Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 634 You are a lightning rod, not a lightning bolt.

Hughes raised an eyebrow: "What's wrong? Don't rush, catch your breath and tell me slowly."

Zoe is an extraordinary being, and for her to be running so breathlessly shows that she was in a great hurry.

"My lord, please don't be afraid of what I'm about to say."

Hughes suppressed a laugh: "What could it be? Has that weird link reconnected?"

Zoe froze, and after a long while, she shakily raised her finger and pointed in this direction: "Could it be...could it be that you've learned divination?"

Hughes strained his expression: "No, this is reasoning."

"what?"

“You and I came back on the same cargo ship, but you didn’t report back to me, which means it didn’t happen in the last few days. And since your area of ​​responsibility is more clerical, it’s unlikely that a major incident would occur—it couldn’t be that Yami blew up the school, could it?”

"If it were a sudden crisis, the banshee would have reported it to me via telepathy before you did."

"After eliminating all impossible options, whatever remains, however bizarre, must be the truth—something uniquely yours, so important that it needs to be reported to me immediately—"

"Only when the connection is re-established."

Hughes crossed his arms, obscuring most of his face, and his calm tone, like a sharp razor, unraveled the truth.

Zoe sat in the chair, stunned, as if struck by a sudden realization.

A moment later, her face flushed red: "That was...that was amazing! My lord! I've only ever seen this kind of plot in mystery novels before!"

"What a coincidence," Hughes thought. "I've only ever seen that in mystery novels."

"My lord, could you teach me how to write novels? I mean, teach me deduction! That's so cool!"

That's the effect of reasoning after knowing the answer.

Hughes smiled slightly: "It mainly depends on talent. Of course, hard work is also very important. I got to where I am today entirely by my own efforts. Cough, I'm getting off topic. Tell me what happened first."

Zoe then remembered her original purpose for coming and quickly recounted the conversation between the people she had just connected with.

"In short, this connection is extremely strange, and the person behind it must be plotting something huge!" Zoe said with certainty. "I even suspect it might be related to Lina."

The person behind the scenes scratched his head. He hadn't really thought that much about it; he just wanted to see if Beatrice was still online.

"Okay, I understand. I will pay more attention to this matter and report back if anything happens."

"Ok!"

After Zoe agreed, she turned to leave, but Hughes called her back.

"Wait."

"What is it, my lord?"

"Zoe, I remember you didn't go through a ritual to become a superhuman, right? Did you test your abilities?"

Zoe paused for a moment, then said somewhat awkwardly, "Not, not yet. You know, my job doesn't allow me to come into contact with superhumans." Although Zoe managed the school, she wasn't particularly interested in pursuing knowledge and didn't know many people in the Firemoth.

Although her mother-in-law was familiar with her, she only taught her some basic knowledge before leaving. She had recently joined the Ash Alliance, and Castel was expanding his intelligence network in the Empire. She had nothing to do on the island all day, and even the Dragon Breath Cannon was bored, so she applied to go to the Empire to gather intelligence.

Thinking about this, Hughes suddenly felt something was wrong. If you're going to do intelligence work, then why did your mother-in-law seem to have applied for several Dragon Breath Cannons before she left?
She used the Dragon Breath Cannon to gather intelligence!?

"In short, I don't know any superhumans. I do know some people on the Banshee's side, but they don't seem very enthusiastic about superhumans."

That's right, the female demons either started newspapers, became doctors, or started live streaming; very few of them had their eyes on the extraordinary.

Zoe blushed.

Indeed, although she took on a lot of political affairs, she only interacted with ordinary people and had no connections in the supernatural realm.

"Come to the island tomorrow and go to the main church. I'll arrange for someone to give you a full check-up. Gaia will come too; I remember she also became a superhuman on her own."

So the next day, Zoe went back to the island with Hughes.

She stood in front of Castel Cathedral, looking at the churning dark clouds above, pressing down the hem of her skirt that was being blown up by the wind, and exclaimed to Hughes beside her, "My lord, is this test going to be such a grand affair?"

Hughes looked up at the sky, his eye twitched, but he didn't say anything.

At this moment, Castel looked like a scene from the apocalypse, with dark, heavy clouds overhead, as if the entire sky was about to fall.

The hurricane howled, and the dark clouds swirled slowly like a vortex. Every now and then, bright silver lightning streaked across the sky, and the thunderous roar seemed to be about to judge the world.

“My lord, Castel is located on the Stormy Ocean, and I have seen storms before, but this is the first time I’ve seen a storm that only engulfs Castel.”

"This is the first time I've ever seen this either."

Hughes turned his head away helplessly and looked into the distance.

Although the area here looks like it's from the end of the world, a little further away, outside the island of Castel, it's sunny and breezy, with the sea gently lapping the beach and even the seagulls flying overhead looking lazy.

“But I can probably guess the reason,” Hughes glanced at Gaia, who was standing on the top of the cathedral, and thought of the projects he had casually approved for her yesterday.
"My lord, the storm generator is really effective. I've already tested it with lightning at Castel Cathedral, and the new lightning rods I added are quite useful."

Gaia directed the researchers to slowly stop the storm generator, and more than a dozen coyotes that had been spinning together were dizzy and sticking out their tongues.

"Putting aside the results of your experiment, how did you manage to get the experiment approved yesterday implemented today?"

"My lord, you may not know, but I was in charge of the lightning rod grounding system for Castel Cathedral. Richard's modular storm generator was easy to install and remove, so I brought it up. Actually, it was installed this morning. Since you're here, my lord, let me show you my latest progress!"

Gaia has just taken over the research and development and has been granted access to the Mechanical Sanctuary, so she is naturally full of enthusiasm.

No, they're even a little too enthusiastic. Aren't they leaving in a few days? Why are they still taking time out of their busy schedules to do research?
"I've improved the storm generator's inability to control lightning strikes by using a lightning rod to guide and accumulate the lightning, and then releasing the stored lightning from the tip of the lightning rod."

Sizzle—Bang!

A flash of lightning suddenly appeared on the lightning rod atop Castel Cathedral, followed by a bolt of lightning that struck out and shattered the distant target.

(End of this chapter)