Mystery: Lucky One

Chapter 8 Chapter 8 So, who are the guards?
Tossing the coin doesn't actually give the answer, but when Alice sees the flip side and wants to toss the coin again, she knows what her answer is.

Just as after realizing that "she couldn't tell that someone was planning to kill the captain", Alice chose to study hard - she wanted to do something else, but since she couldn't tell, there was nothing she could do. , but in any case, this at least shows that Alice cannot just watch a person die without doing anything when she knows that he is going to die.

Of course, the premise is that this person is not a heinous guy.

However, if she went to Blackthorn Security Company at this time, let alone whether she could find Dunn, Alice was a little worried that this inexplicable behavior would irritate Old Neil.

After all, there is no need for Alice to go at night unless there are special circumstances, because she is underage and still growing...

"Let's go see the captain tomorrow... Well, that's it." Alice whispered to herself.

……

The next morning, Alice stepped into the Blackthorn Security Company again and smiled at the sleepy-eyed Roxanne at the door: "Good morning, Sister Roxanne∽"

Miss Roxanne responded weakly: "Good morning, Mr. Neil is..."

"I'm looking for the captain." Alice interrupted Roxanne.

"Um... ah?"

"Is the captain in the office?"

"Yes, yes."

After receiving the response, Alice ignored the confused Roxanne and went straight to Dunn's office.

"Come in." Dunn quickly responded to Alice's knock on the door. After seeing Alice pushing the door open, he couldn't help showing a somewhat surprised expression.

"what happened?"

At this moment, Dunn was probably thinking whether he had forgotten something again, but after seeing Alice closing the door and locking it, he realized that Alice might have something important to say.

"Captain..." After carefully checking the door lock, Alice approached the desk and asked in a low voice, "I saw a pair of eyes behind Mr. Neil!"

"A pair of eyes?" Dunn frowned.

"A pair of almost transparent eyes with no eyelashes... No, that's not the point." Alice paused, frowning to organize her words, "The owner of those eyes, that kind of gaze will lead to his death."

Alice pursed her lips and met Dunn's solemn expression: "He is already on the road to death. If he is not stopped..."

Alice did not say anything further, but everyone could imagine the consequences. The atmosphere in the office became solemn under this silence. After an unknown length of silence, Dunn said: "Go back first, don't irritate him."

Alice nodded and quickly left the Blackthorn Security Company.

The matter came to an end soon. After reporting the matter, Old Neil received a comprehensive examination - fortunately, the symptoms were not serious and could be treated.

Old Neil was sent for treatment, and Dunn gave a false alarm. The biggest impact of this incident was that Klein and Alice, who had just started to learn occult knowledge, lost their teacher again...

Of course, this is not a big problem. If it is just basic enlightenment teaching, others in the team can also do it. It’s just that as a senior spy, Old Neil has more authority in this regard.

So Alice returned to living a relatively regular life. After asking Klein to knock on the door and give a loud reminder before entering every room, Alice could rest assured to stay at the Blackthorn Security Company.

...The time soon came to the second Tarot meeting. After completing the process of handing in the diary, Audrey took the lead in speaking: "Mr. Fool, Mr. Hanged Man, Miss Destiny, I have three questions to ask. If you think the answer is of high value, tell me what you want and I will try to find it later.”

After the three people agreed, Audrey asked the first question.

"First question, what does 'acting' mean? I found that the residual spirit in the potion had a slight impact on me. Is it because I was pretending to be an audience during this time?"

Alger didn't speak, and turned his gaze to the Fool, as if he was also waiting for an answer.

Alice...Alice followed and looked at Klein.

Klein tapped the edge of the long table with his fingers and said in a relaxed tone:

"Let me use a more vivid example to illustrate. The core power of the sequence potion is a well-guarded castle. Those remaining spirits that can cause backlash live in the castle. Our goal is to solve it and truly become a The owner of the castle.

"We now have two methods. One is to forcefully attack. This may not be successful, but it will definitely hurt ourselves, unless we crush it with an absolute advantage, but obviously we do not have it.

"The second method is that we have an invitation letter from the owner of the castle. This invitation letter allows us to pass the guard's inspection and easily eliminate the enemy. But the problem is that this invitation letter has the guest's appearance and corresponding characteristics. Temperament description, so we must disguise ourselves and pretend to be invited guests, do you understand?"

"Is that invitation the name of the potion?" Alice and Alger asked in unison, which made Alger look at Alice.

"Yes." Klein responded affirmatively.

"But where did the guards come from?" Alice said as if she was talking to herself or asking questions.

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she realized that she shouldn't do this - Klein's silence clearly showed that he didn't know the answer either, and doing so would easily undermine the image that Klein had established.

Hmm... next time you have this kind of question, I'd better ask him alone. However, if you follow this idea...

Why are the methods that can reduce the probability of low-level Extraordinaries losing control and speed up their promotions not disclosed among the low-level Extraordinaries of the three major churches?
Rather than believing that the three major churches do not know this matter, Alice is more willing to believe that this is the will of the gods when the gods really exist - so, are the guards the gods?

No, that's not right.

The guards should not be gods, because in that case, not even extraordinary beings will appear - who would have enough time to raise a group of people to fight with themselves?

Maybe the god is already in the very center of the castle... um, wait?
Maybe, the gods need the help of low-level extraordinary people to deal with the guards?
He was thinking too hard, and when he came to his senses again, it was Alger who was introducing the information about the blasphemous slate.

After Alger smiled and said that he had sunk the member of the Psychological Alchemy Society who was the source of the information into the Sunian Sea, Alice looked at him with a look of amazement.

Then, Audrey's third question made Alice feel the wonder of the world.

"The third question is, if, I mean if, an ordinary animal drinks a Sequence 9 potion, what will happen?"

"...Do you have a friend who has done this?" Alice asked hesitantly.

"No, I mean what if..." Audrey was so stimulated by Alice's deliberate emphasis on "friends" that she couldn't even maintain her audience status, showing obvious panic, nervousness and shame.

The respected Mr. Fool was also a little confused by these words. Fortunately, everything was covered by gray fog, otherwise Mr. Fool's image would be doomed...

(End of this chapter)