absurd deduction game

Chapter 50 Look, you're alright

Lucia has been busy with work recently. Although she was informed that her old friend Roy would be here today, she has no place to receive him except the police station office.

Theft, conflict, fraud, it seems that after that incident, anxiety began to fuel the crime rate of the townspeople.

She was really—so tired, especially her neck, she always had a feeling of numbness in her cervical spine.

"Dong dong."

There were two knocks on the open door of her office, and Lucia raised her face from the thick documents, and finally saw the face she hadn't seen in years.

"Hi, Roy!" She stood up in surprise, walked around the desk, and hugged Roy, who was a head taller, with open arms.

"Well, long time no see." Yu Xing felt Lucia's strength, which was different from the hot-tempered policewoman he imagined, soft.

He let go of Lucia and took out the beautifully packaged box of chocolates from his handbag: "This is a gift."

Lucia showed a happy expression and reached out to take the box: "Thank you, I like it very much. Alas, unfortunately I've been upset recently and have a bad appetite. I used to be able to eat ten pieces of this chocolate in one go!"

Yu Xing took the opportunity to observe her up close, the close-fitting uniform perfectly outlines Lucia's bulging figure, black trousers wrapping her long legs, blonde hair, common makeup on her face, and her neck exposed. And the wrist is a little tanned, and it looks like the kind that often goes out to work, rather than sitting in the office.

Martha and York followed behind Yu Xing, and they kept silent and kept a low profile since they entered the police station.

This police station is very loose. Except for Lucia, who occupied an office alone, they only saw five police officers.

The window of the office was covered by curtains, which made the indoor light not very good. Martha looked around suspiciously, and before she said anything, Lucia noticed her and looked surprised.

"Oh, what a child!"

"...I'm not a child, I just look small." Martha was expressionless, rejecting Lucia's hand that had reached her head to rub her head.

Lucia laughed twice: "The little girl really has a personality, Roy, is this your sister?"

Yu Xing reached out and took off his hat as a courtesy: "No, in fact... her name is Martha, this is York, and they are the two you specifically asked me to bring in your letter... exorcists."

The word "exorcism" touched Lucia's nerves, and Yu Xing could clearly see that the corners of Lucia's eyes twitched, and her mood was obviously depressed.

"Yes, it's time to get down to business." Lucia sat down on the office chair again, and by the way asked the three guests to move a few chairs, "I'm a small place, so I'm neglected. Well... the little girl is really an exorcist. Human, eh, don't stare at me."

Under the gaze of Martha's wide eyes, Lucia didn't have the heart to continue doubting the professionalism of the exorcist, sighed and began to complain.

It turned out that the accident was a family living in the northernmost part of O'Rimland Town.

The family, surnamed Brown, moved to O'Reillang for just a year and lived in the largest and oldest single-family villa in the town.

The villa originally belonged to another family, but the family seemed to be in a hurry to move out of something, and sold the house to the current Brown family at a low price.

A year passed, mostly peaceful, until a month and a half ago, when legends about the Browns suddenly increased.

It was said that the Browns never left the house, never showed up at the fair, and even the neighbors seldom saw them.

Others said they could hear singing from the old villa every night, often stopping in the middle of the song, followed by shrill screams that made people creepy.

But when she knocked on the door the next day, Mrs. Brown would ask her anything with a smile on her face, and even invite the knocker to be a guest at home.

Some people felt afraid and refused, and some people came out intact after entering, and did not find anything wrong during the period.

But the sound in the night did not stop, instead it got louder, and it seemed to intensify, from the humming of one person at the beginning to the chorus of a group of people.

Lucia has also been to Brown's house and stayed there for one night without finding any problems, she can't arrest anyone in Brown's house, and since rumors spread, residents in the town are uneasy and the crime rate has increased, There was no way, Lucia thought of Roy and some of Roy's friends who could exorcise.

"I hope you and your two exorcist friends can go and investigate as travelers to see if someone is making trouble, or..." Lucia rubbed her stiff neck, "or is there really a devil making trouble? ."

【Main quest has been triggered】

[Task: Find the truth of the strange incident in the villa and hand over the investigation results to Lucia]

[The side quest has been triggered]

[Task: Complete the three types of ghost information]

A long list of unseen prompts appeared in front of Yu Xing's eyes.

【Ghost 1: Unknown】

【Type: Unknown】

[Solution: Unknown]

【Ghost 2: Unknown】

【Type: Unknown】

……

All three of them received this prompt.

York looked at Lucia, and suddenly let out a low laugh that only Martha could hear: "Hehe."

"What is Brother York laughing at?" Martha leaned over, and one of the two ponytails swept York's fingers on the side of the chair.

York thought for a while and moved his lips: "There's something wrong with this woman."

Yu Xing didn't know the conversation of his teammates, he just nodded to Lucia: "Okay, we will visit later. Before that, I hope you can give me all the information you can provide."

"This... Not long after the Brown family moved in, my tenure was even shorter, and I didn't have much information. It's all here. Hey, don't spread the word, don't say it was given by me." Lucia handed Yu Xing a thin The document bag, rubbed her neck again, Yu Xing lowered his eyes and swept over her neckline.

"Are you uncomfortable?" he asked.

"One thing, maybe it's too tired." Lucia mentioned this a little helplessly. She has been weak in her hands and feet recently, her neck is sore, and she doesn't like seeing the sun very much.

Suddenly, she thought of something, and said to York and Martha jokingly: "I may be cursed, two exorcists happen to be here, why don't you look at me first? The handsome guy agrees ?"

The sunny smile on York's face made people feel kind, so Lucia looked at him and relaxed silently.

As for Martha's little loli, she has already ignored it.

York still remembered that he came over as a friend of Detective Roy, and looked at Roy first when he heard this proposal.

Yu Xing nodded to him.

He felt that every move of this teammate named York was very comfortable. Although he had his own personality, he was very considerate of the overall situation.

"Okay, Ms. Lucia, I can help you take a look." After York got Yu Xing's approval, he patted Martha, "Bag."

Martha obediently turned her back to York.

Seeing that he took out a pure black cross from Martha's big backpack, and a bottle of water in a glass bottle, Yu Xing's eyes wandered between the little loli and this tall young man.

Good guy, it's no wonder that you didn't bring a package. Little Lolita carried all the things that dared to exorcise her!

Is this some kind of weird loli setting?

He can't bring in his own normal sacrifices, and the character is a detective. At present, there is no means to directly "exorcise", but both teammates are exorcists and should have some power to attack ghosts.

Yu Xing: Tsk, not happy.

York first opened the cork of the bottle of water, let Lucia stand on the open space, and sprinkled a little water in front of Lucia's feet.

Then he lifted the cross--

At that moment, the cold aura in Yu Xing's body moved restlessly.

This made him instantly recognize that this cross was a sacrifice!

Yu Xing: Why, tsk, even more unhappy.

Little Loli pouted, ran to Yu Xing's side, and tugged at the sleeve of Yu Xing's suit.

Yu Xing bent down tenderly and put her ears in front of Little Loli.

"Brother York said, Lucia is wrong." Martha's voice was sweet, like honey, and her breath swept across Yu Xing's earlobe, but Yu Xing was unmoved.

"I know." Yu Xing replied, remembering the requirements and characters of the deduction prompt, and asked from a non-violating perspective, "Has your exorcism technology improved? Is that cross useful to the devil?"

Little Loli thought for a while: "Well..."

"The cross belongs to Brother York. I haven't used it before. It should be useful."

The implication was that this was York's offering, and she didn't understand it.

As soon as the words fell, Lucia let out a scream.

Yu Xing turned his head and saw that York's cross didn't touch Lucia at all, only a wisp of black mist spread out from the center of the cross and wrapped around Lucia.

Just now, Lucia, who had an indifferent expression of "I'm just talking casually, in case of exorcism can still drive me into decadence", showed pain in an instant, she looked at herself in horror, and murmured: "What am I going to do? It hurts so much, what happened? I won't really be cursed!"

York, still smiling, put down the cross and walked over to the stiff Lucia.

With his back to Yu Xing and Masha, his smile suddenly turned malicious. In Lucia's confused eyes, he stretched out his right index finger with sharp bones and poked at Lucia's face.

"Bah."

Lucia's head fell to the ground, and the fractured surface on her neck was so neat that she didn't have time to bleed.

A second later, the red liquid spewed out with a "poof", and York quickly covered it with the black robe that he put aside, without splashing a drop.

"What's wrong with me? It hurts..." Lucia's head rolled twice on the ground, Gululu rolled to Yu Xing's feet, her amber eyes widened, and she was still asking, "It hurts, I Are you cursed?"

The temperature in the office dropped a lot unwittingly, and the curtains covered the outside world tightly. Behind the three people, the door closed quietly without the wind.

"Mom~" Little Loli squinted at Yu Xing's clothes, "She—"

It seems that the little loli is not very courageous.

"Not afraid." Yu Xing touched Masha's head and looked at York, "What happened to Lucia?"

York turned his face, and the malicious smile at that moment was as if it had never appeared before, and he still smiled brightly: "What else can I do, I'm already dead."

Yu Xing glanced around when he heard the words.

The office of the police station was in a mess, the body without the head was standing upright, the ground was splashed with blood, and the head stopped at Yu Xing's feet and muttered something.

The door was closed, the temperature dropped, and it was clear something was going to happen.

Between some breaths, Lucia stopped her repeated chattering.

With her head facing Yu Xing, she blinked, two lines of blood and tears slowly flowed from the corners of her eyes, and asked, "Roy, what's wrong with me?"

Yu Xing found that the ghosts in the deduction all liked to target him. Obviously he didn't do it. Does he have a hatred attraction mechanism or something?
Little Loli was keenly aware of MT No. [-], let go of Yu Xing's clothes, and ran to York's side, while York looked at Yu Xing with an unabated smile, as if she wanted to see how Yu Xing answered Lucia's question.

Under normal circumstances, his temperament is as gentle as the brother next door, but in this situation, he is still laughing, and there is a faint sense of disobedience.

Hmm... the kind of mentally ill.

"Roy, am I the devil?" Lucia's whole face was twitching, showing what seemed to be a smile.

Lucia smiled and said, "Roy, I'm in pain. What the hell happened to me?"

Yu Xingxin said that your eyes are so big that you can't see where you fell from?A headless corpse with such a good figure is standing two meters away from you. Take a quick look and see your own corpse. What a novel experience.

He still didn't say it in the end. The highlight of this deduction should be the Brown family. He didn't need to make it difficult for him. Besides, the main mission also required them to bring the investigation results back to Lucia.

Yu Xing's eyes were relaxed, and he didn't seem to notice any danger. He bent down and held Lucia's head.

There was a glimmer of interest in York's eyes, and Martha shivered.

"It's okay Lucia, you're just too tired." Yu Xing coaxed Lucia into a tone like a kindergarten teacher coaxing a child. He avoided the blood on the ground and walked to the standing body.

He adjusted the head to a suitable angle, pressed it carefully on the fractured surface and spliced ​​it. After splicing, he took a good look at it and stretched out his hand to correct it twice.

Suddenly, a "complete as ever" Lucia stood here.

Lucia looked at him with tears of blood.

Yu Xing: "Look, Lucia, you're fine. It's just that you were too tired and mentally abnormal. You need to rest, my friend. I'll be very sad to see that you're exhausted."

Lucia:  …

Martha Little Lolita: What is this operation! ?It's so sincere, I'm going to believe it!
York: Funny, Roy is like a psycho.

Lucia, who reconnected her head and body, slowly turned her head.

Actually connected.

Lucia's face gradually calmed down, the temperature in the room warmed up, and the door quietly opened.

"Oh, it's like a dream, it looks like I really need a rest." She scratched her hair, as if she forgot about York's exorcism, as if she couldn't see the blood on the ground or feel the blood and tears on her face, He returned to the state he was in when we first met, and sat down on the office chair carelessly.

"Go and find the Browns, they're in the far north of town."

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