Mystery: Lucky

Tuesday night, Harman Port, on the passenger ship bound for East Balam.

Klein boarded the ship in the afternoon. After responding to Derrick the Sun and Alger the Hanged Man, he finally had time to focus on his journey.

Currently, the passenger ship is docked at Halman Port, but Klein did not disembark. He found a seat by the window in the upper restaurant, usually observing the scene of the port and the deck through the window while enjoying his dinner.

The night view of Harman Port was not among the top scenery that Klein had ever seen, but he was still very immersed in watching it, until his spirituality suddenly jumped. Klein frowned and looked along the spiritual guidance, and saw a man who was about to board the landing. Suspicious figure on the boat.

This man wore a black coat and a tall top hat, covering his figure completely. He also wrapped a scarf around his face, leaving only a pair of eyes.

Not to mention that, Klein saw the man staring down at the ground all the time. It was difficult for others to see what the man's eyes looked like. He frowned. Without relying on spiritual reminders, he knew there must be something wrong with this man.

...What's the problem?

Klein turned his head and looked at the half of Dixi's grilled fish left in front of him. He finished the dinner elegantly and quickly, and then quickly returned to the room for divination.

After the gray fog, there was a black-and-white photo in the dream. The person on it was wearing a double-breasted pure black clergy robe and a soft hat. His nose was high, his lips were tight, and his facial features were like classical sculptures, without silk. As for wrinkles, the most eye-catching sign is that one eye is blind.

There was a description of the man's appearance below the photo. Klein knew without looking that the man had dark blond hair and a pair of blue to almost black eyes.

——This is none other than Ince Zangwill.

After waking up from the dream of divination, Klein clenched his fists and did not speak for a long time. After a while, he relieved his body of strength, slumped on the high-backed chair and muttered to himself:

"Who is he hiding from..."

Knowing that Ince Zangwill possessed "0-08", Klein did not act rashly. He thought for a while, spread his spirituality towards the crimson star belonging to Alice, and sent a message:

"Tell Leonard that Dwayne Dantès discovered the whereabouts of Ince Zangwill on the Middle Range Island in the Raging Sea."

…

Alice was still having dinner when she heard the news.

The local Disi pie in the morning was very popular with Alice. She didn't know what to eat for dinner, so she just came to Disi.

Although the weather in June did not allow the food to cool too quickly, the time it took to transport it from the gray fog still had an impact on the taste of the Disi pie. After tasting the local Disi pie, Alice decided to try it next time Still eat fresh.

After listening to Klein's request, Alice also finished the last bite of Disi pie. She licked her lips and said to herself with some confusion:

"Strange... doesn't he have a messenger? It can't be just to save that gold coin, right?"

Although it sounded suspicious of slander, this was indeed Alice's first thought. She shook her head and decided to change to a slightly normal thought.

Soon, Alice found the reason from Ince Zangwill's belongings - if Reinette Tinichole's letter to Leonard was summoned, it would probably be "0- 08" found.

As for Ince Zangwill... there is no "0-08". She put a spell on Klein and it could kill Ince Zangwill.

Alice shook her head, walked into an inconspicuous alley, and then disappeared silently into the alley.

After returning home, Alice wrote Klein's original words on a note, then showed up at No. 7 Pinster Street without hesitation with the note and threw the note into the mailbox.

She thought about it and did not leave immediately, but stayed where she was - she knew that Leonard had left Backlund under Palles's persuasion and accepted a mission from East Balam.

But the strange thing is that Leonard did not change the receiving address. Alice suspected that he had other ways to check the letter from Pinstercher No. 7. She wanted to take a look. It would be better if she could learn from it.

The people inside didn't seem to want to hide anything from her. A pair of invisible hands opened the mail box at No. 7 Pinster Street and took out newspapers, bills and letters from unknown people. letter.

Then, they floated in mid-air, flew towards the door, and slipped in through the crack in the door.

A door couldn't stop Alice, she didn't go in, she just looked at the scene inside the door.

Inside the house, in the foyer, the newspapers unfolded themselves and flipped through them quickly until they reached the last page. Then, they fell casually onto the chairs, stacked with their predecessors.

The bills and letters continued to fly inside and entered the living room. The former stopped quickly, shook a few times, and then floated to the surface of the coffee table, neatly laid out. The latter took off the envelopes for those with envelopes, and quickly took off those without envelopes. He opened himself up and showed his posture in mid-air.

After a while, some of these letters flew to the shelves in the study on the first floor, and some rushed to the scissors, helping the other party to cut themselves into pieces, and then lined up in the bathroom and threw them into the toilet.

Wow!

The toilet's mechanical button sank in on itself, flushing shreds of paper down the drain.

Alice's mouth opened wide in surprise. She saw that all this was done by a ghost. Combined with the Pales on Leonard, Alice thought that this ghost was parasitized.

...So, the high-sequence "Stealer" pathway can also be used as a smart home?

Alice blinked, suddenly feeling a little sorry for Flora Jacob's death.

This is not a problem, because Flora Jacob also has a student named Hazel Macht. Alice recalled this girl she had almost forgotten, and then frowned.

She was a bit too ignorant... Alice muttered, thinking that instead of looking for Hazel, she might as well go to Palles and suggest that he move.

…

Southern Continent, East Balam, Gulayin City.

Leonard Mitchell, who had just arrived here not long ago, was resting in the residence arranged by the local Church of the Night.

Suddenly, the slightly old voice in his mind sounded: "Boy, you have an important letter."

"What letter?" Leonard asked in a low voice while already having a guess in his mind.

Sure enough, Pales confirmed his guess:

"A letter from the illegitimate daughter of your goddess. She said that your former colleague asked her to tell you that Dwayne Dantès discovered Ince Zangwill on the Island of Midway in the Raging Sea on his way to the Southern Continent. traces.”

Leonard took a moment to connect the two nicknames with himself, and then he asked in a confused tone:

"Why Alice...?"

He couldn't figure out what made Klein decide to ask an angel to help transfer the information, and he couldn't quite figure out why Alice seemed to listen to Klein's words.

"This is normal," Pales replied calmly, "Isn't it very common for one's own sealed artifacts or messengers to deliver letters?"

"...?" Leonard was stunned for a moment before he realized that this was referring to Alice. He didn't dare to answer and changed the subject, "Anyway, he has not forgotten revenge... What can I do?"

"What can you do? Your sequence Zangwill has not mastered '0-08', and you are not qualified to take revenge on him. He only needs to partially reveal the form of a mythical creature to make you lose control on the spot or become Madman. The probability of your successful revenge is 0! This is the qualitative change brought about by divinity," Pales Zoroaster said in a serious tone.

He paused, then chuckled:

"Fortunately, you can recognize yourself more clearly than before. If it were in the past, you would definitely say that I want to pass the information about Ince Zangwill to the church and join the tracking and arresting team. But now, you I know what you can do."

Leonard wanted to refute several times, but he didn't say anything.

Pales Zoroaster continued: "What you can do now is to give Klein Moretti some information, wait for him to reply to you, and then cooperate accordingly according to the arrangements inside."

"Don't you find an excuse to inform the church about Ince Zangwill's whereabouts?" Leonard asked in a low voice, feeling slightly shocked.

Pales Zoroaster chuckled and said:

“Don’t be anxious, wait until the critical moment to do this.

"Although '0-08' likes to kill its owner, it doesn't want to return to the sealed state. As long as you inform the church of Ince Zangwill's whereabouts and start the corresponding pursuit, it will Know immediately and make adequate arrangements.

"You need to prompt Clayn Moretti on this one."

Leonard was stunned for a second and said, "Old man, you seem to be very familiar with '0-08'."

Never showed it before!

Pales' slightly old voice laughed:

"Of course I'm familiar with it. '0-08' caused the fall of angels in the Fourth Age.

"I can't say too much to you, because if you know it, it will know you. The more you know it, the more likely you are to become a part of the story."

From the old man's vague words, Leonard truly tasted the horror of "0-08", which was beyond the mysticism he could understand!

After thinking for a moment, Leonard asked habitually:

"Then how can I remind Klein Moretti without being known by '0-08'? Or, even if it knows, it only has a superficial understanding and only allows me to be a passerby in the story..."

Before he finished speaking, Leonard clenched his hands, gritted his teeth, and said to himself without waiting for the old man's answer:

"Side tip? Tell him that I will not transfer the whereabouts of Ince Zangwill to the church for the time being... I think he should be able to understand from this situation that there are certain problems here, and understand that we must be more cautious than cautious. And even if he can't decipher it, his secret organization has members who know enough about the Fourth Age to help.

"Also, write a sentence normally, 'If you know it, it will know you.' Don't mention '0-08', and use personal pronouns so that Klein can guess what it is pointing to...

"Also, is there a way for Alice to block this characteristic of '0-08'? After all, she has the blessing of the goddess..."

Pales Zoroastrian listened quietly and laughed softly: "People need to be under pressure in order to grow."

Leonard breathed out, turned over and sat up, found a pen and paper, and wrote down what he just meant on the letter.

Then, looking at the envelope in front of him, he suddenly stopped and asked hesitantly: "...How do I contact Alice?"

Pales replied slowly: "For angels and above beings, honorary name is the best way to contact them."

But this still did not solve the problem. Leonard replied slowly:

"But I don't have her honorable name..."

"You have the honorable name of Fool." Pales replied casually.

Leonard was stunned for a moment. As a member of the "Red Gloves", he knew the consequences of praying to an unknown god. Although the conditions of Alice, Klein, and Dwayne Dantes could all indicate that the Fool should be in good condition and seemed to be very generous to believers and followers, Leonard still did not take the initiative to raise this idea.

But this was Pales's suggestion, and Alice had told him before that if he wanted to know more, he should go to the Fool. Leonard hesitated for two seconds and decided to make a confirmation first:

"...Why?"

Pales obviously knew what he wanted to ask and gave his own reasons:

"The night hid the fate of the girl tightly, but the news on the sea was enough for me to guess her origin.

"Although I am not sure about her specific relationship with..., it is enough. Since she chose to stand by the Fool, it would not be wrong to choose the Fool. "

Leonard keenly caught the word Pales skipped, he frowned and asked:

"What is her relationship with? "

Pallez laughed and replied: "Boy, that is a secret that only angels and above can know. "

Leonard, who had been trained in confidentiality, tactfully did not ask. He expressed his final concern:

"I am a believer of the goddess, a 'night watcher', a 'red glove'..."

No church would accept believers of other gods as extraordinary people of the church. In the best case, they would only be accepted as informants.

And usually, believers of a god would not take the initiative to pray to other gods, especially as official extraordinary people, they would be more taboo about this - and he was even under the nose of the goddess of night.

Alice's situation, where she seemed to have become a favored person on both sides, was extremely rare. Usually, true gods would not share favored people, which was an insult to both sides.

This was what Pales told Leonard. Before stubbornly calling Alice the illegitimate daughter of the goddess, Pales had mentioned this possibility to Leonard - she was probably a symbol of some kind of cooperation.

Pales did not elaborate on this matter because he himself was not very clear, but he did have something to say about Leonard's question:

"Goddess? Heh...

"You goddess and the fool, maybe you even have a child."

After a few breaths, Leonard realized the meaning of this sentence and his face turned pale. (End of this chapter)