Chapter 8: The Sound of Autumn
On the low gray wall is printed a bright red sun, the sun looks like a toddler painting and looks like a smiling face. Under the hottest midday sun, the bright red color seems to flow.
No, it's inherently fluid, because the center of the sun is a heart.
The heart was pinned to the wall by silver spikes through several thin wires, and the heart still had a shallow undulation, spurting a little blood with each beat.
Then, the blood was drawn along the thin lines into the smiling sun that it looks like today.
The last stroke of the sun is dripped by the blood on the tulips under the low wall, as if they were getting extra nourishment, and the tulips under the gray low wall look a little more lush than the others.
In the tulip center, a corpse lies silently.
It was a corpse without a heart, his face was smiling, like the sun on the wall, the shallow dimples evoked the outline of a teenager, and he looked like he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, an age that had just entered high school, and every part of his body was written with youthfulness.
Not far away, there were several people crying, they were the family of the deceased, they were all dressed in neat tuxedos or white lace skirts, and if Shinichi Kaneda was here, he would find something very special.
These people cried very hard, but from time to time they showed a strange smile, and their hearts rose and fell as if something had been cathartic.
Probably, these people were happy inside, and they were all shouting: 'He's finally dead...'
Although the crowd of onlookers next to them did not cry, their eyes were full of real sadness, after all, except for indifferent spectators, no matter who saw the death of a young life, they would feel pity when they thought about it.
Fat Will is a qualified spectator, he only has impatience and fear in his eyes, he just wants Yorkham Jones to hurry up and pray, and then let Kaneda Shinichi find out the murderer.
Looking at the heart that was still bleeding from the wall, looking at the sun drawn by blood, and looking at this painting like a child, Fat Will became more and more frightened, looked at it a few times, stepped back again and again, and scolded in his heart:
"Damn 'heart digger'! I'm about to be promoted, how can you get out at this time!"
"Sheriff Will, dead souls are quiet unless someone disturbs it. ”
At this moment, Yorkham Jones's voice came.
Hearing the familiar voice, Fat Will wanted to turn around and yell, but thinking that his face was still hurting this morning, he turned around with a smile and shouted in a very gentle voice:
"Oh, my dear Pastor Jones, I've been waiting for you at last!"
Seeing that Shinichi Kaneda was also there, the two lumps of fat on Fat Will's face jumped up happily:
"My Mr. Detective! Come with me! I assure you, no one has ever touched on the murder. ”
Jokham Jones did not reply, he walked gently to the deceased, glanced at the crowd, smiled at Hemingway Hale in the crowd, and then prayed according to the procedure of the Church of Light.
"Heart-digging holy nails! I must catch you this time!" Kaneda Shinichi did not observe the dead, but stared at the silver spike that held his heart in place.
After watching for a while, Kaneda Shinichi looked at the surrounding crowd, and finally, his eyes fixed on the family of the deceased.
"Mr. Shinichi, have you made any new discoveries?" Officer Paber asked, holding back his vomiting, as he walked over to Shinichi Kaneda.
Kaneda Shinichi didn't answer immediately, he first looked at the eyes of the deceased's family, and then looked at the deceased again, and replied:
"Something is not quite right with the family of the deceased, although they are crying loudly, they are crying for themselves, as if they are relieved from something..."
After all, the heart-diggers have disappeared for five or six years. Paber asked quietly.
Kaneda Shinichi didn't answer, his eyes returned to the silver nail again, and he looked at it for a while before replying: "No!
Then, Kaneda Shinichi leaned into Pabel's ear and said:
"When I inquired about the identity of the deceased, you applied to go in, help me carefully observe the deceased's family, and carefully check what the deceased did before his death! ”
"Don't worry, I'll find out for you a few times after going to bed. Paber nodded, and walked over to Sheriff Will.
By this time, Jokham Jones had finished praying, and he got up and walked to Shinichi Kaneda:
"Haven't you noticed, Mr. Shinichi, that the sun painted on the wall is smiling. ”
"Huh?" Kaneda Shinichi was puzzled, and then jerked up at the sun's smiling face on the wall.
Thinking back to every case of the heart-digger in the past, Shinichi Kaneda also noticed this incident.
After the heart-digger committed the crime in the past, the blood and sun left behind were sad, crying, and had all kinds of expressions, but there was no smile, it seemed that the heart-digger was telling the world that he had no smile in his life!
Then, Shinichi Kaneda stared into Yokham Jones' eyes, his breathing suddenly shortened, he expected to see the change in Yokham Jones, but he still didn't see anything.
So, Kaneda Shinichi looked at the sun's smiling face again and said:
"'He' has changed..."
"No, 'he' evolved. ”
The latter sentence was also said by Kaneda Shinichi, and after finishing speaking, Kaneda Shinichi ran to Fat Will's side and shouted anxiously:
"Sheriff Will, I need all of the Heartdigger's previous case books. ”
Fat Will heard Kaneda Shinichi's impatience, so he immediately threw the police car key to Officer Pabel: "Paber, you take Mr. Shinichi to the archives! Use my police car!"
The police car that Fat Will is talking about is an A36 car, which can only carry three people, the driving force is a battery, and it can only run faster than a horse-drawn carriage, which is one of the only models introduced by the Kingdom of Nochland, and only the hub department of the Kingdom of Nochland can use it.
But even if the conditions are so harsh, the number of police cars is not large, and there are only about a dozen of them in a police station, and they are usually not allowed to go out at will, that is, Will, as a sheriff, dares to occupy one alone.
Seeing Kaneda Shinichi leaving, Yorkham Jones lost interest, smiled and nodded to Fat Will, and set off towards the church.
In fact, Yorkham Jones could not have gone to church, but as soon as he dug into his pocket, he found that he had no penny on him, so he had to go back to the hateful little Lori first.
"Pastor Jones is getting weirder. Will complained in his heart, and instructed the policeman, and walked towards the taxi place, after all, he could raise his body into a ball, so naturally he would not walk back.
As he walked through the crowd, Hemingway Hale suddenly stopped in front of Fat Will and asked with a very sunny smile:
"Sheriff Will, the juicy beef you want is ready for you, when are you going to pick it up?"
Hearing the word 'juicy', Fat Will immediately thought of the bloody heart on the wall, and then almost vomited what he had eaten in the morning.
"No, Mr. Hale! I don't eat beef anymore! No, I don't eat any meat!" replied with a retching force, and Fat Will shook his fat and ran, he didn't want to stay in this place for a moment.
Looking at Fat Will's running figure, Hemingway Hale's smiling face suddenly turned cold:
"Sheriff Will, you've eaten more than one 'person'. ”
...
Daurson Street, Falling Maple Leaf Road, Yorkham Jones is walking among the maple leaves with a little Lori on his back.
The red maples on both sides turn golden in winter, and in the dull and gray winter, such a touch of gold is a rare sight, but Yorkham Jones is not in the mood to appreciate it at all, he just walks and sighs.
"Don't sigh, my dear Mr. Reverend, I'll sing to you!"
Jingqing twisted her little body on Yorkham Jones's back, and grabbed the fallen leaves with her little hands, grabbed one and let it go, such a boring thing was very funny in her eyes.
Maybe that's the joy of children.
"I bought a lottery ticket with my money, why did it become your money?" Yorkham Jones replied depressedly, he didn't want to take little Lori out, but the money was in her pocket, so she had to carry it out with the money.
"Hee-hee! I watched the lottery win in the morning! And I went to redeem it! So, of course it's mine!"
Kyung tilted her body to the left side of Yorkham Jones's head, her eyes narrowed into a line, and she explained her logic with her cute smile.
'Children and women are indeed the most irrational creatures!' said Yorkham Jones inwardly, and stopped under a great red maple tree.
This red maple is unique, twice as thick as the average maple tree, and the leaves are as red as autumn, and the changes of time have not taken away anything from him, but have added a touch of 'eternity' to it.
Under the autumn leaves on the left, there is a white iron door with a pattern of guns and ammunition painted on it, and there is blue handwriting on the wooden sign next to the door:
'Sound of Autumn'
If it weren't for the pattern on the door, no one would have imagined that such a beautiful little shop would be a weapons shop.
Looking at the time on the pocket watch just before 3.00, Yorkham Jones walked over with the basket on his back, and at this moment, the breeze blew, the huge red maple leaves fell, and the iron door of the 'Autumn Sound' slowly opened.
The door was opened by a young girl dressed in a black and white maid outfit, with hair the same color as Red Maple, a pair of quiet square-rimmed glasses, and a small pink book called 'Aurora Sweet Moon'.
When she saw Yorkham Jones coming, the maiden smiled lovely, and asked:
"What are you going to buy, sir? I don't have a child's lollipop here. ”
Yorkham Jones had already changed his outfit and turned the front of his pocket watch so that the maid in front of him couldn't tell him that he was a priest of light.
"I want to buy a more powerful pistol and another 50 rounds. ”
Yorkham Jones replied with a smile, ignoring why the little Lori on his back was screaming, and stepped into the iron gate, and silently said in his heart:
"Lovely and seductive lady of the night, darkness and light are with you, and now I am your believer..."