Mysteries: Arcana Wars

45

"David Axus was originally my colleague, and he was also a young detective. He came from a barely middle-class family and believed in the goddess of night. His family relationship was also relatively simple, and he had a wife, Olga Axus."

"Olga Axus? Is she also a believer of the Goddess of Night?" Klein wondered. "I thought the wives of believers in the Goddess of Night would keep their original surnames, except for those royal nobles."

"That's usually the case, but Olga is actually an orphan who grew up in the local Church of Night orphanage. Her original name is Olga Morris."

Leonard spread his hands.

"Mitchell, Morris... these are common surnames in the Orphanage of the Church of Evernight, especially Mitchell. It's so common that some people will ask you if you are from the Orphanage of the Church of Evernight when they hear you. So in order to make it easier for the children to integrate into society when they grow up, the Church of Evernight has added a few common surnames to name the children over the past few hundred years, such as Moretti, Sanders, Miles, etc."

"But these cannot completely eliminate the sense of difference between church orphans and children from ordinary families. It is still easy for people to find children who come from church orphanages."

"Especially in this busy and torn era, some church orphans feel a stronger sense of separation and emptiness after entering society due to the oppressive social environment. The surnames given by the church at this time will make them feel a sense of difference and uneasiness. This phenomenon is common in any church organization."

"Therefore, regardless of gender, these church orphans who lack a sense of belonging are extremely inclined to change their spouse's surname after marriage in order to gain a sense of stability and identity from the family."

"Heh, they actually want to gain a false sense of belonging through this method. I really don't know whether this is the progress of human society or the tragedy of this shitty era." Emlyn sneered, "I have seen this topic in many psychiatric and psychology journals, but those experts have discussed it for so long, and there is no improvement in this phenomenon. Instead, it has become more and more serious, and there is even a tendency to spread to ordinary families."

“Many things cannot be solved by medicine alone.” Klein sighed.

It's not that easy to have a family of your own and embrace happiness just by sharing a surname.

"Yes, just like Olga's disease, it is also a very difficult problem in current human medicine."

Leonard continued to explain.

"Oujia was born with a rare immunodeficiency disease, which is very expensive to treat, but fortunately her condition is stable and only requires daily care. But what no one expected was that a month ago, Oujia's condition suddenly and rapidly worsened."

"David, who came to Backlund from another place to work, spent all his savings, but the treatment was ineffective. Some private hospitals with cutting-edge technology can treat this rare disease, but David obviously cannot afford such a huge sum of money."

"If only he had walked into our Earth Mother Church Hospital at that time." Emlyn interrupted, "I think the dean is very confident that he can cure 70% to 80% of the disease, but this level of contamination would probably take a long time for the dean at that time to treat it."

"If it had been delayed until now, I'm afraid Mr. Moon would have been able to cure the disease with medicine?"

"I don't know. I can't make any promises to you without seeing the patient in person."

"But unfortunately, David doesn't really believe in things with a church background, especially hospitals."

"Oh, you think this is pedantic and superstitious?" Emlyn smiled wryly. "Too classic. This is the ignorance of postmodern people. The 'Bright Moon Age' has really spoiled these guys."

"Anyway, you can take a look at these first."

Leonard said as he pulled out some paper from his bag.

"These are some documents that Geraldine gave me at the time. They are David and Olga's medical records and examination reports at the Peaceful Starlight Hospital. Coincidentally, this hospital belongs to the Ishdar Group. Everyone remember to burn them here after reading them. These are just photocopies."

Emlyn flipped through the detailed documents and couldn't help but sigh.

"Mr. Xingxing, where did you find such a precious assistant? The waters of such a large enterprise are very deep, and it is difficult to deal with both the upper and lower levels. How did your reporter successfully get these materials out of that hospital?"

Leonard was suddenly stunned, and gave up after thinking for a long time.

"Now that you mention it, I seem to realize that I never asked Geraldine how she did it before." Leonard frowned, "I never paid attention to these things either. At that time, I thought that as long as I got the information, it would be fine."

Klein felt something was a little strange, but thinking that it was before Leonard returned, he didn't delve into it and just smiled.

“Maybe your reporter used some social engineering methods.”

"Maybe that's it."

Leonard shrugged, then quickly straightened his expression.

“But after that, David changed.”

"He is no longer a mature and steady young detective. Instead, he starts to speak incoherently, his thoughts are incoherent, and he is even a little crazy."

"Soon after, Geraldine privately handed me a video of David stealing from the sheriff's office."

"On the day we opened the case, David never came to work again, so we started tracking him, and then he ran away with Olga in his arms and passed by the Earth Mother Church Hospital."

"Wait a minute, Mr. Star, I want to ask, why do your reporters have the sheriff's office video?" Klein raised his hand to express his confusion.

Could it be that this red fox sneaked in and installed a camera to monitor the sheriff? What is her intention?

This time Leonard was stumped again.

Uh... it seems... it seems that I have never taken the initiative to talk to Geraldine about topics that are not related to work before.

"In fact, I don't know. I never asked about this kind of thing before I returned to my position. Or rather, I didn't care about any of her methods at the time." Leonard touched his chin and tried to recall. "I only remember that when writing the case file, Geraldine herself said that this video was sent to her by Kewawu."

"Kewawu? Cyber ​​ghost Kewawu?"

Klein suddenly perked up.

As a programmer in the Sixth Epoch, he was very familiar with the urban legend of the cyber ghost Kewawu. In the company channel, some of Klein's colleagues who were fans of strange stories often told stories about the cyber ghost Kewawu:

For example, a Kowawu that suddenly appears on your desktop will eat up the project manager's PPT report to the client, and then immediately disappear from your computer; a Kowawu with unfulfilled ambitions will hijack the server of a certain unlucky website, and then send a spam advertisement offering a large sum of money to have children to all users; a Kowawu with nothing to do will lurk in anonymous forums, and then use trash talk to argue with a group of scholars at a speed of 800 words per minute...

"So, the urban legend of Kowawu is real? He is actually a prank hacker?" Klein pondered, "But the legend of Kowawu has been around for a long time."

"I don't know." Leonard shrugged. "But according to Geraldine, she suddenly received an email from the sender cwaoo_ that morning. There was nothing in it except this video. She said that after she downloaded the video, the email from cwaoo disappeared automatically."

But there was still something that puzzled Klein: Why did this Kewawu want to monitor the sheriff? Was it just for fun?

More importantly, Klein realized that Kowawu's operations might have exceeded the capabilities of pure software technology, and this cyber ghost might have physically invaded some hardware in reality.

...So everyone is saying, this is a 'ghost'...

“Then things just connected.”

Leonard continued to piece together the ins and outs of several cases for everyone.

"After David escaped, he went to Griffith Public School, broke into the school after school, and kidnapped the young master of the Ishdar Group, Jarod Ishdar, who was only 10 years old. In the end, David was seriously injured in the pursuit of our Sivellas Field, and was arrested and sent to the Earth Mother Church Hospital. He himself did not succeed in asking for the ransom, so it was all in vain."

I'm afraid the biggest contribution came from the dump truck...

Klein complained silently in his heart.

"This Griffith School looks very old-fashioned, but it's actually no more than a hundred years old and is owned by the Ishdar Group. On the night David stole and fled, we also spotted a figure who looked like David Axus near the Quiet Starlight Hospital, which is also owned by the Ishdar Group."

"What's worse is that David kidnapped Jarod Ishdar, the young master of the Ishdar Group. I mean, I don't think this was a carefully planned operation. In such a bad mental state, I doubt whether David at the time was capable of fully understanding Jarod Ishdar's whereabouts and life, and accurately kidnapping the right target."

"Therefore, after watching the surveillance footage at the scene, I am more inclined to believe that David randomly grabbed a rich kid from the school to carry out the blackmail, and in the end this unlucky guy happened to be Jarod Ishdar..."

"Everyone, isn't this Ishdar Group a little too unlucky?"