The sound of rushing water seemed to come from afar, causing Lex's eyelids to twitch slightly, and his consciousness, like a rusty Machine, struggled to turn.
Did I leave the water running in the bathroom? No, I need to get up. Lex, who had given himself this command, tried his best to focus his consciousness and slowly opened his eyes.
Through his blurry vision, he vaguely saw a wooden ceiling and a quiet crimson spreading across it.
Lex's mind was numb, and he didn't feel anything unusual, so he subconsciously looked around.
He found that it was not a spacious room, furnished with a bed, a table, and a cabinet. A bronze mirror hung on the wooden wall, reflecting the night sky outside the window, where a crimson crescent moon hung.
And.
A person sitting on the bed, leaning against the wall!
That person's head was bowed, with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead, and his Face was covered in blood. In the crimson light filtering in from outside the window, he looked particularly grotesque.
death person?
Lex shivered and woke up completely.
Only then did he realize that the colors in the room were exceptionally rich, and the scene in his vision was like a vividly colored oil painting.
Right before his eyes, the flying dust was frozen, and an unknown flying insect was suspended in mid-air, as if time had been paused.
Then Lex noticed that he was holding a thick tome in his hand.
It was filled with an indescribable sense of unreality, with various colored glows emanating from its edges. On its dark cover was a strange symbol.
It was an eye, with an equilateral triangle pattern in its pupil. Around the eye, there were seven other symbols.
Strangely, Lex could not clearly see the seven symbols; they seemed to be shrouded in a mist, vague and indistinct.
Below this eye symbol, there was also some information: Knowledge Authority - 9.
At this moment, the cover opened by itself, revealing slightly yellowed pages inside. On the blank page, at the first line, were the words 'Collection', whose meaning was unknown.
In just the blink of an eye, this strange tome gradually faded until it disappeared from Lex's sight, as if everything he had just seen was an illusion.
As the tome disappeared, the light and colors in the room also began to return to normal.
Lex remembered the corpse on the bed, suddenly stood up, felt a lightness in his shoulder, and then heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground beside him.
He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a person dressed as a Sailor lying on the ground. Under the Sailor's body, a pool of blood silently spread.
Another death person!
What on earth is going on?
He looked around in horror, confirming that this was not his rented room. The sound of rushing water occasionally came from outside the window, and the slight swaying of the floor made it feel just like being on a ship.
Inadvertently, Lex glanced at the bronze mirror on the wall and saw a strange figure.
He looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, with short, choppy black hair, dark green eyes, slightly pale skin, and a faint scar below his left eye, like a tear stain.
He was tall and slender, wearing a blood-stained black suit, with his shirt collar askew and a missing button.
Who is this? A crazy thought surged in Lex's mind.
He tried to raise his hand, and the unfamiliar young man in the mirror made the corresponding movement.
Buzz!
Lex retreated in disbelief, a clear thought gradually emerging amidst his chaotic thoughts: The person in the mirror is me? I, Transmigration?
Suddenly, he felt something kick at his feet. He looked down and saw a beautifully crafted revolver on the floor beside his feet. Its barrel and body were decorated with patterns like snake scales.
Lex picked up the revolver, swung open the cylinder, and found that two bullets were missing. Where they went was self-evident; it was clearly these two missing bullets that had caused the murder in the room.
Who killed these two people?
It couldn't be me, could it?
As if stimulated by this thought, suddenly, some scenes flashed back in his mind.
Lex saw himself wrestling with two people. The two, one seemed like a passenger on the ship, and the other was a Sailor.
They stumbled into this room. He kicked the passenger away and took the opportunity to raise the revolver, decorated with snake scale patterns, and with precise shooting, sent the other party into eternal slumber.
The remaining Sailor lunged at him frantically. He plunged the dagger in his hand into his left rib, and in return, received a blow from the revolver pressed against his chin!
"Ugh—"
Lex suddenly felt his stomach churn and dry-heaved against the wall, but nothing came out.
He then lifted his shirt and, sure enough, saw a wound on his left rib. However, the flesh at the wound was wriggling, and the wound had already closed and was in the process of recovering.
This made Lex breathe a sigh of relief.
However, the wound recovering was a good thing, but the murder in this room...
Sure enough, he was the killer.
Thinking of this, Lex couldn't help but smile bitterly.
As a patriotic youth who grew up under the red flag, Lex had never even killed a chicken, let alone a person.
Suddenly discovering that he had killed someone, he was inexplicably terrified. Moreover, as these memory fragments flashed back, the memories belonging to the original owner also appeared in his mind, bit by bit.
Lex Disraeli, from Enki Town, Desi County, Loen Kingdom, North Continent.
His father was Baron Bison. Disraeli, who owned a manor, a sawmill, a textile factory, and vast tracts of land in Enki Town. He was a well-known noble in Enki Town, and every year he would donate to the Church of the Night Goddess in the Town for charitable purposes.
His mother, Amelia, was a gentle woman who always gave her children affirmation and support. In addition, the family members included a younger sister and a younger brother.
With such conditions, according to Lex's thoughts, the original owner should have become a promising, aspiring noble youth who worked for the welfare of the common people.
Unfortunately, it was the exact opposite.
The original owner had a bad reputation in Enki Town, oppressing the poor, acting tyrannically, behaving recklessly, and having an unseemly lifestyle.
This time, he had ruined his personal maid. Under public pressure, his father, Bison, kicked him out of the house to negotiate some business deals.
He first went to West Balam, where he stayed for nearly a month. Then he boarded the 'Alfalfa' to travel to Enmat Port.
This.
Lex suddenly had an urge to restart.
Isn't the original owner a textbook example of a noble scoundrel? Such a person is just an experience package for the protagonist to gain reputation. What sin did I commit to Transmigration into such a character?
Lex was on the verge of tears, and in his mind, the memory flashbacks continued.
Five days after leaving Caesar Port, the Alfalfa encountered pirates.
Nast and his gang, known as the 'King of the Five Seas', plundered the ship. Fortunately, they only stole money and did not kill the captives.
However, misfortunes never come singly.
Soon after the pirates left, a fierce infighting broke out among the passengers and crew of the Alfalfa.
It started with arguments, quickly escalated to brawls, and then to clashes with revolvers and straight swords.
During those few days of mutual slaughter, one person after another on the ship fell, blood stained the deck, and despair spread throughout the ship.
Fortunately, the captain, along with some people, including the original owner, who had not yet lost their minds, hid in the lower deck.
They hid in the lower deck for nearly a week, enduring until the limit of those crazy guys on the ship, and planned to launch an attack tonight to seize the ship.
And because the original owner was one of the few people who owned a gun, he was sent out to scout the enemy's situation. However, before reaching the upper deck, he was discovered by these two death people, and thus a fierce but brief battle ensued.
The memory fragments finally faded, and Lex recalled this information, extracting some keywords from it.
'King of the Five Seas' Nast? Never heard of him.
However.
Loen Kingdom, Desie County. Church of the Night Goddess, I seem to have seen it somewhere.
Wait a minute.
Lex quickly covered his mouth, preventing the exclamation that was about to escape from being uttered.
He suddenly felt a wave of weakness and almost sat down.
He knew what world he had Transmigration into.
Lord of the Mysteries!
That was a famous novel both at home and abroad. His friends had recommended it countless times, and he was currently reading it.
Although he had only read less than fifty chapters, Lex knew that the book depicted a mysterious, dangerous, thrilling, and terrifying world!
Here, gods truly exist, and evil gods await Rebirth in the shadows.
This is a world with Beyonder powers. A bug by your feet, a cat jumping onto the windowsill, or even the golden retriever you keep at home, may possess mysterious powers beyond your imagination!
I actually Transmigration into such a dangerous world?
Lex looked at the revolver in his hand and gave a bitter smile.
He really wanted to put one of the bullets into his own head.
Compared to the bizarre, creepy, and strange ways of death in the world of the book, death by a gun was already considered merciful.
Putting down the revolver, Lex shook his head vigorously. Even an ant clings to life, let alone a human.
Moreover, God knows if he could Transmigration and Rebirth after death, and he dared not gamble.
At this moment, a soft gasp came from outside the door, followed by someone calling out, "Mr. Lex, are you alright?"
Lex turned his head and saw a young man standing at the doorway, about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with blond hair and a nose like an eagle's beak.
Lex remembered him as 'Joyce', from Tingen City, who had gone to the South Continent for a business deal and had recently boarded the Alfalfa to return to Tingen.
"I'm fine, it's just..." Lex's gaze moved back and forth between the two corpses. "I was discovered by them, and I had no choice but to kill them."
Joyce then noticed the two corpses in the room, and the blond young man's Face turned pale: "We just heard gunshots. The captain thought something might have happened to you, and Mr. Tris also thought we should act earlier."
"After all, gunshots will definitely attract the attention of those madmen."
"Everyone has already left the lower deck. Would you like to come along?"
Lex nodded, took a deep breath, and walked towards the door.
I can't go back.
All I can do now is find a way to survive this Confusion. Then, I will change the original owner's reputation so that I can gain family support, have a way to access the mysterious Domain, and become an Beyonder!
Only by becoming an Beyonder can I have a shred of self-preservation in this crazy and mysterious world.
Therefore.
Lex stepped out of the door, and as he passed Joyce, he seemed to be speaking to himself.
"From now on, I am Lex, and also..."
"Lex Disraeli!"