Mystery: Who has seen my brother?

Chapter 166 The answer now

A soft female voice suddenly sounded from behind him, so familiar that Klein immediately knew the identity of the person behind him.

He turned his head and saw a beautiful girl in a light blue dress walking slowly towards him.

Klein glanced at the people walking on the street, clenched his cane, and said to Eve with a serious expression, "I have something to talk about. Let's talk about it when we get home."

Seeing Klein's serious expression, Eve tilted her head slightly, looking a little confused, but she simply nodded and said, "Then let's go back."

Eve took two steps forward, walked beside Klein, and walked side by side with him, all in silence.

Mechanical crystals whizzed past, and as the scenery outside the window continued to recede, the two people continued to approach home.

The sound of the wheels rubbing against the tracks gradually faded, the subway began to slow down, and finally lay quietly in the subway station. Eve and Klein got off the train one after another, canceled the illusion on Klein, and returned home.

Klein immediately ran upstairs, rushed into the bedroom, and came out of the bedroom a few seconds later.

Eve stood at the bottom of the stairs, her eyes glancing at the pamphlet in Klein's hand, a hint of understanding flashing in her eyes.

Klein held the booklet in front of Eve and asked, "Do you know this booklet?"

"Of course," Eve nodded and said, "I was also quite surprised when I first heard about it. It seems that this publicity strategy is very successful."

Klein felt awkward for a moment. He immediately wanted to explain, but he realized Eve was only giving an objective assessment. There was no hint of joking in her tone or expression. Explaining himself would only make him seem guilty.

He hesitated for two seconds and then slowly closed his mouth.

"I didn't expect you to get it after only two days in Backlund. You're really lucky." Eve took the booklet from Klein's hand, flipped it open, and slowly scanned the pages. "This method of publicity is very slow and risky, but there's no other way. After years of hard work, we've achieved considerable results."

"Is there no other way?" Klein frowned and asked distressedly. This method was indeed inefficient and risky.

"In the past, someone from the Southern Continent published a newspaper in the Northern Continent," Eve looked up at Klein, slowly closed the book, and said, "The founder of the newspaper was forced to commit suicide, and the newspaper was taken over by the authorities."

Klein fell silent.

Eve retracted her gaze and held the booklet in front of Klein. She pressed the corner of the book against his forehead and applied a little force, leaving a red mark on Klein's forehead.

The sudden pressure on his forehead brought Klein back to his senses. He looked down at Eve in confusion.

"If you don't report them, they'll find you again," Eve tapped the cover of the book with her fingers and said gently, "Maybe it'll be a month, maybe two months, or maybe even longer."

Klein's breathing stagnated. He felt as if the air was squeezing his chest and oppressing his heart. He looked up and stared at the book in a daze.

The shy girl in the goose yellow dress on the cover seems to be looking at him, her eyes are bright and her rosy cheeks make her look even more youthful and beautiful.

In a trance, Klein seemed to see those black and white photos, those children with lifeless eyes in their parents' arms. If there were no war and poverty, they would probably look like this.

He raised his hands stiffly and placed them on Eve's hands. Under His gaze, he moved down, grasped the book, and took it from the girl's hands.

"Put it away," Eve said with a chuckle, "it will be troublesome if someone sees it."

Klein pursed his lips, nodded, and returned to the bedroom in silence.

Eve watched Klein go upstairs, and only withdrew her gaze when the door gently closed, completely blocking Klein's figure.

He reached out and grabbed the handrail of the stairs, leaning forward and pressing against the railing, lowering his head, his sea-blue eyes staring at the steps absently.

When Klein left the bedroom, he saw Eve hanging on the stair railing. But he didn't want to pay attention to it at this moment. He had some questions he wanted to ask Eve.

But before he could say anything, the girl stood up straight and said with a smile: "Are we going to Rhodes Islands now?"

"Do not."

It was already evening outside, earlier than Klein and Eve usually went.

Klein firmly rejected the proposal. He wanted to get an answer first.

"I have a question for you."

Klein looked at Eve with sharp eyes and a serious expression. He quickly walked downstairs and came to Eve.

"Go ahead." Eve made a "please" gesture, signaling Klein to speak.

Klein took a deep breath to calm himself. His expression and tone were unusually serious and tense. "There are extraordinary powers in this world. Are the top beings of those extraordinary powers involved?"

"You know it well, right?" Eve curled her lips, pointed a finger at Klein's chest, and said in a deep voice, "The gods will certainly not object to this matter. And for humans, if the gods don't object, it means they acquiesce."

"Then you and the goddess..."

Klein still remembered that Eve had a good relationship with the goddess. "Dark Night doesn't care," Eve replied. "He doesn't care about Rune's actions, nor does he care about the actions of the Southern Continent."

"If He had a considerable number of followers in the Southern Continent, He might care, but the reality is that He doesn't. Although Rune has been committed to spreading the faith of night and storm to the Southern Continent, the people of the Southern Continent have always rejected foreign religions."

I don't care... Klein lowered his eyes, his heart filled with mixed feelings. Although it wasn't the answer he wanted, it wasn't the worst either.

"It's extremely foolish to demand of God the same moral standards as humans." Eve withdrew her hand, gently stroked the wrinkles on Klein's chest that she had poked.

"then you……"

"Me?" Eve said with a smile, "I am full of humanity."

Klein was silent for a moment, then asked, "Will one's humanity be diminished after becoming a god?"

"Ah."

"Then will you become a god?" Klein asked carefully, his tone tinged with nervousness and worry.

Eve raised her head with a normal expression, looked into Klein's brown eyes, and asked with a smile, "Don't you want me to become a god?"

Klein lowered his gaze to gaze into Eve's deep ocean-blue eyes. Her expression was the same as usual, gentle and beautiful, making it impossible for Klein to discern her true thoughts.

"Do you want to become a god?" Klein's lips moved a few times, not knowing how to answer, so he could only throw the question back.

"I didn't want to before." Eve withdrew her hand and took a step back.

"now what?"

"Now……"

Klein kept his eyes on Eve, trying to capture her every expression, but she only smiled faintly, looking no different from usual.

"think."

He replied.

Whether from Eve's perspective or the perspective of the gods, it is more beneficial for him to become a god.

And for the sake of the Southern Continent, He not only has to become a god, but also become one of the Old Ones.

Old days...

He thought of Mikhail and Medici...

The original consciousness of the Fifth Age was already very weak, and becoming an Old One was far safer than in the Third Age.

As for Medici, that guy has always been targeting the old times. Because he did not have much ambition, and because of Mikhail's previous experience and did not want to become enemies with Medici, he did not have the idea of becoming the old times.

But now, if Medici was still alive, He would have to become a "witch" or even a dual-path true god before reuniting with Medici.

Eve sighed silently in her heart and looked up at Klein.

"Do you want to become a god?" Eve asked back with a complex emotion flashing in her eyes.

Klein was stunned for a moment and pointed at himself blankly. "Me?"

Eve nodded. "Is there anyone else here?"

"I... am only Sequence Seven..." Klein was speechless. He was lucky enough to become an angel. A true God was simply out of reach.

"So, do you want to?" Eve continued to ask.

"No," Klein paused for a moment, then thought seriously for two seconds before answering without hesitation, "I'd be content with becoming an angel. I have powerful strength, a long lifespan, and I can still maintain my humanity."

"If possible, I hope to become an angel king like you, and be very powerful among angels."

Eve looked at Klein deeply, her eyes filled with a complexity Klein couldn't understand. She chuckled, and this time Klein caught the emotions contained in Eve's tone: relief, bitterness, regret... It was very complicated, making Klein wonder if he had made a mistake.

"Remember your answer now."

Eve suddenly approached Klein and stared into his eyes with bright eyes.

Klein subconsciously took a step back and stared at Eve in a daze, but in an instant he realized that he must have entered a plan involving a god and that he was an important existence.

The moment his shoe sole touched the ground, Klein immediately retracted his foot, stood up straight, and solemnly promised, "I will."

(End of this chapter)