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"You, you, you—"
Emlyn White stammered for a long time, finally managing to blurt out:
"You call that reasoning?"
He seemed to recall something else, and his confidence increased slightly.
"Bah, who reasons like you! You clearly knew all of this through extraordinary abilities, divination, or some other strange ability!"
Evidently, Emlyn White's mind was still quite quick, even if his imagined direction was wrong, it was indeed a possible direction.
"Guess." Lin Ruo said with a smile, his gaze falling back on the brass universal key in his hand. After a moment of thought, he returned the key to Klein, then said to Father Utravsky: "Since the matter is resolved, we won't trouble you further today, Father Utravsky, farewell!"
Father Utravsky did not try to keep them, only saying gently: "Harvest Church will always welcome your visits again."
Lin Ruo smiled at that and left Harvest Church with Klein.
After exiting the church gate, Klein finally couldn't resist asking curiously: "Lin Ruo, how did you know so much about the key?"
If the previous events could barely be explained by reasoning, the direct act of stating the address made Klein feel as if Lin Ruo knew everything and was deliberately toying with him.
"You're asking about that…" Lin Ruo glanced at Klein, and without changing his expression, said: "Actually, I didn't know it originally. All this information came to me after I saw the key."
This was not entirely a lie. Although Lin Ruo knew the original plot, the series of information related to the key was indeed confirmed only after he saw it.
Before seeing the key, Lin Ruo didn't know if such a situation existed, so he couldn't claim to have "known" it.
Klein was slightly stunned, somewhat surprised yet not too surprised. As a Seer, he often received spiritual insights, and divining information from items was his specialty. So, for Lin Ruo to gain a series of information upon seeing the universal key, while incredible, was not incomprehensible to him.
Perhaps this is a peculiarity of a high Sequence? But the Red Priest Sequence's authority doesn't seem to include fate… Or is this Lin Ruo's own uniqueness?
Klein speculated, seeing that Lin Ruo didn't directly use Travel, but seemed to intend to take a carriage, he couldn't help but ask: "Are we going to 32 Verdi Street in Bridge South District right now?"
"Yes, I plan to go check it out now. Some things need to be confirmed." Lin Ruo nodded, "After all, this matter might involve Bethel."
"Mr. Door?" Klein was a little surprised, "Is this key related to Mr. Door?"
"It's somewhat related." Lin Ruo paused, looked at Klein, and reminded him: "By the way, if you're not using it, it's best not to carry this key with you. Its side effects are probably not as simple as getting lost."
"I suspect this key has a curse from Bethel attached to it. It's highly likely to make the bearer encounter great danger when they get lost."
Klein frowned slightly, thought of something, and said: "So that thief encountered Emlyn White, and Emlyn White, a Sequence 7, got lost to Harvest Church because of this key… Hiss, what a trap!"
"Yes, I think so too." Lin Ruo expressed his agreement seriously, a famous scene from the original work flashing through his mind: Mr. Fool, who claimed he would never get lost, yelling "Help! Murder!" while fleeing for his life. For a moment, he felt a bit of pity.
Since he had reported the Desire Apostle, the demon dog, in advance, that famous scene would naturally not happen.
But it wasn't a bad thing; at least fewer people would die.
Lin Ruo thought this and added: "However, this isn't entirely a bad thing. At least with such a curse, this item might occasionally yield some unexpected value."
"Hmm? Unexpected value?" Klein was a little confused.
"For example… if you accidentally stumble upon a famous scene of summoning an Evil God in the future, you can try throwing this universal key onto the altar. It might just disrupt a summoning." Lin Ruo gave a simple example, "After all… never mind, this isn't something you can know yet."
Although he was curious about what Lin Ruo said he couldn't know, since Lin Ruo said so, Klein naturally wouldn't ask. He just became thoughtful, as he was always good at utilizing the negative effects of mystical items, and at this moment, his thoughts were flowing like a spring.
After waiting a while longer, Lin Ruo hailed a trolley car, and the two quickly arrived at 32 Verdi Street in Bridge South District.
Lin Ruo first walked around the house, observing it. The house was naturally empty at the moment, and there were no signs of anyone monitoring it.
Not surprised by this outcome, Lin Ruo then simulated the abilities of a Seer. After divining and confirming that there was no danger inside the house, he switched to the Apprentice Sequence. Then, incredibly naturally, as if he were the owner of the house, he took out a key he had brought and opened the front door.
"I'll go in by myself, you wait for me outside. If anything unexpected happens, remember to call for help for me."
Lin Ruo instructed the Klein beside him. Although from both the original work and the results of his recent divination, the problem wasn't big, Lin Ruo, who was always cautious in such matters, decided to play it safe.
After all, while he didn't mind taking risks many times, otherwise he wouldn't have dared to mess with Ince and 008 when he knew nothing and was still a rookie, Lin Ruo still didn't want to die for some inexplicable reason.
"Okay." Klein nodded quickly, then thought of something and asked: "Who should I call if I need to?"
"Medici or Church of the Evernight Goddess." Lin Ruo said without thinking, "Church of the Evernight Goddess goes without saying. For Medici, you know his honorific name. Just recite it and say I'm in trouble."
Klein indicated he understood.
Lin Ruo then walked into 32 Verdi Street in Bridge South District. He surveyed the house, his gaze sweeping over the dust on the furniture, knowing that no one had lived there for at least two or three months.
He looked around the first floor, saw nothing useful, and then walked upstairs to the second floor. Unlike the original work, there was no thief's corpse at the staircase landing from the first to the second floor, and thus no vengeful spirit.
Lin Ruo went up to the second floor, scanned the area, and finally focused on a particular room.
From the open door, it could be seen that it was a study, but unlike the other rooms that had been ransacked, this study was overly neat.
It was as if it had never been visited by a thief, and had even been continuously maintained.
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