Chapter 2718 Rainy Night Morgue
Although there was a riding practice mission this week, Shade did not choose to ride the chocobo now when he said goodbye to the elf girl and prepared to enter the city. He didn’t want to let the chocobos enter the dangerous forest easily, so he wouldn’t let them send him off casually.
[If that owl knew what you were thinking, she would be sad. 】
“She” said with a smile, so Shade planned to summon the chocobos when he went out with Miss Danister.
During the rainy weather, there were fewer pedestrians in the city. When Shade arrived downstairs at the Accordion Hotel, it was already close to five o’clock in the evening. There was no sunset in the gloomy sky, and when Shade knocked on the door and entered Room 317, he found that “Miss Owl” didn’t look very bright either.
The owl on the back of the sofa looked at Shade, then moved its position and turned away from looking at him.
Shad cast a doubtful look at Miss Bell, who seemed to be recovering well, and the latter shook her head slightly; then he looked at Miss Daniste again, and the eighteen-year-old red-haired girl smiled and asked:
“Did something happen? We thought you wouldn’t come today.”
“I went to investigate what happened in the temple. You can’t imagine how many places I traveled throughout the day, but fortunately I made a major gain.”
So the owl on the back of the sofa returned to its human form, but she was not happy because Shade didn’t come today. Of course she knew that Shade must be busy with other things:
“I talked with Carina and the others in the parliament last night.”
She said it dryly, and she said it in front of Miss Daniste, not treating her as an outsider:
“As expected, besides Carina, you also know more witches. Tell me, Shade, do you want to split the parliament?”
“Of course not, I swear on the name of little Mia, I never thought of splitting the [Witch Council].”
Then Flora Winslet’s expression immediately brightened up, so it is sometimes really difficult to guess what artists think:
“I knew my vision was right, and you don’t look very ambitious.
Tell me about your experience of getting to know them when you have time, and let me know what relationship you had with the Council before you met me. But before that, let us tell you what happened in the city today. ”
The search by the church and the police on the Bronte family continues. Today is the first working day of the week. They have directly sealed up all the remaining local properties and real estate of the Bronte family.
And Willendale also received news at noon today that the kingdom has dismissed Baron Bronte from his position as army staff officer. And this also means that the church has definitely confirmed that Baron Bronte knows part of the truth about York Bronte. Otherwise, now that the war is about to begin, the kingdom will not be so decisive in removing important figures in the army.
Besides Bronte, there is the matter of Linda Bennet, the third daughter of the Bennet family. The girl tried to hang herself or commit suicide by jumping off a building yesterday, but failed and was closely monitored by her family.
But today she didn’t know what method she used, but she actually got another rope and tried to hang herself again. But at that time, the ring magicians sent by the church to investigate York Bronte happened to visit the house disguised as police officers, wanting to ask more things from Linda Bennet.
So Miss Bennet was saved again, but this also made the cautious church ring magicians think that there might be something wrong with her. So Miss Linda Bennet was invited to be a “guest” at the local Sun Church. Although it may be cruel to say this, there is a high possibility that she will never find a marriage partner in her life.
The religious atmosphere in this world is quite strong. Therefore, no one will want to be with a girl who is invited into the church for “hanging out” with a man involved in illegal occult research, even if it is later proven that she has nothing to do with the criminals. She got married.
Not to mention, Miss Linda Bennet is a little too infatuated.
“Mrs. Bennet tried every possible means to get her third daughter to marry the son of the baronet, but now it has ended up like this. It is difficult to evaluate this matter. First, the eldest daughter was engaged to James Cumming. Then the third daughter fell in love with the Dead Apostle, and the Bennet family was really unlucky this time.”
However, neither the Brontë family nor Miss Bennet are the most important things. Then the witch told Shade some unfortunate news:
“Professor Quinto is dead.”
“What? Professor Quinto? But didn’t we just see him yesterday? How did the professor pass away?”
Xia De asked in surprise, and the witch sighed slightly. Although they hate men, this does not prevent her from grieving for everyone who has passed away equally:
“The news came in the afternoon, and the specific situation is still under investigation.
The current news is that the professor left home as usual this morning to go to work at the Concert Hall Museum, but in the afternoon the Concert Hall sent someone to the professor’s home to ask why the professor did not go to the office today. People searched for the professor along his usual route to work and found the professor’s body in an alley off the main road. There were no wounds on the body and the specific cause of death was not yet known.
Because this matter does not involve ring magicians or occult forces for the time being, Professor Quinto’s death is temporarily treated as an ordinary case and handed over to the local police. ”
Xia De was silent for a moment:
“So did you go to check the body or the scene where the professor’s body was found?”
“I went.”
The witch continued that her transformation technique made it very convenient for her to move around the city:
“When I learned the news, the body had already been taken away, so I didn’t see the body for the time being. But I can confirm that the alley where the body was found was definitely not the scene of Professor Quinto’s death. The body was delivered by someone else. Go there.”
“The professor’s son is in Willendale and has probably not received any news yet, so the body is temporarily stored in the local police morgue, specifically in the north of the city.”
Miss Bell said softly, Shade nodded:
“Well, after dinner, Miss Winslet, please come with me for a walk.”
The sudden death of the professor at such a time made it difficult for Shade not to become suspicious. Although all mortals are mortal, foreigners still feel very sorry when someone they were talking to yesterday suddenly dies today.
After a simple dinner, even though it was raining, the owl still grabbed the cat and flew into the night. No one would pay attention to the trajectory of an owl in the rainy night sky, so they landed directly at their destination.
The autopsy room of the Vista City Police Department is located in the old city in the north of the city. In other words, it has been the town’s morgue since the Ximu Town era, but there were not so many corpses in the town back then.
The current Vista City Police Department has long been moved from its original location, so the originally small morgue occupies the entire building on the former site of the police department. But this is not a building but a very ordinary bungalow. One floor above ground plus one underground floor constitute the entire morgue.
Breaking into a place like this on a rainy night was like the beginning of a horror story, but luckily they were safe along the way and they didn’t encounter ghosts.
The owl fell into the yard and saw the gatekeeper dozing off, so they entered the building directly. Although Miss Bell knew that Professor Quinto’s body was here, she didn’t know the specific location, so the two had to go to the gatekeeper to check today’s entry and exit records, and then confirmed that the body was in the basement.
Because all her feathers were wet, the witch temporarily refused to return to her human form, so she turned into a cat and huddled in Shad’s arms. Shade was worried that once she developed the bad habit of not walking, she would eventually become as lazy as little Mia, but the Cat Witch didn’t care:
“Want to bet whether we will encounter the undead underground? I bet we will. My inspiration tells me that this trip will definitely not be uneventful. The cause of Professor Quinto’s death is definitely not normal. If I win Come on, you have to get up early tomorrow morning and come here to have breakfast with us.”
“Isn’t this fair? And why should I bet you on this?”
“Because if I lose, I will just kiss you. Let’s go quickly. I hope the rain will lighten up when I leave later.”
So only Shade pushed open the door to the underground, and then walked into the narrow underground corridor connecting the steps.
The switch that controlled the gas light in the corridor was on the side of the steps. Shade reached out and turned it on. The structure of the underground area of the morgue is very simple. Square corridors are connected end to end. On both sides of the corridor are rooms for storing files, belongings of the deceased and corpses. Each room has a detailed nameplate with its name, so Shade doesn’t have to worry about finding the place.
“The target is Mortuary No. 5, with odd numbers on the left and even numbers on the right. Two relic rooms and an anatomy room will appear every two doors in odd numbers, and every third door in even numbers will appear. A steam boiler room and a file room, the numbers become larger clockwise and smaller 1,3”
The coroner’s lounge is at the corner of the corridor, so getting to number 5 requires a turn. But when Shade turned the corner, the odd-numbered house number that appeared on the left was “Morgue No. 9.”
Xia De was quite surprised by this:
“Are there so many corpses here? The number of the morgue is actually No. 9.”
He rubbed the cat’s little head on his chest, and the gray cat meowed “Meow~”. After receiving the answer, Shade continued to move forward and saw that behind Morgue No. 9 there were utility rooms and empty rooms without door numbers. So he continued to walk forward. After turning the corner of the corridor again, the first door number he saw on the left was still “Morgue 9”.
Looking forward to the entire corridor, the underground corridor illuminated by gas lights was exactly the same as the scene just now, as if he had returned to the starting point of the corridor.
“She” chuckled softly in his ears. The expression on Shade’s face remained unchanged as he continued forward through the entire corridor and then turned. As expected, the first door number on the left was still “Morgue No. 9″ house”.