Pawn! Pawn! Pawn!
At six o'clock, Lumian turned over and sat up, pulled back the curtains.
A soft light shone into the room, bringing the silent environment back to life.
Lumian rubbed his face and simply washed up to solve his personal problems.
He changed his clothes, went all the way down, left the Golden Rooster Hotel, took a detour to White Coat Street, and entered the rented safe house.
Lumian immediately looked at Aurore's sorcery notes, hoping to discover problems that had not been detected before after having new information.
There are three main types of things recorded in Aurore's witchcraft notes:
The first is the common sense occult knowledge, including the names of all paths, the situation of some sequences, the basis of ritual magic, the role of symbolic elements, the pronunciation and meaning of several supernatural languages, etc.;
the second is the specific application of occult knowledge and one's own abilities, which has a lot of thinking, many spells recorded or bought, and the prevention of curses, etc.;
The third is fragmented, unsystematic, and bizarre knowledge and anecdotes, some of which come from the indoctrination of the "hidden sages" and some from the exchanges between members of the "Curly Baboon Research Society".
These three contents are not recorded in different notes in different categories, but exist in a staggered manner according to the order in which Aurore obtained them, in chronological order.
For Lumian, the most difficult thing is the second type, what "lighting", "weeding", "exorcism", "soul summoning", "lightning", "wind making", "force field hand" and other "wizard" spells, each one is more difficult to understand, after all, he has neither fully mastered all the basic occult knowledge now, nor does he lack the extraordinary ability to cast spells.
In comparison, after becoming a "dervish monk", he has become much more relaxed in terms of understanding, learning, and mastering the content related to ritual magic.
Lumian also noticed that his sister did not write down the underlying rules such as the "law of conservation of extraordinary properties" in his notes.
However, this is also normal, similar laws are scarce, easy to remember, hard to forget, and do not need to be recorded additionally.
After looking through it for nearly a morning, Lumian didn't find anything suspicious, but accumulated a bunch of questions that needed to be consulted by others.
He exhaled slowly, folded a few pages of paper to record difficult problems, stuffed them into his pockets, and left the safe house.
On the way to the market avenue, Lumian saw several polling points, with uniformed police and heavily armed gendarmes trying to maintain order, allowing long queues of people to put their ballots into wooden boxes in turn.
Although it has been taken from Gardner. Martin got a new ID and transformed into Charles, who had lived in the market area for nearly two years. Dubois had the right to vote, but Lumian did not register at all, not wanting to participate in the election of members of parliament.
After walking for a while, a newsboy ran over and threw a stack of white paper in his hand into the air.
Lumian saw many pedestrians picking up the white paper, reading it very carefully, and bent down to pick up one right at his feet.
The white paper was printed with several rows of Intes, with simple grammar and easy to understand:
"Yuge. Artois is a traitor!
"In the war with the Kingdom of Rune a few years ago, he abandoned his troops and fled, leaving many people's fathers, brothers, brothers, husbands, and sons never to return!
"His participation in the parliamentary election was secretly supported by the Rune Kingdom!"
After reading it, Lumian couldn't help but let out a "yo".
He remembered that it was in Georgetown. Artois's propaganda poster emphasizes his service experience, and he grew up as a major before leaving the army and entering politics, starting as an assistant secretary to Congress.
"This is the result of yesterday's vote counting is not satisfactory, and a certain candidate has started to make a final effort?" While Lumian was thinking, several men suspected of being gangsters came all the way, confiscated the leaflets in the hands of pedestrians, beat and scolded them, but the nearby police didn't seem to see them.
Lumian raised his head, glanced at it, and recognized one of them:
He was a member of the Stinger Gang, and had previously followed Margot and Wilson to the Golden Rooster Hotel.
"Bastard, can you watch this?"
"You leper, give me what you have in your hand!
"It's a, do you want me to do it?"
The members of the Stinger Gang came all the way to Lumian, and they were waiting to snatch the leaflet as they had just done, when they suddenly saw the short hair with black blonde in the middle.
Lumian smiled.
Shire! The Stinger Gang members reflexively turned their bodies and tried to run away.
Lumian took advantage of the situation to raise his foot and kicked one of the gangsters on the buttocks, causing him to lose his balance and fall forward to the ground.
"Why, don't I know your grandfather?" He scolded, watching the fallen Stinger Gang members roll and crawl and flee away in embarrassment, without chasing.
Lumian threw away the flyer in his hand and strolled back to the Breeze Ballroom.
As soon as he entered, Louis took Sakota to greet him and said:
"Boss, Charlie quit his job as a waiter last night and only needed a week's salary."
"I know." Lumian responded calmly.
Louis still remembered that the leader had taken Charlie away and came back to find him the night before, and Charlie quickly resigned and left, which made him feel that there must be some secrets hidden in it, but he didn't dare to inquire.
Lumian glanced at Louis, walked to the café on the second floor, and asked casually:
"How old are you this year?"
「27。」 Louis didn't understand why the leader cared about this.
Lumian almost didn't think about it, and when he thought of it, he asked:
"Are you married and have children?"
"Not yet." Louis smiled slightly embarrassedly, "I plan to wait for myself to mature and get married."
He felt that although he had escaped the fate of being a low-level gangster and became the leader's bodyguard, he didn't have to worry about being beaten to death on the street at any time, but this kind of life was still dangerous.
He didn't want to be cheap to other men just because he got married and had a child.
Lumian nodded:
"You have to think about your future, the other Louis I know has several children."
Louis said a few perfunctory words, feeling that the leader had no topic today but forced a chat, as if to prove something.
…………
Franka did not have a relationship with Gardner. Martin had lunch together and returned to No. 3 White Coat Street before 12 o'clock.
She saw the door of the guest bedroom tightly closed, and twisted the handle with a slight confusion to push it away.
Jian Na was wearing pajamas and pajama pants, hugging the quilt, and sleeping soundly on her side.
Sensing the movement, she rubbed her eyes, sat up slowly, and looked at the door.
"Are you still sleeping?" Franka asked with a smile.
Recently, I don't have to go to the old pigeon cage to learn acting, just indulge myself like this?
Jian Na gathered her brown hair and muttered:
"It's all Shire's fault, tossing until midnight."
"......" Franka's smile stiffened on her face.
Jane continued:
"He didn't know what happened last night, his mood and state were not right, I was afraid that something would happen to him, so I followed him all the time, waiting for him to enter the Golden Rooster Hotel, sleep in bed, and then come back to rest."
Franka breathed a sigh of relief and said with concern:
"Be specific."
Jane started singing out of the Breeze Ballroom after singing, saw Lumian sitting on the side of the road in the rain, and talked about how he used unimaginable "methods" to help Gabriel win the opportunity to sign the script contract, and finally said:
"Zhen, it was almost three o'clock at that time, and he was willing to go back to his room to sleep, trapping me to death!"
After listening quietly, Franka said with a little concern:
"It's rare for him to be in this state......"
Speaking of this, Franka stopped.
She remembered that Lumian was still receiving regular treatment from a psychiatrist, and that state might be his truest appearance.
"He must have been stimulated last night, I'll go ask him later." After talking about Lumian as a relative, Franka no longer hides that she has a closer relationship with Lumian in front of Jenna.
Jian Na nodded:
"Be careful when you speak, don't provoke him."
…………
On the second floor of the Breeze Ballroom, in Lumian's office.
He saw Franka "invisible".
"I heard Jane say, something happened to you last night?" Dressed in a white ladies' shirt and black trousers, Franka asked carelessly, "Have you seen that Mrs. Puaris?"
During lunch with Jenna, she probably thought of something that would stimulate Lumian and cause his mental illness to explode.
Hearing Franka's question, Lumian seemed to have lost all his strength, and his whole body collapsed on the rotating back chair.
After more than ten seconds, he exhaled and said:
"Yes, I know some truth, some I can't accept it, but I have to accept it."
Seeing that he was unwilling to explain in detail, Franka did not ask any questions, nodded lightly and said:
"Is there anything I need help with?"
Lumian sat up straight and said unceremoniously:
"Two things, one is that I have a lot of occult problems to ask you for, and the other is the problem of the Stinger Gang.
"I told you before that when the election is over, Yuge. Artois became a councilor, 'Black Scorpion' Roger and the others will receive new gifts, at that time, we are all in danger, do we raid No. 126 Market Avenue at night before the election results come out to eradicate hidden dangers?"
Franka thought for a while and said:
"According to your description, 'Sorcerer' has a strong home advantage, even if the two of us use our hole cards, we can only say that we have a certain hope of killing 'Black Scorpion' Roger and the others, this is still when there is nothing else in his family.
"But if we don't do it now, it will be even more difficult for them to deal with the new round of gifts......"
She hesitated and couldn't make up her mind for a while.
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126 Market Avenue, in the three-story building with a garden.
"Black Scorpion" Roger looked at his subordinates who had gone to the Congressional Election Committee in the Market District to inquire, and asked expectantly:
"How is the situation?"
The subordinate said excitedly:
"Yuge. Mr. Artois is far ahead!"
"Black Scorpion" Roger smiled, waited until the subordinate left, then turned his head sideways and said to "Baldhead" Harman and "Bantam Candlestick" Castina:
"The election results will be released tomorrow afternoon, and in the evening, 'Ms. Moon' will personally preside over the ceremony and give us gifts.
"Then, we don't have to endure it, that bastard Ciel must die!"
ps: The above chapter uses an allusion, two Parisian writers masked and sneaked into the home of a theater manager, tied him up, and asked him to listen to his script. The manager's response is pure respect for reality.
In addition, I am very satisfied with what I wrote in the last chapter, the state of depression, dazedness, emptiness, wanting to explode but having nowhere to exert force, doing whatever you encounter, and doing whatever you see others doing.
Also, Lumian's personality is very different from Xiao Ke, he is a person on the edge of darkness, he will have a lot of bad behavior, sometimes he will do good deeds, and many times he is very indifferent, you can not like this person, but it is very boring to blame him for this.
Originally in the code word, the status was affected, I couldn't finish writing, just right, let's rest for half a day tomorrow, and resume the update at 7 p.m., lol.
Also, the second volume I said is longer than the first volume, but it won't be much longer, it will probably be at the end of this month and the beginning of next month.
(End of this chapter)