After hearing Freminet's explanation, Su Yuan nodded, but he still felt something was off...
Was Arlecchino being too focused on him? Was she giving him too much attention?
This morning, she invited him to join the House of the Hearth, and now she arranged for Lyney and the others to follow him.
Su Yuan didn't think Arlecchino was someone who would help him unconditionally, without asking for anything in return.
There must be a special reason behind her actions...
But no matter what, if it wasn't for Lyney, now in his Eerie state, stepping forward to deal with this giant squid, he and Beidou's group would probably be in serious danger.
"By the way, Freminet," Su Yuan looked at Freminet and asked, "Since you can now use Lyney in his Eerie state, does that mean you've figured out the conditions for Lyney's Eerie transformation?"
"Yes." Freminet nodded and replied, "After that incident, Father had us conduct many tests, and we finally figured it out..."
"The condition for Lyney's Eerie transformation is the distance from Lynette..."
"To be exact, as long as Lyney is more than 100 meters away from Lynette, he will fall into the Eerie state..."
"And as soon as he sees Lynette again, Lyney will return to normal..."
"So, we had two submarines following behind the Alcor, keeping within 100 meters of it..."
"Lyney and I were in the submarine at the front, while Lynette was in the one at the back..."
"If anything unexpected happens, the submarine Lyney and I were in will speed up and break the 100-meter distance, causing Lyney to fall into his Eerie state..."
"That's how it is… But after someone becomes Eerie, their personality changes drastically. How can you be sure that the Eerie Lyney won't hurt you?" Aether looked at Freminet and raised a question.
"It's simple. We've already tested it. Even when Lyney becomes Eerie, he still cares deeply about Lynette…"
Freminet said as he took something resembling a launcher out of the bag behind him and explained, "For example, just now, I fired some of Lynette's personal belongings towards the giant squid using this launcher and told Lyney that the squid had eaten Lynette. This successfully redirected his hatred, and he went to fight the giant squid…"
Freminet glanced at the Eerie Lyney fighting the giant squid and continued, "It looks like all the training and testing we did to use Lyney's Eerie form have been effective…"
Before long, the giant squid, a sea beast with no intelligence, had all of its tentacles cut off or destroyed under Lyney's relentless attacks…
The next moment, Lyney pulled a crimson and jet-black playing card filled with Eerie power from his hat and split the giant squid in two!
The giant squid let out its final scream before slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea…
Then, the clouds on the sea gradually dispersed, the storm and winds ceased, and sunlight began to shine again…
But just now, inside the giant squid's abdomen, Lyney hadn't found any sign of Lynette—not even the slightest trace of her remains...
With a furious expression, Lyney stepped onto the deck of the Alcor, striding toward Freminet and growling through gritted teeth:
"Freminet… even though you're my family… you actually dared to lie to me…"
"Was it you… who hid Lynette from me?"
Seeing this, Freminet pressed a button, seemingly sending some kind of signal.
Moments later, Lynette, dressed in a diving suit, climbed out of the sea and onto the Alcor.
"Ta-da! Brother, I'm right here!"
Lynette took off her diving helmet, waved, and greeted Lyney.
The moment Lyney saw Lynette, the eerie power surrounding him instantly dissipated, and he returned to normal...
Lyney walked over to Su Yuan and Aether, and said, "Su Yuan, Traveler, sorry about that…"
"You two left so quickly, we didn't even get the chance to say goodbye before we quietly followed after you…"
"It's alright, Lyney. If you and the others hadn't stepped in, we probably wouldn't have made it out of that fight against the giant squid corrupted by eerie power," Aether said with a smile.
"Haha! Since you're all aboard my Alcor now, that makes us brothers and sisters alike!" Beidou laughed heartily.
"No matter what, you helped us out big time. If that giant squid had struck, the Alcor might not have been completely wrecked, but we'd have taken serious damage for sure!"
As she spoke, Beidou took off her outer coat and walked toward the edge of the deck, seemingly ready to jump into the sea.
"Beidou, what are you doing?" Su Yuan asked curiously.
"Going squid fishing, of course!" Beidou replied as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"When you're sailing the seas, the main source of food is all kinds of seafood and fish."
"A squid that huge must taste amazing!"
"And I'm planning to stash some of it in the freezer and bring it back to Liyue for Xiangling… That girl just loves rare, strange, and exotic ingredients like this!"
"Haha, just wait a bit—you'll all get to taste my cooking soon enough!"
As Beidou spoke, she suddenly leapt into the sea with a loud splash—"GUDONG—!"
Su Yuan then turned to look at the three siblings and asked,
"So, can you tell me a little—just a little—about who exactly your Father met with this morning?"
"That's actually something we're puzzled about too…" Lyney said slowly.
"Because according to the visitor records at the Hotel Bouffes d'ete, no one came to visit this morning at all."
"Of course, visitor records can be faked or tampered with, but people's eyes don't lie."
"We asked around—our other siblings—and no one saw anyone unusual enter the manor…"
"Huh? No one saw anything?" Paimon said in confusion.
"Then did that person just teleport directly into Arlecchino's room? Or are they some master of stealth who slipped in without anyone noticing?"
"While we've all sensed that Father seems… different lately, as for the mysterious person she met this morning—we honestly have no clue who it was," Lyney admitted, somewhat helplessly.
"But if Father really wanted to keep something hidden… With just the basic tools we have, if she didn't want us to know the truth, then it'd be nearly impossible for us to figure it out…"
"That said, Su Yuan, don't worry. I can feel it—Father doesn't mean you any harm."
"Otherwise, she wouldn't have ordered us to follow and assist you in the first place."
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