After a few seconds of hesitation, Klein activated his spiritual vision and looked around the room. Under the crimson moonlight, he saw that Madam Sharon's bedroom was decorated luxuriously and gorgeously.
Thick carpets, spacious spaces, velvet quilts, tables cluttered with various skin care products and cosmetics, jewelry sparkling with different brilliance, a half-open cloakroom, light clothes and suspender stockings thrown casually on the rocking chair, and many ornaments inlaid with gold threads, all caught Klein's eyes one by one.
The most eye-catching thing in the whole room is an unfinished oil painting, which shows the naked body of Mrs. Sharon herself. Her brown hair is like a waterfall, and her brown eyes are like the eyes of a deer in the forest, pure and moist. However, her curved eyebrows, upturned eyes, straight nose and delicate lips outline the charm of a mature woman. The two are blended together in a contradictory posture, but they exude amazing charm.
Klein glanced down the neck without taking a closer look. This was not a fake formality. He had even seen the other party's "dirty little film", so why would he be afraid of the "little yellow rabbit"?
His attention was drawn to the paints, plates, brushes, and a full-length silver mirror next to the painting.
This combination, this arrangement, and this positional relationship gave him a strange idea, that is, the author of this oil painting was Mrs. Sharon herself, not some painter she had hooked up with.
A woman with a beautiful face, outstanding figure, charming and innocent, stripping naked, looking in the mirror, describing herself, recording her beauty... This scene feels weird... Isn't Madam Sharon too narcissistic? Klein muttered silently, retracted his gaze, and began to search for possible evidence of the crime.
Following Leonard and Frye's instructions, he always wore black gloves, and every time he searched a place, he had to memorize its original appearance in advance so that he could restore it later.
For a "fortune teller", this is not difficult at all. If you forget, you can easily recall it using the "dream divination" technique.
Of course, before going out tonight, he also had divination done for himself, and found that there would be no danger and everything would go quite smoothly.
This is what a qualified charlatan should do... Even if I am already a "clown"... Klein complained to himself and spent nearly twenty minutes searching Mrs. Sharon's bedroom. He didn't find anything worthy of attention, nor did he see any spiritual light.
Finally, he stopped in front of the safe in the corner of the room.
It is one meter tall, iron-gray, thick and heavy, giving people an extremely solid feeling, as if even if you move explosives, you can't open it.
“It really has the characteristics of the Steam Age… It must have an extremely complex mechanical combination…” Klein tried to unlock it, but failed miserably.
He put the matter of the safe aside for the moment, took off his left glove and removed the citrine pendant wrapped around his wrist.
Holding the silver chain and letting the pendulum hang down, Klein dispelled the heat brought by the fragrance in the room and entered a state of meditation.
His eyes darkened and he whispered to himself:
"This room has a secret room or hidden compartment."
"This room has a secret room or hidden compartment."
…
After seven times, Klein's eye color returned to normal. He looked at the topaz pendant and saw that it was rotating counterclockwise.
This means negation.
Klein nodded imperceptibly and left Madam Sharon's bedroom. Following the same process, he quietly searched the study, living room, sun room, and other places, but failed to find any useful or valuable clues.
The reason why he didn't use the "divination rod method" was because he had no idea what he was looking for.
He took out a silver pocket watch with a vine pattern, opened it and checked the time, then turned around and walked back to Mrs. Sharon's bedroom.
Carefully closing the wooden door, Klein took out the ritual silver dagger, and released a stream of spiritual energy, allowing it to combine with the power of nature to seal off the entire room.
He wants to "summon" himself!
He wanted to use his spiritual body to get into that heavy safe and check the items inside!
“I don’t need to know how to pick a lock!” Klein muttered in Chinese.
Because he was praying to himself, all the procedures could be simplified and did not need to be so particular. So Klein took out a candle mixed with sandalwood and lit it with his spiritual power. This was considered as setting up the altar.
"I!"
"I call upon my name:"
"The fool who does not belong to this era, the mysterious master above the gray fog, the yellow and black king who controls good luck."
The sound of the spell echoed in Madam Sharon's bedroom. Klein's spirituality surged out and blended with the candlelight to form a gray, palm-sized light curtain.
Then, he took four steps backwards, penetrated the roar, and entered the gray fog.
Klein glanced at the "Gate of Summoning" behind the high-backed chair at the head of the ancient long table. Just as he was about to respond, he was suddenly startled.
"Since I'm already here, I might as well do some divination to see if I can find any clues... Here, in addition to the elimination of interference, my abilities are still enhanced to a certain extent... and the environment in which I am located makes the divination now equivalent to using the items that Madam Sharon carries with her..." He sat down and materialized parchment and a round-bellied fountain pen in front of him.
What should I divine? Klein fell into thought:
"Is there a problem with Madam Sharon?"
"No, everyone makes mistakes, everyone has certain problems."
"Mrs. Sharon is involved in a crime?"
"...This is not rigorous enough. As a socialite, mixed in the political circle, it is normal for her to be involved in some dirty and unproven things... And what is the definition of crime? The laws of the Kingdom of Loen, the Republic of Intis, or my own free will?"
…
As his thoughts raced through his mind, Klein didn't want to waste time. After all, his body was still in the real world, so he planned to confirm the several divinations he had done before.
He picked up the pen and without writing, a divination statement appeared on the parchment in front of him:
"There are extraordinary factors that influenced John Maynard's death."
This was the divination that Klein did when he went to Congressman Maynard's house to help the police communicate with the spirit world. The answer at that time was no.
Holding the silver chain, the topaz pendant was almost touching the words on the parchment. Klein half-closed his eyes and silently recited the divination sentence:
"There are extraordinary factors that influenced John Maynard's death."
"There are extraordinary factors that influenced John Maynard's death."
…
After repeating this seven times, he opened his eyes, looked at the pendulum, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
The citrine pendant is rotating clockwise!
And clockwise rotation means yes!
There are extraordinary factors that influenced the death of Congressman Maynard!
Klein stared at the slowly calming pendulum, and a huge wave of emotion surged in his heart:
"My divination was influenced and interfered with by someone..."
"Is Madam Sharon a Beyonder, a very powerful Beyonder? Or is there someone like that behind her who helped her plot the death of Councillor Maynard?"
"In order to eliminate this strong contender for the mayor's seat, in order to eliminate the new party's future MPs in the House of Commons?"
As thoughts flashed through his mind, Klein wrote down a new divination statement:
"Mrs. Sharon is an extraordinary person."
He still recited silently seven times and used the Pendulum Method. With the help of his current environment and some information about Madam Sharon, Klein completed the divination and saw the answer.
The answer is that the citrine pendant rotates clockwise, the answer is yes!
Madam Sharon is a Beyonder... Klein's heart tightened. Without further delay, he immediately responded to his own "summoning" and pushed open the mysterious door.
After confusion and dizziness, he saw Mrs. Sharon's bedroom and also saw himself.
Klein half-floated and half-flew to the heavy safe, stretched out his right hand, and reached in carefully.
Since Madam Sharon was a Beyonder, he had to be on guard against traps she had set in the safe.
In this spiritual state that is mixed with some power from the mysterious space and most of his own spirituality, Klein no longer needs to divine. He can get hints just by approaching danger. The essence of most divinations is to rely on the astral body to travel through the spiritual world to gain enlightenment. Simply put, it comes from one's own spirituality.
The nearly transparent hand passed through the thick metal door, but Klein didn't notice anything unusual.
After scanning up and down and left and right, he suddenly pounced forward and his entire spirit entered the safe.
He saw that it was divided into three layers. One layer contained standard gold bars, thick banknotes, and more valuable jewelry. The other layer contained many documents without covers. Klein puffed up his cheeks and blew on them a few times, but failed to successfully open the page and see the contents.
Well, I'll try again with Mr. Azik's copper whistle... Klein had tried it before. When he completely wrapped the "Yangyan Talisman" and "Azik Copper Whistle" with his spirit body, these two items could penetrate obstacles and seemed to have become a semi-real and semi-illusory existence.
The bottom layer of the safe was quite strange. It only contained a black-and-white photo of a handsome young man.
"Mrs. Sharon's former lover? They were forcibly separated, and Mrs. Sharon had to marry the old baron. She began to degenerate and wandered around in the bodies of one man after another. But deep in her heart, she still retained a piece of pure land. Whenever it was late at night, she would take out this photo and caress it with tears in her eyes..." Klein instantly imagined a sad and desolate romance drama in his mind.
However, the more he looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong, because the young man in the photo seemed, probably, to look a bit like Mrs. Sharon...
Madam Sharon's brother? She's a Beyonder... Shit, isn't she also from the Witch Path? Just like the "instigator" Triss! Klein suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he was startled.
Why did Triss stay in Tingen before? Was it because she had a companion here? Klein looked at the photo carefully and felt that the young man looked very similar to Madam Sharon.
His almost transparent face showed a grin, and he felt that he could no longer face the "dirty little film" he had seen before.
After calming down, Klein felt around the safe again to see if there was anything else hidden.
Although he cannot pick up the paper now, the feeling of passing through objects is different from passing through the air, and the feeling is also different between objects of different densities.
While groping, Klein was suddenly startled.
He felt a hole on the side of the safe close to the wall, a mezzanine!
After confirming that there was no danger, Klein went in. He saw ointments, incense, herbal powders, and other items in his sight, as well as a statue carved from bones.
The statue was the size of a palm, and vaguely resembled a beautiful woman, with very long hair that extended all the way to the ankles, and each strand was clearly visible and thick like a venomous snake.
At the top of each hair, there is an eye carved, some closed, some open, and some densely packed.
Klein was startled and "smelled" something evil, so he hurriedly left the mezzanine.
He finally understood why he had failed in his divination of the secret room and the hidden compartment!