Whispering Verse

Although Mr. Bernhardt knows that this place will become dangerous, he probably will not leave Yuewan City in a short time. After all, every corner of the material world is not peaceful now.

The two of them drank wine, and Shade teased the cat, which had been very well-behaved since he came out today. The cat is still waiting for Shade to turn into a cat, so it is very patient. Of course, Shade also talked about the story about the coroner's past that he heard from Mrs. Du Bois when he accompanied Miss Belindell to the reading salon yesterday.

Mr. Bernhard showed a helpless expression:

"I have said before that Ptolemy Albert was a very talented man. Although he did not come from a distinguished family, he studied in school and went to the New World with the army. He could have been as good as I have a great future, but he is a just man and hates injustice the most. I also know this story, but we'd better not mention it in front of him. After all, this is also Ptolemy's sad story. "

Shade still had a letter in his hand that Mrs. Du Bois asked him to deliver, so after discussing the meeting time with Mr. Bernhardt tomorrow, he turned the cat into a toy and put it in his pocket, and went to the autopsy alone. Room delivery.

The coroner in the brown robe was busy at this time, and there were two other coroners working here. So Shade just put the letter in his office, said hello to him and left.

It was exactly half past eleven when I got home at noon. As soon as Shade had changed his clothes, the three girls came back.

"How's it going? Did you find out the problem?"

Shade asked them curiously. Amelia still looked energetic, and Luvia and Dorothy didn't look tired either:

"We rummaged through her room in the morning and brought back three suspicious items. See if you recognize these items. If you don't, go to Old John for help."

Emilia then handed the paper bag she was holding to Shade. At first, Shade thought it was a bag of bread.

He poured out the contents, which were a small black 20-sided dice, a withered yellow leaf made into a bookmark, and a silver-plated brooch that was blackened by oxidation. The brooch was in the shape of a leaf.

Little Mia glanced at it from a distance, showing no intention of getting closer. Shade stretched out his hands to touch them respectively, then frowned:

"Emilia, where did you get all of this? There is an element of blasphemy in that leaf and that die, and there is an element of whispering in the last brooch."

Luvia and Dorothy looked at each other and knew that the whole morning's search was indeed not a waste of time. The elf girl was asked this question by Luvia just now, so she didn't need to recall it anymore and timidly said:

"That leaf was from the old lady selling flowers while we were waiting for the next train after we and other students who went off campus to participate in this summer's practical activities were transported by the college's train to the city of Winterfell in the north of Delarion. given to me;

That black die was given to me by the storyteller when I was listening to stories being told in the train dining car after our train departed from Watson County;

The last brooch was bought on the local black market on the second day after we arrived in Tobesk. Look, this is the design style of elf jewelry. "

"Oh~"

Shade covered his forehead and sighed:

"Before leaving school, didn't the teachers tell you not to keep things around you whose purpose you don't know?"

"I said it, but I don't see anything wrong with these things. I don't notice traces of elements."

Lowering her head, her right index finger and left index finger pointed together. Her pointed ears turned red, and she knew she had made a mistake:

“It feels wrong when I think about it now, but at the time I didn’t expect that these things would attract those dangerous relics.”

"Okay, okay, Shade isn't blaming you, I'm just worried about you."

Dorothy comforted her at the side, and then the young elf girl pursed her lips and raised her head:

"But which thing is wrong? It can't be that all three items are harmful to me, right?"

"That's not certain. Divination tells me that these three items are accumulating bad luck for you."

Luvia said, Shade nodded:

"Let's go have lunch first. We will study after lunch. I have nothing else to do today. I will take Amelia to solve this matter in the afternoon. Luvia, you continue to go to work, Dorothy, you Didn’t you make an appointment with the reporter of the ‘Nathan Family Poisoning Case’ this afternoon to interview and collect information?”

The two girls nodded, and Luvia did not forget to remind:

"If you really can't find the reason, come to the Prophet's Association. I'll ask the president to help with divination. Emilia's safety is the most important thing."

At noon, the four of them had lunch together at a restaurant outside. Shade had planned to send the cat home and then take Amelia to Papa John's. Unexpectedly, as soon as they returned home, a visitor came to visit them.

The knock on the door surprised Shade. The elf girl went to the living room window to take a look and told Shade that there was no carriage downstairs. After opening the door, Shade saw his boss, Director Anlos. Although it was still midsummer, Director Anlos wore a tan scarf around his neck because the weather was getting colder.

He first glanced at the girl standing on the stairs behind Shade, who was peeping her head. After Shade nodded slightly, he said:

"There is a task. It's not mandatory, and I'm not asking you to do it now."

"It doesn't matter, what exactly do you want to do?"

He invited Director Anlos to come in, and Emilia consciously carried the cat upstairs. So Director Anlos slipped a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Shade:

"The 'Boatman' is still responsible for contacting this matter. We have received reliable information that the 'Lion Lion' has given orders to the Gray Gloves, asking them to cause trouble in the city before the completion of the Yuewan Bridge. During the construction period of the Yuewan Bridge, The seven major families are making a fuss about corruption and organizing citizens' protest marches. During this period, if the city hall and police station can accidentally break into bloody conflicts with the citizens, the Angevin royal family can take the opportunity to start the topic of regaining the autonomy of Yuewan City again. .”

Shade listened in surprise:

"So we want to take this opportunity to cause trouble in the city? My task is to contact workers to organize a joint strike, or to give a speech at the university in Yuewan to mobilize students to strike? Or, I am going to organize a secret society and secretly contact Yuewan The local progressive intellectuals in Bay Area who were dissatisfied with the seven major families established."

"Stop, Shade, how could I arrange for you to do these things?"

Director Anlos shook his head:

"You are not a trained professional agent, and that lady will not allow you to do such a mission.

But you're right about one thing, we do have to do something in the meantime. The specific plans of Gray Gloves are still unclear, but you can also see the current situation in the North and South of the Old World. Depending on the harvest this autumn, a full-scale war may break out this winter. Now the two countries are calm on the surface, but in fact they are preparing for war mobilization. We don't care about the food problem, but Yuewan must not be fully controlled by Willendale, otherwise once a war breaks out, the situation on the west coast will be very unfavorable to us. "

"So what am I going to do?"

"I won't come to you for easy jobs. For those jobs that are too complicated, we also have professional agents. You can destroy this letter I gave you after you read it yourself. It contains a person's identity information. He is About twenty years ago, the Sixth Bureau set up a hidden stake in Yuewan City. At that time, I was just a field agent like you, not the director, so I had never met him.

Recently, the Sixth Office has been trying to awaken these ancient "bottom fish". The docking and loyalty tests of others are in progress, but this person is missing. "

Shade frowned:

"You haven't contacted each other for so many years?"

"The situation of these 'bottom fish' is very special and cannot be explained clearly in a few sentences. In short, the personnel from the Sixth Division in Yuewan are looking for him, but it will take some time. After all, Yuewan is not our territory. , and in this season, the Gray Gloves are also nervous, so we can't take too many actions.

Please remember this material first. If the Sixth Bureau really can't find him, I hope you can help investigate the whereabouts of this missing person. You only need to confirm life and death, we will do the other things. "

Director Anlos said, and then saw Shade nodding with satisfaction:

"No problem, Director, when exactly do you need me to intervene?"

"I will contact you when the time comes. Unless it is absolutely necessary, I will not activate your line. Oh, if you are really used, in addition to the fieldwork allowance, all investigation expenses during the investigation will be reimbursed. Don't worry about this."

He patted Shade on the shoulder, then said goodbye and left.

After Shade closed the door again, the elf girl upstairs walked down again out of curiosity:

"Xia De, was that the client just now?"

"No, he is my boss. In addition to being a detective, I also work part-time. Otherwise, you would think that I live alone and raise cats. Where does the money come from? Correspondence students all have their own legal sources of income. Look, Luvia has The Prophet’s Society salary, Dorothy makes a lot of money writing books, and our group leader you’ve seen has his own psychological clinic.”

Shade turned and walked upstairs, Emilia blinked:

"I thought it was the duchess who apologized to you!"

She spoke her mind immediately and shut up immediately when she realized what she had said. Shade didn't care about this "offense". After all, most people in the city now believed that although "Detective Hamilton" had real abilities, he must have received a lot of benefits from the Duchess:

"The way Duke Carina and I get along is very special. Although she does want to help me, I usually refuse forcefully."

Emilia nodded quickly:

"I knew you must be the kind of person who is very independent and has high self-esteem!"

[I learned a new word from you, soft rice but hard food. 】

Schade declined to discuss the vocabulary of his hometown.