After checking the entire house, Klein confirmed that there was nothing strange about the White family's home, and that the couple had not left even a hair behind, clearly on guard against someone using divination to pursue them.
He returned to the bedroom filled with dolls, walked four steps backwards, and entered the gray fog, intending to use divination for final confirmation.
But before getting to the point, he materialized the girl doll that was almost as tall as himself with great interest, and just like the shadow that divined the "Mutated Sun Holy Emblem" in Tingen City in the past, he picked up a dark red round-bellied fountain pen and wrote the following sentence on the yellow-brown parchment:
“Its origin.”
Putting down the pen and holding the paper, Klein leaned back in his chair and muttered to himself while slowly adjusting his mind to a meditative state.
After repeating it seven times, his eyes turned dark, his eyelids drooped, and he fell into a deep sleep.
In that gray and fragmented world, he saw the puppet craftsman working attentively, saw the red-eyed "girl" being placed in the puppet house, and saw Emlyn White taking out his wallet without taking his eyes off it.
Finally, the scene froze in the bedroom where Klein was currently. Emlyn White, a handsome but slightly delicate arrogant vampire with his hair combed back, was sitting by the bed, gazing at this doll and all the other dolls of different sizes lovingly.
As expected, he is an avid fan of dolls... Klein opened his eyes and covered his face with his hands.
Immediately, he waved his hand, causing the life-size puppet to disappear into the gray fog.
After doing all this, he picked up the round-bellied fountain pen again and wrote a new divination sentence:
"The scene of death at 48 Riverbend Avenue in the past ten years."
- According to the statements of nearby residents, the White family moved here no more than ten years ago, so Klein was able to lock down a specific range. Moreover, he believed that if the White family was just good monsters on the surface, and was actually constantly creating disappearances in order to suck warm and delicious blood, then they would not be able to prevent things from happening at home all the time.
In the long ten years, there will always be a few accidents, as long as they don’t stop!
After carefully checking the divination statement, Klein repeated his silent recitation and meditation and quickly fell into a dream.
In the gray world, his eyes were sometimes pitch black, sometimes snowflakes appeared, and sometimes they shattered and split, but there was never any picture.
This is the result of the divination:
Nothing at all!
No one has died at 48 Riverbend Avenue in the past ten years!
Taking all aspects of the situation into consideration, it can be preliminarily determined that the White family are law-abiding vampires who are at most petty thieves... Klein looked at the mottled bronze table in front of him, wrapped himself in spirituality, and fell into the gray fog.
After returning to the real world, he carefully dealt with the traces he left behind and left No. 48 Hewan Avenue the same way he came.
He did not make a final decision, but instead took a detour to the Riverbend Police Station. As the scene of thieves and drunkards being brought in and copied onto pipes played a background, he easily sneaked into the archives room and boldly lit the gas lamp inside.
Then, Klein found the missing persons records from the past ten years and began to flip through them.
Police officers on duty passed by the door from time to time, but in their eyes, there was no light leaking out of the archives room.
“Nothing suspicious…” After an unknown amount of time, Klein, wearing black gloves, put the file back to its original place.
Then he turned off the gas lamp, took off his hat in the deep darkness, placed his hand on his chest, and bowed towards the police station lobby.
After returning to Minsk Street, Klein took a shower, changed his clothes, sat down at the desk, and spread out the Backlund map that he had first purchased on the steam train.
He first found Rose Street in the south of the bridge, where the Harvest Church was located. Father Utravsky was the bishop of this church and had imprisoned Emlyn White in the basement.
Then, Klein moved his eyes and figured out the names and layouts of several surrounding streets.
The performance cannot be too hasty or too eager for success. The audience must be engaged little by little... Klein whispered, unfolded the letter paper, and put down his pen:
"Dear Detective Stuart:
"I wonder if you have found Emlyn White? I have been keeping an eye out for you recently. One of my informants told me today that he had seen this person on Tutwa Street in the South Bridge District. Of course, he just said that he looked very similar to the person in the portrait."
…
Putting down the pen, Klein folded the letter neatly, stuffed it into an envelope, and affixed a black stamp with a denomination of 1 penny.
…………
The waves are rolling and the vast Sonia Sea.
The "Blue Avenger" moved forward steadily without any shaking.
"The Hanged Man" Alger Wilson sat in the captain's cabin, holding a brass sextant with his eyes closed.
Silently, a smile suddenly appeared on his face.
“Finally digested it…” Alger opened his eyes and raised his hands, causing dots of blue to appear around him.
The blue skies converged and turned into a huge wave that swept forward.
Alger pressed his hands, and the huge wave suddenly collapsed, turning into countless raindrops that fell onto the deck.
After nearly four months, his "Navigator" potion was finally digested!
During this period, he not only drifted on the sea for a long time to complete various tasks assigned by the church, but also consciously explored new routes and searched for islands that had not yet been discovered. After several setbacks, he finally gained some results.
This in turn promoted the digestion of the potion, allowing him to basically master his own "Navigator's Code".
The core is to get close to the sea, to be familiar with the information of waterways and weather, and to explore and discover!
Alger, who was always deep in thought, could not help but leave his seat and pace back and forth in the captain's cabin, imagining the future he longed for:
Once I get the formula for the "Wind-loving" potion and gather the corresponding extraordinary materials, I will advance to Sequence 6 without telling the church. After that, I will repeat the same process and strive to become a Sequence 5 "Ocean Singer" within three years...
During this process, he must always serve as the captain of the "Blue Avenger" and avoid joining the team of Punishers with complicated interpersonal relationships, so as to avoid exposing his secrets...
Once I advance to Sequence 5 and gain sufficient strength, I will be able to return there in secret... Alger subconsciously looked to the right.
His gaze seemed to penetrate the heavy planks and the vast ocean and fell on an ancient and hidden island.
Alger was not worried about his future promotion within the church. Once he fulfilled his wish, he would be able to go all out to seek a promotion!
At that time, he, who is a Sequence 5, will continue to disguise himself as a Sequence 7 and drink another dose of the "Wind-loving" potion!
This would increase his extraordinary characteristics, make him stronger, and slow down his digestion, but would not endanger his own safety.
By the same token, after Sequence 5 is completely digested, he can take another dose of "Ocean Songster" potion and go through the normal process again. This will only make him closer to losing control, and there is a solution.
That is to find a woman to marry and transfer the extra extraordinary characteristics to his children.
After completing this step, I can move up to the level of a cardinal and get closer to a high sequence! This great era is my chance! In Alger's mind, he had already imagined himself wearing a cardinal's robe, sitting at the top of the church, and controlling many punishers.
After being intoxicated for a moment, he retracted his gaze and regained his sanity:
"... Each step becomes more difficult than the last. Fortunately, I have the Tarot Gathering and Mr. Fool. Although there are dangers here, any path to self-improvement has risks!
"I need to collect some of Roselle's diaries as soon as possible, so that I can get a chance to ask questions and find out what the card with only the back exposed in Mr. Fool's hand is.
“There was nothing like this before.
"Cards...Roselle's diary...could it be the item I think it is?"
Alger's eyes shrank and his pupils became smaller.
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At 15 Minsk Street, Klein yawned, turned off the gas light, and slipped into bed.
He originally had another plan, which was to use divination to roughly grasp the source of the biological toxin bottle, and obtain the potion formula of the first three sequences of the alien pathway from the extraordinary characteristics of the "werewolf".
However, after being busy all night with Emlyn White's affairs, he felt a little tired and planned to try again above the gray fog the next day.
Just as he lay down and closed his eyes, Klein suddenly felt something was wrong.
This is the instinctive spiritual intuition of a fortune teller!
It has been several days since I got the "Werewolf" extraordinary characteristic and the biological toxin bottle. There were times when I was in a better mental state, but I kept putting it off and didn't go for divination. This is very abnormal! Klein turned over and sat up. Thinking carefully, he found a similar thing:
When he first met Megose, he wanted to use his clairvoyance to observe her mental state, but he was stunned for a moment and naturally missed the opportunity. In the end, he realized that it was because she was pregnant with the offspring of the evil god. The fortune teller's instinctive spiritual intuition stopped him without a trace, lest he lose control and collapse on the spot.
Very similar, and this time it is even more obvious... I remember Miss Sharon said that the control of the Rose School members is beyond my imagination. Everyone's body and soul seem to be bound by something. This is why the sequence information of the alien pathway has hardly been leaked... They believe in the "bound god"... Therefore, when using the "werewolf" extraordinary characteristics to divine the corresponding potion formula, it will directly involve this evil god and bring about consequences that I don't want to bear? Klein thought about it seriously and felt that there was a doubt here:
When I divined the "Mutated Holy Symbol of the Sun" and the "ear" left by the "Listener", my spiritual intuition did not stop me... Could it be that the "Bound God" is more powerful than the "Eternal Sun" and the "True Creator"?
Or, does His characteristics allow Him to be more restrained against the gray fog, allowing Him to penetrate it effectively?
Of course, the danger could also come from the source of the biotoxin bottles...
Thinking of this, the always cautious Klein decided to only try the divination biological toxin bottle tomorrow to see if the diviner's spiritual intuition would stop him.