When daylight came, in the damp low-cost rental house, Lin Sanjiu moved a chair and placed it by the window, staring at the passers-by on the road for a long time.
Near Whitechapel in East London, there is a gathering place for many poor immigrants, most of whom are from Russia or Eastern Europe. Therefore, there are always Caucasian faces coming and going on the streets. But occasionally there are some mixed-race people who can't be named.
Where are they from? If the pair of potato brothers put on suitable clothes and walked on the street, Lin Sanjiu might not be able to tell whether they were players or locals.
And changing into player clothes is not a difficult task.
This dungeon must have existed for more than a day or two, and they are definitely not the first batch of players to enter. If there were any evolvers who had an accident here before, and someone wanted to take off all their clothes, it would not be difficult.
The young man also told Lin Sanjiu his complete guess: "...that brother said he was sleeping at home, who can prove it? I think it is very possible that my brother is Jack the Ripper, but it is difficult to kill people with us following him.
So my brother walked with us, taking the opportunity to create chaos and distract us, and then my brother attacked Anne on the other side... Historically, some people did suspect that Jack the Ripper had an accomplice!"
When he said this, his eyes sparkled.
Regardless of whether the young man’s guess is reasonable or not, and why he is so fascinated by Jack the Ripper, he is indeed right about one thing: in the context of London, England, in the 19th century, an East Asian—to be precise, dressed in a
A Chinese with a denim jacket and a slight Cantonese accent - he must be an outsider like Lin Sanjiu.
The next question is the penny in my hand...
Lin Sanjiu looked at the copper plate between her fingers. The coin, which was slightly dented on one side, was stained with a white edge under the skylight outside the window. It was thin and not very heavy. People with weak hands could even use it.
It may not be thrown very far——
Can it be used to break a street light?
If the ability is not blocked, of course there is no problem. But Lin Sanjiu tried it in private, and unexpectedly broke a street lamp - because she found that her physical ability was at a very delicate stage: although evolution
Her abilities can no longer be used, but some physical enhancement effects are still left. At this time, her strength is roughly equivalent to that of a naturally strong man.
Especially the street lamps in the 19th century were made very poorly and brittle. In addition, the street lamp was very close. If there were tools such as slingshots, it would not be a problem...
When Lin Sanjiu thought of this, she scratched her hair irritably and simply threw the mess away.
Anyway, after Jack the Ripper kills five people, the game will eventually end. So what if the mystery is not solved? At worst, she just needs to be more careful when in front of the Potato Brothers.
The daytime in the game actually only lasts about thirty minutes; by the time she pushed her chair and stood up, it was already the beginning of night outside and the lights were getting brighter. Next, it would last for about four or five hours.
The dark night - From this point, it can be seen that a large part of the plot in the game must take place at night.
As soon as she stood up, the door of this narrow rental house was pushed open. The young man walked in and took a look at her. Because he was still holding two pieces of bread in his arms, he simply turned around and kicked the door shut with his foot.
Then he asked, "Would you like something to eat?"
He went out "in the morning", but he only bought two loaves of bread, and it was already dark.
Lin Sanjiu glanced at the two pieces of dark, hard bread and shook her head without appetite.
The young man didn't mind. He tore off a piece and put it in his mouth, asking vaguely: "Where are the two brothers?"
After the initial fear faded, he began to take a great interest in Brother Tudou - his attitude could be called enthusiastic.
"Go... to find a prostitute." Lin Sanjiu said expressionlessly with some reluctance. She couldn't even explain a single word beyond this sentence.
Perhaps they discovered that their identity as a tavern owner was already very attractive to the prostitutes in the slums; the Potato Brothers had been wandering the streets since last night, teasing every woman they fell in love with, and from time to time
They will also disappear on the street corner with a young prostitute and will not come back for a long time. In the game, they only come back once during the day and night, and it is for change.
Although the old gatekeeper said he could do anything, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but be surprised.
As soon as the young man heard what she said, an expression appeared on his face: "Look, what am I talking about?" He sat down in the chair farthest from Lin Sanjiu, lowered his head, and chewed
While chewing the bread, people could only see the top of his dark head. As he chewed the bread, he suddenly laughed softly amidst the sound of saliva mixed with it.
"Why are you laughing?" Lin Sanjiu didn't like his timidity and his unexpected energy from time to time. To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Jack the Ripper couldn't be an East Asian, she would have thought this young man was more attractive.
Like a murderer.
"No... nothing." He raised his eyelids, winced, and then said: "I... I just thought that if one of the two of them is indeed Jack the Ripper, and the other is an accomplice...
That’s so exciting.”
Neither of them had lit the lights at this time, and the room was so dark that it made people feel sad. In the dark living room, listening to him describing a serial killer in such a gently trembling voice was really not that pleasant.
Lin Sanjiu didn't say anything, just found a few candles and lit them.
Electric lights should have come out during this period, but the Dalton brothers' home had not yet been equipped with such modern things. The orange-red firelight could only illuminate a small area, and the light and shadow danced in the living room, making it even more dim.
Not like the human world.
Lin Sanjiu didn't look at the young man in the chair. He just leaned against the window and looked at all kinds of people on the street outside.
"...I think it would be better for us to keep up with the two brothers." The young man rambled on for a long time, until he said this sentence, which attracted Lin Sanjiu's attention: "What if
If one of the prostitutes they found died, and her body was disemboweled and her womb and intestines were dug out, one of them must be Jack the Ripper!"
"If they are really just evolved people who come to have fun, it will be difficult to ensure that they are not discovered."
"But, you have to go and take a look." The young man lowered his head and bit his fingertips for a while, and said as if he was pleading.
However, he did not get a response from Lin Sanjiu. When the young man raised his head, he found that Lin Sanjiu was leaning tightly against the window, squinting and looking outside - she didn't know what she saw, and the look of surprise on her face became more and more...
It was getting thicker and stronger, and he suddenly turned his head and said to him: "Come here!"
"What's wrong?" He swallowed, walked closer, and cast his gaze.
In this game, it seems that it will rain at night. Thin raindrops are floating in the sky, and the lights on the path in the distance are dyed into haloes by the rain curtain; in
In this blurry light, it was naturally difficult to distinguish the appearance of the person - the young man also squinted his eyes and looked carefully for a few seconds, then suddenly his face turned pale: "Eh, eh? No, it can't be?"
The two looked at each other, and then Lin Sanjiu and him rushed out of the door in unison.
When they stepped on the stagnant water and ran all the way into the path, the prostitutes who were hugging each other and talking under the street lamp couldn't help but look at them in surprise; Lin Sanjiu's eyes turned around and noticed that they
The target had disappeared, and he couldn't help but frown and asked the young man: "Did you see it?"
"No, no!" the young man gasped, "did we see it wrong?"
Lin Sanjiu bit her lip, and for a moment she suspected that she had seen it wrong. She had only been out for a short while, and her head and face were wet with rain. When she wiped her face, she was about to speak, but she was suddenly cut off by a "Bah!"
He stopped talking.
A woman's hoarse voice rang out immediately, and as the door opened with a bang, they immediately turned their heads: "——You dislike me for being old, and you don't even look at how much money you are willing to pay! If you don't have any money, you are still here
What kind of upper-class gentleman are you pretending to be here!"
Lin Sanjiu turned around and saw a prostitute wearing a thin skirt standing at a newly opened doorway. She was cursing and wiping tears as she walked out: "She's just a pig butcher.
I thought spending the night with you would stain my skirt!"
She looked up in the night, revealing a relaxed and white face, it was Anne Chapman.
That's right - it is indeed her, she is not dead!
Lin Sanjiu took a breath of cold air and subconsciously glanced at the young man. The latter seemed to be in great confusion at this time. He only stared at the prostitute and couldn't recover for a long time.
Annie Chapman was wearing a faded old dress. She glanced at them, then turned and walked in the other direction. She didn't seem to have any injuries on her body. When Lin Sanjiu saw this, she felt her own body hurt for a moment.
My mind was confused and I asked in a low voice: "What's going on?"
"I, I don't know," the young man said in panic, not knowing whether he was happy or unhappy: "...could it be that those two brothers have nothing to do with Jack the Ripper? Well, in that case, we still have to continue.
Follow her..."
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but become a little anxious. When she looked up, she found that someone had spoken to Annie first. A man was holding an umbrella and standing in the shadow of the corner, his figure thickening into a black shadow;
Anne said something to him in a low voice, then smiled, put her sticky arms on the man, and the two of them disappeared behind the corner.
"Quick, let's follow him quickly!"
The young man jumped up as if he had been stabbed and ran away; Lin Sanjiu rushed to the street and saw Annie following the unknown man into a deep and dark alley.
"Maybe that man is Jack the Ripper!" The young man's voice shrilled with excitement. Before Lin Sanjiu could speak, he got into the alley first.
The alley was so dark that you could barely see the road under your feet with the faint light. The figure of the young man was not far ahead, almost too blurry to be seen. He was just walking forward rustlingly in the darkness.
.
"It's been a circle, aren't we back to the starting point last night?" Lin Sanjiu sighed, and then followed in.
The occasional firelight from a low window on the alley made the place without light appear even darker. After walking along the alley for a while, Lin Sanjiu didn't even know if he had turned a corner or walked.
On the fork in the road - she and the young man walked around in the unfamiliar and dark alley several times, and they couldn't even tell which direction they came from. As for Anne and her guests, they didn't even know where they were going.
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"Forget it," Lin Sanjiu was also a little frustrated. After all, she wasn't that concerned about catching a serial killer from hundreds of years ago. She whispered to the young man in front of her: "...How about we go back first?
"
The young man's shadow nodded in the darkness and turned around silently, obviously disappointed again.
On the way back, there wasn't even a window with a light on. In the misty rain and fog, everything in Lin Sanjiu's field of vision was blurred into a mass of blackness; she and the young man groped in the darkness, trying to
It was very difficult to walk while avoiding the debris and puddles at our feet - when we looked at the intersection ahead, a ray of yellow light finally came through, and we couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"We're finally out," Lin Sanjiu couldn't help complaining, "To be honest, even if I see Jack the Ripper himself next time, I won't chase him into an alley like this again—"
Before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly heard a woman's scream in the distance again, which startled her nerves. However, this time, before the scream disappeared, there were immediately the sounds of footsteps and inquiries from many people.
The shouts came faintly, obviously causing quite a commotion.
Lin Sanjiu quickly quickened her pace and ran towards the intersection. On the road with street lights, many people gathered in panic. When two men walking together hurriedly passed the intersection, they
The conversation also drifted into her ears: "I heard that another dead body appeared over there..."
Anne is still dead after all!
If Annie was dragged away and killed as soon as she entered the alley, then the period of time she and the young man were tracking her would be just enough time for her body to be abandoned on the side of the road and discovered by passers-by.
"It seems that we looked in the wrong direction from the beginning, which gave Jack the Ripper enough time to kill-" Lin Sanjiu felt the young man approaching behind her, sighed and just said half a sentence, then lowered his head.
As soon as I saw it, my throat froze.
There is already light here. Her shadow, together with another long shadow, is cast in the puddles on the stone road, and is shaken by the raindrops; on the head of the other shadow, there is a shape of a hat.
