"This is so weird." Tom stepped forward and picked up the doll. The cute kitten adds a bit of weirdness in the dark night, especially after appearing in this kind of place, "Why do I think this thing looks familiar? ..."

"Someone came here after the fire." Peter looked anxiously at the doll in Tom's hand, "It's the middle of the night, why is it like a horror movie, let's go back."

"Are you scared?" Tom teased, "What are you afraid of? Even if there are malicious things, they can't beat you."

These words seemed to comfort Peter a little more. Although he still muttered that "supernatural events have nothing to do with physical attack capabilities", he was somewhat relaxed.

The doll is just an ordinary doll, the key is that the person who put it here may have something to do with the truth of the fire.Tom put the doll in his pocket and said, "Come on."

Peter still looked at the bulge in Tom's belt with some anxiety: "Isn't it good to take the things out of the fire?"

"It's something in my room." Tom didn't take it seriously. Even if there was something wrong with this thing, he was also a wizard, and he was a wizard who had studied the soul. He was not afraid of "haunted" or something. of.

On the way back, Peter stopped talking several times before asking, "You're not just here to find your own things, are you?"

"If you ask Peter for help, you will feel a lot easier." The system Nagini suggested in a timely manner.

Thinking about it carefully, Peter, a silly boy, didn't use it for nothing, and Tom followed suit: "Actually, I want to find out the truth about the fire in the orphanage. You also saw the hole on the second floor. The fire may not be that simple."

Peter was a little puzzled: "Why do you want to find the truth? Isn't this the matter of the cop?"

Tom said in his heart, do you think I want to, it's not the carrot and stick of the system that kills thousands of dollars... There is still a time limit.Thinking of this, Tom asked the system: "How much time do I have?"

"39 hours." The system replied.

"Because I...Although I don't like the orphanage, I'm not happy that it has been ruined like this." Tom said against his will, "I just want to know, nothing else, Peter, I am very happy living in your house."

Kind and upright Tom, Peter asked himself, are there still such five good young people in society today?

He nodded: "Okay, is there anything I can do for you?"

"I suspect it was arson, but I don't know how to get the evidence," Tom said. "It happened three days ago, and there is no record..."

"You can check the cameras." Peter suggested as a matter of course, "There are more than one cameras near the orphanage, many of them are cameras in shops, as long as you give the owner some money, they will let you check. The time of the fire was close to twelve at night. We just need to check the monitoring during that time.”

Surveillance cameras...what are they.

Tom blinked suspiciously, and cleverly didn't ask Peter directly, but asked the system.

"Muggles invented an instrument for recording events through videography, which can record everything that happened in a period of time in the form of images." The system explained in a well-regulated manner. Tom seemed to understand, but he still needs to see it himself to fully understand.

It was already three o'clock in the morning when I returned to Peter's house, so I took the time to sleep, and it was the evil time for school again.

Tom was very sleepy, and while lazily walking side by side with Peter, he asked the system: "Can the school time be cut from the 48 hours? I can play truant when I can't go to school."

Nagini pondered for a while, then agreed.

Tom was slightly surprised.

This system is quite accommodating, not like a cold AI, but more like a human service.

In this way, the time is not so tight. get out of class ends at [-]:[-] p.m., and the countdown continues. Peter specially asked for leave for band practice, and accompanied Tom to investigate and monitor around the orphanage.

There are three surveillance cameras near the orphanage. Judging from the hole on the second floor, there is only one camera that can capture this side, which belongs to a fast food restaurant on the street.

Peter took Tom, and the two boys entered the fast food restaurant together.

There were not many people eating at this point, there were only a few customers sitting in the store, and there was only one girl at the counter playing with her mobile phone with her head down.

Both boys were good-looking, and anyone could try to trick the little girl, but Tom was more talkative, so he tapped the counter table lightly, readying a smile in advance.

The girl raised her head and asked formulaically, "What do you want...huh?"

At a glance, both of them were stunned.

The girl looked very familiar. Tom was still searching in his mind when he had seen her before, and the girl's expression became vigilant: "What are you doing here? Trouble me?"

Now Tom remembered.

It's true that life doesn't meet each other, isn't this the girl who tried to rob her?

"So you work here?" Tom was very interested, and put his hands on the cash register, "What's your name?"

The girl stared at him warily, and replied, "Emily."

"You two know each other?" Peter asked in surprise.

"I met once. Emily, I'm not here to trouble you. I need to check the surveillance in your store, that night four days ago, between twelve o'clock and one o'clock, is that okay?" Tom revealed A sincere expression.

"What do you want to monitor? You are not the police, so I can't give it to you." Emily still felt that Tom was looking for trouble, her face was very alert, and she looked like she was about to take out another gun from the drawer.

Seeing that Emily didn't trust Tom very much, Peter appeared on the stage, with a baby face that could awaken the maternal love of almost all women, and said softly: "Sister, I lost my wallet when I came here to play, only this camera can take pictures Go to that lot, let us see, okay?"

Unexpectedly, Emily was more rational than imagined, and did not fall into Peter's beauty: "Did you drop your wallet here from twelve to one? Come back after four days? Who are you lying to?"

Peter: "..."

After being told by Emily, he also felt that the reason he came up with seemed a bit stupid...

Tom's smiling face just now lost his patience, and with a straight face, he took out a revolver from his bag.

"Just tell me whether you want to see it or not. If you see it, you will get 100 yuan, if you don't, you will get a gun."

It’s such a good world, God forgive me, Emily tried to rob Tom with this gun, but Tom snatched the gun away, and now Tom is using this gun to threaten her to show them the surveillance...

Emily's small face was distorted with anger, and she gave Tom a hard look: "Come with me."

She closed the door of the fast food restaurant, put up the "Closed" sign, and led the two of them into a back room.

There is a pile of sundries in the room, and a computer is placed on the table. It looks a little more advanced than the antique computer in Peter's room, but only a little.

She clicked on a file on the desktop, called up the monitor, adjusted the screen to twelve o'clock in the middle of the night four days ago, and started playing.

This camera is facing the direction of the wall of the orphanage that has been punched through a hole, but unfortunately, the orphanage is only at the farthest corner of the screen.

The two boys took over the computer, Peter pressed the speed-up button, and there was only darkness for a long time, and as the time drew closer, nothing happened.

Both boys looked puzzled, looked at each other, and then looked back.

The time was dialed until three o'clock in the morning, but nothing happened.

"It's impossible. It was less than three o'clock when we got home." Peter said firmly.

From the corner of the eye, Emily caught a glimpse of Emily, who had a sneer on her face.

Suddenly a hostility rose in Tom's heart. He sullenly grabbed Emily by the collar.

"Don't play tricks on us, there's no time to waste here." His revolver touched Emily's neck, and he could take her life away just by pulling the trigger, "You can't die for such a trivial matter, right?"

Emily was stunned, and then struggled: "You are crazy! You said four days ago! I adjusted the time for you to be four days ago!"

Tom was startled, realized something, and slowly loosened Emily's collar.

Between twelve o'clock and one o'clock...that was three days ago.

Peter also realized what was going on, shrugged: "Oh."

Tom was a little embarrassed, and asked Emily to pat the wrinkled collar: "Sorry, please transfer to three days ago."

Emily stomped her feet angrily, but still had no choice but to adjust the surveillance for them.

Finally, this time around 12:30, a bright light suddenly flashed through the darkness and hit the orphanage. There was no sound on the surveillance, but Tom could still imagine the chaos that followed—the orphanage played in an incomprehensible way. The speed quickly burned into a ball of fire.

With the speed and intensity of the fire, it was unreasonable for the children to evacuate so quickly without even dying.

I watched the light appearing to the fire in the orphanage frame by frame, and there was nothing but this strange purple light and the flames of the orphanage. Looking back, it was the panicked orphans and nuns in the orphanage. , and firefighters too.

Suddenly, a figure ran over from the direction the light came from.He couldn't be seen clearly in the dark, but when he ran to the side of the orphanage, by the light of the fire, Tom recognized that it was—Sister Jenny.

Maybe she was counting the number of people. After she came to the orphanage, she ran around and swayed from the screen from time to time.

Tom frowned.

Running from the direction of the beam that caused the fire, it looks suspicious no matter how you look at it.

Peter copied this video with the USB flash drive he brought, and the two said goodbye to Emily politely, and the little girl gave her merciless eyes.

Tom was about to open the door and go out, but Emily stopped him again: "Wait, leave me a phone number."

Tom raised his eyebrows and replied, "Sorry, I don't have a cell phone."

Emily: "..."

After finding the monitor and choking the little girl again, Tom was in a very happy mood. After leaving the fast food restaurant, he met Peter's questioning eyes.

"What's the matter with you and her? Where's this revolver?" Little Spider asked curiously.

"When I was at the Del Mar store, she tried to rob, but I robbed the revolver instead." Tom explained simply, patting his bag, "It worked."

Peter was speechless.This is really... karmaisabitch.

The two walked in the direction of the purple light they saw from the surveillance.This is a narrow street, the shops on both sides are closed, and it looks like there is no owner.

The strange thing is that the street where the orphanage is located is relatively more prosperous than this street. Even though there was a fire, there were no casualties, so it didn't affect the popularity of that street.

Walking along this street for a short distance, the sight that greets your eyes is jaw-dropping.

I saw that a shop was completely blown up, exposing a black hole inside. This should have overshadowed the news about the fire in the orphanage, but in the past few days, Tom has been focusing on finding clues to the orphanage, and Peter is busy going to the underground ring , none of them noticed the news.

It is a pity that although there are cameras on this road, the location is too far away from the scene of the crime. Moreover, all the shops on this street are closed, and there is no way to find the surveillance video.

The clue was broken here, so Peter had to scrape some black ash from the blasted shop wall and put it in his pocket.He had analyzed the properties of the black ash scraped from the orphanage in his school chemistry class, and they were very strange, unlike anything Peter had ever seen; It's the same thing.

Things had progressed, and Tom felt a little relieved, and walked towards the Del Mar store with Peter.

Peter sent Tom to the store, and before he left, he suddenly remembered something, pulled Tom to an unoccupied corner, took out a stack of money from his schoolbag, handed it to Tom, and whispered: "You take this first, I'm afraid of being discovered by Uncle Ben."

This is the money he earned in the underground arena. Today, just in case, he needs to use money to settle some things, so he brought all the money with him.

Tom nodded and stuffed the money into his bag.After Peter left, Tom also went to the counter. Just as he put away his schoolbag and put on his apron, he saw Mr. Delmar staring at him.

"What's the matter?" Tom gave Mr. Delmar a puzzled smile.

Mr. Delmar thought for a moment, and said: "I heard a famous saying from the Chinese here, a gentleman loves money, and he gets it in a proper way."

While skillfully counting the money on the counter, Tom asked, "What's the matter, Mr. Delmar? I've heard that too."

Delmar looked up and down Tom's small body, and then thought about Peter's thin body. He saw just now that Peter secretly stuffed money into Tom's bag, and the two 16-year-old boys suddenly had a big baby. It is impossible to earn money by moving bricks, and the two children have such good-looking faces, it can only be...

"Even if you are short of money, you can't do stupid things. Some things can't be washed away once they are contaminated for a lifetime." Mr. Delmar warned with a serious face.

Tom: "?"

What is Mr. Delmar thinking?

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