Chapter 393 The Secret in the Study
Enid’s plan is simple and pure.
She found two surnames - York and Durer - in the information left by old Sheehan.
As a member of the aristocratic class in Nanwei City, Enid is relatively familiar with these two families.
The York family suddenly disappeared a year ago. This topic is very intriguing. Even today, a year later, few people are still willing to mention this family.
It's somewhat of a taboo topic.
In aristocratic circles, the rumors related to the disappearance of the York family are more likely to be related to the replacement of old and new leaders in the county.
Of course, the imagination of the nobles is limited to this.
Who would have thought that the destruction of the York family was actually caused by a hunter organization from the colony?
However, after the new county leader came to power, the aristocratic member of the York family in the county council was quickly dismissed. After that, how to compile the dossier on the death of the York family was entirely up to the new county leader. ZF’s wishes.
It's too far away, none of this matters.
The important thing is that among the two major families mentioned by Old Xion, the Dürer family, which has always been relatively low-key and restrained, is still safe and sound.
And what Enid is eyeing is the Durer family.
She clearly remembered that when old Kent was still preoccupied with studying how to get back the deprived family title, the York family was not the only family that focused on the Kent family's trading industry and proposed the idea of marriage. The Durer family seemed to be making a fuss all over the town, but since Milo made a fool of himself at the banquet at the Sherman family manor, all those messy things like marriages, proposals, etc. all of a sudden disappeared.
After that, Enid's life became a lot cleaner. She finally didn't have to deal with the trivial matters of family communication and could concentrate on studying and sleeping.
But now, in order to investigate the relationship between the Durer family and those missing cases, she bravely relived the life that once disgusted her, put on gorgeous and dazzling clothes, appeared at social banquets of the aristocracy, and interacted with those Familiar and unfamiliar people squeezed each other's ferocious smiles.
Today's banquet was held in the Dürer family's manor. It was considered a small dinner.
Enid finally managed to survive the night. She drank two glasses of red wine to make her face blush. Then she pretended to be too drunk and left the circle of the puffing noble ladies. , with the support of the maid, he moved into the guest room of the Dürer family for a temporary rest.
Of course, the so-called overnight stay is definitely fake.
As soon as the door closed, Enid began to pull off a series of messy accessories on her body, including bloated and obstructive skirts and high heels.
After just a few minutes, she put on a dark-colored corset. The close-fitting clothing and the weapon belt around her waist made her waist very slender and had a very powerful curve. Compared with the cat costume in Enid's Day of the Dead parade last year, this outfit is only missing one tail...
...
Enid took off the cat from her body Those messy useless things were stuffed under the bed.
Before the start of this operation, she had obtained the structural drawings of the Duler family manor in advance, and her smart mind had memorized all the contents on the drawings a few hours ago, and in She had already figured out the exact location of the guest room she was in before.
She looked down at the time scale on her watch and roughly judged the direction.
Then Enid moved gently to the door.
At this time, there was still music faintly coming from the dinner hall, and those guys would probably be able to make noise until late at night, which was actually good news for Enid.
But just as she was quietly preparing to unlock the door to see if the maid outside had left, there was a sudden knock on the other side of the door.
“Knock knock knock…”
Then a very magnetic (what he thought) male voice came in:
"Dear Miss Kent, are you okay? I am..."
How could Enid not know what the person outside the door was thinking? At a normal dinner, these ordinary models The dog-like guy starts to show his true colors after ingesting some alcohol.
“Okay!”
Yinid opened the door and directly pulled the young man standing outside the room in.
"Miss Kent, you..."
This unlucky guy was immersed in excitement one second, and realized the dangers of society the next.
Bang...
Enid's smooth knee and elbow strikes knocked this guy completely unconscious.
It’s like being so faint that it turns into a puddle of mud.
Then she dragged the person to the foot of the bed and tied him to death. Finally, she clapped her hands easily and muttered:
"I must come here to cause trouble."
Then he slipped out of the room.
......
Following the route that had been set in advance, she climbed up the outer wall of the corridor of this classical-style building, sneaked into the inner building of the manor very easily, and climbed into the building. The owner's private floor.
Finally, we arrived at a study-like room.
The lights here are always on and no one is in the room.
After Enid got in silently, she quickly rummaged through the information on the huge solid wood desk.
However, these things on the table obviously cannot hide any secrets. They are just some documents and letters from the Dürer family's business.
Enid put aside the documents and leaned against the desk to carefully look at the interior decoration of the study.
“I can’t tell that the pot-bellied old guy of the Durer family used to be a hunting enthusiast.”
Various animal specimens, such as elk and coyotes, are hung on several walls of this study.
And the date of the hunt is also noted on the label below the specimen.
Perhaps staying in a study full of hunting trophies will satisfy the Durer family’s desire for conquest and sense of accomplishment, but for Enid, she only feels that she is facing several The ten lifelike animal heads are somewhat chilly. Although the dozen or so lamps in the study provide good lighting to the room, the gloom that permeates the air is obviously not something that light can dispel.
Obviously the Dürer family has passed the age of hunting. Most of these prey specimens can be traced back to more than ten or twenty years ago. Cameras had not been invented at that time, so they could only be collected in this way. Remember your hunting experience.
Today, those men in aristocratic circles who are keen on hunting would use carriages or even cars to pull their prey back to the city from the ravines, and then contact the photographer to take the heavy camera Arrange it in your own manor, pose beautifully and take photos with the carcasses of animals that died under your shotgun, so you can brag about it later. Enid frowned.
She was not the kind of hypocritical person, but when she stayed in an overly spacious room and faced dozens of animal specimens, she always felt like something was staring at her from the dark eye sockets on the heads of those specimens. .
"Forget it, work, work."
She shook her head to get rid of those unclear thoughts, and moved her mind to the most conspicuous position in the study.
That's a place to put the safe.
Don't ask her how she knew.
The owner of the Durer family placed the safe in exactly the same location as Enid's father hid the safe, tucked behind the movable bookshelf. This was considered a tacit understanding among the older generation of aristocratic men.
“Nothing new at all.”
Yinid pulled open the heavy solid wood bookshelf, put her ear to the door of the metal safe, held the combination lock of the safe and began to try to unlock it .
……
Neither the sound of the banquet singing and dancing coming from the corridor nor the unique deep coldness in this room had much impact on Enid.
The combination lock of the safe was quickly cracked by her.
After opening the heavy door, Enid discovered that the safe was so big that it could almost fit a living person, but there were only a few document bags stacked inside, not even a little bit. No trace of precious metals or gems was seen.
"This is..."
She opened one of the rough document bags.
I found that what was inside was not a qualification document, but a thick stack of photos.
“…”
When Enid’s eyes came into contact with the blurry images on the black and white photos, her breathing became slightly faster.
She reached out and pushed away the bookshelf that blocked the light behind her.
The light fell on the photo in her hand.
However, when she clearly saw the content of the photo, Enid was extremely regretful...
She should not have let the light fall on the photo.
Even if she only looked at it for a second, she felt that her eyes were stained in some way. At a certain moment, she felt that the deep coldness that had been lingering in this study was magnified in vain. Dozens of times more cold, making her hands and feet stiff.
The things in the photo were completely beyond her comprehension.
And this is just the first photo in the pile.
She swallowed, and opened the other photos with slightly trembling fingers. As the strange scenes came into view, her breathing rate and the movements of her hands gradually accelerated.
......
She saw figures lined up in the field.
I saw some kind of huge drum with runes engraved on it.
I saw some kind of...altar surrounded by people.
What is placed on the altar is a "person" who is fixed in shackles. The person's head is fixed by a birdcage-like device, and his face cannot be seen clearly...
But some In the photo, you can see those surrounding the altar People's faces, there was some kind of weird smile on their faces, and the smile on every face was exactly the same...
And among these faces, Enid saw the head of the Dule family, and also saw Some familiar faces I saw in the banquet hall not long ago.
They held hands and everyone smiled happily...
In the subsequent photos, the person whose head was locked on the altar had something happened to his body. A twist...
In one of the photos, Enid saw the spine on the man's back, exposed through the skin.
And in many consecutive photos, this figure is in a state of blurred vision, as if it is struggling crazily, so that the camera can only get a blurry outline at the moment the image is captured.
Enid trembled and dug out the other photos in the safe.
But it seems that the two photo albums were not taken at the same time. This time, what appears on the altar in the photo is no longer a twisted figure, but a beast...
However What gave Enid goosebumps all over was that in this photo album, which she thought had been taken at a different time, she once again saw the smiling faces of the people of the Durer family.
...
These people seem to be performing some kind of ritual.
Because even in today's hunting activities, nobles will not go to great lengths to carry heavy cameras into the wild.
The environment in the photo is obviously located deep in the mountains.
In order to record all this, they even arranged special photographers.
…
…
Suddenly, Enid heard a strange voice.
The voice seemed to be speaking close to her ear——
“The fish that slipped through the net, I found one...”
(End of this chapter)