Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 360, 359 Blood Moon

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

To prevent the powerful figure behind the mobster Zmanger's "executioner," Meursault, from noticing the situation, Don changed his appearance and left the detective agency a few minutes after Klein went out to hand in the report.

He disguised himself as the Sequence 9 hunter, wandered around outside, pretended that nothing had happened to the hunter, and then used the paper doll substitute to interfere with the corresponding divination before returning to the detective agency.

"He's just a Sequence 9 hunter, so those above him certainly won't take him too seriously."

When Klein returned, Tang glanced at the motionless corpse lying on the ground, pondered for a moment, and then said to Klein, "Klein, what are your thoughts?"

“Perhaps we can start with Ian Wright. Since the Zmanger Party’s executioners have come to us, it means that the person behind them believes that Ian Wright has value that we don’t know about.”

"As for this puppet, should we disguise ourselves as him, infiltrate the Zmanger Party, and obtain information about his superior?"

Klein and Don each sang through the spirit of the executioner and obtained corresponding information from the other's lifeless spirit, which had become a puppet.

What is that Intis ambassador who's eyeing Ian Wright up to?
Is this related to the manuscript of the third-generation difference engine?
Klein looked at Don and asked, "Can you do it?"

“Of course it is.” Tang shrugged. “It’s easy to fake it, the hard part is not to give yourself away.”

“There are still some subtle differences between puppets and living people. Other extraordinary individuals might not be able to see them, but I am not the only puppet master in Backlund. If Ambassador Intis has other extraordinary individuals of the same path around him, they might be able to discover from the details that his people have been transformed into other people's puppets.”

Tang suddenly thought of something and clicked his tongue. "Speaking of which, the Eighth Bureau of Intis controls the Diviner's Path. The previous Detective Zereil was suspected to be a Faceless Man in public. I now highly suspect that among the Extraordinary Ones who are with that Intis Ambassador, there is a Faceless Man, a Master of the Puppet, or even a Trickster."

Klein, who had faced the Secret Order's sorcerers firsthand, was well aware of their terror.

As for Detective Zeryl, with the body already discovered, the tip-off letter Klein sent out should soon be taken over by the official extraordinary beings, who will investigate the residence of this Fursac spy and others connected to him.

If they had reacted quickly enough, they would have already escaped by the time they and Ian Wright discovered Zeryl's body, leaving MI9 and the Church's official Beyonders empty-handed.

“Rune shouldn’t allow any demigods from other countries to easily set foot in Backlund,” Klein said.

Whether in politics or military affairs, it is very difficult for demigods from other countries to openly cross borders and reach the political power centers of other countries.

"It cannot be ruled out that this was a demigod-level spy who infiltrated without the knowledge of Rune from the Intis side."

"That's true."

Tang nodded, agreeing with Klein's statement: "Then let's split up. I'll go investigate that ambassador, and you stay here to take on some missions, familiarize yourself with the surroundings, and maybe even get into the local occult circles."

"okay."

The two had a clear division of labor. After setting up corresponding defensive ritual magic in the detective agency and their residences, they each began their own investigations.

During the investigation, the number of people visiting the detective agency gradually increased.

Although this led some official forces to vaguely notice their detective agency's unusually high mission completion rate, the two individuals who specifically chose to worship the Goddess of Night and reside in the area under the jurisdiction of the Night Watchers of the Goddess of Night's church were not afraid of others coming to investigate their identities.

Investigators and night watchmen who know the inside story will evade the issue, but MI9's attention is elsewhere.

On the contrary, because of their high intuition and strong divination abilities, their outstanding detective skills quickly gained recognition in the industry, and Klein and Don were able to come into contact with more and more people.

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That night.

Tang, who had infiltrated the Zmange Party, glanced out the window.

The red moon in the sky began to turn blood red, and silent shouts and frenzied praises continued to rise at this moment.

Spirituality was growing, madness was surging, and under the blood-red moon, everything was tinged with an ominous hue.

In astrology, the blood moon was once considered a special astronomical phenomenon. In mysticism, the presence of a blood moon on a night can, to some extent, stimulate the spirituality of monsters and make plants grow faster, representing an extreme manifestation of life.

Although the goddess of night does not have authority over life.

"The Fallen Mother Goddess has begun attempting to cross the barrier and influence the real world again."

He walked to the window and listened for a moment to the information transmitted from the main body.

As a historical pore image from over a thousand years ago, only at the Sequence 5 level, there's not much he can do right now. His biggest task is to watch over Klein in Backlund and prevent him from dying unexpectedly.

"Tonight, enter that area, confront Mr. 'Door' directly, and try to save him..."

It's a tough task, though depending on the situation, the chances of success are quite high.

Tang pulled a card out of his pocket.

That was a "Magician" card.

"Well, let Klein have the salted fish. A high-end tarot club doesn't need a salted fish without dreams..."

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Above the pitch-black ocean.

Many marine creatures ferociously devour their kind under the blood-red moon. The density of marine life here is also higher than in other areas. Various deformed species or creatures with extraordinary abilities are unleashing their power and reveling in the pitch-black ocean, which is the only place where the sky is reflected in a blood-red hue.

Tang's figure passed through Euclidean space and landed here, standing on the ocean that reflected the blood-red moon in the sky.

The marine creatures beneath his feet, affected by the blood moon, wanted to devour this uninvited guest. As soon as they swam into their hunting range, their bodies stiffened one by one, and they fell into the bottomless ocean, becoming corpses and nourishment for other creatures.

"I hope that this sea area will be calm enough for the foreseeable future."

Tang snapped his fingers, using a miracle to calm the little guys under his feet down.

"Hmm, let me see, it should be here..." After confirming that the coordinates were correct, Tang took out a wreath made of night-blooming jasmine and deep sleep flower from the system space.

The wreath, imbued with an aura of darkness and eternal slumber, immediately calmed the noisy surroundings and the endless, restless prayers and frantic roars as soon as it left the system space.

Tang glanced at the blood-red moon overhead, which looked as if it could drip blood, and his figure slowly disappeared once again.

In Euclidean space, these correspond to areas of the same sea.

Using his authority, he sealed and enclosed this place. Even if the pollution from Mr. "Door" escaped, he could put this Euclidean space into the seal to complete the isolation. Only then did Tang place the wreath on a dark sea surface and pull out candles, blood from the direct line of the Abraham family, and ritual props from the mists of history.

Prepared, Tang glanced at the altar, then looked at the blood-red moon in the sky, and slowly opened his mouth to chant in ancient Hermes:
"The Great Gate of All Gates".

"The guide to the endless starry sky."

"The key to all mysteries."

The howling wind echoed within the Euclidean space. The wreath, woven by the Goddess of Night and made from Deep Sleep Flower and Night Herb, capable of opening seals without the "Door" responding, was now silently stained with a jet-black color, and traces of lightning burns appeared on its surface.

The poor creature was banished to an isolated island in endless darkness, protected by ceaseless storms. It was far removed from the real world, independent of both the astral plane and the real world. Only occasionally could Mr. Door, through the influence of the Fallen Mother Goddess's power, briefly gaze upon this planet that He loved.

Even so, Mr. "Door" could only struggle on the edge of pain and madness, suppressing the growing malice and corruption within him, and constantly shouting "Don't save me!" "Don't save me!"

However, everything was twisted by the Fallen Mother Goddess and Her own malice into "Save me! Save me!" If Abraham's followers had truly heeded this voice and rescued Mr. "Door"...

Pitch blackness blossomed from the wreath, and the endless darkness obscured the blood-red, ominous moon in the sky.

After Tang finished all this, he finally pulled a severed hand out of the fog of history.

These are the remains left behind when Amon tried to struggle and summon Mr. "Door" after being pulled into Euclid's space, and when Mr. "Door" was forcefully slapped back.

Under the authority of "error", this thing belonging to the historical gap image can still be regarded as part of Mr. "Door"'s body. Before this, in order to solve the problem of the alien spaceship in Port Feneport Santa, Tang also took it out to solve the seal of Mr. "Door".

After confirming that the severed hand was still usable, Tang wrapped it in dazzling crystal and looked at the darkness emerging from the wreath.

In the darkness, lightning flashed and thunder roared.

That place should have been a world of storms, darkness, and lightning, but now it contained something different.

That thing shimmered with an ominous red, the same red as the blood moon in the sky, seemingly incompatible with the storm, darkness, and lightning, the two being in a state of conflict.

The crimson light sometimes erodes the lightning, turning it blood red, and sometimes it is shattered by the lightning, turning into blood red fragments that disappear into the darkness.

It is both conflicting and complex, both insane and rational.

The power of the Goddess of Night and the Lord of Storms was suppressed to its lowest level when the Blood Moon arrived.

In the late Quaternary period, the Goddess of Night and the Lord of Storms banished Bethel Abraham to a sealed land far removed from reality, thus preventing this angel king, who had been influenced by the Fallen Mother Goddess while traveling through the stars, from becoming the vanguard of the Fallen Mother Goddess's invasion of this planet.

This also fulfills the promotion requirements for the "gate".

Once Bethel Abraham returns and completes the ascension ceremony of the "Gateway," as the true god of the "Gateway," no one in the real world will be able to catch this deity whose soul has been corrupted by the fallen mother goddess.

Along with the barrier that serves as a "gate" and an extension of spatial authority, maintaining the normal operation of the entire world and isolating it from the invasion of the Outer Gods, it will also be affected.

The only requirement from the Goddess of Night is that the "door" cannot be allowed to appear at this point in time.

Tang naturally understood this.

"However, since we are going to take risks, we must be prepared to accept some degree of risk."

A dark blue gate, seemingly composed of countless clustered insects, silently appeared behind Tang and opened slightly.

In the mysterious space above the gray fog, Mr. "Mistake" straightened his black silk hat, ready for battle.

Their gazes met as lightning occasionally streaked across the sky, illuminating the crimson world in the darkness.

Tang lifted his foot and stepped into the black world without hesitation.

Darkness engulfed him, and as Tang stepped through the dark blue portal, they entered a region ruled by darkness, lightning, crimson, and storms.

Surrounded by darkness, Tang turned his head to confirm that Yuanbao was still following him, which gave him more confidence in what he was about to do.

Unlike what he saw outside, once inside this area, Tang could see almost nothing but darkness and the occasional, menacing flashes of lightning that pierced through the darkness.

The crimson glow vanished, and the ominous red light seemed to have been swallowed up by the eternal blackness that existed there.

Tang took out a lantern from the mists of history. The dim light dispelled some of the darkness, and the wind and rain that were about to fall on Tang were repelled by an invisible force, preventing them from hitting him.

Tang analyzed the rain and wind in this area and found that everything in this region possessed a certain degree of purification and eternal slumber properties.

"The Lord of Storms wields power over weather and natural forces; lightning strikes possess purifying abilities...hmm, thinking about it, that makes a little bit of sense..."

The eternal slumber naturally came from the Goddess of Night. While purifying Mr. "Door," they attempted to put him into a deep sleep until the end of the world. This was clearly what the Lord of Storms and the Goddess of Night wanted to do at the time.

However, as the barrier becomes increasingly fragile and the influence of the Fallen Mother Goddess's power grows, this idea is clearly doomed to fail.

"who is it?"

Tang carried the lantern for a while, and then he heard a hoarse voice coming from the depths of the storm and darkness.

The sound was both very close and very far away; he couldn't determine the speaker's location by the sound alone, so he quickly said:
"I am a lost adventurer, commissioned by a descendant of the Abraham family to find a missing member of the Abraham family."

When you go out, your identity is given by yourself.

(End of this chapter)