Mystery: Lucky One

Alice was confused by the situation. She stood there in a daze. The figure holding the dagger seemed afraid to act rashly, so the scene suddenly became deadlocked.

The stalemate did not last long. When Alice came to her senses, the first thing she did was to try to use "restart" to restore everything to the way it was when she first came in. After all, Amon was not present this time.

Alice soon realized that something was wrong, because there was a problem with the coverage of the "restart". She didn't know where the book suspected to be "Cassandra" had taken the woman, unless she "restarted" all places except the Western Continent and the "God-Forsaken Land".

Is this possible? This is impossible, at least not for the time being - even if you don't consider the spiritual energy consumed, there are too many high-level beings involved, and it's easy to get beaten.

Of course, she could try to find out where Cassandra had gone and then "restart" herself, but that would involve another problem - she would have to "restart" herself back to the time before she used her power.

This is obviously not an easy task. In Alice's opinion, if she really wants to do this, she might as well go and find someone directly.

Alice took one look at the figure holding the dagger and gave up the idea of ​​looking for that person, which was not very strong in her opinion.

Even though "Cassandra" seemed to know her very well and seemed to be planning something big, a few brief contacts made Alice realize one thing - this guy was probably a Riddler inside his shell.

In other words, she would rather rely on fate to give her a clue than on getting the truth from "Cassandra".

If it were a normal situation, she would consider kidnapping "Cassandra", but the problem is that for her, "Cassandra" is, in a sense... a meal.

And this is not just an ordinary meal, it should be said that this is the "delicacy" she has always "dreamed of".

It's dangerous to carry something like this around, right?
Alice, who had not yet taken the Sequence 4 potion, decided to stay away from the Beyonder characteristics of this Sequence 2. After thinking for a moment, she jumped up from her seat under the horrified gaze of the strange figure, tore off the "Apollo" on her body, and sealed off the light inside.

The bright living room fell into darkness again after the light faded. Alice found the light switch in the darkness and reached out to turn on the light.

Afterwards, she returned to the sofa, waved at the strange figure, and said with a smile:
"Sit down."

She acted like a master.

"...I'm sorry," the figure did not sit down as he was told, and his voice was still cautious, "I didn't know you were the owner of this place."

"Do you know me?" Alice looked at her doubtfully.

"No," the figure turned around and looked at her with his green eyes, "I have seen people like you."

She had seen extraordinary people... Well, the probability was that their sequence was not low, the kind that could crush ordinary people to death - middle sequence or above?
Alice tilted her head, looked at the woman in awe, and asked:

"So...what are you doing here?"

After being silent for more than ten seconds, the woman replied with some difficulty:
"I...I came to steal something..."

"?" Alice looked a little confused.

Stealing? What is there to steal in her house... Alice frowned and thought seriously.

She was used to throwing valuables and large amounts of money into the gray fog, and even temporarily stored her own potion materials with Klein. She actually had nothing at home.

Before accompanying Klein out to sea, she even threw "Matilda" above the gray fog. Plus, she hadn't been home for a long time, so this place was probably better than an empty house... uh, wait.

It might be better than an empty house, after all, there was someone sleeping in her bed just now... No, wait, who was that familiar guy just now? Why was he sleeping in her bed?

Something seemed to be wrong. Alice frowned. She stared at the woman who claimed to be a thief in front of her and pondered for a moment. Then she made up her mind. She slapped the table and said cheerfully:

"I see!
"I should call the police!"

"Ah?" The woman in front of her looked at Alice blankly - she had thought of all kinds of possibilities, but she never expected that this seemingly extraordinary lady would choose to call the police.

After making a decision, Alice was very proactive. She jumped up from the sofa, grabbed the woman and dragged her out.

Of course the woman was not willing, and she struggled a few times. Alice frowned, looked at her, reached out and grabbed her hood and tore it hard.

With a ripping sound, the thin cloak was torn apart, revealing the woman's thick brown curly hair. However, Alice didn't care about this. She continued to work hard and tore off a piece of cloth very smoothly.

The cloak torn in the middle was obviously too much for hijack to wear, so Alice simply pulled it off, revealing the woman's black tights and leggings.

...quite professional.

Alice shook her head and used brute force to twist the woman's two black-gloved hands together. The severe pain made the woman submit to Alice's actions and she obediently let the cloth tie her hands behind her back.

Alice tied the strip of cloth into a knot, and then tied another knot within the knot—the crudest way to tie a knot.

After doing all this, she let go of her hands, nodded with satisfaction at her work, and then smiled at the woman:
"Of course, the police should be the ones to investigate and interrogate such matters."

Seeing the woman seeming to want to say something but hesitant, she reached out her hand and knocked her out without hesitation.

"But I definitely can't just take you there like this..." Alice reached out to catch the person, and after placing him gently on the sofa, she murmured, "After all, Brielle Rose doesn't look like this, and I can't explain the origin of this thing..."

Alice glanced at the corpse of the Raven Shadow Snake on the ground and shook her head. After setting up the spiritual barrier, she began to ask Klein for the remaining potion materials and tools such as measuring cups for mixing potions.

——Now that it has come to this, just drink the potion first.

Klein, who had no intention of falling asleep again, inexplicably felt a sense of relief as he delivered the potion ingredients and tools for brewing the potion above the gray fog.

Silver-scaled carp and golden-veined willow are not difficult creatures to find, and obsidian fragments are an even more common material. The value of this potion formula lies mainly in the "Shadow of Doom" and the "Raven Shadow Snake".

The first step was to collect materials. Alice rolled her eyes and picked up the dagger that had fallen to the ground when she was tying up the strange woman. She stabbed it hard and stabbed it into the snake corpse on the ground.

...so crispy?

Alice subconsciously drew out the dagger.

The blood from the dead body did not splatter again, but flowed out instead. Alice quickly took out a measuring cup and collected 200ml of blood, then moved the cup away. Then, she looked at the blood still flowing onto the ground and fell into deep thought.

With a thought, the blood flowed back into the snake's body. Then, the measuring cup was moved back under the wound, and the blood inside also flowed back. The dagger was stabbed back into the snake's body, and then pulled out, leaving a snake with no wounds. Alice stood up silently, turned over the pot, and repeated the action just now.

After removing the measuring cup, she silently placed the pot under the wound. The dripping blood covered the bottom of the pot a little and then stopped flowing. If she wanted more, she would probably need a new wound.

Alice was not interested in taking blood. She stared at the snake's corpse and began to think about a question - where is the snake's heart?

The knowledge she had learned did not teach her this, and even if it did, Alice was not sure whether this thing could be used on extraordinary creatures. She shook her head, carried the snake to the vicinity of the pool, and cut open the snake vertically.

Finding the heart among the dismembered, unrecognizable snake corpse, Alice shook her head and decided to put the bloody pool aside to deal with it later.

The quantities of other ingredients had already been measured, so Alice simply used the scale to count them again and then began to put the potion ingredients in one by one.

The finished "Doom Wizard" potion is unexpectedly colorful, with red, gray, and gold interlaced, and even black.

The potion itself looked like a sticky sandy texture, as if there were many small particles in it. Before picking up the potion and drinking it, Alice used her last bit of willpower to look at the figure on the sofa and threw a "Fate Cycle" at her.

——You are fainting!

She shook her head, picked up the beaker heroically, and drank it down.

Come to think of it, this set of chemical experiment materials was created by Emperor Roselle...

A vague thought flashed through her mind, and the sticky potion fell into her mouth, making Alice frown for a moment.

——Just like its colorful colors, the taste of this thing is also colorful.

But Alice soon lost the mood to pay attention to the taste of the potion. In a trance, the familiar river of waves appeared before her eyes again. A huge wave rose from it and smashed towards her head in her horrified sight!

The surging waves completely submerged her. She was not stable in the river and felt as if she had fallen. Her soul responded with an uncomfortable feeling of suffocation.

Alice raised her head, and there were swaying waves above her. She tried to stand up, to float, but the river did not calm down. She could not stand in the violently shaking river water - let's call it that for now.

I need something to support me... Alice realized this vaguely. Her eyes were really redundant in this environment, so she simply closed her eyes and reached out her hand following the guidance of her spirit.

At the first firm and slightly cool touch, a picture popped into her mind.

Alice saw herself sinking in a familiar river of light. The moment in her memory was much more suffocating than it was now, and even her consciousness had become blurred.

At a certain moment, a beam of light suddenly illuminated her eyes. She tried her best to open her eyes that were almost closed. The light fell towards her, and when it got closer, Alice saw that it was in the shape of a key.

The picture disappeared, and the river water was still shaking violently, but it seemed that some force was supporting her. Alice realized that her movements were no longer weak, and she seemed to have a certain ability to move.

But that wasn't enough to get her up, and she continued to reach out and touch.

When Alice touched something for the second time, she still saw the familiar river of light.

She was on a side road, or perhaps the main road, but it was a cut-off road - a gray fog had solidified there, blocking the river.

She saw herself rushing into the fog, as if something was being peeled off from her, as if her body suddenly became relaxed, and a surge of strength surged up.

not enough……

So Alice stretched out her hand again, and when she thought she had caught something for the third time, she saw... a wolf?

It had the head of a wolf, with short dark hair all over its body, but it had eight legs.

Alice was stunned for a moment by the strange, incomprehensible appearance, but the wolf with eight legs and closed eyes disappeared in an instant, and the scene ended there.

……what is that?
The fourth scene was finally no longer a silent film. Alice saw the young man praying devoutly and heard her own name - the one of the eternally innocent child.

...Could it be Will Auceptin?
The fifth scene was finally familiar to Alice. It was a memory from the past. In Song Shu's smiling face, she heard the invitation again:
"Let's... make a bet?"

…So what is the bet? And what are the stakes?
What happened next was finally familiar to her. The sixth scene was the alley where everything started, the man who fell to his death with a terrified look on his face, and the "Lucky One" extraordinary characteristic that she picked up.

...I am familiar with this.

The seventh scene is when she first meets Klein and calls out “Zhou Mingrui”.

...Why is this one here too?

The eighth scene showed her standing in front of Klein's grave, watching Klein push open the coffin lid and climb out.

...Have I forgotten about promoting cremation?
The ninth scene shows her inside Amon’s body, watching her own body fall down, and frantically completing the unfinished words.

Amon...?
The tenth scene was her facing Evelyn, and in the scene from a bystander's perspective, Alice saw Amon reaching out and turning his monocle.

…What is He thinking?
In the eleventh scene, she saw herself, or Amon, breaking into the church of the "Lord of Storms" and taking away the donation box.

...Why is this one here too?

The twelfth picture belongs to the "Dice of Probability". In the open box, there are six bright dots on the "Dice of Probability".

…This selection shouldn’t be due to the six auspicious points, right?

The thirteenth picture shows the "accessories for getting rich" that Alice deeply remembers. A sentence written in pinyin, "Don't become a god", and another sentence written in pinyin, "Happy Birthday", as if to cooperate with her, appear in her mind.

This was the end. Alice finally had enough strength to stand. She struggled to get out of the river, and her spirit suddenly fell from the sky and returned to her body.

Alice opened her eyes, and she knew that she was now a real "doom wizard", the kind with extraordinary characteristics. (End of this chapter)