I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

The administrator picked up the bottle to prevent it from being blown to the ground by the wind.

Trist stood there, stunned. He looked out the window at the smoke and dust from the factory and the curtains fluttering in the breeze. He thought he saw the girl smiling at him.

This is the room from my dream!

It's exactly the same!

It's the same one!

Drizzt walked into the room as if he had been there countless times before. He sat on the edge of the bed, in the same spot from his dream.

Everything seemed to be repeating itself.

"Was there an incident here before? Who died? Is there a record?"

Trist hurriedly asked the administrator.

"I... I'll check."

The administrator was taken aback by Trist's attitude and forgot to ask for money. He staggered downstairs, and Sia followed him. After a while, she returned carrying a thick volume of documents.

"Room 404, the previous occupant was John, a textile factory worker..."

"No."

Trist immediately denied it, and he took the document to check the previous records of this room.

Fortunately, the apartment is managed fairly well, with records for each room on a separate page, showing the flow of tenants.

However, there is only textual information here, without photo comparison.

Soon, Drizzt spotted one of them.

"Tenant's name: Liz, moved in in May 25, died in an accident in October..."

Drizzt found the record of the death.

It is springtime in 26, which was a year ago.

"Strange, why is there only one person?"

Shea remembered that there should be two people in Trist's dream.

However, the rental record only has one person's name.

"This is normal. As long as you register your name, you can move into the apartment. It doesn't matter whether it's one person or two people, as long as it doesn't affect other people."

The administrator said it casually.

“Some people rent apartments and also rent out their beds to others, even the space under the bed can be rented out, it’s no big deal.”

"This sub-landlord is a bit outrageous."

Lu Ban probably knew that these people couldn't afford to pay enough money on their own, so they were looking for others to "share the cost," just like there are many shared rental apartments in big cities now.

Many people work hard and struggle, only to find that all their money goes to rent and is given to the landlord.

Landlords have existed in every era.

He sighed.

"Now that we know the name, we can check the police file."

"Sia said, then looked at the paint on the room."

When was the paint applied here?

The paint color was different from the paint on the deceased's body; it wasn't as vibrant or colorful.

"It was after the incident. The manager at the time had already left, and I don't know where he went. But I heard that the situation here was quite serious at the time, and some gangsters were injured. The pipes in this building have also had problems."

The administrator said, recalling the events as he spoke.

"Do gangsters live here?"

Sia found it a bit unbelievable. There were naturally no gangs in the Night Kingdom, but according to Sia's understanding, this should be some kind of loosely disciplined military organization, which should have a place to live together, not live in such a messy apartment.

"Yes, of course there are, but most apartments don't really accept these guys because they're easy to cause trouble. I remember the gang that came here back then was the Catania family."

The administrator scratched his head.

"The Catania family?"

Drizzt felt that something was connecting everything in the dark.

"You mean the Catania family was here when the accident happened, and they were injured?"

"It should be, but I'm not sure."

Even the administrator was unsure after being questioned by Tristana.

"But someone must have been injured at the time, because the neighbors were gangsters."

He pointed to the rental records.

It read, "Tucker, moved in November 23, left October 25."

It's October too!

"Oh, I remember now, I even read about it in the newspaper back then, two gangs were fighting, and quite a few people died."

The administrator seemed to have just remembered.

"Because of this incident, the big shots in the ruined capital cracked down on the gangs for a while, but they only wiped out some insignificant ones; the real ones were fine."

Thank you for your explanation.

Trist handed a banknote to the administrator, then looked at Lu Ban and Sia.

“We need to find out where Tucker went, how this Liz died, and what the Catania family did here.”

"Then we should go to the police station first."

Lu Ban made the suggestion.

"really."

Drizzt took one last look at the house as he went downstairs, deep in thought.

"If that girl is Flora, then there wouldn't be such a big change in just one year. So the girl in the dream must be Liz. But how did this pendant end up in Flora's hands?"

"Or rather, the perspective of my dream was Flora's. The gaze I felt in the basement was Flora's lingering will after she died because of her supernatural power. She was parasitizing me, trying to tell me the answer?"

"At least one thing is certain: the perpetrator didn't randomly choose his targets. Flora, Dr. House, and the deceased from the Catania family—these people are connected. Once we can figure out these connections, we can find out who killed them, and..."

"The killer's next target..."

Drizzt thought of the charity banquet that evening, where the entire Catania family would be present.

Chapter 407 No one survived.

Inside the police station.

The three of them flipped through the documents, looking at the case records of the Happiness Home apartment incident.

However, police records for cases involving gangs are often vague.

I don't know if they're afraid to investigate thoroughly, or if they've been paid to deliberately obscure the truth.

"...Here."

Fortunately, Sia possessed magic, allowing her to directly read files using quantum fluctuations. She made the files grow on their own and read themselves, quickly finding the relevant information.

Liz, 15 years old, cause of death xxxx, unclaimed, body cremated.

"?"

Lu Ban was stunned.

Why was the cause of death covered up?

He looked back and saw that there was no photo of the girl, nor an autopsy report. All that was said was that she was sent to the same funeral home they had initially gone to for cremation, and her ashes were nowhere to be found.

A living person died just like that, the cause was covered up, and the final whereabouts of the body are unknown. It really makes one feel that this world is too outrageous.

There aren't many records of this case.

Xia pointed down.

A violent clash occurred between two armed groups at the Happiness Home apartment complex, resulting in 17 deaths and 6 injuries. Two perpetrators were arrested but, after negotiation, were released on bail.

The large-scale gang fight resulted in the deaths of seventeen people, but only two scapegoats were arrested and released, which shows just how chaotic the security situation in the abandoned capital was.

Trist glanced at the trial records and the list of the dead and wounded.

Apart from the five gang members, the others were ordinary civilians, while three people died in the Happy Home apartment building, including Liz from room 404.

There's also Tucker in room 405.

Regarding Tucker's records, Twisted Fate discovered that the police had much more detailed information here.

Tucker, leader of the violent Knife Gang, died in October 25 during a fight with other gangs.

Besides Tucker, the other four gang members were also from the Sharp Knife Gang. It seems they gathered here and were then wiped out by the Catania family.

Such cases are not uncommon. Over the past few years, the Catania family has continued to expand and has clashed with many small gangs. Some have submitted and become subordinates of the Catania family, while others, such as the Sharp Knife Gang, have been directly eliminated by the Catania family and completely wiped out of the city.

It appears that Liz, who originally lived here, was caught up in a gang fight and died. Lu Ban looked at the information of the other victims, and the cause of death for most of them had been redacted.

Although, according to Stone, the Catania family wanted to whitewash itself and become upper class, its characteristics as a gang were still unavoidable during the process of expansion and consolidation. When facing small gangs and violent groups, it was obviously much simpler to give them an offer they couldn't refuse than to go through a lot of complicated negotiations.

"But what does all this have to do with Dr. House's case?"

Xia didn't quite understand.

If Trist dreams of Flora, who is a close friend and roommate of Liz, and Flora was previously in poor health but was cured by Dr. House's medicine, and they were involved in a gang fight a year ago, in which Liz died unexpectedly, and Flora began to receive Dr. House's medicine directly, then the events can all be explained up to this point.

But why kill these two people?

"They were silenced because they saw the faces of gangsters or learned some gang secrets?"

Lu Ban guessed casually.

“But gangsters can control police records, so there’s no reason they wouldn’t know about these two people. They should have silenced them long ago.”

Trist shook his head. In the ruins, if a gang wanted to keep any secrets, they could just kill them without any hesitation.