Mystery: Start with the Reader

"Eat it." The bearded young man put the meat strips on the ground and said with a smile.

Who would have thought that the orange cat only curled his lips in disgust, then turned around and ran back to Jane's side.

The bearded young man had already stretched out his hand to brush off his hair, but it was still hovering in mid-air. In the end, he had to retract it in embarrassment, picked up the strips of meat on the ground, and threw them into a nearby trash can.

After doing this, he looked at the lady that the orange cat Dian Dian'er was chasing, and murmured silently: "It turns out there is an owner, no wonder she doesn't eat the food given by others.

"However, that lady seems familiar..."

Although the other party was wearing a veil, the bearded young man still felt a little familiar and was prepared to do some divination when he had time.

On the other side, Jane, who was walking down the street just now, turned her head and asked, "Why did you suddenly run to a stranger?"

Lion Lion shook his head and replied: "He is wearing the gloves of that guy Russell. I just went to smell if he has anything to do with Russell..."

"What's the result?" Jane asked curiously, recalling the appearance of the bearded man just now and keeping it in mind.

The person wearing Russell's gloves is definitely not an ordinary person.

"I don't know...I can't smell his fate...He may have been involved in a very shocking incident and related to a certain existence." The lion had a humane and solemn look on his face.

"That's why you didn't eat the meat he gave you? Afraid of being involved?" Jane asked thoughtfully.

"That's not true...he didn't wash his hands first, and then threw the meat strips on the ground...how unhygienic!" Lion Leon said with disgust.

"I didn't expect you to be a tidy lion..." Jane was speechless for a long time before saying.

"You haven't seen my 'den' before? Moreover, whether it was in Lundburg or Trier, there were more than a dozen maids who cleaned and cleaned it for me..."

The lion was quite arrogant at first, but his voice became lower and lower as he spoke, and his mood gradually became depressed.

"But I still don't want to see Isabella... When Russell left me there, she actually acquiesced..."

…

Feysac, Port Indo.

In the evening, after having dinner at Ms. Crossfia's place, Abner said goodbye and walked back to the mountain hot spring hotel outside the city.

Because the things he has done as "Doctor Strange" these days are too ostentatious and have attracted the attention of powerful demigods, he does not dare to fly directly with his "cloak" like he did last week.

But as soon as he walked to the door of the hotel, he saw two beautiful ladies walking out. One was in her twenties, with a slightly cold temperament, giving Abner the same impression as Jane; the other still looked like a girl. , but the fiery red hair is extremely eye-catching.

Both of their faces were rosy from having soaked in the hot springs, and they were walking out of the hotel door chatting and laughing.

Fortunately, Abner had been simulating three kinds of invisibility effects so that he was not discovered. Then he quickly dodged to the side due to the narrow mountain road to avoid colliding with them.

However, the red-haired girl suddenly stopped talking when she passed by him and glanced strangely in Abner's direction, but then she frowned, as if something strange had happened to her.

When the female companion next to her saw this, she immediately looked wary and asked in a low voice: "Nathalie, what's wrong?"

Nathalie seemed not to hear it and stood quietly for a minute, then shook her head and said softly: "It's nothing... I just felt wrong."

After saying that, she returned to her previous gentle smile and continued to chat with her female companion about some interesting stories about Indo Port.

Watching them go away, Abner, who had the triple invisibility abilities of "psychological invisibility", "witch invisibility" and "hiding in shadows", frowned.

To be honest, he was ready to take action just now, because he had an intuition that the red-haired girl had definitely discovered him, or at least vaguely sensed something.

"The other party didn't expose it directly. I'm afraid they sensed the danger... Even if she and the other girl are Extraordinary, their rankings won't be too high...

"But my triple invisibility effect was not easily detectable even by the demigods of the Church of God of War who hunted down 'Doctor Strange'... How did she, a mid- to low-sequence Beyonder, sense it?

"Hmm... red hair... a direct member of the Einhorn family? So he has a magical item that is good at detection?

"However, I seem to have seen her breath somewhere..."

Thinking of this, Abner "extracted" the auras of the two ladies just now, then opened his "Pure White Eyes" to "analyse", and soon a familiar extraordinary party scene reappeared in front of his eyes:

A red-haired woman wearing a mask bought the "Tree of Elders Fruit" for 750 gold pounds.

"This was... Mr. Gaston's trade fair at the 'Sword and Fire Bar'... It was also the party where Miss Gwen and I first met. I remember that Gwen and Hugh had a fight afterwards, which turned out to be very famous. 'Ms. Longwei' was completely defeated that time...

"It turns out that the red-haired girl just now was the lady who bought the Fruit of the Tree of Elders at that party... I remember she was on the ship of 'Vice Admiral Twilight'... But her dress and behavior just now were different. Not like pirates…

“Furthermore, judging from her behavior of purchasing the ‘Fruits of the Tree of Elders’, is she an Extraordinary of the ‘Audience’ path?

“Well… we can’t make a conclusion yet.

"But no matter what, I'm afraid we can't stay in this hot spring hotel for much longer, and we have to move immediately!"

With his plan in mind, Abner quickly entered the underground wine cellar of the hotel, dismantled the "teleportation altar" arranged here, and then erased all traces of himself before flying away from the hot springs under the guidance of his cloak. Peak, came to a hidden cave on another nearby mountain.

In the past few days, Abner has set up several strongholds in Cunning Rabbit's Three Cave, and has set up incomplete altars. With a few "completements", they can be put into use immediately.

He was so busy that at nearly midnight, as a "door" formed by fire appeared out of thin air, Abner finally returned to Byam's "Aroma Manor".

…

Backlund, bridge area, Iron Gate Street.

In a dark chess and card room of the Brave Bar, the two "female ghosts" Jane and Sharon met again here.

"Do you still need Russell's manuscript?" Jane was a little surprised by Sharon's request, and she was also quite moved by the reward...

But it is a pity that the "Queen of Mystery" is not in Backlund at the moment, and Jane has nowhere to go to ask for Russell's manuscript. When she was about to refuse, she found that her trouser legs were pulled, and a message that only she heard came to her ears. A voice one can hear: "I have it!"

Since they were traveling together, Jane was very familiar with this voice. It came from Leon the Lion.

So she pretended to hesitate for a while, nodded and said: "I need time to prepare, I will give it to you tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Sharon, who was wearing a small black bonnet and a palace dress of the same color, replied succinctly and then asked calmly, "How many pages are there?"

How would I know? When Jian was in trouble, he felt the lion pat his calf twice, so he confidently said: "Two pages."

Sharon's blue eyes did not move, and she simply stated: "Two pages are not enough to exchange for that thing."

"I can add another extraordinary characteristic of 'Wraith Soul'."

This characteristic naturally comes from Chief Fate of the "Rose School" who was "euthanized" by Bruna. Afterwards, Her Royal Highness the Princess of the former Balam Empire gave it to Jane as a meeting gift.

"Okay." Sharon said without changing her expression.

After the transaction was completed and Miss Sharon left the card room through the mirror, Jane asked the lion lying under the table: "Do you really have two pages of Russell's manuscript?"

"The reason I slapped you twice is... I remember page 20!" Lion Leon glanced at her and said.

"Why?!"

…

Monday at three o'clock sharp.

Rays of crimson light rose from both sides of the long bronze table, appearing in the eyes of Abner who had just regained his sight.

"Justice" Audrey was still in a "beautiful" mood. She stood up, led a group of Tarot Society members and saluted the figure shrouded in gray mist:

"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool~"

Klein nodded with a smile and responded to the greetings of the girl who always made people happy and the other members of the Tarot Society.

At this time, Miss Temperance first stood up and lifted her skirt to salute. Then she looked up at Mr. Fool and said, "The two pages of Russell's diary... are counted as contributions to the 'world'."

Miss Temperance, you can actually give it to me privately before the meeting... Klein saw that everyone was turning their attention to "The World". Just as he was about to say something, he heard Mr. "Tower"'s slightly smiling voice:

"Mr. Fool, I also collected two pages of the diary... Well, they will be included in Miss Judgment's debt."