Mystery: Lucky

The next journey was very fast. With Anderson's help, the Future bypassed two hidden whirlpools and a palace ruin floating on the sea.

Klein also played a huge role in this matter. He was mainly responsible for keeping Alice from running around.

Night came three hours later, and the first thing Alice did when she entered the dreamland was to go find Heath Doyle to see if he had a sudden convulsion.

In the disharmonious shadows, Alice discovered Heath Doyle. He still retained the ability to stay awake in dreams, but he remembered the experience of the last night and had no desire to explore dreams.

It seemed that he was awake... Alice blinked, turned her eyes around, and found the figure of Anderson Hood.

Unlike Heath Doyle, who was hiding in the shadows and afraid to see people, Anderson was sitting on the floor generously, holding a bottle of wine and drinking with Nina.

"Want to come together?" He invited Alice who was wandering around.

The smell of alcohol reached her nose, reminding Alice of the hard liquor she had tasted in the "Rodar" bar - it was really not a pleasant experience.

So Alice shook her head and refused the invitation for a very reasonable reason:

"Underage people can't drink."

This was an unexpected answer for Anderson, who also gave a courageous response:

"Are you afraid that your parents will find out?

"You are already an angel, and you are still afraid of this?"

Alice showed a fake smile and replied:

"I think if your parents were true gods, you would be afraid too."

Anderson froze in place and watched Alice leave.

Under a huge boulder, Alice started the attempt that she failed to complete last time - she was going to sleep in this dream.

This was quite a wonderful experience. Alice didn't know if anyone had ever tried this before. She just felt like she had turned into a small boat, floating on the sea.

The turbulent feeling made her extremely uncomfortable. She endured it again and again, and finally couldn't help it. She struggled to wake up from her dream, only to find that the scene before her was no longer familiar.

This is a storage room. There is a full-length mirror on the right side, and a figure wearing a linen robe is huddled next to the full-length mirror.

The sudden appearance of Alice caught his attention. The figure in a linen robe raised her head in the corner and uttered a short and urgent inquiry:

"who?"

In the darkness, the man's weathered face appeared in front of Alice. There were deep wrinkles on his forehead, corners of his eyes and mouth, but his hair was black and shiny.

His eyes were rare pure black, and his expression was distorted by pain. He seemed to see Alice's appearance clearly through this lightless darkness, so he asked in surprise:

"A little girl?

"Why are you here?"

After a moment, he seemed to have remembered something again, his expression became panicked, and he said to Alice hastily:

"Quick, run!

"Before that devil notices you!"

His voice was urgent but low in volume, as if he was afraid of disturbing something.

demon? Alice blinked doubtfully, and a picture appeared along with her thoughts.

It was a knight wearing heavy black armor. He held a long and straight black epee in his hand. His eyes glowed red. Under the visor was a deeply wrinkled face that was exactly the same as the figure in front of him. face.

Alice watched the black-armored knight walking in a cell-like area with a heavy sword, opening the cells one by one to check, and vaguely realized one thing - he was looking for another one of himself.

The scene disappeared, and Alice looked at the figure in the linen robe again.

I seem to have wandered into some strange place by mistake... Hmm, will the location be randomly refreshed when I wake up from a dream? Or is it just me...

Hey, don’t think about that, you should think about what to do first...well, why not...

Alice suddenly had a good idea.

She took a step forward, and the robe she named Apollo was draped around her body. The morning light escaped from her body, swelling and sweeping across the entire room. When it spread to the boundary of the room, it was swept by invisible forces Trapped firmly within.

Under the gaze of the figure in the linen short robe, Alice chuckled, lowered her eyes and said to him:

"take it easy.

"I spied on fate that you were being hunted by demons, and came here under the guidance of fate.

“I came to save you.

"But before that, maybe you don't mind giving me a title? You know, the name always has to be spoken personally to make it more ritualistic.

"Oh, by the way, you can call me...

"Miss Destiny."

Alice stepped in the morning light and came to the figure in the linen robe, and stretched out a hand towards him.

This scene seemed extremely deceptive. The figure in the linen robe subconsciously reached out and took Alice's hand and stood up from the ground. Then, an extremely embarrassing scene happened.

——The man who was curled up on the ground was nearly two and a half meters tall. When he stood up completely, Alice could only reach his waist and not even reach his chest.

Alice raised her head and stared at this exceptionally tall figure, lost in thought.

...Why is he so tall?

The figure in the linen short robe didn't know how broken down the seemingly calm Alice was. He didn't seem to completely believe Alice's words, but he still leaned down and said to Alice with a gentle expression:

"Hello, Miss Destiny.

"My name is Leo Master, an ascetic from a religious organization.

"I still recommend you to leave here as soon as possible, after all..."

Alice looked up expressionlessly. From her point of view, Leo Master was like a gentle, friendly... parent.

In pretending to be a charlatan, Alice encountered failure caused by force majeure for the first time.

I should say something... Forget it, it's like this anyway, why don't I let him sit down, after all, looking up for too long is not good for the cervical spine...

With this thought in mind, Alice moved her neck and said to Leo Master, who was trying to persuade her to leave in a gentle voice:

"Can you sit down or squat down first?

"You are too tall... I am so tired looking up at you."

Leo Master's voice was stuck for a moment, and after several seconds, he found his lost voice and said:

"Okay, okay."

He half squatted down. Alice finally didn't have to look up at him anymore. She didn't need to maintain her image anymore. She stretched out her hand and made a "hush" gesture, then tiptoed to the door and put her ear against it.

This was just a ritualistic action. Alice was certainly not really listening to the sound outside the door. She closed her eyes, and the figure of the black-armored knight with a sword appeared.

With heavy footsteps, the black-armored knight pushed open another cell. Alice's focus was not here. As she shifted her attention, the long corridor unfolded in front of her, presenting the scene of the outside world.

Alice opened her eyes again, smiled, jumped in front of Lea Master, and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, the guy outside won't be here for a while.

"Hey, do you know who he is?"

She lowered her voice like Leo Master.

After two failures, Leo Master no longer tried to persuade Alice to leave. Hearing Alice's question, he answered without hesitation:

"Him? I don't know his specific name, but many pilgrims seem to know him and call him the 'Black Saint'. "

Black Saint?

Alice immediately realized from the title that the person wandering outside was a demigod at the level of a saint, and she relaxed a little - in fact, she was not nervous at all.

In front of Leo Master, Alice waved her hand and said:

"Saint...then you can rest assured.

"I'm an angel!"

"Ah?" Leo Master seemed to have no trust in this sentence.

Alice wanted to jump up and argue on the spot, but when she opened her mouth, she realized their current situation, swallowed the words in her mouth silently, and muttered:

"Do I look so different... Why do all of you have this expression?"

After saying that, without waiting for Leo Master's response, Alice asked again as if she remembered something:

"Who do you believe in? A religious organization... This statement, are you not a member of the Church of the Seven Gods? Well, a pilgrim... Are you here for a pilgrimage?"

For this question, Leo Master was silent for a while, and then laughed at himself:

"Yes, I worship the original creator, He is the omniscient and omnipotent being, the source of all greatness, the beginning and the end, the God of all gods! "

"Ah?" Alice's eyes became blank, "So you came here for pilgrimage... uh, you came here for pilgrimage, right? How... how did you get targeted by the 'Black Saint' outside?"

Leo Master hesitated and said:

"The easternmost part of the Sonia Sea is where my Lord sleeps, and His Holy Mountain is hidden somewhere here. I led a pilgrimage team here to try to witness the miracle and redeem myself.

"Perhaps it was an inevitable test. We were caught by that demon and died one after another.

"Later, I seized the opportunity, escaped from the cell, hid here, and waited for the devil to leave."

Alice nodded thoughtfully, and then said curiously:

"So that's how it is... But there are so many religious organizations that believe in the original creator. What is your organization called? Maybe I have heard of it?"

Although the belief in the original creator is not an open belief, Alice's impression is that there seem to be quite a few secret organizations that believe in this creator. There are quite a few people in large and small organizations.

However, whether they really believe in the original creator or believe in a disguised god is not certain. The best example is...

"Aurora Society." Leo Master said what Alice was thinking at the right time.

After two seconds of being stunned, Alice suddenly realized that Leo Master was not a mind reader. He was just answering her question. She looked up in surprise and asked in a lost voice: "Are you from the Aurora Society?!" Alice's voice was stunned and suppressed. She habitually wanted to scream, but she might not be in danger if she attracted the "Black Saint" outside, but she certainly couldn't continue to chat with Leo Master like this. Hey, wait... The Black Saint... should also be a saint of the Aurora Society? The two of them... just look exactly the same, is it that simple? Alice's sight finally fell on the mirror next to Leo Master. In the morning light, the mirror clearly reflected the figures of Leo Master and Alice. Alice blinked and smiled at the mirror.

She in the mirror showed the same smile. They were all wearing silver-gray, shining robes. They all had bright blonde hair and clear blue eyes.

Alice tilted her head thoughtfully, put her right hand behind her back and said:

"Rock, Paper, Scissors!"

She in the mirror also put her right hand behind her back, her lips opened and closed, and then they all stretched out their hidden right hands - all of them were rocks.

Alice sighed in disappointment, so she in the mirror sighed in disappointment together.

Unwilling to give up, Alice put her right hand behind her back again, shouted "Rock, Paper, Scissors", and then stretched out her right hand suddenly - this time, they all showed scissors.

Alice frowned and retracted her hand, and recited "Rock, Paper, Scissors" for the third time, and stretched out her right hand - the good news is that she won.

"I won!" Alice, who still showed scissors, looked at the cloth in the mirror and shouted happily to Leo Master, but found that Leo Master's face had already turned pale.

"Why are you so scared... eh?" Alice turned her head with a sense of something.

The mirror seemed to have ripples, and Alice saw her hand stretched out from the mirror. She just blinked, and another self came out of the mirror.

It's broken... Although she didn't know what was going on, Alice's choice was still straightforward and decisive. After throwing a bit of luck on Leo Master, Alice reached out and opened the door behind her, screaming:

"Ah!"

The woman in the mirror stopped in place, and heavy footsteps sounded. Obviously, the "Black Saint" wandering outside was attracted by the scream.

Hey, it's time to give up... Just as Alice was thinking this, the other self on the opposite side suddenly pounced on her, and in the process turned into a white, scaleless giant snake.

"Ahhhh, why are you doing it yourself!" Alice screamed and avoided the fate of being trapped by the giant snake.

Facing another self, Alice dodged and made a quick and decisive decision. She recited a familiar ancient Hermes language:

"Goddess of the Night, higher than the starry sky and longer than eternity,

"You are the Lord of Crimson, the Mother of Secrets,

"The Queen of Disaster and Fear, the Lord of Sleep and Silence,

"I pray for your gaze,

"I pray for your hearing,

"Help, Goddess, someone wants to kill me!"

Oh, yes, facing a problem that she could not solve, Alice chose to call her parents. (End of this chapter)