Chapter 23: The Golden Fairy (21)
The night went well, Eren easily got what he wanted, and the library was much worse guarded than he had imagined, after all, there was only one old man here.
Of course, the price to pay is most of Elian's rest time.
Early the next morning, when Elian's staggering sobering came to his senses, a piece of news that had shocked him for a long time reached his ears.
The mayor's own son, the town's only police officer, Officer Blois, was brought up as the murderer who had been killing people in the spring, the so-called spring death. And it was none other than his accomplice, Sowel, who took him up.
The fat man who runs a restaurant has now become an accomplice to the Grim Reaper of Spring.
Suvir was killed on the spot for resisting. And Officer Blois, no, now he doesn't have any official position. Blois is confined to the town's underground prison, awaiting justice.
The first time he heard the news, Ellian's first reaction was impossible. If the murderer in this town really exists, the least likely thing is the blonde police officer with his drilled hair and an official mouth.
Of course, not only Ai Lian, Ai Yue couldn't believe it for a while, but what she couldn't believe was the fact that the uncle who held the Big Stomach King Contest was actually the murderer and was dead.
In Ai Yue's view, every boss who holds the Big Stomach King Competition is a good person.
"Victoria?"
Eren looked worriedly at the haystack in the corner of the hut, where Victoria was holding her calf, not knowing what she was thinking.
The dark emerald eyes stared in one direction, as if to see through there.
Eren knew that this was the location of the town's dungeon.
"I'll go buy some breakfast, Ai Yue, you take care of Victoria. Eren sighed, he knew that even if he didn't say it, she actually cared more about Victoria's brother than anyone else.
"Don't worry, with me, no one can get close to Xiao Wei!" Ai Yue patted her chest and said confidently.
Gently touching Ai Yue's little head, Ai Lian responded softly: "En." ”
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When Eren arrived in town, it was about eight o'clock in the morning.
The townspeople generally wake up early, and the news is already known.
Compared to the people I met when I first came to the town, the people on both sides of the street can no longer see the smiles they had at that time, and everyone's faces are full of gloom.
Was it because the fat man who ran the restaurant had killed so many people, or was it because the police officer, who had always been revered by the residents, was actually the so-called Grim Reaper?
Elian didn't know any of that, but he probably did.
A neighbor who has been a neighbor for more than ten years is actually a killer. A police officer who has been scared for so many years is actually a killer.
For these uninformed townspeople, this may be the end of the world.
Elian paced slowly through the streets of the town, and from time to time she heard the whispers of the thugs who had nothing to do all day and the old women with broken tongues.
"Did you hear that? Sowel opened the restaurant because he killed him! Those who died in the inn died because they ate Suvir's food! That was poisoning! It was terrible... ”
"I didn't expect that fat man who was smiling all day long to be such a person! Uh, look at the face?"
"I went to his house for dinner the day before yesterday, I won't die too, right?"
"You die, you are not an outsider, even if you really want to die, it should be the gray wolf and the pair of men and women from outside!"
"But Blois is also a prisoner, I said a long time ago, that blonde man is a waste except for his father! If it weren't for his father, he would be a gangster now, hahaha!"
"Suer, you're not talking about a gangster! And reincarnation is a technical job, you really don't have that ability! What else can you do besides working on the chick?"
"Lao Tzu's ability is to pick up girls!
Listening to this and that kind of rumor, Ellian's brain is also constantly running.
He had to put together everything he had heard, dispel the nonsense that didn't work, and bring back the useful information, and I'm sure Victoria would come up with the answer.
In the easternmost part of the town, this is now the only restaurant in the town. Since Souvel's killing, the number of people in the restaurants here has increased by several times.
Everything is sold here, including breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and men's favorite cigarettes.
Unlike the fat man at Sowel, the owner here is an old man, an old woman to be exact.
It is said that she has been running the restaurant for decades, and that people of her generation have long since passed away. It's as if forgotten by the goddess of time, and she is the only one who has survived.
The people of the town call her "Grandma Ace", both adults and children.
Eren had only been here once, and for the simple reason that it was so far away from Victoria's hut that as a lazy person, Eren couldn't think of any reason to travel so far to buy food.
Except that the day before yesterday, Ai Yue had to eat the small cookies here.
"Grandma Elsie, get me a bear biscuit, a honey donuts. Elian said loudly in Grandma Ashie's ear, otherwise she would most likely be ignored by Grandma Ashie, who was not very good at ear.
It is said that the ability to speak loudly and unscrupulously in the store is also one of the characteristics of this shop.
"Oh - it's little Ai Liang, little Verdor's favorite bear biscuit and little moon's favorite doughnut. It's still the same, right?" Grandma Elsie said to Ellen as she got up to get the biscuits.
Although Grandma Elsie is definitely an antique-level existence, and her ears are not very smart. But her memory is definitely the best that Eren has ever seen.
They had only been here once, and Grandma Essie was able to remember their names, and even their favorite foods.
But apparently Grandma Elsie didn't remember Ellen's name, maybe she didn't want to, or did she just remember the girls with a sweet tooth?
This may be the legend of the next town.
The witch forgotten by time... Something, it feels like it's quite emotional.
The Grim Reaper from spring is dead, and the townspeople are in dire need of the next legend to sustain themselves.
However, although she didn't know what was wrong, Elian always felt a sense of disobedience.
Picking up a small cloth bag handed over by Grandma Elsie, Elian said thank you, and then stepped out of the small shop.
At some point, it started to rain outside.
Spring rain?
Elian didn't know.
It was the early spring of 359 in the Irish calendar.
What the first rain will bring to this remote town, no one knows yet.