Mystery: The Return of the Stars

"Mr. Hastur, are you still asleep?"

There was a voice outside the door, it was Lecturer Foulun's voice.

"He definitely can't sleep."

Another voice sounded, the slightly smiling voice of Professor Wayne.

"??!"

Hasta's expression was stagnant. He didn't sleep at night and came to his room for a meeting?

"He should have rested already. He walked a lot today. Even if he didn't complain, he must be very tired."

"Even you can't sleep in the environment here, and he, a nobleman with a good living environment, will definitely not be able to sleep."

"Then why hasn't Mr. Hastur opened the door yet?"

"If you knock a few more times, he will definitely open the door."

Boom, boom, boom!

The depressed and low knock on the door sounded again.

"If I keep you up late at night, I should let you stay outside for a while."

Hastur waved the silver-plated cane in his hand several times, waited for about ten seconds, and then stepped forward and opened the door.

Outside the door, there were indeed Lecturer Folan and Professor Wayne holding kerosene lamps.

Professor Wayne felt Hastur's inquiring gaze and said, "Let's go inside first."

Hastur stepped aside and waited for the two of them to come in before closing the door.

Lecturer Foulun said sarcastically: "Mr. Hasta, please forgive us for disturbing us so late."

Hasta smiled and said: "It's okay, I just can't sleep either."

Lecturer Foulun breathed a sigh of relief, extinguished the kerosene lamp he was carrying, and complained softly, "The teacher has always been sure that you are not asleep, otherwise I would not dare to come and disturb you."

"Is there something to discuss?"

Hastur was not angry at this time, but a little excited.

In the dead of night, in the dark almshouse, three people lit a kerosene lamp and discussed things in a low voice under the dim light.

It really fills up the supernatural atmosphere of ghost stories.

There were no chairs in the room, so the three of them could only sit on the bed. Professor Wayne sat in the middle, and Professors Hastur and Folan sat on his left and right sides respectively.

Fortunately, the three of them are relatively thin, so it's not too crowded if they sit together.

"Of course there is something wrong with coming to you so late." Professor Wayne spoke first, "After observing during the day, do you think there are any problems with this workhouse?"

Hasta thought for a moment and said: "It's too quiet. Except for Dean Dahn who was a little excited about our arrival, everyone else, whether they were children or adults working, behaved too calmly. Even they They didn’t even say a word or two to each other.”

It was too quiet, so quiet that it seemed eerie.

This is his summary of the workhouse today.

Professor Wayne nodded without expressing his position and looked at Lecturer Foulen on the other side.

"There is something wrong with Dean Dahn." Lecturer Foulun gave his own judgment. "Today I have been observing Dean Dahn and specifically talked to him. From his body language, I found that he is far inferior to The kindness shown.”

Professor Wayne said with a smile: "Tell me carefully."

Lecturer Foulen said with a serious face: "When the teacher proposed having lunch with the children, he looked a little strange on the surface, but in fact he was very calm and not panicked at all, as if he already knew about the proposal. What do you want to do?”

"He arranged a steak for us at lunch, and he did it because he knew we wouldn't eat it and he knew we would use it to show kindness."

"In his eyes, our behavior is like a botched performance in a circus. He seems to be overlooking us from a high position. He not only has a sense of psychological superiority, but also has intellectual contempt."

Hasta was surprised when he heard these words. During the day, he saw Lecturer Foulen chatting happily with Dean Dahn, and thought that Lecturer Foulen had been conquered by the charisma of Dean Dahn. .

Unexpectedly, I didn't expect that this lecturer Fulun was the one with the best acting skills among the three of them.

Professor Wayne chuckled and said: "A school professor who is about to get old, a lecturer who only knows how to teach, and a young aristocrat who looks very immature. Dean Dahn is indeed qualified to feel superior for this."

Lecturer Foulun sighed and said, "Teacher, it's time for you to tell us what you think now, right?"

"My idea is very simple. It doesn't matter if Dean Dahn is greedy or bad, as long as this workhouse is really helping those poor people, instead of using the workhouse as a cover to secretly do evil things that harm others. thing."

"Teacher, what exactly do you know?"

Professor Wayne was silent for a while and said in a serious tone: "I got the news that several children are secretly buried in this workhouse every week."

He has long passed the age of being hot-headed and blindly demanding fairness and justice. He can tolerate darkness within a certain range.

Because he knows that there must be shadows under the order.

Although there are many almshouses in Backlund, the only almshouse that can truly fulfill the word "relief for the poor" is the almshouse opened by the Mother Earth Church.

Other workhouses either deduct charity money to make money, or let the poor who should receive relief become free labor, or they work hard on three meals a day, and there are many crimes that secretly persecute children.

What he couldn't stand the most was the persecution of children in the workhouse!

Those people can make money and make money, and they can withhold donations and three meals a day, but they can't target children.

That is not only a crime, but also an animal with no humanity!

"Bury the child secretly? Teacher, do you know what you are talking about?" Lecturer Follen was frightened by what Professor Wayne said.

"I have more than one guide in the dock area, Jim. Last month, old Jeff secretly sent me a letter, which mentioned that he witnessed the evil of burying the bodies of children in this poorhouse, and twice!"

"After I received the news, I immediately rushed to the dock area, wanting to contact old Jeff and ask about the details of the matter, but I could not contact old Jeff again. A few days later, I got the news that old Jeff died, died under a cliff on the mountain."

"After investigation, the police officer finally concluded that old Jeff fell to his death from the cliff, and there was no possibility of murder."

At this point, Professor Wayne said coldly: "Old Jeff 's physical condition is very good, he doesn't have any hobbies of climbing mountains on weekdays, and he would never risk going to the edge of a cliff. It is impossible that he died of natural causes. "

"This must be a murder!"

"In order to investigate this matter, I came to this poorhouse twice to find evidence of their persecution of children and murder of old Jeff, but I am obviously not enough to complete this task alone."

"So this time I asked you to come with me to see if you can find any abnormal phenomena."

Professor Wayne told everything in one breath. Hasta was still calm. Lecturer Foren's face changed, and finally he just sighed.

After a moment of silence, Hasta said, "I mean, if old Jeff was really murdered, and this workhouse is really persecuting children, then what are you going to do?"

"Of course, hand over the relevant evidence to the police department, let them arrest all the criminals and convict them!"

"Then why didn't you seek help from the police department at the beginning?"

Professor Wayne asked in confusion, "Without solid evidence, why would the police department come to investigate?"

"What is solid evidence?"

"Of course, it is evidence that the workhouse is suspected of committing a crime." Lecturer Foren said hurriedly.

Hasta shook his head and said, "It doesn't take any solid evidence to ask the police department to investigate, but a reason that forces them to come to the workhouse to investigate."

Professor Wayne pondered and motioned Hasta to continue.

"If a noble disappeared in this workhouse for no reason, then should the police department conduct a detailed investigation of this workhouse?" Hasta slowly expressed his thoughts.

He approved of Professor Wayne's idea of ​​seeking justice for the children, but he did not approve of his group's sneaky investigation.

If the workhouse is really that dangerous, then the closer they get to the truth, the more dangerous it will be.

Although he is a Sequence 9 lawyer, three strong men can suppress him in a head-on fight. Professor Wayne and Lecturer Foren can see that they don't have much fighting power.

Moreover, the act of secretly burying the child made him more alert. In the mysticism, children are born with spirituality and are the best sacrifices in many evil rituals.

What if this workhouse is really doing some evil ritual?

Then it is estimated that no matter how many ordinary police come, it will be useless. It is safest to report it directly to the major Orthodox Churches.

If it were him, he would write a letter to directly report the possible terrorist acts of holding evil rituals in this workhouse.

I believe that the major Orthodox Churches will definitely send people to investigate secretly. No matter what the result is, it is safer and more reliable than the three of them investigating secretly by themselves.

Lecturer Foren said blankly: "But isn't this fraud?"

"It's just a different way to deal with the problem."

"This... Teacher, what do you think?"

Lecturer Foren threw the question to Professor Wayne.

"Very good."

Professor Wayne laughed, patted Hasta on the shoulder, and said with satisfaction: "You have learned to use the other side of the law so quickly, you are really good."

"You taught me well." Hasta also laughed.

Before making this suggestion, he did not think of using the law, but simply felt that Professor Wayne's approach was unreliable.

Ahem, it's not what I mean.

"Just do it as you say."

Professor Wayne smiled and handed the matter to Hasta to solve.

Lecturer Folen frowned at first, but then gradually figured it out.

Loen's laws obviously favor the interests of the nobles. They may not care about the case of missing children in the workhouse, but if a noble disappears for no reason, they must hurry up to file a case for investigation.

To a certain extent, this is using Loen's laws to seek benefits for themselves.

So, now the question is, how can Hasta quietly leave the workhouse and create the illusion of disappearance in the workhouse?

According to the manager of the workhouse during the day, in order to protect the children from being persecuted at night, the three living areas are all protected by large iron gates, and only patrol officers may have the keys.

Moreover, there are more than 2,000 people living here, so it is very difficult to sneak out even in the dead of night.