Mystery: Lucky One

Without further ado, after calming down a little in the church, Alice decided to go out for a walk.

She could not think of many things related to the word "chaos". Although there was a war brewing in secret, before the war started, Alice's first reaction was the East District.

After the heavy smog, Alice entered the East District only a few times, and she was only passing by. When she stepped into here again, she had an indescribable trance.

After the great smog incident, the top brass of Loen finally realized that the suffering here was a breeding ground for the advent of evil gods, and tried to make certain improvements to the East District.

Coupled with environmental governance, the dead air in the East District has finally faded a lot.

only……

Alice frowned slightly. She "observed" the fate of the East District of Backlund and walked towards the most turbid and chaotic direction.

She did not use her extraordinary abilities, but just walked forward step by step. The environment became visibly worse, and the smiles on people's faces faded little by little. When she was about to approach the final core, Alice stopped in silence and looked in one direction.

A man wearing the most common blue-gray workman's uniform in this area walked out of a house. A disheveled woman chased after him, shouting:
"Money! Money!"

The man walked very fast. The woman stumbled forward and hugged his waist from behind, shouting in a trembling voice:

"money!!!"

Sad, desperate, and worth stopping.

The man did not react at all. He did not show any emotion at all. He pulled the arm from his waist, threw the woman away, and kicked her, shouting:
"roll!"

The kick was fierce, but the woman didn't care at all. Instead, she took the opportunity to hug the man's legs and raised her head to beg:

"Please, my child and I haven't had any food for several days..."

Alice was not sure whether she should feel sorry for the woman. She realized that this might be a story of freeloading. Even though this was the first time Alice had seen such a thing in the past and now, there was no shortage of similar stories in the diverse literary works of modern society.

She knew that in certain circumstances this was not uncommon, and that it was enough to make her stop and watch, but it was not worth her giving it her limited sympathy.

Until the kid rushed out.

"Mom!" When the man pulled out his foot to kick for the second time, a teenage girl rushed out to stand in front of her mother and closed her eyes without hesitation.

Pity is not worth it, but this true love may be worth it. When Alice was thinking about it, she found that the man also stopped.

...?
Did he soften his heart? Was he touched?
Alice blinked, and the man retracted his foot, revealing a lustful smile. He looked up and down at the teenage girl, then rubbed his hands and said:
"Hey, why didn't you tell me earlier? Your daughter is so beautiful..."

As he said this, one hand rubbed towards the girl's face.

...?
are you crazy!

Alice opened her eyes wide and thought of Charles' disgusting look again. The anger that she had not directed at Charles finally shifted to the man in front of her. The man who stretched out his hand suddenly began to breathe rapidly, with a look of horror on his face.

He put his hands on his chest, a suffocating expression on his face, and sobbed, "Uh, save me..."

As he said this, his face gradually turned purple and ugly, and his body fell to the ground exhausted.

The last sound gradually disappeared, and the mother and daughter finally had time to hug each other and cry. Alice touched her chin and began to think about whether she should just leave or come out and make a scene.

Or should I just leave...?
This thought only came to her mind for a moment before she gave it up, because she saw the mother and daughter checking each other to confirm each other's health, then hugging each other tremblingly and praising each other softly:

"Praise the goddess..."

Alice suddenly realized that she had overlooked something again.

This is a world where true God exists. Unlike the false divine right of kings in our memories, the royal power here is truly granted by God.

As for Backlund East District under the rule of the gods, it has become what it is today. The gods may not have intervened, but they certainly acquiesced.

It felt like some kind of thick filter was suddenly broken, and she sighed softly:
"Goddess, you are not innocent either, you are almost the same as me... Ha, I should say, at least in terms of morality, everyone may not be much better than me..."

This fact made Alice feel both amused and helpless. She could finally accept other people's praise and thanks with peace of mind - everyone was the same anyway, maybe even worse than her, so why couldn't she be praised for doing good things?
Alice nodded confidently and muttered with emotion:
"In this case, as long as I don't make mistakes of principle, I will be on the same level as everyone else...

"But why does it have to be like this? Chaos Walker and Prophet seem to feel the same way... Is it possible that the faith born out of disaster is more devout? Isn't there any faith that was born to make the world a better place...

"…Forget it. It has nothing to do with me. I can't let them thank me anymore."

Alice decided to go out first and take back the credit.

She no longer concealed her presence, chuckled, and sighed:

"Mortal... Although ignorance may be bliss, I will be angry if I thank the wrong person."

The mother and daughter turned their heads in horror. Alice stood a little more seriously, walked towards them, bent down and said:

"You should praise, thank, and... Oh, maybe I really should have a bishop. This makes me look so cheap.

"…Just pretend you didn't hear what I said just now. I mean, you should thank me."

The mother and daughter looked confused. The mother seemed to have grasped some of the key points from Alice's messy words. She said doubtfully:

"you are……?"

"You can call me..." Alice raised her chin confidently, but her voice suddenly froze.

She likes to tell people that she is Miss Fortune, but if it is a god...

Alice blinked and added the final address unnoticeably:

"…The goddess of fate."

"Goddess of Fate..." the mother murmured in a low voice, with a strange light flashing in her eyes, "So, this is fate's punishment?"

No, I just happen to dislike him... Alice blinked and decided to choose a suitable word from the vast number of religions in her previous life to explain her randomness:
"That's right." She smiled slightly, with a compassionate look:

"Good people will eventually have good results, and evil people will eventually have bad results. Maybe those evil people will have a better life in the short term, but that's only because the time has not come yet."

——She translated the most common and popular saying from Buddhism.

"So that's it, fate... Haha, so this is fate!" The mother knelt on the ground and looked up. "Praise you, great goddess of fate. From now on, I will recite your name every day and pray for your protection..."

…Help, she's not going to come up and hug my thighs, is she? !

Alice thought of what had just happened and ran away in embarrassment.

When the mother saw her disappear, her eyes became even more excited. She knelt on the ground and pushed down her daughter who was still in a daze. She kept saying:

"This is a miracle, praise you..."

……Neuropathy!

Alice, who was able to feel faith, blocked out this scene and decided to turn a blind eye to it.

Alice, enjoying the quietness again, recalled her previous feelings. At this moment, she finally understood Cassandra's behavior a little bit - people in distress are indeed more likely to develop faith after they are suddenly rescued.

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Even though she didn't conduct a control experiment or repeat the experiment... bah, dirty stuff!

Alice coldly drove the knowledge out of her mind, then she couldn't help frowning and muttering to herself:
"So, it can't be true... First create chaos, then become a 'prophet' to save everyone, the acting and rituals of the two sequences are done in one go... It can't be true?
"This is too... Hey, come to think of it, the pinnacle of this path is actually called the 'Key of Light', ha, light...

"If the light of the Key of Light is like this, it would be too ironic... No, this is what she is like...Her performance.

“Personally pulling people into the abyss, then saving them, appearing as a savior, and finally revealing the most desperate truth… Hey, isn’t this what He likes to do the most?
"Song Shu...ha."

Alice clenched her fist and decided not to go shopping today. She would study the doctrine while the inspiration was still there.

——Even though Alice just said that Buddhist phrase casually at the time, it seems like a good idea to copy Buddhism.

In addition to the original sentence that Alice plagiarized, "Good is rewarded with good, evil is punished with evil. It's not that there is no retribution, it's just that the time has not come," another thing that impressed Alice and was in line with the "destiny" approach was the theory of reincarnation.

Buddhism believes that life is not a one-time thing, but after death one will be reborn in the six realms of reincarnation according to karma, including the heavens, the asuras, the humans, the animals, the hungry ghosts, and the hells - look, isn't this becoming a god, "restarting", "restarting" into an animal, becoming a vengeful spirit, and being sealed?
Alice was also familiar with the Buddhist concept of Nirvana, where Buddhists seek to be free from the cycle of life and death and achieve a state of no suffering... Isn't this an archangel? !

There is also the theory of cause and effect. Buddhism believes that all actions have consequences. Good deeds bring good results, and bad deeds bring bad results. Karma not only affects current life, but also future life. This view corresponds exactly to the "destiny" approach of equivalent exchange.

Of course, we have to mention here one thing that is most suitable for Alice in Buddhism, although this thing is not worth Buddhism's mention... that is the so-called "fate".

Fate is full of randomness. Just as Alice told Klein, even if the probability is 0 or 100, the ending is not predetermined. But sometimes the probability is just a random number in the middle, but the ending seems to be predetermined, which makes people feel powerless... Well, Alice admitted that she had never encountered either extreme situation.

No, the former may have been encountered.

But in any case, such special characteristics, coupled with Alice's fickle personality - she has a deep self-awareness of this, means that it is destined to believe in the "goddess of fate" she just made up, and what will happen is unpredictable.

Buddhism, which also emphasizes "fate", undoubtedly provides the best explanation for this.

So……

“Klein, Klein!” Alice knocked on Klein’s door from a distance. “Do you believe in Buddhism?”

……

At night, above the gray fog, Klein looked at Alice sitting in front of him and asked helplessly, "Tell me, what do you want from me?"

"This time, we're getting down to business!" Alice sat up straight. "But first you have to tell me whether you believe in Buddhism or not."

"Why are you asking this?" Klein frowned. "I don't believe it."

"Ah?" Alice was disappointed again. "Well, I have an idea about the doctrine - I plan to copy the Buddhist doctrine!"

“Huh?” Klein was stunned.

Alice, who was in high spirits, excitedly pulled Klein over and told him her thoughts. Klein listened thoughtfully and said with emotion:

"What you said does make sense..."

"Is that so?" Alice said proudly. "But I can only remember part of the Buddhist teachings. I can't remember those words that seem very philosophical..."

"I'll do this," Klein volunteered. "I have no problem with this!"

"Eh?" Alice looked at him with wide eyes, and couldn't help asking out of curiosity, "What did you do before?"

Klein smiled confidently and replied modestly, "I am not talented, but a keyboard warrior."

This sentence was said in Chinese. To fit the context, Klein even stood up and stroked his beard and nodded in greeting, which made Alice cover her face with her hands, as if she couldn't bear to look at it.

Having achieved his goal, Klein stopped his movements and asked Alice after a moment of silence:

"Are you in a hurry? Oh, and do you still need your new honorific name...?"

"I feel like it's hanging..." Alice's mouth twitched. "I was originally worried that Will Auceptin would do something with that honorific name after he was born, but you know the current situation..."

Klein's mouth twitched as he reminded him, "I remember that Amon can steal things. Be careful that He steals Will Auceptin's time, causing Will Auceptin to be born overnight and come to cause trouble for you..."

"That means my chance to become a god has arrived," Alice said with a wooden face. "Now it's you who should be anxious, Klein. I hope you can quickly become an angel. After all, my promotion is just a matter of taking a potion. The worst that can happen is..."

Her voice stopped abruptly.

“Just what?” Klein’s eyebrows jumped and he frowned at her.

Alice blinked her eyes, swallowed the Old Days Revival that was about to come to her lips, and said calmly:
"The worst that can happen is that I'll be a little embarrassed when I 'restart', after all, the potion hasn't been fully digested." (End of this chapter)