As the words rang out, Lin Sanjiu and the other two brothers turned their attention to the young man.
The gas lamps on the street went out one by one, and the young man lowered his head, his face becoming more and more unclear. He was not tall and wore an old denim jacket - the shoulders of the old denim jacket were high and wide.
, hanging empty on his thin body.
"How do you know this is London in the 19th century?" one of the potato brothers asked.
Both brothers have a pair of round eyes, with large and black pupils. Their faces are irregular, but their expressions are very similar: no matter what they say, they always have round eyes and look straight at them.
You always make people want to look away - after all, for most people, it is always uncomfortable to make eye contact with others.
Lin Sanjiu secretly compared in her mind and found that the brother only reached her eyebrows - in this way, as the only woman, she became the tallest person.
The young man seemed to be very introverted. He shrank in embarrassment when he heard this, and then raised his face: "...because I have always been interested in Jack the Ripper and have read a lot of information about him, so I
You’ll know it when you see it. Are you new here too?”
He had a slight Cantonese accent and a pair of double-lidded eyes. He looked delicate and elegant. No wonder the old man's description made Lin Sanjiu suspicious.
"I've been waiting for a long time," the brother said impatiently, finally looking away from the young man; Lin Sanjiu could clearly feel that the latter was obviously relieved - "
Has that Jack started killing people now? How to catch him?"
The young man shook his head hastily: "I don't know... For hundreds of years, no one knows who Jack the Ripper is. Even the original London police were unable to do anything... It is not easy to catch him."
The younger brother let out a breath, looked around with his eyes wide open, and said to himself: "...It's such a weird place."
"It's not just weird," Lin Sanjiu suddenly interjected, and several people looked at her at the same time.
She rubbed her temples and sighed: "...I'm afraid the safety of this copy is not as high as the old gatekeeper said. At the very least, I think our evolutionary abilities and special items should not be used."
While she was talking, she had quietly slipped the [Combat Item] into her pants pocket - it now looked like an ordinary piece of clay. Lin Sanjiu originally planned to put it away as a card, but
Now even [Flat World] is mute and no longer responds.
The other people were stunned and looked at each other, but no one said anything.
——These people meet by chance and have little trust in each other. It is reasonable for them to refuse to say out loud, "My ability has really failed."
A few people discussed it for a while and decided to walk along this street first to see if they found anything. The roles they were assigned were not important people, they were just people living in the slums of East London.
They were just employees - after walking for a while, the brothers were "recognized" first: it turned out that they were the owners of a nearby tavern; the person who recognized them was a staggering, half-drunk Eastern European immigrant.
, and kept asking, "Are we going to open for business now?"
The early morning still had a light blue sky, which became even darker amid the rain and white fog. Although the young man had read a lot about Jack the Ripper, it was obviously his first time in London. After walking around for several times, the group
Only then did they find the famous Whitechapel in the East End - it is said that the first victim of Jack the Ripper, a middle-aged prostitute who was stabbed thirty-nine times, was found nearby.
In the continuous rain, this alley seemed even darker. The air in London in the 19th century was always filled with the pungent, sulfur-like smell of smoke, and even the rain could not wash away the deep and shallow haze in front of me. In this street
In the alley that was so hazy that it seemed unreal, a few people walked forward in silence and without destination for a while, until suddenly the sound of "clack" and "clack" of heels was heard from around the corner.
Several people were stunned, and happened to see a young woman walking out of the rain and fog - she tightly wrapped a scarf with fur balls around her shoulders, and hurriedly walked around the corner; as soon as she found someone in front of her, she
She seemed to be startled, and cautiously grabbed the hem of her skirt and took a few steps back. However, when she looked up and saw Lin Sanjiu, she seemed to be relieved.
"Carlo," she called out. There was a black eye under one eye, and the corner of her mouth was swollen by someone, and it was red and bloodshot. She exuded the smell of cheap and pungent powder, and her face
Her makeup had already smudged - from the look of this woman's clothes, her occupation was almost self-evident.
She took a few steps closer to Lin Sanjiu, looked at the young man again, and then whispered: "...are you two going home now? Is this the guest you just found?"
Lin Sanjiu and the young man looked at each other, both dumbfounded - they didn't expect that the roles assigned to them in this game were actually prostitutes.
She didn't know how to respond, so she just said "Ah" vaguely.
"Be careful," the young prostitute said, suddenly her voice became hoarse, and she covered the corners of her dark eyes with her hands: "...that murderer has already killed two people around here. Can he do it sooner?"
Go home, it’s better to go home early!”
Several evolvers were shocked when they heard this and couldn't help but look at each other.
"You two still have a place to stay," the young prostitute smiled bitterly, "I thought that the gentleman yesterday could give me a place to stay temporarily, but I didn't expect... Forget it, I'll go to the dock.
If you take a look around, there might be some business."
After saying that, before a few people could respond, she turned around and left in a hurry - her inferior high-heeled leather shoes no longer made a sharp "clack" sound from a close distance, but also had a little leather on them.
The sound of opening and closing again.
Seeing her walking away, the young man withdrew his gaze. He asked several people in a low voice: "What should we do now? It turns out that Jack the Ripper has killed two people."
"Are they all prostitutes?" Lin Sanjiu asked with a frown, "How many people did he kill in total?"
"...five, all prostitutes." The young man replied softly. "They were all killed within a few months, and they did not last long."
"Then even if we don't do anything, I guess this game won't last long." The elder brother of the two brothers said, "I have no interest in catching the murderer, so why not, let's find a place to live in the game.
, and then just wait for the game to end in the residence. How about it?"
Before Lin Sanjiu could say anything, the young man's face immediately turned red - "Okay, I finally got this opportunity. I, I really want to see who is Jack the Ripper."
"What about you?" The elder brother glanced at Lin Sanjiu.
"Let's all go together," she thought for a moment and then advised the young man: "When you find a place to stay, it won't be too late for you to go out and inquire about it."
The young man lowered his head and agreed.
Finding a place to live is not difficult, but it is also easy. In the end, the young man came up with the idea to let the two brothers pretend to be drunk and ask people where their home is - Damn it.
Using this stupid method, although there were some twists and turns along the way, they finally found their rental house.
It seems that the tavern owner's life is not easy either. This cheap rental house is mixed with the residences of several old coachmen and shoe repairmen. The fenced yard behind is filled with the smell of horse defecation and the smell of leather, even if it is closed.
Even through the window, it penetrated into the house thickly.
After a group of four people sat down huddled together in the dark and cramped living room, Lin Sanjiu finally breathed a sigh of relief. There was a heavy damp musty smell in the room, as if no one had lived there for a while.
- She looked up at the other people and found that the brothers were obviously just like her, a little confused and didn't know what to do next. Only the young man had red cheeks and bright eyes.
, seemed unable to contain the excitement of being able to see Jack the Ripper with his own eyes.
"Why are you so interested in this murderer?" My brother's body was sunk on a single sofa. In the dark room, it seemed that he could only see his straight eyes.
The young man shrank and replied: "... Come on, Jack the Ripper is very famous. He is in movies, songs, novels... everything..."
"Since you're here, tell us more about Jack." The younger brother sat on the sofa in almost the same posture and asked the young man.
This sentence played into the hands of the young man - he had obviously done a lot of research on Jack the Ripper. When he heard this, he immediately changed his timid expression and explained the case in detail.
I told it once; I even remember many of the details very clearly, and sometimes I can even refer to different sources.
"If I had said this before, people would have thought that I was a pervert." At the end of the sentence, the young man seemed to have noticed his excitement and lowered his head in embarrassment: "But there are many people who are interested in serial killers.
This is nothing to me...I also heard that after many serial killers were arrested and imprisoned, many admirers corresponded with them and even married them in prison..."
Lin Sanjiu had also heard of this.
"Hey, it's dark outside." The younger brother looked out the window and suddenly called out softly.
Several people looked at it and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Time in the game obviously passed faster than in reality; the young man just told the case once, and the sky outside the window had already changed from early morning to night - the gas street lights were dim
Under the bright light, prostitutes, hooligans, and drunkards gradually increased one after another. Women of all ages and looks stood in groups on the street, huddled and shivering in the cold night.
, waiting for the arrival of guests.
"If you want to find the murderer, go ahead." The elder brother smiled at the young man and pointed to the shadow hidden under the street lamp outside the window. "The two of us can accompany you -"
As soon as he said this, he was cut off by a sudden knock on the door. They looked at each other. Lin Sanjiu was closest to the door, so he stood up and opened the door. As soon as the door opened, the woman outside was stunned.
.
"Didn't Mr. Carlo Dalton ask me to come here?" She wiped her red lips and painted her face white, but it could not hide the sagging skin and tired wrinkles. She raised her voice and screamed
The questioning voice made Lin Sanjiu's ears hurt: "Why are you here? Did you steal my business?"
As soon as she made such a noise, the neighbor's door was pushed open a crack - an older man poked his head out and teased her with a smile: "...Annie, Mr. Dalton is so much younger than you.
I'm afraid I have no interest in you. Otherwise, you might as well come to me——"
"Bah, you have to be rich!" The prostitute named Annie spit out her real deal, and a mouthful of white phlegm rubbed against the toe of Lin Sanjiu's shoe.
Dalton seems to be the names of the two brothers in the game - Lin Sanjiu was so quarreled by her that she had a headache. He was about to ask the two brothers to send her away, but when he turned around, he met a couple who were excited and nervous.
, and Yiyi’s shining eyes.
"Annie?" the young man repeated in a trembling voice, "Annie Chapman?"
The old-looking prostitute turned her head with a puzzled look on her face: "...What are you doing?"
The eyes of Lin Sanjiu and the two brothers were all cast on the young man at this time. He looked back and lowered his voice so softly that he almost just mouthed: "——She is the third victim.
