Chapter 94: Detectives and Commissions
If Miss "The Magician" really was a descendant of Abraham, perhaps I could give her this notebook and let her know that Abraham, who had sworn to revive the family, had taken potions at the wrong time and died in this basement.
Of course, given that there are three recipes in the notes, I'm afraid I'll have to talk to her about the price.
Putting the brown notebook away, Angel looked around the basement again, saw nothing useful other than the dry flesh crawling all over the floor, and left.
Before leaving, she burned the flesh with the cursed black flame and cleaned the basement to see off Abraham, who had no one to collect his body.
Although he was reckless, he did die to revive the family.
When she returned to the second floor, Angel was surprised to find that the head of the corpse that had fallen around the corner had grown back into her neck, and her eyeballs had not fallen, but were swollen after a long time.
There were marks of a hard pinch on his neck, at an angle opposite to a normal choke, and it appeared that he had strangled himself with both hands.
Normal people are not capable of strangling themselves, combined with the strange staircase before, as well as the illusion of the corpse, Angel guessed that it should be the resentful spirit that she burned to death just now possessed this thief and manipulated his body to solve himself.
Could it be that the dead Abrahamic descendant became a resentful spirit because of some grudge?
Angel guessed and decided to take the time to write a report letter to the nearest church and let the official extraordinary person deal with the matter, although the grudge had been resolved, it was hard to say if there would be other problems with this haunted house.
With this in mind, she did a proper anti-divination with Black Flame before leaving 32 Verdi Street through the window on the second floor that had been opened by the burglars.
Outside, it was dark and drizzling, and the dim light of the street lamps scattered in the rain and fog, shrouding the street in a hazy light. Angel put on her hood and hurried to the subway station where there was still the last train, thinking about the vampire in the basement of the Harvest Chapel.
The address provided by the other party for the second time was undoubtedly correct, allowing her to figure out that the curse on the master key came from the Abraham family, and even obtained three copies of the same way, a coherent sequence of potions!
Although one of them was the "Master of Tricks" she got from Dominic, now there are Sequence 9 and Sequence 7, which can allow an ordinary person to be promoted directly to the Extraordinary of the Middle Sequence.
That's a lot more valuable than three potion recipes in different sequences!
In view of this, she wanted to find an opportunity to rescue the vampire from the missionary priest Utravsky, but she was a little worried that Emlyn was "doing good deeds with bad intentions", although she got a lot of benefits, but in fact, she liked to deceive people and even hurt a lot of humans, after all, the address he provided for the first time was obviously a trap.
If Angel hadn't heard the question and used divination to confirm it, he might have been caught by his companions and was pressing, asking about Emrin's whereabouts.
"It seems that the first address he provided, '48 Riverbay Avenue in the South District', is worth investigating...... Hmm, but I don't have much time, maybe I can find someone I can trust to investigate? ”
Angel pondered, walked around the corner, and came to the subway station.
"It's out of service?"
Looking at the closed subway station, Angel looked around the rain-soaked street and found that there were few pedestrians, let alone a single horse-drawn carriage.
"Can I just walk back?"
After calculating the distance from the southern district back to Red Rose Street in the bridge district, a drop of cold sweat slipped down Angel's forehead and quickly mixed with the rain.
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"Knock-"
The next morning, Angel came to 15 Minsk Street and knocked on the door of Detective Sherlock Moriarty.
A moment later, the door opened, and out came a middle-aged and elderly man with gray temples.
"Well, I went wrong?"
Angel, who didn't have the master key with her, but still went to the wrong place, looked sideways at the nameplate next to the door and confirmed that this was 15 Minsk Street, and Moriarty's message book was also hanging on the door, and the pencil was already shortened.
"Are you looking for Detective Moriarty? He's in there, and I'm here to visit him. ”
The man smiled, his calm and deep tone that made Angel feel a little familiar.
"Hello, Miss Watson." Behind the man, Moriarty, with short black hair and a thicker beard, poked his head out and said hello.
After greetings, Angel learned that the man with half gray hair was called Isenger Stanton, and like Moriarty, he was a well-known private detective, and he came to inform Moriarty that a bounty would be paid in the near future, and he was likely to get a triple-digit gold pound.
"Miss Watson, you must have heard of the serial murders that have been raging in the city for the past two months, right? Mr. Moriarty is a veritable expert in reasoning and has made an important contribution to solving the case, so a large part of the bounty will go to him. ”
After making a vivid advertisement for Moriarty, Mr. Stanton left the place, stopping by on his way to the police station on his way to run an errand, and could not afford to delay too much.
Seeing off the old detective, Moriarty invited Angel into the house and arranged for her to sit on the same single couch as last time, before smiling and asking her why she was visiting.
"How can the bounty for the 'Devil Dog' incident belong to you? Did the official extraordinaire know that we killed it? ”
Instead of rushing to commission a vampire investigation, Angel first inquired about the bounty that Issinger Stanton had mentioned.
The corners of Moriarty's mouth grinned, making his deliberately thick beard shake with him: "I did participate in the investigation of the serial murderer before, and put forward the idea that the murderer may not be human, because there were no witnesses to the death of the demon dog, and the bounty could not be claimed, and finally a large part was divided into the informants who provided clues and the detectives involved in the investigation." ”
"So you're the biggest contributor to it, and therefore have a prize of hundreds of pounds?" Angel sighed with some envy, "But your investigation did help a lot, remember our analysis?" At that time, the demon dog probably felt threatened and took the initiative to attack, which directly led to its death. ”
Perhaps these experiences can be used later on other extraordinary beings of the same sequence, who can sense a threat to themselves, which is both an advantage and a trap......
Angel silently jotted down the message, and then chatted with Moriarty before mentioning the investigation into "Emlyn White" and the address he was talking about.
"The vampire who was locked up in the church of Mother Earth God, or did he get lost in it?" Moriarty's rhetorical question was filled with a hint of disbelief, which reminded Angel of the first time he heard about it, "But the name Emlyn White, it's not the first time I've heard it, last week a colleague commissioned me to look for him, saying that this person has been missing for half a month, but I didn't expect that he was locked in the basement by a priest and forced him to listen to the belief of Mother Earth God......"
"Peer ...... Also a detective? Could it be a vampire disguised as a human? ”
Remembering that Emlyn had been repeating her name before leaving the Harvest Chapel yesterday, she seemed sure that someone from the outside world would be looking for her, and combined with the commission Moriarty received, her first reaction was that this vampire's companion was looking for him who was missing.
"No, he was also commissioned by someone else, and it was said that he was well paid, but because he didn't have a clue, he wanted me to help out. But you're right, the person who entrusted him with it is likely to be Emlyn White's kind, because it is inconvenient for him to come forward, let alone report the crime or ask for help from the official, so he can only look for a private investigator who can keep secrets. ”
Moriarty thought for a moment, furrowed his brows, and replied.
"But why are you investigating this vampire?"
His brown pupils looked at Angel with undisguised curiosity.
(End of chapter)