Mystery: Start with the Reader

Under the crimson light, many residents suddenly appeared in the originally deserted town. They walked in the streets and alleys, greeted each other, and discussed whether they would only buy bread today or be more luxurious and get a pound of beef.

The foggy town suddenly seemed to wake up from the dead silence, and it looked like a normal town.

However, those vague figures did not try to enter the houses on both sides. They seemed to have been walking back and forth on the street, and the sounds they made were hard to believe that they were talking. They were closer to the whispers of wild beasts. roar.

"Compared to the 'Utopia' that Klein will create in the future, Antigonus's 'craftsmanship' is still a bit too rough..."

Abner complained after packing up his Extraordinary characteristics. Just as he was thinking about what to do next, the street outside suddenly became extremely quiet.

The roaring sounds of those beasts have all disappeared!

The figures walking back and forth on the street, wandering and whispering, all seemed to be turning in a certain direction...

And from that direction, a polite male voice came: "Excuse me, this is..."

Before he finished speaking, he stopped abruptly... After a brief silence, the noisy whispers reappeared, and the vague figures continued to walk around.

"That voice is somewhat familiar... Well, it should be Prince Edsac's butler Finkel... I met him at the dance held at the headquarters of the Daily Observer...

"In the original work, he was indeed sent to the Kingdom of Darkness by '0-17', but there was no explanation later... Now it seems that he entered the church as a 'bacon' as soon as he entered..."

Abner shook his head and stopped thinking about this matter. Instead, he recalled the relevant plot of "Land of Night" and thought:

"If the goddess is not deliberately targeting me, then to leave this foggy town, you need to enter the deepest part of the church, find the indented wall, put a corresponding obsidian on it, and draw the symbol on the goddess's sacred emblem.

"With the help of the 'Secret Puppet Master' being herded by 1, it shouldn't be a problem to control the 'spirit thread' so that it is not sucked away by the 'magnet' above the church...

"Obsidian was held by Panatia, the 'Desperate Nightingale' in the original novel... but that was a few months later, when she should have eaten most of the 'survivors' in the town before she got the obsidian... …

"In other words, the current obsidian is likely to be in some unknown 'future ingredient'...

"Well, if the plot has not changed, Zarath, who is eager to connect his historical projection with the outside world's 'destiny' and complete his 'resurrection', must know where Obsidian is... In the original work, he is He accurately named the 'Witch of Despair' to Klein.

"So just ask him and you should be able to find...

"In the end, the drawn symbol... Klein used the simple drawing of the Dark Holy Emblem to escape from here smoothly... But as a favored person of the goddess, there is indeed no problem with him, but I... can I?

"The goddess did make a certain investment in me in the previous nightmare that connected to the underworld... But after he brought me in this time, could he really allow me to leave without doing anything? What is his purpose?

"Moreover, once I open the 'door', no matter which symbol is used, it will actually temporarily release the 'secret' state 1, and intersect with the history and destiny of the outside world... This is equivalent to releasing Zarath in advance...

"Could it be that the goddess actually wants to let him go by lending my hand? But why? Klein is only at Sequence 6 now, and he can't even hide the 'Origin Castle' aura leaking from his body. Zaratul's resurrection will not do him any good... On the contrary, it will add countless dangers...

"Or maybe there have been huge changes in history that I don't know about, so the goddess needs Zaratul to go out and muddy the waters?"

Thinking of this, Abner couldn't help but frown, but he also knew that this was all just guessing. If he wanted to know the exact answer, the best way would be to go into the church and take a look...

At this time, the little crimson moonlight that passed through the window suddenly became extremely dim, and the red moon was covered by the fog again. All the figures faintly visible coming and going on the street disappeared, as if evaporating, and the roaring sounds of those beasts suddenly stopped.

Seeing this, Abner once again used "Evans' Secret Barrier" to cover his whole body, and then simulated the "Apprentice"'s "opening the door" ability, and walked continuously along the row of houses until he came to the last building not far from the steeple church. inside the house.

——Although the spirit world corresponding to this town is also "hidden", making it impossible to enter the "spirit world" and "teleport", everyone must be connected to the spirit world. After all, their own astral spirit body It is always inside, so some special abilities borrowed from the spirit world can still be used...such as "divination", such as "flash", and..."opening the door".

During this period, Abner encountered several extraordinary people who had obviously mutated and were killing each other. Their eyes were full of madness, and they all wanted to eat each other into their stomachs.

Their strength is not low, and they are basically at the level of Sequence 5 - after all, those who are slightly weaker may have been eaten by others long ago.

"Although with the occult knowledge mastered by extraordinary people at this level, they will definitely wait for the extraordinary characteristics to precipitate before eating, but the other dead are imprisoned here without any food, and can only target each other with various characteristics Mixed without rules, it will inevitably become more and more abnormal and crazy. If you eat too much of this kind of food, how can you not cause problems...

"Even if the people of Silver City eat monsters hidden in the darkness, they still need to use sealed objects to remove the pollution!"

With these thoughts flashing through his mind, Abner ignored them and went straight to the side of the old church. Then he reached out and pressed his hand against the wall, silently passing through the dark and thick wall and entering the interior of the church.

At this time, the flying crows suddenly stopped around the spire of the ancient church, and stars seemed to flash in their eyes.

Inside the church, Abner, who entered through the wall, first asked the "Magic Mirror" to switch his soul to the "Puppet Master" and let it control his "spiritual body thread" to resist the upward tendency, and then simulated " "Night Vision" ability allowed him to examine the interior of this dim church.

And within the scope of his sight, human bodies were hanging one after another in the air.

Some of them were wearing black classical robes, some were wearing brown jackets, some were wearing fluffy skirts, and some were in tatters, like beggars.

Some of them have rough faces, some have deep outlines and are handsome and masculine, some have delicate and delicate facial features, and some are childish and cute and quite young, with no similarities at all.

No, they still have something in common. They are all like bacon being dried, hanging from a high place, their heads drooped, their eyes rolled white, and they are swaying.

The person hanging at the front is Mr. Finkel, the butler who had a relationship with Abner.

At this moment, he seemed to be aware of Abner's gaze, and turned at the same time to face Abner along with the other figures hanging in the air.

Although he had expected it because of the original work, Abner still felt a chill on his neck and felt that the "painting style" here did not suit him.

"Honakis... Fregra..."

During the "chorus" of the hanging corpses, Abner took a breath, then walked deeper into the church step by step, and soon came to a dark altar.

On top of the altar, there stood a statue carved in stone:

It was a female human figure with a beautiful face, but two animal legs grew out of her ribs and waist, covered with short, thick, hard black hair.

In addition, there are thin black bands surrounding the stone statue, which look like tentacles extending out.

At the foot of this stone statue, there are souls sleeping, as if they are surrounded by stars.

"Mother of Heaven"...Sealed Artifact "0-17"...the goddess's divine vessel!

Abner silently revealed His three identities, and then stopped looking further. Instead, he moved his gaze diagonally behind the statue, looking for the location of the historical projection of Zaratul in the original work.

But when he saw what was there, his eyes suddenly froze.

Because there was no bearded old man mentioned in the original work. There was only a young man who looked to be in his twenties, sitting cross-legged next to the statue. There was also a piece of parchment that looked a bit old and a piece of parchment in front of him. Tin-white jar filled with off-white dust and granules.

The young man had a handsome face, hair as black as night, and blue eyes half-closed, as if he was dozing off. If his posture wasn't too "oriental", he would look like the vampire duke in folklore.

He wore a silk robe with the coat of arms of the family of Abraham sewn on it.

Abner looked at his face and felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity in his heart, just like the feeling he had when he saw the items left behind by other travelers brought by the "Pure White Eyes" before...

"The 'wanderer' of the Abraham family more than a thousand years ago? The author of the Book of Stars and Elements? Why is he here...

"Moreover, the jar of ashes in front of him...could it be Zaratul's?

"Well... this 'Wanderer' should have died here more than a thousand years ago, otherwise there would be no Dennett later...

"And Zaratul was a person from the Russell era more than a hundred years ago... It stands to reason that he should have placed a historical projection here... How come he turned into ashes directly? The 'door' hasn't even been opened yet. …

"Could this be a trap He set here?"

Out of vigilance against Zaratul, Abner directly opened the "Pure White Eyes".

But at the moment when the "Pure White Eyes" opened the passage and connected to the "Unknown Land", the blue eyes of the "young man" of the Abraham family opposite who had been dead for thousands of years also became "pure white". Then, in the tin-white jar, The ashes turned into ethereal "historical dust" and passed through the "channels" in Abner's eyes at extremely fast speeds.

Abner was caught off guard and had no time to stop him. He was in a daze for a while before he understood what happened from the information fed back by the "Pure White Eyes".

It turns out that as early as more than a thousand years ago, this senior time traveler who became a "Wanderer" laid this plan against Zarath before his death, so that the historical images he cut out could not be preserved as long as the original works. .

It turned out that he had already determined that a time traveler like himself would come here, open the "Pure White Eyes", and use the destiny inside to be different from the "hidden" world to deceive Zaratul's historical projection into falling into the trap. The unknown land can no longer easily intersect with the fate and history of the normal world, which also makes his wish to complete the miracle of "resurrection" come to nothing...

It turns out that the goddess brought me in not to release Zarath... but to make him completely unable to change the outcome of my promotion to "Servant of the Mystery" out of control!

Abner looked at the silent young man opposite, and couldn't help but sigh: Why are all my previous time travelers such bastards? Dennett is like this, this "Wanderer" is like this... and the other vampire dukes and death archons are also arranged everywhere, making it impossible to guess what they have done.

"And...are these senior time travelers really dead?

"The 'wanderer' in front of me has used a layout of more than a thousand years to successfully murder Le'er, an angel, in front of me, the 'audience'... He has been separated from the normal world in this hidden country for at least eleven hundred years... As Abraham The family's demigod, even an 'angel', once he leaves this country, he will inevitably bring back a glorious history belonging to Abraham...

"This corresponds to the ritual requirements of the 'Cunning Mage', 'Ancient Scholar', and 'Miracle Master' respectively, and he happened to deliberately kill Zaratul... The characteristics of the 'Miracle Master' may have been calculated long ago...

"So he... is really dead?"

Thinking of this, Abner calmed his violently beating heart and observed with his "pure white eyes" again, and soon made a new discovery:

"The physical condition of this Abraham family's 'Wanderer' is very similar to that of the 'Bone Dragon'...it seems to have also been contaminated with Calderon City...that is, the aura of the River of Eternal Darkness...

"In other words, with a little adjustment, I can control this 'Wanderer' to fight by relying on the method of controlling the bone dragon described in the Necronomicon... If I am even willing to spend time creating new secret techniques, I can fight with him It is not impossible to temporarily 'fuse' and transform into a 'wanderer'...

"The 'Death Archon' Vicente Miranda who left behind this technology is also a time traveler... Couldn't this be a coincidence?

"It always feels like generations of time-travelers are perfecting a certain technology...

"Wait... I remember that Dennett also conducted experiments with the 'God of Knowledge and Wisdom' using the 'Sea of ​​Chaos'...

"And Baron Kangva's constantly restarting 'split form' that is suspected to have been created by the 'Three Saints' and the 'Dream Weaver' is very strange...

"Perhaps the secret technique they developed to 'separate contamination' is just a by-product...

"The real purpose...is it to allow subsequent time travelers to create perfect clones and master the technology left behind by their ancestors?

"No wonder they need a 'reader'... and I am sure that I will be a 'reader' as a follow-up traveler..."

"After all, the previous studies were not perfect... This may be because they were limited to the extraordinary paths of the senior time travellers...

"This kind of ability involves multiple sequences, pointing directly to its principles and essence. It may also require the use of the 'Sea of ​​Chaos'. I am afraid that there are only 'readers' who are omnipotent because of omniscience and 'shepherds' who are omnipotent. !

"And the latter is too influenced by the 'True Creator', so naturally it will not be the first choice...

“But the only question is, what benefit does this have to those previous time-travelers?

"No matter how you look at it, all these benefits belong to me... I got a bunch of clones for nothing...

"Could it be that their ultimate goal is for me to completely perfect this secret technique accumulated from generation to generation and truly 'resurrection' them?

"But why do they think I have such high abilities and moral standards?"

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