Mystery: Start with the Reader

Hearing Daly's words, Crestel Sesima immediately stood up, pulled up the strap of the silver-white metal box at hand, and carried it behind her back.

"Let's talk later..." After he briefly explained to Abner, he strode out of the restaurant.

And Daly also stood up, followed closely behind the "Goddess Sword", and only had time to nod with Abner.

As for Abner, he wanted to follow up to have a look, but the waiter in the restaurant stopped him.

"Sir, please settle the bill." The waiter standing at the door of the private room looked at Abner warily and said.

Uh...Your Excellency Sesima didn't pay the bill? Abner looked outside the private room, and found that Sesima and Daly had disappeared. Instead, a few strong men who looked like bodyguards approached this side under the hint of the waiter.

If I run away now, will tomorrow's headlines become "Is it the tragedy of human nature, or the loss of morality... The heroic detective eats the king's meal openly!"?

After complaining a few words in his heart, Abner took a deep breath, and asked the waiter who was staring at him, "How much?"

Seeing that he didn't really want to evade the order, the waiter was also relieved, and after calculating in his mind, he quickly quoted the price: "Including the opened bottle of Sonia blood wine, the total is 53 pounds and 4 soli. "

Sunya blood wine, brewed from the sweet wood juice that is native to the region around Golden Springs. And the golden spring on Sonia Island is also called the fountain of elves, and its spring water is even an auxiliary material for the Sequence 6 potion.

"..." Abner was speechless for a long time, and it was best to squeeze out a polite smile and said, "Can I issue an invoice?" Why should I ask the Church of Evernight to reimburse me for this?

"Invoicing?" The waiter was a little confused at first, but then he reacted and said with a smile: "You want an attachment to the bill, right? No problem."

Abner nodded, looked back at the Feysac delicacy that he had only eaten a few mouthfuls of, and asked again: "Do you provide package service here?"

...

West End, Williams Street.

Xio was running quickly along the shadows on both sides of the road at this time, but a beast the size of a lion followed closely behind her.

Suddenly, the ferocious beast let out a low growl from its throat, and its speed suddenly increased by 20%, and it rushed towards Xio.

Immediately, the image of the beast's sharp claws passing through her back appeared in Xio's mind, so she suddenly rolled to the left. And almost at the same time, a paw glowing green brushed past her.

This is the extraordinary ability of the "Joker" provided by the "Ring of Prediction".

But it wasn't over yet, the ferocious beast missed a hit, turned around deftly, and flew towards Xio again.

But at this moment, a figure flashed out from the shadows on the side of the street. While the beast was flying into the air, it slammed into its body vigorously, knocking it five or six meters away.

Seeing this, Xio paused her prepared actions, and instead took out a few brass charms from her pocket. Then, while activating the spell, she dragged the figure and passed through the locked gate of the house beside the road.

When the beast rushed over again, Xio had passed through four or five houses in a row. Seeing this, it growled unwillingly, but instead of continuing to chase, it returned along the road to a house deep in the street.

On Xio's side, although he didn't run too far, he managed to get rid of the beast's pursuit by taking advantage of the complicated terrain and got a respite.

Quietly entering the empty room of a nearby family, Xio looked back at the person he was dragging, and found that he was in a safe place, he was relieved, and passed out directly.

Xio frowned, and after a little inspection, he found several wounds on the man's arm that had been scratched by the beast. And the wound was glowing green at this time, obviously poisoned, and the poison was extremely strong.

If he hadn't appeared just now to help me hit that lion-like beast,

I'm afraid I'm the one who was poisoned...so I should think of a way to save him out of emotion and reason.

Thinking of this, Xio looked at the assassin he didn't recognize at all, and said silently to himself: "I can only treat the wound for you first, as for whether you can survive, it depends on whether I can find Abner in time. coming……"

After she finished speaking, she quietly left the house and headed for the Essinger Detective Agency in Hillston District.

...

At ten o'clock in the evening, Abner had just returned to the teacher's house with the food box and wine bottle, and before he had time to have a supper, he heard the servant come to report that Miss Hugh had come.

Abner was a little surprised, and immediately went downstairs to the living room, and then found some bloodstains on Xio's messy blond hair.

"What happened?" As he said, Abner habitually extracted the breath from Xio, and soon saw an extraordinary beast the size of a lion in the flashback scene.

"A werewolf? No... it should be an animal that ate the characteristics of a werewolf!" Abner, who had carefully observed and analyzed Maric's ability, quickly guessed the details of the beast from the remaining breath.

"It turned out to be a werewolf..." Xio was stunned, and then quickly said: "There is a person who needs your help. He was poisoned by the werewolf's claws."

"What's the situation?" Abner asked at the same time, he also arranged his equipment again, and went out with Xio.

"87 Williams Street." After reporting the address, Xio stood beside Abner, waiting for his action.

Abner nodded, and hugged Xio's waist with one hand, then opened the "Pure White Eye", and simultaneously simulated the "flying" ability of the "Wind Blessed One" and the "invisibility" ability of the "Witch".

As a gust of wind rose from under his feet, Abner took Xio quickly into the air, and flew in the direction of the West District.

In mid-air, Xio told Abner what happened before in detail.

It turned out that after accepting the task of the man in the golden mask, Hugh accidentally discovered an immature "assassin".

Because of the Gnostic Society, Xio didn't have a good sense of the "Assassin", thinking that he was going to do something bad, so he quietly followed.

It turned out that the "assassin" was a good man who was trying to rescue a young girl who had been kidnapped to a villa on Williams Street.

It's a pity that his stealth skills as an assassin are not very good, and he was easily discovered by the beasts raised in that villa. If Xio hadn't helped him in time, he would have no time to enter the shadows again.

The rest of the matter was simple. The ferocious beast thought Xio was an accomplice, so it chased her closely, and the assassin came back after escaping. This is how the previous scene happened.

"Is it someone from the 'Rose School of Thought' indulgent school you mentioned earlier?" Xio asked with a frown after telling the story.

"It won't be someone from the Rose School of Thought, otherwise neither you nor that assassin will be able to escape!"