Mystery: Lucky One

Chapter 491 Chapter 69 Divination Results
Alice licked her lips quietly as she watched the lightning storm sweep up the snake that had bitten her.

...it smells so good.

The tip of her nose twitched twice, and the burnt smell gradually subsided after the lightning withdrew, but Alice still couldn't help swallowing her saliva and looked at Richaud's body with a longing look.

She subconsciously took a step forward, then stopped vigilantly. Her appetite and her instinctive desire for extraordinary characteristics mixed together. Alice was no longer able to distinguish what it was. She knew she had to leave here immediately.

As for the Beyonder characteristics that were precipitated... Hey, isn't there Klein?

Just send Klein over here, let Klein deliver the things above the gray fog, and I'll take him back... Oh, and that pipe-like thing... Is that Will's snake skin? Never mind, let Klein take it back first...

Before her extraordinary characteristics emerged, Alice used her last bit of sanity to appear in Mr. Fool's bedroom.

This wasn't the first time Klein had helped Alice with this kind of thing. But after listening to Alice's description of how fragrant the snake meat was, he couldn't help but ask:
"…Is it your character or instinct that you stuff everything into your mouth?"

Alice looked up at the ceiling.

Since she refused to cooperate, Klein naturally couldn't continue to explore this problem alone. He cooperated with Alice to retrieve the extraordinary characteristics - it was a piece of paper covered with ghostly graffiti.

With the help of the gray fog, Alice stared at the winding lines on the paper for a while, and then she had the feeling of getting up at five in the morning and studying mathematics for thirteen hours in a row.

She mercilessly threw the paper into the pile of junk, then said to Klein with lifeless eyes:
"I'm going to go back and get some more sleep."

Then, without waiting for Klein to speak, she escaped into the gray fog and fell asleep.

……

Friday morning, in a double room in a Backlund hospital.

"By the way, Selina," Velma suddenly seemed to have thought of something when the topic was halfway through, and asked the burgundy-haired girl on the other bed, "What was the result of your last divination?"

Selina was stunned for a moment, and she realized that Velma was asking about the result that she was interrupted and didn't have time to say.

That was not a good result. Selina frowned as she looked at Wilma, feeling embarrassed again.

How should I tell her? Telling her that the result of this child might not be good? No, no, this won't work. Can I find a reason not to tell her...

After changing her mind, Selina quickly came up with an idea. She looked at Wilma with an awkward attitude:
"This... To be honest, I am unfamiliar with the Intis card array, and the divination was not formal. After your accident, I did not open the card array, so I do not know the result of the divination..."

It was a reasonable answer, and Velma showed a disappointed expression after hearing it. Selina apologized in her heart and secretly applauded herself.

Unfortunately, before she could be happy for long, Wilma continued to ask:

“Selena, are you familiar with any card layouts?
"I, I want you to tell my fortune again..."

Selina seemed to be embarrassed by this request. She clearly saw Wilma's embarrassed expression. She knew that even if she refused, Wilma would not say anything. But after hesitating for a few seconds, Selina couldn't help but said:

"OK.

"Let me try to calculate the past, present and future. This is the simplest algorithm."

So Wilma breathed a sigh of relief and smiled tiredly.

That smile made Selina inexplicably uneasy. She lowered her head to cover it up, spread out the tablecloth, and started shuffling the cards.

Orthodox tarot divination requires placing some gems around to increase the accuracy, but since the legs were already used as a table, and given the hospital environment, Selena didn't say anything.

She casually gathered the tarot cards, shuffled them in a confused state, drew out three cards at random, and then revealed them from left to right.

The first card on the left is the upright Wheel of Fortune, which represents the past and symbolizes a favorable change. It is easy to interpret. Selena immediately thought of Wilma and Alan’s care for the child. She guessed that they must be very happy when they found the child.

Thinking of this, Selina couldn't help but think of the current situation. She sighed sadly, and then turned over the card representing the present.

Her expression froze.

That is - a reversed Wheel of Fortune.

How could there be two Wheels of Fortune in a deck of cards? Selina was shocked, but she was not fond of tarot divination, so maybe she really pretended to be wrong. Besides, she had never carefully counted the cards since entering the hospital.

Velma noticed her strange expression, so she asked:
"What's wrong, Selina? It's the result..."

Velma's voice paused, and a look of worry appeared on her face again.

Selina knew she shouldn't continue to be in a daze. She took a deep breath and felt relieved inexplicably. She tried not to show her relief and spoke carefully:

“No, it’s not what you think.

"It's a card..."

She paused, then pointed at the two Wheel of Fortune cards and said apologetically:

"Have you seen these two wheels of fortune? Well, I know you don't know much about tarot cards, but you should know that this is different from poker. There will be no repeated cards in a deck of tarot cards, right?"

Wilma nodded and then asked:

"I know.

"So this is..."

Selina sighed softly, "I'm so sorry, ma'am, I'm afraid there's something wrong with my deck... It's my fault for not checking my cards properly."

After saying this, Selina breathed a sigh of relief, and the last bit of worry in her heart disappeared. She didn't have to worry about getting inappropriate results in divination for a while.

Velma pursed her lips and looked at the cards on Selina's knees. After a few seconds of silence, she suddenly spoke when Selina was about to collect the cards:

"I'm sorry, but...

"Selina, can you reveal the last card as well?"

Selina was stunned for a moment, but the request was not excessive and she could not find a reason to refuse, so she once again revealed the last card with uneasiness.

That is another reversed Wheel of Fortune.

Selina couldn't help but gasp. The probability was too small. She was so shocked that she lost her voice and said:

"How can it be?!"

Wilma said nothing, but confirmed: "I remember this card. It's the same card you turned over when you told me fortune last time, right?"

"...Yes." Selina admitted it, and the lingering uneasiness intensified again.

"What does it symbolize?" Wilma asked, "Is it something bad?"

Selina opened her mouth but couldn't say anything. Wilma smiled as if she saw something:
"Go ahead...I'm mentally prepared."

Selina looked at Wilma blankly.

Realizing that Wilma's aura had inexplicably calmed down at this moment, as if she had figured something out, her smile gradually became peaceful and calm.

She seemed to no longer worry... Selina realized this in a trance, and she gave an absent-minded answer:
"Yes... This is the reversed Wheel of Fortune, which means things will go in a bad direction. This card symbolizes the future, so..."

"So, things are going to go badly in the future, right?" Velma calmly took over what Selina was struggling to say.

Selina finally confirmed Velma's indifference at this moment. She was confused, but still nodded.

Then Velma lowered her eyelids, and Selina saw her lower her head, stroking her belly with a gentle and sad look, and asked softly:
"Selina, can I ask you for a favor?"

"You say." Selina straightened her back.

"If..." Velma spoke in a soothing tone. Selina straightened her body and listened carefully, "If something happened to me..."

As soon as these words came out, Selina was shocked. She was shocked and wanted to open her mouth to stop them, but Velma smiled and raised her head as if she had expected it, and shook her head gently.

Velma cast a pleading look at Selina's face, interrupting her words.

Then, Wilma lowered her head again, stroked her belly and whispered:

“If anything happens to me, remember to help me persuade Alan... don’t be too sad.

"not good for health."

These last words were like a bolt of thunder, shocking Selina so much that she stood there in a daze. She was unable to react at all. In silence, Alan pushed the door open and walked in.

"What are you talking about?" the surgeon asked them after closing the door gently.

"Just chatting... Are you here to check on the ward?" Wilma asked Alan as if she hadn't said anything just now.

Selina opened her mouth but couldn't say a word. She suddenly remembered what she had heard in the past - a dying person can feel his or her own death.

She looked at Velma absentmindedly, wondering in her mind whether the rumor was true.

……

Alice slept very well that night and did not wake up until Friday night. When she woke up, she looked out at the night sky and almost thought that she had not slept for long.

Fortunately, she woke up quickly and realized that she couldn't go back in time no matter what, so she got up again, got up slowly and ate.

There was quite a bit of food to choose from at this point. Alice was happily chewing on the pie, and then she thought of Klein again.

She just confirmed that she had not slept for more than one day, so today should be Friday. Klein should be assassinating Mr. X from the Aurora Society right now.

Therefore, the "magic mirror" that impressed her so deeply should be pretending to be Klein.

So she thought about it and appeared in Klein's bedroom as if she was familiar with it. As expected, she saw the illusion on the bed.

This illusion seemed so fake to Alice. She shook her head, dragged a chair to the bedside and sat down, and said to the illusion or Arrodes who dared not speak:

"I have something to ask you."

"What's your question?" Arrodes said respectfully in the voice of Dwayne Dantes.

Alice was silent for two seconds, then uttered a meaningless sigh:

"If there were tape recorders in this era, I would make you call me Master, and then record it and play it for Klein."

Arrodes didn't dare to speak. Alice glanced at it, not expecting it to respond. But she thought about it and thought of a question:
"The recipe for the potion 'Chaos Walker'. The auxiliary material is called 'All the Fragments of a Broken Prophecy'. How do I collect it?"

She was supposed to ask Arrodes what it was, but then she thought of the mirror's question-and-answer feature, so she decided to change it to how to collect it.

After all, Alice could probably guess what it was, but she just couldn't give an exact definition.

This question did not stump Arrodes. After all, there were quite a few Chaos Walkers. Arrodes gave an answer easily:
“It depends on the carrier of the prophecy that is broken.

“For example, a prophecy written on paper can be burned to ashes.

“For example, the prophecies that appear in the form of various paintings can have the paint scraped off.

"The prophecy in the crystal ball can shatter the crystal ball...

"In addition, it would be best if this prophecy is related to the user himself, or broken by the user himself, so that the power it carries will be more complete..."

Alice looked at Arrodes' detailed suggestions and fell into deep thought.

Alice actually knows a prophecy that is related to her and broken by her - although that prophecy has not actually been broken yet.

That was the dream she had sat down in after her first encounter with Will Auceptin.

Alice was deeply impressed by the scene in her dream where she climbed to the top of the tower and was eventually swallowed by another giant white snake. To this day, she has realized that it was the Mercury Snake, the mythical creature form of the "Destiny" path.

But prophetic dreams are symbolic. At the very beginning, Alice thought that the snake was Will Auceptin and she was the material for Will Auceptin's potion.

Later, Alice regarded the dream as a revelation of her chance to become a god, and that she might be able to escape her mortality through death.

Just now, after Arrodes asked for a prophecy, Alice thought of the dream again. She had been forced to peek into her own dead end twice, and the result was always the same dream. Therefore, it must be a prophecy about a dead end.

But could Will Auceptin really push her to that point?

Up to now, Alice has actually been very skeptical about this matter - there is Ouroboros who seems to be a bystander but is actually slightly biased, there is the future Lord of Mysteries, there is the current Goddess of Night, and Will Auceptin who has not yet been born, what is the basis for this?
Alice suspected that the snake that intended to swallow her in the prophetic dream was someone else, such as... a real "incarnation of fate".

Her eyes darkened as she looked at Arrodes, who was pretending to be Dwayne Dantès, and asked a question without thinking:
"If the carrier of the prophecy is a dream...how can I obtain the fragments of that dream?"

(End of this chapter)