Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Backlund is 669 meters underground.

Dungeon Night Harbor.

The three people who settled in the Earthworm Island Bar did not rush to take the next step, but chose to rest in the room for two days.

Especially for Fors, the short-term, high-intensity and stimulating life made her a little confused. She slept in bed for two days before she reluctantly accepted that she had become a so-called "female adventurer" or "bard" and resigned herself to her current bizarre life.

On the third day, Fors, who had just woken up, was pulled out of bed. The adventurer and the detective said that they had to first familiarize themselves with the various conditions in Evernight Harbor.

For a person on the ground, it is somewhat difficult to adapt to underground life. The first hurdle they face is the abnormal day and night pattern. The dim artificial light illuminates the entire underground city day and night, and the streets always appear dark at night. The brighter light sources are mostly street lamps along the road and lights in the houses. This is also the origin of the name "eternal night".

It is said that some underground cities with good conditions will control the light switches to simulate the alternation of day and night. But there are only a few of them, and some are in the shallow underground city areas of the city. Almost all underground cities are illegal developments of abandoned ruins, where are there such good conditions. Even in the relatively stable Evernight Port, the boss is only willing to light up the small star-like lights.

Therefore, among the permanent residents of the underground city, the belief in the Goddess of Night is particularly widespread. There is no real church in the underground city, but there are some small altars built spontaneously by believers to place their thoughts. For example, right now, there is also such a stone tablet in front of Klein and the other two.

This was a very simple stone tablet, even looking like a tombstone, not even as high as Klein's waist. The stone tablet was crudely engraved with the emblem of the goddess of night, and below it were scattered bouquets of moon flowers, deep sleep grass, etc. The plant offerings were not very fresh.

In the underground city, religious belief is very important, because people need some spiritual sustenance to resist the boredom and anxiety brought by the harsh underground environment; at the same time, in the underground city, religious belief is also very secondary, because the people who come here are either unable to survive or are too ambitious and do not have so much time to worship and pray.

A monument, a few bouquets of flowers, an occasional visit, and a very simple mass are the highest piety of the people of Yongye Port.

But Leonard didn't come here today to report to the Goddess of Night.

The three of them stood beside the stone tablet for a while, and indeed they saw an old man in tattered clothes.

The old man with a cane saw these people and quickly recognized the leader. He chuckled, then walked forward and leaned against the stone tablet to talk to everyone.

"Are you the grim detective Leonard Mitchell?"

Leonard nodded: "Are you old Henry?"

Before leaving, Leonard got a list of informants from Geraldine in the office, among which old Henry was also one of Geraldine's informants.

Investigative journalists are an ancient and unique profession. Although they do not have the legal functions of a state violence agency, they have to do similar things for a report: open interviews, covert investigations, looking for clues, and even sneaking into target companies as undercover agents... This series of spy or police-like behavior also includes developing informants.

The list was very detailed and extensive. Geraldine had marked each person, indicating the reliability of each informant. However, the information varied, and a few marks meant that Geraldine did not know much about a particular informant, and his trustworthiness decreased.

As a former investigative reporter, it was reasonable for Geraldine to develop some informants. After she was transferred to the resident publicity reporter of Sivellas Field, Geraldine became Leonard's detective assistant, and these informant networks were retained. It was not until Geraldine officially became a fashion reporter that these informant networks were truly useless. However, not long after she became a fashion reporter, she was gloriously admitted to a mental hospital...

But Leonard felt that with Geraldine's style of doing things, she would definitely develop some new business contacts...

No matter what, this valuable informant resource now belongs to Leonard.

But Leonard was a little surprised. Why did Geraldine have an informant in the middle-level underground city? As an investigative reporter, the scope of your investigation is too broad!

Is this something that an average newspaper would dare to report?

…It’s incredible…

"Little Geraldine sent you here, didn't she?"

Old Henry didn't respond to Leonard, but just chuckled.

"Before that, you have to answer me a question. I need to confirm that you are really Leonard Mitchell."

As he said this, old Henry raised three fingers.

"Little Geraldine has four life goals. What are they? As long as you answer three correctly, you will pass."

Klein and Leonard were stunned. They didn't expect this to be the topic.

"I have my own motorcycle, my own house, and my own husband."

Leonard answered immediately.

Then Leonard recalled that Geraldine seemed to have mentioned this topic only once in his memory: in the psychiatric ward of the Earth Hospital. At that time, Leonard was visiting her in the ward with the magician Merlin.

Leonard and Klein looked at each other.

Geraldine seemed to have some knowledge of the mysterious world. She realized that there were some mysterious powers in the world that could impersonate Leonard Mitchell or obtain relevant knowledge. At the same time, she also realized that the church and the gods did have a protective effect on extraordinary powers.

Therefore, Geraldine chose a conversation that took place in the Earth Hospital as a code, and chose to make the connection next to a stone tablet engraved with the emblem of the Goddess of Night.

But in the eyes of Klein and Leonard, these precautions were very crude. It seemed that Geraldine had not really entered the extraordinary world, but only had some superficial cognition, and was protecting the information as much as possible within her limited cognition.

"That's exactly right, kid. I now believe you are Leonard Mitchell." Old Henry smiled slyly, "Ask whatever you want to ask. Little Geraldine has given me the money for the past two months. I'll tell you everything I know. I'll help you if I can."

"Do you know the Tesla siblings?" Leonard asked. Compared to the boss of Evernight Harbor who could "do business" with anything, Leonard trusted Geraldine's list of informants more.

"Tesla... Tesla Group or Tesla Family?"