Chapter 265 Detective and Commission
If Miss Magician is really a descendant of Abraham, perhaps I can give this notebook to her and let her know that there was such a Abraham who vowed to revive his family, but took the potion at the wrong time and died in this basement.
Of course, since there are three recipes in the notes, I'm afraid I'll have to discuss the price with her.
After putting away the brown notebook, Angel looked around the basement again and found that there were no other useful items except the dried flesh and blood crawling all over the floor, so he left.
Before leaving, she burned the flesh and blood with cursed black flames and cleaned the basement as a farewell to Abraham, whose body had no one to collect.
Although he was reckless, he did die to revive his family.
When she returned to the second floor, Angel was surprised to find that the head of the body that had fallen at the corner had grown back on its neck, and the eyeballs had not fallen out, but were swollen as if they had been dead for a long time. She examined the body again and found that the deceased had died of suffocation due to a broken cervical bone and collapsed trachea.
There were marks of strong strangulation on his neck, and the angle was opposite to that of normal strangulation marks. It seemed that he had strangled himself to death with his hands.
Normal people are not capable of strangling themselves. Combined with the strange staircase and the illusion of the corpse, Angel guessed that the resentful spirit who was burned to death by her just now possessed the thief and controlled his body to kill himself.
Could it be that the dead descendant of Abraham turned into a vengeful spirit due to some resentment?
Angel guessed and decided to take some time to write a letter of complaint to the nearest church and let the official Beyonder handle the matter. Although the vengeful spirit had been dealt with, it was hard to say whether there would be other problems in this haunted house.
With this in mind, she performed a proper counter-divination with the black flame, and then left 32 Verdi Street through the second-floor window that had been opened by the thief.
Outside, the night was thick and a drizzle was falling. The dim light of the street lamps was scattered in the rain and fog, shrouding the streets in a hazy light. Angel put on his hood and hurried to the subway station where the last train was, thinking about the vampire imprisoned in the basement of the Harvest Church.
The address provided by the other party the second time was undoubtedly correct, which allowed her to figure out that the curse on the master key came from the Abraham family, and she also obtained three potions of the same route and in a coherent sequence!
Although one of them was the "Master of Magic" she got from the Dominican Federation, now there are also Sequence 9 and Sequence 7, which can allow an ordinary person to be directly promoted to a mid-sequence Beyonder.
This is much more valuable than three potion recipes in different sequences!
In view of this, she had wanted to find an opportunity to rescue the vampire from Father Utravsky, who was obsessed with missionary work. However, she was a little worried that Emlyn was "doing good with bad intentions." Although he had given her many benefits, he was actually a deceitful person who had even hurt many humans. After all, the address he provided the first time was obviously a trap.
If Angel hadn't heard the problem and used divination to confirm it, he might have been captured by his companions and was being interrogated about Emlyn's whereabouts.
"It seems the first address he provided, '48 Riverbend Avenue, South District,' is worth investigating... Hmm, but my time is limited. Perhaps I can find someone I trust to investigate for me?"
Angel thought about it, walked around the corner and came to the subway station.
“Has it stopped operating?”
Looking at the subway station with its doors tightly shut, Angel looked around the rain-shrouded streets and discovered that there were few pedestrians and not a single hired carriage to be seen.
"Do I have to walk back?"
After calculating the distance from the South District to Red Rose Street in the Bridge District in his mind, a drop of cold sweat slid down Angel's forehead and quickly mixed with the rain.
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“Dongdong——”
The next morning, Angel came to 15 Minsk Street and knocked on the door of Detective Sherlock Moriarty.
After a while, the door was opened and a middle-aged man with gray hair walked out.
"Hmm, did I go the wrong way?"
Angel, who clearly didn't have a master key but still walked into the wrong place, turned his head to look at the nameplate on the door and confirmed that this was No. 15 Minsk Street. Moriarty's guestbook was also hanging on the door, and the pencil was already short.
"Are you looking for Detective Moriarty? He's in there, and I'm here to visit him, too."
The man said with a smile, his calm and low tone sounding familiar to Angel.
"Hello, Miss Watson." Moriarty, who had short black hair and an increasingly thick beard, poked his head out from behind the man and greeted him.
After the greetings, Angel learned that the man with half white hair was called Isengard Stanton. Like Moriarty, he was a well-known private detective. He came to inform Moriarty that a bounty would be paid soon and he would most likely get a three-digit gold pound.
"Miss Watson, you must have heard about the serial murder case that's been making headlines these past two months. Mr. Moriarty is a true expert in reasoning and has made significant contributions to solving this case. Therefore, a large portion of the reward will belong to him."
After giving Moriarty a vivid GG, Mr. Stanton left. He stopped by on his way to the police station and couldn't afford to waste too much time.
After seeing off the old detective, Moriarty invited Angel into the house and arranged for her to sit on the same single sofa as last time. Then he asked her the reason for her visit with a smile.
"How did the bounty on the 'Demon Dog' incident become yours? Do the official Beyonders know that we were the ones who killed it?"
Without rushing to ask for the commission to investigate vampires, Angel first asked about the bounty mentioned by Isengard Stanton.
Moriarty grinned, causing his deliberately thick beard to tremble. "I was indeed involved in the investigation of a serial killer before, and I proposed the idea that the killer might not be human. Since there were no witnesses to the demon dog's death, there was no one to claim the bounty, so I ended up giving a large portion of it to the informant who provided the clues and the detectives involved in the investigation."
"So you made the greatest contribution, and therefore received a bonus of over a hundred pounds?" Angel exclaimed with envy. "But your investigation was indeed very helpful. Remember our analysis? The demon dog likely attacked because it felt threatened, which directly led to its death."
Perhaps these experiences could be used on other Beyonders of the same sequence in the future. They could sense threats to themselves, which could be both an advantage and a trap...
Angel silently noted down this information, and then chatted with Moriarty for a few words before mentioning the investigation of "Emlyn White" and the address he mentioned.
"A vampire imprisoned in the Church of the Earth Mother, or did he get lost there?" Moriarty's question was filled with disbelief, reminding Angel of the first time he heard of this. "But this name, Emlyn White, isn't new to me. Last week, a colleague asked me to find him, saying he'd been missing for half a month. Unexpectedly, he was imprisoned in the basement by a priest, who forced him to listen to the faith of the Earth Mother..."
"Is my colleague... also a detective? Perhaps he's also a vampire disguised as a human?"
She remembered that Emlyn had been repeating her name before leaving the Harvest Church yesterday, as if he was certain that someone in the outside world would be looking for her. Combined with the commission Moriarty had received, her first reaction was that this vampire's companion was looking for him.
"No, he also received a commission from someone else. I heard the reward is very generous, but since he has no clue, he wants me to help. But you are right, the person who commissioned him is likely the same kind of person as Emlyn White. Because it is inconvenient for him to come forward himself, and he dare not report the case or seek help from official Beyonders, he can only find a private detective who can keep the secret."
Moriarty thought for a moment, his brow relaxed, and he answered.
"But why are you investigating this vampire?"
His brown eyes looked at Angel with undisguised curiosity.
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