Mystery: Start with the Reader

"I don't know what the scene of the secret labyrinth on the seventh floor will be like. Mr. Fool... No, in this kind of luck, you have to seek the favor of the God of Knowledge. I hope I'm more familiar with it..." Abner waited Mr. Gaston prayed secretly as he read his award.

Don't look at him as if he was holding wisdom beads in the previous two levels, he found the key to pass the level all at once. But that's just cheating. It's actually very difficult to objectively talk about the scenes on the first two floors!

Fortunately, the ninth level is good. After searching in the house patiently, you can finally find the password. But the heating device is also a hidden danger. If one is not paying attention, he may be dehydrated due to the heat and lose the ability to move.

As for the eighth floor, not to mention the complexity of the case itself, it was extremely difficult to find the murderer before Conan. If Abner hadn't known the plot, with his current logic and observation ability, he wouldn't dare to say that he was better than Conan. powerful.

It's no wonder that Mr. Gaston rarely clears the level on the eighth floor.

"Okay, let's continue." Just as Abner was diverging his thoughts, Mr. Gaston had already stood up again.

Without further delay, the three resolutely set foot on the passage on the seventh floor.

While the scene was changing, Abner found himself in a dark wooden room, but the 'ground' under his feet was abnormally bumpy. He was familiar with this feeling. He was on the deck of the 'Wancheng Splendor' a few days ago. There is also often this feeling of unsteadiness.

"So, this is a scene on a sea ship?"

Before he had time to think about it, a gust of evil wind struck from behind. Abner, who already had the master fighting skills of the 'Keeper of the Wisdom', was not panicked by this. He stretched out his leg and caught the attacker's foot, and the man immediately fell to the ground due to his unstable center of gravity.

Abner seized the opportunity to bully him, put his knee on the back of the opponent's neck, and snatched the long sword from his hand.

After doing this, he looked around and found that Xio had also cut a man who looked like a sailor behind him. And Mr. Gaston was even more decisive, took out his revolver and directly shot dead the villain who rushed towards him.

Although there were still faint sounds of fighting outside the cabin, the cabin was quiet. Abner cautiously opened his pure white eyes to "backtrack" the scene, and only after confirming that there was no danger for the time being, he put the long sword against it. The assailant asked, "What is this place? Why did you attack me?"

But the man who fell to the ground didn't answer, instead there was a non-human "ho" and "ho" sound from his throat, and his eyes were bloodshot and red.

Seeing this, Abner frowned, and then looked at the prisoner on Hugh's side, only to find that the person was in the same state as he was holding down.

"Are they crazy? Or did they receive some kind of mental stimulation?" Xiu Jian guessed after knocking the prisoner unconscious, but couldn't ask anything.

"Could it be that everyone in the boat is crazy? Then what are our conditions for passing the customs?" Abner was also full of doubts.

At this time, Mr. Gaston pointed to a note on the cabin table and said, "The conditions for customs clearance should be there."

Abner also followed Hugh's example and knocked the prisoner unconscious, then went to the table and picked up the note and glanced at it:

"Find out the real cause of the internal strife on board."

"Most of the time, the conditions for passing the level are texts that appear directly in front of our eyes, but sometimes they are also displayed in other forms, such as the note this time. For example, when I encountered Conan before, the condition was to hang on an airship It appeared on the banner..." Mr. Gaston came over at this time, shot two shots at the prisoner who was stunned by Abner and the other two, and then continued, "I can see that you are not very good at killing people. Adapt, but whether in the dream labyrinth or in the real mysterious world, you should abandon that innocence as soon as possible. Hehe, in my opinion, there is no harm in practicing more adaptation while taking advantage of the dream scene. What's more, most of these attackers are scum and scum,

They're not really 'people' either. "

Abner and Hugh looked at each other, knowing that what Mr. Gaston said was very reasonable, and he was sincerely doing it for their benefit. So he was taught humbly, and decided not to keep his hands when there was a fight. Of course, this does not violate their own principles of dealing with affairs, and they will not kill innocent people indiscriminately.

After gradually gaining consciousness in their hearts, the three of them walked out of the cabin one by one, and came to a remote side deck under the cover of each other.

It was night at this time, and the dark clouds in the sky were very thick, covering the crimson. The deck was pitch black and visibility was very low.

Seeing that no enemies appeared, Abner habitually found loopholes in the clearance conditions, and asked: "Is there no time limit for this clearance condition? If we wait for the ship to dock, let the Nighthawks or Punishers check it out." Is it halal?"

"Impossible. Although it is not clearly written, most of the scenes have a time limit! For example, in the scene of Conan encountered on the eighth floor, he must be identified before he deduces the murderer, otherwise it will be judged that the breakthrough has failed. Here should It's similar." Mr. Gaston shook his head in denial. This hidden rule has tricked him several times.

While they were talking, there was suddenly a man's unwilling roar and a woman's intermittent sobbing from the corner ahead, followed by another man's panting sound accompanied by the sound of clothes being torn...

Xio, who had spent so long in the Eastern District tavern, soon realized what had happened. She and Abner exchanged glances, and the two of them took out the revolver at the same time, and hurried to the corner. M. Gaston, on the other hand, walked behind, guarding against an attack from another direction.

The purpose of entry was a scene that made Xio furious. A man was nailed to death on the outer wall of the cabin by a long sword, and two men dressed in decent clothes were tearing apart a lady's joint on the ground with grim expressions. dress.

This time, Xio didn't hesitate, and he wasn't even willing to waste bullets on these two scumbags. Instead, he rushed in front of the two villains with a lunge, and before the opponent could react, he slashed across with the triangular thorn hidden in his sleeve. their necks.

The lady who had most of her clothes torn off was stunned for a moment in confusion, then rushed to the side of the man nailed to the wall, crying loudly: "My dear! Please! Please wake up...don't lose Get me down."

Seeing such a scene, Xio felt very uncomfortable, her eyes had already been covered with a layer of mist, she retreated to Abner's side, deliberately changed the subject and said: "The suppression of extraordinary abilities on the seventh floor is not as great as before. Now, I can use most of the abilities of the 'Arbitrator'. But the 'Ring of Prediction' given by Mr. Stanton can't be used yet."

To this, Abner just nodded slightly, without giving a response. Because it doesn't make any difference to him, so what if the fighting power of the 'reader' is restored? The premise is that the "reader" has such a thing as combat power! And he has always been able to use extraordinary abilities when the pure white eyes are opened.

After crying for a while, the lady picked up a dagger that the assailant had dropped on the ground. She pointed it at her abdomen, her face struggling, as if she wanted to commit suicide like that, but she was afraid of pain so she dared not do it. .

But Xio didn't give her a chance to make a choice, so he directly shot and knocked down the dagger, and comforted him: "You must live strong! It is because he risked his life to protect you before that you can't live up to his sacrifice. You must live!"

Although she knew that this lady was not a real 'person', and probably guessed that the scene might have been reset countless times, she still couldn't bear to see her die in despair and grief.

After listening to Xio's words, the lady looked at the man nailed to the wall in silence for a while, then gritted her teeth and said, "Miss, you are right! I have to live! I want to avenge my dear! Send all the beasts on this ship to be shot!"

Seeing that her mood gradually stabilized, Abner stepped forward and asked, "What happened on this boat? Why are there so many villains running rampant?"

"Don't you even know?" the lady asked in amazement.

The characters in this dream labyrinth are so smart that they still question it, it is much better than Conan's scene. Abner thought so in his heart, but said vaguely on the surface: "We have been sleeping in the upper cabin, and when we woke up, we found that people were crazy..."

The woman nodded, not knowing whether she believed this statement, but she still answered Abner's previous question: "It's five days after we left Kaiser Harbor on the Clover, we encountered that terrible pirate—— Speaking of..."

"'King of the Five Seas' Nast?!" Both Hugh and Abner exclaimed, and the latter thought the name 'Clover' was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

"Yes, 'King of the Five Seas' Nast claimed to be a descendant of the Solomon Empire, and he strictly abides by the virtue of not killing prisoners. Because of this, we were only robbed of money and did not lose our lives. His men even Leave enough food for us..." Speaking of this, the lady looked at the two people in front of her in puzzlement, no matter how soundly asleep she would not be unaware of the pirate attack, right? Nast's men searched every cabin.

Abner also knew that he was suspicious, but what he cared about was that this scene was derived from reality, maybe it was a real thing that happened.

"Everyone lost not too much property... I originally thought that the bad luck was over, but during the subsequent voyage, fierce internal strife suddenly broke out among the passengers and crew of the Clover, from disputes, to fights, to To pull out the revolver, raise the straight sword, and kill each other... They quickly became completely crazy, not only killing anyone they saw, but also wantonly assaulting ladies and torturing the weak... Some real perverts splashed limbs, hearts and intestines It's all over the floor!" When describing this, the lady bit her lips tightly, as if she was trying to drive away her weakness and fear with anger.

But at this time, Abner no longer paid attention to these details. He already understood what was going on, so he only asked inexplicably at the end: "Do you know what date it is today?"

"Ah?" The lady almost turned a corner when asked this question, and replied after a while, "It should be July 1st."

Hearing this answer, Abner looked at the night covered by dark clouds in the sky, exhaled, and said to himself:

"Maybe... this is something that's happening!"