caged robin

"hahahahahahahahaha……"

There was earth-shattering laughter in the dungeon, and the laughter hit the dark corridor, and the prisoners in the cell broke out in a cold sweat

"Sir Ricky Monferrato..." A thin voice interrupted the laughter slightly.

"Aha? Sorry, Keener, I couldn't control it for a while." Rich patted his face with a stiff smile, sorted out the "ghost leopard" pictures and dirty books that Keener had collected, and piled them into a big black box beside him. .

Abner covered his ears with both hands, and impatiently kicked the wet stone floor, "Where are the people from Wens!"

"The captain will be here in a while, but Master Shenniao, these things are enough for you to squat for half a month, hahahahahahahahahaha..." Rich laughed again, hammering the table.

Abner laughed softly, "When I think about seeing your stupid beard every day for this half month, I wish I could squat for another half month."

Rich's face darkened.

"Sir Rich, these should not belong to Lord Shenniao, but should have been dropped by that small trader in a hurry." Keener explained.

Rich: "..." His face was either blue or black.

"Abner?" Wens came over at this moment, feeling that the atmosphere was a bit stagnant. He glanced at everyone, and then asked Rich to pick up his shift, while Keener and Tommen continued to patrol the city.

Wens took Abner to a small interrogation room, which was empty and clean, with only a wooden table and a few chairs, as if it had been unused for a long time.

"Clean, sit down."

Wen Si sent someone to prepare another pot of tea, then closed the door and sat down opposite Abner.

Abner took a sip of tea and looked at Wen Si. Wen Si's complexion was much better than the previous two days, but his eyes were still tired.

"We didn't find any ghost leopards in the Cloud Blood Wilderness," Wens said.

"Because he's with me."

Vince was startled.

"The situation is very complicated. I won't be able to figure it out for a while. Now I can't speak the language with him, and I can't figure out his whereabouts. Maybe when he comes again, I can bring him to see you."

Vince smiled, "You always surprise me."

Abner raised his eyebrows, "As long as I'm not allowed to go to that damned white ghost place again, everything is fine."

Vince smiled apologetically.

Abner snorted.

"Although we didn't find the ghost leopard in the Cloud Blood Desolation, we actually saw an old friend." Wen Si said.

"Isn't this haunted? Should I say normal?"

"No, Richie and I can see this ghost," Wins' eyes sank, "He is the late Duke Nero Margeri."

Abner almost spit out a mouthful of tea, "Ahem, it must have been three years since Xiao En's uncle died?"

"Yes, so much happened that year."

First, Duke Nero Margeri died. The king, who was already terminally ill, was distraught when he heard about it, and soon died. The heavy responsibility of Silver Bow City rested on Duke Rota Margeri.

Abner fell silent.

"Don't think too much about this kind of thing, we're exhausted if we can do our part well." Wins quickly interrupted Abner's meditation.

Abner gave him a blank look, "I was just thinking about other things."

"what?"

Abner took out a messily stacked picture from his pocket, unfolded it, and it was the ugly picture of the "ghost leopard" he bought, "I just bought a picture of the so-called ghost leopard that can ward off evil spirits."

Wen Si raised his eyebrows when he saw him, "My lords, if I catch this, you will have to spend two days in jail. I will let you go for the time being because of your merit."

Abner gave him another look, "This picture is seriously inconsistent with the real thing."

"I guessed it, so I have issued an order to ban the sale and purchase of 'ghost leopard' pictures."

"why?"

"We must control the situation before we figure out what is going on and what is the origin of this 'ghost leopard'."

Abner frowned.

Wen Si smiled, "My lords, I'm not a tyrant. You must know that people's imagination is rich and terrifying, and they are suspicious of ghosts and gods. When a strange thing appears, they will judge it according to their own preferences." Good or bad. 'Ghost Leopard' is a ghost or a god, just a thought."

Abner glanced at the fangs of the "ghost leopard" painted on it, and said with a chuckle, "That's right, no matter whether a person has seen a real black panther or not, he is still more willing to believe in this than an ordinary black panther. The appearance in the painting, because this 'ghost leopard' is more in line with people's imagination."

"And that imagining has already started to backfire."

Abner frowned.

"This painting just came from Blue Spring City. Blue Spring City is already in chaos. Fortunately, the king immediately invited the Fire Spirit Priest from Chilong City. The priest should be on his way by now. Our life here is very difficult." It’s not that easy anymore. The king is twisted like a black baguette, and he insists on asking me to wait for mortals to go to heaven and earth and catch ghosts part-time. Someone reported this morning, saying that there were more than a dozen corpses in a barren field outside the city. The heart was dug out, it was horrible, before the people I sent got there, someone had already spread the word that 'ghost leopard' eats people's hearts..."

Wen Si was talking quite tiredly, suddenly there was a faint noise outside, and there were children screaming and crying in the noise.Abner and Wens looked at each other, pushed open the door and walked out, following the noise, they walked to the door of the dungeon.I saw a little girl with short hair sitting at the door and crying, her whole body was dirty.The guards couldn't drive him away no matter what.

"What's going on?" Wen Si stepped forward.

The guard turned around stiffly, "My lord, I don't know how this little girl slipped in. She insisted on letting her brother go."

Wins frowned, walked over, and pulled the little girl up from the ground. Abner was taken aback. Isn't this the little girl who said she wanted to "marry" him.

As soon as the little girl saw Wen Si, her eyes lit up, and her big eyes couldn't stop crying, "I, my, brother, no, no, kill..."

"Who is your brother?"

"Boo, Booker..."

Wen Si frowned, "We haven't fully convicted him yet, you go back first."

Wen Si's tone was completely commanding and could not be refuted, and the little girl's sobbing stopped in fright.Until she turned her head and saw Abner beside Wens, her eyes began to shine again, she stepped forward and hugged Abner's thigh, "Beautiful little brother!"

Wins: "..."

Abner's legs trembled, and when he looked up, he saw Wen Si looking at him jokingly.

Abner: "..."

He tried his best to pull the little girl away from his lap, and the little girl was sobbing again and again. He touched her head and said, "Go back first, don't keep the family waiting, and don't make trouble here, okay? I will angry."

"Little brother, don't be angry, don't be angry, I will marry you..." the little girl cried with snot and tears.

Abner: "..."

"Can you give this to Brother Booker?" the little girl took out a small black cloth bag from her pocket, "the little wooden figure I made is inside."

Abner took it, "Okay, I'll give it to him, you go back early, don't break in alone in the future, pay attention to safety."

Wins asked a guard to take the little girl out, and she looked at the dark corridor behind Abner, then at Abner, and then went out.

Abner looked at the back of the little girl going away, and heaved a long sigh of relief. Wen Si patted him on the back, and his raised eyebrows were full of words.Abner pushed his elbow against his arm, "You learn."

"I don't want to go after a five-year-old."

"Yes, yes, you can't even coax a five-year-old child well, I think you will be a bachelor for the rest of your life."

Wins: "..."

He will be thirty next year, but so far there is no sign of good luck.There is never a shortage of beautiful girls around him, and there are always noble ladies who are eye-catching, but he has never disappointed the other party except in work, and he is disgusted by the other party everywhere.What is not good enough to speak, not gentle enough afterwards, and act in a hurry... As the days went by, he formed a fixed pattern of taking off his pants to do things, and pulling up his pants to leave.Every time he walks on the long street late at night, looking at the cold moon and the empty city, he thinks that knights in swords are probably the most suitable for living with swords and swords for a lifetime.

They walked toward the depths of the dungeon.

"What's with this Booker?" Abner asked.

"He is the little girl's brother. Do you still remember the decapitated female ghost?"

Abner nodded.

"Although ghosts can possess themselves, they should not cause harm to the possessed person. Therefore, the deceased was dead before being possessed. We found out that the female corpse was named Luo Xi, who was Booker's girlfriend. The two had a heated argument in the evening, and he is the most suspected, so we have to detain him temporarily."

As soon as Wins finished speaking, the two had already walked to Booker's cell.

The cold dungeon smelled of moss, and a small, skinny man was curled up on the dry grass.

"Booker," Vince called him.

Booker remained motionless as if dead.

"Booker!"

Only then did Booker move and get up, slowly got up from the hay, and walked slowly towards the cell door, his back slightly bent, and his whole body looked limp, like a mollusk.

"Your sister gave it to you." Vince handed the bag to Booker.

Only then did Booker cheer up, "Ah... Alia."

Vince nodded.

"How is Alia?" Booker raised his head, his face was illuminated by the torches of the dungeon, his big dark eyes resembled his sister Alia.

Abner replied, "She's fine, and you have to keep your spirits up."

"Thank you, my lord," Booker thought for a while, and continued, "My lord, I really didn't kill Rosie. I, I...love her before it's too late..." Booker shed tears as he spoke.

Wins frowned and said, "We will investigate this matter."

After speaking, he took Abner and left the cell.

In the quiet dungeon, Abner suddenly said, "I don't think he is the murderer."

"Don't tell me you're moved because of his salty tears."

"No, Vince, I remember that it was a strong, tall man who put the woman's body on the cart that night, and who would be stupid enough to put the body on his own cart?"

Wen Si was silent, and then said: "The most important thing right now is to get those damned ghosts away, otherwise there will be more decapitated female ghosts. The souls of those poor people whose hearts were gouged out this morning are still alive, and the people But I just believe that the 'Ghost Leopard' took it out."

"I'm afraid someone is fishing in troubled waters."

Abner's heart skipped a beat.

When the two walked out of the dungeon, the big iron gate behind them closed heavily, and the fire could not illuminate the endless darkness.