Chapter 465: Non-corresponding Details

Room 12... Lu Mian's gaze looking at Safali froze abruptly.

He had anticipated many possibilities, but none of them guessed what "Room 12" meant.

And living in Room 12 were the "Lady of Night" Pualis de Roquefort and her husband, butler, maid, and children!

Almost at the same time, Lu Mian thought of the oil painting he saw at the Trier Art Center, the woman with Safali as the prototype, naked, with one face after another depicted on her skin.

Were those faces symbols of the room's tenants, or the external manifestation of the "Hostel's" rooms? Lu Mian stared at Safali in front of him with dilated pupils, ready to trigger the black mark on his body at any time and use the "Hum-Ha Technique" to block the tenants of Room 12 from coming out.

He still had quite a psychological shadow over Lady Pualis.

Safali pulled the collar of her lake-blue dress, revealing part of her skin, her plump face twisting with obvious pain:

"I can't influence how long the tenants inside can sense the outside world..."

In other words, Lady Pualis hasn't discovered me yet... Lu Mian breathed a sigh of relief quietly, but didn't dare to be careless. What if Safali's interference failed very quickly?

This confirmed Lu Mian's guess and also made him have new doubts:

Why use contaminated human models to make the "Hostel's" rooms, letting Lady Pualis, Vazan Sanson, and other powerful evil god's gift-receivers live in them? Wouldn't it be fine for them to move directly into this fake Golden Rooster Hotel?

Was this to interfere with the search of mystical means like divination and prophecy?

I somehow feel it has the taste of a ritual, like a specific arrangement and requirement... As a "Begging Monk" who had mastered enough knowledge of ceremony magic, Lu Mian felt that this matter had a trace of evil.

Seeing that Safali hadn't turned and left, he seized the time to ask:

"How many rooms does the 'Hostel' have in total?"

"From Room 2 all the way to Room 13." Safali answered with an illusory and drifting voice.

"No Room 1?" Lu Mian asked.

Gabriel answered for his lover:

"It is said there is, but we have never seen it. Room 1 has never moved into the 'Hostel'."

Mysterious Room 1... Currently, it was determined that there were 12 rooms, but the evil god's gift-receivers living in each room might not be just one... Lu Mian knew that time was running out and changed the question immediately:

"How to leave here?"

"Get the permission of the fairies, or pass through the black hole on Market Avenue, but that is very dangerous and might make you appear in a place you shouldn't appear." Safali's eyes were sometimes empty and intensified, sometimes overflowing with pain.

The black hole on Market Avenue... Lu Mian asked urgently:

"How many fairies in total, and where are they?"

"Three." Gabriel answered, "They don't live in this world, only occasionally entering, usually letting servants maintain the order here, which are those blurry figures that fly and glow outside."

Three fairies... According to the information provided by the "Purifiers," the "Fairy" sequence of gifts should not have obtained divinity yet, initially estimated to be equal to Sequence 5, but their state is special. As long as they don't enter reality actively, some saints might not be able to attack them... Encountering a fairy, I am not without the ability to fight them... If I can catch a fairy, I should be able to leave here... Lu Mian's thoughts turned, and he asked further:

"Do the fairies have a pattern for entering and exiting?"

"No..." Safali shook her head slowly with a detached temperament.

Lu Mian gave up this direction and raised another question:

"Do you know where Jenna is hiding?"

"I don't know." Gabriel said quite quickly, "But the fairies' servants didn't find her either. They aren't sure that someone really entered here. It should be that the fairies made a cautious search order based on changes in the outside world."

Before Lu Mian could raise a new question, Safali's face twisted again.

She turned her body directly, left the doorway of Room 207, and went upstairs.

It could be seen that she couldn't influence the tenants "inside" to sense the outside world for much longer.

Gabriel's state was also getting worse and worse. He walked slowly toward the corridor outside.

"Is there a boundary here?" Lu Mian asked last.

Gabriel nodded, his gaze becoming more and more empty:

"Only Market Avenue and the area around it are real.

"The surroundings are dark and deep void, with invisible barriers."

Barrier... Lu Mian repeated this word in his heart, looking at Gabriel helping him close the door without any expression change, listening to his footsteps returning to the third floor.

The word "barrier" made Lu Mian associate some things the "Magician" lady had mentioned before:

Outside the world they lived in, there was a layer of barrier, blocking the invasion of evil gods from outside the domain.

Although the "barrier" Gabriel said was more of a description and might not be equivalent to the "barrier" in the "Magician" lady's words, since it was the evil god believers who were plotting major events now, Lu Mian couldn't ignore the possibility that this barrier and that barrier had a certain connection.

Lu Mian withdrew his gaze from the doorway, knowing that the time left for him might not be too much:

The degree of contamination of Safali and Gabriel would increase with the passage of time, making them less and less able to control themselves. Once they were completely alienated, they would definitely not help Lu Mian and Jenna hide anymore and would inevitably report to the fairies.

"Now the most important are two problems. One is how to establish contact with the outside world, or how to leave here, and the other is to find Jenna." Lu Mian concentrated his spirit, trying his best to exert the thinking ability of an "Intriguer."

Regarding the first problem, especially how to establish contact with the outside world, he quickly had eight or nine plans:

One is to fully trigger the aura of the "Blood Emperor" on his right hand to see if it can break through the obstacles of this abnormal world and "shake" the real Trier, letting all the demigods of this metropolis cast their gazes here;

Two is to set up a ceremony to pray for gifts, seeing if the natural triggering of the seal can bypass the interference of "Fu Sheng Xuan Huang Tian Zun" and pass the information here to Mr. "Fool";

Three is to see if the spiritual and physical connection between Mr. K's finger and his body still exists;

Four is to try to summon the "Magician" lady's messenger;

Five is to try to summon Lady "Hela's" messenger;

Six is to recite the incantation to enter the gathering place of the "Curly-Haired Baboons Research Society," which was the palace of the "Kingdom of Night," to see if it can play a role in this situation without applying in advance;

Seven is to find the fake Franca of this world, see if she has that ancient silver mirror obtained from underground, and use the special nature of the ancient mirror to leave;

Eight is to create some movement, attract one or two fairies, and catch them;

Nine is...

And before trying so many plans, Lu Mian needed to find Jenna, because every plan might let the fairies detect it and attract their gaze.

How should he find Jenna? Lu Mian tried to substitute himself into Jenna, assuming he was such an inexperienced "Witch" who had accidentally entered this strange world where the "Hostel" was suspected to be:

"Jenna should have also seen Gabriel and wouldn't risk entering the fake Golden Rooster Hotel in a short time...

"She can 'Invisibilize,' hide in the shadows, and usually has the patience to observe. It's not hard to discover the strangeness of pedestrians and peddlers...

"In this situation, if I were her, what would I do?

"Well, search for the boundary of this place... see if churches and other buildings with divine protection have also been replicated. If so, what do they look like inside, who do they believe in... collect the differences between this place and the real Market District, seeing if I can find clues to leave from it... And this needs to start from determining if there is a fake self...

"The fairies' servants just did a search..."

Lu Mian's train of thought gradually became clear. He returned to the desk, lifted the curtains slightly, and looked outside.

He waited until the fairies' servants, those blurry figures emitting faint light with dull and empty expressions, finished the search of this area and disappeared into mid-air, before taking out the silver-white "Lie" ear clip and wearing it on his left ear.

He turned into Mrs. Fels quickly, going downstairs in the posture of checking the situation of every room.

Immediately after, he turned into a peddler who was far away from here, passed by Mrs. Fels, and left the Golden Rooster Hotel.

This was his home field. Although it was a replica or belonged to a reflection, it didn't prevent him from having long mastered the environmental details of this area and those figures who often appeared.

Lu Mian didn't rush to White Coat Street, first circled to Nightingale Street, and entered his safe house.

As soon as he opened the door, his brows frowned slightly.

The various traps he set here only had the one at the door left, which was also the simplest one.

Lu Mian's gaze then

Of the various traps he had set here, only the one at the entrance remained, which was also the simplest one.

Lu Mian's gaze immediately swept across the room, not seeing the ritual furs and used cowhide and dog skin that were placed here in the real world.

"It doesn't strictly correspond..." he muttered silently to himself.

He felt more and more that this place and the real Market District were mainly similar on the surface, especially in rooms protected by traps like this one, where various details did not match up.

"This is like just doing an external observation and a restoration of key rooms... This is like, this is like..." Lu Mian's pupils suddenly dilated, and he had an inspiration.

This is like painting!

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3 Fake White Coat Street, Apartment 601.

After Yu Jianna held the lucky gold coin and briefly prayed to Mr. "Fool," a thin gray fog appeared before her eyes, but it vanished immediately.

"It, it really is effective..." Yu Jianna whispered, stuttering slightly.

That lucky gold coin really was lucky enough!

Yu Jianna did not receive any revelation, so she had to patiently continue to play the fake version of herself, repeating the act of tidying the room and wiping the coffee table over and over again.

Time in this world seemed not to have passed much; the sun high in the sky remained in that position, not having moved half an inch.

Suddenly, Yu Jianna heard the sound of a door opening and subconsciously looked over, while the fake Fu Lan Ka had no reaction, still doing those original things.

Yu Jianna's gaze collided with Lu Mian, whose hair was black-streaked gold; she instinctively withdrew her gaze, reflexively entering a state of disguise, striving to let her face reveal a bit of emptiness.

She was not sure if the Xia Er who had come was real or fake.

The next second, she heard a familiar voice with obvious sarcasm:

"You really are here; you can only think of coming here."

(End of chapter)