Mystery: Lucky

Alice left the police station with mixed feelings and walked towards St. Samuel's Church.

"Matilda" has been stuffed back by her. After all, the relationship between Alice and Briar doesn't seem to be completely a secret. Oh, and there is also the support of Gehrman Spall on the Five Seas. Luo’s Miss Destiny…

Alice covered her face with her hands.

After a few seconds, she thought everything through again and put her hand down - this kind of thing should make the person being kept more social.

...No, wait a minute, they are obviously not in that kind of relationship!

Alice closed her eyes and continued walking towards the church.

She didn't call for a carriage, mainly because she didn't have any money - maybe she could choose to pay on delivery, if she didn't think she was embarrassed enough.

Oh, actually she has another option: to go to the Church of Storms to rob money again. She just needs to change her face with "Matilda", and remember to put on her monocle before leaving...

After all, reporting to the "Lord of Storms" takes time. As long as she runs fast enough, she doesn't need to worry about being attacked by the "Lord of Storms"... Wait, in this case, why doesn't she just go to the church?

After Alice stood silent for two seconds, her figure flashed, disappeared from the spot, and appeared outside St. Samuel's Church.

…

After contacting Alice, Klein felt much more relieved. He breathed a sigh of relief, took a satisfied look at the suitcase and cash above the gray fog, and returned to the real world.

After returning the potion ingredients and "Matilda" to Alice according to her words, Klein suddenly discovered that the telegraph machine had monitored another signal.

He hurriedly moved closer, quickly recorded it, and then translated it into the corresponding letters to form words with the help of the code book.

Not long after, the content of the telegraph signal appeared on the paper, with deep black ink:

"I see you."

This startled Klein, who had planned to leave. He immediately packed his things, put his suitcase and most of the cash on top of the gray fog, and prepared to escape.

But this was not enough. He also needed a bodyguard who could ensure his own safety. The more powerful the better. After thinking about it, only Alice and Reinette Tinichole could possibly be on call.

——Although Alice has done many things that challenged his "Joker" control, whether it was the time when she pretended to be Admiral Emilius or the time when she set off to the ruined sea, everything did end "smoothly" in the end. Already...

Klein chose to believe Alice.

But just as Alice was about to take away the potion ingredients, he knew what she was doing without even thinking. Klein first contacted Reinette Tinichole. After agreeing to the asking price of 10,000 gold coins, he had the first Bodyguards on call, and determined to find Alice.

——Alice will not ask him for money.

It's just that she just makes some particularly embarrassing requests... By the way, did she also say she wanted to touch my mythical creature form?

Klein lowered his head and thought seriously.

He quickly gave up thinking about it because he realized that it didn't matter at all, because even if he didn't agree, Alice would probably try her best to get him to show it and touch it...

He closed his eyes, went to find Alice above the gray fog, and explained what had just happened.

After getting Alice's affirmative answer, Klein checked the seven "Good Luck" charms on his body, suddenly couldn't help laughing, and murmured:

"Now it seems like 'good luck' has really come... Speaking of which, is this a one-time elf ball?"

He shook his head, finished processing the traces, went to the hotel front desk to pay, then took a carriage straight to the edge of Bayam, left the city and went up the mountain, as if he was going to the cemetery prepared for the local indigenous people.

Halfway through, he suddenly turned into the woods and walked in a straight line to the edge of the cliff, where a huge undersea creature was already waiting below!

Insects crawled in the woods, and small beasts occasionally scurried by. Klein stepped on the humus-laden ground and walked very fast.

Along the way, he could see mushrooms growing after the rain, rags and other garbage left by some Bayam citizens from their picnics. Everything was so peaceful and accompanied by the fresh morning air.

A leaf fell down, and Klein easily dodged it without stopping.

At this moment, Ye Zi's speed suddenly accelerated, and even made a strange turn, sticking to his mouth and nose.

It was like an adult's hand, tightly covering Klein's nose and mouth, making it completely impossible for him to breathe.

Whoosh whoosh!

Branches from the trees everywhere fell off, shooting towards Klein like sharp arrows.

And the fragments, papers and other things left over from the picnic also took on a life of their own, connected together and turned into a strange airtight network that "pounced" over!

Suddenly, Klein had the feeling that every tree, leaf, stone, and grass around him wanted to kill him.

Seeing that the strange web of debris, paper and other garbage was about to hit him, his body suddenly collapsed and became thinner, turning into a paper man.

Whoosh whoosh!

The sharp arrow-like notes penetrated the paper man and fell into the distance. The strange net then completely wrapped everything there, twisting it into a ball and squirming gently.

Klein's body appeared seven or eight meters to the side, knowing that the attack he was worried about was coming after all.

Without making any observations or hesitation, he raised his right palm and reached into his pocket to touch the "Good Luck" charm.

The situation he encountered just now made him understand that the attacker was most likely a demigod from the "Rose School", an enemy he could not fight against at the moment!

At this moment, the paper figures in his pocket suddenly flew out and stuck to his face, one after another, layer by layer!

At the same time, Klein's sleeves actively tightened, constricting his arms and forearms, preventing his palms from reaching down.

His shirt and jacket were shrinking inward, as if he had been treated as food by a giant snake that was currently stalking him and hunting him.

In just a second or two, he was restrained in place by his clothes, pants and shoes, his face was covered with paper figures, his ribs were about to break, and it became extremely difficult to breathe.

Klein was both mentally prepared and experienced in combat. He did not panic at this moment. The thumb and middle finger of his unaffected right hand came together and made a snapping sound.

A red flame suddenly rose up from the crook of his leg, burning the trousers tightly wrapped around his knees clean, and then spread upwards and downwards.

Seizing this opportunity, Klein straightened his knees, bounced up with difficulty, and threw himself to the right like a cannonball that landed weakly after being fired.

He was in mid-air and snapped his fingers again. This time he lit up the sleeve at the joint of his right arm!

And where he originally stood, the green weeds suddenly withered, and the black ground turned white instantly, as if it had been weathered for a long time.

It was an attack without warning, but his rich combat experience allowed Klein to take the lead in untying his legs and quickly left his original position to avoid this fatal blow.

With a popping sound, two places on Klein's sleeves ignited. His right palm finally had room to move. He reached into his pocket and grabbed the "Good Luck" charm.

thump!

He fell to the ground, rolled over, raised his right hand, let his body bounce up, and snapped his fingers with his left palm wearing a human leather glove.

This time, his target was the paper people stuck on his face, making him unable to breathe or make a sound.

The paper man burst into flames, and the red flames almost burned Klein's hair.

At this moment, a scene suddenly flashed through his mind: a thin arrow formed from ice crystals and stained with dark green rushed towards his head at an extremely fast speed!

There was no way to escape... The clothes that still restricted his movements made Klein realize this. At the critical moment, without any thought, he touched the talisman with his spirituality and read the incantation loudly in ancient Hermes. :

"Good luck!"

…

As soon as she landed, Alice felt the spell being triggered.

She spread her spirituality without hesitation. From the special perspective, everything on the scene could not be hidden from her "eyes". She could easily catch a glimpse of the thin arrow that was about to arrive in an instant.

This was trust—trust in putting his life in her hands.

Alice couldn't tell what she was feeling at the moment, and she couldn't think about it. Time was too urgent. She allowed her way of thinking to be completely rational, and then she quickly came up with the optimal solution.

——After releasing the "Good Luck" charm, Klein staggered and fell diagonally to the right. The cold, small ice arrow hit his right chest in the process, and his clothes were torn to pieces and scattered in all directions. It flew around, revealing a book with a dark brown cover underneath.

It was Alice... This weird coincidence made Klein realize this. He relaxed a lot, but still maintained his image and used the extraordinary ability of the "Joker" to avoid falling.

Alice didn't pay attention to the book. After all, they could talk about it later, so she just patrolled the area, searching for sources of danger.

"Blood Admiral" Senior, who is hiding in the form of a wraith, is not difficult to find, but the fact that he is not a demigod is not enough to make Klein panic and ask for help in a life-and-death crisis. Alice spreads her spirituality and continues to search for the real target. .

A few hundred meters away from Klein, she glimpsed a figure from a green tree.

It was a brown-black old man with gray hair and deep wrinkles. Alice briefly judged his sequence and chose the roughest solution in her calm anger.

"Close your eyes." For safety's sake, she reminded Klein.

Klein did not hesitate and immediately closed his eyes obediently, so Alice once again paid attention to the "Rose School" demigod hiding in the tree.

A white, scaleless giant snake appeared next to the tree. It held the snake's tail in its toothless mouth. It turned its head half-way and stared at the person hiding in the tree with its cold blood-red pupils.

The wave of light was drawn from the spiritual world and crashed into the spirituality of the "Rose School" demigod. In his daze, the old man forgot to close his eyes and stared blankly at the scene in front of him.

Ten seconds later, a dry, brown-black puppet broke away from the tree and fell to the ground.

The white, scaleless giant snake turned into a girl. She picked up the dried puppet from the ground, tossed it to play with, and slowly walked back to Klein, patted him and said:

"You can open your eyes."

Klein opened his eyes and looked at Alice.

Alice blinked, but did not choose to speak first. Instead, she looked at the air, blinked at the resentful spirit that existed on a certain reward order, and asked:

"Aren't you coming out yet?"

"Blood Admiral" Senior appeared in the air. After a few seconds of silence, he faced Alice's slightly curious eyes and said his opening remarks:

“I can serve you too, Your Highness.

"I can do better than Gehrman Sparrow."

"...?" Alice was greatly shocked. She glanced at the rumored "Blood Admiral" in surprise, then turned to look at Gehrman, "What do you think?"

Klein was also greatly shocked. He took a look at the "Blood Admiral" Senior, which was worth 42,000 pounds, and made a reliable suggestion:

"Your Highness, I still need a servant."

...Who taught him to call me His Highness!

Alice felt an indescribable sense of collapse. She made the decision without hesitation. A silver-white river surrounded the area where the three of them were. "Blood Admiral" Senior was originally His pale face turned even worse.

"You had a chance to escape," Alice said calmly, watching the fun, "I didn't intend to chase you...well, wait."

As if she suddenly realized something, Alice stopped speaking, turned to look at Klein and asked:

"Who shot that ice arrow at you? Was it him?"

"I don't know," Klein replied frankly, "but he should indeed have the ability to release ice arrows."

So the next thing happened naturally. The "Blood Admiral" Senior, worth 42,000 pounds, became the close partner of the new strongest hunter Gehrman Sparrow without any resistance.

"Then...bye?" Alice looked at Klein tentatively, "Or should we deal with the scene?"

"...Do you have any idea?" Klein asked tentatively.

Alice looked at Klein with a half-smile, and declared in a solemn tone:

"One minute after I leave here, a huge meteorite will fall here, destroying all traces of the scene."

In Klein's surprised gaze, Alice's figure disappeared from the spot. Klein was stunned for two seconds and ran away, just to get away from the area where the meteorite was about to fall as quickly as possible.

——He believed Alice's words without hesitation.

After dealing with Klein's affairs, Alice did not immediately ask about the things she was curious about, such as appreciating Klein's new secret partner, asking for payment from Klein, or asking about the origin of the book. ...Because she still has one more crucial thing to do.

——She still has to go to church.

Alice, who was called home by her parents, shook her head and sighed. She played with the little doll in her hand, stepped into St. Samuel's Church, and walked underground. (End of chapter)