The Whispering Verses Chapter 1842: Opera House Murder
Chapter 1842 Murder in the Opera House
Shad has already learned a lot about the multiple versions of "The Lovers of the Clock Tower" from Dorothy and Lesia during his studies every Saturday. The piece performed by the "Golden Dawn Opera" this time is closer to the original version of this fairy tale recorded in ancient documents unearthed in the Fifth Age.
Most of the initial versions of fairy tales have nothing to do with descriptions such as "innocent and kind". On the contrary, they will be extremely realistic and even have some elements of terror. Probably the young witches of the Fifth Age were considered to need to be exposed to this kind of thing from an early age. story.
Although this kind of story is not suitable for children in today's sixth era, it is indeed suitable for adults.
In the lights-out box, while Shade and the blonde princess were cooing, the grand performance downstairs had already attracted waves of applause. The reputation of the "Golden Dawn Opera Company" is not only supported by Miss Bernice, who has not performed on the stage for many years. When Shade hugged Margaret and thought about this ancient fairy tale, he really felt that every great lady In addition to her own strength, the witch must also have other advantages.
"Hold the snow on the top of the snow mountain and watch the sun in the depths of the desert."
"If you can meet us, dear girl~~"
"Please call our names softly and ask your questions."
"Where the lilies are blooming, or where the sunflowers are to the west."
Margaret didn't care about the performance downstairs, but hugged Shade's neck and softly hummed the witches' songs. Seeing Sha De looking at her, she smiled and said to him:
"It's such a wonderful life like this. Why don't you open a detective agency in Willondale?"
"From my experience, wherever I go, big trouble will happen, and the people of Willendale will not welcome me."
Xia De said very cautiously, then lowered his head and gave the squinting Princess another kiss. The latter became even happier:
"My decision was indeed right. Becoming a witch's apprentice is what I want. I can get it"
Biting her lower lip with her white teeth, her eyes were roughly at the same level as Shade's nose, so she had to speak from an angle of looking up:
"Everything. Shade, come to Willundale City as soon as possible. I made a promise to you. As long as you see me in Willundale, I will definitely give you a gift."
As he spoke, he held Sha De's neck and wanted to change his sitting position, but suddenly saw Sha De turning his head and looking out the door:
"There are many footsteps and heartbeats. There are many people coming, and the heartbeats are very fast."
Sure enough, a few seconds later, the door was knocked from outside, and the knock was quite urgent:
"Your Highness! Your Highness!"
"What's going on?"
Margaret then stood up, smoothed the wrinkles on her skirt, made sure that her upper body was neatly dressed, and finally moved her long hair behind her shoulders. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath to let the blush on his face subside. He used thaumaturgy to calm his mind and then opened the door.
In addition to her maids, there were also several royal attendants who were originally at the stairs. In addition to the people who were already here, among the strangers, Margaret recognized the chief of the Police Department of Michaela Blast Furnace City, whom she had only met twice, and the agents of the Gray Gloves who secretly protected her. Margaret looked directly at the tall and thin man among them. The latter looked ordinary, but he was the leader of this special operations team:
"Your Highness, there was a shooting in the alley on the north side of the Opera House. It was a shot fired with a silencer, at least twenty minutes ago. The deceased were cleaners of the theater, and their clothes were stolen. We suspect that at least three people A gunman entered here."
Margaret's face darkened. She just opened the door of the private room a small gap to ensure that people outside the door could not see the sofa due to the angle. She looked back at this moment, but she didn't see Shade. She only saw a silver cat standing on the back of the sofa, looking at her with bright silver eyes.
Although she has not seen Shade's transformation technique with her own eyes, she has heard about it from Miss Sylvia - the latter heard it from Audrey Edwards. So he immediately understood what Xia De meant and said to the nervous people outside the door:
"Don't panic, I need to leave now, right?"
"Yes, Your Highness. I'm sorry to disturb your mood, but according to our security regulations, you'd better leave here now. Your Highness, the carriage is ready, and the streets are quiet now."
The tall and thin man said, Margaret made a sigh, but still said helplessly:
"Okay, I won't make it difficult for you. But wait a moment, I have to pack my things."
"Okay Your Highness, for the sake of safety, please do it as soon as possible."
No one asked Margaret what she wanted to pack in the box at the Opera House. After the princess called her two maids in, she asked them to clean up the marks on the sofa, while she herself cleaned up Shade's He put the relic away, then picked up the silver cat and put it on his shoulder. Shade released the illusion and hid himself. The spellcasting ability of the cat form has been weakened a lot. Fortunately, the cat is smaller, so it is still easy to hide yourself from others.
After getting ready, Margaret left the box and, under the nervous **** of a group of people, came to the side entrance of the opera house from the hidden stairs on the side. The guards who had already gone downstairs in advance were guarding two carriages parked in the alley outside the side door.
Surrounded by a crowd of people, Margaret and her two maids boarded the first carriage, and two of the remaining maids boarded the rear carriage. The two carriages drove out of the alley one after another, but in different directions.
Among them, the carriage carrying Margaret drove eastward in the silent night along the Glass Bottle Avenue in front of the Glass Bottle Opera House. But within five or six minutes, he suddenly drove into a side alley.
The alley was specially widened to facilitate the passage of water trucks from the City Hall Fire Department, and the carriage was not narrow at all.
The streets and alleys are indeed very quiet. There is only a gas street lamp every few hundred meters in the alley, but before the people on the carriage can react, the coachman suddenly lights up in the dark area between the two lamps. Jumped off the carriage.
He rolled quickly on the ground and picked up the pistol he had placed in advance from the trash can nearby. The horses were still moving forward, and in front of the alley, from the roofs, behind the garbage dumps, and even from the sewer entrance, dozens of people emerged together. Under the cover of the night, they aimed at the carriage that was still rushing forward due to inertia. Pull the trigger.
Because each gun is equipped with a silencer and is a specially selected pistol with low kinetic energy, the continuous gunfire did not disturb this silent night. The fire lights lit up one by one and then disappeared, and the muffled sound made everyone watching this scene feel more and more depressed.
Originally, the royal family members should ride in an all-metal carriage, and the carriage should also be made of metal, but this time the carriage is made of wood. Holes were punched into the wooden walls. After the first round of shooting, the alley was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke. The assassins skillfully changed their magazines and prepared for the second round of attacks. However, at this moment, a harsh squeaking sound was heard in the silent alley. Everyone saw that the carriage door was pushed open. Originally, only the princess and the two of them were supposed to be there. A man actually walked out of the maid’s carriage:
"Where did you find this broken carriage? The metal shaft of the door can be used as a tetanus infection weapon."
Xia De frowned and said, jumping off the carriage. He opened his clenched right hand and let the metal slug fall to the ground with a clatter. The speed of the bullet passing through the wooden board of the carriage is really slow.
Looking around, even though there was no light, his eyes could still clearly see the positions of all the gunmen and confirmed that they were all ordinary people.
The gunmen were speechless. Suddenly, the driver next to the trash can pointed at his head and pulled the trigger. Shade didn't even turn his head. He quickly raised his right hand and clasped it in front of his shoulder.
He maintained this posture, then turned his head and looked at the coachman who couldn't believe what he was seeing, and then spread his palms.
Although there was no light in this specially selected alley, somehow the gunmen could still see a bullet-shaped thing lying in the young man's palm. As the palm tilted, the thing fell to the ground, colliding with the warheads just now, making a clanking sound.
This was the first time that Shade caught a bullet with his hands. The outsider's thinking made him think that this was a very difficult thing, but when he actually did it, he found that it was very simple. With his current physical fitness, he can see the flight trajectory of bullets from this small-caliber pistol quite clearly. It is much easier to catch a bullet that cannot turn than to catch Mia, who is jumping around.
"That's why it is said that only low-level ring warlocks are afraid of weapons in the hands of ordinary people."
As he thought in his mind, the dark chain in his sleeve fell to the ground——
Phew!
The next time he raised his hand, the sound of chains suddenly exploded in the alley. But the chain was quickly retracted by Shade. He turned around and spoke to Margaret in the car. Behind him, trash cans, standing metal pipes, and cabinets abandoned on the roadside were neatly divided into two. , and the bodies of the twelve living people hidden in every corner of the alley were quickly wrapped in pink crystals. After their whole bodies turned into pink crystal clusters, they exploded into crystal fragments one after another. The crystal fragments quickly and quietly disappeared on the ground.
"Solved, but how to explain this matter? Does the church know that you are a student of Serkses Higher Medical School? You should have this tacit understanding."
Shad asked Margaret in the carriage. The two maids beside her had fallen asleep.
"Don't worry about this. After you dispose of the body, it's my own business to explain it."
Her Royal Highness the Princess said, and then they heard a slight explosion behind them. When he turned around, he saw a spinning black and golden vortex appearing out of thin air in the alley. Miss Sylvia, Miss Benanis and Megan, three big witches wearing high heels, walked out together.
PS: Illustration "Marguerite Anjou"