The fireplace emitted flickering firelight, and long and narrow shadows danced.
"The 'Observer' is so powerful. It would be great if I also had this cursed title."
Late at night, Naxi's envious sighs rang out in the dark, quiet and warm lounge.
"It became powerful after releasing the power of the cursed title." Yeager, who had not yet fallen asleep, replied.
"A cursed title that has not been released is fine." Naxi said hopefully: "Is this cursed title restricted?"
"I have just reached level 3 in mysticism. Maybe the captain knows?"
He disappeared into the lounge and received no response.
"He's asleep, let's sleep too." There was a sound of turning over on Jaeger's bed.
"Good night Jaeger."
"evil……"
The lounge returned to silence.
The fireplace in the distance crackled slightly, and on the bed deep in the lounge, a pair of black eyes as deep as the night quietly stared at the fluorite lamp outside the curtain like hazy moonlight.
Many people think that being able to observe more details is a good thing, but Lu Li doesn't think so.
Human evolution, or evolution, allows the brain to discard useless and complicated information. For example, if you don't pay attention, you can't see your nose, or the details of the surrounding environment.
The cost of the influx of complex and complicated information into the brain is that it consumes more power and brings more dangers and weirdness. In the dark age, no one knows whether the ruins and buildings that are accidentally glimpsed are clinging to some kind of curse, or whether there is some kind of monster dormant in the shadow in the corner of the vision.
The more you know, the sooner you will die.
This sentence has nothing to do with the cursed title of "Observer", but it fits it to a considerable extent.
Kane's mental state is proof of this.
Even if he regains his humanity due to Lu Li, it will be difficult for him to return to his normal state.
If the cursed title in the restricted area is "Observer", Lu Li will avoid this cursed title.
Stopping thinking, Lu Li fell asleep.
…
In the early morning, Lu Li slowly woke up.
Lu Li's shirt, which was wrinkled while sleeping, left the bed and stretched out his arms to lift the curtains and straighten them again.
Yeager and Naxi were still awake in their respective beds, and Kiruait was sitting in front of the burning fireplace, looking through the books borrowed from the library.
"Good morning, Lu Li." She tilted her head in greeting.
"morning."
Lu Li entered the bathroom. He came out soon after, his handsome face turned pale from washing, and his black hair had drops of water hanging on his forehead.
Kiruit was fascinated by the sight and felt the indescribable attraction. He didn't look away until his side face was burned by the heat of the fireplace.
Out of the corner of his eye, Lu Li walked to the clothes rack and took off his black windbreaker and cloak.
"Are you going out?" Kiruit asked.
"Conduct the Level 4 Occult Trial."
"Are you ready?"
"almost."
"Do you need me to bring you breakfast?"
Kiruaite carefully placed the precious leaf bookmark into the page of the book and closed the book.
"Thanks."
"We are teammates, aren't we?" Kiruait's smile was a little feminine, and he blessed: "Passed smoothly."
After leaving the lounge, Lu Li went to the Occultism Office and applied to participate in the Level 4 Occultism Trial.
Professor Gray contacted the gatekeeper in a friendly manner for Lu Li, but when they arrived, Professor Gray changed his face and yelled in front of the gatekeeper and the students passing by in the corridor outside: "Lu Li! Are you here to humiliate me? Get out of here!"
...Get out! I don’t want to see you again!”
Lu Li did not need to cooperate with Professor Gray's performance, he only had to follow the gatekeeper silently and leave.
"What are you looking at?"
After Lu Li left, Professor Gray trembled with his legs, holding on to the door frame to prevent himself from collapsing, and growled at the students.
The students looked at each other, saw the ridicule and contempt in each other's eyes, and left the corridor without saying anything.
Obviously, the news that Professor Gray was so frightened by Lu Li that his legs became weak will soon spread throughout the middle class.
Mission hall.
The students were surprised by the arrival of Lu Li and the gatekeeper. Some students guessed that Lu Li was going to conduct a level 4 trial. The gatekeeper's move to go to the "Parchment Wall" to select tasks proved their suspicion.
Soon, the gatekeeper retrieved Lu Li's trial mission.
[Midnight City-Outer City-Union Street]
[Kleiman keeps secrets of weird torture. Every night in the dead of night, he hears bewitching whispers in his head. Clayman uses his faith to ask for help from nearby religious groups. The believers clean up the house, but Clayman can still hear the whispers in his ears.
Whisper]
[Task: Find out the existence of whispers]
[Advanced: Completely solve this task]
[Tip: The person involved, Kleiman, is the key, ask him where he has been and what he has been in contact with]
[Basic reward: 1 credit; 1 team point]
By completing the mission alone, Lu Li will pass the Level 4 Occult Trial.
The gatekeeper accompanied Lu Li, put on his cloak, and came to Union Street again.
Union Street is not a block, it is composed of several nearby blocks and is vast enough.
After taking the protective potion, Lu Li stepped onto the porch and knocked on the door of this rather exquisite single-family house.
Soon after, the person responsible for the task opened the door.
The sleepy deep eye sockets and the lush hair like weeds illustrate Clayman's mental state. He begged Lu Li to solve his troubles, no matter the cost.
Lu Li first asked Clayman about the time and place when he encountered the strange thing. Contrary to what he imagined, the whispers that lasted for nearly a week did not seem to be caused by the birth of the house. He had lived here for several years, but the whispers only appeared recently, and they were also heard in other places.
.
"What did the whisper say?"
"I don't understand... that's not our language," Kleiman said, recalling the whispers giving him a headache.
Kleiman later admitted that he was a writer, and that he was working on a manuscript all night long when the whisper appeared. He had not left the house in the past few days, and had not been in contact with anything except the nanny who came to cook once a day.
Lu Li asked Clayman to call the nanny over, then take a revealing potion and check every corner of the house.
The point is that in Kleiman's manuscript, Lu Li had seen incidents of weird writers in books, but it was not the case this time. There were no traces of weirdness in the manuscript.
"Mr. Kleiman?"
The nanny's strange shouting came from downstairs.
"She's here, come and see me!"
Clayman hurriedly turned around and went downstairs. When he turned his back to Lu Li, a cloud of gray mist spread out behind Clayman's head.
…
Light Team Lounge.
Kiruit, who was sitting on the sofa in front of the fireplace, looked up at the open door and saw Lu Li returning.
She thought Lu Li wouldn't be back until noon at least, and he hadn't gone to the restaurant to get breakfast yet. Even Naxi hadn't gotten up yet.
"Passed?"
"Um."
"So fast!?" Jaeger's head dripping with water was revealed by the bathroom door.
"What's going on?" Kiluaite was also asking.
Lu Li briefly told them the strange story of being attracted by Clayman's novel, hiding it in the back of his mind and urging updates every day, but was frightened by Clayman who did not understand the strange language.
"I guess the academy that set the rules didn't expect this either..."
Kiruaite was speechless, not only because of the character itself, but also because of the strange appearance potion that was easily discovered.
The college obviously did not expect that there would be students who used expensive sequence potions to pass the level 4 trial.
"I want to think about what the level 5 trial is... maybe it can be completed by the way?" Kiruait rubbed his chin.