Chapter 16: Evil God Sculpture, You're Too Brave!
Arkham Township Welfare Home.
Stopping outside the rusty iron gate, watching the black gas drift all the way into the welfare home, Merlin's brows were visibly wrinkled.
"Welfare home, so this is here?"
Even Ludwig was astonished that the Arkham Town was the only institution directly under the Church, except for the church.
The power from the black witchcraft is directed at the welfare house, which is no less than a cat catching a mouse only to find that the mouse's home is under his nest.
"Mr. Zhang, if I'm not mistaken, you grew up here."
Merlin carefully read Zhang Huaiying's information, this detective is an orphan who came out of the welfare home.
"Look, I can't be wrong in my reasoning."
"Mr. Zhang is still so confident."
Zhang Huaiying was noncommittal and led Merlin and Ludwig into the welfare home.
"Zhang?"
As soon as he entered the door, he was recognized.
An old nun stood in the garden and looked at Zhang Huaiying who walked in in surprise.
"I haven't seen you for so many years, and you've grown so big." The old nun's face was full of emotion.
"I remember the last time we saw each other was when you were in college, and you're now a hero in Arkham."
The old nun was a little excited, and after finishing speaking, she realized that Zhang Huaiying was still standing behind Ludwig.
Her eyes widened, and she immediately saluted in a hurry.
"Welcome, Mr. Knight."
Zhang Huaiying did not inherit the memory of the original owner, but this did not bother him.
As soon as his ears moved, he took in the voices of the children in the welfare home.
"Granny Marika." He called out the old nun's name.
"Please take the kids out for a while."
Zhang Huaiying stepped forward and said in a low voice:
"It has something to do with White the Ripper."
"What!"
Ripper White, the effect of these words is surprisingly good in Arkham Town, and before Zhang Huaiying could explain, the old nun hurriedly rushed into the building.
It didn't take long for him to rush out with a dozen children.
"Zhang, I'll bring the children out, please don't let them get hurt."
Looking at the child in shabby cotton clothes, Zhang Huaiying smiled.
"Don't worry, I'm a folk detective in Arkham."
Merlin saw everything in his eyes, and his spirit swept over all the children, and found no trace of black witchcraft.
That's at least good.
"Mr. Detective, what are you going to do next?" Merlin did not give up his intention to test Zhang Huaiying.
"The Three Elements of Reasoning."
Zhang Huaiying raised three fingers.
"Time, place, people."
Listening to the familiar term, Ludwig muttered quietly.
"Isn't that the three elements of a narrative?"
"Ah, that's wrong. It's the murderer, the motive and the modus operandi. Zhang Huaiying scratched her head, and her face seemed to be full of unreliability.
"It doesn't matter. Now that we have clarified the murderer and the general location of the crime, the next step is to determine the location of the crime according to the murderer's modus operandi and motives. ”
"Sir, what is the murderer's modus operandi and motive?" Ludwig began to praise competently.
"Ludwig, what do you think is the most popular thing for a dark wizard to do?"
"Sacrifice the souls of the victims and elevate your own witchcraft." Ludwig didn't have to think about it, it was a common trait of all dark wizards.
A group of maniacs in pursuit of forbidden powers.
"Marika." Zhang Huaiying turned his head to look outside. "In recent years, have any children gone missing in the orphanage?"
The old nun cautiously walked to the door, and she did not dare to enter the house again until she found out what the dark wizard had left behind.
"Zhang, we have never lost a child in the welfare home."
This clue obviously doesn't work.
The only train of thought was broken, and Zhang Huaiying picked her head in some distress.
Sure enough, thinking about this kind of thing still has to be left to the muscles.
Gently stomp your foot.
The power was precisely driven into the ground by him, and the entire welfare home was fully included in the scope of his perception.
More than ten meters underground, a huge cavity appeared under Zhang Huaiying's perception.
"Mr. ......"
Before Ludwig could speak, Zhang Huaiying raised his head confidently.
"Reasoning must not be superficial."
"I suspect now that the Ripper has been in Arkham Town for longer than we thought."
Merlin's eyes changed slightly, and he looked sideways at Zhang Huaiying's back.
He actually guessed it?
Of course, what I am looking for is not what the so-called ripper left behind, but the clues of another group of dark wizards.
Just as Merlin was about to wait and see, the development of events was like getting on a train, and it was like getting on a train.
"As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place, and the welfare house, as a church place, is the best hiding place for dark wizards. Ludwig, when do you think it's best to set up a hideout here? ”
Ludwig was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head repeatedly.
"When the orphanage was built, of course." Zhang Huaiying turned her head to look at Marika.
"Mother-in-law, when was this welfare home built?"
"Twenty-three years ago, huh...... In August, I knew this very well, and it was Smith who was in charge at the time. ”
"Good." Zhang Huaiying nodded with satisfaction.
Then he spread his hands.
"Now, the truth is certain."
"The secret base of the dark wizard is under the foundation of the welfare house."
Ludwig:!!!
Merlin:???
"You wait!"
Merlin hurriedly stopped Zhang Huaiyi, looking as if he had touched the electric door, and he had finished reasoning after a few clicks, and the whole person had not yet come to his senses.
"How did you deduce that those things are underground, and what the dark wizard's secret base is? Why would it be the base and not something else?
"How do you reason?"
Merlin couldn't figure out the relationship between the clues and the answers.
However, Zhang Huaiying has already moved.
"Just come and have a look."
Without saying a word, he walked towards the backyard of the welfare home, leaving the two Merlins who were staring at each other with big eyes.
"Ludwig, are you really sure he's the civilian detective you say?"
At this moment, Merlin's suspicion of a relationship between Zhang Huaiying and the dark wizard was reduced to a minimum.
On the contrary, he had doubts about Zhang Huaiying's head.
"I've seen a lot of detectives, but I've never seen someone like him, where the conditions and answers are completely incompatible."
After Merlin had finished speaking, Ludwig cautiously spoke:
"Mr. Merlin, why don't we go and have a look?"
"I'm going to see what he's going to do."
The two followed Zhang Huaiying's direction, and saw the former on the back wall of the welfare home.
"What are you doing?
Seeing Merlin coming, Zhang Huaiying pointed to the wall in front of him and said.
"This is the mechanism."
"Oh?" Merlin raised an eyebrow.
"Then you can try."
He had seen it before with the help of elemental elves, and there were no remnants of the power of the dark wizard here, and there was no open area underground.
"It's this brick."
Seeing Zhang Huaiying pointing to an ordinary piece and turning his head, Merlin smiled helplessly.
"It's just an ordinary piece of ......"
Before the word brick could be spoken, Zhang Huaiying stretched out his hand and pressed it down.
The wall behind him was easily crushed into powder by him, and there was a slight force under his feet.
Bang!
Without warning. A circular crater appeared at the feet of the trio.
Rumble!
Dust splattered.
The three of them fell to the ground.
Merlin's white beard was all stained gray.
At this moment, they are standing in an underground space of more than 20 square meters.
An indescribable, indescribable sculpture stands in the center of the hollow.
"It's ......," Merlin's pupils narrowed slightly.
In the eyes of ordinary people, it is just some curious sculptures, but in the face of his huge spiritual power, it has turned into an indescribable horror, which is a primitive emotion that has spread to the entire civilized sky from the ancient times when no living beings were born.
However, what surprised him even more was that
A hand reached out from the side and grabbed the sculpture.
"What's this?" Zhang Huaiying's face was full of curiosity and he was holding the sculpture in his hand.
"Danger, put it down!" Merlin's expression changed drastically.
"You reckless!"
He swore that he had never seen such a brave man in his life.
Grab the Evil God Sculpture with your bare hands.
It's just a long life!
"Ludwig stand back!" Merlin's hair fluttered, and the pure holy light enveloped Zhang Huaiying.
He was not sure at all, and he didn't know if he could save this reckless man.
Now he was completely convinced, the man in front of him would never have anything to do with the dark wizard, otherwise he would not dare to do it with a hundred dares from him.
In the same way, he also believes that this detective named Zhang Huaiying is a capable person who can find the void that is enough to blind his mental power through reasoning.
But the problem is, he's too brave!
Brave, it doesn't seem to need the brain as an organ.
What organ does his reasoning use to think,
Muscle?