Path of the Dead Prequel: Wings of Silver

"What are you thinking? You actually called me to come to the shooting gallery to shoot, that's work, doesn't mean I like to play with guns, do you understand? But you're fine, but you don't talk with a drink, what's going on?" Little Cherry picked up a noisy headset, came to me and kicked me, leaned down and asked, "Is it because of the person you said in the morning?"

I nodded wordlessly, stood up and held my gun, and shot all the iron lotus seeds. When the target came back, the female soldier found that the guns and guns had hit the bull's-eye, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, slapped my buttocks hard, and said with a smile: "Yes, you are very talented, how long have you been practicing? In this case, let's go to the suburbs to shoot flying targets, and the pieces of paper that don't move are boring. "

"This can only be rescheduled, I'll walk around with you, and I'll have to go back to the hotel at three o'clock in a while." As for that person, my story shocked me, and I didn't know what to say to him, and I didn't know how to explain it to Lin Rui in the future. I put my arm around her shoulder, smiled, and asked, "There's a swimming pool around here, do you want to practice with me again?"

"No, I didn't bring a swimsuit, and besides, I hate being exposed in public. Besson, you haven't seen enough of last night?What swimming?Let's go to the karate gym, didn't you suggest a fight with me?" She screamed, jumped on my back, motioned for me to pick her up and run, and said, "I think it's much more comfortable than riding in a car, there's nothing to think about." If that person had been a FirstSergeant in the past, wouldn't it be much easier for you to check the warehouse?

"What? Don't you know? Just because he used to eat public food, Lin Rui would definitely not do it after he found out! He was actually a fugitive who crossed the border on bail!" I spread my hands and said in a low voice: "You say, how do the police and thieves get along?" It's no wonder that we didn't explain it clearly to Lao Fan and them at the beginning, and now the dead fat man is like a treasure, and I am planning to talk about cooperation with him. "

"Wow, it turns out that Hollisman's background is so complicated, he is a fugitive, and he can also be incarnated as Miss Lukugu, and he is also a Matt Tili who only hides the power of gods and ghosts, I am almost fascinated by him. The female soldier was full of excitement, and the joy of reverie appeared on her face, so she pondered for a moment, played with my long hair, and said: "This matter will be handled by me, you and the fat man have never seen the world before, and they look stupid." I'm better at dealing with interpersonal relationships, and I'll accompany you after the fight. "

Listening to the female soldier say this, I felt a little more energetic, whether she was bragging or joking, one thing would not change. The person Xiao Cherry really admires is Lin Rui, and she came here to see him, so the safety of this kid is very important to the female soldier, and she will never let anything happen to him. Besides, the chick is a free gendarme with a complex composition, and may be better at negotiations. In this way, I carried her to the gymnasium, took off her coat, changed into a karate suit and stood at the ends of the mat.

I can't take the female soldier as contemptuous of the rhino horn restaurant last time, she is very good at wrestling her wrists, maybe she will be better at fighting. Seeing that she was doing push-ups to warm up, I stared at the coach who was kneeling and waited for his order.

With the Brazilian starting, I threw my arms out and flew out. The physique of a female soldier can only exert her power in the moment of contact, twisting your transformer-like left hand to crit you repeatedly. I did the opposite, not being close to her, using the length of my arms to distance myself and weakening her layer by layer with street hooligan tactics until I knocked her out. However, I misjudged again, obviously overestimating her, Xiao Cherry can only embroider her legs, weaker than Lin Rui, I didn't have time to close my legs, and she was kicked out of the eight feet.

"This is a practice, you are a battlefield, do you really plan to kill me?" the female soldier wiped her nosebleed, and the carp jumped up and shouted.

"How did I know that you were so unbeaten, I thought I was going to lose when I saw the previous stance. I hurriedly waved my hand, just at this moment, a group of girls from the opposite venue went downstairs, and the big bag on their backs reflected the sun and shook people's eyes, I was not only stunned, but muttered to myself: "Golden Ladder? "

Before the words fell, the female soldier rushed to the front with a cruel smile, knocked me dizzy with an uppercut, and went around my back with a naked choke, throwing me to the ground with both arms, and within half a minute, I gradually lost consciousness. Consciousness seems to be back to an hour ago.

"But how did you find me and follow me to the Fruit Core Hotel?" Fan Pang pinched his cigarette, looked at Lao Dai puzzled, and asked.

"Through it. The detective smiled mysteriously, pulled out a small plastic bag from the inside of his suit, and brought it to the two of us. It was a few small dark green things, ladybug-like, but metalwork, shining in the sunlight. He shook one out of his pouch and held it in his palm to explain, "This little thing is called the Bird of Prey Shrike, made of gray silver, and is a semaphore that tracks itself. "

"Gray silver, how would you know this mineral if you were a detective, and where did it come from?" I asked, "and how did you hide the signal on us? "

"The Shrike is like a target-designating Strobe, it doesn't need additional power, it's a living creature in its own right, and it can be tracked as long as someone takes what is loaded with it. I might have been able to come earlier, but I had to postpone it for two weeks because of other cases. Old Dai rolled up his sleeves, and he wore a strangely shaped black watch on his wrist, and when he saw that we were puzzled, he said, "Have you two found a ring decorated with a double-edged sword in the Lukugu Mansion? As long as the ring is moved, it will naturally be connected to my tracker, which looks like a watch but is not a watch, but a sheep's tooth. "

Of course I remember it, it was found in a safe while looting in the collection room. The ring was originally in a flannel bag, but the dead fat man snatched it first and took it for himself. He had planned to sell it at a flea market for money, but it looked expensive, and he kept it in his trouser pocket for fear of being traced for fear of changing hands. It's no wonder why the detectives are the only ones staring at him.

After hearing this, the dead fat man hurriedly took out the ring from his pocket, and unscrewed the pure gold double-edged sword under the guidance of the detective. The shrike seemed to sense that its companion was nearby, and at once slipped out of the ring and landed on the table without moving.

Now that the reason is clear, when was the double-edged sword ring inserted into the ancient Yin Mansion of Lu Ku by Lao Dai'an?

"Actually, I picked up this ring eight years ago, and I always left it in my bag, and I forgot to hand it in because it was small. Over the years, I have returned to the Lukugu Mansion more than ten times, but I have never been able to find a clue, and gradually a question arises, the cult ritual does not seem to be completed, and they have not returned for many years, so is there a possibility? It needs a certain date? Only when all the conditions are met, will those gangsters come back?" Lao Dai picked it up and put it back in the plastic bag, lit a cigarette, and sighed: "In this way, I am afraid that you will be even more confused, and questions will follow. So, let's go back a few years, to 1994. Only then will you be fully understood. "

(In the following time, it is the detective's own statement.) ）

After resigning from the police department, he returned to his hometown in New York with a greatly lost old Dai and opened a detective business in the Bronz, which is the glory of tomorrow on the business card. Then he used his previous connections to start a dismal business, and most of the business he undertook was secretly photographed by the paparazzi, or assisted rich ladies to find evidence of their husbands' cheating. Although the income is not much, it can maintain food and clothing.

And in the late autumn of '94, one of his relatives died, and because he had no heirs, the old house belonged to him. Located on the outskirts of Huntington in Suffolk County, the house is tucked away in a dwarf bush beside a dirt road. This house is huge, with two woods on the left and right, and is facing the north shore of Long Island, and at the same time intersects with the highway in the direction of Nassau County, so Lao Dai feels that the location is advantageous, so he might as well repair it and get a permit, and convert it into a private house hotel to make a profit. After making up his mind, he said he would do it, so he hired a renovation team to start construction on the dilapidated house, and he lived in the town temporarily, and would drive over every week to check the progress.

On the eleventh day of construction, the foreman of the site called him, saying that when the workers were digging a wall in the cellar, they accidentally found a secret room sealed with cement. They don't know what to do with it, so they leave it up to Lao Dai to decide.

In this way, the detective drove to the old mansion at a gallop, and went down to the cellar to see a large hole in the eastern wall, which was pitch black and exuded the bitter smell of decay, which must have been sealed for many years. Then the construction team found a strong light, and Lao Dai trembled and began to probe in, when he crossed the stone steps where the so-called workers were corona, he was safe and sound, and he didn't feel anything. So he reached the center of the chamber and began to take a closer look at the dusty grotto.

It has an area of about 80 square meters, a ceiling height of 4 meters, a round shape, and is contained in a small attic. Except for a few broken desks, all the furniture is a sky-high bookcase filled with moldy cardboard boxes. The roots of the big tree had climbed into the cracks in the stone wall, apparently decades since they were sealed with cement. His deceased relatives must not have known about this property, otherwise it would have been mentioned in the will. Then it can only be built by an earlier ancestor.

Over the next few weeks, the elder moved into the grotto, opened the cardboard boxes, and began to read in detail the mountains of ancient documents. He was astonished to find that these manuscript photographs were almost all unsolved cases from nearly a century of unsolved cases, ranging from the haunting of a suburban town to the unsolved mysteries involving the assassinations of various political figures.

In the cardboard box marked forty-seven, Lao Dai only read a few pages of manuscript, and his heart couldn't help but be agitated. This thin pile of torn paper records the Luku Ancient Yin Mansion, which was completely cracked more than half a century ago! And the existing manuscript only has a table of contents but no contents, and this was deliberately destroyed! It is precisely because of this that in the 90 th year, there was another disturbance in the Lu Kugu Yin Mansion, and they went to investigate without knowing anything, resulting in the tragic death of more than a dozen people, and they were even blown up to the point that they could not even get together their bones!

"Hector was only thirty-eight years old when he died, he had two daughters in elementary school, and an infant son, and he didn't even have time to say a goodbye to his last words, and people turned into powder!" Lao Dai couldn't control his emotions anymore, couldn't help but cry, and sighed: "But I never thought that this bullshit mansion had already been investigated clearly. If someone had saved the documents at that time, even if it was only a few pages of manuscript, and all the dead detectives were still alive now, this would have been a tragedy that should not have happened!"

"Wait, Lao Dai, you mourn first, may I ask your honorable name?" I couldn't help but startle, holding his trembling shoulders.

"My full name is Desmond Brown Wicker. (Desmond Brough Wake)".

By this point, we both knew who this detective was. Fan Fat's fat hand crossed the bottom of the table and shook my knee vigorously, and he threw me a look, signaling to listen to him first. Then think about how to answer and how much to answer him.

"I have been deceived all my life, the legendary brother is called Brisky, I always thought they were Polish, and who would have thought that it was actually a concatenation of a name and a surname? "

"Old Dai, then you are from a detective family, since the grotto was dug out of your relative's cellar, how can this guy not know what his father was engaged in?" asked the dead fat man, grabbing the ring from the table, putting it back in his trouser pocket.

"That relative is actually my uncle, who used to buy and sell second-hand cars. Of all the direct family members, I was the only one who worked in the police department. If you push it up further, then there are only the grandfathers of our two families, they are three brothers, but the two elder brothers went to the Pacific War and did not come back alive, and the rest is a little grandfather, who is about the same age as the old uncle, and has no memory at all. After venting for a while, the detective was completely released, he wiped away his tears, smiled awkwardly at the two of us, and said, "It's already over, after the discovery of the grotto, I stayed in the cellar of the old house for a whole month, and only then did I clear up the dusty past." In fact, their real identities are the once-famous Browick brothers in New York! They had extensive contacts with Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and other tycoons. "

"What? So you're a descendant of the famous Brother Detective Agency? I took his hand in a pretended enlightenment, laughed, and was then stomped hard by the fat man from under the table. It was a successful man more than half a century ago, and how could I be a little Frenchman who could understand someone else's background.

However, Lao Dai did not think so, he shrugged his shoulders and smiled, pointed to the shrike on the table, and said, "Then, it is time to talk about them." "

Whether or not the legendary brothers actually fought in the war, they both disappeared in 1944 and never returned to their hometown. The cardboard box documents are not all about the investigation of unsolved cases, but also mention an organization called the Golden Ladder, of which the Brovek brothers are secret members. In addition to their reputation for their high efficiency in solving crimes, they are also secretly snipers, know a lot of strange tricks, and are also believers who also like to delve into heresy.

This kind of thing may seem difficult to understand in contemporary times, but it seems very common to focus on the thirties and forties. At that time, many celebrities, wealthy businessmen, politicians, and movie stars were members or funders of various mysterious groups, and even a mere Disney Mickey Mouse still had so-called member clubs. These people wearing classical masks have a cult temperament no matter how you look at them.

The Golden Ladder is a large organization of extremely secret groups, which has five branches and spreads across two coasts of the United States, and its members were once as high as 5,000 people. Whenever this organization wants to do anything, there will be countless businessmen to help, so there is nothing they can't do. As for why you ask the government, why don't you care, because many political leaders are also members of it.

The Raptor Shrike and the Sheep's Tooth watch are tucked away in this pile of old things. Looking at them, Lao Dai suddenly had a plan, why not use it to solve the mystery of the mansion? So, he set one of the gray silver into the big ring, and then returned to the bottom of the mansion, and left it as it was in the mud where it was found, and then left silently. Forty-eight hours later, the location changed, and it was moved to a corner of the house, where it remained in place for several years.

And more than a month ago, Lao Dai took out the sheep's teeth to check, and couldn't help but be surprised, the shrike bird began to move again. Not only that, but it also ran to Charlotte. Obviously, there was a master who walked in the Yin Mansion in his place, which is why he appeared here.

"So, if you two really know something, please tell me the truth, Hector has waited too long, his family is also suffering, I think of their wishes. The detective straightened his suit, took a sip of dry coffee, and said, "If you two have any requests, you might as well ask for them now, as long as it is within my ability, I will try to meet them." This ruined house has caused more than a dozen broken families, but the culprits are my grandfathers and the brutes who tried their best to cover up the truth of the incident!".