Mystery: Start with the Reader

On Friday morning, when the first ray of sunlight pierced through the terrible smog over Backlund and managed to shine through the window into a house near the Bar of the Brave, Abner finally woke up from his coma. Skillfully took out the pocket watch and glanced at it, sighed: "Sure enough, it's still six hours."

Although the price is not light, but his gains are quite rich. Last night, the Pure White Eye was opened twice, and for the first time successfully analyzed a supplementary material of Sequence 8 'reasoning student' from the Extraordinary characteristics. Although the second time was short, he memorized hundreds of ancient Fusac words in the learning materials, which is not inefficient!

And more importantly, Abner discovered that reading and studying books with the pure white eyes open can greatly promote the digestion of the "reader" potion. In just a few seconds last night, the power of his potion The appearance of unconscious overflow has completely converged.

"The role of the reader can be seen from the name to read more books and increase knowledge and knowledge. Its connotation should be to understand the laws of nature, humanities, and even the extraordinary through reading, and to achieve omnipotence due to omniscience! Of course, a mere one It is impossible for Sequence Nine to achieve the level of omniscience, but the essence of this sequence should be like this. The follow-up reasoning students, knowledge keepers, and polymaths are actually analysis, parsing, imitation, etc. of all kinds of knowledge learned ...And my pure white eyes obviously fit this purpose very well during the process of using it, so it's no wonder that it can promote the digestion of potions."

"At this rate, as long as I persist in reading and learning all kinds of knowledge with pure white eyes every day, maybe I can digest the 'reader' in half a month? Maybe I can reach Sequence 8 before the Fool comes?"

Just as Abner was thinking about the future, there was a knock on the door outside.

"It should be Kaspers." Abner looked at his pocket watch again, and made a judgment in his heart.

So he stood up, removed the spiritual wall, then walked out of the porch, and opened the door carefully.

Surprisingly, there was no one outside the door. Abner was stunned for a moment, then blinked, the white in his eyes flashed away, and finally looked far ahead. Kaspers was seen on the road. He couldn't help being dumbfounded, and laughed at himself: "As for being so exaggerated? Am I not good?"

However, Kaspers watched Abner outside the courtyard for a long time before he staggered to the door of the house and said with a blank expression: "I have seen with my own eyes that someone opened the door unsuspectingly and was caught by the door." Swallow the monster that the Extraordinary inside has become out of control!"

Abner's expression froze, and before he could say anything to ease the atmosphere, the other party directly handed over a gun bag.

"This is the revolver you want, Chenghui 3 pounds!" Caspers held the bag and said concisely.

Abner's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly counted out the three-pound bills from his wallet and handed them over, then took the gun bag and took out the contents on the spot.

What caught the eye was a silvery-white revolver with a long barrel, and its grip was made of walnut.

In addition, there are fifty yellow bullets neatly placed in the box.

Abner tried emptying the gun, then loaded five rounds of bullets, put the revolver back into the gun bag and hung it on the underarm of the inside of his coat, and put the rest of the bullets into another pocket close to his body.

Kaspers verified the authenticity of the banknotes against the sun, and then said: "Our transaction is complete. If you have anything to do in the future, you can still find me at the Bar of the Brave."

Abner nodded when he heard the words, and said, "Thank you very much this time. If you have any troubles in the future, you can also ask me for help. You know, I am already a Extraordinary."

Kaspers sneered, and said: "Little guy, don't be too confident. Extraordinary people are also flesh and blood. Don't just rely on some abilities to be brave."

Abner could hear that he was actually admonishing with good intentions,

So I didn't worry about it, I just secretly wrote down my promise in my heart.

After the two talked for a while, Abner took the lead to say goodbye to the other party. He had a lot of things to do today, so he didn't have time to delay.

After Abner walked away, a figure appeared out of nowhere. It was a mature man with short tan hair, wearing a white shirt and a brown vest. As soon as he appeared, he smiled at Kaspers: "It seems that I have not come in handy, you little friend is still very stable."

Kaspers shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that he will get into more trouble by relying too much on his ability..."

The man straightened his expression when he heard the words, and said, "Kaspers, don't underestimate that kid. Although I don't know which path he is in, he should have discovered me just now!"

"Really? Zreal, are you sure?" Kaspers was obviously surprised.

"Don't underestimate the observation and judgment of a detective, Kaspers. Although I am not a detective on the reader's path, I can still feel his obvious nervousness and vigilance through his spiritual vision." Zerry Er looked at his watch at this point, and continued, "Okay, I have seen this little guy here, and I am going to prepare breakfast for the little guys in my family."

"Zreal, do you still have those waifs?" Kaspers asked sideways.

"They are my good assistants as detectives, aren't they?" Zreal replied with a smile.

Kaspers frowned, didn't say anything more, and watched Zreal's body slowly disappear.

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On the other side, Abner, who had returned to the East District, also breathed a sigh of relief. He subconsciously opened his pure white eyes for a second when he opened the door, and then saw a figure hidden beside Kaspers. He was really taken aback at the time, but fortunately, he soon realized that the hidden Extraordinary should not have malicious intentions, but came to help Kaspers deal with possible out-of-control incidents. He was on guard secretly while completing the deal with Kaspers.

"My pure white eyes don't have spiritual vision so far, and I can't see spiritual bodies for the time being, so that person shouldn't be in a spiritual state... So it's... the tricks of a magician? The illusion created by a magician? The mental interference of scammers? Only these three companies are good at it at low-sequence. Well, the principle of these abilities should be to influence people through the spirit. In other words, my pure white eyes can still resist or see through The effect of spiritual spells? Hey, there is too little information, and it is not yet certain."

While thinking about his thoughts, Abner walked into the restaurant he would visit every day since time travel. He looked around, but didn't find Xio's figure.

The lady's investigation should still be going on... This thought flashed through his mind, but Abner didn't care. Although he knew that the so-called "two-faced man" Rosen had murdered the original body's father, he just Inheriting the memory of the original body, but without the feelings of the other party, the feelings are not deep, so there is no rush, just wait for the scene to make that person pay the price.

After breakfast, Abner put the study materials back home, and then came to the nearby subway entrance.

Backlund's subway was born twenty-five years ago. It first connected the two sides of the Tussock River, and now it has expanded to several major urban areas. Of course, there are not many stations.

Because the Strand Street in St. George's District, where Abner was going, was too remote, and the carriage would take too long, the subway would be more convenient.

Coming to the underground, Abner looked at the price wooden sign near the ticket window:

"Peak hours (from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm) every 10 minutes, and in the remaining 15 minutes, the first-class seat is 6 pence, the second-class seat is 4 pence, and the third-class seat is 3 pence. 6, 5 pence, the annual ticket is 8 pounds for the first class seat, 5 pounds 10 soli for the second class seat, and no annual pass for the third class seat.”

The price is okay, even if I take it to practice guns every day, I can afford it.

While thinking about this, Abner took out 4 copper pennies, handed them to the conductor, and bought a second-class ticket.

When he came to the platform leading to St. George's No. 4 station, he didn't have to wait long before he heard the siren sound like thunder, and saw a huge steam locomotive breaking through the gas lamps on both sides with a sense of majestic power. The shining light stopped with a bang.

Its huge shape, winding body, black iron color and complicated machinery are mixed together, giving it a unique aesthetic feeling.

"This really has the meaning of steampunk!" Abner couldn't help whistling, and at the same time complained in his heart about Squid's trickery in the introduction of "Lord of the Mysteries", although he He also knows that the steampunk in this novel is just a background embellishment and cannot be delved into, but now that he is involved in it, he finally feels the power of steam and machinery!

Not long after getting on the train, amidst the bang bang bang bang bang noise, the steam subway started running from slow to fast. Ten minutes later, it began to gradually slow down again, and slowly stopped at the predetermined platform.

Since Abner hadn't reached his destination yet, he sat on his seat and waited for it to start up again. At this moment, following a burst of powerful footsteps, a petite girl with disheveled hair entered the carriage. This was Hugh Dilcha, the future Miss Judgment of the Tarot Society.

"Hugh?" Abner said in surprise, but he was thinking in his heart: Is it possible that I am too predestined with this young lady? It has been less than four days since he traveled here, but he met her for three days.

Xio obviously saw Abner at this time, so he walked straight to the empty seat beside him and sat down, saying hello: "Good morning, Abner. What a coincidence, where are you going?"

"Good morning, Miss Hugh. I'm planning to go to the shooting club on Strand Street to practice marksmanship." Abner replied honestly without further thinking.

"River Street...is it the shooting club at No. 33 River Street?" Xio suddenly paused before asking in a complicated tone.

"That's right! Miss Hugh, how do you know? Have you been there?" Just as Abner was about to say this question, he suddenly found that there seemed to be something wrong with Hugh's expression. Her expression changed back and forth, mixed with nostalgia, Confusion, unwillingness and many other emotions, and fell into it.

He couldn't help being startled, and thought: Even if Xio might be touched by his own words, as the 'arbitrator' of Sequence 9, how could she lose her composure in front of someone I don't know very well? This is very wrong!

With this in mind, Abner decisively opened the 'Pure White Eye', and saw a strange black line on Xio's forehead!

"It turned out to be my father's property. I used to play there when I was a child..." Xio didn't seem to be aware of his problem, and was still muttering about some things in the past.

But after she unconsciously turned her head and looked at Abner's pure white pupils, she trembled suddenly, and she was completely awake.

"Hugh, listen to me, you should sort out your emotions first, and let go of your thoughts! You should be cursed, and this curse may be taking advantage of your extreme emotions!" Seeing that her eyes had returned to calm, Abner rubbed a little With a dazed head, he continued, "Let's get out of the car now and find a safe place to talk."

While speaking, he held Xio with one hand, and reached into the gun bag with the other to grab the handle of the revolver. Then, before the train started, he strode towards the platform.

As a wild Extraordinary, although Xio lacked mystic knowledge, he had extremely rich experience, so he didn't hesitate at this moment, and trotted to keep up with Abner's pace.