Mystery: The Return of the Stars

How about setting a fire to attract everyone's attention, and then sneak out of the workhouse in the chaos?

Or hide behind the door, knock the guard unconscious when he comes to check, and then take the key to open the door and sneak away?

You can also find a place to hide so that the people in the workhouse can't find you, and then wait until no one is around, and then find a chance to leave?

These are all suggestions from Lecturer Foren. Obviously, he often reads some detective adventure novels.

Professor Wayne did not make any suggestions, but let Hasta worry about this problem alone.

He believed that since Hasta made a suggestion, there must be a solution.

"It would be great if there were cosmetics and wigs here, and a set of women's clothes would be needed."

Lecturer Foren thought of a very feasible method, but the conditions here were obviously not feasible.

"In fact, sneaking away is not a difficult thing." Hasta quickly closed Lecturer Foren's brain hole.

He would never wear women's clothes!

"Do you have any good ideas?" Lecturer Foren looked at Hasta with a happy face.

"I don't have to leave the workhouse in the middle of the night. Tomorrow, I can find any opportunity to sneak away during the daytime. It depends on how you and Professor Wayne perform."

"Yes! I don't have to sneak away tonight! Why didn't I think of that!" Lecturer Foren looked annoyed.

"..."

Hasta did not talk to Lecturer Foren about this topic anymore, but discussed tomorrow's affairs with Professor Wayne.

Ding-ling-ling!

Ding-ling-ling!

Ding-ling-ling!

Just as the three were discussing what might happen tomorrow, three crisp bells rang outside the house.

They also heard this sound during lunch, when the workhouse administrator took out a string of bells and rang them a few times, and announced the rules for eating at lunch.

The bells came and went quickly, with only three rings, and then the outside fell into silence again.

Inside the house, the three people looked at each other, all with a stunned expression.

Why would there be bells ringing in the middle of the night?

It felt a little weird for some reason!

"Could it be that some kid couldn't sleep at night and deliberately made such a prank?"

"Perhaps the sound of the bell is a signal of some kind, and they are planning their actions through the sound of the bell?"

"It may also be that we heard it wrong, and it was the sound of the bell hanging outside the door that rang?"

Lecturer Foren gave his own guess.

Professor Wayne didn't say anything, but got up and walked to the door, listened for a moment, and walked back and forth a few steps.

Finally, he said: "Let's go out and take a look, maybe there will be some unexpected gains."

Hasta firmly opposed Professor Wayne's proposal.

The sound of the bell just now is definitely not simple!

It is very likely to involve extraordinary elements!

This is an inexplicable warning from his heart. In this case, he absolutely believes in his intuition.

"It shouldn't matter if I go out and take a look?" Lecturer Foren was also moved. After all, judging from the size of the sound, the bell sound was still some distance away from here.

"Well, it's just right to go back to the room and rest." Professor Wayne also agreed with this suggestion.

"Wait a minute."

Hasta stopped them and said with a serious face: "I don't think things are that simple. Let's not take risks."

Lecturer Foren smiled and said: "It's okay, we'll just take a look from a distance."

"Emperor Roselle once said a famous saying: 'Curiosity kills the cat.' This means that if you are too curious about things, you will easily put yourself in a dangerous situation."

Hasta brought out the sign of Emperor Roselle, hoping to dispel the idea of ​​adventure in their hearts.

"It's a very philosophical saying, worthy of being Emperor Roselle."

Lecturer Foren agreed with this sentence, and at the same time smiled and assured Hasta that he would never run out to take risks in the middle of the night.

Hasta had no reason to stop them at this point, and his bed really couldn't sleep three people.

The door opened, Hasta first poked his head out and looked around for a while, confirming that there were no patrolling guards passing by here, and then called Professor Wayne and Lecturer Foren out.

Then he watched them leave with the kerosene lamp. They did not do anything extra. They just looked at the source of the bell for a while and then went back to their rooms.

Hasta breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the source of the bell. The evening breeze blew and made people shiver.

He retracted his gaze, closed the door and locked it. After thinking for a while, he moved the table behind the door to block it, and then lifted the kerosene lamp on the table to the ground near the bed.

After doing all this, he looked at the time. It was already past two o'clock in the morning.

He went to bed, lay on the quilt, held the cane in his hands across his chest, and yawned.

He was really a little sleepy.

In a state of half-asleep, he dreamed that he came to the Hall of Stars and whipped the lamp god again.

...

In the early morning, Hasta was awakened by a violent knock on the door.

He opened his sleepy eyes, looked at the cane hugged to his chest, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened last night.

By the way, did I go to the Hall of Stars to whip the Lamp God after I fell asleep last night?

Hasta frowned slightly. He had been clocking in at the Lamp God during this period. If he missed one night, he would not have signed in continuously.

Dong! Dong!

The sound of the clap became louder and louder, and at the same time, there was the anxious voice of Lecturer Foren.

Did something really happen?

Hasta didn't delay any longer, and hurriedly got up and went to the door, moved the table, rearranged it, and then opened the door.

"Teacher, teacher, he disappeared!" Lecturer Foren was anxious, his tone was rapid, and his breathing was fluctuating.

There were two poorhouse administrators beside Lecturer Foren.

"Speak slowly, why did Professor Wayne suddenly disappear?" Hasta tried to comfort Lecturer Foren's anxious mood.

"After I woke up this morning, I wanted to see how the teacher slept last night. When I came to the teacher's door, I just knocked twice, and the door opened by itself. The teacher's shadow was no longer in the room."

"At first I didn't care too much, and I thought the teacher got up earlier than me and went out for a walk."

"But after asking around, I found that no one had seen the teacher. I was a little panicked, so I hurried to ask the people in the poorhouse to help find him, but after more than an hour, I didn't see the teacher's shadow, and no one saw the teacher on the road."

Lecturer Foren became more and more anxious, and even sweat broke out on his forehead.

Is he really missing?

Or is he just acting?

After listening to Lecturer Foren's story, Hasta's heart skipped a beat. He believed it a little, but also doubted it a little.

Last night, the three of them mentioned that they would use the method of fake disappearance to give the police department a reason to come to the poorhouse to investigate.

Early in the morning, Professor Wayne disappeared.

Professor Wayne is a law professor at Backlund University and also his teacher. His disappearance is also significant enough for the police to intervene in the investigation.

Perhaps, Professor Wayne did not want to trouble himself, so he chose to be the fake missing person.

But when he thought of the strange bell sound last night, Hasta was a little panicked, and Lecturer Foren's expression did not seem to be acting.

"Don't worry, Professor Wayne will be fine." Hasta comforted Lecturer Foren and asked, "Have people been sent to look for him in the dock area?"

A staff member of the poorhouse replied, "People have been sent to look for him, but no news has been received."

"Have you searched every place in the poorhouse?"

"We have searched more than once, but we haven't seen Professor Wayne's shadow, and no one has seen him this morning."

"I want to see Dean Daen."

"Okay, I'll take you there."

Under the guidance of the poorhouse staff, Hasta and Lecturer Foren soon met Dean Daen.

He also seemed very anxious at the moment, and his mood looked very bad.

Seeing Hasta and the other two coming, he put away his angry expression and sighed: "Please rest assured, we will definitely find Professor Wayne and will never let him have any accidents."

Hasta looked grim, and said in a deep voice: "If we still can't see my most respected teacher by noon at the latest, we will choose to call the police and rely on the power of the police department to solve this matter."

Whether Professor Wayne really disappeared or not, taking this opportunity to attract the police department to intervene in this matter is the best choice.

"This, let's not trouble the police department, right?" Dean Daen's face became even uglier.

"Then can you make sure to find someone before twelve o'clock?"

Hasta emphasized his tone, poked the ground heavily with his cane twice, and obviously suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "My teacher is an extremely respected law professor. He has trained many excellent barristers, including students who have become judges!"

"I understand, we will definitely handle this matter well!"

Dean Daen was shocked, obviously shocked by the weight of Professor Wayne.

Soon, Dean Daen ordered the people in the workhouse to search for Professor Wayne's whereabouts separately.

Hasta and Lecturer Foren did not stay quietly in the room waiting for news, but took several people from the workhouse to the dock area to look for him.

Mainly, Hasta was worried that if Professor Wayne's disappearance was really related to the workhouse, then it would be very dangerous for them to stay in the workhouse.

Especially when twelve o'clock was approaching, if the workhouse still could not find Professor Wayne, then they might make them disappear as well, so as not to attract the intervention of the police department.

It was not that he wanted to think that people's hearts were so dark, but in the mysterious world, it was always right to be careful everywhere.

Even if you don't make mistakes, you may encounter unknown dangers, not to mention that you are stupid.

At more than eleven o'clock, the entire dock area was almost turned over by the people from the workhouse, and even many residents of the dock area participated in the search for Professor Wayne, but no trace of Professor Wayne was found.

What's more terrifying is that there are so many pairs of eyes in the dock area, but no pair of eyes have ever seen Professor Wayne.

Hasta stood in the crowd, looking in the direction of the Sunrise Workhouse, with a solemn expression.

If Professor Wayne was forced to disappear, he was most likely imprisoned in the workhouse, and if he was playing missing on his own initiative, he was also likely to hide in the workhouse.

After all, there are a lot of residents living in the dock area, and many people have to get up before dawn to work. It is too difficult to sneak out of the dock area under so many double eyelids.

On the contrary, hiding in the workhouse, you only need to avoid the first few searches, which will easily create the illusion of darkness under the lamp.

Lecturer Foren on the side looked at Hasta with complicated eyes, and he hesitated several times.

He really wanted to ask, was all this discussed in advance by his teacher and Mr. Hasta?

The script discussed last night was obviously not played like this!