Mystery: Start with the Reader

An unknown island at the junction of the Polar Sea and the Misty Sea.

Bruna, the former Princess of Balam, sat on a rock, looking boredly at Bernadette and Isabella who were studying a stone tablet not far away, and asked feebly: "It's been several days. , are you sure?"

Russell obviously wrote the rules on the back of the stone tablet... She muttered in a low voice at the end.

Of course, she also knew that caution was necessary, otherwise she would not have invited a prophet and a master of prophecy to explore together.

"It is basically certain that it was a layout added by Russell later. As for whether it is connected to the tomb hidden by Solomon Black Emperor...it is unknown. But I guess, even if it was built by Solomon, it was definitely not hidden by him. The mausoleum." Lundberg's former eldest princess Isabella turned back and said to Bruna.

"I have sent a messenger to ask Nast, and I believe there will be feedback soon." Bernadette stated calmly.

"Is this ruin really that dangerous?" Bruna frowned, and after hesitating for a moment, she still asked, "Does the danger come from the ruins themselves, or from Russell's arrangement?"

"Judging from the results I foresee... they are all there! In other words, Russell's arrangement itself is to benefit some things in the ruins that do not belong to our world." Isabella said solemnly.

"Doesn't belong to our world...what does that mean?" Bruna asked in confusion.

"As far as I know, Solomon's Black Emperor has a good relationship with a vampire Duke... The things I foresee are probably items or creatures that the Duke 'summoned' from the stars..." Isabella considered After a while, out of the "reader's" instinct, she still "dutifully" explained to Bruna, even though she didn't like the other person very much.

Vampires are born Extraordinaries of the "Moon" path, and the Vampire Marquis corresponding to "Moon" Sequence 3 is also called the "Summoning Master".

Although the Summoning Master's "summons" generally sign contracts with creatures in the spirit world, uncontrollable mutations occasionally occur, causing strange creatures or items that do not come from the spirit world and have not signed a contract to come to reality. Rumor has it that this is Pointing to the boundless and dark starry sky of the universe.

This kind of mutation is good or bad. Some summoning masters died as a result, and some obtained powerful abilities or items that were different from the twenty-two sequences.

The Vampire Duke is definitely much more powerful than the Marquis, and the things he can summon are extremely dangerous.

Bruna recalled the vampire information and nodded thoughtfully.

On the other side, Bernadette's dark eyes returned to normal. She shook her head and said softly: "Father, the reason why he used different 'blasphemous cards' decks to separate the ruins into different areas. It should also be meant to imprison those dangerous items or creatures... The areas corresponding to some decks will not be too dangerous...

“For example, the group ‘Sun’, ‘Wheel of Fortune’ and ‘Death’.”

Isabella nodded and responded: "This is consistent with what I predicted...

"The most dangerous group we can go to right now is the area corresponding to the combination of 'Judge', 'Bound One' and 'Hermit'."

"No, to be precise, these two cards, 'Judge' and 'Bound One', plus any other card are very dangerous! It's only slightly better when paired with 'Sun'."

Bernadette obviously surpassed Isabella in peering into destiny.

"Is there any special path corresponding to the two cards 'Judge' and 'Bound One'?" Bruna asked doubtfully.

Bernadette seemed to hesitate for a moment, but finally shook her head slightly and said, "I'm not sure either."

Just when Bruna wanted to ask further questions, she and Isabella sensed something at the same time and looked at Bernadette's side.

Immediately afterwards, a letter stamped with the seal of "Count Bai Feng" fell into Bernadette's hands.

She opened the letter and looked at it for a few times, then changed the subject and said: "It is certain that this place is connected to Solomon's ruins... But Nast didn't know what was inside. He only knew that his father and my father came together from He died shortly after taking out something there...

"Now that it's confirmed, we'll officially start exploring...well, let's start with the safest group."

Bruna and Isabella looked at each other, then quickly looked away, and then after thinking for a while and arranging "emergency" measures, they each picked up a "blasphemy card" and put it on the stone tablet for reserve. on the three vacant seats.

With a flash of light, the three figures disappeared in front of the stone tablet.

…

Byam, Abner, who returned to his manor, looked at the hands on the wall clock and found that it was just past ten o'clock, and there was still quite a while before lunch.

"And I always feel like it's been a long time... After all, I don't know how much time it took to help those giants and half-giants solve their problems..."

After sighing with emotion, Abner always felt like Lu Sheng in "A Dream of Yellow Rice". He spent a long time in his dream, but when he woke up, he found that the "Yellow Rice" was not even steamed. …

No, based on the world view of this world, maybe "Huang Liang Yi Meng" is a real thing that happened...

Was it a "dream weaver" that Lu Sheng met back then?

I wonder if "occultists" can use "mysterious reappearance" to draw power from this allusion and develop corresponding magic or witchcraft...

While thinking wildly, Abner got on the carriage arranged by Elaine, and under the slightly wrong look of the coachman, he ordered him to drive to the alley opposite the Red Theater.

More than half an hour later, Abner got out of the car alone. Thinking of the driver's look just now, he hesitated and simulated "psychological invisibility" before crossing the alley and entering the small courtyard outside the folk herbal shop. .

As soon as he came in, he saw a man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks who was about to do something to Budi, but the little indigenous girl was not afraid at all and hit the other man with a whip.

The man was immediately beaten to pieces, but he let out a strangely pleasurable moan, and his face was flushed.

At the same time, the man's body also fell to the ground, shaking abnormally.

At this moment, Budi took out some medicinal powder very skillfully, sprinkled it on his wound, then picked it up and threw it outside the yard.

"Good job, Buddy, that's how it should be." The owl that had just hidden somewhere flew over with a money bag in its mouth, and handed it to Buddy. The latter counted it and shouted to the store:

"Mr. Darkwill, it's only ten pence. I've lost again this time."

"Another poor guy who came to my place looking for excitement!" Darkwill cursed and walked out of the room. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Abner showing up and couldn't help but swallow his words. He turned back and just asked: "Detective, when will you come over to fight?"

Recalling the scene he just saw, Abner's mouth twitched. He had recognized that what Budi was holding was the "Whip of Joy" he had made for Darkwill, so he asked: " Are you using the whip I gave you to develop a new income-generating industry?

"Is this competing for business with the Red Theater across the alley?"