The fairy maid cheers for her deceased master today.

The carriage continued its journey through the rain, finally arriving back at Miss Detective Agency on Shuk Street. Ax carried the sleeping Elena on his back, with Angel following behind, and the three of them entered the agency.

"Mary!" Ex called out.

Maid Mary ran out of the kitchen and, seeing Elena being carried by Ex, asked in surprise, "Sir, Miss Elena, she...?"

"She's just too stressed and tired, she needs to rest," Axe said. "Prepare a room for her and let her get some sleep."

"Yes, sir," Mary replied immediately.

X carried Elena upstairs to the guest room and gently placed her on the bed. Mary immediately helped Elena take off her shoes and covered her with a blanket.

"Let her sleep well," X said softly.

"Yes, Sir." Mary nodded.

X and Angel quietly left the room and gently closed the door.

"Master..." Angel whispered, "What do we do now?"

AX walked to the window, looked at the still continuous drizzle outside, pondered for a moment, and then said, "We must follow the rules, but it doesn't mean we can only follow the rules."

"Huh?" Angel looked at him in confusion.

X turned around, his eyes flashing with determination:

"The kidnappers wanted to use this game to trap us, to make us play by their rules. But they forgot that rules... are meant to be broken."

"Master, do you mean...?" Angel asked curiously.

Ax smiled slightly: "What I mean is, we're going to solve this puzzle game in our own way."

Clearly, the kidnappers deliberately left clues for their own group.

Moreover, these clues are quite confusing, not only because they are left behind under the influence of hallucinations and when thinking is abnormal... but also because there are two imitations of kidnappers mixed in.

Therefore, there are two questions. First, which two articles were written by Catherine?

Secondly, what real clues are there in Catherine's article?

Ax sat back down on the sofa.

Angel also came closer, so X instinctively hugged Angel and began to ponder.

First of all, these four articles are far too long...

Too many words mean too much meaningless content. If Catherine really only wanted to reveal her location, she wouldn't have needed to write so much.

So, much of the content in each article consists of meaningless actions taken under the influence of the medication?

Secondly, how do we determine which two pieces Catherine actually wrote?

Finally, the location is deduced from the clues...

We have the idea, but how do we put it into practice?

Since it's not easy to judge solely from the text... let's look for external factors first.

“We can’t follow the kidnapper’s line of thought; that’s too slow and too vague.” AX narrowed his eyes. “Now we know that Catherine was definitely injected with hallucinogens.”

"Then let's consider the off-field issues first... what exactly was she injected with?"

"Huh?" Angel's face was flushed from being hugged.

Upon hearing this, she couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Well... there are too many possibilities."

Yes.

Let's try a different approach.

Why was Catherine targeted?

She must have offended someone.

If we knew who she had offended, we might be able to determine what kind of drugs that person most commonly used.

"Master, why do we need to investigate what hallucinogens are?" Angel asked, puzzled.

"Because Catherine wrote her inferences after being injected with hallucinogens. If we can identify the hallucinogens, it might help in determining the nature of the text."

This involves looking for external factors.

Furthermore, if we can find the people at the surveillance detective agency and follow the clues to find Catherine's location, that would also be an external factor.

Compared to reasoning directly from illogical text, players' thinking will be more active and diverse.

But here's the problem: how do you find these hallucinogens?

Ex has once again reached a dead end.

"I... have a lead." Suddenly a voice came.

Ax looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was Elena supporting herself against the wall as she returned downstairs.

"Ah, you're awake!"

Ex immediately stood up and went to meet him.

"You should rest a little longer."

"But I'm not comfortable with that. I'm very worried about Catherine..."

"But your body..."

"We don't have time. It's okay, I'm just feeling slightly unwell."

Elena was helped back to the sofa by Ex.

"I also want to help," Elena emphasized.

Ax looked at her pale face, but a resolute light shone in her emerald eyes. He knew that further persuasion would be futile.

"Okay, tell me."

Irene took a deep breath, seemingly trying to recall.

"I remember... Catherine was once looking through a book on botanical pharmacology and had marked a page with a bookmark. That page contained information about hallucinogens."

"Botanical pharmacology?" Ex raised an eyebrow.

"Yes."

Irene nodded.

"Catherine...is also very interested in botany. She said, 'Many plants have hallucinogenic effects, and some hallucinogens can even cause a person's thoughts to completely wander and become disordered within minutes.'"

What is Catherine researching that for?

and many more……

"Let's put ourselves in her shoes. If Catherine was tracking down some kind of hallucinogen, and the kidnappers were the ones controlling it, then when they discovered Catherine was investigating... they might indeed have used that hallucinogen to teach her a lesson."

Ax's eyes lit up.

This idea makes a lot of sense!

And... X feels like he remembers it too.

"Is that book still there? Wait, could that book be...?"

X remembered. When they were playing the hat game, Irene had mentioned a book on botany.

"Yes, that's the one. It should still be on the shelf."

Elena pointed to the bookshelf in the living room.

"Catherine likes to categorize and arrange her books; the botany-related books are all on the third shelf."

Ex immediately got up and, following Elena's directions, went to the bookshelf.

The third floor does indeed contain many botany-related books, including "Illustrated Flora of the United Kingdom", "Medicinal Botany", "Encyclopedia of Horticulture", and so on.

He searched carefully and soon found the thick book, "Mysterious Botany: Studies of Hallucinogenic and Medicinal Plants." The book had a dark green cover with the title printed in gold lettering and looked quite old.

That's right, it's the book that Elena showed up when we were playing the game.

Ax opened the book and, sure enough, found a bookmark on a certain page. It was a dried plant leaf, with a rather peculiar shape, resembling some kind of fern.

On this page, Catherine had already marked the plants she was most interested in.

The book describes this plant—a mysterious plant known as "Dream Whisper Grass".

"Dreamweed?" Ex frowned, walking back to the sofa. "What is this?"

"A legendary plant. Oh, anyway, a very rare plant."

Elena recalled for a moment.

"It is said that, after special processing, its leaves can be made into a potent hallucinogen that can plunge people into endless dreams and cause complete mental confusion, making them more likely to reveal their most pressing concerns. However, because it is illogical nonsense, it is also difficult to use as a truth serum."

Ax continued reading the description on the page. Yes, it matched Elena's description.

Dreamweed grows in dark, damp environments, mainly found in abandoned mines and underground tunnels in the suburbs of London. Its leaves are dark green with serrated edges and fine hairs on the underside.

"While investigating a case, Catherine discovered that someone was using a hallucinogen made from Dreamweaver," Elena suddenly said. "She suspects that 'a secret organization is selling this hallucinogen in London, and that some of the users include members of high society.'"

Axe's eyes narrowed.

"So, Catherine might have been discovered by this secret organization while investigating it, and then kidnapped?"

"Very likely," Elena nodded. "Catherine... she always likes to investigate these dangerous cases."

But Axe had already seen the key.

This hallucinogen only causes initial hallucinations in the first few minutes, but afterwards, a person's thinking becomes completely confused.

And at the back of the book, there is even experimental data!