Mystery: Starting from Meeting Amon

Chapter 96 80 Pound Reward

Mixed in the crowd, Elena suddenly felt something was wrong. She trembled and followed her companions, pushing and shoving, all the way to the outside of the cemetery.

Perhaps because of the curse, she watched her classmates trip over scattered bones. She herself accidentally fell in front of a tombstone. On the tombstone was a portrait of a dead person with a weird smile and a chilling epitaph:

"Why sleep for so long while you are alive? You will sleep forever after you die!"

It was the first time that Elena had seen such a scene. She looked down along the tombstone, and her heart seemed to be tightly gripped by something.

"Boom boom boom!"

The sound of the coffin lid being knocked was right below her body, and the sound seemed to be acting on her body. Every knock was like a drumstick hitting the heart, making people want to vomit.

She fell back, her eyes suddenly rolled back, and she fainted, accompanied by a fishy smell.

Lewis watched the group of unfortunate boys and girls stumbling out of the cemetery. In the end, they didn't dare to look inside the cemetery again and dispersed in a hurry.

He once again wrapped Azik's copper whistle with his spiritual power, and the corpse's reaction came to an abrupt end, and the orderly knocking sounds on the coffin lids also disappeared.

After today's malicious intimidation, these unlucky guys probably won't return to Green Cemetery in the short term.

"You're a little timid. You're so scared that you peed yourself."

Lewis came to Elena, helped the girl out of the cemetery, hired a night carriage, and threw her on the carriage seat.

It took about ten minutes for the carriage to finally return to the home of real estate agent Wilbur, and Lewis rang the doorbell.

After a few minutes, the butler in a swallowtail uniform opened the door, and he glanced at the girl Lewis was supporting, and exclaimed: “Miss Elena, why is she here?”

"You'll understand if you take a look in her room." Lewis explained calmly, "I think I've found the reason why Miss Elena is abnormal. If Mr. Wilbur is still awake, I want to go and deliver the task now."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Wilbur has already gone to bed. I will arrange a bedroom for you. Please wait until tomorrow."

The housekeeper took Elena from Lewis and sent her back to the room.

Lewis found a not-so-formal room arranged by the servants and took a temporary rest. The gorgeous bedding smelled of rose essential oil and was very exquisite.

"I also saw two unlucky people today, unlucky people who were haunted by evil spirits. They were so miserable, but I can't go to their homes to exorcise the spirits, because that would expose my own abnormality."

……

In the morning, Lewis received a notice from the servant. He put on formal clothes, went to the living room, and met the real estate agent Wilbur.

The chubby gentleman was still sitting in the rocking chair, and seemed not to want to let his feet touch the ground.

"Please take a seat." Mr. Wilbur nodded.

Lewis sat aside, he quietly looked at the chubby gentleman and said:

"I think I have found the abnormality of Miss Elena."

As Lewis glanced at the waiters in the living room, the real estate agent Wilbur sent them away and said:
"Now you can tell me the situation. I hope to hear some useful information."

"Of course." Lewis smiled calmly and described in detail what he saw in Green Cemetery last night, including the boys and girls stealing corpses and performing strange dances.

Finally, he also emphasized the bald adult male who danced with the boys and girls. "Mr. Wilbur, this is the truth about Miss Elena. I think my work is worthy of the 20-pound reward." Lewis took a sip of black tea and added lightly.

Wilbur's face became more and more ugly. It was a crime to steal a corpse without permission. According to the laws of the kingdom, serious cases would result in a prison sentence of about ten years.

If this matter gets out, not only will Elena's life be ruined, but his reputation will also be affected. A real estate developer with a ruined reputation will inevitably lose his wealth.

"No!" Wilbur forced a smile and said, "Mr. Lewis, I admire your ability to handle cases. The reward of 80 pounds is what you deserve."

Am I really that much of a detective who likes to talk nonsense?

Lewis was somewhat helpless, but he still stood up and saluted, saying, "Mr. Wilbur, I admire your generosity. I hope Miss Elena can get out of the shadow of being threatened as soon as possible."

Elena was threatened? This detective is really smart. Just like my business partners, their ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood depends only on whether the matter is beneficial to them.

"You deserve this, Mr. Detective. I never thought I could get the result in just one day. Your efforts are worth my big price."

The two smiled at each other and understood the meaning of each other's words.

Taking 80 pounds in cash, Lewis said goodbye to real estate agent Wilbur and boarded a public carriage to Hilton District.

……

Near noon, Elena woke up from her large bed with velvet and mosquito nets. She looked at her surroundings with surprise and came out of her panic.

Recalling the sound of the corpse rising from the ground last night and the coffin lid being knocked under the tombstone, her body trembled slightly.

"I never want to participate in this kind of ceremony again. It's too scary." Elena drank some water. The only thing she remembered was that she was tightly grasped by a dead hand that stretched out from the ground.

At that moment, she understood that there was a real but imperceptible world beyond the range of what the naked eye could see.

Perhaps that was the world where the dead lived, and their resurrection of the dead angered the god of death.

"I don't know what happened later. Did the dead in Green Cemetery come out of their coffins to look for us who disturbed their eternal sleep?"

Elena didn't know what happened after she fainted, let alone what happened to the rest of the people. She called the housekeeper and asked:

"How did I come back last night? I mean... was there anything unusual when I slept last night?" Elena hurriedly explained, suddenly remembering that she had sneaked out last night.

The housekeeper helped Elena prepare the clothes she would wear today and explained truthfully: "You fainted outside last night, and it was the detective who brought you back."

Of course, he omitted the embarrassing scene of Elena, which would have been a lifelong shame for a lady if it had been told.

Elena suddenly thought of the detective in uniform, and her heart felt as if it had been shaken by something.

"It was him! He brought me out of the cemetery, out of the encirclement of the dead, out of the curse of the god of death...

He is really a magical and powerful detective, at least more powerful than my teacher!"

"I'm going out to meet the detective in a moment." Elena said as she put on her clothes and straightened her attire.

(End of this chapter)