Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 32 Reflection
After Ivy left, Ethan moved a small chair and sat in front of the pile of junk in the living room to sort out Roxan's belongings. Miss Chloe found a corner, curled up into a ball, buried her head in the feathers of her wings and took a nap.

The pile of junk was mostly broken furniture. Ethan put the detector at his feet and searched for half an hour without finding anything.

After searching in vain, he had no choice but to drag a hard bed back to the bedroom, lie flat on it, stare idly at the beams above his head, put the detector next to his head, and fell asleep in a daze.

He slept until most of the night until he was awakened by Miss Chloe.

There was a slight "cooing" sound coming from the living room. Ethan lay on the bed and listened carefully. The sound was very gentle, and it sounded like someone was communicating with someone.

His eyes moved to the detector beside the bed. The needle pointed to yellow, and from time to time it made the same noise as the snowy screen on a TV.

Before dawn, a faint movement wave finally appeared in the haunted house, which meant that Mr. Lockthorn might have returned home.

When Ethan walked out of the bedroom, he found Miss Chloe standing behind the translucent figure with her head tilted, curiously. She tried to attract the figure's attention with a "cooing" sound, but the man who remained sitting in the void seemed unaware of her presence.

Miss Chloe stood on tiptoe and tried to butt the man's back with her head, but it went straight through his body.

"Goo?"

She was even more confused.

Although the man was wearing a clown mask and a circus uniform, she still recognized him because Mr. Roxon was a good man who would go to the chicken coop from time to time to feed her bread crumbs and candy. In her list of people of favorability, Roxon was second only to Ethan.

"Don't disturb Mr. Roxanne, he's busy."

Hearing Ethan's call, Miss Chloe nodded ignorantly and retreated to the corner of the room, looking back every step of the way.

Mr. Roxan looked strange today, and she didn't like it.

Ethan sighed. Miss Chloe might find it difficult to understand the scene before her. Why would people return to their homes after they died?

There is such a record in the book "Take You to Know 100 Dark Creatures". The demon hunter Augustus accidentally encountered this ghost-like existence when passing through a small mountain village. The people who commissioned him were an elderly couple in the village. Their daughter left home a few days ago and never came back. Since then, some strange things have happened in their home.

Augustus named this phenomenon "reflection". After investigation and research, he found that they were not ghosts, but supernatural images. The images had no independent thinking ability, could not communicate with people, and would not attack living people. Their only behavior was to repeat certain behaviors in their previous life.

The reflection will not last long, usually disappearing in three to five days, and it will be the last trace of the deceased left in this world.

Augustus believed that the appearance of the reflection represented that the deceased felt that he had unfinished business before he died.

Ethan found a table from the pile of junk and pushed it in front of the reflection, then a chair for it to sit on. In this way, he could roughly judge Roxon's behavior.

Roxan was flipping through something, occasionally picking up a pen to add a few words on it. Although the clown mask covered his face, it was not difficult to judge from the way he turned the book and wrote that he was becoming more and more anxious.

That means he does it every day.

He dragged his tired body back home late at night. Without even taking off his mask or costume, he immediately sat down at the table and looked through something.

It took Roxan ten minutes. He closed the object heavily, threw the pen aside casually, and collapsed, leaning back in the chair. He looked up at the ceiling of the apartment for a long time. Then, Roxan perked up, slapped his face hard, and seemed to say something.

Then he picked up the items on the table and went into the bedroom.

It was right in front of the hard bed, just two steps away from where Marshall suffered from laughter, and he put the object in.

Ethan was quite sure that the items Roxan stored were not in the junk pile, and there was nothing that looked like a book in it. That left only one other possibility.

When the Imperial Federal Reserve cleaned up the Rockthorn apartment, it only took away the books and the containers in which they were stored. This may be the direct cause of Marshall's laughter disorder.

Marshall is not a honest man.

Even though he was affected by the curse and sent a letter for help to the shelter in Gear City, he did not tell the truth in the letter. He never mentioned the book in Roxan's apartment. Ethan suddenly remembered the goal Ivy mentioned - she came to a remote border town like Creekwood just to find a magic book.

Could it be that Roxan got hold of this magic book by accident?

Ethan stopped thinking. He didn't intend to waste his brain cells on wild thoughts. As long as he determined that Marshall was hiding something from the shelter, he could leave the rest to Ivy. He believed that even if Marshall was unwilling to cooperate at that time, Ivy would have a way to make him speak.

Ivy collected many magic scrolls and potions. Ethan had heard of a potion called Veritaserum. Just a small drop in the water could make Marshall reveal the darkest secrets in his heart. This was much more effective than the lie detector in the 21st century.

"Ms. Chloe, let's go and ask the leader for instructions!"

After receiving the order, Miss Chloe took one last look in the direction of the bedroom, and saw that Lockthorn's shadow was getting fainter and fainter until it disappeared from her sight.

Her eyes widened in surprise, and she walked towards the door, looking back every few steps.

Miss Chloe had a very sensitive nose and was very strong. She could run very fast even with a person on her back. However, this time she did not go straight to Ivy's luxury apartment. Instead, she ran to a bar on the block. There was a closed sign at the door of the bar, but a faint light could be seen from inside.

"Ms. Rose, we—"

Ethan pushed the door open, but the scene inside the bar made all his words stuck in his throat.

He found Ivy in the tavern, but he came at a wrong time.

Now Ivy was holding a gun in both hands, pointing it at the bar owner, who raised his hands above his head in fear. Ethan's push through the door interrupted the stalemate, and both of them turned their eyes to Ethan at the door.

"Miss Chloe."

Ethan whispered seriously, "Go keep watch at the door and don't let anyone in."

Miss Chloe obeyed the order and stood guard at the door like a door god.

Ethan walked quickly to the bar counter and put on leather gloves under the gaze of the two men to avoid leaving any fingerprints. Then he opened the cash cabinet at the bar, took out the golden lions and silver antelopes inside, and scattered them on the bar counter.

"……What are you doing?"

Ivy's eyelids twitched violently a few times.

"Fake the scene." Ethan pulled his gloves like a true professional, "Make it look like a home invasion and murder case."

"You stand on the opposite side too."

The black muzzle of the gun turned towards Ethan. Ivy bit her lower lip until it bled. "Raise your hands above your head!"

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