Mystery: Start with the Reader

Thursday morning, St. Catherine's Church, Port Indo-Nord.

A group of people wearing standard tight-fitting clothes and standard silver swords entered the underground area. The leader was a man in his forties, over two and a half meters tall. He had strong features and a good appearance. The only pity was that he had relatively short hair. Sparse and even tending to form a "Mediterranean Sea".

Different from others, he not only wore a silver sword on his waist, but also slung a knight's spear on his back, which was much longer than his height.

Behind him were four men and two women, who quietly followed the half-giant into a rather spacious room.

There are bookshelves in the room, with many files and related materials on them, and a long table in the middle.

At this moment, a twenty-three or four-year-old lady with black hair and brown eyes was sitting on the chair beside the table. She seemed not to notice the visitor, and was sitting in front of a bottle of Lelanzi.

Seeing this scene, another 2.5-meter-tall man who was following the leading half-giant coughed and reminded: "Siltana... Your Excellency Okun is here!"

After hearing this, Sirtana quickly put down the bottle of wine, stood up after burping, and said politely: "Your Excellency Oken, Captain...you are here..."

She is not afraid of being found out about drinking while working. After all, this is the norm for many civil servants...

Sirtana was worried that she had ended the previously assigned task without authorization, and that Mr. Oaken might pursue him, so she took out a stack of documents from the shelf first and said in a flattering tone:

"Your Excellency Okun, Captain...the information you need is all there."

The half-giant known as Oken was obviously very familiar with Sirtana's style. Seeing how attentive she was now, he smiled and said:

"Siltana, how come you were sent to guard this place? I remember that the task I gave you before was to accompany the Duke of Graycastle's youngest daughter Nathalie..."

"The eldest lady now goes to Lao Belov's hot spring hotel to take a bath every day. I can't keep taking a bath with her. After all, there have been a lot of cases recently and the manpower is insufficient... so I applied to the captain for this The task of guarding and organizing information..." Sirtana said, winking covertly at her captain, and added, "Well, I've been too busy recently, maybe the captain forgot to report to you."

"...Yes, I did approve it. I just forgot in my busy schedule and didn't report it." After the leader of the "Demon Hunter" team was at a loss for two seconds, he still helped his subordinates to smooth things over.

Seeing this, Oken shook his head in amusement, but did not expose them, and asked another matter:

"Old Belov's hot spring hotel? Hasn't he transferred the property yet?"

He remembered this incident. After all, although Mr. Panin did not personally intervene, his secretary said hello, so the old Belov family was unable to move even an inch.

Sirtana raised her head and looked squarely at the senior deacon in front of her for the first time, and said puzzledly: "Your Excellency Oken, we all know that the old Belov family is innocent... Since His Highness Panin has... why not …Can’t we just let it go?”

When talking about Panin, Sirtana's tone was obviously not good...

Because of the contract with the sacred object, the old pervert had been the senior deacon stationed in Indo Port before he became a demigod, and he even had an idea for her... If the captain hadn't stopped him, she probably wouldn't have been able to withstand the pressure from the other party.

Therefore, Sirtana did not have the slightest fondness for Panin. Instead, she was full of sympathy for the old Belov family who had been innocently suppressed.

Okun glanced at her and responded expressionlessly:

"Siltana, you have to understand that Panin is now a hero established by the church! Even if he has died, part of his 'last wish' still needs to continue to be implemented..."

hero? I don’t believe what a hero he really is! Maybe it was the demon he summoned, but he accidentally got away with it! Siltana cursed a few times, but she did not dare to talk back to Mr. Okun, and such behavior was meaningless.

Seeing her silence, Okun's attitude softened a little, and he thought about it and said:

"I remember that the gangster who had been lowering the price of that hot spring hotel was eliminated by the 'Iron Man'. Old Belov should be able to sell that hotel at a normal price now... Then you can give his son a hint and let them still Sell ​​it as soon as possible and develop in a city far away from Indo.

"After all, Panin's relatives and friends, as well as his promoted subordinates are concentrated in Indo and Sunia Island, and they can't control other places..."

...Sirtana sighed after hearing this, nodded helplessly, then picked up the bottle and took another sip.

The senior deacon of the Church of the God of War, Oken, known as the "Spear of God", did not pay attention to Sirtana's behavior of expressing dissatisfaction through drinking. He walked to the table where the documents were piled, picked up a file and looked through it. .

The rest of the "Demon Hunter" team members, including the half-giant captain, gathered around, and after receiving a few bottles of Nipos thrown by Siltana, they officially started working.

——Nipos is a distilled liquor special to Fusac. It is brewed from potatoes or grains. It is famous for its high alcohol content and is as stimulating as a raging flame... In addition, it is quite cheap and is more popular among ordinary Fusac people.

Amidst the sound of paper turning, "Spear of God" Oken thought for a moment and said:

"It is now certain that so many Beyonders have come to Indo recently for the purpose of the ruins that may appear offshore tonight...

"The origin of this rumor is unknown, but since so many people have chosen to believe it, it deserves to be taken seriously whether it is true or false."

The half-giant captain frowned and said:

"But are there really ruins in the open sea? I remember this rumor can be traced back to twelve years ago. Not long after I joined the job, the first suspected extraordinary incident I handled was the case of the fisherman who claimed to have seen a huge skeleton...

"But I remember that there happened to be a high-sequence extraordinary person of the 'corpse collector' path passing by Yinduo at that time. Because his condition was not right, his breath leaked, which almost caused disaster to the entire Yinduo...

"In the end, Mr. Panin led the team to stop it... As a result, Mr. Panin was seriously injured, and the entire team was almost wiped out.

"So we always thought that the fisherman might have gone crazy after witnessing that fight...

"After all, that battle did end up taking place at sea."

After hearing what he said, Lord "Spear of God" Oken shook his head slightly and said: "You are wrong... According to the information I found, there was no battle at all at that time... Panin just watched the other party leave from a distance. That's all... that high-ranking extraordinary person has no hostility..."

"What?!" All the team members who heard this, including the captain and Sirtana, were stunned.

You must know that half the team of "Demon Hunters" were lost in this incident, and Panin became the senior deacon of the contracted "Holy Artifact" because of this contribution.

But since there was no battle, where did the credit come from?

Oken thought for a while and added meaningfully: "The church's senior leaders hope that Panin will make meritorious deeds...even if half of the team was lost because of his greed for merit."

"No wonder Kista and Genna were transferred away from Indo after that incident..." The half-giant captain looked stunned. He wanted to continue to say something, but gave up.

Sirtana frowned, because combined with Panin's behavior and his untimely death on Sonia Island, she vaguely felt that there was some deeper conspiracy.

"In short, we need to arrange the ruins now as if they are real, and we need to send people to follow up at night... Sirtana, you compiled the information. Who do you think is worthy of attention among the extraordinary people in Indo? "Okun asked, bringing the topic back to the topic.

Sirtana came back to her senses, thought for a while and said:

"The more troublesome ones are naturally 'Iron Man' and 'Doctor Strange'. We have been controlling them for so long, including you personally, but we have not been able to catch them... This shows how difficult they are!"

When she mentioned "Doctor Strange", her eyes moved slightly and she continued:

"But I think their threat is the smallest. After all, these two have never killed people at will since their debut.

“To be honest, if it weren’t from an official perspective, my impression of them would actually be pretty good.

"Especially 'Doctor Strange'... just listening to his 'declarations' when he appeared, if he hadn't been really strong, I would have thought he was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old aristocratic boy who loves fantasy."

"Well, these two are indeed very troublesome, and we can't take them lightly just because of their consistent performance... But it's not that they can't cooperate when necessary...

"Well, besides them? Who else deserves attention?"

Sirtana thought carefully and said:

"I think Nathalie, the Duke's daughter, needs our attention more than those two 'vigilantes'! This is one of the reasons why I didn't continue to follow her... Only by relaxing the surveillance can she reveal her flaws. "

"Why do you say that?" Okun asked in surprise.

"The timing of her coming to Yinduo was too coincidental, and she even snooped around for information from me. Moreover, her behavior in hot springs these past few days was very abnormal! I even suspected that those rumors were spread by her or someone behind her. of!

"She must have some conspiracy secretly! And, the most important thing is, when I am with her, I often feel that there are actually other people around me...but I can't find anything...

"But one day I was sure that I had run out of wine, so I was careful and used an excuse that would affect the image of the 'Witcher' and stopped drinking in front of that lady... But when I looked back and counted my brandy, But found that it was still missing!

"Although my brain tells me that's all there is to drink...but the alcohol bug in my stomach tells me that my brain is 'farting'!"

"But it could also be your stomach farting! There is no evidence, it is pure speculation... This is not even reasoning." Okun said without approval.

Sirtana showed a smile and said:

"But that doesn't stop us from making her a priority, does it?"

…

In the hot spring hotel, Nathalie, who had been cheating intermittently for a long time, got dressed, looked at the teacher beside her, and said helplessly: "Teacher, this is really not the way to go..."

"I see..." Her teacher, the "audience" demigod in a yukata, nodded, with excitement in his eyes: "You don't have to be such a bait anymore, the 'Magic Mirror' has given me a new one. instruct!

"You should rent a boat as soon as possible, and we will go to sea together tonight!"

Hearing this, Nathalie, who had fiery red hair, not only did not relax, but looked at the teacher even more worriedly.

"What exactly does the 'Magic Mirror' want to do? Why is it so obsessed with that ruins?"

…

At the same time, Crossfia, who was sitting in the living room of the villa in the dock area, closed an occult book in her hand. She looked at the wall clock, smiled and said to herself:

"'Greed'...'Magic Mirror'...

"Originally I just wanted to take the opportunity to hold a ceremony and complete Dunn's final treatment...

“I didn’t expect there would be additional receipts!”