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On Friday afternoon, Red Rose Manor was outside the luxurious room filled with various antiques.

Klein stood at the door and asked about the sixth maid he met today.

The young maid is wearing a black and white maid dress with the characteristics of the times. She has a beautiful appearance and is in the prime of youth. Her brown hair is naturally curly and a little playful.

After a period of conversation, Klein smiled and said, "You seem to know more than the previous servants. You even know how to call me Detective Moriarty."

The maid glanced left and right, and said with a smile: "Because I take turns serving that lady, she has always wanted to meet you, Detective Moriarty. After all, she is good friends with Mr. Talim and is very concerned about his death."

"It's a pity that she always misses you."

"Always?" Klein is very sensitive to words like "always," "just right," and "miss."

The maid nodded seriously and said:

"When His Royal Highness invited you to be a guest for the first time, she lost her temper on purpose and wanted to take the opportunity to take a walk downstairs to meet you. Who knew that you left in a hurry?"

"Afterwards, she took the initiative to offer to go to Mr. Talim's grave to lay flowers on behalf of the Prince, but she was unable to find you because she didn't know your face."

"And today, she happened to go horseback riding on the golf course behind to relax. Otherwise, even if Mr. Butler does not allow it, she will find a way to see you."

What a coincidence... Just as Klein sighed, he suddenly grasped a key point:

On the day of Talim's funeral, the person who laid flowers instead of the prince was the commoner woman he loved!

What concerned Klein the most that day was the lady with a black veil on her face and a sapphire ring on her hand. She was probably carrying a "0" level sealed object, or she was a powerful being of the same level!

Suddenly, the scene at that time flashed back in Klein's mind:

The woman wearing a sapphire tail ring wore a heavy black dress and, accompanied by a maid, gradually drove away in a carriage...

One of the maids has naturally curly brown hair…

The image of the maid quickly overlapped with the maid in front of Klein, and they matched perfectly!

Klein's body tensed suddenly, sweat dripping from his vest, but his expression did not change at all.

Using the ability of "Joker", he looked like he was reminiscing and asked with a smile: "Did you follow that lady on the day of Talim's funeral?"

The maid responded nonchalantly: "Yes."

...Fuck, it’s really her! Klein kept smiling:

"Very well, next question."

As if nothing had happened, he asked about other things step by step, and then changed to another servant to continue.

However, Klein secretly shortened the process and accelerated the progress.

He wanted to leave Red Rose Manor before the lady came back on horseback!

At four o'clock in the afternoon, before it got dark, Klein left much earlier than expected and took the carriage dispatched by the old butler to return to the city.

Sitting in the car window, with his back against the compartment wall wrapped in silk, cotton, etc., he finally breathed a sigh of relief and had enough energy to reflect on the whole thing:

The person who cursed Talim to death was Prince Edsac's beloved commoner...

Why should she deal with a descendant of a ruined noble family in revenge for Talim's attempt to separate her and the prince?

However, there is no need for her to do it herself. She can find an opportunity to reveal this matter in bed. Prince Edsac has many ways to make Talim disappear silently...

Talim was completely in love before his death. Well... the earliest sign was after he successfully persuaded the commoner woman to leave Prince Edsac... and they had an affair? So, the commoner woman who was brought back to the manor

In order to eliminate hidden dangers, Talim was cursed to death?

It makes sense logically, but the problem is, how can a big boss who possesses a "0" level sealed artifact or is a powerful person of the same level be restrained by Prince Edsac? Even if Augustus is from an angel family and has enough

The accumulation of accumulation requires the use of huge power and special methods to confine it. This is not something that a prince can do...

Moreover, how could such a person like Talim?

Why does she always want to see me? Did she notice that I was using the gray mist to spy on her?

No, if that was the case, I would have been buried with Talim on the day of his funeral... In addition, when she first wanted to see me, I had not yet received flesh, blood, hair, and belongings, and had not done any divination!

Klein thought in confusion, and finally decided to bury the problem deep in his heart without exploring or investigating it!

I hope that "Mechanical Heart" will find that the royal family attaches unusual importance to this matter after my previous reminder. Yes, their attention may not be for the reputation of Prince Edsac, but for other reasons! I hope the royal family attaches extraordinary importance to this matter.

Continue to restrict that lady and prevent her from visiting me... After a few days, when the time is right, I will hand over this task and express my inability to do so. Then I will use a vacation in the south as an excuse to change my identity and hide away for a while.

Time! Klein's mood gradually calmed down.

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"This is the 'faceless doll', a magical item I treasure, a level 1 sealed object, an item accidentally formed by combining extraordinary materials from various sources and a doll body. It can be used as a temporary external clone when necessary.

, after my testing, it can reach the highest level of Sequence 4 or above."

"But once it reaches sequence 3, wear will occur. At present, the wear is not serious and it can withstand two to three times."

"The negative effect is that it will continue to exude attraction to the people around it, or it will transform into the appearance of the human being it has merged with, tempting others to look at it, pick it up, and mistake it for a doll that looks like itself.

It affects up to twelve active targets at the same time and absorbs the blood of people around them. Once the person being attracted suffers from the above cognitive confusion, the 'faceless doll' will acquire the identity of the object in a very short period of time.

The two parties exchanged their appearance with each other and tried to leave. The fastest speed I observed was four seconds. After taking away the identity, the puppet will regard itself as its own person, so it is difficult to be discovered."

"Killing the doll whose identity has been stolen can restore it, but once the identity is successfully exchanged, the victim is destined to die."

"Before I got it, it had been fused with dozens of souls, so it had a certain degree of self-awareness."

Riel finished playing the Traynor recording he had recorded, and handed an iron box to Richard. Richard shook it, and the sound of objects colliding came from inside - it sounded like the thing was not big, and the material looked like wood.

, it should be a relatively ordinary movable figure for painting.

"The way to seal this item is to put it in a completely sealed box?"

Riel opened his mouth, and Traynor's voice came out of his throat again: "The sealing method is to install it in a fully sealed lightless box, and ensure that no humans or animals stay within a radius of 200 meters for more than five minutes.

.”

"You prisoners are good at sealing and controlling it, so it should be easier to deal with it."

"The most important thing is: you must give it back to me! Without it, my next plans will be greatly affected."

Richard smiled and put the black box aside: "I will."

"There is another recording here." Riel said, "You didn't ask this question, but I'll play it for you anyway."

"This item is not a complete product of the diviner's path. It is also mixed with other extraordinary materials and... an incredible blessing. That's why it has the negative effect of devouring souls and sucking blood. In short, use it with caution and do not use it for more than 20 times at a time.

minute."

Richard tilted his head and said thoughtfully: "I understand. Is there nothing else?"

"there is none left."

"I'll put the intelligence information on the raid you asked for here. If there's nothing else, I'll leave." Riel put the stack of information submitted by Garland De that he found out from nowhere and placed it on the

At the table, seeing that Richard had no unnecessary requests, he happily waved his tail and ran into the spirit world.

After he left, Maria, who had been sitting in the corner of the office without daring to breathe, mustered up the courage to speak: "Is that your messenger in the legend? A demigod messenger?"

Mine? It seems that I have used it too many times, and there have been unreliable rumors in the organization... Richard immediately denied it: "No, that is my friend's messenger. It's just that we are adjacent to each other.

, and it can’t defeat me, so it’s often used by me.”

Maria was shocked when she heard Richard say confidently "It can't beat me" for the first time. Some wonderful elements appeared in her heart about the image of the leader.

As for the friend mentioned by the leader, there is no doubt about his identity. He must be the old partner far away in Intis, a cooperation partner that only middle- and high-ranking leaders can know. He has given considerable technical assistance and support for decades.

Jobs, and even the material and capital chains have not been broken.

It is said that a new craftsman from Garland De was also sent by him, and he had just completed a batch of high-value orders with the Aurora Society.

Richard picked up the stack of materials and reports, flipped through them quickly and breathed a sigh of relief:

"Fortunately." He said, "This matter was reported as a matter of urgency and was not brought out specifically to force me to go back."

"If it's the latter, Maria, I suggest you withdraw from Loen immediately. There may be serious problems with the government management here."

Maria's heart trembled: "Then what should I do now?"

"There may be a turning point now."

"However, even this should not be underestimated..." Richard touched his chin and said thoughtfully, "My whereabouts can be determined through the train and boat tickets. This is also an agreement between me and the Northern Continent Church in exchange for assistance. I just

On the second day after arriving in Backlund, someone got hold of my whereabouts and used newspapers and magazines to hint me to leave here quickly. There seems to be something fishy about this crisis in the East District."

Speaking of this, an idea suddenly flashed in Maria's mind, and she quickly spoke: "Admissor looked in the direction of the 'Block of Order' before he fainted. Maybe this is a clue?"

Richard didn't answer. He lifted the spiritual wall, opened the box that sealed the "faceless doll", and took out the true form of the sealed object from the small black box - it was a wooden figure about 20 centimeters high.

The puppets used for paintings are all movable.

The difference is that the general reference doll body will be specially made into a male or female figure to facilitate observation and learning by beginners, but this doll is quite neutral, without any gender characteristics, and has a flat face, not even a nose.

Maria was involuntarily attracted by this doll. At this moment, the doll moved, and its face without facial features turned towards Maria. In an instant, a tall-nosed man appeared in front of her.

The middle-aged man with a thin face and light brown eyes looked at her like a father looking at his grown-up daughter.

This man who had been dead for several years appeared vividly in her eyes, with a weak and soft smile on his frail face, the same as when she was a child. It seemed that he would let her pass in the next second, using his thin but soft eyes.
To be continued...