Ring of Fate

Chapter 939: Contradictions (Thanks to Old Kohler for the Angoulême Silver Treasure Box)
Janna didn't follow Roshan because she knew she would call an online taxi. Neither shadow sneaking nor stealth following was enough for her to chase a car for a long time by running, unless the target encountered traffic jams one after another - in this regard, the "witches" are good at bursting but weak at sustaining.

As for the option of taking a taxi and letting the driver track the target in front, not to mention whether a taxi happens to pass by, the biggest problem is whether the online-hailing taxi can arrive within a minute.

Janna believed that if Franca were here, with her knowledge and familiarity with the Dream City, she would be able to easily find reasons to convince others, but she couldn't do that. It was very likely that she would say something wrong and cause the driver to call the police on the spot.

Of course, this problem can be solved by "charming", but when she gets out of the car, the effect of "charming" will gradually fade away. When the driver recalls what happened, he will inevitably feel that something is wrong and may call the police. However, Jane cannot repeatedly "charm" the other party for such a small matter and make him fall in love with her for a long time.

Leaving the window, Janna made a bowl of noodles and ate it with great enjoyment, even drinking up all the soup.

When it got dark and night truly fell, she took out the "Ice Mirror Charm" made by Lumian and held it in her palm.

As the ancient Hermetic word "mirror" was pronounced, the mysterious amulet carved from frost lit up with a slightly dim light.

Janna placed her hand on the mirror that had been placed on the coffee table in advance, and her whole body suddenly became blurred and she went inside.

Relying on the ability to sense the surrounding mirrors provided by the "Ice Mirror Spell", she quickly locked onto a mirror-like object in Roshan's home and passed through the dark and illusory tunnel.

She wanted to search Luo Shan's house through the mirror while she was out to see if she could find anything.

The reason why she didn't do this when Luo Shan was at work during the day was because the corresponding test had to be carried out step by step. She had to first confirm whether the level of contact with Luo Shan yesterday evening would attract the attention of Tianzun or provoke the investigation of hostile forces.

After a day and a night of waiting, she has now preliminarily confirmed that it will not happen and can make further contact and exploration.

Janna did not leave the dark and illusory area behind the mirror. She looked at the situation at Roshan's home through the hard and cold glass.

This house also has one bedroom and one living room, the same layout as the one she rented, and she is currently standing by the glass window of the living room immersed in the night.

Above the window, Janna's face vaguely appeared, and her eyes swept over the coffee table, TV, refrigerator and other items.

She soon noticed the drawing boards, canvases, papers, palettes, paint tubes, various brushes, and small scrapers scattered in different places, and paintings hanging on the walls, including rich oil paintings, pencil sketches, and black and white landscape paintings.

Janna's gaze suddenly stopped on one of the paintings.

The painting showed a strange creature that was half human and half snake. The upper body was that of a beautiful woman, and the lower body was that of a giant python with lifelike scales.

"The monster I saw last night..." Janna's heart tightened, and she gradually identified that the strange creatures depicted in other paintings were all invaders she saw in the "spiritual community" interwoven with her spirit when her astral body was traveling last night.

Almost immediately, she discovered that these paintings had a common element:

All the strange creatures were imprisoned in iron cages.

What does this mean? Does it symbolize that these monsters are blocked from the world? This is similar to the scene I saw when the astral body was wandering last night... The iron cage was drawn by Luo Shan, and the monsters came from someone else's hand? Or, Luo Shan drew these monsters but locked them up? As Jana thought seriously, her eyes fell on a sketch.

That was Luo Shan's self-portrait. She had a smile on her face, lively eyes, and was very charming.

For some reason, Jana felt that Roxanne in this self-portrait was looking intently at the dark living room.

This made her give up the idea of ​​leaving the glass window and actually entering the room.

Just as Janna continued to observe, the fingerprint lock on the door made a sound, and Luo Shan came home carrying a white handbag.

After Luo Shan put her handbag on the dining table, she walked briskly to her own sketch and looked at it for a few seconds.

Then she picked up a paintbrush, dipped it in some silver paint, and walked towards the living room window.

Janna had shrank back a little before the door opened, allowing the glass window reflecting the night to return to normal.

Luo Shan stared at the glass window for a while, picked up the paintbrush, and outlined a simple door on the surface.

Janna, who was in the area behind the mirror, suddenly saw the hard glass surface glowing with silver light, forming a real and strange door connecting the real world and the world in the mirror.

She immediately left behind a few remaining traces of the "witch" black flames, passed through the illusory and dark tunnel, returned to her rented place, and crawled out of the mirror.

The unreal silver door where Janna was hiding was pushed open, and Roshan walked into the area behind the mirror.

The girl in a light long skirt looked around with a gloomy expression, but did not find anything unusual.

Luo Shan looked at the densely packed spider-web-like mirror tunnels and couldn't think of anything to draw to make use of them.

After two or three minutes, she exited the area behind the mirror and wiped away the silver door depicted on the surface of the glass window with her palm.

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23rd floor, room 3.

Jenna sat on the sofa and muttered to herself silently:

"Luo Shan is indeed an extraordinary person of the 'Painter' path... Did the one who believes in the 'Fantasy Society' also infiltrate a little bit of his power into her?
"Is He also in Mushu Hospital, or does He have His own base?

"He gave Luo Shan extraordinary powers in order to control Zhou Mingrui's colleague and contact Mr. Fool's dream image?"

Just as she thought of this, Janna's cell phone on the coffee table began to vibrate.

Janna picked it up and saw that it was a message and a picture sent to her by Roshan.

The girl, whose WeChat name is “I want to go on vacation every day”, said with a smiley face:

“This is my work, you can take a look.”

The picture was the self-portrait sketch that Janna had seen at Rosanne's house before.

Janna clicked on the picture and suddenly had the illusion that Roxanne had come alive on her phone screen.

She had an idea and put her phone on the coffee table without locking the screen.

Then she stood up, walked to the bathroom and closed the door.

As soon as Janna sat on the toilet, she immediately cast her eyes towards the wash mirror.

She used the "witch's" mirror magic and the mirror on the coffee table to spy on her cell phone.

A few seconds later, Janna saw that the sketch appearing on the screen seemed to have a slight movement. The pencil-lined image of Roxanne tentatively reached out of the screen and then retracted her hand.

Sure enough...Janna pressed the flush button of the toilet, washed her hands with the sound of water splashing, and left the bathroom.

She picked up her phone again, closed the picture, and sent a message to Luo Shan using voice-to-text:

“It’s painted just like that!”

She didn't look through Roshan's Moments last night because "it was just a chat."

"Do you want me to draw a sketch for you too?" Roxanne quickly responded to Janna's compliment.

I don’t dare to be painted by you “painters”…Janna muttered silently and responded to Luo Shan using the voice input method:
"No, no, no."

She then changed the subject:
"You may not believe it, but I had a very strange dream yesterday, and you were in my dream.

"It seems like you're protecting the neighborhood and fighting a bunch of monsters, and we can't help."

If a man had said something similar to her, Jane would definitely think that he was trying to flirt with her, that their relationship was too shallow and the things they were talking about were too ambiguous, which was obviously inappropriate. But now, she only dared to test the waters because she was a woman.

"Have I left such a deep impression on you?" Luo Shan made a "smug" expression.

A few seconds later, she sent a second message:

"Your dream is wonderful, and I am very happy that I played such a role in your dream. Really, I am very happy."

Just as Janna was about to reply, Roxanne sent a third message:
"Because my dad is a true keeper, and so are his colleagues."

Jane suddenly recalled the introduction of Luo Shan's background in the file:

In reality, Roshan's father was a "Night Watcher" of the "Goddess of Night" church, who died in an accident caused by an occult case. His father's colleagues included Officer Deng's corresponding "Night Watcher" team captain Dunn, Officer Deng's fiancée Ms. Daly, Interpol Old Neil and others. They all died in the disaster brought about by extraordinary powers, but they also protected the corresponding cities.

"One of Mr. Fool's incarnations is Klein Moretti, a member of the Nighthawks team. So, when Mr. Fool subconsciously wove the dream image, he added a similar background to Roshan, making Roshan admire and yearn for the spirit of protection?

"Although Luo Shan has been influenced by the evil god of the Fantasy Society and has received an illusory gift, the obsession of protecting her deep in her heart has not been completely polluted and erased? Is this the reason for her current many contradictory behaviors?

“I drew strange creatures, wanting them to be real, and added cages for these invaders… I kept creating monsters, and at the same time I stood guard at the barrier to prevent them from coming in…

"Does this count as Mr. Fool's subconscious projection of his cognition onto Roshan fighting against the contamination of the evil god of the Fantasy Society?

"If that's true, then in a sense, this is the confrontation between Mr. Fool's subconscious mind and the evil god of the Fantasy Society..." Janna considered how to respond to Roshan with some understanding.

After more than ten seconds, she used the voice input method to say:

"Have you ever created a painting with a guardian theme?"

Twenty or thirty minutes later, Luo Shan replied to the message:

"not yet.

"Failed."

If there is none, then why did it fail? This answer is too contradictory...Janna's pupils suddenly froze.

PS: Thanks to Lao Kohler for the Angoulême silver treasure chest~
(End of this chapter)