Chapter 372 Sleepwalking Girl
The distance from the church to the underground cave of the ghoul on the outskirts of the city is actually very close. You only need to cross the church bridge and then go eastward for less than two kilometers.
This may be regarded as a very ironic real-life event. The ghoul tribe is rooted not far from the foot of the Church Bridge. This is different from the fact that Klaus, who was a vampire before, was The hanging pictures have different approaches but the same purpose.
Milo found that it was now difficult for him to find pleasure in the normal pace of life. On the contrary, this kind of absurd truth hidden in the dark night often made him laugh.
Of course, no one can share this kind of fun. Fun that cannot be shared loses the meaning of the fun itself...
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Unexpected things happened again and again.
When Milo came to the familiar cemetery and used a crowbar to dig out the stone slab at the entrance to the underground cave of the ghouls, he found that the cave inside showed signs of being refilled.
"What's the fuss about?"
He muttered inexplicably.
Of course, the entrance to the cave was not completely blocked, but Milo still found a narrow gap and got in.
This is not the first time he has entered a ghoul's cave, and he is already familiar with it.
Perhaps for ordinary people, this damp cave deep under the cemetery and full of footprints of unknown creatures is an extremely terrifying existence.
The putrid smell permeating the bad air around them seems to remind the intruder repeatedly that this is the passage to hell.
But in fact, for the creatures living here, Milo is truly worthy of fear.
However, it seems that the cave owner is not at home today.
To be precise, they moved.
After Milo went deep into the cave, he discovered that the ghoul group had completely evacuated from this underground cave that extended in all directions. The freshest footprints on the wet and muddy ground were at least four or five days ago. And those footprints never returned after reaching a natural rock crack underground.
The ghouls left Nanwei City along the cracks in the underground rock formations.
This surprised Milo.
It took the ghouls several months to dig out these underground passages. They even used stones, wooden piles and other tools to build a solid support structure, making this intricate underground passage their residence.
Now, there are only skeletons piled up in the cave that were polished by polishing.
You know, it was not that Milo never thought of expelling these ghouls from the country.
But the patriarch of the ghouls is a reasonable scholar. In him, Milo even senses the qualities and cultivation that many high-level human elites do not have. The patriarch promised Milo He promised not to allow any hurtful incidents to occur within his own territory. All Nanwei citizens who come to this cemetery to worship their ancestors can have the quietest and most peaceful time to mourn, and all the ghouls need is food. .
The patriarch said that commitment is not unique to human civilization. In contrast, the ghouls know better than the ignorant Nanwei people what kind of existence Milo is, and they are willing to abide by Milo's rules. , thrived under his control, and also looked forward to gaining Milo's friendship and even protection by making a promise.
Even in order to dispel Milo's doubts, the leader of the ghoul unreservedly revealed the source of fear deep in his heart, saying that if the ghoul made any extraordinary move in the future, Milo could dream of it at any time. Lead and then control the entire ghoul group.
That was also the first time that Milo felt the weight of the "scholar" in the ghoul group, because it had never had real contact with Milo, but it already knew the fact that Milo had mastered the ability to induce dreams.
That’s why the follow-up contract for Chapter 3 of the Law came up.
The scholar clan leader can be said to be driven by emotion and reason. He tried every possible means and finally succeeded in getting Milo's permission to build a nest under the cemetery on the outskirts of Nanwei City.
But now, the ghoul group is gone, leaving Nanwei City without saying a word.
Even judging from the footprints on the ground, they left in a hurry.
Milo didn't understand what happened to make them so eager to move their entire family.
He sat on the dining table built by the ghouls out of human tombstones, briefly lost in thought.
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At the same time, far away in the basement of the law enforcement office in the southern district of Nanwei City.
Gourmet Rick now encountered a very scary and difficult thing.
He just ran upstairs to ask about Milo's whereabouts, and the answer he got was that no one knew where he was, so Rick could only return to the basement and sit back in his seat.
But at this moment, he has completely lost the calmness and composure he had in the first few hours.
For the first time, cold sweat broke out on his forehead. The sweat dripped down the tip of his aquiline nose and soaked the paper in the notebook. His hand holding the pen was trembling slightly, not just his hand. , his whole body was trembling, and his pupils were in a cycle of constantly diverging and then condensing.
At first, Rick followed Milo's instructions and waited quietly in the basement for the inner dialogue originating from Marty that might appear at any time.
He put on the mask, was full of energy, and reacted very quickly. Whenever he shouted some strange sentences according to the voice in his head, he quickly recorded those words word for word. on the notebook.
At the beginning, Marty’s voice did not ring out in his mind very frequently, and the content was basically close to curses, resentment, etc., either directed at Kai or himself. of parents. But in this recent period of time, Rick has never heard those voices again. It has been nearly an hour since his mouth shouted out those unpredictable and vicious words uncontrollably.
However.
Just when he thought that the effect of Milo's magic ritual had disappeared, he just took off his mask and blurted out a sentence that was completely different from the tone of all his previous thoughts:
"Amina finally married her fiancé Get back together, but not everyone can escape the curse of dreams, right?”
After repeating this sentence uncontrollably, Rick covered his mouth and froze in place for a while, unable to move. , he could feel the goosebumps on his body surging over and over like waves, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
Because the tone and tone of this sentence are completely different from the previous sentence that belonged to Marty and could only use some childish and ridiculous words to curse.
This sentence is very calm, very calm, like an old man narrating the past, not even mixed with too much emotion.
What really made Rick feel the fear that penetrated his bones was that the sentence itself sounded less like Marty's heart and more like he was speaking to himself.
"Ah...Amina..."
Rick's breathing stopped for a while.
Because he remembered very clearly that the name of the heroine in the opera "Sleepwalker" that he didn't have time to watch last night was Amina.
Amina accidentally entered the room of a stranger because of sleepwalking, which triggered a series of misunderstandings with her fiancé, which led to the breakdown of her love.
This is what Rick learned about the plot before Milo snatched him from the opera house.
He didn't know whether Amina would finally get along with her fiancé, but judging from what he just said, Amina's sleepwalking should be confirmed in the ending, thus resolving the misunderstanding.
And that sentence...
It seems to be specially made to make up for Rick's regret for not being able to watch the opera in full.
The second half of it - "Not everyone escapes the curse of dreams".
It makes the whole sentence sound with a condescending and joking attitude, as if it always knew that Rick was eavesdropping on Marty's thoughts, so it responded and teased Rick in such a special way...
Rick didn’t know who said this.
But his thoughts were completely confused and he could not calm down to think.
He trembled and recorded this sentence completely, then quickly took out the liquor from the cabinet, uncorked the bottle, and drank a few gulps down his throat, in order to suppress his emotions. of ups and downs.
“The san value is about to drop. Damn it. Where are the Milo people? Damn it, you never told me that this would happen.”
"What Amina, who is it? Who said this!!"
"Why is this happening..."
He cursed incessantly and raised his throat again. I drank two gulps of strong wine.
At this time, the crisp sound of the iron chain rubbing against each other that had appeared many times sounded in his mind again, along with some vague and strange sounds.
Rick grabbed his head hard and pulled out a lot of his hair.
It seemed that the pain at this moment stimulated his nerves.
He slammed the table, and the erratic pupils in his eyes stabilized again.
"Sleepwalking girl, sleepwalking girl... wait a moment!"
"Calm down, this may be a clue."
"Don't think wildly, follow your mistakes If you think too deeply about it, you will go crazy. You must calm down.”
"No matter who said that just now, it must know the plot of Sleepwalker."
"What does it mean..."
"It means it was at the Opera Garnier last night Here!”
“Yes, that’s it!”
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Rick, whose thoughts suddenly became clearer, no longer trembled.
He grabbed the pen and wrote clues in his notebook very quickly for Milo.
Then he put on his hat and coat, put on his most handy scalpel, put up a parasol and left the Chengnan Law Enforcement Station.
(End of this chapter)