Mystery: Lucky

Bernadette, who failed to find the reason for the threat, looked at Alice. The feeling just now seemed like an illusion, but thinking of what she had just said, Bernadette answered Alice's question carefully: "To be promoted to Sequence 0, He needs the extraordinary characteristics of the 'Mercury Snake' and the uniqueness of the 'Wheel of Fortune'."

"The extraordinary characteristics of the 'Mercury Snake' and the uniqueness of the 'Wheel of Fortune'..." Alice repeated Bernadette's words, and her voice still did not have too many emotional fluctuations, "First of all, it is certain that I can't have the extraordinary characteristics of the 'Mercury Snake'."

Bernadette looked at Alice who was calmly analyzing and slowly frowned.

"Then...what is the uniqueness of the 'Wheel of Fortune'?" Alice's eyes fell on Bernadette.

The feeling of threat that she couldn't find the reason for reappeared, as if an invisible net wrapped around her. As long as her answer was not satisfactory, the net would shrink and then... strangle her.

Bernadette even had a hard time judging whether she was more frightened now or by the gaze of the hidden sage. She looked at Alice and answered in the calmest voice possible: "For Sequence 1 to become Sequence 0, it needs to accommodate the uniqueness of the path. 'Wheel of Fortune' is the name of Sequence 0 of the 'Fate' path you mentioned."

The invisible net disappeared silently. Bernadette saw Alice frowning, revealing a distressed look that matched her age and temperament. She pouted and muttered: "In other words, I may be the uniqueness of the 'Fate' path? Or, or is there any connection?"

Bernadette looked at Alice, whose movements, demeanor, and tone unconsciously revealed a little childishness, and asked tentatively: "Do you feel... that your state is a little wrong at certain times?"

"What?" Alice looked at Bernadette blankly.

"Divinity is a kind of pollution against high-sequence extraordinary people," Bernadette said in a deep voice, "After entering the high sequence, extraordinary people need to constantly fight against divinity to maintain their humanity."

Alice was slightly startled.

Of course, she knew that her state was not right at certain times, which made her afraid and uneasy, but she had no way to deal with it, and she couldn't even find the reason.

She could only watch herself become another completely unfamiliar self.

This change was obvious at certain moments, but more often, it was a subtle change. Alice was not even sure whether she was affected now.

So... that influence came from her connection with uniqueness? That was the pollution of divinity? No, that's not right... Can divinity affect people from such a distance? But, at least the general direction should be fine...

Alice frowned and asked: "So... while uniqueness brings me power, it also affects me, or pollutes me?"

"This is just my guess." Bernadette frowned and looked at Alice. She actually wanted to explore Alice's state and the relationship between Alice and uniqueness, but it was obvious that even Alice herself didn't know the answer. Considering the source of the threat just now, Bernadette thought it would be better for her not to force Alice to do something she didn't want to do.

——No matter what relationship Alice has with uniqueness, no matter whether that relationship will affect Alice's humanity, at least before Alice loses her humanity, that invisible net can strangle her.

Alice asked thoughtfully: "... Assuming your guess is right, do you know how to solve this problem?"

"Have you heard of 'anchor'?" Bernadette asked.

"'Anchor'?" Alice repeated this sentence and made her own guess, "The 'anchor' that stabilizes humanity?"

"Have you heard of it?" Bernadette asked in surprise.

"I guessed blindly." Alice blinked twice.

"... To be precise, the role of 'anchor' is to stabilize the mental state. Generally speaking, starting from angels, extraordinary people need the help of 'anchor'." Bernadette was silent for a while and explained.

"Stabilize the mental state...Starting from angels..." Alice repeated Bernadette's words and remembered her original question-why do gods want to preach?

After completing the last piece of information, Alice finally found the answer to the question: "Are believers the 'anchor' of the gods?"

This disrespectful remark caused Bernadette to change her mood significantly.

This is not a difficult question to figure out. After knowing the existence of "anchor" and Sequence 0, and after understanding that divinity is actually pollution, the significance of believers to the gods is obvious.

The real difficulty lies in saying it like Alice did.

For the extraordinary people who know the existence of the true God, even the non-believers cannot maintain the state of mind of Alice.

"...Are all the people you are talking about like you?" Bernadette couldn't help asking.

"Like me?" Alice repeated in confusion. She couldn't figure out what she had done wrong again.

Bernadette looked at Alice and sighed helplessly: "You seem to have no respect for the gods - whether it's the mention of the 'Fool' or the speculation just now."

Alice was silent for a moment, and finally said: "No, I am a believer of the goddess."

Bernadette frowned and looked at Alice, and found that she didn't show much respect when she said this.

Looking at Bernadette's suspicious eyes, Alice shrugged and sighed: "Okay... But, no one will believe in a Sequence 7, right? Even if I am about to become a Sequence 6..."

"Wait a minute," Bernadette interrupted Alice urgently, "Do you have Sequence 7?"

"Yes." Alice nodded, not finding it strange at all.

"Didn't you say you were only 15 or 16?" Bernadette looked at Alice incomprehensibly.

Alice stared at Bernadette, and after thinking for a few seconds, she said, "I think it's abnormal that I didn't become Sequence 1 directly."

"..." Bernadette looked at Alice's serious expression, remembered the guess about uniqueness, and finally chose to change the subject, "Tell me the name of the 'Fool' you mentioned."

"Wow, do you want to pray?" Alice asked with interest.

"I don't have the habit of praying to strange evil gods." Bernadette looked at Alice's excited expression and emphasized weakly.

Alice, who remembered what she had done, glanced to the side secretly, pretending to concentrate on studying the pattern on a tourist's hat.

Bernadette looked at Alice's expression and suddenly made some guesses about why she found the "Fool".

Bernadette: I don't have the habit of praying to strange evil gods

Alice: (eyes shifted)