Amid the steam of the industrial revolution, mysteries surge beneath the surface. Cults and secret societies seek the extraordinary in the shadows, while hidden gods gaze upon humanity from the hea...
Chapter 2022 Transmission
"Attention, it's coming out."
When seeing Nefernis coming out of the side door of the bank, Mosans' expression froze and he began to remind his men beside him. Then everyone looked in the direction Mosans was looking.
"Oh, she's still a beauty with this figure."
"Brother, it seems like there will be some extra gains besides the stuff."
When Mosans' men saw Nefernis, their eyes lit up, as if they had discovered some treasure. At this time, they saw Nefernis stop a carriage on the side of the road and then got on it.
"She's about to leave, let's hurry up and catch up."
As he spoke, Mosans and his men immediately got on the carriage beside them, and then the coachman drove the carriage towards the vehicle that Nefernis was riding in.
"We have caught up with the boss. What do you think we can rob now?" In the carriage, one of Mosans' men said while looking at the carriage moving not far ahead. Mosans said slowly.
"I hope there will be some storage. It would be even better if there is a ton of knowledge. Of course, it would be best if she knows some other ways to accumulate spiritual power."
"Boss, I think that girl has a pretty good figure. After we snatch her away, do you want her... hehe..."
Another subordinate recalled Nefernis's figure and couldn't help drooling when talking about it. After hearing this, Mosans slapped him on the head and then scolded him harshly.
"How many times have I told you that we only steal secret items. Don't do anything extra! If you lose your property or get raped, the other party will call the police. If you lose secret items, you will just have to suffer the loss in silence! Do you understand?"
"Um...I'm sorry, boss. I know I was wrong."
The subordinate who was beaten retreated and said this, but Mosans snorted coldly and ignored him, and continued to stare at the carriage following in front.
People like Mosans are a robbery gang that specifically targets beginners of secret studies. They hang around secret gatherings or institutions like Jinqi Bank that provide secret services, looking for newcomers who are new to secrets, robbing them, and plundering their extraordinary resources. They are a group of habitual criminals.
The most important thing for their group is the selection of their targets. They need to select those who are newbies in the secret world. This task is assigned to their boss, Mosans.
Mosans would appear around secret gatherings or secret organizations, carefully observe the participants, approach and question those he thought were possible targets, and through the questions and answers, he would determine what level the other party was at and whether it was suitable for him to attack.
Therefore, when entering the Jinqi Bank, when Mosans saw Nefernis being brought in by the waiter, he realized that it was Nefernis's first time to the Jinqi Bank and she was not familiar with the road, so the possibility that she was a newbie was very high.
Afterwards, Mosans took the initiative to talk to her, and mixed some common sense errors in the secret world into his conversation, but the other party didn't notice it, which made Mosans confirm that Nefernis was a newbie.
These rookies who have just entered the secret world are able to explore the secrets only because of some opportunities. Therefore, they have some secret resources in their hands. In addition, they are weak and have no backing, so they are easy to be bullied. If their secret resources are robbed, it is difficult to find the police, so they can only suffer in silence. Therefore, in this huge Tivian, there are many groups that specialize in robbing these rookies. Mosans is the one who is proficient in the business.
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On the busy road, in front of Mosans and his carriage.
Nephnis was riding in a rented carriage. She looked around and took out an oil-paper bag from her bag. This was the treasure she had bought from the Artisan Guild Headquarters before.
Nephnis opened the oil paper package immediately, and what appeared before her was a thin booklet with a blank cover and seemingly only a few pages.
Keeping in mind Vanya's previous instructions, Nephnis did not open the booklet to read it, but followed Dorothy's instructions, closed her eyes, placed her hands on the booklet, and then prayed silently to Akasha.
'Great Akka, I offer you my knowledge.'
After the prayer, the booklet in Nephnis's hand instantly disintegrated into ashes, but the information in it was transmitted to distant places through the information channel.
Directly sacrifice the telegram itself, at the cost of directly destroying the telegram carrier, and instantly upload the telegram content. This is one of the functions of the information channel. When Vanya was in the tomb of Dict, she used this method to offer "The Swift Sword of Glowing Fist". Since Dorothy didn't want to wait in the tomb any longer, she asked Nefernis to sacrifice the telegram in this way.
"This... turned to ash? It's really amazing, it turned into this in a flash..."
Looking at the ashes on the oil paper in front of her, Nephnis couldn't help but start thinking again.
'In this case, all that Miss Dorothy had arranged will be accomplished, but I don't know how this will help her.'
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Under the King's Campus, deep in the ruins.
In the staircase room, several gas lamps placed on the ground illuminated the surrounding environment. In the dim space, there were several figures lying on the ground. Upon closer inspection, these were corpses of various deaths.
In the center of these corpses, there were two figures sitting facing each other. They were Brandon and Edric. Between them, there was a chessboard. The side where Brandon was sitting was the white side, and the side where Edric was sitting was the black side.
At this moment, Brandon and Edric were staring at the endgame on the chessboard in front of them. Both of them looked serious and focused, thinking carefully about the game in front of them. Not far from them, Dorothy was sitting on a mat, eating cake while watching the chess game in front of her, acting as a referee for the two players.
Next to Dorothy was a piece of paper with a rough schedule of the quarter-finals drawn on it. Six of the eight players listed on it had been eliminated, and the two players on the field were currently competing in the finals.
After thinking for a long time, Edric of the black side finally made a move. He moved his queen diagonally forward a few steps, and finally in the upper left corner of the chessboard, he used his knight to kill the white king and won the game. Dorothy on the side saw it and quickly applauded.
"Oh! We won! Congratulations to Mr. Edrick for winning the first Dorothy Cup Chess Competition~~"
Dorothy clapped her hands, and then she clapped more and more slowly. At last she stopped and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Huh... so boring..."
Dorothy sighed and said that she had been in this room for more than ten hours now. She was so bored that she had to start looking for various kinds of fun, such as this zombie chess competition.
After releasing the zombie control, Dorothy let the champion and runner-up fall down, then she propped her chin up with her hands and looked around in boredom.
"I wonder how Neveu and Vanya are doing? According to the time, it should be about the same now."
Dorothy murmured.
At this moment, she was stunned and felt that new information was transmitted into her consciousness, which made her almost clap her hands again with joy.
“It’s finally here!”
Feeling the input of the distant transmission, Dorothy immediately sat up and began to check the contents of the transmission.
The name of this biography is "Elegy for Florence", a biography with poetic themes. The author, Florence, is a staff member in a nursing home. His daily job is to witness the gradual decay and death of the elderly, and he is fascinated by it.
At some point, Forlan's obsession turned into an obsession. He began to use poisoning, slipping and other methods to speed up the deaths of the elderly while taking care of them. He also wrote elegy poems for each elderly person he cared for after their death. In the end, Forlan's behavior was exposed, and he hanged himself at home, leaving behind these poems.
Without paying much attention to the content of the legend, Dorothy directly extracted it into spirituality, gaining 3 points of "Silence" and 1 point of "Inspiration".
Finally, Dorothy's spiritual condition was discovered.
11 cups, 12 stones, 8 shadows, 6 lights, 6 silences, 20 revelations. After completing the study of "Elegy for Forlon", he has fully met the requirements for the advancement to "Scholar".
With excitement, Dorothy stood up and quickly ran to the magic circle in the center of the room. She knelt in the center of the magic circle, calmed her mind, and began to ascend.
"I abandon this path... I still follow this oath... I wish to sail deep into the ocean of knowledge... to seek all truths..."
"I beg all the great gods in the world to clear away the clouds and mist for me and show me the way..."