Dominate the Treacherous Realm

　　 In the living room on the second floor of the old antique shop, the doors and windows are tightly closed, but the curtains are not drawn, which makes the room irradiated by the sunlight penetrating the fog become even hotter. But Detective Vivendi believed that his anxious mood at this time had nothing to do with the indoor temperature. He wished he hadn't heard anything just now.

　　 "You really are the same as I thought..."

　　 Even though he knew he shouldn’t make any comments, the middle-aged detective couldn’t help but opened his mouth, jokingly, hoping to ease the embarrassing atmosphere in the living room now. I recorded the turbulent life of the noble child I just heard, and then shook his head with a wry smile. The middle-aged man seemed to want to throw away all his troubles:

　　 "Okay, I understand all of these things, so can you let us check the small-caliber pistol that you registered with the city hall?"

　　 "Yes, but the gun is in the coat downstairs."

　　 Jenkins pointed at everyone's feet.

Detective 　　 nodded again, not forgetting to explain:

　　 "Of course you will not kill, but this is a routine inspection. Please understand."

　　 then asked Hathaway, Britney, and Julia to confirm Jenkins’s itinerary in the past few days, and then closed the black notebook:

　　 "So are there any questions to ask?"

　　 The middle-aged detective looked at the big people around him, and seeing that no one was speaking, he announced that the routine questioning was over.

　　 The original depressing and dull atmosphere in the room seemed to be swept away because of this sentence. The detective wisely left first, under the pretext of taking the pistol downstairs. When his footsteps were gone, Jenkins asked the three dukes:

"what is the problem?"

"Six heirs were assassinated in a row. That's how it happened. It was the same as Victorum who died last week. He was hit by a bullet in the head, his heart was pierced by a sharp blade, his throat was cut, and there was a pinhole on his body. After testing, toxins of unknown composition can be found. In short, no specific cause of death can be found. All the wounds may cause death. The police suspect that these wounds were caused at the same time."

　　 Duke Douglas Gerold said, and then let the silent servant standing behind him, and handed Jenkins a heavy brown kraft paper waterproof document bag.

　　 Jenkins turned the coil away, took out the data, and found that these were all information related to the murder.

　　 "I don't believe that you will kill, nor that you will hire a murderer. Obviously, whether they die or not will not affect your inheritance order."

The Duke 　　 said, looking out the window:

"The most suspicious suspect at the moment is the foreigner Horace Luther. We suspect that some people in Chesland want to do something... So during this time, you must pay attention to your own Security. Although the current heirs who are murdered are very low in succession, it may be a blinding trick to confuse us. Williams, you must pay attention to your safety."

　　 The old Duke emphasized, and Jenkins nodded, somewhat puzzled about this matter. He thought for a while, and then asked the officers at Carfax Field:

　　 "Can I look at the corpse? I think if I can know the death of those unfortunate guys, it would be helpful for me to keep a sense of vigilance."

　　 This request is strange, but under the sign of the dukes, Carfax Field still agreed to Jenkins' request.

　　 Now, including Victorm's body, seven corpses are stored in the morgue of the Carfax Field Headquarters in the city. Jenkins is not here for the first time, but the summer heat can't dissipate the coldness in the morgue.

　　, wearing a dark red stained apron and wearing a mask, a coroner like a butcher, took the corpses out of the locker and placed them on the put together "bed" for Jenkins to watch. Although the royal family paid for ice cubes for cryopreservation of these corpses, the corpse of Victorm, who died earlier, had already been corrupted to a certain extent.

　　Similar to those written in the documents, there are many wounds on the surface of the body, and most of them can cause death. Jenkins wore a mask to block the smell, scanned it with real eyes to confirm that there were no extraordinary traces, and then asked the coroner who accompanied him:

　　 "Are the priests of the Church of the Dead please come to see?"

　　 People who work as teachers and writers are not necessarily sage believers, but those who work as coroners are likely to be dead believers or believers of false gods who have friendship with the dead church. Therefore, the coroner did not care about the suspicion of distrusting his level in Jenkins's words, but explained in a heavy Nolan accent:

　　 "Only the corpses transported to the morgue outside the city can apply for the help of the Church of Death and the End for an autopsy. The corpses parked here are all done by their own coroner inside the Carfax Field."

Thinking of the relationship between the church and the world, Jenkins nodded clearly, and then looked down at the neck of the chilly young male corpse in front of him. There was an undisguised bleeding spot, which was caused by a pinhole. of.

　　 "Can you analyze the toxins in the blood of the corpse?"

"It's difficult, not because toxins are rare, but because there is more than one toxin in all the dead. It looks like someone mixed different lethal toxins together, rotated and mixed in an aqueous solution, and then injected through more than one location. Into the body of the dead."

　　 He pointed out to Jenkins another hard-to-find pinhole on the corpse in front of him. Jenkins looked at it for a while but found no other clues.

　　 So after leaving the Carfax field, Jenkins went directly to his divination teacher, Miss Audrey. But Miss Audrey was not at home, so Jenkins had to go out of the city to the Evergreen Forest to find someone.

　　 When he took today's Nolan Daily Supplement and jumped out of the carriage with the cat in his arms, it was already afternoon. When you find Miss Audrey and tell the story of the matter, let her help in the divination, and there is even a sunset in the west of the sky.

　　 The two had dinner together in the evergreen forest. During the period, Miss Audrey asked about Dolores becoming the heir, and even made fun of Jenkins to earn a whole country. Miss Audrey herself was a friend of Alexia, and she knew everything about Alexia, so she didn't ask her too much.

　　 After dinner, Miss Audrey suddenly became interested, so imitating the way that ancient fortunetellers taught skills, she found a clearing near the forest lake where the stars could be seen. The two of them were sitting on the grass. Miss Audrey took a test of Jenkins' recent learning progress. After learning that he hadn't made any further divination attempts, she thought about it and asked:

　　 "Then have you'seeing' your fate again recently? I noticed that your eyes are a little abnormal. The purple shouldn't be the one you have before, right?"

　　 This is one of the rare people who noticed the abnormal color of Jenkins's eyes, but she didn't think much about it. She only thought that Jenkins was talented, and after seeing his fate, the eyes had a tendency to transform into magic eyes.

　　 The lecture under the starry sky lasted until about nine o'clock, and the two men formally began their fortune-telling attempts on the death of the royal family members. I am in a good mood tonight. The lady of the Destiny Church chose the rarely used "water occupation" technique.

　　 But she did not intend to use a special container to hold the liquid, and then explore the context of fate under the water.

　　 Miss Audrey pointed to the lake beside them:

　　 "I will use this lake for divination."

　　 asked the nuns of the Destiny Church in the forest to help, and everyone put 365 candles together around the edge of the lake and lit them.

　　 Then Miss Audrey held a quarter of the candle that was dyed purple, ready to officiate the ceremony. This candle symbolizes "destiny" and is a reflection of the destiny star of the **** of lies. Of course, the **** of lies who stood by her knew that he did not have such a priesthood.

　　The female fortuneteller has changed her clothes and is now wearing a brown mopping robe. After asking everyone to leave the lake, she held the candle and closed her eyes barefoot, stepping on the grass and walking towards the lake.

　　 As she moved, some unusual wind made ripples in the grass and lake. Jenkins held the tree in the distance and watched, watching the spirit in the air become disordered, and then purple aura rose from the center of the lake, spreading to the surface of the lake like morning fog.

　　 Miss Audrey, holding the candle, did not stop by the lake, but closed her eyes and went straight into the lake. The starry sky slapped the lake on the shore, soaking her Chiluo's feet first, and then moving up her white legs a little bit, climbing up among the delicate skin's tiny pores, and at the same time it was soaking wet. The robe.

As Miss Audrey wandered, the water surface continued to rise until her waist was submerged, and then the hands holding the candle went below the water surface, but the candle did not go out, and it still swayed faintly below the water surface. Light.

　　 Soon Miss Audrey's head was also immersed in the lake water. Her messy long hair was scattered on the surface of the water, swaying with the flow of the waves, and it looked rather scary in this dark night. But as the woman went deeper, her hair gradually disappeared.

　　 Suddenly a black object rose from under the water. It turned out that the brown robe floated up, and then it was rolled onto the grass on the shore with the flow of the lake.

　　 Jenkins held his breath and stared at the position of the faint candlelight, exploring the meaning and symbolism of the large-scale ceremony in front of him.

　　 In fact, fortune-telling does not require such complicated rituals for ordinary things, but as a student of Miss Audrey, female fortune-tellers always like to let Jenkins see something new. This is an enviable thing in the eyes of ordinary fortune-tellers. Not every teacher is willing to show students those dangerous and strange rituals, and not every teacher is willing to impart all his knowledge to students.

　　 Jenkins can't help feeling a little ashamed when he thinks that his divination skills have not made any progress. So I stared at the lake even more intently, wanting to see something different from it.

Chapter 1732 Chapter 1705 Under the Black Lake

　　 The galaxy hangs upside down, and it is also reflected on the clear lake. Today is a good weather, no dark clouds obstruct the starry sky, showing all the galaxies of all things to the mortals on the ground. The trajectory of the starry sky is linked together, which is the trace of **** and destiny. In divination, the night with stars is the best time for divination, because that is the moment when a mortal is closest to destiny.

　　 Jenkins recalled this knowledge, but suddenly felt the cat on his shoulders move uneasy, and then yelled "meow~", then eagerly lowered his head, his hind paws grabbed the clothes, and the front paws alternately grabbed Jenkins' shoulders.

　　 Jenkins was a little puzzled, and at this moment, he saw the dim candlelight under the water in the middle of the lake, and it shook abnormally.

"what's happenin?"

　　 thought in his heart, without hesitation, he walked two steps forward and broke into the ceremony venue by the lake. At the same time, a strong wind suddenly blew from the west, causing the forest tree Heather to make a sound, and at the same time it blew out more than half of the 365 candles that were part of the ritual base.

　　 This is not normal. After the ceremony begins normally, because of the mystery, the flames of these candles cannot be blown out by the wind at will.

　　 Jenkins was taken aback, but he didn't care to observe, and hurriedly ran to the lake. At the same time, the candlelight in the middle of the lake was completely extinguished after shaking violently for a few times, which meant that there was a big problem with the ceremony, and Miss Audrey might be in trouble.

　　 Before taking off his shoes, he just threw the cat and coat on the grass, Jenkins stepped deep into the mud of the river beach, and then plunged into the water.

　　 The lake water has a strange icy feeling, quickly taking away the heat from the skin. Jenkins, who is not very good at swimming, took a few flops before adapting. He lifted his head from the water and swam forward, while the real eye kept catching the aura of Miss Audrey under the water.

　　 When he swims to the middle of the lake, he takes a deep breath and plunges into the water. Using the real eye with his eyes closed, the aura around him becomes more obvious and strange. Now not only can I see Miss Audrey's light spots, but the fuzzy aura formed her shape, and even her expression can barely be seen.

　　Miss Audrey is at the bottom of the lake, with her hands stretched up and her long hair swaying with the strange and strange water below the lake surface, as if she wanted to touch the starlight that could not be shining here.

　　 Jenkins felt that he was almost out of breath. The depth of the lake was deeper than he thought.

　　 "But do I really need to breathe?"

　　 In his heart, he thought about continuing downstream. With the emergence of this idea, the feeling that his lungs were about to explode disappeared. The spirit circulating in the body provides him with the necessary living conditions for all living organisms, and he is the incarnation of life.

　　 continued down, and finally touched Miss Audrey's cold fingertips, and then took the woman's hand and tried to pull her up. But this did not succeed. It seemed that something was dragging her from below. Jenkins had no choice but to let go of her hand and swim further down, and then found that it was actually water plants.

　　 "Damn it."

He thought in his heart, catching Miss Audrey’s legs and shaking them, confirming that she was not conscious, he could only stretch out the water plants, with the influx of the spirit of life, the originally slender water plants seemed to be alive. Let go of the woman's ankle.

　　 Jenkins immediately stepped on the **** at the bottom of the lake, then hugged his teacher and headed upstream. Because the robe was taken off, Miss Audrey is now only wearing a simple summer single. She is not heavy, and it is not difficult for Jenkins to hold her upstream.

　　 It's just that the "water occupation" ceremony doesn't seem to be over yet, not long after Jenkins just moved upstream, a strange spirit flows into Jenkins's body from Miss Audrey's hand. At the same time, the red moon in the sky was obscured by overcast clouds, leaving only the blue moon to sprinkle a mysterious light on the lake.

　　The all-extinguished 365 candles reacted wonderfully with the blue moonlight. Under the gaze of the chocolate, the ritual base seemed to be rewritten by a big hand who couldn't see clearly, and the two people under the water fell into a coma at the same time.

　　 (Fini praying...)

　　 cold, shaking...

　　 At the moment of waking up, Jenkins did not immediately jump up from the ground like a gorilla, but closed his eyes and scanned the surroundings with real eyes. At the same time, the eyeballs under the eyelids turned slightly, and the fingers quivered regularly and slightly. After understanding the situation around him, he moaned in his mouth and slowly sat up on the ground, as if he had just been sober and hadn't figured out the current situation.

　　 "Yes, you are the one with the best quality among the people who came this time."

　　 This is a stone room with no windows on the surrounding walls, only an opened door. There was no light inside the stone room. The light came in from the outside, making the talking middle-aged woman standing at the door seem to be shining:

　　 "Okay, let's go outside and wait."

　　 The woman said, and Jenkins nodded hesitantly, saying nothing. He deliberately pretended to be dizzy, so when he stood up slowly while holding on to the wall, he had time to look around. The dark dark room was full of young boys and girls, some of whom looked like they were about to wake up.

　　 Jenkins saw Miss Audrey in it, to be precise, it was a younger Miss Audrey. Although the lady seemed to be only twenty-five or sixty years old when Jenkins knew her, she should be a real fifteen or sixteen years old at this time.

　　 He hesitated, instead of pulling up his teacher, he walked straight past the woman standing at the door and came to the stone room.

　　 Outside is a forest, this environment makes Jenkins much more comfortable. He took a deep breath, and it was easy to understand from the feedback of the spirit of nature that this was not an evergreen forest.

　　 Looking back, a lone stone house stands in the forest, and a path connects the stone house with the distance.

After a while, someone came out again. Jenkins also took advantage of this to determine that it was not a dream, but he was not sure whether it was an illusion, but he was sure that his current body was still Jenkins William’s normal body, and it didn’t. "Shrink" like Miss Audrey.

　　 He looked at the young version of the teacher suspiciously. She was standing beside Jenkins, but the young lady shook her head and motioned Jenkins not to speak.

　　 "Okay, it looks like this batch of qualified people are you guys."

　　 The woman standing at the door held a pocket watch and said, then the people in the gray sacrificial robes around the house entered with water bottles, seeming to force others to wake up.

　　 "Becoming a qualified fortune-teller requires not only access to the talent of fate, but also a strong mental resistance to pressure, because we will never be able to predict what we will see in our next divination and prediction."

　　 The woman's voice is very soft, her upper body is a slightly pink lady's formal dress, and the lower body is a black skirt. This kind of match would be strange to other people, but it fits the elusive temperament of this woman very much.

　　 "You have passed the penultimate level, and you only need the last test, and you will be qualified to touch your destiny.

　　Young people, come with me. "

Chapter 1733 Chapter 1706 Sacrificial Site

　　 The woman who spoke did not explain much, as if she had acquiesced that everyone here understands the meaning of "trial" and "penultimate level". Of course, she didn't care about the addition of a young "boy" in the team with a distinctly different dress style.

After 　　 finished speaking, he motioned everyone to follow her on the trail. Jenkins deliberately fell behind and walked side by side with Miss Audrey:

　　 "What's the situation? We have traveled through time and space? Isn't this impossible?"

　　 He asked in a low voice, not believing that this was a time and space. After all, even the simpler traversing through space carries considerable risks in the material world, not to mention the more dangerous time jumps.

　　Although I have had a similar experience in Blacktown, it was a dominating action that time, and it was a very important and necessary behavior to solve past disasters. And this time, Jenkins couldn't see the importance.

　　Of course, Jenkins also encountered other time-travelers, that is, the William from the future. Unfortunately, that girl didn't meet Jenkins at the time, only Alexia knew what Jenkins' niece was going to do.

　　 "It seems that it really is time travel, or we have entered my memory..."

　　 Miss Audrey replied in a low voice, looking at the surrounding environment with some doubts:

"It should be the day when I passed the test of the church and officially became the reserve fortuneteller of the church... Next we went to the sacrificial ground of the church, which is the core area of ​​the trial... if now It’s really a time travel. You are probably the first heretics to enter the trial in a thousand years... How could it happen? Although the scale of the water occupancy ceremony I held is a bit larger, will it have such an effect? ?"

　　 When she talked about the past, she was very uncertain. Jenkins didn’t understand why, but she was very curious about what happened next:

　　 "What will you do next?"

"I don't remember. I was seriously injured that day. After healed, I lost a small part of the memory irreparably, which is very fragmentary... so I can't judge by whether there really was'you' that day. Where we are now..."

　　 "That's it~"

　　 Jenkins sighed, then glanced at the road ahead. The trails opened in the forest are probably used frequently, so weeds and moss did not invade. Along the way is a normal forest scenery, and now it is daytime to see the stars, and Jenkins also judges where the position that does not appear is in the material world. But every church has its own secrets. According to Miss Audrey, this time it might have come to an amazing place.

　　Because they don't know the specific situation now, the two decided not to make actions that are inconsistent with history for the time being. After walking with the team for a full hour in this way, a small hill appeared in front of the group.

　　 And the real destination is actually the top of that mountain. In this way, I walked from day to night, and from night to dawn. During this period, there was no rest, nor any food or water.

　　 Jenkins came from the body, of course he didn’t care about these, but Miss Audrey, who was one size smaller, was now an ordinary human body. Even though the strength of the soul can affect the body, it is still difficult to not eat or drink.

　　 Other young people have also encountered this problem, but everyone is clenching their teeth. This is probably part of the test, so no one raises questions. Fortunately, there is no shortage of plants in the forest, and bite your teeth and be patient, and you won't be left behind because of hunger and thirst. But exhaustion is inevitable, so when dawn arrives and the group of people actually arrives near the low mountain, everyone except the woman and Jenkins who are walking in the front is grateful to be able to stop.

　　 Since the second half, Jenkins has been supporting Miss Audrey. Seeing the team stopped, the two also sat down like the others. I looked up at the low mountain, because I had already reached the foot of the mountain, so I couldn't see the whole view of the mountain.

　　 But it is easy to find that this mountain is incompatible with the forest below the mountain, separated by a clear line, and there are no plants in the range of the low mountain. The whitish land is like ashes piled up, the ancient boulders standing around and the ravines with a sense of vicissitudes of time make it hard for people to imagine how this bare stone mountain was formed.

　　 "The sacrificial ground is on the top of the mountain. As the last item of the test, each of you will be allowed to see the sacred object and witness your own ‘essence’."

　　 said the woman, looking at the people who were sitting. Seeing that no one asked a question, only a young "boy" was puzzled, so she explained: