Ring of Fate

Chapter 931 Add friends

Hearing Stiano's offer to help, Lumian's thoughts raced, and he smiled and said:

“Thank you so much!”

Stiano took off his backpack, took out one car repair tool after another from it like a magic trick, and opened the hood of the gray car.

Seeing this, Franca couldn't help but wail in her heart:
“Don’t!
"Originally, the compensation was only one or two thousand yuan, but after the repairs, I'm afraid you'll have to pay several thousand yuan!"

She could guess why Lumian was willing to ask Stiano for help, because the information provided by the Major Arcana cards did not include the projection of this high-ranking member of the Steam Church in the Dream City. He did not seem to be very important and had nothing to do with the awakening of Mr. Fool, but he had met the team twice by chance. This meant that either it was fate or he had something special. Observing him more at this stage might provide useful guidance at some critical moment in the future.

For the "witches", this is both the conclusion of logical reasoning and the hint of spiritual intuition.

“Forget it, this is just a dream, not reality. As long as Mr. Fool believes that the higher-ups of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery are good at repairing machinery, then Stiano will be able to fix the car…” Franca consoled herself and quietly created ice to dispel the high temperature that had invaded the car.

After a while, Stiano raised his face with a light yellow beard, avoided his greasy palms, pushed down his plain glasses on the bridge of his nose with the back of his hand, and said to Franca in the car and Lumian outside the car:
"It's fixed."

Really? Don't lie to me... Franca tried it and found that the car could really be restarted, very smoothly.

Lumian took out a bottle of "Hunter Witch" brand boiled mineral water and used the sewer outlet on the side of the road to provide a stream of water for Stiano to wash his hands and tools.

After the other party wiped his hands clean and put away his tools, Lumian thanked him again, took out his phone, unlocked the screen, and said with a smile:

"Add us on WeChat. If you need any help in the future, you can always contact us. As long as it is within our capabilities."

Stiano looked at Lumian seriously, then smiled and said:
"it is good."

He then took out his mobile phone and asked Lumian to add him as a WeChat friend by scanning the QR code.

After Lumian finished scanning, he found that the other party's nickname was "Electric Power Energy and Information Technology".

It feels weird... Lumian waved goodbye to Stiano, returned to the gray car, and showed this gentleman's WeChat to Janna and others.

Franca took a look and said with a smile:

"It's a nickname that sounds like a college course.

"Check out his circle of friends!"

This was the first non-squad member friend Lumian added on WeChat. He completely forgot about what Franca had mentioned about being able to look at Moments to gather information.

He quickly clicked on Stiano's profile picture and then went to his Moments:

“Today: The professor’s understanding of the concept of information is rather biased. Information is also energy, and energy also contains information. One of the essences of every existence is an aggregation of corresponding information.

“Yesterday: I found an old car and was intoxicated by its mechanical beauty.

"August 8: I have built a wonderful machine.

"——Friends only show the Moments of the last three days——"

“A wonderful machine?” Lumian wondered to himself, “How wonderful can it be? As a native of the Dream City, no matter how wonderful the machine I create is, it cannot surpass the limitations of the dream itself.”

"He does look like a high-ranking member of the Church of Steam, and he also shows that he is trying hard to learn and think after coming into contact with a more advanced civilization. This should be the underlying logic that Mr. Fool used when he subconsciously wove this image." Franka said casually as she drove the car back to the road.

In the following time, they observed key targets such as Peng Deng's girlfriend Nie Zhen, Peng Deng's roommate Grisha, and Zhou Mingrui's roommate Mobet.

When it was almost time to get off work, they returned to the building where Peng Deng worked and waited patiently for him to finish his busy day.

Peng Deng showed up at around 6pm in the evening and chose to take the subway back to the Herun community where he rented a house.

Franca drove Janna and Ludwig to the destination in advance to wait, and Lumian and Anthony followed them into the subway station.

Along the way, many women cast their eyes on Lumian, seemingly impressed by his handsomeness, and Lumian even painted himself to look a little uglier before leaving.

Of course, there are also a small number of men who are secretly watching.

Peng Deng was so focused on his phone that he didn't care if there were any beauties around him, let alone if they were just attractive people of the same sex.

“A normal level of handsomeness is not enough to attract people to chat up and attract more attention. Unless there is an additional gimmick, it will not become a hot search or a headline…” Lumian felt relieved.

Anthony beside him was naturally ignored by the people around him.

Thanks to the Hunter's tracking skills and the Witch's ability to hide in the shadows at any time, Lumian easily followed Peng Deng to the vicinity of Herun Community.

The latter did not go home immediately, but turned to Ankang North Road, walked to the vicinity of Xindu Garden, and entered a restaurant called "Yuzhou Xiaochao".

Lumian glanced around and saw Franca rolled down the window and waved to the two of them.

After they got in the car, Franca asked with concern:

"Anything gained?"

Lumian shook his head first, then said to himself in confusion:

"I want to know what's on his phone now, and how he can keep looking at it."

I watch it when I take the subway, when I take the escalator, and when I walk.

"You don't understand." Franca sighed.

Jianna looked at the "Yuzhou Xiaochao" restaurant and thought about it.
"This is the restaurant where Mr. Fool and Peng Deng often eat. If we wait a little longer, Mr. Fool might come as well.

"Should we observe their interaction?"

Lumian glanced at the sky outside:
"can."

In this dream city, it doesn’t get dark until after 8pm in the summer.

Jane said "hmm":
"Then I'll buy Ludwig a roast duck so he won't be hungry all the time."

She had just found dinner for Ludwig. There was a piece of paper with the words "30 yuan per duck" posted on the "Fruitwood Roast Duck" restaurant on the same side of the vehicle.

Lumian looked at Ludwig, who had suspicious liquid flowing from the corner of his mouth, and said with a smile:

"Two, let's try them too."

Time passed by minute by minute. Lumian and the others had tasted the roast duck and eaten the steamed buns, but they still hadn’t waited for Mr. Fool’s dream incarnation Zhou Mingrui to arrive. Peng Deng had already finished his meal and was heading back to the Herun Community.

"Mr. Fool, would you like to change your taste tonight?" Franka dipped the last piece of duck meat wrapped in sweet noodle sauce and brought it to her mouth.

Gulu!

She heard a distinct swallowing sound.

Glancing at Ludwig, whose face was filled with eagerness, Franka said "hey" and handed the food in her hand over to him.

Lumian turned his gaze away from the window:
"Maybe he went to do something else. I didn't see him go back to Xindu Garden."

“Continue to follow?” Jianna pointed at Peng Deng’s back.

Lumian shook his head.
"It's getting dark now. If we continue, there's a high chance of an accident."

Franka said in an agreeing tone:

"The Major Arcanas also mentioned that one of the most likely signs that Peng Deng has a problem is that he has never met Mr. Fool, or Zhou Mingrui, after dark.

"They were childhood friends, so it was normal for them to have a midnight snack and watch a movie together. Mr. Fool had invited them many times, and Peng Deng himself had also invited Mr. Fool, but they never got together. Every time it was because Peng Deng had something to do, his girlfriend wouldn't allow him to, or his girlfriend suddenly fell ill, or the roommate broke the door lock, so they had to wait for the locksmith to open the door...

"When they chose to have dinner and play during the day, they were successful. Peng Deng's girlfriend, who always hindered him, would occasionally join in."

“Combined with the magic mirror’s reminder of ‘Be careful at night’, these details seem very strange.” Lumian said “hmm”.

Return to the rental house.

Seeing Lumian lost in thought as he stared at the increasingly dark sky outside, Franca asked curiously:

"What are you thinking about?"

"I want to go out tonight and act like a normal person to see if I encounter any anomalies or problems again." Lumian said carefully.

He wanted to test the boundaries of the "night problem" before formally contacting Zhou Mingrui tomorrow afternoon.

——They didn't go out last night and everything was normal.

"Just like ordinary people..." Franca turned her eyes slightly and said to Lumian and Janna with a smile, "Let's go to the movies!"

Lumian and others already knew the concept of movies and were curious about it, so Franka's proposal was unanimously approved.

Franka immediately smiled like a fox who had stolen a hen:

"Let's go to another mall. We can scratch some lottery tickets there. That will give us enough money for movie tickets and popcorn tonight, right?"

You can’t go to the same one, or you’ll attract attention!

When Ludwig heard the word "popcorn", his eyes, which had been uninterested, suddenly lit up.

…………

In another shopping mall.

Having won more than two thousand dollars in prize money, Franca led her teammates to the cinema on the fourth floor with satisfaction.

When they passed the third floor, they saw a long queue in front of a very bourgeois bookstore.

"Book signing event?" Franca was curious and interested in everything when she came to the Dream City. She pulled Janna over to see which writer it was.

"The romance queen...a lifelong lover without any dreams...the original author of the Great Pirates series of novels..." Franka read out the key words on the roll-up banner.

"This pen name is so strange." Janna expressed her feelings.

Franka smiled and said:
"This is just ordinary weirdness. I'll help you download an app later and let you see that the pen names of those online novel authors are weirder than each other!"

As they spoke, Franca stood on tiptoe and looked at the author who was signing books. Lumian walked up to her and also cast his gaze into the bookstore.

A few seconds later, as the writer raised his head, Lumian and Franca's expressions froze at the same time.

"What's wrong?" Janna noticed their abnormality.

Franka replied with a strange look on her face:
“I shouldn’t be dazzled…

"How can she be the queen of romance..."

"Who?" Janna asked doubtfully.

"Ms. 'Magician'." It was Lumian who answered Jenna's question in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)