Embers of Embers

Chapter 15 Late Night Tram
11 points.
It was still five minutes before midnight, and the prosperity of the inner city was beginning to come to an end. There were fewer pedestrians on the streets, and the mounted police patrolled specific routes with iron whistles and rifles in their mouths.
Although the prosperity has begun to decline, you can still hear the singing surrounding the buildings, and the intoxicating aroma of wine makes the air sweet.Thick white mist slowly rose, which was steam coming from the underground. However, unlike the simple and crude discharge method in the outer city, they quietly rose from the gaps in the ground, shrouding everything under it.
Eve rarely saw the inner city late at night. Usually at this time, she was already nestled in her soft bed instead of hanging around with a psychotic detective.
Looking to the side, Lorenzo beside him seemed to be waiting for something, constantly looking at the time on his pocket watch.
Lorenzo has been like this since the two left the restaurant. The great detective kept looking at the time and the surroundings as if he was looking for something. Without saying a word, Eve could only follow him like this.
The fog covered everything. Looking from the Zeppelin in the night sky, it was a white ocean. The spire and the bell tower rose from the gray fog, and the electric lights were dotted like fireflies.
"We have arrived."
Suddenly Lorenzo said this and stood on the side of the road with Eve.
"here?"
Eve was a little confused. They were on a platform, which was a steam tram station. But judging from the stop sign, the last train had stopped running two hours ago.
There was hazy gray fog all around, and the hot steam heated up the evening wind, blowing on Eve's face, the warmth seemed to be breathing air from a monster hiding behind the fog.
The girl subconsciously grasped her skirt. What was hidden under it was not her beautiful thighs, but a dangerous weapon.
"Yes, here."
Lorenzo suddenly said quietly, looking behind the fog.
"The steam trams in Old Dunling have actually been operating at a loss, and the fares for transporting passengers are simply not cost-effective. It has always been the taxes of the big entrepreneurs to support these, so in order to alleviate the problem, the steam trams are also leased and sold."
His eyes moved to the bottom of the platform. The metal rails were shining with luster, but as Lorenzo looked at them, the luster began to tremble.
"Aristocrats like you should be able to understand this. The company will rent or sell carriages to private individuals, and when they need to travel, they will directly use the locomotive to run it. However, your Phoenix family is stronger, and you directly bought a train.
Aristocrats usually decorate the carriages extremely gorgeously, like a small palace. When there is a banquet, the mobile palace will stop in front of the guest's house, and the attendants will bow and salute, waiting for them to attend the meeting. "
Lorenzo said something Eve wouldn't know.
"But there are also some other uses, such as a certain earl, he will take his lover to embrace each other in the carriage, the carriage will be completely isolated from the driver's cab, the driver will never know what is happening in the carriage behind him, they will always be in the car Marched on the tracks of Old Dunling until the Earl asked to go home."
Eve frowned slightly, showing a somewhat disgusted expression.
"How would you know?"
"Because the count's wife is my client. You may not believe it, but I am very popular with those rich women."
Lorenzo beamed.
Since the end of the first mistress case, the lady introduced Lorenzo to more troubled ladies. They admired Lorenzo's rough and comfortable way of handling cases. For a while, a man named "Mistress" The detective "Killer" was circulated in upper-class social circles.
The count's case was the pinnacle of Lorenzo's career in catching mistresses. The employer knew about the good things his husband had done, but could never catch him, so he entrusted it to Lorenzo. After following him for a long time, Lorenzo discovered that the count actually Bought a carriage as a mobile palace.
Eventually Lorenzo gave his employer a location where he caused a tram derailment.
"You will never imagine the expressions on those two people's faces when they fell naked out of the carriage!"
Seeing Loren's excited look, Eve's face was filled with black lines. This detective is no longer a bad character.
"Then why don't you continue?"
"It's too bad of character to do this. It's inevitable that you'll get three cuts and six holes."
Lorenzo looked noble, but the actual answer was that the count spent three months undergoing psychological treatment. After all, no one's spirit could withstand the impact of suddenly standing naked in the crowd. After recovery, he The first thing he did was to buy Lorenzo's life. For this purpose, Lorenzo hid in Shrike for nearly a month.
The atmosphere became more lively under Lorenzo's nonsense, and the damp coldness receded slightly.
"Do you have room there?"
Pointing to the underside of Eve's skirt, Lorenzo suddenly said without realizing that he was being unreasonable.
"You...what are you doing?"
Eve's cheeks turned red, this detective is really a psychopath, you never know what he will do in the next second.
I saw Lorenzo taking out a silver revolver from nowhere. The bullet chamber was engraved with ghosts and gods. It was heavy and filled with ammunition.
"I need you to help me hide. Although Sabo is a rude Viking, he has learned some etiquette under the influence of the old Dunling culture. Attending his ball, he will search the men thoroughly, even if It’s useless even if the blade is stuck in the butt groove, but he will not be disrespectful to a lady.”
Handing the revolver to Eve, Lorenzo stood beside her.After carefully arranging his clothes, the next step was the main event. He needed to be more serious.
Eve didn't understand, but she still obeyed and tied the revolver to the ribbon. There were no white thighs, and the long skirt was tight casual clothes. As long as Eve needed it, she could just tear off the long skirt and enter. fighting.
With a dagger and a gun, Eve has never been an ordinary noble girl. As a child of the Phoenix family, other nobles were born with a gold spoon in their mouth, so Eve was born with a bullet in her mouth.
The Phoenix family is a phoenix that rose from the ruins of the Glorious War. Even though she is the princess of the phoenix, Eve is still stained with the pungent smell of sulfur, which is a mark engraved in the blood.
"Time is up."
Lorenzo said suddenly that Eve still didn't know what happened. Since she and Lorenzo walked out of the restaurant, she didn't understand the development of the situation, but then the bell rang.
It was a long and silent sound, coming from the tallest building in the inner city. The low hum after the long sound wandered back and forth in the streets and alleys, like a ghost that refused to disperse for a long time.
A strange feeling came to Eve's heart, and she was suddenly frightened.
The cold eroded the thin dress, and the coldness touched her waist like ghost claws.
I don’t know when she and Lorenzo were the only ones left on the street. There was a light sound of horseshoes in the distance. It was the mounted police guarding the night, but Eve couldn’t see anything under the thick fog. The street lights were scattered into a large halo of light, which looked like the shining eyes of a monster behind the gray fog.
An icy wind blew across Eve's cheek.
Looking back, Eve felt like she was almost suffocated.
The dark steam tram stopped in front of the platform at some point, the dense fog covered its arrival, there was no sound, even the lights were not turned on, only the steam that had just been released heated the surroundings, as if it was a ghost from afar.
Logically speaking, there were no steam trams running at this time, but now there was such a strange steam tram parked in front of her. It had no license plate, no markings, and even the windshield was pitch black. Eve was not even sure what was inside. Anyone.
"Hold my hand, we are a perfect couple in tonight's script."
Lorenzo's voice came from the side, and he raised his arm to signal Eve.
couple?
Eve immediately wanted to draw a gun and shoot the damn detective. In this situation, Eve was extremely nervous, but the sudden opening of the car door interrupted her thoughts.
It was an attendant dressed in black. When Lorenzo nodded slightly, Lorenzo skillfully took out two coins and handed them to him.
What was engraved on the coin was not a lion, but a shrike holding a thorn in its mouth. It was like a pass. The attendant turned aside and made way for the two of them to get into the car. The door was dark inside. Nothing can be seen, as if we are heading into the bottomless abyss.
"Lo..."
Eve wanted to say something else, but the uneasiness in her heart kept scratching her. She always believed in her intuition, but at this moment Lorenzo didn't give her any chance to speak. He held her hand with a smile and boarded the board. Steam tram.
The steam tram started slowly without any sound, and just disappeared into the gray mist silently, as if it had never appeared.
(End of this chapter)