Mystery: Start with the Reader

In Hillston District, Detective Essinger Stanton finished his day of fatigue and was reading "Storm Heights" borrowed from a student for a little leisure.

When he read about the appearance of an evil spirit wearing copper-rimmed glasses, he couldn't help but smile knowingly, and he wanted to get acquainted with Miss Hugh's friend.

But at this moment, his spirituality was suddenly touched.

Detective Essinger frowned, put down the novel, and started his spiritual vision while wearing "2-081" on his finger.

Then, he saw a silver-white illusory bird land on the table in front of him with a letter in its mouth.

This little bird is only the size of a sparrow, with a pair of red moon-like eyes embedded in its walnut-sized head, and the silver-white phantom feathers all over its body make it look extremely slender, not as bloated as a sparrow.

At this time, after the little bird put down the letter, it tilted its head and looked at the surrounding environment, and then vibrated its wings as if disappointed, flew into the void and disappeared.

"Messenger? Whose?" The well-informed Detective Essinger now understood what the spirit creature was here for.

He glanced at the envelope on the table, and instead of picking it up hastily, he stroked the gemstone on the surface of "2-081" and used it to parse the envelope.

After a while, Detective Essinger, who found nothing wrong, carefully picked up the envelope, and then saw that Abner's name was filled in the addressee position on it.

Letter to Abner? How did it get delivered to me?

Detective Essinger was a little puzzled. Generally, couriers can accurately find the recipient, unless the recipient's breath is not recorded.

...

In the Harvest Church, Bishop Utravsky is telling the three "Desolate Ones" about the previous ambush incident, the perfume incident, and Abner's speculation about the witch's promotion ceremony.

At this time, Karen, who had black hair and red pupils, felt his heart move, and stretched out his palm forward. Immediately afterwards, a silver-white phantom bird landed on his fair and tender fingers like a girl.

The little bird shook its wings, then turned its little head to Karen, and chirped.

Karen listened attentively for a while, chuckled, pampered its head, and took out a bit of spiritual material powder and fed it into its mouth.

"What is it talking about?" Judy, a brown-haired girl beside her, asked in a low voice curiously.

"She's complaining that the recipient is very stingy and refuses to give the hard-working courier any supper." Karen smiled and translated for Xiaoniao.

"I really envy you, you actually directly domesticated the creatures of the spirit world... I still dare not try the ritual of summoning the messenger lightly." Judy obviously has a good relationship with Karen, and she doesn't hide her envy at all.

"Silica was not a creature of the spirit world from the very beginning. About five hundred years ago, she was transformed into a dead spirit in a crisis, and only then did she have the ability to travel through the spirit world." Karen's eyes were deep, as if recalling A not-so-good past happened.

However, he quickly came back to his senses, and said to the two "giants" who had finished talking and were looking over:

"That Mr. Abner Bryan is not currently in the detective agency, and the letter has been forwarded to his teacher."

The "Giant" captain nodded, and said to his two team members: "Since Mr. Blaine won't be there for a while, let's conduct an early investigation before dawn."

"Yes, Captain." The two team members responded in unison, and then Judy, who was more active, asked worriedly: "Captain, where should we go to investigate first? We don't know Backlund at all... Is it true that you can't get lost without a guide?"

The "Giant" captain carried a wooden box that was much larger than a normal coffin, first nodded to Bishop Utravsky, and then said to Judy: "Since the perfume of heresy was first released by the man who went astray, It was found in the home of a believer, so let's go there to check the situation first.

"Having said this, he looked at Karen who was still teasing the silver-white feathered bird, and continued: "As for the guide, I remember that Karen said that he lived in Backlund for a long time before, and it was up to him lead the way. "

Hearing this, Karen, who was chatting with the little bird Silica, suddenly raised his head, and said with surprise on his face:

"Captain, are you serious? You must know that when I came to Backlund last time, Emperor Roselle had just invented the steam engine!"

...

At 11 o'clock in the night, after Abner handed Xie the exterior pictures of the factory that he had drawn, he made an appointment with her on the time and place of the next meeting, and then dragged his exhausted body back to the teacher's office .

As soon as he walked into the lobby on the first floor, Abner found Detective Essinger sitting on the sofa reading a book.

The teacher has already rested at this time... Are you waiting for me?

Abner thought so in his heart, and asked the same question.

Detective Essinger put down the book, picked up an envelope from the side coffee table and handed it to him, saying, "Here is a letter from you."

"Letter? Who sent it? Jane?" Abner guessed casually after receiving the letter. Except for Jane, he has almost no friends in other places, only Mr. Gaston, Miss Gwen and Ai Triss are more familiar, but it is very unlikely that they will write to him.

"Probably not. This letter was sent by a 'messenger'. That Miss Jane has not long become an Extraordinary, and I'm afraid she won't be able to drive the 'messenger'." Detective Essinger lit his pipe and said after taking a puff.

"'Messenger'?" Abner's hand holding the envelope paused immediately.

"Don't worry, I've checked it. There are no traps or curses in this letter." Detective Essinger guessed what the student was thinking and said with a smile.

Only then did Abner heave a sigh of relief, but he quietly opened the pure white eyes to analyze it before opening the envelope.

The letter was in Bishop Utravsky's handwriting, and the general content was to tell him that the "Desolate Man" had arrived, and asked him to come to Harvest Church as soon as possible.

Abner inspected it several times and found nothing wrong, so he decided to go to the Harvest Church early tomorrow morning.

Looking up and seeing the curious and probing eyes of the teacher, Abner thought for a while, and felt that there was nothing to hide. After all, he had also told the teacher before that he sent a dangerous item to the Church of the Mother Earth, so he thought about his words road:

"It's from Bishop Utravsky of the Harvest Church. He wants me to come over tomorrow."

Detective Essinger nodded when he heard the words, and then said to himself with some doubts: "Since when did that giant bishop have the ability to summon the 'messenger'? People in the 'warrior' path should not be good at this... Even in his The Ural Bishop of the 'Cultivator' route who served before did not have a 'Messenger'."

Abner was a little surprised when he heard this, and said in amazement: "Teacher, do you still know the former bishop of the Church of the Mother Earth in Backlund?" Are there many friends here, except for the Church of Storms?

Detective Essinger took a puff of cigarette with a smile, and said with pride on his face: "Of course I know, otherwise, where do you think the healing ability in '2-081' comes from?"

...

On Saturday morning, after holding a ceremony and making a few short-acting charms, Abner immediately took the subway to the Harvest Church on Rose Street in the south area of ​​the bridge.

As soon as he stepped into the hall of this golden church, he saw a girl in a blue dress complaining to the feminine man beside her in Fenepot language:

"Karen, if Silica hadn't been leading the way last night, we would have all lost our way to the Church of Tranquility and been imprisoned underground by the Nighthawks."

"No, Judy. Even without Silica, I...I can still do divination..." Karen replied not very confidently.

Since Fenepot language and Loen language have the same origin, there are only differences in individual words and grammar, so Abner can barely understand what they are saying.

However, in order to facilitate communication, he still chanted "Blue Star" in ancient Hermes in a low voice, which inspired the "Language Proficiency" spell that he had just made.

Seeing Abner come in, Bishop Utravsky with sparse eyebrows, light blue eyes, and obvious wrinkles stood up, nodded to him, and said with a smile, "Son, you came just in time. The 'Desolate' Those who also just came back."

Just came back... combined with the girl's words just now, Abner is sure that they went out to investigate last night, although the operation may not be too successful...

"This is Mr. Abner Bryan, a well-known private investigator, and he was the first to discover the evidence that Leonardo became a heresy." Bishop Utravsky first introduced the three "Desolate People" Abner then pointed to the girl who complained just now, and said to Abner:

"This is Judy Loreto, the 'biologist' of Sequence 6."

Abner was a little surprised when he heard the words, and thought: Generally speaking, when we first meet, isn't it enough to just say the name? Why did you even tell me the sequence... so relieved of me?

On the other side, Judy, a girl with long brown hair, saw that Abner had a strange look on his face, but she would have misunderstood it. She was a familiar face, so she explained with a smile: "Is it because I was scared by Sequence 6 at such a young age?" ? Actually this is nothing, because my parents are both saints of the church, I was born as a 'Harvest Priest' of Sequence 7, and it took me eighteen years to advance to 'Biologist', I feel very slow, "

When talking about her parents, she was not shy at all, and she didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with it.

No ma'am, I'm not intimidated by this. After all, there is a precedent for Klein being a god for a year and a half, so you can only be considered average.

While complaining in his heart, Abner briefly greeted Ms. Judy. Then I heard Bishop Utravsky pointing to a man with black hair and red eyes beside Judy, who was handsome but lacked masculinity, and said, "This is Karen Tia, Viscount of the Blood Race, of Sequence 5." 'Crimson Scholar'."

The blood race... I don't know if he has any information about the "Tree of the Elders", I will ask after I get to know him...

Suffering from not finding a suitable doll, and having no excuse to contact Emlyn, Abner felt a twitch in his heart at this moment, thinking that perhaps through this Mr. Viscount, he could reach out to the blood clan's treasure... no, it was to establish a friendly relationship with the blood clan.