Mystery: Start with the Reader

v1 Chapter 30: Backtracking

   Early on Thursday morning, Abner, who was restless all night, left the house early.

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

   "Extra! Extraordinary! There is another big case in the Joe Wood area, the Grant clothing store is bloody, and the West Vilas field is helpless!"

   "Grant clothing store? No way?!" Abner heard his heart jump, with a very bad premonition, he hurriedly stopped the newsboy and bought a copy of the Backlund Morning Post.

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

   "Sure enough, something happened to Jane!" He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and kept watching. Then it was discovered that the time of the attack on the Grant family was extremely consistent with the time when the demigod power burst last night!

"The position is roughly right... Damn, what happened in her family, how could it provoke the power of a demigod?" Abner felt a little uncomfortable when he thought that the straight and lively little girl might have encountered an accident. .

   "Maybe Mr. Grant was discovered by the authorities? Or what disaster did he cause when he went out to collect the corpse?" After squeezing his chin and speculating for a while, Abner finally realized that there is no point in guessing without clues, and his heart is still confused...

   After calming herself again through meditation, Abner decided to go to Jane's house and have a look. After all, in the state of pure white eyes, he is already half a "knowledge guard". And the nickname of "Knowledge Keeper" is also called "Detective"!

   "Furthermore, finding clues and reasoning about the truth of the case is also the need of the'reasoning student', isn't it?

  ...

  Under the Holy Wind Cathedral, the captain of the surrogate squad, who has been obviously haggard recently, asked: "Has Grant Clothing Store been determined to be the battlefield of the Rose School of Temperance and Indulgence?"

"Yes, Captain. They escaped in a hurry, and there was no time to clean up the'trace' of the battle. But in some places, because of the high-personal power involved, our guardians could not'retrospect the scene'." A surrogate player member Replied. Then I briefly recounted the content of the backtracking scene.

   "Where can't I look back?" the captain asked after listening carefully.

   "After the power of that Mr. Grant summoning the higher person comes, you can no longer go back to any scene. So we don't know who the master of that power is, and how they finally escaped."

The captain groaned for a while before he said, "According to Lord Snake, the'Singer of God', that power should come from the'Reaper'... You don't have to think too much, this should refer to the high sequence strength of the Reaper pathway. Seeing that his subordinates nodded, he continued, "Now, you have three tasks in total. First, find the whereabouts of the Rose School of Indulgence. According to the retrospective scene, the werewolf’s state should be unstable. Maybe he can't control the urge to commit the crime and look for clues from this aspect. Second, find the Grant father and daughter. Especially the Mr. Grant, he will not become an Extraordinary for no reason, and he has several Extraordinary items. Find out who he has been in close contact with, and check them one by one. Third, read the information of the church to find out what the effect of the'Crimson Moon Crown' is, so that we won't suffer in future encounters."

   "Yes, Captain"

  ...

   It was almost eight o'clock when Abner arrived at the Grant Clothing Store. The police set up a cordon outside the shop. There were many people outside the line, including reporters, neighbors, people who simply watched the show, and friends like Abner who were worried about Jane who came to visit.

   A middle-sized girl with freckles in the crowd saw Abner sharp-eyed, and immediately waved to him: "Ebner, are you here too?!"

   Following her words, the men and women around her also turned their heads at the same time.

Seeing that Jane’s other friends came here, Abner was inconspicuous. First, he was quietly relieved, and then nodded: "Susan, Roman, Custer, long time no see! I read the newspaper this morning. Knowing something happened to Jane, I rushed over to see the situation."

   These three young men and women also have a good relationship with the original Abner. They are all public school classmates. Susan, the girl with freckles, had also collected money for renting a house for him. Later, after selling the formula and getting the first funds, the traversal version of Abner paid her back when she went back to public school to go through the graduation formalities.

   "So are we! I heard that Jane was taken away, I hope she is okay!" At this point, the three of them were obviously worried.

   After exchanging a few words with them, Abner quietly opened the pure white eyes and carefully observed the damaged parts of the store door and some details of the part of the store that could be seen. The spell-like ability of scene backtracking is not an unfounded backtracking. The more details and clues, the more complete the backtracking scene will be.

   At this time, when a policeman was cleaning up the rubble in the shop, he quietly put a piece of melted copper into his pocket. This action is very concealed, but it has not concealed Abner, who has opened the pure white eyes.

   "Is that... my brass charm?" Although the copper sheet has been deformed, Abner's spirituality has immediately determined that it was from his own hands! And some spiritual remnants and traces on this piece of copper also complement the necessary conditions for ‘scene backtracking’.

   Abner did not hesitate to launch the "scene backtracking" in the state of pure white eyes, and then he saw Mr. Grant who was knocked down and knocked over the clothes rack;

   saw him running back toward the corridor and inspiring the brass charm;

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

   saw Mr. Grant's complexion blowing a whistle and summoning a large black mist;

   saw the death of Mr. Grant and a delicate-looking female ghost wearing a small black soft hat flashed out of the broken glass and rescued Jane;

   Finally, he saw another old man with a black soft hat, a black robe embroidered with a storm symbol, and an unusually serious silver eye fell from the sky and took the whistle that fell on the ground.

   The backtracking was over, and the pure white eyes closed. Abner took off his glasses and rubbed his swollen head with his hands. It took a while before he returned to normal.

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

   "No, I'm just worried about Jane... Hey, I'm still too useless, I can't help with anything!" Abner said half-truth. He now knows that Jane and his family have a high probability of encountering unsuspecting disasters and being affected by the struggle between the temperance and lusts of the Rose School. And Jane should have been rescued by Miss Sharron in the end, and Abner didn't worry much about her safety, but the powerlessness of not being able to help his friends made him clearly realize his weakness.

   Even if he has half the ability of a ‘knowledge guard’, even if he has master-level fighting skills, he still can’t get involved in this kind of battle between mid-sequence powerhouses...

If I were like Klein in the novel, and had the power to make Miss Sharon take a high look, with Caspass’s connection, maybe they would ask me for help before they raid the lustful people... and once I intervene. It is possible to save Jane’s family...

"Aibner, it's not your fault! We know you like Jane, but now the most important thing is to pray for her not to have an accident, and pray that the policemen will find her as soon as possible, and don't be so depressed!" Susan, a freckled girl, kindly persuaded her One sentence.

I kind of like Jane, but I don’t like that between men and women. I like the clean smile on her face. I like her cheerful and innocent character. She is a lively girl who can make people unconsciously relax... just don’t know that. 'S smile, I won't see it in the future...

   Abner sighed, and after a few more comforting words with the three friends, he turned and left. But suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a familiar carriage turning from the corner of the street. After thinking about it, Abner remembered that it belonged to Mr. Brian, whom Mr. Grant admired very much.

   The carriage didn't mean to stop. After turning around the door of Grant Clothing Store, it drove to the north.

  ...

After returning to the teacher’s house, Detective Isinger looked at his apparently ill-spirited student. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com comforted: “Don’t worry too much. Since she was taken away, the little girl was short. It should be fine in time."

   "Do you know that too?" Abner asked in surprise. Does the teacher seem to have not been out today?

   "I have my own source of intelligence!" Detective Isinger replied after taking a mouthful of smoke. He didn't go out today, in fact, to avoid the investigation by the Extraordinary of the Storm Church. After experiencing the demigod power eruption last night, the investigation must be very intense.

Abner nodded 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'. You can lend it to me for a while every day... and at home, I Won't take it out."

'2-081' is the seal that Detective Isengard Stanton relies on most. The exterior is a brilliant ring, and the center of the ring is surrounded by many diamonds and is surrounded by a beautiful gem like a human eye. , It comes from the runaway sequence 6 of the reader's pathway! This sealed artifact allows people to understand a lot and know a lot. Even with the enemy's extraordinary ability, they can quickly identify specific situations, understand their good points and shortcomings, and have a chance to imitate to a certain extent.

   And the purpose of Abner’s use of it is also very clear, which is to use pure white eyes to analyze the potion formulas of Sequence 7 and Sequence 6 of the ‘Reader’ pathway!

   He hadn't been so anxious before, so he always wanted to wait for a suitable 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 had actually exceeded his level in the battle that night, but he had to fight hard to ‘save’ his daughter’s life. And this so-called "keep" is also because of the kindness and compassion of the strong...

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