Why it never ends

Chapter 264 The Scarlet Letter
Before the servant finished speaking, Tanglar had already pulled him up and walked out, and the mercury needle not far away followed immediately.

However, Tanglar, who was rushing out with his servants, suddenly bumped into Si Lei who was entering the door.

"I don't have eyes—" Tanglar held on to the door frame and barely fell down. When he saw who the person in front of him was, his voice immediately dropped an octave, "Do you have eyes..."

"Are you okay?" Si Lei looked at him, "Going out in such a hurry, where are you going?"

Tanglar let out a dull "uh" and said after a while, "Nothing else, just go to Gray's side...to have a look."

"Oh. What's the matter with Mr. Gray?"

"...my lord hasn't come back all night," the servant looked at Si Lei's uniform somewhat restrainedly, "I just... came to ask the viscount..."

"What's the use of looking for the Viscount when someone disappears?" Si Lei was a little surprised, "Call the police."

"Don't call the police!" Tanglar instinctively raised his head.

Su Lei's eyes became more suspicious, "...why?"

"Because... because—"

Su Lei directly interrupted Tanglar's defense, and she looked at the servant beside her, "You speak."

"Ah?" The servant was a little confused, "Well... that's right, that's... isn't it a little... inconvenient?"

"It's inconvenient for him to disappear." Su Lei looked at him, "Could it be that Mr. Gray is a fugitive?"

"Of course not!" The servant quickly replied, he looked pitifully at Hesta in the distance, "I... I heard that there are mercury needles here, so I thought..."

"The mercury needle is not responsible for everything," Hesta smiled, and she propped her chin up. "Mr. Gray is not within our protection."

The servant was a little frustrated, "Then, I'm going to call the police now—"

Tanglar grabbed the servant's hand again, "I know about Gray's affairs best, and others don't care! Where he falls in love is his business. If you look for someone with great fanfare now, it may spoil his interest. .”

"No, no," the servant shook his head in disbelief, he fully understood Danglar's conjecture, "Mr. Viscount, if this is the case, your lord will definitely send a message back, and he took a part of his luggage when he went out last night. , there is no reason to suddenly disappear today, I am worried..."

Before the servant finished his second sentence, there was a commotion in the distance. Four or five girls ran towards this side with their skirts in a panic. When they saw Si Lei, their eyes lit up almost at the same time.

"Officer Su Lei!" The one at the front rushed up the steps, her expression panicked, her temple hair stuck to her forehead with sweat, "There's a dead body! We found a dead body in the pomegranate garden! Someone died!"

"Calm down," Si Lei frowned intently, "What corpse? Where exactly?"

"You come with us!"

Su Lei followed the girls out almost immediately, Tanglar and Roger's servants took the opportunity to slip away.

Hesta hesitated for a moment, then got up and chased after Si Lei.

……

Hesta had walked this road leading to the pomegranate garden three times, and they followed the path that Roger walked with yesterday.

Behind the familiar harp statue, a tall, long-haired man lay there.

He was pale and handsome, and black blood dripped from his neck, staining the white satin shirt.A dagger fell to his right hand, the blade stained with blood.

His eyes were slightly opened, staring blankly at the sky.

Su Lei quickly recognized the deceased—this was the singer who sang yesterday, and it seemed that he had been dead for no more than two hours.

Half an hour later, the police arrived at the scene.

Hesta followed Slei to Roger's mansion in the manor. Tanglar and Roger's servant had been interviewed by the police as important clues. Under the identification of Roger's servant, everyone came to the room of the deceased.

Pushing open the door, the room was dark. Two police officers stepped forward and turned on the light. Many people jumped when the light came on—"why" was written all over the white wall with lipstick. These scarlet fonts Full of hysterical madness.

"Officer Su Lei." Hesta's voice came from the bathroom, "Come and see."

Su Lei stepped into the bathroom, and wrote red messages on the mirror opposite the bathroom——

"why"

"Don't take me away"

They were written over and over again, overlapping each other in several places, and the handwriting was no longer legible.

Su Lei and Hesta retreated together.

Back on the first floor, the interrogation of relevant personnel has temporarily ended. According to the testimony and traces of the scene, it is preliminarily determined that the deceased committed suicide.

"Mr. Gray did not say that he was going to take him away..." The servant standing in the middle of the living room looked a little dazed, "I just did what I was told. When I went out in the morning, it was still dark, and he was probably still sleeping at that time." , the last time I saw him was nine o'clock in the morning, when I came back from the pier... well, I asked him if he had seen Mr. Gray, and... just..."

"You've already said this," Su Lei looked at him, "I'm asking you, do you know the identity of the deceased, what's his name, and where did he come from?"

"...he was bought by Mr. Gray from the south of the third district," the servant blinked. "I don't know his name either."

"You have been living together for half a year, and you don't know his name?"

"Mr. Gray sometimes calls him 'little nightingale', 'my little bird', or 'dear' or something... Usually he stays in the room and does not do anything except sing." The servant was silent for a moment, still powerless Shaking his head emphatically, "I'm sorry, I really can't remember... He doesn't need a name to live here."

Hesta rubbed his forehead with his hand.

Just at this time, Paule came up to talk to Si Lei behind her, and she took advantage of the opportunity to say goodbye to him.

Returning to Tanglar’s ​​mansion, everyone was waiting in the living room. Seeing Hesta’s return, people gathered around to ask for details, but Hesta stopped him with a string of “I don’t know”, “I don’t know” and “I haven’t heard of it”. All questions.She sat alone on the sofa next to the bookshelf with doubts—she couldn't figure out why that person had to die.

In the afternoon, the body was transported back to the police station for further inspection. The preliminary conclusion of suicide came out, which shocked everyone. The shadow of death suddenly passed over everyone's hearts. They are all a bit sad.

But the sadness faded at dinner time. Because Sophie's friends decided to stay overnight, the manor was very lively that night. The young girls sat around the terrace on the second floor, talking about what they heard from other places Grey's anecdote came, talking about the death of "Nightingale" and his love with Gray.

(End of this chapter)