Mystery: Lucky

...?

Am I going to hell?

No, wait, people in hell probably don’t go to hell because they are ugly...

After her brain recovered from the brief outage, Alice realized that her previous judgment was too arbitrary, and she tried to figure out her position.

A dozen strange-looking people surrounded her in a circle, two of them carrying animal skin lanterns.

None of them are very tall, and the deformity does not stop at the face. If the people with missing arms and calves twisted in strange shapes may have been injured, then the part that should have been a hand of one of them has been replaced by a ball of flesh. Combined with that, Their facial features, Alice believed, were a developmental deformity.

These people...

While frowning in thought, the crowd surrounding Alice suddenly dispersed, and an old man wearing a dark brown animal skin came to Alice from the passage they had left.

His gray hair hung down messily, and his face was marked by ravines carved by the years. Alice stared at his face intently, and when he walked in front of her, she said in a daze:

"It's... normal?"

——This old man has normal, non-deformed facial features.

The old man looked back at Alice's words, then looked at Alice, and recited in a solemn and extremely strange tone:

"Chernobyl."

Alice jumped up from the ground in shock and stared at the old man in brown animal skin. After more than ten seconds, she exhaled and ordered while recovering her breath:

"Say it again."

So, the old man with dark brown animal skin repeated the name that shouldn't appear here in that weird accent:

"Chernobyl."

Alice didn't know which language it came from, but considering the original location of the place name, Alice guessed that it was Russian - not important, because it was a place name, a transliterated noun.

This is such a famous city. If she were still standing on the land of "The Land Abandoned by Gods" at this moment, hearing this name wouldn't be... not a weird thing!

"Who are you!" she asked, glaring at the old man.

——This is a name that no one should know at all.

Unless...wait.

The residents of the "Land Abandoned by the Gods" are generally believers of the "Ancient Sun God", and the "Ancient Sun God" is suspected of being a "traveler" and should come from a Western country, so...

Is it possible that what she is stepping on is the hometown of the "ancient sun god"?

As she was thinking, the old man's voice also sounded:

"Distinguished guest, I am Nim, the high priest of Moon City.

"Moon City was once a city belonging to vampires, but that civilization was destroyed in ancient times.

"After that, we accepted the order of the great Sun God, the Lord who created everything, and moved here to guard this gray mist, waiting for the person who came out of the mist, and conveyed this sentence to him.

"To this day, three thousand seven hundred and twenty-one years have passed."

Alice listened to the words of High Priest Nim with a blank look on her face. She turned her head blankly, and the scene that had been blocked by the crowd when she was lying finally appeared in front of her - it was a piece of solidified, gray-white mist.

"You mean..." She slowly turned around and asked High Priest Nim, "I 'walked' out of it?"

Alice emphasized the word "go" because after all, she had no memory of it.

"No," Nim shook his head, "According to Xin and Ruth's description, you should have been...thrown out."

"?" Alice felt that she was even more confused. She thought about it and decided to let everyone be confused together, "I have a question."

"What?" Nim asked.

"Has your Lord ever thought..." She looked at Nim with a serious look, "The people who come out of the mist may not know foreign languages."

"...?" Nim seemed confused by her words.

Alice nodded contentedly and started talking to Nim about business:

"Xin and Ruth...um..."

She looked at the crowd. There was a man and a woman who raised their heads slightly when she read these two names. Alice looked at them from the distance and asked:

"Is it you?"

They subconsciously looked at the high priest Nim, who also turned to look at them. After looking at Alice, Nim shouted to the two of them:

"Xin, Ruth...you two saw what happened at that time, let's talk about it."

Alice did not refute this, she reached out and patted her clothes, "Apollo" still radiated light from her body, illuminating the area.

Alice turned around, and the light suddenly stopped when it touched the gray fog, unable to cross the thunder pool even half a step.

On the other side, Xin and Russ slowly talked about their experiences, about how they happened to see Alice thrown out of the gray mist while exploring, about how they gathered a nearby exploration team, and how they called the High Priest Ni. Mu.

Alice listened to their story in silence while examining her belongings.

The real clothes lining "Apollo" are actually the school uniform. The large pockets of the school uniform can hold many things, but most of Alice's important things, such as her savings, are actually placed with Klein.

She only stuffed some random spiritual materials and a deck of tarot cards into her body - this deck of tarot cards was given to the Chief of Silver City by her.

There was nothing left of spiritual materials at the moment, but the "Forsaken Land of Gods" was not short of such things. Anyway, the only person she could pray to, besides the "True Creator" and Amon, was probably Klein. For these three people, it was probably enough to have materials.

Monocle... Oh, the monocle taken from Amon should be on the "Black Tulip" at the moment.

Klein hadn't given her the other one yet...

The change was gone... No, no one told me that there was a step to clear out the belongings?

Alice turned her head again and looked at the gray-white mist.

She suddenly took a step, and the abrupt action made the Moon City residents who surrounded the city subconsciously avoid her. She ignored the Moon City residents, but walked through the passage they had made way in a hurry, stood in front of the gray mist and kicked it hard.

The gray-white mist did not fluctuate at all. Alice's inexplicable intuition told her that the Western Continent must be behind the mist, where the real "Key of Light" was located.

She closed her eyes, and opened them again after a few seconds. In the eyes of the residents of Moon City who were filled with astonishment and confusion, she kicked the gray-white mist again.

"What... are you doing?" High Priest Nim finally couldn't help asking.

This sound woke Alice up. She stopped in shock and realized that she was in a state of unreasonable rage.

...Why?

Afterwards, Alice covered her chest and shed tears that had been delayed for a long time.

Unlike her usual loud but soft cry, these tears were silent at first, passing from the end of her eyes to her cheeks, and finally dripping from her chin. There was a very long interval between each tear. Often when the previous tear fell, the next tear had not yet accumulated and formed.

Later, the later tears finally caught up with the previous tears, and turned from looking at the back to broken beads, and then formed a continuous string of beads.

And Alice just stood there quietly, looking at the gray-white mist.

...Why are you crying?

——You know the answer.

Alice slowly closed her eyes.

She knew that this was the anger, sadness, and powerlessness that she had never noticed.

Or, in fact, she had already noticed it, but crying - except for burdening others, could not solve any problems.

...In fact, as early as when she received that birthday gift, as early as when she saw Song Shu's smile, as early as when she first woke up from Amon's body, as early as when she climbed out of the grave, as early as when she first woke up in this world, she should have cried, right?

She should have cried a long time ago.

Unfortunately, she didn't cry in front of Klein after all, but ended that birthday with a joke, so that Klein's birthday gift was not as bad as her own.

Alice sighed, and didn't try to stop herself from crying. In tears, she answered in the clearest voice possible:

"I thought... I thought that fate... fate brought me here, at least to give me an answer.

"I thought I could at least know why... why me? Why me? Why don't you find someone else? And..."

Alice stopped talking, and she didn't know when her tears had stopped. She asked in a voice with a little breath:

"What do you want to do? Is there something in me that you must have? Why do you want to be like me?"

No one answered Alice's question, only the high priest Nim of Moon City asked tentatively:

"I don't know what you are talking about, but...

"Maybe you need to rest?"

This sentence seems to have some kind of magic, or maybe it's just a coincidence-after the emotions are vented, huge fatigue surges from the depths of the spirit, which is not physical fatigue, nor spiritual fatigue, but unique to the spirit.

In short, it is a psychological effect.

After a few seconds of silence, Alice asked Nim:

"Is there food... No, forget it.

"Is there a place to sleep? "

--In theory, a perfect rest should include a big meal, a hot bath, and then lying on the bed to fall asleep in a comfortable environment.

Some people may like to drink alcohol or milk, but this is a digression. The main reason why Alice stopped abruptly was that she had seen the food in Silver City.

Obviously, neither the black-faced grass nor the flesh and blood of monsters were things she would like to eat.

It's not as good as what Frank Lee made. Although it's very strange, it's at least edible and tastes good... Hey, if Frank Lee could come here, he would be very happy, right?

After all, no matter what he makes, there are people willing to eat it... Unless the taste of the residents of the "Forsaken Land of God" has completely failed.

When Alice missed the food from the outside world, Nim crossed his hands and saluted:

"Please follow me."

After Alice was stunned for a few seconds, she ran a few steps and caught up with the back of Nim who had turned around, and asked in surprise:

"Wait a minute, you're taking me back now? "

She had not forgotten the temptation and vigilance that the Chief of Silver City had when he first faced her - although it might be partly because she called herself Ouroboros.

No, maybe this was the main reason. If I had told the truth from the beginning, the Chief's attitude might have been much better...

Alice lowered her head guiltily.

Nim didn't know what Alice was thinking. He frankly explained to Alice the real reason why he trusted Alice so much:

"The oracle left by the Lord to welcome the guests who came out of the gray fog, even though the Lord had already..."

Nim looked a little sad. Alice didn't need him to finish and already understood what he had not said. Even though she was not a believer of the "Ancient Sun God" or the "True Creator", let alone Adam, she still sighed and said:

"He...didn't abandon you."

"He was just betrayed by the person he trusted."

Nim stopped suddenly and looked back at Alice.

Alice blinked twice, thought for a while, and sighed:

"I haven't introduced myself yet...you can call me...call me Miss Destiny. In the distant past...I probably met the Sun God back then - at least my followers at that time had seen him.

"I didn't come from the gray fog. That was an accident. In fact, I came from outside the 'Forsaken Land of God'... Uh, what do you call this place?"

This passage contained too much information. In the end, Nim only asked one question:

"Forsaken Land of God?"

"Uh," Alice blinked, "What do you usually call this place?"

"... The Cursed Land." Nim looked at Alice and responded deeply.

"The Cursed Land..." Alice murmured the name.

Nim looked at Alice, but did not respond to her words. Instead, he asked:

"What do you mean by... betrayed?"

Alice looked at Nim, and from his firm eyes, Alice realized that if she didn't explain the matter clearly, Nim would not continue to lead the way.

In this case...

Alice lowered her eyes, curved her lips and smiled:

"But why should I tell you?

"The gift of fate is never free. "

After a moment of silence, Nim bowed respectfully to her again, and said in a low voice:

"Please follow me, Miss Destiny."

So Alice followed the high priest of Moon City, who was wearing brown animal skins, and walked slowly in the dark, sunless "God-forsaken Land" with about ten people.

They came to a city gate full of traces of time. Alice realized that it should be Moon City. High priest Nim knocked on the city gate and respectfully invited Alice to come in.

Alice walked in without any courtesy. When she stepped into the city gate, the first thing she saw was a huge square.

-And, the residents of Moon City gathered in the square.

Maybe someone ordered it, maybe not, those residents gathered in the square, looking in the direction of the city gate, until someone whispered:

"The high priest is back!" (End of this chapter)