It seems like there is no one.
The left, right and top of the iron fence were all empty, and there was no imaginary monster lying there.
"Hitzfeld..."
She heard someone calling her name from below.
Looking down, I saw Xia Yibing standing on the snow-covered lawn with an unconscious man lying next to her.
The sexy female detective was holding a snowball in her hand, and apparently she was knocking on the window in this way just now.
"what are you doing?"
Hitzfeld couldn't help but whisper to her.
The clock is already past three. Why are you still awake so late to come and see her?
Did she guess that I couldn't sleep?
"Is there a lantern in the room?"
"……what?"
"Shine the light down, and I won't have to explain."
"???"
Hitzfeld was puzzled.
But there was a lantern in the room, and it was on the table, to her left.
He turned on the light and shone it downward. Hitzfeld's pupils contracted.
Xia Yibing's clothes and half of her face were covered in blood.
And the man lying at her feet, if she was not mistaken.
…That’s Ethan.
Chapter 46: Tear Mole
After parting with Hitzfeld, Xia Yibing drove directly to the Cathedral, intending to go there to find Isaac Rhodes, the leader of the Xieyang Cult in the temple.
Isaac Rhodes is his Christian name, given to him by the bishop of the previous generation. From that moment on, they will abandon their mortal names and only keep their surnames and Christian names to walk in the world.
She came here to find out in detail how little Babis died.
At an intersection less than 50 meters away from the church, I saw a man wearing a top hat and a red rose on his chest waving at me.
Stop the car, stand up and sit in the back seat, letting Red Rose take over driving the vehicle.
At the same time, he took the envelope handed to him by the other party.
As usual, I shook the envelope open and read the letter.
It contains a lot of content, describing in detail the causes and consequences of the attack, as well as the handling of the situation so far.
According to the records, Babis got into a fight with others in a gambling house because he was addicted to gambling. Two people at the same table pulled out machetes and hammers... The photos of the body were horrific.
"Serves him right." Xia Yibing snorted, "I told him a long time ago that he should send this bastard directly to the military camp."
"He's very busy." Red Rose said dryly, "The Xiyang Stone Carving needs him to watch over it at all times."
"We have people helping to watch over it, so this is not an excuse."
"Also, why did those two men bring weapons to the casino?" she asked, looking up.
“They were carpentry apprentices.”
"Carpentry...?"
"The employees of a nearby housekeeping company went to the casino right after finishing their work that day. Babis owed them a large sum of money, and their initial purpose of bringing tools was to scare him into paying back the money as soon as possible. But Babis falsely accused them of cheating, and they lost control and killed him."
"It sounds like a perfect surprise... Did you get the information right?"
"The identities have been investigated and the interrogation has been done. Each person has made two statements, which have been compared with each other. There is no problem."
"Is the spirit being identified?"
“That result hasn’t come out yet.”
As he was speaking, someone on the side of the road raised his hand to stop the car.
An old lady dressed in colorful clothes.
She seemed to think it was a taxi and blocked the route forcibly, not letting them pass. Red Rose stopped the car on the side of the road and started arguing with her. After a while, the old lady left and he started the car again, saying, "The results are out, it was man-made."
"Oh?"
"The 'spirits' emitted by those two people have a very strong stench. They also found out that Babis didn't owe them any money."
"So all this is just their imagination." Xia Yibing's eyes flashed coldly, "...someone has implanted nightmares in them for a long time to mislead them."
The car drove around the church and returned to the church entrance. Xia Yibing got out of the car and walked inside without looking back.
She met Isaac Lord in the back hall.
"It's nice to see you again, Xiasha."
The old man was still wearing the district chief's robe, and a set of exquisite and heavy sun-wheel pendants hung on his chest.
The pain of losing his son made him look a little listless, and his eyes under his white eyebrows were red, as if he had just cried not long ago.
"If you can't pronounce that name well, either call me Xia or Bing."
"Okay, Xiasha."
"..." Xia Yibing clenched her fists and decided not to bother with him because his son had just died.
"How is the Xieyang Stone Carving?"
"Someone tried to unlock the bell tower and get in when I was out."
"So their purpose in killing Babis is to lure you out and then plot against the Weapon Yang Stone Carving?"
"They know I won't be gone for long." Isaac Rhodes shook his head, "I don't even care about his gambling. They know very well that I don't care about him that much."
Xia Yibing remembered a saying circulating within the Shadow Lions: The district leaders of the Xieyang Cult are all crazy in a sense.
"Personally, I think it's more of a warning, or a test."
The old man continued.
"They are obviously planning to make some big moves, and before that, they want to test what they can do and what our prevention standards are."
"As long as the stone remains on the bell tower, they will never be able to launch another large-scale evil sacrifice."
Xia Yibing looked fierce.
"No matter which direction they try, their goal is definitely to destroy the stone carvings."
"You can rest assured about this." Isaac Rhodes made a circle and a cross on his chest.
"Even if I die, I will not let any heretic get close to the stone carvings."
"...Have your Flintstone Knights spotted any suspicious persons these days?"
"No, they are hiding very deeply."
The old man shook his head.
"Even professionals like you can't find it, and you still want to rely on my tin cans..."
After staying in the back hall for nearly two hours, Xia Yibing swept open the curtain and returned to the front hall. She lined up with the civilians and tourists, bowed her head and prayed to the goddess earnestly.
A man squeezed in next to her and stood firm, accidentally bumping into her with his elbow.
Looking up, I saw Ethan's awkward yet polite smile.
……
"We have determined that the Eclipse Church has two core goals in its plot. One is to destroy the Xieyang stone carving on the cathedral bell tower, and the other is to obtain the documents from you."
By the bed, while treating Ethan's wound, Xia Yibing explained to the girl at a very fast speed.
"So we divided all our manpower into two parts. One part was stationed in Flo Street... This part is mainly our people. The other part was deployed near the Cathedral, mainly Isaac Rhodes' Flintstone Knights."
"And then we were attacked here on Flo Street."
"…What exactly happened?"
Hitzfeld was a little dazed.
Even if she was attacked, why did this woman drag Ethan to come to me for help?
Doesn’t Shadow Lion have anyone of his own?
"The attackers were all civilians, and it was as if they were possessed by a nightmare."
Her tone was low and it was obvious that Xia Yibing had suffered a great blow.
Shadow Lion was busy searching for heretics among the surrounding people, but had not found anything.
She originally thought that those people hid well enough, but she never expected that so many people in this area were contaminated - their testimonies to each other could not be trusted at all!
People who were chatting and laughing one second ago suddenly attacked and killed people the next second, especially when they still had smiles on their faces.
Whenever Xia Yibing recalled that scene, she felt creepy.
"The heavy snow covered up all the noise... I wanted to continue chasing them, but Ethan was injured."
"We were separated from other people on the road and were supposed to find a family to house us, but I can't trust the other residents of Flo Street at this point."
"so……"
"I can only look for you."
"..."
Hitzfeld didn't know what expression to make at this moment.
The situation changed too quickly. For her, who had been staying in the room studying documents, everything Xia Yibing said seemed unreal.
But the blood on her body was not fake.
The gunshot wound on Ethan's body wasn't fake either.
"Let me do it."
Seeing that the woman's arms were shaking as she twisted the towel, Hitzfeld sighed and went over to take over her job.
"Will you wipe it first?"
"Clean it up and bandage it."
"Don't care about the bullets?"
"There were four in total, and I picked them all out for him."
After cleaning and applying a layer of ointment, Xia Yibing lifted Ethan's limbs, and Hitzfeld carefully bandaged him with a bandage.
During this process, he woke up in pain.
"When I saw Hitzfeld, I thought I was in heaven."
Ethan grinned.
"But when I saw you, Captain, I knew I wasn't dead yet... because you were so evil, there couldn't be an angel like you."
"Is it okay for him to be like this?"
Hitzfeld glanced out the window.
"Why don't you set off that firework and call the others over?"
She had never seen Shadow Lion's fireworks, but she remembered Ethan mentioned this thing.
"There may still be fighting in other places." Ethan said intermittently, "We can't draw attention here."
"Don't worry about my injuries. They're not fatal. I'm lucky..."
His expression was unnatural.
Hitzfeld realized it herself: these two people wanted to use her as bait.
There was chaos all around, and if the enemy had any manpower available, they would definitely sneak into the house.
