Start with the Readers Chapter 13: Interrogation

"He was backlashed by the sealed item, and his mobility was limited. It took less than a day, and he was unlikely to run very far. According to the scene I just traced back, he didn't board the subway, but went straight out of the station! "

"When you are backlashed by the sealed items of the 'demon' sequence, you will generally long for the human soul with strong desires, and sacrifice it to the devil to calm down the backlash against yourself."

"Then Abner, here comes the question, where do you think the people around here have the strongest desire and are the easiest to kill?"

While leading the way, Detective Essinger told the two Abners around him about his analysis and asked questions with great interest.

"The desire is the strongest... Could it be that he is in a nearby brothel or the mansion of a noble and wealthy businessman?" Abner thought after thinking for a while.

Essinger was speechless for a moment. Did his students put prostitutes and nobles side by side? He had no choice but to remind: "There are more than one human desires... and this is the Jowood District, there is no brothel... and there may be bodyguards in the mansions of nobles and rich merchants, killing people rashly without investigation. It's easy to fail."

Abner was thoughtful when he heard the words. After all, he is a traveler, and his knowledge of this world and this city is still very superficial. It is normal to make mistakes when he lacks experience.

At this time, Xio directly interjected: "It's a bar! Although there are no brothels in the Jowood District, many women who are hungry for money will go to high-end bars to find targets! And the men who are fishy will naturally go there... Plus There must be an underground casino and all kinds of eating, drinking and entertainment in the upper bar, where the most lustful people are!"

"That's right, the little girl is right! And there are four bars in the entire Jorwood area, one of which is far away from here and can be ruled out, and the other two are particularly high-end. The Cathedral of the Wind is not too far away, and it is possible to meet members of the Punisher team relaxing and having fun in it, which can also be ruled out. The last one is the Blue Spirit Bar three blocks away, and the traces I found point to there !” Essinger nodded approvingly.

……

In a corner of the Blue Spirit Bar, two groups of five or six drunks were confronting each other holding bottles. field. And in a shadow next to them that no one noticed, a figure quietly emerged. With a cruel smile on his face, the figure raised the three-edged thorn in his hand, intending to take advantage of the chaos to create a **** crime and make the situation completely out of control.

He succeeded, and the sudden blood made the two sides who were already at war completely red-eyed, and each took up the weapon at hand to attack each other, and the scene became even more chaotic!

And that figure appeared on the edge of these people from time to time, and every time it appeared, it would take away a life.

After the dozens of people were all lying in a pool of blood, he cautiously appeared in a shadow outside the bar. After wiping the blood on the triangular thorns, the assassin suddenly felt Something was wrong, because such a big conflict just now did not attract the security of the bar to intervene, and he didn't think of such a big flaw until now!

As soon as he thought of this, he made a decisive decision to sneak into the shadows and escape from here.

It's a pity that his stealth action failed! At the same time, an order in ancient Hermetic language seemed to be faintly heard in his ears: Shadow stealth is forbidden here.

"Judge"! "nightmare"! These two words surfaced in his mind; he couldn't help being terrified, how could he actually let a Sequence 6 and a Sequence 7 join forces to deal with them.

Before he finished his thoughts, he smelled a pleasant fragrance of flowers in his nose, and he said badly, but before he had time to react, he completely fell unconscious.

Until this time, an illusory curtain seemed to be broken, and the people who had been fighting to death raised their glasses to fight each other again, and there was a fiery look everywhere, as if the fire just now was not just a dream.

"It was indeed a dream! The ability combination of nightmare + judge + pharmacist, unexpectedly took down a Transcendent with at least Sequence 8 so quietly. And this is only because these abilities are weaker than the original version. In less cases..."

While Abner and Hugh secretly transferred the captives to a nearby remote alley, they were terrified by the methods of the great detective Isinger.

At this time, Isinger took off the ring on his hand, and introduced to the two with a smile: "This is one of my extraordinary items, and it used to be code-named '2-081' , comes from a 'reader' path of out-of-control sequence 6, it allows me to identify, see clearly, remember and simulate all the extraordinary abilities I have seen, the stronger the extraordinary ability I face, the higher the probability of failure. Of course , even if it succeeds, there must be a big gap with the original version.”

Abner knew about this thing a long time ago, so he didn't take it seriously. He just poked in his heart, thinking that since this ring is formed by the extraordinary characteristics of an extraordinary person, it might be possible to analyze the potion formula from it with the pure white eye. Come on, it seems that when you go to the teacher's house to study, you need to observe more.

But Xio asked in puzzlement: "'2-081'?" She is not an official Extraordinary, so naturally she doesn't know the meaning of the code name.

"Many mystical items have obvious hidden dangers and will cause certain harm. Therefore, the churches of the seven orthodox gods are collecting and sealing them, calling them 'sealed items', and distinguishing them with numerical codes. "

"After lengthy disputes and exchanges, the Church of the Seven Gods has formed a unified nomenclature, using '0', '1', '2', and '3' to identify different danger levels, among which '0' level The most dangerous, it is said to be some terrible items that can destroy the country and even the world.”

"The churches of the seven orthodox gods will inform each other on the '0' and '1' sealed items, telling each other what they own, so the '0' and '1' codes will not be repeated Yes, '2' and '3' are ranked separately, and different churches may have the same code."

Essinger briefly explained a few words. During this process, the three dragged the attacker to the corner of a deep alley. The big detective squatted down and lifted a manhole cover on the ground, revealing a dark pothole inside.

"This is one of the safe houses I dug, don't worry, there is no danger."

Hugh and Abner looked at each other, took a deep breath and jumped down. Essinger, on the other hand, supported the ladder on the side of the pothole and climbed down the steps, and pulled the manhole cover back to its original position.

After lighting the candle, Abner discovered that this was not a real well, but a cave about 20 square meters in size and four meters deep. There is another door to the east of the cave, I don't know where it leads.

"That leads to the real sewer nearby! If it's blocked by someone, that's the emergency exit." Essinger noticed Abner's gaze, explained something, and then clapped his hands and said: "Okay Now, while the effect of the psychedelic potion has not disappeared, let's interrogate the attacker. I learned the ability of a 'mind reader' before, and it should be able to make him spit out the truth,"

Neither Abner nor Hugh had any objections, and they also wanted to know if there was a mastermind behind this person.

"My name is Turner, I am the 'instigator' of Sequence 8, and I belong to an organization called 'Society Society'. The online is a 'witch' named Lina. I have been in single-line contact with her, but I haven't seen her." other organization members."

"More than half a year ago, the organization gave me the task of trafficking human beings to several human traffickers through Lina without arousing the vigilance of the church... So I used a false identity named Xi Ke and joined a The usury gangster intends to perform the role while completing the task. So I instigated the gang leader Rosen to create a loan contract with traps, and used my extraordinary ability to persuade those lenders to accept the contract blindly, causing many families to die, and then abducted their families Mission accomplished."

"A month ago, due to my good performance, Lina suddenly appeared and rewarded me with a triangular thorn, an extraordinary weapon. I asked her when she could give me the Sequence 7 potion formula, but she said meaningfully Said that my consciousness is not enough. Then I left."

"As for the badge, it was discovered during a debtor's repayment. It is a powerful item that can curse Extraordinary people through emotions! It's a pity that it was damaged when the curse was backfired before. I don't know if it can be repaired. "

"In addition, I haven't found another strange badge. It looks very ordinary ~IndoMTL.com~ and has no function, but the text on it makes me think it should be a token of an organization... "

Hearing his words with blank eyes, Essinger frowned, searched in his pocket, and found another badge.

"Is this it?"

"Yes!"

So the eyes of the three focused on the badge, which was only the size of an eyeball, with symbols of fate and concealment engraved on the front, and a circle of compact ancient Hermes inscriptions on the back:

"If you hold this item, you can join."

Abner still doesn't know the ancient Hermes language, but Xio beside him has already directly read the meaning in it.

"Maybe this is a clue to a certain treasure!" Isinger suddenly became interested. As a detective, he likes to solve puzzles.

Abner shook his head. This badge was introduced in the original novel. He didn't recognize it at first, but after hearing the meaning of the inscription, he immediately remembered it, and told Hugh and Essinger Road:

"This is the proof of the destiny hermit gathering, and it is also a communication device and a positioning device."

"The Hermit of Destiny... what is that?" Essinger looked at his student in puzzlement, and at the same time Xio cast his gaze over.

"It is a secret organization formed by several thief families in the middle and late period of the Quaternary Epoch. Most of them are people related to the thief sequence." Abner didn't intend to say more, but only explained a little.

"Abner, you know the secrets of the Quaternary Epoch very well!" Essinger sighed slightly, but did not ask further.

Actually, I'm pretty good at the Third Epoch, but I'm afraid that if I say it, I'll be ruined immediately. Abner laughed at himself in his heart, and then continued to ask Turner:

"How often do you contact Lina? Does she know that you are cursing Xio?"