Chapter 213: Spirit Mediumship

Taking advantage of Lu Mian sneezing, Franca took two steps forward, squatted beside the fake Eve's corpse, and examined that body.

She gave a light grip, letting all the black flames that were still burning extinguish.

"Fortunately, it hasn't burned to the point where the soul has dissipated." Franca breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and took out a handful of powder that was like a lightless black night.

Lu Mian put away that stimulating gas and looked at Franca:

"You intend to perform spirit mediumship?"

In the battle just now, the fake Eve displayed strength equivalent to a mid-sequence and possessed some strange abilities. He couldn't hold back at all, otherwise, the situation would have had different changes.

Franca nodded lightly:

"Correct, spirit mediumship now will have very good results."

"Which existence do you intend to pray to?" Lu Mian asked casually.

Franca laughed lightly:

"None.

"I combined the principles of 'Magic Mirror Divination' and created a spirit mediumship technique myself. Although it can't compare to the most professional ones, it's enough to use, and it won't be watched by gods in the corresponding fields."

"Quite a brain, huh." Lu Mian's praise carried a few points of sarcasm.

Franca said, both angry and amused:

"This is called having an academic spirit. We—uh, your sister actually also does similar research and attempts. I'm usually too lazy to think so much, not because I don't have a brain, but because calculating back and forth is tiring. Being a person, be a bit more relaxed; don't care about so many details."

Her gaze swept over Charlie, who was still lying in the rubble pile passage, and swallowed the words of Gandalf, the president of the Curly-Haired Baboons Research Society.

Is this the reason you adapted so well after becoming a woman? Lu Mian saw Franca start to create a "Wall of Spirituality" in this area and walked toward Charlie's position.

Charlie saw Charles coming over, suddenly cleared his head, and crawled out of the rubble pile using his hands and feet.

Lu Mian stared at him, his face expressionless.

What he was thinking was:

Charlie just saw the battle between us, Franca, and the fake Eve. If he goes to the "Eternal Blazing Sun" church to seek protection, facing the official Beyonders' questioning using abilities, he likely won't be able to hide it. After all, this is not like last time; the official Beyonders will feel everything is under their own control, easily becoming negligent and appearing with blind spots in their thinking...

Charlie was originally very glad and happy, but after being looked at by Lu Mian for several seconds, his heart gradually beat violently like the drumbeats of a dance hall band.

He asked with both fear and confusion:

"What's wrong?"

Lu Mian saw Charlie's fortune was still red mixed with black, just a bit better than before.

This meant the threat of Susanna Mattise had not been lifted.

He was silent for a few more seconds and said:

"Remember to go to St. Robert's Church later."

In the situation where he had already contacted Lady Pualis, he didn't necessarily have to stay in the Honest Market District, and didn't necessarily have to manage the Breeze Dance Hall. As long as he didn't leave the Savard Party, there was still hope of completing Mr. K's mission.

Moreover, this time Franca was also involved. With her speaking good words by the boss's pillow, even if he didn't have the Breeze Dance Hall, he would be responsible for other money-making businesses, just likely not with such high returns.

"Good, good!" Charlie breathed a sigh of relief.

This guy could be considered to have experienced quite a few things, and because his personality was relatively open-minded, belonging to the type who got more excited the more people there were, he soon had strong curiosity, pointing to the fake Eve lying on the ground:

"Who is that, why does he look exactly like you..."

Charlie stopped before finishing his sentence, because with the death of the fake Eve, the muscles of the corpse's face relaxed, becoming no longer like Charles, appearing very unfamiliar.

"A person who believed in an evil god and obtained strange abilities." Lu Mian explained simply in a way Charlie could understand. "He has a certain relationship with Susanna Mattise."

Charlie listened with lingering fear:

"No wonder he kept taking me underground..."

Lu Mian couldn't help but curse:

"You idiot, you stayed with him for so long, didn't you feel something was wrong with him?

"Does wearing my face mean he is me?"

Charlie said sheepishly:

"When entering underground Trier, I felt things didn't seem quite right.

"He was always very silent, only saying he was taking me to a certain place underground to thoroughly solve the problem of Susanna Mattise. Unlike you, who likes to joke and likes to prank people.

"I thought it was because the situation was relatively urgent, so you weren't in the mood..."

Thinking that Charlie was an ordinary person, even if he really had a brain, he couldn't see through a disguise involving the supernatural that could deceive official Beyonders, Lu Mian exhaled and cast his gaze toward Franca's side.

This "Witch" had already completed the preparatory work for her self-created spirit mediumship technique and was standing in front of the fake Eve's corpse with two white candles lit, whispering a pile of incantations in Hermes.

Because there was a "Wall of Spirituality" separating them, Lu Mian only heard part of the content, which included Franca's description of herself and the fake Eve. The former was the source of spirituality and the foundation for maintaining the ritual, and the latter was the object of prayer, which was the "Magic Mirror" that gave answers to questions.

As for Charlie, he heard even less and couldn't understand it.

A layer of faint light emerged on the surface of the makeup mirror in Franca's hand, and the interior became extremely deep and dark, as if it had sunk to the bottom of some river.

A blurry and pale face soon protruded from the mirror surface, five or six points similar to the current appearance of the fake Eve's corpse.

Franca switched to Intis and asked:

"Who are you, and what organization do you belong to?"

The fake Eve answered blankly and detachedly:

"Lentas, I am a member of the Bliss Society."

Lentas... Lu Mian suddenly remembered this name.

On the posters outside the gate of the Old Pigeon Cage, "Lentas" often appeared as an important male supporting character.

Franca asked further:

"What kind of organization is the Bliss Society, and what relationship does it have with Susanna Mattise?"

The fake Eve Lentas said with a drifting voice:

"The Bliss Society was originally a secret group of women loving women. Susanna was one of them.

"She was tired of the life of being passed around in the arms of men like congressmen, high officials, bankers, and newspaper tycoons, seeking solace from young ladies and ladies who were also women. Later, she received divine revelation, obtained gifts, became a priestess of my Lord, and developed the Bliss Society, which didn't have many people, into a secret organization that believed in my Lord.

"In current society, women are not convenient to come forward in many things, so the Bliss Society developed some male members who could also obtain gifts, but they have no right to participate in the most core affairs or understand the most confidential things."

"Powerful!" Franca clapped her hands lightly.

She knew that the "my Lord" Lentas spoke of should be that evil god named "Mother Tree of Desire," and didn't go deep into digging into that aspect, afraid of knowing occult content that shouldn't be known.

A secret group of women loving women... Male members have no right to participate in the most core affairs... Lu Mian suddenly understood one thing.

He stood at the edge of the "Wall of Spirituality," looked at the makeup mirror in Franca's hand, and asked:

"Hedesi frequently went to find streetwalkers and sought prey because his desires couldn't be satisfied within the Bliss Society?"

"Yes." Lentas answered, "Women only love women. When I was still a 'sex addict,' I also had to solve the problem myself. Fortunately, I am more handsome than him, and there are some female audience members who like me. The Market District also has enough streetwalkers, so I don't need to take risks to seek stimulation."

"Awesome!" Franca used strange vocabulary to express her emotions. She sighed with feeling: "Is there no normal secret group of women loving women?"

"There is." Lentas answered very firmly. "Just the ones I know include the 'Moment Society' and the 'Narcissus Society.' They often hold women's joyful parties at the Red House Café in Chayot." (Note 1)

Chayot is located in the 16th District on the north bank of the Serenzo River, which is the Square District—named after the Triumph Square built by Emperor Roselle. It belongs to the small town type, possesses large areas of suburban forests, and is one of the good wine-producing areas. Chayot wine's fame throughout the world is second only to Ormier red wine.

Franca listened with yearning, repeating those few terms:

"Chayot... Red House Café... Women's joyful parties..."

Lu Mian was more concerned about the term "sex addict," feeling that this was very consistent with the state of the pervert Hedesi and should be the Sequence 8 of the "Mother Tree of Desire" pathway. But he was afraid the spirit mediumship time wouldn't be enough, so he didn't rush to ask about that aspect, instead pulling the focus back to Susanna Mattise:

"How did Susanna Mattise become an evil spirit? Why did you bring Charlie underground?"

Lentas's blurry pale face twisted:

"She died in a gift-giving and became an evil spirit.

"She told us that because her name is still praised by many people in Trier, and her portrait is still used by many men as a tool for self-comfort, she didn't completely collapse and could still maintain a certain degree of reason. However, she is clearly more extreme and more obsessed with the things she cares about without considering others.

"She was severely injured by official Beyonders last time and recovered at the altar. We were worried that after she completely recovered, she would go find Charlie again and be locked onto by the official side, so taking advantage of the election, we brought Charlie to the altar in advance and handed him to her to handle."

Charlie listened, his face turning pale, feeling as if he had really stepped into hell with one foot just now.

Franca nodded slightly:

"What danger is hidden in the altar? To what extent has Susanna Mattise recovered today?"

Lu Mian, hearing Franca's question, roughly guessed what her idea was:

If it's feasible, why not take this opportunity to destroy that altar and let Susanna Mattise, who is still in a weak state, completely dissipate!

From the time he left the Breeze Dance Hall and before tailing the fake Eve, Lu Mian had considered similar problems—because Lentas was taking Charlie underground, he believed the other party's destination was Susanna Mattise's hiding place, so when he took the calcium carbide lamp, he took a few bundles of dynamite from the safe, hoping to use the special environment to blow those guys all to death.

Lentas's blurry pale face seemed to have a few more points of holiness:

"The altar is the altar; there is only the radiance of my Lord, no danger at all."

You say it like that, I feel it's even more dangerous... Lu Mian stood beside the "Wall of Spirituality" and muttered a sentence.

Lentas continued:

"I don't know Susanna's specific situation, only knowing that she couldn't let us see her the week before last, occasionally being able to make sounds. Last week, she could communicate with us normally, and we could see her if we opened our 'Spirit Vision.' Today, she is no different from before, but appears very weak."