The carriage was getting closer and closer to the alley where the girl Louise's home was located. Jenkins stroked the cat lying comfortably on his lap after waking up, and said in a worried tone:
"Actually, I came to this alley last night to send a little flower girl home, but I didn't find any problems at that time... Is there a family member named Louise's little girl?"
"No, there is no child in their family with that name."
Miss Bevanna said very affirmatively, and Jenkins felt a little relieved. But this kind of thing would not trouble Miss Bevanna herself, so there must be something Jenkins didn't know about it.
He is no longer planning to go back to Papa's antique shop now, but followed Miss Bevanna to the alley to confirm the situation before making any plans.
So after getting out of the car, I found someone to send a message to my father so that he didn't have to worry, and then I stood behind Miss Bevanna and listened to the report from the sheriff and the keeper's apprentice sent by Carfax. Condition.
The case confirmation here was a little earlier today. Byron Street is an ordinary street in the urban area, and a private clinic is located opposite the alley. The first floor of the clinic is the working area, and the doctor's family lives on the second and third floors. This morning, the doctor was woken up by knocking on the door downstairs before he woke up. Wearing pajamas, a coat and slippers, when I opened the door sleepily, I saw a panicked middle-aged man / standing at the door.
He is one of the residents of the alley, and usually makes a living by carrying luggage or goods at the dock. His wife is a female worker in a textile factory in the east of the city. She rested after returning home from the night shift last night. When the man woke up this morning, he found that his wife, who was sharing the same bed with him, was not breathing, and a strange phenomenon appeared on his body. The appearance of the corpse also seems to have been dead for a long time, and the corpse spots are particularly prominent.
The man immediately panicked when he heard about the plague that he had often heard about recently. But at least his first thought was not to conceal this matter, but to find a doctor to confirm whether his wife's death was related to the plague.
Fortunately for him, the doctor who was awakened by him recognized the strange features of the corpse and the resemblance of the plague at a glance. The two didn't dare to go directly to the street, but immediately told the police patrolling nearby about the incident. The police also realized the seriousness of the incident, so half an hour later both the church and the city hall received the news.
This was probably the case. When Jenkins met Miss Bevanna and rushed to the entrance of the alley, it had been a morning since the plague was confirmed.
The entrance of the alley has been closed by the barricades of Carfax Yard. Strange people wearing thick black protective clothing and crow's mouth masks are walking around in the alley with even weirder devices.
The device consisted of a thin iron rod and a brass-colored round cake. The metal round cake was fixed at the lower end of the iron rod, and was controlled to stop at a height of half a foot from the ground and sweep back and forth non-stop.
Jenkins thinks this thing is more like a simple tool for detecting landmines, but it is indeed a professional tool that has been processed by the church to monitor the terrible corpse plague.
After listening to the report, following Miss Bevanna got off the carriage and got off the apprentice team led by the Keeper of Secrets Colin Shire. He is the youngest keeper of the Diocese of Nolan and the one with the largest number of apprentices among the keeper of the diocese.
Because they wanted to enter the alley, no matter how confident they were in themselves, everyone still put on heavy protective clothing and crow's mouth masks like the policemen, doctors, and patrol teams shuttling through the alley.
Except for the masquerade ball invited by Hathaway last time, Jenkins rarely used masks and the like. Because wearing such jewelry will block the line of sight, and breathing will also be hindered.
Naturally, cats cannot follow in, because there are definitely no protective clothing and masks suitable for chocolate figures. Without proper protection, Jenkins will not allow his cat to go deep into danger.
Although Chocolat was unhappy, it was too late to change Jenkins' thoughts hastily, so he could only lie on the wall and watch Jenkins enter the alley sullenly, with his tail drooping to show that he was in a bad mood.
Things are not as bad as Jenkins thought, or the flower girl Louise did not suffer bad luck because of meeting Jenkins. The resident with the plague case was half an alley away from Louise's house. Although they still had a chance of being infected, it was much better than living next door.
After talking to Miss Bevanna, the group of them went to check the female corpse first, while Jenkins walked towards Louise's house alone. In order to prevent nearby residents from walking around at will, there are patrolling police officers wearing protective clothing every few meters in the alley, but Jenkins' protective clothing is a unique style, which is a symbol of status, even if he did not notice that he came in a carriage , and no one stopped him from knocking on the door.
It was a long time after the knock on the door that a frightened man inside the door asked:
"What's the matter?"
The family probably guessed what happened in the alley. After all, although going out is not allowed, it is not forbidden to look out through the crack of the door. The sudden knock on the door made the family very uneasy. They thought of the rumor that the city hall would arrest all infected suspects and burn them.
"I'm looking for Louise, and her friend Fini sent her something."
Fei Ni was still very measured, the small package was just clothes, and there was no money, so Jenkins delivered it directly.
After he finished speaking, the person inside opened the door a little. In fact, Jenkins could kick open the old wooden door with one kick. The people in the low house didn't realize that it didn't really matter whether the door opened or not.
"Hello, sir."
The door was opened by a middle-aged man, probably the father of the girl Louise. He was frightened by the tall man in strange clothes and a scary mask standing outside the door, but he still greeted bravely.
"Good afternoon, this is for Louise, hope she likes it."
As he said that, he handed over the bag in his hand. The man wanted to reach out to pick it up, but after thinking about it, he turned around and shouted into the house, and then a timid little girl appeared at the door.
She also seemed intimidated by the strangely dressed Jenkins at the door, but she bravely reached out to take the package and thanked her softly. Jenkins nodded, and wanted to turn around and leave to chase Miss Bevanna and the others to see how the plague here was different. At this time, he heard the man inside the door courageously asking:
"Sorry sir, I want to ask, do you know when the martial law here will be lifted?"
"I'm afraid it will take a week."
Jenkins answered this way, which is also the most conservative estimate. After all, a lot of time would be wasted just for comprehensive disinfection, not to mention the thorough screening of all those who might be sick to see if they were infected with the plague.
There are extremely densely populated slums nearby, and any mistake may cause Nolan to once again be on the front page of the Kingdom Morning Post.