It was five minutes before midnight, and the prosperity of the inner city was beginning to come to an end. There were fewer pedestrians on the streets, and the mounted police patrolled specific routes with iron whistles and rifles in their mouths.
Although the prosperity has begun to decline, you can still hear the chants surrounding the buildings, and the intoxicating aroma of wine makes the air sweeter. Thick white mist rises slowly. This is steam from the underground, but it is not the same as that in the outer city.
The simple and crude discharge method is different. They quietly rise from the gaps in the ground and cover everything under it.
Eve rarely saw the inner city late at night, usually by this time she was already nestled in her soft bed instead of wandering around with a psychotic detective.
Looking to the side, Lorenzo beside him seemed to be waiting for something, constantly looking at the time on his pocket watch.
Lorenzo has been like this since the two left the restaurant. The great detective kept looking at the time and surroundings as if he was looking for something, without saying a word. Eve could only follow him like this.
The fog covered everything. Looking from the Zeppelin in the night sky, it was a white ocean. The spire and the bell tower rose from the gray fog, and the electric lights were dotted like fireflies.
"Here we are."
Suddenly Lorenzo said these words and stood on the side of the road with Eve.
"here?"
Eve was a little confused. They were on a platform, which was a steam tram station, but judging from the stop sign, the last train had stopped running two hours ago.
There was a hazy gray mist all around, and the hot steam heated up the evening breeze, blowing on Eve's face. The warmth felt like a monster lurking behind the mist, sending its breathing air.
The girl subconsciously clutched her skirt. What was hidden under it was not her beautiful thighs, but a dangerous weapon.
"Yes, here."
Lorenzo suddenly said quietly, looking behind the mist.
"The steam trams in Old Dunling have actually been operating at a loss, and the fares for transporting passengers are simply not cost-effective. It has always been the taxes of big entrepreneurs to support these, so in order to alleviate the problem, the steam trams are also leased and sold."
His eyes moved to the bottom of the platform. The metal rails were shining with luster, but as Lorenzo looked at them, the luster began to tremble.
"You, a noble class like you, should be aware of this. The company will rent or sell carriages to private individuals, and when they need to travel, they will directly use the locomotive to run it. However, your Phoenix family is stronger, and you directly bought a train.
Nobles usually decorate the carriage with great splendor, just like a small palace. When there is a banquet, the mobile palace will stop in front of the guest's house, and the attendants will bow and salute, waiting for them to attend the meeting."
Lorenzo said something Eve would not know.
"But there will also be other uses. For example, a certain earl will take his lover and embrace each other in the carriage. The carriage will be completely isolated from the cab. The driver will have no idea what is happening in the carriage behind him. They will always be there.
Marched on the tracks of Old Dunling until the Earl asked to go home."
Eve frowned slightly, showing a somewhat disgusted expression.
"How do you know?"
"Because the count's wife is my client. You may not believe it, but I am very popular with those rich women."
Lorenzo was beaming.
Since the end of the first mistress case, the lady introduced Lorenzo to more troubled ladies. They admired Lorenzo's rough and comfortable way of handling cases. For a while, a man named "Mistress"
The detective "Killer" was circulated in upper-class social circles.
The count's case was the pinnacle of Lorenzo's career in catching mistresses. The employer knew about the good things his husband had done, but could never catch him, so he entrusted it to Lorenzo. After following him for a long time, Lorenzo discovered that the count actually bought the mistress.
A carriage was built as a mobile palace.
Finally Lorenzo gave his employer a location where he caused a tram derailment.
"You will never imagine the expressions on those two people's faces when they fell naked out of the carriage!"
Seeing Loren's excited look, Eve had a dark look on her face. This detective no longer had a bad personality.
"Then why don't you continue?"
"It's too bad of character to do this. It will inevitably lead to three cuts and six holes."
Lorenzo looked noble, but the actual answer was that the count spent three months undergoing psychological treatment. After all, no one's spirit could withstand the impact of suddenly standing naked in the crowd. After recovery, he
The first thing he did was to buy Lorenzo's life. For this purpose, Lorenzo hid in Shrike for nearly a month.
The atmosphere became more lively under Lorenzo's nonsense, and the damp coldness receded slightly.
"Do you have room there?"
Pointing to the underside of Eve's skirt, Lorenzo suddenly said without realizing how unreasonable he was.
"You...what do you want to do?"
Eve's cheeks turned red, this detective is really a psychopath, you never know what he will do in the next second.
Lorenzo took out a silver-white revolver from somewhere, with ghosts and gods engraved on the bullet chamber. It was heavy and filled with ammunition.
"I need you to hide it for me. Although Sabo is a rude Viking, he has learned some etiquette under the influence of the old Dunling culture. When attending his ball, he will search the men thoroughly, even if
It's useless even if the blade is stuck in the butt groove, but he will not be disrespectful to a lady."
After handing the revolver to Eve, Lorenzo stood beside her. He carefully arranged his clothes. The next step was the main event. He needed to be more serious.
Eve was a little confused, but still obeyed and tied the revolver to the ribbon. There were no white thighs, and the long skirt was wearing tight casual clothes. As long as Eve needed it, she could just tear off the long skirt and get in.
fighting.
With daggers and guns, Eve has never been an ordinary noble girl. As a child of the Phoenix family, other nobles were born with silver spoons in their mouths, so Eve was born with a bullet in her mouth.
The Phoenix family is a phoenix that rose from the ruins of the Glorious War. Even though she is the princess of the phoenix, Eve is still stained with the pungent smell of sulfur, which is a mark engraved in the blood.
"Time is up."
Lorenzo said suddenly, Eve still didn't know what happened. She hadn't understood the development of the situation since she and Lorenzo walked out of the restaurant, but then the bell rang.
It was a long, silent sound, coming from the tallest building in the inner city. The low hum after the long sound wandered back and forth in the streets and alleys, like a ghost that refused to disperse for a long time.
A strange feeling came to Eve's heart, and she was suddenly scared.
The cold eroded the thin dress, and the coldness touched her waist like ghost claws.
At some point, she and Lorenzo were the only ones left on the street. The sound of horse hooves could be heard in the distance. It was the mounted police guarding the night. But under the thick fog, Eve could not see anything.
The street lamps were scattered into large haloes of light, which looked like the shining eyes of a monster behind the gray fog.
Then there was an icy wind blowing on Eve's cheek.
Looking back, Eve felt that she was almost suffocated.
The dark steam tram stopped in front of the platform at some point, and the thick fog obscured its arrival. There was no sound, and the lights were not even turned on. Only the steam that had just been released heated the surroundings, as if it were a ghost coming from afar.
Logically speaking, there were no steam trams running at this time, but now there was such a strange steam tram parked in front of her. It had no license plate, no markings, and even the windshield was pitch black. Eve was not even sure what was inside.
Anyone.
"Hold my hand, we are a perfect couple in tonight's script."
Lorenzo's voice came from the side, and he raised his arm to signal Eve.
Couple?
Eve immediately wanted to draw a gun and shoot the damn detective. In this situation, Eve was extremely nervous, but the sudden opening of the car door interrupted her thoughts.
It was an attendant dressed in black. When Lorenzo nodded slightly, Lorenzo skillfully took out two coins and handed them to him.
What was engraved on the coin was not a lion, but a shrike holding a thorn in its mouth. It was like a pass. The attendant turned sideways and made way for the two of them to get into the car. It was dark inside the car door.
I couldn't see anything, as if I was heading into the bottomless abyss.
"Luo..."
Eve wanted to say something else, but the uneasiness in her heart kept scratching her. She always believed in her intuition, but at this moment Lorenzo didn't give her any chance to speak. He held her hand with a smile and boarded the board.
Steam tram.
The steam tram started slowly without making any sound. It just disappeared into the gray fog silently, as if it had never appeared before.