Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 87: Xio's Request for Help
At noon, after running intermittently all morning, Odysseus, feeling a little tired, came to the public carriage station to catch a bus.

When he sat in the carriage, he began to think about what he had gained at noon.

As Odysseus had expected before, running in battle also requires skills. When escaping, you must pay attention to your positioning and try to avoid being caught by the pursuers.

When chasing, you should have a certain degree of foresight and don't always follow the person in front of you.

Fedre's teachings brought Odysseus great benefits. When he encountered an enemy who could run away, he would not have to chase him for a long time before being unable to catch up.

These running skills reminded Odysseus of the "Lingbo Weibu", but unfortunately it was a fictitious martial art and there was not much to learn from it.

Back at the herbalist's shop, Odysseus had finished his lunch and was about to go to the backyard.

At this time, a man came to buy medicine. The waiter, Kena, immediately stepped forward and asked, "What can I do for you?"

The person buying the medicine seemed a little out of breath: "Sunflower."

Odysseus looked back and saw that the other person was a man in his thirties, but he looked listless, as if he had not had a good rest for a long time.

He also noticed that the other person's face was slightly gray, and he looked as if he had been poisoned.

So when Kena took the "sunflower", Odysseus pinched his temples on both sides and opened his "clairvoyance".

Odysseus usually does not come into contact with things like the undead, and rarely activates his "clairvoyance". Now that his "clairvoyance" ability is activated, his eyes become deeper, and the medicine buyer in front of him seems to have become much more illusory, and at the same time looks as if he is stacked in layers. The colors of the body organs can also be clearly seen.

Odysseus immediately noticed that the other party's spirit was entangled in a black mist like cotton wool.

This black mist has begun to affect the health of the organs of those who purchase the medicine, making the color of those organs look somewhat dull.

Odysseus quickly made a judgment: this was a reaction to being affected by some dark spells, but these spells were very simple and not difficult to solve.

He carefully glanced at the buyer again, confirming his condition before pinching his temples to close his "spiritual vision." He then said to Kaina and the buyer, who were about to complete the transaction, "Wait a moment."

Seeing both of them startled and looking at him, Odysseus continued, "Your complexion has turned gray. Ordinary 'sunflower' won't be very effective. I suggest you use 'Golden Edge Sunflower' and buy some 'Midsummer Grass' to soak in water."

Although Odysseus is not a pharmacist, he knows how to restrain the effects of this kind of dark magic.

The buyer was very easy to talk to: "Okay, okay, then I'll buy 'Golden Edged Sunflower' and 'Midsummer Grass'."

Odysseus said to Kena, "Two 'Golden-edged Sunflowers' and 200 grams of 'Midsummer Grass'."

While picking herbs in Kena, Odysseus chatted with the buyer and found out that the other party lived at 166 Anas Road, Hilton District.

We also learned that he had been experiencing fatigue and listlessness for about a week, and not only him, but several of his neighbors also had similar symptoms.

Yesterday, one of my neighbors shared that burning "sunflowers" at home can relieve the symptoms, so he came to buy "sunflowers" during his lunch break at work.

After seeing the customer off, the waiter, Kena, said, "Sir, someone came to buy 'Golden Edge Sunflower' this morning. I remember he also lived in the Hilton District, but I didn't find out which street he lived on."

Odysseus realized that this was no coincidence. He first drew a portrait of the person who had just bought the medicine, and then with the help of his extraordinary ability, he drew a portrait of the person who had bought the medicine in the morning.

Then he wrote a letter and asked Kena to find a rented carriage on the street to deliver it to the Backlund Mechanical Research Society.

He is just an informant, so of course he won't investigate on his own. He just needs to provide clues and let the people from "Mechanical Heart" investigate.

After Kena came back, Odysseus went back to the backyard to check the progress of the "Flaming Arrow". Kena did a good job on the carving steps, so Odysseus began to mix paint with spiritual materials.

Most of the spiritual materials that Odysseus had ordered from Viscount Kelton were to be used for these "Flame Arrows".

Odysseus completed this step personally. After preparing the paint, he began to apply it to the magic circle of the parts.

This is another rather tedious procedure, but Odysseus has nothing else to do today, so he plans to try his best to complete 11 "Flame Arrows" tomorrow so that he can get the payment and balance for the two orders.

……

In an apartment building in the South District of Daqiao.

Hugh Dilcha quickly walked up the stairs to the third floor. The apartment was quite spacious and there was no mess in the corridor.

The public restrooms at both ends of the corridor are also cleaned, so there is no urine smell in the corridor like in the East District apartments.

Xio came to the door of Room 309, checked his three-pointed thorn, and then reached out to knock on the door.

It had been over a week since she received the commission from the "Hound", a member of the Occult Research Society, and only last Friday did she get some clues.

Of course, she had not only been busy with this commission for more than a week, but also with some other commissions. The "Hound" commission was just a side job to find clues.

According to the information provided by "Hound", the dead man was named Bruce, and the people he had met in his lifetime were basically all listed in the information provided by "Hound".

It was not until last Friday that Hugh learned through his own channels that someone accidentally saw a man in his twenties climbing through the window of Bruce's house last night, and the two seemed to be talking for a long time.

Hugh first found a witness, then drew a portrait based on his description. After two days of searching, someone finally recognized the young man in the portrait.

The man's name is Edgar and he lives in room 309 of this apartment.

Hugh came here today to confirm. As long as Edgar really lived here, she would immediately inform the "Hound" of the news.

As for the reason for the visit, Xiou had already found one: Edgar had borrowed money at high interest from the owner of the Black Moon Bar, and Xiou would claim he was there to collect the debt. If Edgar questioned Xiou's debt collection skills because of her size and appearance, Xiou wouldn't mind teaching him a lesson and becoming a real debt collector.

After Xiu knocked on the door, no one answered. When she was about to knock again, she suddenly smelled a faint smell of blood coming from inside.

After being stunned for a second or two, she made a quick decision, pulled out the three-pointed spear, and kicked the door open.

As soon as the door opened, the first thing Xio saw was a young man lying on the ground. It was the Edgar she was looking for, but he was now a corpse.

Xio didn't go in immediately, but looked around the room.

Each apartment here has two rooms, one large and one small. The large room is the living room, dining room and kitchen, and the small room is the bedroom.

At this time, Edgar was lying on the floor of the large room. He was stabbed to death in the heart with a sharp weapon. There were no obvious signs of a fight.

Suddenly, Xio's eyes fixed, and the corpse on the ground twitched. Looking at the blood again, there was no sign of coagulation!

These signs indicate that Edgar had not been dead for long, and perhaps he had just been killed before Hugh knocked on the door.

From just now until now, there has been no much movement in the room, which means that the murderer is probably still hiding in the room.

Thinking of this, Xio closed the door with her spear. She was not a police officer, and she would not rush in to catch the murderer for the sake of justice at this time.

Quinn pretended not to notice and quickly retreated down the stairs.

Suddenly, she felt a pair of eyes staring at her. When she turned around, there was no one!
But Xio knew that his feeling was not wrong!
So she hurried to the street and was about to jump into a taxi to leave here, but suddenly she thought that if she left here, it would reveal that she had noticed the murderer.

Xio glanced at the two policemen who were patrolling in the distance, and quickly walked over to tell them that he saw someone stealing on the third floor of the apartment building.

The police were about to take Xio to identify the thief, but Xio's not-so-tall figure suddenly exuded a very majestic aura: "You go by yourselves!"

The two policemen seemed to feel a little guilty and said in unison: "Okay, okay, we'll go by ourselves!"

After Hugh got rid of the police, he got into a cab.

If they encounter a murder case like this, the police will definitely look for Xiu again in the future, or even arrest her directly.

But Hugh has been a bounty hunter for a long time, so of course he has to take advantage of his employer and let "Hound" help him explain the matter to the police.

After getting on the carriage, Xio was keenly aware that those eyes were still staring at him.

She realized that the other party was targeting her and she had to take some measures, otherwise the other party would definitely arrest her and interrogate her if they had the chance.

They definitely couldn't just go home like this. Fors was quite capable of escaping, but her ability to "open the door" couldn't take anyone else away.

Xio began to consider whether any of his other friends could help, but the person who had been following him was most likely a "Mid-Sequence" Beyonder, and he might also have helpers.

No one Xio knew had such strength.

At this moment, she suddenly thought of the "leader" of the Occult Research Society. The waiter once said that if she needed help, she could go to the gathering place for help.

So she said to the driver, "Go to 199 Hairun Avenue."

……

West End, 51 Henry Street.

Odysseus was concentrating on stopping the spiritual paint from being applied to the "Flame Arrow" when he suddenly felt a spiritual fluctuation. He looked down and saw that it was his pocket watch that lit up.

Someone else came to the Occult Research Society to ask for help?

Odysseus took a deep breath, stood up and stretched a little, then went out and took a carriage to 77 Hilton Avenue.

In the basement here, he changed into the "leader's" clothes and used the "space array" to take out some extraordinary weapons that the "leader" had used before from the "wilderness of knowledge".

Then he used the "teleportation array" to arrive at No. 199 Hairun Avenue.

Coming out of the basement, Odysseus saw Hugh in the living room and immediately understood: "Has the commission from 'Hound' caused some trouble?"

Xio was stunned at first, he didn't expect that the "leader" knew it before he even explained it.

She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Yes, that's why I came to 'ask' the leader for help."

Odysseus thought for a moment before saying to one of the waiters, "Go to the alley on the left and shout..."

At this point, he turned to ask Xio, "The informant from the Mandated Punisher, the one whose information the Hound gave you is dead, what was his name?"

Hugh immediately replied, "Bruce."

Odysseus hummed, and continued to say to the waiter, "Just tell them that the 'chief' has key information about Bruce, and invite them into the house to talk."

Xio was stunned again, unable to understand the "leader's" intention in doing this.

And Odysseus knew very well that because of the Capin case, MI9 was still sending people to keep an eye on the "leader".

(End of this chapter)