The warden who guards the witches

"You?" Aiden frowned slightly.

"If you want to find the owner of this place, you should ring the doorbell first, right? You look decently dressed, and you don't look like a thief... I saw people in police uniforms coming here a few days ago." The beggar smiled, "Although I don’t know where you came from, but you must be here to see the owner of this house, right?”

This beggar has sharp eyes... Aiden became alert.

Judging from the appearance, he is from Dillon. Could he be from the Kingdom's military or the Resurrection Society? That's not right. If it were the person responsible for tracking here, the first action he would take after noticing him would be to observe or even follow him, and not take the initiative to talk to him.

It seemed that he had been staring for a long time, and even the beggar wandering nearby noticed that something was wrong.

Aiden did not deny it, but asked in turn: "What can you know?"

"Well, I actually came to beg for food..."

"So you want to say you met him?" Aiden asked.

"No, I mean, I once pressed the doorbell, but no one came out. It was really difficult for me at that time, so I just..." The beggar trailed off.

"Burglary?" Aiden understood.

"It's all for living." The beggar rubbed his hands and smiled.

"Then what did you see?" Aiden asked.

"That's it..." The beggar smiled vaguely and winked.

"How much?" Aiden asked.

"How about two thousand Guise?" The beggar offered a price in local currency.

Aiden calculated it in his mind and realized that the price was already equivalent to half a month's salary of an ordinary worker, which seemed like a big deal.

"You're asking too much for this price. I won't pay so much for this." Aiden replied calmly, "Secondly, I'm not sure whether what you know is valuable."

"Then let me tell you, the owner of this house... is very dangerous!" the beggar said mysteriously.

"Five hundred Guise." Aiden gave a relatively normal price.

"Ha." The beggar sneered, waved his hand and turned away, "If you don't want to know, forget it!"

"Want me to help?" Nemesis appeared next to Aiden.

"No need, your power can only last for a short time, and the information is not enough." Aiden replied, "And there is no need to ask any more."

"Oh?" asked the goddess of revenge.

"It's enough to know that there is something wrong with the people in that room. This is the place where I feel the most suspicion." Aiden replied, "Maybe we won the lottery from the beginning -"

"I said you really don't want to know?" A sudden voice interrupted the conscious communication between Aiden and the Goddess of Vengeance.

Aiden took a closer look and saw that the beggar was back again, with an angry look on his face, as if he owed him five million and hadn't paid back.

"That's the price I'll pay anyway," Aiden said.

"It's unlucky for me, it's a deal, it's a deal." The beggar cursed, "Tsk, I won't even give you two thousand..."

Aiden took out his wallet from his pocket and took out the corresponding share of money, but he just took it in his hand and did not give it to him immediately: "It's yours after you say it. If you're worried about me passing it on, you don't have to tell me."

The beggar looked a little ugly, but he still lowered his voice and said, "Let me tell you, this house has a basement, and the owner of the house may be killing people in there!"

"Tell me in detail from the beginning." Aiden demanded.

"That was last Thursday...it was Friday. I saw it was dark and there was no one around, so I wanted to go in and take a look. In fact, I've been here several times before and rang the doorbell, but no one came out. , I thought there must be no one inside all the time, so I went around to the back door and opened the lock——"

"Can you pick the lock?" Aiden stared into the beggar's eyes.

It seems that this beggar has done a lot of petty theft and even learned a "craft" specifically for this purpose.

"Uh, I... I just happened to find that the back door window seemed unlocked, so..." The beggar laughed dryly, and Aiden knew he was lying as soon as he saw his facial expression.

But there is nothing to pursue in this kind of detail. Aiden gestured for him to continue: "Then what?"

"Then, the back door leads to the kitchen, so I looked around in the kitchen and found a bunch of cans in the cabinet. Then there was a shelf on the table with a whole piece of ham, and there was white bread in the basket. I I just want to use the basket with a few cans when I go back..."

"You didn't notice anything was wrong?" Aiden raised his eyebrows.

Cans and ham can be stored, but white bread will become moldy if stored for a long time. If you are going out for a few days, you will not leave this kind of food on the table.

In other words, when the beggar entered the house, the house was actually occupied by someone, but he did not know whether he was home at the time.

"I didn't think much about it at the time!" The beggar frowned, "I just continued searching on the first floor. After searching, I found a basement, that's it!"

"Do you smell the smell of corpses?" Aiden continued to ask.

"That's not true." The beggar shook his head.

"Then how do you decide?"

The beggar looked around and lowered his voice further: "It's blood! There is blood flowing out from under the basement door. From the outside, it's just a little bit. You can't see it unless you look carefully, but there is definitely a big pool inside, covering the floor. That kind of thing!”

"Based on this alone?" Aiden frowned slightly.

He had some doubts about the authenticity of what the beggar said.

If the owner who moved into this house was indeed Professor Dodge, and his son was really possessed by the dog, would it be necessary for Professor Dodge to prepare an additional human body for his son?

Of course, if he loves his son, he might find a way to let his son live in a human body, but even if he wants to prepare a human body, he should not destroy it.

"What else? Could someone kill a pig in the basement for fun?" The beggar rolled his eyes at Aiden, "That's a person! I didn't hear it at first, but when I got closer, I heard a little bit of sound. Someone was inside, panting, wailing weakly, as if in pain and weak. The sound was too small, and you couldn't hear it unless you stick to the door."

"Is that person still alive?" Aiden asked.

"Yes, but you should know that he can't survive by listening to that sound. After a while, I heard the sound stop, and after a while, I heard a dog barking, and the dog coughed after barking, which was very weird! At that time, my mind was full of people killing people and feeding them to dogs! I was so scared at that time! I immediately ran out of the house with my mouth covered, and I didn't care whether I took anything or not!" The beggar's face was full of lingering fear.

"Barking dog? Are you sure?" Aiden asked.

"Yes, it's true." The beggar nodded vigorously, his eyes fixed on the banknotes in Aiden's hand.

Although this clue alone cannot fully figure out what happened in the basement, the weak and painful human voice and the switching of the dog's barking can be explained by Aiden's guess - Professor Dodge's son, who left the host and was in a weak state, possessed the dog.

It seems... I really found it all at once!