The alley that you turn into is completely a passage between two houses. It is very small in area, so except for garbage and filth, there is no other thing accumulated in the alley.
His heart was beating wildly. Shade knew that this decision was a risk, but the voice in his head was right. If you want to be extraordinary, you must accept the risk. Maybe the channels from the psychiatrist and the church are safe, but he doesn't know which one.
For him, the road is actually a risk.
He has to pay for what he gets, and he is willing to take risks, small risks.
"If there is any problem, I will leave immediately."
Shade tightened his grip on his cane and walked forward on tiptoes as silently as possible. There were some wooden boxes at the end of the alley. On the wooden boxes were affixed a wanted order that could hardly be read clearly. They seemed to have gone to Tobesk.
City's serial murderer.
You can turn left or right at the alley entrance and directly enter the slums in the Lower Town of Tobesk City. Shade hid behind the wooden boxes and looked through the gaps between the wooden boxes in the direction in which the man just turned.
It was also an alley, and there was only a young man wearing a pebble ring. He was now standing in the middle of the alley, looking around cautiously. He even squinted his eyes and looked at the sky. It took him a long time before he put down the black suitcase.
On the ground, he took off the pebble ring on his right index finger and kissed it carefully under Shade's surprised gaze.
The young man seemed to have lowered his head and said something, but Shade didn't hear clearly because the wind and space obscured his hearing.
After kissing the ring face, the young man seemed to relax a little.
He put the ring on the index finger of his right hand again, and thick smoke immediately appeared from his body, like a fire. The thick smoke came out from the gaps in his clothes, and soon completely enveloped the young man.
Shade heard a whisper in his ears, but it was not the elegant woman's voice in his head. The whisper could not be heard clearly at all, it sounded like chewing or something was cursing.
There was some discomfort in his head, as if he had to walk in a straight line after turning in circles several times. The crazy whispers became more and more intense. At a certain moment, Shade even thought he saw an evil spirit rushing towards him.
Fortunately, the hallucination ended quickly, but Shade, who gradually recovered, still suspected that there was something wrong with his eyes. Because he saw that as the black smoke disappeared, a man wearing a white pebble ring came out of the smoke and patted it gently.
Pull down the skirt, then bend down to lift the suitcase.
Mrs. Lasoya turned her head and looked around cautiously again, her lips seemed to be smiling. After confirming that no one had seen this scene, she finally walked to the other side of the alley with the box in hand.
Shade covered his mouth and leaned against the wall, hiding in the gap between the wooden box and the wall, and did not dare to move for a long time.
Just now, Shade was puzzled by the church investigator's part-time job of distributing leaflets, but now he understands that the other party may be at the door of the club like the crappy detective Shade, trying to spy on Mrs. Lasoya.
And when Shade walked out of the alley again, the three moons of silver, yellow and red were already hanging in the sky together. The yellow moon was whiter in color and the brightest. The night here was as bright as
The world is as peaceful as the past.
This street was a bit remote, so there were no street lights. Under the dim light, Shade didn't know what his expression was at the moment. It took him a long time to take out his pocket watch. It was already close to eight o'clock in the evening, and he was standing in the gap in the wall.
It took two hours before he dared to leave. He didn't even know that his physical fitness was so good.
"Don't think about relief food."
He shook his head dejectedly, feeling indescribably bad. He walked along the street towards home. Even if he was going to starve, at least there was still a house to live in, so the situation was not too bad.
The key now is that the lucrative commission to investigate the mistress seems to be impossible to carry out.
Obviously, Mrs. La Zoya has the ability to turn into a man with the help of a ring, or in other words, a young man has the ability to turn into Mrs. La Zoya with a ring. Of course, Shade cannot report this information to his employer, nor does he want to
Hand in the dead detective's report and act as if nothing happened.
Once the report is submitted, Mrs. Lawrence will inevitably let Mrs. Lasoya know that a detective has been following her without her knowledge because of her conflict with Mr. Lawrence. Even if the report does not involve any secrets, Shade
There is no guarantee what Mrs. Lasoya will do.
"This world is really more troublesome than imagined... Is Mr. Lawrence in love with a man or a woman?"
Maybe Mrs. Lasoya is a good person, and becoming a man is not harmful to others. But after being exposed to this kind of thing for less than twenty-four hours after coming into this world, Shade felt quite a sense of crisis.
"Perhaps the extraordinary in this world also follows the law that the extraordinary attracts the extraordinary."
He thought a little tiredly and walked forward along the street. Because he was worried about being robbed by people in the dark, or harassed by drunken men, or even running into some illegal transactions, he only had a cane and a fruit knife.
Shade didn't even dare to take a shortcut home through the alley.
"Today is really unlucky..."
Turn left at Old John's Pawn Shop at the corner of the street. The thought of sleeping in a house where someone had just died made me feel even worse.
"Since there are supernatural beings, there might also be ghosts...Don't scare yourself...Wait a minute, where did I turn just now?"
He stopped, tilted his head and stepped back, and once again saw the signboard of "Old John's Pawn Shop" and the interior of the store with the gas lamp still on.
"Well, I didn't expect such a trick. Actually, it's not unlucky. It will always get better."
Sighing slightly, he held his pocket watch and opened the door of the pawn shop.
In the end, instead of pawning the pocket watch, I pawned the cane. The pocket watch is a very important daily utensil, but the cane is dispensable. More importantly, the value of the pocket watch is not high. The owner of the store, an old man who calls himself John Jones, only
I am willing to pay 10 shillings because the pocket watch has many scratches on its surface and may often be kept with the keychain.
But he was willing to pay £1 12 shillings for the cane.
"Do you understand at all? This is the heart of a natural cedar tree from the Delado Mountains. Look at the texture and the workmanship. If you can provide information about the craftsman who made it, I might be able to find out more.
money."
The old man seemed to be complaining about Shade's ignorance. After confirming that he wanted to pawn the cane, he also told him that if he didn't redeem it within half a month, the cane would be returned to the pawn shop.
Of course Shade understood that the price of the cane was definitely more than 1 pound 12 shillings. But he was really in no mood to bargain now. In the end, he just took two 1 pound notes, signed the contract and left.
According to the price, this money is enough for Shade to live quite well in two weeks. If he lives frugally, excluding possible rent, it is possible to support his life for one and a half months. This money is even enough for him to transfer Sparrow...
Hamilton dug it up, placed an obituary in the newspaper's advertising section, and reorganized the detective's shabby funeral.
Of course, he just doesn't have this idea for the time being.
"But to solve the short-term problem of food and clothing, what should I do about the extraordinary and the mysterious?"
We had dinner at a restaurant very close to the pawn shop and tasted the rich soup paired with the steak, then walked home.
When we returned to No. 6 Saint Teresa Square, it was already close to ten o'clock at night.
After checking that the hair that I left when I left was still in its original position, I entered the room. I carefully rotated the gas lamp on the wall of the living room to let the light gradually appear, and then tiredly threw myself on the sofa. From the open door of the master bedroom,
Through the door, you can see the bed where Sparrow Hamilton lay.
Shade is determined to come into contact with the extraordinary in the near future instead of living a life that he knows nothing about. Although he has not encountered any definite danger yet, the world is not simple. Shade does not intend to find a solution if he encounters danger.
And he currently has three methods that may help him contact the extraordinary.
The first is Mr. Bill Schneider, the psychiatrist who gave Shade his business card; the second is the five Orthodox churches in the city, visiting the churches may be fruitful; and the last is Mrs. Lasoya herself, she must know about the extraordinary.
, contacting her is also a way.
All three have their own pros and cons, but in the final analysis, Shade still knows too little about the world, and he does not have any channels to understand it. Before going out today, he checked the map. There is not even a public library in this city.
Come and let him get free knowledge.
There are some private libraries in the city, but you have to be introduced by an acquaintance and pay a considerable fee before you can become a member of the library, and Shade obviously does not have the money now.
The only information he could rely on was the information left by Sparrow Hamilton, but this gentleman did not have the habit of collecting books, and this gentleman was obviously just an ordinary person.
Through Sparrow Hamilton's death, to trace the cause of his death, you may also be able to contact the supernatural, but this is undoubtedly a very dangerous approach, and Shade's reason refuses to do so.
"Can you give me some advice?"
He patted his head, but he only heard the woman's chuckle. It was the voice in his head that allowed him to complete all the work of "investigating Mr. Lawrence's mistress". Otherwise, he alone would not have been able to discover the ring.
Secret.
He hoped that the voice would prompt him again, but he got no response.
"People still have to rely on themselves."
He whispered to himself, tilted his head and looked out the window, looking at the night sky where the three moons appeared together. It was so magnificent, so mysterious, and so intoxicating. Especially the silver in the three moons.
Every time I look at the moon, I can feel my depressed mood getting better.
"No matter what, we can't wait any longer. Although we haven't encountered danger yet, but now that we have a preliminary plan to survive as a detective, we must have the ability to protect ourselves and know how complicated this world is. Otherwise,
Detective Sparrow Hamilton is what will happen to me."
With money in my pocket for the time being, I put aside the idea of continuing other investigations and shifted my current main goal to contact the extraordinary.
"Church, psychiatrist, Mrs. Lasoya..."
He was not very optimistic about the last option, because the other party's appearance today seemed to coincide with the investigation of the church and the police, so he instinctively thought that the other party did not seem to be a good person. He was somewhat interested in the first option. Based on his simple understanding, this
The world's righteous churches are relatively open-minded.
But that was only his understanding, and he couldn't make plans based on such a simple idea. Moreover, he was not a believer in any god, and as a homeless man, he had never been to a church. It was hard to say whether the church's enlightenment was aimed at people like him.
"Maybe... we can investigate for a few more days. Now we don't have to worry about starving to death. Pawning some inheritance can also last for a long time. As long as the possible rent collector does not show up, I will have a lot of time to investigate.
.With these three options, you can always find the most suitable one.”
With this thought in mind, he fell asleep in the bedroom of the original owner Shade in the apartment and spent his first night in the new world.
In the haze, he seemed to hear the woman's laughter in his mind again. That laughter made Shade unexpectedly feel at ease. That night, he had a very relaxing dream, sitting on the field ridge and looking at the silver moon in the horizon.
Accidents always disrupt existing plans, and Shade's plan to choose one of the three was disrupted the next morning.