The Guardian family that left Copperfield was unable to use the inherited power.
They are deliberately perpetuating the lie in this way.
And, declare that they "still have the power".
"not enough."
But Eugenie still shook his head.
“Just knowing this is not enough.”
"And add this."
Opening the notebook in front of her, the girl took out two small paper packages from the pages and threw them on the table.
"what is this?"
Darent immediately reached out and opened them, and found that both paper bags were filled with powder.
The difference is that one is grayish white and the other is pitch black.
"Hitzfeld!" Ethan was suddenly shocked. "Could this be--"
"The black color is the bone powder extracted from the charred corpse."
The girl nodded.
"White... white is what I scraped off when we first came to town and passed by those stone tablets."
She sighed, "It just so happens that the first step in perfume making is to analyze the composition of the medicinal powder. I tried it according to the process and found that they are all bone powder - all scraped from bones."
This is a chilling explanation.
Because it sounds like…stone tablets that big, they’re not actually carved out of stone.
But with bones, some kind of huge bones.
"Not enough." Eugenie still shook his head firmly, "It's still not enough."
"..."
"..."
Ethan and Darent's faces turned black.
They began to suspect that the other party was just looking for trouble.
"You're very funny, Mr. Copperfield."
After staring at him for more than ten seconds, Hitzfeld suddenly laughed.
"You were the one who gave me the most crucial clue. Why are you acting stupid here with me?"
"clue?"
Darent looked confused.
"You mean poisoning?"
"The fourth letter."
The girl shook her head.
"do you remember?"
"Red Maple Street, No. 14."
Chapter 46: Farewell to Autumn
No. 14 Red Maple Street.
The doubt that had been lingering in everyone's mind since Jie Li reported the case was finally solved at this moment.
"It's an anchor point." The girl's calm words echoed throughout the room. "It was because of it, because of this word, that I immediately determined that Duke Gran destroyed the police archives in order to destroy some information."
"We have to admit that he acted very quickly. He did it before we could react and take the completely stupid approach. Sometimes stupid approaches may seem stupid but they are very effective. If he hadn't destroyed the archives room, it would have taken us a while at most. We could have used this word as an anchor to infer the truth."
"Just because you asked him what this word meant?" Eugenie narrowed his eyes slightly, trying his best to hide his inner shock.
At this point, the last missing piece of the logical chain has been filled in.
The young detective had deduced from the overreaction of Duke Gran and the others that No. 14 Red Maple Street did exist. Not only that, as long as she used it as a keyword to search the accumulated archives, she would definitely be able to discover the secret that the Gralant Manor wanted to cover up.
At the same time, this is also the secret that Father Booker was ultimately unable to tell and regrettably took underground.
She was so sure, so confident... so she must have found some broken clues at the scene in the archives that Dukegran had not cleaned up in time.
Eugenie stared at the gray-haired girl in a daze.
Maybe it was just a few words, or some drawings stained by ink. But as long as it existed, it would be too easy to find it and to deduce the context of the matter if the suspect had been established.
"How can I put it?" Eugenie broke the silence with a dry cough, lowered his head, and quickly raised it again: "I can only say that I did not trust the wrong person, and only people like you are qualified to listen to the following story."
"Story?" Hitzfeld frowned slightly.
This guy said he came to express his gratitude... Could it be that the real thank you gift is a story?
What kind of story will it be?
Can you explain the origin of No. 14 Red Maple Street?
"Red Maple Street... does exist." Eugenie pinched the knuckles of both hands, "Not only does it exist, you have also walked there, and you may have walked there many times, but you just didn't notice it."
"You mean..." Hitzfeld recalled quickly, "...the road leading from the town to the manor?"
"No..." Then she quickly rejected it, "This way the townspeople won't be completely unaware of it. There is only one way this can happen, and that is that the townspeople who know about it will either die or refuse to pass on the truth out of fear."
With this as a prerequisite, and being close enough to the town, there is only one target left.
"The woods where the monuments are buried?" She looked closely into Eugenie's eyes. "The path that runs from the platform into the town?"
"It's right there." The young man nodded.
"Green Town used to be bigger than it is now, and that was before Sarah ruled this land... According to the records I saw in the ancient books at home, from there as the starting point to the platform, and then to the front where the railway track was cut off by the canyon, the entire long distance and such a large area were all under the jurisdiction of the town."
"But all of this was destroyed with the arrival of the evil species." His tone began to sink. "A huge, evil fire dragon descended from the sky... It spread its wings and blew up a violent wind, and opened its mouth and spit out a sea of fire all over the ground... The storm carried the dragon fire and completely destroyed the prosperous area. Countless people were displaced and countless people became food for the fire dragon..."
"Isn't this really... exaggerated?" Ethan hesitated for a long time, but decided to express his opinion.
Although it has now been confirmed that Old Baal is... well, something. It also proves that many measures are necessary. After all, the legendary fire dragon really exists.
But influenced by her previous girlish ideas, Ethan still didn't think that the fire dragon here was the same as the fire dragons in various ancient books, legends, and even fantasy novels.
After all, Old Barr is still a human being no matter how you look at him now.
Even though he had burst into flames in public before, his size had not increased, and his appearance had not changed. It was hard to imagine that he could become a giant monster that was more than ten meters tall and could cover the sky with his wings spread out.
Unless he is God.
Only gods can break the rules.
"I knew you would have this opinion." Eugenie pointed at him with his hand. "This is why I came here and why I said this is a 'thank you'."
"Yes, that's right—" He spoke faster to prevent anyone from interrupting him, "I want to remind you very seriously that such monsters do exist."
"You are kidding, Agent Copperfield." Hitzfeld frowned.
"I wouldn't joke about this kind of thing." The young man shook his head.
"This is the warning engraved on the genealogy of the Copperfield family - [Trolls and myths do exist, beware! Evil may return at any time!]"
"You didn't join Talignan just for this, did you?" Ethan rolled his eyes at him.
"I can only say that this is part of the reason." Eugenie was indifferent. "I don't like Sarah because of my father's influence. Plus, I've always wanted to confirm what's recorded in the family's ancient books. After all, according to legend, there are really dragons there. Everyone says that Talignan is the 'Fire Dragon Alliance' and the 'Dragon Kingdom'. In history, it once had an incomparably magnificent dragon knight corps..."
"Did you find the dragon there?" asked Darent.
"No." Eugenie frowned, "But isn't Bal's situation enough to prove that it's not fake? Don't you realize the seriousness of the problem?"
"The evil followers are also pursuing this lost history." He emphasized firmly, "They want to find out the reason why the gray fog in the dream world descended! They want to find out the truth about the gods' fall from the sky! They want to prove that they can do it - move mountains and fill the sea like the humans described in those ancient books!"
"You who live under the protection of the Holy Stone have no idea what the outside world is like! In Talignan, they even tried to dig up the King's Tomb to find the 'corpse of God'!!!"
"..."
"..."
No one spoke.
Including Hitzfeld, her scope of activities and cognition were all based on the territory of Sara, and she never knew that evil people outside Sara were so rampant.
"I don't like Sarah, but I like the people here."
Eugenie stood up and took up his hat.
"The transfer and placement of Barr was taken over by Sarah."
"Jeli agreed to come with me...we have to go back to Talignan eventually."
"I don't want those familiar scenes to become ruins again when I come back to Green Town next time."
……
The meeting is over.
Another two days passed.
At noon, sitting in the carriage, I saw through the glass that large numbers of black-clad policemen got off the platform and rushed straight to the town, and there were even troops among them.
Hitzfeld leaned his head against the car window, looked at Darent lying on the table, then looked at Ethan who closed his eyes and dozed off, and suddenly felt a little tired.
She was thinking about Eugenie's warning.
I wonder what would happen if the evildoers really succeeded.
Woo——woo——
The train started moving and began to head home.
Fiery red mixed with bright yellow.
Maple leaves are falling outside the window like raindrops.
Looking at the beautiful scenery, a proud figure suddenly flashed through my mind.
Yes.
The girl's mouth corners gradually curled up.
Just as the brutality of a wild animal eventually lost to the pure love of a child, she also had a similar power.
……
She was no longer alone.
……
……
She was never alone.
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Then the summary -
The length of Storybrooke is generally short, but it contains a lot of content and the pace is very fast. Some readers may have noticed that in this chapter, Aqing caught the criminal for the first time without any plug-ins and only relied on her abilities as a human being.
I think this kind of situation is a must for books of this genre, so I...well, I just came up with some reasoning routines and arranged it this way.
Since I am not really professional in reasoning, I am actually not very satisfied with the current arrangement. I always feel that there are still many aspects that can be arranged more cleverly to make it look more exciting.
(I also looked up a writing style called paradox? Oh my god, it made me so confused after reading it. I have no idea how to write it.)
But I am very lucky that there is something "supernatural" in the framework of this book, so I can make up stories to get around the parts where I am not professional or don't understand.
--Kidding.
It’s definitely not that exaggerated. After all, it still has to give people that feeling, even if it’s just a little bit, so I’ve been working hard on it...trying my best to make the whole story fit the background of the book and the consistent style.
Why write stories about fairy tales and fire dragons? On the one hand, it is out of consideration for opening up new themes, and on the other hand, it is also to further expand the human geography of this world.
