Early Thursday morning, Abner, who had been restless all night, went out early.

He had just walked to the subway station when he suddenly heard the clear voice of the newsboy coming from not far away:

"Extra! Extra! There is another big case in Joe Wood District, Grant's clothing store is bleeding, and West Villas Field is helpless! ”

"Grant clothing store? No way?! Hearing this, Abner's heart jumped, and a very bad premonition swelled up, and he hurriedly called the newsboy and bought a copy of the Beckland Morning Post.

Hurriedly opened the newspaper, and the words "Grant's clothing store was attacked by the murderer, Mrs. Grant died on the spot, Mr. Grant and his daughter are missing, and they are suspected of being kidnapped by the murderers" came into Ebner's eyes!

"Jane really had an accident!" He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and continued to read. Then it was discovered that the time of the attack on the Grant family coincided with the time of the demigod power explosion last night!

"The location is also more or less right...... Damn, what the hell is going on in her house, how can she provoke a demigod-level power? Abner felt a little uncomfortable at the thought that the straightforward and lively little girl might have met with an accident.

"Maybe Mr. Grant was officially discovered? Or did he go out to collect the corpse and invite some trouble? Pinching his chin and speculating for a while, Abner finally realized that the random speculation without clues was meaningless, and his heart was still in turmoil......

After calming himself down again through meditation, Abner decided to visit Jane's house. After all, in the state of pure white eyes, he is already half a "keeper of knowledge". And the nickname 'Keeper' is also called 'Detective'!

"Moreover, finding clues and reasoning about the truth of the case is also the need of 'reasoning students' to play, isn't it?"

……

Underneath the Cathedral of the Holy Wind, the leader of the substitute punishment team, who had been visibly emaciated a lot recently, asked, "Has it been determined that the Grant clothing store is a battlefield where the temperance faction of the Rose School and the indulgence faction are fighting?" ”

"Yes, Captain. They fled in such a hurry that they simply did not have time to clean up the 'traces' of the battle. But there are some places where the power of the higher personality is involved, and our Keeper of the Knowing can't 'regress' the scene. One of the penalty substitutes replied. Then he briefly described the content of the backtracked scene.

"Where can't you go back?" The captain asked after listening carefully.

"After that Mr. Grant summoned the power of the high grid, he could no longer go back to any scenes. So we don't know who the owner of that power is, or how they ended up escaping. ”

The captain pondered for a while before he said, "According to His Excellency Snake, the 'Singer of the Gods', that power should come from the 'Grim Reaper'...... You don't have to think too much, this should be referring to the high-level powerhouse of the Death Path. Seeing that his subordinates nodded, he continued, "Now, you have a total of three tasks. First, find out the whereabouts of the Rose School's indulgence faction, according to the retrospective scene, the werewolf's state should be unstable, and he may not be able to control the urge to commit crimes, looking for clues from this aspect. Second, find Grant and his daughter. Mr. Grant, in particular, was not an extraordinary person for nothing, and owned several extraordinary items. Find out who he's been in close contact with, and then check them out one by one. Third, go and check the information of the Templar to find out what the effect of the 'Crimson Moon Tiara' is, so that we don't suffer in the future. ”

"Yes, Captain"

……

It was nearly eight o'clock when Abner arrived at Grant's clothing store. The police cordoned off the shop, and there were many people on the perimeter, including journalists, neighbors, people who were just watching the excitement, and friends like Abner who came to visit because they were worried about Jane.

A medium-sized, freckled girl in the crowd saw Abner sharp-eyed and immediately beckoned to him, "Abner, you're here too?!" ”

As she spoke, a man and a woman around her also turned their heads at the same time.

Abner saw that Jane's friend was also here, and he was not conspicuous at all, so he quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and then nodded: "Susan, Roman, Custer, long time no see!" I read the newspaper this morning and knew that something had happened to Jane, so I rushed over to check on the situation. ”

These three young men and women also had a good relationship with the original Abner, and they were all classmates at the public school. Among them, Susan, the girl with freckles, also made up money for him to rent a house at the beginning, and later after the time-traveling version of Abner sold the formula and got the first money, he paid her back by the way when he went back to the public school to go through the graduation procedures.

"So do we! I heard that Jane was taken captive, but I hope she's okay! At this point, all three of them clearly showed worried expressions.

After exchanging a few words with them, Abner quietly opened his pure white eyes, carefully observing the details of the destruction of the store's door and the parts of the store that could be seen. The spell-like ability of scene backtracking is not unwarranted backtracking, and the more details and clues there are, the more complete the backtracking scene will be.

At this time, a police officer quietly put a piece of copper that had melted and deformed into his pocket while cleaning up the rubble in the store. This action was very hidden, but it did not hide from Abner, who opened the pure white eye.

"That's ...... My Brass Charm? Although the copper plate was deformed, Abner's spirit immediately judged that it was his own hand! And some of the spiritual residues and traces on this copper piece also complete the necessary conditions for 'scene backtracking'.

Without hesitation, Abner unleashed a 'scene regression' in the state of pure white eyes, and immediately after that, he saw Mr. Grant who had been knocked down by the knock over the clothes rack;

He was seen running reflexively down the hallway and activating the brass charm;

Saw him and Jane being chased to the door by a black-haired monster;

Mr. Grant blew a whistle with a complicated face and summoned a large black mist;

saw Mr. Grant's death and a delicate-looking female ghost wearing a small black floppy hat flashing out of the broken glass and rescuing Jane;

Finally, he saw an old man in a black soft hat, a black robe embroidered with the symbol of the storm, and an unusually serious silver eye, descending from the sky and taking the whistle that had fallen to the ground.

When the backtracking was over, the pure white eyes closed, and Abner took off his glasses and rubbed his swollen head with his hand, and it took a while for him to return to normal.

"Abner, what's wrong with you? Uncomfortable? Susan, the freckled girl next to her, noticed Abner's abnormality and asked with concern.

"No, I'm just worried about Jane...... Hey, I'm still too useless to help with anything! Abner is half-truthful. He now knew that Jane's family had most likely suffered an unwarranted disaster, affected by the struggle between the temperance faction and the indulgence faction of the Rose School. Jane should have been rescued by Miss Sharon in the end, and Abner was not too worried about her safety, but the feeling of powerlessness that he could not help his friend still made him clearly realize his weakness.

Even if he has the ability of half of the 'Keeper of Knowledge', even if he has a master-level fighting level, he still can't intervene in this kind of battle between middle-level powerhouses......

If I had the power to make Miss Sharon look up to me, like Klein in the novel, perhaps they would have asked me for help before raiding the Lustful Faction with Caspers' connections...... And if I get involved, I might be able to save Jane's family......

"Abner, it's not your fault! We know you like Jane, but the most important thing now is to pray that nothing will happen to her, and that the police gentlemen will find her soon, and that she will not be so depressed! Susan, the freckled girl, kindly advised.

I like Jane a little, but not the kind of love between men and women, but I like the clean smile on her face, I like her cheerful and innocent personality, and she is a lively girl who can make people feel relaxed and comfortable...... I just don't know that kind of smile, I won't see it in the future......

Abner sighed, and after a few more words of comfort with his three friends, he was about to turn away. But suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a familiar carriage passing around the corner, and in a moment he remembered that it belonged to Mr. Bryan, whom Mr. Grant revered so much.

The carriage did not stop and after making a circle in front of the Grant clothing store, it headed north.

……

After returning to the teacher's house, Detective Issinger looked at his obviously mentally poor student and comforted: "Don't worry too much, since it was taken away, that little girl should be fine in a short time." ”

"You know that, too?" Abner asked, surprised. The teacher doesn't seem to have been out today?

"I have my own source of information!" Detective Issinger took a puff on his cigarette and replied. He didn't go out today, in fact, it was also to avoid the Storm Church's extraordinary interrogation, after last night's demigod power explosion, the interrogation must be very strong.

Abner nodded at first, then looked at the teacher, gritted his teeth, and made up his mind to request: "Teacher, I hope you can lend me '2-081', just lend it to me for a while a day...... And right at home, I'm not going to take it out. ”

'2-081' is the seal that Detective Issinger Stanton relied on the most, and it was a glorious ring on the outside, and in the center of the ring was a beautiful gem like the human eye, which came from the reader's runaway sequence 6! This seal allows people to understand a lot, understand a lot, and even if the enemy's extraordinary abilities are extraordinary, they can quickly identify specific situations, understand strengths and weaknesses, and have a chance to imitate them to a certain extent.

And Abner's purpose in borrowing it is also very clear, that is, to use the pure white eye to parse the potion recipes of Sequences 7 and 6 of the 'Reader' pathway!

He hadn't been in such a hurry, and he always wanted to wait for the right opportunity to speak to the teacher, but Jane's experience made him understand that some accidents would not happen because he was still weak. For example, Mr. Grant in Sequence 9, he actually played at a super level in the battle that night, but he still had to fight to the death to 'save' his daughter's life. And this so-called 'keeping' is also because of the kindness and mercy of the strong......

Only by becoming strong as soon as possible can you protect yourself and protect your friends!