Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 172 A Tale of Love
Watching a streak of lightning light up the dark sky, Derek didn’t go directly to knock on the doors of a few acquaintances, but instead walked along the widest avenue all the way to the training grounds at the edge of Silver City.
Every exploration squad would stay here for a period of time after they returned, which was both convenient for them to communicate and report on the things and objects they encountered in the dark depths, but also tantamount to a disguised isolation, in case something weird attached itself to any member and violently erupted when the time lapse reached a certain level.
This was the experience that Silver City had groped for and summarized over the past two thousand years, not exactly complicated, but quite useful.
Just entering the training ground, Derek Burger with the “Hurricane Axe” stuck in the back of his waist had a sudden flash of light in front of his eyes, and saw Elder Lovia, who seemed to be only in her thirties with a beautiful atmosphere, as well as two acquaintances in the same age group.
–Silver City is only so big, limited by the environment, the population has not been growing up, an age group of people to say less, to say more is not much, Derek does not dare to say that all know, but also seen most of them, with some of them are several years of general education classmates plus training ground companions.
In this exploration team, Derek is most familiar with Dak Riggins, who was once his patrol teammate.
This teenager called Dak is medium-sized, slightly chubby, strength, optimistic and cheerful, often hanging on the face of people close to the smile, is currently the “giant” pathway sequence 8 “gladiator”.
At this moment, the two sides are separated by a translucent but hard as steel wall, unable to make effective contact, and must wait for the members of the exploration team to confirm that there are no problems, before the two sides can meet directly.
Derek, who had become silent and withdrawn since the death of his parents, waved his hand in greeting to Dak.
The Gladiator noticed and looked over sideways.
”Dak, how’s it going? Not in any danger?” Derek called out.
The material used for the black wall was from Silver City, called “Ember Amber”, which was as hard as steel but at the same time possessed a certain degree of transparency and good sound conductivity, so Derek’s words were able to pass through without much hindrance.
In Derek’s mind, Dak would definitely show a big smile, and waved his arms habitually, “You see I’m not hurt, so you should know that we haven’t encountered anything too dangerous, it’s all just a small problem!”
Hearing his voice, Dak took a few steps closer to the wall and replied with a smile:
”No, it’s been going well.”
Looking at his smile, which he couldn’t pick out, Darrick suddenly got chills all over his body, as if he were camping out at night on top of an abandoned tower or in a ruined city, with darkness and dark currents building up all around him.
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Inside the Kraig Club, Klein and Dr. Allen agreed on the payment:
2 pounds!
I have to say, the doctor’s money is just as good …… In my old days, such a commission would have paid at most 10 Soule …… Klein, who had already had the intention of taking this task, sighed in his heart.
He remembered that when he was in the night watchman squad, he listened to the “corpse collector” Fry mentioned that the income of the famous doctor is very high.
At that time, the poet Leonard Mitchell, who did not look like a poet, responded that, as far as he knew, if you buy a house in the busy area of Bakerland as a store, the fastest way back to the capital is to convert it into a clinic.
It was agreed to visit Will Onsettin’s house after dinner, and it was just before three in the afternoon, so Talim, the equestrian teacher, greeted the three of them, made up a table, and played a game of escalation, of the kind invented by Rossel the Great.
I envisioned playing a little tennis, practicing shooting, flipping through books in the library, what a healthy life …… But why has it turned out to be like this …… In between playing cards, Klein thought greasily.
Frankly speaking, with his current “magic” attainments, he could have made Dr. Allen, Mike reporter and Talim lose all the money they had with them.
But I’m an honest man, I believe in my skill and luck …… Klein picked up the shortbread and took a bite while the red vested waiter shuffled the cards.
He exclaimed heartily:
This is what life is all about!
One thing Klein notices during the card game is that Talim, the equestrian teacher, is no longer as dopey and full of worry as he was before from time to time.
Had his friend settled for falling in love with someone he shouldn’t have? Klein thought rather curiously as he took a sip of his Marquis black tea.
As a detective, he knew that this was not a matter to be asked in front of others, so he pressed on, concentrating on his card game.
By five o’clock, Mike Joseph had to make a trip back to the newspaper office, and the card game between the four was discontinued, with Klein winning 5 Soule.
Lately the hand is really good …… Klein was pleased to praise, saw Dr. Allen left the table to go to the washroom, so he controlled his voice, low laugh:
”Talim, things settled with that friend of yours?”
Talim, who was dropping the cards he was holding into the middle of the table, was stunned for a moment at the words and sighed and laughed:
”Sort of.”
He added with a rather communicative desire:
”It wasn’t really anything too serious, I was overthinking it.
”To put it simply, it’s a prominent young gentleman who fell in love with a commoner woman, you know, a man of similar status must marry a noble lady, heh, not even a rich man’s daughter for him.”
This way ah …… thanks to my brainstorming a lot of dog blood and bizarre stories, such as falling in love with a man, falling in love with a monster, falling in love with an object whose ethical relationship is not allowed …… Klein said with a burst of disappointment and amusement:
”As far as I know, upper class men don’t mind having a mistress on the side.”
”No, Sherlock you don’t understand, love, understand? Love! That young gentleman only wanted to marry the commoner woman.” Talim exclaimed.
Yes, I don’t understand, I’m just a single dog …… Klein opened his mouth and was speechless.
Talim sighed to himself:
”For the sake of that young gentleman’s future, I once thought of asking you to find someone with some magical abilities, covertly, huh, in short, I’m a law-abiding person, and will only think about it in my head.”
”How did things work out afterward?” Klein asked with interest.
Talim picked up his Highlander coffee and took a sip:
”The solution was simpler than I thought, I went straight to the lady and told her of the predicament, she sensibly offered to leave the gentleman and asked for my help.
”I must say, she is such a thoughtful, kind, civil, and beautiful girl, that I might have knelt before her and kissed the back of her hand, if I had not considered my status.”
”Well, it looks like I’m not going to be able to help.” Klein lifted the white-glazed porcelain cup with gold threads that held the black tea.
As a visitor from Earth, he wasn’t at all interested in sticking his nose in and destroying other people’s love commissions.
But listening to it as gossip was another matter.
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After dinner at the Kraig Club, where he had enjoyed a limited supply of Sunia’s big lobsters, Klein, piece by piece with Dr. Allen, took the latter’s carriage to Will Onsettin’s house at 66 Dalton Street in the North End.
This was an address that Dr. Allen had memorized a long time ago, and he did not go back to the hospital to look through the corresponding medical records, and according to Klein’s speculation, most of the information related to Will Onsettin had already been siphoned off by the night watchmen.
As a former night watchman, I am well aware of their workflow …… Klein sighed bitterly.
Pulling the doorbell, the two waited for a while before seeing the door of the room opened, and the maid in the black and white dress inquired suspiciously:
”Two gentlemen, who are you looking for?”
Seeing that Allen still had his usual cold demeanor, Klein took the initiative and spoke:
”We’re looking for Will Onsettin, this is his attending physician, to make a return visit and confirm his health.”
”I, I don t know him, I’ve only been here for a few days …… I’ll go find my master to come, you guys wait a moment.” The maid replied with a bewildered face.
In the midst of the two waiting, Allen suddenly spoke out:
”That reason you just found, I almost believed it.”
”This is the basic quality of being a detective.” Klein laughed lightly.
At this time, an elderly gentleman in his fifties walked to the door and said in a deep voice:
”The Will Onsettings have moved out of …….”
He quoted a date.
Alan did a little math and frowned:
”How can you labor to move when you’ve just been out of the hospital for two days after surgery?”
He acted genuinely like he was making a return visit to the house.
Klein, on the other hand, asked with slight confusion:
”Sir, how do you know so well?”
Normally, subsequent tenants would definitely move in at intervals.
That old gentleman replied in a nonchalant manner, “Someone has already come to ask before, and I even went to the landlord specifically.”
The watchmen …… Crane pursued the question without much hope:
”Do you know where the Will Onsettings have moved to?”
”No.” The old gentleman spat out only one word.
”And did they leave any belongings here?” Klein deliberated for a moment and continued his question.
”Some.” The older gentleman sucked in his breath, “But it all went to the gang before them!”
Encountering peers is really a helpless thing …… They can always think ahead of what you would think …… Klein couldn’t help but want to sigh.
Seeing that there were no more clues to follow, Klein and Allen politely excused themselves and left 66 Dalton Street.
”Looks like it’s going to be a long time before your suspicions are cleared up.” Klein turned his head sideways to Dr. Allen.
Allen was silent for a few seconds and exhaled slowly:
”After what just happened, I’m not that bothered, I’m a doctor, doing my own thing is enough, I should return to the health, not question the situation, what other people think and why they are not kind is not something I should be concerned about, in the future, try to just maintain the relationship between the doctor and the patient will be fine.”
”It’s good that you think that way.” Klein echoed from the bottom of his heart, then casually asked, “What exactly was wrong with Will Onsettin’s left leg at that time?”
”He had a strange growth on his left calf that happened to form a ring and was severely compressing a blood vessel.” Dr. Allen recalled, “But the boy surprisingly didn’t look too distressed, he just seemed a little scared, and we initially tried to treat it conservatively, but the situation deteriorated rapidly.”