Part 1. The Joker Chapter 195: Klein, the “Lockpicking Expert”
After a few seconds of slowing down, Klein turned on his psychic vision and looked around the room, only to see that under the scarlet moonlight, Mrs. Sherron’s bedroom was lavishly and magnificently decorated.
Thick carpet, spacious space, velvet quilt cover, messy placement of various skin care products and cosmetics table, flashing different light jewelry, half-open and half-hidden checkroom, casually thrown on the rocking chair of light clothing and garter stockings, inlaid with gold filigree of the many ornaments, one by one, into the eyes of Klein.
The most eye-catching thing in the whole room is an unfinished oil painting, on which is the naked body of Mrs. Shirren herself, her brown hair like a waterfall, brown eyes as if the eyes of a deer in the forest, pure and moist, but the curved eyebrows and eyes, quite a nose and delicate lips, but also outlined the charm of a mature woman, the two in a contradictory posture was blended together, but exudes a surprising power of seduction.
Neck down, Klein only glanced, did not look closely, this is not a prude, he even looked at the other side of the “little dirty movie”, still afraid of what “little yellow rabbit”?
His attention was attracted by the paints, plates, brushes and a silver-plated full-length mirror next to the painting.
Such a combination, such a placement, such a position relationship, let him have a strange idea, that is, the author of this oil painting is Mrs. Sheridan herself, rather than she hooked up with a certain painter.
A woman with a moving face, outstanding figure, yet charming and innocent, stripping off her clothes, looking in the mirror while depicting herself and recording her beauty …… Such a scene feels strange …… Mrs. Sheren is too narcissistic, isn’t she? Klein mumbled silently, withdrew his gaze, and began to rummage through the possible evidence of the crime.
According to Leonard and Fry’s teachings, he has been wearing black gloves, and every time he rummages around, he has to memorize the original appearance in advance, so that he can recover it afterwards.
For a “soothsayer”, this is not the slightest difficulty, and if he forgets, he can easily recall it with the technique of “dream divination”.
Of course, before going out tonight, he also gave himself a divination, no danger, quite smooth.
This is a qualified clergyman should do things …… even if I’m already a “clown” …… Klein self-criticism, spent nearly twenty minutes searching through Mrs. Sharon’s bedroom, did not find anything of interest, and spent a lot of time in the bedroom, but he did not find anything of interest. He didn’t find anything of interest, and he didn’t see any spiritual light.
Finally, he stopped at the safe in one corner of the room.
Iron-gray in color, it was a meter tall, thick and heavy, and gave the impression of being unusually sturdy, as if it couldn’t be opened even by moving dynamite.
”It really has the characteristics of the steam era ah …… inside must possess extremely complex mechanical combinations ……” Klein tried to open the lock and shamefully met with failure.
Pushing the safe to the end for now, he removed his left glove and removed the citrine pendant wrapped around his wrist.
Holding the silver chain and letting the pendulum of the spirit droop, Klein dismissed the dry heat from the room’s scents and entered a meditative state.
His eyes turned deep and he whispered to himself:
”This room has secret rooms or hidden compartments.”
”This room has secret rooms or hidden compartments.”
……
After seven times, Klein’s eye color returned to normal and his gaze looked over at the citrine pendant and saw it doing a counterclockwise rotation.
This signaled a denial.
Nodding his head invisibly, Klein left Mrs. Sheridan’s bedroom and followed the process he had just followed, quietly rummaging through the study, living room, solarium, and other places, but was unable to find any useful and valuable clues.
The reason why he didn’t use the “Divining Staff Search Method” was because he didn’t know what he was looking for.
Pulling out a silver pocket watch with a branch and vine pattern, he flicked it open to check the time, and then returned to Mrs. Sheridan’s bedroom.
Carefully closing the wooden door behind him, Krynn took out his ceremonial silver dagger and spewed out a gurgling spirit, allowing it to combine with the forces of nature to seal off the entire room.
He would “summon” himself!
He was going to spirit his way into that heavy safe and examine the contents!
”I don’t need to know how to pick locks!” Klein muttered in Chinese.
Since he was praying to himself, all the processes could be simplified and didn’t need to be so elaborate, so Klein took out a candle laced with sandalwood and casually lit it with his spirituality, even though he had set up the altar.
”Me!”
”I invoke in my name:”
”The Fool who does not belong to this age, the mysterious lord above the gray mist, the yellow and black king who reigns over good fortune.”
The incantation echoed through Mrs. Sherron’s bedroom as Klein’s spirit surged forth, blending with the candle flame to form a gray, palm-sized curtain of light.
Immediately afterward, he took four steps against the grain, penetrated the hiss, and entered above the gray mist.
Glancing at the “summoning door” behind the high-backed chair at the top of the ancient table, Klein was about to respond when he was suddenly startled.
”Anyway, I’ve come in, so I’ll do a divination by the way, and see if I can find any clues …… Here, in addition to the interference that will be eliminated, my ability is still somewhat enhanced …… And the environment in which my body is located, so that the current divination equivalent of using the items Mrs. Sherron carries with her ……” He sat down, materializing parchment and a round-bellied fountain pen in front of him.
Divination of what? Klein was lost in thought:
”Something wrong with Mrs. Sherron?”
”No. Anyone who has made a mistake has some sort of problem.”
”Mrs. Sherron was involved in a crime?”
”…… This is also not strict enough, as a social celebrity, mixed with political circles, it is normal to be involved in something dirty and cannot be pointed out …… And what defines a crime? The laws of the Kingdom of Ruin, or the Republic of Intis, or my free mind?”
……
As the thoughts rolled around, Klein didn’t want to delay, after all, his physical body was still in the real world, so he planned to just confirm the few related divinations he had done before.
Picking up a pen, without the need to write, a divination statement presented itself on the parchment in front of him:
”There is a transcendental element to the death of John Maynard.”
This was the divination that Crane had done when he had gone to Senator Maynard’s house and helped the police with their seance, and the answer at the time had been no.
Holding the silver chain so that the citrine pendant just barely touched the words on the parchment, Klein half-closed his eyes and silently recited the divination statement:
”There is a transcendental element to John Maynard’s death.”
”There are transcendental factors influencing the death of John Maynard.”
……
After repeating it seven times, he opened his eyes and looked at the spirit pendulum, his pupils shrinking dramatically.
The citrine pendant was making a clockwise rotation!
And the clockwise rotation indicated certainty!
There was a transcendental element to Senator Maynard’s death!
Klein gazed at the slowly leveling spiritual pendulum as his heart rolled over:
”I was under the influence of someone who interfered with my divination ……”
”Mrs. Sherron is an Extraordinary, a rather powerful Extraordinary? Or did she have the help of such a figure behind her, and together they plotted the death of Councilman Maynard?”
”To get rid of this strong contender for the mayor’s throne, to get rid of a future member of the House of Commons for the new party?”
One thought flashed by, and Crane wrote down a new divinatory statement:
”Mrs. Sherron is the Extraordinary One.”
Still chanting seven times, still using the “Spirit Pendulum Method”, Klein completed the divination and saw the answer with the help of his current environment and some of the information related to Mrs. Sheridan.
The answer was that the citrine pendant was turning clockwise, and the answer was yes!
Mrs. Sheridan is an extraordinary person …… Klein’s heart was tightened, without further delay, immediately responded to his “call”, pushed open the mysterious door.
After the confusion and dizziness, he saw Mrs. Sheridan’s bedroom, but also saw himself.
Half-floating, half-flying, Klein came to the bulky safe, poked out his right hand, and carefully reached in.
Since Mrs. Sherron was an Extraordinary, he had to be wary that the other party had laid traps in the safe.
And in this state of spirit body mixed with some power from the mysterious space and most of his own spirituality, Klein didn’t need to divine any more, he could get hints just by approaching the danger – the vast majority of the essence of divination relied on the astral-spiritual body traveling to the spiritual world to get revelations, which in simple terms originated from his own spirituality.
Nearly transparent palm through the thick metal door, Klein did not notice the slightest abnormality.
After scanning up and down, he lunged forward, his entire spiritual body burrowing into the safe.
He saw that it was divided into three tiers, one with standardized gold bullion, thick banknotes, and even more valuable jewelry, and one with a number of documents that lacked covers, and Klein puffed out his cheeks and blew on them a few times, unsuccessfully flipping them open to see the contents.
Well, later carry Mr. Aztec’s copper whistle and try again …… Klein has tested before, with the spirit body completely wrapped in the “Yangyan charm” and “Aztec’s copper whistle”, these two items can then be penetrated. These two items can penetrate the barrier, and seem to become half-real and half-illusory existence.
The bottom shelf of the safe was rather bizarre, containing only a black and white photograph of a young man with a beautiful face.
”Mrs. Sherron’s former lover? They were forcibly separated, and Mrs. Sherron had to marry the old baron, and began to degenerate, wandering into the beds of one man after another, but deep inside her heart, she still retains a piece of pure land, and whenever it’s late at night, she takes out this photo and fondles it with tears in her eyes …… “Klein instantly Then brainstormed a mournful and bleak romance drama.
However, the more he looked at it, the more wrong it was, because the young man in the photo seemed, probably, probably, to look a little bit like Mrs. Sherron ……
Mrs. Sherron’s brother? She is an extraordinary person …… Grass, she can’t be a witch way too, right? She’s the same as “Instigator” Tris! Klein’s mind suddenly flashed with an aura, and he startled himself.
Why did Tris stay in Tingen before? Is it because she has a companion here? As Klein scrutinized the photograph, it became more and more apparent that the young man bore quite a resemblance to Mrs. Sherron.
His almost transparent face made a grimace, and he felt that he couldn’t look at the “little piece of dirt” anymore.
Collecting himself, Klein felt around the safe again to see if there was anything else hidden.
Although he couldn’t pick up the paper now, the feeling of passing through an object was different from passing through the air, and the feeling was also different between objects of different densities.
In the midst of groping around, Klein was suddenly struck by a sudden shock.
He touched a cavity, a compartment, on the side of the safe near the wall!
After confirming that there was no danger, Klein drilled in, and within his vision, items such as ointment, incense, and herbal powder were reflected, reflecting an idol carved out of white bone.
The idol was palm-sized, vaguely a beautiful woman with very long hair that stretched down to her ankles, and had clear, thick roots like a viper.
At the top of each hair, there was also an eye carved, they were either closed or open, densely packed.
Klein was startled, “smelled” some kind of evil smell, panicked and exited the mezzanine.
He finally understood the reason why he failed to divine the chamber and the dark compartment just now!