Because Miss Gothe's hometown is in the seaside town in the eastern part of the Old Continent, which is too far away from Tobesk. In order for the client to receive the letter as soon as possible, Xia De took Mia to the Tobesk post office immediately after writing the letter.
The reason why he didn't throw it into the mailbox at the corner of the Saint Teresa Square was because he wanted to go to the post office to order some magazines. After getting rid of the embarrassment of not having enough pockets when he first came to this world, Xia De also wanted to improve his quality of life.
Since there was nothing to do today, after sending the letter, Xia De took Mia to the Church of the Dawn and listened to Bishop Owen's lecture with Priest Augustus.
I went home after lunch in the church. I was going to borrow the potion workshop of Priest Augustus in the afternoon to configure the potion that can change the color of hair introduced in the second-year course, but I didn’t expect that I just walked to Saint Teresa. In the square, I saw Iluna standing in front of the door.
She wore a brown coat over the white blouse with lotus leaf cuffs, a simple black skirt on her lower body, and her usual pair of small black leather shoes on her feet.
"Is something wrong?"
Xia De hurried over, Iluna shook her head, and waved the kraft paper bag in her hand to Xia De:
"Detective, do you mind if I take up your afternoon to complete a commission together?"
asked the seventeen-year-old girl.
"What commission?"
Xia De asked as he took out the key to open the door. The two walked in together. Mia jumped off Xia De's shoulder happily and jumped up the stairs.
"Find a missing body."
Blackstone Security Company is always able to receive strange tasks from the church, and in addition to the tasks of the church, the tasks entrusted by ordinary citizens are always full of various strange contents.
On the Tuesday after Darkness's death, Iluna, who temporarily escaped from the follow-up incident, finally submitted her entire report on "God Caller and Fei Lianna", and also completed the report on the area where the dark realm once descended. search mission.
Back at her workplace, which was the first day of Blackstone Security Company, she was given a commission by the captain.
"I think you've been busy recently. Since you've just come back, let's deal with this matter first. It's a two-day deadline. After you're done with it, you can spend the rest of your time freely."
In other words, this is equivalent to giving Iluna a break. This commission has been proven to have nothing to do with mystery, and Iluna can finish it after a little investigation.
"Looking for a corpse?"
Xia De nodded in surprise:
"Of course I can help, but are you sure this matter has nothing to do with mystery?"
"Our team has investigated and it is absolutely irrelevant."
"Okay, but I want to read the information first. Speaking of which, why don't the police at Ridwich Field handle this kind of thing? In De La Rion, stealing a corpse is a felony."
"Because the police couldn't find it, they entrusted it to a private security company like us."
In this era, ring warlocks are not the only ones who steal corpses. Crazy scientists, doctors who need experimental materials, weirdos with special hobbies, or ordinary people who explore occultism will all entrust ghouls or commit such crimes themselves.
This kind of thing can even be said to be very common, so cremation and burial of corpses, which were not very popular before, have become popular in recent decades. Just like Sparrow Hamilton, his body was cremated, and there is absolutely no need to worry about someone opening the coffin for an autopsy.
The client who was looking for the body was Mr. Hank Fennell who lived in the west of the city, and the body he was looking for was his wife Peggy Fennell. Mr. Fennell works in the golden gear steam engine manufacturing factory and is a well-known mechanical engineer in the west of the city.
Half a month ago, his wife passed away due to illness and was buried in Tobesk Public Cemetery's No. 3 cemetery. A week ago, that is, on the ninth day after the poor woman was buried, tomb area No. 3 encountered grave robbers, and three corpses were dug up and stolen from the grave.
The police at Ridwich Field immediately launched an investigation, but there was no news for a long time. That's why Mr. Fennell entrusted Blackstone Security Company through a friend's introduction, hoping to find traces of his wife's body.
The Blackstone Security Company confirmed that this matter has nothing to do with the ring warlocks, because the local ring warlocks will never use local stolen corpses as materials. The outlander ring warlocks are being closely monitored and investigated by the Orthodox Church because of the Darkness incident. So far, no one has been found to have bought the three corpses from local tomb robbers, so it is judged that they were committed by ordinary people. The tomb robbery case.
"It seems to be all right. But I want to make sure, are you sure that this is not Mr. Fennell's own crime?"
Xia De sat on the sofa and opened the file and asked. In his hand was the file that Iluna got directly from Ridwich Field.
Maybe this kind of thinking might be darker, but Xia De still wants to rule out one possibility first.
"At least the case information obtained from Ridwich Field
In the materials, there is no mention of the client's abnormality. Moreover, if it was really him and the police couldn't find any clues, shouldn't he be more happy? Why would you entrust us? "
"When you receive a commission, do you always doubt your client the first time? I thought that detectives always investigate cases without any subjective opinions."
"Where did you get that statement?"
"Hamilton's Detective Stories, serialized in the Daily Steambird."
Iluna said with a smile, and teased Xia De again:
"I heard from Luvia that the author is your friend? Oh, detective, you have to show off your detective skills this time."
After Xia Deli cleared up the materials, he set off with Iluna, and first went to the public cemetery in the east of the city to conduct on-site investigation and questioning.
In the No. 3 cemetery where the incident occurred, Xia De visited once two months ago, and witnessed the settlement of family grievances half a century ago, and even played a game of Rhodes with the ghost. When I returned to this place two months later, I didn't expect that it was still related to the commission.
The arrival of autumn has brought the temperature to the point where you need to add clothes when you go out. It is still foggy in the city today, even in the cemetery in the eastern suburbs.
After getting off the carriage, the two walked along the gravel path to the iron gate at the entrance of the cemetery. Xia De still held a bouquet of flowers in his hand. He planned to visit Detective Sparrow who was buried here first, and told him that the fifth day of Harvest Moon was coming. explain.
The seventeen-year-old girl looked at the cemetery that was getting closer and closer, and approached Xia De without a trace, and said in a low voice:
"I'm not one for the faint of heart, but I've always hated coming to cemeteries."
"Why?"
Xia De was curious about this. Iluna was assigned to this parish after finishing her studies in the Holy See in the first half of this year. There should be no dead friends in the Tobesk public cemetery.
"I hate death, no, it's not that I'm afraid of death, but I hate the sadness that comes with death."
She whispered to Xia De that the two of them passed through the gate of the cemetery together, and entered the cemetery through the iron fence gate decorated with iron thorns on both sides. I don't know if it's an illusion, but the temperature inside the cemetery is slightly lower than outside.
"It's normal. Being infected with the sadness of a stranger shows that you are a person who can easily empathize with others."
Shad commented.
I heard that Shad wanted to see Sparrow Hamilton, and Iluna was also happy to go with him. So the two entered the No. 2 tomb while chatting. After placing the bouquet of white daisies in front of the tombstone embedded in the ground, Xia De sighed and thought of when he first came to this world.
Passing through the fence gate between the two cemeteries, looking up at the mist, it is easy to see the small white church standing in the middle of the cemetery:
"Iluna, next to the church is the gravekeeper's hut. If we are lucky, we might be able to find the gravekeeper who is chatting with the priest. However, what identity should we use to inquire about the situation?"
"Don't forget, I'm Iluna Bayas, the registered female police officer of Ridwich Field."
Iluna reminded, and found the certificate from her handbag:
"Look, isn't that the identity I used when I first visited the Place de Saint Teresa?"
On Tuesday afternoon, the priest took a nap in the church~www.mtlnovel.com~ But at the door of the church, the two met an old guard who was carrying a toolbox and humming a tune, and was about to trim the trees in the cemetery with his apprentices. tomb man.
The old grave guard was wearing one-piece overalls, and when he saw the two walking in the fog, he stopped hesitantly. After Iluna took out her certificate and explained her intentions, the old gravekeeper looked at Iluna's too young face suspiciously, but he still gave help slowly:
"We don't have any clues here. I was the one who found out that the body was stolen. Because I had encountered similar things before, I found someone to notify the police immediately. No one heard the abnormal sound the night before. We I also didn’t find the rut where the corpse was transported, but there were indeed abnormal footprints, but they couldn’t be traced based on the footprints. If you want to find clues, you can go to the excavated tomb to have a look.”
"It's been a week, hasn't the tomb been refilled?"
Xia De asked, the old gravekeeper nodded, and glanced at Xia De, as if he recognized the detective who had visited in midsummer:
"After the body was found, the body had to be re-buried, so there was no further burial. It was a recently opened tomb, and there were no other burials nearby, so there was no need to worry about other people's protests."
"OK."
Iluna wrote down these things in a small notebook, and then asked:
"Is there a high frequency of tomb robberies in this park?"
"Of course not high, this is the third case this year, you guys
Thought I was eating plain rice? "
The old tomb guard said rather displeased, and Iluna also knew that she had said something wrong, so she smiled embarrassingly.