Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 115 114 Eavesdropping

"But it looks like Amon hasn't noticed us yet?"

"Amon is synonymous with 'mischief' and 'fraud'. We cannot use conventional methods to understand and speculate what a being of this level might do next. This can easily lead to misleading and incorrect judgments."

Said the War Bishop whose previous sequence was Provocateur and Conspirator.

Even the War Bishop, who was not an audience member, could vaguely see the fear buried deep in the heart of his creator in his behavior.

Amon definitely deserves such treatment, even if he is just an incarnation of Him.

"The Euclid Dimension isn't very open to us. The Spirit Worm is something that split off from a part of a spirit body. It's essentially a part of the Trickster's spirit body. It's like the key to some of the authority in this dimension."

But it's enough to keep an eye on Amon.

"Take careful notes and record all the conversations between the Amons. Watch every split and every exchange between them. Then observe carefully, summarize, and hand it over to Tang."

It was too dangerous to observe Amon in the real world. Before Tang was promoted to a trick wizard and could split the spirit worm and bring the secret doll in, the Euclid space was only open to him. Now there were enough people.

If possible, Tang also planned to send a bunch of spectators to keep an eye on Amon.

After all, there is a time bomb right next to us, who knows when it will explode?

Anjie glanced at the Amons around her, her lips twitching slightly, but she finally lost her temper. "Alright, alright, let me do it. Let me do it... I finally understand why they gave me the Soul Splitting Bug."

A hypnotist alone is not enough, and a Sequence 5 Traveler can also use the recording ability to utilize the audience's extraordinary abilities to analyze the situation.

The War Bishop nodded and said, "Wait until Gilbert comes back, then you can leave."

"Later, in Saga Castle, you can try to use the Spirit Worm to transform a new Secret Doll."

He said, "Mid-Sequence is enough. If you encounter unofficial High-Sequence Beyonders from other forces, please notify me."

"Ah."

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'Dang-dang-dang! '

'The new version 1.2 system is here!'

Tang sat up from the bed in a daze. The voice in his head was too loud and he couldn't react immediately.

It was a dreamless sleep, very peaceful, without any noise or clamor. The voice of self-abandonment that had appeared in his mind before had disappeared, his split thoughts returned, and Tang Manxue was resurrected again.

Seeing a psychiatrist was indeed the right choice for him. Good rest and timely indulgence could minimize the Trickster's tendency to lose control. The vague mental disorder dissipated in the peaceful sleep and dream, and his SAN value remained at a good level. Not bad, it was worth giving himself a good rest.

But that thing in my head is a little noisy...

"Host, host, host, look, look, look, bang, bang, bang, bang—!"

Tang hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and sobered up a bit. "1.2? You upgraded?"

Didn't the last upgrade happen because the Knowledge Wilds came over and dumped some Crazy Knowledge into the system? Could it be that he slept through three hundred years? Has the Knowledge Wilds been around for several rounds?

Or did it use its own survival to upgrade? Is that little stock enough for it to upgrade again?
"It's not like the Hidden Sage or the God of Craftsmen came and were eaten by you, right?"

Many guesses flashed through Tang's mind.

"Of course not," the system said with a playful smile, "It's a gift from the main system. After all, you're already Sequence 4. If this system doesn't upgrade, it won't keep up with the times!"

Tang: “…” Thank you. I feel a little PTSD about the term “trend of the times”.

Also, are you sure you're not the only one who's annoying me to the point of not wanting to bother with me anymore, and that's why I'm stuffing your mouth with some crazy knowledge to get you to shut up and get out of here?
"Hey, host, can you think of something better? Is this system such a spineless system?!"

"…picture."

System: '...Dream shattered.'

Tang: “…”

Don looked out the window. "How long have I been asleep?"

'Two days, or to be more precise, 46 hours. It's 19:34 PM now.'

"How have things been these past two days?"

"All arrangements at Miskatonic University are proceeding according to your previous instructions. The third phase of the mission is more than halfway through. The 53 Sequence 7s who were forcibly infused with potions have shown no abnormalities in their vital signs. The mission is expected to be completed within another forty-eight hours."

"The theater's core conducts hourly inspections of the marionettes. Currently, no marionettes carrying Time Worms have been found infiltrating the theater. No traces of Time Worms not belonging to Pallez Zoroast have been found within the territory..."

The system roughly informed the host of what had happened in the past two days, and then started screaming again.

"Host, host, this system is telling you, this system has now evolved a super-adaptive Marionette function!"

Tang stood up and snapped his fingers. The curtains that blocked the moonlight outside were slowly pulled open. Under the quiet crimson moon, there was a huge campus with lights connected together, like a small city.

Tang asked under the system's expected voice: "What is it?"

"Just like a magician can split a spirit body to create a spirit worm," the system said proudly, "this system can also create subsystems."

"There's nothing like the 'Dragon Aotian System', the 'Student Master System', or the 'Infrastructure System'... None of these exist."

Tang: “…”

He felt that he woke up at the wrong time, and he would give the system the cold shoulder for the whole day.

"If you don't speak something normal, I'm going to hang you up and use you as my secret puppet again."

"Have patience, host, have patience~"

Based on the system description, Tang roughly sorted out the new features of his own system after it was upgraded to version 1.2.

The subsystems installed on the puppets are now compatible with most of the system's modules, with a new chat function. The system can now send group tasks to the subsystem and its bound puppets with one click, achieving overall coordination, etc. Currently, 10 puppets can be added to the subsystem column at a time.

"Currently, all connections between marionettes equipped with the 'Bionic Marionette' module come from the host. If marionettes from two different regions want to connect and cooperate, they can only do so through the host..."

"Once the host loses contact, the connection between the marionettes will be broken... Ah, of course, there are still some differences between marionettes with spirit insects and those without spirit insects. You can experience this later, host..."

The biggest function of this subsystem is actually the communication between the puppets.

Generally speaking, Tang would not pay too much attention to the puppets equipped with the 'bionic puppet' module. They can stand on their own. The setting of the character card and the existence of the system, coupled with the priority control of the puppets by the magician himself, make it impossible for these puppets to have any thoughts of betrayal and be completely loyal to him.

As for Tang, as long as his cognition that "the secret doll is my property" does not waver or change, the secret doll will not be separated from him because of the wrong role-playing.

Of course, the puppet is still very scary when it comes to life. Maybe I can use the 'bionic puppet' module to install it on other puppets to scare those puppet masters and improve their role-playing skills.

For Tang, who has been promoted to a strange wizard, these secret marionettes provide him with the digestion progress of the potion at all times. When he needs an anchor point to advance to the angel level, these secret marionettes with self-awareness can become one of his anchors and stabilize his divine state.

As the 'Bionic Marionette' module can be crafted by consuming Spirit Worms, the number of such marionettes will increase.

Once the character cards are determined, they will be deployed around the world to shine and reach Sequence 3, Sequence 2, and even Sequence 1. The number of puppets will be enough to support an entire city. By then, the number of puppets that can be controlled will be terrifying, and the number of puppets with autonomous consciousness will also be terrifying.

If he has to convey everything at that time... emm, playing the role of a signal base station or something, it would be quite scary.

"Of course, after I can respond mystically, these marionettes can pray to me directly and let the spirit insects do this for me."

That's it, a bit like a referendum for all of Mongolia...

Tang thought for a moment and asked, "Can this number be expanded further?"

If you want to respond to prayers on behalf of the Spirit Worm, 10 doesn't seem to be enough.

"Sure." The system said that if it ran out, you could just go to the main system and get more.

Tang expressed his doubts about this, and highly suspected that the system was going to fleece the wilderness of knowledge and take as much crazy knowledge as possible.

It feels like a naughty kid helping outsiders to steal the family property...

Knowledge Wilderness hasn't even cancelled the system yet. Emmm, I don't understand.

"In other words, you can use crazy knowledge to build a subsystem." Tang wrote this down, asked a few more questions, and then began to check the tasks.

'Updated task status'

'Side Quest: Establish a Secret Organization (Phase 3)'

"Please recruit outstanding students with the above qualities! And provide them with preliminary training in mysticism!"

'Task Progress: 54/100'

'Quest Reward: Surprise Gift Pack*1, Manuscript of the Black Magic Book "Book of the Dead."'

"The method of infusing the potion requires reaching Sequence 7, and most people cannot withstand this direct infusion."

There is still a steady stream of people who are enough to be sentenced to death in the outside world being sent in. There is no need to say much about the efficiency of the traveler. This task can be completed in a short time.

Then we can see what is written in the Book of the Dead.

And those children were another plan of Tang.

"By the time I reach Sequence 3, the potion should be able to melt in my mouth. I understand the past, present, and future of this world. Perhaps my Ancient Scholar potion will be perfectly digested when I drink it..."

"Advancing from Sequence 3 to Sequence 2 brings a lost piece of history back to reality. During the three hundred years of advancement to Ancient Scholar, the God disappears from Miskatonic, allowing it to become an urban legend, spread by those children. When the three hundred years have passed, the God's disappearance is lifted, and Miskatonic reappears, completing the ritual."

Everything was arranged perfectly, the only things left were to capture Amon's clone and chop him into pieces, and to complete the digestion of the magic potion of the evil wizard.

Tang walked into the Euclidean space. This space was still the same as before, except for a table, some stationery, an old man's Time Bug, and a hypnotist who was shivering and writing and drawing in a notebook.

Tang:?

Don walked over and Gilbert was startled. Don also saw the number of Amons around and felt creepy for a moment.

Apart from anything else, there are Amons who look exactly the same everywhere, floating around like Sadako with a shadow clone, and anyone who sees them will shake their heads.

"How about it?"

Gilbert handed the notebook to Tang, and then told him everything he saw like candy beans.

The hypnotist was frightened by the constant splitting and parasitism of Amon. Even though the Euclid space was safe, it was difficult for people to feel psychologically comfortable with the mental shock.

If the audience wasn't the best at adjusting their emotions, Gilbert probably wouldn't have stayed for long before he had a mental breakdown due to Amon's actions and the twisted words he kept saying, and would have had to be replaced.

As for Gilbert, he had been eavesdropping on Amon's affairs for the past two days, and had actually let Tang know a lot of information.

"Their true bodies are in Intis, so they won't be coming for a while. We're still safe, and they haven't noticed anything unusual."

Gilbert said, "Amon appeared here for two reasons. The first was to pursue a High-Sequence Beyonder who stole the Pathway... It wasn't Pallez Zoroast. He... They were probably attracted here by the Law of Convergence of Beyonder Characteristics, but Pallez Zoroast hid well and remained undetected for the time being."

Tang thought of the thief who passed through the demigod he saw in the never-ending theater. At that time, the demigod helped him steal the extraordinary ability of the secret society's trickster wizard.

Amon was born with an undying feud with the High-Sequence Beyonders of this Path. One thousand three hundred years into the Fifth Epoch, the number of Demigods in the Thief's Path had decreased because Amon was slaughtering them.

I hope that the demigod I met by chance didn't turn into Amon.

Tang could only silently wish him well in his heart. As for the rest, he had no other choice.

"As for the second one, it should be related to the dark side of the universe."

From what Gilbert said, Tang learned that the sealed object brought by the gods from the dark side of the universe mysteriously disappeared in Tingen, and there were signs of the appearance of high-sequence demigods of the thief path and the death path. Amon's clones thought this matter was quite interesting, so they stayed here and planned to develop some offline channels here.

As for where he got this information, it was not important. After all, he did not know more than that. Superficial things could be investigated if one was willing. Deeper things, for example, the Never-Ending Theater was still in Tingen, the demigod of the Path of Death was Azik Eggers, and the dark side of the universe was killed by him.

As long as these things are not exposed, Amon will not actually knock on his window and say hi to him.
——But god damn it’s pretty interesting!
(End of this chapter)