Mystery: Start with the Reader

Outside Backlund Steam Station, Benson protected his sister and wallet with great experience. Found the exit successfully.

Suddenly, they felt a line of sight sweep across them at the same time.

Looking along the trail, Benson and Melissa saw a young gentleman wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

The gentleman pressed his hat and looked past them to another young man next to them, and then passed them and entered the station.

At this time, Melissa subconsciously followed his gaze and looked at the young man with brown curly hair walking side by side with her brother and sister. She first felt familiar, and then remembered the source of this familiarity - the newspaper!

This person seems to be a "hero detective"!

When Crane was still alive, we debated whether the detective's stories were true...

"If he is just an ordinary person, his legendary performance in the case will naturally look like fabrication... But if he is an extraordinary person, maybe the reported content may not necessarily be deleted..."

Melissa, who has witnessed extraordinary abilities with her own eyes, followed her brother to Backlund. In addition to going to school, she also had a hidden purpose of finding the "extraordinary world"...

In Melissa's mind, the famous detective in front of her was very likely to be an extraordinary person.

"Furthermore, even if he hasn't... been exposed to so many incredible cases, he must have been exposed to them!"

Melissa has never been a girl who lacked mobility. Now that she had made a judgment in her heart, she immediately struck up a conversation with a somewhat "surprise" tone:

"Are you Mr. Abner Bryan?"

This acts like a fan girl recognizing her "idol".

On the other side, Abner, who had just come face-to-face with Mr. Fool's new vest, just looked away when he heard Melissa's question.

He was stunned for a moment, then looked over and responded politely: "I think you are not mistaken about the person, beautiful lady."

Although Abner saw Melissa for the first time, he had seen the image shown by Xio in "Origin Castle", plus the location of the current "famous scene" in the original work, and the identity of the little girl opposite. A man with a very high hairline...

He suddenly had some guesses in his mind.

Did Benson stop now? Although he was a little surprised that his sister would take the initiative to strike up a conversation, he still greeted Abner very enthusiastically:

"I didn't expect to see you here, Detective Blaine.

"My sister and I have great respect for your heroic deeds."

As he spoke, he took half a step forward, covered Melissa behind him, and took the initiative to extend his hand.

Abner stretched out his hand to shake his hand and said with a smile, "Thank you for remembering me as a 'has-been' detective."

After saying a few polite words and exchanging business cards, the two of them went out of the station separately. On one side, they took Elaine and Leon to the carriage sent by Mr. Scudder to pick them up, and on the other side they walked towards the smoke-belching park in the garden in the middle of the street. Zhuzi, looking forward to seeing Backlund’s underground transportation.

And Klein, who had been squatting down and pretending to pack his luggage since Melissa started greeting her, stood up again and whispered to himself: "If it's not troublesome, try to help me take care of Melissa."

"Okay." Miss Sharon's ethereal voice sounded in his ears.

——Because they have experienced the "Tingen" scene on the fifth floor of the "Dream Maze Tower" together, Sharon knows the situation of Sherlock's original family.

…

Benson, who bought a second-class seat and was sitting in the subway car, looked at his sister who asked for Detective Blaine's business card and joked with a smile: "Melissa, I thought you were not interested in anything else except machinery. "

Melissa took the business card, carefully wrote down the address on it, and suddenly asked: "Benson...where is the house you booked?"

“26 Kingston Street, Jowood District.

"I heard from the agent that it is a nice big house with a very good environment. The neighbors are all middle-class families and are very educated... Because there have been some accidents, the rent is so low..."

Benson replied smoothly without thinking too much. But halfway through, he noticed that his sister looked a little strange, and asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"

Melissa handed the business card back and pointed to the address on it.

Benson looked down and saw "28 Kingston Street" printed on it.

"It turns out that the mansion next to us mentioned by the introducer is the residence of Detective Blaine... What a coincidence!" Benson couldn't help but sigh.

Melissa secretly cheered in her heart: Is this the goddess looking after me and allowing me to approach the extraordinary world?

…

On the other side, after boarding the carriage, Abner heard "Lion" Leon's tut: "You blamed me for messing around in Bayam before. Seeing how you have been approached by women as soon as you arrived in Backlund, I What I did for you in Bayam may have been conservative."

Regarding the bad character of this "lion", after getting along with him these days, Abner has learned something about it, so he directly ignored its words and changed the subject: "You promise me to come up with the 'blasphemous card' to activate the spell. Is the matter about Wen settled?"

"Have you tried 'Isabella' and 'Bruna'? Their names are wrong, too?" "Lion" Leon scratched his head with his paws and asked.

Elaine, who was sitting on the other side, knew nothing about their conversation. Whether it was Abner's "Tudor Badge" or Lion Lion, they had enough power to block her five senses and prevent her from noticing.

"No...and I think if it were just as simple as Roselle's woman's name, Panatia, who had been holding it before, would have 'turned on' it long ago." Abner shook his head.

"That's right...let me think about it...well...when Russell created this card, it seemed to be a full-moon night...He seemed to have raised his head and glanced at the moon." Lion Leon shook his head for a long time before spitting out this One sentence.

"Full Moon? Could it be that Mr. Door was involved in the creation process of this card? But I have tried words like 'Crimson', 'Bethel', 'Abraham' and other words before, but they are all wrong..."

Abner frowned, but had no idea. He could only think endlessly:

“Full moon…what else does a full moon mean?

"Spiritual high? Night goddess? Lilith? Even the primordial moon?

"Well... when the Emperor created the Card of Blasphemy, he should have already landed on the moon. He knew that this world was actually the earth, but he could never go back...

"Eh? Wait!"

Thinking of this, Abner suddenly thought of another meaning of "full moon", which is only for Chinese people:

"Look up at the bright moon, lower your head and miss your hometown..."

Putting into the emperor's state of mind at that time, if he had never known the truth about "traveling", the authority represented by the "door" might be his hope of returning home, right?

It's a pity...this is the span of time...

Sighing, some inexplicable "premonitions" allowed Abner, as a "half-prophet", to roughly guess what the opening spell of the "Gate" card was.

"home!"

After covering the carriage with "Ivens's Secret Barrier", Abner took out the blasphemous card and recited the incantation.

…

At 2:55 in the afternoon, Emlyn made excuses in advance and left Harvest Church and returned to his home.

He held his favorite doll in one hand and waited anxiously for the arrival of three o'clock.

Soon, although the sudden appearance of crimson light engulfed him, he came to the ancient and mysterious hall again, and many people were already sitting on both sides of the long bronze table in the center.

Before Emlyn could look around, he saw a young lady opposite standing up and respectfully saluting the mysterious being at the top:

"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool."

The other members also stood up and greeted them in the same way.

It was only then that Emlyn belatedly realized what he had missed. He was just about to say something to cover up his "disrespect" when he heard the young lady who had just stood up first say in an emotional tone. :

"Praise you, Mr. Fool.

"You saved Backlund again!"