Chapter 122: Before and After

Lumian quickly looked around, only to see a few gas street lamps and the still burning red flames, the distance was crowded with people, no one dared to approach, and the front part was still unable to open its eyes because of the stimulation of the "sun".

In such a scene, neither the man suspected of being "Loki" nor the "passerby" singing an aria could be found.

"The sow raised it, and this is gone?" Lumian was anxious and angry, and couldn't help but curse.

This hasn't really fought each other yet, and it's gone?

Hit and disengage immediately?

", are you a rat? Not only does it slip without leaving your hands, but as soon as there is a wind and grass, you can't see the figure!" As Franca drew closer to Lumian, she scolded in a strange, hard-translated word, "The Extraordinaire of the 'Fortune Teller' and 'Thief' paths are interchangeable adjacent paths, and the style is too similar, isn't it?"

This is mainly reflected in the fact that you can't hit the body and can't grasp the main one.

The difference is that the "Diviner" path starts in Sequence 7, while the "Thief" path may have to wait until the door to divinity is opened and promoted to Sequence 4.

Lumian's mind raced as he figured out how to find Loki and his secret puppet.

They may have left, or they may still be lurking in the streets of the evening!

"Secret Puppet......

"Yes, the aria-singing puppet took my 'humming technique' and was not affected, which means that he is most likely dead, and there is no active, awake spirit......

"The experience of almost being transformed into a puppet just now indirectly confirms this......

"Since the secret puppet is the dead, then he should not have the fate of the living, there is no so-called fortune, and even if there is, it will be fixed in darkness, which represents death......

"I can't find 'Loki' with the ability of 'Faceling', you can start with his secret puppet!"

Thinking of this, Lumian concentrated his mind and carefully observed the fortunes of those citizens ten or twenty meters away.

He swept it away, and crossed directly with everything that had its own destiny and was not pitch black.

After a quick glance, Lumian found no target for the suspected secret puppet.

He sighed slowly, in disappointment.

"Let's get out of here first, the firefighters who put out the fire are coming soon, and the official extraordinary person should be on the way." Franka reminded Lumian.

Lumian withdrew his gaze and turned away from the street before the crimson flames were extinguished.

He planned to go around in a half circle and return to the Golden Rooster Hotel, hand over the defrauded money he had to get back from the "different" dance hall to the bankrupt merchant Fitz, and take his share in the agreed proportion.

After walking a dozen steps, Lumian's mind suddenly conjured up Mr. Ruhr, who had died of an infected disease, and Mrs. Michel, who had hanged herself while singing the song of the City of Joy.

He was worried that he would bring the calamity involving supernatural power to the Golden Rooster Hotel and bring it to the client, Fitz.

In two of his books, Auroel portrayed the kind of very bad and perverted criminals, who liked to kill the people who were important to them, and let him watch the tragic death of his friends one after another.

As the leader of "April Fool's Day", "Loki" likes to play with other people's minds the most, and has no psychological barriers to trapping his companions, let alone killing innocent people he has never met before, so he has a high probability of starting with Lumian's acquaintances after the first attack, using their deaths to defeat the target's spirit, and secretly watching him lose his mind and become crazy, and then use this opportunity to harvest his life.

Although it was only a possibility, Lumien didn't want to take the risk, so he stopped and turned to Market Boulevard.

"What's wrong?" Franka asked, confused.

Lumian had calmed down and said with a smile, "Go to the Breeze Ballroom for a drink."

Those gang members who are in constant contact with themselves are dead when they die, and the gangsters must have such an awareness!

Franka was stunned for a moment, and roughly understood Lumian's concern:

Because he caught a big fish but failed to catch it, "Loki" obviously has the true appearance of the two, he can always hide in the shadows, waiting for the right opportunity to come, and Lumian and herself unless they give up their current identities and make comprehensive use of anti-divination and anti-tracking abilities to survive in another place, otherwise they will fall into a state of random conjecture that sees the rats around them and thinks it will attack them.

Compared with the Golden Rooster Hotel, which is mixed, the second floor of the Breeze Ballroom is relatively clean, which is more conducive to prevention.

Moreover, once a battle breaks out at the otherworldly level, it is always better to influence the gang members than ordinary people.

"I'll go back and change my clothes, too." Franka's subtext is that she also has to change her face and hide in the shadows so that "Loki" can't find it, so that she can avoid a possible attack.

In the same way, she would let Jane go back to live with her brother for a while, so as not to be affected.

In the face of such a strange and terrible enemy, the survivability of the "instigator" is still too weak.

Lumian patted Franka's "mirror double" hidden on the inside of his clothes with his right hand, telling the other party to always pay attention to each other's rough condition.

Franka nodded solemnly, indicating that she knew.

Breeze Ballroom, 2nd Floor Cafe.

Lumian sat in the innermost position away from the window and said to his bodyguard Sakota:

"You go to the Golden Rooster Hotel and call a bankrupt merchant named Fitz."

With such a relay, Fitz is more like a goal achieved with the help of the Savoyard Party, and with Charles. Dubois had no personal connections, and if "Rocky" really wanted to choose a victim, he would definitely choose from among the members of the Savoyard party affiliated with Lumien.

Lumian stroked the heavy satchel on his lap and waited for Fitz to arrive, thinking about "Loki".

With the loss of the "April Fool's" leader, he can only look for clues in certain phenomena in this matter.

And one of the details is the option that Lumian had preset before the operation:

"If 'Loki' was really fished, then why was it possible to rely on anti-tracking techniques last time to get rid of this 'April Fools' leader, but not this time?"

After leaving the "different" cabaret, Lumian deliberately completed the entire anti-tracking process as last time, and changed back to his original appearance, changed his clothes, modified his satchel, and waited until he re-crossed the old street and joined Franca, but no longer anti-tracking, in order to set up a comparison sample to find out the differences.

Otherwise, if he hadn't succeeded in catching the weird and difficult "Loki", wouldn't he have been "fishing" for nothing?

There's got to be something else!

This is a small trap hidden in a big trap.

"According to normal logic, since I was able to get rid of 'Loki' in the anti-tracking process last time, this time should be no exception, after all, I not only paid attention to the people and animals around me, but even the birds in the sky avoided it, even if there were really bugs that became the puppets of 'Loki', they would be thrown off because they couldn't keep up with my speed....

"So, either Franka was targeted early in the morning, or I was recognized by 'Loki' when I re-crossed the old street after doing the anti-tracking.

"Franca's anti-divination, far from the 'Alone' bar and the 'Different' cabaret, without even entering the Old Street, using non-occult means of observation, is unlikely to be revealed anytime soon, unless 'Loki' knew there would be such an observer in the first place......

"The most likely thing is that I was recognized when I walked through the old street, but how did he recognize him? Not only did I change back to my original appearance and change my clothes, but I also chose to pass by in a taxi carriage in order not to be suspected, which, according to Anthony, made my unaltered shoes invisible to outsiders, and also hid my habitual walking posture and body language....

"I even sprinkled some perfume to mask the original smell.....

"What are the traits in me that can't be changed that would allow 'Loki' to recognize me in a short period of time?"

Lumian compared the difference between before and after, and gradually came to some speculations:

"Either the 'Master of Secret Puppets' or one of his secret puppets can directly identify a person from the level of soul, consciousness, etc., or 'Loki' can discover the characteristics in me that are different from others, the angel of fate, the seal of Mr. 'Fool', or the breath of the 'Blood Emperor'?

"Although 'Lies' is also a 'soothsayer' approach, its sequence level corresponding to 'Loki' does not have an obvious and intuitively perceptible cohesion......"

The more Lumien thought about it, the more he felt that the reason was that "Loki" had a way to see through his disguise, but his tracking ability was limited, and he would be thrown off by targets who were on guard against strangers, animals, birds, and bugs, and could not directly divination.

Regardless of how "Loki" was able to figure it out, this is the one reason that best explains the contrast between the before and after.

For this reason, Lumian had a new idea.

He looked at the already dark night sky, and the corners of his mouth curled up invisibly.

After another quarter of an hour, the bankrupt merchant Fiz was taken to the café by Sakota.

Lumian motioned for Sakota to leave for now, and then said to Fitz:

"The money has been returned, how much do you think you can share?"

As he spoke, he poured the banknotes, gold, and ornaments on the table, glanced at them, and said:

"That's about 130,000 Filkin."

Fitz blurted out:

"60,000, no, 50,000, no, just give me 30,000 Feldin."

Lumian smiled, pulled out a few stacks of bound bills, and tossed them to Fitz:

"According to the previous agreement, the interest belongs to me, and I take 50% of the principal.

"Here's 50,000 Filkin."

Fitz took it in surprise and thanked him again and again.

Although he didn't get the full amount, 50,000 Felkin was enough for him to start a new and hopeful life.

The 50% principal plus interest reward is worth it!

Lumian was also delighted, and with the actions of the "Angel of Time" next to Mr. "Fool", he easily earned 50,000 Fairgold bills and 30,000 worth of gold.

You know, he worked so hard to raise gold before, and in the end it was only 75,000.

He seriously considered whether or not to buy some sacrifices in the corresponding realm, thanked Mr. "Fool", thanked the "Angel of Time"

After waiting for more than half an hour, Lumian entered the bedroom, also on the second floor, threw off his satchel, and used the "lie" to change his appearance again, like the dark-haired, brown-eyed version of Aurel, who favored men. “

He changed into a shirt, waistcoat, trousers, and leather boots, removed the "lie", transferred the "torture" gloves into his briefcase, and examined the situation outside the window.

After confirming that there were no humans, rats, or birds, Lumien pushed open the window and jumped down with a light gesture, as if he didn't know that "Loki" could directly recognize his disguise.