Wine and Gun

His plan was that Albarino should have the freedom to leave the country without a hitch, before going to the hotel where he was staying in Slade.

At the moment, he just stared at the bloody sunset, then reached out and dragged a box from the passenger seat. The box had been lying in the passenger seat before, and it looked out of place in this worn Beetle.

It was a neat black box, made of some kind of leather, large and heavy, with a few lines of slight sunken marks on the surface of the box, which were not very conspicuous at first glance, but only by careful observation can we discover that these thin depressions It is a few lines of sentences printed on the surface of the box:

I send my soul into the realm of the underworld,

To discover the secrets of our afterlife:

Soon my soul returned:

"I am heaven and hell."

Herstal couldn't help but smile.

- This is really Albarino's style.

a few hours ago.

Herstal Amalet stood at the door of Albarino's house on the outskirts. The house had not been visited for a long time since Albarino had moved into the Herstals, and the windows had been covered in a haze of dust and looked a little bleak.

Herstal's fingers were still stained with blood that had not been cleaned up.

From a busy morning to the present, he's managed to turn his house into a nearly impossible-to-clean crime scene, and he's knowledgeable enough to forge vivid fight marks and splattered blood that's hastily wiped away. He already knew he wouldn't go back to that house - it wasn't "home" anymore - and had no mercy for the things that were destroyed, which would be covered in luminol and fingerprints anyway .

And there's a reason he's standing in front of Albarino's house now.

The last time he left his house he took one thing out of nowhere: it had been sitting in his head cabinet, a light square box, blue delphinium-painted wrapping paper, and it was Alba The gift Lino gave him last Christmas.

——He received a total of two gifts from Albarino last Christmas, a silver bell plucked from the WLPD Christmas tree, which is probably now being used as physical evidence in the Areola case. One was lying in an unattended evidence bag at the police station; the other was the blue box, which had never been opened for various reasons.

And Herstal didn't know why he took the box all the way to the car. He was sitting in the car, the car was parked outside the door of his house, and his hands were stained with Albarino's blood. , which he pulled out from the back of the opponent's hand with a needle.

He stared at the box like that for a while, then frowned and tore open the wrapping paper.

The sound of the wrapping paper being torn apart was still too quiet for this small space, and he frowned deeper in the subtle rustling of what had been taken out from the light and fluffy box - which contained only the The same thing: it was a key, copper-colored and made of metal. It looked like it was a long time ago. It had been carried around by someone, and the handle of the key was rounded.

He imagined many times what was in Albarino's box, but felt that nothing fit Albarino's style. And now... well, it's a scavenger hunt, something like the warriors in the story who found the mysterious key in the wreck would grumble, and someone like Albarino would grumpy.

So he finally stood in front of Albarino's house again, holding a key that didn't know which door to open, feeling lonely and stupid. It wasn't quite sunset yet, and the sun began to glow slightly orange under the clear sky, illuminating him softly, casting a golden glow on the grass in front of the door.

He didn't bother to pry open the door - Herstal finally did what he wanted to do, he smashed the glass with his elbow, put his hand in through the broken glass, twisted and opened it from the inside the door lock. The house is no longer in need of repairs, its owner is not coming back, and no one cares about intruders anymore.

The room was dusty, and the furniture was covered with white cloth, like an unvisited tomb. Herstal still remembers the night he set up this place as a crime scene, when he never expected today's scene.

He searched the house quickly, but could not find a door that could be opened with the key, until he entered Albarino's study.

Albarino's study is one of the most comfortable corners in the whole house. It looks like the kind of room often used by the owner to pass the time. The study is not big, and the bookshelves are full of books. Albarino clearly arranges his books in a logic that others cannot understand. At least Herstal did not see that Brave New World was placed in the "Brave New World". Where is the logic on the edge of Alice in Wonderland.

He looked around the room: the carpet was soft enough to drown a person, the easy chairs were piled with cushions, and on the mantelpiece were goblets of all sizes, washed and dusted again.

Then Herstal noticed a safe in the corner with a replica of The Raft of the Medusa hanging on it.

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