Mystery: Start with the Reader

It was already late at night when Abner woke up again, even though he 'slept' for more than six hours this time, he still felt throbbing pains in his head. Apparently, the dried up spirituality still hasn't recovered.

"What the hell happened to you? How did your spirituality get so exhausted? You know, when you were sent back by the police, I almost thought you were going to lose control and turn into a monster on the spot! I've never seen anyone's spirituality dry up like that ...No, even a dead person will not have any spirituality left!" Detective Essinger, who had been guarding the bedside all the time, saw him wake up, couldn't help the horror in his heart, and asked repeatedly.

Everything in this world has spirits, and everything is evolved from the original creator, so even dead things are spiritual! Extraordinary people will lose control after their spirituality drops to a certain level.

Abner has also understood this knowledge now, and he knew that his state just now must be unreasonable, and he also thought in his heart: "Is the pure white eye protecting my spirit from getting out of control? Or is the God of Knowledge taking care of me again? It doesn't seem to be the same... The spiritual body is not like the body, and the loss of control caused by spiritual exhaustion is difficult to solve from the outside... Wait, all things are evolved from the original creator, and all madness and pollution also come from Him... ...But I am not... My soul must come from a different universe, or even a higher-dimensional universe. So... There is no basis for my soul to lose control at all? Where did his spirituality come from? Well, this is a possibility, and we need to verify it in the future."

Thinking about it, Abner put on a frightened expression on the surface, and said: "When I was observing something with extraordinary items, I was suddenly backlashed... that thing may be related to a high-level existence. "

"You dare to look at something like this? Why didn't you become a monster on the spot?" Detective Essinger said angrily. He hates iron but steel for his students who are good at killing.

I didn't want to analyze such a dangerous thing... Abner was also very wronged, he really didn't want to do this. As for why the body has not changed, this is probably the protection from the pure white eye. After all, his body is different from the soul, and it is truly the original product of this world.

Seeing that Abner was still in poor spirits, Detective Essinger left after scolding him a few words so that he could have a better rest.

"The teacher must have guessed that I have some secrets... But if he doesn't ask, I'll just pretend to be stupid!" Abner sighed inwardly, and closed his glasses again.

But right now he couldn't fall asleep with a headache, and after tossing and turning for a while, he sat up again, recalling the gray mist he spied before he passed out.

"Some of the essence of that puppet is actually related to the gray mist... What a fool! Now the great ruler above the gray mist is not the gentle and kind Klein, so what was I analyzing before? Origin Castle? Or Is it Tianzun?" Thinking of this, Abner couldn't help sweating, just as the teacher said, it was the blessing of the gods that he didn't die suddenly on the spot.

"I remember that in the original novel, Miss Justice's mirror, Mr. Hanged Man's glass bottle, and Ms. Hermit's planetarium are all related to Origin Castle, representing the red stars dotted in the gray mist... that Dolls should be something similar. Hehe, my rash analysis this time is actually not completely fruitless, at least I know the nature of this connection! Hiss..." Due to the pain, Abner's expression was a little distorted He laughed softly, but he finally felt that his spirituality had recovered a little.

"Now that I know the nature of this connection, I can design rituals to endow some items with special attributes, so that it can be associated with the gray mist and become a red star on it. Of course, this association is only one-sided. Only when the Fool responds can a real connection be established, which is essentially the same as the effect of chanting the Fool's name in ancient Hermes."

"So, this harvest is actually useless? Well...not necessarily, at least it provides me with a new path to join the Tarot Club in the future.

You must know that if you want to join the Tarot Society, directly contacting Klein himself in reality is the worst choice. There are too many great beings watching him, and it is easy to fall into the calculation when you get close to him. Even if you want to communicate with him in the future Information must also pass through Origin Castle! And reciting the honored name may not necessarily achieve the goal. With Klein's caution, how dare he respond casually to strangers reciting his name! Aren't you afraid that it was sent by the real creator or Amon? Instead, holding items related to Origin Castle and praying for something he is interested in, like the Hermit Lady or Little Sun, is the most likely to achieve the goal of being pulled above the gray mist..."

Abner thought about it, and the drowsiness finally overwhelmed the pain, and his eyelids gradually couldn't be raised. He yawned and lay down on the bed again, and fell asleep after a while.

...

At the same time, in a dark alley in the East District. Hugh, in a black cloak, hid behind a low wall and watched as a pale man loaded a cart with the body of a homeless man who had died in the rubbish. At this time, there were already two ragged, dirty and emaciated corpses on the cart.

"Is he...collecting the corpses of homeless people who died of starvation and freezing in the East District? I remember that this person is the owner of a clothing store. Why does he come to do such a thankless job?" Hugh beautifully Her eyes were full of confusion, but soon she recalled the 'acting method' mentioned by Abner. After a week of experiments, she has preliminarily determined that the "acting method" is effective, so she couldn't help but have a thought: "Is this person... acting? He is a corpse collector?!"

"I heard that the path of corpse collection is in the hands of the Church of Evernight and the Spiritual Order... Abner once said that the extraordinary people at the bottom of the church don't know how to 'act', so he is probably a member of the Spiritual Order. People? Well, I have to remind Abner to be careful when investigating him."

Just as Xio thought of this, the man who collected the corpse suddenly turned around and looked over, obviously he found her hiding behind the wall.

Hugh was taken aback immediately, she didn't know how she was exposed, but her good combat awareness allowed her to respond quickly, not only holding the triangular thorn with unknown toxin in her hand, but also taking the thorn that Abner gave her. The brass charm was drawn out.

Then she saw that the man on the opposite side also took out a brass charm, which was exactly the same as the one in her hand...

For a while, there was an awkward atmosphere in the air.

The two confronted each other for a few seconds, and the man who collected the corpse was the first to bear it. He lowered his voice and said, "Who are you? Why are you spying on me?"

Of course it was impossible for Hugh to expose Abner, so after a moment of silence, he replied: "I am the 'arbiter' of the bounty hunters in the Eastern District, and someone entrusted me to investigate why you smuggled corpses." Although she is not very good at lying, But it doesn't mean it won't. And what she said was essentially true.

"Are you an official Extraordinary?" The man asked in a panic.

"Heh, it seems that you seldom come to the Eastern District, and you don't even know about the 'Arbiter'." Xio pursed her lips, a little concerned about the ineffectiveness of her name.

Although Xio didn't answer directly, the man probably knew that the lady in front of him was a wild Beyonder just like him, so he relaxed his guard a little, and explained, "I'm not smuggling corpses, I just want to collect and bury them!"

"You're not a mortician in the cemetery, why did you do this?" Xio asked directly.

"Sorry, I have my reasons...I can only guarantee that I didn't steal the corpse, and I'm not doing something bad!" The man hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I'll preside over the requiem ceremony later, you can watch it! "

"This person doesn't seem to be wary of other Extraordinary people... A standard rookie! Just like me back then... If I hadn't met Forsi..." Xio sighed, knowing that this person should be his usual The living habits of ordinary people have been substituted into the world of extraordinary people. How dangerous is ritual magic? Generally, only those who absolutely trust are allowed to watch, otherwise they will be tampered with, and the end will be miserable.

"Then let's go!" Xio finally felt some compassion, and planned to help this person take care of him for a while tonight, and remind him vaguely after the ceremony was over.

...

The next morning, Abner slept until eight o'clock before opening his eyes. He meditated for a while, and found that his spirituality had fully recovered, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's good that there are no sequelae!"

Thinking so in his heart, he walked out of the bedroom and learned through his servant that Detective Essinger had gone out to investigate the case. Only then did he remember that they had taken over the investigation of 11 disappearance cases commissioned by Sivelas Field yesterday.

"It seems that I don't have time to go to the public library to read books today. After meeting with Xio, I have to report to the police station in Jowood District. One of the two cases that the teacher gave me has not been solved yet."

After a little smoothing out the action plan, Abner immediately went out to the East District, and successfully met Miss Hugh in that small restaurant.

"Your complexion is not very good! Are you sick?" Xio looked at Abner, who was obviously a little depressed, and asked with concern.

"It's just being backlashed by extraordinary items..." Abner didn't want to talk too much about it, and instead asked, "Have you gained anything?"

Xio Wenyan thought about it tangledly, and finally asked tactfully: "Is your classmate's father a little silly?"

Abner was stunned when he heard that, recalling Mr. Grant's very decent behavior in dealing with people, he asked in puzzlement, "Why do you ask that?"

"His occult knowledge is quite rich, but he is very naive in many places!" Xio told Abner in detail about the ins and outs of her encounter with the other party last night.

"He has my brass talisman in his hand?" Abner was puzzled by the news at first, but then he remembered the 'newcomer' who bought his last talisman at the extraordinary party the day before yesterday.

"That person should be Mr. Grant! No wonder I found his figure familiar when I followed him later..."