Chapter 3951

"I feel that what needs to be considered now is whether this is another trap. Meeting clues suddenly on the way home, isn't this too coincidental?"

Xia De asked after Mr. Bernhardt finished telling his encounter. The vampire viscount also had this idea:

"That's why I didn't investigate it myself, but came here to find Mr. Finch. Mr. Finch is a local. He learned through his own channels that 'refugee disappearance' was not fabricated. Since the outbreak of the war, there have indeed been many cases of foreign refugees disappearing silently."

"Even before the war broke out at the end of last month, there were cases of homeless people and alcoholics disappearing in the outer city. It's just that the local police hadn't found out the truth before the war broke out."

Xia De nodded knowingly:

"So, at least the disappearance case was not fabricated? Then this matter is indeed worth investigating."

Then Xia De exchanged information about fire seeds and the church with Mr. Bernhardt. Armand Bernhardt actually didn't want to hear it very much, because he thought it had nothing to do with what he wanted to investigate. The 【Creation Sect】 itself had problems, which in no way seemed like something he should come into contact with.

But he also knew that he would continue to be active in this city for a period of time, and he would know such big news sooner or later, so he listened worriedly and finally reached a conclusion:

"The Holy See will definitely be very lively today. It seems that our actions in the past few days should be cautious."

Just as Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt were talking, the owner of the factory, old Mr. Finch, finally rushed over. He didn't expect that Xia De and the high-level vampire noble from Willondale actually knew each other, but since everyone was friends, it was naturally a good thing.

Mr. Finch was still thinking about telling Xia De in detail the news he got from visiting friends at the church yesterday, but the news Xia De had mastered was already more than Mr. Finch's.

The two exchanged information briefly. When hearing that the three major academies and the four churches would join forces to go to the Holy See of the 【Creation Sect】 today, the old man also wondered:

"Is the speed so fast? Who poked out the matter of the 【Creation Sect】 directly? Otherwise, out of consideration for face, even if the academy and the church suspected the situation in the Arcadia region yesterday, they shouldn't send people to the door directly, but send a letter to ask first, right?"

He said and glanced at Xia De, obviously suspecting that it was this omnipotent young man who poked the matter out directly.

When Mr. Bernhardt came to him for help yesterday, he had already explained the situation on Friday. Mr. Finch didn't know that Xia De was a friend of the vampire yesterday, but now that he knew, he suspected even more that one of the parties fighting on the lake in the park in the upper city on Friday night was Xia De.

However, Xia De pretended not to see Mr. Finch's eyes, and the old man didn't point it out.

Xia De changed the subject:

"The group of people involved in the vampire disappearance case is highly likely to be the 【Blood Spirit School】. I also have a grudge against this group of people, so please let me help with this matter."

"That's naturally no problem. In fact, we were planning to go deep into the outer city sewer to investigate this morning."

Mr. Finch said. He confirmed through some local connections yesterday that there had been personnel disappearance cases in the outer city since the end of last year, but the frequency was not high at that time. After the refugee wave caused by the war between the north and south countries appeared, the frequency of disappearance cases became higher. Considering that some refugees would not be ignored even if they disappeared, the number of missing persons in the past month is probably more than expected.

And among the three districts of Arcadia City, although the history of the outer city is not as long as the upper city and the lower city, the history of the sewer system under the outer city is very long.

This stems from two reasons. On the one hand, the city built on the side wall of the mountain needs an effective drainage system to prevent excessive loss of water and soil to prevent landslides. Therefore, in the Delin-Or Kingdom era, there was already a sewer system dug from the mountain to the Serneer River. This part of the sewer system passed through the underground of the outer city.

On the other hand, in the final period of the Karsenrick-Delin-Or War, the United Kingdom army besieged the capital of this old kingdom with the absolute disadvantage of "low hitting high." The United Kingdom army, which tried every means at the time, naturally thought of the traditional tunnel digging plan.

The "Arcadia Siege" lasted for a full eighteen months. During this period, no one knew how many tunnels the United Kingdom side had dug.

These two factors, superimposed on the Arcadia urban area's expansion process in recent years, relying on the original ancient sewers and tunnels in the outer city to build a modern drainage system, led to the outer city's sewer system having no map at all, and every year there are several cases of curious young people going to the sewer to explore and find the "lost Delin-Or treasure," but ending up unable to come out.

Mr. Bernhardt did not rashly follow the other party into the sewer on Sunday, which was a very correct choice. However, he remembered the smell of the other party's dirty flesh and blood during the battle, and thus had the possibility of tracking the other party.

Mr. Finch investigated overnight yesterday, and this morning he got the original design drawings of the outer city sewer system from an old friend at the City Hall. If Xia De didn't appear, they planned to enter the sewer together to track the enemy.

"Mr. Watson, the smell of the outer city sewer is not something ordinary people can endure."

When Xia De proposed to go with them, Mr. Finch didn't forget to remind him. Xia De shook his head:

"It doesn't matter, I just hope we can find the other party smoothly."

Xia De actually had quite rich sewer exploration experience. When he was in Moon Bay, he had also gone deep into the sewer with Mr. Bernhardt to track the "vampire monster," and thus met the little black cat that left a deep impression on him to this day.

Mr. Bernhardt obviously still remembered that incident last year, so he was very happy that Xia De was willing to come along.

So the three of them discussed the action plan slightly and set off together. After leaving the gear workshop, the three of them first went to the place where the family of three picking up trash that Mr. Bernhardt met on Sunday was attacked.

That was a one-way exit alley between two buildings in the southern part of the outer city. It was originally used for temporary parking of carriages, but due to the garbage dumping of nearby residents, it has now formed a garbage alley in the actual sense.

The garbage everywhere exudes an unpleasant smell in the current spring. On both sides of the alley are the "Candlekeep Daily" newspaper office and a warehouse of a freight station. As long as the side windows of the tall buildings are not opened, they can resist this smell.

Mr. Bernhardt in the alley pointed to the specific location to explain the situation that night to Xia De and Mr. Finch. While Xia De was looking for the location of the sewer entrance covered by garbage, the vampire viscount also sniffed around.

In such a smelly place, this action requires courage and guts.

"This smell is..."

He walked a few steps into the garbage alley stepping on the garbage everywhere, kicked the garbage away with his boots, and then a pale and solidified face appeared in the garbage pile.

It was a male corpse, and the thin body was probably caused by long-term malnutrition. Xia De and Mr. Finch then dug it out of the garbage together and determined that the cause of death was being stabbed in the abdomen with a knife, leading to internal organ bleeding and death.

Mr. Bernhardt said nothing, put a hair of the deceased into his mouth, closed his eyes for a moment and said:

"He is also a refugee who fled from the front line to the local area. He was killed by someone three alleys away from here, and his remaining savings were robbed. The killer is a fellow villager of the deceased, and the two met last week... The time of death was last night. It should be a premeditated murder for robbery, which has nothing to do with what we want to investigate."

"This corpse is lying here, but it was not dragged away by the 'sewer killer' who appeared here. Does this mean that the other party is not interested in the corpse?"

Mr. Finch asked, looking pitifully at the poor man who died in a foreign land:

"Let's continue the investigation. I will contact someone to transport the corpse away later. The City Hall has accepted donations and is willing to bury foreign refugees locally."

They temporarily protected the corpse to prevent wild cats and dogs from coming here to forage. Then Mr. Bernhardt found the sewer entrance under the garbage according to the memory of that night. After opening it, all three of them took a step back because of the foul smell.

"I'm so old, and I still have to suffer this kind of crime."

Mr. Finch said in a low voice, but still climbed down the rusty iron ladder along the side wall of the sewer first. Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt participated in this matter for their own purposes. The old gentleman originally only needed to provide information to the vampires. His active participation was actually to prevent more refugees from being killed.

Mr. Bernhardt went down second, and Xia De walked at the end. Although he closed his mouth and nose and did not exchange gas with the outside world, in the process of constantly going down, he still felt that the smell was like corroding his skin.

Soon the three of them officially entered the sewer. Xia De felt that his boots stepped on a layer of sticky things. But he was actually lucky. At least he could not breathe, but Mr. Bernhardt needed to continue to distinguish the smell in this situation. Xia De felt that Mr. Bernhardt's face was a little green.

"This way."

He didn't have too much communication with the two companions, pointed to a direction and walked quickly to lead the way in front. Mr. Finch clicked the knob while following up, and lit the small kerosene lamp hanging on his waist.

This is not an ordinary item. Xia De felt the effect of breaking illusions and driving away evil from the light, and the coverage of this light was obviously much larger than normal light.