It is adjacent to Elm Street, and geographically speaking, it is closer to the center of Belfast city than Elm Street.
But the housing prices here are not slightly more expensive than Elm Street. On the contrary, this is one of the few neighborhoods in Belfast where housing prices are cheap.
Because it is too far from the city and not close to the elm forest.
Elm Street is at least adjacent to a forest, and quite a few people like to get close to nature.
Alfred Reno is the owner of the house at 158 Little Leif Street, adjacent to which is No. 1 Elm Street.
Alfred Reno suffered from rheumatism, so whenever it rained, he would bring a rocking chair, prepare a blanket, a kettle filled with hot coffee, and a book, and sit in front of the fireplace to spend time.
But he wouldn't sit near a window, seeing or hearing rain would make his knees ache--it would be better if he didn't see it.
It was raining heavily on Sunday. Alfred Reno was sitting on the other side of the fireplace away from the window, holding a travel novel and reading quietly while the firewood crackled in the fireplace.
At a certain moment, he heard the faint sound of rain outside the window mixed with a hint of noise, and it spread over time, overwhelming the sound of falling rain.
His feet hit the floor and the rocking chair stopped shaking under him. Alfred Reno took away the blanket, left the chair and walked to the window. Under the pouring rain, he saw dozens of police officers spreading out in the rain curtain, blocking the entrance to the window.
The road of Elm Street is interspersed with some mysterious guys in black uniforms, and the open eyes on their shoulders make people shudder.
"This is……"
Alfred Reno froze, staring blankly at these people busy on the street not far from his home.
A figure in black uniform noticed Alfred Reno behind the window, gave him a cold look, and then looked away.
The police officers who had arrived earlier appeared at the edge of Elm Street. Their expressions were confused and frightened, but they had not forgotten their duties and did not have any communication with their colleagues outside the cordon.
They are responsible for explaining the situation to residents of Elm Street who may be infected.
The entire Elm Street block has been completely blocked, preventing anyone from entering or exiting.
…
Blocked Elm Street.
After the cafe owner finished speaking, Pulis and Matthew looked at each other - because Lu Li didn't look at him.
Lu Li continued to ask: "What do you know about the cup she brought to you?"
The cafe owner had some vague guesses: "You think it's her cup..."
Lu Li nodded lightly and stared at him calmly. The cafe owner whispered something meaningless, and after thinking about it, he told Lu Li: "I think it's not the cup... or at least it's not the cup itself. Mrs. Petra has already done this."
It’s been five years, it can’t be just recently..."
The cafe owner hesitated to speak.
Pulis replied: "Put aside the analysis and tell us the details of the cup."
"Okay... That's a set of silver cups. Mrs. Petra said there are three kinds of the same cups, but I only saw one kind she brought... maybe there is no difference in appearance. Oh, by the way, the style of the cup
It’s a mug…”
"Did she say where the cup came from?"
"I said he was one of her students."
"continue."
"Continue... um... I don't think so... wait, I thought of it! Because it's inconvenient to bring a cup with me, Mrs. Petra sometimes puts the cup at my place and comes over to drink tea directly the next day. But she
I really like that set of cups so I don’t do it very often.”
Pulis said: "Anything else to add?"
"I can't think of it at the moment..." the cafe owner replied.
Pulis looked at Lu Li who was thinking and waited quietly for him to finish thinking: "What did you think of?"
"Only the person and the cup are the most suspicious at the moment. The cup may not be the source of everything, but it may be the source that infected the cafe - something or being infected Petra's home, and Petra's cup was brought to
Cafes cause secondary infections.”
"It just so happens that we can do these two things together. You contact the outside world and investigate who Petra has been in contact with before, focusing on the period a week ago."
The interval between the birth of evil consciousness is roughly one week, and it is tentatively assumed that Petra's home infection also took one week. If they continue to work backwards, they only need to determine what happened a week ago.
Matthew stayed behind, while Pulis went to call the outside world in person. Six minutes later, he returned to Lu Li: "The alliance has already started to do it. At the same time, Elm Street has been sealed off. Next, we are here to wait for the information to be sent?"
Lu Li nodded.
…
There is an uninterrupted supply of hot drinks, but not food. The clothing store does not store much food, and it is difficult to buy it outside in this weather - especially when there is no contact with the outside world.
But except for the night watchmen, even Lu Li usually didn't eat three meals, so no one said anything.
During the boring wait, Lu Li briefly left the kitchen, walked to the bookcase in the corner, and selected two books: an illustrated book of wild species in the Allen Peninsula, and a love novel popular with girls, related to weirdness - a human girl loves
The story of a young noble ghost.
Anna would probably like to see it.
Lu Li returned to the display window with these two books, placing one in front of him and the other beside him.
From Pulis' gaze and Matthew's slightly raised eyebrows behind him, they saw that the book beside Lu Li opened automatically, as if there was an invisible presence opening the book.
The alliance moved very quickly. The third hour after Lu Li went to Elm Street, and the second hour after Pulis called the outside world, the police officers guarding the streets of Elm Street received the information thrown by the police officers outside.
What Lu Li and Pulis need is inside.
When the things arrived, Pulis handed them to Lu Li as usual: "You can take a look first."
Anna was still reading, and Lu Li opened the raincloth outside and pulled out the information.
The printed and handwritten contents are mixed half and half, and the ink marks on it have not completely dried.
There were many people who came into contact with Petra a week ago, and many exchanges occurred.
Petra was invited by the University of Bolivia to give a lecture last Saturday. The alliance visited most of the students and professors she had contact with in a short period of time and recorded the chat records of the conversations. Three of them were highlighted.
29-year-old Hawkinson, associate professor of occult science at the University of Bolivia, student Nancy Lin and dean Mr. Robert.
After briefly skimming over the investigation data on the last two names, Lu Li's attention fell on Hawkinson's data.
If nothing else, the problem arises with this associate professor.
When Petra went to the University of Bolivia a week ago, her former student Hawkinson gave her an ancient book.
More importantly, after the ancient books were given away, the young associate professor disappeared.