Chapter 2672: Rainy Night Morgue

Although there was a riding practice task this week, when saying goodbye to the elf girl and preparing to enter the city, Xia De chose not to ride a chocobo now. He didn't want to easily let the chocobos enter the dangerous forest, so he wouldn't just let them send him off.

【If that owl knew your thoughts, she would definitely be sad.】

"She" said with a smile, so Xia De planned to summon the chocobos when he went out with Miss Danister.

In the rainy weather, there were fewer pedestrians in the city. When Xia De arrived downstairs at the Accordion Hotel, it was already close to five o'clock in the evening. The gloomy sky couldn't see the sunset, and when Xia De knocked on the door and entered Room 317, he found that "Miss Owl's" complexion wasn't very bright either.

The owl on the back of the sofa looked at Xia De, then moved its position and turned its head away from him.

Xia De cast a puzzled look at Miss Bell, who seemed to be recovering well, and the latter shook her head slightly; so he looked at Miss Danister, and the eighteen-year-old red-haired girl asked with a smile:

"Did you run into something? Today we thought you weren't coming."

"I went to investigate the temple. You can't imagine how many places I ran to all day, but fortunately, there was a major harvest."

So the owl on the back of the sofa recovered into human form, but she wasn't unhappy because Xia De didn't come today; she naturally knew that Xia De must have been busy with other things:

"I talked to Miss Jia Lin Na and the others in the Council last night."

She said dryly, and she said it in front of Miss Danister, not treating her as an outsider:

"You really know more witches besides Miss Jia Lin Na... Tell me, Xia De, are you really trying to split the Council?"

"Of course not. I swear in the name of Little Mia, I have never thought about splitting the 【Witch Council】."

So Flora Lei Lei Qianya's expression immediately brightened. So it is said that the thoughts of artists are sometimes really hard to guess:

"I knew my judgment wouldn't be wrong, and you don't look like you have much ambition.

Have time to tell me about your experience of knowing them, so I can also know what connections you had with the Council before meeting me. But before that, listen to us talk about what happened in the city today."

The church and police's search of the Bront family continued. Today was the first working day of the week, and they even directly sealed all the remaining real estate and land of the Bront family in the local area.

And Willendale also sent news at noon today that the Kingdom had removed Baron Bront from his position as Army Staff Officer. And this meant that the church definitely confirmed that Baron Bront knew part of the truth about York Bront. Otherwise, with the war about to start, the Kingdom wouldn't have so decisively removed an important figure in the army.

Besides the Bront family, there was the matter of Linda Bennett, the third daughter of the Bennett family. That girl tried to hang herself and jump off a building to commit suicide yesterday, but failed and was strictly guarded by her family.

But today, she didn't know what method she used, but she actually got another rope and tried to hang herself again. But at that time, the Ring Mages sent by the church to investigate York Bront happened to be disguised as police officers visiting, wanting to ask Linda Bennett for more information.

So Miss Bennett was saved again, but this also made the cautious church Ring Mages think she might have problems too. So Miss Linda Bennett was invited to the local Sun Church as a "guest." Although it might be a bit cruel to say so, there is a high probability that she will never find a marriage partner in this life.

The religious atmosphere in this world is quite strong, so girls who are "messing around" with men involved in illegal occult research and are invited into the church will not be married by anyone, even if they are proven to have nothing to do with the criminals afterwards.

Not to mention, Miss Linda Bennett is a bit too infatuated.

"Mrs. Bennett tried every possible way to let her third daughter marry the son of that Baron's family, but now it has turned out like this... This matter is hard to evaluate. First, the eldest daughter was engaged to James Kaming, and then the third daughter fell in love with a dead apostle. The Bennett family is really unlucky this time."

However, the Bront family and Miss Bennett were not the most important things. Then the witch told Xia De an unfortunate piece of news:

"Professor Kunto is dead."

"What? Professor Kunto? But didn't we just see him yesterday? How did the professor pass away?"

Xia De asked in surprise, and the witch sighed slightly. Although they hated men, this didn't prevent her from equally mourning for every deceased person:

"The news came in the afternoon, and the specific situation is still under investigation.

The current news is that the professor left home as usual to go to the Music Hall Museum this morning, but in the afternoon, the music hall sent someone to the professor's home to ask why the professor didn't go to the office today. People searched along the route the professor usually took to work and found the professor's body in an alley off the main road. There were no wounds on the body, and the specific cause of death is not yet known.

Because this matter temporarily didn't involve Ring Mages or occult power, Professor Kunto's passing was temporarily treated as an ordinary case and handed over to the local police to handle."

Xia De was silent for a while:

"Then did you check the body or the scene where the professor's body was found?"

"I went."

The witch continued, her transformation technique making her activities in the city quite convenient:

"When I got the news, the body had already been transported away, so I didn't see the body temporarily. But I can be sure that the alley where the body was found is definitely not the scene of Professor Kunto's death. The body was sent there by someone else."

"The professor's son is in Willendale and probably hasn't received the news yet, so the body is temporarily stored in the local police's morgue. The specific location is in the north of the city."

Miss Bell said softly, and Xia De nodded:

"That's good. After dinner, Miss Lei Lei Qianya, please come with me."

The professor's sudden passing at such a time made it hard for Xia De not to be suspicious. Although mortals will eventually die, Xia De still felt very sorry that someone he talked to yesterday died suddenly today.

After a simple dinner, even though it was raining, the owl grabbed the cat and flew into the night. No one would pay attention to the trajectory of an owl in the rainy night sky, so they landed directly at their destination.

The morgue of the Vista City Police Department is located in the old city area in the north of the city, or rather, it has been the morgue of the small town since the Creekwood Town era, but the small town didn't have so many bodies back then.

Today's Vista City Police Department has long moved from its original site, so the small morgue occupies the entire building of the old police department site. But this is not a building but a very ordinary bungalow. The ground floor building plus the underground floor constitutes the full picture of the morgue.

Breaking into such a place on a rainy night is a bit like the beginning of a horror story, but fortunately, the road was safe, and they didn't encounter any ghosts.

The owl landed in the courtyard. Seeing the gatekeeper dozing off, they entered the interior of the building directly. Although Miss Bell knew Professor Kunto's body was here, she didn't know the specific location, so the two could only check the entry and exit records of the day at the gatekeeper's place first, and then confirmed that the body was in the basement.

Because the witch's feathers were all soaked, she temporarily refused to change back into human form, so she turned into a cat and curled up in Xia De's arms. Xia De was very worried that once she developed the bad habit of not walking, she would eventually become as lazy as Little Mia, but the cat witch didn't care about this:

"Want to bet whether we will encounter ghosts underground? I bet we will. My intuition tells me this trip will definitely not be peaceful. Professor Kunto's cause of death is definitely not normal. If I win, you have to get up early tomorrow and come here to have breakfast with us."

"This isn't fair, right? And why would I bet on this with you?"

"Because if I lose, I'll kiss you. Let's go, hope the rain can be smaller when we leave in a while."

So only Xia De pushed open the door leading to the basement and walked into the narrow underground corridor connected to the stairs.

The switch for the gas lamp in the corridor was on the side of the stairs, and Xia De reached out and turned it on. The structure of the underground area of the morgue is very simple, with square corridors connected end to end, and rooms for storing files, deceased's relics, and bodies on both sides of the corridor. Each room has a detailed nameplate, so Xia De doesn't have to worry about not finding the place.

"The target is the No. 5 morgue. The left side is odd numbers, the right side is even numbers. Every two doors on the odd side will have two relic rooms and one autopsy room. Every three doors on the even side will have one steam boiler room and one file room. Clockwise is the number getting larger, counterclockwise is the number getting smaller... 1, 3..."

The coroner's lounge is located at the corner of the corridor, so turning is required to go to No. 5. But when Xia De turned the corner, the odd-numbered doorplate that appeared on the left hand was "No. 9 morgue."

Xia De felt quite surprised by this:

"Are there so many bodies here? The morgue numbers actually reached No. 9."

He rubbed the little head of the cat in his arms, and the gray cat let out a "Meow~". Xia De, who got the answer, continued to move forward, seeing that there were only utility rooms and empty rooms without doorplates behind the No. 9 morgue. So he continued to walk forward, and after turning the corner again at the corridor corner, the first doorplate he saw on the left hand was still "No. 9 morgue."

Looking forward at the entire corridor, the underground corridor illuminated by the gas lamp was exactly the same as the scenery just now, as if he had returned to the starting point of the corridor.

"She" in his ear laughed softly. Xia De's expression remained unchanged, he continued to move forward, and didn't even have the intention to open the doors of those rooms around him. Just like that, after he turned the corner for the thirteenth time, although the doorplate on the right hand had not changed, there were two people in the corridor, and at the end of the corridor behind them, a road sign was erected in the middle of the road. ===== CHAPTER 2673 =====