Mystery: Start with the Reader

On Tuesday morning, Klein walked into the Blackthorn Security Company while thinking about how to reveal the "acting method" to the captain more naturally.

"Good morning, Klein!" Roseanne, the clerk at the company's front desk, greeted with a bright smile, then she blinked her eyes with light brown pupils, and said in a rather mysterious whisper:

"You know what? Something is wrong with the captain today."

Klein immediately became vigilant when he heard the words. Since the "witch" Triss incident, the captain's spirit seems to have returned to the previous state, often forgetting some things, so he is extremely sensitive to the "something wrong" in Rosanne's mouth, and immediately suppressed it. The voice asked seriously, "What happened?"

Luo Shan was taken aback by his attitude, and quickly waved her hands and said, "It's not what you think... Actually, I think the captain has encountered something good."

"A good thing? What happened?" Klein was a little dazed and asked in confusion.

"Yes, when I delivered today's newspaper just now, I saw the captain was in a daze, and from time to time he showed a smile so gentle that people could drown... I called him twice before he answered me." Luo Shan's eyes widened. Nodding brightly.

This...wouldn't be Ms. Daly confessing her love to the captain again? Didn't the captain back down this time... Then do I need to tell him about the acting?

Thinking wildly in his heart, Klein walked towards the partition and knocked on the door of the captain's office.

Once, twice, three times...

After a dozen or so knocks, Dunn's mellow voice came from the partition.

"Please come in."

But at this moment, Klein felt uneasy. He put down the pendulum first, divined whether there was any danger, and then opened the door and walked in. Then he saw the captain sitting up straight instinctively, making his gray eyes darken, and he was in a calm state...

It's like when I was secretly playing with my mobile phone in the dormitory when I was in school, and when I saw the teacher making rounds, I quickly hid my mobile phone and sat up...

After complaining in his heart, Klein cleared his throat, sat down with his hat and cane, "Captain, I have something to report."

"What's the matter?" Dunn clasped his hands and asked in a deep voice.

Klein glanced at the serious and serious Dunn Smith, and suddenly smiled and said:

"Captain, I figured out something yesterday."

"What's the matter?" Dunn repeated the question just now,

Leaning back slightly against the back of the chair, the clasped hands loosened.

Klein recalled the belly draft he had typed before, and described in detail how he performed the "acting" process before. Although he didn't mention the word "acting", he said everything he could say.

Dunn quietly listened to Klein's description, his gray eyes became darker.

He was silent for more than ten seconds, reached out and rubbed his forehead, then picked up the pipe, just about to take a sip, but suddenly remembered something, put it down again, and sighed: "No wonder Daly said that there will be a senior deacon from the church in the afternoon To investigate you... Hehe, you have submitted the potion formulas of 'spectator' and 'mind reader' before, the credit is enough, I think you will become 'clown' soon, "

Although it is true to say so... But the wording of being a "clown" is still too sad!

While muttering, Klein saw that Captain Dunn seemed to be in a trance again, so he hurriedly raised his voice and asked, "Captain, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, don't worry." Dunn refocused his eyes, but thought in a tangled state, "I just... don't know whether it's real or... just a dream..."

Seeing that today's captain is really abnormal, Klein planned to ask Leonard who was on duty last night, so he took out his pocket watch, pretended to check the time and said:

"Captain, I have to go find Old Neil. Today's mysticism class is about to start."

"Okay." Dunn took the pipe and watched Klein go out, and then he became dazed again.

...

At noon, since he spent most of the night reading in the library of Backlund University, Abner slept until this time and just woke up.

After a brief lunch, he took out a pen and paper and began to sort out the materials he had read through "Pure White Eye" last night.

"The first Baron Ramud, that is, Mr. Azik, was awarded the title due to his military exploits in the last chaotic era brought about by the Pale Calamity at the end of the Fourth Epoch.

"The second Baron Ramud, the son of Mr. Ards, had a bad relationship with an earl of the kingdom for some unknown reason... Who is this earl is not recorded in the library books, only a sentence of two Years of struggle between nobles ended because of the sudden disappearance of the second Baron Ramud...

"As mentioned in the original book, the Nighthawks discovered the headless corpse of Mr. Azik's son, and confirmed that he was poisoned to death during his lifetime. They even gathered around his coffin for fear that he would become an evil spirit after death. Set up ritual magic to suppress it.

"This is likely to be done by the earl who had a bad relationship with him!

"Afterwards, the Ramud family's title was inherited by a branch of the family...but even so, it was still suppressed. Almost every generation of Ramud Baron died young due to various reasons, like a curse.

"During the 'Battle of Reneging the Oath', the last baron was sent to the forefront to stop the Feysac Empire, and finally died on the battlefield... and the blood of Ramud's line was cut off."

Looking at what he wrote on the paper, Abner felt that as long as he found out who the earl who had been suppressing Mr. Azik's descendants was, he should be able to report to Klein.

As for where to check? Naturally, it was the royal library in the original plan.

It seems that it is still necessary to pretend to be Mr. Sonnard, the "storyteller" recommended by Miss Hazel.

The first step in disguising is naturally to understand first, so Abner quickly found Sonard's home based on the information he inquired, and planned to use "invisibility" to observe him at close range. "Mask" can be more similar when pinching the face.

However, he soon got a piece of news that caught him off guard from Sonnard's sister's daily chat with the servant:

That is, Mr. Sonnard followed Baron Syndras to Dixi Bay early this morning, and he will not be able to return until at least next Wednesday.

This is really a coincidence... I can't pretend to be Sonnard, so I really have to pretend to be the girl named "Emma"?

But even if I'm willing to pretend, the "clown" mask doesn't have that ability... The body can't be changed, I'm afraid it will be seen at a glance?

Sighing slightly, Abner had to change his strategy, thinking about whether he could entrust others to complete this matter for him.

Miss "Justice"'s identity is definitely enough, but she knows the task that Mister Fool gave me. If I entrust it in the past, I'm afraid it will be directly exposed. Moreover, this is also very detrimental to the mysterious and knowledgeable image of the "Tower"...it is easy to collapse the human design.

Hazel was fine before, but after she was polluted by the "primordial moon", she was more rejected by the upper class. Many important people's proms will not send her invitations as proof...

And once she enters the royal library, the Extraordinary members of the royal family will definitely pay more attention to her, and they will definitely suspect her motives for looking up the information of the first Baron Ramud... This may cause a fire in the upper body.

Abner went through the people he knew in Backlund one by one in his mind, but found that there was no suitable candidate.

Either the status is too high to support at all, or the relationship is generally untrustworthy, in short, each has its own problems.

Thinking of this, Abner had to admit that it was difficult to complete the task of entering the royal library in the short term, and this matter had to be considered in the long run.

...

Tingen City, Blackthorn Security Company, the alchemy room where potions are prepared.

Klein nervously watched "Sword of the Goddess" Cresta Sesima bend down and lift the silver-white box at her feet. At the same time, her dark green eyes instantly turned dark black.

Immediately afterwards, Sesima opened the box, revealing a pure white bone sword inside, and said in a low voice:

"You swear by the holy things."

After speaking, he took out another tin box from his arms, and when he opened it, a gray-white thing the size of a fist was revealed inside.

Klein's pupils shrank when he saw this, because he had seen this thing before — that was when he was divining above the gray fog on how to obtain the "Joker" potion.

At that time, he didn't know what it was... But now, through the previous "tower" narration, he already knew clearly that it was the extraordinary characteristic of "Joker"!