Bartner blurted out in astonishment: "Your blindfolded walking around that day really worked..."
The place where they stopped turned out to be the next target of the "devil wizard" Boorman!
Without waiting for Lumian to respond, the adventurer asked in confusion, "Are you the lucky one?"
No, the one who is blessed by disaster… Lumian replied in his heart.
As his thoughts raced, Butner suddenly had a new guess: Could this guy be the "devil wizard" Boorman himself
He went to the explosion site to investigate to show off at the crime scene, and he walked around blindfolded to randomly select the next victim!
This explanation is much more reasonable than being blessed by luck!
Lumian glanced at Butner's suddenly tense facial muscles and said with a smile: "You don't think I'm Boorman, do you?"
"How many days have I been in Farin Harbor?"
Yes, something happened the night you first arrived at Farin Port... Butner didn't dare to say this out loud.
"I was praying in the church when the explosion happened in the Black Pearl District." Lumian provided his alibi with amusement.
After a moment's thought, Bartner felt relieved, but doubts still remained on his face.
Lumian sighed and said, "I didn't think that I would actually run into something related to the 'devil wizard' while walking around blindfolded the day before yesterday. I just thought it was fun."
This is the truth.
But the results made him suspect that the pollution caused by "0-01" might be more serious than he imagined.
Of course, it is not ruled out that Trier, as the seal of the Fourth Epoch, effectively suppressed the problems that already existed in him.
The excuse of "it's fun" barely convinced Butner because he felt that Louis Berry was that kind of person.
But his playfulness sometimes hides some traps. Whoever treats him as a fool will become a fool!
“Maybe I was really blessed by luck the day before yesterday.” Lumian made the final conclusion.
Then, he recounted his speculation about the relationship between the "devil wizard" and Fidel, and finally said with regret: "It's a pity that I don't think I can be that lucky."
Lumian's reasoning completely convinced Butner, making him believe that the reason why the "devil wizard" Bulman had not been caught and was able to obtain resources was because he had formed a close symbiotic relationship with Fidel, a big businessman. The reason for the subsequent tragedy was probably that the official Beyonder's pursuit put pressure on them, leading to their internal strife.
This also rules out the possibility that Louis Berry is the "devil wizard". He has only arrived in Farin Port for a few days, while Boorman has been here for a long time.
"What a pity..." Butner sighed, "If we had sold the clues about the close connection between the 'Devil Wizard' and Fidel to the authorities in advance, we would have been able to get a lot of reward."
Starting from 5000 Felkin!
At this point, Bartner shook his head: "No, without evidence, the authorities won't believe us. We can't tell them that we are really blessed by luck.
Did we find the clues while blindfolded? Even if we tell them, they won’t believe us and will just arrest us as fraudsters.”
Lumian laughed immediately: "Can't you forge some evidence to prove the authenticity of the clue?"
"Just say that someone who looked like a 'devil wizard' appeared at the back door of Fidel's house. Let the official Beyonders confirm it themselves. When the time comes, they will naturally find the problem."
"Is this okay?" Butner opened his mouth slightly.
"Why not?" Lumian smiled. "If you really find the 'Devil Wizard', you can tell them, don't worry about the details, just tell them whether the clue is true and whether it helped you catch the 'Devil Wizard'. If you can't track down Boorman, it will be a minor fraud at most, and you will only be arrested and forced to work for a few days."
"Don't the official Beyonders allow adventurers to report clues that they themselves are not sure of? This will only cause them to miss the real information."
After listening to Lumian's words, Bartner was silent for a few seconds and said, "You don't have any islander blood, do you?"
It can be said that he is very good at defrauding.
Lumian said casually: "I met an islander in Trier. He has rich experience and skills in fraud."
As he spoke, Lumian raised his left hand with interest and pinched his left eye socket.
He looked at Bartner and said, "How many years have you been an adventurer? Why are you still so, so naive?"
"More than a year." Butner tried to defend himself. "I just habitually abide by the laws and rules when dealing with officials. I am also flexible when dealing with pirates and other adventurers."
“Aren’t those adventurers who secretly provide clues to the authorities also full of lies, cheating whenever they can?” Lumian said with a smile.
He wondered if it was because Butner came from a good family and had received a good education that he was so rigid and rule-abiding.
This can be preliminarily confirmed from the other party's clothing and appearance.
Seeing that Bartner was silent, Lumian drank the remaining salted coffee and looked back at the bustling open-air market: "Try not to go to the morgue, cemetery and other places during this period."
Just as Bartner was about to ask why, he instantly understood the true meaning of this exhortation: without the resources provided by the big businessman Fidel, the "devil wizard" would probably be forced to take some actions!
... ... ... ...
At noon, Lumian returned to Room 5 in the first-class cabin of the "Flying Bird" and saw that the carpet, bed, wardrobe, desk and other furniture in the master bedroom had been replaced, and various decorations had been re-placed, but the distortion and cracks in the metal wall had only been slightly repaired and not really fixed.
Not long after, his messenger, "The Confessor" Bayinfer, walked out of the void and handed him a letter.
This is from Franka: "Based on your latest description and my discussion with '007' last night, I initially suspect that the 'Devil Wizard' Boorman forcibly switched the sequence.
"He was supposed to be a 'wizard', but in order to revive his wife, he switched to the non-adjacent 'death' path, became half-crazy, and became half-human and half-monster.
"This can actually be explained by the 'wizard' receiving the gift of the evil god, but I have observed your situation and there is no fusion and mutation of the extraordinary abilities of the two paths. This is clearly shown in the battle with Bulman. The illusory eye you mentioned has both the 'eye of mystery' that sees the real side, and also shows the suppression and even enslavement of the spirit itself by the 'god of death' path.
"As far as I know, the Path of Death has had the ability of 'Eye of Death' since Sequence 8 'Gravedigger'. It merged with the 'Eye of Peering Secrets' to form that special illusory eye?"
Seeing this, Lumian suddenly recalled the appearance of the illusory eye: vertically embedded in the forehead, illusory and blurry, dark purple almost black, with a large number of pale patterns...
This is indeed a bit like a fusion mutation of the "Eye of Secrets" and "Death" path abilities.
Lumian lowered his gaze and read the following content:
"The white feathery hair, the rotting wounds, the ability to control various undead creatures, the unstable emotional state, and the extreme behavior all indirectly confirm my guess... …
"The origin of that old bloodstain is very strange. I did a few 'magic mirror divinations' and asked different people, but I only got the answer that it came from the depths of the spirit world. There is no further information. It seems that the half-crazy and irreversible Boorman has some other fate."
Unstable emotions... Extreme behavior... Irreversible half-madness... Lumian chewed on these descriptions and sighed inaudibly:
How determined and desperate must have been Boorman when he chose to drink the "Death" path potion!
Wild extraordinary people don't know that they can jump to adjacent paths in a specific sequence, and they will only continue to walk on a "God's Path". For them, sporadic cases around them and rumors they have heard are telling them that once the "God's Path" is chosen, it cannot be changed. If they force themselves to drink potions from other paths, they will go crazy at best, and collapse and die at worst.
Moreover, "Secret Peeper" and "Death" are indeed not adjacent paths and cannot be jumped.
Without the determination to not fear death, and the belief that he would go crazy in order to revive his wife, Boorman would not have drunk the "Death" potion.
Lumian tried to put himself in that situation and felt that he would make the same choice.
This is why he has mixed emotions at this moment.
Franka ended her letter by writing:
"You don't need to worry about what happens next. With Boorman's mental state, without Fidel's support and restrictions, he will reappear soon in order to collect materials for the next experiment. By then, even if he succeeds once or twice, he won't be able to succeed all the time. He will be eliminated by the official Beyonders in a few weeks or even days."
Lumian glanced at the "Confessor" Bayinfer who had not yet left: "Help me deliver the reply to the sender."
As he spoke, he quickly wrote a line of words: "I will kill Boorman as soon as possible."
Not long after, the "Confessor" Bayinfer brought back a reply from Franka: "Why?"
On the same piece of paper Lumian wrote: "I want to punish him for his sins..."
Lumienne paused, then continued: "And, to end his suffering."
After folding the letter into a square out of habit, Lumian handed it to Bayinfer and glanced at the messenger: "Will it be troublesome to send letters back and forth like this?"
This is not concern, this is doubt. "
After delivering the letter, the "Confessor" Bayinfer did not leave immediately, but waited to see if there was any reply.
This time, Bayinfer did not remain silent. He replied in a deep voice: "Being busy makes me feel better."
"It's better to have something to do than always looking at the darkness."
Lumian listened quietly without responding, watching the "Confessor" Bayinfer turn around and walk into the void.
He actually felt a sense of empathy for those two sentences.
Franca did not stop Lumian, and replied concisely and forcefully: "Be careful!"
Huh... Lumian exhaled, walked to the living room window, and cast his eyes towards the Farin Port bathed in the scorching sun and the Andatna volcano in the distance.