In the silence of the house, Mir was surprised to hear a phrase from the second floor of Kra.

The soles of his shoes rubbed hard against the floor and he hurried up to the second floor.

He stood in the doorway and looked out the window at the bright light that came in and the green light refracted on the windowsill, and he was stunned, because he didn't know exactly where the mouth of the bottle was facing.

The direction of the mouth of the bottle was completely different from the angle of the mouth of the bottle in the harbor, and he followed the direction of the mouth and speculated: "Lafayette One?" ”

Mir knew that the large rear of Lafayette One was a vast plain, where there was no place to live at all.

The discovery of the second bottle shattered all of Mir's previous thoughts about latitude and longitude.

"The original clue is broken." He said in great frustration.

Carat asked him, "What?" Are all the clues gone? ”

"And the other one, it's the constellation chart." Mir now had to find a piece of paper for Kra so that he could draw all the constellations.

"There's only one useful clue left, Carat."

"Do we speculate on the murderer's purpose based on the horoscope?" She asked.

Mill stood on the edge of the windowsill and said, "Yes, I don't want to pass up any chances, I feel like the horoscope can provide the next move of the murderer." ”

"Okay, so when am I going to draw?"

"I'll draw it when I go back, or I'll draw it in another location."

"Where are we going next?"

"It's a tavern, Gaino Evan's home."

Mir slowly raised his right palm, palm outward, the back of his hand to his forehead, his eyes fixed on the endless scene outside the window, and said, "Even the weather today has become exceptionally sunny - neat." ”

He turned around, shielded himself from the light, and his eyes fell on the bidet, where he found that Carol's human skin was gone, leaving only a very clean third of the water in the basin.

"Hell! Another third! He said angrily.

What does that mean? Mr. Edward? ”

Mir shook his head weakly and said, "I don't know, latitude and longitude have lost the meaning it wants to express at the moment. ”

Carat pointed to the bottle on the windowsill and said, "Is it because of its appearance?" ”

"That's right, its appearance completely interfered with my previous speculation and judgment, so I can only draw some useful conclusions from the constellation chart."

"Omar should know a third of what it means, didn't you ask him?"

"Hmm... I think he deliberately followed me by saying, and he didn't actually understand what that meant. Mill told her.

Carat sighed and said, "Mr. Edward, you should be able to go to the police station and ask him one more time." ”

"I thought about it, I was afraid that he would use his identity as a prophet to stop my inquiry, as if he were revealing a secret of heaven, and ended up with some kind of damnation, that strange way of dying." "I don't want him to die in his cell, I'm going to give an account to Uncle Amos, and the residents, instead of ending up with the body of a murderer," Mill said. ”

"Do you understand?"

"You're for the title of detective, aren't you?"

Mir didn't know why Kra was asking, so he turned his head to look into her eyes, but he couldn't read her inner thoughts: "Sort of, if this title of mine wants to gain some authority in New Orleans, it will be enough to compete with the police department in the French district." ”

"I've announced the identity of the private investigator to Inspector Louie." Mir hesitated for a moment and said: "I don't want this to be absolutely invalid in the end, the title of detective is very hard to come by for me, I don't want to give it up, if I give up, see Alina, I may not have any hope in this life." ”

"I think you're right, it's time to find a way out for yourself, it's just that you've swapped selfishness and greed for a benign statement."

"So to speak."

Carah smiled, "I'll do my best to help you, Mr. Edward, and I hope the moment you meet Alina, it won't be a kind of despair." ”

"I've found a problem, Carat."

"What's the problem?"

"You're so much smarter than I thought."

"Really?" Carat stroked the hair next to his ear and said, "I'm not stupid at all, I just don't have any ideas or ideas in this area of detectives, God didn't give me such a talent, and I won't be too reluctant." ”

"You can try, like I said before." "If you want to know something comprehensively, you can write out clues and evidence on paper with a pen, and you can read it carefully and repeatedly in your spare time," Mill said. ”

Carat's eyes widened, he nodded, and said with a smile, "That's a good idea, Mr. Edward." ”

"Do you know the briefcase?" Mir remembered that both Ian and Carl had this kind of thing.

"See."

"You can put some paper in your briefcase and record it at any time."

Mir continued: "When you are done and you go back to where you live, you write down all the details of the day. ”

"Why don't you write it down on the spot?"

"I need to give you a good memory, and you'll thank me personally later."

Kra agreed, "Yes, Mr. Edward. ”

"It's time for us to go, it's a big residential area, we need to speed things up a bit, and after talking to Gaynor, we can have a bite to eat and then go to the next place."

"Okay."

Mill closed the door to the house, and then Kra immediately leaned over and asked, "Mr. Edward, I wonder what is going on in this house?" ”

"If you want to know, you can only go home and tell you, I can tell you all the details I know and a little bit of what I think."

"When we ride in the carriage, you can tell me about it, it shouldn't delay your thinking, right?"

Mir said as he walked, "No, if you can't wait to find out, I'll tell you when you get into the carriage." ”

"You go get me a carriage first, Carat." Mill commanded.

"Okay, then you're going to stay here a little longer."

Ten minutes had passed, and Mill looked around, but there was no sign of Carat, only a few passers-by walking in the street.

Mir leaned lightly against the trunk of the tree and began to use his vision to see where the bottle was pointing.

The visual signals received in his head were constantly jumping, trees, houses, mountains, boulders, and all kinds of people, and Mir felt that there was a problem with the direction.

When he re-watched it, he finally saw a very fresh place.

"Habitat?"

As he was about to try to see clearly, he suddenly experienced a brief blindness in front of his eyes.

"No!" He shouted in horror.

There was darkness in front of him, like an abyss, more like a dark night, and there was no starlight in sight, which made him unable to escape, and he vaguely felt like he was in the middle of it.

Standing with his feet as if he was standing in a puddle, he suddenly stretched out a few hands and frantically tore at his calves.

He felt his body falling down little by little, and where his feet were, there was a hidden attraction that was about to consume his entire body.

In the abyss, I heard someone calling his name.

He knew it was Cara, and he called Cara's name as well, but unfortunately, Carah couldn't hear her name.

His leg had been inexplicably dragged into a large section, and it was even deeper and deeper.

He began to choose to struggle desperately, and then he found that the more desperate he struggled, the faster he was trapped.

"It's not a habitat, it's not an abyss, it's a swamp, a dark swamp."

He was about to suffocate, and the swamp was already over his chest.

He was pulled back by a sweet taste on his mouth, and he was brought to the face of a beautiful woman in a trance, emitting bursts of hazy feelings.

She has small freckles on her cheeks that are inconspicuous and extremely shallow.

The warm sunlight shone on her golden hair, and he seemed to see a golden rice field.

Especially her blue eyes, which are the same color as her own.

He looked at her affectionately, but he didn't see the sea in her eyes, the sea that Alina had described.

He dodged back and said, "No, Carat, we can't." ”

"Do you know what you're doing? Mr. Edward. ”

"I... What did I do? Mill stammered.

"You're calling my name." Carat blushed and looked at him and said, "You just had a daydream, Mr. Edward. ”

"Just now your hands were scratching and touching me."

"No, I'm struggling, don't get me wrong, Carat."

Kra glanced at Mir's eyes and said, "Really?" ”

"Yes, there is no doubt that I did not steal the forbidden fruit." Mir said, pointing to Cara's body.

"Okay." She asked curiously, "I wonder what you just saw?" ”

As the fear in Mir's heart gradually dissipated, he replied, "It's an abyssal swamp, and I almost can't see the sun, it's very dark there." ”

"There were a lot of hands tearing at my calves and pants, and I was buried under my neck in the swamp." Mill described: "I saw there a sin and filth, some dead and some alive, their hands almost corroded. ”

"Neat is the exact opposite of what you said, they look dirty." Kra said.

Mir's gaze stayed on a slightly sunken spot in front of Carat, "Whatever ungentlemanly things I've done to you, I hope you don't mind, Carat." ”

"I never mind, you should look at my body, twice, all over the place." Carat asked directly, "Do you like it?" ”

"No, Carat, I never thought about it." Mir didn't know how to answer Kra's question.

"A woman's body, you men will like it." She took a few steps forward and said, "She's been out of New Orleans for a while, don't you want to give it a try?" ”

"No, Carat, even if you kissed me, you saved my life, and in return, you can order something else."

"The first time I remember, in the stairwell of the hotel, your eyes have seen it all, Mr. Edward."