Chapter 111 Is That Girl Her Daughter?
Just like that, Roger as the driver himself took Cecelia to where Brennan was at a fast speed.
At their destination, a township hospital, Cecelia and the others saw Verda.
"Verda, what's Brennan's condition right now?"
"To the ward."
Verda led them to the ward.
Both Cecelia and Roger laid their eyes on the man in the ward bed.
He got an obvious blue and purple strangulation mark on his neck, shocking to look upon.
Verda started filling Cecelia and Roger in with the details. "When I found him, someone was strangling him, several inches away from death.
"Fortunately, I made it there in time to save his life.
"But his bronchia was broken, his vocal cords damaged. It's not guaranteed he can talk again even if he's recovered."
Cecelia's eyelids drooped as she heard about it.
What kind of vicious man kept stopping her from investigating her mother's urn?
"Did you fight the man who did this? Found anything?"
"I did, but he was in full covered. I stripped one of his sleeves and saw a tattoo of a black hawk head on his arm while I was fighting him."
"A black hawk head?"
"Yep, and he's the same skilled as me and he managed to escape."
Cecelia took a deep breath and had a lot of questions in her head.
Given that the man was very skilled, why wouldn't he come at her?
All he had done was stop her from investigating her mother's urn. Why?
Roger checked Brennan's wounds, which as Verda said, had no chance of being fully healed up, whether his severely damaged bronchia or vocal cords.
"If the man is sabotaging you in advance following your investigation clues, then four people have suffered the damage to different degrees, which means there are three left, right? Who are these people?"
Verda answered, "Three cremator operators, Mike McCarthy, Steve Morris, and David Black. Miss Linsey has sent men to find their whereabouts."
She received a message from Dark Moon when her words echoed.
They had news. Mike McCarthy had died of the disease last year, Steve Morris had jumped off a building and died, and David Black had gone missing, no one knowing where he was.
"No need to look for them anymore, since bad things happened to all of them."
After Cecelia clued them in, Roger was kind of shocked.
"That means, nearly all people related to your mother's cremation back then are killed. Only David Black was missing?"
"Yes, but I think it's boding ill rather than well."
The clues led to six people, namely, Lorenzo Wilmar, Paul Galler, Brennan, Mike McCarthy, Steve Morris, and David Black.
Three of them were confirmed dead, and they were Paul Galler, Mike McCarthy, and Steve Morris.
The remaining three, either injured, deranged, or missing, couldn't be counted on.
Except for the six people, Ida Williams, once her mother's maid, was dead, too.
What web had been woven behind all of these homicides?
Who was the key to the secret?
It suddenly reminded her of the mysterious man who had sent Jacarandas to her mother.
Would that man be the next important clue?
But after the last time she had received the flowers from that man, he'd never sent them again, and she had no way to find where the man was.
In that case, all the clues seemed useless, and she was at a dead end again.
But even if that, Cecelia wouldn't stop digging up the truth.
"Let's go back first. Verda, send men to take Brennan and see if he can write down something after recovery."
"Okay, I'll handle it."
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