In the evening, Trier, 20th district named after the cemetery, 35 St. Nones Street.
Franca, Jenna and Anthony, who were in different invisible states, came outside Room 6 on the 5th floor to confirm the details of the environment here and make final preparations for subsequent actions.
According to the information provided by the "Periodic Table of Elements", Nikila, a member of the "Moss Trappist Order" who is suspected of being the "man in the mirror", is actually an ordinary clerk, working for a cereal company, and goes out on time every day.
Go home and live a very regular life.
The only special thing about Nikila is that she is still unmarried at the age of thirty-five or six. The reason is that she has severe intermittent migraines and cannot be favored by women.
The moment after reading the information, the thoughts that came to Franka's mind were:
“It is consistent with the characteristics of the ‘Secret Peepers’ being continuously influenced by the evil god ‘Hidden Sage’…
“The ‘Man in the Mirror’ who is an Extraordinary person in the ‘Secret Peeper’ path will also be instilled with knowledge by the ‘Hidden Sage’?”
After recalling the content of the information, Franka emerged from the invisible state and created hoarfrost, letting it pour into the keyhole and condense into ice.
So, she got a crystal key and easily opened Nikila's door.
Before the real-life clerk came home from get off work, Franca took out a mirror and started doing divination to avoid possible traps or warning arrangements in the apartment.
"There is a full-length mirror in the bedroom, living room, and second bedroom, and there are as many as fifteen or sixteen portable mirrors. Who would believe you when you say you are not the 'person in the mirror'?" Franka checked everywhere.
He muttered to himself.
She was also telling Jenna and Anthony outside the door the information she had collected.
Of course, with so many mirrors in the room, there is another possibility, that is, Nikila is a "witch", but it is obvious that this woman is not an attractive woman, or even a woman.
Franka walked to the full-length mirror in the living room, looked at Jenna and Anthony who were revealed in the aisle outside the door and said:
"I will ambush behind this mirror. You follow the predetermined plan and force the target into this mirror. If he can use the world in the mirror, you can be sure that he is the 'Man in the Mirror' Griffith."
As Franka spoke, black flames burned all over the room, and they quietly eliminated all the traces left by the previous search.
Jian Na nodded gently and specifically warned:
"You have to be careful about the ambush behind this mirror. Didn't Lumian encounter one before?"
"Don't worry, the 'Magic Mirror Divination' tells me that there is no ambush. Of course, I will not completely believe or rely on divination. I will pay attention to it." Franka sensed Jenna's concern and smiled from the "Traveler's Bag".
He took out the "seven-stone bracelet" with only two diamonds left and threw it out the door.
As she threw it, she couldn't help but mutter in her heart:
"If the old doesn't go, the new won't come; if the old doesn't go, the new won't come..."
When Jiana caught the "Seven Stone Bracelet", Franka emphasized again:
"Once you are sure that Nikila has entered this mirror, you can immediately 'teleport' away and use the fixed entrance and exit of the mirror world to help me."
"No problem." Anthony put on his gloves, closed the door of Nikila's apartment, and pressed his palm on the keyhole to warm the metal that became colder under the influence of the ice key.
This was because he was afraid that Nikki would notice something unusual through the remaining cold when he opened the door.
After Jenna and Anthony left, Franka took out the crystal clear "Amulet of Ice" and wore it around her neck.
Then, she reached out and pressed her palm against the full-length mirror in the living room.
With the flash of cold light, she passed through the glass silently.
There was nothingness behind the mirror, and Franka's vision was filled with deep, dark tunnels like spider webs.
Franka, who was paying close attention to the surrounding situation, breathed a sigh of relief and said silently to herself:
"There is no ambush."
After confirming this, she moved her body close to the mirror and observed the situation in the living room of the apartment through the glass:
Nikila hasn't come back yet, and it's unusually quiet outside under the afterglow of dusk.
Franka's spirit became tense involuntarily, she raised her right hand, pinched her forehead, and sighed:
"It would be great if Lumian was here..."
This action plan was proposed and perfected by her as the leader, which cost her a lot of brain cells. At the same time, she also shouldered the responsibility of achieving the goal without causing Jenna and Anthony to suffer serious harm. She could not relax no matter what.
In the past, Lumian had to bear these things. She only needed to question and use her imagination to complete her own part of the task.
"Hey, being a team leader is too tiring, and I can't catch fish..." Franka calmed down and waited patiently.
In the cafe diagonally opposite No. 35 St. Nones Street.
Jenna, who took off her hood and transformed into a girl in a black skirt, sat by the window and chatted with Anthony opposite her about various interesting things about Trier.
Suddenly, she put her left elbow on the coffee table, held down the long flaxen hair that poured down from the side with her palm and returned to its original appearance, and her voice involuntarily became a little lower:
"The target is back."
Anthony pretended to be attracted by the beautiful woman opposite, while looking at the apartment diagonally opposite from the corner of his eye.
A two-story public carriage stopped on the side of the road, and a man in his thirties wearing a black woolen coat and a half-high silk hat got out.
The man was nearly 1.8 meters tall, with steady steps, a thin face, sharp edges, and a pair of relatively rare deep black eyes.
It was indeed Nikila... Anthony looked at Jenna, smiled and nodded, indicating that the other party had not mistaken the target.
Jian Na then straightened her head, retracted her left hand, and turned her gaze to the cuckoo wall clock in the cafe.
She smiled slightly and said to Anthony:
"There are still three minutes left."
What she meant was that formal action would be taken in three minutes.
The reason why I had to wait in the cafe for three minutes was to avoid the instinctive detection of the "peeper" when he returned home.
This is a detailed issue discussed by Franka, Jenna and Anthony.
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Nikila, wearing a half-high silk top hat, walked back to the fifth floor step by step along the stairs and stopped outside room 6.
He didn't open the door immediately, but raised his right hand and pinched his temples.
Then, he closed his eyes and opened them again. His eyes were stained with a deep purple color, giving off a mysterious charm.
"Eyes that peep into secrets"!
Nikila usually uses a special "Wizard" spell to weaken the effect of the "Peeping Eye" to avoid sudden death, but this cannot be completely sealed. Now he is doing his best to observe the surrounding area inside and outside the room.
various situations.
Bedbugs on the ceiling, hair in the cracks in the hallway, neighbors cooking in front of the coal stove, dust floating in the air in the room, children running back and forth on the stairs, mice hiding in the shadows, just passing by the apartment.
Pedestrians on the street reflected into Nikila's deep purple eyes in a state of chaotic overlapping scenes.
At the same time, Nikila also saw a curtain-like shadow surrounding the surroundings, and a layer of dark water appeared on the surface of all the mirrors.
Before the gaze behind the shadow curtain became obvious, Nikila ended the reconnaissance and closed his eyes.
Looking further, he didn't know what he would encounter or what would happen, and now, his heart was already filled with fear.
"Huh... the 'Eye of Secret Peeping' is really dangerous. The 'listener' of the 'Secret Prayer' path is listening, and we are watching. It is equally easy to touch things that should not be touched, and may die tragically for unknown reasons at any time...
"Nikila pulled out a brown scroll made of leather from the row of hidden pockets on the inside of the black woolen coat, and whispered a Hermetic word - "myopia".
The scroll immediately ignited with dark flames and quickly turned into ashes.
The mysterious deep purple in Nikila's eyes then sank into the depths of the dark eyes.
After doing this, Nikila took out the key and opened the door.
He has confirmed that there are no suspicious persons in the entire apartment and the streets on both sides, there are no enemies lurking in the shadows, and there are no signs of abnormalities.
After entering the living room and closing the door behind his back, Nikila unbuttoned the top buttons of his woolen coat and white shirt, relaxed and sat on the couch, resting his arms on both sides.
Franka, who was behind the full-length mirror, saw this scene. Taking advantage of Nikila's opportunity to lean forward to pick up the bottle of beer on the coffee table, she stretched out her right palm, letting it slightly extend out of the mirror and stick to the layer.
Glass.
When Nikila sat back on the sofa, Franka immediately took back her right palm.
Gulu, Gulu, and Nikila were drinking beer while reading the newspapers they had just brought back. They were no different from the most ordinary clerks.
Time passed by one minute and one second. Seeing that three minutes had passed, Jenna and Anthony left the cafe and turned into a nearby secluded alley, completing their preparations for hiding in the shadows and psychological invisibility.
They quickly sneaked back to the target apartment and hid in predetermined locations.
At this time, Nikila was still reading the newspaper and had not yet considered whether to go out to a restaurant to eat in the evening or to do something casually.
Suddenly, Nikila felt that her throat was a little dry and itchy, as if she hadn't drank water for a long time.
He coughed and thought subconsciously:
"I've drank half a bottle of beer, why is my throat so dry and itchy?"
Just as this thought flashed across his mind, Nikila couldn't help but cough again.
He suddenly felt intensely uneasy.
This is not right!
Just when Nikila was alert for a moment, Jenna, who heard the target cough twice in succession through the wall, emerged from the shadows without hesitation, and inserted the "bloodthirsty arrow" backhand while wearing a hood.
to your heart.
Her long flaxen hair seems to have grown a little longer, her contours have become softer, and the details of her facial features are even more stunning.
In the past, for Jenna, beauty was to highlight female charm and was an expression of female charm. But now, her beauty seems to have become a more independent concept, and she is attractive because of her beauty.
She stood through the door, allowing the shadows under Nikila's feet and the surrounding darkness to condense into illusory but solid black chains, entwining themselves towards the target.