The Whispering Verses Chapter 1416: The Flower Girl’s Clues

Chapter 1416 The Flower Girl’s Clues

"What happened?"

Xia De asked curiously, and then noticed the noise coming from the window.

He stuck his head out of the car window and found that the entrance to Mason Street was actually blocked by two horseless carriages lying sideways. Sandbags and stones were placed on both sides of the carriages to block the gap.

At this time, the Mason Street was even more lively than before. In addition to the people watching the excitement, the masons with sledgehammers and small hammers seemed to have run into the street. Although the police tried their best to maintain order, they still could not stop the masons who were divided into two groups from swearing at each other and insulting each other in the most vicious words.

Although Shade was only at the intersection, when he jumped off the carriage, he could still see that smoke seemed to be coming out of the best building on the street where the Masons Association was located. Someone must have set a fire there just now.

"What's going on?"

Eluna also got off the carriage. After Shade paid the fare to the coachman who was watching the fun, he found other people watching the fun and inquired about it. Only then did he find out who had taken the top brass of the Stonemasons Association into the royal family. money, so rumors spread that he planned to negotiate peace with the royal family.

The anger against the Anjou royal family that had been building up for more than ten years was ignited. Before Shade and Iluna arrived, some masons planned to besiege the masons' association and drag out the "traitors" for trial. But fortunately, there are still some people who are more sensible and want to stop them, which leads to the scene of almost armed fighting between the two sides.

"Princess Margaret's plan will cause greater twists and turns because of this incident, right?"

Eluna asked worriedly, Shade nodded:

"Margaret told me yesterday that she was almost sure to solve the matter, but something unexpected happened today. It must be related to her brother."

There is a commotion here on Mason Street, and a large number of police are coming from other places in the city, so the nearby flower girls have left long ago. Shade and Iluna did not find the "little Lianna" that the country girl mentioned just now. ".

Fortunately, Shade gave two small copper coins to the beggar on the street, and the beggar who was busy watching the excitement impatiently provided the news:

"When those little girls don't usually sell flowers here, they must go to the Peace Church two blocks away. It's a nice place there. If 'One-Eyed Jeff' hadn't occupied the spot there, I would definitely want it too. Go over there and beg. Oh, get out of the way, there's a fight over there, you're blocking my view!"

He jumped up with his straw mat and bowl, while Shade and Iluna also turned around and saw two stonemasons fighting with their bare hands.

"Has this city always been so crazy?"

Eluna asked curiously, but Shade couldn't answer this question.

Although the local Peace Church is located in the old city, it is still close to the river like other churches. But after leaving Mason Street, that depressing feeling of approaching storm disappeared.

It's still foggy in the city today, but at least the visibility near the church is better. I don't know if it was Shade's illusion, but he actually felt that there were more people going to the local Peace Church than the people he saw when he and Luvia went to the Dawn Church a few days ago.

But later I thought that it was probably the insecurity in the city that made people more eager than usual for the protection of gods.

Because Mason Street is not far from the Peace Church, and Iluna was more willing to walk with Shade, so the two walked to the vicinity of the church. At the intersection of the street, they happened to see a group of people carrying a fainted old man into a carriage, and the priest, who had a dove-shaped holy emblem on his chest, told the coachman to rush directly to the Church of the Sun.

"Petrified Plague."

Shad whispered to Iluna. The two of them stood outside the noisy crowd and watched the carriage leave. From people's discussion, we learned that the old gentleman just now went to the church to worship with his family, but he had an accident before he could enter the church just over a hundred steps away.

But this incident did not affect the presence of the flower sellers.

The beggar at the corner of Mason Street was right. There are indeed many flower-selling girls nearby. Shade and Iluna randomly found someone. After Shade spent money to buy Iluna, who kept saying she didn't need it, to buy a rose that was probably grown in a greenhouse in winter, the flower seller took them to find it. It was indeed nearby, but little Leanna was eating brown bread in the alley.

The girl called "Little Liana" looks like she is thirteen or fourteen years old, but her eyes are smarter than all the flower sellers that Shade and Iluna have met so far.

After listening to Iluna’s self-introduction, she did not ask Iluna more questions first, but looked at Shade:

"Sir, may I ask if you bought the flower in Miss Bayas's hand for her?"

Eluna was a little embarrassed, but Shade nodded:

"Yes, any questions?"

"I have never heard that when police officers go out to investigate, they can take their boyfriends with them."

The girl looked at Shade and said, Shade smiled and nodded:

"Yes, it is indeed against the rules. So, I will also buy you a flower,? Every time? Miss Bayas keeps a secret?"

So the little girl known as "Little Liana" nodded immediately and picked out a beautiful red rose from her basket.

Although Iluna was very happy that Shade could give her roses, she was not happy at all that Shade was "blackmailed" by others:

"Don't waste this money."

"It doesn't matter. How can it be considered a waste if I give you flowers? Ask questions quickly."

Eluna could only nod unhappily, and when she looked at little Liana, her expression was obviously not very good:

"We are here to investigate the serial disappearance of flower girls. Yes, it is for your own good. We have already found other flower girls who have returned after disappearing. Although they have no other clues, they think you have news Well-informed, so we can provide help to the police.”

Looking at Iluna's expression, if the little girl in front of her said she didn't know anything at this moment, Iluna would probably really teach her a lesson.

"I know!"

Fortunately, the girl, like Shade, noticed Iluna's emotions:

"There are 11 missing girls in total now, 7 have returned, including the baron's daughter and maid who made a fuss a few days ago, 4 have not returned! When all of them disappeared, She was alone, and even the baron's daughter disappeared first, and she disappeared only when her maid asked for help."

Eluna nodded:

"So, what's in it for us?"

"You can find someone to pretend to be a flower girl, act alone, and lure the bad guy into being fooled!"

The girl looked at Iluna:

"Miss police detective, I think you are very suitable."

"This kind of risk cannot be taken casually. Besides, this city is so big. How can you meet the bad guy just by disguising yourself?"

Xia De stopped him immediately, but the flower girl said again:

"I know this. The missing girls all disappeared while passing through deserted alleys. Therefore, the adults are right. Children should not go into alleys alone."

Eluna was obviously moved, but Shade was still worried:

"You must have your own discussions about the disappearance of the girls. So, what do you think it is? Is it really human trafficking specifically targeting flower girls?"

"No, no, it's the flower girl monster!"

The young girl said:

"This is a rumor circulating among flower sellers. The content of the rumor is that if a flower seller acts alone late at night and sells flowers to single men, she may be turned into a monster. Men kidnapped and harmed."

Although she looked mature, she was still too young to understand what she said:

"But it sounds strange, why would someone go to the street to sell and buy flowers at night?"

Eluna tried her best to hold back her laughter, but she had already made up her mind. Maybe she could really try to lure out the enemy behind the scenes.

When he touched the girl's forehead in the village just now, Shade did sense traces of very low whispering elements. There are no other conditions for the whisper element to be generated except that it comes from the relic, which means that this matter is really related to the relic.

Since unknown relics are involved, he definitely disagrees with Iluna using herself as bait, but Iluna thinks this is a good idea.

So after bidding farewell to little Liana who was selling flowers, the two of them talked all the way to the Wilde Opera House. The three great witches are not here at this time, only Miss Lassers has just returned from going out. After Shade learned the truth about the Guardians, although pursuing the truth about Mr. Lassers became less important, she still did it.

The three of them had lunch together at the Wilde Opera House. During the meal, Shade told Miss Lassers what they were doing.

"Actually, have you ever considered another way."

Then the young blonde girl asked curiously:

"What our cult is best at is reading and rewriting memories. Although the Zhengshen Church cannot read those erased memories, I might be able to. Why don't you ask me for help?"

Miss Lassers' idea is very reasonable, and the most important thing is that it is safe.

It happened that some of the girls who had returned after missing were selling flowers near the Wilde Opera House, so the three of them went out to find the flower sellers, and then asked Miss Lassers to try to read the forgotten memories. , and erased her memory of meeting three people and being done strange things by them.

"I can't get the complete memory fragment either."

After returning to the opera house again, Miss Lassers admitted:

"However, I saw some scattered fragments. In the first fragment of her lost memories, she met another flower girl in the alley. The other person was very young and dressed strangely. You should Understand that most of the flower sellers come from poor families, but when she met that little girl, she was dressed as if she had stepped out of a story, with a layered skirt, a lace-decorated hat, and shiny black buckled leather shoes. , I have never known any flower girl to dress herself up like this."