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"Alright, stop thinking about it. If the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. These things aren't for a mere Sequence 7 like you to worry about. Let's focus on the matter at hand!"
Just as Klein's mood grew increasingly heavy with speculation, Lin Ruo's familiar devilish hand once again rubbed his head. The obvious cat-stroking, dog-petting technique made his expression darken, and he slapped Lin Ruo's hand away in annoyance.
"Talk when you talk, keep your hands to yourself!"
"Tsk!" Lin Ruo clicked his tongue, then put on a heartbroken expression, saying, "My child, can't your Papa even pet your head anymore?" His expression seemed to accuse Klein of being an unfilial son.
Klein: … …
"Get lost!" Klein chose to utter a word expressionlessly, performing on the spot what's called "a display of great filial piety."
But I must say, being interrupted by Lin Ruo like this did relax his mood a lot.
After all, just as Lin Ruo said, if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. Even if something really happened to the major churches, if the Loen military was really brewing some grand conspiracy, it was clearly not something a mere Sequence 7 like him could get involved in… No, more accurately, with his current Sequence, he probably didn't even have the qualifications to get involved!
Sure enough, I still need to work hard to improve my Sequence… The waters of this world feel deeper than I thought!
Even official Beyonders aren't necessarily reliable… This is too difficult!
Klein sighed, then turned to look at Lin Ruo, unable to help but say, "Lin Ruo, don't put too much pressure on yourself…"
"Relax, I know what I'm doing!" Lin Ruo smiled and said, "And although I said you don't need to worry, the collection of information still needs to continue. With your accident-prone constitution, you might collect some key information that I don't even know about, and then save the world…"
This really wasn't a joke. After all, Lin Ruo knew that with Klein's accident-prone constitution, something like in the original story might really happen, accidentally getting caught up in the core of a conspiracy, and then becoming a savior.
"I will." Klein nodded, although he felt that as a Sequence 7 small fry, he might not even be qualified to participate in such a big event, being able to help a little was still something. Klein naturally didn't lack this kind of awareness.
Then Klein thought of something again and asked, "By the way, Lin Ruo, you just said you plan to infiltrate the Aurora Order. Are you serious?"
"I do have that idea." Lin Ruo nodded. He really had the idea of infiltrating the Aurora Order. After all, infiltrating the Aurora Order would make it easier for him to grasp the movements of all parties in this matter.
However, Lin Ruo hadn't really decided whether to implement it. It wasn't that he was afraid of falling into the abyss after joining a secret organization that believed in evil gods or anything. After all, other people didn't know what this statement was all about, but Lin Ruo couldn't be clearer. It was nothing more than being targeted by evil gods.
If it were an Outer Deity like the Mother Tree of Desire, Lin Ruo might have chickened out. But the True Creator was different. First, He wasn't an Outer Deity, and second, Lin Ruo knew that his relationship with the True Creator had long been inextricable, and he wasn't really afraid of one more layer.
The reason why he was hesitating whether to infiltrate it was actually precisely because of his relationship with the True Creator. After all, if he infiltrated the Aurora Order and was directly recognized, wouldn't it be very embarrassing?
But… embarrassment aside, it doesn't seem to be very dangerous. At worst, he'd just run away. The True God can't descend now, and Ouroboros can't run rampant in Backlund…
Sure enough, stopping the Backlund smog event is more important.
The scales in Lin Ruo's heart tilted slightly.
"Wouldn't that be too dangerous?" Klein didn't know that in just a second or two, a series of thoughts had flashed through Lin Ruo's mind opposite him, and he asked with some worry.
Klein was naturally clear about the risks of believing in evil gods.
And the True Creator was a recognized evil god.
"Well, actually it's okay… It's just that infiltrating the Aurora Order doesn't pose a very high risk to me." Lin Ruo was vague, not planning to tell Klein for the time being that the True Creator was the remnant of the Creator of City of Silver back then. He changed the subject and said, "It's getting late, aren't you planning to complete Ian's commission first?"
"Fishing law enforcement also has to look like fishing law enforcement. You are now Sherlock Moriarty, a detective who doesn't know anything about the hidden secrets behind Ian. You still have to work hard to complete the commission."
Faced with his obvious behavior of changing the subject, Klein instinctively frowned, then sighed, but didn't plan to persuade him any further.
On the one hand, he knew that with Lin Ruo's current attitude, no matter how much he persuaded him, it probably wouldn't work. On the other hand, Klein believed that Lin Ruo knew what he was doing and wouldn't joke about his own life casually. If he did this, he must have his own certainty.
So Klein followed Lin Ruo's words and said, "Then shall we go to Zreal's house now to see the situation?"
… …
After accompanying Klein to survey Zreal's detective agency, discovering the people lying in wait there, and witnessing Klein using divination to mystically deduce and find Zreal's body, completing the prerequisite for fishing law enforcement, Lin Ruo freeloaded a dinner at Klein's house, conveniently assigned him some mystical homework, and reminded him that before the Faceless master, there might be other people coming to make trouble for him, before returning to his own agency.
"It's been so many days, no matter how much of a salted fish Fors is, she should have finished the beginning of her new book, right?" Sitting at the desk, Lin Ruo, who took out the stationery, pinched his chin and thought uncertainly.
Because he had scared the salted fish Fors badly last time, Lin Ruo had been very considerate in not writing to Fors during this period, planning to let her take a break, so he really didn't know anything about the progress of Fors' new book.
But it doesn't matter if he doesn't know. Lin Ruo then wrote a few pages of paper in a free and easy manner, and the summary and emotion was:
First, greet her daily, then politely inquire about the progress of her new book, while sincerely expressing his anticipation for the new book, implicitly urging her to update it, then considerately remind her in the letter that the next full moon is coming, expressing a wave of concern, and finally, seemingly inadvertently, ask her if she has any intention of meeting again recently.
The whole letter used beautiful words, and every line was full of warm concern, making Lin Ruo, the person writing the letter, feel that Miss Salted Fish would definitely be very moved when she saw this letter.
"I hope she doesn't cry from being moved…" Lin Ruo smiled brightly, happily went out, and sent the letter without delaying for even a second.
At the same time — —
"Ah-choo…"
Fors, who was nestled on the sofa, sneezed, and suddenly felt a little cold.
"Strange, could I have caught a cold?"
Just then, Xio came out of the kitchen, threw Fors a peeled apple, and casually asked, "Fors, I met your editor today. She asked me to ask you, how's the new book coming along?"
"Writing what? I might be about to die soon… I don't want to spend the last moments of my life rushing to write!" Fors said lazily, but for some reason, after saying this, she suddenly felt even colder.
Strange, did she really catch a cold?
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