Chapter 2095: Egg and Vampire Killer

"Ha~"

"Didn't sleep well last night?"

On Sunday morning, in Spider Alley in the Moon Bay City lower city, Xia De, who was walking side by side with Mr. Bernhardt toward the morgue, yawned. The vampire beside him asked with concern.

"No, I slept very well, just dreamed of strange things... The beautiful red-haired princess came to my dream, that dream was really not bad."

Xia De explained casually, and then entered the tunnel with Mr. Bernhardt.

Mr. Ptolemy Albei seemed to work in the morgue forever. Xia De could always find him every time he came here. However, the three had already agreed to meet this morning to exchange investigation intelligence, so he was not doing autopsy work at this time, but led the two into his office.

Compared to the damp and cold morgue, which was filled with the smell of preservatives and the stench of corpses, the office that was separated alone was quite comfortable. Steam pipes were also connected here, and Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt both took off their coats. After the three sat down, they first complained about the snow the day before yesterday, and then began to exchange the gains of the past week.

Since that female corpse appeared, to the important clues discovered in the steam bath, and to now, more than a week had passed. Not only Xia De, but the other two who investigated separately also had major gains.

The first to speak was Mr. Bernhardt. After discovering that the memory of an important person had been modified, he went to investigate the Crowley Steam Bath at No. 18 Grev Street:

"Do you still remember the news we first found out from the bath?"

Mr. Bernhardt asked Xia De:

"Important people entering and leaving the bath won't use the front door, but secret passages. These two days I found a way to find the secret passage in the room once used by Wood, Hawthorne, and Black, and found that it was actually a passage transformed from an abandoned sewer."

"I've heard of it. When local nobles build manors, they will also use abandoned sewers as manor secret passages. Some people even tried to sneak into the bank through the sewer to steal a few years ago, but because they happened to drill out of the ground hole when the bank staff checked the vault, they were caught on the spot."

The local Mr. Albei said, and Mr. Bernhardt nodded:

"The secret passage under the bath is not deep. It can reach the bottom quickly after climbing down the ladder from the room. It was probably to prevent getting lost, so the walls below were marked with directions in paint. You definitely wouldn't guess where the exit is."

Xia De then turned to look at the local map hanging on the office wall:

"I don't believe this passage is very long. Around the bath... the basement of the apartment on Bell Street?"

Mr. Albei also looked at the map:

"A few hundred meters from the bath is the Taton River. I remember there are several rows of houses on the beach by the river."

"Yes, the secret passage exit is in those houses by the Taton River. Those houses are fruit stalls, blacksmith shops, and other shops on weekdays, and cannot be lived in. There are no night watchmen at night, so entering and leaving one of them at night will not attract attention."

Mr. Bernhardt got up and came to the map:

"I followed that secret passage to the exit and found washed-off bloodstains at the secret passage exit. Although they were washed off, the bloodstains were still clear to us. I have smelled the scent of the body of that female corpse and the residual blood, and am quite sure that the blood near the exit came from the deceased."

Xia De and Mr. Albei both looked at him in surprise:

"Really found it?"

Mr. Bernhardt was still quite proud:

"No need to praise me, this is just luck. However, there was no blood inside the secret passage. The woman was injured at the exit. I followed the bloodstains and left the house to track, but unfortunately, the bloodstains finally entered the Taton River. Nearly two weeks have passed since the incident, and I cannot continue tracking."

He took a pencil from the table and marked the locations of those bloodstains. The woman did not enter the river directly after leaving the secret passage exit of the riverside house, but circled around for a long time nearby before finally throwing herself into the river.

"It's a pity there were no other witnesses that night, and the amount of blood scattered on the street was small. This clue probably ends here."

Mr. Bernhardt made a summary, but Xia De was quite excited:

"This clue is very important. I obtained part of Herman Wood's memory. After the three of them took the deceased away from the bath through the secret passage that night, they went to the sewer and saw some things in the sewer."

He described that memory in detail, focusing on the "dragon beast eyes," and then stood by the map looking at the terrain near the steam bath:

"The memory of Herman Wood and the other two was not a long-term memory, just a few hours that night, so the occurrence time of the memory I obtained is likely before the bloodstains Mr. Bernhardt found appeared. Therefore, there is reason to believe that the sequence of events that night was:

The three took the deceased to see some kind of experimental product kept in the sewer, and an accident occurred in the middle, causing the egg-like object to enter the deceased's body and parasitize. The deceased escaped from the sewer, entered the river, and after drifting with the water, drifted to the lower city here on Herring Street, and only then died here."

"Mr. Watson, do you mean that the strange sewer you saw is actually connected to the secret passage of the Crowley Steam Bath?"

Mr. Bernhardt also understood, and he thought carefully:

"That sewer where the secret passage is located is accessible in all directions. I indeed couldn't walk through every corner. If this is the case, even if the secret guard post is moved later, as long as we can attract the church's attention to the remaining traces, the vampire's suspicion can also be greatly reduced."

"That's how it is. I am asking people to help collect the city sewer map. After there is a result, we will go again."

Xia De had only spoken to Mr. Bernhardt about Miss Belinder's affairs, and the latter also kept this secret, so he would not mention it in front of the coroner wearing a hood.

Although Mr. Ptolemy Albei didn't go out to investigate, he also obtained important information through his connections locally. After the two finished speaking about their respective gains, he opened his mouth and said:

"I have talked to Armand about the vampire beast. Mr. Watson, do you know about this?"

"I know, Viscount Bernhardt told me."

"That's good."

The coroner nodded heavily:

"The vampire beast that has been attacking citizens at night recently, I originally thought it was a means for the mastermind to deliberately release it to confuse the church. But in the past few days, I have received news from acquaintances in the church. That vampire beast seems to be completely uncontrolled and has high intelligence. So far, five people have been victimized, four of whom died and one was seriously injured."

Mr. Bernhardt frowned slightly:

"If it was just to attract the church's attention, why would it attack citizens so frequently? Isn't this forcing the church to increase the investigation intensity?"

"So, that vampire beast wasn't released intentionally to attract attention?"

Xia De asked, and looked at Mr. Bernhardt. Both thought of the same thing:

"The egg-like object that absorbed the blood of the deceased, wouldn't it have already hatched..."

The coroner nodded slightly:

"I think so too. It is not yet certain what the true relationship between that egg-like object and the vampire beast at night is, and even at first we guessed that the thing was a vampire beast, which might be wrong, but the other party definitely has vampire blood."

He also got up and came to the map:

"If your speculation is correct, that night, three nobles saw a dangerous laboratory in the sewer with the deceased, and then an accident occurred, causing the egg-like object to enter the deceased's abdomen, and the deceased escaped. After leaving the secret passage, she entered the river, left the river channel from downstream, and finally died in the lower city. And the egg-like object in her abdomen was not recovered by the owners of the laboratory, otherwise, there is no reason not to hide the body."

"What kind of thing can grow so fast? It was an egg at the time, and now it can attack humans?"

Mr. Bernhardt didn't understand. Because Xia De had read a large number of alchemy and human alchemy notes by Laplace Howard, he had his own guesses:

"That experimental product probably had the characteristic of rapid growth originally. After absorbing the blood and life of a living person, it is entirely possible for it to grow up in just a few days. And monsters with rapid growth characteristics usually should also have the characteristic of becoming stronger by absorbing life."

"That thing will become stronger and stronger? And the more people it kills, the stronger it becomes?"

Mr. Bernhardt stared wide-eyed:

"Why does it feel like things are becoming more and more ominous?"

"It is becoming more and more ominous."

Mr. Albei looked up at the map again. He was the oldest of the three, and at this time his brows were locked, and the wrinkles were almost piled into ditches:

"However, we shouldn't take the risk to find that hatched monster. I know you two are very powerful, but don't take this risk. What we can do now is only find that secret laboratory first, and let the church know that this matter has nothing to do with us."

Mr. Bernhardt nodded, and then asked softly:

"When I tried to contact Bruce yesterday, I found that there were wrong people near his house."

Xia De looked at them, knowing they were discussing their own kind.

"The church took him away temporarily. He lived around the crime scene and had a record of selling prohibited biological products on the local black market, so he is a suspect."

"What prohibited biological products?"

Xia De asked curiously, and the coroner sighed while covering his forehead:

"I don't know where he got the eggs of the land bird. Although they are all dead eggs, this is also a third-class prohibited product in the church's "Dangerous Biological Rating Directory"."

"Bruce's ability is really great. Now only the church and the three major colleges publicly raise land birds. Probably only God knows where his goods came from."

The intelligence obtained from the investigation was only this for the time being. Although the exploration of the truth had taken another step forward, they were also getting closer to the final danger. Starting from the investigation of the nameless female corpse, Xia De was actually gradually approaching the purpose of the 【Dragon Feast Order】 locally. And this "detective event" that had already caused at least five deaths and made the local vampires panic would probably bring more big news to Moon Bay afterward. ===== CHAPTER 2096 =====