Joey Harlem was the first Harlem family member that Arthur met. Arthur rejected his cooperation proposal at that time, and he was full of threats when he left.
If it weren't for Arthur's current reputation and the influence it had, I'm afraid he would have been made things difficult for him at that time.
Now that this person is handling the case again, it is impossible for Arthur to have access to the case.
James Bond was also very disappointed. Although he wanted Arthur to join, he did not even have the right to advise on this case.
Arthur could only pat him on the shoulder helplessly, and before saying goodbye, he suddenly asked: "Isn't Leonard from Joey Harlin's group?"
"Yes, he is Leonard's immediate boss."
When Arthur heard Bond's confirmation, he suddenly had a bad thought in his heart.
He couldn't help but remind Bond: "You'd better not continue to dig into this case, especially in front of Joey Harlin."
After Arthur gave Bond a knowing look, he and Jabi left his mansion.
James Bond looked at the two carriages driving away, unconsciously in a daze.
In the carriage, Jabi asked Arthur curiously: "Do you think that Joey Harlin was responsible for Leonard's murder?"
Arthur did have this idea. His speculation was based on Alex's case. What he didn't expect was that three more people had died because of this case 12 years ago.
"I think you should leave it alone. These people are very dirty and they can do anything."
Jabi advised Arthur.
What he said was not unreasonable. Arthur actually didn't want to get involved in these things, but he had promised Professor Bell to find out the circumstances of the case, and he was afraid that he had already attracted the attention of Joey Harlin.
In order to appease Jabi, Arthur pretended to agree to his proposal.
Jabi rubbed his hands happily and shouted: "We will go to the new manor now, and then start our first banquet."
Seeing Jabi's useless look, Arthur suddenly seemed to feel a lot more relaxed.
But when he returned to his new estate, he saw a work stoppage.
Perhaps due to high expectations, Jabi, who had never lost his temper, could not help but burst into unprecedented anger.
He was Earl Fraser, and the gap in rank scared the foreman so much that he didn't dare to reply, and kept saying sorry and apologizing.
But the more he behaved like this, the bigger Jabi's temper became. Seeing the two people talking, they were not on the same channel at all. Arthur hurriedly stopped Jabi, and then asked the foreman: "Don't say sorry or sorry now. What I want to know is, why are you shutting down?”
When Arthur said this, the foreman reacted and explained cautiously: "Because there is a problem with this house."
Arthur couldn't help but rolled his eyes, "Aren't you talking nonsense?"
Jabi couldn't help but roared: "Hurry up and tell me what the reason is?"
The foreman hesitated and said with a slightly embarrassed expression, "Your Majesty, our workers said that this place is not clean."
Jabi didn't understand at first, so he couldn't help but reprimanded loudly: "It's because I'm unclean that I'm looking for you!"
Arthur quickly stopped Jabi who was still losing his temper, "You're not saying that this place is haunted, are you?"
The foreman nodded pitifully.
This was the count's newly purchased mansion, and he really didn't dare to say anything for fear of arousing Jabi's anger.
But what Jabi wants now is to escape from here as soon as possible. He now has no resistance to ghosts and gods.
Arthur patted his shoulder reassuringly, "Don't worry, maybe it's just the worker's misjudgment! And the housekeeper has always lived here before. If there is something, the housekeeper will not know about it."
Speaking of the housekeeper, Jabi finally felt a little more confident and asked the foreman hurriedly: "Is the housekeeper still here?"
"The housekeeper moved out the next day."
The foreman could only reply feebly.
Jabi slapped his head, "I should have been deceived by that housekeeper again. I just said that no one would want to sell such a good place!"
Arthur curled his lips at Jabi, "That's not what you said when you bought this place. Now that you have bought it, you can just solve the problems."
Arthur stabilized Jabi first, and then asked the foreman: "On what day did the weird thing happen when you started work?"
"On the fourth day, a worker suddenly fell and injured his leg."
The foreman thought for a moment before replying stumblingly.
"What? There was an accident?"
This made Jabi even more frightened.
Arthur had already expected it because of the previous Shining. He knew that what was going on here would be serious, so he was not particularly surprised.
"The worker was painting the roof on a ladder. According to him, someone pushed him off the ladder."
Arthur and Jabi couldn't help but take a breath after hearing this. The roof here was not very high. The worker should be considered very lucky if he didn't fall to death on the spot.
The foreman continued: "Since that incident, workers have had frequent accidents. Then someone saw a ghost inside."
"Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Arthur couldn't help but look at the foreman and asked.
"Although I haven't seen it yet, almost all the workers have seen it. Sir, you must believe me!"
He thought Arthur suspected him of lying and deliberately spreading rumors.
Arthur waved his hand and asked him to calm down before asking: "Think about it, what work did you do on the fourth day?"
Arthur's thinking is that these workers must have inadvertently touched something, which triggered this series of strange events.
"We spent the first three days cleaning and painting the hall, trimming the gardens and rebuilding the statues."
"What statue?"
Arthur couldn't help but asked curiously.
This time the worker didn't need to answer. Jabi reminded him from the side: "You forgot the statue in front of the house I mentioned last time."
Arthur also thought about it at this time. Jabi even said that he wanted to change it into a statue of him!
That statue was indeed a little weird. Arthur still clearly remembered that it was a weird statue with two heads that looked like a bird but not a bird at the same time.
"Did anything strange happen after the statue was knocked down?"
The foreman shook his head in confusion, obviously he was not around at the time.
Arthur and Jabi walked to the middle of the square. The weird statue had been replaced, and now only a base was left, with a lot of remaining debris surrounding it.
Arthur knelt down and pinched a little in his hand. He found that the debris was not stone chips, but more like a mixture of red clay.
"What's wrong? Is there anything weird?"
Arthur brought the clay to his nose, smelled it, and frowned.
"The clay here should be made of some kind of blood mixed and solidified."
As soon as he heard the blood, Jabi's face changed color instantly.
At this time, the foreman on the side couldn't help but remind him: "Sir, this can't be true! If it is really clay, it cannot withstand the sun and rain."
Of course Arthur knew this, but it was obvious that this statue could not be inferred from ordinary things.
"What do you know? Don't use your stupid head to question my friend!"
Jabi then became furious with the foreman.
Arthur stopped him in a hurry. The foreman actually had good intentions.
"Where do you put that old statue now?"
The foreman didn't know it himself, so he immediately summoned the workers.
When Jabi saw the three workers in front of him, he couldn't help but get angry and said, "When I handed the project over to you, you said you had twenty or thirty people under you. It turns out you were all lying to me."
"How dare I lie to you, Lord Count? Those people were all scared away by the ghosts in the manor. If you don't believe me, just ask them."
There was no need for Jabi to ask. These three people almost cried and said to Jabi: "It's true! Sir, we have all seen those ghosts here."
Jabi felt cold all over after hearing this.
One of the workers even said, "I've seen monsters in the lake over there."
"What? Is there really a monster there?"
There had been rumors of monsters here before, but at the time Jabi thought it was a boring bedtime story made up by someone.
Arthur knew that something terrible was going to happen here, because nothing predicted by The Shining would be trivial, but the weirdness of things now exceeded his imagination.
Not only is the house haunted, but the entire manor seems to be in trouble now.
"Arthur, let's go! I don't want it here anymore, why don't we buy a new one somewhere else."
Arthur couldn't help but twitch his lips. This house cost a huge sum of 200,000 pounds. Good guy, he didn't want it even if he said he didn't want it.
200,000 pounds, but 80% of the nobles cannot afford it.
“What if you can buy the next place and it’s still haunted?”
When Arthur said this, Jabi's face immediately fell.
"It seems that no matter how much money you have, it's useless, so let's go back to school!"
When this guy meets ghosts and gods, it seems like he doesn't even care about his lover.
"Don't worry, let's take a look and then talk."
Arthur comforted Jabi and asked the three men to take him to the place where the statue was stored.
This was a slightly remote warehouse. The three of them rummaged through it for a long time and finally dug out the strange statue among a pile of junk.
Because Jabi only said it was to be demolished at that time, the statue was not too damaged, except for some broken stubble marks on the base.
Arthur broke off a piece of it, then crushed it with his hands, and found that what he had in his hands was indeed clay.
The foreman couldn't help but said in surprise: "How is this possible? How could anyone make a statue out of clay and put it outside."
yes! Incredible indeed.
Arthur surrounded the entire statue and inspected it carefully.
He gradually discovered that the entire statue was solid, but there was a square space at the base.
The space was only the size of a jewelry box, and Arthur couldn't help but ask the three workers: "Which of you was present when this statue was replaced that day?"
Arthur had long seen that these three people were overseers, otherwise I believe they would have run away long ago.
At this time, one of them stood up hesitantly, "Sir, I was there that day."
