Chapter 208: Communication

Lu Mian thought about having to let Franca come in and take off her clothes, and he had a headache. He looked at Louis Lund, who was left with only a linen shirt and white shorts, and sincerely suggested:

"I can have my companion return the money in the jacket to you. You go out like this, leave this street, find a clothing store, and say you encountered a perverted robber. I believe the people of Trier can understand."

Louis Lund's expression was blank for a second, and he pointed to the area below Lu Mian's current position:

"I have spare clothes."

Lu Mian bent down and dragged out a black formal suit with a vest and tie.

This looked like the clothing Louis Lund, the steward, usually wore.

"Is this rental carriage really yours?" Lu Mian asked curiously while throwing the formal suit to Louis Lund.

"Both the clothes and the carriage were rented by me." Louis Lund quickly put on his pants.

Lu Mian sat there, waiting for him to get dressed, before shouting outside, letting Franca stop the carriage on the side of the road.

He opened the carriage door, turned his body halfway, and waved at Louis Lund:

"Hope to see you again."

Otherwise, I'll go to Cornflower Street in the Nor District to find you. If you have already moved, then I will keep investigating until you never have a moment of peace.

If not for fearing Lady Pualis's strength and traits and intending to have a friendly exchange with her, Lu Mian would definitely have tried to tail Louis Lund until he locked onto Lady Pualis.

Franca placed the waxed hat and horsewhip in the coachman's seat, picked up the black robe on the side, put it directly on, then pulled up the hood and jumped into the shadows by the side of the road.

After Louis Lund drove the carriage away from the current street, she came out from the shadows, moved to Lu Mian's side, and looked toward that direction:

"Not tailing him?"

"No need, we aren't in a hostile relationship for the time being." Lu Mian withdrew his gaze and walked toward the Honest Market.

Franca followed with a smile:

"Aren't you worried that that Lady Pualis will refuse to see you and move away overnight?"

Lu Mian and Louis Lund didn't deliberately lower their voices during the exchange, and "Assassins" have sharp ears and eyes, so she heard quite a bit of the conversation. Although she didn't have enough prior knowledge to understand the corresponding details regarding the Cordu Village part, she still gained a lot from the other topics:

For example, Lu Mian was seeking a meeting with that Lady Pualis, for example, the pathway corresponding to a certain evil god would become "Banshee" at Sequence 5...

Lu Mian took two deep breaths, calming the lingering trembling emotions, and said:

"I just feel that compared to tailing Louis Lund, showing friendliness is more likely to lead to a meeting with Lady Pualis.

"She should be very clear about who my target of revenge is, and she was also driven out of Cordu Village by the parish priest destroying the castle. I don't believe she doesn't have a bit of resentment.

"Heh, I did kill two leaders of the Poison Sting Gang and splashed 'Black Scorpion' Luo Jie with coffee, but they don't know it was Lu Mian Lee who did it. Being hostile to Charles and seeing Lu Mian Lee are not contradictory at all."

Franca couldn't help but laugh:

"That's true. They want to retaliate against Charles; what does that have to do with you, Lu Mian?"

She then muttered thoughtfully:

"What is the relationship between that Lady Pualis and the Poison Sting Gang? Which evil god does that pathway with 'Banshee' come from? Are 'Black Scorpion' Luo Jie, 'Baldy' Harman, and 'Candelabra' Castina all of this pathway? One 'Warlock' and two 'Gardeners'?"

She made a guess based on her own understanding of the Poison Sting Gang.

Lu Mian didn't hide anything:

"The one behind the Poison Sting Gang is called 'Moon Lady,' but she seems to have been promoted recently. She and the 'Night Lady' represented by Pualis belong to the same secret organization called the 'Night Travelers.' They believe in the Great Mother. As for what exactly she is called, I don't know, and I dare not know."

That secret existence named after fate could cause people to suffer contamination while clearly knowing His name. The Great Mother, who was more evil and terrifying and whose believers had confronted the fate attendant in Cordu Village for a long time, definitely could too.

Lu Mian suspected that if he really knew the complete honorific name of that Great Mother, he would most likely—no, definitely—become pregnant on the spot.

Franca felt deeply:

"Indeed, one must firmly not know what one shouldn't know.

"Our research society once had a member who particularly liked to explore secrets and collect all kinds of occult knowledge. Later, he disappeared and never appeared again."

Franca rationally shifted the topic to "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie and the others and their corresponding ability performance. Lu Mian spoke in great detail, as he would have to rely on this "Sleeve Sword" lady to confront the Poison Sting Gang later.

Hearing Lu Mian speculate that one of the "Sower" abilities was to make others pregnant, Franca was actually a bit envious and eager to try:

"If Gardner were pregnant, it would definitely be very interesting..."

"Lady, your thinking is very dangerous. I'm really worried that one day you'll feel life is short and why not try it, choosing to believe in that Great Mother and praying for Her to bestow upon you the power of a 'Sower'." Lu Mian warned in a mocking tone.

The combination of "Witch" and "Sower" is too evil; Trier would definitely have a large number of victims.

Franca was stunned for a moment:

"I have already consumed the potion and become a Beyonder; I can't accept gifts anymore, right..."

You don't know? That's good! Lu Mian said sincerely:

"It should be impossible."

"Don't worry, I have rich occult knowledge and know that every one of those evil gods harbors ill intentions." Franca sighed slightly, labeling herself.

She looked at the Honest Market not far away and chatted casually:

"I encountered a loser when I was staking out Louis Lund this afternoon."

A loser? Lu Mian's heart stirred, recalling and saying:

"Was it a relatively thin, blond-haired, blue-eyed man in his fifties?"

"How did you know?" Franca was quite astonished. "He was walking properly on the side of the street when a flower pot suddenly fell from the balcony above, smashing toward his head. He reacted quickly and dodged to the side of the road, but ended up tripping on the edge of the drainage ditch, losing his balance. And at that moment, a public carriage was driving over, about to hit him. He—heh, he definitely isn't an ordinary person; in that situation, he actually avoided it with a very high-difficulty move. Then, guess what? He hit a gas streetlight pole, and even his nose started bleeding."

After finishing the funny scene she witnessed in the afternoon in a storytelling way, Franca looked at Lu Mian, waiting for him to answer her question.

Lu Mian thought for a moment and said:

"That person should be Mr. Eve, the landlord of the Golden Rooster Hotel. He is in the same gang as the pervert Hedesi who attacked Jenna.

"I suspect he is a Beyonder. Last time, he told the 'Eternal Blazing Sun' Church about the abnormality through someone else, but they didn't find any problems. Recently, I obtained a 'Bad Luck Charm' and found an opportunity to use it on him, wanting to make him encounter situations frequently and expose his own abnormality.

"It's a pity, his performance this time wasn't seen by official Beyonders."

But according to that vagrant's fortune, Mr. Eve should be unlucky for another two or three days.

Franca said with a gloomy face:

"Yes, that was clearly a Beyonder.

"So it was that group of people who bullied Jenna... You, you should have told me earlier! I could have found someone to help and made the official side pay more attention to that guy named Eve!"

Thinking of the Mirror People who were cleared away, Lu Mian picked the key points and talked about the pervert Hedesi, Mr. Eve, Susanna Mattise, and the Old Pigeon Cage.

"The abilities of their pathway are quite stimulating..." Franca couldn't help but marvel. "When I first came into contact with occultism, everyone told me there were only twenty-two divine pathways. As a result, in the last two or three years, some strange sequences have popped up from time to time. Are evil gods not counted in the divine pathways?"

After a pause, Franca said to Lu Mian:

"I will reflect these things to the official side through my channels, but we also cannot be negligent. Remember, always maintain vigilance and guard against accidents. Hmm, when the time comes, perhaps we will still need to cooperate to do something. Once communication is good, I will tell you.

"Not bad, now you know to seek help from me. Don't be embarrassed; I will also look for you when I encounter difficulties."

"Hmm." Lu Mian nodded lightly.

After parting ways with Franca, Lu Mian returned to the Golden Rooster Hotel.

He still remembered Termiboros's question, took out his memo in Room 207, and looked at it, writing a letter to the "Magician" lady.

In the letter, he mainly talked about two things: first, the temptation and subsequent influence Termiboros exerted on him after obtaining the "Bhikshu" gift; second, that he had already obtained help from a psychological counselor and could avoid recalling the corresponding existence's honorific name in his daily life.

Because Mr. Eve had hired a regular cleaning lady, there were many fewer bedbugs in the hotel. Lu Mian quickly cleaned up the environment, set up an altar, and summoned that golden-haired messenger who looked like a "doll."

The messenger looked around and was very satisfied with Lu Mian's behavior of following her suggestion to change the summoning location.

About half an hour later, she appeared in Room 207, placed the reply on the wooden table, and slightly raised her chin, saying to Lu Mian:

"You should thank me. I helped you remind the 'Magician' lady, letting her read your letter the first time."

"Thank you." Lu Mian was momentarily dazed and responded reflexively.

It wasn't until the messenger left that he came back to his senses, picked up the letter folded into a square, and unfolded it:

"I am very happy to see that your treatment has had results. What I didn't expect is that that one actually threw an angel in; they are really willing to invest.

"In recent years, the infiltration of evil gods has indeed become more frequent, but power with a level higher than a certain degree is still very difficult to enter our world. Those reaching the angel level are so few that they can be counted on one hand. Among them, three were destroyed halfway, only causing small-scale contamination, and one, although successful, was captured by a certain orthodox god and cleaned up.

"In other words, in the whole world, there is no one else as unlucky as you; only you."

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 209 =====