Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 105 – The Method of Verification
Plagiarized manuscripts, no, creative manuscripts, should be considered a valuable book …… Will this be a “blasphemous card”? Klein’s heart moved, tapped his teeth, and quietly opened his psychic vision.
However, he did not find anything unusual.
He then scanned the other bookmarks, and got the same answer.
Also, if it was that easy to detect, it wouldn’t have been my turn to come here to Shaw Thinking …… Klein turned off his spiritual vision, and reverted to eliminating with the details he knew from Roselle’s diary and the character that that great emperor presented.
According to his understanding, since Rossel said that the book with the “blasphemous sign” was valuable, it would not be too ordinary, otherwise it would not be able to satisfy that kind of strong bad taste – using a lot of highly valued knowledge to set off the inconspicuous bookmark, so that the recipient invisible encounter with teasing.
Therefore, valuable but not high value books can be disregarded, so that …… Klein looked around and carefully identified them, not listening to what the narrator was saying at all.
”Comprehensive judgment, within the entire ‘study’, the only thing that seems to qualify is that creative manuscript, the other values can only be said to be of average value, with Rossel’s character, surely he won’t pick them, well, Rossel is the kind of person that says ‘I’m going to hide the secret in the most conspicuous Rossel is the kind of person who says, ‘I’m going to hide my secrets in the most obvious places, but you can’t find them out’. ……” Klein thought as he gave the Great One a “slightly slightly slightly” expression.
Of course, he couldn’t be sure that the bookmark was a “blasphemous card”, because the books of high value owned by Rossel obviously included works in the field of the occult, which the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery definitely couldn’t put on display!
Well, we’ll have to make sure it’s not a ‘blasphemous card’ before we consider whether or not to act on it. …… Unfortunately, the date of January 20th can’t be used to rule it out, and no one knows what day each bookmark was inserted into the books! …… Klein muttered silently to himself, turned to the stopped narrator and asked with a smile:
”Did any of the ones placed in the bookshelf clip things like this?”
”For example, a note from a certain noblewoman to Rossel.”
The question brought hearty chuckles from a number of the men, while the female narrator shook her head:
”No, no, the books with extra things stuck in them have been singled out and placed here for easy viewing by all.”
”This is just a restoration of Rossel the Great’s study, not a restoration of a study at a point in time that didn’t need to be maintained in a certain state unchanged.”
Klein laughed at that moment and said:
”I see, this is really disappointing ……”
This was simply great! There is only one bookmark in the entire exhibition hall that needs to be verified, and the difficulty plummets …… he added in his heart with delight.
When the narrator introduced “Russell’s Favorite Books”, Klein once again looked around and observed the overall layout of the exhibition hall.
In order to recreate the room as it was more than a hundred years ago, there were no gas lamps around the room.
The lighting mainly relied on the convex belly windows with iron grills a few meters away and the huge crystal chandelier hanging down from the ceiling.
As for the brass lamp holder on the desk, no candles were placed, purely for decoration.
Klein looked out the bulbous window and saw the yellowed and dying lawn and a straight, iron-black lamp post.
He made a mental note of the location and redirected his eyes to the books introduced by the female narrator, while in his mind he began to analyze the feasibility of the theft plan.
”One premise is that, according to Rossel, the major churches and the various ancient families who are royals are unwilling to see him spread the ‘Blasphemous Card’ and disrupt the solid order that has been in place for over a thousand years.”
”So, if I were the Archbishop in charge of handling this matter, then I would directly set fire to all the items left behind by Rossel, if the ‘Blasphemous Sign’ could be completely destroyed just like that, then the result would be perfectly in line with the idea of the gods, if the ‘Blasphemous Sign ‘ is difficult to be destroyed, after it is burned, it will inevitably reveal its own abnormality.”
”Since all of the items Rossel left behind are still there, that means that he must have somehow convinced everyone, including the gods, that he gave away all of the ‘Blasphemous Cards’ and didn’t leave any behind.”
”Of course, it can’t be ruled out that some church or some ancient family is trying to rely on the ‘Blasphemy Cards’ to patch up a certain extraordinary pathway needed in its own right, but the likelihood of that is very small, as it would give Rossel the opportunity to combine and unify the front, and there’s no need to go so far as to scatter the ‘Blasphemous Cards’ to disrupt the order this far.”
”In that case, his diary would present a certain amount of confidence and corresponding worry, and it’s absolutely impossible to be nothing but pessimistic and only think of relying on that ancient hidden organization.”
”Plus, more than a hundred years have passed, and the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, which keeps these leftovers, has already done an unknown number of addendum searches, so there would hardly be anyone who still believes that the ‘Blasphemous Sign’ is hidden here.”
”That means that the security level of this exhibit won’t be too high.”
”Moreover, it’s important to note that the entire Bakerland has been made restless and frightened by that serial-killing ‘demon’, and the extraordinary people of the three major churches are doing a city-wide sweep and search, and the ‘Mechanical Heart’ team was able to assigned to this unimportant exhibit must be very limited.”
”Well, the most important thing to protect here is Rossel’s diary, and many of the wild Extraordinaires worship the Archon and believe that those ‘ingenious symbols’ write deep mysteries with the motivation and ability to steal them, so the caretakers’ center of gravity must be in that gallery. ”
”Go back to the Gray Mist above to divine and corroborate with my analysis.”
”However, it has to be verified in advance if it’s a ‘Blasphemous Sign’ or else I’d risk some danger and great effort only to end up stealing back an ordinary bookmark, then I might as well lie back in the graveyard! Hmm, how should I verify this? That can’t wait for me to do it when I sneak in again, and there’s no chance of that now …… Gotta get some other people to help …… Be sure to be careful!” Klein followed the narrator with intense concentration and seemed to be listening very carefully.
”Ms. Magician”, she is an “Apprentice”, able to go through walls and doors, similar to holding a “Master Key”, is a good candidate… …but she’s only Sequence 9, and infiltration verification is too dangerous for her. ……
Ms. Hugh? No way, she’s simply not the material …… Let her get help from a burglar? No, I can’t, there are extraordinary people guarding this place, the burglar will most likely be caught on the spot, thus exposing the fact that someone is hitting on Russell’s bookmark ……
Ms. Sharon? She’s strong enough and in the right condition for this kind of mission, but the problem is that the Blasphemy Sign is enough of an artifact to make most of the Extraordinary People kill each other, and I can’t trust her yet ……
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Kraven’s mind was spinning, analyzing the help he could find.
Gradually, he locked on to an object:
”Ms. Justice!
She is from a noble family, is it possible for her to use her money and power to touch the bookmark under the pretext of interest? Well, the chances are not small, and this method will not alarm anyone, which is conducive to my infiltration to steal …… the more Klein thought about it, the more he felt that the feasibility is very high.
As for the question of how to verify, because the “blasphemous card” anti-divination anti-prophecy, he can only think of one way for the time being:
That is to try to destroy the bookmark!
–Anti-Divination and Anti-Prophecy doesn’t mean that adopting a similar means for an item that hides the Blasphemy Card will result in failure or interference, so wouldn’t that be the same as not playing with yourself?
What this really means is that even if you have the Blasphemy Card, divining it is the same as divining an ordinary thing, the same as divining the ordinary thing it is disguised as.
Anyway, I can’t guess what kind of “opening code” the Great Emperor has set up, so I can only confirm it in such a simple and crude way. If the “Blasphemy Card” can indeed be destroyed, then I can only say that I’m not destined to be with it for the time being… …Well, given the Emperor’s preferences, perhaps I could try an opening spell ……
He once joked in his diary, “Want my treasure? Then come to the end of the Sea of Mists to find it”, and the “Blasphemous Sign” is one of the treasures!
The opening spell is set to the ancient Hermetic word for “One Piece”? No, in that case, there would be no one who could obtain it, unless there was a second traveler, which was not in line with the Emperor’s idea of creating chaos and destroying order, so “Pirate King” corresponds to the Hermetic or ancient Hermetic word?
Klein slowly finalized his thoughts, paying more and more attention to the layout of the exhibition hall.
Under the guidance of the female narrator, they left the restored study and entered another gallery.
When it was all over and they were free to move about, Klein asked, slightly embarrassed:
”Excuse me, I was wondering where the lavatory is? Upstairs?”
”No, upstairs is the office area, you go straight down this way and then turn left and you’ll see it.” The female narrator politely pointed in the right direction.
Taking this opportunity, Klein mapped out the location of the lavatory in relation to the several major exhibition halls, and initially sketched out a rough layout map in his mind.
At noon, he left the Kingdom Museum without doing anything and returned to No. 15 Minsk Street.
Klein originally wanted to tell Ms. Justice in the tone of “The Fool” that his “favorites” needed help, but after careful consideration, he felt that it would be a bit disruptive to the “Fool”. Mr. “Fool”, but on second thought, I think this is a bit of a spoiler.
As a deep and mysterious big man, you must behave a little bit more calmly, not always ask for help on behalf of the “dependents”, at least not to mention this kind of thing over and over again …… Klein thought for a while, and quickly had a solution.
He decided to transmit the image and voice of the “dependents” praying for help directly to Ms. Justice.
In the process, Mr. Fool would not say anything!
Exhaling, Klein closed the curtains, rubbed his cheeks, and began to pray to himself:
”The Fool who is not of this age;”
”The mysterious lord above the gray mist;”
”The yellow and black king who reigns over good fortune.”
”I pray for certain help;”
”Pray for someone to help me get access to the bookmark that is clipped in Roselle’s creative manuscript;”
”Help me to do very small and hard-to-detect damage to it, and tell me what to expect in response, during which time I can meditate on the Hermetic or Ancient Hermetic words corresponding to ‘Pirate King’.”
”Whoever offers to help, even if nothing reacts, I am willing to give 500 pounds as payment, which is deducted from the 5,000 pounds yet to be paid.”
”I am willing to give more if there is a reaction.”
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With that done, Krynn waited a few moments before entering above the gray mist and seeing the curtain of light that presented the image of his own prayer.
After divining that “stealing bookmarks from the Kingdom Museum at night” was dangerous, but not too dangerous, he extracted the prayers, thickened the mosaic, adjusted his voice to be slightly distorted, and threw in the symbol of the “Justice” lady. “Ms. Justice’s illusory star.