The streets of Belfast became noisy and lively for the first time in a long time.
The fog has dissipated, leaving only the light rain falling in the gloomy clouds covering the city. Looking from the street on the top of the hill, the road leading to Rodster Harbor is crowded with long queues of horse-drawn carriages.
The whistles of the steam cars crowded in the queue echoed in the low altitude, like those swarms of crows hovering in the sky, bringing ominous crows.
The carriages leaving Sailor Street were soon jammed on the road, and the hat-wearing driver in the steam car ahead was honking impatiently, as if this would make the road smoother.
Under the noise, the horses snorted in fright.
"We can go around the slums." Anna's voice sounded in my ears.
Lu Li took the reins and drove away from the long queue to the south block.
After driving through several unfamiliar neighborhoods, the carriage entered a familiar neighborhood: Saint Father's Street.
In the drizzle in the distance, the towering Kaelthas Cathedral stands in a secluded cemetery.
As the carriage approached the church, the tombstones of different heights and the statues of angels with compassionate expressions in the low fence of the cemetery became clear.
Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
Flocks of crows fell into the dead trees in the cemetery, crowded the branches, and tilted their heads to look at the pedestrians and carriages passing by outside the cemetery, seeming to announce their death.
For Jojo and Fran, who looked out the car window and witnessed this scene, the crows on the branches were full of ominousness.
Lu Li and Anna were calm - for investigators, crows are equal to companions.
This is more like a farewell from my companions.
Without stopping, the carriage drove away from the Street of the Holy Father, and the church gradually disappeared into the shadow of the buildings and the hazy drizzle.
Driving towards the east coast, even if you are far away from the busiest neighborhoods in Belfast, you can still see many people and horse-drawn carriages dragging their families to the port in these edge neighborhoods.
Some are locals, and some are "smart people" who have changed paths like Lu Li.
The only difference was that when they approached the slums, they stayed far away from the chaotic place, while Lu Li barged directly in.
Unlike other streets where panic breeds, there is a strange atmosphere of peace in the slums. People traveling or at home are no different from usual, as if today is just an ordinary day.
After all, for most people here, leaving Belfast is too far away for them.
And the crisis that befalls them might not be as frightening as the empty cupboard.
This peace lasted until Lu Li walked through the slums without encountering any trouble.
The atmosphere on the streets became the same as outside the slums - panic and fear.
Most of the road ahead was blocked by the police, with several figures of night watchmen in black uniforms interspersed among them.
The source of the atmosphere change was found.
Something weird happens here.
The slowly moving carriage went around the edge, and before leaving, the carriage gradually slowed down and stopped.
The reason why the carriage stopped was that Lu Li saw two familiar faces on the body that was being covered with white cloth.
"What did you see?"
"What's wrong?"
Jojo and Fran's inquiries came from the car behind them.
Lu Li did not answer their questions. He took out the new badge from his pocket and showed it to a police officer walking towards the carriage: "Investigator Lu Li, what's going on up front?"
All police officers in the Belfast area recognized this badge. "Please wait a moment, sir," the police officer said, turning to call the night watchman.
Corpses were taken out of the casino one after another. They all had the same characteristics: the upper part of their faces were hollowed out, with traces of being eaten, and they let out inarticulate screams. Some had been dead for a long time, and some had been dead for a long time.
He was still gasping for air, and his tongue, which had lost his nasal cavity and was exposed, was trembling horribly.
A night watchman approached the carriage. After seeing the badge, he solemnly said to Lu Li: "Sir, there is an evil spirit attacking here."
A few survivors could not speak and could not be rescued, but many people almost saw the whole process.
A new man with a gloomy temperament walked into the Black Mamba Casino not long ago. He won several thousand shillings, but when he wanted to leave, he was blocked by the casino. The locals knew that casino money was never allowed to flow to the outside world, so they framed him.
Face secretly ate the chips and let them cut open the stomach for them to check. Face used another method to let them confirm: eating the upper part of everyone's face in the casino, or around the eyeballs.
It's letting them see clearly in their belly.
After doing all this, the unfamiliar face walked out of the casino filled with screams and bloodshed, and quickly disappeared into the distance.
It is worth noting that just ten minutes before this tragedy happened, the same thing happened in the Black Mamba Casino - two foreigners won thousands of shillings in the casino, but they were also made things difficult for them by the casino, and they were also beaten.
He was forced to cut open his stomach for examination.
One of the foreigners did this foolishly. He cut out his own belly to prove his innocence, and the casino finally let them leave. However, after the police and night watchmen arrived, they found the two of them in the alley outside the casino having lost their temperature.
A long-standing cold corpse.
"I see."
Lu Li nodded, and the night watchman returned to the casino to be busy. He also took the reins and walked around the casino where dozens of people died.
"It's those two people..." Anna whispered to herself.
Aunt Mary and others were confused, but Lu Li and Anna showed no signs of explanation, so they had to suppress their curiosity.
On the way to the port, everyone on the carriage saw many similar scenes.
Passing by a park, there were several corpses covered with blood-stained white cloth lying in front of the benches next to the park. As the carriage drove by, they heard a frightened nearby resident tremblingly say: "At noon, I
He and his family were seen from the basement window wandering the streets like ghosts. He set up a park bench
Moved together and told the woman to sit down and the children too. I didn't understand what he was going to do. Then he...he shot his mother and son. The girl begged him not to kill her but he held the girl down
On the bench, he shot her once. Then he stepped aside, looked around, and shot himself."
At the edge of the park, many residents gathered together, and an elderly man shouted loudly: "Aren't you afraid of the darkness of the setting sun?"
People replied: "Not afraid!"
"Tell me why!"
"Because the sun will rise tomorrow as usual!"
On a coastal street, police officers comforted a wet sailor, surrounded by several night watchmen.
"Calm down sir, you are safe now. We are on land."
"No, no! You don't know! They're in that fog! - Listen! They're coming! They're coming -"
The maniacal shouting suddenly stopped, and the night watchman approached him and found that the sailor had been frightened to death due to extreme fear.
The carriage began to slow down and queued up in front of the congested port.
The hustle and bustle of Rodster Harbor is just ahead.
