Chapter 355: Is this 8 years old?
The next day after being there several times.
Milo woke up from the bed in Grasso's apartment.
After opening the window unsteadily and breathing in the fresh air that had been briefly baked by the sun at noon, Milo began to pack his clothes and equipment.
It took a lot of effort to untie the tie from the metal bar at the head of the bed.
"I won't tie the knot next time."
Milo muttered, picked up the bronze ring of the Exiled Shadow on the bedside table, and put it back on his finger.
Grasso squinted his eyes and hugged the quilt while lying on the bed, and asked Milo in a daze:
“Why do you have to take that ring every time you stay at my place? Take it off?”
“To protect personal privacy.” Milo shrugged.
The moment he put on the ring, Eric's shadow appeared in the corner and spread his hands towards him.
"If you don't say it, don't say it. What's the matter of personal privacy."
Grasso turned over:
"Remember to close the door when you leave. I also Didn’t sleep enough.”
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After returning to the law enforcement office, Milo slumped down in his office, put his legs on the corner of the table, picked up the morning newspaper that had been placed on his desk four or five hours ago, and casually Started reading.
He didn't realize that his posture only needed to add a cigarette, and it was a perfect replica of old Xion's usual behavior in the law enforcement agency.
The difference is that Milo doesn't have the leisure time like old Theon to fish with a newspaper until he gets off work.
He just scanned it briefly to see what nonsense the major newspapers were talking about today, and within five minutes, he threw the brand new newspaper into the trash can.
Because the front page of the newspaper was about yesterday's hearing, the person who was actually talking nonsense was Milo himself.
"Unlucky stuff."
......
Knock, knock, knock.
There was a knock on the door outside the corridor.
"Please come in?"
Milo responded.
After about ten seconds, the office door was pushed open.
Enid slid in and jumped in at an extremely fast speed, staring at the door panel warily.
“Do you have to fight so hard to open the door now?”
Milo smiled.
"Don't make Louis XVI too happy. There must be something wrong with your door. Why don't you ask a maintenance man to check it out."
Enid sent some information to Mai On Luo's desk, he didn't forget to look back at the door panel.
Milo explained patiently: "Have you seen those medals hanging on the back of the door panel? Next time you open the door, be slower and don't mess them up, so you won't get pinched in the head."
"Why?" Enid wondered.
"Someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder." Milo glanced at Eric's shadow on the wall next to him.
The latter showed his hands to him again.
“It’s weird.” Enid muttered in a low voice, then turned to talk about the information:
“Didn’t you ask us to contact the relatives of the deceased in Glenn Town before? Well, the old man has always lived alone and has no blood relatives. The only recorded descendant in the file was adopted by another family many years ago and moved away from Nanwei City to settle in the north. The law enforcement team there has never been able to find him. The corresponding person, but today they sent a letter saying that they have found it. He is the son of the deceased, but..."
Milo raised his eyebrows: "Just?"
"The deceased's son changed his name to Brutus after immigrating. He is now 32 years old, unmarried, and runs a small sculpture workshop in the north. According to clues provided there, Brutus has been missing for nearly two months. "Enid spread out the information, handed a missing case file from the Northern Law Enforcement Team to Milo, and then continued:
Milo listened and knuckled rhythmically. He knocked on the desk, and then said to Enid: "Let me guess, did they find the train ticket trip record that Brutus bought a month ago? The ticket to and from Nanwei City."
< br>"How do you know?"
Enid's eyes widened and she pulled out the ticket purchase voucher provided by the railway department from the file.
That was the ticket record from Rodel City in the north to the Innsmouth terminal in Nanway at the end of last month, and the ticket purchaser was Brutus.
If you investigate further, you will definitely be able to find records of Brutus receiving blood therapy from the church during the Great Plague. But Milo didn't point out this clue to Enid because there was no need.
This case will ultimately be handled by Milo himself and the investigators from the University of Michigan. There is no need to involve other unrelated people.
"You did a good job."
Milo covered the documents and praised without hesitation:
"Much smarter than Butch."< br>
"Is this a compliment?" Enid wrinkled her nose in disgust.
"Of course, Butch is a famous smart guy in our law enforcement agency." Milo nodded.
……
…In the next few days, Nanwei City was relatively calm.
Milo launched the Shadow of Exile and some intelligence personnel from Arden Village to search the entire city, but found no trace of Brutus himself.
Judging from the clues currently at hand, it is basically certain that Brutus is the vicious dog that killed his biological father in the town of Glen and was inexplicably blown to pieces in the suburbs.
The so-called beast-turning virus does not exist. The truth is that humans turn into beasts.
But Milo did not convey this news to the church immediately. The reason is very simple. Even today, Milo still cannot trust the church 100%. This has nothing to do with the relationship between him and Dillashaw. Personal relationships don't matter.
After investigator C left for other cities, there was no news for several days. Milo could not contact him. He did not know to what extent the other 23 similar cases had been investigated. I can put this matter aside for now.
But that doesn’t mean it can be taken lightly.
The Robben case has proven that lycanthropy did not just appear recently, but happened once more than a year ago.
Milo could only find another way to verify the relationship between animal transformation and blood therapy.
And Rick has become the eighth labor force that Milo can exploit at will (the first seven are the Exiled Shadows). This guy now works a 24/7 007 work system, and he only needs to If you take in enough protein, you don't need to rest at all, which is the most significant advantage of becoming a semi-living corpse.
……
In the next few days, Milo continued to work as usual, going to work to investigate cases, and continuing to investigate cases after dark or studying all night.
The city is calm.
But as a local law enforcement officer in Nanwei City, you must have the awareness that calm days can never last for a long time, and it is normal to have some chaos or accidents.
Then something unexpected happened.
But it was not the trouble caused by vampires or ghouls. Something unexpected happened at Varrocan's house.
...
On this day, as usual, Kang prepared breakfast, pulled Finn out of the bed in the room and threw him into the bathroom, urging him to quickly wash off the traces of saliva on his face before leaving. College classes.
No one noticed anything wrong at first.
It wasn’t until everyone was dining around the dining table that they saw Finn, who was more than ten centimeters taller than yesterday, walking from the direction of the bathroom, and everyone became uneasy.
“????”
Emma was the first to see the problem.
Finn is only 8 and a half years old this year. Due to family conditions, the little guy’s nutritional intake has been insufficient for a long time, and his growth rate has been very slow. Among his peers, he is also the best. The petite type has only improved in the past two years. Not only has his face finally begun to gain weight, but his height has also slowly grown.
But this is not the reason to grow more than ten centimeters overnight.
Emma looked at Milo with confusion.
Milo pushed his head under the table, glanced at Finn's trousers that only covered half of his calves, then stood up again, pulling Finn to his side, using himself as a reference Probably made some gestures.
Good guy, this kid just grew to about 1.5 meters overnight.
"What's wrong, brother?"
Finn rubbed his eyes in confusion and looked up at Milo.
Milo pressed his head down and opened Finn's eyelids with two fingers.
Milo found clearly visible bloodshot eyes in Finn's big doubtful eyes. This is usually a symptom that appears after staying up for several nights.
Milo narrowed his eyes and asked Finn:
"Did you sneak into the attic to play last night?"
"Huh? Me? No, I went to bed long ago. ." Fenn denied it.
But as a being at the bottom of the food chain in this family, any subtle change in his demeanor cannot be hidden from the eyes of his parents.
“How many times have I told you, don’t scratch your head all the time when you lie, you have no memory at all.”
Milo didn't blame Finn, he just asked him to hurry up and finish breakfast.
When he noticed the questioning looks from Emma and Kang, Milo just shrugged: "Don't worry, isn't it a good thing to be taller? This means that the food you eat is not wasted."
"Are you sure you don't need to go to the hospital for a check-up?" Kang pulled Finn's head with concern, checking whether his son was missing a nose or ears.
"No, no, no, no."
Milo drank his cereal calmly, muttering to himself - he can no longer put the "Will of Kanamagos" in the attic, it has to be replaced. place to learn.
That thing makes everything around it age faster.
I can only be thankful that Finn is a little kid, and the extent of the impact on him is not serious, just a slight acceleration of one or two years.
If Kang found an old man in his seventies or eighties lying on the bed when he went to wake Finn up, he would probably go crazy.
……
“The good news is that we won’t have to wash dishes anymore.”
Milo muttered.
Emma was thoughtful, then nodded.
(End of this chapter)