Ring of Fate

Chapter 993 The Real Common Ground
Lumian's initial feeling was that Li Keji had noticed the difference between "Queen of Stars" Cattleya and Huang Jiajia, but after careful consideration, he overturned this guess.

Because Li Keji said that his other colleagues also seemed like different people, and it was unlikely that they had all been occupied and used by external consciousness.

"Why do you think so?" he asked Li Keji.

Li Keji stroked his belly and said:

"They used to eat the mushrooms I gave them, but not now!"

The current one is not there? Is it a different person? Lumian's thoughts raced, and he asked cautiously:
"Where's Huang Beibei? Have you seen her recently? Is she different from before?"

"Yes, but I don't know if there is any change. She has never eaten the mushrooms I gave her before." Li Keji answered frankly.

In other words, Li Keji couldn't tell the difference between external consciousness and dream images, and he didn't have the observation ability, but he could determine whether the person in front of him had eaten the mushrooms he created... In summary, what he meant was that Huang Jiajia and others in the Xingxing cram school had eaten them before, and there were corresponding traces left, but there were none recently? Huang Jiajia and others were replaced? Lumian was surprised when he heard Li Keji say that Huang Jiajia and others seemed to have become different people, but now he was more confused and vigilant.

He currently tends to believe Li Keji's statement, thinking that the Mushroom King, who is locked in a psychiatric ward and has not yet given birth to a child, has not been completely polluted, and will not have hallucinations or a distorted personality and love to lie. Li Keji's subconscious cognition in the dream city based on Mr. Fool is somewhat special, and it is indeed possible to discover abnormalities.

Who replaced Huang Jiajia and the others? Why? Lumian pondered this question.

Suddenly, he thought of someone:

Zarathustra!

When Lumian first discovered that Zarathustra was visiting the Star Tutorial School, his first reaction was actually that the angel wanted to do something with the dream image of the "Hermit" lady, but later, things developed into Li Keji being arrested and sent to the psychiatric department, which led him to overturn his original suspicion and no longer think in that direction.

Now, new discoveries have made him re-examine his earliest speculation.

Zarathustra likes to work on both the light and dark lines at the same time. On the surface, he helps the "Great Mother" control Li Keji and eliminate the hidden dangers brought by the mushrooms. On the dark side, he takes advantage of the visit and other opportunities to attack the teachers of the Star Tutorial School, such as Huang Jiajia, and replace these dream images? The advantage of doing so is that the attention of the secret destroyers will be focused on Li Keji's affairs, ignoring the key point that the Star Tutorial School itself is also a target...Lumian then realized that Zarathustra's layout is definitely not just what he and others have analyzed before.

Based on this, he believed that the other party should choose the path of a "conspirator" rather than a "fortune teller."

The experience, knowledge, brains and style make him worthy of a true angel... Lumian sighed in his heart and continued to ask Li Keji, wanting to know more details.

But apart from wanting to know whether those colleagues had eaten the mushrooms he gave them, Li Keji shook his head and said he knew nothing about anything else.

Finally, Lumian had no choice but to advise:

"You must come up with a plan in the next two days, otherwise the evil god's men will take action against you and make the child be born in the near future."

This refers to the agreement between him and Green that they would take another action a week later to help the fetus in Li Keji's body develop quickly.

"Okay." Li Keji replied while touching his belly.

Lumian looked at him deeply and had a new idea:

After Green confirmed that Li Keji was really pregnant, and with the help of the obstetrics department of Mushu Hospital to help the fetus gain the "power" to grow, he quietly returned and completed the abortion!
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Xinhong Community, inside a rental house.

The Lumian team gathered together again to listen to him talk about Li Keji's pregnancy and the suspected replacement of Huang Jiajia and others.

"If we assume that the murderer is Zarathustra or his accomplices, then the matter of replacement cannot be based solely on the Star Tutorial Class." Janna expressed her thoughts, "Don't you have any associations with this?"

Franca's heart moved:
"Death of the Messenger of God?"

"Yes." Lumian had already connected this matter with the replacement of Huang Jiajia and other members of the Star Tutorial Class. "If Anderson hadn't interfered, and if we hadn't discovered the body of the envoy in time, he would have been sent to the morgue on the basement floor of Mushu Hospital and regained his 'new life'. After that, does it count as the 'new' him replacing the original him?"

"Did Huang Jiajia and the others encounter something similar? Zarathustra is not only targeting the Star Cram School, but also the Dream Cram School?" Franka was more and more shocked as she spoke. "On the surface, he was looking for an opportunity to contact Zhou Mingrui by visiting the Dream Cram School, but secretly he was replacing the teachers of the Dream Cram School? How damn insidious!"

At this point, Franka said with deep emotion:
“I don’t know what else Zarathustra did in secret. It should not be just this one thing… Fortunately, we chose to eliminate the hidden danger in advance, kicked Zarathustra out of the dream, and killed His dream image. Otherwise, when His open conspiracy and secret conspiracy were launched at the same time and reached the line of success at the same time, the situation would be unimaginable!
"Maybe the whole thing will end here, with us completely defeated."

"Now that we don't have Zarathustra and Mr. Cui leading us, it's hard for their subordinates to take care of the overall situation. We just need to defuse the previous bombs one by one and eliminate the hidden problems." Anthony agreed with Franca's sentiment.

Lumian nodded and reminded solemnly:
“It’s a good thing, but it’s also a bad thing.

“I believe you can all see that the ‘Fortune Teller’ is more suitable to hide in the shadows and direct the drama, rather than stepping directly onto the stage and exposing himself to the audience’s sight.

"Zarathustra had to push forward the open affairs in order to obtain money and resources. He had to contact Zhou Mingrui openly, so he couldn't hide his identity and hide in the dark. Mr. Cui was the same. This gave us the opportunity to set traps and make good use of the rules of dreams.

"When Zarathustra and Mr. Cui obtain new identities and return, they will certainly hide behind the scenes and secretly carry out what they want to do. At that time, the identities of hunter and prey will be reversed. Even if we only reveal a little flaw, our true situation will be immediately discovered and we will be fatally murdered. Once we are attacked, the best result is that we will be kicked out of the dream and the dream image will most likely be destroyed."

"Yes, at that time the enemy was in the dark and I was in the light, and the danger level rose sharply." Franka said "hmm".

Because she has a close relationship with Luo Shan, when Zarathustra returns and focuses the investigation on why Zhou Mingrui went to Shujinrenjia Hotpot Restaurant that day, she will easily be found out to have problems, so she said "I'm in Ming".

Lumian smiled:

"Of course, this is also an opportunity. You continue to work in the administrative department of Intis Group and wait for Zarathustra to return. See if you can use this opportunity to set a trap for Him. If not, you quickly resign, change your identity, and hide in the dark.

"In the meantime, we must make good use of the time before Zarathustra returns."

As he spoke, Lumian picked up his phone and sent a WeChat message to "a name that impressed you":

"How have you been lately? Are you enjoying your classes?"

Soon, "a name that impressed you" replied:
"Do you want to check what time it is?

"If you have nothing to do, I suggest you go out and run laps."

Lumian replied calmly:

"Do you still feel that the world is fake recently, and that the people around you have terrifying fake details?"

After more than ten seconds, Anderson Hood replied:

“It’s even more fake than before.”

“For example?” Lumian asked.

Anderson Hood sent a "disdainful" expression:

"For example, teachers at cram schools like Ai Nana, Tie Pi, and Hua Long Jie are more fake and different from before."

As expected...Lumian confirmed his team's speculation.

He asked with a "funny" expression:

"What about you, have you become more fake?"

Anderson Hood posted "A dog biting its own tail":
“I might be next.

"But I recently saw news that a foreign guest was shot dead."

A good "hunter" must know how to get information from public reports... Lumian put down his phone and said to Franka, Janna and others:

"Most of the teachers at Dream Tutorial School have also been replaced."

"What is the significance of this replacement? Let all dream images be dominated by Tianzun, so as to gain victory in the confrontation of consciousness?" Franka asked.

Lumian didn't answer. He used frost to create a white board and pasted the notes on it.

Each note contained a dream image that was suspected to have been replaced, as well as the corresponding real person.

Lumian stood in front of the whiteboard, looked at it attentively for a while, and said to Franca, Janna and Anthony:

"Do you see any commonality?"

"Are they all or were they all pirates?" Janna answered tentatively.

Lumian shook his head.
“That’s the superficial commonality.

"There is another commonality hidden underwater."

As he spoke, he turned sideways and said to his companions:

“These are all characters that have appeared in the “Adventurer” series of novels.

"In other words, they are all participants and witnesses of Gehrman Sparrow's life!"

Hearing this conclusion, Franca suddenly thought of the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean", Jia Yu who was poached by Zarathustra for playing the role of Herman Sparrow, and An Xiaotian, the original actor who played Herman Sparrow but is now in a vegetative state.

"The focus of the fight is the identity of Gehrman Sparrow? This also fits the prophecy of 'The world wakes up, and the fools return'." Franka said to herself.

Lumian nodded slightly and said:

"That's what it looks like at the moment, so all those people related to Gehrman Sparrow have been replaced.

"The death of an angel of God is the beginning, not the end."

(End of this chapter)