Chapter 104: Mr. Z
One pocket, two pockets, three pockets...... Klein quickly found a blood-stained wallet, a library card from the Deville Library, two brass-colored keys hanging together, a pipe without anything stuffed, a dagger with a sheath, and a few neatly folded pieces of stationery.
After placing everything except the letter on the ground beside him, he straightened up and glanced at his eyelid wallet to confirm that there were only a dozen soles of banknotes and a small number of copper pennies inside.
"This wallet is quite well made, but it's a pity......" Crane sighed silently, his thoughts a little divergent.
If it weren't for spending too much private money today, buying a wallet would already be on his agenda.
Shaking his head, Crane unfolded the letter and read it quickly in a browsing:
"Dear Mr. Z:"
"Allow me to defend myself, it was not foolishness or betrayal for Henus and I to sell the notes of the Antigonus family, and it behaved nothing special in our hands. ”
"I suspect it's alive, that it's an evil object with a certain amount of life and intelligence, that it's a dangerous thing that must be sealed. ”
"It presents different content at different stages, in front of different people!"
"I got confirmation of this from the lambs inside the National Police Agency. ”
"Although the contents of the notebook are true enough to be supported by much corroboration, I believe that it will only be revealed in the hands of the descendants of the Antigonus family. ”
"When Henus and I got it, we could only see a few trivia stories from the Antigonus family, an overview of the Night Nation on the main peak of Honakis, and the recipes for the three sequences of potions that were submitted to you last time. ”
"As you know, the Esoteric Order has the 'soothsayer' and has a very strong ability to track it, so Haynas and I both thought it would be risky to keep the notebook, and the value it was not enough for us to take the risk. ”
"Without waiting for your reply, we consulted and sold the notes to Welch in the same neighborhood, who loved to collect artifacts and ancient books and could afford to pay a lot of money, and then came to know the things. ”
"This is the first thing I want to make, and as I write this, Haynas dies of a heart attack in his sleep, which must have been a gift from the Lord to him from falling into the hands of the heathen. ”
"I had to move to a safe, secluded place, and didn't even dare to go out, but luckily the lamb told me that Henas was being targeted by the infidels not because of the notes of the Antigonus family, nor because he had revealed his identity, but that he had foolishly taken in a female apprentice and wanted to slowly develop the other party into one of us. ”
"His female apprentice peeked at his secret spell and, under the watchful eye of the Night Infidel, tried the Magic Mirror for divination, and the rest of the development, as you can imagine, doesn't need me to describe it again. ”
"It's a pity that the status of that lamb is not high enough to figure out the specifics. ”
"Judging by various feedbacks, the heretics did not suspect me, and their investigation was interrupted by the timely death of Henus. ”
So, I went back down the street, planning to go to the Deville Library and borrow a few more journals to find more clues. ”
"As a force that has also mastered the path of the 'soothsayer', the Antigonus family should have a certain expectation of its own demise, and they must have left behind a secret treasure of revival!"
"There is enough reason to believe that that treasure is on the main peak of the Hornachis Mountains, somewhere in the ruins of the Night Country!"
Seeing this, Crane's pupils contracted sharply, almost causing the letter to fall from his hand.
"That sequence mastered by the Antigonus family is the 'soothsayer' path?"
"What a coincidence!"
......
One thunderbolt after another exploded in Klein's mind, causing him to be mentally confused, and he had a sense of fate:
"Let the original owner die, the note that indirectly helped me to cross came from the Antigonus family who mastered the path of 'soothsayer', and it was Russell the Great's diary that made me finally choose the 'soothsayer' potion, and Russell the Great preferred the 'soothsayer' sequence because of the mysterious Mr. Zarathu, the leader of the Esoteric Order who also mastered the 'soothsayer' path!"
“...... It's like fate has woven a breathless net. ”
"What's behind all this?"
Crane took the letter and paced back and forth a few steps, trying to find evidence from other sources.
"Well, the Esoteric Society controlled by the House of Zarathu is chasing and searching for the remnants of the House of Antigonus...... If you look at the fact that both parties belong to the same extraordinary path, the reasons and motives are sufficient: maybe it's to complete the sequence, maybe it's the rare material to get a high-level promotion, maybe it's the experience that the other party has accumulated to avoid getting out of control......"
"When thought of it this way, it is quite reasonable that the Antigonus family mastered at least part of the chain of sequences of the 'soothsayer' path. ”
"By the way, when I divined the clues to the 'Joker' potion, almost all of the images that appeared were related to the Antigonus family, with the exception of the tuxedo clown of the Esoteric Order...... So, the real meaning of those symbols is that each picture is a possibility to get the 'Joker' potion, and there is a clue hidden in it, but I don't understand the key and regret missing it. ”
With these two corroborations, Klein almost believed what Siris had mentioned in the letter, and understood why he always had the word "Hornachis" when he heard a voice he shouldn't have heard.
"The first time something like this happened was when I had just finished taking the 'Soothsayer' potion!" he muttered to himself with a serious expression.
At the same time, he speculates that "having been in contact with the remnants of the House of Antigonus and still alive" and "becoming an extraordinary person on the path of a soothsayer" are the two necessary conditions for hearing the whispers of "Hornakis".
Is there really a secret treasure left by the Antigonus family hidden in the ancient ruins of the main peak of Honachis? No, you can't think about it! That notebook alone killed a bunch of people, and the complete treasure will only be more terrifying! Crane subconsciously shook his head and set his eyes on the third, the end of the last letter:
"Dear Mr. Z, I hope for your help, I think you should be interested enough in that treasure as well. ”
"Before that, I would make myself like a normal person, a normal history buff. ”
"Finally, when the Day of Destruction comes, I will offer to the Lord all the Lambs of the city of Tingen. ”
"The Lord, Ciris, the lowly Arepsis. ”
After reading Siris's letter, Klein suddenly wanted to laugh:
"Hey, how do you feel like I've saved the city of Tingen? What the hell is this guy trying to do? Cultists are unreasonable......"
“...... Who is that Mr. Z, who is very tall...... At least it's the captain's sequence. ”
"Where is Cialis's letter going? He didn't write an address...... It seems that this is the caution of the cultists, who will not leave an address until the last moment of sending it out......"
"By the way, since the Antigonus family has mastered some of the 'soothsayer' paths, do the three formulas submitted by Siris from the Antigonus family's notes contain the 'Joker' potion?"
"Quite possibly!"
At this moment, Klein seemed to have found a clue to the "Joker" potion.
Although Sirius didn't carry the recipe with him, his home, the place where he hid, may have kept a corresponding record, and in his head, in his memory, there must be!
Crane looked at the corpse in front of him, thinking about how to get the dead man to speak.
Almost without thinking about it, a solution popped up directly in his mind:
"Psychic!"
"Psychic" can communicate directly with spirits that have not yet dispersed, and classes such as "Fortune Teller" and "Voyeur" can barely do so with the help of ritual magic.
The last time he faced the corpse of the tuxedo clown, Klein was in a hurry to save people, second, he didn't bring materials, and third, he lacked certainty, so he didn't consider "psychic" and missed the best opportunity.
Now, Klein has just completed the materials and has the experience of communicating with residual grievances with the help of the "dream divination" technique.
"I'm afraid that the spirit of the cultist will see a terrifying existence like the captain in the dream of Hainath...... However, the captain has only been languishing for two days, and the injury is not too serious, not too serious, well, you can give it a try!" After only a dozen seconds of hesitation, Klein made a decision, not wanting to miss this opportunity.
He lifted his head, turned around, and cast his gaze on the broken glass, to the crowd of onlookers who were looking this way.
Taking out his badge and badge, Klein returned there first, and said to the onlookers through the glass convex window:
"I'm a probationary inspector in the Special Operations Division of the Ahowa County Police Department, and I've already killed the gangster, so please find someone to take this badge to the nearby police station and ask them to send someone over to deal with the follow-up. ”
"The rest of you, help me cordon off this place, don't let others get close, and destroy the traces of the scene. ”
"Yes, officer!" said the administrator who had "trapped" Klein and immediately took the badge.
When the scene was cordoned off and no one entered the lawn, Crane returned to a position close to the corner and stood on the side of the corpse.
While glad that the innocent crowd couldn't see the monster's corpse closer, he put away his cane and revolver, and reached for a metal vial from the row of pockets on the inside of his thin black trench coat.
He wants to use the "psychic" ritual and the technique of "dream divination" to make the dead speak!