Mystery: Start with the Reader

Seeing that the middle-aged man in formal attire finally fell asleep, Abner heaved a sigh of relief and appeared.

The power of the sleeping poem of the "Midnight Poet" he simulated was far worse than the original version, so he wasted an extra "Sleeping Charm" as an auxiliary, so that he could make meritorious deeds with one blow.

But this person is an Extraordinary after all, he may wake up at any time...

With this thought in his heart, Abner stepped forward to the middle-aged man, and caught his body that was limp due to deep sleep, lest he wake up due to the pain, and then took out a spell again and activated it, consolidating his The effect of drowsiness.

After doing this, Abner allocated part of his energy to Xio's side, and then found that her battle was also over.

Those eight gangster thugs couldn't even take down two well-trained ordinary people, so how could they be an opponent of a "sheriff"? Just relying on his agility, Xio shuttled among the eight of them once, and cut their skin with the tip of the triangular thorn.

Since her triangular thorns were filled with a non-lethal but incapacitating potion, the thugs were all lying limply on the ground at this moment, and it was difficult to even move a step.

Seeing that Hugh had already walked towards the Kelly family at this time, and wanted to untie them, Abner turned his attention back to the sleeping middle-aged man. He had to find out where the Extraordinary item was on his body first.

Because of the previous "backtracking" scene, Abner first set his sights on the cane, but after careful observation, he found that it was just an ordinary iron and wood staff, and it had no other effect except as an off-hand weapon .

Abner was not disappointed either, he searched upwards along the cane, and soon found a strangely shaped gemstone ring on the man's finger.

It is strange because the gemstone inlaid on the ring is actually made up of two broken small gemstones, red and black. The middle is fastened with an unknown metal, and the surface of the two broken gemstones is engraved with Small but delicate runes.

"It should be it." Abner opened the "Pure White Eye" and looked at the ring for a few seconds, and he had a solid idea, then carefully took off the ring and put it in the tin box that he carried, and then used his spirituality to Made a blockade.

The current situation is not suitable for further analysis, and we will wait until a safe environment is reached.

After putting away the tin box, Abner looked at Hugh on the other side. She had already conducted a brief interrogation of several gangsters.

Under Hugh's "majesty", these villains who usually trouble the East District honestly confessed the evil deeds they have done, but unfortunately this is not what Hugh wants to hear, she had to take the initiative to ask: "Why did you come to kidnap Kelly? Family?"

"We don't know, miss. Boss Moreira sent us here."

"That's right, it's all Moreira, we're just thugs, Miss, please let us go..."

"Moreira is the one lying over there now, and he ordered our actions! Miss, can you give me the antidote first? I think I won't even have the strength to speak if I drag it on."

Hearing Xio's question, several thugs rushed to answer, and unanimously shifted the responsibility to the middle-aged man Moreira.

Their voices were loud, and Abner, who was not far away, naturally heard them all. He turned his gaze to Xio, and the latter nodded to him, indicating that these people were not lying.

Abner thought to himself: There was a lot of noise in the battle just now. Although this road is remote, it is not without witnesses... We must transfer this Extraordinary as soon as possible, and let Xio hand over the rest to the coming police.

Although the police station in the Eastern District is relatively passive in dispatching police, at least they will send someone to check.

Thinking of this, Abner exchanged glances with Xio, and then dragged the sleepy middle-aged man to a hidden alley.

...

West End, Williams Street, Lieutenant Bernard's apartment.

The black-haired, fair-skinned witch Rey sat leisurely on the sofa,

She was holding a flower pot in her hand, in which was a flower of unknown species. This flower is still in the state of bone and has not opened yet.

Step on, step on, step on...

Following a burst of footsteps, the figure of Lieutenant Bernard appeared at the door of the room. He glanced at the witch who had become much quieter since becoming Sequence 5, and said directly:

"I didn't find Lina under MI9. It should be Prince Edesak who sheltered her."

"Because of the tough search, I have already been seriously complained by the prince. In addition, Viscount Learson's younger son has scrutinized my abuse of power. Even Viscount Stratford can hardly stand up... I have been suspended."

After hearing what he said, Lei sneered and said, "You can't even look down on a drugged little girl, so who can you blame?"

"Witch, you have to know who is protecting you from being caught by the Church of the Storm!" Lieutenant Bernard was irritated by these words and threatened, "If you dare to talk to me like that again, believe it or not, I will take the initiative to talk to 'God Your Excellency the Singer exposes you."

Hearing this, Rey fiddled with the leaves of the flowers in the flowerpot, and then looked at Lieutenant Bernard with a half-smile.

The latter's gaze towards her was a little puzzled at first, but soon his eyes widened, and his expression gradually became ferocious. Then, he couldn't help covering his head, and opened his mouth again to vent his pain by shouting, but there was no sound in his throat!

It lasted like this for five or six seconds before Lieutenant Bernard's face softened a little, and he immediately fell to the ground, with a large amount of sweat dripping down his forehead, and the clothes behind him were completely soaked.

"How is it? Does it taste good?" Rey asked jokingly.

"You...I'm sure you didn't use your ability just now...what's going on?" Lieutenant Bernard asked tremblingly.

"If you have bad thoughts about me in your heart, you will naturally suffer the pain. Hehe, you have to be thankful that you didn't really want to hurt me, otherwise the pain would not only last for a while." Rey looked regretful Said expressively.

"This is... a curse? When did you put a curse on me? I will go to the purification ceremony every time." Lieutenant Bernard seemed to have regained some strength, and looked at the witch in disbelief and said.

"You think it's a curse, so be it." Rey bent her mouth and showed an unpredictable smile. Then she hugged the flowerpot and walked up to Lieutenant Bernard who was lying on the floor, condescendingly said:

"Lina's affairs cannot be relaxed. She knows a lot of my secrets, and she must not be allowed to fall into the hands of other forces...you can kill her if necessary."

"Yes..." Although Lieutenant Bernard was unwilling, he really didn't want to experience that terrible pain again, so he had to obey the witch's order.

Seeing that he seemed to finally give in, Rey nodded in satisfaction, and asked again: "In addition, I let you spread the false news that someone suddenly alienated into a monster in the bridge area, have you done it?"

"This kind of news is actually not uncommon. After all, there are many cases where Extraordinary people lose control, and they can basically be dealt with by the authorities. A news that does not know whether it is true or false does not attract attention at all." Lieutenant Bernard explained bravely, because He never thought of helping the witch before.

Rey glanced at him. Although he knew that the other party was making excuses, he also accepted his rhetoric, so he walked to the desk, took out a metal box from the drawer, and handed it to Lieutenant Bernard: "This is the 'reader' Extraordinary characteristics, you send people to use it to pollute some ordinary people in the bridge area or the south area of ​​the bridge."

Lieutenant Bernard took the box dumbly, and couldn't help but ask, "What do you want to do?"

Rey smiled and said nothing when he saw the question, and continued to hug the flower pot and pluck the flower buds.

But at this moment, Lieutenant Bernard had a flash of inspiration in his mind. Combined with what the witch asked him about before, he said in disbelief: "You...you are still thinking about the captain of the Punisher Squad, right? Release this extraordinary feature, to distract the rest of the team?"

"Hmph, don't ask if you shouldn't ask." Rey's face changed when he heard the words, and he snorted coldly.

Then, she skipped the topic and asked again: "Did the service company send people to the warehouse today?"

"Today's has been delivered... But there seems to be an omission on their side, and a worker who was working found out the clues, so they had to silence... But the family of the worker contacted the 'arbiter' in the East District because of his son's disappearance. Hugh Dilcha." Bernard had been advocating the investigation of Hugh's details because of the witch's request, so he was familiar with this name.

"That little girl who claims to be fair again? Heh, there is probably her little detective boyfriend... They avoided Backlund last time, and I was too lazy to continue looking for them, but this time they came to cause me trouble again..." After talking to himself with a sneer, Rey asked, "How about the follow-up?"

"I don't know yet. There is a gangster behind the service company, and it should be dealt with." Lieutenant Bernard replied.

"Forget it, since it was exposed to the little detective, with the help of his teacher, I'm afraid it will be difficult to hide it... Tell your people to break away from that company immediately." Rey ordered after thinking for a while.

"Get rid of it directly? Why don't you get rid of that 'arbiter'?" Bernard asked suspiciously.

"That detective boy and his teacher are likely members of the Church of Knowledge. If you attack them rashly, it may interfere with my plan... You can leave them alone for now, and I will settle the matter later." Lei Yi fiddled with the flower bone, and the coldness on her face disappeared immediately, and she regained the charm of a witch.

...

In the East District, in a safe house provided by Hugh, Abner unscrewed the cap of a small metal bottle, and a slightly irritating but invigorating smell immediately came out of the bottle.

This is the "holy night powder" composed of herbs such as deep sleep flower, dragon's blood grass, deep red sandalwood and mint, and the reason why he took it out is to create a peaceful and holy ritual environment.

Yes, after knowing from the confessions of the eight thugs that the still sleepy Moreira was a complete villain, Abner planned to arrange a ceremony to make him reveal some secrets through "psychic" means.

Although psychic psychic is the forte of Death Path Sequence 7 "psychic", other paths that are good at using ritual magic can also use rituals to "psychic". Of course, the effect is definitely not as good as professional.

Although using the personality suppression of the pure white eye to forcibly channel a living person without protection will definitely damage the spirit of the other person, but who would sympathize with a villain with bloody hands?