Red Moon Returns

Lin Qi was not so arrogant as to challenge an event related to an advent-level rare item alone. He just wanted to understand the situation based on the clues. More people would be too conspicuous.

Therefore, he just went to Miss Valente's house to borrow Karina's makeup. The girl had been going out early and returning late every day to find out the news of the capital. She was not at home at this time, but she still left a few rare items at home for her family to use temporarily.

Hmm? What does family mean?

Although seeing Lin Qi bring another girl to the door the next day, Mr. Louis may have gone to the warehouse to find shells for the coastal defense artillery, but in the end he still handed the rare items to Lin Qi, and also gave him a carriage without the family emblem and two horses.

This is too generous, and what do you mean by secretly muttering that you can't let the eldest lady be compared? I think you have some misunderstanding.

And what's the use of borrowing our carriage? We don't know how to drive a carriage.

Yes.

Officer Natalie lowered her hat brim, and her movements were standard like a real driver. Lynch, who had put on makeup, looked a little more mature, about 30 or 40 years old. The two rushed out of the east gate of the city with their new images.

Target, Wilson Town.

Wilson Town is a small town affiliated to Rhine City. It is not big, with a population of more than 200 people. It mainly raises beef cattle. One quarter of the daily beef consumption in Rhine City comes from this town.

It is considered one of the important towns in Rhine.

It is more than an hour's drive from the east gate of Rhine. It can be reached by walking along the country road. It is very smooth. Just after two o'clock in the afternoon, the two had already seen the entrance sign of Wilson Town.

Two bull heads poked on the top of the stone pillar.

Forget it, let them be happy.

I realized after entering the town that this town is not small in terms of area. Each family has a lot of space. After all, breeding also requires space. Therefore, there are only a few streets in the whole town. You can see a family after walking a long way. Only the center of the town is slightly more lively.

There is a bell tower more than ten meters high in the middle of the town, which makes the clacking sound of gear friction all year round. The town government and commercial facilities are built around the bell tower, forming the center of the town.

Luckily, it seems that there is some festival today. As soon as the two approached the center of the town, they found that many people gathered in the square under the bell tower, and the noise drifted far away.

There was also a person standing on the platform on the top of the bell tower, waving his arms and talking to the people below.

It seemed that there was an event in the town.

Natalie, the driver, turned her head, and the two looked at each other, both of them were a little happy.

This is just the right way to get some information, although she didn't know what to know.

"I know you have difficulties, so you don't need to explain to me. I will follow you and you can tell me what to do." The police officer suddenly squinted her eyes and showed a scornful look, "If you don't do well, I will laugh at you as a detective when I go back."

What else can I say? Lin Qi spread his hands in the carriage: "Do you think I will give you this opportunity? Hehe, then go and see what they are doing."

It was indeed quite lively. As he approached, the noise became louder, and the faces of the people in the square could be distinguished clearly. They were a group of farmers wearing coarse cloth coats. There were also a few formal gentlemen standing in the front row, their clothes were neatly dressed, and they all looked up at the bell tower. As for the person speaking on the bell tower...

Suddenly he jumped off the bell tower and fell to his death in the square.

"...I will not forgive...bang."

The head hit the hard stone slab ground, and then twisted and deformed, red, white and black, instantly covering the ground.

The square suddenly became silent, and then a scream broke out.

"Another dead person!"

Swish, the policewoman turned her head instantly, staring at Lin Qi's face with burning eyes.

"Don't look at me, look at the road. Cui En was just talking nonsense yesterday. It's just a coincidence. The dead person has nothing to do with me, really."

Immediately, a peasant woman with two children lay down beside the body and cried bitterly. Several gentlemen in the front row also came forward to comfort them. Dozens of people gathered around the body and sighed. For a while, the surroundings were in chaos.

The carriage had been stopped by Officer Natalie: "Did they just say 'again'?"

"Well, I..." Lynch was about to say something when he suddenly realized the implication of the officer's words. It was obvious that she was worried that the mysterious incident would affect this place and people might continue to die. Lynch hesitated for a moment and changed his words, "Continuous deaths in a short period of time do not rule out the possibility of mysterious incidents. We can ask and maybe we can find a breakthrough point from this."

"Since this is your request, let's take a look first." Officer Natalie turned her head away and hummed in a low voice: "Thank you."

"Hehe, that night someone suddenly kicked open my door and pressed me to the ground. In fact, it was for the same worry. I haven't said thank you yet."

"I'm not worried about you. I'm worried that the strange object will create a greater threat and disrupt the order of the Rhine."

The officer snorted coldly, drove the carriage to the side of the road and parked it, and then asked Lynch with her eyes.

Lynch looked around the crowd, directly ignoring the farmers and women watching, and chose an older gentleman.

It's not discrimination against the lower class, but due to limited conditions in this era, most of the lower class people have not received education, and their logic and ability to grasp the key points are too far behind, making it difficult to communicate in depth. This is also the importance of universal education, so he directly chose educated and decent people, and they are more sophisticated old people.

The old gentleman was comforting the crying peasant woman with others, and was stunned when he saw Lin Qi approaching.

The casual clothes Lynch wore today looked like an ordinary civilian, but the carriage he got off looked like it was made of no ordinary material. It was a big shot traveling with his identity hidden, so the old gentleman immediately put on a humble smile.

"I'm from the Governor's Palace of the Rhine, and I was passing by on business." Lynch pulled the old gentleman aside, flashed his badge, and whispered, "What's going on?"

"I am Thomas, the treasurer of the town. I pay my respects to you." The old gentleman replied with a smile. "In the past three days, there has been rinderpest in the town. All the cattle of four families have died, and the cattle of other families have died." That's not right either. Mike's family is also pitiful. They worked hard to raise dozens of cows and all of them died overnight. His family borrowed a lot of money from the bank in the town for these cows, and even mortgaged the land. Once the cows died, everything was over. . He jumped down without thinking. ”

It's a bit miserable, but it's normal.

Lin Qi frowned and thought: "But I heard that he was not the only one who died."

"Yes, the rinderpest this time is very serious. A few days ago, old Werther also acted impulsively and hanged himself here."

"He also owes money?"

"Yes, most families in the town owe loans from Will Bank." The old gentleman sighed, "Actually, this was not the custom in the town before, but in the past two years, the purchase price of beef has been raised in the town. In order to earn more, everyone So they all took out loans to expand their breeding, and as a result, all four farms were transferred to banks.”

The corner of Lynch's mouth twitched, which was too obvious: "Are you sure it's rinderpest?"

"Cattle have been raised here for decades. You can still tell whether they died of illness or were poisoned." The old gentleman said with a grimace, "It is indeed not poisoning, otherwise Mike and the others would not have chosen to commit suicide."

Okay, maybe it's really a coincidence. Although there are no coincidences in the mysterious world, it doesn't say that there can't be in the normal world. So Lynch nodded and said: "So when Mike jumped down and shouted that he would not forgive, was he referring to Will Banks?"

"That's not the case, I'm talking about another family in the town. In the past few decades, there have been several rinderpest outbreaks in the town, and many livestock died. When it couldn't be controlled, that family helped control it. Sheep plague was the only one There was no widespread outbreak. The people affected by the disaster have been asking for help in the past two days, but the family firmly refused to help. That’s why Mike said that in the end.”

"This...it's not our duty to help with this kind of thing, right?" Lin Qi frowned, "How can someone hate someone else if they don't want to give him a favor?"

The old gentleman was stunned and explained helplessly: "Sir, the truth is correct, but you can't use common sense to think about people who are in despair. They..."

"Yes, it's all their fault! They were the ones who killed Mike and Old Werther because they didn't help. They also want to kill us."

The sudden shout interrupted the conversation between the three of them. Lynch found that while they were talking, the farmers in the square had gathered together, each with a fierce look on their face:

"Let's go to Milt's house together. If they dare not agree this time, they will demolish his weird house!"

"Yes! Go find them!"

A group of people immediately gathered together and crowded in the same direction.

"Wait, whose family is it?"

"The Milt family," the old gentleman explained, "is also a family in the town, but they live in a relatively remote place and don't interact much with other townspeople."

Lin Qi narrowed his eyes and nodded thoughtfully.