"What is this place?" Audrey asked without much change in expression, as if she was asking about the location of the dance tonight.

Paulie Dellau, who claimed to be the president of the Psychological Alchemy Society, also looked out the window and said with a smile:

“This is the city in everyone’s mind.

“It’s there wherever there are people.”

Audrey nodded thoughtfully:

"In other words, we can enter here from any corner of human society?"

Dellau stroked the wheelchair and said:

"right."

He didn't explain much, but pointed at the pedestrians outside the carriage window and said:

"Everything here has a corresponding psychological symbol, which they call 'animal desire'."

Animal desire... Audrey repeated the word silently, while maintaining a dignified sitting posture and looking further away.

Among those "pedestrians", in addition to the werewolves, there were also bears walking upright, cats with lazy expressions, a weirdo with a colorful spider on his face, a giant rat with red eyes, a python spitting out its core, and some kind of canine creature that looked at every passerby with lustful eyes...

They either wear top hats and windbreakers or wear exquisite and intricate dark long skirts, trying their best to imitate humans in every detail, but they cannot make themselves truly like humans.

The carriage traveled in the dim night, passing through the "pedestrians" and various Gothic buildings, and soon arrived at a church in the center of the city.

The church is over eighty meters high, supported by huge black pillars. Each pillar is inlaid with a certain number of skulls. Some of them are from humans, and some are from different creatures, but all of them have their empty eyes facing downwards, as if watching every living creature that enters the church.

Like most of the buildings here, this church is exquisite in every detail, but the elements that make them up are nightmare, thriller, horror, and mysterious.

After getting off the carriage and passing through the main door, Audrey saw a grand but empty hall.

Deep in the hall, there stands a huge cross with a gray-white dragon statue wrapped around it.

Unlike ordinary churches, there are no rows of seats for believers to pray, nor is there a place to place candlesticks. There is only a small long table in front of the giant dragon statue. There are five chairs on each side of the table, and the top and bottom seats are empty.

Paulie Dellau maneuvered his wheelchair to the top of the long table, then pointed to his left:

"Please take a seat."

Audrey followed him at a moderate pace, glanced left and right, then casually pulled out a chair and sat down.

She was neither too close nor too far from the president of the Psychological Alchemy Society, which showed her vigilance just right without appearing guilty.

Paulie Dellau raised his hands, clasped them together and placed them on the long table:

"Miss Audrey, I have something to ask you."

"Please go ahead." Audrey turned her head slightly and responded to the other person's gaze with her green eyes.

Dellau nodded slightly and said:

"I want to know how you were promoted to Sequence 4 Manipulator. Where did you get your potion formula and Beyonder properties?"

Audrey answered frankly:

“From a trade.

"A client hopes to obtain the help of the demigod of the Audience path, and paid in advance for the potion formula and extraordinary characteristics of the Manipulator."

Dellau laughed immediately:

"How could such a thing happen? The generous conditions are like a father looking for an excuse to give his daughter a gift.

"Can you tell me what specific help you provided?"

"To surround and kill another demigod. In this matter, mental control is crucial." Audrey explained briefly.

Her attitude was very calm, as if she was explaining what the tutor had assigned her.

Dellau's long, fluffy eyebrows moved.

"Successful?"

"The result is obvious." Audrey gave a relatively tactful answer.

Dellau looked her up and down, and seemed to realize that the noble girl on his left was actually a "manipulator" who could kill other demigods.

Audrey read his thoughts and added:

“I’m just one of the participants.”

Dellau nodded and said:

"Do you know where the client's 'manipulator' potion formula and extraordinary properties came from?"

"He didn't address the issue directly." Audrey responded with the words she had prepared long ago.

"Him? Can you tell me who he is?" Dellau asked after thinking for a moment.

Audrey has been on guard against the other party separating out a "virtual personality" and sneaking into her own mental island, but from the beginning to now, she has never found anything unusual.

This made her wonder if the other party didn't need to infiltrate, but could simply observe the movements of the collective subconscious sea around them to understand her truest thoughts.

She did not hide anything and answered calmly:

"This involves the agreement between him and me. I think keeping promises should be a moral standard recognized by the whole world. In the mysticism, this involves a lot more."

At this point, Audrey took the initiative to say:

“If you can’t really trust me because of the secrecy surrounding this issue, I’m willing to accept that.

"I can just be an ordinary member and exchange my contributions for the psychological research materials I can get."

Dellau smiled when he heard this:

"Everyone has their own secrets. This is normal. What I need to evaluate is whether your secret will affect the safe operation of the entire Psychological Alchemy Society."

He looked at Audrey deeply and said:

"Then can you tell me how you got to know such a client?"

"I remember I once reported to you that before joining the Psychological Alchemy Society, I had already come into contact with some people in the mystic circle and met several extraordinary people." Audrey said something that couldn't be more true.

As for the actual logical order of the answers just now, that is another matter.

Moreover, the fact that Hvin Rambis' "disappearance" was caused by the investigation of Fors and Xio was a fact that neither party had discussed but absolutely recognized.

Dellau took back his hands from the table and placed them between his chest and abdomen:

"One more question. When was the last time you saw Hvin Rambis?"

Audrey frowned slightly and said:

"I remember you asked that."

After Hvin Rambis' death, she did not immediately cut off contact with the Psychological Alchemy Society, and still maintained a certain connection with the upper echelons through Hilbert, Stephen, and Eslant. When the war approached Backlund, she found that the members of her psychological research group could not be contacted for various reasons.

"I need to confirm it again in person." Dellau said calmly.

Audrey nodded slightly and said:

"The last time I saw Commissioner Hwin Rambis was in Viscount Greylint's mansion. At that time, I hypnotized two Beyonder friends I knew according to his instructions, asking them why they wanted to investigate Viscount Stratford and who was the mastermind behind it.

"At that time, Commissioner Hvin Rambis was nearby, making sure that the hypnosis went smoothly. After he got the answer, he left quickly.

"After that day, I never saw him again."

While answering, Audrey was still guarding against the invasion of her spiritual island, but everything was calm and nothing happened.

This not only did not make Audrey feel relieved, but made her even more alert. She even dared not think about anything related to Mr. Fool and The World Gehrman Sparrow.

She was only sure of one thing: as long as she was in danger of being exposed, Mr. Fool would definitely provide protection.

"It's the same answer as before." Dellau nodded slowly.

He then looked into Audrey's green eyes and said frankly:

"I cannot use mystical methods to trace the source of the extraordinary properties in your body, which means that there is an existence beyond imagination behind the provider."

Audrey nodded slightly, indicating that she thought so too.

"I can't force you not to cooperate or trade with other extraordinary people. That's unrealistic. I just hope you can promise not to reveal anything related to the Psychological Alchemy Society to anyone. At the very least, when you want to entrust certain tasks to others, you have to package them well and cover up the secrets." Dellau retracted his gaze and said calmly.

Audrey responded without hesitation:

"I promise not to tell any creature without the corresponding authority about matters related to the Psychological Alchemy Society."

She took the initiative to expand the concept of human beings to living beings in order to fill the loopholes in her promise.

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt thoughts emerging one after another in her mind island.

These thoughts intertwined together and turned into an illusory web, which penetrated into Audrey's mental island and turned into her subconscious.

Since this "web of restrictions" comes from Audrey's own spirituality, even if she becomes an angel, she will be unable to remove it. When facing non-members of the Psychological Alchemy Society or members of the Psychological Alchemy Society who do not have enough authority, she will lose the willingness to communicate about matters related to the Psychological Alchemy Society.

She herself could not realize this.

He didn't invade my spiritual island, but with my own words, I made the promise become reality... Audrey was shocked in her heart, but it was not so obvious on the surface.

Of course, she didn't completely restrain herself, because being surprised by this method was a "manipulator's" instinctive reaction.

Based on this, she suspected that either there was something wrong with this city within the mind, or that Dellau, the president of the Psychological Alchemy Society, was more than just a saint.

Seeing Audrey's promise, Dellau pointed to the long table with satisfaction and said:

"From now on, you are a member of the Psychological Alchemy Association's review panel.

"You can choose a personality mask as your code name."

As he spoke, seven grayish-white, rather illusory, and unusually cold masks appeared on the long table. Five of them were placed in corresponding positions, and they seemed to have owners.

"There are two personality masks left, one is 'Rage' and the other is 'Arrogance'." Dellau introduced, "They come from the holy book of the Creator in the Third Age."

Audrey thought for a second, then reached out to the personality mask that did not contain anger:

"I choose 'arrogance'."

Dellau glanced at her, smiled softly and said:

"This was also Hvin Rambis's choice back then."

PS: Ask for monthly ticket recommendation ticket on Monday~