Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 543 Suspects

"We can't keep her here."

After the young man finished speaking in a low voice, he glanced at the old prostitute standing not far away like a fighting cock with his hands tied.

The two brothers stared straight at him, and let out a "huh?", which was regarded as a question.

"She's the third victim, and if she stays here all night, then Jack the Ripper is just another guy... I still have no way of knowing who Jack is. But if we let her out... "The young man bit his lip when he said this, showing a little nervousness: "—then as long as we keep following her, we will naturally find Jack the Ripper!"

"Yes, and as soon as we catch the Ripper, we can go out immediately." Lin Sanjiu's eyes lit up slightly, and he couldn't help answering a sentence.For her, of course, the sooner she goes out the better: "In this case, I'll go with you."

The two Tudou brothers looked at each other, as if they were thinking about something; after a few seconds, the younger brother said, "Count me in. The victim came to the door on his own initiative, which means that we may still have something to do with the murderer."

The younger brother agreed, but the older brother shook his head for a while: "Go as you like, I want to stay here and sleep. Whatever he does, the killer won't be able to kill me anyway."

Now that several people had made up their minds, the younger brother immediately came forward to find a few pennies from the house, and sent Annie away with them.As soon as she walked away, several evolutionaries followed up—perhaps it was Annie's cursing voice that attracted her attention. Many people looked at her from the cracks in the door and behind the windows, and then shrank back.

At night in London in the nineteenth century, even though there were gas street lamps, it was still shrouded in damp and cold darkness.This is a slum where countless immigrants gather, so there are not many street lights; the faint yellow light they cast is just a little tone in the distant night, like a drop of watercolor dripping into the dark river water, which does not illuminate much. Disappeared in the distance.

Annie walked unsteadily in the alley while smoking a low-quality cigarette. Whenever someone passed her by, she would stop and say hello with a hoarse smile.Unfortunately tonight, it rained and there were heavy dark clouds in the sky.There were fewer people in the alley, and there was not a single pedestrian in sight for a long time.Due to the sparse population, Lin Sanjiu and the others had to hang far behind, so as not to be heard by Annie.

The night in the game is obviously much longer than the day.Annie's monotonous and messy footsteps, accompanied by the long shadow she cast, wandered in the streets like a drunk, but never found any guests—according to the young man's information, she was 47 years old this year, even through the dim In the dark night, it is also difficult to deceive the eyes of those pleasure-seekers.

After walking for a long time, nothing happened, and the younger brother couldn't help feeling a little restless.

"Perhaps she didn't die today," he whispered, as Annie turned the corner ahead, "we can't be following—"

Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly heard a woman's scream, which tore through the night sky.The three of them were startled, and they ran after them. Lin Sanjiu was the first one to rush ahead; A stored gas street lamp suddenly went out, and the fragments were clearly scattered on the ground - the darkness quickly covered the alley, and several people couldn't help but stop.

A scream still reverberated faintly, but the alley was empty—a few carriages were parked by the side of the road, and a few dilapidated doors were tightly closed. After looking around, it didn't look like anyone was moving.

"Where is she?" The young man asked while panting.

"Search separately!" the younger brother ordered, and rushed to the other side of the alley with big strides. His footsteps were stepping on the stagnant water, which sounded particularly loud at night.

This alley is connected with several forks. If Annie was dragged into a deeper and darker alley after being attacked, it is not impossible——Lin Sanjiu and the young man separated, and she followed a Walking in the fork in the road, I called "Annie" a few times while walking, but I never heard the slightest response.

In the narrow and dark alley, even the last light of the sky was strictly blocked out.Lin Sanjiu listened to her own voice slowly disappearing into the air, and groped for the greasy, moss-covered wall around her—the road ahead was getting narrower and narrower, and there were many sundries piled up; she hesitated in the dark He stopped, thought about it, and decided to retreat to the alley just now.

As soon as she turned around, her breathing stopped.

A dark figure followed her at some point, and was standing behind her at this moment, with heavy panting sounds, emitting bursts of white steam in the darkness.

Lin Sanjiu was startled, and took a step back. Just as he was about to strike first, he heard the other party tremble suddenly: "Don't be afraid! It's me."

Lin Sanjiu was taken aback for a moment before realizing that it was the young man.

Still tensing her muscles, she asked in a low voice, "...what are you doing with me?"

"I...I...I have something I want to show you." The young man sounded a little panicked, "I don't want to say it outside."

"Get out now," Lin Sanjiu said word by word, "Show me something after you get out, or don't blame me for being rude."

"What do you mean by talking to me like that?" The young man was also a little angry, but he just endured it. After all, he snorted, turned around and left—"I really don't understand you women! You don't even think about it, In this game, the only one you can trust is me!"

Lin Sanjiu frowned slightly, and followed quickly.The two stopped at a fork in the road. She separated a few steps and asked in a low voice cautiously: "What do you mean? What else do you want to show me?"

Because the alley is connected to a road behind, there is a little more twilight than the side road, and she can finally see the appearance of the young man clearly.The latter's red phoenix eyes seemed to hang higher when he was angry, and the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed—as soon as his gaze fell into the alley, his anger melted away immediately, and he shivered deeply; he took a step back, He retreated into the shadows, and then took out a small copper plate from his pocket without saying a word, the edge was slightly dented, as if it had been hit by something.

Lin Sanjiu took a closer look at the copper plate, and was immediately confused: "One penny? Why show me this?"

The young man clenched the copper plate tightly, and swallowed with a thud in his throat.After hesitating for a few seconds, he said hesitantly: "...In detective novels, don't you often have that kind of plot...the plot where you go to find the murderer together, and finally find that the murderer is one of the people around you..."

Lin Sanjiu didn't speak, but slowly moved his gaze away.

"This, this is what I found among the fragments of the street lamp." The young man lowered his voice and looked at her with almost earnest eyes: "...I suspect that this small copper plate broke the street lamp. Do you still remember?" Don't remember, before we left, that brother found out a few pennies and gave them to Annie? I, I think..."

Lin Sanjiu suddenly waved his hand at him, and before he could react, he suddenly raised his voice behind him and said, "You're back? Did you find someone?"

The young man was startled, almost biting his tongue, and hastily put the copper plate into his trouser pocket——he felt a blackness on his shoulder, and turned his head tremblingly, just in time to meet his younger brother's irregular potato-like face , and a pair of round, staring black eyes.

"I don't know where she went," the younger brother replied, with the same expression as before.He stared straight at the young man for a while, "...what are you talking about?"

"Just talking about Jack the Ripper," Lin Sanjiu smiled as calmly as possible.

"It's just a guy who killed a few people." The younger brother also smiled, "I really don't understand how he has such a big reputation."

The young man's lips trembled, but he didn't say anything.

Several people suddenly fell into a sudden silence.

"Since we can't find that woman, let's go back," said the younger brother first.He scratched his chin, and with his stupefied expression, he was the first to walk in the direction they came from——Lin Sanjiu and the young man exchanged glances, and in unison a few steps behind, slowly Followed out.

The alley is still as dark as before, and there are shallow puddles on the stone road.The footsteps of several people were stretched out by the silence, and before the echo of the previous step was gone, they were caught up by the echo of the next step. After a while, it sounded as if there were more than three people walking in the alley.

"You...you and your brother, where are you from?" While walking, the young man suddenly asked in a trembling voice.

Why ask this?
Lin Sanjiu was startled, only to see the younger brother turned his head, glanced at the young man, and replied, "You probably haven't heard of the place we came from."

The young man closed his mouth and remained silent.A few people left the alley and followed the way they came onto a road. The light from street lamps and street taverns finally faintly illuminated the wet street again.The voices of people here became noisy again, and the prostitutes in twos and threes were half-drenched by the rain, their hair sticking to their scalps, and they were still trying to talk to every passerby in embarrassment—it seemed that no one heard Annie's words. There was a scream.

Seeing that there were more and more people, the young man finally had the courage to approach Lin Sanjiu.He had been staring at the figure of his younger brother in front of him, and saw that he was surrounded by a few prostitutes making fun of him, so he whispered quickly: "——Don't you understand what I mean? In this game, you can only trust I, I can only trust you."

Lin Sanjiu raised his eyebrows suspiciously.

"Can you tell where those two brothers are from?" The young man shook his head, his face pale: "... Anyway, I can't tell, whether they are Europeans, Asians, or even Arabs, It seems to be fine. What if they are people from this game? Then pretend to be players... But the background here is London, England in the 19th century, so there is only one kind of people who are probably from outside—"

Lin Sanjiu looked at his pair of upturned red phoenix eyes, and already faintly understood.

"...East Asian." She replied softly.

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