Mystery: Lucky One

Chapter 48 Chapter 12 Giant Snake
After solving the crucial problem of renting a house, Alice finally started her work.

Just like she told Klein, she can indeed draw comics...of course not just drawing weird things!

Moreover, Emperor Russell, who is a famous novelist, inventor, poet, composer, etc., has not actually completely cut off the origins of time travellers.

Emperor Russell still left many things that can be copied, such as comics, games, and movies...

Even if it is limited to the subject matter, there are many things that cannot be truly reproduced one to one, but it is not shabby to make money.

So in the next period of time, Alice resumed a regular life: after breakfast, she went to the church to pray, then came back to copy... came back to draw cartoons, ate, continued to draw cartoons, ate, and continued to draw...

I can’t draw anymore!

On the first day of this boring routine, Alice was successfully defeated by her own patience - she decided to go for a walk after dinner and talk about the rest later.

Backlund is a much larger city than Tingen. Strolling on the streets, mixing among the hurried and leisurely pedestrians, Alice's mood slowly calmed down.

For Alice, the essence of walking has never been the scenery - of course, beautiful scenery and excellent climate conditions will definitely make people more happy. Unfortunately, the natural landscape that Alice longs for cannot be seen in the city, Baekeland The weather in Germany is really hard to describe.

"Food desert and foggy city... it's really a strange association." The impression of a certain country flashed through her mind, but it did not cause Alice to think deeply.

For Alice, the real essence of walking was walking among people. She enjoyed the feeling of being among people and being a part of them, which gave her a strange sense of security.

Alice's tranquility didn't last long, and as she was getting Dixie pies and sweet iced tea from a roadside vendor, a scream made her instinctively turn around.

——A carriage was rushing toward a boy of about ten years old at high speed. The boy fell to the ground and seemed unable to stand up for a while.

Alice almost instinctively put down the Dixie pie and sweet ice tea in her hands, turned around and pounced on the child.

She protected the child and rolled out of the carriage's range. The carriage stopped with difficulty. Amid the noise of the crowd, the coachman and a couple who seemed to be the boy's parents came forward.

"Thank you, thank you..." The couple came forward to thank Alice emotionally, looking like they were still frightened by what had just happened.

"I'm very sorry, Miss, and this gentleman and his wife," the coachman came forward after talking to the owner for a few words and apologized sincerely. "My master is willing to compensate you for your losses."

As the main victims of the incident, the couple finally chose to settle the matter and accept compensation.

As a bystander who was involved in the accident, Alice also received a huge compensation of 50 pounds - which was used to purchase new clothes and conduct examinations, although Alice has repeatedly stated that she was not injured.

Alice realized that this was probably a rich man who was afraid of trouble.

This incident was unremarkable from its occurrence to its resolution. If it ended like this, Alice shouldn't have too many memories of it.

But when the couple pulled the boy to thank Alice and made Alice look at the boy again, Alice felt a creepy feeling of panic.

"Thank you, sister∽" the little boy's voice was brisk, but it could not at all smooth the cold sweat and hair on Alice's back. She almost stiffly looked at the boy and responded: "It's okay."

However, the little boy in front of her didn't seem to let Alice go: "Sister, you look scared, don't you?"

Alice smiled stiffly and said perfunctorily: "I was just frightened by what happened just now... I hope you're okay."

Then, without waiting for a response from the boy and the couple, she turned around and left quickly, taking the pie and sweet ice tea she had just put down.

After turning around at the end of the street, Alice even turned around and ran wildly with the things in her arms until she got home.

She closed the door and locked it before sitting on the sofa in the living room and recalling the details.

——Everything is so normal, but where does that creepy feeling come from?
Of course Alice knew that the source must be that boy, or had something to do with that boy, but what was so special about that boy?
Obviously, Alice's thinking can't produce any results. She can only fall asleep while thinking with this uneasy mood.

……

This was a dark, towering spire. Alice raised her head and raised her hands to gesture, but unfortunately, even so, Alice could not see the top of the tower.

Alice curiously stepped into the spire. The interior of the spire was as dark and gloomy as its appearance. Alice frowned the moment she stepped in.

Alice walked up the stairs, down, left, and right. The stairs in this tower are very irregular and quite weird - if I have to describe it, every step you take will take you to one of six random directions, up, down, left, front and back. The probability of these six directions is completely equal, but You don't know why but by coincidence you set foot on the top of the tower. Note①

——Yes, the top of the tower.

After passing through locked doors one after another, crossing wall after wall, looking narrower and narrower, until finally there was only room enough for her to stand alone, Alice was convinced that she had arrived at the tower. top.

Alice raised her head, and she finally saw what was on the top of the tower - a giant white snake was hovering above her head!

The snake was connected head to tail and was squirming slowly. The snake didn't seem to have scales, but a symbol that would make Alice dizzy if she looked at it one more time.

"Hiss, hiss." The snake lowered its head, and Alice saw a pair of blood-red eyes. The owner of those eyes stared at her coldly and ruthlessly, and then spat two snake bites at her.

Alice watched the snake's head getting closer and closer to her, and then she realized that the snake was really big, so big that she felt that she was not as tall as the snake's fully opened mouth.

...a fully open mouth?
The giant snake's mouth opened, completely encompassing Alice, and then closed - and then, Alice suddenly woke up from her dream.

After covering her chest to calm her heartbeat a little, Alice opened her pocket watch and took a look at the time - it was just past midnight.

Alice, who couldn't sleep for a while, was silent for a moment. She decided to do something she had decided for a long time - she was going to wake up Klein...

　Note ①: This is actually a mathematical model. You may have heard the saying "A drunkard can always find his way home, but a drunk bird may never make it home." Of course, what is the specific probability? I won’t let it go (eyes move)
　　
　
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