Chapter 193 Sheriff Reed: Our child is still alive
West End, Williams Street, where the Nighthawks are located.
"Okay Captain, I will complete this mission."
In the captain's office, Klein took on his first real mission in Backlund.
Visit a nearby nursing home to investigate an incident that may have unusual elements.
Specific task content: There was a couple who were originally retiring in a nursing home, but just a few days ago, the couple suddenly lost their eyes and became blind. At the same time, the eyes of other nursing staff living with them also showed varying degrees of alienation.
The information given above does not mention in detail the phenomena of eye alienation.
I just felt that Extraordinary Yin Su might be involved, and he needed to go and help investigate.
The first time Klein accepted the task, he retrieved specific information about the couple from the database.
Sheriff Reed and his wife.
Chief Reed was originally a sergeant at the West District Police Department. Just over a month ago, a gas pipeline exploded in their home, causing a major fire.
Their only son died in the fire, and they became insane and were sent to a nursing home.
This is the official explanation given to the outside world. As the Nighthawk, Klein came into contact with another piece of information.
Sheriff Reed’s newborn son, who was not yet a full month old, was the son of the evil god. Before a major accident was about to occur, the Church of Storms teamed up with the Church of the Goddess of Night and the Church of Steam and Machinery to deal with the son of the evil god first and avoid the spread of harm.
In this accident, disasters occurred all over Backlund, hundreds of people died, and the area near Sheriff Reed's home was turned into a mess.
Their son, the Heir of Evil God, died of natural causes in the accident.
Sheriff Reed and his wife were not completely insane, they were just grieving over the death of their son.
Considering that Sheriff Reed and his wife had lived with the descendants of the evil god for a long time and might have been infected, church personnel decided to send them to a nursing home for observation.
This should have been the best choice, but just a few days ago, Sheriff Reed and his wife lost their eyesight, and the people living around the nursing home were also affected by unknown things.
Only then did the church issue a mission to send out extraordinary people to investigate.
Klein is one of the two people selected by the Church of the Night this time, the other is Leonard.
The Church of Storms and the Church of Steam and Machinery each sent an Beyonder to participate in this investigation.
When Klein saw this, he knew why he and Leonard were sent on this mission, and he was also asked to be the person in charge of this mission.
When they were in Tingen, they had jointly encountered the incident of the Evil God's Descendants. This task was indeed suitable for the two of them to complete.
For the sake of safety, Klein also took a closer look at the life of Sheriff Reed and the experiences that took place before and after the incident with the Children of the Evil God.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Klein had arrived at the nursing home. After waiting for almost half an hour, Leonard and two other extraordinary people also arrived one after another.
Klein said hello to them and became a little familiar with each other.
"Leonard, haven't you had a good rest lately?"
"ah?"
Klein's sudden question made Leonard stay on the spot for a moment.
Even if there is no other meaning in Klein's gaze, his cheeks will get hot when he looks at this gaze, and he instinctively wants to avoid this gaze.
Feeling ashamed and flustered was his biggest feeling at the moment.
Fortunately, Klein didn't know about his romance with Serafina some time ago, nor did he know that Serafina was a witch, which kept him from being completely socialized.
"Are you feeling restless? Have you encountered anything recently?" Klein continued to ask.
"The training intensity has been a bit intense recently, and I haven't been able to sleep well at night."
Leonard gave an excuse and urged Klein and others to quickly go together to investigate Sheriff Reed and his wife.
Klein did not act rashly, but first went to the director of the nursing home to get a piece of information, then asked Leonard and others to ask other people first, and finally went to face Sheriff Reed and his wife.
This information records in detail all the daily activities of Sheriff Reed and his wife when they entered the nursing home.
At first, the two often cried silently, grieving for their son who had not yet grown up.
Painful and silent, this is a true portrayal of their period.
But just seven days ago, Sheriff Reed and his wife began to talk to themselves intermittently.
At first, the staff didn't take it seriously, thinking that Sheriff Reed and his wife were hallucinating because they were too sad.
But four days ago, Sheriff Reed and his wife lost sight in both eyes at the same time, and other nursing home residents also experienced different eye abnormalities.
Only then did the staff notice that Chief Reed and his wife were talking to themselves almost like crazy.
"Our child is not going to die, he is alive and well."
"Yes, I also saw that our child has grown up. He is now on the sea, talking grand words about conquering the sea."
"Yes, our baby has grown up and we will definitely be able to see him again and hold him like we did when we were little."
"Child, when will our child come back?"
"When it's time to come back, he will come back."
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"What would be a more appropriate name for our child?"
"Baron Hastur Campbell has promised me to give our child a suitable name, and I have been looking forward to this day."
"He's so nice."
"Yes, he has always been kind and took good care of us. Without his help, our child would not even have a chance to be born."
"He hasn't seen our child yet, has he?"
"It's okay if he missed it. We will have the opportunity to hold the child in front of him in the future and let him see how cute our child is."
"He's going to love it as much as we love this kid."
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Klein read all these crazy soliloquies.
If there are really extraordinary factors affecting this matter, then the so-called crazy talk may hide important clues.
In this regard, Klein has always been vigilant.
After Klein finished reading this information, the other two Beyonders who were out on business came back to join him. Leonard did not show up, which gave Klein the illusion that he seemed to be deliberately avoiding him.
"We have investigated clearly. The other people with abnormal eyes are all after the Chief Reed and his wife."
"Those people's eyes are obviously affected by some mysterious force."
"Is this an infection?"
"possible."
Then the two Extraordinaries began to introduce the abnormalities in those people's eyes.
Someone's eyes turned into vertical pupils, claiming that he could see the future. He kept saying that he had seen our arrival last night, and that there were five of us in the group.
Someone's eyes were narrowed into thin slits. He said that his eyes could see the scenery thousands of miles away, and he introduced us to the situation on the seaside in a matter-of-fact way.
Many people's eyes have changed color, and there are all kinds of strange eyes, such as red eyes, white eyes, blue eyes, blue eyes, purple eyes...
It's really colorful and colorful.
There are also some people whose eyes mutate into the eyes of various animals, and the whole person's behavior and temperament gradually come closer to the animal nature of the transformed animal eyes.
"It is not yet certain that the source of the infection is Sheriff Reed and his wife. Apart from being blind and liking to talk to themselves, they have no special symptoms and their spirits seem to be normal."
Klein listened silently, feeling that this extraordinary incident had a bit of a big impact.
So many people are experiencing abnormalities, and we don’t know what strange events will happen in the future.
"Let's go meet Sheriff Reed and his wife."
Klein made a decision and led the two Beyonders to the small courtyard where Sheriff Reed and his wife lived alone.
Since the abnormality occurred, nursing home staff separated Sheriff Reed and his wife from other people as soon as possible.
Near a cluster of flowers, Sheriff Reed and his wife closed their eyes, supported each other, and seemed to be whispering something at the moment.
Klein did not let anyone disturb him. Instead, he deliberately lowered his footsteps, walked slowly not far from Sheriff Reed and his wife, and listened carefully to the whispers in their mouths.
"Someone is here again, what do they want to do?"
"I don't know. We are just blind people. Our lives are only darkness. What the world is like has nothing to do with us."
"Are our children also living in darkness?"
"I don't know. It's hard for me to see him all the time. I can only see him if he wants to."
"It's okay, he's still young now, and he won't be so petty in the future."
"Well, let's go look in the mirror. I like to look at myself in the mirror more and more now."
"But aren't we blind?"
"Yes, only blind people are suitable for looking in the mirror."
Listening to these chaotic and logical words, Klein already had a rough idea of the current mental state of Chief Reed and his wife.
Crazy is not necessarily crazy. Maybe they lose the light in their eyes and really see something.
There is no shortage of such examples in the extraordinary world.
If Sheriff Reed and his wife are really the source of this extraordinary incident in the nursing home, then in-depth contact and communication are inevitable.
Klein slowly walked up to Chief Reed and his wife, and said politely: "Chief Reed, I have some questions to ask you. Are you free now?"
"What are you asking?"
Chief Reed stopped and closed his eyes tightly, making it impossible to peer into their true thoughts through the eyes, which are the windows to the soul.
"I wonder what your children look like now."
Klein thought for a while and decided to start with children as a breakthrough.
From the information he had read before, children were the weakest place in the hearts of Sheriff Reed and his wife.
If they are really affected by extraordinary power, then it must be because of the existence of the gap in the child's mind.