Chapter 193: Suspicion

Right hand... Franca suddenly shuddered.

As a "Witch," one of the things she was most familiar with was mirrors, and she was extremely sensitive to corresponding details; one of them was:

The person looking in the mirror and the reflection in the mirror are left-right reversed!

The current situation was: after Elken, who was habitually right-handed, entered that special mirror world and came back out, he had become fond of using his left hand, whereas Franca and Lu Mian had no such change!

What did this mean? Franca felt a moment of cold dread.

At this moment, seeing Christo return to the area below the warehouse and shout toward the office on the top floor, telling Elken to bring down all his White Danxia wine, Lu Mian leaned toward Franca's ear and said in a suppressed voice:

"Did you make some associations?"

"You thought of it too?" Franca was slightly surprised.

Without rich occult knowledge and sufficient supernatural encounters, it was very difficult to notice Elken's abnormality and lock onto the corresponding possibilities!

Lu Mian replied in a low voice:

"Given the amount of blood left in that space, I don't think any normal person could still be alive. From the very beginning, I thought Elken and the others in that caravan had problems.

"And you said before that in that suspected special mirror world, there was a past you, a you in the mirror.

"The person in the mirror and reality are left-right reversed.

"You say, could it be that the Elken from that mirror world replaced the original Elken?"

Franca was silent for a few seconds and said:

"I don't want to think about this terrifying and frightening possibility, but the current situation is becoming more and more like what you said.

"I have to confirm it."

While the two were talking, Elken carried a cloth bag containing various spices and two bottles of White Danxia wine, walked down from the top floor of the warehouse, and turned into a gray-white two-story building not far away.

That was the restaurant and kitchen set up by "Rat" Christo for the smugglers under his command.

—On the surface, he was a merchant who owned several companies primarily engaged in cargo trade and warehouse storage.

Franca walked toward Christo and asked with a serious expression:

"Are you sure that is really Elken?"

Christo blurted out in astonishment:

"Why are you asking such a strange question? That is definitely Elken. Steam above, how could I not recognize my own brother?

"The little guys I raise are also very close to him; they don't feel he is a stranger."

Franca deliberated for a moment and revealed a smile:

"I just feel that after entering that kind of weird place, more or less, some problems will arise."

"I checked them; they are all fine, just a bit weak. As for the blood loss, damn it, this time I still have to give them a consolation payment. You say, why did Emperor Roselle think of these strange things back then, and why do so many people remember them? It's been almost two hundred years!" "Rat" Christo felt heartache over the extra expenses.

Franca chuckled:

"When you weren't a Beyonder and hadn't taken over the smuggling business, didn't you also hope that the bosses above would follow customs and pay a bit more for certain things?"

Christo was silent for a moment, not knowing how to respond.

Franca changed the subject and said:

"Let me help you confirm again if those people have any problems."

She immediately took out her makeup kit and Elken's handkerchief, and began to perform divination in front of "Rat" Christo.

"Elken's location.

"Elken's location..."

Amidst the repeatedly chanted Hermes language, Franca, whose eyes suddenly turned deep, stroked the surface of the makeup mirror.

Lu Mian saw the mirror become gloomy, with faint ripples of water.

Soon, a scene emerged in the mirror:

Elken, wearing a blue short jacket, was standing at the edge of the kitchen, communicating with the chef inside.

"I told you there was no problem." "Rat" Christo laughed.

He then pointed to the warehouse:

"I still have some things to deal with. You can walk around yourselves, or you can wait for me in the restaurant."

Watching this short smuggling boss enter the warehouse, Lu Mian turned to look at Franca:

"It seems the real Elken is already dead."

That was why the divination result pointed to the him who originally belonged to the mirror world.

"You still think Elken and the others have problems?" Franca frowned.

"Otherwise?" Lu Mian laughed. "Cover your own eyes, plug your own ears, and you can pretend you saw nothing, heard nothing, and discovered nothing?"

Franca thought for a moment and said:

"Maybe because I used mirror divination, it was easier to point to the person in the mirror. I'll try another method."

She looked around the warehouse area, picked up a short wooden stick, stood it in front of her, and held down the top.

After divination words similar to the previous ones, the stick fell over, pointing toward the gray-white two-story building representing the kitchen and restaurant.

Elken was right there.

Franca was silent for a while and said:

"I'll see if that mirror can play any role."

She was referring to the antique silver mirror connected to that special world, hoping to use it to send all those monsters that came out of the mirror back.

Lu Mian followed Franca into the restaurant with great anticipation.

They first saw a woman wearing a gray-green long dress, who looked to be twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, holding two children, a boy and a girl, and hugging Elken who had just come out of the kitchen, happy to the point of tears.

"You're finally back!"

"Daddy!"

"Daddy, play with me!"

Amidst the calls, Elken was also full of joy, his happiness written all over his face.

"..." Franca stopped her steps, looking at the scene of family reunion, and did not speak for a long time.

Finally, she sighed and said:

"Let's wait a bit longer."

Lu Mian laughed:

"Can't bear to do it?"

Franca sighed:

"The real Elken is very likely already dead; this one is at least his reflection.

"If I try now, expose his true face, kill him, or drive him back into the mirror, his wife and children won't be grateful to me; they will hate me and be hostile toward me."

"Yeah, that's right." Lu Mian laughed. "Anyway, whatever happens in the future, whether people die or not, has nothing to do with us. We just need to be careful ourselves. Why do we have to come out and be the 'bad guy'? No one will be grateful to you. Hmm, avoid 'Rat' and the others for a while; if you don't see it, it's as if it didn't happen."

Franca was even more conflicted.

She didn't know what the reflection in the mirror would do after replacing the real person.

What if the original kindness turned into cruelty, and the original love turned into hatred?

"Your words are a bit cold..." Franca, unable to make a decision, could only look at Lu Mian and sigh.

She began to feel that Jenna's evaluation of Xia Er was also somewhat correct.

"Miss, I'm not following your lead and helping you convince yourself?" Lu Mian was both annoyed and amused.

Franca smiled sheepishly:

"How would you handle this situation now?"

Lu Mian looked at Elken, who was telling his wife and children about his weird encounter as if he were talking about someone else's business, and said:

"Find someone to write a letter and poke this matter to the Police Headquarters or some church.

"In the letter, only write that 'Rat' Christo's brother Elken took a group of people into a weird space underground and went missing for a whole day. When they came out and returned to the surface, their dominant hand had changed.

"Official Beyonders have handled many abnormal events and won't be too unfamiliar with the underground. They should be able to guess what problem Elken and the others encountered.

"As for how they handle it, that's their business; we don't need to worry. If they don't move against Elken and the others, then the mirror person has no threat and can replace the original owner who died. If they kill those monsters, it's not us facing the pain and hatred, and we don't need to pay compensation.

"In short, trust the official authorities, trust the church.

"Emperor Roselle seemed to have said something: seeing a familiar animal being killed, a gentleman won't have the heart to eat its meat, but if he doesn't see it or know about it, then it's fine, and he can eat it happily. This matter is the same."

Lu Mian couldn't repeat the original words and could only organize the sentences with his own understanding.

Franca thought seriously for a few seconds and was completely convinced:

"That's true..."

She glanced at Lu Mian:

"Your words don't sound like a gang leader at all."

"A real gang leader must know how to utilize the official authorities." Lu Mian smiled.

Franca laughed:

"Do I have to call you 'Godfather' in the future?"

Before Lu Mian could raise a question, she hurriedly added:

"Gang Godfather.

"Hmm, you don't have any channels yet. I'll be responsible for leaking the news to the official authorities."

Gang Godfather... Lu Mian had heard his sister mention it; the subject of her next book was this, and he roughly understood what it meant, feeling a bit despondent for a moment.

In the time that followed, he and Franca happily attended the dinner party held by "Rat" Christo and chatted happily with Elken and the other smugglers.

Lu Mian praised the authentic Sawa roast chicken endlessly; it was stuffed with spices, and the surface was also smeared with similar things, roasted until the skin was golden and the juices flowed out, overflowing with rich fragrance.

Cutting a piece of meat with skin, soaking it in the juice for a few seconds, and then putting it into his mouth, the feeling was incomparably wonderful, making one unable to stop their mouth.

By the end of the dinner, Franca saw that there weren't many people left around the dining table, so she looked at "Rat" Christo beside her and smiled sweetly:

"Come closer, I have something to ask you."

Christo, feeling a bit dizzy, moved his chair closer to Franca and smiled back:

"What is it?"

Franca held a faint smile and said in a low voice:

"Actually, Xia Er and I also entered that weird world. Our luck was not bad, and we escaped..."

Speaking of this, she whipped out the short knife used for cutting roast chicken, suddenly stabbed it into the table in front of "Rat" Christo, and questioned coldly:

"What exactly is hidden in that batch of goods of yours? It almost killed us!"

"I, I don't know!" Christo looked left and right, cold sweat dripping.

Seeing that only he, Franca, and Xia Er remained in the dining area, he hurriedly explained:

"I really don't know. That was what the Boss told me to bring into Trier!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 194 =====