Chapter 19 Clues to the Enemy
join p atreon.com/KeyofStars for more chapters
The next day, morning—
When Lin Ruo woke up and saw the colors of the morning sun on the horizon, he was still a little confused.
"Didn't I get pulled to Klein's side today?" Lin Ruo blinked, momentarily puzzled by the mechanism that pulled him to Klein's side.
Originally, he had been pulled over in the early hours of the morning twice, and Lin Ruo had assumed that this would be the norm for him from now on, but now it seemed that wasn't the case?
"Could it really be random? If I get pulled away suddenly during a fight, wouldn't I be done for!" Lin Ruo complained speechlessly, then skillfully began to wash up. After washing up, he went to the market and bought food for the next few days. Then, he ate breakfast while reading the morning paper.
Unsurprisingly, the newspaper reported on the Capim villa incident yesterday. Of course, it didn't involve the supernatural; it simply mentioned that Capim, the blood-soaked human trafficker, was sanctioned by a mysterious person yesterday.
However, unlike Klein in the original story, who wore the Black Emperor's skin to sanction Capim and thus earned the title of "Hero Bandit Black Emperor," the newspaper didn't give Lin Ruo any nickname, simply referring to him as a mysterious person. It did, however, describe the tarot cards at the scene in detail, calling it a righteous "murder" with ritualistic elements.
"Trash newspaper, you're doomed sooner or later!" Lin Ruo curled his lip at this. After finishing the rest of the newspaper, he suddenly realized that he had made a major mistake yesterday.
He should have taken the things in Capim's safe. Unlike Klein in the original story, who didn't have enough time, Lin Ruo actually had the time, but he simply didn't remember.
But he couldn't be blamed for this. After all, Lin Ruo had never really lacked money. Yesterday, he was only thinking about killing the scum, completing the hunt, and achieving his goal, so how could he have thought about this?
As for scattering a deck of tarot cards at the scene yesterday, Lin Ruo didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Firstly, although Lin Ruo hadn't joined the Tarot Club yet, he felt that with his relationship with Klein, becoming an unsalaried member of the Tarot Club, or even a full member, was only a matter of time. Naturally, he wanted to make the Tarot Club famous as soon as possible.
Secondly, considering that the Tarot Club was only just starting out, with only three official members including the boss, and even two of them were official personnel and one was the daughter of a great noble, Lin Ruo wasn't really worried that making the Tarot Club famous early would implicate them.
In fact, Lin Ruo doing this would make Klein safer—who would have thought that the leader of an organization with an angel appearing was just an ordinary person!
Although his angel was also fake, and in reality, he was just Sequence 9… Well, that's the Tarot Club vibe!
After a burst of Make complaints in his heart, Lin Ruo, having finished breakfast, stretched and began to think about what to do next.
First of all, acting was to be continued. Considering the current environment in Backlund, this wouldn't be difficult. After all, Backlund had plenty of prey suitable for him to hunt.
Secondly, there was the issue of obtaining subsequent potions.
The Red Priest card side was not to be considered for the time being. That was a Instances to be played with his friends in the future. Now, Lin Ruo should be thinking about other channels.
The first was through various Beyonder gatherings, including both the Beyonder gatherings that the original owner had participated in, and those Beyonder gatherings that had appeared in the plot and were originally in Backlund.
The second was to find the descendant of the Blood Emperor who had appeared in the original plot, the down-and-out noble Rafter Pond. As a descendant of the Blood Emperor, even if the family had declined, it was very likely that he had the subsequent formula for the Hunter potion.
But there was a problem here, that was, in the original book, Rafter was possessed by the Three Headed Spirit, and became his servant after being possessed.
And the original book did not clearly state when Rafter was possessed by the Three Headed Evil Spirit. The only thing that could be determined was that when Klein and Miss Sharon encountered the Three Headed Evil Spirit in the original book, Rafter had already become his servant.
That was still some time away from now, but Lin Ruo could not confirm whether the current Rafter was already a servant of the Three Headed Evil Spirit.
Of course, even if Rafter had already become a servant of the Three Headed Evil Spirit, it was not impossible for Lin Ruo to obtain the subsequent formula of the Hunter potion from him, but the possibility would be much smaller.
The third was to pay attention to the ambassador who was killed by Little Klein in the original book because of five pounds. That ambassador was a Sequence 6 Conspirer. As long as he killed him and obtained his greatest characteristic, Lin Ruo was sure that he could obtain the subsequent 8, 7, and 6 formulas of the Hunter pathway through spirit channeling or divination.
This was not easy. After all, hunting an ambassador was different from hunting Capim. The protection around him was, in a sense, much tighter than Capim's, making it difficult for people to find opportunities.
The fourth was to leave Backlund to find opportunities. Compared to the relatively small number of Hunters active in Loen, the number of Hunters active in the Five Seas would not be too small, and the probability of obtaining the formula would naturally be higher. However, unless there was no other way, Lin Ruo would not easily leave Backlund now.
The fifth was relatively simple and crude, that was, Lin Ruo directly used the power of Truth to facilitate his subsequent encounter with the Beyonder of the Hunter pathway. As for whether he would persuade the other party to obtain the corresponding potion formula after the encounter, or directly kill the other party and spirit channel to get the formula, it would depend on whether the other party had a way to die.
For ordinary people, the first four options were purely based on luck, the second was dangerous, the third was purely seeking death, the fourth was not safe anywhere, and the fifth did not have the conditions for implementation.
But for Lin Ruo, the most suitable were the first and fifth.
After all, the latter went without saying, and the former Lin Ruo could also use Truth to facilitate his purchase of the subsequent potion formula of the Hunter in the Beyonder gathering. With the special circumstances of Backlund, this would not be too difficult.
And Lin Ruo, naturally, also planned to choose to do both.
First use Truth to see if he could achieve his goal through the first and fifth methods, and if not, then consider those risky methods.
And finally, Lin Ruo thought about the matter related to the original owner's enemies.
Rudy Flair's father died in a political struggle, and the decline of his family, and even the fire he encountered at the age of 18, were basically the subsequent effects of this incident.
Because the original owner was still young when the incident happened, his impression of this incident was both deep and vague. It was deep because this incident directly changed the original owner's life, and vague because the original owner was indeed ignorant of this incident back then.
All of the original owner's understanding of this incident was learned from the subsequent old housekeeper and mother. However, unfortunately, whether it was the old housekeeper or the original owner's mother, they were a little vague about the events of that year.
Lin Ruo, who had read the original owner's memory, could be sure that they definitely knew something, but they didn't seem to want the original owner to know.
Even the last words of the old housekeeper who died in the fire were to let the original owner forget everything and start a new life in a new place.
All of this foreshadowed that the death of the original owner's father may have involved great secrets, and most likely was related to some existence that the Flair family could not afford to offend.
The original owner also guessed this, and had been investigating in this direction for the past year, and hated himself for not spending more thought on this aspect in the past 18 years.
Because of the limited time, and although the original owner still had some friends to help after he went into hiding, the energy he could mobilize was not much, so the original owner did not investigate too many clues in the past year. The only gain was locking in a target related to the events of that year—Viscount Stratford.
join p atreon.com/KeyofStars for more chapters