Ring of Fate

Chapter 937 Guardian (Thanks to Old Kohler for rewarding Ludwig Silver Alliance)

Faced with the sudden darkness, Janna's first reaction was to immediately hide her body or hide in the shadows, but she finally controlled herself and did not directly display her extraordinary abilities when something strange happened after night fell.

She used her acting skills to pretend that she was an ordinary person. While Yu Mingming could see her, she groped her way out of the bathroom and walked towards the window.

After arriving at the living room, thanks to the infiltration of light pollution from outside, the outlines of furniture such as the coffee table and sofa were revealed. Janna immediately quickened her pace and reached the window in a few seconds. Looking outside, she found that not only were the tall and short buildings in the distance still brightly lit, but other buildings in the same community were not completely submerged in darkness.

Janna glanced down and felt that there seemed to be lights on on other floors.

"The problem is here. Um, there's a power outage?" Janna took out her cell phone from her jeans pocket and wanted to call to ask Franca what to do with the current situation.

She immediately remembered that she had to act independently for the next two days and could not contact her teammates, so she switched from making phone calls to searching the Internet.

She used voice-to-text to input the words "What should I do if there is a power outage at home?" without much skill, and pressed the option that represented search.

Then, she remembered Franca's instructions, skipped the first few search results, and read directly the following ones:
"When there is a power outage, the first thing you need to do is check the electrical box...

"The specific steps are..."

Janna looked at it for a while, and her brows gradually frowned:

so hard!
These are areas she doesn't understand.

While flipping through the pages, she saw an answer:
“Looking for property management!”

"..." Jane was stunned, "Is it possible?"

She registered with the property when she checked in that afternoon and added the number to the contact list.

She tried to make a phone call, gave her room number and the problem, and the property manager on duty said immediately that someone from the engineering department would come and handle it immediately.

Not long after, the doorbell rang and a property worker from the engineering department arrived at this floor carrying a tool bag.

The moment he saw Janna, the property staff's eyes lit up and his attitude became quite enthusiastic.

Janna let the other person into the room with extreme caution.

She is always on guard against any unusual occurrences.

The property staff quickly checked for a while and said:

"It tripped."

After saying that, he flipped on the switch, and the light suddenly returned to the room.

So simple? Jana didn't let her ignorant side show.

After seeing off the property staff and closing the door again, she couldn't help but sigh:
“Life in Dream City is so convenient…

"It's just that the property fee is not cheap..."

Janna quickly washed up, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep like a normal person, but the string in her mind was always taut and did not relax.

In the midst of confusion, her spiritual intuition brought her a warning.

She suddenly woke up and found herself floating in the air above the community in the form of a star spirit.

There are many spirits wandering around here, and they all seem to be residents of DeChuang Garden. Layers of storms in the sky solidify, completely covering the area and forming a translucent barrier around it.

There was a figure standing near the barrier. It was Luo Shan, who was wearing a light green long skirt and had brown hair. In front of Luo Shan, one strange figure after another emerged from the depths of the darkness, constantly rushing towards the solidified storm and the translucent barrier, trying to enter the "community".

Some of those figures were half human and half snake, with delicate women above the waist and thick python tails covered with slippery scales below the waist. Some looked like shrunken humans embedded between the wings of an owl, with sharp claws growing out. Some were young naked women with long hair, showing off their plump bodies to the fullest…

Faced with the invasion of these strange creatures, Luo Shan took out a thicker oil painting brush and quickly painted patterns on the translucent barrier.

She painted the sun surrounded by flying birds.

As soon as this simple painting took shape, the sun in it shone with a brilliant golden light, causing the monsters to close their eyes at the same time.

Then, the flying birds started burning with golden flames, flew out of the translucent barrier, and flew towards different monsters.

Seeing this scene, Janna was shocked and had strong doubts:
The current situation is not what she expected.

Luo Shan seemed to be fighting against those strange creatures, preventing them from entering the spiritual area corresponding to De Chuang Garden, and looked like a guardian.

But the ability she displayed was clearly that of a "painter", a gift from the evil god of the "Fantasy Society"!

"Luo Shan should have cooperated with those strange creatures to invade the spiritual world corresponding to the community, why is she guarding the barrier instead?

"Also, Lumian, Franca, Anthony and I didn't find any similar invasion of strange creatures in Xinhong Community before... Was it the change brought about by Lumian's formal contact with the image in Mr. Fool's dream, or is it that DeChuang Garden itself has some special features?" Janna was puzzled, but seeing that Roshan was guarding it fairly firmly, she suppressed the idea of ​​offering help and pretended to be like the astral bodies of other residents, wandering around in the barrier in a daze.

This went on until dawn.

…………

Xinhong Community, inside a rental house.

Franca, who got up early because she was worried about Janna, saw Lumian, who was on night duty, bring a small cage placed on the shoe cabinet to the dining table. There was a gray-white mouse in the cage.

——Ludwig's presence made the rats, cockroaches and other creatures in this rental house extinct. In order to test the effect of the magic potion, Lumian and others wandered around the community before dark yesterday and finally caught one.

Franca sat down and saw Lumian put on gloves, caught the mouse that was huddled in fear under Ludwig's watchful eyes, and fed it the bottle of Insomniac drink.

The mouse only took one sip, and the rest of the drink flooded into its body, without caring whether it could hold that much.

In just a blink of an eye, the mouse suddenly swelled up, and its short gray hair stood up like a hedgehog and turned black.

Under its armpits and between its chest and abdomen, the flesh and blood squirmed as if it was about to grow new legs and feet.

Out of control? This thought flashed through Lumian and Franca's minds at the same time.

Ludwig opened his mouth in surprise and swallowed the mutated mouse in one gulp.

Chewing, chewing, chewing, he squinted his eyes in contentment.

"Will there be any problem eating like this?" Franka looked at Ludwig with a little concern.

This food has extraordinary properties!

Ludwig replied vaguely:

"It doesn't have any digestive properties. Currently, it's just stored..."

Lumian nodded, picked up the empty bottle of Insomniac drink and said:

"This is truly a magic potion."

Franka said "hmm" with emotion:
"When it happens like this, I have the real feeling that this is a dream."

Everyday life is so real!

Looking up at the morning sky, Franca carefully asked Lumian:
"You're going to the interview in the morning, and we're going to cash the lottery tickets together in the afternoon?"

"You can go and cash it in the morning." Lumian said with a smile before Franca could ask, "But leave the lottery ticket with me."

Franca suddenly realized:
"You mean, the bad luck of difficulty in claiming the prize or the dream tendency's rejection of it is focused on the lottery, not on us?
“Yes, if the rejection from the Heavenly Lord could be directed precisely at us, we would have been kicked out of the dream.

"Well, Anthony and I will go to the lottery center without lottery tickets, just like visiting a tourist site. When the time comes to provide lottery tickets, you can send the lottery tickets to us through the mirror world and complete the prize redemption before the rejection event occurs?"

“Yes, and this is also to verify whether the dream tendency you speculated really exists. If so, what are the rules that govern its operation.” Lumian nodded slightly.

…………

After breakfast, Lumian changed into a white shirt and black trousers, took the resume and other materials he had printed out yesterday, took the lottery ticket, and took public transportation to the technology building where the Intis Group was located. Franka drove Anthony and Ludwig to the lottery center.

In front of the Technology Building, Lumian looked up at the old 16-story building, mixed in with the white-collar workers, and walked in openly.

He had a smooth journey and there were no accidents such as bus breakdowns or traffic jams due to carrying the lottery ticket - his destination was in the opposite direction of the lottery center.

Lumian didn't rush to the interview. Instead, he came to the display board with information about different floors and looked at the company structure of the building:
The property rights of this building belong to the Intis Group. The first to fifth floors are allocated to some subsidiaries of the Intis Group. The sixth to ninth floors are rented out to other companies. Half of the tenth floor belongs to the head office of the Intis Group, and the other half is rented to the "Aurora Company". The eleventh and twelfth floors are also rented out. The thirteenth to fifteenth floors are other departments of the Intis Group head office. The sixteenth floor is exclusively for Huang Tao, the dream image of Emperor Roselle.

"It's just as Franka said, there are obvious problems with this building... Intis Group could obviously call back certain departments and subsidiaries and occupy the sixteen floors alone, so why did they rent out some of them? Moreover, the head office's administrative department and technical department actually share a floor with 'Aurora Company'... In Franka's words, something is wrong, twelve out of ten are wrong..." Lumian began to think seriously.

When Franka got the information about this technology building, she felt something was wrong after just reading it once:
This was not quite what she remembered.

Lumian pondered for more than ten seconds and said silently to himself:
“Is this a symbol?
"This building symbolizes the Republic of Intis, and some floors are rented out to symbolize the infiltration of cults and various forces into the Republic of Intis? Is this Mr. Fool's impression of the Republic of Intis?"

Lumian didn't stay for too long, retracted his gaze, and walked into the elevator.

He glanced at the mirror formed by the metal from time to time, waiting for Franca or Anthony to ring his cell phone a few times.

As the numbers representing the floors the elevator stopped at slowly changed, a person appeared next to Lumian.

He was a middle-aged man with chestnut-colored hair, very handsome and fashionable.

Mr. Huang? Lumian caught sight of the figure from the corner of his eye and recognized his identity.

That was the image in Emperor Roselle's dream, the CEO of Intis Group, Mr. Huang Tao, who often did not take the exclusive elevator and often came to squeeze in the elevator with the employees!
PS: Thanks to Lao Kohler for rewarding Ludwig Silver Alliance~

(End of this chapter)