Mystery: Chaos Path

“It’s okay, this is already very good.” Hugh said quickly, then pondered with some confusion, “Money, ocean… Could it be that I’ll be thrown into the sea because of some unexpected wealth?”

She really couldn't imagine what danger could be related to money and the ocean.

However, Lorne guessed what was going on. Connecting it with the original plot, what he divined was clearly what happened a month later in the original story, when Hugh, due to Audrey's request for justice, provoked Rear Admiral Hurricane Qilangos and almost died.

Speaking of Rear Admiral Hurricane Qilangos… Lorne lowered his eyes slightly, a thoughtful look in their depths.

To be honest, Lorne wasn't very interested in the Creeping Hunger. Although this thing could be called a small artifact for ordinary Beyonders, it had to eat people every day if it wasn't sealed. Even after being sealed, it still had to eat people after a battle. If it wasn't fed, it would backfire, which was quite a pain.

Lorne wasn't like Klein, who had the Fortress to suppress the Creeping Hunger. Once he used it and didn't satisfy the Creeping Hunger's needs, resulting in backlash, a mishap was possible.

When it came to borrowing external power, Lorne would rather spend more time building goodwill with Beyonders from various pathways and borrow their power. However, if he could really obtain it, he could at least sell it for money, or simply give it away as a favor.

Lorne was more interested in the information that Rear Admiral Hurricane Qilangos possessed. This pirate general held the coordinates of an island with many extraordinary creatures. Although that island was related to Adam, Lorne still wanted to go and have some fun after he had certain trump cards.

Maybe he could get that Blasphemy Slate of the Storm pathway!

It wasn't impossible for Adam to invest in him.

Moreover, that island had many extraordinary creatures, which could be said to be a natural material repository. Even if Lorne himself couldn't use them, selling them for money would be good.

Of course, the premise of all this was that when the Rear Admiral Hurricane Qilangos incident happened, I had the ability to kill him.

Thinking of this, Lorne glanced at Hugh in front of him and prompted, “Could it be related to some pirates?”

Since he planned to get involved in the Rear Admiral Hurricane Qilangos matter, Lorne naturally had to lay some groundwork.

“Pirates?” Hugh was taken aback.

“That’s what I was thinking. You are a bounty hunter, and Backlund itself is a port city. Could it be that you will go to sea for something in the next two months, or pirates will sneak into Backlund and you just happen to encounter them.”

Lorne said with a straight face, and what he said was the truth, “And many pirates themselves have bounties, perfectly meeting the two conditions of money and the ocean.”

Hugh had a sudden realization. Although there was no evidence, she had to admit that Lorne's speculation was very reasonable.

“I understand, thank you, Jack. I owe you a favor.” Hugh said seriously, and added in her heart—if the divination result is true.

“I thought you would waive my subsequent commission fees.” Lorne smiled and joked.

“Rosell has a famous saying, even biological siblings have to settle accounts clearly.” Hugh replied seriously, and also laughed, saying, “And believe me, my favor is worth more than 40 pounds.”

“Well, indeed.” Lorne seemed to think seriously for a few seconds, then nodded.

After the two chatted for a while, Lorne chose to say goodbye.

He still had many things to do.

After Lorne left, Hugh also quickly left the coffee shop. After confirming that no one was following her, she returned to her apartment, only to see a certain salted fish lazily lying on the sofa reading a novel.

Hugh was not surprised. She poured herself a glass of water familiarly, then sat down next to Fors and said, “I met a wild Beyonder like us today.”

“What?” Fors heard this and looked at Hugh, asking with a rather lazy expression, “Which Sequence's Beyonder? You shouldn't have had a conflict with them, right?”

“No, it was a Seer.” Hugh then recounted what happened today, and then said with some worry, “Do you think what he said is true?”

Hugh actually didn't completely believe Lorne's words, but she couldn't help but feel a little worried about the divination result in her heart.

“This… fake, right? Of course, it might also be true.” Fors finally became serious. She sat up straight, thought for a while, and then comforted, “Moreover, the divination result only says that it may endanger your life, not that you will definitely die. Maybe you killed the other party and got the bounty?”

The other party here naturally refers to the pirates that may appear.

“Indeed, there is also this possibility…” Hugh nodded, agreeing with Fors's statement, and then sighed.

“It's okay, it's okay, at worst, you stay at home for the next two months or I'll just accompany you…” Fors seemed to have made up her mind when she said this, and said, “With me here, no matter what danger we encounter, we can escape.”

Hugh immediately understood what Fors meant by this. The other party had a magical stone bracelet that could consume the stones on the bracelet to perform "travel", instantly arriving from one place to another.

“But won't this aggravate your situation?” Hugh asked with some concern. She knew that her good friend was cursed because she used this bracelet, and would hear terrible whispers every full moon.

“No, and my situation is not so serious now.” Fors said with a smile, covering up her guilty conscience very well.

Her condition was actually not good, but in order not to worry her good friend, Fors chose to hide it.

“Okay…” Hugh obviously didn't expect her good friend to lie to her, nodded, and the worry in her heart finally dissipated a lot, and then thought of something and said, “If Jack's divination result is true, we can contact him more in the future. No matter what, divination is indeed a useful ability.”

Fors nodded upon hearing this, expressing her agreement.

…

Although he successfully made a deal with Hugh, extraordinary gatherings were not held every day. At least there were no extraordinary gatherings to participate in for the past two days. However, according to Hugh, Lorne was lucky. In two days, on July 2nd, there would be a relatively high-end extraordinary gathering, and she could introduce Lorne to participate.

Fortunately, Lorne was not in a hurry. He unhurriedly made his new vest, and then arrived in Tingen on June 30th—if nothing unexpected happened, he should be running back and forth between Tingen and Backlund in the next two months.

I have to say, it was a bit troublesome without the ability to travel, but fortunately, there was a steam train, so Lorne couldn't accept it.

Also on this day, Klein came to Tingen University—in these two days, he had cleared his suspicion, obtained his innocence, and received a job offer from the Nighthawks.

After some consideration, Klein chose to become a clerical worker for the Nighthawks, and the reason why he came to Tingen University on June 30th was because the original owner had a job interview invitation from Tingen University. Although Klein would no longer come to this school as a teacher, he still needed to come in person to explain the situation.