Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 611 Diary Sixth Serial
"1839/05/05"

“I can sense that something has definitely changed, some very abrupt changes, but no one seems to realize it, or perhaps they've all adapted to it. Even the dumbest of them, Butch, is handling it all perfectly. The night before last, we received a report from the Philips on Shell Street that something was making strange noises coming from the drain in front of their house. We arrived at the scene and searched it, and in the end, Butch dragged a two-hundred-pound rat out of the drain…”

"I don't know if it's just my imagination, but I always felt that the big rat looked a lot like Mr. Williams, the leatherworker from Parish 45, because they both had those strange octopus-like whiskers, and Mr. Williams was black, and the rat was also black. It sounds a bit racist, but if you knew Mr. Williams and had seen the big rat at the crime scene, you would understand what I mean."

"Everyone, including Butch, treated it just like an ordinary mouse, calling it an 'unlucky fellow' stuck in the manhole because it was too fat. The strange noises it kept making were actually its cries for help to the Philips. However, instead of getting help from the couple, it caused them unease. Because of this unease, Mrs. Philip poured boiling water into the drain dozens of times a day..."

"In addition, it rained in the early morning, and the big rat was already dead when it was dragged up. There were large areas of skin ulceration and peeling off on its back and scalp. It was definitely the most disgusting creature I had ever seen besides the old perverted Professor Garcia."

"But everyone was very calm, extremely calm. After the colleague who provided medical assistance confirmed that the big rat had no vital signs, he packed up his things and left, telling us, 'Notify the house rats.'"

"Later, Butch took the big rat back to the morgue at the law enforcement office."

"It may sound a bit crazy, but I went to the cobbler's shop in the 45th parish early the next morning, but I didn't see Mr. Williams, and I haven't seen him since."

"Later, I went to ask Rick in the morgue, thinking maybe he'd found something after the autopsy, at least to prove how wrong my guess was. But as soon as I entered the morgue, I saw this guy holding a glass of red wine, dancing that awkward waltz among the corpses to music. I couldn't stand the smell of formaldehyde mixed with barbecue, so I left..."

...

"1839/05/07"

"Something strange has happened again."

"Perhaps this is not strange, but I've been quite sensitive lately, and everything seems a bit abnormal to me."

"The general situation is that we received intelligence from our informant that dozens of corpses appeared in Yaden Village overnight. If it weren't for the sheer number, the people in Yaden Village would certainly have been able to destroy the evidence without anyone noticing. But dealing with so many corpses overnight is quite difficult."

“At first we thought it was a gang fight or something similar, but when we saw the bodies we realized it wasn’t that they were discovered by an informant while disposing of the bodies, but that these guys never intended to destroy the evidence.”

"Five crosses were temporarily erected at the entrance of Yaden village. They were made from tree stumps and were about ten meters high. The 79 corpses were nailed to these five crosses in the open. When we arrived at the scene, the fire on the five crosses had not been completely extinguished. Yes, they burned the outsiders to death in the medieval way of executing witches."

"In Rick's own words—it's all gone too far, there's no point in dissecting it."

"Due to the high death toll, we surrounded and controlled the entire village of Arden. The law enforcement headquarters and the city hall held a meeting overnight to discuss the situation. At this time, I received some opinions from the nobles from my father. Strangely, as the real financial backers of Arden Village, these family leaders did not oppose our law enforcement team. We were able to enter Arden Village smoothly to conduct a search."

"I thought it would be a troublesome operation. Rebecca personally led the team, and the entire law enforcement office, even the dogs, were mobilized."

"But the guys in Arden village were surprisingly honest and showed no intention of resisting the investigation. How should I put it... I've never seen members of a criminal gang show that kind of 'sense of justice' before."

"Yes, the casinos, brothels, and tobacco and alcohol dealers in Yaden Village, from the bosses to the thugs, all claim that they did nothing wrong, that those burned to death were vicious cult members, and that they were upholding justice. They even demanded that the law enforcement team award them medals of honor. To be honest, it was very difficult to communicate with these guys. Just explaining to them that medals of honor are awarded by the royal family and are not under the jurisdiction of our law enforcement system took forty minutes."

“Initially, we thought this was a heinous massacre, and that the cult’s rhetoric was just a pretext fabricated by the ruling class in an attempt to cover it up.”

"But after we went into Yaden Village to investigate further, we found that the people who were burned to death really did belong to a certain evil cult."

"Cologne Church".

"That's the right name. The church members were all outsiders. They hadn't been in Yaden Village for long, but because of their bad behavior and poor reputation (according to the villagers of Yaden), they were eventually wiped out."

"It's hard to imagine what kind of despicable group of people could earn a 'bad reputation' in a place like Yaden Village."

"We found many religious artifacts and books, as well as some instruments of torture, at the gathering place of the Cologne Church. We also quickly received a telegram from the north confirming that this group was indeed a cult that had fled and was on the run. They frequently carried out horrific acts such as human sacrifice and were wanted criminals with bounties in the area."

"It's hard to imagine why this group, labeled as an evil cult, would actively seek out the city where the state religion is located. What kind of bizarre thought process could lead to such a decision? The funniest thing is that they were dealt with on the spot by the village of Yaden before they even had a chance to enter the Golden Law Church's field of vision."

"That's why the villagers of Yaden are said to be full of martial spirit."

"In short, this can only be considered a relatively bizarre thing. It's a kind of evil cult that was wiped out by the villagers. I don't know what they wanted to join such a cult."

“I thought that was the end of it, but then I found out that the church sent people to visit the Enforcement Office the next day. In front of Rebecca’s door, I heard them discussing something about the evil cult. Eavesdropping is impolite, but my intention was just to peek at Rebecca changing clothes. Anyway, I accidentally overheard some things. They said that the exterminated Kolonzon Church served some kind of Squid Sothos, and that some members of the cult had escaped from Arden Village and were not burned to death. They told Rebecca to take good care of Kai.”

"It's strange, I don't understand what the evil cult from the north has to do with Kai, but the good news is that my task for the next few days is to take Kai out for food and drinks during her vacation. She's a sensible child, much more sensible than me, and her white hair is really beautiful, hehe..."

(Stops writing halfway and laughs foolishly)

(Laughing for a moment, he choked on his own saliva and started coughing violently)
……

"1839/05/08"

"I thought the only thing that could haunt my dreams in this life was a woman's red hair, but I never expected that silver hair could be so charming."

"Stop having those filthy thoughts. She's just a child."

……

"1839/05/09"

"Kay is an incredibly quiet, adorable, and sensible child. It feels like all the gentleness that Rebecca lacked has been transferred to her."

"Her voice when she calls out 'sister' is so lovely."

"Not only that, she is also very smart. After I mentioned those 'strange changes,' she said that she had the same feeling, and that her insight was much stronger than mine, pointing out many details that I had not noticed at all."

"For me, strangeness is just a feeling, and I have never seriously thought about what the source of this feeling is."

"But Kai discovered something strange in the little things in life."

"She shared two major discoveries with me!"

"The first one is the strangest. If you do planks at certain specific times, the flow of time will gradually slow down!"

“We tried many times, at different times of the day, trying to find that specific time point.”

"Although I only succeeded a handful of times, I was really terrified the moment I saw the hands of the pocket watch slow down." "Then there was another time when I found that the hands of the pocket watch stopped at a certain mark for a full four or five seconds. At that time, Kai and I were on the lawn by the river, and there were no passers-by around, so we couldn't tell whether time had really stopped. But when I turned my head, I saw Kai pointing with a horrified expression at a corner under the shade of the trees by the river, as if he was too scared to speak."

"I thought she had seen something terrible, but when I turned around I found that damn Milo was squatting in front of me."

He poked my stomach with his finger, interrupting my plank.

"Soon after, Kai also quickly returned to normal, as if she had completely forgotten what she had just seen. Although there were still tears in the corners of her eyes, she was not afraid at all. When I asked her what she saw under the tree, she just shook her head and said that she had seen it wrong."

"As for Milo, after I told him that planks make time slow down, he looked at me with disdain and said, 'Every weakling in the world feels this way when they do planks.' I could see the disdain in that guy's eyes, damn it, I could see it. It wasn't just disdain; he thought I was an idiot. Yes, that was the look you give an idiot. Damn it..."

"So that night I took Kai to his house for a big meal, and made him wash a few more dishes, hmph!"

"..."

"Oh right, there's a second strange rule, which Kai also discovered."

"She said that as long as I eat an apple every day, the doctor can't come near me."

"At first I didn't fully understand what that sentence meant until we saw a huge sign in front of St. George's Hospital that read, 'To ensure you can receive medical treatment smoothly, please do not eat apples or any apple products for three days in advance.'"

"We both thought it was weird, so we did an experiment."

"As we walked into St. George's Hospital, munching on apples, everyone gave us strange looks... no, they were more like hostile stares."

"I think if I hadn't been wearing a law enforcement officer's overcoat, we probably would have been kicked out immediately."

"The truth is, the hospital security guards did come over and tried to stop us. They claimed it was for the safety of the many doctors in the hospital and asked us to stop this 'absurd and rude' behavior as soon as possible."

"If I remember correctly, I also saw a doctor in a white coat about twenty meters away start to frantically back away after seeing the apple in my hand. His exaggerated body movements and expressions were as terrifying as a vampire seeing a cross."

"If not everyone is crazy, then I am crazy."

……

"1839/05/10"

"Perhaps it's because he couldn't understand why the church people would make a special trip to the law enforcement office to tell Rebecca to keep a close eye on Kay."

“Yesterday I had a strange nightmare. In the dream, Kay and I were sitting in the audience of an opera house. It was a very beautiful and elegant ballet performance. I was so engrossed in watching it that Kay next to me tugged at my sleeve twice.”

"It was then that I realized that in the huge auditorium that could hold thousands of people, everyone in the shadowed seats had turned around and was staring at us, including the people behind us and in the aisles in the distance. They were all staring at us as if they were bewitched."

"Then these people began to slowly stand up, piling on top of each other as they surged toward where we were."

“I grabbed Kai’s hand and started running outside, but we quickly lost our way. It was strange; the layout of the opera house’s passageways was perfectly clear, but we were still lost, or rather, we couldn’t see the entrance.”

"It felt like being stuck in a swamp. There were thousands of people piled up and crushing us all around us, with countless hands and feet filling our field of vision. Yet, the silence in that scene was terrifying, enough to suffocate us."

"I found that Kay was much calmer than me. She gripped my left hand tightly with both hands, which inexplicably gave me a bit more courage."

"However, in the end we were still overwhelmed by the vast sea of ​​people."

"I began to hear countless overlapping wails in my ears."

“I can’t find Kai. There are countless hideous hands in front of me, but none of them are Kai’s. I started to cry and frantically call her name, but all I got in response was wailing.”

“I felt dizzy, as if the theater had turned into a hollow glass ball, and I and the audience were inside this glass ball, and someone was spinning this ball because I began to see shattered and shaken limbs flying on the ceiling.”

"Only the ballet dancers on stage continued to perform diligently, even though their skirts were stained with large patches of blood."

"That was a terrible nightmare."

"How I wish I could escape that swaying, eerie dream."

"The good news is that I heard gunshots very soon."

"Some familiar figures began to appear."

“I saw Rebecca, I saw the church official who appeared in her office that day, and I also saw Yan.”

"They all seem different from usual, somewhat similar to the ones I dreamed about last time."

"Rebecca was holding two guns, the barrels of which were red-hot as if they had just been taken out of the furnace, while Yan was still yelling and shouting things that no one could understand, such as strawberry chocolate or vegetarian pasta, but for some reason, when he shouted 'porcini mushroom pizza,' he was glared at by Rebecca and stopped shouting nonsense after that."

"I only remember crying very hard, shouting to Rebecca that I couldn't find Kai. Then I felt a strong hand grab me from the pool of blood and drag me out. It was Milo."

“In my dream, I was terrified and clung to his neck like a lifeline until he said he couldn’t breathe. He put me on the steps by the door, and then I heard some incredibly sharp and terrifying sounds. It seemed like Milo was crushing something violently. When I came to my senses, he was already carrying Kay out of the door.”

"Then, then I woke up in my own bed."

"The whole bed was soaked with sweat. I'm so glad I didn't wet the bed."

"My whole body aches, like I've been beaten up. It's better not to sleep at all. I'm really fed up with why I keep having these weird dreams."

……

"1839/05/11"

“I saw some clear ligature marks on Milo’s neck, and he said it was done by the pleasure house’s sister…”

(End of this chapter)