The warden who guards the witches

A quarter of an hour later, a stack of "Explorer" novel magazines appeared on the desk.

Aiden flipped through the magazines, reading the "Fantasy" serialized story "Houndman" at a glance.

The series of stories about Houndman are basically serialized in a magazine for a whole volume before publishing the corresponding bound books.

According to the order, the content of the seventh volume of the main story should be serialized now. The protagonist was still a young man when he appeared in the first volume, and he was nearly forty years old in this volume.

After reading two books, Aiden found something worth paying attention to.

In this volume, a new character appeared.

A little girl named Daisy, a girl from the slums, was cheating in the casino when she was gambling with the protagonist, but was seen through by the protagonist. Afterwards, she tried to steal the protagonist's wallet and was caught on the spot by the protagonist. Because she envied the protagonist's boldness in spending money, she began to yearn for the bounty hunter's lifestyle, so she began to pester the protagonist to become his apprentice, which annoyed the protagonist.

After just a cursory glance at a few articles, I concluded that the prototype of the character "Daisy" was Deborah - there were too many overlaps.

When Daisy was looking for the protagonist because of the protagonist's avoidance, she accidentally met the Thousand-Faced Phantom Thief Liv. Without knowing the other party's true identity, she was guided by Liv. Liv helped her track down the protagonist again and again out of play, and also supported her behind the scenes to deal with the tests set by the protagonist to make her give up.

In the end, Daisy naturally became the protagonist's apprentice, completing one event after another with the protagonist, but secretly interacted with the disguised identity of the Phantom Thief Liv and accepted Liv's guidance.

It can be seen from the reader letters and voting columns at the back of the magazine that this character is quite popular, and readers jokingly call her the "daughter" of the protagonist and the Phantom Thief Liv.

Now the story of this volume seems to have reached the middle stage, and the protagonist and Daisy began to deal with the doppelganger murder case they encountered. This incident seems to be the main plot of this volume. The current plot progresses to the point where the protagonist finds out through his personal connections that the earliest victim of the doppelganger murder case seems to be a witch. After further investigation, the protagonist unexpectedly discovers that the witch is Daisy's biological mother.

In other words, this doppelganger murder case is obviously inextricably linked to the character of Daisy.

After reading the latest issue, Aiden withdrew his attention from the book, thinking back to his experiences these days, and inexplicably felt a chill in his back.

If Daisy's prototype is Deborah, then the script of this volume of the story... seems to be a bit similar to his current experience.

Deborah's active approach and the doppelganger murder case brought to her, Aiden felt as if he was dragged into this script and became one of the characters, and it seems that he is still playing the protagonist.

Is it another trick of the goddess of conspiracy?

Indeed, since he began to come into contact with power, Melissa has been happy to arrange "tests" for him to let him take the template of the protagonist and gradually approach power. Before this incident, Melissa also made a preview.

But Aiden still had a vague feeling that the style of this script was completely different from the usual layout style of the Goddess of Conspiracy.

If Melissa just let him get close to power and observe how he passed the test, then this script seemed a bit cumbersome, and there were many "redundant" characters.

"So there really was such an incident." Tony's voice called Aiden back from his thoughts.

"Have you finished reading the information?" Aiden asked, "What do you think?"

While he was looking at the pile of novels and magazines that Tony helped to sort out, because of Tony's initiative, he also showed Tony the information he had obtained from his investigation of the double murder case.

"It must be that the 'Dreamer' got inspiration from this incident and wrote it into the novel?" Tony gave the most natural guess.

No - Aiden almost immediately rejected this guess in his mind.

He tried to change his way of thinking first.

First exclude this possibility, assume that the script he experienced was deliberately arranged by someone, and then speculate on its purpose.

In this way, you can feel that the other party's purpose is more inclined to complete a novel script, rather than simply designing it for him to get close to power.

The most suspicious person... is obviously the "Dreamer".

The progress of the story serialized in the magazine is basically on par with reality.

According to Deborah, the "Dreamer" is friends with the thief Liv, and has no connection with the hound Dubman and Deborah. But the thief Liv is now in the northern continent. Even if she has correspondence with Deborah, the news should be delayed by ten days or half a month.

Therefore, it is unlikely that the "Dreamer" took the material from Liv's letter and wrote it into a novel. On the contrary, it is more likely that the event that is being arranged in reality is actually based on this story in the book.

It is not a novel based on reality, but a reality based on a novel.

The "Dreamer" is obviously inseparable from this script.

And the "Dreamer" is definitely not the goddess of conspiracy. Based on Aiden's understanding of the goddess of conspiracy, she will definitely not write such a passionate letter.

But since Melissa has made a preview, she obviously has a connection with the "Dreamer". Regardless of whether they are using each other or cooperating with each other, if these assumptions are true, Aiden himself is now in the story of "Houndman".

The prototype hound Doberman is now devoted to the revolutionary cause of the Northern Continent's pioneering land, so now he is entangled by Deborah and involved in the doppelgänger incident, and he occupies the protagonist's position.

How is the ending of this story arranged? No matter what...it probably won't kill the main character.

While Aiden was thinking about it, Tony suddenly spoke: "Warden, can you let me help with this matter?"

"You?" Aiden didn't expect Tony to make such a request suddenly.

"Yes, although I certainly have no experience in investigating cases, I can obey your instructions." Tony said cautiously.

"This is very dangerous, and it is completely different from solving the incident in the story!" Aiden reminded seriously.

He judged that Tony was obsessed with the story of the Hound Man, so he came up with the idea of ​​​​solving crimes like the protagonist in the story.

This kind of thinking is sometimes very dangerous.

"I just want to gain some experience..." Tony whispered, "I don't want to be a burden when facing my enemies. I am an adult and will be responsible for my own decisions."

Aiden was stunned for a moment. Tony was thinking more about it than he thought. For himself, dealing with Mr. Bloody Clothes was mainly about survival, while Tony was about avenging his father's murder. Tony was probably much more serious about this aspect than him.

"...Okay, I'll think about it." After a moment of consideration, Aiden nodded.