"That's true, Miss Quinn." Mrs. Gordon nodded sympathetically, with a look of disappointment on her face.
"Madam, I hope you won't misunderstand. Do you have any religious items in your home, such as books related to paganism, or totems and emblems that seem to have artistic value?" Jiang Feng continued to inquire.
Mrs. Gordon is a sensitive and intelligent woman, and she already understood this when she heard this.
"Ms. Quinn...don't you suspect that someone is conducting cult activities in my house?"
"Frankly speaking, there is an aura in this house that makes me very uncomfortable, and I can't help but think in that direction."
"This is impossible!" Mrs. Gordon was so anxious that she almost cried. "How could there be a cultist in our family? Miss Quinn, my devout faith in the church and my husband's reputation will not allow it."
Under such suspicion!"
"Madam, don't be angry. I'm just making a guess, and I will never spread this kind of invisible thing..."
Jiang Feng was comforting the overly excited Mrs. Gordon when a dog barking suddenly came from behind.
Looking back, the hound rushed out of the flowers and ran towards the backyard.
Goofy and Martin are chasing the hound.
Jiang Feng quickly took Mrs. Gordon's hand and followed her closely.
The hound walked through the garden, stopped in front of the door of a beautiful wooden house with milky white walls, and barked at the door.
"Where is this?" Jiang Feng looked at Mrs. Gordon.
"Miss Bronte lives here. She is William and Alice's governess. She has lived with us for three years. William and Alice like her very much, and James and I also regard her as our own family." Mrs. William
Then he added: "From all aspects, Miss Bronte is a devout believer in the state religion, and I can vouch for her."
"Is Miss Bronte home?" Goofy looked out the window.
"She was bitten by a big spider the morning before yesterday. She was poisoned and frightened. She is still recovering in the hospital." Mrs. Gordon answered sadly,
"What about your children?" Gao Fei asked next.
"William is at school, and only Alice is at home."
Mrs. Gordon opened the door and called to her daughter.
A little girl in a dress walked to the door with a doll in her arms and looked out the door with timid eyes.
Jiang Feng couldn't help but sneeze twice in a row.
There was an increasingly strong evil atmosphere emanating from the room.
A smell similar to burning sulfur made her feel very uncomfortable. However, except for her as a priest, no one else present seemed to be aware of this evil smell.
"Ma'am, can we have a few words with your daughter alone?"
"sure."
Mrs. Gordon kissed her daughter's forehead with uneasiness and warned softly: "Alice, listen to Miss Quinn."
The little girl nodded obediently, but her eyes could not hide her anxiety.
After Mrs. Gordon left, Martin closed the door and patted the "landlady" on the head to calm the restless hound.
"The dog that was killed in the garden had its head cut off. The landlord tracked it here, and then he couldn't smell the blood anymore."
"The method of removing the smell of blood is very professional, so professional that it doesn't look like it was done by a nine-year-old girl."
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Martin bent down, put his hands behind his back, and stared fiercely at Alice opposite.
"Miss, maybe you can tell me who killed your hound, cut off its head, and hid it."
Alice backed away in horror, shook her head, and said nothing.
"Please don't put on such a ferocious face. What kind of guy can you be to scare a little girl?" Goofy pushed Martin away angrily, "Louis, you better come and talk to Alice."
Jiang Feng held the little girl's cold hand, looked at her pale face, and pondered for a few seconds before speaking.
"Alice, poor Alice... you were so well protected by your parents, as pure as a piece of paper, that you didn't know how dangerous it was to make a deal with the devil."
Alice's eyes immediately widened with disbelief on her face.
"Alice, if you are a good girl, you should tell me honestly why you dare to invite the devil into your home?"
"I didn't!" Alice defended with tears in her eyes, "I didn't invite them as guests, they broke into my house on their own!"
"They? It seems there is more than one devil." Gao Fei said, rubbing his chin.
"I don't know..." Alice shook her head regretfully, "Duck claims to be an elf. I don't know that he is lying, and no one told me that he is actually a devil... As for Brad, well, I guess.
That rough guy does look more like a devil than the elf in the fairy tale book..."
"Alice, when did the devils appear in your home?" Jiang Feng asked the little girl.
"It was probably... Monday morning," the girl recalled, "the day after my parents took me to the party. I wanted to play with the box of toys that Mrs. Lucas gave me. When I opened the toy box,
Duck stood in the box, took off his military hat, made faces at me, and said 'good morning'."
"He looks like a doll?" Goofy guessed.
"It's a toy soldier." Alice gestured with her little hand, "A toy soldier about one foot tall, wearing a beautiful red military uniform, dressed like a Feizhen dragoon."
"The weird thing is, I remember there was no toy soldier in the box. God knows where he came from!"
Alice tilted her head in confusion.
"At first I was shocked by him and wanted to tell Miss Brontë, but Duck persuaded me not to do so and said he was happy to be friends with me."
"If Miss Brontë finds out, he will be captured and put on display in a shop window. In that case, he will lose his freedom and I will lose a good friend."
"How can you believe these sweet lies?"
Martin scoffed.
"I don't know..." Alice looked confused, "What Duck said to me seemed to have magic powers... The more I listened to it, the more it made sense. Now that I think about it, I realize that he was bluffing me."
Even if a child is easy to fool, he will not be easily convinced by a stranger with just two or three words, not to mention that the other person is a little monster who broke into his home. Everyone can see that this guy has a suspicious origin.
Goofy opened the astrolabe and looked at Alice's status bar.
Unfortunately, now that she has woken up and is in good health, it is unclear whether she has been under a charm spell.
"What did that little monster named Duck do to you?"
Jiang Feng asked Alice implicitly, worried that this too naive little girl would be harmed by the devil in her ignorance.
"At first, Dak chatted with me, did somersaults, made faces, and used all kinds of funny tricks to make me happy. I quite liked him at that time."
