At six-fifteen in the evening, Anne Tuttle stood hesitantly in the unfamiliar street.
She reached out and tightened her knitted jacket, and slung a bag across her shoulders, which contained water, some money, and a pocket knife for self-defense.
Inexplicably, Annie felt like she was here to attend the parent-teacher meeting of her two children, and she seemed to be a little girl who only recently appeared in fashion to meet netizens.
She can imagine how restrained she is now, which makes her want to laugh a little.
In fact, she did subconsciously prepare according to the few previous experience of going out, so her self-feeling is not wrong...
She looks like a housewife who goes out to buy groceries or go shopping.
Instead of preparing to participate in a secret party initiated by a strange dream - this kind of thing is full of mystery and danger.
"At least... this is ordinary, unobtrusive, and maybe a little safer."
Annie soothed herself.
When she followed the map placed on the street and asked passers-by to walk to this street, she already regretted it, but she came here, and she was a little embarrassed and embarrassed to go back to the house, so she dared to bite the bullet. went to the designated place.
After all, Athena is there, and she has already become the person in charge, so there shouldn't be any danger... More importantly, she chose to come here because she believed that Father Vincent was really innocent, and this Everyone in the party is like that.
Perhaps what they did would be the key to Father Vincent's confirmation of his innocence.
If she doesn't act, assuming that Father Vincent and Father Terrence really experienced this experience like a dream, she will always be haunted and unable to let go.
With this thought in mind, although Annie hesitated in her heart, she mustered up the courage to come here without telling her family.
But it's really scary here.
Looking around the street, it is particularly desolate and deserted, with a very dilapidated feeling everywhere, and half of the entire street is actually a fenced construction site.
In the dim light of the evening, the silhouettes of the undulating semi-finished buildings are pitch-black, like the backs of some kind of giant beasts, which are extremely terrifying.
When Anne walked alone on the street, she felt that she could hear her own heartbeat quietly around her.
Especially when her footsteps sounded, she would have the illusion that someone was following her, and her back was hairy... Fortunately, the street was not particularly long, and after walking for a while, she arrived at the book cafe where she had agreed to meet at a party.
"Huh..."
Annie looked at the new building with lights in front of her, and let out a long sigh of relief. Her whole body that had been tense was finally relaxed.
She looked at this book cafe, which seemed to have just been built, with some curiosity, and felt that her eyes lit up.
This place is out of tune with other buildings. Through the gap of the curtain behind the glass door, you can see many seats and bookshelves. The decoration seems to be very novel and unique.
As a woman, Anne was impressed by this fresh and graceful style at first sight.
"There seems to be a lot of people in there, all of them who don't know... Father Vincent has helped a lot of people. He is definitely a good person, and he won't do anything to Father Terrence like the news said. , and killed so many people."
Annie muttered firmly to herself, cheered herself up, and prepared to go into the store.
When she lifted her foot, she subconsciously glanced at the bookstore next to her.
Listening to Athena, this bookstore is very strange, not only has few customers and looks very gloomy, but also the owner of the store almost never goes out. Silhouette of young man reading a book.
It is as mysterious as the kind of urban legend that has become popular recently.
"Never mind that, it's still the party that matters."
Annie shook her head, carefully pushed open the door of the book cafe, pushed back the curtain, and walked in.
The soft lights in the book cafe poured down, and the view was suddenly bright. The simple bookshelves around were placed with decorative green plants such as vines, which were pleasing to the eye.
There were indeed a lot of guests, and Annie visually estimated that there were about thirty or forty.
They all stood or sat by themselves, and there were a few who sat directly on the wooden floor casually. Some of them knew each other and had already started whispering and discussing around a table.
Hearing the door open, everyone in the store turned to look at Annie.
Annie suddenly looked very cramped and smiled a little embarrassedly. Just when she didn't know how to speak, Athena's voice came over: "Hi! Annie, here!"
Annie quickly turned her head to look, and immediately found Athena sitting in front of one of the tables.
She was wearing a blouse and denim trousers, with healthy wheat-colored skin, jet-black hair, charming eyes, and a golden badge on her sleeve that seemed to be engraved with the sun.
Athena smiled broadly and waved, "Annie, my friend, come here, I'm here."
When others saw that he was a friend of one of the leaders, they looked back.
Annie walked up to Athena and sat down, and she felt a lot more at ease. Fortunately, there was an acquaintance at the scene, otherwise she really didn't know how to speak.
She glanced at the badge on her sleeve and sighed in a low voice: "Athena, you are really amazing. You have only held this party, and you have taken the position of the person in charge."
Athena put her hand on the side of her cheek, winked at her and giggled: "I'm lucky, as soon as I heard that the meeting place was here, I immediately said that I was familiar with it, and asked me to come. Be a receptionist, maintain order, guide some lost guys, etc. I didn't expect that the policeman thought this proposal was a good idea, so he agreed to me."
She pushed a cup of drink to Annie, took a sip of her own, and muttered: "I was thinking about how boring it would be after the video store lost me, but I didn't expect that the drinks in this book cafe are pretty good... It seems What is it called, milk tea is here, but it is very different from the milk tea that the nobles drink."
Anne politely took a sip from the straw, then her eyes widened.
What does it taste like? ! It's too good to drink...
Seems like it would be a wonderful combination if paired with bread from my own bakery.
Annie shook her head and threw away her habitual business thinking. Now the key is not this. She whispered: "Athena, what are you trying to do at this party?"
Athena narrowed her eyes, pouted in the direction of the counter inside the book cafe, and lowered her voice: "The two over there, that girl is the owner of the book cafe, and the tall man next to it is the central police officer. The police in the department, they will announce the charges against the Dome Church later."
Guilty
Annie was stunned, confused.
Athena came over as if she had discovered some great secret, her eyes flashing with excitement: "Also, I just found out that this bookstore is actually a subsidiary store of the bookstore next door, and that weird bookstore is really not simple. !"