"We can't keep her."

The young man finished this sentence in a low voice, and glanced at an old prostitute / woman standing like a cockfight with her hands pierced not far away.

The two brothers stared at him directly and said "ah?", Even if it's a question.

"She is the third victim. If she stays here all night, Jack the ripper is just another person... I still can't know who jack is. But if we let her out..." the young man bit his lip here, showing a little nervousness: "-- as long as we keep following her, we will naturally find Jack the Ripper!"

"Yes, and as soon as we catch the Ripper, we can go out immediately." Lin Sanjiu's eyes lit up slightly, and he couldn't help but answer a sentence. For her, of course, the sooner she goes out, the better: "in that case, I'll go with you."

The two brothers of Tudou looked at each other when they heard the speech, as if they were thinking about something; After a few seconds, the younger brother said, "count me in. The victim came to the door on his own initiative, which shows that we may still be inseparable from the murderer."

The brother agreed, but the brother shook his head for a while: "if you like, go. I want to stay here and sleep. Whatever he does, anyway, the killer can't kill me."

Now that everyone had made a decision, the younger brother immediately came forward and found a few pennies from the house, and used them to send Anne away. As soon as she left her front foot, several evolutionists followed her back foot - perhaps Annie's scolding voice attracted attention. Many people looked at her from the crack of the door and behind the window, and then retracted.

On the night of London in the 19th century, although there were already gas street lamps, they were still covered with wet, cold and dark. Here is a slum with countless immigrants, so there are not many street lights; The faint yellow light they shed is just a tune in the distant night, like a drop of color dripping into the dark river. It disappears before it shines.

Annie was smoking inferior cigarettes and staggering along the alley. Whenever someone passed her, she would stop and say hello with a dumb smile. However, tonight, it happened that rain fell, and heavy dark clouds fell in the sky. There are fewer people in the alley, and I can't see a pedestrian for a long time. As the crowd was sparse, Lin Sanjiu and others had to hang far behind to avoid being heard by Annie.

The night in the game is obviously much longer than the day. Annie's monotonous and messy footsteps, accompanied by the long shadow she cast, wandered the streets like a drunk, and never found any guests - according to the information of the young man, she is 47 years old this year, and even through the dark night, it is difficult to deceive the eyes of those lovers.

After walking for a long time, nothing happened. That brother couldn't help being a little impatient.

"Maybe she didn't die today," he whispered when Annie turned into the corner ahead. "We can't follow every night -"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a woman's scream, which tore the night sky long. The three people were surprised and rushed to catch up, and Lin Sanjiu was the first to rush ahead; However, as soon as she turned into the alley, she heard a "pa", and the only remaining gas street lamp on the road suddenly went out, and the debris was clearly scattered on the ground - the darkness quickly covered the alley, and several people couldn't help but stop.

A scream still echoed faintly, but the alley was empty - several carriages stopped by the roadside, several old doors closed tightly, looked around, and it didn't look like someone moving anywhere.

"Where is she?" The young man asked while panting.

"Look separately!" The younger brother gave an order and hurriedly strode to the other end of the alley. His feet were treading on the water, which sounded particularly loud at night.

This alley is also connected with several fork roads. If Annie was dragged into a darker path after the attack, it is not impossible - Lin Sanjiu and the young people dispersed separately. She walked along a fork road and called "Annie" a few times as she walked, but she never heard any response.

In the narrow and dark alley, even the last light of the sky was strictly blocked outside. Lin Sanjiu listened to his voice and slowly disappeared into the air, groping for the greasy walls around him, as if covered with moss - the road ahead was getting narrower and narrower, and there were many sundries piled up; She hesitated and stopped in the dark. After thinking for a while, she decided to go back to the alley just now.

As soon as she turned around, her breathing stopped.

A dark figure came up at an unknown time. At this time, it was standing behind her, and the heavy breathing emitted bursts of white steam in the dark.

Lin Sanjiu was startled, and suddenly stepped back. When he was about to strike first, he suddenly heard the other party tremble: "don't be afraid! It's me."

Lin Sanjiu was stunned, and then he realized that it was the young man.

Still tense, she asked low, "what are you doing with me?"

"I... i... I have something I want to show you." The young man sounded a little flustered, "I don't want to say it outside."

"You should quit now," Lin Sanjiu said word by word. "Show me something after you go out, or don't blame me for being rude."

"What do you mean by talking to me like this?" The young man was also vaguely angry, but he just endured it. After all, he snorted, turned around and left - "I don't understand you women! Don't you think about it, in this game, the only thing you can trust is me!"

Lin Sanjiu frowned slightly and hurried up. They stopped at the fork of the road. She separated a few steps and asked in a cautious low voice, "what do you mean? What do you want to show me?"

Because the alley is connected to the road behind, there is more shimmer than the fork in the road. At last, she can see the young man clearly. When the latter was angry, his eyes seemed to hang higher, and the corners of his mouth tightly pursed - as soon as his eyes fell into the alley, his anger suddenly melted, and he shivered deeply; He stepped back, retreated into the shadow, and without saying a word, took out a small copper plate from his pocket, with the edge slightly concave, as if he had been hit by something.

Lin Sanjiu took a careful look at the copper plate, and immediately confused: "a penny? Why do you show me this?"

The young man clenched the copper plate and swallowed a mouthful of saliva with a thud in his throat. After hesitating for a few seconds, he hesitated and said: "... Isn't there often a bridge in detective novels... That is, we go to find the murderer together, and finally find that the murderer is one of the people around us..."

Lin Sanjiu didn't speak, but slowly moved his eyes.

"This, this is what I found in the street lamp fragments." The young man lowered his voice and looked at her with a kind of sincerity: "... I suspect that this small copper plate broke the street lamp. Do you remember that before we left, the younger brother found a few pence and gave it to Anne? I, I think..."

Lin Sanjiu suddenly waved his hand at him. Before he could react, he suddenly raised his voice behind him and said, "are you back? Have you found someone?"

The young man was startled, almost bit his tongue, and hurriedly put the copper plate into his trouser pocket - he only felt a black on his shoulder, and turned his head tremblingly, just opposite his brother's potato like irregular face and a pair of round, staring black eyes.

"I don't know where she went," said the younger brother, looking no different from before. He stared at the young man for a moment, "... What are you talking about?"

"Just talking about Jack the Ripper," Lin Sanjiu tried to calm down and smiled.

"It's just a guy who killed several people," his brother also laughed, "I don't understand how he can have such a great reputation."

The young man's lips trembled and said nothing.

Several people suddenly fell into a sudden silence.

"Since we can't find the woman, let's go back," my brother said first. He scratched his chin, and with his straight expression, he was the first to go in the direction of their arrival - Lin Sanjiu glanced at the young man, fell behind a few steps and slowly followed out.

The alley was still as dark as before, and there were shallow puddles on the flagstone road. The footsteps of several people were pulled long by the silence. Before the echo of the previous step dispersed, it was caught up by the echo of the next step. After a while, it sounded as if there were more than three people walking in the alley.

"You... Where are you from with your brother?" Walking, the young man suddenly asked with a trembling voice.

Why do you ask this?

Lin Sanjiu was stunned. He saw the younger brother turn around, glanced at the young man, and replied, "you probably haven't heard of where we came."

The young man shut his mouth and said nothing. Several people left the alley and walked down the road. The light of street lamps and street taverns finally lit up the wet street again. The voices here were noisy again. Twos and threes of prostitutes / prostitutes were half wet in the rain, their hair stuck to their scalp, and they still tried to talk to every passer-by in a panic - it seemed that no one heard Anne's scream.

Seeing more and more people, the young man finally dared to approach Lin Sanjiu. He kept staring at his brother's figure in front of him. Seeing that he was surrounded by several prostitutes, he quickly whispered, "don't you understand what I mean? In this game, you can only trust me, and I can only trust you."

Lin Sanjiu raised his eyebrows suspiciously.

"Can you tell where the two brothers are from?" The young man shook his head and looked pale: "... Anyway, I can't see that it's OK to say that they are Europeans, Asians, or even Arabs. Ten thousand, what if they were originally in this game? Pretend to be players again... But the background here is London, England, in the 19th century, so only one kind of people is probably foreign -"

Lin San Jiu looked at his pair of red phoenix eyes, and he had vaguely understood it.

"... East Asians." She answered softly.