Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 369 Miracle
On Daisy's thin, pale face, black smoke was clearly visible swirling around her mouth and nose. Her vital signs had been suppressed to an extremely weak state, and she could not even breathe.

Everyone at the scene looked extremely flustered, including the pastor, the nuns, and the medical team.

The nun and Reverend Defoe standing nearby said almost in unison:

“Mr. Valrokan, please do not disturb the medical staff…”

...

But Milo completely ignored them. He gently took Daisy's small, thin hand and placed it in his own palm.

The next second, a faint light, barely visible to the naked eye, began to flow within the cracks on Milo's hands and forearms.

He quietly sensed the dark, destructive force emanating from Daisy's hands—the black smoke billowing from her mouth and nose.

If it were purely a physiological ailment, then Milo should indeed step aside and allow a professional medical team to treat her. However, even before Milo stepped into the hall, he had already sensed that the pain Daisy was suffering from came from some kind of evil force.

This thing can't be cured by injecting some medicine into the body.

Of course, the church was not simply hoping that the medical team would save Daisy. In addition to the medical team belonging to the church, there were also several thin-faced young people on site.

They were dressed in black and white academic uniforms with a modern style, and all had golden tree totems tattooed on the back of their hands.

It's not hard to see that these guys also belong to the church, but they don't have very obvious clergy attire; they look more like scholars or researchers from an academy.

These unassuming church members are united by a covenant organization.

It can be understood as the prototype of the birth of the church.

Milo knew that the true origin of the church was actually a group of scholars who studied mysticism, covering various academic fields, including the Monsis school to which Raven belonged, although that school had been expelled.

In Nanwei City, Milo almost never had any real contact with the mystical scholars of these contract organizations. Whether it was Dirasha or Defoe, they could only be considered clergy serving the religion and did not participate in the research work, unlike the investigators of Miskatonic University who held multiple positions.

Of course, the main reason he could recognize the identities of these young people dressed as scholars at a glance was the books they were holding.

The animal leather cover, exuding the scent of age, and the yellowed paper covered with twisted ancient characters and totems, clearly indicate that this is one of many ancient books.

Milo was all too familiar with the taste of this kind of wicked reading material.

The ancient texts that have been discovered in the world today can be basically divided into two parts. One part has been collected by numerous investigators who travel to various corners of the world and has been put into the University of Michigan Library, while the other part has been kept at the headquarters of the Golden Rule Church.

It seems the church is also trying to find a way to heal Daisy from the scriptures, but as things stand, they are not making good progress.

……

Both Reverend Daniel Defoe and the nun spoke to Milo in a tone of reminder.

But the members of the Contract Organization made no attempt to hide their hostility the moment Milo entered.

The three men and one woman were not only dressed in the same clothes, but their facial expressions, the creases between their eyebrows, and the bloodshot eyes were also remarkably similar.

These guys looked just like Milo when he was in the nightmare phase; all the negative elements from the depths of their souls were clearly visible on their faces, which was quite terrifying.

……

However, they do not belong to the category of psychics.

They had never even encountered nightmares; the eerie aura they displayed was entirely due to their contact with evil scriptures. Strictly speaking, they could only be considered scholars or readers similar to "Fenich."

Milo didn't know where these four guys got such a grudge against him, so he selectively ignored their presence for the time being and turned to Defoe, whom he was relatively more familiar with, and asked:

"What happened?"

"Shadow".

Reverend Defoe's answer was, as always, vague and ambiguous:
"She was too young. She shouldn't have faced the dark shadows at the bottom of the abyss. The malice from those shadows severely injured her. Alas... it was our oversight."

"Did she mention seeing anything before she collapsed?" Milo quickly asked.

To his disappointment, Defoe shook his head helplessly, indicating that they didn't even know when Daisy had been attacked.

"After obtaining the Eye of Thinking, we all relaxed and forgot what we had gone through. It was my fault; I didn't take good care of this child."

……

At that moment, a nun's violent coughing suddenly came from behind Milo.

The sound was like gagging, hoarse and terrifying, as if something was about to tear her throat apart.

She couldn't even stand up straight and almost knelt down.

"Cough cough cough!!!..."

Milo frowned and glanced back.

To his surprise, the nun, who had seemed perfectly normal just two minutes before, now had a faint smell of black smoke coming from her mouth and nose, just like Daisy. With each cough, tiny particles would emerge from her mouth and nose.

Milo turned around without making a sound and looked at the faces of everyone, including Defoe and the Covenant organization, once again.

Those who were not wearing masks all showed signs of dark spots on their faces.

"Is this the treatment method you chose?"

Milo gave Defoe a strange look.

“A curse doesn’t expand and multiply like a virus; its quantity is fixed. For now, this is the only way we can prolong the child’s life,” Defoe explained calmly, coughing twice.
"From the moment the Eye of Thinking matured, the fates of everyone on the Star Clock Tower were already intertwined."

Milo squinted at Defoe, then glanced at the four scholars from the Contract Organization behind him.

It seems to have little to do with the masks; there's some invisible connection between these people, a connection that makes them share the curse placed upon Daisy. This is the Church's choice, something Milo can't control, but he can "see" information that ordinary people can't perceive. From his perspective, the nun's life force is rapidly waning.

Milo then gave Defoe a subtle reminder:
"The girl behind her won't survive tonight."

Upon hearing this, the nun's face turned deathly pale.

But she didn't utter a sound for help. Fear didn't overwhelm her. She simply covered her mouth and nose silently, gripped the golden tree pendant hanging around her neck with one hand, and got up to leave the hall.

Even after she closed the door, Milo could still hear heart-wrenching coughing coming from the hallway outside.

……

After the nun left, Milo simply took off his mask as well.

This thing offers him no protection; there's no connection between him and Daisy established through the Eye of Thought, so the power of the curse can't reach him.

Then, Milo rolled up his sleeves and went to the stone platform, removing all the needles that were stuck in Daisy's hand.

"Stop! What are you doing?!"

The medical staff and contract scholars at the scene screamed simultaneously.

But Milo didn't stop what he was doing. He tossed the needles onto a shelf and then took Daisy's pale little hand in his again.

The Contract Scholar took a few steps forward, intending to stop Milo from continuing his reckless behavior.

But Milo's single, icy glance as he turned around startled the four of them:

"These nutritional supplements will kill her."

On one side are scholars who cannot even touch the outline of nightmares, and on the other side are psychics who can read evil tomes. There is a world of difference between the two sides in the same field. Only the scholars themselves can feel the insurmountable class pressure, which comes from the extreme fear deep in their hearts.

At this moment, the doctor on the other side also panicked and said:

“Sir, I understand what you mean, but all her organs are failing. If we don't use medication to stimulate them and maintain their activity, this child will…”

However, before he could finish speaking, the doctor's gaze froze.

His tone suddenly rose, filled with incredulous astonishment.

Because he noticed that the monitor showed Daisy's blood pressure was slowly returning to normal...

"Ah this..."

...

No one knows exactly what Milo did, because from an outsider's perspective, Milo simply held Daisy's hands for a short while and did nothing else.

But there is no denying that Daisy's face regained some color.

However, the clearly visible black aura did not dissipate; it remained a persistent and lingering presence.

...

"so far so good."

Milo himself was also greatly relieved.

Because he accurately pinpointed the source of Daisy's deepest fear—the crimes Robben had committed against her and her biological parents.

After becoming the Eye of Thinking, nothing Daisy saw could replace her initial encounter as the deepest fear.

To be honest, I don't know whether to be thankful or sad.

Regardless, Milo grasped the source of fear, induced Daisy's dream while she was in a coma, and was thus able to help her nearly failing bodily organs start functioning again.

Ultimately, it's similar to hypnosis, except that hypnosis only controls a person's self-awareness to achieve physical behavior, while internal organs are also systems controlled by the brain's nerves. The power of the curse to some extent severed this information transmission process, but Milo used dream manipulation to rebuild this bridge.

……

"This...this is truly a miracle!"

The medical staff, adjusting their glasses, stared in astonishment at the watch displaying Daisy's gradually recovering heart rate.

He couldn't understand how a law enforcement officer could do all this; it was simply unbelievable.

...

Reverend Defoe, seeing this scene, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, neither the bishop nor the scholars of the Covenant Organization agreed to let Milo enter the Star Clock Tower. It was Defoe who, taking a gamble, persuaded everyone, which led to the scene where the nun went to receive Milo.

After all, so many incredible things had happened to Milo that Defoe had a feeling this young enforcer could bring a turning point to the Eye of Thinking.

And that's exactly what happened.

……

"Don't shout yet, it's not over yet."

Milo gestured for the medical staff to stop making a fuss, then turned to look at the scholars from the Contract Organization standing to the side.

"The curse hasn't been lifted yet. Would you mind if I took a look at your books?"

(End of this chapter)