Ember Gun

  Chapter 15 Late Night Tram

  11:55.

  At this moment, there are still five minutes to zero. The prosperity of the inner city is beginning to come to an end. There are few pedestrians on the street. Mounted police patrolling according to specific routes with iron whistles and rifles.

  Although the bustling has begun to fall, you can still hear the singing that surrounds the buildings, and the intoxicating aroma of wine makes the air sweet. The thick white mist slowly rises. This is steam from the underground, but unlike the simple and rude discharge method of the outer city, they quietly rise from the cracks in the ground, covering everything under it.

  Eve rarely sees the inner city late at night, usually by this time she is already lying in her soft bed instead of wandering around with a neurotic detective.

  Looking to the side, Lorenzo beside him seemed to be waiting for something, constantly watching the time on his pocket watch.

  Since the two left the restaurant, Lorenzo has been like this. This big detective kept looking at the time and surroundings as if looking for something. Without saying a word, Eve could only follow him like this.

  The fog covers everything. From the zeppelin above the night sky, there is a white ocean, minarets and clock towers rise from the gray fog, and the lights of electricity are like fireflies embellished in it.

"We have arrived."

  Suddenly Lorenzo said such a word and took Eve to stand by the roadside.

"here?"

  Eve didn’t understand. They were on a platform. This was the station of the steam tram. From the stop sign, the last train had stopped two hours ago.

  There was a hazy gray mist all around, the hot steam heated the evening breeze, blowing on Eve’s face, the warm feeling seemed to be breathed by a monster hiding behind the mist.

  The girl subconsciously grasped the skirt tightly, and what was hidden beneath it was not a beautiful thigh, but a dangerous weapon.

   "Yes, here."

  Lorenzo suddenly said faintly, staring behind the mist.

  “Old Dunling’s steam trams have been at a loss, and the fares for transporting passengers are simply not enough to cost. It has always been the taxation of those big entrepreneurs to support these. Therefore, in order to ease the situation, steam trams are also leased and sold.”

   His gaze moved under the platform, and the metal rails shone with luster, but the luster trembled with Lorenzo's gaze.

  "You should be able to reach this noble class. The company will rent or sell carriages to private individuals. When they need to travel, they will directly call the locomotives to run. And your Phoenix home is relatively strong, so you directly get a train.

  The nobles usually decorate their carriages very ornately, just like a small palace. When there is a banquet, the moving palace will stop in front of the guests' house, and the attendants will bow and salute, waiting for them to attend the meeting. "

  Lorenzo talked about things that Eve would not know.

"But there will be other uses. For example, a certain earl will hug his lover in the car. The car will be completely isolated from the cab. The driver will never know what is happening in the car behind him. They will always be there. The tracks of the old Dunling traveled until the earl asked to go home."

  Eve frowned slightly, showing a look of disgust.

   "How would you know?"

   "Because the countess is my client, you may not believe it, I am very popular with rich women."

  Lorenzo was excited.

Since the end of the first mistress case, the lady introduced Lorenzo to more noble ladies who were troubled by it. They admired Lorenzo's rude and comfortable way of handling the case. Detectives of "killer" spread in the upper social circles.

The Earl’s case was the pinnacle of Lorenzo’s career in his junior year. The employer knew that his husband had done a good job, but could not catch it. Then he entrusted it to Lorenzo. Lorenzo followed for a long time before discovering that the Earl actually did. Bought a carriage for the mobile palace.

  Finally, Lorenzo gave his employer a location, where he caused a tram derailment accident.

   "You will never think of the expressions of those two people when they fell out of the car!"

  Looking at Loren's excited look, Eve had a black line on his face. This detective is no longer a problem with a bad personality.

   "Then why don't you keep doing it?"

   "If you do this too bad character, you will inevitably make three cuts and six holes."

Lorenzo looked noble, but the actual answer was that the earl spent three months on psychotherapy. After all, he suddenly stood naked in the crowd and no one’s spirit could hold up the impact. After he recovered, he The first thing he did was buy Lorenzo's life, for which Lorenzo stayed in Shrike for nearly a month.

  The atmosphere became more active under Lorenzo's bullshit, and the damp coldness faded a little.

   "Do you still have a place there?"

   pointed to Eve's skirt, Lorenzo said suddenly, unaware that he was unreasonable.

   "You...what are you doing?"

  Eve's cheeks blushed. This detective is really a crazy person. You never know what he will do in the next second.

  I saw that Lorenzo did not know where he took out a silver-white revolver. The bullet nest was portrayed with ghosts and gods, which was heavy and filled with ammunition.

"I need you to hide it for me. Although Sabo is a rude Viking, he has learned some etiquette under the influence of the old Dunling culture. At his dance party, he will search the men thoroughly, even if It's useless to get the blade in the ass, but he won't be disrespectful to women."

  Give the revolver to Eve, and Lorenzo stood by her side. After carefully sorting out his clothes, the next step is the highlight, he needs to be more serious.

Eve didn’t understand, but she still obeyed and tied the revolver to the ribbon. There are no white thighs, and the dress is tight and casual. As long as Eve needs it, she can just tear off the dress and enter. fighting.

  Dagger and gun, Eve was never an ordinary noble girl. As a child of the Phoenix family, other nobles were born with a golden spoon, so Eve was born with a bullet.

  The Phoenix House is a phoenix that rose from the ruins of the Glorious War. Even the princess of the phoenix, Eve is still stained with the pungent smell of sulfur, which is a mark engraved in the blood.

"Time is up."

  Lorenzo said suddenly, Eve still didn’t know what happened. After she and Lorenzo walked out of the restaurant, she hadn’t understood the development of the situation, but the bell rang.

  It was a long and silent long cry, coming from the tallest building in the inner city. After the long cry, the low voice wandered back and forth between the streets and lanes, like a ghost that would not disperse for a long time.

  A strange feeling came to Eve’s heart, and she was suddenly scared.

  The cold eroded the thin long skirt, and the cold touched her waist like a ghost claw.

I don’t know when she and Lorenzo were left on the street. There was a gentle sound of horseshoes in the distance. It was the mounted police guarding the night, but under the thick fog, Eve couldn’t see anything, only The street lights were scattered into large halos, which seemed to be the shiny eyes of monsters behind the gray fog.

  A cold wind blew Eve’s cheeks.

   Looking back, Eve felt that she was almost suffocated.

  The dark steam tram stopped in front of the platform at some unknown time. The thick fog obscured its arrival. There was no sound or even the lights. Only the just released steam heated the surroundings, as if it were a ghost coming from afar.

At this time, it is reasonable to say that there is no steam tram in operation, but now there is such a strange steam tram parked in front of him, without a brand, no markings, and even the windshield is completely dark. Eve is not even sure about it. Anyone.

   "Take my hand, we are a couple in tonight's script."

  Lorenzo's voice came from the side, and he raised his arm to signal Eve.

  Couple?

  Eve immediately wanted to draw a gun and shoot the **** detective. In this case, Eve's mood was already very nervous, but the sudden opening of the car door interrupted her thoughts.

  It was an attendant in a black suit, and when he saw Lorenzo nod slightly, Lorenzo expertly took out two coins and handed them to him.

What was engraved on the coin was not a lion, but a shrike with thorns in its mouth. It was like a pass. The attendant turned his body sideways and gave way to the road for the two of them. The inside of the car door was completely dark. Can't see anything, as if heading to the bottomless abyss.

   "Luo..."

What else did Eve want to say, the anxiety in my heart has been scratching her, she has always believed in her instincts, but at this moment Lorenzo did not give her any chance to speak, and smiled and took her hand on the board. Steam tram.

  The steam tram drove slowly, without any sound, it was so quietly submerged in the fog, as if it had never appeared before.

  (End of this chapter)