Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 225 Mushroom Refining
Klein tidied up the room a bit and suddenly asked Padomeow, "How do you think the Recollection Artist and the Faceless Man should be portrayed?"

"I think?" Padmeow's tail twitched from side to side. "I think you should call Ceres directly."

Klein nodded: "I think so too."

Then he spread his hands and said, "But he told me to figure it out myself."

"How's your [Withered Patient] digesting?" Klein turned to look at Padomeow, asking her how the Sequence Eight of the [Harmony] pathway was digesting.

He did not ask about the Lucky One's digestion progress, as that would have been unnecessary.

"Hmm," Padmeow thought for a moment, "Not ideal."

"I've never had any serious illnesses since I was a child. The only time I had a serious illness... Anyway, I didn't even have Honkai disease." Padmeow jumped off the bed and landed on the ground. "I'm going out for a walk."

"Remember to wipe your feet before going to bed," Klein reminded subconsciously.

Padmeow lifted his front paws and looked at his pads, then ran towards the door. "I understand."

He jumped up and pulled the door handle, and Padomeow opened the door by himself and ran out.

Klein smiled and shook his head. He walked over to the bed and lay down, staring blankly at the ceiling. Then he curled his lips and cast his gaze over the side of the ship.

The blue waves rise and fall gently, and silver flying fish occasionally leap out of the water and soar in the air.

Wondering what their meat tastes like.

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On an unknown island, the lucky mushroom king Frank landed on land with a dozen mushrooms.

The Great Sagittarius King Pharmacist did not follow. Firstly, he needed to minimize his presence on this planet and reduce his movements. Secondly, he preferred to stay on the ship and look after those... synthetic beasts.

Humans are the spirit of all things, and mushrooms are the essence of heaven and earth.

Frank wants to refine mushrooms so that they can also absorb extraordinary properties, embark on the extraordinary journey, and become extraordinary mushrooms.

However, due to the limited number of Beyonder characteristics, the Future naturally could not provide such a large number of Beyonder characteristics. Therefore, he still needed to find them himself.

Most of the mushrooms he carried were of Sequence Nine, with a few reaching Sequence Eight.

They all have their own names, and most of them are similar in style, making them particularly easy to remember based on their characteristics. At least that's what Frank thinks, he can remember the name of every mushroom, even if they change their names frequently.

Most mushrooms like to be named with the word "mushroom" at the end. For example, there are two "night watchmen" pathways, and they are called "night-walking mushroom" and "moonlight mushroom" respectively.

Of course, there are also a small number of people who take a different approach and don’t like names containing the word “mushroom”.

For example, the enoki mushroom Frank was holding was called "bamboo mushroom." He also had a rare Sequence 8 mind reader.

Stepping onto the land, Frank talked to the mushrooms about the next arrangements as they walked.

"We'll wait until night to attack. Moonlight Mushroom and Night Walker Mushroom will lead the attack, and Desperate Mushroom will be responsible for attracting aggro. Bamboo Mushroom, please help keep an eye on it and make sure nothing gets out of hand..."

"I'll go to the island later to see if there are any suitable Beyonder Characteristics. I'll bring them back for Chunqiu Chan..."

Behind him, on the Future, Captain Cattleya watched Frank, who had become a "fungus", go away and rubbed her temples vigorously.

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The White Agate had already set sail by the time Klein and Arrodes were conversing. The sound of water crashing against the cabin seemed to be the only sound left in the world. Time gradually passed, the crimson moon rose, and the night sea was both noisy and silent.

Listening to the sound of water, Klein fell asleep unknowingly.

Suddenly, Klein opened his eyes and woke up.

He sat up silently and looked towards the door. His spiritual intuition told him that something was happening outside.

Klein's body color gradually faded. He got out of bed and entered a world of "memories" that ordinary people couldn't see.

Outside the door, the red moon hangs high in the sky.

A man picked up a boom and threw a silk thread with some pig and cow entrails hanging on it over the side of the boat.

With a splash, the bait hit the water. In the corner behind him, his companion asked the two children who had come to join in the fun to squat in silence while he raised his rifle and tested the scope.

After doing all these things, the deck became completely quiet, with only the roar of the steam engine and the sound of waves hitting the ship.

As time passed, the two children could not help but change from squatting to sitting, leaning their backs against the wooden boards of the cabin to relieve the numbness in their legs.

"If you want to watch, then don't make any noise, move around, or run around. Do you understand?" the man holding the rifle warned the two children in a low voice. The two children also covered their hands to show that they would not make any noise.

A little further away, Padomeow sat in a corner, watching the scene with her head tilted.

Isn't this a very obvious flag?
Padomeow watched all this silently.

Since Klein's current personality is a "moody hunter," the cat he raises naturally won't be an ordinary cat.

Therefore, Padomeow can now use his extraordinary abilities in front of others at will.

At this moment, they saw the boom on the side of the ship sink and there was a friction sound.

Suddenly, a muffled friction sound came rapidly upwards, and a figure jumped onto the deck closer and closer.

It was a monster bathed in crimson moonlight, its entire body covered in dark green scales and dripping with bluish mucus.

It doesn't have much in common with humans. It's like a giant fish with strong limbs and obvious webbed feet in the gaps between its hands and feet.

The fishman was over 1.9 meters tall, with round eyes and gills on his cheeks. He looked like a monster in the legend, and the little girl named Donna among the two children raised her hand to cover her mouth to prevent herself from screaming instinctively.

At the same time, she also covered her brother Denton's mouth.

Is your ideological awareness so high?
Padmeow wagged his tail.

You shouldn't be like that. You should be running around making a lot of noise. Otherwise, the plots of some games will look really stupid.

The hunt for murlocs continues.

The gunman named Cleves was holding a rifle, but in order to protect the children, he did not move too far away, making it inconvenient for him to shoot continuously.

First of all, even with a silencer installed, the sound of the gun is still quite loud. Secondly, I am really afraid that the two people will run around and suddenly run in front of the gun.

On the other side, the man named Cecil had no such concerns. He fired continuously, and the sound of gunfire forced the mermaid to turn around and run into the sea.

But just as it grabbed the side of the ship and was about to jump overboard to escape, a wave happened to hit it and pushed it back onto the deck.

The fishman staggered backward, his jade-like feet stepping on the deck. Suddenly, his feet sank, the deck cracked, and his feet were stuck in the wooden boards.

Then, its bones suddenly seemed to become very fragile, and the scales on its skin were no longer hard, like withered leaves. The flying bullets easily penetrated it.

The blood vessels on its body are bulging, and you can clearly see the toxin spreading through them.

After a few seconds, all the blood vessels in its body burst and blood seeped out of its skin.

The fishman fell to the ground, and things like plant veins grew on his body. Leaves grew out of his body and then quickly withered.

The fishman howled and twitched, and soon lost his life.

Seeing this strange scene, the children in the corner almost couldn't control their voices. They covered their mouths with their hands even harder.

The two men who were hunting the fishermen exchanged a glance, then looked inside the cabin together. They saw a middle-aged man walking out of the shadows on the other side leading to the cabin.

The middle-aged man wore a thick dark red coat, loose white trousers, and a boat hat, the standard for the era. In his hand, he carried an outdated iron pistol.

He is the captain of the White Onyx, Ireland Kage.

Ireland, with noticeable wrinkles around his eyes, forehead, and mouth, stepped out of the shadows and immediately explained, "It wasn't me."

As he spoke, he raised the pistol in his hand and said, "A pistol of this large caliber wouldn't be silent. And I don't think my pistol has such extraordinary abilities. As you can see, it's just an ordinary pistol, at most slightly modified."

After that, he explained why he stayed in the shadows: "As a captain, I must ensure that no accidents happen."

"Of course, this is your ship. You have the right to appear anywhere." Cleves had already stood up and began to look around the deck. "So, there are other friends here too, right?"

(End of this chapter)