Mystery: Lucky

cough! cough! cough!

Amidst the violent coughing, Anderson reached for his throat and seemed to be unable to breathe.

With a click, the glass fell from his hand and fell to the floor, shattering into pieces.

Cough cough cough... Anderson's coughing sound became weaker and weaker, and his face was swollen and purple.

At this time, there was a faint light of fire in his eyes, and the veins on the back of his hands squirmed as if they had a life of their own.

boom!

Anderson fell to the ground, twitched a few times, then lost all movement, and even his breathing seemed to have stopped.

The long-renowned "strongest hunter" in the sea, a Sequence 5 Beyonder, seemed to have choked to death.

This horrifying scene left several guests at the surrounding tables stunned. Even Klein, who didn't have much of a liking for Anderson, felt a chilling feeling.

There is no doubt that Alice definitely brought her bad luck back.

Klein slowly realized this, and Anderson, who was dead on the ground, turned over and sat up in silence, performing a fake corpse.

He touched his face in fear and murmured under the gaze of the people around him:

“Asshole, I almost choked to death on a sip of wine just now.

"If this is the case, I can probably become the hunter with the funniest cause of death!

"It's okay, it's okay. Before entering that sea area, I spent a lot of money to buy this thing. It finally came in use today..."

While he was talking, Anderson took out a straw-like doll from the hidden pocket inside his vest, with two eyes, a nose and a mouth roughly drawn on it with ink.

The surface of this doll has been corroded, and dark liquid is dripping down drop by drop.

In just seven or eight seconds, it completely melted into liquid and became a stain on the floor.

It should be something like a stand-in prop. It seems that Alice must have seen him have this...she must have seen it, right?

Klein tried to excuse Alice in his mind, and soon he sadly realized that Alice would most likely do this even if she didn't see it - in her opinion, returning bad luck would have the same consequences. It was calculated on the person who originally caused the bad luck, and it had nothing to do with her anyway.

This idea is actually not a problem, but she did it even though she knew it would lead to the death of the other person, and she didn't even mean to remind people - she even made people think that she didn't do anything, and she stuffed seven bad luck charms …

This is a clear contempt for life.

...otherwise I should continue to be promoted.

The laziness that had just arisen was quickly relieved by this incident. Besides, Alice had reminded him many times that maybe it was not up to him to decide whether to be promoted or not.

And the secrets about him... those are secrets that only angels can know. Without angels, they are not even qualified to listen.

While he was thinking, a man dressed as an adventurer next to him shouted to Anderson very familiarly:

"Hey, Anderson, it seems that God has finally opened his eyes and is ready to teach you a lesson?

"Hahaha, this is the first time I have seen such an unlucky person. He can choke to death even if he drinks. Didn't you offend someone, right Anderson?

"Huh? Hahahaha!"

His tone was full of schadenfreude, and Klein judged that the adventurer had probably seen Anderson's provocation skills.

"Dylan!" Anderson shouted, which should be the name of the adventurer, but he did not continue chatting with him, but looked at Gehrman Sparrow as if he was reminded.

"You..." Anderson spoke carefully, and as soon as he uttered a syllable, Klein revealed the seven bad luck charms to show his innocence.

Withdrawing the spell, Klein said to Anderson: "She should have returned your bad luck to you."

Anderson smiled bitterly and replied:

"I got it.

"I didn't expect... I didn't expect bad luck to be such a terrifying thing. I thought at most it would be encountering monsters or something, but choking to death...

"You think, is it too late for me to apologize to Him?"

"Him?" Dylan joined the conversation unwillingly. His eyes fell on Klein and he asked tentatively, "Are you Gehrman Sparrow?"

Klein nodded.

"Hiss," Dylan took a breath, and Klein turned pale when he saw him, "He... the demigod girl who is rumored to have taken care of you, could it be that she is an angel on earth?"

Angels on earth... Silence spread with this word, spreading inch by inch in the tavern. Even the bartender looked at them, waiting for Gehrman Sparrow's answer.

Protect me... Damn it, who spread this rumor? As for the angels on earth... Well, if this incident spreads, it will have no impact on Alice. She is actually spreading the incident herself. What needs to be considered is the impact on Gehrman's character...

Does anyone think that Herman's strength lies in his background? However, this should not have much impact. As long as I have a few good results, this impact will soon disappear. Besides, I have completed the role of "Faceless Man", and this identity will probably disappear soon. Okay, the next step is to find the magic potion formula for Sequence 4...

"We are not in that kind of relationship." Klein denied.

He said that they were not in that kind of relationship, but he did not deny the matter of the angel on earth... The guests looked at each other, and with Anderson's personal performance just now, everyone present took this as acquiescence.

Dylan wanted to ask something more, but Anderson interrupted their conversation:

"Hey, do you have a way to contact Him? Name or something..."

Klein glanced at Anderson and said as if joking:

"She should now be in a place where she cannot receive prayers, if you will, to our Lord."

Anderson was silent for a moment and then asked: "Then do you have a way to solve this matter?"

"Yes," Klein replied, "You apologize to her and ask for her forgiveness, and I can tell you what kind of gift she likes, and it will be counted as a gift of 7,000 pounds."

Anderson opened his mouth, closed it again, and asked after several times: "So, how do I contact Him?"

"You can pray to my Lord." Klein replied.

...?

Anderson looked at Klein in surprise, and then asked after a while:

"Can you do this step for me?"

After a pause, he added:

"I can pay the price!"

Klein looked at him with pity, shook his head and said:

"I can ask you a question and give you an answer tomorrow morning.

"You'd better survive until then."

"...Are you a curse or a blessing?" Anderson asked dryly.

"Of course it's a blessing," Klein answered without hesitation, "You still owe me 7,000 pounds."

…

Almost as soon as she stepped out of the sanctuary, Alice received a contact from Klein.

After thinking for two seconds, she did not respond, but flew straight down the mountain towards the afternoon town.

When she landed at the previous location, Alice was surprised to find that there was already a prototype of the camp there and it was no longer empty.

Leo Master was sitting on a rock. Several members of the Silver City exploration team who were on guard outside were sitting around him, and even the chief was not far away.

They lit lanterns and bonfires, and the things in their hands seemed to be food, probably meat - Alice was not sure, because the thing gave her a bad feeling, and her intuition told her that it was definitely not suitable for food. Something that has nothing to do with taste.

Her arrival caused a small commotion, Leomaster immediately shut up, and others looked at her.

Alice blinked twice, walked over as if there was no one else around, and found a suitable place to sit in the circle. The girl with burgundy hair next to her immediately moved aside in surprise to make way for him.

Alice curled up her legs and sat up, then asked Leo Master:

"Are you telling a story?

"I want to listen too!"

Leo Master paused and continued as if nothing happened:

"Then we encountered a terrible storm..."

Alice took the opportunity to close her eyes and knocked on the door of Kaiyuan Castle along with Klein's message. When she opened her eyes, she saw Klein who seemed to be in a bad mood.

Alice instinctively began to recall what trouble she had gotten into.

Klein knew what she was thinking by looking at her thoughtful posture. He knocked on the table twice to attract Alice's attention. He did not reason with Alice or reprimand her, but asked bluntly:

"How to solve Anderson's bad luck?"

Alice paused for a moment and asked in confusion: "What happened?"

Her expression didn't look like she was pretending to be stupid. Klein glanced at her, thought about it, and told her what happened:

"Anderson almost died..."

He started from the time he got off the boat, and told how Anderson almost choked to death from a mouthful of wine after they entered the bar and ordered food and drinks.

Or, in fact, Anderson choked to death, and he just had a stand-in, so he survived.

Alice paused, shook her head and said:

“...I didn’t think about killing him.

"I just returned the bad luck to him, I didn't mean to kill him - I knew you wouldn't use those spells, you're not that kind of person."

Alice hesitated for a moment, but still did not say the words "He deserves to die", even though that was what she thought in her heart.

Hey, she knew...Fortunately, she didn't clearly see that this would kill Anderson and didn't warn her, she just didn't pay attention to it...Fortunately, she didn't pay attention to it yet.

Klein breathed a sigh of relief. At least Alice was just indifferent, not cruel, and she was indifferent... Anyway, this kind of thing doesn't happen in a day or two. Forget it, as long as he cares.

So Klein just glanced at her and didn't express any opinion on her remarks. He just continued to ask:

"So, have you ever thought about how to solve this matter?"

He didn't seem to be angry with me because of this... Alice blinked and replied without hesitation: "Let him go to the goddess's church to pray."

The answer was unexpected and reasonable. Klein was stunned for a moment, accepted the answer, and then confirmed:

"You're sure he'll make it to church, right?"

"...I can't guarantee," Alice shook her head. "The so-called conferring misfortune is just to magnify the probability of bad things happening - there is not necessarily a difference between being a little unlucky and extremely unlucky at certain times, because the probability As long as it happens, it’s 100%.”

After a pause, she glanced at Klein again, who had never said anything to her because of this incident, thought for a while and said:

"Although I think the incident of nearly choking to death on wine should have taught him a profound lesson, the 'Land Abandoned by God' cannot answer prayers, and in fact, I don't know how to get out of here..."

"Ah?" The last sentence made Klein look at her in surprise, "Can't you... go back the same way?"

"It's hard to say," Alice shook her head, "Maybe I can ask the 'True Creator', after all, I just came out of His Sanctuary."

Mr. Fool, who was hunted by the "True Creator", fell into deep thought.

"What did you do in the 'Forsaken Land of God'?" Klein tried to understand Alice's life.

"I..." Alice recalled her behavior since she stepped into the "Forsaken Land of God" and lowered her head.

Klein knew that something bad was wrong when he saw her expression, so he changed the question:

"...What were you going to do?"

"Go to the Western Continent." Alice answered without hesitation.

"Then what?" Klein asked.

"I think I might have to go for a year," Alice replied, "and then I'll start thinking about how to speed up."

This is the truth, she is indeed thinking about this issue.

Klein, who was well versed in Alice's language skills, did not let down his guard and continued to ask:

"Then what? What did you do? What other solutions did you think of?"

Alice touched her chin and replied:

"Actually, I have thought of several solutions.

"First, I will go back to the Sanctuary now and find Ouroboros or the 'True Creator', convert on the spot, and see if there are other solutions...

"Second, Silver City or other local residents living here may have a solution. I can ask them.

"Third... well, I can go to Amon."

Klein listened carefully to her three solutions and found that the only safe solution was most likely useless.

He did not comment on this, but asked the question that Alice did not answer again:

"So... what did you do?"

After a few seconds of silence, Alice tried to change the subject:

"Um... do you still remember Will Auceptin?

"Are you interested in, um... building a good relationship with Him?

"I have a question for Him, but I feel that He will not say..."

"What question? "Klein asked doubtfully.

"Hmm..." Alice carefully selected her words and told about the dream she had after meeting Will Auceptin, and the dream she saw at Ouroboros.

After saying all this, she pinched her brows and said:

"If we guess in this direction, what He saw should be me climbing to the top of the tower... that is, I was swallowed by Him after I reached the top of the sequence.

"So, He was so anxious to let me be promoted at that time?" (End of this chapter)