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Chapter 238 The Truth
Taking the bus is a very good experience - that's what people who don't have a car say.

When he arrived at the police station, Chang Wei saw that the door of Duke's office was ajar, and Big Jim's voice came from inside.Linda, who came out of the file room with a stack of documents, nodded to him: "Big Jim is looking for Duke to discuss things."

"Every time I come, unless I am with you, I will definitely see you at the police station." Chang Wei poured a glass of water and said to Linda with a smile.

"The police station is my home." Linda sent the file into Duke's office.

After a while, she came out.

"What did the bald man discuss with Duke?" Chang Wei asked secretly.

Linda gave him a blank look: "It's about propane."

"Propane?"

"That's right." Linda said, "Big Jim wants to persuade Duke to increase the purchase of propane."

"Buy more?" Chang Wei asked in surprise, "Is it missing?"

"No shortage." Linda said, "That's why Duke disagrees."

After a moment, Big Jim walked out angrily, and deliberately glanced at Chang Wei as he passed by.

"Are you here often? Let him in." Duke's voice came from the office.

Chang Wei stood up and walked in.

Duke waved his hand and asked him to sit down: "Big Jim wants to increase the purchase of propane, but I refused. I told him that I will retire soon, and let him talk to you about it."

Chang Wei was startled: "Talk to me?"

"That's right." Duke nodded: "I have decided to go to Chicago as soon as possible to have an operation to replace my pacemaker, and I am going to retire. You will take over my job immediately."

"So fast?" Chang Wei joked, "It's not because of the lakeside town, is it?"

Unexpectedly, Duke nodded, "Yes."

Chang Wei was dumbfounded.

I heard Duke continue: "I'm old, I can't run or jump, and shooting a gun is a burden on my body. If it's just Linda without you, I might have to keep going. Now that I have you , why should I embarrass myself?"

"If you want to say that, you are right." Chang Wei said.

Duke laughed: "You are the most confident person I have ever met. Regardless of ability, mentality or means, you are the most suitable."

"Should I say thank you?" Chang Wei said with a smile.

"It's not necessary." Duke moved his body and sat up straight: "After I leave my job, I won't stay in Mill Town. I will settle in Chicago. You may wonder, I should be someone who is particularly concerned about Mill Town. Why should I How about leaving? The next words, come out of my mouth and into your ears, even if it is Linda, if it is not necessary, don't tell her."

Chang Wei's expression straightened: "I'm all ears."

Duke stood up, closed the doors and windows himself, and drew the curtains. For a while, the office was dimly lit.

He sat down again, holding the coffee cup in both hands, resting his elbows on the table, with a solemn expression.

"When should we start talking about it, maybe 35 years ago."

His voice became low: "I remember I told you, 35 years ago, I was a college student, right?"

Chang Wei said: "Yes, you said it. You said it was camping with your classmates."

"Yeah." He sighed: "At that time, there were five campers, including me. We are good friends. Do you know my full name?"

Chang Wei shook his head, not understanding why Duke asked this.

"My name is Duke Kurt Perkins. They all called me Kurt at the time." Duke laughed: "There are five of us, three men and two women. Besides me, the other two men are named Lister-Martin-Coggins, one named Holden. Two girls, one named Agatha-Julie-Seagrave, one named Pauline-Dinah-Scott."

Chang Wei said: "Lister-Martin Coggins, is it the priest? What is the relationship between Agatha-Julie Seagrave and Maxine Seagrave?"

"Mother and daughter." Duke smiled: "And Pauline Dana Scott, she was called Pauline Rainey later. James Rainey, Big Jim's wife, Junior's mother."

Chang Wei sketched out the relationship map of these people in his mind, and said: "There was no Mill Town at that time, and you came here to camp, and something happened?"

"Yes." Duke said: "I proposed the camping site. I heard that the environment here is very good, there are beekeepers and wooden houses. So we came here. I didn't expect it."

Having said that, he closed his eyes to keep his fear from showing.

"Even after so many years, I am still terrified by that camping encounter." He said: "We have encountered many legendary monsters, zombies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, etc. Only then did we know that the five of us Individuals turned out to be the chosen sacrifices."

"Sacrifice?!" Chang Wei thought of the altar he destroyed in the cave at the bottom of the lake, and those things that Junior went into the woods late at night and muttered to himself.

"Yes." Duke's face was actually a bit distorted: "Holden died first, and we wanted to escape. But this place was blocked by some powerful technological product, like an invisible wall. I hit it On that thing, passed out."

After a pause, he said, "Later we were saved. Except for Holden who died first, the remaining four of us survived."

Chang Wei felt that Duke's words were anticlimactic.It seems that many things, in a word, have not been explained clearly.

There was a forced smile on Duke's face: "You may think that what I said is very general, right? Then let me tell you, there is a huge prison under this land. This prison does not detain people who kill people." Madness, not a peddler, but the gods, demons and ghosts in old legends!"

There was extreme deep fear in his eyes.

Chang Wei's expression froze: "The gods and devils you mentioned in the morning destroy the world?"

"Yes!" Duke took a deep breath, barely suppressing the unknown in his heart, and said: "These old world masters were suppressed here in the era when they lost them. I don't know who suppressed them here Here, but I know that this prison is not safe. Every year, the government will select five suitable people to sacrifice to them to appease these violent devils and pray that they will not come out and destroy the world!"

"We, Liszt and I, are sacrifices." Duke laughed at himself and shook his head, "But they chose the wrong one. In fact, we are not suitable."

"Then..." Chang Wei wanted to ask, how did they survive in the end.What about Milltown?

Duke gave him the answer: "Because our five sacrifices were wrongly selected, the old master was angry. He overturned the earth, wanted to break through the sky, and exterminate human beings. The government had no choice but to compromise."

"Compromise?" Chang Wei squinted his eyes: "Should it be a compromise to a third party? If I were the old master, since I came out, I would definitely not want to go back."

"That's right." Duke said simply, "It's a third party."

(End of this chapter)