Mystery: Lucky One

Hearing the emotion in his voice, Alice's eyes softened. She looked at Klein, who greeted her:

"You guys try it too."

What was surprising was that, except for the one who took the first bite, the others stopped moving. They all looked at the high priest Nim, who slowly reached into his pocket and took out a reflective lens.

...?
Fortunately, it seems to be a magnifying glass...

Alice's body stiffened for a moment, but then she relaxed when she realized that the size, thickness, and shape of this thing didn't look like a monocle.

Nim used the magnifying glass to observe the man who bit off the mushroom for a few seconds, then stuffed it back and nodded.

At this moment, as if they had received permission, the others picked up the mushrooms and started eating them. Only Alice stared at Nim and slowly frowned.

This high priest has too much appeal... It seems that the Chief of Silver City is the same?

At a certain moment, a dangerous thought passed through Alice's mind, and she began to wonder who the people of Moon City would choose if the god they believed in wanted to kill their high priest.

But if that happens, he will commit suicide...

Based on her knowledge of Silver City and Moon City, Alice made a judgment and sighed slightly.

The hidden malice in her heart disappeared. Alice watched the others eating mushrooms and only reminded them:
“Except for the pure black mushrooms, all of them are edible. Also, except for the white mushrooms which are quite special, the other mushrooms must be roasted before they can be eaten.

"Otherwise, it will turn into a bunch of mushrooms..."

"White mushrooms can also be roasted," Klein added, "but when they are fully cooked, they will easily break open, and the liquid inside will flow out. You can prepare something to hold it... Oh, and if you bite it directly and it breaks, the liquid will flow out too."

This reminded Alice of something. She turned to Klein and asked curiously:
"Tell me, when little 'Sun' sees you, will he think you don't like drinking milk?"

"?" Klein glared at Alice. "Since you like drinking milk, why do you still..."

He paused, glanced at the people from Yuecheng, and didn't finish the sentence.

The people of Moon City were concentrating on eating. Nim glanced at Alice and Klein thoughtfully, and then he was also immersed in the food.

Alice patted Klein and joined the group that was chewing mushrooms, but she looked at Klein from time to time. Klein paused and realized that she was asking him to continue telling the story.

So he started talking about what he had seen and heard again. This time he did not talk about the outside world and the Fool as he did before, but instead talked about what he had seen and heard since entering the "God-Forsaken Land". The process was much embellished, but the story was still exciting.

When he talked about the voices reciting The Fool coming from the mist, Klein was satisfied to see the awe on the faces of the Moon City residents. He spoke carefully:

"There are many other ways to make the gray mist react, but they all have to do with my Lord."

He glanced at Alice, who blinked, then turned around and nodded.
"Yes, that's right."

This form of cooperation made Klein silent for a moment. Then he pretended nothing had happened and continued:

"From what I have observed, Moon City's extraordinary path is not limited to one."

The gray-haired Nim did not hide anything and simply responded:

"Yes, when we were chosen to come to Moon City, the Envoy of God consciously made the extraordinary paths comprehensive. Unfortunately, after so many years and one disaster after another, the potion formulas and extraordinary materials of many paths have been lost."

"Wow," Alice exclaimed, "You should have called Noah!"

This sentence was said while looking at Klein. Klein opened his mouth, but found that Alice had no intention of waiting for his response. Instead, she quickly shook her head and said:

"No, no..."

Having said that, she looked at Nim again:

"You should be called Noah, or rather, your high priest should be called Noah. Whoever succeeds you as the high priest will be named Noah."

"Why do you say that?" Nim asked puzzledly.

"Where I come from, the name means 'savior,'" Alice explained.

She didn't tell the complete story of Noah's Ark, so Nim didn't understand the deep meaning and shook his head:
"Then you should be called Noah."

Alice blinked, then turned to Klein and asked:
"Can I call Noah Angel?"

"It doesn't sound very nice," Klein discussed with her, "and it's not easy to understand either... Angel of Redemption, how about that?"

After a pause, he asked again: "At that time, you shouldn't be an angel, right?"

"Used to be?" Alice raised her eyebrows. "That's not right. If it's used to be, you should be..."

She paused, and didn't say anything else, but turned her head curiously and said:
"Are there any Beyonders of the 'Monster' Path among you?"

This time she chose to call the Beyonder Path Sequence 9 to make it easier for Nim to understand.

"Yes, but he's not in the team," Nim replied, "There's a 'Lucky Man' in Moon City. Although his sequence is not high, he's very popular during exploration and hunting. However, we usually don't include him in the patrol team."

"Why?" Alice didn't understand.

"When exploring, luck can help him avoid monsters. When hunting, luck can help him pick up fresh corpses. But when patrolling..." Nim had a strange expression. "Luck will only make danger appear in areas that others are responsible for. If there is only one team responsible for patrolling, then..."

Then he will just avoid danger, and then you will be stabbed in the back by danger... Alice's mouth twitched and she interrupted:
"Okay, no need to say more, I understand."

But, that being said, if I ever have my own church, this...

Alice fell into deep thought, and Klein took over the conversation: "Has anything unusual happened near this gray fog?"

Nimune asked for about ten seconds and said, "Yes."

Klein's heart moved, and he calmly asked, "What kind of abnormality?"

Nim glanced at the fragrant mushrooms in his hand, considered his words and said:
“A hill suddenly disappeared, leaving behind only a deep pit.

"There were no signs of explosion in that area, and there was no soil scattered around."

Alice pricked up her ears silently.

While thinking, Klein asked without leaving any trace: "Have you done any further investigation?"

"Yes." Moon City High Priest Nim nodded and said, "An investigation team encountered a demon wolf there. It was not a rotten or mutated monster demon wolf, but the original kind of demon wolf."

Demonic wolf? Klein didn't expect to hear such information. His pupils changed slightly as he asked:
"What does the demon wolf look like?"

Nim took a deep breath unconsciously and said:
"It's the same as the demon wolf described in ancient literature, but even bigger. Even if all eight of its legs were on the ground at the same time, it would still be as tall as two or three people combined.

"Its fur is not pure black, it gives people a dark and deep feeling. Its eyes are very strange. Most of the pupils are black. Also, there is a tuft of short gray hair on the top of its head..." "Fuck," Alice felt something was wrong the more she listened, and she exclaimed, "Kotal!"

"What?" Nim didn't understand the mixed language speech.

Klein glanced at Alice, and when she calmed down, he asked Nim:

"Didn't it attack your investigation team?"

He used "it" instead of "him", which made Alice a little confused. She glanced at Klein but did not ask out loud.

"No, it left in a hurry," Nim said truthfully.

This reaction was obviously wrong. Alice frowned and began to feel uneasy.

Klein thought for a while, then asked, "Did it leave any traces?"

"No," Nim shook his head firmly, "Except for the hill turning into a deep pit, we didn't find anything unusual."

There was no point in asking this question, so Klein decided to find out the truth in a different way:

"When did this happen?"

Nim thought for a moment and said, "One year, seven months and five days."

He quickly explained: "There are so few things worth recording, I am deeply impressed."

一年七个月零五天……当前是1351年2月2日，倒推回去就是1349年6月28日……这……克莱恩的右手突然轻微地震颤了一下。

His expression looked normal, but Alice had quietly moved over and grasped his arm.

She also calculated out of curiosity. As a method with a bonus in computing ability, Alice calculated faster than Klein. As soon as she figured out the date, she realized something and came over to comfort Klein:

"It seems that I was wrong... At the beginning, there was probably someone else who really worked hard. I think you should thank my other 'mother'..."

Considering the existence of the Moon City residents, Alice did not tell the details, but Klein understood what she meant. After calming down a little, he quickly thought of the missing "Miracle Master" feature that Arrodes mentioned.

No, if it was just a "miracle worker", Cottard wouldn't be like this, unless...

That is an extraordinary characteristic of the "Mysterious Waiter"!
Of course, to be more precise, this includes all the extraordinary characteristics from Sequence 9 to Sequence 1.

In other words, I should have directly become Sequence 1 in the beginning...ha.

Klein's heart was filled with great emotions, but at the moment, he still asked as if nothing had happened:
"Has anything like this happened in the past two or three thousand years?"

"No." Nim gave a very firm answer.

"Two hundred and eight years ago, was there anything special?" Klein asked.

This was the time when Emperor Roselle "traveled" to this world - Alice was not clear about this, and she was confused about this year.

Nim hesitated for two seconds and said:

“I can’t tell you the exact answer, you need to go back and look through the relevant records.

"Fortunately, the data and documents from the last three hundred years have not been destroyed."

At this point, he added:
"My limited impression tells me that there shouldn't be anything special."

If this is true, then the source of the extraordinary characteristic of the "Secret Servant" is not the time travel, but my entry into the gray fog and binding of "Source Castle" to myself. This can confirm the speculation that it came from "Source Castle"... Of course, the premise is that the abnormality here is really the extraordinary characteristic of the "Secret Servant".

Klein nodded slightly and did not ask any more questions. He simply said, "Tell me where the pit is."

By the time Nim answered, the mushroom feast had come to an end. Nim looked at his cold mushrooms, and after a moment of silence, he simply put them back on the grill and said:

"We want to listen to the Fool's teachings."

This is a question about doctrine... Alice lowered her head and suppressed her laughter.

As the chief angel under the Fool, Alice knew Klein's background too well—he didn't even have time to make it up!
Klein was obviously aware of this problem. He somehow understood why the Creator plagiarized the Bible. Perhaps the reason was not as complicated as they thought. It was simply because they could not make it up.

However, it’s hard to say later…

With a myriad of thoughts in his mind, Klein's expression naturally became solemn. He grabbed the copper-patinated cross and pressed his fingers on the spikes.

The blood quickly soaked through, and the patina on the cross peeled off, revealing its body made purely of sunlight.

“God said…” Klein opened his mouth and spoke in a low voice, while raising the Glorious Cross in his hand much higher.

Warm, bright, and clear light surged out like a tide, instantly filling the surrounding area.

Nim and the others felt the pent-up darkness and discomfort in their bodies begin to rapidly dissipate, and they felt as if their bodies and minds had been purified.

They were in a trance, and they only heard the divine messenger, who was holding the glorious cross and covered in sacred colors, solemnly saying:
“God said…

“The first commandment: No living sacrifice, no human sacrifice.

“Second Commandment: Thou shalt not take my name in vain.”

Beside him, Alice unconsciously loosened her hand, opened her mouth in surprise, and murmured in the silence:

“It looks like…

“Not just anyone can run a circus.”

Klein was suddenly distracted. He almost turned around to argue with Alice and told her that the "Ancient Scholar" had escaped the constraints of the circus and entered a higher level. However, when he thought of Alice's evaluation of the "Miracle Worker", he suppressed the urge.

...tired.

With a solemn expression, Merlin Hermes took back the cross in his hand, took out the "Staff of Life" again, and continued the next step of treatment and purification, while preaching some of the things he had preached when facing the believers of Poseidon.

After sending the people from Moon City away, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Alice, and said softly:
"The date he mentioned..."

"I know." Alice stopped joking and opened her arms with a gentle look in her eyes. "Although the body temperature of snakes is cold, maybe my embrace is warm... Do you want to try it?"

Klein looked at her and said after a few seconds of silence:

"I always feel that if I agree, you will yell 'pervert'..." (End of this chapter)