Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 181 Always encountering high-level events
Paisfield Street, Red Glove Lounge.

After finishing the mission report and returning the sealed object, Leonard half-lay on the sofa without any gentlemanly manners, reading today's newspaper.

When the other Red Glove member left the lounge, leaving Leonard alone, an old man's voice rang in his ears: "You were just affected by a very high-level seal."

This voice came from the "grandfather" within Leonard, the angel Pallez Zoroast of the "Thief" path.

Leonard was slightly startled when he heard the voice. He continued reading the newspaper. "How come I didn't notice it? Is it the seal on that informant Odysseus?"

"No, although Odysseus also has many secrets, he is also affected by the seal." Pales said with a smile.

Leonard frowned: "Why didn't you remind me earlier?"

"Because that seal isn't meant to harm you, it's just buying time," Pales said. "If I had warned you earlier, you'd have easily gotten yourself involved in some strange incidents."

Leonard asked again: "What kind of seal is that?"

"The writing of Al-Suhod," Pales said simply.

Leonard stood up suddenly: "Where is it?"

"0-08" is in Backlund, which means Ince Zangwill is in Backlund.

"I don't know." Pales laughed. "Why? Do you want to report it immediately and then conduct a city-wide manhunt for Ince Zangwill?"

Leonard narrowed his eyes slightly: "Such a vicious wanted criminal has been at large for too long!"

"If your captain, Soest, asks you where you got this clue, what will you say?"

Leonard opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

"I've told you before that before you reach Sequence 5, just pretend you didn't hear any news like this." Pales advised seriously, a rare moment.

Leonard took a deep breath, temporarily suppressing the fire of revenge in his heart: "What is '0-08''s purpose this time?"

Pales said, "They probably don't want Karen and the others to catch that 'witch'."

Leonard frowned: "That witch..."

"I know nothing," Pales said immediately, "and you'd better not know anything either."

Leonard didn't continue the topic, but asked again: "Old man, '0-08' should know me, but does it know you?"

"Haha." Pales said with a smile, "'0-08' sounds scary, but old people always have some ways to deal with it."

The premise is, don’t mess with “0-08”.

Leonard said "Oh" a little absent-mindedly. He had been thinking about how to safely report the "0-08" information to Soest.

But another problem arises: how to find "0-08"?
Perhaps once the "Red Gloves" take action, "0-08" will be able to detect it.

And Pales knew very well that if this guy listened to his advice, he would not be called Leonard.

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No. 66, Qiangwei Changjie.

In the evening, Carl delivered the promised reward, a total of 300 pounds.

The two drank a cup of coffee and chatted for a while before Carl left.

At night, when Odysseus continued to go to the "Wilderness of Knowledge" to study the magic circle, the moment he entered here, he immediately discovered the unreasonable things that happened today!

He first lamented that he and Carl must have been kicked in the head by a donkey. After learning the murderer's address, they were still dithering, giving the other party time to escape.

Or rather... there is a time shift.

Odysseus "recalled" that Triss seemed to have discovered that her life was being manipulated by some extraordinary power, and she had tried many times to attract the attention of the official extraordinary people in order to escape.

Then Darren's commission should be one of her efforts.

However, her little trick was still discovered, so "0-08" "reasonably" delayed the official Beyonder, and the people of the "Witch Sect" took the opportunity to transfer Triss and destroyed all clues there.

Odysseus smiled. It was good not to have contact with Triss. He didn't want to get involved in this matter.

Then Odysseus calculated the date and found that the "big smog" would occur next week. He planned to do something under Bernadette's protection.

He was not interested in George III's tomb, but was planning to save more people.

This was an idea he had had a long time ago. When he first traveled here three years ago, he thought it didn't matter whether he cared about this kind of thing or not.

But after living in this city for a while, Odysseus saw the homeless people living on the streets, and the people who had gone bankrupt for various reasons and were evicted by their landlords, standing on the streets with confused looks on their faces.

At first, I would sigh and say that this is the sadness of the times.

Later I saw that in winter, homeless people died on the streets every day, while some people were busy all day but still could not solve the problem of food and clothing.

At this moment, Odysseus suddenly realized something: these were real people, not NPCs in a game. He didn't care what era it was, but he insisted that he couldn't be like most people in this era, who ignored life.

So he came up with the idea of saving people.

Before meeting Bernadette, Odysseus's plan was: don't take risks, don't force yourself, and save as many people as possible.

With Bernadette's protection, Odysseus felt that he should be able to save most people. If Bernadette was willing to attack the "Witch of Despair", perhaps this "big smog" might be equivalent to a flu.

As for the fact that this smog made Klein feel the disaster brought by the extraordinary and the fragility of ordinary people, it was of great significance to him.

This has nothing to do with Odysseus. Is the protagonist so great? In order to make him realize something, should he let tens of thousands of people die without helping them?

Odysseus felt that if he did nothing, his condition would definitely be problematic!
Another effect of the "Great Smog" is that the royal family used this disaster to cover up the missing persons in Backlund.

This has nothing to do with Odysseus. The royal family doesn't pay him a salary, so why should he help those ambitious people cover up their conspiracy?
With this idea in mind, Odysseus planned to do something big next week.

After recalling his plan, Odysseus gathered his thoughts and began to study the magic circle found in the ruins.

After gaining some results again, Odysseus returned to the real world, went to the desk, opened his notebook and wrote: I have something to discuss with you.

Then he took a book and half-lay on the bed, reading while waiting.

To Odysseus's surprise, it was almost midnight and he still hadn't received any response about Bernadette.

Logically speaking, Bernadette's "invisible servant" should come around occasionally.

He had no choice but to rest and wait until tomorrow.

At night, Odysseus had a dream. He dreamed that he was walking on the street outside and there was a bustling crowd in front of him.

Suddenly, Odysseus sensed danger ahead. When he was about to turn around and leave, the passers-by around him stopped and looked at him blankly.

bang~
A pedestrian's head exploded like a small bomb.

bang bang bang~
This seemed to trigger a chain reaction, and the surrounding heads exploded one by one, and blood and brain matter even began to flow on the ground.

Odysseus wanted to escape from here, but his feet could not move. At this moment, Odysseus felt that the whole world was shaking.

Call ~
He sat up suddenly, waking up from a nightmare.

Then Odysseus was startled. Bernadette, who looked somewhat tired, was standing beside the bed. It was she who had shaken Odysseus just now.

Odysseus wiped his face and smiled helplessly: "I didn't expect to be scared by a nightmare."

The Mysterious Queen said seriously, "That's your spirit giving you a warning."

"Warning?" Odysseus was slightly taken aback. "You...what do you think the Moss Ascetic Order wants to do?"

He realized that Bernadette had given such a reminder because she must have found out something dangerous for him, and that the danger must have come from the "Moss Ascetic Order". After all, she had been tracking senior members of the "Moss Ascetic Order" recently.

"They are somewhere in Backlund, performing a ritual to summon the evil god." Bernadette said, "The ritual should have already begun."

Odysseus was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Didn't the official Beyonder notice it?"

"I don't know." Bernadette said, "This ceremony may take several days, so they are very secretive. I still haven't found where they are performing the ceremony."

Odysseus asked, "Isn't it in that ruin from the Fourth Age?"

"I didn't find them there."

Odysseus wasn't overly nervous. "The official Beyonders should be able to detect this. The worst-case scenario is that even the demigods can't solve this problem. Then they'll definitely send angels to disrupt the Moss Ascetic Order's operations."

The "Mysterious Queen" did not speak.

Odysseus finally realized the seriousness of the situation: "Even the angels can't solve it?"

Bernadette said, "I don't know either, but I do know that this ceremony is of a very high level, very high!"

Odysseus put on his shoes, stood up and stood in front of Bernadette: "What should we do?"

"I'm also trying to figure it out." Bernadette said, "If I can find some clues, I'll pass them on to the official Beyonders through you."

Odysseus nodded: "No problem."

The Mysterious Queen then asked, "What do you want from me?"

Odysseus waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's talk about it later."

Obviously, the disaster caused by the "Moss Ascetic Order" is also very dangerous, and the "big smog" issue can be put aside for now.

Bernadette glanced toward the window and said, "That ritual will surely unleash a lot of strange power. Many extraordinary events will occur in Backlund in the next few days."

After saying this, her figure faded and disappeared into Odysseus's room.

Odysseus took a deep breath and thought to himself: How could this happen suddenly?

There is no such thing in his "memory"!

Then he thought: Why have I been encountering such high-level events these past few days? The Darrens' commission had seemed ordinary, but it had been affected by "0-08." He'd wanted to talk to Bernadette about the "Great Smog" plan, but then he learned that the "Moss Ascetic Order" was conducting a ritual to summon the evil god.

Odysseus suddenly became alert. Everything seemed to be going smoothly, but that was where something was wrong.

He half-lay on the bed again, using "meditation" to enter the "wilderness of knowledge".

Here, he has a rich reserve of advanced knowledge and can imagine freely without any restrictions.

Odysseus thought carefully and realized that he had traveled to this world for almost three and a half years, and only in the past few days had he frequently encountered high-level events.

It has happened three times so far. One was when I went with Bernadette to explore the ruins of the Trunsoste Empire, one was a commission from Darren and his wife, and one was the ritual of the "Moss Ascetic Order" that I just learned about.

If it happened once or twice, it wouldn't be a coincidence. But if you encountered or learned about such a high-level extraordinary event three times in a row, it would definitely not be a coincidence.

Then Odysseus thought that all this had to start with exploring the ruins of the Trunsoste Empire.

Before that, the highest-level incident he had encountered was the joint operation between the Mechanical Heart and the Nighthawks.

As for the monitoring of him by the God of Steam and Machinery, this was a long-term event, and Odysseus did not directly encounter this god, so it cannot be considered an encounter event.

Odysseus thought carefully and recalled that after the exploration, he carefully examined his condition and found that he had not been contaminated.

Could it be that at that time, his fate was manipulated by an unknown existence?

But who was controlling his fate? How? He had no clue.

Because the one who can manipulate their fate so secretly must be a high-level being, but he never encountered any high-level being from beginning to end.

He even thought: Could it be that "0-08" is still paying attention to me?

I thought about it for a while, but since I didn't have any clues, this is all I could think of for now.

Back in the real world, Odysseus certainly couldn't sleep, but he tried his best not to let his thoughts run wild, because no matter what guesses he made now, there was no theoretical basis.

Let’s deal with the issues at hand first.

He began to plan how to use his intelligence network to quickly determine the location where the "Moss Ascetic Order" held its ceremony.

Soon, it was dawn.

After calming down for a few hours, Odysseus was no longer so anxious. He ate breakfast seriously, then wrote a letter to Mandy, asking her to mobilize all intelligence personnel to collect information about the strange things that had happened in Backlund in recent days.

Then he wrote a letter to the Backlund Mechanical Research Association to remind them.

After giving the letter to a carriage driver and asking him to deliver it to Mandy and the Mechanical Research Society, Odysseus returned to 77 Hailin Avenue through the "teleportation array" in the basement and took a rented carriage to preside over the Mysticism Research Society.

Dressed as the "leader", Odysseus came out of the basement and sat quietly in his seat, watching the members enter one by one.

At half past eight, Odysseus said, "Let's get started."

He paused for a moment and then said, "First, let me issue a task."

The members were all stunned. The "leader" rarely issued tasks. Every time he issued a task, it meant that something dangerous or urgent was about to happen.

"Help me keep an eye on Backlund's movements," Odysseus said. "If you encounter or hear of any extraordinary or strange events, please gather them up and bring them here to trade with me.

"30 pounds per incident, no repeat transactions accepted."

Weird thing?

This mission is somewhat strange.

Member "Hound" asked: "Mr. 'Chief', what happened?"

"I've received a secret message." Odysseus knew full well that now was not the time to conceal anything: "An evil extraordinary organization is setting up a ritual in Backlund, intending to bring down their evil god."

(End of this chapter)