Chapter 89: Venting (Asking for monthly tickets)

Aurora carried the tray with lamb chops toward the table, saying as she walked:

"I'm not sure if the command method can be adopted in that situation. After all, I'm not a 'Dancer' and don't have relevant occult knowledge, but trying it won't lose anything."

"Yeah." Lu Mian took over the work at the stove and said with a smile, "At most, it's just adding a wound and bleeding a bit; it will recover after a sleep. You say, what exactly is that 'Giant' with three heads on top of the 'Mountain'? What is its relationship with that hidden existence and the pollution in my body?"

Aurora put down the tray and turned around:

"Do you think too highly of your sister? I have neither encountered nor heard of such strange things."

Without waiting for Lu Mian to respond, she added thoughtfully:

"However, there are quite a few similar images in the myths and legends of my hometown, three heads and six arms, either god or demon..."

She then continued:

"And according to our speculation, the dream ruins are closely related to the pollution in your body, so the image of that 'Giant' can likely find some mapping from that hidden existence.

"You said that the honorific name or description of that existence is different from common ones; each paragraph contains three aspects and three forms of some kind of authority and symbol, so it's normal to correspond to three heads, just like the three-faced monster has faces representing the three stages of human life.

"As for why it has six arms and why it sits on top of the blood-colored 'Mountain', there is too little information, and I can't even guess.

"Hmm... you should focus on that circle of 'City Wall' for the time being; I feel that many useful clues can be found there."

"Okay." Lu Mian followed the technique his sister taught him, put the shredded potatoes into the pot, and stir-fried them with oil.

Aurora ended the topic related to the dream ruins and said to Lu Mian:

"When you were sleeping this afternoon, I thought about it seriously and plan to invite those three outsiders to live in our house."

"Why?" Lu Mian was very puzzled.

Aurora looked at her younger brother's busy back and sighed softly:

"We previously used the logic of normal people to speculate on the reactions of the parish priest and the others, but don't forget that a portion of that group has already accepted the 'Gift'. From another perspective, this means they have suffered pollution.

"According to that mysterious lady, the influence brought by the 'Gift' mainly concentrates on the body and mind. In other words, besides gaining abilities, personality will also undergo certain alienation, and in a situation where one cannot withstand it, the more 'Gifts' one has, the more obvious and serious this alienation will be."

"Right." Lu Mian recalled the words of that mysterious lady.

She said that if the body couldn't withstand such a large "Gift" at once, the person would either become a monster, become a puppet of that existence, or alienate into another kind of person, treating things they once cherished very cold-bloodedly.

Aurora made a summary:

"Therefore, Pierre Berry and the others who accepted the 'Gift' early have a significant possibility of ignoring the overall situation of the parish priest and taking crazy revenge.

"The five of us living together and helping each other can effectively increase our chances of surviving until the twelfth night."

Lu Mian thought for a moment and agreed with his sister's proposal.

He turned to raise a very realistic question:

"Then where will they live, the first-floor living room area?"

"Not on the same floor, the effect of helping each other won't be that good." Aurora glanced at her brother who was bringing over the stir-fried shredded potatoes, "You move to my room, leave your bedroom and the second-floor study to those three outsiders, and let them distribute it themselves."

"Ah?" Lu Mian didn't expect his sister to make such an arrangement, "I sleep in the same bed as you?"

Seeing his reaction, Aurora laughed:

"What's wrong with this? People of the jianghu don't care about small details!"

"Ah?" Lu Mian didn't understand the latter part of his sister's sentence.

Aurora chuckled:

"I mean, it's already this kind of situation and circumstance, don't dwell on and haggle over those small problems anymore.

"Do you want to squeeze into a bed with Ryan and Valentine, or should I sleep with Lyra?"

"Indeed, I still can't fully trust them." Lu Mian nodded.

Those three official investigators were only cooperating with the two siblings because they were also trapped in the loop. Who knew if they would take the opportunity of sleeping together to move some hands and feet secretly, making it convenient to arrest two wild extraordinarys after the loop was lifted.

Aurora then smiled:

"If they also don't trust us and choose to squeeze into one room, you can also sleep in the other one."

"It's still better to be in one room." Lu Mian felt that being separated by a wall made it easy to be defeated one by one.

Aurora didn't say anything more, only adding one sentence:

"Remind me tomorrow to replenish food reserves. After Lent, the people in the village will become increasingly strange. We might have to hold our ground here or hide in the nearest high-mountain pasture."

Then, she invited her brother to have dinner.

When the sunset hadn't completely gone down, Lu Mian left the semi-underground two-story building, preparing to invite Ryan and the others to move to his house.

Seeing the old tavern in sight, Lu Mian encountered several acquaintances.

Pons Béné was leading three thugs walking on the main road in the village.

Almost at the same time, this black-haired, blue-eyed, sturdy-bodied thug also saw Lu Mian.

His legs couldn't help but clamp together, seemingly recalling some kind of terrible pain.

Looking at Lu Mian not far away, Pons Béné fell into a struggle.

He both wanted to take revenge and was afraid of encountering the same thing as last time, being defeated one by one.

While Pons Béné was hesitating, Lu Mian had already revealed a brilliant smile:

"Yo, isn't this my rebellious son?"

He strode toward the thug who drowned Raymond and his three thugs, putting on a posture of wanting to gang up on them.

Seeing this, Pons Béné didn't hesitate anymore and gave a wink to the three thugs beside him, signaling them to hurry up and top.

Those three thugs immediately ran toward Lu Mian, taking out short sticks, iron bars, and other things respectively.

Lu Mian also accelerated his speed.

Seeing that he was about to collide with those three thugs, he suddenly jumped up, jumping toward one of the enemies.

This unconventional choice caused all the attacks of those three thugs to miss.

Lu Mian took the opportunity to grab the target's shoulder and forcibly turned around in mid-air.

At this time, his waist and back seemed to have become a highly flexible spring, helping him forcibly lift that enemy and complete the power storage for the subsequent roll.

In the agile and exaggerated front flip, Lu Mian threw the enemy directly out and smashed him to the ground.

*Bang! * The thug was smashed until his eyes went dark, his whole body was in pain, and he couldn't climb up for a while.

And at this time, Lu Mian landed behind the other two, seven or eight steps away from Pons Béné.

He leaned his body slightly and rushed toward that thug. While Pons Béné was dodging in a panic, he shouted loudly:

"Quick, quick! Quick, stop him!"

The remaining two thugs hurriedly turned their bodies and chased after Lu Mian. Pons Béné also adjusted his mentality and fiercely greeted this bastard kid, preparing to drag him down and complete the encirclement.

Just when those two thugs were about to catch up to Lu Mian's back, Lu Mian, who had deliberately not run with full force, suddenly braked and squatted down.

Amidst the *screeching* friction, the two thugs not only failed to hit the target's back but, because they couldn't stop in time, were tripped by him and lost their balance, falling in front of Pons Béné, falling into a ball with that thug.

Lu Mian pounced like a tiger, grabbed the necks of the two thugs, lifted their bodies, and smashed their heads toward the other's forehead.

*Bang! *

The foreheads of those two thugs instantly swelled red, and they fainted on the spot.

Immediately after, Lu Mian threw away the burden, used force under his feet, his body half-turned, and slid behind Pons who had just climbed up.

He then grabbed both of the other's arms and folded them backward fiercely.

The sound of *crack* rang out, and Pons Béné let out an extremely painful scream.

"How is it, is it very refreshing?" Lu Mian asked Pons Béné, who was curled up, while smiling, and lifted this guy, walking toward the outside of the village.

Not long after, he arrived by the river, grabbed Pons Béné's back of the head, and forcibly pressed him into the water.

*Gurgle, gurgle* bubbles emerged for a while. Lu Mian lifted Pons Béné's head, turned his face to the side, and asked with a smile:

"Is it very refreshing to bully others?"

Pons Béné's face was full of water droplets, his expression was extremely painful, and a lot of snot and saliva flowed out; he couldn't answer at all.

"Is it very refreshing?" Lu Mian's voice suddenly became louder. He grabbed the thug's head and *bang* smashed his forehead into the water, smashing it onto the pebbles.

Bright red blood drifted in the water. Pons Béné struggled with his legs, but couldn't lift his head.

*Gurgle, gurgle*, as time passed, his struggle became smaller and smaller.

Only then did Lu Mian lift him up and stretch out his left hand to pat his face:

"I'm asking you, is it very refreshing to bully people?"

Pons Béné's eyes were full of fear, not knowing how to answer.

Just at this time, a figure walked to the riverside; it was the shepherd Pierre Berry wearing a hooded long coat.

He glanced at the miserable-looking Pons Béné and said to Lu Mian in a gentle tone:

"We are all from the same village, it's about enough to reach this degree.

"Do you still want to kill him?"

Lu Mian immediately let go of the palm grabbing Pons Béné's back of the head, stood up, and said to Pierre Berry with a smile:

"Listen to you.

"Remember to tell this son of a sow not to bully people anymore in the future."

Without waiting for Pierre Berry to respond, he passed this shepherd and walked toward the village.

Old tavern second floor, in Ryan's room.

Lu Mian told the three official investigators about his sister's idea.

After looking at Lyra and Valentine respectively, Ryan nodded:

"A very great proposal. In this kind of scenario, scattering means power isn't concentrated enough, and it's easy to be targeted separately.

"We can move to your house now."

On the way to Lu Mian and Aurora's house with their luggage, Lyra asked Lu Mian *clinking and clanking*:

"What arrangements do you have for that tomb?"

"Arrangements?" Lu Mian sneered, "Do you think that's something we can handle?"

"It seems you are still relatively cautious, then I'm relieved." Lyra said with a smile.

Ryan added a sentence for her:

"Our meaning is, if the things inside the tomb really involve the key to the loop, then they will definitely have a performance at the twelfth night ritual. And if they have nothing to do with the source of the loop, then why should we risk exploring it?"

"Simply put, wait patiently for the twelfth night?" Lu Mian asked back with an epiphany.

PS: Asking for monthly tickets~

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