RNP Chapter 2718 Rainy Night Morgue
Chapter 2718 Rainy Night Morgue
Chapter 2718 Rainy Night Morgue
Although there was a riding practice mission this week, Shade did not choose to ride the chocobo when he said goodbye to the elf girl and prepared to go into the city. He did not want to let the chocobos enter the dangerous woodland easily, so he would not let them send him casually.
[If the owl knew what you were thinking, she would be very sad.]
she said with a smile, so Shade planned to summon the Chocobos when he went out with Miss Danister.
The rainy weather also reduced the number of pedestrians in the city. When Shade arrived at the Accordion Hotel, it was almost five o'clock in the evening. The gloomy sky made it impossible to see the sunset. When Shade knocked on the door and entered room 317, he found that "Miss Owl"'s face was not very bright.
The owl on the back of the sofa looked at Shad, then moved and turned away from him.
Shad cast a doubtful look at Miss Bell, who seemed to have recovered well, and the latter shook her head slightly. Then he looked at Miss Danister again, and the 18-year-old red-haired girl smiled and asked:
"Did anything happen? We thought you wouldn't come today."
"I went to investigate the temple. You have no idea how many places I ran to throughout the day, but fortunately I made some significant gains."
So the owl on the back of the sofa returned to its human form, but she was not unhappy because Shade didn't come today. She knew that Shade must be busy with other things:
"I talked to Carina and the others in the parliament last night."
She spoke dryly, and in front of Miss Danister, not treating her as an outsider:
"You really do know more witches besides Carina. Tell me, Shade, do you want to split the council?"
"Of course not. I swear in the name of little Mia that I have never thought of splitting up the Witch Council."
Flora Winslet's expression immediately brightened up, so it is sometimes really hard to guess what artists are thinking:
"I knew my judgment would be right, and you don't look very ambitious.
Tell me some time about your acquaintance with them, and let me know what your connection with the Council was before you met me. But before that, let us first tell you what happened in the city today."
The church and police are still continuing their search of the Bronte family. Today is the first working day of this week, and they have directly seized all the remaining properties and real estate of the Bronte family in the local area.
And Willendel also received news at noon today that the kingdom had dismissed Baron Brontë from his position as an army staff officer. This also meant that the church had definitely confirmed that Baron Brontë knew part of the truth about York Brontë, otherwise the kingdom would not have been so decisive in removing important figures from the army when the war was about to begin.
Besides Bronte, there is the matter of Linda Bennet, the third daughter of the Bennet family. The girl tried to hang herself or jump off a building yesterday, but failed and was closely watched by her family.
But today, she didn't know how she got a 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 her disguised as police officers, wanting to ask Linda Bennett more things.
Miss Bennet was rescued again, but the cautious church ring magicians thought that she might have problems. So Miss Linda Bennet was invited to the local Sun Church as a "guest". Although it might be a bit cruel to say so, she might not be able to find a marriage partner in her life.
The religious atmosphere in this world is quite strong, therefore, if a girl is invited into a church for "hanging out" with a man involved in illegal occult research, no one will be willing to marry her, even if it is later proven that she has no connection with the criminals.
Needless to say, Miss Linda Bennet was a little too infatuated.
"Mrs. Bennet tried every possible means to get her third daughter married to the son of the baron, but now it has turned out like this. It's hard to comment on this matter. First, the eldest daughter got engaged to James Cumming, and then the third daughter fell in love with a Dead Apostle. The Bennet family is really unlucky this time."
However, the Bronte family and Miss Bennet are not the most important things. Then the witch told Shade an unfortunate news:
"Professor Quinto is dead."
"What? Professor Quinto? But didn't we just go see him yesterday? How did the professor pass away?"
Xia De asked in surprise. The witch sighed slightly. Although they hated men, it did not prevent them from mourning for every deceased person equally:
“The news came in the afternoon, and the specific circumstances are still under investigation.
The information we have received so far 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 he did not go to the office today. People searched along the professor's 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 is still unknown.
Because this incident does not involve ring magicians or mystical powers, Professor Quinto's death is temporarily being treated as an ordinary case and handed over to the local police for handling."
Xia De was silent for a moment:
"So did you go check out the body or the scene where the professor's body was found?"
"I'm going."
The witch continued, saying that her transformation skills allowed her to move around the city quite easily:
"The body had already been taken away when I got the news, so I didn't see it for the time being. But I can be sure that the alley where the body was found was definitely not the scene of Professor Quinto's death. The body was sent there by someone else."
"The professor's son is in Willendel and probably hasn't received the news yet, so the body is temporarily stored in the local police morgue in the north of the city."
Miss Bell said softly, and Shade nodded:
"Well, after dinner, Miss Winslet, please come with me."
The professor's sudden death at this time made it hard for Xia De not to have doubts. Although all mortals will die, it is still a great pity for outsiders to suddenly die today when someone they were talking to yesterday.
After a simple dinner, the owl still flew into the night with the cat in its hand, even though it was raining. No one would pay attention to the trajectory of an owl in the rainy night sky, so they landed directly at their destination.
The morgue of the Vista City Police Department is located in the old town in the north of the city. In other words, it has been the town’s morgue since the Creekwood Town era, but there were not so many corpses in the town back then.
The current Vista City Police Department has long since moved from its original location, so the morgue, which was originally small in size, now occupies the entire building of the old police department. However, this is not a building but a very ordinary bungalow, with one floor above ground and one floor underground forming the entire appearance of the morgue.
Breaking into such a place on a rainy night was a bit like the beginning of a horror story, but fortunately they were safe along the way and did not encounter any ghosts.
The owl landed in the yard, and seeing the gatekeeper dozing off, they went straight into the building. Although Miss Bell knew that Professor Quinto's body was here, she didn't know the exact location, so the two could only go to the gatekeeper to check today's entry and exit records, and then confirmed that the body was in the basement.
Because the witch's feathers were all wet, she temporarily refused to change back to human form, and turned into a cat and curled up in Shade's arms. Shade was worried that if she developed the bad habit of not walking, she would eventually become as lazy as Mia, but the cat witch didn't care about it:
"Want to bet on whether we will encounter the dead underground? I bet we will. My inspiration tells me that this trip will definitely not be safe and sound. Professor Quinto's cause of death is definitely not normal. If I win, you have to get up early tomorrow morning and come here to have breakfast with us."
"Isn't this unfair? And why should I bet this with you?"
"Because if I lose, I'll just kiss you. Let's go, I hope the rain will be lighter when we leave."
So only Shad pushed open the door leading to the underground and walked into the narrow underground corridor connecting the stairs.
The switch for controlling the gas lamp in the corridor was on the side of the steps, and Shade reached out and turned it on. The structure of the underground area of the morgue was very simple, with square corridors connected end to end, and on both sides of the corridor were rooms for storing archives, deceased's relics and corpses. Each room had a detailed nameplate with its name, so Shade didn't have to worry about finding the place.
"The target is Morgue No. 5. The left side has odd numbers, and the right side has even numbers. Every two doors of the odd number will have two relic rooms and an autopsy room. Every three doors of the even number will have a steam boiler room and an archive room. Going clockwise means the numbers get bigger, and going counterclockwise means the numbers get smaller (1, 3)."
The coroner's lounge was at the corner of the corridor, so he had to turn to get to No. 5. But when Shad turned the corner, the odd-numbered house number on his left was "Mortuary No. 9".
Xia De was quite surprised by this:
"Are there so many bodies here? The morgue number is actually 9."
He rubbed the cat's head on his chest, and the gray cat meowed. After receiving the response, Shade continued to move forward and saw that behind the morgue No. 9 were all storage rooms and empty rooms without house numbers. So he continued to walk forward, and after turning the corner of the corridor again, the first house number he saw on the left was still "Mortuary No. 9".
Looking forward at the entire corridor, the underground corridor illuminated by gas lamps was exactly the same as the scene just now, as if he was back to the starting point of the corridor.
"She" beside his ear chuckled softly, but Shad's expression remained unchanged. He continued forward through the entire corridor and turned a corner. As expected, the first house number on the left was still "Mortuary No. 9".