Chapter 517 Apartment
The Royal College is located on Queen Street and is a learning and research institution governed and operated by the royal family. I heard that those who can study here are the country's future elites. It is precisely because of this that this serial murder incident will make Scotland Yard anxious. You must know that the students here are not only distinguished, but also elites. If several talented people died in a row and were murdered by others, it might easily be regarded as a hostile act by other countries.
Therefore, the case must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise the boss of Scotland Yard will face more than just a face problem...
As of now, the victims are all of different ages, from different disciplines, and have no personal relationships with each other, that is, they do not know each other.
But...if anything, it's not completely absent.
Indeed, in a school, no matter how sociable a student is, it is impossible to know every student.
However, there is a kind of person who must be known.
That is the teacher.
As a teacher, it is very convenient to know the files and information of students. If you go deeper, it is also easy to know where they go and where they live.
In fact, Scotland Yard has also considered this aspect, but... their investigation can only go so far.
The reason is also very simple. This is the Royal Master's College, and the students it trains will be the top talents of the country in the future. If you think about it carefully, the teachers who teach the students, no matter in terms of identity, status and influence, are not comparable to teachers in ordinary schools. of. Those who teach here are basically big bosses in various scientific research fields. They publish papers in top journals without any trouble. If Scotland Yard, such a big boss, arrests people for interrogation without any evidence, then That's really a big problem.
Even the police can't do it, and Duanmu Huai certainly doesn't have the qualifications, but he can do it!
If you can't do it openly, we can come down in private!
Duanmu Huai knew that students liked to gossip in private, and would also talk about which teachers they liked and which teachers they hated. He only needed to use the skills of the Raven Guard to hide in the shadows of the school and eavesdrop on the conversations of those students. You can gain a lot of information.
Of course, only Duanmu Huai can do this trick. Students are sensitive and cautious. Even if they chat without restraint, if there is a stranger around, they will immediately become cautious. In other words, Duanmu Huai could hide himself so that no one else could find him, so he could eavesdrop.
If it were anyone else, they wouldn't be able to do this.
Yeah, but if you think about it carefully, this trick can be used in other places.
While listening to the words of the students next to him, Duanmu Huai looked at the courtyard in front of him. Most of the students at the Royal Academy are young and beautiful girls, and they are either born into aristocracy or middle class. Different from the open atmosphere in the New World, perhaps because of tradition or identity, most of the students here are still wearing period clothes. At first glance, it feels like they are back in the 19th century. It's quite fresh and beautiful.
I don’t know if there are any bathrooms or anything like that here, so I went in with the girls and took a look around... Ahem, forget it.
In this way, Duanmu Huai spent a day in the Royal Master Academy and got a lot of information from the students' chats. However, it is not yet known which of the information is useful.
And at night, he did not sit idle, but asked Lorena to lure the snake out of the hole. After all, since the opponent's target was a young and beautiful girl, Lorena must be within the opponent's hunting range, right?
And Lorena was also in high spirits. As a result, she ran around the city and didn't encounter the legendary monster...
In this way, for the next week, Duanmu Huai went to the Royal Master Academy in the morning to search for information, and followed Lorena around the city at night to see if he could hang out the murderer. However, it took such a long time. Time has no effect at all... It's really speechless.
Compared with the lack of progress in the investigation, finding a house was easier. For Duanmu Huai, the requirements for the house he wanted to live in were very clear, spacious, comfortable and bright. The luxury suites at the Ritz Hotel are good, but that's only for ordinary people, but for Duanmu Huai, it's a bit troublesome.
Fortunately, as long as you give enough money, any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem. On the morning of the eighth day, when Duanmu Huai was having breakfast, the enthusiastic hotel manager knocked on his door.
"Ah, dear sir, you can definitely imagine what kind of good news I have brought you. God bless me, I finally found an apartment that meets your requirements."
"Oh?"
Looking at the hotel manager with a straight suit and a mustache in front of him, Duanmu Huai put down the tableware in his hand.
"Are you sure? My requirements are not low."
Yes, Duanmu Huai's requirements are not high, but it depends on who he is competing with. It is difficult to find a house that can accommodate his body. Not only that, due to his height, Duanmu Huai cannot go out by car. , so he requires that the location of the house must be in a busy street area, so that it is more convenient for him to walk back and forth. As we all know, the closer you are to the city center, the more space is at a premium, and the rooms are as compressed as matchboxes...
"Of course, the apartment I found this time is tailor-made for you!"
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Duanmu Huai became interested. He looked at the manager curiously and asked.
"Tell me about it."
"Okay, that's it..."
Listening to the hotel manager's story, Duanmu Huai finally understood why he was so confident. According to the hotel manager, when he was helping Duanmu Huai find a place to stay, he met an artist who was holding an exhibition. As it happened, the theme of the exhibition held by the artist was "Giant's House". He specially bought an apartment and placed huge furniture and decorations in it. According to the artist's He said that he wanted to use this method to make visitors feel the insignificance of human beings, allowing humans to re-observe their daily world from the perspective of mice or cats, thereby creating a new experience.
In order to perfectly restore daily life, the artist spent great efforts to remodel the entire apartment. Not only that, he also remodeled even vehicles and other vehicles, so that visitors can feel the feeling when they enter. The same as in the kingdom of giants. Because of this, this art exhibition is a hit and quite famous in the foggy city.
The exhibition was about to end. Duanmu Huai happened to come here at this time and asked the hotel manager to help him find a house. After the hotel manager learned about this, he also found the artist to discuss it. After the latter learned about this, Afterwards, he was quite happy. After all, after the exhibition, he had a headache about what to do with the exhibits. After all, most people don’t want furniture that is much larger than ordinary people. If Duanmuhuai is really a tall giant, then it would be just right...
Anyway, the artist was not short of money, so he also told the hotel manager that he wanted to meet Duanmu Huai. If the other party really did what the hotel manager said, then he could give the entire apartment to Duanmu Huai at his discretion.
He's not short of money anyway.
Duanmu Huai is also very interested in this. After all, after coming to this world, he really can't find any suitable residence for him. This artist may be quite crazy, but if his apartment really meets his requirements, then It's also a good choice.
So after eating breakfast, Duanmuhuai took the address he obtained from the hotel manager and came to No. 135 Baihua Street.
It's not far from the Ritz Hotel. It's next to Hyde Park. You can go to other areas through the park. There are not only restaurants nearby, but also large shopping malls and even a subway station not far away - well, this is normal, after all. This apartment is for visitors rather than residents.
No one would be bored and open an art store in an apartment area, right?
Arriving at the door of the apartment, even Duanmu Huai couldn't help but be surprised.
As the hotel manager said, the entire apartment is quite huge in appearance. The door alone looks like a city gate. It would definitely be difficult for ordinary people to open the door, but for Duanmuhuai it was just right. Not only that, but looking at it, the windows and decorations on the first floor are much larger than those of ordinary apartments. It is indeed big enough for ordinary people, but for Duanmuhuai, it is just right.
Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai has secretly made up his mind to buy this place himself as long as the price is not outrageous!
Duanmuhuai reached out and knocked on the door. Soon the door opened. Then a tall and thin man with a mustache and a beret, who looked like an abnormal artist at first glance, opened the door and saw Duanmuhuai. , he was also stunned for a moment, and then his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Ah, you must be the guest Mr. Lorenz mentioned. Just in time, please come in!"
Perhaps because of his status as an artist, this man did not have the restraint of a British gentleman, but more like the romantic enthusiasm of a Frenchman. He welcomed Duanmu Huai in with a smile, and then surrounded him curiously. change. "When Mr. Lorenz told me, I didn't believe it. I didn't expect that there are people like you in the world... I don't know how the world you see in your eyes compares with ours. What’s the difference?”
"Just think of it as looking at your child's room."
Duanmu Huai complained silently, and the latter nodded excitedly. Then he took Duanmu Huai directly and began to introduce his art apartment to him in detail.
In fact, the hotel manager's introduction to Duanmu Huai was incorrect. Strictly speaking, this apartment is called "Vision". The artist's original intention is also to allow the audience to escape from daily life and observe the world from another angle.
So he specially renovated this apartment. Just like the hotel manager said, everything on the first floor is very large, whether it is furniture, doors or even corridors, which are more than twice the size of ordinary ones. As for the rooms on the second floor, they are the same size as ordinary people, so that the audience can have a comparison with reality after observing the giant world, while the third floor is converted from an attic. Because the first and second floors take up too much space, the space on the third floor is relatively smaller. However, this did not bother the artist. He directly transformed the third floor into a room for children. , all furniture decoration is one size smaller.
According to the artist, these are the large, medium and small horizons, so that the audience can taste and experience their daily life from all angles.
Of course, Duanmuhuai also thinks this is really fun. No wonder this artist's exhibition is so popular. However, this exhibition cannot last forever. The artist is already planning to develop his next ideas, so he originally planned to sell the apartment.
As for the furniture inside, if no one takes over, they can only be disposed of.
On the contrary, Duanmu Huai's arrival made the artist particularly excited. At least... the things he had carefully made did not need to be disposed of.
Not only is the artist very happy, but Duanmu Huai is also very excited. After all, this apartment was built by the artist himself. Not to mention that the style is very exquisite, the artist's skills are also good. What's even more amazing is that in order to be perfect, this artist really made everything very huge, from the door, the clothes rack to the sofa, even the fireplace, the lounge chair, and even the flowerpots and tableware on the windowsill, all made into the size that suits him. .
For Duanmu Huai, this is a place where you can just move in with your bags, and you don’t need anything.
As for the ordinary people's rooms on the second floor, Lorena can just live in them. On the third floor... let the two pets Suzuno and Bunny do the harm.
The two parties quickly concluded the discussion. Originally, the artist planned to give the apartment directly to Duanmuhuai. According to him, he could only see people like Duanmuhuai in his dreams before, but now he did not expect that he actually existed in reality. Sure enough, there are people outside the world, and there is a world outside the world......
Um? Why does this sound wrong?
In the end, Duanmuhuai did not let others give it away for free. He was not short of money, and he was not short of money either. He was also short-handed and soft-spoken. The two parties discussed for a long time, and finally the artist decided to sell it at half price. Duanmu Huai also agreed, and then the two parties signed the contract, then paid the money and got the keys...
"By the way, this gentleman."
Before everything was done, the artist seemed to have thought of something and hurriedly withdrew his hand.
"Before I hand it over, I must remind you that there seems to be something wrong with this apartment."
“What’s the problem??”
Duanmu Huai was stunned when he heard what the artist said.
"That's it..."
The artist was too excited to see Duanmu Huai before. Now he calmed down. He also remembered something and hurriedly told Duanmu Huai.
It turns out that when the artist purchased this apartment for an exhibition, he also received it at a very cheap price. At that time, he was also surprised that this place was so good, why had this apartment been vacant for so long and no one wanted it, and the price was still so cheap. Later, a friend of the artist asked about it and told him what was going on.
It turns out that this apartment used to be owned by a businessman in the shipping business in Fog City. At that time, his business was very large, and his family was harmonious, with a wife and a daughter.
But...there are unforeseen circumstances...this is wrong.
All in all, one day something happened to the family, and the neighbors didn't see them for several days. Later, a disgusting smell came from their home. Finally, the neighbor couldn't bear to call the police. When the police came and pried open the door, they discovered that the businessman, his wife and daughter were all dead, and they died in a miserable state.
At that time, this was considered a big case in Fog City, and after the police investigation, the conclusion reached was even more shocking.
According to the conclusion of the police investigation, the person who killed the family was none other than the couple's daughter. She killed the sleeping couple with a kitchen knife, then cut her own throat and committed suicide.
When the results of the investigation came out, everyone was shocked. You must know that the daughter of that family was only twelve or thirteen years old, and she looked like a very lively and lovely girl on weekdays. How could she kill someone just because she said she was going to kill someone? Could it be that the police made a mistake?
That's what they said, but the result of the investigation at the time was this. In the end, the police closed the case as suicide. This incident only made a sensation and was gradually forgotten.
Then the apartment was sold to another wealthy businessman.
Only half a month later, something happened again.
This time everyone was awakened by screams in the middle of the night. When they turned on the lights and looked outside, they found that the door of the apartment had been knocked open, and a fat man covered in blood stumbled out of it, and before him behind, It was the fat man's daughter. She was only ten years old with a ferocious face and a kitchen knife in her hand. She caught up with her father and stabbed him with a puncture wound. She stabbed her father to death on the street. .
When the police arrived, the girl also took a knife and cut her own throat and died in full view of the neighbors and the police.
Now everyone was frightened, and almost everyone chose to move. Many people suspected that the apartment was cursed and fled one after another.
After that, no one lived in this apartment again.
I have to say that this story is quite scary, but the artist is not afraid of it, and he does not live here, but... the artist has to admit that this apartment is indeed evil.
According to his statement, there were several times when he came early the next morning and found that all the furniture that he had prepared had been moved or simply dismantled. He was so angry that he thought it was some hooligans nearby who were specifically responsible for the trouble. Several people were invited to keep vigil, but they were all scared away the next day, saying that the apartment was haunted.
Although the exhibition became increasingly lively and similar strange things did not happen again, the artist still heard some guests say a lot of strange things.
For example, they sometimes said they would see a girl wearing white pajamas lying on the bed on the third floor. Some people also said that the furniture in the room would move by itself. Although the artist did not see anything special every time he went there, it was so. Many people said that it still made him somewhat worried.
Duanmu Huai wanted to buy a house to live here. He immediately remembered this matter and hurriedly told Duanmu Huai.
After listening to the artist's words, Duanmu Huai's eyes lit up.
Buying an apartment that you’re looking for, and it’s actually haunted?
Is there such a good thing?
Needless to say, I bought it!
(End of chapter)