Mysteries: Arcana Wars

"Madam, are you looking for me?"

Toby Tapea walks into Gloria's office.

If Gloria is the combat force in the Comet Team, then Toby provides valuable intelligence and lurking experience to Field Moretti.

He was the oldest member of the team except for Gloria. He looked like a strong, middle-aged man with neat, semi-long blond hair tied into a small braid, and the roots of his hair were mostly white.

As a Sequence Six [Faceless Man], Toby rarely appears in the ordinary Red Gloves team. Most of the time, he lurks in various occasions according to the mission requirements. He has contributed most of his life to the secret front of the Church of Evernight.

Now Toby was the only one from the Comet Team on standby in the church, so he was urgently summoned by Gloria.

"Oh, by the way, ma'am, I met Mr. Osborne on my way back to the church. He brought something for you and left it in the lounge outside the hall. I saw it and brought it to you."

As he spoke, Toby placed a brown paper bag on Gloria's desk.

Without opening the paper bag, Gloria's extremely keen sense of smell could smell the sweet aroma escaping.

Perhaps the only two people who would bring her strawberry cake and red roses now were Scott and Osborne. Others probably didn't know or even guess that she actually liked this.

"Thank you, please take a seat."

Gloria did not open it, but simply moved it aside to make room for her work.

"I want [Fird Moretti] to immediately break away from all current social relationships, but it must be reasonable."

"You mean... we should terminate the Comet Project immediately?"

As a veteran intelligence worker, Toby immediately understood Gloria's intention, but at the same time he was confused by this sudden order.

"Ma'am, are you sure? Our team is doing very well. We have started to establish some relatively stable social relationships with the fictional character Field Moretti. The development is going very well.

"Isn't it a pity that it's interrupted like this?

"This character didn't even live for a year."

Gloria didn't reply, just nodded.

Toby sighed and sat down at the table.

"It seems that you have your reasons for doing this, and I, a Sequence Six, am not qualified to listen to them... Okay, no matter what, I trust your judgment. What do you need me to do for you now?"

"story."

Gloria took out a pen and paper and handed it to Toby.

"We need a story that allows Killer Field to disappear from this world in a reasonable and legitimate way."

It can't be too clean, as if it has never existed, otherwise people will become suspicious.

Don't be too long-winded, like an incomprehensible soap opera, revealing too much extra information.

"...Ah, ma'am...I understand..."

Toby understood what he meant and began to think, twirling his pen.

When it comes to role-playing and intelligence processing, Toby is an expert, and Gloria has enough trust and expectations in him.

"I think, ma'am, the best way to make people ignore a fake person is to make him a real person."

He pointed his finger at himself and then at Gloria.

“In this era, whether a person really exists in this world is not determined by his physical body, but by the traces he leaves in this world.

“He interacts with this material world, leaving bumps and scratches on other things; he interacts with the people in this society, leaving memories and thoughts between other people’s memories and emotions; he interacts with the digital world, leaving archives and life in our Loen’s urban system.

"Even secretive people like you and me who cannot see the light of day exist in this world and society, with all kinds of traces - they are [secret], not [non-existent]."

...This theory...is very similar to what is emphasized in mysticism...

【anchor】.

Gloria keenly captured this point. As a saint with divinity, her understanding of "anchor" was much deeper than Toby's. She immediately understood Toby's intention and motioned for him to continue.

“Since we need ‘reasonableness’, let’s give this character a ‘reasonableness’.”

The middle-aged man showed a confident smile.

"In the short few months of Killer Field's life, we gave this virtual character some definite reality, established sufficiently stable social relationships, and shaped his [present].

"Ma'am, our current demand is to give the killer Field a future in which he leaves the stage of history. Only by standing in the past and thinking about the present can we get a sufficiently real future."

"And now, we need to give Killer Field a [past]." Gloria agreed with Toby's idea.

"Yes, ma'am."

Toby clapped three times and opened his hands to Gloria.

"Before we think about the [future], we have to create a [past]: How did Field Moretti spend his childhood? What was his family like? What kind of university did he go to? And why did he end up becoming a psychopathic killer?

"These [pasts] need to be supported by sufficient material traces. We need to create all of his paper and electronic files and add them to the citizen information database and the databases of major schools. In the previous 'performance', I think this perverted killer must at least be an above-ground educated person who has been to school, rather than an underground person who does not even have citizenship, right?"

Gloria nodded.

"He must not only have been to school, but also be a highly educated person with a high degree from a top university."

"Yes, I think he should study medicine or art, which fits the stereotype of psychopathic killers in this society."

The paper fluttered in Toby's hands and finally turned into an academic hat, which was gently placed on the table.

“In fact, during our daily work on the Comet Project, we also discussed statements with Fina and the others, and we already had a rough background of the characters.

"Based on our usual acting style, we still believe that this fictional psychopathic killer should be a skilled painter who has studied related fields in college. His family life was difficult. He lost his parents at an early age and was sent to a welfare home that was not managed by the church. In the end, he was admitted to a top art college with hard training and amazing talent."

"So why did he become a psychopathic killer?" Gloria asked.

“Just like those urban legends about perverted killers, this poor orphan was actually born a bad seed. He was born with mental illness and some twisted desires. He showed many behaviors of killing small animals when he was a child. However, due to the loose management of the welfare home, the adults did not find any big problems.

"It was this kind of educator's negligence and alienation from his peers that made the killer's abnormal psychology even more twisted. After attending art college, the killer finally formed his own artistic pursuits, and finally decided to satisfy his twisted and bloody desires, becoming a perverted killer."

Is it this perverted killer with a bloody artistic pursuit who assassinates a gangster's pet cat in the dungeon?

Gloria suddenly felt a headache.

“Is it a bit too stereotypical?”

The backgrounds of these characters that you have conspired with are completely refined from those third-rate horror movies! !

But Gloria realized a sad fact: the traces left by the Comet Squad for the virtual killer from the beginning to now are completely consistent with the character creation of these third-rate movies.

Was the development of events affected by the game between herself and the mysterious curse, or was it that the Comet Squad under her were simply having fun and relying on her super combat power to add to their own drama? Gloria decided to reserve her opinion on this question.

Because I have to say, although this image is really old-fashioned, it is really cool and fun to actually play it.

"Don't worry, ma'am. The more rigid, the safer."

Toby is very confident in the work of his teammates.

"Also, we have never set the killer's true appearance, but if this identity is established, he must have an appearance." Toby added, "My suggestion is that we should design the killer's true appearance to be ordinary enough. If he has any overly outstanding characteristics, it will be difficult for him to hide in the crowd for so long."

"You're right." Gloria thought for a moment. "You, Fina, Uche, Galin, and Janos, the five members of the Comet Squad, each draw a portrait of the killer. Let the artificial intelligence fuse the five pictures to generate an appearance as the killer's portrait. The other biological information is also fabricated in the same way."

"So, in what name are we going to 'kill' Field Moretti?" Toby continued to ask.

"'Kill'? No, ma'am, isn't it too drastic to kill a character? This will cut off all our subsequent escape routes. If we think about it later, we will have to spend a lot of effort to cover up this lie of death.

"We need to give our virtual killers something gentler, more resilient, more in control and more dominant [in the future]."

Inspiration struck Gloria, and she met Toby's eyes, and they both decided the killer's fate in unison.

"Take Field Moretti and put him in the mental hospital of the Church of Night!"