Conan: Start with three choices, but sequence potion

Chapter 209 Secret
"Mr. Uozuka, how is Ms. Daly?" The members of the Lighthouse Team gathered around the bed in the inner room of the Red Rose Security Company, looking at Vodka hopefully.

Facing so many hopeful gazes, Vodka began to sweat profusely and was busy adjusting various instruments.

"Well, judging from the data from the spiritual detector, her spiritual fluctuations are very active now, proving that her spiritual body is still very healthy, but she may have fallen into some special state and cannot communicate normally with her physical body."

"So what does that mean?" Suzuki Sonoko didn't understand all the repetitive talk and asked directly.

"Maybe she is trapped in a dream." Vodka answered honestly.

"This is consistent with the common 'sleepwalker' phenomenon these days. We suspect that there is some abnormality in the dream plane itself, causing some people with keen perception to fall asleep and never wake up."

“Dream.”

Dunn repeated the term, and then asked in a deep voice: "Is there any solution?"

"If there was, we wouldn't have had so much trouble until now." Vodka said that he was just a researcher, "We are just low-sequence after all, and we can't do anything about things that involve the plane level."

"Perhaps a high-sequence expert would have an idea, but you also know that the saints of each church rarely take action. Perhaps we need to wait for this matter to ferment for a while and truly become an extraordinary event that can affect the city before attracting the intervention of the saints."

". " Dunn said nothing more and looked out the window.

On the streets, the temporary shelters built by the Church of Fools and the Church of Wisdom are already overcrowded. Many people who have fallen asleep are carried in under the worried gazes of their relatives and friends, and spiritual detectors are plugged in. They then wait for awakening, which may come at an unknown time.

His eyes dropped slightly to the unconscious Ms. Daly, and it was unknown what he was thinking.

Shuichi Akai has been hanging around in the old town of Tingen for nearly three days.

During these three days, he roughly figured out the intensity and patterns of the patrols of the rangers and pioneers, and he also memorized the location of each spiritual sensor.

The official extraordinary people did not have too many precautions against an ordinary person like him. They just reminded him not to wander around alone outside as he might easily encounter danger.

As Shuichi Akai mixed into the lives of ordinary people, he also discovered many turmoils hidden behind this stable situation.

For example, although they were in the shelters of the Church of Fools and the Church of Wisdom, those people basically did not say "Praise the Fools" and "May the truth last forever" from the bottom of their hearts like the members of the official team. Even when they received the relief money they distributed, they simply said "Thank you Fools" and "Thank you God of Knowledge and Wisdom".

In the absence of any official Beyonders watching, these people even prayed to a "wandering saint" whose situation he was not very clear about, praying that the saint could lead them out of this lost predicament and return to the embrace of the "Lord".

After finding an opportunity, Shuichi Akai joined the Suzuki Charity Foundation.

The mental outlook of the people in the Foundation was obviously different from that of the other people who had not entered the Foundation and were still receiving assistance from the Orthodox Church. Without having to face the official Beyonders for a long time, they were obviously much more direct and bold in expressing their faith.

Shuichi Akai has seen people gathering to pray to the "Ancient Sun God" in the foundation more than once.

Relying on his years of undercover experience and excellent basic skills as an agent, Shuichi Akai soon discovered that the foundation had several secret channels for purchasing and raising weapons, and that the scale of the channels had grown to a considerable level.

After discovering this, he realized something almost instantly.

The tranquility of the old city may not last for a few days.

Faith cannot be suppressed. It is like a spring. The more it is suppressed, the stronger its rebound force will be.

In the end, it can even overturn the hand that oppresses it.

"Zhu Xing, the Rangers and Pioneers are recruiting people to maintain the shelter recently. Do you want to go?" A companion from the foundation came over and asked Shuichi Akai.

Shuichi Akai uses the pseudonym here, Dai Moroboshi.

"I'll let it go." He shook his head.

"Well, they pay quite a lot, 7 soli a day." The man shook his head, as if he felt he had suffered a great loss.

Compared to that little bit of money, Shuichi Akai felt that his own safety was more important.

No one knows whether the sleepwalking phenomenon is contagious.

After checking the time, Shuichi Akai avoided everyone and went to the bathroom of the foundation building. After confirming that there was no one else there, he locked the door.

The time came to three o'clock in the afternoon.

There was another familiar feeling of pulling, as if passing through a thin barrier, and Shuichi Akai arrived above the starry sky again.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Red Joker." Mao Lilan, no, Miss Ace of Hearts, greeted the figure on the main seat surrounded by bright starlight with a lively and polite smile.

Then she began to greet the other two.

"And good afternoon, Mr. King of Clubs and Mr. Two of Diamonds." "Good afternoon, Ms. Ace of Hearts." Hattori Heiji responded easily.

Akai Shuichi simply nodded without saying anything.

"Congratulations, Miss Ace of Hearts." Shinichi Kudo spoke with a smile on his face while sitting on the main seat.

In his spiritual vision, he could clearly see the changes in Mao Lilan compared to the last time she appeared, which meant that she had become a Sequence 9 Beyonder.

"In our second meeting, a new Beyonder lady was promoted. This is a welcome change."

"You're too kind." Mao Lilan smiled modestly, "It's just that I'm lucky."

"In the extraordinary world, luck is also a very important part." Kudo Shinichi did not comment.

After he finished speaking, everyone fell into deep thought because of these simple words.

After a long time, Hattori Heiji raised his hand to ask a question.

"Does anyone know what 'The Old Ones' stands for?"

Shuichi Akai glanced calmly at Mr. Red Joker who was sitting safely above him. His posture at this moment was very relaxed, as if what they were discussing was just some common sense that did not interest him.

"I have seen some historical documents about the Fourth Epoch in the church's library." Mao Lilan answered him, but the unvigilant girl seemed to have forgotten that this might reveal some information about her true identity.

"It is said that in the distant Fourth Epoch, there were many more gods than there are now, and there were more extraordinary paths. Moreover, the true gods at that time could walk on the earth, and many gods established their kingdoms on earth."

"But no one knows what happened in the middle of the Fourth Epoch. Most of the gods began to disappear. The true gods no longer appeared in the human world. They just accepted people's faith and prayers."

"Many Beyonders of Beyonder Paths have lost control and gone mad, especially the High-Sequence Powers, who have lost control the most. Low-Sequence Beyonders have also begun to reveal their Beyonder characteristics, changing their beliefs and paths, and the world has fallen into war and turmoil."

"This situation continued until the end of the Fourth Epoch, when a witch who had never existed before suddenly appeared. She walked on the earth in an era when no true gods appeared, and opened up a new dimension. She exiled those Beyonders who had lost control, and cut off their connection with the true gods at the top of the path. 'Lost control' became controllable, and the war and chaos that had lasted for nearly a thousand years ended."

"In the history recorded by the True God Church, that incident was called the 'Hidden Disaster', and that dimension far away from the human world was called the 'Forsaken Land of God'."

"The 'remnants of the old days' you mentioned are those people who were exiled to the God-forsaken Land, lost the attention of the gods, lost their extraordinary powers and faith, and were cut off from history."

Hattori Heiji pursed his lips as he listened to the secret history she told him.

The topic came to something that Kudo Shinichi knew a thing or two about. He knew this was a good opportunity to show off, so he chuckled and tapped his index fingers on the table.

"'Secret' did not come out of nowhere, but because He was 'just born'."

These brief words stirred up a storm in the hearts of the three people.

After digesting it for a long time, Shuichi Akai finally managed to redirect the topic to a less shocking direction.

"Recently, the phenomenon of 'sleepwalkers' has appeared in various places. Those who have fallen into this phenomenon include ordinary people who have not entered the extraordinary world, as well as extraordinary people with various abilities."

"Yes, there are many examples around me." Hattori Heiji also nodded. The recent "sleepwalker" phenomenon in Backlund is particularly serious. The three major churches have begun to investigate and solve this incident, but the results are minimal.

Shuichi Akai looked at the somewhat naive Miss "Ace of Hearts". From her tone, he could tell that she should be an official Beyonder. Moreover, as the only one among the three who had taken the lead in embarking on the Beyonder path, she should have more intelligence and news.

But to his disappointment, Mao Lilan just hesitated and shook her head.

"I'm not sure."

But she quickly added, "But it shouldn't be a particularly serious incident. After all, the Church hasn't dispatched high-sequence warriors yet, which means the Rangers should be enough to handle this matter."

Akai Shuichi couldn't help but sneer: "When the incident develops to the point where High-Sequence intervention is required, ordinary High-Sequence may not be enough."

He was very disgusted with this kind of behavior that was allowed to ferment.

The best outcome for any crisis or threat is to nip it in the bud.

The perspective you stand at is too high. The more you look at the overall situation, the less empathy you will have for those at the bottom. When the people below you are surrounded by densely packed black dots like ants, you will no longer be sensitive to their numbers.

People are deprived of their qualifications to be human beings.

The number of "sleepwalkers" in the old town has reached a terrifying number.

In the eyes of the churches, this is just a "small trouble" that is not worth the trouble of the saints.

(End of this chapter)