My billionaire husband spoils me too much novel Chapter 525

These days, Christina stubbornly asked Lucy to take her to the orphanage in Z city for a field investigation.

"... This is the orphanage where Brianna had stayed when she was a child."

At noon, the sun was shining brightly. Christina and Lucy arrived at their destination 4 hours after flying from A City. This piece of land had been burned to ashes and only broken walls were left there. Seeing such a desolate scene, they could not help but feel a little scared.

It was a western-style orphanage and only its building shell was left after the fire. The big windows on each floor were burnt to be broken, and huge flames shot up to the ceiling which made every brick become burnt and black.

It could be seen how fierce the fire was. It was said that the fire broke out in the middle of the night. Three old nuns and two children were burned to death.

"What was the cause of the fire?"

As a bystander, Christina could not help but sigh in her heart when she looked at the scene.

Lucy shrugged and said, "I don't know."

"Didn't you say you had started the investigation a long time ago?"

"...This is an old case. The accident happened more than 20 years ago. At most, I found the information put on records by the police station. At that time, the network was underdeveloped and there was no online backup. It was all handwritten records. It just said the cause of the fire in the orphanage with a few simple words that the fire started from the back kitchen."

Christina turned to look at her, "The back kitchen?"

Then she said with righteous indignation, "Weren't they mistaken? Even if they wanted to write blindly, they should have made up a reasonable reason." As she spoke, Christina pointed to the darkest two-story building behind the orphanage that had been burned, "It was clear that the fire started from the orphanage's accommodation."

It was because the fire was the fiercest there and that place had been burned most thoroughly. If she hadn't vaguely recognized the small bunk beds, she wouldn't have known that it was the dormitory building over there.

Lucy didn't take it seriously, "You don't have to be so excited. It can only reveal that you've seen too little. There had been too many conflicts of interest in this fire. Some people didn't want to make things too clear, so they just skated them over."

"However," Lucy thought for a moment and then said, "More than 20 years ago, the 'charity orphanage', which had a lot of complicated relationships with its own interests, was not a clean place."

Brianna was sent to this orphanage for the first time when she was a child. She had lived in it for less than a year, and it was on fire.

The fire not only burned the orphanage into ashes but also killed five people, and all the documents about the orphanage since its establishment were burnt.

Therefore, Lucy had no idea about who Brianna's real parents were, let alone why she was abandoned and sent to an orphanage.

"The children who used to live in this orphanage must have suffered a lot."

Lucy knew the mentality of the homeless orphans very well, because she was also an orphan.

"Maybe I can go to find those orphans who survived. They're all grown up now. I can ask them about what Brianna's personality was like..."

When Christina heard what Lucy said, she immediately urged Lucy excitedly, "Then let's go to find the survivors now."

Lucy glanced at her and said, "The list is in the company's computer. I don't have the ability to remember it at a look. I have to go back first. Also, children like these who grew up in an orphanage and experienced a disaster usually have some psychological problems."

For example, they might be unwilling to communicate with others.

"If you go to find them like this, you won't be able to get any information." Lucy added, "If we want an answer, you have to learn to be patient first."

Christina looked at her without refuting.

After coming out for a field trip with Lucy, Christina felt that she had learned a lot.

"Does Miss Dickens want to personally visit the orphanage which Brianna had stayed in later?" Lucy was also bored recently, so she spared her time to accompany Christina.

"... Was it burned to be like this too?"

Lucy told her truthfully in a flat tone, "It's not that serious. Just a storage room was burned down, but seven people died."

Christina heard she said calmly that seven people had died, and she was surprised, "So many people were burned to death in a storage room?"

"Strictly speaking, they were not burned to death. As I know, the door of the storage room had been locked from the inside, and the people inside were suffocated to death by the smoke."

Lucy was used to these disasters and she was not surprised to see people's death. But coincidentally, both orphanages where Brianna lived when she was a child had been on fires, and there were casualties in both accidents.

"... That storage room was later remodeled and a new building has been built on its spot now."

So even if they went over, they could see no trace of a fire that had happened.

"... Since so many people died, did the police intervene for investigation?"

"Three of them were old nuns, and the other four men were handymen hired from elsewhere... More than 20 years ago, the surveillance system was not as common as it is now. There was no proof of death. The orphanage didn't want to affect the children's mentality and their daily life. Therefore, it didn't want to make things big and just accepted the reparation as an end to the accident."

Christina was frustrated when she heard what Lucy said, "After a long time, it turned out that we didn't find anything."