Chapter 240 "Stairway"

Red Rose Manor, outside the luxurious room filled with various antiques.

Klein stood at the door and asked about the sixth maid encountered today.

The young maid was wearing a black and white servant dress with the characteristics of the times. She had a good appearance and was in full bloom of youth. Her brown hair was somewhat curly and playful.

"When Mr. Talim comes here to visit, who will he contact?" Klein repeated the previous question with a numb expression.

The maid replied almost without a pause:

"Mr. Talim usually asks to see His Royal Highness, or rides with him, or discusses matters. If His Royal Highness happens to be away, he will meet with that lady. They are good friends and have been allowed by Mr. Steward."

Talim and the commoner woman whom Prince Edsaac likes are good friends? Do you meet privately from time to time? He should be trying to persuade the other party to leave here so as not to affect the prince's reputation... Klein nodded thoughtfully:

"They, I mean, what will Mr. Talim and the lady talk about?"

When he asked this question, Klein suddenly remembered Talim's performance of falling in love some time ago. With his rich "experience" from the information age, he inexplicably made up a bloody romance story.

The maid was not afraid of the big detective, she smiled, shook her head and said:

"At times like this, we'll all be asked out of the room."

This... Klein couldn't restrain himself from associating more and more, and even felt that the top hat and helmet of Prince Edsack should be changed to a different coating.

Without waiting for him to ask again, the maid smiled lightly and said:

"Detective Moriarty, if you want to find out what the lady and Mr. Talim talked about, you can ask her directly."

"The old butler doesn't allow it." Klein confidently pushed out the shield that blocked the arrows.

He turned to laughing:

"You seem to know more than the previous servants, and you even know how to call me Detective Moriarty."

The maid glanced left and right, kept smiling and said:

"Because I serve that lady in rotation, she has always wanted to meet you, Detective Moriarty, after all, she and Mr. Talim are good friends,

Concerned about his death.

"It's a pity that she always misses you."

"Always?" Klein was very sensitive to words like "always", "just in time", and "missed".

The maid nodded seriously and said:

"The first time His Royal Highness invited you to be a guest, she deliberately lost her temper and wanted to take the opportunity of going downstairs for a walk to meet you, but who knows, you left in a hurry.

"After that, she offered to offer flowers to Mr. Talim's tomb instead of the prince, but she couldn't find you because she didn't know your face.

"And today, she happened to go to the back golf course to ride a horse to relax, otherwise, even if the housekeeper doesn't allow it, she will find a way to see you."

What a coincidence... Klein just sighed, and suddenly grasped a key point:

On the day of Talim's funeral, it was his favorite commoner woman who presented flowers instead of the prince!

And what Klein cared most about that day was the lady with a black veil on her face and a sapphire ring on her hand. The other party was probably carrying a "0"-level sealed item, or she was a powerful existence of the same level!

Suddenly, the scene at that time flashed back in Klein's mind:

The woman wearing the sapphire tail ring was wearing a heavy black dress, and accompanied by two maids, she gradually went away...

One of the two maids has natural curly brown hair...

The image of the maid quickly overlapped with the maid in front of Klein's eyes, and they matched very well!

Klein's body tensed suddenly, and the sweat dripped from his vest, but his expression did not change at all.

Using the ability of "Joker", he pretended to remember, and asked with a smile:

"On the day of Talim's funeral, did you follow that lady?"

The maid responded indifferently:

"Yes."

... Wow, it's really her! Klein kept smiling:

"Very well, next question."

As if nothing had happened, he asked about other things step by step, and then changed to another servant to continue.

However, Klein secretly shortened the process and accelerated the progress.

He wanted to leave Red Rose Manor before the young lady returned on horseback!

At four o'clock in the afternoon, when the sky was still dark, Klein left much earlier than expected, and returned to the city in the carriage sent by the old housekeeper.

Sitting inside the car window, leaning against the wall wrapped in silk, cotton cloth, etc., he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and had the energy to recall the whole thing:

The one who cursed and killed Talim was Prince Edsac's beloved civilian woman...

Why did she deal with a descendant of a dilapidated nobleman and take revenge on Talim for trying to break up her and the prince?

However, she doesn't need to do it herself at all. Find a chance to tell this matter on the bed. Prince Edesak has plenty of ways to make Talim disappear without a sound...

Talim was completely in a state of love before his death, um... the first sign was after he successfully persuaded the commoner woman to leave Prince Edesak... They had an affair? So, in order to eliminate hidden dangers, the commoner woman who was brought back to the manor cursed and killed Talim?

It makes sense logically, but the problem is, how could a boss with a "0" level sealed item or a strong man of the same level be restrained by Prince Edsaac? Even if the Augustus family of angels has enough accumulation, they have to use huge power and adopt special methods to restrain them. This is not something a prince can do...

Moreover, how could such a character like Talim?

Why does she keep wanting to see me? Have you noticed that I use the gray fog to spy?

No, if this is the case, I was buried with Talim on the day of Talim's funeral... Besides, when she first wanted to see me, I hadn't got the flesh, hair, and belongings, and I hadn't done any divination!

Klein thought in bewilderment, and finally decided to bury the problem in his heart, not to explore, not to investigate!

I hope that "Mechanical Heart" can find out that the royal family attaches great importance to this matter with my previous reminder. Yes, their importance may not be for the reputation of Prince Edsac, but for other reasons! I hope that the royal family will continue to restrict that lady and prevent her from visiting me... After a few days, when the time is right, I will hand over this task, expressing that I can't do anything, and then use the excuse of going to the south for vacation to change my identity, Dodge for a while! Klein's mood gradually calmed down.

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The dusk in Backlund will always be replaced by dim clouds and light rain. Klein, who is physically and mentally exhausted, puts on his half-height silk top hat, buries his body slightly, and quickly walks through the wet street. Back to No. 15 Minsk Street under the light of gas lamps.

After a short rest, taking advantage of the dim environment, he took four steps backwards and entered above the gray mist.

After being promoted to Sequence 6 "Faceless Man", he has been wanting to check whether there is any change in that mysterious space, but because he was too tired last night, he couldn't wake up in the middle of the night, and he was "busy" outside during the day, so he could only wait until now.

In addition, Klein has to eliminate interference and divination one thing.

That is, after this promotion, when his spirituality was not stable, he did not hear the illusory ravings of "Honakis...Freguera...Honakis...Freguera"!

He wanted to figure out whether this was a natural change after being promoted to Sequence 6, or there were other reasons.

In the majestic and magnificent palace, the mottled bronze long table and twenty-two high-backed chairs with different symbols on the back stand quietly, as if they have not changed since ancient times.

The same is true for the gray mist under them and the endless emptiness around them.

But as soon as Klein entered here, his spiritual intuition keenly discovered that the mysterious space was a little different from before.

He was not in a hurry to explore and try, he calmed down, sat at the top, took out a pen and paper, and wrote a divination sentence:

"The reason why I didn't hear the ravings after I was promoted."

Holding the paper in his hand and reciting the sentence in a low voice, Klein leaned against the back of the chair and quickly entered the dreamland with the help of meditation.

In the gray sky and the earth, pictures flashed one after another, and finally fixed on a scene.

That was Klein when his face and body were still covered with light-colored granulation, and his surroundings were filled with an illusory, thin, gray-white mist that others could not detect.

The dream was shattered, Klein opened his eyes, and roughly understood the reason:

"The gray mist intertwined with reality, helping me to block out the ravings that came from nowhere...

"After being promoted to Sequence 6, my connection with this mysterious space above the gray mist has become closer, so it has brought about certain changes, and I can naturally borrow a little power?

"At the moment, that's how it should be.

"Well, try to explore the surroundings and see what has changed."

Klein slowly got up, followed his inspiration, and walked in a certain direction outside the ancient palace. There was a gray mist spreading out like sea water under his feet.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, when he wanted to stop and give up exploring, a light flickered at the end of the front.

Joyful in his heart, Klein quickened his pace and moved closer.

Seven or eight seconds later, he saw a staircase leading to heaven!

The ladder is condensed by pure light, sacred, transparent, clear, and can shock everyone's heart.

The stairs extend to the void above, and there are only four floors, each of which is quite high, as if prepared for creatures larger than giants.

Klein looked up in its direction, and saw a layer of gray-white mist. They were condensed in mid-air, as if they were holding something, and there was still a certain distance between the staircase of light and there.

Four steps, it means that I have finished drinking the potions of Sequence 9, Sequence 8, Sequence 7 and Sequence 6? What is there on top of that layer of mist? Klein proceeded cautiously, came to the Stairway of Light, and stepped on the steps.

The steps are not weird, solid as if made of stone.

Klein climbed up the stairs to reach the fourth floor, and then tried to look above the gray-white mist, but unfortunately, his sight couldn't penetrate it at all.

He thought for a while, took two steps forward, and jumped up hard.

However, as soon as he left the ladder of light, he lost his upward momentum and the instinct to fly as a spirit body, and fell straight down, stepping on the gray mist as the bottom layer.

It seems that two or three sequences need to be upgraded. If Sequence 4 is indeed a qualitative change, then I should be able to do it after being a demigod... Klein looked up and made a judgment.

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