The cold-faced earl doesn't want to trigger the plot

Chris said with a smile, but obviously his words were more like flattering in a more euphemistic form than belittling Riber.

Sure enough, the Phantom Thief who heard what Chris said frowned and said,

"It's already amazing to know that it's around here, okay? In my opinion, it's almost like a miracle!"

The highest state of "blowing" is to guide people who are hostile themselves, and they can't help but blow together.

Um...

Riber learned.

"Now, we probably have two options."

Seeing that Riber didn't seem to be giving any more instructions, Chris started talking.

"Plan [-] is that we wait here for Miss Ewenna's return. Since this is her stronghold, unless she has found out that we have approached the door, she will come back sooner or later. However, the problem is that the strange thief The members of the regiment are very good at escaping..."

Chris said, looking at the strange thief.

The strange thief stared back with a fierce expression.

"So, if Miss Ewenna comes back when the time comes, she doesn't listen to us when she meets us and wants to escape. Once she escapes into the underground waterway, when will she be found next time? It's hard to say."

"What's the second plan?"

The strange thief asked aloud.

Her asking this question already meant that she didn't have the confidence to catch her fellow monster thief in one sight.

"The second plan is to find Miss Ewenna's stronghold first. Cut off Miss Ewenna's escape route in advance, and even set up some traps and the like. Compared with the open outdoors, it is easier to build a A net big enough to engulf Miss Evanna."

"But the question is, how to find this stronghold?"

The monster frowned and said.

The Phantom Thief immediately noticed that both Riber and Chris were watching her.

So, after a few slow beats, the strange thief finally reacted.

"What do you mean, let me go into these houses one by one to search? I can tell you clearly that we 'strange thieves' have indeed committed various crimes all over the kingdom, but we have never violated civilians. So like this As for the matter of sneaking into civilian residences, no matter what I..."

"Okay, okay, Miss Phantom Thief. If you don't hurry up, Miss Yiwenna might be back soon."

"you..."

The strange thief glared at Chris again, then gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and finally compromised.

And looking at the actions of the strange thief, Riber's heart can be said to be very complicated.

because...

The strange thief is now dressed as a middle-aged gentleman with gray hair.Then, she just used the appearance that was very similar to Sebastian, and kept doing feminine moves.

In addition, a "female" servant like Chris is by the side.

Riber always felt that his whole body was going to be bad...

...

...

Soon, the strange thief who was shuttling between the houses returned to the hidden alley where the three of them were talking.

"I found it. Although I'm not [-]% sure, the single-family house over there is most likely Yiwenna's home."

The strange thief outside the alley pointed to an old building with moss-covered walls on the right, and said to the two who had been waiting for a long time.

I can really find it...

Riber sighed quietly in his heart.

There are at least a dozen houses in the vicinity, and not one house has only one household.But the strange thief broke into almost all the houses in just over ten minutes, without attracting the attention of others at all.

Moreover, even Ewenna's residence has been controlled.Does that mean that this "dismemberer" was completely cornered by the three of them?

That is the dismemberer who has made the Knights helpless for such a long time...

It feels like it doesn't take much trouble?

Perhaps, the combination of a strange thief, a detective, and a golden finger holder is surprisingly strong.

Under the guidance of the strange thief, the three entered Ewenna's house through the main entrance.

"Is it okay to just walk in through the gate? Since it's Miss Yiwenna, there should be some design to leave traps at the gate, right?"

"No problem. Although it is not called a mechanism, there are still some small tricks. However, Ewenna destroyed those by herself. I don't know what happened to make her go out in such a hurry."

Leading the way ahead, the Kaitou replied.

Generally speaking, this member of the Phantom Thieves, who is also a dismemberer, and Ewenna, who may already be a witch or will become a witch, lives in a rather ordinary house.

The house as a whole looks tidy, but stains, water stains, dust and other things are still everywhere.I don't know if these traces cannot be removed, or if Yiwenna has a slovenly character.

After roughly looking at a few rooms, Riber, who didn't see anything, followed the other two back to the hall.

"It seems that the Earl has also noticed it."

?

Notice what?

"If Miss Yiwenna is stationed in this area as a secret doctor, it is impossible that there is no corresponding place in her residence."

Oh... makes sense.

"So, please ask Ms. Phantom Thief to find another place like a secret room or a secret door. No, it should be said that Ms. Phantom Thief has actually found it, right?"

Chris looked at the strange thief and said.

The strange thief showed a reluctant expression.

"If it's just to ambush Ewenna, there's no need to go to those places..."

"Please don't forget that until we solve all the mysteries of Miss Evanna, we are all in a cooperative relationship. And, Miss Phantom Thief, the more you do this, the more suspicious you will be. I can definitely think that you are in the secret room. I found evidence against Ms. Ewenna. I was worried that we would see her as a vicious serial killer again, so I hoped to hide it for her. And, even if Ms. Phantom Thief does not cooperate, we only need to investigate seriously. The degree of mechanism to open the entrance is not a problem for us. Remember, Miss Phantom Thief had a few unnatural actions before, first of all..."

"Okay, okay, don't guess anymore! I'll take you there just..."

The strange thief sighed, said so, and then fiddled with it in the room.

Looking at the strange thief's look of being completely helpless against Chris, Riber suddenly felt that this person was being gradually tamed by Chris.

I don't know what kind of relationship the two have in the original plot.

But in short, it should be completely different from now.

After all, from the beginning when the strange thief successfully played with Chris, the strength relationship between the two in the original plot should be exactly the opposite of what it is now.

...

Soon, as a road hidden under the stone counter in the kitchen slowly unfolded, Liber and Chris understood that Evanna's "clinic" was actually in the underground space.

"Let me tell you in advance, although there are indeed some... um, just that level, it doesn't mean that Ewenna is the 'dismemberer' you imagined!"

Walking in the long and narrow tunnel, the first Phantom Thief did not forget to defend her companion.

Not long after, Riber noticed that the scene in front of him became wider.

He saw the underground, and there was actually a spacious space enough to accommodate four rooms facing each other.

Moreover, different from imagination, the basement floor of Yiwenna's stronghold is very bright, and the whole space is dominated by white.

Moreover, it can be seen from various signs that Ewenna pays much more attention to the underground space than to her own house upstairs.

Because it is underground, it is impossible for this space to be spotless, and it is also filled with a humid and stuffy atmosphere.However, as far as the eyes can see, the rooms with incandescent lights shining everywhere are quite clean and tidy.

In addition, it can be seen from several open room doors that something similar to a hospital bed is displayed in the center of the room, surrounded by seemingly weird instruments.

Riber quickly connected these rooms with various small clinics he had seen in his previous life.

"I didn't expect that the top student of Saint Celin's School of Medicine would actually be a secret doctor seriously in such a place..."

Chris looked at these rooms and said with emotion.

"You, how do you know that Ewenna is a student there!"

"This...Of course it was checked. Miss Evanna Belling did not use a pseudonym when she was admitted to St. Silin's School of Medicine. And based on Miss Evanna's understanding of Greenwater City, on behalf of She has lived here for a long time. And in this city, there is only one medical-related college, and there are not many people from the small town of Ottery in the college, plus a person named Evanna who recently dropped out of school There is only one case. If all the conditions are met, it can't be someone else, right?"

Chris said in a reasonable tone.

The reason why he cut his head and got involved with the Knights was because as an advisor to the Knights, it would be easy to collect a lot of information.

He originally wanted to find out the other party step by step based on the true identity of the dismembered person "Ewena Bellin".

But with the presence of Lord Earl, many steps became unnecessary.

However, this information is not in vain.

At least it can be seen that the cautious mutilator has no time to erase the traces of his past.It means that her crime was a sudden act, and to some extent she was not afraid that she would be caught.

"You are really... well, forget it..."

The strange thief sighed, feeling more and more in his heart that choosing to cooperate with Chris and Riber was the right choice.

Otherwise, Chris, a seemingly unreliable detective, would be able to find out everything sooner or later.Not to mention, behind the detective, there is an even more unpredictable Lord Earl.

After finishing his thoughts, the strange thief stood at the door of the innermost room, put his hand on the doorknob, and said solemnly,

"I want to declare again, even if it really appears here... it doesn't mean anything."

When the strange thief pushed open the door, Chris and Riber looked into the house, and then realized what the strange thief's previous hesitation, hesitation, and hesitation were for.

Because, on the hospital bed in this equally clean and bright room, there is a dead body on display right now.

Volume II: Chapter 86, Bells

On a clean hospital bed lay a motionless corpse.

The other party appeared to be a woman, and since there was a white cloth covering most of her face, her age could not be seen for a while.

The corpse was obviously seriously ill during his lifetime.

Because the color of her skin is visible to the naked eye, and the exposed parts are covered with shocking abscesses.

Liebel quickly thought of the "toxicity" that he could not remember the name of the last dismembered corpse in the "dismembered" case materials that Chris had mentioned.

If I remember correctly, the signs of the poison appear in the brain, which means that the patient will die of illness in a short time.

And although Riber didn't actually see it, judging from the fact that the white cloth covering the face of the corpse was already stained with a lot of blood.The cause of death of this patient was also that terrible disease.

Among the three corpses chosen by Ewenna, two died of the same disease.This situation is really suspicious.

When the three of them faced the corpse on the hospital bed, they were all contemplating with heavy expressions.

Suddenly, the "corpse" let out a hoarse whining sound like "Uh-uh--".

"!"

At that moment, Riber felt his heart almost jumped out of his throat in fright.

His expression and movements didn't change, which didn't mean he was calm at all, but simply frightened, his mind went blank and he couldn't move.

"Yes, is Dr. Brianna..."

Corpse, no, the patient's breathless voice, which seemed to be interrupted at any time, sounded again.

Riber, who was almost covered by the sound of his heart beating wildly, calmed down a little at this moment.

Judging from the results, it wasn't that any supernatural event had happened.It's just that the patient hasn't died of illness yet, and the previous three didn't go to check it.

Riber, who had calmed down a little, looked around and found that the strange thief and Chris who were supposed to be by his side had long since disappeared, but hid outside the door trembling.

Looking at the "teammate" who sold him without hesitation in an accident, Riber once again felt how "solid" the relationship of trust between them was.

Riber, who still had lingering fears, couldn't help but glared at the two people outside the door.

"Who? Is... who? Is it... Dr. Brianna?"

Hearing that the people in the room did not respond for a long time, the female patient asked in an excited tone.She seemed to want to use her hands to lift the white cloth on her face and see what happened.However, she was unbelievably weak.The hand only raised a few centimeters, and then dropped back onto the hospital bed again.

After seeing the patient's questioning, he began to cough heavily again, and both Riber and Chris turned their attention to the strange thief.

It was still a slow beat before the strange thief came to his senses, walked into the room tremblingly and squeezed his throat with his fingertips.

Immediately, a clear female voice came from the strange thief dressed as a middle-aged gentleman.

"it's me."