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Crane froze, then frowned deeply, thinking about organizational language, "No, old Kohler, you don't have to."

"I commissioned you to be my informant and help me investigate the current situation in the East End, so you deserve these expenses."

"As for Liv, I don't know if I can help her find her missing little daughter, and I just want to do it, and I don't need to be paid."

"Even so......" The guilt of cheating on Crane Sr. Khloe pained the fact that he had concealed the fact that the members of the Aurora Society had successfully hidden in the East Side with the assistance of Miss Maria, and that Mr. A had been a missionary in the East Side. They are all good people, but there is no doubt that they are cults, although the smart Mr. Detective may soon find out, but the feeling of deceiving the benefactor is still extremely tormenting, and he can't help but lower his head,

"Please take it."

"......" Crane sighed, and had to take a 5 Sol note from it, stopping old Kohler from continuing to stuff money into his hand, "I have received your wishes, but, old Kohler, you also have a daughter to raise, your daughter is so thin, don't you want to buy her more food?" Keep this for your Taylor. ”

Old Kohler was stunned, thinking of his daughter, who was tired and haggard every day, and could no longer say the words that came to his lips.

"Thank you, thank you, you are such a good person." He wiped his eyes vigorously, "I see." ”

Crane breathed a sigh of relief, put on his hat, and said with a smile, "Then take me to Liv's house."

192

Joe Wood District.

Hugh began his life as a bounty hunter again, and Forth, in order to speed up the progress of the new book, finally completed the manuscript of the play with Mr. Edward Vaughn today. Having successfully completed the editorial office by November, and will be able to receive her remuneration after today, she hopes to save up enough money for the extraordinary materials needed by the "master of tricks" as soon as possible.

But writing a new book is something like a thing that you can't necessarily write if you want to. Before the appointed time with Mr. Edward had arrived, Furth grabbed his hair irritably, and decided to go out for a walk in search of inspiration.

As she walked, she found herself unconsciously back in a familiar place. Diagonally in front of her was the Yusuf Clinic, where she first worked, a sizable private practice.

After staring for a while, Fur thought of the old lady who had led him into the otherworld, turned into the alley on the right, and approached a nearby street. The old lady lived in the house at No. 39 as she remembered—she would occasionally deliver medicine or injections, or even help with daily chores.

"It's been almost three years, and it should be rented out again, maybe several tenants...... I still remember that when I came to sort out the relics, I found a lot of notes recording the occult experience...... "It was a long time in winter, and the trees were withering, and Furth walked under the plane tree, which had no leaves left, and slowly approached the house at No. 39. Reminiscing about her past experiences, she gradually gained some inspiration to write.

At that moment, she saw an old man in a heavy tweed coat and a half-height black top hat standing at the door of House 39 and ringing the doorbell three times.

After a few minutes, no one opened the door, and the old man with blue eyes shook his head and turned around, whispering in confusion: "Still no one ......"

He suddenly found Furth, who was staying not far away, looking at this side, hurriedly took a step, walked over, and smiled gently and eagerly: "Beautiful lady, do you live in this neighborhood?" Do you know Lauboro and Ann Lisa? ”

Ann Lisa? Isn't that the old lady's name? This house has no tenants recently? "I don't know if the Mrs. Lisa I know is the one you're looking for, she lived here for a long time, but passed away three years ago. ”

"Passed away three years ago? What about Lauboro? The old man, who only had some wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, hurriedly asked.

"Her husband died before her." She answered honestly.

The old man was stunned for a moment, and immediately showed a sad expression. He was silent for a moment and said, "Thank you, kind lady.

"I'm the elder brother of Lauboro, and I've been living in Makai County, and I haven't heard a letter from them for a long time, so I decided to come and have a look.

"Can you tell me a little bit about their years?"

The older brother of Mrs. Ann Lisa's husband...... Could it be the descendants of the family she was talking about? Furth suddenly woke up and responded with a smile: "No problem. She thought quickly about what she could and couldn't say.

The old man pointed to the side and said, "There's a nice café there......"

Foirth was about to nod his head in agreement, when he suddenly heard a familiar male voice from behind him: "Miss Foirth?"

This voice is...... I forgot that Mr. Edward Vaughn lived in Jowood, and was it so close to his home? She turned her head, and sure enough, she saw her acquaintance. Furth was stunned for a moment: "Hello, Mr. Vaughn, I'm taking a walk, it's not our agreed time yet, is it?" I might have to talk to the old gentleman first. ”

Holding a handbag to be used for manuscripts, Edward, who was wearing a dark gray tweed coat, looked at his watch when he heard this, and then smiled at Forth: "No problem, there is still more than an hour before our appointment." Miss Forthth, you can do your thing first. ”

"Okay." Furth relaxed and stroked his hair.

The old man from Abraham's family looked at Edward vaguely, but he didn't see any clues, and the spiritual intuition of the "astrologer" did not foreshadow it, so he thought that he was just an ordinary person.

Now that he had met Firth and had not been long before the agreed time, Edward cancelled his original reservation and decided to go with them. After obtaining the consent of the two of them, they followed to the café. Furth and the old man entered a cubicle in the café to talk, while she sat down in the booth outside, put down her purse, ordered a cup of coffee, a cake, found a newspaper, and waited patiently for them to finish.

Abraham's remnants came looking for someone? It doesn't look like they're coming for Folth, which means they came across what could well be an extraordinary aggregation of properties, a coincidence...... The waiter puts the coffee beans into the tool and slowly grinds the coffee with a hand-cranked rocker, the rustling sound sounds very decompressing.

She ordered the best coffee beans the little café could use, and the hazelnut cake was freshly made and served in minutes. Edward didn't go out of his way to listen to the conversation between Firth and the old man, and waited leisurely for the food and coffee to be served, so that he could relax and pass the time for a while.

As the waiter brought the espresso to the table, Edward noticed that Furth had walked out, but instead of going to her, he asked the waiter for the location of the bathroom and left.

After a few more minutes, Edward suddenly felt a familiar, eerie pinprick chill.

This extremely strange feeling is the breath of the Source Fort that belongs to the Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun that is still fresh in the memory of the Decaying King!

In this case, facing Yuanbao and Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun?! Covered by layers of clothing, Edward's arms blinked with goosebumps, and the stress response almost made her realize all the fine scales and exoskeletons. But in the next second, she was forcibly calmed down, and the Decaying King pushed aside the part of the human's consciousness and temporarily took control of the body. She looked up, but the ethereal feeling that belonged to the Source Fort was gone, and in its place—

Furth left the bathroom and reappeared in her eyes.

Her body was shrouded in a thin layer of gray mist.

193

Above the gray mist, after putting down the paper figure and completing Firth's prayer, Crane put the matter of the Abrahams behind for the time being.

According to the original plan, he took out a pen and paper and wrote the next divination sentence: "Daisy's current situation. ”

Placing the pen, Crane folded Daisy's word book and the paper on which the divination statements were written, and held it in his left hand.

Then, leaning back in his chair, he meditated on "Daisy's current situation" over and over again.

After seven times, Crane fell asleep, first dark and red, then gray. Pictures flashed one after another, some coherent, some jumping, and some illogical.

Crane saw Liv's youngest daughter, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl who had been repeatedly scalded by the steam but still insisted on ironing her clothes, being dragged into a fork in the middle of nowhere, by a man in a heavy jacket and a gray and black cap with a handkerchief covering her mouth from behind.

Another man dressed in the same costume grabbed her legs and, together with his companions, lifted her up and walked as fast as she could.

Their goal was the carriage parked outside the alley. The whole process was over in less than two minutes, and by the time Daisy's sister Freya turned back to look for it, the carriage had already left.

……

In the middle of the carriage, Daisy, who was in a daze, was pressed to the face with a cold, sharp dagger, and dirty threatening words were whispered in her ears.

……

The carriage pulled into the luxurious villa of Capin.

……

Daisy was in a small, dark room, where the cries, screams, and curses of women echoed from time to time.

……

Daisy came to her senses and shouted for help, but someone opened the door and kicked her over, and she couldn't stand up in pain. She burst into tears and kept whispering the words "Mommy" and "Fleia".

…………

Crane opened his eyes and found that the paper in his left palm had been crumpled into a ball by himself at some point.

He had already established that Capping was the leader of many of the disappearances of young girls, and that he was the boss of a criminal syndicate.

But the problem is that this eucalyptus should not and cannot involve too strong extraordinary powers, at most a few money-hungry Sequence 7 or Sequence 8 and Sequence 9 will not allow Crane to feel a strong danger through his spiritual intuition as soon as he approaches the villa.

Even if the danger level is raised higher, it shouldn't be to the point where Maria, the gang leader in the East Side, is a rat trap. After all, Maria should be at least a mid-sequence extraordinary, and an extraordinary person like the "lawyer" who is good at both close quarters and ability combat, not to mention that there are other subordinates who actually need a private detective to investigate the internal route, in order to infiltrate to save people instead of fighting head-on, which is really strange.

Could it be that Capping himself is a Sequence 6, or even a Sequence 5 extraordinary? But it is not difficult for extraordinary people at this level to make money, there is no need to do such dirty and tedious things anymore, directly find various gangsters, and collect protection money one by one, which is simpler and easier than this, and will not dirty their hands...... Could it be that there is some hidden plot in the case of human trafficking in Kapin? Crane pondered as he used the power of the gray mist to restore Daisy's word book to a smooth and tidy level.

After a few seconds of silence, he again embodied a piece of parchment and wrote a new divination statement: "Saving Daisy is a dangerous thing. ”

After a few seconds of calm, he closed his eyes and silently recited the divination sentence he had just written. When the sound stopped, Crane opened his eyes and looked at the pendulum in his left hand. The citrine pendant is turning clockwise, quite fast, quite large!

This is an affirmation, and it means that saving Daisy is a rather dangerous thing to do!

So Miss Maria, she ...... No, it's dangerous for me, but it shouldn't be a complete despair for her, and there's a lot of possibility, as long as I can get it, if I can get a complete roadmap, or if I can help them in some special way, as long as I can do it...... Crane interprets the revelations given by the "Spiritual Pendulum Method".

He leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and laughed at himself, "Aren't you looking for an opportunity to take the initiative?" ”

"This is!"

"As a magician, after all, you still have to challenge something difficult, otherwise you should be called a master of tricks, not a magician. Accomplishing the seemingly impossible, even if the result is false, this is the image of a magician in my heart, and it remains to be confirmed whether it is one of the rules......"

"But my primary goal is still to get a road map, and then help Miss Maria who has infiltrated while I can keep myself safe, at least not to let her operation fail."

Thinking of this, Crane regained a little more sense, tapped his fingers on the edge of the ancient long table, and quickly made a decision. The biggest difficulty for him, or for Maria, at the moment to save Daisy and deal with Caping is that he doesn't know each other at all, and he doesn't know how many extraordinary people there are in that villa, and which path and which sequence they belong to.

This makes it impossible for Crane to prepare for it, and it is the reason why Maria has no choice but to turn to the detective at the end.

And for the "magician", the first rule is, "Don't do unprepared performances"!

"Actually, if I can't even make connections with Miss Maria in this respect, then I should be able to turn to Miss 'Justice' or Miss 'Magician' and her friends. Unless, I do it myself, get the information I want from the servants or bodyguards who come out of the Caping Villa, in a 'psychic' way. ”

The plan and steps were finalized, and in an instant, his figure disappeared into the majestic palace above the gray mist.

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After lunch, Crane followed his plan and successfully possessed a man who was serving Kapin. And take control of his body and go to a nearby cheap inn to perform summoning and channeling rituals.

I saw the man Huo Ran turn over and sit up, opened his eyes, and looked quite sluggish. He straightened up, walked step by step to the altar, and whispered, "O fool who does not belong to this age; ”

"You are the mysterious lord above the gray mist;"

"You are the Yellow and Black King who rules good fortune."

In the monotonous but rhythmic whisper, in the fragrance that makes it difficult to concentrate, the man's spirit gradually diverges, and the whole person becomes muddy but maintains a certain degree of strange lucidity, as if he is conducting self-hypnosis. With the "help" of Creon in the spirit form, and under the influence of the feedback brought by the recitation of the "Fool's" honorable name, he gradually entered the state of "artificial sleepwalking", and the star spirit body approached the gray mist at infinity, and approached the mysterious place above the gray mist.

Crane seized the opportunity to end the summons and return to the majestic ancient palace to take his place as the Fool.

??

"Who are the powerful people in Villa Kaping?" Crane asked, through the interactive spirituality.

Without the slightest resistance, the phantom passed the image from his memory, making Crane feel like he was watching a holographic movie: the man in the cap stood fearfully and respectfully in the room, in front of a middle-aged gentleman in a black tuxedo and a white hairdress.

This gentleman had a long, thin and serious face, and his mouth was naturally pursed, giving people an unusually cold feeling. There was a mysterious glint in his eyes that made it impossible to disobey his words.

???? ……

The man in the cap carried an unconscious girl down the stairs to the entrance of the underground area.

There, there was a small room separated from it, and in it sat a bearded man whose age was not discernible was seated. The bearded man, with his cold blue eyes and a fine flannel cloth in his hand, was earnestly wiping the off-white complex rifle on the table. The rifle was thick and long, and was piped to a large mechanical box of the same color.

A dangerous person in possession of a controlled firearm.

???? ……

The man in the cap entered the neatly laid out underground building like a prison, locked the unconscious girl in one of the small rooms, and reluctantly touched the sensitive parts of the other.

He locked the door, returned to the hallway, and picked up the lantern. Just then, he saw a figure walking slowly from the depths of the corridor at the other end. The figure's gaze seemed to see through the darkness, and it was not carrying any lighting devices.

The man in the cap took advantage of the light of the lantern and found that it was a woman in her thirties. The woman wears a brown floppy hat with a cocked middle, a thin white shirt and suspender trousers, and a pair of knee-length cowhide-colored boots. She had a few old scars on her face, and a cruel smile on her lips.

A woman with a fierce temperament and seems to be good at martial arts.

No new characters have appeared since then. There are four extraordinaires in total, at least four of them...... The strongest should be that Mr. Heras, at least Sequence 6, maybe even Sequence 5...... I don't know what the path is, it's somewhat similar to the "Black Emperor" path...... Relying on order and issuing decrees? According to the scene just now, it can be preliminarily judged that the ban is only for the underground area, not the entire villa, and it is also that people come and go during the day, and once it is banned, it is too troublesome to enter and exit...... I wonder if it's the same at night...... Crane analyzed the information he had just obtained, and asked again:

"What does the overall layout of the villa look like?"

He quickly received feedback and saw scenes such as the resplendent hall, the elegant and spacious dining room, the corridor that runs through the first floor, the washroom, the underground area, and so on.

Through them, Crane pieced together the general layout of the Caping Villa in his mind. And he quickly drew an accurate sketch, and the time was urgent, and he was ready to hand it to Miss Maria himself in a moment.

Otherwise, according to the speed of the Beckland postman, I don't know when this letter will be delivered, and now it is a real saving life like fighting a fire, and in order to prevent worse things from happening, I can't delay for a minute......

Crane took a silent breath, his expression becoming determined.

TBC

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* In order to conceal the divination of Abraham's family, Firth asked the Fool for a paper angel.

This part of the plot is long, and I have to take it apart.

The next chapter should be ready to go.

In the previous chapter, I mentioned one of the children raised by the Ernst Foundation, little Alia, so I would like to add a small setting by the way.

Orphans raised by the Ernst Foundation, without a name, without a token, without a birth certificate, and without a parent to recognize, will first take a name and then let them give themselves a surname, or put together the surnames of the people in charge by lot.

Alia's name was drawn by lot, and she chose to take the surname of the director of the Tingen Workhouse, so her full name was Alia Vigliana.