Chapter 388 Before and After Comparison Lumian looked around quickly, and saw a few scattered gas street lamps and the still-burning red flames. There were crowds of people in the distance, but no one dared to approach. The people in the front couldn't open their eyes because of the stimulation of the "sun". In such a scene, neither the man suspected to be "Loki" nor the "passerby" who sang the aria could be found. "You were raised by a sow, and now you're running away?" Lumian was anxious and angry, and couldn't help but curse. You're running away before we even had a real fight? If you miss the first strike, break contact immediately? “Fuck, are you a rat? Not only is he slippery, but he runs away at the slightest sign of trouble!” Franka approached Lumian, cursing him with strange words that seemed to have been translated abruptly. “The Beyonders of the ‘Fortune Teller’ and ‘Thief’ paths are adjacent paths that can be interchanged. Aren’t their styles too similar?” This is mainly reflected in the fact that the main body cannot be hit and the real owner cannot be caught. The difference is that the "Fortune Teller" path is like this from Sequence 7, while the "Thief" path may have to wait until the door to divinity is opened and promoted to Sequence 4. Lumian's mind raced as he thought about how to find the trace of "Loki" and his secret doll. Maybe they have already left, or maybe they are still lurking in the chaotic streets in the evening! "Secret Doll...
"Yes, the puppet that sang the aria took my 'Hum-Ha Technique' head-on but was not affected. This means that he is most likely dead and does not have an active, awake spirit... "My experience of almost being transformed into a puppet just now indirectly confirmed this... "Since the secret doll is dead, then he should not have the fate of a living person, no so-called fortune. Even if there is, it will be frozen in darkness, which represents death... "If we can't find Loki who possesses the abilities of the Faceless Man, we can start with his secret puppet!" Thinking of this, Lumian concentrated his attention and carefully observed the fortunes of the citizens about ten or twenty meters away. He swept past everything that had its own destiny and was not completely dark. After a quick glance, Lumian did not find any target that looked like a secret doll. He let out a slow, disappointed sigh. "Let's leave here first. The firefighters are coming soon, and the official Beyonders should be on the way as well." Franca reminded Lumian. Lumian withdrew his gaze and turned away from the chaotic street before the red flames died down. He planned to make a half circle and return to the Golden Rooster Hotel, hand over the defrauded money from the "Different" dance hall to the bankrupt businessman Fitz, and take his own share according to the agreed proportion. After walking a dozen steps, Lumian's mind suddenly emerged with Mr. Rule who died of an infectious disease and Mrs. Michel who was hanged while singing the song of the City of Joy. He was worried that he would bring a disaster involving supernatural powers to the Golden Rooster Hotel and to the client Fitz. In two of her novels, Aurore created very vicious and perverted criminals who liked to start killing people who were important to the target, leaving him to watch his friends around him die tragically one after another. As the leader of "April Fools' Day", "Loki" loves to play with other people's minds and has no psychological barriers to harming his companions, let alone killing innocent people he has never met before. Therefore, after the failure of the first attack, there is a high probability that he will start with Lumian's acquaintances, use their deaths to defeat the target's spirit, watch him lose his mind and become crazy in secret, and then take advantage of this opportunity to reap his life. Although it was only a possibility, Lumian didn't want to take any chances, so he stopped and turned toward Market Avenue. "What's wrong?" Franca asked confusedly. Lumian had calmed down and smiled. "Let's go to the Breeze Ballroom and have a drink."
Those gang members you often come into contact with are dead, so be it. If you are in a gang, you must have this kind of awareness! Franca was stunned for a moment, and roughly understood Lumian's concerns: Because they caught a big fish but failed to capture it, "Loki" obviously already knew the true appearance of the two people. He can hide in the dark and wait for the right opportunity to come. Unless Lumian and herself give up their current identities and make comprehensive use of anti-divination and anti-tracking abilities to survive in another place, they will inevitably fall into a state of random guessing that the mice around them will attack them. Compared to the crowded Golden Rooster Hotel, the second floor of the Breeze Ballroom is relatively quiet and more conducive to defense. Moreover, once a battle of extraordinary level breaks out, it is better to affect gang members than ordinary people. "I'll go back and change my clothes too." Franca's subtext was that she also needed to change her appearance and hide in the dark so that "Loki" couldn't find her and avoid possible attacks. Similarly, she would let Jenna go back and live with her brother for a while to avoid being affected. Faced with this strange and terrifying enemy, the survivability of the "Instigator" is still too weak. Lumian patted Franka's "mirror double" hidden inside her clothes with his right hand, telling her to always pay attention to each other's general conditions. Franka nodded solemnly to show that she understood. ………… Breeze Ballroom, second floor cafe. Lumian sat at the innermost position away from the window and said to his bodyguard Sakota: "Go to the Golden Rooster Inn and call over a bankrupt businessman named Fitz." With such a transit, it seems that Fitz is using the Savoy Party to achieve his goal, and has no personal relationship with Charles Dubois. If "Loki" really wants to choose a victim, he will definitely choose from the Savoy Party members affiliated with Lumian. Lumian stroked the heavy bag on his lap, waiting for Fitz to arrive while thinking about questions related to "Loki". Having lost track of the "April Fools' Day" leader, he could only look for clues from certain phenomena in this incident. One of the details was an option that Lumian had preset before taking action: "If we really caught 'Loki', why was it possible to get rid of this 'April Fool's Day' leader last time by relying on anti-tracking techniques, but not this time?" After leaving the "Different" dance hall, Lumian deliberately completed the entire anti-tracking process as last time, and changed back to his original appearance, changed his clothes, modified his shoulder bag, and when he crossed the old street again and met Franca, he no longer fought back, in order to set up a comparison sample and find out the differences. Otherwise, if he failed to successfully capture the strange and hard-to-kill "Loki", wouldn't his "fishing" be in vain? There has to be something else to gain! This is a small trap hidden in the big trap. "According to normal logic, since my anti-tracking process last time was able to get rid of Loki, this time should be no exception. After all, I not only paid attention to the people and animals around me, but also avoided the birds in the sky. Even if there are insects that have become Loki's puppets, they will be thrown away because they can't keep up with my speed... "So, either Franka was being targeted early on, or I was recognized by 'Loki' when I was walking through the old street again after completing the counter-tracking. "Franca did a counter-divination, far away from the Alone Bar and the Different Dance Hall, and didn't even enter the old street. She used non-occult methods to observe, so it's unlikely that she will be exposed soon, unless Loki knew from the beginning that there would be such an observer... "The most likely possibility is that I was recognized when I was walking through the old street, but how did he recognize me? Not only did I change back to my original appearance and change my clothes, but in order to avoid suspicion, I chose to ride in a rented carriage. According to Anthony, this would prevent people outside from seeing my unchanged leather shoes, and also hide my habitual walking posture and body language... "I even put on some perfume to cover up the smell... "What unchangeable characteristics of mine allow Loki to recognize me in such a short time?" Lumian compared the differences between before and after and gradually came up with some guesses: "Either the Master of Secret Dolls or one of his secret dolls can directly identify a person from the level of soul and consciousness, or Loki can discover the characteristics of me that are different from others, the Angel of Fate, the seal of Mr. Fool, or the breath of the Blood Emperor? "Although 'Lies' is also a 'Fortune Teller' path, its sequence level with 'Loki' does not have an obvious, intuitively sensed cohesive force..."
The more Lumian thought about it, the more he felt that the reason was that "Loki" had a way of seeing through his disguise, but his tracking ability was limited, and he would be thrown off by targets who were wary of strangers, animals, birds and insects, and who could not be directly divined. No matter how "Loki" saw through it, this is the best reason to explain the contrast between the situations before and after. Based on this reason, Lumian had a new idea. He looked at the already dark night sky, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly. A quarter of an hour later, the bankrupt businessman Fitz was brought into the cafe by Sakota. Lumian signaled for Sakota to leave for the time being, and then said to Fitz: "The money has been recovered. How much do you think you can get?" As he spoke, he poured the banknotes, gold and ornaments onto the table, glanced at them and said: "The total is about 13 Felgin." Fitz blurted out: "Sixty thousand, no, fifty thousand, no, just give me thirty thousand Felgin." Lumian smiled, pulled out a few bundles of bills, and threw them to Fitz: “According to the previous agreement, the interest belongs to me and I get 50% of the principal. "Here is 5 Felkins." Fitz took it with surprise and thanked him repeatedly. Although he did not get the full amount, 5 Felkins was enough for him to start a new and hopeful life. The return of 50% principal plus interest is totally worth it! Lumian was equally delighted. With the help of the action of the Angel of Time beside Mr. Fool, he easily earned 5 Fel Gold notes and 3 worth of gold. You know, he worked so hard to raise gold before, but in the end he only got . He seriously considered whether he should buy some offerings from the corresponding fields to thank Mr. Fool and the Angel of Time. After waiting for another half an hour, Lumian entered the bedroom, which was also on the second floor. He threw away his bag and used a "lie" to change his appearance once again, turning into a black-haired, brown-eyed, more masculine version of Auror. He put on a shirt, vest, trousers and leather boots, took off the "lie", transferred the "torture" gloves into his briefcase, and looked out the window. After confirming that there were no humans, mice or birds, Lumian pushed open the window and jumped down lightly, as if he didn't know that "Loki" could see through his disguise directly. (End of this chapter)