Ring of Fate

Chapter 959 New Speculations

Chapter 959 New Speculations (Please give me a monthly ticket on the last day of August)

Janna did not actually go to Xinhong Community to find Lumian and Ludwig, but instead chose a hotel nearby and booked a room to see if she would be kicked out.

Nothing happened that night. After waking up, she immediately returned to DeChuang Garden and sat in a corner of the lobby, facing the door leading to the interior of the community.

After more than ten minutes, she saw Franca.

Franka still wore old-fashioned black-framed glasses and dressed like a relatively conservative office girl.

Seeing this, Janna breathed a sigh of relief, changed her sitting position, turned her back to Franca, and avoided meeting her.

The purpose of her getting up early and returning to the community was to confirm whether the current "Luo Fu"'s style of behavior was consistent with that of the previous Franka. If the other party removed her disguise and changed into makeup and clothes that best highlighted her own characteristics, so that the charm of the "witch" could be displayed to the greatest extent, she would have to consider finding an excuse to stop "Luo Fu" from going to work and delay her for a day.

It now seems that the style of the NPC "Luo Fu" will continue for some time.

…………

Technology Building, 10th floor.

Franka sat down and slowly made herself a cup of coffee.

At this time, she saw Zhou Mingrui coming in, so she smiled and said:

"Looking for Roxanne? She's not here yet."

"I thought you would come together." Zhou Mingrui did not hide his surprise.

In his opinion, Luo Shan and Luo Fu have a very good relationship, both on the surface and in secret, and have a special connection. They should be the type of people who would wait for each other and go to work together.

Franka smiled and said:
"I asked her, and she said she was delayed by something and asked me not to wait for her."

"Oh, I see..." Zhou Mingrui nodded, turned and walked out of the administrative department.

During this period, he came to Luo Shan to inquire about various company news more frequently than before, causing some idle people in the administrative department to spread rumors about him and Luo Shan.

Zhou Mingrui walked to the door of the administrative department at a moderate pace, without waiting for Luo Fu to ask him to wait.

The person he came to see today was not Luo Shan, but Luo Fu. He originally thought that the other party would take this opportunity to hint at something, but who knew that Luo Fu didn't even want to chat with him, and was polite but a little strange.

Zhou Mingrui frowned slightly, without turning back to look, and left the administrative department directly.

"Something feels wrong..." He had just muttered to himself when he saw Luo Shan walking towards him with a pancake and a cup of multi-grain soy milk.

"Good morning." Luo Shan greeted cheerfully.

"Good morning." Zhou Mingrui said with a smile, "I just went to look for you, but you haven't come yet. Luo Fu said you were delayed by something."

Luo Shan glanced around:
"What do you want to ask me again?"

The two chatted for a while and then went to their respective offices.

Suddenly, Zhou Mingrui's cell phone vibrated.

He took it out and saw that it was a message from Luo Shan, who he had just chatted with:
"Don't talk to Luo Fu about anything today. Wait until tomorrow."

When Zhou Mingrui saw this message, he thought that the relationship between the two girls had suddenly broken down and they began to gang up to try to isolate each other, but after reading it carefully again, he came to a preliminary conclusion:

“What Luo Shan means is that there is a problem with Luo Fu today, so don’t contact her, and she will be fine tomorrow?

"Why is there a problem? Everything was normal yesterday...

"Is it because you talked to me about vending machines, 'Assassin' drinks, and subsequent troubles last night? It's a bit like, a bit like when the 'star' in the group suddenly drops the line when mentioning something important...

“What could the problem be, and who gave it to you, and why is it there today and solved tomorrow?”

Questions flashed through Zhou Mingrui's mind one after another, but many of them could not be explained reasonably.

…………

Thirteenth floor, Security Department.

Lumian and his partner Lao Xia have patrolled all the floors and found no safety hazards.

After sitting in a room that was more like a rest room for security guards than a workplace, Lumian took out his cell phone.

Because Franka has exited the dream and can meet the Major Arcana cards, he no longer needs to pass on yesterday's experimental results and the matter of the vice president of Mushu Hospital suspected to be the matron of the "Mother Earth" Church, Roland, through the Star Dream Grocery Store.

Most of the results of this experiment were within his expectations. The only thing that surprised him was:

Roxanne’s memories are still there, as are all the memories of her interactions with Franca and Janna!

"This means that we can 'cultivate' dream characters... but it is not yet clear to what extent the dream characters will know the truth before it becomes abnormal...

“In the future, perhaps a situation like this will arise: the five of us and even the subsequent gold coin holders will be completely kicked out of the dream and can only watch. However, many characters in the dream have inherited our wishes and careers and are still working hard to awaken Mr. Fool. They are part of the dream and cannot be kicked out!
"This is a change of mindset. It doesn't have to be outsiders, and it doesn't have to be us. NPCs can also play a role...

“At that time, well, these dream characters will not be kicked out, but they can be killed and polluted, just like the gods’ messengers.

“When more dream characters are killed, will it be considered a kind of excitement for Mr. Fool? This is also a disaster of the dream city. A large number of important characters have died or fallen...

"Witch and Hunter, are they really going to bring disaster?"

Lumian made a self-deprecating remark, selected "Intis Group Green", and entered the chat interface.

He raised his chin slightly, and with a cold expression, he sent a message using the voice input method:

"How have you been doing lately?"

Two or three meters away, Old Xia, who was sitting on another chair, shuddered when he heard the voice and words. He felt that this kid Li Ming was more like a captain than Captain Xu.

A few minutes later, Green replied:
"We haven't found a way to get Huang Tao back into his mother's arms.

"Without Huang Tao's cooperation and acquiescence, we can't do many things. At present, we can only use the authority of the Security Department to monitor Zhou Mingrui's actions. We installed pinhole cameras and eavesdropping devices at his location and implanted Trojans in his computer. This allows us to find problems from his browsing history, search history, and call status at the first time and prevent them in time.

"A few days ago, Zhou Mingrui thought about resigning and searched for the specific procedures and precautions, but later he did not do it, nor did he read any articles or videos about it.

"Without Huang Tao's cooperation, we can't keep him by offering him a promotion or a raise for the time being. We must resolve this issue before he actually resigns."

Lumian read it carefully and felt that Green, or the children of the "Great Mother" in the Dream City, had not yet thought about how to cooperate with Tianzun to turn Zhou Mingrui into a "witch". They were more focused on monitoring and observing, and wanted Zhou Mingrui to stay in the Intis Group, where they had a great influence, and not resign and leave.

"It feels like what the children of the Great Mother are doing right now is to maintain balance and get intelligence on the latest changes at any time...

"This is basically consistent with the Major Arcana cards and my judgment of the evil gods' intentions..."

Lumian muttered to himself, then stood up and took a walk around the office.

He was thinking about how to use the children of Green and other mothers, and also thinking about the incident of Mr. Fool drinking the "Assassin" potion.

Frankly speaking, Lumian felt it was a bit absurd when he learned that Tianzun had tricked Mr. Fool into drinking the "Assassin" potion in an attempt to turn him into a "witch" step by step, change his gender, and thus cause him to have cognitive problems.

In his view, all gods are "Him", and except for a few ways where gender needs to be emphasized, it should not matter whether they are male or female. This may be especially true for those ancient beings who have lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years.

Will Mr. Fool really have cognitive problems because of becoming a woman?

Recalling that Mr. Fool had asked to be called "he" instead of "Him", Lumian reluctantly accepted this reason.

At the same time, he also suspected that Tianzun wanted to use the symbolic conflict of the extraordinary characteristics of non-adjacent pathways to drive Mr. Fool crazy, so as to gain the upper hand and win - the "Witch" pathway and the "Fortune Teller", "Apprentice", and "Thief" were not adjacent pathways.

After killing the resurrected female corpse Panatia and learning her mission, Lumian's mind was more inclined to speculate that Tianzun wanted to take advantage of the conflict between non-adjacent paths:

Panatia wants Zhou Mingrui to fall in love, and stay with him after he drinks the "witch" and changes his gender. Isn't this equivalent to helping Zhou Mingrui and Mr. Fool stabilize his mental state?

This is somewhat contradictory to the speculation that Mr. Fool's cognitive problems were caused by gender change.

And if stabilizing the mental state is to let Zhou Mingrui drink a higher-sequence "witch" potion to accumulate more madness, it seems more reasonable.

Now, Lumian followed this line of thought and had a new question:

Why does it have to be an "assassin" potion and a "witch" path?

As long as the potion is not on an adjacent path to the "Fortune Teller", "Apprentice" or "Thief", it can achieve the goal...

Becoming a woman early does have its effects, and does it bring about mental risks?
Considering that most of our team are "witches", and Tianzun even deliberately pulled a "witch" secret doll into the dream city, does it mean that there is a hidden reason for inducing Zhou Mingrui to drink the "assassin" potion instead of other unrelated potions?

Lumian immediately went over the various special features of the "Witch" path in his mind.

It took him only a few seconds to come up with a term:
"Man in the mirror"!
Becoming a "witch" not only turns you into a woman, but also a corresponding, fixed "person in the mirror" will appear.

From this sequence on, the "witches" are able to use mirrors, create doubles and use corresponding magic.

Judging from Lumian’s current experience, the “people in the mirror” are more extreme, more vicious, and more sinister.

"What Tianzun actually wants is to make a 'man in the mirror' appear before Mr. Fool, and then achieve the goal of winning this confrontation by doing something to the 'man in the mirror', or letting the 'man in the mirror' do something? To make the fake look real, and make the fake become real?" Lumian fell into deep thought.

At this moment, his cell phone vibrated, and the new message came from Anderson Hood.

PS: It’s the last day of August to ask for monthly tickets. There will be an extra update tonight, no, at 00:02 on September 1st~
(End of this chapter)

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