Chapter 1 It's okay to be the guardian spirit behind Klein

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It took Lin Ruo three seconds to confirm the fact that he had transmigrated once again.

That's right, again!

Lin Ruo was not a newbie transmigrator experiencing it for the first time. The last world he transmigrated to was the world of Bungo Stray Dogs.

In that world, he obtained an ability, and at one point, he relied on his ability and the advantage of foresight to set up traps for many transcendents, significantly changing the landscape between ordinary people and ability users in the Bungo Stray Dogs world, allowing ordinary people to gain equal status with ability users based on their abilities. Unfortunately, due to an accident, he died at the hands of a certain French blond transcendent.

"It's like being toyed with by fate... Is this retribution?" Thinking of his unexpected ending in his previous life, Lin Ruo couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly.

The reason for this was Lin Ruo's ability in his previous life: [Fallacy of Truth].

This was an ability with no direct lethality, but its danger level was repeatedly adjusted by the authorities.

Its function was very simple, mainly divided into two parts. One part corresponded to [Truth], and its effect was to use text to guide fate after use.

This guidance was essentially an amplification of the possibility of something happening. Therefore, the greater the original probability of an event occurring, the more likely it was to take effect, and the smaller the probability, the more likely it was to fail. This was not affected by the strength of the person being arranged, only related to the probability of the event occurring. Moreover, regardless of whether it took effect or not, consumption would occur, but if it took effect, Lin Ruo would receive a sense of it.

Things with a near-zero probability would not take effect even on ordinary people, and things with a high probability would arrange even top ability users.

However, [Truth] could not directly kill a person; at most, it could only guide someone into a situation prone to death—of course, that was enough.

In addition, the other part of [Fallacy of Truth] corresponded to [Fallacy]. The effect of this ability was even simpler and more direct: to distort reality and change the perception of others to a certain extent. However, the distortion of reality was generally not very large and needed to be maintained, and it could only be applied to oneself.

In comparison, Lin Ruo preferred the ability to change the perception of others corresponding to [Fallacy]. Although this ability also had many limitations, it had to be said that it was a divine skill when paired with [Truth].

And Lin Ruo, who possessed [Fallacy of Truth], although he didn't have much direct combat power, still arranged many people clearly and understandably.

However, this still couldn't allow him to survive in a situation where he encountered a space-based transcendent at close range.

That was, after all, a top ability user ranked among the best in the Bungo Stray Dogs world.

"Tsk!" Lin Ruo, gritting his teeth slightly, suppressed the various emotions flooding his heart and instead focused his attention on observing the surrounding environment.

The room he was currently in was not large, even quite small from Lin Ruo's perspective. There were brown wooden doors on the left and right sides of the room, and bunk beds close to the opposite wall.

In addition, this small room also contained daily necessities such as cabinets, a coal stove, pots, pans, and so on. It could be seen that these items had been used for quite a few years, and even the only dressing mirror in the room had two cracks on it.

Without a doubt, this was definitely not a wealthy family, and the era he was currently in was probably not modern, but closer to the Industrial Revolution or the Steam Age.

Of course, what caught Lin Ruo's attention more than the furnishings in the room was the only person in the room.

It was a young man lying on the table, thin and emaciated, wearing a linen shirt, with black, choppy hair. Because the other party was lying face down, Lin Ruo couldn't see what he looked like, but he could see the hideous wound on the young man's temple, clearly caused by a close-range shot with a revolver.

Magically, at this moment, the wound was healing at a slow pace.

Honestly, all of this gave Lin Ruo a very familiar sense of déjà vu, reminding him of the opening of a novel he liked very much.

If he hadn't inexplicably become a being similar to a spirit body at this moment, unable to move too heavy objects, Lin Ruo would have tried to pull out the notebook under the young man to see if it was signed with the name Klein Moretti.

—Yes, similar to a spirit body!

After just opening his eyes, Lin Ruo had already realized that he did not have a proper body at this moment, but existed in a floating, spirit-like manner. Moreover, he could feel that there seemed to be a faint connection between himself and the young man lying on the table.

This made Lin Ruo wonder if he had become a being like a back spirit or a guardian spirit.

Perhaps this was the price of transmigrating again?

Lin Ruo frowned involuntarily. He naturally didn't like his current spirit-like state, but since he had too little information, he wasn't sure what was going on and didn't plan to act rashly.

Let's gather information first!

Thinking this, Lin Ruo manipulated his body to float next to the young man, observing the recovery of his wound at close range.

Just then, the young man's body suddenly twitched, and then he opened his eyes.

Those were a pair of brown eyes still filled with confusion, seemingly not understanding his situation at all.

Seeing this, Lin Ruo immediately reached out and waved in front of the young man, only to find that the other party didn't seem to see his movements at all.

The young man just straightened his back, first looked at the objects on the table, then observed the situation in the room, and finally raised his head.

He seemed to see something, suddenly stood up, but then fell back down in the next second, his buttocks hitting the hard wooden chair.

Seeing this, Lin Ruo couldn't help but chuckle, but also raised his head to look at the sky, and saw the shadow of a velvet curtain that almost flashed past.

Lin Ruo knew what that was. After all, after his first transmigration, many of his memories from his first life became incomparably clear, naturally including the contents of Lord of the Mysteries he had read.

Wait... Since he remembers everything, why is he still standing here properly?

Lin Ruo suddenly thought of a key issue he had previously overlooked—in the world of Lord of the Mysteries, below the Sequence 2 Angels, knowing knowledge related to Outer Gods and the stars would be contaminated unless a big shot provided corresponding protection.

'Is it my own specialness or... have I already been arranged?'

Lin Ruo raised his eyebrows. He then raised his head, his gaze fixed on the crimson moon in the night sky.

Red moon... If this is really the world of Lord of the Mysteries, the Evernight Goddess should already be paying attention here!

'Of course, it's also possible that I'm overthinking it. This is not the world of Lord of the Mysteries at all!'

While Lin Ruo was complaining in his heart, the young man had already stood up. He seemed to have finally seen the contents of the notebook and was startled by the words that Lin Ruo couldn't understand but could guess the meaning of, and almost fell again, but fortunately he grabbed the table in time.

Then, under Lin Ruo's gaze, the unsuspecting young man finally came to the dressing mirror. He was obviously frightened by the hideous wound next to his temple in the mirror and took a few steps back, but then he didn't rush to verify whether his body was still alive, but suddenly turned his head to look in the direction where Lin Ruo was.

This made Lin Ruo stunned for a moment, and a guess immediately surged into his heart. He then controlled his spirit body and floated towards the dressing mirror. During this process, the young man turned his head to look in the direction where he was while looking at the dressing mirror, seemingly confirming something while silently taking a few steps back.

Arriving in front of the dressing mirror, Lin Ruo unsurprisingly saw himself in the mirror. This made him blink his eyes, and then he looked at the young man next to him who was looking at him with a ghostly expression and greeted him.

"Hi, good evening!"

He used Chinese for this sentence.

Then Lin Ruo saw the young man's eyes widen.

Very good!

Lin Ruo hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled brightly.

It seems that this is indeed Mr. Fool!

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