Not long after, four uniformed inspectors arrived at the academy without disturbing most people, and the chief inspector among them had met Brian once.
"Mr. Morris, I haven't seen you for a long time. I didn't have time to get to know you before. Let me introduce myself now. My name is Josephine Hurt, and I am the Inspector General of Puze City!"
Looking at the middle-aged man in front of him, Brian remembered the day when he went to learn about the "Misfortune Case" with Arnold and Ms. Catherine. At that time, it was the inspector in front of him who introduced the details of the case.
Brian stretched out his right hand, shook hands with Chief Inspector Josephine, and said, "Brian Morris, it's my honor to meet you."
It is said that they are cooperating to complete the finishing work. In fact, there are very few things that need to be done. They only need to clean up the scene and take away the body of Professor Wade Occam. There is no need for Brian to help at all. He is here for more
Its function is to protect the scene while the inspector is still there.
After finishing this, Josephine returned to the Inspectorate Hall with the other three inspectors, while Brian returned to No. 38 Cape Town Street, "Catherine Performance Group".
At this time, the night sky was dotted with stars, and a red full moon was shining brightly. The door to the performance group was sparsely opened and unlocked. Brian knew that this was the door left for him by the captain. He opened the door and entered the living room, using
The lock on the counter locked the door, and then he walked towards the backyard anxiously.
In a room in the backyard, Brian saw everyone. At this time, Arnold's eyes were half-open and he was lying weakly on a bed. Next to him, Lulu, who had green hair and green eyes, was wearing a light green dress.
·Senior, is mixing something with some materials.
In addition, Ms. Catherine and Mr. Cole were far away from the bed, discussing something at a small table. When they noticed Brian coming back, Ms. Catherine suddenly said:
"Don't worry Brian, Arnold is out of danger. He just needs to rest for a while. But this matter has not been completely solved yet. There is still a lot we need to do."
Hearing that Arnold was no longer in danger, Brian felt relieved. After taking a look at the busy elf Lulu Senior, he forced a smile and sat down opposite Ms. Catherine.
"Won't chatting here disturb the patient?"
At this time, Cole, who was dressed in a gray coat, smiled: "Little Brian, professionals are not as fragile as you think. It seems that you still have a lot to learn. I can teach you when I have free time."
"It's my honor, Mr. Cole." Brian smiled from the bottom of his heart. For him who is still a novice in the extraordinary field, it would be the best thing if there was someone to guide him.
But he immediately thought of another problem, that is, he might not have enough time...
It seems that I have to give up studying in the academy for the time being.
After the two people finished communicating, Ms. Catherine took out an ancient parchment scroll from her body and appropriately inserted the topic. She asked in a lazy but serious tone: "Brian, this scroll except for you and Tyron...
Professor Raymond has seen it, has anyone else seen it?"
When Brian mentioned this, he suddenly remembered that he went to the academy tonight to deal with this issue. He shook his head and said, "I'm not sure. When the scroll was translated, there were only two people, Professor Tyron and me. As for what happened after that?"
If no one has seen it, I don’t know.”
Then he suddenly remembered something and asked with concern: "By the way, Ms. Catherine, is there anything wrong with Professor Tyron?"
"It was affected to some extent, but I have eliminated it. Also, I changed Professor Tyron Raymond's impression of the scroll. If he asks you about the scroll, don't answer, just say you don't know.
Okay." Ms. Catherine paused, and just as she was about to continue speaking, she was interrupted by a sudden cough.
The sound was weak and weak, and the source came from behind. Everyone immediately understood what was going on and came to the bedside one after another.
"Cough! Cough! Cough!" Arnold, who was lying on the bed, covered his mouth with one hand. He woke up from a coma, saw everything around him clearly, and said with a wry smile: "It's good to be alive!"
The first person to ask the question was the natural elf Lulu Senior. She looked at Arnold carefully for a while, then pinched a few parts of his body with her hands, and then said, "How do you feel about your body? Is there anything uncomfortable?"
Arnold thought for a while and said: "My body is fine and I am gradually recovering. However, when I was in a coma, I dreamed of some strange scenes. It was a twisted forest hidden under the night. Every tree in it was bigger than a person.
And it has certain activity and will attack people or animals."
Lulu's delicate face frowned. As a natural elf, she is very sensitive to all forests. This sensitivity is not about mutual induction, but more about the elf's love and concern for nature.
"The Twisted Forest? A place I've never heard of."
Brian suddenly said: "This description is very similar to the forest outside the cemetery. The big trees at that time would prevent me from leaving. I wonder if this is the activity you mentioned Arnold?"
Arnold recalled it and suddenly realized that the two were very similar, so he nodded. Then he realized that he had overlooked this point just now for some reason.
Have you been affected?
When everyone was confused, Cole, who had rich knowledge in the field of mysticism, said in an old and deep voice: "It should be influenced by the spiritual level. There are two possibilities. One is that he cannot let go of the past, which led to this
The occurrence of dreams; the second is being influenced by others in the field of occultism."
"Don't worry too much. Most of the latter are unable to have a deep impact. They can only gradually accumulate spiritual imprints through dreams again and again, and achieve some simpler goals, such as getting a serious illness."
"The former is a mental illness. There is no need to worry about this because we have professional psychiatrists."
Ms. Catherine, who is a "hypnotist" and also a "psychiatrist" nodded and looked at Arnold: "I will conduct a mental check-up on you every day from now on."
After confirming the spiritual matters, Lulu picked up a bottle of dark purple liquid from the cabinet on the side and walked to Arnold: "Drink this, the growth potion was just prepared."
Without waiting for Arnold to agree, Lulu covered his head with one hand and poured the potion in with the other hand. After drinking the potion completely, Arnold gasped and asked with a horrified expression:
"No growth potion is dark purple! What did you add to it?"
"Don't worry! Don't worry! There's no problem!" Lulu stretched out her hand and gently touched Arnold's chest, comforting: "I just added a little bit of Rayor's octopus ink. You should know that this is a very good recovery material!
"
…
After thoroughly confirming that there was nothing wrong with Arnold, Ms. Catherine pulled out Brian and Cole, and headed to the Inspectorate together before dawn.
Entering the Inspectorate Hall, Director Josephine Hurt soon greeted her. He looked at Ms. Catherine and said: "Sir, the interior has been decorated."
"Well, let's go!" Ms. Catherine waved lazily and led everyone ahead, and soon arrived at the basement of the Inspectorate's Office.
There was no one in the basement at the moment, the only door was closed tightly, and only a few hanging lamps still gave off a soft light.
Ms. Catherine stepped forward, opened the door to the basement, and walked directly in. Mr. Cole remained silent and walked in silently. When Brian saw this, he followed the two of them with a look of confusion. Hall
Josephine, the elder, stopped where he was and did not go in.
Entering the room, Brian looked around with a somewhat confused expression. The room was clean and tidy, and there were not many things placed. Except for a few lights for lighting, there was only a high table placed in the center. On the high table, there were
There was an old man covered in blood, it was Wade Occam, professor of the history department.
But this is not what surprises Brian. What surprises him is that Professor Wade has a blue-based harp with delicate patterns on his body.
"What kind of ritual is this?" When Brian encountered something he didn't understand, he subconsciously thought of occultism.
Seeing Brian's confusion, Ms. Catherine stopped in front of the high platform and explained: "This Professor Wade is a professional. When a professional dies, the professional card that provides extraordinary power will be automatically discharged. Let's do it now."
This place is just for recycling professional cards."
Brian walked behind and slowly came to the high platform, looking at the body of Professor Wade calmly. He had met this professor several times before, but he had never had the opportunity to communicate in depth, and naturally he would not have much contact now.
Some of the big emotions are just lamenting the fragility of life.
Then, through Ms. Catherine’s words, he recalled the moment when he obtained the “Magician” professional card. Slowly, he discovered something was wrong: “Ms. Catherine, you said we are here to recover the professional card, but where is the professional card?
"
Cole smiled, picked up the blue harp and said: "This is the professional card we want to recycle, but it now exists in another way. We call it a sealed object. A kind of extraordinary card.
Items that have abilities, but have side effects and may cause a lot of trouble.”
Ms. Catherine nodded: "After a professional dies, his or her professional card will form a sealed object with the extraordinary ability of the professional card based on the personality, characteristics, memory and other factors of the owner during his lifetime."
"This type of sealed object can also allow ordinary people to become professionals, but there is a great possibility that it will be affected by the mental residue of the former owner and turn into a crazy monster, or even be directly replaced by the former. To eliminate these negative effects,
Then you need to clean up the sealed object and turn it back into a pure professional card."
"Remember what Arnold said? 'You are one of the lucky few.' This sentence is not only because you have mastered extraordinary abilities as soon as you become a professional, but also because you have directly obtained a professional card. This is in my extraordinary
Almost unique in my experience..."
Brian listened carefully and nodded from time to time to show that he understood. At the last moment, he couldn't help but feel grateful for his luck.
After roughly explaining the problem, Ms. Catherine exhaled a long breath of exhaustion and stopped talking. As for the details of the sealed artifact, Cole would continue to explain.
Seeing the words in his ears stop, Cole, who was wearing a gray coat, stopped to observe the harp and said to Brian: "There are many ways to determine the ability and side effects of sealed objects. The most common and common one is
Rely on the understanding of professional cards and owners to make speculations."
"The second is to obtain extraordinary abilities, such as the 'inspection' of the 'artisan', the 'exploration' of the 'explorer', the 'investigation' of the 'detective'. Or the divination ability of the 'diviner' or 'scholar', these are all
Can……"
Finally, Cole handed the harp and whistle he obtained from Professor Wade to Ms. Catherine:
"Both of these are sealed objects. The harp's ability is to play music that affects the minds of others. The simplest way is to cause resonance or interference. The negative effect is that the user will sing unconsciously. The sealing method is every 12 times
Use it to play music once an hour, otherwise the harp will automatically play music that affects others."
"The ability of the whistle is to drive the dead, or the corpse of an animal. The side effect is that every time it is used, it needs to be fed with 250 ml of its own fresh blood, otherwise it will not be able to be used. The sealing method is to provide 250 ml of fresh blood for feeding every day, which can be used without having to feed itself.
blood. If it is not provided, it will drive the dead body to search for blood."
"I know, I'll report it later." Ms. Catherine nodded after listening, and then said to Brian: "Starting from today, I will teach you some basic fighting skills and firearms skills, so that you can do it without being completely
Protect yourself during this time of mastering extraordinary abilities.”