The man who opened the door was the elder brother of the deceased Perot Spencer, because the parents of the two brothers passed away very early, and Perot Spencer had no children, so the elder brother was the closest person in his blood.
Mr. Spencer lives with his wife and children, and tonight his wife and two children are visiting their mother on the other side of the city, so he is alone at home. He carefully put the body on the sofa, then knelt beside the sand and burst into tears.
"Thank you for bringing him back. How did he die?"
Mr Spencer did not ask where the pair were from or how they knew the address.
"We also found you here to know the cause of his death. I am sorry for his death... This body will be handed over to you. Let him be buried as soon as possible, but before that, please tell us, do you know you Does your younger brother have any friends, or people with the same interests as him?"
Mr. Spencer seems to be ignorant of the extraordinary world, but he knows that his younger brother is usually mysterious, and he also knows some of his friends. Controlling his emotions, the middle-aged man's voice was very sad:
"If it is his best friend, I think there is only one. The two of them like to hang out together on weekdays. I don't know what they are doing all day. If it wasn't because Perot once swore to me, I even thought These two young men are... oh, Perrault, I told you that you should find a good job as soon as possible, and if you listened to me, how did you end up like this?"
After explaining the friend's address, he pestered Jenkins and Miss Magic to tell them where the body was found, apparently wanting to hire a private detective to investigate. In order to prevent the ordinary person who had nothing to do with this incident from being involved, Jenkins used some "tricks" to convince him that the two well-meaning people sent back the corpse, and those weird runes on the corpse's skin were his eyesight. If he can't see it, he needs to wash the body immediately and take it to burial.
Friends of Perrault Spencer also lived nearby, only to find the house empty when they got there. It was only later that I heard from my neighbors that the people who lived here hurriedly packed their luggage and moved to the countryside a few weeks ago, and asked their neighbors to look after the house before leaving.
"If you want to find him, you can write to him. I know his address in the country."
That, said the enthusiastic middle-aged woman, provided a clue to what to do next.
In short, after a lot of tossing around, I finally found the man. He lived in a village very close to the urban area, which happened to avoid the range of [Illusion of Doom]. When Jenkins and Miss Magic knocked on the door, he was still very puzzled. When Jenkins said the phrase [Illusion of Doom], he turned around and wanted to escape into the house, but Jenkins grabbed his wrist firmly and couldn't move.
"We are not bad people, what are you doing with such a big reaction?"
Under the moonlight, Jenkins asked suspiciously, and then turned his head to signal that Miss Magic would also break into the house like him, without forgetting to close the door behind her.
The small country house is not very well decorated, probably because there is no plan to live in it. There is not even some necessary furniture in the house, only the most basic bed and table.
The man whose hand was held by Jenkins cried out in pain while secretly looking at the two intruders, and quietly touched his pocket with the other hand.
"I advise you to be honest and don't act rashly. I will emphasize again that we are not bad people, but I just want to ask you a few questions."
As he said that, Jenkins grabbed the opponent's wrist and forced him to sit on the chair. Miss Magic stood not far away from the door and looked at the room.
"You broke into my house so late and told me you weren't bad people? Okay, so what are you going to do? If you want to rob, I don't mind if you take everything you can find."
The man rubbed his wrist and complained.
"Don't pretend, you are the bestower, and so are we. This time, we are here for the things in the strange world. I think you should know what I mean."
"Are you from the Orthodox Church? Well, if I didn't say anything, you definitely don't belong to the Church... So what do you want to know? Now that you have found this place, the two of you should be very interested in Nolan of the Doomsday." I understand. To be honest, if you have time to trouble me here, why not inform your relatives and friends to leave the city as soon as possible.”
He muttered and tried to get up, but Jenkins pushed him back.
"We do know a lot of things, but we don't know what you did to cause this crisis."
Hearing Jenkins' question, the man sitting in the chair immediately lowered his head. His fingers subconsciously picked at the wooden knots on the armrest of the chair, and it took him a long time before he spoke:
"Actually, that's not our fault..."
Jenkins glanced at Miss Magic, whose fingers swayed slightly, as if she was using some ability.
"It's the first time for the five of us to enter the strange land. We thought that a large number of people would be enough, but we didn't expect to encounter such a complicated situation. That strange land is both doomsday and treasure. Ancient creatures can be seen everywhere and some are carved on the walls. The blasphemous spells we have never seen before. After coming out of the clock tower, we explored a lot of places. Even though we have met the requirements for getting out of the strange world, we have no idea of going back immediately. Later... "
His voice choked up and trembled with fear at the same time:
"Then the moon fell, and the whole world lost its light. I don't know what happened after that, and I don't know what happened to the friends around me. I just remember that I wanted to die immediately, to get rid of the fear of suffocation and depression... I heard someone talking to me in the dark, and I seemed to agree to something to that voice, and then returned to reality. Because I found that staying in Nolan would lead me into that world repeatedly, I hid here.”
After speaking, he bent down and buried his face in his knees, trembling and sobbing.
"What did you promise?"
Jenkins asked, this is most likely the key to breaking the game.
"I don't remember. I don't dare to recall anything in that darkness. Sir, if you still have mercy, please let me hide here alone now. I really don't know anything."
The man trembled and said, his voice also became weak.
Jenkins glanced at Miss Magic again, and the latter nodded slightly, and the aura drawn by her fingers became stronger.