Mystery: The Witch and the Calamity

"Sit down first."

Sophia sat on the chair opposite Joyce, only half of her buttocks were firm, and she began to feel awkward.

"The coffee tastes good, did you make it?"

"Yes, I noticed that you don't like to drink plain coffee." After Sophia finished speaking, she secretly looked up at him.

Didn't notice it, the observation skills are pretty good... Joyce muttered in his heart, he saw the nervousness of the maid, with his elbows on the table, he leaned forward and pretended to threaten:

"What are you afraid of? Is it because you are worried that I am an evil wizard who decided to kill me after you discovered the secret?"

"No."

For some reason, Sophia felt relieved when she heard Mr. Baron's familiar teasing.

Well... Seeing that the threats didn't have the expected effect, Joyce lamented that the girls nowadays are not easy to deceive, and leaned back in the chair again:

"You ask me to answer? Or should I tell you to listen?"

Sophia remained silent, expressing her choice.

So, Joyce began to conduct popular science selectively:

"In the second era, after the birth of human beings, Extraordinary Ones began to be active on all continents, helping human beings survive under the oppression of giants, dragons, elves and other creatures."

"Since the Fourth Epoch, human beings have become the masters of all continents, Extraordinary powers have begun to retreat, and the church where the Seven Gods belong has become the most powerful Extraordinary organization."

Having said that, Joyce paused for a moment, and saw Sophia's surprised eyes as expected. He didn't care, and continued on his own:

"As I said before, extraordinary people are a group of people with magical abilities, manipulating flames, condensing frost, invisibility, flying...anything that exists in your imagination can be realized."

"If you want to become a Extraordinary, you need to take the corresponding potion, which is divided into twenty-two paths according to the extraordinary ability and authority obtained."

"The churches of the Seven Gods have their own potion formulas in different ways. In addition, there are many secret organizations in the extraordinary world. Most of them are shady and are often hunted down by official forces."

"Most of the evil and cruel sacrificial ceremonies you've heard of are created by them, just to please the evil gods they believe in."

"So, the Extraordinary world is not the mysterious beauty you've longed for, but is always facing danger. This danger not only comes from the outside, but also from the Extraordinary itself."

"While gaining extraordinary power, extraordinary people are also being eroded by power. It is very common to lose control. They may fall into the abyss at any time and become the monster they hate the most."

"How, are you still interested in becoming a Extraordinary?"

The maid lowered her head, making it difficult to see her expression clearly, what she was thinking... Joyce spoke a little dry, and raised his glass and took a big sip of the still warm coffee.

Sophia suddenly raised her head and asked:

"What are the twenty-two paths?"

Cough cough...Joyce almost spit out the coffee...Beauty, your focus is wrong...He shrugged and said helplessly:

"I'm just a new Extraordinary, currently at the bottom of the Extraordinary world, how can I know everything!"

Although I really know everything, I can't tell you... He saw the maid's self-blame expression for asking a stupid question, and then added:

"However, I still know a little bit, such as audience access."

Sophia showed curious eyes at the right time, and listened to Mr. Baron's introduction:

"Extraordinary people of the audience path are good at observing, trying to figure out the psychological activities of others, understand their true inner thoughts, and influence or even change people's behavior through subtle hints."

It sounds so amazing, and a little familiar... Sophia recalled her embarrassing behavior in the morning, and blurted out:

"That golden pupil!"

Joyce nodded to confirm her guess:

"That's right, that's a magical item of the spectator path."

Then, he explained a lot of common sense in the Extraordinary world, and he resolutely stopped after discovering that the maid had a tendency to "knowledge indigestion", and said in relief:

"You have plenty of time to think, and when you really want to understand the gains and losses, tell me your decision."

"As long as that time, I'm still alive."

…………

Dean is very excited and proud now. If he uses an ancient poem to describe his mood, it must be "the spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe disease, and I can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day."

He clearly remembered, when he received the letter sent by Baron Best, the expressions of all the police officers, surprise, puzzlement, envy, jealousy...

After tomorrow, everyone in the police station will know about it, which gives him a sense of satisfaction that he has never felt before.

However, when he opened the letter alone, Dean was apprehensive, because he hadn't found out what Baron Best ordered, and he only got some clues for the time being.

Fortunately, this matter was not mentioned in the letter.

Baron Best told him to go to No. 52 Pulitzer Street immediately to deal with the abnormality in that house. As for the abnormality, the letter did not mention it, only a key was attached.

Dean didn't dare to delay, he even called a carriage without any distress, because he knew that as long as the task was successfully completed, he would get more.

Pulitzer Street is not a particularly bustling street. It is populated by middle-class people with stable jobs, but the housing prices and rent are beyond the reach of Dean, who is a policeman.

Get off near house No. 50, after paying the fare, Dean shook his head and quickly looked around. Although he still doesn't know why Baron Best warned him to be cautious, that didn't stop him from always being cautious. The gangster's way of survival.

No suspicious person or thing was found, so he walked towards house No. 52, calmly took out the key, opened the door, entered the house, and closed the door, as if returning to his own home skillfully.

After seeing the scene in the living room, Dean frowned. It's not that he has never seen a dead person, let alone one eye gouged out, even a broken leg is not uncommon.

What baffled him was why would a noble baron let himself dispose of a corpse?

He got closer and saw a wanted notice next to the corpse, which read "Pirate, Lucky Crowe, with a reward of 1,200 pounds", and the portrait on the wanted notice looked exactly like the corpse.

Pirates are very common in Bayam, and dead pirates are not uncommon, but the corpse of a pirate worth 1200 pounds is in the blind spot of Dean's knowledge.

His first reaction was to change the bounty and fly away, but then he thought about it, Baron Best dared to leave the matter to himself like this, did he feel at ease with himself, or was he on guard?

He didn't dare to gamble, and he didn't want to gamble. Only fools would take risks when there were safer and more transparent upward channels.

He is good at handling corpses. Although he doesn't do it often for bounties, there are still channels, that is, part of the bounty will be deducted. Presumably the baron will not care about these details.

After figuring it out, Dean wiped away the blood in the living room as quickly as possible, restored the messy furniture, put the body in a big bag and took it away without anyone noticing.

He didn't know that after midnight, a black shadow sneaked into the house, circled around, and left in confusion.

…………

After dinner, Joyce was thinking about something in the bedroom when Sophia knocked on the door and walked in, saying firmly:

"I made a decision."

"I want to become an Extraordinary."

"I'm going to be an 'audience'."

Ask for some recommendations and favorites... I don't know if I can sign a contract, so let's write it like this first, alas