ghost on paper

Chapter 29 The Murder Scene
After all, Truman did not ask for his remaining rent.

The room rented by the Royal Oak Hotel to Truman was severely damaged. Not only did the rest of the room cost offset the repair costs, but Truman even spent another 3.5 gold pounds to meet the hotel's claim for compensation.

After taking out the money, Truman only had less than 10 gold pounds left.

Seeing that his economy in another world is about to fall into crisis.

But barely manageable.

The most important thing now is to figure out why Anton came to him, and why he was able to find him.

"Anton doesn't look like he has no reason and humanity, but he seems to have become another person."

On the streets of Lundini, Truman was walking home. It was afternoon, and the city seemed very lively, but he frowned.

The key lies in what Anton is now.

The newspaper stated that the address of the tragedy happened was on the scheduled route of Truman, and it only needed to turn a corner, so Truman stopped by to see the scene of the Miemen tragedy.

This is a small three-story building with a garden outside. It is compact but very beautiful. To buy such a house in the central area, you need at least a thousand dollars.

Truman stopped outside the door and looked in, until a magistrate came to ask him what he was going to do, Truman shook his head and left.

This horrific tragedy attracted the attention of the Pope, and the newspaper said that the Pope had begun to order the magistrates to seize the prisoner as soon as possible to ensure the safety of the Lundini area.

Although many people died in this city every day, none of those people lived in the central area, and they never had such a beautiful small garden. Once danger came to the nobles, it would bring great pressure to the law and order.

Truman knew that if the monster Anton was the one who committed the crimes, then the red gloves should be responsible for these cases.

The pressure on the red gloves will be even greater.

"If Anton has reason and humanity, why would he kill his family? Should I report his whereabouts to the Holy See?"

Truman couldn't figure it out.

Then he touched the branch quill in his pocket again.

This is a 'feature'.

Its name is 'copying'.

Also one of the three tentacles of the monster Anton.

It was Anton's 'deposit' paid in advance to Truman, and Anton wanted Truman to help him translate more spiritual texts 'about him'.

If it is reported to the Holy Court, there is no doubt that this will also be handed over.

Truman was a little reluctant.

'Actor' sequences require various 'characteristics', and that's one of their main paths to power.

"He should...not Anton." Truman guessed.

"Maybe he...couldn't be Zhuge Liang?" As he said softly, an inexplicable emotion was boiling in Truman's mind.

Could it be that Zhuge Liang was revived in that monster's body through the introduction of the spiritual text?

After all, the previous Anton, whether in human form or monster form, seemed to be incapable of reason, and suddenly he was able to communicate normally, and it was very likely that a third soul was born.

Thinking of this, Truman felt some eagerness inexplicably.

If it is really Zhuge Liang, it means that he has a companion in this other world... Can you think so?

At least similar souls born from the same cultural source.

Of course, even if it is Zhuge Liang, he doesn't have any kindness towards Trumen at present.

If Truman hadn't been promoted to Extraordinary, this kind of translation request and transaction might have turned into kidnapping and coercion.

Walk to a secluded street corner.

Truman stretched out his hand to caress his face, as if taking off the mask, he really had a silver mask in his palm.

Then Truman put the mask in his palm on the branch quill.

Another Truman quietly appeared in the air, as if outlined by a stroke of a brush, the whole process was full of mystery.

Truman felt that his "share" was rapidly decreasing.

About 30.00% lower.

"You can't show your face," Truman said.

"As you wish." The avatar stretched out his palm and stroked his face, then put on a silver mask.

'Avatar' is a technique belonging to 'actor', in addition to hiding itself, it can also imitate others.

When imitating others, if a 'characteristic' is the core, it means that this 'incarnation' possesses this 'skill'.

At present, the upper limit of Truman's avatar is 1, and the upper limit of skills possessed by an avatar is 3. Now "copying" accounts for one of them, and Truman has given "sharpness" to the avatar, and now the avatar has 2 "skills".

When the avatar exists, Truman is equivalent to having two perspectives, and he has to get used to this feeling.

The real body continued to hide on the street corner, while the avatar circled back to the backyard of An's house, climbed the wall and jumped in.

"I have to try to confirm whether Anton is the murderer. This can tell me whether to report him to Red Gloves."

Truman walked towards the scene of the murder while talking to himself.

Since the scene was clearly photographed in the "Lundinian", even if there were no dead bodies at the scene, Truman quickly found two crime scenes.

The master room on the second floor and the servant room on the first floor.

A large amount of blood was scattered at the scene, consistent with that captured in newspaper photographs.

The two deceased should have died in a state of being torn apart, very miserable.

If he was smashed to death by Anton's tentacles, he might die in this form.

Sheriffs did not recover all the remains, with some internal organs hanging from windows, chairs and tables.

The scene was very bloody.

But there was still a strange smell in the air.

Some flavor of spirituality.

Truman can feel them by virtue of the 'copying' feature.

Truman stretched out his index finger and used his fingertips to attract the spiritual light in the air.

Those spiritual brilliance merged into a bright yellow river on Truman's fingers, and when Truman's fingers danced lightly, the bright yellow spiritual river moved accordingly.

Spirituality is gathering more and more, but the absolute number is still very small.

Almost 12 hours had passed since the homicide.

This is already the maximum limit that the 'copying' feature can condense and pick up from the scene.

Snapped!
Truman released these spirits.

They form a slight explosive cyclone in the air.

It's not loud, but it's an explosive type of 'trick'.

Truman's extraordinary knowledge is infinitely close to zero, so it is impossible to judge which sequence's 'skill' this belongs to.

Certainly not the 'skills' of 'scholars'.

Or maybe the monster Anton got the skills from the workshop owner's spiritual warehouse?
No, Anton didn't show relevant skills in the previous encounter with Truman.

In that case, it's impossible for Anton to hide something.

The murderer...wasn't Anton.

But looking at this scene, if there is no "copying" technique to pick up the remaining spirituality in the air, it is very likely that Anton has gone crazy and destroyed himself.

……

oops.

Stay away from him, no matter if the murderer is Anton or whoever, whether he is Anton or whatever.

Don't take the initiative, don't refuse, don't act, let's just leave it at that.

After making a decision, Truman took back the mask from the avatar, and the avatar disappeared miraculously.

When the avatar is damaged, Truman will only lose his "share" and will not affect himself, so "actor" is a very safe sequence.

Truman chose such a sequence, naturally he didn't want to associate with danger.

But Anton found Truman.

"This guy should have obtained the characteristics of divination and prediction. I used the 'incarnation' to hide myself at that time, and he was talking about it."

"I heard him keep chanting 'Seven Star Lantern'. Could it be that he ate the spiritual text of 'Seven Star Lantern'?"

"Isn't the 'Seven Star Lantern' in the workshop?"

"Did something happen to the workshop?"

Thinking of this, Truman shook his head again.

The owner of the workshop is a legendary 'soul refiner'.

With her in charge, it is impossible for the workshop to have an accident easily.

(End of this chapter)