Chapter 52: Direction
As Danfoss announced the dissolution of the meeting, the members of the community gathered in the cabin prepared to leave. In order not to attract attention, they also deliberately divided into groups and left in batches from several directions, and the apprentices of the same department gathered together and walked slowly everywhere like a walk.
It is a pity that from the beginning to the end, these "cautious" conspirators did not notice that there was an unnatural "butterfly" parked in the lawn next to the cabin. They were not in the slightest aware that their plans had been exposed, and thought that the secret of the rally had been kept intact.
In fact, the distance of the terminal attached to the "butterfly" to catch the sound is limited, and the apprentices are far away from the wooden house one by one, and the butterfly that is no longer moving cannot transmit more sounds. As the last bit of voice in her ears disappeared, Lizzie no longer looked at Danfoss in the distance.
She knew that this was the end of her eavesdropping - no more eavesdropping would be fruitful, and there was no need to waste any more magic. With a wave of her hand, Lizzie undid the spell that kept the connection going, silently, except for the faint loss of some kind of breath in the air.
Once the magic that kept the spell stable was broken, the spell would disintegrate in an instant. The paper-folded "butterfly" lost its last trace of activity. However, in an instant, this simple origami turned into a mediocre mass of "waste paper", and there was no trace of the spell that had been attached to it.
The matter here is over, and the owner of the footsteps seems to have dragged it enough. Lizzie heard a few creaks of the door opening downstairs, presumably when she was eavesdropping on a meeting with Danfoss and the others, who had inspected all the rooms on the first floor.
The sound of clattering footsteps approached, but slowly began to move away as they reached the nearby staircase. Then his footsteps echoed hollowly, and it seemed that the man was not interested in the space above the first floor of the building, and instead turned and walked directly in the direction of the basement.
I used to tour the neighborhood when I was wandering around Lizzie's campus before. She heard that the basement of this "art building" was originally planned to be used as a storage room, but because the building was very low in use, the storage room was rarely used and was idle for a long time.
She originally thought that the person who came was just a school worker or a teacher who came to check whether the doors and windows of the classroom were closed, but she didn't expect that he only checked the classroom on the first floor and then walked to the basement under the building, which was said to have been unused for a long time, which made one wonder why he was inspecting the classroom.
Creeping up the stairs to visit, the stage leading to the ground floor is not illuminated. The eerie staircase leads downward, like a walkway leading to the abyss. The staircase went down until the height of the half-story building was reversed, and it was completely dark.
Not long ago, when she was about to go up to the second floor, Lizzie noticed the staircase leading to the underground, and it was only because she was eager to keep an eye on Danfoss and the others that she ignored the stairs going down. Now that the matter was over there, the sound of the footsteps walking down certainly aroused her curiosity.
Bang bang!
There was a sound of sporadic metal clashing, what seemed to be the echo of a chain smashing to the ground. After a while, there was another creaking sound like a rusty metal door. After a few reverberations of metal, the man began to walk in the direction of the lower levels.
Hearing footsteps go deeper, Lizzie walked down the stairs driven by curiosity, continuing in the direction the sound had disappeared. The staircase leading to the underground is dark, but it doesn't have much impact, after all, Lizzie is still confident in her ability to see in the dark.
If you gaze at a dark corner in a well-lit location, you will often feel that it is so dark that you can't see your fingers. But once you are in the depths of darkness, as long as you adapt to the dark environment, you can take into view many things that were once hidden in them.
But now it was not darkness that stood in her way, but a solid iron fence gate.
The steel used for this fence gate does not appear to be of very good quality, and the strategy of increasing the size has been adopted in order to strengthen the defense. The cold metal about the thickness of the teacup was arranged in an orderly manner, and then it was held into a single piece by several thick steel plates three fingers wide, and the horizontal bar was at the staircase at the other end.
Several thumb-thick chains were wrapped around the opening of the fence gate, and in addition to the reinforcing chains, a lock disc was installed on the fence gate, and the shape of the lock hole was somewhat strange. Under the double defense, the fence gate is tightly sealed, and can only be opened by brute force if there is no key.
But judging from the closed door, it was clear that something was not right. Someone might have untied the chains and locked the door and closed it, but there was no need for him to tie the chains again. The door is still locked with two locks, and there is no sign that it was once opened.
Lizzie can be sure that there is no problem with her hearing, and she will not let go of the movement because she is concentrating on eavesdropping on the Danfoss meeting. Someone had indeed entered the basement through the first floor of the building, but now it looked like no one had ever entered the basement.
So what's going on?
What Lizzie heard was supposed to be true, and the unidentified man had the keys to unlock the two doors. He quickly opened the chain-clad iron door, but when he entered the next floor, he turned around and sealed the door behind him with chains once more
How boring is this for someone to do this? Could it be that he doesn't plan to come out?
If something is abnormal, there must be something wrong.
If Lizzie had thought that the person who had entered the basement might have been the one who had come to pick up the contents of the storage. Now she completely denied this possibility - if he was just trying to get something, there was no need to lock himself up.
Lizzie touched the iron door and suddenly said, "What do you think, Curt?"
The cold metal felt rough to the touch, and with a slight knock, an empty echo indicated that the thick metal cylinders were not solid, and that it only took an object such as a hammer to break into, and if necessary, Lizzie could even use a spell to blast it away.
"It's as sharp as ever. Curt's figure emerged from the corner of the corridor on the first floor, "As for your question, I don't think there's any need to chase down and investigate now. That guy might still be down there. Investigation is not a justification for violence, because we don't have that power. ”
"Since you said so, let's put the investigation here first. Lizzie nodded, but her tone was not very happy, "But it's time to change that bad habit of yours." Hurry up and come out when you come, hide aside and peek at something, do you want to see something?"
"Don't say that, I didn't plan on hiding and peeking or anything. With a smile on his face, he walked slowly to Lizzie's side, talking to her in a joking tone as he went, "I've just been here for a while, and I haven't found the right time to say hello." ”
He is not equipped with the armor he used for work today, nor is he armed. Wearing a dark coat over his loose summer clothes and a plaid cap on his head that didn't match a pair of them, he looked like an ordinary youth on the streets of Cutrice.
"Nonsense. Lizzie retorted Curt simply and forcefully, "Don't think I don't know you followed me with bated breath for at least a few minutes. Honestly, what the hell are you trying to do this time? And this bunch of stuff you've got is going to be used for me to investigate?"
If there is anything strange about him now, it is probably that he is dressed a little improperly, but he is carrying a large white patent leather box in his left hand. This box is heavy, and you can smell a smell like a ** thing wafting from it.
Curt laughed twice, then put the thing he was holding in his left hand and shook it in front of Lizzie, "I'm not thinking about the shady things, I just don't want too many people to notice this bunch of things." If you think about it, I'm an outsider wandering around the teaching area, carrying this inexplicable bunch of things in my hands...... I guess as long as it's a guard, when he sees me, he will run over to me and say hello, okay?"
"I don't know if any of the guards will say hello to you, but I know you're talking nonsense. Taking the suitcase, Lizzie replied to his rhetorical question with disdain, "Forget it, if you don't want to sue me now, then it's not too late to say it when you feel the need to say it." ”
Lizzie knew that Curt wouldn't lie to herself, but that didn't mean he would tell him everything he knew. There are some things that Curt usually does to hide from Lizzie when he feels he has to deal with them. Then, after all the problems were resolved, he would find a chance to sue her.
It's not the first time this kind of thing has happened, and basically every investigation Curt conducts behind his back is something that Lizzie doesn't really like, so she doesn't pursue it too much. If he asks for her help when he is acting alone, Lizzie will also do her best to assist him in his work.
Giving up on the subject, Lizzie told Curt everything she had done before.
"Their plan ...... This is indeed something that needs to be pursued. But is the situation at Danvers very strict?" Curt pondered for a moment before replying, his tone was contrary to the previous frivolity, he had suspected Danfoss before, but the situation that this apprentice had shown before had not yet reached the point where Curt had to be vigilant.
"It can't be said that it is strict, but it is necessary to pay more attention to him. "The worst-case scenario is that Hank Danvers has been brought to justice. Now in front of us, he has become someone's puppet. ”
If that's the case, it's a big problem.
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