Mystery: Start with the Reader

v1 Chapter 208: Weird hotel

Of course, impulse goes back to impulse, but Abner didn't really run away.

After all, although he once again had "crank thinking" similar to "prophecy", he did not foresee too strong warning signs.

This shows that even if the storm last week was a bit wrong, the matter should be over long ago. At this moment, the small town of Kangwa, there is a high probability that there is no danger outside his ability.

And this point is also consistent with his previous divination results using "Solomon's Gold Coins".

Seeing that Abner's attention seemed to be focused on the two ladies behind him, the public school teacher Black was a little puzzled, and then thought of a rumor in a tabloid, so he smiled clearly and said:

"Abner, Susan, Roman, let me introduce you. These two beautiful ladies are Miss Emma and Miss Fanny. They accepted Atrou's invitation and joined our camp temporarily."

Yatru is one of the three male students present. Abner is not very familiar with him, only knows that his family seems to be in the jewelry business.

Then, Blake introduced the three of Abner to Emma and Fanny. The two ladies didn't care much at first, but nodded reservedly to maintain basic politeness.

But when I heard that Abner was the most famous "hero detective" recently, the eyes of Miss Emma with long black hair suddenly lit up, showing a look of interest.

There are many legendary stories about Detective Brian, and every story seems to involve extraordinary...As a "decryption scholar", Emma is naturally interested in his experience.

However, just when Emma was about to talk to her, Fanny pulled her sleeves by her side, and the beautiful lady shook her head invisibly at her, beckoning not to get out of the way.

After all, this "hero detective" is a top reasoning master who claims to be able to restore the whole picture of the incident in a few details in the reports of major newspapers.

Talking up with him, if you accidentally reveal something, wouldn't it reveal their true purpose of coming to the small town of Kangwa?

Thanks to the extraordinary ability of the "Deciphering Scholar" immediately, Emma instantly understood the meaning of her friend. She immediately curbed her lively temperament and skillfully pretended to be arrogant.

But what they didn't know was that Abner knew their details a long time ago.

Needless to say, Ms. Fanny, who is in good shape, Abner had judged that she was the "craftsman's agent" lady who had been asking for the "Barbarian" potion formula at the teacher's party.

As for Emma, ​​when she didn't know what her name was before, Abner only thought she was a wild "decryption scholar" and at most joined the "Fate Hermit Society."

But after learning her name, Abner instantly connected her to the daughter of Viscount Horatio in the mouth of Miss Haruer.

After all, the names are the same. All of them are students of Backlund University, all have the reputation of being "weird", and they are all born out of ordinary... With so many conditions together, it can almost be determined that they are the same person.

After greeted the three boys again, Mr. Black led the crowd into the restaurant of the "Old John" Hotel for dinner.

Abner thought that the hotel conditions in a country town would be relatively rudimentary. This can be seen from the casual name of "Old John" and the exterior decoration of the hotel.

Unexpectedly, after entering the hotel, he suddenly felt a refreshing feeling.

Because the exterior house looks small, but the inside is not like that...Most of the rooms and facilities in the hotel are actually underground!

Moreover, the decoration of the underground part obviously has the architectural style of the Quaternary period, not the kind of mechanical and arty style, but the real ancient charm.

At least, even Abner, who has a lot of knowledge about the Quaternary, didn't see anything wrong.

The only thing that made him feel uncomfortable was that there seemed to be some architectural features of tombs... For example, there were a lot of "Hermes" decorations carved on the walls of the dining room.

It should be known that in addition to the application of Hermes in the field of occult, the most common is the sacrificial inscriptions used in tombs.

Emma, ​​a "decipherer", obviously saw this too. She pondered for a moment, and then suddenly asked Yarut, the boy next to her who nominally invited her to camp, "Do you know what the decoration of this restaurant is? Is it designed by a master? I think it’s great."

How could Yalut know this, he rushed to the front desk of the hotel with a guilty complaint, and returned after a while, and said in a standard recitation tone:

"This restaurant has a long history. Rumors existed in the Quaternary Period when it was built by a priest who was good at cooking.

"Of course, the original building was destroyed in the war, and the current hotel house was rebuilt about a hundred years ago... Since the manuscript of the pastor's design has been kept, it has been restored so perfectly. .

"As for why its name is called'Old John', that's because the name of the person who rebuilt it is called this."

Emma nodded thoughtfully when she heard this.

On the other side, after putting a piece of chicken pie in his mouth, Abner became more and more confused about the layout of the hotel.

After entering the restaurant, he felt more and more that the interior decoration of this hotel did not seem to be designed for living people, except that there were not too many occult runes, the overall layout of the hotel was almost like a tomb...

And the texture details of some of the decorations are somewhat similar to some rituals recorded in the Book of the Necropolis...

Which priest is the priest who built the hotel in the Quaternary era? Isn’t it Reaper’s?

Why did he come to build a hotel similar to a cemetery near Backlund?

Could it be the dark hand of Death buried in the Northern Continent during the Battle of the Four Emperors?

Guessing in his mind, Abner didn't worry about it. After all, there was any conspiracy, which was more than a thousand years ago. This is just a "fake" built according to the blueprint.

This is not his gullibility, but a fact that has been verified with "pure white eyes".

...

After dinner, a group of young people gathered in the lobby of the hotel to communicate for a while, and then they returned to the room arranged for them by Mr. Black.

On the basement floor ~lightnovelpub.net~ in the room closest to the stairs.

Emma looked at the gas lamps that illuminate the entire suite, and joked to her friend who was finishing the equipment: "The Detective Bryan's eyes have been turning on you just now."

When Fanny heard the words, she put a bullet into the revolver, and then replied: "The'hero detective' should pay attention to you, after all, you are a'thief' and I am a glamorous'lawyer'."

Emma glanced at her friend and continued to tease: "I don't think you understand what I mean..."

But before she finished her words, she saw Fanny turn her gun around, and had to change the subject forcibly: "When are we going?"

"That ruin is not far from here. We will leave when everyone else is asleep in the middle of the night... Well, try to come back before dawn." Fanny said after putting the revolver into the gun bag.

...

In the middle of the night, Abner, who heard the slight footsteps in the corridor, suddenly opened his eyes.