Mystery: The Stars Returner

"Mirror, Mirror, who is the most beautiful woman in the world?"

This is a classic passage from Russell's fairy tale.

When this fairy tale became popular, it became the dream of many people to have a magical mirror that could ask various questions and answer all questions.

Arrodes is such a magic mirror.

Of course, it is still slightly different from the magic mirror in fairy tales.

It likes the principle of equivalence. If you ask it a question, it will ask you a question in return. Adhering to the principle of honesty, if you lie, you need to accept a certain punishment.

Sounds fair, well, that's just how it sounds.

When members of the Heart of Machinery brought over an ancient silver mirror with strange patterns and eyes decorated with black gemstones on both sides.

Max Livermore, who had always been anxious, had a wry smile on his face, but in the end he gritted his teeth and came to the magic mirror.

Arrodes, a living sealed artifact 2-111.

It possesses extremely high wisdom and can answer the holder's questions through revelation and information obtained from the spiritual world. Similarly, it will also ask the holder to answer a question.

"Dear Arolds, my question is, who sneaked into the Russell Memorial Exhibition last night and stole a bookmark?"

Max Livermore calmed down and finally asked his first question.

Circles of water light rippled on the surface of the silver mirror, and soon a picture appeared in the water light: a sky full of twinkling stars.

Other than that, there is no other useful information.

What kind of answer is this?

Max Livermore looked confused, and the team members beside him also didn’t understand what this scene symbolized. Even His Excellency the Archbishop, who was standing silently aside, looked surprised.

Before Max Livermore could figure this out, a few lines of ancient Fussac words appeared on the silver mirror:

"Based on the principle of reciprocity, it's my turn to ask questions."

"If you answer incorrectly or lie, you will be punished."

The word "punishment" is as red as blood, even dripping with liquid.

Max Livermore's facial expression first twitched, and then became extremely solemn.

Immediately afterwards, the water on the mirror surface floated, and a new line of text appeared.

"Do you like women who are much older than you?"

Max Livermore's face froze, and the teammates around him also cast curious looks.

Finally, he forced his numb scalp and nodded: "Yes."

Just when he thought it was finally over, His Excellency the Archbishop called him away. After a few words of explanation, he came to the magic mirror with heavy steps.

He took a deep breath, showed a look of death, and reached out to touch the surface of the silver mirror three times.

After a two-second pause, he asked in a deep voice: "Dear Arrods, my question is, is the person who came last night still in Backlund?"

"Yes."

The short answer made Max Livermore feel nervous again.

Soon, a new line of text appeared on the surface of the silver mirror.

"What's your favorite part of your partner's body?"

"..."

After a brief silence, Max Livermore answered with flushed cheeks: "Toes."

This time his teammates turned sideways, probably not wanting him to see the uncontrollable smiles on their faces.

At this point, he simply broke the jar and asked the third question: "Who are the apostles of the stars?"

The surface of the silver mirror flashed with light, and a sea appeared. A ship only had time to reveal a small part of its hull, and the scene was quickly obscured by a starry sky.

No one noticed that the silver mirror's light was much dimmer than it was at the beginning.

"Where did you spend the night the night before yesterday?"

Max Livermore's expression was completely stunned, and all nearby members of the Machinery Heart cast their gazes over.

Because their captain is married.

……

In the gray sky of Backlund, no matter how dazzling the sun's rays are, it is difficult to penetrate through the layers of gray fog to reach the ground. Only some weak points can enjoy the treatment of sunshine.

Hastur sat on the balcony, bathing in the breeze, flipping through the information in his hands.

This is the relevant information about the investment project that Neil Butler searched for.

He plans to select projects and industries suitable for investment from them.

I read it from beginning to end and circled the projects I was more optimistic about.

In order to ensure that the investment would not be lost, he was going to verify each project.

Head to the Hall of Stars and use your ability to peer into destiny to try and see what the future holds for these projects.

Of course, no matter how good a project is, success may not be guaranteed.

Sometimes it may be a problem with the project leader.

After marking, Hastur put the information on the table, took a sip of the fruit drink on the side, and then began to think about how to bribe Earl Hall.

As for Duke Negan, after the last Qilingos incident, the situation is basically stable.

Next is Earl Hall, a great nobleman who also holds real power.

According to the information given by Greco, Earl Hall is indeed considered to have a good life style and a decent conduct. It is said that he has never accepted financial bribes.

It can be regarded as a hexagonal barrel, with no shortcomings.

But no one is perfect, and excellent people like Earl Hall are no exception.

He likes to go out hunting, especially in autumn. He often goes to the large manor in the suburbs and leads a group of people into the dense forest to hunt wild animals.

Even spending a lot of money to buy a good hunting dog, Susie was given as a gift.

This is a hobby that can be broken into, and it is also a breakthrough that can be bribed.

There are always some officials who don't like mundane things like money. In this case, we can only target their hobbies.

If you like cultural relics, give them cultural relics. If you like calligraphy and painting, give them calligraphy and painting. They call it a beautiful name and let the adults evaluate it.

In addition to this, Greco also provided him with a direction, which is to pursue Audrey and become the son-in-law of Earl Hall.

In this way, Earl Hall, as his father-in-law, would give a little help in the matter of promotion to the title.

Hastur directly rejected this suggestion and prepared to attack it through the fact that Earl Hall liked hunting.

"If we can find a hound that is more excellent than what Earl Hall has, we can probably attract Earl Hall's attention, and then give the hound to Earl Hall, and the bribe can be completed."

"But an excellent hunting dog is worth tens of thousands of gold pounds, which is really expensive..."

Hastur thought for a while and made a decision in his mind. If there is no good hunting dog, then train one. It can also help Gray Lint digest the magic potion of the animal trainer.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Hastur came to Gray Lint's house and invited him to go out with him to choose a suitable pet.

Gray Lint laughed and said, "Hasta, even if you don't come to me, I'm going to have people come find you. I just recently found a group of guys selling pets. They have good breeds and are very cheap."

"Where can such a good thing come from?"

"Hey, those guys used some unfair means, and then they were detained by a friend I know. We can just go and pick it up."

……

When they arrived at their destination, Hastur truly understood what Gray Lint meant by picking up leaks.

It's just black and white.

Those pet dealers used unfair means to steal high-quality pet cubs in other places, then smuggled them to Backlund and sold them to the nobles here at high prices.

This time, they were unlucky. They were targeted by Backlund's local gang and took away all the pets. They were too sure that the gang would not call the police.

Even if you call the police, there are friends in Gray Lint who can help bail him out and resolve the matter.

"Graylint, is this Baron Campbell you have been mentioning? He looks younger and more handsome than you described."

Baron Boer, a friend of Gray Linte, looks to be in his early twenties, not tall but fat, dressed in flamboyant and gorgeous clothes, wearing a dazzling gold watch on his wrist, followed by two attendants, each holding a dog leash. .

They were two ferocious-looking dogs, with shiny black hair on their backs, and only a small patch of yellow hair on the lower legs. Their eyes were sharp and ferocious. They were baring their teeth and looking at the group of people imprisoned in front of them. Pet cubs inside the cage.

From time to time, two intimidating roars were emitted, which scared the pet cubs to curl up in a circle and tremble.

These should be two Rottweilers.

"You are Gray Linte's friend, then you are my friend. You can choose these cubs today, and I promise to give you a suitable price."

"Then I won't be polite."

Gray Lint couldn't wait to start selecting, and Hastur followed behind him, slowly looking at the pet cubs.

Gray Lint is an expert in choosing pets. He only needs to choose from the pets selected by Gray Lint.

Hastur has relatively high requirements for the pets he wants. As for the selection of suitable hounds, he has given full responsibility to Gray Lint.

He followed Gray Lint for a while, then left the pet dog area and came to the cat area.

The cages containing kittens here are obviously much smaller than the dog cages next to them.

At a rough count, there were only more than twenty.

There were not many of them, and Hastur just happened to slowly observe them one by one.

He first looked at the cats' eyes and hair, then looked at their overall shape, and finally looked at their individual personalities.

In this aspect, he is still a layman and can only rely on his own feelings most of the time.