Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 25

"Mr. Hastur, are you still asleep?"

A voice sounded outside the door, it was the voice of Lecturer Fran.

"He sure can't sleep."

Another voice sounded, it was Professor Wayne's slightly smiling voice.

"??!"

Hastur's expression froze, he didn't sleep this night, and he ran to his room for a meeting?
"He should have rested. He walked a lot today. Even if he didn't complain, he must be very tired."

"Even you can't sleep in the environment here, and he, a nobleman living in a good environment, must not be able to sleep even more."

"Then why hasn't Mr. Hastur opened the door yet?"

"If you knock a few more times, he will definitely open the door."

Boom boom boom!
The depressed and low knock on the door sounded again.

"If you don't sleep at night, you should stay outside for a while."

Hastur waved the silver-plated cane in his hand a few times, and waited for more than ten seconds before walking forward and opening the door.

Outside the door, there were indeed Lecturer Furren and Professor Wayne holding a kerosene lamp.

Professor Wayne sensed Hastur's inquiring gaze, and said, "Let's go inside first."

Hastur stepped aside and waited for the two to come in before closing the door.

Lecturer Furren said, "Mr. Hastur, please forgive us for disturbing us so late."

Hastur smiled and said, "It's okay, I just can't sleep either."

Lecturer Furren breathed a sigh of relief, turned off the kerosene lamp he was carrying, and complained in a low voice, "It's the teacher who has been sure that you are not asleep, otherwise I would not dare to disturb you."

"Is there anything to discuss?"

Hastur was not angry at this time, but a little excited.

At night, in the dead of night, in the dark workhouse, three people lit a kerosene lamp, and under the dim light, they discussed things in low voices.

The truth is to fill the ghostly atmosphere of ghosts and strange talks.

There were no chairs in the room, and the three of them could only sit on the bed. Professor Wayne sat in the middle, and Lecturers Hastur and Furren sat on his left and right sides respectively.

Fortunately, the three of them are relatively thin, and sitting together is not too crowded.

"It's natural that there is something wrong with coming to see you so late." Professor Wayne said first, "After observing during the day, do you think there is any problem with this workhouse?"

Hasta thought for a while and said: "It's too quiet. Except for Dean Dahn who was a little excited about our arrival, everyone else, whether they are children or working adults, their performance is too peaceful, even they There is not even a word or two of beating and scolding between each other."

It was too quiet, so quiet that it seemed weird.

This is a summary of his opinion about this workhouse today.

Professor Wayne nodded without expressing his opinion, and looked at Lecturer Fallon on the other side.

"That Dean Dahn has a problem." Lecturer Furren gave his own judgment, "Today I have been observing that Dean Dahn, and I specifically talked to him. From his body language, I found that he is far worse than The kindness shown."

Professor Wayne smiled and said, "Tell me carefully."

Lecturer Flon said with a serious face: "When the teacher proposed to have lunch with the children, he looked a little strange on the surface, but in fact he was calm and not panicked at all, as if he already knew the proposal What do you want to do?"

"He arranged for us a steak for lunch, and he did it on purpose, knowing we wouldn't eat it, and knowing we were going to show kindness."

"In his eyes, our behavior is like a clumsy performance in a circus. He seems to be overlooking us from a very high position. He not only has a sense of psychological superiority, but also contempt in terms of IQ."

Hearing these words, Hasta was surprised. During the day, he saw Lecturer Furren chatting happily with Dean Dahn, and he thought that Lecturer Furren had been conquered by the charisma displayed by Dean Dahn .

Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, this lecturer Furren is the one with the best acting skills among the three of them.

Professor Wayne said with a chuckle: "A school professor who is about to age, a lecturer who only knows how to give lectures, and a young nobleman who looks immature, Dean Dahn is indeed qualified to feel superior for this."

Lecturer Flon sighed: "Teacher, should you tell us what you think now?"

"My idea is very simple. It doesn't matter if Dean Dan is greedy for bad points, as long as this workhouse is really helping those poor poor people, instead of using the workhouse as a cover to do some evil things secretly. thing."

"Teacher, what do you know?"

Professor Wayne was silent for a while, and said in a solemn tone: "I got the news that this workhouse secretly buries a few children every week."

He has already passed the age of hot-headed and blindly demanding fairness and justice, and he can tolerate darkness within a certain range.

Because he knows that there must be shadows under the order.

Although there are quite a few poorhouses in Backlund, the poorhouses that can truly fulfill the word "helping the poor" are probably the only ones run by the Church of the Mother Earth.

Other workhouses either withhold money from charities to collect money, or let the poor who should have received relief become free laborers, or work hard on three meals a day, and there are many criminal acts that persecute children secretly.

What he can't bear the most is the persecution of children in the workhouse!

Those people can make money and make money, and can skip donations and three meals a day, but they can't hit the children with their ideas.

That's not only a crime, it's a dehumanized animal!

"Secretly bury the child? Teacher, do you know what you're talking about?" Lecturer Furren was startled by what Professor Wayne said.

"I'm not just Jim as a guide in the dock area. Last month, old Jeff secretly sent me a letter, which mentioned that he had witnessed the evil thing of burying the corpse of a child in this workhouse, and it was twice!"

"After I received the news, I rushed to the wharf area immediately. I wanted to connect with Old Jeff and ask about the details of the matter, but I still couldn't contact Old Jeff. A few days later, I got the news that Old Jeff Husband died, died under a cliff on the mountain."

"After investigation, the police officers concluded that Old Jeff fell to his death from a cliff, and there was no possibility of murder."

Speaking of this, Professor Wayne said coldly: "Old Jeff's physical condition is very good, and he doesn't have any hobbies for climbing mountains on weekdays, let alone take risks to go to the edge of any cliff. It is impossible to die a natural death."

"It must have been murdered!"

"In order to investigate this matter, I came to this workhouse twice to find evidence of their persecution of children and murder of old Jeff, but I am obviously not enough to complete this matter by myself."

"So this time, I'll let you take a look with me to see if you can find anything abnormal."

Professor Wayne said everything in one breath, Hastur was still calm, Lecturer Furren's face changed, and finally he just sighed.

After a moment of silence, Hastur said: "I mean, if old Jeff was really murdered, and this workhouse is really persecuting children, then what are you going to do?"

"Of course, hand over the relevant evidence to the police department, let them arrest all the criminals, and convict them!"

"Then why didn't you enlist the help of the police department in the first place?"

Professor Wayne wondered: "Without conclusive evidence, why should the police department come to investigate?"

"What is conclusive evidence?"

"Of course it's the evidence that the workhouse is suspected of committing a crime." Lecturer Furren hurriedly said.

Hastur shook his head and said: "Please ask the police department to investigate. You don't need any conclusive evidence, but a reason why they have to come to the workhouse to investigate."

Professor Wayne pondered, motioning for Hastur to continue.

"If an aristocrat disappears in this workhouse for no reason, will the police department have to conduct a detailed investigation of this workhouse?" Hastur slowly expressed his thoughts.

He approves of Professor Wayne's idea of ​​justice for children, but he doesn't approve of the behavior of his group sneaking in to investigate.

If the workhouse was really that dangerous, the closer they were to the truth, the more dangerous it would be.

Although he is a lawyer of Sequence 9, in a frontal fight, three strong men can overwhelm him. Professor Wayne and Lecturer Furren don't have much fighting power at first glance.

Moreover, the act of secretly burying children made him even more vigilant. In mysticism, children are born with spirituality intact, and they are the best sacrifices in many evil rituals.

What if this poorhouse is actually engaged in some evil ritual?

Then it is probably useless for ordinary police to come, and it is safest to report directly to the major Orthodox Churches.

If it had been him, he would have written a letter directly reporting the horrors of possible evil rituals in this workhouse.

I believe that the major orthodox churches will definitely send people to investigate secretly. No matter what the result is, it is safer and more reliable than the three of them secretly investigating themselves.

Lecturer Furren said blankly: "But isn't this a fraud?"

"It's just a different way of dealing with the problem."

"This... Teacher, what do you think?"

Lecturer Furren threw the question to Professor Wayne.

"pretty good."

Professor Wayne laughed, patted Hastur on the shoulder, and said with satisfaction: "You are really good at learning to use the other side of the law so quickly."

"You taught me well." Hastur also laughed.

Before making this suggestion, he didn't think about using the law, but simply felt that Professor Wayne's approach was unreliable.

Cough cough, it's not from the heart.

"Just do what you say."

Professor Wayne smiled and handed over the matter to Hasta to solve.

Lecturer Furren frowned at first, but then gradually figured it out.

Loen's law obviously favors the interests of the nobles. They may not care about the disappearance of children in the workhouse, but if a noble disappears for no reason, they must seize the time to file a case for investigation.

To a certain extent, this is using Loen's laws to benefit oneself.

So, now comes the question, how should Hastur quietly leave the workhouse and create the illusion of disappearing in the workhouse?
According to the introduction of the administrator of the workhouse during the day, in order to protect the children from being persecuted at night, the three residential areas are protected by large iron gates, and only the patrol personnel may have the keys.

Moreover, there are more than [-] people living here, so even if you want to sneak out in the dead of night, it is very difficult.

(End of this chapter)