Mystery: Start with the Reader

After leaving Darkwell's herbal shop, Abner went to the Harvest Church in the South District again, and asked Bishop Utravsky about the progress of Dr. Leonardo's incident, but only got the doctor's whereabouts result.

"Don't be so anxious, child. It will take a few days for the elite 'Desolator' of the Holy Church to arrive in Backlund. Before that, it is not suitable for the Church's personnel here to be exposed too much. After all, judging from various intelligences, maybe The Loen military is also involved in this matter." Bishop Utravsky explained with a smile.

Don't you think you've said too much for me, a pagan, as a Bishop of the Earth Mother? Does this mean you don't treat me as an outsider?

Abner complained in his heart, but on the surface he became interested in an unfamiliar word: "The Desolate One?" He had never heard of this term, whether it was in the original novel or what he had seen and heard since time travel.

"The 'Desolate One' is the loyal guardian of the Mother Goddess in the mortal world, similar to the 'Nighthawks' of the Church of Evernight and the 'Punisher' of the Church of Storms." Bishop Utravsky explained.

Abner understood immediately, compared in his mind the "Nighthawks" who played the most in the original book, and guessed that the so-called elite "Desolator" should be a special official team similar to "Red Gloves".

Since there was no news for the time being, Abner did not delay in the Harvest Church, and took the subway again to the rented house in the East District.

He made an appointment to meet here when he parted with Xio yesterday.

After resting in the room for about half an hour, there was a knock on the door outside. Abner bypassed the placed ritual objects, and when he opened the door, he saw Hugh with messy hair appearing in front of him.

Abner looked at her shoulder-length yellow hair, which was obviously clean but was deliberately messy and rough, and joked with a smile: "Why don't you take care of it, do you have to make it like this?"

Xio glanced at him, and replied: "There's no need... I've already set my 'jurisdiction' in the East District, so it's really inconvenient to dress up too well."

The ability of a "sheriff" is always linked to one's own "jurisdiction". The more familiar the place, the better it can be used. Once it exceeds the scope, it can only rely on extraordinary ability. And the Eastern District is obviously not suitable for a dignified noble lady to come and go.

Abner also understood this very well, so he didn't continue this topic anymore, but turned around and came to the center of the house, and held the ceremony that had been prepared there to build a spiritual wall and seal off the entire room.

From the tone of Hugh's words yesterday, he could guess how troublesome what she encountered in East Chester was, and what happened to him also involved too many secrets. Under such circumstances, it is natural to build a safe environment for conversation.

Xio quietly watched Abner complete the ceremony, and then said: "Actually, I settled my mother and younger brother on the second day after you left, but when I went back to Storn to buy the steam train ticket, But I happened to meet Mr. Vernal."

"Fernal?" Abner recalled, remembering who Hugh was referring to, and asked, "Mr. Vernal on the 'White Agate'?"

"That's right, it was him." Xio nodded and continued, "At that time, he, his wife Katrina, and their two daughters were hunted down terribly..."

"So you were involved in a terrible incident?" Abner was very clear about Yixiu's sense of justice, and would never stand idly by when a child was hunted down like this, otherwise she wouldn't either. Before he learned of the "acting method", he had already become a well-known "arbiter" for the poor in the East District.

"Yes...it was on the outskirts of the city. Their family was hunted down by a monster covered in white mist. Their son Lott was engulfed in the mist and disappeared just because he ran a little slower...and the mist gave him I feel very bad, as if as long as I look at it, I can't control my abilities." Even after a few days, Xio still felt terrified when he recalled the smoke.

She is by no means a timid girl, but this "fear" seems to come from the soul.

"White smoke..." Although Abner couldn't remember something he had confirmed in Origin Castle, he still deduced based on the existing clues: "I remember that Mr. Vernal once said that he was an archaeologist, This time, he returned to East Chester because his students dug up an ancient ruin in the Hornaches Mountains... Was that smoke brought out by his students from the ruins?"

"You guessed right... It is precisely because Mr. Vernal's students were just ordinary people, so even if they are polluted by the smoke of that high personality, the means are still very limited, so I can help them get rid of the smoke monster temporarily Harassment." When Xio said this, he hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Of course, it's also thanks to the thing left on me by the dragon I met in my dream..."

The reason why she hesitated was not because she wanted to hide it, but because the matter had been resolved and she didn't want to tell her friends to worry.

"What exactly is it?" Abner frowned and asked. He even felt that this was more troublesome than the white mist.

"I don't know." Xio shook his head and continued, "Although I temporarily escaped with the Fennell family, I was trapped in a village by the fog. The smoke monster lacked means and feared me. Something on my body can't deal with me. But I also don't have the ability to break out with a few ordinary people... So, I had to take the potion in advance and advance to the 'sheriff' in order to rely on the new Extraordinary ability to sense the weakness of the smoke blockade..."

"It seems that you failed to achieve your wish." Abner said with certainty. After all, the smoke was dug out from the ruins of the Quaternary Epoch, so how could it be possible for a mere Sequence 8 to sense its weakness.

Hugh has long been familiar with Abner's "reasoning" ability, and can "know" immediately through "reasoning" even without any clues, let alone explaining so many details. So she was not surprised by the other party's "prophecy", nodded and said:

"We ended up being saved by a powerful lady."

"Ma'am? An official Extraordinary?" Abner asked after thinking for a while.

"I don't know, that lady... she is just as irritable and disgusting as your Solomon gold coin." Xio frowned when she said this, as if she couldn't accept that aesthetic just in retrospect.

"It's the same as my gold coin... asymmetrical?" Abner raised his evaluation of the lady who saved Hugh when he heard this. If it is really a remnant of the Solomon Empire, it is at least a powerful demigod.

"Yes! The lady herself is very beautiful, tall... tall and slender, but she is wearing a long skirt that is divided into two pieces, one side is complicated, the other side is simple, and it accommodates many colors, while the other side is pure black The same is true of the boots on the feet, one with a pointed front end, and the other is similar to the currently popular round-toed boots, as if they belong to two people..." Xio described with an awkward expression.

This is really the style of the Solomon Empire... Could it be that this lady was also dug out from the ruins by Vernal's students?

When Abner was thinking, Xio continued: "The lady gathered all the mist into a bottle, came to me, and then used some means to remove it from my forehead. Walk a ball of light... I don't know what it is, but my intuition tells me that it's something Gu Long left on me."

"Perhaps... Gu Long wanted to use your hand to transfer something to this lady..." Abner has seen a lot of tool people, and has some experience, and he is also familiar with the methods of some big bosses. I found some rules.

"You guessed it again... The lady said that I would not let me hand over the item for nothing... So, she gave me the potion formula of Sequence 7 'Interrogator'. By the way, I have to ask Detective Stanton to help identify it " Xio said, taking out a piece of parchment with different colors and styles from the left and right from his pocket, and the ancient Hermes script and dragon script were written on it alternately.

This is the late stage of obsessive-compulsive disorder... Abner thinks that it can't be fake just by looking at this style, who can fake it so frantically.

Muting in his heart, Abner thought for a moment, and then asked again: "Have you asked Mr. Vernal what is buried in the ruins of the ruins dug out of the Hornages Mountains?"

"Of course I asked, but Mr. Vernal actually doesn't know much... He only heard a name when he was hunted down by the white mist."

"That name is..."

"Tamara!"