Old Charlie was a lazy man when he was young. After his house collapsed, he had no place to live, so as a bell ringer, he moved into the second floor of the tower which was vacant at the time, and lived there for decades.
As the small door was kicked open, bright sunlight shone into the originally dark room, bringing light.
Looking inside, Lin Xiaoman saw something shiny at first glance, well, it was a reflection.
The bodyguard knight had already gone in. After a quick glance around, he turned back to Lin Xiaoman and said, "Miss Erica, there's no danger. You may come in."
"Um."
After answering, Lin Xiaoman stepped in.
Long Jiujiu and another bodyguard followed into the room.
As a poor and lazy guy, Old Charlie didn't have much belongings. The whole room only had a wooden bed, a shabby counter with an oil lamp on it, and several large hourglasses for timekeeping. As for the shiny object that Lin Xiaoman saw at first sight, it was a mirror.
There is a large bronze mirror, more than 2 meters high, leaning against the wall. It has marks on it and looks quite old. It must be an old item.
I couldn't help but walk over and saw Lin Xiaoman standing in front of the mirror. I took a closer look.
The brass mirror surface is not polished very smoothly, and the person reflected on the mirror is not very clear, but blurry.
Looking at the blurred features of himself in the mirror, Lin Xiaoman couldn't help but frown. This mirror was really too incongruous.
As a lazy man, where did old Charlie get the money to get such a big mirror? Besides, as a man, why did he need a mirror?
Lin Xiaoman stood in front of the brass mirror for a few seconds before Long Jiujiu came over and asked, "Sister, what's wrong? Is there something wrong with the mirror?"
"have!"
"What's the problem?"
"I don't know, maybe it's a magic mirror." Lin Xiaoman said mischievously, and then said a classic quote, "Mirror, mirror, who is the most beautiful woman in the world?"
"It's you, Miss Erica!"
Of course, this was not said by the mirror, but by Long Jiujiu.
After cooperating with the performance, Long Jiujiu immediately said in the group chat, "Eh, so childish."
Lin Xiaoman replied in the group, "Lively the atmosphere, haha!"
The two stopped talking and began to examine the bronze mirror closely. After a while, Long Jiujiu said, "Didn't the village chief of Ika say that Old Charlie was a lazy guy? Where did he get the money to buy such a big mirror?"
"I don't know. I'll ask Ika later."
"Um."
Their attention shifted from the bronze mirror and they began to check other things, but the things in the room were too simple.
The bed was a normal wooden bed, and the cabinets were normal wooden cabinets. There was an oil lamp on the counter, and inside the cabinets were some moldy food and a few wine bottles. There was nothing special about them. There were five hourglasses, all of the crudest and cheapest kind, nothing special. It was obvious that no one had touched them in a long time; the sand had all gone to the bottom.
Lin Xiaoman asked a knight to simulate the scene of old Charlie's death.
According to Ika, when old Charlie died, he fell to the ground, face down, with his head facing the door, his limbs broken and twisted strangely, roughly forming the shape of the Chinese character "出".
However, Ika asked several villagers near the clock tower, and those villagers said that they did not hear any cries for help or wailing during those nights.
Old Charlie, who suffered great pain, died silently.
This is very strange.
Oh, you are wrong. It is not surprising. Monsters kill people. It cannot be explained by science.
Not finding anything, the group left the room, closed the door from the outside, and continued to go up. The third floor was a platform with no roof. It was a short concave and convex wall, a bit like an ancient arrow tower. During war, this bell tower was roughly equivalent to an arrow tower.
In the middle of the three-story platform, there is a huge bell.
It is obvious that it is very old. Under the exposure of wind and sun, the huge bell is stained with rust and looks like a piece of scrap metal.
There was nothing on the empty third floor except the bell. Lin Xiaoman and Long Jiujiu looked around the bell carefully, but unfortunately, they couldn't see anything.
Not finding anything, Lin Xiaoman was not in a hurry to go down, but looked out from the high place on the third floor.
There are nearly a hundred households in Selley, and the entire village is very large.
Even more vast was the vast expanse of farmland west of the village, a golden expanse stretching as far as the eye could see. Northeast of Selley lay a continuous mountain range. As for what lay beyond the mountains... no one knew; it seemed to be beyond the borders of Horis.
Southeast of Searle are orchards and pastures. Of course, the entire Searle is still mainly based on planting.
If there were no monsters, this would definitely be a very happy farm.
I watched the scenery from the tower and analyzed the situation with Long Jiujiu from time to time in the group. As the scorching sun hung high in the sky, it was soon time for lunch.
Lin Xiaoman saw with his sharp eyes that two people in knight costumes and carrying swords were hurriedly coming towards the tower. They almost jogged and soon reached the bottom of the tower, then jogged up the stairs and soon arrived at the third floor where they were.
Seeing someone on the third-floor rooftop, the two were stunned for a moment, then simply saluted, "Hello, Miss Erica."
Lin Xiaoman politely nodded in return and made a gesture of invitation, "Please help yourself."
The two men didn't say much and walked straight towards the big clock. Then one of them picked up the hammer under the clock and started hitting it hard.
A moment, boom...
Two times, boom...
…
Because it was close, the bell sound was particularly loud and clear, almost breaking Lin Xiaoman's eardrum.
After striking the bell ten times, the two men finished their work and said goodbye in a formal manner. Then, they hurried down the bell tower as they had come and headed to other places.
"Let's go too."
There was nothing to see, and nothing to be discovered, so Lin Xiaoman decided to retreat, and as soon as she gave the order, the group went down.
The trip to the tower did not yield any results, so Lin Xiaoman took his men back to the church's administrative building.
Cheap Dad Sidney didn't return for dinner, but had his food packed and delivered. As for where he went, it was said that he was searching for clues and suspicious traces outside the village, especially along the Nihong River.
There were several disappearances, and the bloodstains were all found near the Nihong River. They suspected that the monster was hiding in the Nihong River.
Lin Xiaoman took a special look. There was a lot of food packed in, a lot, and it was almost all meat. However, since she didn't know how many people were in Sidney's group, she couldn't say for sure...
(End of this chapter)
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