Mystery: Start with the Reader

At five forty in the evening, in Severstal's restaurant, Kent Street, North End.

"This restaurant seems very high-end... even more luxurious than some noble manors I know..." "Sword of the Goddess" Creste Sesima, who arrived early, looked around, feeling a little uncomfortable .

Although he is a senior deacon of the Goddess Church, his life has always been simple and he doesn't have much pursuit of the quality of life, so he never came to such a luxurious restaurant.

Ms. Daly, who was sitting next to him, chuckled lightly, pulled down the hood of her black robe, and said in an ethereal voice:

"This is actually the style of the Feysac Empire, which is different from ours. They like to use some simple and huge materials for decoration, just like their height."

"Why did you put the invitation here? Isn't the Haerjia restaurant near the church very good?" Sesima asked puzzled.

"Because I have long wanted to try the taste here, but my salary doesn't allow it." Daly responded with a smile, then moved her eyes slightly, and said pretending to be mysterious: "And don't you know? Hal That woman Jia doesn't have a very good reputation...Recently, even Cherie won't go to her family's restaurant to buy lunch for the Nighthawks."

"What happened?" Sesima's eyes sharpened.

"Don't be nervous, it's just that some absurd things she did before were discovered." Daly explained with a smile.

Sesima looked at her seriously for a while, then sighed: "I'm not Dunn, so don't test my reaction like this. Even if the result of the test is out, it won't be the same as Dunn, and it won't help you... But , I'm sure he won't take it too seriously."

Upon hearing this, Daly's smile gradually faded. She was silent for a while and said, "I'm sorry, I want to go forward bravely when I go to Tingen this time, but I'm also a little afraid of losing completely..."

"Now I really want to consider whether you are a good candidate to join the 'Joint Investigation' team...Maybe there is still time for a replacement?" Sesima said deliberately.

Hearing this, Ms. Daly recovered from her inexplicable emotions, heyed, and said, "Isn't it just to ask you to buy a more expensive meal? You can't be so stingy, right? You can reimburse it."

While the two were chatting, a waiter outside the private room knocked on the door, and then saw Abner walking in behind a waiter.

...

Townsend Street on the border of Queens and the West End.

Xio stood in a dark and secluded alley, even if he didn't look up, he could still see layers of gorgeous palaces and tall Gothic clock towers in the distance.

That was the highest-lying area in Backlund, and it was also where the Loen royal family was located.

In the north and south continents, its status in the entire world is equal to or even slightly higher than that of Intis's White Maple Palace and the Fusac Empire's Almir Palace, but its name is neither romantic nor ancient.

It's called Sodrak Palace, which means "balance" in the ancient Fuysac language.

Xio withdrew his gaze from the famous "Bell of Order" and looked to the other side of the alley.

A figure slowly walked out of the shadow that the gas lamps could not illuminate.

The figure was wearing a golden shell mask that exposed the lower half of his face. He was the person in charge of MI9 who had previously developed Xio into a secret agent.

"Have you gained anything from the previous entrustment?" the man wearing the golden mask asked as usual.

Xio shook his head, and said, "No, at least the East District and the Docklands did not have incidents similar to those horror stories you mentioned."

Although she followed Abner's advice and didn't rule it out in depth, as a "sheriff", she still had to be aware of the troubles in the jurisdiction.

She paused, then pretended to be reluctant to ask:

"Is this commission valid for a long time?"

The masked man said silently for a while:

"That's right, if you hear about it later,

To contact me immediately.

"However, I'm here today to give you a new mission."

"What task?" Xio completely entered the state of a bounty hunter, ready to assess the risk of the matter.

The man in the golden mask replied: "Investigate a person's whereabouts."

"Who?" Xio asked back.

"I don't know...but he should have the dual abilities of 'Wind Blessed One' and 'Hypnotist'. If you meet someone like that, come to me right away." The man in the golden mask said hesitantly.

The dual abilities of "Wind Blessed One" and "Hypnotist"? Did MI9 want to find out the secret puppet master who helped the "Witch of Pain"? Xio quickly made a judgment in his heart.

She had heard Abner talk about the general process of the battle in the northwest suburbs before, and she had also been popularized about some of the abilities of the "Master of Puppets", so she guessed MI9's plan at once.

However, isn't this something that the Church of the Storm should worry about? Why is MI9 so active?

With that in mind, Xio put on a dazed look on the surface and asked, "The ability of the 'Hypnotist'? What is that?"

As for the "Father of the Wind", there is no need to ask, the reputation of the Punisher is well known, even wild Extraordinary people are no strangers.

"You don't have to worry about this, I will give you a copy of the detailed information of 'Hypnotist' and 'Wind Blessed One'." Having said this, the masked man continued in a bewitching tone, "If you really find that I can decide to reward you with one of the main materials of 'Interrogator'."

Although the Secret Puppet Master is a strong person at the Sequence 5 level, I heard Abner's tone before, he seems to have some guesses, maybe he will "know" soon... And I just need to get the information and report it, no need Go to fight a Sequence 5 Extraordinary.

After a little weighing, Xio nodded and said, "I accept this entrustment."

"Very good." The masked man's tone became relaxed. After looking around, he took out a stack of papers from his arms and said, "It's best to burn it immediately after reading it."

After speaking, he backed away slowly, returned to the shadows, and disappeared around the corner of the alley.

Xio opened the file and flipped through it, and found that there were not only descriptions of the abilities of "Hypnotist" and "Wind Blessed One", but also photos of the two of them.

One of them, Hugh, was a little familiar. Thanks to the ability of the "sheriff", she recalled a "punisher" who had been interrogated when she was on duty outside the "Daily Observer" headquarters.

It seems that MI9 is ​​really looking for that secret puppet master...

Xio rubbed her cheeks with baby fat, and walked out to the street, preparing to take a public carriage back to the North District.

At this moment, she suddenly sensed an abnormal aura passing not far in front of her, but she didn't see anything.

"Assassins?" Xio, who had seen the instigators of the "Society Society", quickly judged the source of those "abnormalities", even though this was not her jurisdiction.

After thinking for a while, Xio quietly followed the "abnormality" he sensed, and chased after him.

...

In the private room of the Severstal restaurant, Abner tasted a sip of raw beluga whale slices and deep-fried whale steak from Fusac, and after secretly complaining about "not fresh enough", he asked Sesima with a smile: "Your Excellency, You don't really just want to treat me to a Feysac meal, do you?"

To be honest, after seeing the decoration of this restaurant, Abner thought he had made a mistake, and finally walked in after double checking.

"Detective Bryan, I invited you here this time mainly to ask you something." Sesima breathed out slowly.

"What's the matter?" Abner asked curiously, swirling the Sonia blood wine in the glass.

"He wants to know the origin of the badge you used to kill the 'Witch of Pain'... and the information about the Extraordinary in the Devil Path." Ms. Daly interjected.

It turned out that it was for this matter... But why didn't you come to me directly to ask, instead of spending a lot of time treating guests to dinner?

That's right, there are too many reporters around the teacher's house these days, it is really inconvenient for them to come to the door. Besides, I have a good reputation anyway, and it's not easy for the Nighthawks to summon me directly to the police station or St. Samuel's Church...

Thinking of this, Abner organized his sentence and said without any concealment: "I successfully made that badge after Damir killed a monster... The Church of Storms should have a record of this."

"It's consistent with what we found in our investigation." Sesima nodded slightly, obviously not surprised by Abner's remarks, and then he said sincerely: "It seems that you are no stranger to the extraordinary ability of the demon path, and you can Tell me? I know it's presumptuous to ask, and it may involve the secrets of the Church of the Mother Earth, but there is a demon killing people in Backlund right now, and I need to know about him."

If you are not very familiar with it, how could you use the materials on the monster to make such a powerful badge, although it may come from the gift of the "Mother Earth Goddess".

Ms. Dai Li also spoke again at this time, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't let you help for nothing."

Abner thought about it, and roughly guessed what they were looking for, so he tentatively asked, "What do you want to know?" He was also inclined to help in his heart.

"I want to know how many Sequence Extraordinary people need to continuously cut open people's abdomens and take out all internal organs." Sesima asked.

There is not much information about the "demon" pathway inside St. Samuel's Church. After all, it has been a long time since the other party has been so unscrupulous in activities in Backlund.

If you want more detailed information, you can only go to the church headquarters to look it up, but that would be a waste of time, and the demon is still killing people one after another.

"Dangerous" information like this cannot be sent by telegram or other means, and can only be checked by people with sufficient authority.

Abner considered it for a while, and replied as concisely as possible: "This sounds like a ritual used by demons to help them advance, and it often appears in Sequence 6 to Sequence 5."

"So, what about the regularity and intervals of this ritual?" Sesima asked.

Abner shook his head, but before answering, Ms. Daly, who was sitting diagonally opposite, suddenly took out a letter from the void, she opened it to read it, frowned suddenly, and reported to Sesima: "The sixth case The case happened...it was Harga we talked about before...near the Provincial Samuel Church!"