Mysteries: Arcana Wars

"Hello? Hello! Merlin?!"

Leonard glanced at the terminal in surprise.

"We were chatting happily, why did you suddenly hang up?"

Klein's narration and demeanor just now were very abnormal. Thinking of Klein's state after waking up, Leonard was a little worried. He made a few more voice calls, but the other party did not answer.

"This Merlin...what on earth happened over there?"

"You ask me, who should I ask?"

Pales could tell that he was being asked this question, so he spread his hands directly inside Leonard's head.

"Tsk... Let me think about what I can do now..."

"There's nothing I can do, so I might as well go to sleep. Oh, and since you can't sleep, just find a place to stare blankly."

Pales was unmoved.

"With your status and Merlin's madness, what can you do? It's good enough that you can protect yourself in His madness and chaos.

"I didn't even expect you to save me. I'm just a clone anyway. If I really die in your body, the real person on Pinster Street will definitely run faster than Gloria."

"Leonard, Leonard, can't you think of something good?"

"Oh, the little guy has learned to speak in a roundabout way. Yes, he has indeed recovered more than a thousand years of memories. It is indeed different."

"..."

Does this old man talk too much today?

After I get home, I will make sure the old man replaces his clone with one and puts it in his head!

Leonard sighed and swiped his card to leave work.

But the old man was right. The madness that Klein faced could only be solved by himself. Leonard had no right to interfere. But Leonard had other things to do.

With Klein's departure, Merlin Hermes' character was secure, but Leonard's work as a detective had to continue, and he needed to recruit a new detective assistant.

Leonard was just about to use this as an excuse to get close to Audrey. On the one hand, the detective assistant position was not a formal position, but more like a more formal senior informant, a part-time job, and Audrey, who needed to pay off the store mortgage, would definitely be tempted. On the other hand, although he didn't know how to wake Audrey up, as a psychologist, Audrey's professional level was very strong, and she might be able to play a role before the reset.

As the plan was being made, the icon of [Core of Secret Talk] on the terminal began to flash.

【Moon】: Maybe you should take a look at this.

【Moon】：（File）

【Moon】: @Stars

After thinking it over, Leonard quickly returned to Pinster Street and opened the encrypted file sent by Emlyn.

This is a hospital record, and the patient is Leonard's former assistant: Geraldine Lightning.

Geraldine was a former military journalist, but she was discharged from the army due to severe post-traumatic stress disorder. Later, Geraldine became Leonard's assistant, and returned to the Earth Church Hospital due to a relapse of her old illness before Klein woke up. This records her situation after she returned to the hospital these two months ago.

To be precise, it is a record of disease incidence.

From the records, Geraldine had an attack almost every one or two days. Bright light, explosion scenes, blasting sounds, etc. could all trigger Geraldine's stress. In half of the records, Geraldine suddenly had an attack for no apparent reason.

However, Emlyn marked several data points in red and added annotations in these records.

……

The patient was admitted to the hospital on September 1325, 9. Attached is the diagnosis result…

[That day, Geraldine was hospitalized because she hit the kidnapper with a dump truck and caused an explosion. The cause of the disease was that she saw the explosion she had caused. Coincidentally, in this kidnapping case, one of the kidnappers was David Axus, and the hostage was Jarod Ishdar.]

……

On September 1325, 9, the patient was approved for discharge.

On September 1325, 9, the hospital was infiltrated and the patient was suspected to have come into contact with a suspicious person.

[When the church hospital was bombed, the murderer Nelson stole my identity and approached Geraldine, using her illness to create chaos in the hospital. This unfortunate woman, just as she recovered and completed the discharge certificate, was screwed by Nelson the next moment.]

……

On September 1325, 9, after evaluation, Geraldine was allowed to be discharged from the hospital.

[This is also something I can't understand. According to the results of the examination on the 12th and the treatment effect of Mr. World, Geraldine's post-traumatic stress disorder has been completely cured. If these two attacks were due to Nelson's manipulation and the effects of David and the extraordinary items, then there wouldn't be so many "normal" attack records afterwards. ]

……

On September 1325, 9, the patient suffered severe injuries from extraordinary strength and severe fractures of the limbs, with orthopedic diagnosis opinion attached... The patient is in good mental state.

[Damn Ishdar and their unlucky hotel. Geraldine was kidnapped by David that day. Although she was in good spirits when she was carried to our hospital, I still think that she must have experienced a brief illness after being kidnapped and before waking up. ]

……

On September 1325, 9, the patient heard gunshots in a movie and became ill.

On September 1325, 9, the patient heard a sudden loud noise and fell ill.

On September 1325, 9, he fell ill for no apparent reason.

……

On September 1325, 10, he fell ill for no apparent reason.

On October 1325, 10, the patient saw a picture of an explosion and became ill.

……

[As mentioned above, I think the subsequent onset of the disease seems very strange. Was it because David's kidnapping triggered the disease, or did Mr. World's wish miracle not work? Maybe we can have more ideas, and the patient was hospitalized more for fractures, but I still care about this matter. ]

……

On September 1325, 11, he fell ill for no apparent reason.

[The exile riot occurred on this night. Although Geraldine was in the hospital and had no contact with the exiles, she still "fell ill for no reason."]

……

After reading this record, Leonard's mood immediately became solemn.

Just looking at this document, Geraldine was just suffering from normal illness, and the intervals and times of the illness were reasonable and consistent with medical experience.

But once Emlyn's comments were added, everything became blurry. Some sense of disharmony had successfully blended into the ordinary daily life, but now it was dug out by these annotations.

It is incredible that an ordinary person who does not even have extraordinary characteristics has experienced so many things in such a short time.

but why?

If we say that Leonard and others' lives over the past two months have been full of speed and passion, largely due to Klein's blind sniper plan and the angel-level extraordinary aggregation law, then is it really just bad luck that Geraldine has encountered so many things in such a short period of time?

If she was really just unlucky, why did she always have bad luck in every event that the Tarot Club was involved in?

"...Extraordinary gathering..."

Leonard looked up and exchanged glances with Pales, muttering the word.

[Magician]: Extraordinary aggregation... Is this aggregation of us? Or is it aggregation of these vicious events?

[Magician]: If it is really the law of extraordinary aggregation that is at work, then what is hidden in this reporter that can possess such tremendous energy?

[Moon]: @Star, do you have any way to access Geraldine's previous files?

【Xingxing】: It’s very difficult.

[Xingxing]: A mission worth first-class merit must be very important. This kind of mission is actually kept secret and not made public. There is no conventional channel to obtain the information. Don't even think about it.

[Star]: As for the Church of Night, Geraldine is now Gloria's person. Gloria strictly monitors Geraldine through dreams, and it is also difficult to retrieve information from this aspect.

[Moon]: What about divination?

[Magician]: I tried to divine the events surrounding Ms. Reporter's first-class merit, but a strong spiritual warning stopped me... What about Mr. World?

【Magician】:@World

[Xingxing]: He had tried it a long time ago, same situation, failed.

[Xingxing]: Another question is, for a great hero who completed a first-class secret mission, why did Augustus release this important living talent from the army and even hand him over to the Church of Darkness?

[Xingxing]: Even if she has such a serious stress disorder, shouldn't she be locked up in the army for life?

Leonard put down the terminal and fell into deep thought.

It seems that Geraldine's matter cannot be rushed and needs to be considered carefully.