Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 343 Eyes
Soon, today's Tarot Society came to an end, and Adele returned to the real world.

Under the advice of the demigods of the Tarot Society, especially Derrick "The Sun" who once lived in the Land Abandoned by the Gods and had seen all kinds of weird phenomena, she somewhat gained some confidence and was going to find a way to find her side first. the possible observer of .

As for the dream of the city of disasters, Ms. Hermit suggested to try to isolate it with magical items from the path of the night, and Adele just got the "Night Veil" numbered 2-024 not long ago, which can be used to try the effect.

However, before Adele sorted out the order of the next things to do, the cabin of the ironclad ship under her feet suddenly shook violently. Fortunately, Adele reacted in time and used the ability of "Assassin" to easily maintain the balance.

Adele looked out the window and found that the speed of the ironclad ship slowed down visibly, and finally stopped slowly.

"what happened?"

Adele yanked the bell rope in the captain's cabin, and soon the sailor in the next room hurried over. Adele asked him to check the situation, while she waited in the cabin.

However, before the sailor left, there were chaotic footsteps in the corridor. Wendy's face was covered in soot, and she pushed open the door of the captain's cabin.

"Captain, something happened in the engine room, you'd better go and see for yourself."

Wendy looked horrified, "I was worried that the impact would be bad, so the sailors temporarily blocked the engine room."

Adele didn't ask much after hearing that, she raised her pistol and walked towards the engine room with Wendy.

……

The two soon came to the door of the engine room, and saw two frightened sailors guarding the door with rifles in their hands, a little out of their wits.

Seeing Adele, they were obviously relieved, and quickly opened the door for her, allowing Adele to enter the engine room.

The moment the heavy iron door opened, Adele smelled a scorching stench coming towards her face, and she immediately noticed the smell of burnt flesh mixed with it.

Later, she saw the crew members who were originally on duty here. Their bodies were scattered in various places in the engine room. Some were stuffed into the filling port of the boiler, and some were stuck in the exposed gears of the engine. Others smashed through the steel plate on the surface of the steam engine and plunged into the cylinder, causing their skin to be covered with blisters from the scorching steam.

There is nothing on the corpse that can explain their identities, and in the shift schedule in Adele's memory, the memories related to them have automatically become blurred. Before Adele can accurately capture their identities, the memory is gone. Completely disappeared.

The moment she saw the scene, Adele understood why it all happened.

The equipment in the engine room took up too much space, resulting in a blocked vision blind spot among the five people...

Originally, she suspected that this matter was related to the content recorded in Roselle's notes, but now it is self-evident what the theories mentioned by Roselle are useful for.

When someone observes, the model of the "cat" will collapse and disappear; when there is no gaze, they can move freely, and there is no way to confirm life and death.

While being watched, even the watcher cannot interfere with the collapsed and vanished existence.

Sighing, Adele turned to Wendy, trying not to look at the miserable corpses of the sailors: "Is there any way to get them out?"

"Wait until the temperature of the unit drops, and then manually clear it."

Wendy glanced at the broken human body that was turned into a paste by the connecting rod of the turbine, only felt a nausea, and quickly looked away.

"If it really doesn't work, let Constantine get some undead creatures to pick them out, or give their corpses a new spirit, and let them crawl out by themselves." Adele ordered, and at the same time, the engine room The windows are left open, creating ice cubes to cool the room down.

"Actually, what worries me the most is not the way the remains are disposed of, but rather the serious damage to our steam engines and turbines."

Wendy said worriedly, "The cylinder is damaged, and human body fragments are mixed between the mechanical structures. It will take at least two days to clean it up and replace it with new spare parts."

Adele didn't answer, she was weighing the pros and cons.

The current situation has deteriorated further, and the damage to the turbine has seriously affected the progress of the "Snow Wind". Let alone going to the farther Aleser, it will take at least four weeks to even turn around and return to the Port of Behrens Naval Base. time of day.

Without solving this problem, the longer you drag yourself out, the higher the casualty figure will be, until finally, all sailors are replaced by something unknown.

The three people who had mixed into the team before hadn't shown their feet yet, but now, perhaps new people had mixed into the sailor team, making the atmosphere on the ship even more tense.

There is no time to waste...

Adele, who walked out of the room with Wendy, had a serious face, took a deep breath, and said to Wendy: "I'll help you replace the spare parts, and try to fix the cylinder before tomorrow, and then we will sail at full speed and try to solve the situation in a timely manner." Arrive at Aleser before it gets too bad."

After all, I am not a Beyonder of the sailor path. When encountering mysterious incidents, I still hope to meet the enemy on solid land, and I can make more choices, at least not to be in a predicament due to the sinking of the ship.

Wendy nodded, changed into work clothes with Adele, and silently cleaned up the corpses inside the turbine.

……

While working, Adele was still thinking about the reasons for the weird events that happened on the sailboat.

Now she has roughly analyzed the existence of the attackers on the sailboat, but there are still many things she can't figure out.

It was mentioned in the captain's diary that the other party passed through a fog during the exploration a month ago, and arrived at the place called the "Kingdom of God" by the captain.

Later, the description of "we will become stars" was mentioned in the notes, which made it hard not to associate the current star tragedy with this so-called "Kingdom of God".

Adele, who has learned a lot at the Tarot Club, naturally knows that the kingdom of the seven gods is high in the star realm. With the ability to travel through the astral world and even go to the kingdom of God, exactly where they went is still to be discussed.

However, the records about the "Kingdom of God", the tragedy related to the "Star", and all the clues so far show that what they found in the mist has a lot to do with their current situation.

Does this mean that the people on this ship arrived at a place they regarded as the "God's Kingdom", and then encountered certain things there, turning them into the current unobservable information-state creatures?
Adele thought it was very possible, so she tried divination without much hope, but the divination failed as expected.

Although Mr. Fool's citrine pendant is magical, it has nothing to do with him and has no divination material, and it is very likely to involve high-level existence. Even if Adele holds a citrine pendulum, there is nothing she can do about it.

If this speculation is correct, then the other party probably traveled through the Misty Sea under the instruction of the Church of Knowledge, and arrived at a place on the other side of the sea line, where the transformation of the entire ship's members was completed...

So, what is the purpose of the church of knowledge?
At the Tarot Club, Cattleya mentioned that the "hidden sage" seems to have issued an oracle, allowing the pillars to spread the symbols inherited from the Church of Knowledge;
In Port Indo, the appearance of these symbols is closely related to the phenomenon of mutation and disappearance of ordinary people before. They are also widely used by the current parade, and have become a symbol of the parade. With the upsurge of reform, they are spreading to the whole Feysac even spread to the entire continent.

Could it be that spreading this symbol to all parts of the world is the purpose of the Church of Knowledge?

Then use these symbols to create more informational beings all over the world, and even convert all human beings into similar creatures?
Adele frowned and thought, and felt that there were many things that didn't make sense.

For example, the current parade seems to have targeted all the churches indiscriminately. It can be said that if this revolution spreads to the entire continent, all the gods will die, even the god of knowledge and wisdom Own.

Their thinking will greatly hinder them from gaining believers. Without sufficient anchors, it is even more difficult for them to maintain their own state, and they are very likely to fall in the upcoming battle of doomsday.

And the god of knowledge and wisdom, who was the initiator of all this, naturally has no good fruit to eat. Originally, his followers are relatively few among the seven gods, and the main areas of influence are only the three small countries of Lunburg, Maxi and Saigal. , the combined area is even only about the same size as Ruen's Ahowa County.

As long as he does this, no matter whether others will win or not, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom will definitely lose. The difference is whether he can pull the other six gods into the water;
However, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom is a God known for his rationality, so would he make such an irrational move?
What's more, the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom doesn't seem to be alone at the moment. The Moss Ascetic Order and the Jagged Cross are currently cooperating with them to varying degrees.If the idea of ​​the God of Knowledge and Wisdom is really to fight against the other Six Gods, the hidden sage who has no mortal enemies with the Six Gods will directly tie himself to the chariot of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom?

The answer is obviously no.

"That is to say, the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom must have another way to ensure that it remains rational after losing most of its believers, or to allow believers to still believe in Him after transformation..."

Adele muttered to herself, her brain running at high speed.

At this time, Wendy was taking out spare parts from the warehouse beside her, and handing the steel plate in her hand to Adele.

Adele subconsciously blocked it with her hand, but she didn't expect Wendy's hand to slip suddenly, and the heavy steel plate hit Adele's forearm directly.

There was a clear sound of disintegration, and in Adele's shocked eyes, the mechanical structure of the "Survivor's Hidden Blade" on her forearm was overwhelmed, and it fell to the ground with a crash.

"Here, I just handed over a steel plate, it wasn't on purpose..."

Wendy was a little dazed, but she didn't expect that the Hidden Blade would break for no reason, so she quickly apologized instinctively, for fear that Adele would deduct her wages that would be owed a few years later due to the advance payment of the potion.

Adele didn't react, but she still instinctively squatted down to pick up the parts of the Hidden Blade, collected all the broken parts, checked them carefully, and let out a long sigh of relief, saying:

"It's okay, the connection is loose, the mechanical structure of the main body is still very reliable, you can put it back later on."

Although the "Survivor's Hidden Blade" is a magical item, as a mechanical product with distinctive features, it is not integrally formed like other magical items. It is divided into many additional functional parts and organs that undertake the transformation function.

Strictly speaking, the only parts of this mystical item with magical properties were the blade, claws, and bolts, and the parts connecting these three parts were just ordinary mechanical structures, and the possibility of damage was not small.

Because of this, it is not easy to maintain it. It takes a whole morning to disassemble the case, clean the dirt between the joints, and replace worn parts, so Adele has always put the It was thrown to Wendy for maintenance.

"No problem..." Wendy was about to agree, when she saw the parts that Adele picked up, she suddenly frowned:
"Why is there an extra black gem piece here?"

As a Extraordinary of the path of the enlightened person, she is very sensitive to the mechanical structure, and immediately discovered that the pile of things Adele was holding was different from the one she disassembled before, and there was an extra black eye-shaped gemstone.

"Didn't you have this gem before?"

Adele asked strangely.

"Of course not, trust my intuition about the mechanical structure." Wendy frowned, and took the parts from Adele: "Oh, there is actually a small space here?"

As she said that, Wendy lifted the gauntlet that covered it, and pointed out the protruding groove next to the blade to Adele, "It was blocked by the blade before, I didn't know it was also detachable, it is estimated that the gem It just fell out of here."

Adele picked out the black gemstone from Wendy's hand and held it in her palm, feeling that it was slightly warming up. It looked more like a real eye than a gemstone, and even had blood vessel-like textures on the surface.

There is a strange luster on the gemstone. If you stare at it for a long time, you will think that this eye-like gemstone has come to life and stared back at the observer himself.

Eye-shaped jewels... Strange observers... Could it be?
Adele suddenly thought of this possibility, and felt a little excited.

Before she had time to explain to Wendy, she first stuffed the black gemstone into the unknown Wendy's hand, then swallowed, quickly untied the citrine pendulum from her wrist, and quickly muttered the divination in her heart statement:

"It would be life-threatening for me to go back to my room and be alone now."

After silently reciting it seven times, Adele opened her eyes apprehensively, and immediately saw the pendulum rotating clockwise, with a larger range and faster speed.

This means that after she hands over the black eye-shaped gemstone, it is no longer safe to be alone!

(End of this chapter)