Chapter 724: He Knows

In the basement of 19 Sijie, Lu Mi met Mr. K.

If he hadn't witnessed the other party turn into flesh and blood to shroud Mo Lan Avigny with his own eyes, and subsequently suffer the holy light damage of the "Punishers," he wouldn't have dared to believe that Mr. K, who was currently full of aura, wearing a black hood, and showing no abnormalities, had infiltrated the mansion of the Minister of Industry of the Intis Republic and completed an assassination not long ago.

"You returned from the Southern Continent?" Mr. K's voice was as low and hoarse as ever.

He was not sitting on that red armchair but standing in the shadows directly in front of Lu Mi—that was formed by the projection of the crystal chandelier.

Lu Mi did not hide it and said with a smile:

"Returned to do a friend a favor, and will leave afterward. You know, I can 'teleport'."

Mr. K's huge hood swayed gently, as if nodding.

He said with a hint of gratification:

"Remembering to come here to praise the Lord's radiance after returning to Trier proves that I didn't misjudge you."

Lu Mi, who had just finished the whole prayer process with Mr. K, felt a sense of guilt and shame.

He said straightforwardly:

"I saw you assassinating Mo Lan Avigny."

Mr. K's gaze hidden under the hood suddenly became like substance, and the shadows around him floated slightly.

After a few seconds, this "Aurora Order" envoy asked in a hoarse voice:

"You were at the scene?"

Lu Mi answered in a relaxed state:

"Yes, although your way of assassinating Mo Lan Avigny had the typical characteristics of a 'Rose Bishop' and was suspected of using 'Herding' to complete the 'teleportation,' even if I only obtained the corresponding intelligence from the 'Punishers,' it wouldn't be hard to guess it was you. But I must admit, I was indeed at the scene at the time."

"Where were you hiding?" Mr. K asked.

Lu Mi answered with an obvious smile:

"In that mirror, the mirror Mo Lan Avigny escaped into."

Hearing this, Mr. K's black robe moved without wind, as if countless flesh and blood were cheering underneath.

He did not hide his excitement:

"And now? Did you capture Mo Lan Avigny?"

"Yes." Lu Mi nodded solemnly.

"Hahaha! Hahaha!" Mr. K leaned back, revealing his thin chin, and laughed wildly in a state of extreme madness.

He laughed until Lu Mi's ears buzzed, laughed until the light and shadows in the basement floated, and the smell of blood permeated out.

Finally, Mr. K stopped laughing and said with extreme fanaticism:

"It really is the Lord's arrangement; piety really is the only way out!"

He began to draw a cross on his chest:

"Praise You, praise You for creating everything, praise You for bearing the sins of the world!"

Lu Mi also followed in praising the "True Creator" believed in by the "Aurora Order."

Mr. K sighed with a smile:

"I originally planned to assassinate Mo Lan Avigny in these few days and hadn't decided which day it would be. As a result, when I saw Mo Lan Avigny appear at the window this evening, gazing at the scenery in the distance, I found that his emotions and state were a bit wrong.

"I was worried that an accident would happen, so I rushed to start the action and harvested a failure.

"I was just planning to repent to the Lord and bear the sins I should bear when you came and told me you had captured Mo Lan Avigny.

"What does this explain?

"It explains that the Lord had already arranged everything; we only need to pray piously, act piously, and do things piously, without considering anything else.

"As long as one is pious, failure will be the precursor to success; without piety, even if one succeeds, it is only a success leading to a failed ending."

Every time he communicated with Mr. K before, Lu Mi would have a feeling that the two sides were not speaking the same language—not that he couldn't understand, but that he couldn't understand and fathom that fanatical state from the bottom of his heart.

But this time, he was suddenly startled, his body feeling cold:

The "Black Box Trading" I initiated through the "Black Box of the Powerful," wouldn't it have connected to the Lord believed in by the "Aurora Order" after being transferred?

So, that's why Mo Lan Avigny suddenly had the idea of taking the risk to leave through the mirror in the study, why he specifically went to the study to observe the environment, while pretending to read a book, while weighing the risks...

So, after I propelled Mo Lan Avigny's fate to change, Mr. K came to the study and assassinated him in a rush, forcing Mo Lan Avigny to have to escape into the nearest mirror, which was the full-length mirror we were hiding in...

During the "Black Box Trading," what we paid was the "Blood Gold" ring, which was evolved from the Beyonder characteristic corresponding to the "Rose Bishop," Sequence 6 of the "Secrets Supplicant" pathway...

Lu Mi decided to share his feelings with Mr. K, but he hid his own fear, hid the role played by the "Propel Fate" ability, and pushed all the corresponding changes to the "Black Box of the Powerful."

Mr. K, who had laughed wildly, didn't lose his composure again and said in a solemn and fanatical tone:

"The Lord is watching, the Lord is listening, the Lord knows."

Lu Mi had heard similar words from Lady "Magician," but at the time, he didn't have a very definite feeling, not even worrying much—after all, worrying was useless—but now, every hair on his body stood up, and a chill went straight from his tailbone to his brain.

He felt that there were eyes watching him in every shadow around him.

The more he experienced and the more knowledge he mastered, the more clearly he could feel the terror and oppression brought by those three short sentences.

After calming down for a few seconds, Lu Mi praised the "True Creator" again and then asked a question:

"Mr. K, why did you want to assassinate Mo Lan Avigny?

"My friend and I dealt with him because the real Mo Lan Avigny is already dead, and the one active now is a 'Mirror Person.' What about you?"

"'Mirror Person'? No wonder he has 'Mirror Substitute.' It was precisely because I didn't anticipate this point that the assassination failed." Mr. K sighed with a sudden realization.

He paced back and forth a few times and said to Lu Mi:

"In the past few months, some of the cases that occurred in Intis all pointed to an organization called the 'Truth Sect.' They used fallen personnel from various evil god sects and regular organizations to complete some things, for example, a descendant of Pallez mysteriously disappeared, for example, several pages of Roselle's diary that were strictly guarded were strangely lost."

Pallez? One of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse of Emperor Roselle? A descendant of his mysteriously disappeared? Thinking of this, Lu Mi's eyelids suddenly jumped:

Ye Busi Latta had said that the three goals of the "Truth Sect" were to find clues to the Fallen Heaven, find the last mausoleum of Emperor Roselle, and find the "0-05" Wishing Lamp.

Among them, the seal of the Fourth Epoch Trier had just been opened once, and in a short period of time, Intis's official organizations shouldn't have any more lapses, while "0-05" was in the hands of Emperor Roselle's eldest daughter, Bernadette. The "Truth Sect" admitted that they couldn't deal with the leader of the "Element Dawn" for the time being and wanted to obtain more grace before trying.

In other words, two of the three goals required long-term planning by the "Truth Sect," and only for the clues to Emperor Roselle's last mausoleum, Ye Busi said he didn't have relevant clues himself, and as for whether the "Supervisor" had them, he didn't know.

Combined with Mr. K's account just now, Lu Mi had a bad premonition:

The "Truth Sect" wouldn't have already grasped important clues to Emperor Roselle's last mausoleum, would they?

Mr. K continued:

"We are investigating these things, and the 'Element Dawn' is also tracking these things.

"We recently discovered that Mo Lan Avigny's figure appeared in some of the cases, and he seems to be a very important figure in the 'Truth Sect'."

"Then why did you choose to assassinate him instead of finding a way to capture him?" Lu Mi felt that Mr. K's previous action was aimed at killing Mo Lan Avigny.

Mr. K laughed hoarsely:

"Killing is simpler than capturing, and after Mo Lan Avigny dies, anomalies will inevitably appear. The official Beyonders at the scene will definitely find a way to perform spirit mediumship on him. At that time, the authorities will follow up and track the 'Truth Sect,' preventing their plans from becoming reality.

"Isn't this our goal?

"Moreover, we can also hide in the dark and find the people of the 'Truth Sect' according to the direction of the official actions."

You, this envoy of the "Aurora Order," have also learned to "report" and learned to use the authorities? Lu Mi found it funny.

If it weren't for obtaining more intelligence on "Mirror People," he and Seeing Fu Lan Ka and the others wouldn't actually need to be so troublesome, just forcing Mo Lan Avigny to show anomalies would be enough.

Lu Mi asked Mr. K a few more detailed questions and felt more and more that the "Truth Sect" was quite close to the location of Emperor Roselle's last mausoleum.

He didn't delay anymore, indicating that he had to go back quickly to interrogate Mo Lan Avigny to avoid accidents.

"Do you need my help?" Mr. K asked.

Lu Mi answered with a smile:

"Not for the time being; we have a 'Hypnotist,' we have the truth serum of the 'Bliss Society,' and we have a Demoness who is good at spirit mediumship."

He didn't say that he also had abilities related to "Fate Hunter."

—In the process of "Hunting Fate," Lu Mi could "see" all of Mo Lan Avigny's past and present fate, as well as most of the fate tributaries, but the time maintained was limited and could only be used to extract the most critical piece of information.

"Alright, find me anytime if you need anything." Mr. K sized Lu Mi up with an appreciative gaze.

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After "teleporting" back to the safe house from a quiet place, Lu Mi looked around and said to Seeing Fu Lan Ka:

"Use the ability of the 'Mirror Buckle' to take us back to that quarry cave underground."

This was to avoid accidents that would affect this block.

And Lu Mi had already "teleported" many times today, had propelled the change in Mo Lan Avigny's fate, and had been playing the "Hate Movement" all along, continuously launching weak-point attacks, consuming the same amount of spirituality, so much so that he only had enough spirituality left for seven or eight "teleports" and didn't have those he had accumulated in advance.

Under such circumstances, of course, one should use Beyonder items if one could.

Seeing Fu Lan Ka understood Lu Mi's state and didn't begrudge the number of times the "Mirror Buckle" could be used, only requesting that Lu Mi hold the giant dog and not let it touch her.

She then let the glass-like button on the cuff of her lady's shirt reveal a faint light, took Lu Mi and the others who were grabbing her shoulders and arms, entered the mirror in the room, passed through the dim and void tunnel, and appeared in that quarry cave with a fixed entrance to the Mirror World.

Then, she took out the truth serum, threw it to Anthony Reid, and revealed a kind smile:

"Feed some to Mo Lan Avigny, and then have a good exchange with him."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 725 =====