After discussing informants, Luo Lin enthusiastically chatted with Klein for a while longer about Beyonder knowledge. Only after fully living up to his teacher persona did he see Klein out, since Klein needed to go home for dinner.
Watching the trackless carriage carrying Klein disappear into the distance, Luo Lin returned inside. The smile of a clear-eyed yet foolish college student faded from his face. He stretched, chuckled again, and muttered, "Klein really is a good person..."
He really did prefer dealing with good people.
If nothing else, after this exchange, if Klein had been some big shot, Luo Lin could probably have taken off on the spot and borrowed power at least at the demigod level.
"What a pity. Still, being an angel investor isn't bad either..." Luo Lin muttered inwardly as he returned to the second-floor laboratory. On the worktable lay a half-engraved charm, with spiritual materials casually piled beside it and an open book farther to the right.
Luo Lin walked to the workbench, tossed the rune from the half-finished charm into the trash, then took out fresh materials and started again. After making another charm, Luo Lin yawned but did not continue practicing.
He merely tidied up the laboratory table, left the house, and arrived before an unoccupied apartment. This was another of Luo Lin's safe houses, and also the place where he received certain letters from Backlund.
Luo Lin opened the mailbox and saw a letter lying quietly inside. There was no postmark on the envelope, so it had clearly been delivered directly.
Picking up the letter, Luo Lin entered the safe house and opened it to inspect its contents. It was naturally from Mr. A in Backlund. The letter mainly contained intelligence on some Beyonders recently active in Backlund, which was part of Luo Lin's transaction with the Aurora Order.
At the end of the letter, however, there was another matter—Mr. A mentioned that someone seemed to be purchasing Rosell's Diary recently. Following Luo Lin's previous instructions, he had already sold all the diaries Luo Lin had provided.
Luo Lin raised his brows and smiled with amusement. "In that case, my 'Transmigration Diary' might appear at the Tarot Club very soon. What a shame I'm not a member of the Tarot Club..."
"Once Mr. Fool sees the diary, he'll probably make some guesses about my background. He'll definitely wonder whether I wrote it and divine the answer. That way, when we meet next time, I'll know whether the gray fog can truly block the interference of the Nyarlathotep fragment..."
Luo Lin muttered inwardly. He had naturally crafted his persona into what it was now on purpose, all for the sake of this test.
Anyway, even if Klein really divined that the diary came from him, it did not matter—a clear-eyed, foolish, playful college student forging some Rosell diaries to sell for money was perfectly normal, wasn't it?
Luo Lin then thought of the slacker duo in Backlund. After some consideration, he took out some writing paper and began drafting a letter. It was not for Mr. A, but for Xio and Fors.
In the letter, he first conveyed his greetings to Xio and Fors, then politely asked about the progress of their investigation into The Fool. Finally, he wrote:
"...I discovered that the Abraham Family seemed to have been a noble family of the Tudor Empire during the Fourth Epoch. Because they were loyal to the Blood Emperor, they had always been at odds with the Trensoost Empire. Then is it possible that the curse suffered by the Abraham Family is connected to the Trensoost Empire?
We all know that Backlund once belonged to the Trensoost Empire, and certain noble families had once served the Trensoost Empire. Could there be records concerning this matter among the collections of these ancient nobles?
Perhaps we can try approaching Backlund's nobles and obtain knowledge in this area.
Your loyal friend, Jack Jones."
Luo Lin's purpose in writing this letter was none other than to guide Xio and Fors into taking the initiative to approach Justice Audrey and the others. After all, with his butterfly effect at work, Luo Lin was not certain whether Fors would still approach Audrey and the others as she had in the original story, in order to get Xio out of prison.
Luo Lin was not the sort to sit around and wait for death, so he chose to take the initiative. The slacker duo might not care about other matters, but where the full moon curse was concerned, even they would pull themselves together.
After finishing the letter to the slacker duo, Luo Lin took out more paper and began writing letters to others: one for Mr. A and one for Azzik. Once he was done, he took out his pocket watch and checked the time. Seeing that it was already past nine in the evening, he could not help shaking his head. "With this schedule, I'm really afraid I'll drop dead from overwork."
Going to bed at nine in the evening was naturally not that late, but Luo Lin had already stayed up for three days. If he kept it up, he felt as though he would ride the wind into the afterlife.
"Forget it. Those who heed advice never go hungry. I should sleep early!" Luo Lin shook his head, went to the post office first to mail all the letters, then returned home to catch up on sleep.
Monday, three in the afternoon.
Klein convened his third Tarot Club gathering.
He first congratulated Justice Audrey on advancing to Sequence 9, Spectator. Then, he received Rosell's Diary from The Hanged Man Alger and Justice Audrey, beginning what would become a Tarot Club tradition—the Fool reading Rosell's Diary.
There was nothing wrong with the first three pages. They mainly recorded Rosell making One Piece jokes after transmigrating, discovering an unnamed island, initially resisting an arranged marriage before eventually embracing it, and so on. Klein gained all sorts of knowledge from them, while also being unable to stop himself from complaining inwardly.
But when Klein turned to the fourth page, the second page provided by Justice Audrey, he froze for a moment, because the diary read like this:
"June 29, sunny.
It has been three days since I came to this world..."
The diary was not very long. It mainly told the story of a transmigrator who wanted to lie flat after arriving in another world, only to discover that the identity he had transmigrated into had a formidable enemy. Left with no choice, he struggled to become a Marauder, only to be caught by that enemy almost immediately.
Yet in the previous three pages of Rosell's Diary, Klein had just seen how Rosell joined the Steam Church and became a Savant. Furthermore, Rosell's family after transmigrating had been the Gustav Family, while this page said that its owner had transmigrated into a family called Soroyastor.
And that family's great enemy was named Amon.
If Rosell hadn't been so bored that he forged his own diary for no reason, then this final page probably belonged to another transmigrator. Klein muttered inwardly, surprisingly not feeling particularly shocked.
Mostly because he was used to it. When Klein had first transmigrated here, he had learned of all the major events caused by Rosell, his transmigrator predecessor. Then, only a few days later, he met Jack Jones, a fellow countryman. He had long been prepared for the possibility that this world contained more than one transmigrator—perhaps even many transmigrators.
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