Chapter 179

At six-fifteen in the evening Anne Tuttle stood hesitantly in the unfamiliar street, hesitating.

She stretched out her hand to tighten her knit jacket, and there was a bag across her shoulders, which contained water, some money, and a portable knife for self-defense.

Annie inexplicably felt like she was here to attend the parents' meeting of her two children, or like a little girl who just appeared on the Internet recently.

She could imagine how stiff she was now, which made her want to laugh a little.

But in fact, she did subconsciously prepare according to the few previous experiences of going out, so her self-feeling is not wrong...

She looks exactly like a housewife who goes out to buy food or go shopping.

Instead of preparing to participate in a secret party initiated by a weird dream—this kind of thing sounds full of mystery and danger.

"At least... it's so ordinary and unobtrusive, it may be safer."

Anne comforted herself like this.

When she came to this street according to the map placed on the street and asking passers-by, she already regretted it a little bit, but after coming, she was a little embarrassed and embarrassed to go back home, so she bit the bullet and decided to go back home. went to the designated place.

After all, Athena is also here, and she has already become the person in charge, so there shouldn't be any danger... More importantly, she chose to come here because she believed that Father Vincent was really innocent, and Everyone in this party is like this.

Perhaps what they did will become the key to Father Vincent's proof of his innocence.

If she didn't act, assuming that Father Vincent and Old Father Terrence really experienced this kind of encounter as in a dream, she would always have a brood in her heart and couldn't let it go.

With this in mind, although Annie hesitated in her heart, she mustered up the courage to come here without telling her family.

However, there is something really scary here.

Looking around the street, the place is particularly desolate and deserted, with a very dilapidated feeling everywhere, and half of the entire street is surrounded by construction sites.

Under the dim light in the evening, the silhouettes of those undulating semi-finished buildings are dark, like the back of some kind of giant beast, which is extremely scary.

When Annie walked on the street alone, she felt that she could hear her own heartbeat in the quiet surroundings.

Especially when the sound of her footsteps sounded, she would have the illusion that someone was following her, and she would get hairy on her back... Fortunately, this street is not particularly long, and after walking for a while, she arrived at the book café where she had agreed to meet.

"call……"

Annie looked at the new-style building with lights in front of her, and let out a long sigh of relief. Her whole body, which had been tense all the time, finally relaxed.

She looked curiously at the book cafe that seemed to have just been built, and felt her eyes light up.

This place is out of place with other buildings, and many seats and bookshelves can be vaguely seen through the gaps in the curtain behind the glass door. The decoration seems to be very novel and unique.

As a woman, Annie fell in love with this fresh and graceful style at first sight.

"It seems that there are quite a few people inside, all of whom are unknown...Father Vincent has helped so many people, he is definitely a good person, and he will not treat old Father Terrence like the news said Do it, and kill so many people."

Annie muttered firmly to herself, cheered herself up, and was about to go into the store.

When she lifted her foot, she subconsciously glanced at the bookstore next to her.

According to Athena, this bookstore is very weird. Not only are there few customers, it looks very gloomy, but the owner of the store almost never goes out. He only sees a black-clothed, black-haired, forever Silhouette of young man reading a book.

It's as mysterious as the kind of recently popular urban legend.

"No matter what, the party is more important."

Annie shook her head, carefully pushed open the door of the book cafe, opened the curtain, and walked in.

The soft light in the book cafe pours down, making people's vision suddenly bright, and the simple bookshelves around are decorated with vines and other decorative green plants, which is pleasing to the eye.

As expected, there were a lot of guests. Annie estimated that there were about thirty or forty guests.

They all stood or sat, and there were a few who sat directly on the wooden floor regardless of the details. Some of them knew each other, and they had already whispered and discussed around a table.

Hearing the door opening, everyone in the store turned their heads to look at Anne.

Annie suddenly looked very embarrassed, and smiled awkwardly. Just when she didn't know how to speak, Athena's voice came over: "Hi! Annie, here!"

Annie quickly turned her head to look, and immediately found Athena sitting in front of one of the tables.

She was wearing a blouse and denim trousers. She had healthy wheat-colored skin, jet-black hair, and charming eyes. There was also a golden emblem on the sleeve, which seemed to be carved with a sun pattern.

Athena grinned and waved: "Annie, my friend, come here, I'm here."

When others saw that they were friends of one of the responsible persons, they looked away again.

Annie walked up to Athena and sat down, and immediately felt a lot more at ease. Fortunately, there was an acquaintance at the scene, otherwise she really didn't know how to speak.

She glanced at the badge on her sleeve, and sighed in a low voice: "Athena, you are really amazing. You have just held this party, and you have taken the position of the person in charge."

Athena put her hand on the side of her cheek, winked at her and said with a smile: "Good luck, as soon as I heard that the meeting place is here, I immediately said that I am familiar with this area, and asked if I should come To be a receptionist, to maintain order, to guide some lost guys, and so on, I didn’t expect that Mr. Policeman thought this proposal was good, so he agreed to me.”

She pushed a glass of drink to Annie, took a sip of her own, and muttered: "I thought how boring the video store would be without me, but I didn't expect that the drinks in this book cafe are quite delicious... It seems to be called milk tea, but it is very different from the milk tea that those nobles drink."

Annie politely took a sip through the straw, and then her eyes widened.

what does it smell like ! It must be too delicious...

It seems like it would be a wonderful combination if paired with bread from your own bakery.

Annie shook her head and threw away her habitual business thinking. The point is not this now, she whispered: "Athena, what exactly do you want to do at this party?"

Athena narrowed her eyes, pouted her lips towards the counter inside the book cafe, and said in a low voice: "The two over there, the girl is the owner of this book cafe, and the tall man next to him is the central police officer." The police of the Department, they will announce the crimes about the Church of the Dome later.”

guilt?

Annie froze for a moment, and was in a daze.

Athena leaned over as if she had discovered some big secret, her eyes sparkled with excitement: "Besides, I just found out that this book cafe is actually a subsidiary store of the bookstore next door. That weird bookstore is really not simple. !"