Mystery: Paradox Path

"Mystery: Paradox Path ()"

Black Pearl, first-class restaurant, Snow and Serra sat at a table, quietly enjoying a delicious breakfast, but due to the abnormality of the past two days, Serra and Snow tacitly carried out the meals including toxins , epidemics, and multiple identifications including the influence of occultism.

Fortunately, the anomaly doesn't seem to have spread to the kitchen yet.

Drinking the clear soup made from mushrooms and fish bones, Sera ate bread and wrote and drew with her fingers, as if she was thinking about some complicated problem. Snow had already heard about the neuroticism of the reader pathway. , did not disturb her state at this time, but casually observed the people in the kitchen.

They were not the only ones who got up so early to eat breakfast. Snow swept the table at will, and locked the middle-aged man with gray-green hair, pale skin, and blue eyes that he saw in the casino yesterday. At this time, Beside him, there were also four burly men who looked like followers of the Lord of the Storm. Although these five people had a clear primary and secondary relationship, their way of getting along was not like bodyguards and employers, but more like up and down. level relationship.

"This group...is the Punisher Squad of the Church of the Storm? I thought it was a living corpse! But...a whole group came aboard to find Jack, or was it for the abnormality of the Black Pearl?"

Snow murmured twice in his heart, picked up a piece of bread and spread it with jam and mint paste. I have to say, this slightly stimulating sweetness combined with toast and fish soup has a refreshing feeling like early morning—— Even if it is not refreshing, you will be refreshed immediately after eating this stuff.

"Don't you think the waiter looks familiar today?" Just as Snow was tasting the exotic food, Sera suddenly ended her "research" and asked abruptly.

Following her words, Snow focused his attention on a service staff who was running before and after, and said somewhat unclearly:

"He is the waiter in this restaurant. I saw him at dinner yesterday."

"Yes, but are there too few waiters on the boat today?"

Listening to Sera's words, Snow finally understood what she meant. Whether it was a normal restaurant or a first-class restaurant, his eating experience was very good, and the waiter's service was also very thoughtful, but today, in this restaurant, There were three or four tables of guests, but the waiter was sweating profusely.

This is obviously because, too busy.

Why can't you be busy?

Where are the other waiters?

Snow and Sera looked at each other with a bit of suspicion in their eyes, but the two did not wait for Mr. Captain's notice about the dead. After having a hasty breakfast, Snow followed Sera to his place. Room.

Of course, this was not intended to be a morning fire, but because Sera was frightened by his previous words.

Watching Serra fiddle with a very "classical" looking microscope, Snow just sat there playing with the coins and dice in his hand. After a few tosses and spins, he suddenly said:

"I paid attention to it just now. It seems that the number of people on the boat has indeed decreased, but because the few people are all staff, everyone has not paid much attention."

"Where did you say they went? Dead? Or ran away?" Serra put her eyes in front of the microscope and observed the prepared mucus smear, while not forgetting to pick up the smudge.

"I don't know, but no matter what it is, there must be something wrong with the captain." The coin in Snow's hand turned quickly, he stood up with some toothache, walked to Sera and said:

"Have you found anything?"

"Something similar to snail mucus is mixed with a very small amount of blood, but it has lost its activity. It is difficult to determine whether it belongs to human blood or the blood of the owner of the mucus, but it can be determined that it is not a marine creature. Although there is a little spiritual residue, it is not There is no way to determine the specific classification of an area rich in Beyonder characteristics. Well, this is already the limit of what ordinary equipment can do. If you want to continue the investigation, you need to trace it back through ritual magic, which takes a long time. ' Sierra looked up,

With some regret, Snow listened to her answer and frowned slightly:

"Not sea creatures?"

"Well, marine organisms don't leave this mucus because in a marine environment they don't need to land very often, stay wet, and the mucus doesn't have the right amount of salt, and if the animal runs in sea water, the osmotic pressure will Pickling it dry is like putting salt on a slug... oh, by the way, do you know what osmotic pressure is?"

Snow nodded at Sera's sudden question. He gently stroked his chin and said thoughtfully:

"It's not a sea creature, so the hypothesis of boarding a ship in a storm is not valid, then, what is it? Someone raised, or something summoned? Then what is its purpose? Is the reduction of the crew related to it? Gbagbo Sarah..."

"At least it is certain that Barbossa is not made of these things." Serra took out essential oils, pure dew, and brass and mercury corresponding to the gods of knowledge and wisdom from her suitcase, and explained casually:

"Judging from the state of mucus, this kind of creature should move relatively slowly, lack explosive power, but have strong stamina and kill... I mean if they have the ability to kill, they should use smothering, dissolving, corrosion, etc. method, and the cause of Barbossa's death should be excessive blood loss, but it does not rule out that this monster has special mouthparts that suck blood, but this does not conform to the structure of normal creatures... Of course, extraordinary creatures have any unreasonable structure. It's normal..."

While speaking out the results of her investigation, Serra opened the mercury test tube and used a special metal pen dipped in mercury to draw complicated mysterious symbols on a notebook-sized brass plate.

Snow saw the mercury exposed in the air, and subconsciously gave himself a layer of protection, but soon he noticed that the mercury left on the brass plate by Serra's writing method was not even a little bit. means to evaporate.

But that's right, since the two or five dragons use mercury as the metal to carry the spell, then there is naturally a way to control the mercury. Otherwise, it would be too funny if the believers in the Church of Knowledge were poisoned by mercury or something while praying.

"I need to pray to the god of knowledge, do you have any extraordinary items on your body that belong to the sun and storm pathways?" Sera finished the sketch with a pen and a snake, turned his head and glanced at Snow, Snow grinned, and finally road:

"I'll go out and wait for you, if there is danger, call me immediately."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Sera to answer, he turned and left the room, even not forgetting to add a layer of esoteric protection to himself to avoid a glance when Erwulong cast his gaze.

He is an extraordinary item without the two paths of the sun and the storm, but he has made it with heaven!