Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 41: The Empty Shop
"Don't show any abnormality now. Cooperate with the official investigation. You will receive help soon.

"As for the Saint..."

The ghost controlled by Mr. C was halfway through his speech when the door of the interrogation room suddenly opened!

Roger, who was concentrating on listening to the other person's words, was also slightly startled by the sudden sound of the door opening. However, he did not make any extra movements. Instead, he turned around and looked at Daly, Klein, and Frye at the door with a puzzled look in his eyes.

Without saying a word, Daly walked straight to the corner where the female ghost had appeared earlier - there was nothing there now. It seemed that Mr. C had sensed someone coming and had made the spirit dissipate first.

Frye glanced at Roger's pale face, then very experiencedly asked Klein to rub the latter's face continuously with his warm palms.

When he did this, Roger's complexion became rosy again, and he looked like a completely different person.

"The state of the body changes... like the frequency of a radio being switched."

Roger reacted and thought to himself.

The switching is subtle, but it's there.

If Roger is now a completely normal person, then part of his astral body and spiritual body were previously at a frequency that could communicate with the dead.

Just like some people who are born with the ability to see ghosts, or like a sleeping person dragged into a nightmare by some invisible entity, they are temporarily transformed into "undead undead creatures."

Although this does not cause great harm to the body, if people "immerse" in it for a long time, it will turn them into lifeless beings like "corpse collectors" or "zombies".

Roger guessed that this was most likely the ability of the magical item owned by Mr. C. Of course, it was not ruled out that it was the special ability of the controlled female ghost.

When Klein, who was in normal condition, rubbed his face, the two of them came into contact at the etheric level, which corrected Roger's frequency and freed him from the state of communicating with the dead.

"What happened? Why are you back again?"

Roger pretended to come to his senses, looked around, and spoke to Klein with a confused expression.

"It's okay now. Are you hallucinating?"

Klein didn't say much, but just asked about Roger's feelings.

"Hallucination? Oh, right, I just heard someone say someone was going to kill me..."

He made a gesture of trying to recall.

"Damn it, that spirit seems to have been cleared by the summoner, and communication is impossible."

At this moment, Dai Li suddenly spoke, her tone somewhat annoyed.

She dragged over the chair Leonard had sat on before and sat down, then tried to expand the range of her spiritual communication, hoping to find more valuable clues.

……

Outside the Ahowa County Police Department, on a back street, dusk was setting.

Just as Leonard, Dunn and Luo Yao split into three groups and searched in three different directions of a three-way intersection, he suddenly heard an old voice in his mind.

"Don't go down this road. Go back and be with Dunn Smith."

Are you finally willing to talk?

Leonard thought to himself, but chose to follow the suggestion. He quickly turned around and caught up with Dunn Smith and called him.

"Captain, I saw three people acting suspiciously on the way here. Now I think there's something wrong."

After saying that, he pointed to the fork in the road in front of Dunn.

Leonard deliberately said there were three people, which means that there would be a higher risk if only one person went.

Dunn frowned slightly. Although Leonard's style of doing things was sometimes as hard to describe as his singing skills, he was still quite reliable when carrying out his mission.

"Then come with me. If you see anyone suspicious, tell me immediately." Leonard breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the middle fork in the road with Dunn. They soon came to an alley.

Along the way, there were many young men wearing deerstalker hats or silk scarves of the same color tied around their shoulders. They were chatting in groups of three or four, passing banknotes, coins and other items from time to time.

Seeing Dunn and Leonard in police uniforms and epaulettes, these people subconsciously stopped talking. Many of them unconsciously leaned into the shadows, and some even started talking loudly about irrelevant topics.

"It's a bit messy here..."

Leonard thought to himself.

Logically speaking, this place is very close to the Ahowa County Police Department and is not an area with a large floating population like Lower Iron Cross Street, so gamblers, swindlers and drunkards who cause trouble are not common.

On the other hand, due to the low-lying terrain and the frequent backflow of rainwater in Loen due to its rainy climate, the police were reluctant to wander around here, preferring to disperse patrols to more distant locations.

After all, things that happen at home can be solved at any time, and the police can be dispatched quickly if something happens, so this place has become one of the places with relatively sparse police force in the entire city of Tingen.

Some gang members and tightrope walkers seem to have taken advantage of this, and so they risk conducting transactions and exchanging information under the noses of the police.

As Emperor Roselle said, "The true hidden place is always in the busiest place."

However, these matters have little to do with the Nighthawks. As long as they do not involve crimes committed by Beyonders, they do not need to intervene.

But on the other hand, the existence of these people has become a confusing factor, further increasing the difficulty of finding the person who controls the spirit.

"Don't worry."

Seeing Leonard looking around anxiously, Dunn whispered:
"Recall that when Ms. Daly manipulated spirits, she generally needed a relatively quiet environment to communicate with the spirits in order to maintain her concentration. She might also have used some special spiritual materials...

"So these people outside can basically be ruled out, and we will focus on finding indoor venues."

Indoor venues...

Leonard thought for a moment and replied:

"This area has very few migrant workers, the Goddess Church is very powerful, and there haven't been any Beyonder incidents in recent years. So I think we should check public places first.

"And it can't be a noisy place. Spirits will instinctively avoid areas with a large number of living people, so we should start our search in a quiet place."

"Makes sense."

Dunn nodded, agreeing with Leonard's statement, and quickly scanned the shops on the street.

The two first ruled out noisy clubs, bars and other places, and finally narrowed their scope to a tailor shop and a closed cafe.

"Let's go to the cafe..."

Leonard just had this thought when he suddenly heard Dunn speak in a very firm tone:
"To the tailor's."

Did you use your "Nightmare" ability to search the cafe and make sure there was no one there?

Leonard suddenly realized what was going on, and he followed Dunn into the tailor shop.

The two of them pushed open the door without any obstacles, and the neatly displayed ready-made clothes, canes and bow ties immediately came into view under the bright gas light.

But strangely, although the tailor shop was unlocked and the lights were on, there was no one inside.

"Captain...it smells like blood."

Leonard twitched his nose slightly, and then began to search the store following the smell.

Soon, he discovered that under the last row of red display cabinets, a liquid with a color very similar to red paint was slowly flowing out.

　There is one more chapter to come.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)