Mystery: Chaos Path

Mother?

How is that possible?!

Klein the cat was truly stunned at this moment, his mind going blank.

Zhou's mother had clearly learned some things before entering the house. Although surprise and confusion were still visible on her face, her gaze quickly locked onto the cat on the coffee table. After hesitating for about half a second, she walked up quickly and tentatively said, "Mingrui, is that you? A gentleman said you turned into a cat..."

"...It's me."

Klein finally came back to his senses, his brain starting to function again. He suddenly understood that the person before him was a Time Projection of his mother, a power of Mr. Lucifer.

Klein's tears fell uncontrollably from his eyes, all the sadness and grievance surging up at that moment, making him unable to maintain his usual composure.

By the time Klein reacted, he had already pounced into his mother's arms, the entire cat being embraced by her.

"Oh dear, why are you crying? You're so old now, don't cry..." Zhou's mother almost frantically hugged Klein the cat, her movements very careful.

...

Luo Lin quietly watched the heartwarming scene of the mother and son reuniting, a hint of genuine tenderness appearing between his brows.

After watching for a while, Luo Lin suddenly turned his head and asked:

"What do you think he will choose?"

"I don't know."

Adam appeared from the shadows. He was also quietly watching the scene of the mother and son reuniting, then looked at Luo Lin and said:

"I didn't expect you to do this. I thought you would be inclined to let Klein become the Lord of Mysteries."

"I am indeed inclined towards him, but I hope even more that it is his own choice."

Luo Lin smiled, looked at Adam, and gazed into those golden eyes, saying:

"If you and I were friends, I would also hope that one day in the future, you would voluntarily choose your own ending, instead of being forced onto the path of saving the world."

His words seemed to imply something. Adam couldn't help but glance at Luo Lin, then said:

"He is indeed willing."

"What about you? Are you willing?" Luo Lin asked immediately.

"Of course, I am also willing," Adam replied without the slightest hesitation.

"What about Medici? Was he willing to sacrifice himself? And what about the countless ordinary people who are about to die in the war..." Luo Lin stared into Adam's golden eyes and said, "Are they willing?"

"It is a necessary sacrifice," Adam said. This should have been a very ordinary answer, but after Adam finished speaking, he felt a rare trace of wavering.

He was stunned for a moment, quickly discerning the source of this wavering.

That wavering came from... love!

That small amount of love for this world, love for the people, told Adam that this was wrong.

"...But in order to save this world, we have no choice," Adam closed his eyes and said, not knowing whether he was answering Luo Lin or himself.

"No, you have other choices," Luo Lin smiled. He looked at Adam, his smile full of temptation, and said, "You can choose to believe me."

"You should be clear about what my abilities mean. So, why not try choosing to believe me?"

Adam suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Luo Lin. The latter smiled and met his gaze. In a trance, Adam even felt a moment of wavering.

Should he believe Luo Lin? The other party had no malice towards this world, and if his abilities were used well, he could completely save the world.

"...You are terrifying," Adam said after a few seconds, averting his gaze.

"Nonsense, I'm just a happy-go-lucky person," Luo Lin smiled and didn't continue the previous topic. After all, he knew that Adam wouldn't agree, which was why he said it.

Luo Lin didn't really mean for Adam to believe him. After all, he knew that even if Adam was now an emotionless robot, even if he really had love, he wouldn't entrust the responsibility of saving the world to him, at most expecting him to contribute a little—which was fine!

Luo Lin silently felt the progress of the Faceless Magician potion in his body.

When the Ince Zangwill puppet was taken over by the Church of the Night, Luo Lin's Faceless Magician potion had digested about one-tenth. This meant that simply turning people into puppets and ending their fate wasn't an excellent performance, at most just touching the edge, otherwise, changing the fate of a Sequence Five wouldn't have resulted in so little digestion.

And Luo Lin's experiment on Adam also proved this point. When Adam agreed to wear the mask, Luo Lin's Faceless Magician potion didn't produce any feeling of digestion, but when Adam wavered just now, Luo Lin felt that the potion had digested a part.

So, as expected, the key to digesting the Faceless Magician potion lies in changing the other person after they put on the mask, and then guiding things in the way I want... Luo Lin summarized in his heart, unable to help but curl the corners of his mouth.

He wasn't in a hurry to digest the Faceless Magician potion, or rather, compared to digesting the potion, transforming Adam was a subject he was more interested in now.

After all, it was really interesting, wasn't it?

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...

Klein was a cat for 7 days.

During these 7 days, he spent most of his time sleeping, like a real cat, and the rest of the time was spent basking in the sun, spacing out, rolling around, and, in a very, very small amount of time, he could reunite with his mother.

His mother would groom him, and Klein the cat would lie on his mother's lap, slowly telling his mother about everything he had experienced during this time, after some careful editing, of course.

During these 7 days, Klein didn't meet with Lucifer. The latter only prepared food and water every day, placing them within his reach, and thoughtfully brought his family back into this world, but avoided all meetings with him.

Klein understood that the other party was waiting for him to make a choice.

And he indeed already had a choice.

"I really want to be a cat forever!" Klein muttered. He flicked his tail, looked up at the windowsill, and then exerted force with his limbs, jumping up as lightly as a real cat.

"Knock, knock, knock—"

Klein tapped on the window with his tail and said, "Come out, I know you're there."

Luo Lin's figure then appeared outside the window. He stared at Klein the cat. After these 7 days of rest, the other party's spirit was obviously much better, especially the brief reunion with his family had brought Klein the cat out of his previous despair. Now he looked like a very shiny cat.

"Are you a little wider than before?" Luo Lin suddenly said after looking at Klein for a while, gesturing with his hands as he spoke, "I remember you seemed to be this wide before, now... tsk!" As he spoke, he shook his head, looking like he couldn't bear to look at it.