Chapter 180

In the evening, Market Avenue, Breeze Dance Hall.

As soon as Lu Mian walked to the entrance, the two gang thugs guarding there greeted him:

"Good evening, boss."

Lu Mian, still in a white shirt with a black vest, sleeves rolled high, and full of youthful temperament, smiled and nodded.

Louis and Sarcota had been waiting for this new boss to return. Seeing him walk into the dance hall, they immediately left the bar and piled up smiles.

"Boss, why didn't you bring us? You'll lack protection this way!" Louis expressed his loyalty in this way.

Lu Mian responded amusingly:

"You protect me?

"I'm really worried that if you encounter something and get killed, I'll have to pay the pension."

Louis laughed sheepishly:

"I know you're very powerful, boss, and can handle 'Hammer' Ait and 'Evil Wolf' Margot alone, but isn't there a saying, two fists are no match for four hands? And we all have guns, and our marksmanship is not bad."

Two fists are no match for four hands? Isn't this what Emperor Roselle said? How did it become a common saying? Also, Aurora suspected that many dirty words also came from Emperor Roselle, but no one had verified it... Lu Mian looked at Louis, who looked like a tough guy but had a fawning smile, and Sarcota, who had brownish-red curly hair, a sturdy and thick figure, and thick lips, and nodded slightly:

"You can follow when I let you follow. When I don't let you follow, help me watch the dance hall. Whoever dares to make trouble, shoot directly.

"Hmm, where is the shooting range?"

"It's right under the dance hall," Louis pointed to the floor. "People from other bosses will also come to practice shooting, but you have to bring your own bullets."

"Very good," Lu Mian nodded with satisfaction.

He had a relatively urgent need to practice marksmanship, as he lacked relatively effective long-range attack means.

Louis asked again:

"Boss, the environment at the Golden Rooster Hotel is too bad. Do you want to move to the dance hall? There are several rooms on the second floor for you to choose from, or do you intend to live directly in the one Baron Brignais used for temporary rest?"

He eagerly showed his attitude. After all, he and Sarcota were considered Baron Brignais's confidants before. If they couldn't gain the new boss's trust, they might be sent to do things like guarding the door. In that way, not only would their status decline, they would be bullied by those Savages who were not on good terms, and their income would also decrease significantly.

Lu Mian thought for a moment and said:

"Take me to see those rooms."

This was just right for performing the ritual to summon Ms. Magician's messenger.

Lu Mian didn't intend to check out of the room at the Golden Rooster Hotel for the time being. His idea was: every night after that, after dismissing his two personal bodyguards, Louis and Sarcota, he would randomly choose between the second floor of the Breeze Dance Hall and room 207 of the Golden Rooster Hotel to sleep, to avoid attacks from the night to the greatest extent. Occasionally, he would also put the safe house he rented on White Coat Street into the options.

He felt that the Poison Sting Gang shouldn't easily let go of him, someone who had finished off three of their leaders and provoked them to the extreme. Once the official suppression relaxed a little, they would likely commit retaliatory acts like assassination—Lu Mian was very sure that the other party had been provoked, because his potion had further digested, and in another month or two, he would be able to consider promoting to "Pyromaniac."

Lu Mian himself didn't really worry about being secretly attacked by Poison Sting Gang leaders like "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie. He had Mr. K's finger on him, which had a good chance of blocking even Susanna Mattise, who was equivalent to a Sequence 5 Beyonder, let alone "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie and others who hadn't become "Planters"?

He was just afraid that once a battle really broke out, Mr. K wouldn't be able to hold back and would finish off "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie. In that case, Louis Longde would definitely not appear again, and the clue would be broken.

After going to the second floor, passing through the cafe, entering the corridor, and looking around, Lu Mian pointed to the room closer to his office and said:

"Let's take this one."

The room was furnished with various relatively classical furniture, covered with a four-piece set made of dark red velvet, and was cleaned very cleanly. There was even an armchair with a cushion.

"Boss, do you need to replace these fabric products with new ones?" Louis asked fawningly.

Compared to him, Sarcota was more silent.

"No need," Lu Mian found an excuse, sent the two personal bodyguards to guard the door from the cafe to the second-floor corridor, locked the door himself, sat in front of the wide wooden table by the window, and wrote a letter to Ms. Magician.

In the letter, he first emphasized that he had completed Mr. K's mission, initially gained the other party's trust, was preached to, and was expected to join the secret organization behind him. Then he asked whether he should really pray to Mr. K's Lord, whether this would lead to him being watched by that existence, and finally, he mentioned what he had done recently, pointing out that some coincidences made him uneasy.

Folding the letter paper neatly, Lu Mian set up an altar and created a "Wall of Spirituality."

After completing the summoning ritual, he looked at the candle flame that had taken on a faint blue hue and waited in the gloomy and cold environment.

Not long after, the "doll" the size of a forearm appeared above the candlelight.

Wearing a pale gold dress, it scanned the area with its unfocused light blue eyes, raised its right hand, and pinched its small, pale nose:

"So smelly! So smelly!

"This place is not as clean as the previous place!"

"Isn't this place very clean?" Lu Mian looked around in astonishment. "There are no bedbugs, and it was just cleaned."

The messenger was still pinching its nose, and said in a ghostly and ethereal voice:

"There are some old bones buried underground here!

"They are dirty, smelly, and disgusting!"

After saying that, the blonde "doll" grabbed the letter and disappeared with a swish.

It didn't want to stay for even a second!

Old bones underground? Lu Mian felt slightly puzzled and briefly repeated the messenger's words.

He remembered that the Breeze Dance Hall seemed to be built on the original church's affiliated cemetery, and those corpses and ashes had all been moved to the catacombs.

After the Savages bought the building, they felt it was still a bit gloomy and were afraid that some bones would remain deep underground, so they specifically made a spherical sculpture made of white skulls and placed it at the entrance, and engraved the corresponding inscription.

Judging from the messenger's reaction, Lu Mian suspected that there were really corpses buried underground here, and they were quite old.

"When the St. Roberts Church moved the corpses and ashes of the original cemetery to the catacombs, they shouldn't have deliberately left some behind, unless they didn't find them, and they didn't know... Could it be that another cemetery is hidden under the original cemetery, a cemetery belonging to the Fourth Epoch? So, the messenger's reaction was so big? Hmm, no need to worry about those old bones underground for now. After so many years, there have been no abnormalities in the Breeze Dance Hall. It can't be that problems will arise as soon as I come, right?" Lu Mian thought, ended the ritual, and packed up the altar.

He sat in the armchair, rocked gently, and waited for Ms. Magician's reply.

After a while, the sky turned completely dark. Lu Mian considered whether to let Louis and the others send dinner directly to the room, or go to the cafe or bar to enjoy it himself.

Suddenly, a piece of paper folded into a square fell from the sky and landed on him.

This time, the "doll" messenger didn't even show its face, which showed how much it hated the overall "environment" of the Breeze Dance Hall.

I'll summon it at the Golden Rooster Hotel or that safe house in the future... Lu Mian unfolded the letter paper and read it carefully:

"You did very well. It seems you have gained Mr. K's appreciation and have been initially recognized by him.

"Next, just follow his instructions. When the time comes, I will tell you in advance the true goal to be achieved.

"You can pretend to believe in the existence Mr. K mentioned. Anyway, there are already traces of two existences on you, and one more is not a big problem. I'm just worried that it will be a bit crowded.

"Haha, the above sentence is a joke. The real way to deal with it is:

"You can pretend to believe, but every time you go to see Mr. K and participate in the corresponding prayers, pray to my Lord for the protection of angels. You should have already mastered the corresponding ritual magic, right? If not, check your sister's witchcraft notes.

"Usually, remember, you must never recall that existence's honorific name, even if the order has been disrupted, unless you are sure that you have already received the protection of angels at that time.

"I know that for some things, the more you are not allowed to recall, the more you can't help but recall. You can try to seek help in this regard from your psychologist during the next treatment, which means you have to drag the matter of pretending to believe in that existence until after the next treatment.

"As for coincidences, there should be many factors, reflected in different things.

"First, the pollution sealed in your body comes from the existence known as Fate. Fate sounds related to destiny, and it will disturb your destiny to a certain extent, making you encounter some people and things you are 'destined' to encounter.

"Second, Mr. K should have made some arrangements, achieved by sending people to hide in the shadows to monitor you, giving those gang leaders some small psychological hints, etc. This makes me suspect that he is a Sequence 6 'Hypnotist' or Sequence 5 'Dreamwalker' of the 'Spectator' pathway, but according to your previous description, he also possesses the ability of a 'Notary,' so he is likely a 'Shepherd,' which is Sequence 5 of the 'Reader' pathway, and this pathway belongs to the existence Mr. K believes in.

"'Shepherds' can herd the souls and characteristics of Beyonders, several of them, thereby using their abilities, which makes every 'Shepherd' very powerful, standing at the top of the mid-sequence.

"Third, it comes from the Law of Convergence and the repulsion-attraction guess I mentioned before. Believe me, if there are no accidents, you will encounter more evil god believers, more Hunters, and more Witches in a short time.

"Work hard, 'Seven of Scepters'."

"'Shepherd'? Sounds very powerful... I have already encountered another Hunter, plus two Witches... Lu Mian ignited Ms. Magician's reply by rubbing his spirituality.

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