Chapter 173 Divination
In the darkness, the huge steam train continued to speed forward. It did not stop at the supply station along the road as originally planned, but continued to rush forward, heading towards the city in the distance on the track.
In a spacious first and second carriage, countless passengers sat on rows of seats, quietly moving forward with the train and waiting for the arrival of their destination. As it was gradually getting late at night, many passengers had already closed their eyes to rest, and some had gradually fallen asleep.
Among them, there was one passenger who just couldn't close his eyes and fall asleep.
This was a man dressed in black, wearing a black hat, with a small bag at his feet. His skin was slightly pale, his expression was serious and solemn, and his face was so thin that it looked like a skull.
This man is the wall traveler lurking on this train, the culprit who killed Sodod and robbed his transported goods. He has completed his mission and is waiting for the train to stop. After that, he can use his ability to pass through the wall to escape from the train and return to the association.
It turned out that before taking action, the man had lurked in the conductor's room to check the timetable and confirmed that the train would stop for supplies at a small station in the town in just over ten minutes, and he could take the opportunity to get off the train. However, more than half an hour had passed, and the train showed no signs of stopping, which made the man feel confused.
"Didn't they say the car would stop soon? Why hasn't it stopped yet? Did something happen? Could it be that the guy is still alive and causing trouble? Impossible, a captain of the Security Bureau can't cure the poison of the Red Silk Spider."
The man thought so in his heart, but then he thought that he seemed to have never seen Sodod's body from beginning to end. After he escaped in smoke, he also wandered around the wall and searched in the nearby carriages for a long time. He searched the first-class carriages silently inside the wall, but found nothing. As he had consumed a lot of spiritual energy in the previous resistance to detection, he had to stop the search after his spiritual energy was exhausted. Sodod was neither alive nor dead, which made him a little uneasy.
In this situation, he could actually choose to jump out of the train. The average speed of steam trains in this world is about 60 kilometers per hour. The man is not a "cup" Beyonder, so if he jumps out of the train directly, the only thing that can protect him is a layer of hardened skin. This comes from the spirituality of his "stone", but the degree is not too high. Although his hardened skin can not protect him from death in the process of jumping out of the train, it cannot make him safe and sound, so there is no need to take this risk.
If he jumped off the train, the man as an extraordinary person could save his life, but he would definitely be injured. More importantly, transportation was inconvenient in the wilderness, and he would be in trouble if injured. So for the man, jumping off the train was completely unnecessary. He could just wait for the next stop. He didn't believe that the train would not stop, he just had to wait patiently.
Apart from the defeated Sodod, everyone in this car was a group of ordinary people. If he was smart enough, he could kill them all. However, as an assassin, he would not do so as he did not want to attract too much attention. It was precisely because he did not want to attract too much attention that he chose the first carriage.
Just when the man made up his mind to continue waiting, he suddenly heard a movement in the carriage. Looking around, he saw several conductors who were questioning the passengers one by one. They seemed to be collecting tickets from the passengers.
"Collecting tickets? What is the conductor doing? If he's checking tickets, he doesn't have to collect them, right?"
The man was thinking this, and at this time, the conductor also took the ticket from him.
"Please show us your ticket sir. We need to keep it for a while and then we will return it to you."
"Why are you collecting tickets?" the man asked directly, and the conductor answered immediately.
"Don't worry, sir. We are just conducting a thorough inspection. Our conductor suspects that someone has used a fake ticket to board the train."
After hearing what the conductor said, the man didn't say anything more. He handed over his ticket silently like the others. After taking his ticket, the conductor thanked him and continued to collect it.
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"Mr. Detective, all the tickets are here. According to your request, we have already written the corresponding seats on the tickets. We have also helped those who don't have tickets and put them inside. The work cards of all our crew members are also included."
On the corridor of the first-class carriage, a conductor stood in front of Edrick holding a box filled with tickets.
"Thank you for your hard work, everyone. These tickets will be important clues for my reasoning."
Taking the ticket from the conductor, Edrick said with a smile. After hearing what he said, some of the conductors and the conductor around him were a little confused.
"Mr. Detective, I'm curious, what kind of reasoning requires these things? Can you find the real murderer relying solely on these tickets?" The conductor asked Edric, and Edric answered rather mysteriously.
"Hehe... I can't tell you this right now. Okay, I need some time to analyze and reason, and I need to be alone.
"Hmm... let me think... the table in my private room is a little uneven, so I'll switch to this one. Is that ok, Mr. Captain?"
As he spoke, Edrick pointed to a private room next to him, and the conductor answered without hesitation.
"That's fine, I wish you good reasoning."
"Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Captain."
As he spoke, Edric carried the box into the private room, closed the door, turned on the light, put the box aside, took out a large piece of paper from his clothes and spread it on the table. On the paper was drawn a complicated magic circle with the meanings of "start" and "light".
At this moment, Dorothy, who had been hiding under the bed beforehand, suddenly came out, muttering something.
"Reasoning, reasoning...reasoning...how can reasoning be as useful as divination?"
Yes, Dorothy wanted to use divination to find the killer. Although the other party could hide in the wall and wander around, it would consume spiritual energy and it was impossible for him to stay in the wall forever, so under normal circumstances he must be disguised as other passengers on the train. Dorothy asked the conductor to collect all the passengers' tickets, and there must be his among them, which would be the medium for Dorothy's divination.
Dorothy asked Edric to spread out the paper with the magic circle drawn on it and then put the box on it. Then Dorothy walked over and took out three gold coin-shaped "lamp" storage items and placed them on the magic circle.
Divination can accomplish many things, but due to the different methods, there are certain limitations to divination. Pendulums can only be used to divine locations. Coins can only be used to divine yes or no. Canes can only be used to divine directions. Dial divination is for divine time. If you want to find the murderer, these are useless.
The pendulum requires a complete and accurate map, which is not available on this train. Dorothy is not spiritual enough to use coins to divine one by one, and the cane is not suitable for it. It can't use the cane to find people indefinitely. It can slowly confirm the direction. The dial is not professional enough.
So at this time we have to use a new divination method, which is called fortune-telling, commonly known as drawing lots.
After preparations were completed, Dorothy prepared enough "Qi" and "Lights", confident that they would be enough to defeat the opponent's anti-divination defense.
The divination began. Dorothy reached into the box on the magic circle and shuffled a bunch of tickets back and forth. Finally, after shuffling for a while, she pulled out one. At the same time, she consumed 1 point of "Inspiration" and a gold coin on the table became dim, which meant that the other party had no anti-divination ability. Dorothy only consumed the lowest amount of spirituality to divine the other party.
"No anti-divination? It's pretty poor for a Black Rank... No, the two bone craftsmen didn't have anti-divination either. Should we say that this is the norm for Black Ranks? Is it because Luer is too rich... He's rich beyond the level of an average Black Rank."
Dorothy complained in her heart, but think about it, Luer is at the peak of the black level and about to be promoted, and he has his own career, which is not comparable to other black levels who work as thugs for big societies.
Without thinking about anything else, Dorothy looked at the ticket she had drawn. On it was the name of the holder and the seat number written by the conductor as Dorothy had requested. In this era, train tickets did not have seats reserved in advance.
"Carriage 7, row 5, seats 4... Kim Cook..."
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