Chapter 280

The lady suspected of holding the "Justice" card didn't speak again, and it was Su Qian who changed:

"Your psychological state is also much better than before. If you wish, I can let you enter the dream again now and try to wake up those forgotten memories."

"No problem." Lu Mian leaned against the sofa back actively and closed his eyes.

Unknowingly, he fell asleep. He saw Cordu Village again, located between the mountains and bathed in sunlight. It was surrounded by green alpine meadows, and the gray-white sheep were like clouds, sometimes gathering and sometimes scattering, embellishing the oil painting-like scenery.

Various things that had happened were presented quickly in the posture of an art exhibition. Lu Mian was sometimes immersed in it, experiencing it personally, and sometimes pulled out, looking at it from the perspective of a bystander.

With the advancement of events, the weather representing his mood became more and more gray and dark, and less and less able to see the sunlight, only occasionally being able to show deep blue without fog.

These memories were about the same as the guesses Lu Mian made. Starting from May or June of last year, there were gradually some abnormalities in the village.

Initially, he didn't care. It wasn't until the end of the year that he felt the problem was not small, and Aurora's suspicion of him was always not taken to heart, or she said she wanted to verify it but there was no follow-up.

After that, he caught Louis Longde's handle and squeezed intelligence from him. By the time he entered the new year, more and more people in Cordu Village showed certain problems, to the extent that some people among the villagers who had not yet been affected gradually noticed something wrong. Ava, Raymond, Naroka, and others were silenced because of this.

In this process, Lu Mian, who discovered Pons Bene and others burying corpses, tried to retaliate and severely damaged the lower body of that villain, but he was only one person and it was difficult to confront that group of thugs, eventually encountering failure.

He was almost crippled by Pons Bene, and Aurora appeared in time and took him away.

Until this time, Lu Mian noticed that his sister also appeared abnormal, suspected to be one of the people of the parish priest, and her status was very high.

She was cold and indifferent in most situations, completely different from the sister in Lu Mian's mind, and only in a small part of the time would she restore her original state, worrying about her own situation and her brother's future, trying to seek help.

But she never mentioned the matter that she could summon the messenger of "Hela," the vice president of the "Curly-Haired Baboons Research Society." The relevant information in the dream was likely from her soul fragments.

The subsequent things were about the same as what Lady Pualis told. Aurora stopped this lady, and the parish priest Guillaume Bene led a large group of gifted ones to attack the administrator's castle, destroying her layout, forcing her to give up the "territory" she had managed for a long time and leave Cordu Village with the remaining subordinates.

The only difference was that Lady Pualis said she had only given birth to one child, and the father was the parish priest, who eventually died in that attack. But when Aurora was in the state of a Fate attendant, she once mentioned that the lady personally gave birth to two children, one of whom was missing after the administrator's castle was destroyed.

At the end of the memory, the one who knocked Lu Mian unconscious and took him to the altar wasn't Aurora, but the assistant parish priest Michel Garique, who had also crawled out of the lizard-like little sprite in the dream.

Lu Mian opened his eyes and took a deep breath slowly.

He had expected these things, but the accompanying mood changes still made him feel breathless:

Having finally walked out of the nightmare of a stray child, he had a real, warm home, new friends, and a lot of happiness. Even when he was chased by villagers because of pranks and rarely failed to escape, and was punched a few times, his mood was pleasant.

But just when he thought he would live like this forever, the people around him gradually became weird, and the abnormalities he constantly discovered made his heart sink more and more, covered with more and more haze.

He began to be frightened, he began to be panicked, and he tried to bewitch his sister Aurora and friends like Raymond and Ava to leave Cordu Village together and move to Dariège to live. But Aurora dragged it on and on, making his plan eventually fail to be realized.

In fear and disappointment, he welcomed the death of his friends and discovered that the sister he trusted and valued the most also appeared abnormal.

At that moment, he felt his soul sink into a bottomless dark abyss, as if he had returned to the state when his grandfather died and he had just started wandering, panicked, helpless, sad, and painful.

And unlike that time, he also had the emotion of despair.

If it weren't for Aurora being sober from time to time and bringing a little bit of hope, he might not have been able to hold on to the end.

Even looking back at the experiences of those few months in his current state, Lu Mian still felt that his soul couldn't bear it, as if he were trapped in a cage, with gray and gloomy tones painted all around, and no matter how he rushed left and right, he couldn't escape, dull, cramped, oppressive, painful, and desperate.

Hu, hu... After a few deep breaths, Lu Mian slowly calmed down and smiled bitterly:

"Same as I speculated."

The remaining puzzle pieces of that disaster were what he hadn't personally experienced, and needed to be obtained by interpreting the symbols in the dream or finding the parish priest Guillaume Bene.

Su Qian said with a gentle voice:

"You fully bore it and faced the past. This shows that your psychological problem has been significantly improved. The rest can only rely on yourself to reconcile and heal.

"If there are no accidents, our psychological treatment should only be left once. After you find that parish priest Guillaume Bene and finish communicating with him, I need to evaluate your psychological situation and mental state once more and do the final treatment."

"Thank you, Lady Su Qian, thank you..." Lu Mian hesitated and said, "Lady Justice."

The lady in the state of "Psychological Invisibility" didn't deny it and said with a smile:

"Psychological treatment only left once doesn't mean we won't have contact anymore. Later, some matters might need to trouble you."

Lu Mian smiled:

"I am only a Sequence 7, I shouldn't be able to help you, right?"

"You cannot underestimate anyone." That lady responded with a smile, "And, different people doing different things will have different effects."

Lu Mian nodded and said:

"No problem."

He thought for a moment and changed the topic while pondering:

"Two ladies, at the end of the disaster in Cordu Village, my sister pushed me away and told me to pay attention to her notes. Based on your understanding of human nature, what problems might be hidden in her notes, and where?"

Although there was still a lot of Aurora's witchcraft notes that Lu Mian couldn't understand or had difficulty understanding, he had already studied the overall content several times and never found any possible abnormalities.

Su Qian gave an answer quickly:

"There shouldn't be any information and hints deliberately left by Aurora on those notes. Otherwise, she would have told you directly when she recovered her sobriety, or reminded you in a tactful way."

Lu Mian nodded slowly, acknowledging this speculation. This was like Aurora clearly being able to summon the messenger of "Hela" to ask for help but not doing so.

Su Qian continued:

"I think there is content on the notes that she once thought was normal but finally suspected to be problematic. Therefore, it is difficult to find which one is abnormal just by relying on superficial discrimination."

No wonder I haven't had a clue for so long... Lu Mian asked slightly urgently:

"Then how to distinguish whether there is a problem?"

The holder of the "Justice" card seemed to be thinking:

"Since you initially determined that the abnormality probably started in May or June of last year based on your memory, then use this time point to find the problem.

"If the source is really Aurora, then before this, she must have come into contact with something and suffered some kind of pollution. Therefore, you must pay special attention to the part of the notes from the previous half year. That is very likely to hide the things that made her mutate.

"In addition, the notes of the last three months have a high probability of reflecting what Aurora really wanted to do. It is an important part of the castle in her heart.

"If you study the notes, these two time periods are the most likely to have problems."

January to June of last year, January to March of this year... Lu Mian remembered Lady Justice's hint.

Since Aurora's witchcraft notes involved a full five years of time, narrowing the scope of suspicious content could help Lu Mian save a lot of time and energy.

If he only focused on the notes of those two time periods, his workload would be reduced by ninety percent, and he could analyze and ponder more specifically.

After a brief thought, Lu Mian thanked her sincerely again:

"Thank you, Lady Su Qian, thank you, Lady Justice."

After communicating for a while, this psychological treatment officially ended. Lu Mian finished the remaining espresso, got up and left the Mason Cafe, and waited for the public carriage on the side of the road.

At this time in Trier, dark clouds accumulated in the northwest in the distance, and the rain was like a line, while in the southeast, the sky was deep blue, the clouds were pure white, and they were dyed with golden light.

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3 White Coat Street, inside apartment 601.

Franca said to Jenna:

"We are going out to attend a gathering."

"What gathering?" Jenna, who hadn't put on smoky makeup yet, asked suspiciously.

Franca rarely invited her to participate in similar things.

Franca laughed:

"A gathering in the occult field.

"You have already digested the 'Assassin' potion and have to consider promoting to 'Instigator'. How to collect materials and intelligence through occult gatherings and earn money and supplies is a course that every wild Beyonder must learn."

"Promote..." Jenna was a bit dazed.

This term was very strange to her.

Franca said seriously:

"A big shot once told me that in the foreseeable future, there will be more and more evil god cultists, and various disasters involving the occult will also be the same.

"If you hope to protect yourself, protect your brother, and protect those you want to protect, you have to walk step by step on the path of God and become more powerful."

Jenna was silent for a few seconds and said:

"Okay."

"Then let's go." Franca revealed a smile again.

Jenna hesitated and said:

"Should we find Charles together? He seems to also need to attend occult gatherings."

"..." Franca's expression froze.

(End of chapter)