Chapter 252 22: Progress
“A person from a small coastal town in the Balkans came here to take pictures at this time and disappeared. He is really bored.”
“Hey, don’t say that, travel The police were not happy to hear this.”
“I would like to ask those tourists not to come. It will not increase my income anyway. I strongly recommend that the police also implement a tipping culture, ahem, for tourists.”< br>
“Come on, just talk to me about these topics, but don’t let your superiors listen to you. Huh? Here we are, the third lavender field that is blooming reasonably well in late summer. Let’s leave it alone for now. Machine."
Area near Proven-Valenso.
The two police officers on duty took out the drone and began to fly it, observing the surroundings for any traces that could match the data.
After flying for half an hour, I found that there were very few tourists, and there was no car or person in the record.
After all, the lavender blooming here is quite average now. I can only say that it is okay at this time. It is far different from the vast sea of purple blooming flowers in the past.
“Okay, ask the farmers here.”
With no results, the two found a nearby farmer to find out if they had seen the car and man in the photo in the past few days.
"I should have seen this person before. He asked me if I knew where else the lavender flowers are the most beautiful." The farmer squinted his eyes and looked at it before nodding slowly.
The two police officers looked at each other and could see a hint of joy, so they asked: "Then where did you point him to?"
"This is where I was earlier. When I was doing errands, I passed by this flower field and found that the lavender there was in bloom like it was in June and July. It was very beautiful. I originally wanted to ask the other party for any tips, but I saw that the other party said that tourists were not welcome, indicating that it was private. I didn’t go in because of the sign on the territory, but I recommended it to the person who asked. I thought it would be okay if I just took a few photos on the outside.”
The farmers marked it on the map. a location.
The two police officers continued to ask about the situation, but when they saw that there was no more information, they said goodbye and left, hoping to rush there while it was still early.
"We're almost at Apte. It's fifty or sixty kilometers away, so persistent."
"It's you who drives, I'm sleepy."
The two drove all the way to the location marked by the farmer, and they did see a continuous field of lavender flowers that were still in full bloom. And because this place is not a tourist attraction at all, there were no tourists at all. The place was still remote and there were very few cars passing by. .
After passing the sign that said "Private property, please do not enter", the two of them drove towards the buildings in the distance with clear goals. They planned to ask the people here first to see if there was anything. If there are no clues, let them know before releasing the drone.
But when the car was halfway through, they were stopped, and in the middle of the dirt road, they saw a fucking tank pushing in!
No wonder I just found track marks on the ground and thought it was some kind of tractor, but it turned out to be this kind of military tractor.
The tank also has army patterns on it, and the soldiers around it are also dressed like those in science fiction movies. They are divided into two types: full-body high-strength mecha materials and exoskeleton auxiliary systems.
The two police officers swallowed their saliva, followed the instructions blankly, got out of the car, and accepted the interrogating looks of those people.
“Come here to find someone? Go check the police signal.”
The leader looked at the two police officers carefully and handed their police badges to their colleagues on the side.
"Yes, we are here to investigate a missing foreigner case. Some people said that he might have been here, so we thought about finding it."
The man nodded, No words were spoken, and the soldiers around him still maintained a vigilant attitude. It was not until his colleagues brought back the police badges and confirmed that their identities were correct that the man's eyes softened a little.
"Then I'm afraid you will return in vain. We are the European Counterattack Department and this place has been blocked. It is not convenient for me to reveal the specific things. I can only tell you that it is related to Chaofan, the one you are investigating. The personal information will also be sent to us for review. If there is anything we can tell you later, we will notify the authorities." The leader calmly recounted.
The European Anti-European Force, the full name of the Europa Emergency Rapid Response Force, is composed of elites from various countries in the alliance. It specializes in responding to extraordinary events or fighting with friendly extraordinary forces.
Even Bei Lian, which had always been expelled from Europe, joined in for the first time.
The police officers looked at each other, knowing that these were just polite words, but in this case, they did not have the authority to continue the investigation.
So, we can only return without success.
At this time, in the farmer's main building, two divine grace warlocks from the [Divine Grace Tower] were cooperating with several trace identification personnel to investigate the situation.
“This is not a normal farmer. There are too few ingredients in stock and there is no dog. However, the lavender field is nice and it is still in full bloom.”
A divine sorcerer who claimed to be from a serious peasant family said to the person next to him.
“Judging from the traces of use of the stove, it was still in use a few days ago, and it looked like it was left in a hurry.”
“Hey, wouldn’t ‘Cowboy’ come in and take a look? "
"She may be resonating and can't hear you. Look, does this mean that the devil's blood was found?"
"Let me see, yes, it should be here. Is it the base camp of those demons? Have people from other forces broken in? Or is it an internal fight between demons? ”
In the room, the two people who discovered the demon's blood looked at the instruments and fell into thinking.
Outside the house, a brown-haired woman in her twenties, dressed as a cowboy and with a revolver in a holster on her waist, was in the garage inspecting the cars that seemed to be intact.
Although the people here left, not a single car left.
She opened the doors of each car to check. If it couldn't be opened, she broke the window until she found an off-road vehicle with a foreign license plate.
The door was unlocked, so she could open it directly. Her eyes lit up. The layout inside was very ordinary. It felt completely different from the previous cars. This one showed the attitude of normal ordinary people towards cars. The decorations, Tissues, pillowcases, and even a few figures in the back seat.
"There are blood stains." She frowned at the obvious blood stains on the co-pilot, and then opened the co-pilot's storage box. There were some sundries in it, the most important of which was probably a camera.
She touched the camera and finally found a place that resonated with her. This was exactly what she was good at.
Soon, a messy memory flashed by, including the sick child, the lavender field, the man taking the photo, and then, the smelly demonic scent.
Breaking free from the resonance, she breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this was a car that a demon had snatched from an ordinary person, and that person had undoubtedly ended up dead.
She is not too sad, she understands that as long as these evil demons are not cleaned up, someone will die every day.
All he can do is try his best to eradicate these monsters.
Looking through the photos, she did not capture the devil. She put the camera back in place and looked at the trunk again. There was only one specimen frame with a treated lavender on it, and the others were just Not worth much anymore.
The information was recorded in detail. When the ban here can be lifted later, someone should notify the missing person's family, but optimistically it will take a few months. I hope the family can express their condolences.
Leaving the garage, she walked into the country villa.
“Did you find anything?”
"There are many cars parked in the garage that have not yet been driven away. One of them must have been snatched from an out-of-town tourist. The others are nothing." The woman codenamed Cowboy shook her head.
"Look at what resonates here." "You all got Teacher Xue's class in vain." The cowboy sighed.
"Sorry, everyone has their own strengths and specializes in the art. This is what Mr. Li taught." The other party spread his hands and smiled.
"Excuse me, sir, madam." The person from the identification department walked downstairs with a serious look on his face, "We seem to have found something."
Hearing this, the three people from Shen'en Tower cheered up and followed.
"This is the painting. We have found signs of movement, but we are afraid of any traps. We would like to ask you to check it first." In a room on the second floor, a long painting hangs on the wall. The content on the frame seems to be related to Joan of Arc being burned at the stake, and it is obviously incompatible with the rest of the room.
One of the divine grace warlocks stepped forward and checked it with a spell to confirm that there were no traps. Then he and another person slowly took off the painting and put it on the ground. At the same time, a line of blood The words slowly appeared in front of their eyes.
"Kill Olivier."
Some people read it subconsciously, then their eyes widened, they quickly covered their mouths and looked at others.
Fortunately, no one noticed him. Everyone was staring at the line of words above. It was obviously a simple sentence, but it made them fascinated for a long time.
“It seems that they took the initiative to leave us clues.”
The cowboy murmured.
“Please, help me find him. My husband has been out of contact for a week. He used to tell me even if he was delayed for half a day. It is impossible to lose contact for such a long time. The child will be hospitalized soon, she needs her father, and I need my husband too!”
In the interview room of the police station, the woman was crying to the police officer, breaking out from the stress she had been under for many days, anxious, Panic and hope flowed down along with tears.
The policewoman felt the same way and hurriedly took out a tissue and wiped her with it.
Another male police officer sighed helplessly: "Ms. Thalia, we understand your mood very well, but we also hope you know that this is a case involving a foreign country, and we do not have law enforcement over there. Quan, we can only ask for help. With the current progress, the police in the Provence region are already expanding the search, and I believe there will be new progress soon."
Another round of comfort, In this case, every time she changed her appearance, she didn't know how many more rounds she could listen to.
After a long time, Thalia didn't know how she walked out of the police station, but she knew that she could not be seen by Phaedra like this.
So I found a bathroom, went in and washed my face, then held my bag in the bathroom and calmed down for a long time.
But she didn't notice that the blue lantern she had always carried with her was flickering slightly.
After returning home and standing at the door, Thalia took out the mirror and carefully checked her makeup. She took a few deep breaths and practiced her smile before she dared to open the door and enter.
At home, Phaedra is sitting on a chair, holding a crayon, drawing pictures for her Mr. Crow.
"Mr. Crow, please don't move, it's just a little bit better."
".Okay!"
Soul Crow responded numbly.
After spending a few days together, it seemed to be able to barely communicate with Phaedra.
But it can only be a very simple vocabulary.
For example, whether to eat or not, good night, good morning, etc.
"The painting is finished, Mr. Crow! Take a look!"
The soul crow jumped a few steps and jumped onto Phaedra's shoulder. He turned his head and took a closer look. This is the first time it has been painted. Let me see where it is.
In the picture, there are three people and A crow larger than a human stands on a purple background, with bright sunshine and a smile. Even if it is not drawn, you can still feel the gentle breeze blowing and the field of purple flowers floating.
The Soul Crow thought this was a portrait just for him, but he didn’t expect it to be a family portrait.
As for the purple background, it can’t recognize what it is, and it won’t ask in the local dialect, but it guesses it is the kind of flowers and plants that the family has posted everywhere. It doesn’t care what its name is.
Black is the most beautiful color. Soul Crow thought, every soul crow is proud of the color of his coat.
"Mom, look, does it look good?" Phaedra showed Thalia the flowers.
Thalia took it and said with a forced smile: "Well, it's very beautiful."
"Mom, the cake is spoiled, why hasn't dad come back yet?" Phaedra was curious. asked.
Talia's smile became even more forced: "Dad has to go out temporarily for work. I have no choice but to come back later."
"Can't you make a phone call? I want to hear it. Dad's voice. "Phaedra was pitiful.
"There is no signal in that place, and the work must be kept confidential. Phaedra, listen to me, as long as two people are thinking about each other, the other party will definitely be able to sense your presence. You see, when you miss your dad, dad is also thinking of you. "
"Really? Then I think about dad a hundred or a thousand times every day!"
"What about mom?"
"That person? Five hundred times." Phaedra counted on her fingers, but she couldn't count.
The Soul Crow jumped to the side and turned his head with a serious look in his eyes.
It seemed to sense a trace of the soul lamp's restlessness.
Strange, Soul Lantern has never reacted like this before.
From the common word baba in the world, soul crow, we can guess that they are probably talking about Phaedra's father, but what does it have to do with the soul lamp? Although the soul inside is not enough, it has not been transmitted to Heaven, but as far as the massive souls he has come into contact with in the past few years, most of them are unconscious. A few are, and they are very limited. He has never seen anyone who can react after entering the soul lamp.
Of course, it has never entered the soul lamp, and it is not clear whether the soul in the soul lamp can sense the outside world. It is just based on experience that it has never encountered such a situation.
More importantly, I left the Soul Lamp as soon as I came to it and will not continue to actively absorb the ownerless souls nearby, so there should be no relatives of theirs in it.
Or is there a soul inside that has had similar experiences and is feeling the same way?
This level of mental thinking is beyond the scope of the intelligence of soul crows. Although they firmly believe that they are smarter than humans, in fact they cannot match the complex emotions and in-depth thinking of humans.
It’s weird, weird, Soul Crow plans to find an opportunity to ask the local little Soul Crow to see if he knows what happened to this family.
However, this is just to repay the care given during the period of recuperation. The wise crow said that as a crow, one must repay kindness with a piece of paper money.
Unfortunately, most soul crows don't like those smelly papers, unless they happen to pick them up and there happens to be a chip shop nearby.
It doesn't like paper money either, so it thinks of other ways to repay it.
(End of this chapter)