Chapter 567: Possible Breakthrough

Franca was infected by Lu Mian's words and echoed with quite a bit of anticipation:

"Then we will have grabbed the fox's tail. By then, we'll summon good helpers and strive to take out a few more core members of 'April Fools'!"

As she spoke, she actually started grinding her teeth.

Lu Mian and Franca made all kinds of guesses and inferences about the role played and the effect exerted by "Ultraman" in last year's prank, but none of them made them feel enlightened or that they had grasped the key.

"Phew, still lacking some important puzzle pieces," Franca exhaled and said, "You see if you can fish out more fish."

She had to return to Trier.

Lu Mian said "en" and asked thoughtfully:

"How is your search for the descendants of the Tamara family going?"

"Still no harvest, but Lady 'Judgment' plans to report this matter to other Major Arcana cards, hoping they can also help keep an eye out," Franca briefly explained the situation on her side.

Lu Mian looked at her face and said:

"I have a direction for investigation."

"What?" Franca's spirits lifted.

The corners of Lu Mian's lips curled up bit by bit:

"Check other members of the Demoness Sect in Trier.

"Since some members of the Tamara family have close ties with the Demoness Sect, and may even have jointly formed a secret organization, the 'Wisdom Society,' it is entirely possible that there are people among them who directly joined the Demoness Sect.

"And, isn't the task Lady 'Judgment' gave you to mix into the Demoness Sect and figure out the current state and problems of the 'Primordial Demoness'? You don't investigate other Demonesses, don't obtain information from their mouths, and wait until you've mixed into a powerhouse of the level of 'Red Demoness' before starting? By then, where will there be so many 'Hunter' Beyonder characteristics of Angel level to help you change back to your original gender?"

"Why is it 'Red Demoness'?" Franca's instinctive concern was actually this question.

Lu Mian smiled:

"Have you forgotten your nickname, Lady 'Red Boots'!"

Franca smiled awkwardly:

"Isn't that to shape the character's features, so that when running away, I can easily change it and form a significant difference from the description on the wanted poster?

"Cough, wouldn't it be too dangerous to investigate other Demonesses under the nose of the 'Black Demoness'?"

Lu Mian raised his eyebrows and smiled meaningfully:

"What was the investigation of the Tamara family for?"

"To investigate Mirror People," Franca answered subconsciously.

Lu Mian asked again:

"Who gave the task of investigating Mirror People?"

"It was the 'Black Demoness'..." Franca immediately closed her mouth.

She then muttered to herself:

"However, I still have to grasp the degree well and forge the source of the information, otherwise, I will still be suspected."

Lu Mian didn't say anything more, grabbed Franca's shoulder, and intended to send her back to Trier.

Franca looked at the window with curtains drawn and said eagerly:

"Remember to find me for the matter of visiting the combat nuns later."

She arrived in Sangtagang in the afternoon and had spent a long time outside using the fake name "Chanem" she had taken and the appearance on Lu Mian's fake identity certificate. Relying on fluent Highland language, she quickly figured out the local folk customs and the style of the combat nuns here.

Lu Mian sneered:

"Don't even think about it, you can't make them pregnant."

Franca retorted unconvinced:

"Theoretically speaking, it's not impossible, it's just quite dangerous. Think about Madame Pualis."

Lu Mian was speechless.

"Besides, life isn't just about having children..." Franca continued to look for reasons.

Lu Mian exhaled silently and activated the black mark on his right shoulder.

He took Franca, who was still talking, and disappeared from the master bedroom of the suite.

Not long after, Lu Mian returned to the position where he had left.

After mocking Franca with a shake of his head, he sat on the backrest chair again.

It must be said that being able to communicate with a friend for a while without any defenses, saying whatever comes to mind, and joking whenever one wants, was still very helpful for soothing the emotions accumulated in his heart.

Lu Mian, whose state had relaxed again, leaned against the backrest and sorted out the information on the Sea-Praying Ceremony and the statements of various parties in his mind, trying to find details that might reveal the traces of "Ultraman's" existence from within, and confirming if there were any problems he had ignored.

As a "Conspirator," Lu Mian didn't need to list key points on paper or rely on his eyes for reminders. All the information was distributed in his mind at the same time, forming a huge spider web, slowly rotating and changing.

After a while, he sat up straight abruptly.

He had found a breakthrough that might reveal the essence of the Sea-Praying Ceremony.

Lu Mian stood up, walked out of the master bedroom, and saw Ludwig eating a potato and egg pancake that was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside at the dining table on one side of the living room.

He sat opposite this little boy and smiled, taking out the spiritual material that didn't contain Beyonder characteristics: the compound eye of a mutated black spider.

With a 'shua', Ludwig raised his head and looked at Lu Mian.

"Can you eat this thing?" Lu Mian tossed the black compound eye.

Ludwig nodded heavily:

"Can."

Lu Mian was curious for a moment and took out the "Spectator Glasses":

"Can you eat this?"

"Not yet," Ludwig answered honestly.

Not yet, which means, maybe in the future? Lu Mian put away the "Spectator Glasses" and placed the mutated black spider's compound eye on the dining table in front of him:

"I want to ask you to translate a sentence. If you can give me the correct answer, then it will be your food."

Gulu, Ludwig swallowed his saliva and said:

"Good."

Lu Mian recalled the strange language Lato Giallo had spoken and made a gibberish sound.

At the end, he said:

"That's about it."

Ludwig shook his head with a disappointed face:

"Don't understand."

He paused and said:

"But it seems I've heard it somewhere, a bit familiar."

Was this when the mental body was sealed, and most memories and knowledge were sealed? Lu Mian put the mutated black spider's compound eye back into the "Traveler's Bag" under Ludwig's reluctant gaze.

Ludwig stuffed a mouthful of potato and egg pancake and muttered vaguely:

"If you can find a creature that understands this language for me to eat, then I can help you translate."

This is... Lu Mian asked with a bit of surprise:

"Eating something can grasp some kind of ability or some knowledge of it?"

"There is a maintenance time, and it also depends on the specific situation," Ludwig explained simply, without giving a detailed explanation.

Lu Mian nodded thoughtfully:

"You can say information about the Batin black worm because you ate that kind of worm for a period of time before?"

"En," Ludwig nodded, "It wanted to sneak attack me, it waited for a long time."

So that's how it is. I thought you had recovered part of your memory and knowledge... Sure enough, paralyzing attacks won't just target Lu Jianuo; after all, this could turn into a trap at any time... Lu Mian stood up, left the dining table, and walked back to the master bedroom under Ludwig's pitiful gaze.

He had nowhere to find a creature that understood that "Language of the Sea" for Ludwig; people from the Fishery Society couldn't even confirm if the meaning they interpreted was correct.

After entering the master bedroom and closing the door, Lu Mian held the attitude of asking wouldn't lose anything, lowered his voice and said:

"Termiboros, do you understand that language? Do you know what that sentence really means?"

Termiboros's magnificent, layered voice rang out, ringing in Lu Mian's ears:

"Anyway, it doesn't mean 'marry the sea as proof of conquest'."

After saying this, Termiboros returned to silence, completely without the intention of explaining the true meaning to Lu Mian.

Damn, you'd be better off not answering! You confirmed my guess but won't say the real content! Hehe, could you just be pretending to understand? Lu Mian cursed internally, feeling that this angel of fate, Termiboros, was becoming less direct and straightforward than before, and didn't understand the art of speaking.

He was gradually learning how to piss people off!

Lu Mian calmed his mood, sat back on the backrest chair, spread out letter paper, and began to write a letter to Lady "Magician."

With the attitude of recording travel observations, he told her everything he saw and heard in Sangtagang, and at the end, he wrote down the words that didn't know what language they belonged to by piecing together the pronunciation, and gave the meaning the Fishery Society thought—"Oh sea, I will marry you as a symbol of my conquest of you," and then made a request:

"Lady, have you seen this kind of language? Do you know its true meaning?"

After folding the letter paper, Lu Mian set up a ritual and summoned the "Doll" messenger.

After the "Doll" messenger wearing a pale golden small dress walked out from the candle flame, she looked left and right and said aggressively:

"Don't let that dirty kid get close to me!"

"He is eating outside and won't come in without my permission." For some reason, Lu Mian heard a hint of hidden fear in the "Doll" messenger's aggressive words.

The "Doll" messenger nodded with satisfaction:

"You have to manage it!

"If it doesn't listen, don't give it food!"

Using 'it' to refer to him... Lu Mian smiled and said:

"If I don't give him food, there might be even more terrifying things happening."

The "Doll" messenger was silent for a moment and said:

"Then give it more to eat!"

After saying this, this doll-like messenger took the letter paper folded into a square and quickly shrank back into the candle flame.

Lu Mian ended the ritual, extinguished the candle flame, looked at the entrance of the master bedroom, and muttered to himself silently:

"It really is a dangerous creature that has been sealed..."

He then took out the gold-cased pocket watch obtained from the Breeze Ballroom, pressed it open with a 'pa', and took a look.

His whole person suddenly turned into a shadow and merged into the darkness.

He still had something to do tonight.

…………

Port District, the top floor of that castle-like building of the Fishery Society.

When Lu Mian arrived at the place resembling a tower, he saw Lato Giallo in formal attire waiting there.

"Are you on duty tonight?" Lu Mian pressed the golden straw hat on his head and asked as if chatting with a friend.

Lato, this middle-aged man, sighed and said:

"Originally not, but since you are coming over, then it is. We can't let an old man like the president come, right?"

Lu Mian didn't say anything more, pinched out one after another crimson-near-white fireballs with delayed explosions, and threw them into different corners of the tower.

After completing this matter, he waved to Lato Giallo and returned to the shadows.

Lato walked to the entrance of the tower and clenched his fists in fear.

Only thirty seconds passed, and those crimson-near-white fireballs exploded simultaneously.

Boom!

The entire tower was swallowed by the rising fire, and Lato at the entrance was blown away by the shockwave.

A large number of crystal-bright scales had already appeared on his body surface to reduce the damage.

Boom!

In less than half an hour, everyone in Sangtagang who was well-informed knew one thing:

The Fishery Society had been blown up!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 568 =====