Chapter 165

The walk to church was hard, and Julius was sneezing all the way.

Last night's flames burned all night, and the amount of ashes formed was also unusual. The wizard who followed the fashion trend only realized the benefits of the old-school thick beard at this moment. The black king's mustache formed a layer in front of his nose. Filter layer, effectively blocks most flying ash.

"That's despicable," the wizard muttered, not knowing whom to blame.

Arriving at the church, they again felt the difficulty of the visit.

The church has been opened to the public, but there are still patrols with shotguns guarding the door.

In front of the tallest building in the town, in the middle of the herb yards on both sides, an ancient stone flower-shaped wash bowl has been used again.

In addition to them, many locals who came to visit soaked their hands in the hand-washing bowl under the guidance of the patrol team before being allowed to enter the church.

"They're using holy water to test the identity of the visitors. It's despicable." Julius sighed and turned to look at Clayton: "You try to convince them again."

"There's no need to do that."

Clayton took out a bottle of pomade from his pocket, poured out a little, squeezed it on his hands, and spread it evenly, then threw the pomade to Julius, the wizard watched him walk over in surprise, Calmly pressing his hands into the water, he successfully passed the test, walked to the door of the church and looked back at himself.

Julius immediately came to his senses and reproduced the phenomenon.After walking to the gate, he saw that the patrol members had begun to receive the next visitor, and he exclaimed in a low voice: "You are such a genius!"

"It's just a fluke." Clayton said modestly: "If they were more detailed, I would definitely be exposed."

This is exactly the fact, if it wasn't for the fact that Priest Louis was not an extraordinary person, he would not have taken such a risk.

Although Julius felt that what he said made sense, his tone was still somewhat excited: "That's right. But since the big stench incident, there haven't been so many dark descendants in many places in Dorne. The church won't investigate so carefully. , this method can be regarded as general.”

Clayton knew what the Great Stinking Incident was, but didn't know what it had to do with it.

Not intending to continue the subject, he walked quickly into the church and walked forward through the narrow aisle between the two rows of pews.There are about a dozen people worshiping the icons of the pioneers in the alcove obliquely in front of the podium. The mottled and peeled-off paint strokes were finely ground, and they didn't notice their arrival at all.

Amidst the murmurs of prayers, Priest Louis came out from the door on one side of the church and happened to meet them.

He is not young anymore, but he is still very handsome, which is one of the important reasons why the townspeople are willing to trust him.But he looked frowning at the moment, and he immediately put on a solemn look after realizing the visitor.

"What's the matter with you?" he asked.

Both Clayton and Julius were too prominent in appearance, and he was sure that neither of them was native, so he became suspicious.

Clayton made no secret of his doubts. With one hand, he showed the silver star badge of the sheriff of Sasha City, and with the other hand, he held the broken flintlock gun in his hand and handed it to the other party, hoping that this would make him feel better. The other party paid attention.

"Where is your son now?"

Priest Louis took the gun and looked at it, and quickly responded.

"He left the town a long time ago. Why, did he commit a crime in the city?" He stopped trying to hide it, and asked back with an ugly face: "Also, why did you show me this gun? It's not the same as yours. related to the problem?"

The reaction was not what Clayton expected, and he retracted the gun and stuck it in his belt.

"I heard that your son Sevan commissioned Mr. Perot to order this gun from the city, but we found it in the wetlands outside the town"

The priest's eyes were full of suspicion: "I am an evangelical priest, and my son was baptized at birth. How could he buy guns?"

Evangelical teachings do not allow believers to bear arms, this is a well-known fact.

But Clayton didn't think it was necessary for Perot to lie to himself: "Children are always disobedient." He said that because of Donna, he was deeply moved when he said this sentence. "We are also thinking about his safety. If you don't want to say, we also have other problems. Last month, a stranger picked up this blood-stained necklace by the river in Rewo. Maybe you have seen it. Give us a little clue."

Clayton took out the pendant of the ivory picture frame, and he noticed that Priest Louis' face changed significantly when he saw it.

It was the anger and irreparable helplessness that things got out of hand.

"Now do you have anything to say?" the sheriff from the city demanded.

Louis shook his head, but Clayton's questioning made him make up his mind.

"I have nothing to say about this, except for one thing - if my son Saiwan dies, he will be to blame for it. You should stop looking for me because of him."

The tone of the evangelical priest grew grim, and when he mentioned his son's name, it was not as if he was thinking of his beloved son, but as a denunciation of a heretic.

After answering, he decided to see off the guests. No matter how Clayton and Julius tried to persuade him, he remained firm and did not speak again.

Faced with this way of rejection, the two foreigners could only follow his wishes and leave.

It was some distance away from the church before Julius cursed.

They just want to investigate the identity of the original owner of the necklace, but they have been going around here for several days without any results. Priest Louis obviously knows who the owner of the necklace is, but he just refuses to tell them.

Clayton is already considering whether to confess to Priest Louis. Not to confess his identity as a werewolf, but to explain the doom jewels.

Maybe this can win the sympathy of the priesthood and make it spit out information?

He wasn't sure.

"Let's go back and find Pei Lun." Julius suddenly said loudly: "Damn it, we have investigated all the foreigners who came in the last month, and I still can't believe we found nothing."

Creighton had paid him to run the errand, and he was disgraced when it was done.

"This month at most, I will be able to lift your bad luck!" He solemnly declared to his employer. If it is impossible, he still has his father.Even if it takes at least a month to wait for Grogne to wake up, maybe Clayton will die unexpectedly within this month.
Clayton really didn't know anything about numerology. Although he doubted it, he could only listen to the wizard's promise.

After returning to the hotel, what they saw was an empty lobby. Pei Lun was sitting sideways behind the counter, smoking a cigarette and reading a newspaper.

Clayton walked over to him and asked, "Where's my girl?"

The young innkeeper put down the newspaper and looked back.

"She went to church."

"Really? We just got back from there," said Julius quietly.

The town of Rhevo was not too big, and there were only a few main streets. If Donna Bello was going to church, they would definitely see her when they came back.

Pei Lun blinked guiltyly, and turned around: "Maybe she went the wrong way, by the way, Mr. Bello, a group of people said they wanted to find you just now,"

"Who is looking for me?"

Clayton's face was very ugly, he was thinking about how to punish Donna when she came back.

Besides, maybe he should write a manual of good family behavior to guide this girl, which is even used by the royal family.

"The gentleman who left his name looks a bit like you. He also has black hair. He calls himself Winston."

"Winston?" Clayton broke away from his thoughts. Regarding this description, he only thought of one person, but he felt that it shouldn't be, so he raised his eyebrows and asked Perun, "What did he ask me for?"

"He said Big Paul introduced him."

"puff--"

The lieutenant spat in his breath.

Now he felt that this Winston must not be the Winston he knew, otherwise, the other party would really go back more and more.

"Where is he now?"

Pei Lun shook his head and said, "He didn't tell me this, he only said that he would come back to see you at noon."

Ever since he realized that Clayton's beautiful "daughter" was of marriageable age, his attitude towards Clayton suddenly became more reserved.

Clayton was unaware of this, he told Julius, and then went out again, intending to bring back his niece who was running around.

He asked many people along the street, only to find out that Donna had been following the doctor for some reason.

After the latter took the fishing rod from him, he only stayed in the market for a moment, and then went to the river with new bait and fishing reel, probably to go fishing—risking the "werewolf" to wreak havoc.

The Lieutenant was almost furious.

Although he knew that the local werewolf craze was nonsense, it didn't mean that there were no "beasts" that would attack livestock.

The last time he and Julius went to the woods, he felt that he was being watched!
He ran to the bank of the river as fast as he could.

Before he could catch his breath, he saw his niece surrounded by three men through the gap between the trees.

In desperation, Clayton yelled to attract their attention, and then walked over with his gun.

Both Donna and the man opposite her turned their heads, both showing terrified expressions.

At this moment, Clayton finally confirmed the identity of the man next to Donna, and called out unceremoniously: "Winston, how did you learn to bully little girls?"

The man with black hair but gray eyes twitched his eyes: "I just asked her for directions, she claims to be a local."

Donna looked innocently at her uncle.

Winston came to his senses at the moment. He looked at Clayton, then back at the girl's face, and finally narrowed his eyes.

"It seems that she lied. Are all the people in the Bello family so full of lies?"

"After being surrounded by three strange men in the wild, she will find a way to act as a deterrent. This can only show that she is smart and brave." Clayton walked over and pulled Donna behind him, but still pressed his hand on the gun. "It's you, why did the self-proclaimed righteous son get mixed up with tomb robbers?"

(End of this chapter)

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