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“…… That's probably what happened, so now there are two things to do at the same time. One is that Hood Eugen, a member of the Psychological Alchemy Society, is crazy, and the other is the cause of Lady Sharon's death, Captain, which one do we complete first? ”

Dunn asked some more details, rubbed the corners of his forehead, and thought carefully before speaking: "It will start in the afternoon...... It happened to be my turn to monitor the madhouse, we couldn't go directly, and no one knew if there were still members of the Psychic Alchemy Society hidden among the doctors, nurses, handymen, and patients in the asylum, so we had to be hidden enough...... We're sneaking in early tonight. ”

"Okay." Klein responded, and then asked uncertainly, "Shall I go alone to investigate Mrs. Sharon's residence?" ”

"Aren't you going to learn tracking and surveillance techniques? It's a great opportunity to practice. Dunn said, "It just so happens that the part of the Lanerus case that you are responsible for is over." ”

"Okay......" Klein didn't refuse, anyway, completing the task will be counted as a performance in the end, and it will not be difficult to investigate the murder scene.

But by the afternoon, Klein had a deep regret for his simple idea.

"The captain said that the police have cordoned off the scene, and as long as you say hello to them and show your ID, you can enter the investigation, but it doesn't mean that Mr. Maynard's widow and sister hate Mrs. Sharon to the core!"

"Captain can't have forgotten, right?"

With the help of "Joker's" physical control, Crane climbed over the fence and staggered from the water pipe to the second-floor balcony. Because the scene of this murder was extremely terrifying, and the church had already turned to it for help, the police had erected an improvised partition wall, and no one saw it: "They were already suspicious of the death of the councillor, and they were looking for private investigators to find out the 'truth', and now they are very grateful to the murderer for brutally killing Mrs. Sharon, and they even used their own connections to put pressure!" ”

The police had been replaced by their people, and Klein had been harassed for a long time even if he showed his ID, and he was not allowed to go in to investigate.

Entering the bedroom, Klein gasped. A large amount of blood splattered all over the walls and even on the ceiling. There were traces of dragging on the ground, and there were long blood marks left in the corner of the wall where fingers were struggling to escape, combined with the captain's description: limbs were broken, internal organs were hollowed out, and the scene was terrible...... Crane couldn't help but retch. Even after all morning, the blood in the room was still a bright red, as if it was still flowing.

No, I don't want to touch it with my hands at all...... A brief divination did not yield any useful results. Lady Sharon's body is also not here, unable to channel. Finally, his gaze fell on the safe in the room. Crane sighed, closed the door and window in discomfort, and after making sure that no one was snooping, he took out the ceremonial silver dagger and sprayed it with a thin stream of spirituality, allowing it to combine with the forces of nature, sealing the entire room.

He wants to "summon" himself!

I can't pick locks, but no one knows spirits better than I do!

"It's all here, then just do a divination and see if you can find any clues......" Klein took four steps backwards to the mysterious space on the gray mist, pondered for a while, and then wrote a divination sentence on the parchment, "There are extraordinary factors in John Maynard's death. ”

"There were extraordinary factors in John Maynard's death."

After repeating it seven times, he opened his eyes and looked at the pendulum, his pupils shrunk - the citrine pendant was turning clockwise! This means that there is an extraordinary factor in the death of Congressman Maynard!

Klein stared at the slowly calming pendulum, and a huge wave rolled in his heart: "My divination at that time was affected by someone, and it interfered with ......"

"Lady Sharon is an extraordinary, quite a powerful extraordinary?"

Still reciting it silently seven times, it was still the "Spiritual Pendulum Method", and Klein completed the divination and saw the answer with the help of some information related to his current environment and Mrs. Sharon.

Citrine is still spinning clockwise!

Klein gasped softly, and the image that had been in his mind when he saw the scene of the killing—a weak and beautiful woman brutally dismembered and killed by the mob—faded away. Lady Sharon is an extraordinary, so only a stronger extraordinary, can kill her without resistance! Once the supernatural element is involved, the nature of the murder becomes obscure, is it a personal feud between two extraordinary beings, or a confrontation with a hidden organization surging in the dark tide of Tingen?

Thinking of this, Klein suddenly felt creepy, his body was still on the scene! No one can be sure if the murderer will be watching here!

He didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately left the mysterious space and entered the mysterious safe as fast as he could. He found a picture of a young man in it, and with the premise that "Lady Sharon is a powerful extraordinary", Klein did not imagine it wildly, and soon realized that the other party was very likely to be a "witch"!

While groping, Klein was stunned, he found a compartment, and after confirming that there was no danger, he drilled into it, and the objects such as ritual ointment, incense, etc., were reflected in his field of vision, as well as a white bone statue that was cracked but not completely shattered, and it was vaguely a beautiful woman with eyes on the ends of her hair.

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"Having completed all the preparations, Lanerus bewitched Hood Eugen and asked him to help him perform the ritual and use his deceived fiancée Megoos as a vehicle to conceive the heir of the "true creator".

"The kind-hearted Ince Zangwill secretly helped Lanerus by dividing half of the collected characteristics of the Grim Reaper Descendants and implanting them in the body of Megooss a certain amount of time in advance."

"Hood. Eugen put Megoos into a semi-comatose state, and under the nourishment of the days and nights of resentment in the factory area, catalyzed by the actual darkness and oppression, the ritual succeeded, and Megoos became pregnant with the child of the "true creator". The god saw the coincidence, but he, who wanted to break through the blockade of the seven gods, did not refuse. ”

After the success of the ceremony, the mad Lanerus came back to his senses, if the heir of the god was born successfully, then he would become one of the sacrifices, how could a mortal become the father of the heir of the god? This is great blasphemy!"

"He tried to escape, and received a death warning in his dream that night."

"Landus has no choice but to stay in Tingen, but he has to tell the Nightwatchers, the Punishers, and the Mechanical Heart about the 'bomb' so that they can solve the consequences for themselves, and madness always has to pay a price."

……

“…… The members of the Aurora Society, Haynas Vincent and Siris Arepis, were all killed, and before they could get the word out, it would take about a week for Mr. Z, who was far away in another city, to find out that his subordinates had been killed. And when he realized that the mission had almost failed, he had to take time out of his own affairs, return to Tingen as quickly as possible to investigate, and then write a letter to report the Aurora Society. ”

"It's a pity that the sophisticated postman in charge of the area where he is temporarily staying has just taken a leave of absence due to illness, and has been replaced by a new man who is not familiar with the streets here, and the letters he placed in the mailbox will be forgotten by everyone."

……

"After a month, the Aurora Club finally realized the problem."

"On the night of September 3, the messenger of the "true Creator" came."

"It's the Angel of the Abyss! It seems that the deity took this descent very seriously, and his presence would undoubtedly exacerbate the dark tide of chaos beneath the calm surface of Tingen. Coincidentally, He was expected to appear near a house with a red chimney via a spiritual teleportation, which happened to be "

"It's not the one where Ince Zangwill is hiding. He didn't have a target to look for, so he prepared to patrol the city."

(The second sentence is blacked out entirely)

Just then, Lady Sharon came out of her mistress's house, and she had been in a happy and exuberant mood for the last few days after successfully killing John Maynard. So she invited His Highness the Abyss Angel, not knowing that what she was seeking was the favor of the demons. ”

"It's reasonable that she's letting her guard down for successfully completing her mission, and everyone has periods like this. The Abyssal Angel received the blood sacrifice, and he was in a good mood and decided "

(Then the text is covered in a puddle of ink, mixed with mottled bloodstains, and the pages are stained with a few pieces of minced meat, and the original text cannot be read clearly.)

“…… He was pleased with the sacrifice and praised Him without heeding the offensive actions of the audacious Ince Zangwill. ”

"Ince Zangwill's plans continue."

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Dunn receives a report from Klein in the evening that Mrs. Sharon is a member of the Witch Cult and that the broken Evil God Idol in the safe is broken. He didn't dare to slack off, and quickly wrote this matter into a report to reflect upward. In the wee hours of the morning, Dunn and Klein "visited" Hood Eugen in the asylum and dealt with the psychiatrist who had lost almost out of control.

In the middle of the night, he walked and stopped in the huge dreams of all the sleeping people throughout the city, playing the role of a "nightmare" to eat and drink. Klein received a lot of mental shock in the afternoon, so Dunn thoughtfully did not disturb the other party's dreams, leaving a good night's sleep.

He slowly circled around and came to the window of an inn in the center of the city, observing the visitors for any suspicious people. As he walked to the third floor, Dunn found a brown-haired, tortoiseshell-rimmed gentleman sitting alone reading a book, his eyes misty, with delicate snacks and hot black tea and milk on the table.

So he knocked on the door, walked in, and swept away all the food on the three counts of snack shelves, and had an impeccable and perfect afternoon tea in the middle of the night. Dunn enjoyed the "treat" and took off his hat before leaving, making a brief salute to the dream's owner.

But when he went to the entrance and pushed the door to leave, the hem of his trench coat that shook when he turned around scraped off a gray felt-faced notebook that was placed on the shelf at the door. The notebook fell to the ground with a click, and the notes and excerpts inside fell out one after another.

Dunn hesitated, knowing that this was just a dream world, he turned around, apologized to the brown-haired gentleman, and then half-crouched down on the stall to pick up the book's scattered notes.

He didn't notice that the dream owner's smile slowly faded.

At this time, he found that the notebook was covered with dense and distorted text, and it only took one glance to know that it must be Russelvin. I didn't think that this gentleman actually had Russell's notes in his dream world, could it be that he was also a lover of occultism? Thinking of Klein, who was also very interested in Russell's notes, Dunn couldn't help but smile a little, and then—his smile froze at the corners of his mouth.

This notebook is annotated and translated.

Several pages of paper were scattered with translations attached, and a piece of label paper was clamped directly below each Russell text, on which the words were translated in print-like standard Rune.

「…… The key to potions is not mastery, but digestion! It's not to dig, it's to play! And the name of the potion is not only a core symbol, but also a concrete image, and it is also the "key" to digestion!"

"It turns out that there are such secrets hidden in potions and paths...... This can be interchangeable in sequence 4, there is the "Sleepless" pathway and the "corpse collector" pathway, well, the church's "generalist" pathway and "voyeur" pathway can also be substituted for each other in the higher order."

"Playing method" and way are interchanged, is this...... Dunn's pupils instantly shrank to the size of a pinpoint, and he suddenly remembered something, thinking of Klein's "safe way to grasp potions from the aphorisms of the voyeurs", thinking of the escaped archbishop Ince Zangwill, who failed to promote Sequence 4, and thinking of the ashes of St. Selena, the holy relic behind Chanis's door, he felt as if a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and lightning split the chaos that had been clueless, but he didn't have time to grab it, and the few pages in his hand disappeared in an instant.

“…… I'm ready to let you go, Mr. Nightmare. ”

The middle-aged gentleman sitting on the single sofa somehow put down the book in his hand and looked at him with tender, sympathetic eyes.

Dunn's head thumped.

Can't turn on the vision! Can't turn on the vision!!

Come on! No, no! If you run away, you will die, and if you stay, you will die! Can't make a sound, there's nowhere to run!!

What is this?! Why does Tingen have such a thing?! I'm going to die, but I'm going to find a way to get the message across—

Dunn felt an endless fear of death in his gaze, unable to tremble violently against his flesh's instincts. He didn't want to leave the dream world immediately to seek life, but behind the glass-shattered dream world was not his bedroom, but a deep black secret realm: the mountain peaks that seemed to be piled up with the huge corpses of monsters at his feet, the pitch-black ocean at the foot of the mountain lapped the blood-red waves on the cliffs, and at the end of his vision was a liquid black mist that seemed to cover the world.

With that couch as the center, the deep darkness that spread engulfed everything.

The gentleman smiled and asked him, "But why do you want to die?" ”

TBC

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* Investigator Dunn casually rolls a dice, and the dice are a great success of the investigation, attracting the unpleasant gaze of the evil god.

* Presumably, by this time, everyone should be more or less aware of what kind of god Edward (the King of Decay) is, so he will not go to the Tarot Society. If his chaotic evil goes up, the first thing is to remember the breath of all the people, and then confirm whether the fool is a celestial venerable, once he realizes that the fool is not, he will touch it and kill everyone according to the impression in his memory, so that no one on the earth can become the master of mystery until the end of the world.

*Why can't I change the avatar and ID, ?!?!?!ahhhh