Facing Lumian's question as if to confirm, Ryan nodded: "I can understand that, but if there are other anomalies worth investigating, we can't let it go."
"Okay." Lumian actually thought so.
He didn't even plan to attend Lent so that I wouldn't be tempted to take action when I saw the performances at the celebration.
The four of them soon arrived at Lumian's house and were led up to the second floor by Aurore.
Aurore, who had changed into a pure white cotton dress that highlighted her homely feel, pointed to the open bedroom and study of Lumian and said to the three official investigators, "You can choose either of these two rooms."
Leah thought for a few seconds, raised her right hand, and pointed to the study with a smile, "I'll sleep here, Ryan, you and Valentine can share that room."
“You trust us very much!” Lumian said as Aurore thought to herself.
He thought that the three strangers would choose to sleep on the floor in one room to avoid being targeted by people with bad intentions after they were separated.
Leah smiled and answered Lumian's words that sounded like mockery and questioning: "My divination results tell me that both of you can be trusted." As she spoke, she walked into the study, and lay down on the armchair to the sound of tinkling bells, with a look of comfort and ease on her face.
Aurore thought that Leah was quite interesting. "Don't be blindly confident. Divination is not omnipotent."
"My mentor has said something similar, but we're in such a secret situation and we're all in the same house. What can we do if we don't believe it?" Leah twisted her body in the reclining chair and replied with a smile.
Aurore didn't mind having her exclusive seat taken away, so she pulled over a chair and sat down.
Their study room also serves as a small living room, where they occasionally arrange afternoon tea. The space is not small and there are enough chairs.
Ryan looked around the corridor for a while, then walked to the door of the study and said to Aurore and Lumian, "I have some suggestions."
"Please go ahead." Luo Er politely put on a listening attitude.
Ryan led the way softly: "When sleeping, do not close the doors of each battle room, so that everyone is actually in the same space. Considering that we have broken the altar, perhaps someone will try to deal with us before Lent. Starting from tonight, everyone will take turns to be on duty, um, from 10 pm to 8 am the next day, two hours each."
"So professional!" Auror Jinping muttered silently.
Lumian then looked at her, as if asking why she hadn't thought of it.
Aurore spread his hands helplessly, meaning that he didn't have much experience in team operations.
She then looked at Ryan and Valentine and said with certainty, "Lumian is in charge from 10pm to midnight?"
Leah and others had no objection to this arrangement.
In their opinion, this was very reasonable, because there must be other people who were still awake from 10pm to midnight and could cover him.
Lumian understood that his sister's intention was not limited to this. He wanted to explore the ruins of the dream after falling asleep and could not be interrupted.
After determining the first time period, Valentine took the initiative to say, "I am used to going to bed early and getting up early, so I will be responsible for the period from 6 to 8 in the morning."
"We get up so early to greet the sunrise." Lumian sneered instinctively.
Valencienne's gaze softened as he looked at him.
"Yes, I will welcome the rising sun and praise the shining light." His eyes seemed to say. As expected, you are the only brother.
I am a little defeated by Valentine. In the "Eternal Sun" Church, "brother" is a common name among fellow believers. It is adopted by the two most mainstream organizations, "Preaching Brotherhood" and "Little Brotherhood".
"I'm not used to being woken up in the middle of my sleep!" Liya followed up, "I'm on duty from midnight to two o'clock."
Aurore nodded and said, "I like to get up late, so I can be in charge from 2 to 4 o'clock. Well, you don't need to call me for breakfast tomorrow. I will get up around noon."
"The remaining time slot is mine." Ryan took the worst time slot with great satisfaction. He entered the study and found a chair to sit down.
Everyone started chatting casually. Although Aurore seldom went out, she was well-informed about astronomy and geography and was familiar with the fashion trends in big cities like Trierbeck and Land.
"As expected of a famous writer like Aurore." Leah couldn't help but exclaimed, "No wonder she can handle any subject matter."
Aurore asked curiously: "Have you seen me?"
"I started reading your first book. I was still a young girl at that time." Leah replied with a smile and shining eyes, "By the way, please sign an autograph for me!" As she rummaged for papers and pens, the little silver bells on her veil and boots tinkled.
"Is it a sealed object?" Oro asked with a little curiosity, seeing that Lumian had already told her about the performance of Leah's four little bells.
Liya took out a stack of sticky notes and a pen, and answered casually, "Yes, it can take the initiative to warn, and it can also improve me. There are requirements. It must be fashionable, it must be a skirt, it must be beautiful, and it must be beautiful. Otherwise, it will not only fail to work, but also mislead you, or lead you to run into some hidden bad things."
"I couldn't guess for a moment whether this pair of bells were originally for men or women." Aurore laughed.
Lumian agreed.
If the bell originated from women, then it is a remnant of the male animal's instinct to love beauty, a pervert.
Liya smiled faintly: "It involves confidential files, I can't say any more."
She stood up and handed Aurore the pad and pen.
Aurore signed and asked, "Which genre of mine do you prefer?"
"Emotional" Liya answered without hesitation "Your first book had a huge impact on me!"
"My writing skills are not good enough when I'm young, and they're immature. Many plots are awkward, and many dialogues are too sentimental and not realistic enough..." Aurore said modestly, a little embarrassed.
Lumian habitually helped "add" and said: "But it wins in terms of sincerity and novelty."
He had also read his sister's book, which told the story of a couple's separation and death, mixed with elements of adventure, misunderstanding, and terminal illness. It was a groundbreaking work in the indie world at the time.
Of course, this has also attracted a lot of criticism from conservative writers and critics. The shortcomings are mainly the ones Aurore just mentioned. They even think that this cannot be considered a literary work, but is simply popular.
"Yes." Leah took back the paper and pen, looked at Aurore, and asked with a smile, "Great writer, is it possible for you to become an informant for our Eighth Bureau?"
"We fight against wild Beyonders mainly because they are uncontrollable and may lose control or cause disasters at any time, or use their extraordinary abilities to do bad things to satisfy their own desires."
"I have carefully observed you and your brother over the past few days in the village and have confirmed that you are Beyonders who abide by the rules. Before coming to Cordu, the intelligence we collected also showed that you have never done anything bad in public."
"This meets our recruitment criteria. Once you become our informants, you no longer need to worry about being beaten to death by official Beyonders."
Aurohol's heart was pounding. She glanced at Lumian and nodded slightly, saying, "I'll think about it and answer you after the cycle is over."
Lumian on the side instantly understood what the elder sister meant by that look: I have no problem, but will you, a guy with a serious contamination sealed inside, fail the test
The two returned to Aurore's bedroom.
Aurore sat on the edge of the bed, glanced at the door, and said in a low voice, "Liya has a high emotional intelligence."
"What do you mean?" Lumian also felt that Hou Liya created a very harmonious atmosphere in the study.
Aurore smiled and said, "She mentioned me on her own initiative. She asked me for my autograph in order to get closer to her. Getting closer was for the purpose of recruiting her later. The purpose of recruiting her later was to resolve the distrust and defensiveness in our hearts, so that we can cooperate better in the next few days."
The whole process was not abrupt at all, and did not make me feel disgusted or wary. This is a manifestation of high emotional intelligence.
“You should learn more!” Lumian thought about the conversation and said self-deprecatingly.
Aurore was amused by him and said, leaning forward and backward: "You are very self-aware!"
She then rubbed her golden hair and said, "I'll take a nap first. My eyes haven't fully recovered yet, so I need more rest. Wait until 10 o'clock, and you can wake me up. I'll help you keep an eye on it for a little while longer. It's your first night implant, so you'd better be cautious."
Lumian had no objection and agreed without hesitation, watching his sister lie down on the bed without any hesitation, pull the quilt over her and close her eyes.
The room suddenly became unusually quiet.
Lumian quietly turned off the radio light and closed the curtains. Then he sat down on the chair next to the desk. In the crimson moonlight that seeped in, he quietly looked at his sister's defenseless sleeping face, and his heart gradually calmed down.