Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 193 Sheriff Reed: Our Children Are Alive
West End, Williams Street, where the Nighthawks team is located.

"Alright captain, I will complete this task."

In the captain's office, Klein took on his first real mission in Backlund.

Go to a nearby nursing home to investigate an incident that may have extraordinary elements.

Specific task content: There was a couple who were living in a nursing home, but a few days ago, the couple suddenly lost their eyes and became blind. At the same time, the eyes of other elderly people who lived with them were also alienated to varying degrees.

The information given above does not mention in detail which phenomena of eye alienation occur.

I just feel that Fei Fei Yin Su may be involved in this, and he needs to go to help investigate clearly.

As soon as Klein took over the task, he retrieved specific information about the couple from the database.

Sheriff Reed and his wife.

Sheriff Reed was originally a sheriff of the West District Police Department. Just over a month ago, a gas pipe explosion occurred in their home, causing a major fire.
Their only son died in that fire, and they were also sent to a nursing home because of their mental disorders.

This is the official explanation given to the outside world. As a Nighthawk, Klein came into contact with another piece of information.

Sheriff Reed's son, who was just born before the full moon, is the heir of the evil god. Before a major accident is about to occur, the Church of the Storm joins hands with the Church of the Goddess of the Night and the Church of Steam and Mechanism to deal with the heir of the evil god first and prevent the spread of harm.

During this accident, disasters occurred everywhere in Backlund, hundreds of people died, and the area near Sheriff Reed's home was turned into a mess.

Their son, heir of the evil god, died of natural causes in this accident.

Sheriff Reed and his wife were not completely insane either, they were just mourning the death of their son.

Considering that Sergeant Reed and his wife had lived with the heirs of the evil god for a long time and might be infected, the church personnel decided to send them to a nursing home for observation.

This should have been the best choice, but just a few days ago, Sheriff Reid and his wife were both blind, and people living around the nursing home were also affected by unknown effects.

Only then did the Church send Extraordinary people to investigate in the form of a mission.

Klein is one of the two people selected by the Church of Evernight this time, and the other is Leonard.

The Church of Storms and the Church of Steam and Machinery each sent a Extraordinary to participate in this investigation.

When Klein saw this, he knew why he and Leonard were sent to this mission, and he was also appointed as the person in charge of this mission.

When they were in Tingen, they had jointly encountered the heir of the evil god, and this task was indeed suitable for the two of them to complete.

For the sake of safety, Klein also took a closer look at the life of Sheriff Reed and the experience of the time before and after the Son of the Evil God incident.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Klein had already arrived at the nursing home. After waiting for almost half an hour, Leonard and the other two Extraordinary people also arrived one after another.

Klein greeted them and got to know each other a little bit.

"Leonard, haven't you had a good rest recently?"

"what?"

Klein's sudden question made Leonard stay where he was for an instant.

Even if there is no other meaning in Klein's line of sight, when he looks at this line of sight, his cheeks will become hot, and he instinctively wants to avoid this line of sight.

Panicked with shame, this is his greatest feeling at the moment.

Fortunately, Klein didn't know that he was in love with Serafina some time ago, and he didn't know that Serafina was a witch, which prevented him from completely dying.

"You're restless, have you encountered anything recently?" Klein continued to ask.

"Recently, the training intensity is a bit high, and I don't sleep well at night."

Leonard made a reason, and urged Klein and the others to hurry and investigate Sheriff Reed and his wife together.

Klein did not act rashly, but first asked the director of the nursing home to get a copy of the information, then asked Leonard and others to ask other people first, and finally went to face Sheriff Reed and his wife.

This document records in detail all the daily life behaviors of Sheriff Reed and his wife entering the nursing home.

In the beginning, the two often cried silently, grieving over their son who had not yet grown up.

Painful and silent, this is a true portrayal of their period.

But just seven days ago, Sheriff Reed and his wife began talking to themselves intermittently.

At first, the staff didn't take it seriously, thinking that it was a hallucination because Sheriff Reed and his wife were too sad.

But four days ago, Sheriff Reed and his wife were blind in both eyes at the same time, and other nursing home staff also developed different eye abnormalities.

It was only when the staff noticed Sheriff Reed and his wife talking to themselves almost crazily.

"Our child is not dead, he is alive, alive."

"Yes, I also saw that our child has grown up, and he is now on the sea, talking about conquering the sea."

"Yes, our baby has grown up, we will definitely be able to see him again and hold him like we were a child."

"Son, when will our child come back?"

"When it's time to come back, he will come back."

……

"What's the best name for our child?"

"Lord Hastur Campbell has promised me a proper name for our baby and I've been looking forward to this day."

"He's so nice."

"Yes, he has always been kind and took good care of us. Without his help, our child might not even have the chance to be born."

"He hasn't seen our children yet?"

"He missed it, it's okay, we will have the opportunity to hold the child in front of him in the future, let him see how cute our child is."

"He will love it as much as we love the boy."

……

Klein read all these crazy soliloquy.

If there are really extraordinary factors affecting this matter, then the so-called crazy words may hide important clues.

In this regard, Klein has always been very vigilant.

After Klein finished reading this document, the other two Extraordinary who were out on errands came back to join him, but Leonard did not show up, which gave Klein the illusion that he was deliberately avoiding himself.

"We have already investigated clearly that the other people with abnormal eyes are all after the Sheriff Reed and his wife."

"Those people's eyes are obviously affected by some mysterious power to change."

"Is this an infection?"

"possible."

Then the two Beyonders began to introduce the abnormalities of those people's eyes.

Someone's eyes turned into vertical pupils, claiming that he could see the future, and kept saying that he had seen us coming last night, and that there were five of us in a group.

Someone's eyes were narrowed into a thin slit. He said that his eyes could see the scenery thousands of miles away, and he told us the situation of the seaside.

Many people's eyes have changed a different color, and various strange eyes appear, such as red eyes, white eyes, blue eyes, blue eyes, purple eyes...

It is really colorful and colorful.

There are also some people whose eyes mutate into the eyes of various animals, and the behavior and temperament of the whole person gradually approach the animal nature of the transformed animal eyes.

"It is not yet certain that the source of the infection is Sheriff Reed and his wife. Except that they are blind and like to talk to themselves. They don't have any special performance, and their spirits seem to be normal."

Klein listened silently, always feeling that this extraordinary incident had a bit of influence.

So many people have abnormalities, and it is unknown what strange events will happen in the future.

"Let's go see Sheriff Reed and his wife."

Klein made a decision, and led the two Extraordinary people to the small courtyard where Sheriff Reed and his wife lived alone.

Since the anomaly occurred, the staff of the nursing home immediately separated Sheriff Reed and his wife from the others.

Near a cluster of flowers, Sheriff Reed and his wife closed their eyes tightly, supporting each other, and seemed to be whispering something at the moment.

Instead of being disturbed, Klein deliberately lowered his footsteps, walked slowly not far from Sheriff Reed and his wife, and listened carefully to the whispers in their mouths.

"Someone is here again, what do they want to do?"

"I don't know, we are just blind, our life is only dark, what the world is like has nothing to do with us."

"Are our children also living in darkness?"

"I don't know. It's hard for me to see him all the time. I can only see him if he wants to."

"It's okay. He's still young now, so he won't be petty in the future."

"Well, let's go and look in the mirror. I like to look at myself in the mirror more and more now."

"But aren't we blind?"

"Yes, blind people are suitable for looking in the mirror."

Listening to these chaotic and somewhat logical words, Klein already had a rough idea of ​​the current mental state of Sheriff Reed and his wife.

Crazy is not necessarily crazy, maybe they lose the light of their eyes, and they will really see something because of it.

The extraordinary world is not short of such examples.

If Sheriff Reed and his wife are really the source of this extraordinary incident in the nursing home, then in-depth contact and communication are unavoidable.

Klein slowly walked in front of Sheriff Reed and his wife, and said politely, "Sheriff Reed, I have some questions to ask you. Do you have time now?"

"What do you want to ask?"

Sergeant Reed stopped in his tracks and closed his eyes tightly, making it impossible for people to see their true thoughts through the eyes, which are the windows of the soul.

"I want to know what your children look like now."

Klein thought for a while, and decided to start with the child as a breakthrough.

From the information he had read before, the child was the weakest point of Sheriff Reed and his wife.

If they were really affected by extraordinary power, then it must be because of the existence of this gap in the child's mind.

(End of this chapter)