Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 542 Day One

As the words sounded, Lin Sanjiu and the other two brothers cast their eyes on the young man.

The gas street lamps on the street went out one by one, and the young man lowered his head, his face becoming more and more blurred.He was short and wore a well-worn denim jacket—an old-fashioned denim jacket with high, broad shoulders that hung hollow over his emaciated frame.

"How do you know that this is London in the 19th century?" asked one of the potato brothers.

The two brothers both had round eyes with big and black pupils.Their faces are irregular, but their expressions are very similar: no matter what they say, they always stare at you with round eyes, and they always look at you, which always makes people want to look away—after all, for most people , meeting the eyes of others is always an uncomfortable thing.

Lin Sanjiu compared inwardly, and found that the elder brother only reached her eyebrows - in this way, as the only woman, she became the tallest person.

The young man seemed to be very introverted, he flinched a little when he heard the words, and then raised his face: "...Because I have always been very interested in Jack the Ripper and have read a lot about him, so I always You'll know it when you see it. Are you new here too?"

He had a Cantonese accent, and he had a pair of double-lidded phoenix eyes. He looked delicate and elegant. No wonder the old man's description made Lin Sanjiu suspicious.

"I've been waiting for a long time," said the elder brother impatiently, and finally moved his gaze away from the young man; Lin Sanjiu could clearly feel that the latter breathed a sigh of relief—" Now that Jack, has he started killing people? How to catch him?"

The young man shook his head hurriedly: "I don't know... It's been hundreds of years, and no one knows who Jack the Ripper is. Even the London police back then couldn't do anything... It's not easy to catch him."

The younger brother let out a sigh of relief, opened his eyes and looked around, and said to himself: "...What a strange place."

"It's not just weird," Lin Sanjiu suddenly interjected, and several people looked at her at the same time.

She rubbed her temples and sighed: "...I'm afraid the security of this dungeon is not as high as the gatekeeper said. At the very least, I think our evolution ability and special items should not be used."

While speaking, she had quietly slipped the [Battle Item] into her trousers pocket——it now looks like an ordinary piece of clay.Lin Sanjiu originally planned to put it away as a card, but now even [Flat World] is dumb and no longer responds.

The others were taken aback and looked at each other, but no one made a sound.

——These people meet by chance, and there is little trust in each other, so it is reasonable to refuse to say "my ability has really failed".

After a few discussions, they decided to take a walk along this street to see if they found anything.The roles they were assigned were not important figures, they were nothing more than members of the slums living in the East End of London. After walking for a while, the brothers were "recognized" first: it turned out that the two of them were The proprietor of a nearby bistro; a wobbly, half-drunk Eastern European immigrant who recognized them and kept asking "Is it going to open now?"

In the early morning, there was still a light blue sky, and it was even darker in the rain and white fog.Although the young man had read a lot about Jack the Ripper, it was obviously his first visit to London; after walking around for several times, the group finally found the famous Whitechapel in the East End - No. 1 The victim, a middle-aged prostitute stabbed 39 times, was found nearby.

In the continuous rain, the alley looked even darker. The air of London in the 19th century was always filled with a pungent, sulfur-like smell of smoke, and even the rain could not wash away the deep and shallow smog in front of us.In this alley that seemed unreal, a few people walked forward in silence and aimlessly for a while, until suddenly there was the sound of "click" and "click" from the corner of the heel.

A few people were taken aback, just in time to see a young woman coming out of the rain and fog——she wrapped a fur-balled scarf tightly around her shoulders, and hurried past the corner; when she noticed someone in front of her, she Seemingly taken aback, she cautiously grabbed the corner of her skirt and took a few steps back, but when she looked up and saw Lin Sanjiu, she seemed to be relieved immediately.

"Carol," she called, one eye was black and blue, and the corner of her mouth was swollen from someone's blow, red and bloodshot.She smelled of cheap and pungent face powder, and the makeup on her face was already smudged—from the woman's clothes, her occupation was almost self-evident.

She approached Lin Sanjiu in a few steps, looked at the young man again, and said in a low voice: "...Are you two going home now? Is this the guest you just found?"

Lin Sanjiu and the young man looked at each other, both dumbfounded - they didn't expect that the roles assigned to them in this game were actually prostitutes.

She didn't know how to respond, so she just let out a vague "ah".

"Be careful," the young prostitute said here, suddenly her voice became hoarse, and she covered the corners of her black eyes with her hand: "...that murderer has already killed two people around here, can he hurry up?" Go home, it's better to go home early!"

Several evolutionaries were stunned when they heard the words, and couldn't help but glanced at each other.

"You two still have a place to live," the young prostitute smiled wryly, "I thought that the gentleman from yesterday would give me a place to stay temporarily, but I didn't expect... Forget it, I'll go to the pier Take a turn, maybe there is still business."

After all, before a few people responded, she turned around and left in a hurry—her low-quality high-heeled leather shoes no longer sounded like a sharp "click" from close up, but also turned with a little leather. The sound of switching on and switching on again.

Seeing her walking away, the young man looked away.He whispered to several people, "What should we do now? It turns out that Jack the Ripper has killed two people."

"Are they all prostitutes?" Lin Sanjiu frowned and asked, "How many people did he kill in total?"

"...five, all prostitutes." The young man replied softly. "They were all killed continuously within a few months, and the duration was not long."

"Then even if we don't do anything, I guess this game won't last long." The elder brother of the two brothers said, "I'm not interested in catching the murderer, how about this, let's find a place in the game , and then wait for the game to end in the residence. How about it?"

Before Lin Sanjiu could speak, the young man immediately blushed—"Okay, I finally have such an opportunity, I, I really want to see who is Jack the Ripper."

"What about you?" The elder brother glanced at Lin Sanjiu.

"Let's go together," she thought for a while, and persuaded the young man, "When you have a place to stay, it's not too late for you to go out and inquire."

The young man bowed his head, agreeing.

Finding a place to live is difficult or easy: In the end, the young man came up with the idea of ​​asking the two brothers to pretend to be drunk and ask everyone where their home was—by the way. With this stupid method, although there were some twists and turns on the way, they finally found their rented house.

It seems that the tavern owner's life is not easy.This cheap rented house was mixed with the residences of several old coachmen and shoe repairers. The rear fenced yard was filled with the smell of horse defecation and leather, and even with the windows closed, it permeated the house deeply.

After a group of four people sat down side by side in the dark and cramped living room, Lin Sanjiu finally took a breath.There was a heavy damp and musty smell in the room, as if no one had lived in it for a while—she looked up at the other people, and found that the pair of brothers were obviously just like her, a little at a loss as to what to do next .Only the young man had flushed cheeks and bright eyes at this moment, as if he couldn't restrain the excitement of seeing Jack the Ripper with his own eyes.

"Why are you so interested in this murderer?" The elder brother's body was sunk in a single sofa, in the dim room, it seemed that only his straight eyes could be seen clearly.

The young man flinched, and replied: "... Jack the Ripper is very famous. Movies, songs, novels...he's in everything..."

"Since you're here, tell us more about Jack." The younger brother sat on the sofa in an almost identical posture and asked the young man.

This sentence fell into the arms of the young man—he obviously had done a lot of research on Jack the Ripper. Hearing this, he immediately changed his timid look and explained the case in detail. I have told it once; I can even remember many details of it very clearly, and sometimes I can even say different sources.

"If I said this before, people would think I was a pervert." At the end, the young man seemed to be aware of his excitement, and he lowered his head in embarrassment: "But there are many people who are interested in serial killers. I'm nothing... I also heard that after many serial killers were arrested and imprisoned, there were many admirers who corresponded with them and even married them in prison..."

Lin Sanjiu has also heard of this point.

"Hey, it's getting dark outside." The younger brother looked out of the window and suddenly called out softly.

When a few people saw it, they couldn't help but also froze for a moment.The time in the game obviously passed faster than in reality; the young man just talked about the case once, and the sky outside the window had already changed from morning to night—under the dim light of gas street lamps, prostitutes one after another , hooligans, drunkards, gradually increased.Women of all ages and appearances stood on the side of the street in small groups, shivering in the cold night, waiting for the guests to arrive.

"If you want to find the murderer, you can go," the elder brother smiled at the young man, pointing to the shadow hidden under the street lamp outside the window. "The two of us can accompany you—"

Just as he was about to say this, he was cut off by a sudden knock on the door.Several people glanced at each other, and Lin Sanjiu was the closest to the door, so he got up and opened the door——when the door opened, the woman outside was stunned.

"Carol? Didn't Mr. Dalton ask me to come over?" She wiped her red lips, and her face was painted white, but she couldn't hide the loose skin and tired wrinkles.She raised her voice, and Lin Sanjiu's ears hurt from her sharp questioning voice: "Why are you here? Did you steal my business?"

When she made such a noise, the neighbor's door was pushed open a crack - an elderly man poked his head out and teased her with a smile: "...Annie, Mr. Dalton is so much younger than you, I'm afraid I'm not interested in you. Otherwise, you might as well come to me—"

"Bah, you have to be rich!" The prostitute named Annie spit out a real mouthful, and a mouthful of white phlegm wiped the toe of Lin Sanjiu's shoe and passed by.

Dalton seems to be the name of the two brothers in the game——Lin Sanjiu got a headache from her quarrel, and was about to ask the two brothers to send her away, but without turning around, she first met a couple who were excited and nervous. , And bright eyes.

"Annie?" repeated the young man in a trembling voice. "Annie Chapman?"

The old-looking prostitute turned her head and looked puzzled: "...what are you doing?"

The gazes of Lin Sanjiu and the two brothers were all on the young man.He glanced back, and lowered his voice so softly that almost only his mouth remained: "—she is the third victim."

　Thank you JKKYG Aries, Jin, the incompetent baa baa, Hashimoto Hanzi, Amao boy, Hua Xiamian, Yali, Alien Meow, etc. for your rewards, as well as erpiang, Maoshuo, Italy, Sky_Bicheng , The Pig of the Water Monster, Akula 666, Nalan is a Foodie, King Yaoyao and others are monthly tickets for everyone~!Although I have an idea of ​​how this dungeon will end, the story line in the middle is still a little blurry... Hmm... Do I need to ask for another day off...

　
(End of this chapter)