From Prisoner to Si Chen

"Sorry, Mr. Gillan, my husband Staven is still busy working in the Sifang Palace and may not be back until the evening."

After Gillan sat down on the sofa in the living room, Mrs. Norma said to him with an apologetic look.

Immediately, she ordered the servant to bring the brewed tea, and then poured a cup for the distinguished guest personally.

Gillan took the teacup, thanked him, and said a few polite words, shook his head and smiled:

"It doesn't matter, anyway, there is only a wall and a few steps away. I will visit Mr. Staven next time when he is free... Moreover, this time I come here just to return the gift and sit down by the way."

As he said, he handed over the gift bags he brought.

The female secretary Lannis explained at the right time:

"Mrs. Norma, these four gifts are carefully selected by Chief Gillan for your family."

"Oh?" The lady was surprised.

She took the gift bag, handed the children's to Cordell and Fula, and then opened her and her husband's.

"Oh! This is the latest tricolor scarf of Isabella. I just heard about it from Mrs. Sackley and others two days ago!"

Mrs. Norma held the scarf gift box and said to Gillan with a smile on her face.

"I like this gift very much. Thank you, Mr. Gillan."

Gillan smiled politely and responded with a "you're welcome".

The lady opened her husband Staven's gift bag, which contained a dark blue shiny silk tie.

"Stavian always has no resistance to dark blue things. He will definitely like this tie."

As he was talking, his son Cordell also opened his gift box, which contained a cane handle with gold-plated carvings, like a work of art.

The young man played with the handle and liked it very much.

As for Fura, her gift was a sealed specimen plate. There were colorful butterfly specimens such as swallowtail butterfly, red-necked birdwing butterfly, glass wing butterfly, dead leaf butterfly and blue morpho butterfly.

Seeing this gift, her pale face turned slightly red, and she admired the specimen intently with a smile on her face.

It seemed to hit her taste.

"It seems that Cordell and Fura both like Mr. Gillan's gift very much."

Mrs. Norma covered her mouth and laughed.

The brother and sister heard their mother's hint, so they looked at each other and smiled at Gillan to thank her.

"I'm glad you like it." Gillan smiled.

He drank tea and chatted with Mrs. Norma for a while. During this time, he also had a few casual conversations with the young brother and sister.

About ten or twenty minutes later.

Gillan didn't plan to stay for long, so he stood up and said goodbye, ready to leave.

"Mr. Gillan, won't you stay for a while?"

Mrs. Norma and her family also stood up politely.

Gillan found an excuse and declined:

"No, I have something to deal with later."

"So that's the case, it's a pity, I wanted to invite you to dinner at home."

Mrs. Norma looked regretful.

She called her children again:

"Cordell, Fula, please see Mr. Gillan off."

"Okay, Mom."

The brother and sister agreed, and then sent Gillan and Lenise out of the yard.

After saying goodbye, Gillan left the Staven family.

But when he was almost at the door of his single-family apartment, Fula chased him alone from behind.

"Mr. Gillan, please...please wait a moment."

Fula said nervously.

Gillan was not surprised by this, but just smiled politely.

In fact, his sudden visit to the Staven family this time was also due to Fula's phone call.

"Miss Fula, what else can I do for you?"

He smiled.

Fula smoothed her slightly messy hair on her forehead, glanced at Lenise, a mature woman beside the blond young man, with a worried look on her face.

Seeing this, Gillan signaled to the female secretary with her eyes, and the latter immediately understood the meaning, left first, and walked into the single-family apartment.

After Lanis left, only Gillan and Fula were left. The girl was relieved and whispered:

"Mr. Gillan, I have encountered some mysterious dangers recently... My friends and I have been cursed by the devil, and our bodies are getting weaker and more painful."

"The devil is extremely powerful, and we are powerless to resist. It is torturing us in this way, forcing us to sign a contract with it and become its slaves."

Fula's eyes were quite uneasy, and she said in a pleading tone:

"I know that in addition to being the Minister of Foreign Affairs, you are also the head of the Mysterious Investigation Committee... Please help us."

"Devil? Curse?" Gillan raised his eyebrows.

He looked at the girl and asked:

"But why didn't you tell your father about this? Instead, you called my secretary privately?"

"Dad has always hated the mysterious power because of the death of his elder brother Renault... I, I secretly studied mysticism and got involved in this matter. If he knew, he would be very disappointed in me."

Fula lowered her head and said, then raised her eyes, full of expectation and pleading.

"I hope you can help us."

"Well, okay." Gillan nodded, made a phone gesture, and said: "I will contact my colleagues in the committee later and ask them to help you exorcise the demons and remove the curse on your body."

After hearing this, Flora did not show joy, but looked embarrassed and said:

"Mr. Gillan, can...can you not let others know about this?"

"Why?" Gilan stared at the girl.

"I...can I not say it?"

Fulla gritted her teeth and said.

Ji Lan took a deep look at her and knew that there must be some unknown secret hidden in this girl.

He didn't ask further questions, just shrugged and said:

"If that's the case, then it might be difficult for me to help you."

"Mr. Gillan, I know that the mysterious field adheres to the principle of 'equivalent exchange'... If you are willing to help us privately, I can pay for it."

Fulla said with a serious face.

Hearing this, Ji Lan couldn't help but laugh when he saw the girl's serious expression.

This girl has entered the mysterious field for the first time, but she doesn't know where she learned these rules, which makes Gillan find it interesting.

"Oh? Tell me what your reward is."

Gillan asked jokingly.

Fulla looked around and found no one, then carefully took out a small wooden box as big as a palm from her body.

She opened it and presented it to Gillan.

Inside the wooden box, there was a rather worn piece of parchment stacked on top of each other. It looked like it was old.

Gillan took it out and gently spread it out to take a look.

On the parchment, there is a short sentence written in Guhilu script:

"Use your body as bait and your heart as strength. Play with yourself and play with powerful enemies."

This passage seems incomprehensible and incomprehensible.

But Jilan's eyes narrowed.

Two words popped into his mind:

Secret!

With this format and rhythm, it is probably a secret biography. I just don’t know which path it belongs to, which secret of the essence...

Gillan directly used the ability of "Guidance Tips".

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in his eyes:

“Esoteric (written medium).”

"The secret biography recorded by an ancient astrologer in the ancient Xilu language seems to point to the spiral of body pentacles, the path of the 'Remnant King' in December Sichen, and the fifth-level 'doll' essence."

‘The fifth-level secret of the road to the “Remnant King”…’

Gillan was quite surprised.

‘Doll’ essence? ! ’

He didn't expect that the girl in front of him could obtain such a high-level secret.

And it is an extremely rare paper secret biography.

'It seems that she also has her own opportunities. ’

Gilan folded the parchment back to its original shape according to the folds, put it in the wooden box, pointed at it and asked the girl:

"Do you know what this is?"

"I don't know." Fulla shook her head, but her expression was serious. "But I knew it must be valuable because it was one of the relics of the great astrologer Jordan Phoebit."

"Jordan……"

Ji Lan chewed the name for a while, but had no impression.

However, since he can be called a "great astrologer", he must also be a person who has lived in the body spiral for a long time and is a legendary figure with a name in history.

The three major spirals of the "Path of the Fire Sword" correspond to the three fields of astrology, alchemy and magic.

Astrologers generally follow the body spiral.

It’s no wonder that the remaining secrets belong to the path of the “Crippled King”. Perhaps this is the path Jordan is taking.

"The value of your reward is indeed very high."

Gilan said frankly without deliberately deceiving the girl.

"It is a level 5 'secret'... Do you know what a 'secret' is?"

"I know." Fulla was startled for a moment, then nodded quickly. "Level 5...Level 5?!"

Only then did she realize how valuable the things she had gained from exploring that mountain range were.

"Now that I have seen the specific content of the secret message, I will also follow the principle of 'equivalent exchange' and help you in private."

Jilan said calmly.

Hearing this, Fula looked happy.

But she heard the blond young man say:

"But before that, you must tell me what happened to you, otherwise I won't be able to prescribe the right medicine to help you completely solve this matter."

"Mr. Gillan, I..."

Fulla opened her mouth, took a deep breath, and continued:

"We found Master Jordan's secluded place more than two hundred years ago through a suicide note..."

The girl briefly recounted their experience.

Just two days ago, she and four of her friends set out for the Dugarte Mountains, more than 600 kilometers away from Museciti.

There, they found the ruins of a hidden cave, the deepest part of which was where Jordan Phoebe had once lived in seclusion. Most of the books and supplies inside have decayed, but there are also some relatively intact items that have been acquired by everyone.

But one of the dog skull sculptures brought unimaginable horror to the five of them.

"Then...the dog skull sculpture was given to Zelens, so he was the first one to suffer the curse."

Fulla's face became paler as she recalled it.

"We were still in the car returning when Zelens screamed, and the bone sculpture in his arms began to ooze blood... We all heard the voice of the devil. It first cursed Zelens, and then forced We sign a contract."

As she narrated, Fulla's speaking speed became more and more rapid.

Gilan listened quietly.

Soon, he understood what was going on.

Among the relics of the great astrologer Jordan Phoebet, the dog skull sculpture is actually a collection pointing to the devil.

The strength of that devil should not be underestimated. Most of them belong to the high-level devil nobles.

But because it is so far away, they can only use bone sculptures as a medium to cast spells.

"Are there any details you want to add?"

Gillan asked again.

Fula thought for a moment and said thoughtfully:

"I remember... the blood oozing out of the bone sculpture formed a triangular inverted cross pattern. And that devil called himself "Dog Uncle" Schnauzer..."