A crisp sound came from above the head, and the bright moon was swallowed up like a solar eclipse, replaced by darkness full of stench.
Aldo pulled out a bottle from his sleeve that was flashing dim fluorescence, opened the cap and released the restless photoelectricity in the bottle. The originally weak fluorescence gradually became brighter with the vibration of the wings.
Aldo spread out his palms, gathering a faint light, and the fluorescent green bugs also noticed the changes in the light elements, and they all flew over and lay on his palms, admiring the light in the darkness, and followed the elements.
Spread out, fly up quickly, and fly towards the depths of the sewer.
Lehman: "You use fireflies to lead the way?"
Lehman followed Aldo with some confusion and asked.
But Aldo changed his previous attitude and ignored him. Instead, he kept scanning the direction of the light spot. He couldn't see his face clearly in the darkness, but he could still feel a little depression in the atmosphere.
He walked quickly to Lehman's side, pulled his shoulders, and made him lean back. Then came Kai's voice.
Kai: "Those are light-seeking bugs. They are guided by the differences in ectoplasm in the light element. Maintain your light element ectoplasm in advance where you want to go, and they can find it easily."
Lehman glanced at Kai beside him who was giving him the answer, then looked at Aldo in front of him and sneered: "Are your people so fickle? One thing at the top and another at the bottom."
Kai: "Hey, how dare you say it, kid. But negotiation is not an understatement. As for Aldo..."
Kai glanced in the direction of the light-seeking bug and said: "The nearest sewer is really strange. We didn't see any corpses along the way. The corpses that were supposed to rot disappeared too quickly..."
Lehman thought for a moment and then understood his negligence in the past few days. The sewer seemed to be the default burial ground in this neighborhood, intentionally or unintentionally. If you kill someone, open the manhole cover and throw it in, you will find an unclaimed body.
corpse.
But if you think about it carefully, you can understand the problem. Although the sewer is hidden, it is not impossible to find. In such an ecological environment, Kai's question is indeed worth pondering, but it disappeared too quickly...
Lehman asked with some confusion: "Are the bodies in the sewer cleaned regularly? Mr. Kai."
Kai: "Well, the church will secretly send people to purify those unclaimed or undiscovered corpses. Although they will not interfere with matters on the ground, if corpses pile up in the sewers, weird things will inevitably happen. But even so, it will definitely happen.
This is not the case now. Their efficiency in the past was far less efficient."
Lehman: "Is it possible that they have sent more manpower?"
Kai chuckled and said with some disdain: "Does the church really pay so much attention to the old city? The chaos in the old city is not just a matter of the past two days. If they really want to solve the problems in this area, they have already used force
Interference."
Lehman certainly understands the resentment in Kai's words. The more he understands the power of the church, the more he will be puzzled by the current situation of the old city.
But it is also the same that can highlight the unusual sense of inconsistency between the old city turmoil and the sewer. The balance of the old city seems to have been broken, and the church is probably the disadvantaged party...
Lehman did not reply to Kai's sarcasm, and thought in silence until Aldora stopped everyone, and the green fluorescence was directly extinguished in the darkness and fell into the sewage.
The manhole cover not far away was pulled in response, and under the moonlight a ragged beggar was thrown into the sewer like garbage. When his head hit the ground, he twisted his body in the opposite direction, and he was probably dead.
"Tsk, all this effort is not enough to pay for my drinks tonight, so unlucky..."
"Hey~~Forget it, let's go look for it again."
The words on the manhole cover were illuminated by the moonlight, but the team in the sewer still did not move. Aldo stood there, in the deep darkness, and the atmosphere was a bit strangely depressed.
Kai was a little relieved to see the common corpse again. When he and a subordinate who lit up the [Light] beside him were about to go forward to check for something strange, he was blocked by Aldo who scattered the elements.
"How..."
Just when Kai was about to ask something, he shut up again.
Da, da, da
As if I could see the light dissipating, something seemed to be emerging from the foul-smelling water.
Bata, bata.
The sound of climbing stuck to the position of the body, followed by sticky groping, as if trying to prop up the collapsed body on the ice only to accidentally slip off.
Try again and again, repeat... until there is a crisp sound of bones being lifted up in the air, two sounds of falling into the water, one large and one small, are heard successively, the rapid water slides towards the distance, and the monotonous and heavy footsteps gallop from the distance,
Then everything fell silent.
There was a pause of silence for about a minute.
Aldo: "Light up the [Light] element, Kai, you will lead the way, others should be careful."
As the light source beside him lit up, the corpse in front of him had already disappeared.
Kai glanced at Aldo but didn't ask any more questions. He just led everyone to quicken their pace.
"This way."
Everyone no longer had any intention of deliberately lowering their pace. In a quick and piecemeal gallop, they quickly came to a wall. Kai pushed three bricks at will, the secret door opened, and everyone quickly entered the room.<
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There was no sign of life in the cold room. Kai walked forward and flicked out the flame, lighting up three kerosene lamps that illuminated the room. At the end of the room was a heavy wooden door.
Aldo looked at the uneasy expressions of the people behind him and Pask on their shoulders and said: "Don't mention what happened just now to anyone. It's not our business now. The church will handle it on its own.
Leave that person alone. There is a transfer point in the first room you go up from the door. You will go to the main station first, and then wait for my news."
The leader nodded, put down Pask on his shoulders, walked through the wooden door and led everyone upstairs.
As the heavy door closed, Kai was no longer silent, and said with some complaint: "So the weirdness still appeared in the city after all. How much do you know? Aldo."
Aldo glanced at Lehman, who was sitting next to Pask, and signaled to Kai, but Kai didn't care at all and continued to ask: "So what is that?"
Aldo sighed and sat on the dusty table: "Afraid of the moonlight and the sun. When you encounter it, extinguish the light and stay silent. Wait for it to leave and leave quickly. This is the advice given to me by the church. I guess the footsteps in the distance just now
The voice is the clergy of the church.
In short, this is not something we should worry about."
Kai smacked his lips: "Church?! Church!? The church is just a bunch of pigs. I really don't know how you ended up like this."
Aldo rubbed his eyebrows and smiled bitterly: "If you have seen the thing about the academy's resurrection, you will know it.
Okay, I don’t want to mention it anymore, what’s important now is to deal with the next problem.”
Aldo perfunctorily put off Kai's words, turned to look at Lehman and Pask, who was still unconscious, and said, "Let's have a good talk."