Mystery: Start with the Reader

In the southern continent, in a village to the west of the Star Plateau.

Bruna, the former princess of the Balam Empire, and Bernadette, the "Queen of Mysteries", were sitting on both sides of a stone table, each holding chess pieces of their own color and playing backgammon.

Bruna was obviously no match for Bernadette, and she quickly gave in.

"Is there any secret to playing this kind of chess?" Bruna frowned, without any sense of normal dignity, and looked blankly at Bernadette opposite her.

"No." Bernadette, who was wearing an old air gauze hat and had beautiful long chestnut hair, said calmly.

Bruna didn't believe it and wanted to ask more, but she suddenly raised her head and looked into the air. There was a figure flying over at a very high speed and arriving in the yard where they were in the blink of an eye.

He looked at the woman who fell from the sky with his brown eyes, and saw that she had black hair and blue face, was wearing a black dress, and boots of the same color. She had a beautiful appearance, elegant manners, and was full of intellectual beauty.

Bruna raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "Isabella, even if you are no longer a princess, you are still so good at pretending."

The person who came was none other than Edwina's mentor, the former eldest princess of Lundburg, Ms. Isabella.

"Bruna, you are as rude as ever." She glanced at Bruna, then turned her eyes to Bernadette, showed a very standard smile, and greeted, "Long time no see, Bernadette. .”

Bernadette raised her skirt in return and responded to the greeting. Then she turned her eyes slightly, looked at Bruna, and said calmly: "Aunt Bruna, since Aunt Isabella is here, you can tell me now that you are looking for me. What are you here for?"

"Are you waiting for me? But I'm here to see Leon..." Isabella said slightly confused.

Bruna sneered and said: "Why didn't you use your efficacious premonition to predict it? And Leon is no longer here, he should have arrived in the Northern Continent by now.

"Do you think it didn't foresee you coming? Obviously, it doesn't want to see you, and it even interfered with your prophecy."

Isabella frowned slightly, then regained her composure. She looked at the former Princess of the Balam Empire in front of her and said, "Bruna, Russell is no longer here. There is no point in provoking me."

"But I still don't like you very much." Bruna muttered, then cleared her throat and got down to business: "I found a tomb of the Black Emperor, and there were traces of Russell in it... Do you want to go and see it together?"

"The Black Emperor's mausoleum?" Isabella, who originally wanted to turn around and leave to chase "Lion", her eyes lit up, and after pondering for a moment, she asked, "Is it Russell's or Solomon's."

Bernadette didn't speak, but she just looked at Bruna quietly, as if expecting something.

"Looking at the coat of arms, it should be Solomon's...but Russell must have been there, and maybe there will be some clues." Bruna said with certainty.

"How can you be sure that Russell has been there?" Isabella's tone was still calm, but her eyes were obviously brighter.

"Because if you want to enter that mausoleum now, you need three cards of blasphemy..." Bruna paused here. Then he added, "At least three."

"Why do you say that?" Ms. Isabella asked.

"According to my observation... Well, coupled with my understanding of Russell, the mechanism he designed will definitely not be that simple. Maybe different combinations of cards will take us to different locations in the mausoleum... I want to fully explore For that mausoleum, you probably need to collect 22 blasphemous cards."

Bruna said, summoning a dead spirit at random, and took out a playing card from its mouth... The face of the playing card was printed with Russell's face, full of artist temperament, but bound by a bandage. Angel image…

This is a "Bound One" card!

"This card was left to Maria by Russell. Unfortunately, it was quite dangerous for her to carry the card with her, so I kept it safe for her." Bruna added.

Seeing this, Isabella hesitated for a while, and finally made up her mind, recited a mantra, and performed some kind of "secret technique." Then she unbuttoned her collar, reached into her chest, and wore it. , and quickly took out a card from it.

The sun with Russell's face on this card is obviously a "sun" card.

"This was what he gave me when I last saw him..." Isabella pursed her lips and said, then buttoned her collar.

"I have to say, the secret technique for storing items developed by Russell is really obscene...and you actually learned it! Sure enough, you are just pretending!" Bruna only glanced at the card, Just turn your attention to other aspects.

Isabella glanced sideways at Bruna's chest and said calmly: "People without capital cannot learn this technique..." Then she ignored her and turned to look at Bernadette.

After hearing this, the smile on Bruna's face visibly froze.

Bernadette ignored the heated atmosphere between the two aunts, nodded slightly and said, "I have four cards in my hand, namely the Hermit, the Wheel of Fortune, the God of Death, and the Judge."

Before Jane left the Southern Continent, she had handed over the blasphemy card obtained from the depths of "Daniel's Labyrinth" to Bernadette.

"In this way, we have...well, how many combinations are there and how many places in the mausoleum can we go to?" Bruna wanted to do a mental calculation, but she couldn't get the answer for a while.

"C6, 3, 20 types, a very simple math problem." Isabella said calmly and gave the answer instantly.

Almost at the same time, Bernadette also affirmed: "The exhaustive result is 20."

"Well, readers are the way to learn knowledge and apply knowledge, and peepers are the way to knowledge itself. The conclusions you have drawn must be correct." Bruna lightly explained her "weakness" in mathematics. , then continued, "I can take you to see the mausoleum now. As for how to explore, I think you all have your own ideas. Let's discuss it later."

One of the two people in front of her is a "prophet" and the other is a "master of prophecy". They are definitely more professional than herself as a "ferryman" in sensing danger, breaking restrictions, and using rituals. This is why Bruna called them. one.

"Where is that tomb?" Bernadette was silent for a few seconds before asking.

"At the junction of the Polar Sea and the Misty Sea."

…

Backlund, steam station.

Jane got off the steam train with her luggage, looked around for a while, and then sighed: "Backlund is still the same!"

"You seem to have only been away for more than a month? How can there be any big changes in this short time?" The lion squatting at Jian's feet snorted.

The surrounding tourists passed by it, but they all turned a blind eye to this beast.

"Have a night's rest, and then buy a ticket to Jianhai County tomorrow. If nothing else happens, you should be able to reach Yinduo on Wednesday." Jane whispered, then identified the direction and prepared to go to "Brave" Just stay for one night at "Zhe Bar" and come to buy tickets tomorrow morning.

But as soon as he walked out of the station, he saw several police officers knocking down a man, and all the people who were surrounding him scattered. Only a girl wearing long gloves and a bearded man stood nearby. In the distance, someone seemed to be pointing at the captured man and saying something.

It seemed like the police were catching liars... Jane had a liar in her heart, and quickly looked away, wanting to walk through the streets with the lion.

But when she lowered her head, she found that the lion was no longer around. Instead, it had come behind the bearded man at some point, sniffing with its nose raised.

The bearded man seemed to notice something and looked back, only to see an orange kitten lying next to his legs.

He was stunned for a moment, then took out a piece of meat from the pie in his hand and put it at his feet.