Xia De was playing with the ugly little wooden carving in his hand, and the priest suddenly stopped and motioned Xia De to look aside:
"Here we are."
No. 12 Hangleton Garden Street was the original residence of the Freeman family. Now the family has moved out of here, and the priest who visited them, relying on his strong personality, actually borrowed this house that has not yet found a buyer. key.
The family appeared to have left in a hurry, leaving **** scattered in the overgrown garden that had been left untended. But they haven't moved away for too long, so it just looks a little messy here.
The priest held a bunch of keys and opened the iron locks wrapped around the fence. After walking a dozen steps along the path, we arrived at the door. During this period, neither Shad nor Priest Augustus felt anything strange.
"Judging from the information so far, except for Mr. Freeman, no one else in the family had any accidents. Mr. Freeman's death also went through a very long cycle, so I don't think the danger here will be particularly great .”
The priest held the key and said to Shad who was looking at the garden:
"But don't let your guard down. Whether it's evil spirits or relics, they have the ability to kill us directly, so we must be cautious for a while."
"I understand, Priest."
The old man nodded, lowered his head and closed his eyes and prayed to [Mr. Liming] in a low voice, then held the holy emblem hanging on his chest to confirm that this magical item with the ability to exorcise demons was fine, and then used the largest keychain That one opened the door of the house.
After entering the door, I didn't smell any strange smell, but because the house was closed for a period of time, after opening the door suddenly, fine dust floating in the air could be seen under the sunlight.
Xia De closed the door smoothly, then reached out to touch the wall, and turned on the gas lamp in the hall.
At this moment, Priest Augustus held his holy emblem and turned around at an even speed, chanting words. So Xia De also used the thaumaturgy [Echo of the Past] and [Echo of Blood] to check the surrounding situation. The former only allowed him to hear the voices of neighbors passing by the street outside, while the latter could not see too obvious bloodstains .
"Probably not an evil spirit, but there must be something evil here."
The old priest frowned tightly:
"If it is really a relic, then we may be in trouble. In this way, I will first take you to see the place where Mr. Freeman died. After he fell from the trap door in the attic, he walked along the road connecting the third floor and the second floor Fell down the stairs and unfortunately broke his neck."
Even though it was daytime, it seemed safe here, and the two of them had no intention of acting separately and searching separately. It was safest to walk together in such a dangerous place.
The inside of the house was almost emptied, and only a few debris scattered on the floor and dust traces of picture frames placed on the walls all the year round showed that this place was originally a warm home.
There was no trouble in the process of going upstairs. At the corner of the upward stairs on the second floor, Xia De's eyes finally saw a clear blood-red light. The blood on the ground was distributed in patches, and it should be the blood that flowed from the place where Mr. Freeman was hit when he fell to the ground.
The old priest squatted down, revealing a corner of the life ring behind him. After the [Necromancer] spirit rune emitted aura, the priest touched the floor with a hand that was slightly emitting gray light, while Xia De continued to use the spell and looked up.
It is very strange that clear bloodstains not only remain on the platform at the corner of the stairs, but also on the stairs, and spread all the way down from higher places. Although the amount is not much, it also shows that Mr. Freeman was injured before he rolled down the stairs.
"Did you get hurt when you fell from the attic to the third floor, or did you get hurt in the attic?"
Xia De speculated in his heart, and Priest Augustus also stood up at this time:
"I felt the fear of the soul. He experienced great fear before he died. It's not the fear of death. It's completely different from that feeling."
"What happened to Mr. Freeman's body?"
Xia De asked, if there is a corpse, he can actually use [Soul Echo] directly.
"In accordance with the wishes of the family, he was cremated and buried in the public cemetery in Tobesk."
said the priest, looking up with Shad. In fact, even if it is not cremation, according to the current weather, I am afraid that the corpse is not enough to support Xia De's psychic.
"We kept going up and I saw some blood."
Shad suggested.
So I came to the third floor, and the bloodstains really extended from the trap door leading to the attic. Shad found the small mechanism that activated the trapdoor from the window. Amid the sound of gears turning inside the wall, a square hole appeared in the ceiling, and an iron ladder was lowered.
The two still couldn't feel any trace of the elements, so Xia De walked in front, the priest followed, and climbed into the attic together.
The attic was also emptied, leaving only some cardboard boxes by the walls. The bloodstains appeared from the right side of the attic, but now that the place has been cleaned up too cleanly, it is useless to see the bloodstains.
When Xia De knelt down to check the cardboard boxes, Priest Augustus suddenly mentioned:
"I used to suspect that all of this was actually caused by Mrs. Freeman. She made some noises at home to intimidate Mr. Freeman, and then used drugs to affect Mr. Freeman's spirit. Finally, she avoided Everyone, pushed Mr. Freeman out of the attic, creating the illusion of an accidental death."
This kind of guessing is a bit too scary, it looks like a plot of a court political novel, Xia De turned to look at the priest in some surprise:
"Do you have any evidence?"
"No, I'm just guessing according to the darkest side of people's hearts... Just think of me as a possibility."
But it's a possibility, because they really didn't find anything suspicious in the house.
In the box in the corner of the attic are the paintings of the dead Mr. Freeman. It is impossible for an artist to sell every painting, not to mention that the drawings for practice are worthless to young painters.
The drawings in the box are Mr. Freeman's relics, but I don't know why Mrs. Freeman didn't take them away.
The painting itself is an ordinary item, and the specific painting time is written on the back of each painting. The earliest one was done half a year ago, and the latest one was completed in the last week or two, which is the period when Mr. Freeman claimed that there were problems at home.
In this world, although the profession of an artist is not as dangerous as that of a folklorist, it is still more dangerous than that of an ignorant ordinary person. Mental problems will greatly affect the painter's creative style. Mr. Freeman originally tended to use strong colors to describe the scenery under the sun, but the three recent oil paintings are almost all cool-toned drawings, and the pictures There's something odd about that.
"Priest, look at this."
Shad pointed to one of them, which was painted a week before Mr. Freeman's death. The picture is the garden of Freeman's family, painting his own house from the perspective of looking up. He almost painted his house as a haunted house, and at the window on the second floor, there was a very vague person standing clearly.
"Is this something weird he saw, or the family that happened to be at the window?"
The priest was also very puzzled.
In another painting before Mr. Freeman's death, he painted the living room of his home. At that time, the woodcarving utensils had already appeared in the picture, and there was a small woodcarving given to him by priest Augustus next to it. It seems that Mr. Freeman wanted to use it as a reference for carving.
"So, why on earth is he fascinated by woodcarving?"
In the oil painting two weeks before Mr. Freeman's death, there are some wooden boxes stacked in the corner. During this period, his mental problems were not serious, and the colors and composition methods he used were relatively normal.
Xia De looked at the third oil painting and asked Priest Augustus:
"Priest, look at these boxes, are they wooden boxes used by the Kingdom Post Office?"
No one had ever sent Shad anything other than a letter, so Shad didn't know much about it. But Priest Augustus knew:
"That's right, it's a box from the post office. You see, he even drew the metal fixing corners used to prevent the wooden box from falling apart during transportation. The black fixing corners represent that these are valuables. The red on the top The label, which means it was shipped from Carson Rik at this time."
"Mr. Freeman, has he come into contact with any strange things in the past two weeks?"
Xia De made a conjecture, and then pointed to the content on the oil painting:
"Like these things sent from afar."
Priest Augustus frowned and nodded:
"It's possible~www.mtlnovel.com~ When I go to return the key later, we can ask together. However, we still need to search carefully to see if there are any other problems in this house."
In this way, the time came to eleven o'clock in the morning, and it was still foggy outside. Shade and Priest Augustus finished their final search of the garden, left the garden and locked the fence, intending to return the key to Mrs. Freeman in a car.
The whole house was the same. Xia De touched almost every inch of the wall with his hands, but he still couldn't feel the traces of elements and spirits. Even the priests suggested searching the corners of the garden in case something had been buried in the ground, but they were overthinking.
Both were a bit frustrated after wasting two hours and getting nothing. But after all, I came out to try my luck for 15 credits, and it was expected in advance that I didn't gain anything.
So they first had lunch together at a restaurant in the neighborhood, talking about the truth about the painter's death, and joking that they could provide Dorothy with inspiration. After eating, the two took the carriage to the apartment that Mrs. Freeman and the children temporarily rented.
The apartment is also in the eastern part of Tobesk, and it takes 20 minutes to walk to the destination. It was an ordinary street in the city, with shops and apartments for rent along it. At noon on Thursday, it was very lively with people coming and going, and it was only three streets away from Dr. Schneider's psychological clinic.
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