Chapter 368 Near Death
Surrounded by applause, the bewilderment on Enid’s face turned into another kind of bewilderment.
But you can see an uncontrollable smile on the corner of her mouth.
However, she was somewhat disappointed when she did not see the figure she was expecting among the many law enforcement officers around her.
……
At this time, Milo had already wandered into the next block.
He was walking on the sidewalk, and the shadow of Eric walking simultaneously appeared on the left wall.
Eric gestured sideways towards Milo - "She can be a good law enforcement officer. It would be better if she doesn't mess up my things every time she opens the door."
"It's really interesting. It was the same group of people who gathered together to reject her at the beginning, but now it's the same group of people who are clapping and cheering around the roadside, hehe..." Milo curled his lips and said something sinister and insulting.
"Only you, always the same, always just want to trick her back home to wash the dishes." Eric's "speaking" style now is somewhat similar to Milo.
"That's not the case. Now Finn is qualified to wash the dishes." Milo waved his hand.
“Look, even Finn can come in handy. Can you, like everyone else, find a way to find the prison guard who lost his stick?” Milo patted him. The wooden awl on his waist said.
At this moment, the only exiled shadow following Milo was Eric, and the others were sent by Milo to investigate elsewhere.
“After the new county chief came to power, he laid off so many prison guards, and there are so many idle prison guard short sticks...” Eric has never liked the job of finding needles in a haystack, which may have something to do with his Obsessive-compulsive disorder is partly related.
"The Ripper, the Three-petal Eye, the City Guard, there are so many clues, just pick any one and study it. Everyone is very busy and it's not appropriate for you to be chilling alone." Milo glanced at it. Eric's shadow glanced.
The latter gestured and asked - "Where are you planning to go?"
"Church." Milo replied without thinking.
"Okay, see you later."
Eric waved his hand, and the shadow disappeared instantly.
……
The Exiled Shadows don’t like the Church. This happened on the night of hunting. Of course, these guys didn’t like the Church when they were normal people. But now, this dislike is accompanied by some fear. The reason is very simple. There is a gaze from the thinking eye on the church bell tower, and the exiled shadows can't hide under that gaze.
That’s Daisy.
As for how Daisy transformed from the so-called "Apostle of Disaster" to the "Thinking Eye", Milo does not know this. Dillashaw may know, but he certainly cannot tell Milo .
Logically speaking, after the hunting night, many trivial things that happened in Nanwei City can be detected by the thinking eye, and Dillashaw has frequent contact with Milo, including Previously handled cases such as Cemetery Purchase, Blood Tribe and Opera House Underground River Creature.
But this time, after the incident in Glenn Town, the Thinking Eye never gave Milo any guidance.
Moreover, Dillashaw did not actively mention the Thinking Eye in his words.
If, as the vampire Klaus said, a special creature appeared that was countless times more powerful than him, no matter what category the creature belongs to, the thinking eye should be aware of it. .
Including Marty, the young psychic, he should also be noticed by the Thinking Eye.
So if nothing else happens, there should be an accident.
Milo decided to go to the church in person.
......
Leave the city, cross the river, go up the Church Bridge, and enter the Prayer Square.
This is a journey that many devout Golden Rule believers repeat several times a week, but for Milo, the last time he walked this road seemed to be more than a hundred days ago.
Prayer Square can be regarded as the area with the greatest intensity of light in Nanwei City during the day.
The background is the church's tower that looks like it is embedded in the sky. On the other side, you can see part of the relatively low-lying Nanwei city.
Believers can be seen here almost 24 hours a day.
In addition to a large number of Nanwei locals, there are also a considerable number of non-local believers who have traveled thousands of miles to come to the holy land of the national religion to pray. The ground made of bluestone slabs is spotless, and no one around them makes a loud noise. Despite the noise, everyone acted very calmly. Along with the melodious hymn melody lingering over the square, this place seemed like another world compared to Nanwei City.
Further forward, you can see the vines and branches of the golden tree depicted on the architectural murals. It is said that the artistic content of these paintings is as high as several floors, but Milo can't see why. , I guess I have to wait until I take a peek at a dead painter one day before I can develop the ability to appreciate it.
......
Normally, every time Milo entered the church's prayer square, Dillashaw would suddenly appear in front of him like a ghost.
But this time Milo walked into the main church and walked around inside, but the somewhat annoying figure in gray robe still didn't appear.
Instead, another strange face received Milo.
Behind the golden tree sculpture in the church, a nun who was tightly wrapped in white cloth and wearing an eyepatch stopped the slippery Milo:
"Holy water interface" In front of the church, sir.”
Perhaps due to the unique echo effect in the high-altitude and empty building, the nun’s voice was very beautiful. It was the clearest and softest voice Milo had ever heard. .
Milo didn't think the nun was talking to him at first, because the blindfold on the other person's head was obviously opaque.
But the nun stopped one meter behind Milo and "looked" at Milo quietly.
Milo subconsciously raised his hand and waved it in the air in front of the nun.
The latter asked again in a soft voice: "Mr. Law Enforcement Officer?" "Oh, so I can see..." Milo muttered in a low voice, then cleared his throat and said in a normal tone : "I'm not here to get the holy water, I'm looking for Daisy."
Just in case the nun couldn't come into contact with the existence on the Star Clock Tower because of her low position, Milo added: "Or Dillashaw."
A very gentle smile appeared on the corner of the nun's mouth.
The smile was almost exactly the same as the one Milo saw when he first met Dillashaw. He had to wonder if these clergymen had any unified etiquette training.
However, there are still some differences between the two. Perhaps because he was blindfolded, Milo could not see the whole expression of the nun. He only felt that the girl in front of him was much simpler than Dillashaw, of course, she was just pure. subjective feeling.
What surprised Milo slightly was that the nun seemed to know the purpose of his trip.
Because she said:
“You must be cleansed with holy water before entering the Star Clock Tower, sir.”
……
Five minutes later.
Under the huge gargoyle in front of the church, Milo quickly rubbed his face with holy water. If it weren’t for the strange looks from the believers around him, he would have even planned to step his boots into the pool. Go wash the mud off the soles of your shoes.
Later, under the leadership of the nun, Milo came to the passage at the back of the church.
He shook the water stains on his hands and asked nonchalantly:
"Is this step required for everyone to follow, or is it only for law enforcement officers like us with blood on our hands?"
"The Star Clock Tower is not open to outsiders, sir." The nun was very patient with all Milo's questions, and there was no fault in her attitude.
The two of them walked in twists and turns in those long and narrow passages for a long time, so that Milo finally couldn't tell the general direction of southeast, northwest.
When he was about to enter the upper floor of the Star Clock Tower, the nun handed Milo something, which was relatively less religious.
It is an ordinary white medical mask.
“For your health.”
She said to Milo.
Milo tilted his head and glanced at the heavy door behind the nun.
Milo's keen senses allowed him to detect the dark aura pouring out from the crack in the door.
And his heartbeat also accelerated a bit, but the frequency was not high enough to indicate a crisis, so Milo took the mask and put it on.
……
After opening the door, what comes into view is a hall decorated in ancient style.
In the center of the hall is a gray stone platform integrated with the floor.
There are some strange elderly people standing around the stone platform. Some of them are wearing white or red religious clothes, and some are completely dressed like modern surgeons. There are many medical instruments on the carts and shelves next to the stone platform. with apothecary bottle.
Not everyone wears a mask.
For example, the old people wearing church clothes and the nuns who brought Milo here did not wear masks, while the medical staff next to them all wore masks.
Everyone looked gloomy and stared at the stone platform.
And lying on the stone platform is Daisy...
...
"Pastor, Mr. Law Enforcement Officer is here."
The nun reminded the people in front softly.
And Milo had already strode forward and squeezed to the stone platform.
He found Daisy in extremely bad condition.
She wore the same eye patch as a nun, her cheeks were sunken, and her breath was weak.
The skin has no trace of blood, and the skinny forearm placed outside the quilt looks scarier than the hand of an old ghoul. It is covered with pillows, but it seems that the syringe cannot even push the medicine into her. in the blood vessels.
"Please do not interfere with the treatment, sir."
The medical staff on the side warned.
At the same time, many unkind eyes focused on Milo.
Milo ignored those people at all, and just checked Daisy's weak breath of life with a complicated expression.
He cursed in a deep voice:
“No wonder Dillashaw is hiding.”
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(End of this chapter)
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