Chapter 33 The Fortune Teller's Divination

"You've settled into the role of 'Fortune Teller' so quickly?"

After seeing off the contented Mrs. Green and enjoying a cold lunch together, Angel leaned back on the sofa, feeling lazy and asked Klein.

"This might help me master the potion's power. You see, a 'diviner' is supposed to be doing divination, right? To be honest, I'm planning to work part-time at the Divination Club... well, mainly to keep an eye out for any suspicious individuals, and also to become an amateur fortune teller."

Klein took a sip of coffee and said with a smile.

This unexpectedly conformed to the rules of "role playing," but it was also because the "diviner" sequence itself had convenient auxiliary abilities. Other sequences, such as the "assassin" potion, were extremely difficult to play openly...

Angel looked at the silver chain faintly visible through the sleeve of Klein's left hand, which was holding the coffee cup, and felt a slight sense of jealousy. A person's success depends not only on their own efforts, but more importantly on the path they choose to study potions...

Just now, when Mrs. Green was present, Klein swung out the topaz hanging from the silver chain and performed a pendulum divination. Angel thought he had forgotten the confidentiality clause. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Green was so focused on convincing Angel to accept the commission that she had no time to pay attention to Klein's strange behavior.

After receiving the divination result, Klein readily accepted Mrs. Green's commission to find the stolen ring. Although Angel was a little puzzled, out of trust in her teammates, she did not question it on the spot. Instead, she cooperated. After politely suggesting "additional payment", she reached a commission contract for 120 pounds.

"I used the 'Pendulum Method' for divination. It relies on the connection between the astral body, the spiritual world, and the starry sky to predict whether something is good or bad," Klein explained. "Clockwise represents affirmation, counterclockwise represents negation. The divination I just made was 'Retrieving the ring will be dangerous.'"

"The pendant was rotating very slowly clockwise. The conclusion is..."

"There is danger, but not much?"

Angel answered first.

This is consistent with the findings of the Jules Detective Agency. The ring was indeed sold to the gang by the thief, but it was only the gang, and no higher-level power was involved.

For Extraordinary People, ordinary gang members are indeed not a big danger.

"That's right. If the divination indicates that the danger is very great, even for a Beyonder, then it means that this matter is likely to be influenced by Beyonders. Otherwise, it is just an ordinary theft."

"Divination confirmed it's the latter. I think I can take this commission. After all, they've already come to us under the name Blackthorn Security Company. Whether it's for the sake of maintaining this disguised identity or helping ordinary citizens, this approach is reasonable."

Klein explained with a slight smile.

And still earn a full 120 pounds...

Angel helped him add a reason.

Thinking of the gold pounds she was about to receive, she asked Luo Shan, who was brewing a second pot of coffee beside her, "By the way, Miss Luo Shan, if we complete the commission, how will the 120 pounds be distributed?"

Luo Shan poured hot water into the coffee pot and tilted her head while answering:

"According to the long-standing rules, half of the commission rewards must be handed over to Mrs. Orianna as funding for the entire team. The remaining half is distributed among the participating team members based on their contributions, but they are usually divided equally."

Each member has different extraordinary abilities, and their contributions to combat or item hunting vary. It's indeed more appropriate to divide it equally. So, if we hand in 60 pounds, each of us can get 30 pounds?

Angel quickly calculated his pay. 30 pounds was ten weeks' worth of Nighthawks salary. It was said that becoming a full member would double that, so that was five weeks' worth...

She glanced at Klein, who was sitting opposite her, and found that his eyes were wide open as he looked at Roxanne, as if he couldn't believe that he could get such a large reward.

"Unfortunately, Klein isn't a full member yet, so he can only get about 10 percent. Well, that's 10 percent after handing in half."

"ah?"

Seeing the huge sum of 30 pounds instantly become 6 pounds, the huge difference made Klein unable to help but utter a question.

His reaction almost made Angel laugh out loud, but she was professionally trained after all, so she tightened her facial muscles and held it back.

Judging from his clothes, he doesn't seem to be short of money... But I learned from our previous conversation that Klein has a brother who works overtime every day to earn money, and a sister who is still studying. Perhaps the whole family is under great financial pressure?

Angel thought to himself.

Wait, informal member...

"But I'm not an official member either, Miss Roxanne."

Angel reminded.

"Hey, you were already a Beyonder before joining the Nighthawks. I thought you were already..." Luo Shan raised her eyebrows in surprise. "In that case, it's another 30 pounds per person."

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Perhaps to prove that he was worthy of half the reward, an excited Klein immediately helped Angel with the subsequent divination. Roxanne, who was quite interested in the mysticism, watched from the side, while Brett went to help Mrs. Orianna organize the finance office with a lack of interest.

"The key to pendulum divination lies in the choice of divination content." Klein held the silver chain in his left hand, letting the citrine pendant hang naturally, almost touching the table. On the table lay the white paper on which he had just written the divination content. "If you use a question like 'Where is Mrs. Green's lost ring?', you won't get an answer. The pendulum can only give two answers: 'yes' or 'no', and at most an 'in-between state'. Any more specific answer is beyond its scope."

"But we can break down the questions that require divination into simple questions that can be answered with 'yes' and 'no', and then divine each one to get the answers."

Looking at the white paper on the table with the words "Mrs. Green's lost ring is at the Labor Mutual Aid Association in the dock area of Tingen City", Angel was quite surprised. Was Klein really a new Beyonder?

Klein closed his eyes, his lips moving as if he was mumbling something.

After a while, he opened his eyes again and saw the pendant in his hand slowly rotating clockwise.

"Confirmed. It seems the conclusion of the investigation report provided by Mrs. Green is correct. The ring is in the dock area."

"Can you narrow it down a little more?"

Angel took the investigation report and scanned some key words.

"I have some impression of the Labor Mutual Aid Association. It was a warehouse converted into an office area. It wasn't usually crowded, but there were many rooms and they were messy. Searching them one by one was too time-consuming, and if the staff were alerted, disputes could easily arise."

"You can't raise questions, you can only verify authenticity." Klein reiterated. He held a pen and a new piece of white paper in front of him, but he didn't write anything. He was waiting for Angel to ask a question that required divination.

"What about eliminating them one by one? Try divination in every room?"

"My spiritual power can't support too many divinations. If the location is relatively small, it's okay, but if the area is too large, I won't be able to do anything."

Klein rejected this method. He frowned and thought for a while, then nodded as if he had made up his mind.

"How about this? I'll go with you to the docks, and I'll use the Divining Rod to find the ring."

He picked up the cane beside him and explained the divination method to Angel and Roxanne.

Unlike the "yes or no" prompts of the pendulum method, the dowsing rod method only requires you to silently recite the thing that needs to be divined, such as "the location of Mrs. Green's lost ring", and stick the cane on the ground. The direction it falls is the approximate direction of the object.

"That sounds good. Even if the range isn't very accurate, I can always make up for the lack of accuracy by doing more divination and using triangulation."

Angel was somewhat tempted, but after estimating the area of the dock warehouse in her mind, she shook her head.

"It's not very useful. We've confirmed that the ring is in the warehouse of the Labor Mutual Aid Association. It's quite large, and your divination outside won't be accurate enough..."

"Then let's go in together." Klein seemed quite excited and suggested, rubbing his hands.

"That's not stealing, that's robbery." Angel refused. "Let me go alone. With my skills as an assassin, it's better for me to go in alone. If you follow me, it will easily alert the gang members."

Without waiting for Klein to speak, she took a pen and paper, quickly wrote a sentence, and placed it in front of Klein.

"Come on, fortune teller, I have come up with a solution. You can try this fortune telling first."

Klein, whose identity as a fortune teller was emphasized, could only smile bitterly. He took the white paper and took a look. It read, "Mrs. Green's lost ring is being carried by someone."

The pendulum rotates counterclockwise and the divination result is negative.

"The second one."

While Klein closed his eyes and silently recited the words on the paper, Angel had already written another paragraph: "Mrs. Green's lost ring is being kept safely."

The citrine pendant rotates clockwise this time.

This means the ring is being kept in safekeeping.

After completing two consecutive divinations, Klein put down the pendant in his hand, pressed his hands on both sides of his temples and rubbed them, then opened his eyes.

"I can only perform two or three more divinations at most. Sorry, I've only just become a fortune teller, and continuous divination consumes a lot of spiritual energy."

"It's okay, that's enough. I've got the answers I need."

Angel spread the three pieces of paper with divination contents written on them on the coffee table one by one, and drew the results of the divination on them with a pen.

Under the surprised gazes of Klein and Roxanne, she patiently explained, "First, we confirmed that the ring was indeed at the Workers' Mutual Aid Association in the dock area, as Mrs. Green's information stated." She circled the first piece of paper. "Then, a second divination denied that the ring was being carried."

The second piece of paper had a cross drawn on it.

"Finally, it was kept safe again."

Angel finished drawing the last circle and looked up at the two of them. "A gold ring that looks very valuable. It's not being carried around by anyone, and it's being kept safe. So where should it be?"

"Safe!" Klein and Roxanne answered in unison.