Mystery: Start with the Reader

The lady who walked into the Essinger Detective Agency was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, wearing a long red dress, with fair skin, plump body, black hair like a waterfall, blue eyes full of charm, very attractive.

Since Detective Essinger happened to be away, the servants of the family took the lady to Abner's office with some dismay.

When he saw the lady's appearance for the first time, Abner was slightly taken aback, but after all, he is a well-informed person in the information age, so he quickly returned to normal and greeted politely: "Hello, ma'am .I am Abner, Detective Stanton's apprentice and assistant. Detective Stanton has not come back yet. If you have something to entrust, you can wait until 11 o'clock, "

The lady squinted her eyes and smiled when she heard the words. Although it was just a simple gesture, it was very eye-catching. She looked at Abner slowly, and said in a very pleasant voice: "I actually came to see you, Mr. Blaine. You are already a well-known detective nearby, and I have some small matters to entrust to you. "

Abner was a little surprised when he heard this. You must know that although he has a little fame, the people who really come to him for business are actually people who are not rich and want to be cheap. The clothes and jewelry on the lady in front of him are not expensive. Fei, it's not like someone who can't afford a teacher.

However, since someone came to send money, Abner would not refuse. He first took the lady to the reception area to sit down, and then asked: "Ma'am, it is a great honor to be recognized by you. Excuse me, how can I help?" to yours?"

"Detective Bryan, just call me Rey." After the lady named Rey announced her name, she continued, "I would like to entrust you to investigate the hobbies and daily travel habits of these gentlemen. The more detailed the better."

While talking, she took out a folded letter paper from her bag and put it on the coffee table in front of the sofa.

Abner lowered his body, then unfolded the letter paper, and carefully read the name on it.

"Lord Natos, Viscount Conslake, Lord Gramere, Lord New Glass..."

"There are 12 in total, all of them are single aristocratic men... Good guy, is this lady going to build a fish pond?!" Abner saw the corners of his eyes twitching, and subconsciously complained in his heart. Then, he recalled the information about these nobles in the teacher's information, and gradually got a bottom line in his heart. However, he still pretended to be difficult, and said with a slight frown, "This commission is not complicated, but it is very cumbersome. It requires a long period of time and a lot of help to complete."

"I understand, I will pay you a satisfactory price." Ms. Rey nodded slightly, and then inadvertently gave Abner a wink, giving enough hints.

Abner turned a blind eye to this, pondered for a moment and said:

"20 pounds, it involves a nobleman, I have to bear a certain risk, so the price of this entrustment is 20 pounds! In addition, you have to give me at least a week."

As a matter of fact, most of what this lady wants is in the teacher's database, and at most it is a bit outdated, just re-confirm it.

"The price is very reasonable, I accept it! Well, I can pay you 5 pounds in advance, and I will come back on Friday, and if things progress, I will pay you another 5 pounds. The rest will be in all I'll give it to you when it's finished!" Ms. Rey seemed quite wealthy, and she didn't counter-offer at all.

"Then let's sign the contract!" Abner took out the standard contract, signed it first, and handed it to Ms. Rey.

The other party seemed to sign without even looking at it.

After sending Ms. Rey out of the house and waking up the servant who was still out of his mind, Abner returned to his office and re-examined the commission. This is his habit, and it is also the need for the 'reasoning student' to play.

"On the surface, Ms. Rey seems to be just a courtesan who selects high-quality men. This is more in line with her clothing temperament and the content of the commission. But she always gives me a sense of danger and disobedience! In addition,

The list of aristocratic men she provided is also somewhat problematic... Although they are all single, they don't seem to be in good condition. According to the teacher's information, these people are either down and out, the economic situation is not optimistic, or they have offended the real power faction and temporarily lost their power... In short, these are people who have a certain status but no aristocratic essence! "

"As for Ms. Rey, one of the reasons why Ms. Rey chose these targets was that these people were deceiving her because of their glamorous appearance. But this may be very low. That lady is not a fuel-efficient lamp at first glance, and even if there are one or two with superb acting skills to deceive her Without her, it won't be the case for everyone! Well, the second possibility is that these people were carefully selected by Ms. Rey, and losing power is her expected goal!"

"But what is the significance of her choice? She is very rich, so she wants to find a man with status but embarrassment to improve her social status? It is possible, but this kind of lady is the target of many nobles, and she doesn't need it at all. Find a detective to gather information, as long as you go to a dance party, the other party will be hooked... unless her money comes from a bad way!"

"Another possibility is that she wants to use this type of man to achieve something. For example, use him as a springboard to climb higher branches. Or... Huh? This Baron Gramere seems to have appeared in a novel! "

Halfway through the reasoning, Abner suddenly narrowed his eyes. He silently opened his pure white eyes, recalled the content in "Lord of the Mysteries", and suddenly had a new idea:

"Baron Gramere turned out to be the unlucky guy who will be replaced by 'Vice Admiral Hurricane' Qilingus in the future... Looking at it this way, the nobles on the list actually have another thing in common, that is, none of them hired Extraordinary bodyguard!"

"So, Ms. Rey is choosing a suitable partner for Qilingus' disguise in advance? That's right, after Qilingus replaced the unlucky guy, he quickly mastered the other person's habits, hobbies, and tone of voice. It is obvious that someone gave him the corresponding information in advance. And such private information can only be obtained by beauties who are closely related to Baron Gramere..."

After thinking about this, Abner has roughly figured out the context of the matter, and he can really confirm it with just one or two more evidences. This kind of reasoning that knows the process of inversion of results is indeed the simplest.

"Hey, now that I think about it, that Ms. Rey may not be a real beauty! You must know that behind Qilingus's move was an organization that cannot name it. That organization and the Church of Witches in Loen They are allies in this series of incidents. Moreover, after Qilingus died, his pirate fleet was also taken over by the Witch Church... In this way, it is reasonable to send a witch to collect information in advance!"

Thinking of this, Abner felt a little headache, and sympathized with the servant in the living room who still seemed to have lost his soul.

"It's better for me to pretend I don't know about this matter. It involves the ancient sun god. As long as she doesn't come to provoke me, I don't have to deliberately do bad things. It may not be broken under the interference of the 'writer'... Besides, the nobles on the list are not good people, except for a few one or two, they are all good-for-nothings."

After Abner made a decision in his heart, he did not sort out the information immediately, but prepared to slightly change his reasoning logic, and then discuss it with the teacher. It is imperative to be defensive. For a suspected 'witch', Abner does not have the slightest trust, so he has to be prepared for unexpected accidents.

...

After Rey came out of the detective agency, with a smile full of interest on his face, he whispered to himself: "It's a very interesting little detective, you can ignore my charm! Hmph, sooner or later you can't indulge in pleasure. Extricate yourself!" Then, she boarded a carriage that had already parked by the side of the road.

There was already a person waiting in the carriage at this time, it was a young girl with a pure face and a very literary temperament.

Seeing Rey returning to the car at this moment, the young girl bowed slightly and asked curiously: "Master Rey, we can easily collect such simple information, why spend money and entrust the detective to do it?" ?”

"Because this is more natural and more in line with the identities we have shown, even if the official Extraordinary investigates, they will not have much suspicion. They just think that I am a mistress who is good at finding opportunities. If this step is missing, it will not be clear why we He is very familiar with the habits of a nobleman, and can easily meet him. In this way, as long as he is investigated, it is easy to be regarded as a suspicious point." Ms. Rey explained with a smile.

"But aren't those nobles so downcast that they don't even have Extraordinary bodyguards? Why did they attract an official investigation?" The young girl was still puzzled.

"It's just in case. And the downfall on the surface may not be true. We need to reserve means to face accidents." Rey shook his head, pointed at the young girl with his finger and said, "Lina , you are just too careless, and you have no defense against the personnel you develop. Now the other party has fallen into the hands of the official and confessed you. If I hadn't been with you before, you would have been in that loan shark gang I was ambushed by the official team!"

"I didn't expect Turner to be such a waste that he could even fail in the business of selling people." Lina said a little discouraged.

"Have you checked how the person you developed was exposed? You don't want to avenge him, but you have to be a warning." Rey asked.

"I haven't found out what's going on... But before Turner's accident, a bounty hunter had investigated the usury incident. Maybe Turner's arrest was related to her. I'm planning to start an investigation from her. By the way, That bounty hunter seems to be well-known in the East End, called 'The Arbiter'"