mention the remuneration, he was not short of money for the time being, and he himself was quite sympathetic to the family's plight.
"Cynthia, can you describe how Ryan disappeared?"
"Woo, at that time, I was sitting on the haystack at the back of the house with little Ryan in my arms, playing games with him. With a grimace to scare him, he was so cute and innocent, looking at me and laughing all the time, laughing all the time. I covered my face from time to time, and suddenly let go of my hand, trying to tease him, who knows, I did this three or four times, and when I covered my face with my hands and broke away again, he disappeared from my face, and there was not even a swaddling baby left. β
"It's only two seconds to cover his face, what can snatch him away so quickly?"
"Are there any strange movements?"
The girl stopped sobbing and recalled, "No, I, I'm sure I didn't hear any strange noises, nor did I see any strange people or animals, and there was not a trace left in the vicinity. Not even Ryan's crying and laughing, disappeared silently. β
"I panicked and immediately shouted regardless of the fact that the neighbors and my father had been recruited. β
"It's strange that something can snatch a little guy without even noticing. β
"Can you take me to the scene of the incident?"
Rodin followed the girl to a small haystack not far from the house, where the view was wide and there was no place to hide within ten meters.
"I was sitting right here, and he was lying right in front of me, and I could reach it as soon as I reached out. β
The possibility of wolves and dogs and other beasts committing crimes can be basically ruled out. What about the birds?
"Do you think it's possible that some kind of bird took him away?"
"Little Ryan weighs seven pounds, birds and beasts like crows can't move at all, and large birds can't be without a little movement, I didn't feel the wind at the time, little Ryan is so close to me!"
Rodin rubbed his head a little tangled, he wasn't good at reasoning and the like, if only he had Leviathan's sensitive five senses.
Yes, I don't have such a keen sense of smell, but dogs do, and there is no shortage of Wang Xingren here.
So Rodin immediately found William: "Uncle William, have you ever tried to use a hound to track the scent of little Ryan?" β
William just replied with a gloomy face: "Yesterday I borrowed the best hunting dog of the Wicks family, but it just circled around the neighborhood and didn't find any clues at all. Strange to say, however, when the beast arrived here, it drooped its tail and shuddered from time to time and let out a low howl, as if it had encountered something fierce. β
What is it that makes a hound's fear so much? There must be a murderer's breath nearby, but why does the hound keep circling around? Could it be that the hounds didn't go far? Rodin reluctantly came to the scene and lifted the haystack, and even poked a dozen or so hollows in the ground nearby with "Erwin", and made a strange discovery.
There was no difference between the outside and the ground where Ryan Jr. had disappeared, but after experimentation, the soil was noticeably softer than the rest of the neighborhood, as if something had turned it over. Suddenly, a thought skipped through me: what runs on the ground and what flies in the sky have all been ruled out, could it be a monster with the ability to escape from the earth and move under the ground that robbed Ryan?
complained a little about his brain, but Rodin also felt that there was such a possibility.
That's one way of thinking, so what's next?
"Lord Rodin, have you seen the scene and found clues?"
Rodin stubbornly comforted: "Uncle William, don't be impatient, I have a little clue, now I want to continue to investigate." β
"Lord Rodin, I knew you could do it, and you could kill even such a ferocious griffon. The child's face was flushed with excitement, as if he had a premonition that the little one was about to be found.
"Lord Rodin, you must help us find little Ryan, and I will promise you everything when the time comes. Cynthia looked at him pitifully.
"Uh, hehe, I'll do my best. Rodin touched the non-existent sweat and fled from William's house.
"It seems that it is not a good thing to have a certain reputation, and the greater the ability to respond to that sentence, the greater the responsibility. β
Self-complaining eased the pressure a little. Although there is an idea, how to implement it?
Ask the old man, but this test is what he gave me, and I'm afraid it won't help.