Chapter 238

The servant came and said.

"A few decades ago, North was not such a tourist city as it is now, and the income of city dwellers was not as high as it is now. At that time, few people would come to this beach except fishermen."

His voice was a little light. Although it was early in the morning, with the servant's story, the whole reception hall was covered with a strange atmosphere.

"It is said that at that time, the bandit group in the city would rob some returned fishermen, they would kidnap them when they landed, take away valuable things, and then kill them cruelly, and the bodies would be piled up in the corner of the beach where people usually don't come."

"Gran, these are all rumors from the countryside. They have no credibility at all."

Joe couldn't help saying that he thought the servant had some important information at the beginning, but he didn't expect that he was telling a ghost story.

"I don't think it's all right to listen to him, Mr. Joe."

Said Lena, motioning to the servant named Gran to continue.

"Er, where did you say just now? Oh yes, corpses. These corpses were piled up in the rocks, washed by the sea, gradually rotted, and finally sank into the sea. But these fishermen died with deep resentment, so their souls could not rest in peace. After years of savings, they became ghosts, looking for their families."

When Gran finished, the servants around him were silent. Obviously, they also knew the legend.

"You mean that the shadow is actually these fishermen?"

Lena spoke out the meaning of Gran's words.

"Yes, these fishermen are good-natured, so they don't harm others. They just want to find their own families, so they wander around here."

Gran swore, as if he had seen the shadow with his own eyes.

"Then, Mr. Green, where and when have you seen the shadow before?"

Lena didn't ask too much about ghost stories, but turned to the normal inquiry.

"Er, yes, shadow. I was on a vigil with two other people three days ago. In the middle of the night, I went to the toilet alone and saw the shadow in the backyard. At first, I didn't notice it. It was after it that I suddenly realized that the shadow flew past me. I also smelled the smell of sea water, Later, we took the lamp to look for it for a long time, but we didn't see any trace of dark shadow. Oh, by the way, there are some water stains in the backyard. I think it must be the ghost who left it. "

This Grange seems to like telling stories very much, adding a lot of details that I don't know whether it's true or not.

"Sea water?"

Lena has some ideas, but more information is needed.

He then asked several other servants, and finally got some conclusions.

First of all, the shadow will only appear in the backyard at night. It can move at high speed on the ground, and it has strong jumping ability and reaction ability. It is almost impossible to catch it. Its first eyewitness record was a month ago.

Secondly, as Sofitel said, the shadow will not contact with human beings, nor destroy or steal things. It just like walking here, suddenly appears and disappears. The detection array has not caught any trace of human beings.

Finally, in the description of several people, the shadow has a fishy smell of sea water. At the same time, water stains are often found in the places it passes. These waters are all sea water, and the composition seems to be no different from ordinary ones.

"What do you find, Mr. Ian gray?"

Joe asked all the servants he had asked to go back to work and then asked Lena.

"Well, there are some guesses."

The floating quill pen beside him stopped writing, the notebook fell on his hand, and the rest of the stationery went back to the storage bag.

"For now, I don't think it's a ghost, and of course, it's not a human."

His words made Joe frown slightly and sink into thinking.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ian gray. I'm not stupid enough to understand what you're saying."

"Ha ha, Mr. Qiao, don't forget that human beings are not the only creatures in the world."

Lena pointed to the distance, the vast sea.

"I think the essence of the shadow should be some kind of creature in the sea."

"In the sea?"

Joe was born in the inland area, but he has lived in North for more than 20 years. He has eaten all kinds of strange marine creatures, at least he has seen them. He has never heard of any creatures similar to this shadow.

"The villa has been guarded by servants all the time, but only a month ago did the shadow appear, which proves that the shadow didn't exist near here in the past, at least not around the villa."

Lainer explained.

"The detection array didn't find any trace of strange human beings. In fact, it can show that the nature of shadow is not human. Combined with other characteristics, such as extremely fast speed, strong jumping power and excellent reaction, we can roughly outline the characteristics of this creature."He opened a page of his notebook, on which there were all kinds of records and summaries.

"This is an amphibious creature with a certain degree of camouflage and hiding ability. It has high agility on land and is not big. However, it is not clear why it came to the villa which is a certain distance from the beach."

The vast majority of creatures have more or less territorial consciousness, and their moving purposes are about several kinds, either breeding or foraging, or migration due to climate reasons. From the point of view that there is no lack of things in the villa, the creature does not look like foraging. This is not a good place for breeding, and the climate reasons are even more out of the question.

"Mr. Joe, is there an owl here to send a letter? I need to write a letter."

Lena closed his notebook and asked the housekeeper next to him.

"Of course there are."

Joe nodded. As Sofitel had studied magic, he naturally set up owl messengers where he often went. In fact, the relationship between the Sofitel family and some mages is not as simple as customers.

Lena went back to his room, spent about 15 minutes writing a letter, sent it to the owl, and then walked out of the house.

Some progress has been made in the investigation of the shadow. The rest of the work can only be carried out after a reply is received. Lena has calculated that it will be lucky to have the results in the evening.

At the end of the work, Lena should also return to the theme of this trip, that is to enjoy the sea.

Along the repaired road beside the villa, Lena goes down the cliff and comes to the Sofitel's private beach, which is close to the silver desert, but is extremely empty.

On the beach, some girls are playing.

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