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Chapter 11 The Da Vinci Code

  Looking at the study list in his hand that had been dragged to the ground, Renekton felt that his future life would be bleak.

  He went to the first floor of the library and picked up a pile of books. After returning to the lounge on the third floor, he began to read them bit by bit. Thanks to the improvement of memory and comprehension brought by the potion, Renekton felt that his reading efficiency was much higher than that of college. He

  had already finished half of the book in just this morning. In the past, Renekton felt that it would take him at least a week to read.

  "Hey! Renekton, let's go to lunch! The cafeteria in our church is the best." Josie played cards with Joseph in the lounge almost all morning, until Joseph was called away by the captain to work outside. Renekton fully experienced what it meant that the happiness between people was not mutually exchanged. At this moment, Renekton could not understand the happiness of Josie's slacking off at all.

  "Ah! Let's go! I need to save my stomach and brain." Renekton stood up and stretched his back.

  "By the way, how is your reading progress this morning?" Josie asked curiously.

  "It's pretty good, isn't it!" Renekton's eyes fell on the pile of books that hadn't been touched, and his voice became quieter and quieter.

  "Haha! It's okay. I also found it difficult to read books at the beginning, but as I read more and more books, I found that my control over potions has become stronger, and my reading speed has naturally increased." Josie patted Renekton on the shoulder and comforted him.

  "I haven't read a book for a long time. Today I recalled what the fear of being dominated by knowledge is." Renekton said with a look of despair.

  "Haha, let's go, let's go, let's go have lunch first, and then you can take a nap at noon. There's still a lot of time, you don't have to rush to read so much." Josie said, dragging Renekton out of the lounge.

  After having lunch with Josie in the cafeteria of the Church of Knowledge, Renekton had to admit that the church's food was indeed delicious. Although this working meal was not rich, it was definitely delicious.

  Joseph was not there, and Josie wanted to invite Renekton to play cards with him, but unfortunately, Renekton did not know how to play this kind of cards, so he had to refuse and said that he would take a break and recall the contents of the book he had read in the morning.

  Renekton's words were deeply recognized by Teacher Kos, who said that he would find some books suitable for Renekton's current reading in the afternoon.

  Renekton could only nod blankly, and he had to bear what he said. No matter how helpless he was, he could only shout in his heart, "Someone come and save the child!"

  Renekton lowered the back of the chair where he was reading and adjusted it to the angle of a recliner, and then lay down and closed his eyes to rest.

  "I have to think of a way to speed up the progress. How long will it take to read like this? It would be great if the knowledge could enter my mind by itself, okay!" Thinking about it, Renekton suddenly realized.

  He was not a pure Beyonder of the Reader's Path. As an Beyonder of the Peeping Secrets Path, he could just wait for the Hidden Sage to actively impart knowledge to him. He was not afraid of being contaminated by Him anyway. Moreover, the bonus brought by the Reader's Path made it easier for Renekton to digest the knowledge imparted into his mind.

  "The only problem is that I don't seem to be the same as the average secret peeker. The Hidden Sage may not actively impart knowledge to me.

  After all, we are all employees of the Knowledge Wilderness Group. Oh! If only the Sequence 2 Sage characteristic in my body could be used, it would be great. I remember that the Sage's mythical creature form is just a ball of information. As an information creature, it should be easy for the Sage to learn and master knowledge.

  I can only wait and see. If the Hidden Sage doesn't come to me for the sake of our colleague, I can only contact Him through ritual magic.

  The Hidden Sage should not have any information about the Earth civilization in the early First Era. He will definitely not refuse in exchange for information He doesn't have. I just don't know how many times I can trade the information in my memory with the Hidden Sage.

  Let's try to get it for free through my colleague relationship. Such a small thing should not be rejected by a great being. The Goddess of Night will help believers to reimburse bills."

  The more Renekton thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case. He stood up from the recliner in excitement.

  "What? You just lay down, and you're going to start reading again?" Josie, who was sitting opposite, was startled by Renekton's action and looked up at Renekton who stood up and asked.

  "No, I suddenly felt that I couldn't keep reading those books with pressure. This efficiency is too low. We have to combine work and rest!" Renekton shook his head and said, convinced of his idea just now.

  "Combination of work and rest? After a while of thinking, you finally decided to play cards with me." Josie said.

  Josie and Renekton's conversation seemed very abrupt in the quiet lounge, and naturally attracted several teammates who were still in the lounge. In addition to Joseph and Jessica who were called away by the captain, there were also Xia and Mr. Kos in the lounge, and both of them cast curious glances.

  "It's not impossible, but we have to change the way of playing. It's too boring for you to play cards like this. Let's change to a way of playing that can both entertain and exercise our own thinking." Renekton said suddenly.

  "What way of playing?" Josie was a little confused.

  Xia and Mr. Koss, who were in other places, also came closer with interest and wanted to see how Renekton played.

  "It's very simple. I call this way of playing the game the Da Vinci Code." Renekton paused here and observed the reactions of Qiao Xi and the others. He was relieved when he confirmed that their expressions were very confused and no one knew about this game.

  With Rosel, the predecessor who didn't leave work for other travelers, every traveler behind said it was difficult to do! Fortunately, Huang Tao in the past should not be interested in this kind of game and did not move to this era.

  "Do you have playing cards? We need 22 playing cards and make some modifications." Renekton cast his eyes on the three people who came over.     "Only twenty-two cards are enough?" Thea asked.

  "Yes, that's right." Renekton nodded.

  "Then I happen to have a deck of tarot cards here, exactly twenty-two cards." Thea took a brand new deck of tarot cards from her seat.

  "Do you have pens and paints? I need to write some numbers of different colors on them, which will destroy your tarot cards, is that okay?" Renekton asked Thea for his opinion after he finished speaking.

  "Just play it, I hope you can make this boring tarot deck more interesting." Thea's words and voice always make people have unconscious extra associations.

  "Well, I think you will like this game, it's very interesting." Renekton replied stiffly.

  Facing Thea, Renekton felt like a three-dimensional otaku who saw a two-dimensional goddess walk from the two-dimensional world into reality. Every time he saw Thea's face, he couldn't help but take a second look, but he felt a little embarrassed when communicating with Thea. This feeling was like the vampire Emlyn White who liked dolls. He obviously liked dolls very much, but he rejected the dolls coming alive.

  The goddess of the second dimension is always a goddess, but when she appeared in front of him alive, Renekton felt very uncomfortable. So every time he communicated with Xia, Renekton felt particularly embarrassed, but he couldn't show it.

  "It just so happens that I have it here. Although I have given up the dream of becoming a painter, these things have not been thrown away." Qiao Xi found his old paints and brushes from some corner.

  Renekton found that there were crayons in the pile of tools, so he chose three colors of crayons, red, blue and white, which were more convenient to use.

  "Wait a moment, I will color the cards while I explain the rules to you." Renekton took the crayons and tarot cards and started to work.

  "The rules of this game are very simple. There are a total of 22 cards, 11 red and 11 blue, and each card has numbers from 0 to 10. I will shuffle the order of the cards with the backs facing up, and then the four of us will grab three cards." Renekton explained the rules while working.

  "After all the cards in your hand are turned over, you are eliminated. The person who persists to the end wins. We will play a game first, and you will be able to fully master the game." Renekton gathered the tarot cards that had been colored and numbered, and began to shuffle them with the backs facing up.

  "Do you have any questions?" Renekton asked everyone if they understood while shuffling the cards.

  "It is indeed a very simple rule, and it sounds interesting." Xia nodded and commented.

  "Well, we can add some things beyond the rules of the game to enhance our game experience. For example, we cannot use paper and pen to assist the game, we must use our own brains, do not discuss our own strategies and reasoning, and each guess should not exceed 1 minute. This will give you a better game experience." Mr. Kos made some additions to the rules of the game that Renekton mentioned.

  These are part of the rules, but Renekton did not mention them in order to let everyone quickly master the game. I never expected that Mr. Kos would add these after just listening to Renekton's rules.

  Renekton could only sigh in his heart that the readers were really strong in their grasp and understanding of knowledge. After Mr. Koss's supplementary rule, Renekton had already guessed the result of the game. It was likely that Xia and Mr. Koss would decide the winner in the end, while he and Qiao Xi would probably only compete for the second to last place.

  "It's a bit difficult to play with the Beyonders of the Reader Path. Even if you play, you have to find someone with a lower sequence than you, otherwise you can't win at all." Renekton had already come to a conclusion in his heart.

  "Then let's start! I'm very curious about this game, and I hope our big boy can satisfy me!" Xia said to Renekton teasingly.

  At Xia's urging, Renekton quickly shuffled the cards and then drew the cards one by one to start the game.

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  "Alas! I still want to win two games first by relying on my familiarity with the game!" Renekton sighed.

  As expected, he and Josie lost miserably. Thea and Mr. Koss were both expressionless calculation and reasoning. It was impossible to get any additional information from them except the turned cards. Rekton and Josie, two Sequence 8s, were crushed by reasoning based on memory.

  "Haha! It seems that I won. This game is very good. It seems that our big boy has many surprises!" Thea was happy to get the first place and teased Rekton.

  "I lost. This game is still very useful for low-sequence Beyonders, especially Beyonders in the reasoning student stage. It can exercise their logical reasoning ability very well, but it is not enough for higher-sequence Beyonders, because the potion has too much bonus to us. This kind of small game is no longer meaningful, but it is still very good as a form of entertainment." Mr. Koss expressed his views and explanations on this new board game.

  After saying that, he added, "Of course, this is only for us extraordinary readers. I don't have to sit here and read books every day. I can finally have some other entertainment."

  "Really? I suddenly have a bold idea. How about I contact the factory to make this game into a complete set of products? Then publish it in the church's newspapers and magazines. Teacher Kos's evaluation makes me think that this game is likely to become popular." Renekton suddenly had an idea.

  Renekton had this idea not because he wanted to make money, but simply because he felt that as a time traveler, he had to do something fancy.

  "Huang Tao will bring an industrial revolution to this world, so I will bring a gaming trend and leave some legends for the time travelers that Klein will send later." Renekton has already started planning his grand blueprint in his mind.  Chapter 12 Red Witch Thea

  "Your idea is indeed very bold, but why do you think the church would help you place advertisements in newspapers and magazines?" Even Thea felt that Renekton's thinking was very jumpy, and even she could not guess what he wanted to do in the next second.

  "Why not give money? Share it! Besides, this is also good for the church's Beyonders, the church should give room for negotiation, right? Sister Thea, don't you think so?" Renekton was a little uncertain as he spoke. After all, it was really difficult for such a large knowledge church to use its own channels for such a small matter as Renekton, even if it was also beneficial to himself.

  "Oh! I didn't expect you to be so realistic, little guy. When you need help, you call Sister Thea, and at other times, you are the unfamiliar Ms. Thea. Did I make a mistake after all?" Thea used her acting skills to tease Renekton.

  Looking at the sad lady in front of him, who seemed to be heartbroken by a scumbag and needed some comfort and pitiful but beautiful lady, Renekton didn't know what to say for a moment. As for Josie on the side, she was already staring at him and couldn't speak at all. Renekton felt that if he asked Josie to speak at this time, she would definitely stutter and stammer.

  "Tsk tsk tsk! Drama queen, it's a waste of talent not to choose the witch path." Renekton complained in his heart, and even felt that if Xia chose the witch path, she would most likely get the title of Red Witch.

  "I always feel that you are thinking about something not so good." Xia's eyes suddenly became sharp and stared at Renekton dangerously.

  "Huh? Why?" Renekton stared at Xia's eyes with an innocent face.

  "Nothing, little guy, keep going, don't let me catch you! By the way, if you want to realize your idea, you first need a set of actual game cards, not the inferior ones that just take a few tarot cards and paint them. It's better to spread it within our church now, so that we can prove that this game is indeed likely to become popular." Xia returned to her previous tone and said.

  "Well, it's a very good suggestion. I'll go back tonight and ask the butler to find a suitable factory to make a few sets of cards first." Renekton nodded thoughtfully.

  "Alas! You are worthy of being the young master of a rich family! There is a butler at home, unlike me, who can only run errands for everything by myself, and no one cares about me, a weak lady." Xia's words were as powerful as ever.

  "Good tea!" Renekton wanted to complain but didn't dare.

  "Does the weak lady mean the kind who can slaughter a pirate group by herself?" Captain Ikonton had returned while the few people were discussing.

  "Captain, there is a reason why you are still single!" Xia rolled her eyes.

  "One person slaughtered a pirate group? What kind of heroine novel is this!" Renekton swallowed his saliva.

  "Is Senior Xia so strong?" Josie's eyes were already full of stars.

  Only Mr. Koss did not react much to this, and it seemed that he had known all this for a long time.

  "The reason I'm single is that I feel I can't give a wife a stable family." Captain Ikonton explained.

  "Captain, your serious explanation will only make the witch Xia play more exciting!" Renekton mourned for his captain in his heart for a second, only a second because the next second he would watch the show.

  Xia did not disappoint people and said more fierce words: "Is it because you like to cheat that you can't give a wife a stable family? It turns out that in your heart, the wild flowers outside are more tempting than the ones at home!"

  Captain Ikonton's face turned pale and black again, and finally he just weakly refuted: "No!"

  "Haha! Haha! Captain, you are not as interesting as the little boy here when you are teased." Xia laughed a little arrogantly, and it didn't end until the captain's face turned black again.     "I'm just an old man who can't keep up with the times. It's normal that I can't keep up with the thinking of you young people." Ikonton shook his head and said helplessly.

  "Captain, why did you come back alone? Where are Ms. Jessica and Joseph?" After eating almost all the melon, Rekton interrupted the conversation between the captain and Xia and saved the captain from the fire and water.

  "They stayed in the cemetery in the suburbs and observed the situation nearby. Undead creatures rarely come out during the day, which is not good for them. You can go there to help later. Both of them are not good at fighting. I need to take two people to a private hospital on Hawk Street in the northwest. Who will come?" Ikonton explained and looked at the four people for their opinions.

  "Captain, can I go with you? I shouldn't be able to help Joseph and the others. I have less fighting power than them." Rekton said very self-awarely.

  "Huh? So, little boy, you can help on the other side?" Xia said sarcastically.

  "This woman is so vindictive. She just managed to get away with it." Renekton labeled Thea as a petty and vindictive person in his heart.

  "Buy two, get one free. I'm the one who gets one free. I just want to go and gain some knowledge. I know almost nothing about mysterious events! Is that okay, Captain?" Renekton found a reason to explain why he wanted to go. As for Renekton's real intention, he really didn't want to see the pile of books on the seat. Of course, he was just curious.

  "Well, it's okay, Thea, you go to the cemetery in the suburbs. Don't go too late. Joseph and Jessica are not very capable of dealing with emergencies. Kos, Josie and Renekton, you guys come with me to the private hospital on Hawk Street in the northwest." Ikonton quickly made the groups.

  "So I'm so important in the captain's heart? He actually asked me to go to the cemetery in the suburbs for the finale. I thought you would let Mr. Kos go." Thea said with an incredible look on her face.

  "Yes." Captain Ikonton nodded seriously.

  "I thought the captain just wanted to get me out of the way and didn't want to stay with me! Since I'm so important, then captain, I'll go to the cemetery on the outskirts of the city first. It's not that far away! Captain, remember to reimburse me for the carriage fee!" After teasing the captain, Xia turned around and left.

  Captain Ikonton's face darkened again as expected.

  "You are worthy of it, the Red Witch, no, now you should be called the Reimbursement Man! If you can reimburse, you will never spend money. You really should introduce my Lord the Fool to this lady." Renekton's complaining soul burned fiercely in his heart.

  "Let's go too, and try to solve it as soon as possible, otherwise we will have to work overtime today." Captain Ikonton said with a sense of worker consciousness.

  "Yes, captain!"

  "Okay, captain"

  "Okay, can I take a book with me? If I don't come back here too late, I can also take it home to read. Um, these books should be taken home, right?" Renekton asked uncertainly.

  "Sure, just go to the first floor to register and remember to return it on time, otherwise your salary will be deducted." Captain Ikonton nodded and said. Chapter 13: Pranks in the Hospital

  Renekton and his companions quickly arrived at the private hospital located on Hawk Street in the northwest of Madan City in a carriage. Although it is a private hospital, it does not look any smaller than a public hospital. The castle-style building in front of Renekton and his companions covers an area of ​​more than 500 square meters and has a total of five floors. The entire building belongs to this private hospital.

  "Crimson High-end Hospital, this hospital is really red." Renekton looked at the red base with yellow stripes for washing in front of him, and even the roof of the hospital was red.

  "This is the best hospital in the entire Madan City, but in the surrounding areas, whether it is Fenetortne, Lenburg or Segar, it is not famous. Most of the people in this private hospital are very hostile to the people of the Church of the Mother Earth, so the Harvest Church will transfer the incident to us for handling." Mr. Koss seemed to know this hospital very well and said,

  "There has been a thief in this hospital recently. The stolen things are not much or valuable, but it is very embarrassing. We are here to deal with this matter." Captain Ikonton explained the information of this private hospital.

  "Isn't it the job of the Public Security Bureau to catch thieves?" Josie asked.

  "Very embarrassing? What is it?" Rekton held a book called "Hermes Language - From Beginner to Master" in his hand and asked curiously what exactly was revealed about the hospital, which made the people in the hospital so angry that they came to the Church of Man to deal with the matter.

  "At first, it was the name of the hospital. Someone stole the two words "hospital" on the sign of the Crimson Senior Hospital and wrote the two words "club" there. Then the doctor's clothes were stolen and worn on the patients. The signs of various departments in the hospital were also stolen and randomly swapped. This led to a male patient walking into the obstetrics and gynecology department, a lady walking into the men's restroom, a patient with a cold lying down, going to the intensive care unit, and undergoing half of the operation, etc." Captain Ikonton briefly explained the information of the incident.

  "Also, the exhaust ducts in this hospital were stolen, causing the various smells in the hospital to mix and become particularly unpleasant. Some of the collections of the doctors in this hospital were also stolen. This is roughly the information given to us. We initially suspect that a Beyonder with a thief's path is playing a prank here, and the sequence is not too low, otherwise it would not be possible to do so many things in a crowded place like a hospital in a short period of time without leaving any traces." Captain Ikonton added some content.

  "Since he is already a Beyonder with a high sequence, why is he still playing a prank? Even if he wants to retaliate against someone in this hospital, he doesn't need such a childish method, right?" Qiao Xi asked everyone's question .

  "It's impossible to know. The other party's actions have no purpose." Captain Ikonton shook his head.

  "Is it to disturb everyone's sight and hide the real purpose?" Mr. Kos also expressed his opinion.

  "This possibility cannot be ruled out." Captain Ikonton nodded, agreeing with Mr. Kos's guess.

  "Rekton, what do you think?" Captain Ikonton asked for Renekton's opinion again.

  "Ah? Me?" Renekton's thoughts were still on the prank. He was suddenly called to come back to his senses this time. After thinking for a while, he said, "I think it might really be just a prank!"

  "Why would someone with such extraordinary abilities insist on playing pranks?" Josie retorted.

  "Because I can't think of any reason for him to do these things, and there is no pattern in his behavior. It's like a fun person looking for fun for himself." Renekton shrugged and said.

  The main reason why Renekton thought this was a prank was because the No. 1 of the Thief's Path was such a fun person. When Renekton encountered something related to the Thief's Path, he subconsciously thought of this fun person.

  Who made this path of the extraordinary people above the demigod have been eaten by "He", and the other party also had a bunch of clones wandering around, it was difficult for Renekton not to associate this matter with that fun person, and even avoided the other party's name for unnecessary trouble.

  "Although it's incredible, it's indeed reasonable." Mr. Kos said after a moment of silence after listening to Renekton's words.

  "Let's go. Let's pretend to be ordinary family members of patients and go to the hospital to take a look. Now, due to this series of events, the management of the hospital is in chaos. It's very convenient for us to observe the actual situation, but we must always pay attention to our own state. If the thief is still in the hospital, our things and even our own thoughts may be stolen by him." Captain Ikonton instructed.

  "Since the other party is so dangerous, why are there only a few of us? If the other party really has such ability, it will be difficult for us to keep him if he wants to leave, right?" Rekton asked in confusion. He always felt that the captain didn't seem to be very concerned about the incident of the suspected thief who was a path to the extraordinary person.

  "If we can't handle it, let the Church of the Earth Mother Goddess solve this incident. Moreover, these things are originally under the jurisdiction of the Church of the Earth Mother Goddess. After all, this is Feynaporte, and the influence of the Church of Knowledge here is limited. We only need to collect information to prove that we can't handle this matter, and then let the Church of the Earth Mother Goddess take over." Captain Ikonton said this passive sabotage in a very serious and formal tone.

  "Ah? It can be done this way?" The honest child Josie obviously had never seen such an operation and was very shocked.

  "The owner of this hospital is not ordinary? So this roundabout way must be used?" Mr. Kos quickly thought of the key to the problem.

  "The public identity is a nobleman. As for the private identity, there is no corresponding record in the church's information." Captain Ikonton nodded and agreed with Mr. Kos's opinion.

  "The private identity, the name of the hospital is Crimson, this place can't be the property of the blood clan, if it is true, this thief is quite powerful, he can make trouble again and again under the noses of the blood clan and hasn't been caught by the blood clan." Renekton thought silently in his heart as he looked at the red castle-style building.

  When he came to his senses, Renekton found that the captain and Josie had already walked into the hospital, and Renekton hurriedly followed.

  "Ouch!" Renekton just walked quickly to the gate of the hospital and bumped into a figure that suddenly jumped out. Then Renekton was knocked back two steps and sat on the ground.     The figure that collided with Renekton also screamed and took two steps back before he could stabilize his body.

  Renekton looked up and found that the person he collided with was a girl wearing a classical Gothic style long skirt, red hair and red eyes, with cold white skin and delicate features like a well-made doll. At this moment, the other party was holding up the long skirt with one hand to prevent it from dragging on the ground, and rubbing her forehead with the other hand.

  Seeing the other party rubbing her forehead, Renekton felt that his nose was also very painful.

  "Hiss~" Renekton, who wanted to stand up from the ground, found that his buttocks also hurt when he moved, and he couldn't help but take a breath.

  "Hey! You are not trying to scam me!" The girl on the opposite side obviously heard the sound that Renekton just made, and stopped rubbing her forehead. She put her hands on her hips and looked like she was going to get angry.

  "I'm not shouting hey! And I was hit harder, why are you angry when I'm not angry yet!" Renekton also showed his temper like a young master.

  When they bumped into each other just now, Renekton realized that something was wrong with the girl on the other side. The other party was definitely not an ordinary person. When the two of them bumped into each other, it turned out that he, a Sequence 8 Beyonder, was knocked to the ground. Even though Readers and Peeps were not ways to strengthen physical fitness.

  Putting on his glasses that were knocked crooked, Renekton stretched out his left hand and said unceremoniously: "Pull me up! It hurts a little."

  "Humph! Just bear with it if it hurts a little! You actually made such an unreasonable request, you unreasonable and low-level creature." The red-haired girl on the other side was obviously irritated by Renekton's attitude and said unceremoniously.

  "Low-level creature? Are you a non-human higher-level creature?" Renekton said this while carefully observing the other party's reaction.

  "Humph! That, of course, is impossible." The red-haired girl was not trapped by Renekton's simple words.

  Renekton was not disappointed when he didn't get the information he wanted. He stood up from the ground with one hand supporting the ground and the other hand covering his nose.

  "Hiss~ It hurts so much,"

  "Hey! My nose seems to be bleeding because of you. Do you know where the doctor is in the hospital? Take me to treat the wound." Renekton felt a little liquid sliding down his hand that was covering his nose.

  "I didn't say hey either! And you bumped into me just now!" the red-haired girl corrected.

  "It's obviously me who got hit harder, how could I have bumped into you?" Renekton retorted.

  "That's because you're weak!" the red-haired girl said bluntly, paused for a moment, looked at Renekton's hand covering his nose and said, "And we can't treat your nosebleed now, wait for it to heal itself, anyway, a little nosebleed won't have any impact."

  "Isn't this a hospital?" Renekton felt that the other party was teasing him.

  "So what if it's a hospital? All the cotton swabs in the hospital were stolen by a thief just now." The red-haired girl gritted her teeth and said.

  "Uh." Renekton was speechless: "Is there no cotton in the quilt of this thief's house?"

  The red-haired girl did not respond to Renekton's words. She reached out and carefully pulled Renekton's sleeve, and quickly withdrew her hand as if she had touched something dirty.

  She turned and walked into the hospital and said, "Come with me. You should be thankful that the guy whose quilt has no cotton did not steal the faucet. Just wash away the blood that is flowing out of your nose. Your nose has not bled much."

  "How did you know?" Renekton covered his nose with his hand, but he felt that the blood flow from his nose had stopped.

  "Why do you have so many questions?" The red-haired girl was very impatient.

  "I saw that you like to talk a lot, so I asked a few more questions." Renekton shrugged and spoke in a tone that sounded a bit annoying.

  The red-haired girl was silent for a long time before she said, "This hospital does not treat mental patients." Chapter 14: The Second-year Blood Girl

  Renekton, led by the red-haired girl, walked to the sink at the corner of the stairs, turned on the faucet and cleaned up the blood from his nose, and found that the blood had indeed stopped.

  "Are you a doctor in this hospital?" Renekton asked curiously.

  "Do you think I look like one?" The red-haired girl said very impolitely.

  "Anyway, you don't look like a patient." Renekton shrugged.

  "Of course I'm not a patient." The red-haired girl's anger, which had just calmed down, was ignited again by Renekton.

  Renekton wanted to laugh when he saw that the other party was obviously very angry but tried to maintain her image, but he tried to hold it back because he had basically guessed the identity of the red-haired girl.

  "Hey! What are you thinking about? You look like a pervert, you know!" The girl was very angry, the kind that wanted to hit someone.

  "I really don't mean to say hey, I'm thinking that if I were a provocateur of the Hunter Path, I would be able to digest the potion quickly in front of you!" Renekton showed a playful smile on his face.

  "You! What do you mean? I don't care if you're called a provocateur or not! You're really good at provoking me." The girl looked flustered for a moment, then pretended to be calm.

  "Really? What a pity, the Hunter Path is not very good at defense, otherwise I would like to choose the Hunter Path." Renekton said with a regretful expression.

  "Oh! A coward!" The girl mocked without hesitation.

  Renekton shrugged indifferently and said, "After all, a qualified hunter is very good at attracting hatred. If he is not strong enough, how can he survive? Don't you think so? This vampire who doesn't care about life and death?"

  "It's a vampire!" The girl stared at Renekton with bloodshot eyes.

  "Yes, it's a vampire." Renekton nodded quickly and admitted his defeat.

  The girl realized that she was being tricked, "You!" "You tricked me! You are an evil, dirty and despicable human!"

  "Hey, hey, hey! You are going too far. This is clearly wisdom. You don't need to use so many adjectives at once." Renekton slightly turned his body and retreated two steps to the side of the stairs. He was a little worried that the vampire girl's psychological endurance would not be able to withstand it and she would go berserk.

  "I'm not saying hey!" The vampire girl looked at the other party's action of retreating two steps and the anger that had been suppressed was ignited again.

  "Then what's your name?" Renekton asked.

  The vampire girl stared at Renekton for a long time before proudly raising her chin, with her hands on her hips, and said arrogantly: "Is this the purpose of you, a despicable human? Humph! It's not impossible to meet your rude request. Listen carefully, my name is Eliza, the patron of the great ancestor, and I will lead the vampires to a glorious future, the second blood moon queen!"

  "Why do you have to do so many actions just to say a name?" Renekton said that he didn't understand the vampires' second-year syndrome.

  "What do you care! Um, hey! What's your name?" Eliza said arrogantly.

  "Me? Joshua, Joshua Leiber, um... we can be friends if we tell each other our names, you can't hit someone just because you are angry!" Renekton made up a name casually.

  "I have suppressed my anger, but now you say that, I want to beat you again." Eliza said viciously.

  "Don't worry, I am very generous, just don't hit me." Renekton said in a tone of "I don't care."

  Eliza rolled her eyes at Renekton with her scarlet eyes.

  "Are you a member of the Knowledge Church who came to investigate this incident? Is there no one in your Knowledge Church? Sending such a weak person here, it's better to go back to where you came from. Even I didn't catch the hateful thief at all, and you are even worse." Eliza stared at Renekton carefully and said unceremoniously.

  "Why do you think I'm from the Church of Knowledge?" Renekton asked curiously, thinking that he shouldn't have such obvious movements or characteristics.

  Eliza looked at Renekton with a look of idiot and said, "Who else but you people from the Church of Knowledge would carry a book with you when you go to the hospital for no reason?"

  "Book?" Renekton was stunned for a moment before he reacted. It seemed that the book he was carrying was lost.     "Don't look at it. You didn't pick it up when it fell on the ground at the gate." Eliza said.

  "I didn't remember that I was carrying a book." Renekton frowned. His spiritual intuition reminded Renekton that things might not be that simple.

  "Tsk! I thought you people in the Church of Knowledge loved books so much, but you didn't notice that your book had fallen for so long." Eliza said with disdain.

  "The point is that I didn't think about my book at all at the time, and I didn't notice this matter. Do you think this is reasonable?" Renekton said.

  "What's unreasonable about this? You've become stupid because of reading books!" Eliza said indifferently.

  Renekton was speechless. He seemed to have overestimated the intelligence of this vampire middle school girl. He had to explain: "If something in your hand was knocked off, how could you not feel it? And I didn't have any relevant thoughts. I can only say that there was a thief who could steal people's thoughts near us at that time."

  "A thief who can steal people's thoughts? You can't try to save your lost face, right?" Eliza said in a rather doubtful tone.

  "Sequence 5: Dream Thief. This sequence of Beyonders can take away other people's ideals and dreams, steal other people's memories, and even steal the ideas that the other party is about to put into practice. You don't even know these things, and you dare to come out alone to catch thieves?" Renekton didn't expect this middle school vampire girl to be so reckless.

  "How could I have thought that a crazy prankster would have such a high sequence!" Eliza felt a little wronged: "No! Since your church knows all this information, why do you still send a weak chicken who just took the potion and hasn't mastered his own characteristics and abilities?"

  The weak chicken was speechless for a while, sighed and said: "So obviously I'm not here to investigate this incident! I just came to watch and accumulate experience for myself. And I judged that the other party was a Sequence 5 Beyonder based on my experience just now. I didn't know this before I came, otherwise I wouldn't have come!"

  "Coward! You're scared so quickly." Eliza felt that she was going to be pissed to death by the guy in front of her. She had never seen such an annoying person from the Knowledge Church.

  "The opponent is likely to be a Sequence 5, or at least a Sequence 7 or Sequence 6 who has mastered the corresponding seal. No matter which one it is, I am not someone who has just reached Sequence 8 and has not even mastered my extraordinary ability. What's more, my path has no combat power improvement in the early stage." Renekton was also helpless. Before coming, he had never thought that the opponent might be a Sequence 5 strongman.

  "Since you are here, come with me to find this guy." Eliza insisted on catching Renekton no matter how much Renekton emphasized that the other party was strong.

  Renekton glanced at the other party and said, "So you are the hospital doctor whose collection was stolen?"

  "It's not me. The doll was stolen from my brother." Eliza said.

  "You vampires have a very special hobby. Then what was stolen from you?" Renekton could only sigh that the vampires have a special liking for dolls.

  "What do you mean by our vampires? Only my brother, okay? That damn thief stole my Pas, and it was so small and cute!" Eliza's expression became very angry when she talked about her stolen Pas, and her cold white skin looked a little bloody.

  "Your brother's name is Emlyn?" Renekton asked curiously. He remembered that the vampire who loved collecting dolls was in Backlund.

  "What Emlyn?" Eliza asked curiously.

  "Nothing, let's go and look around other parts of the hospital. From the perspective of the thief's evil taste, after working so hard, he will definitely find a good position to watch this drama." Shaking his head, Renekton called Eliza to go to other floors of the hospital to take a look.

  "You seem to know a lot about this kind of thing? Are you also such a person?" Eliza asked.

  "Of course not, this is just an analysis of a person's psychology and behavior to infer the other party's next move. By the way, do you have any magical items? Is there anything you can lend me for self-defense?" Renekton explained and then felt that it was too risky for a rookie like him to find a high-sequence strongman hidden here, so he asked Eliza, a vampire, if she had anything she could use for self-defense.

  "You don't have any magical items?" Eliza said in disbelief, then she felt that such a straightforward statement was a bit rude and added: "I only have one magical item, but I can't give it to you. It's not that I'm stingy, but the negative impact on creatures other than the vampires is too great."

  "Well, it's just right. The thief path has a special sense of treasures. If there are too many magical items, it's actually giving equipment to the other party." Renekton didn't think there was anything wrong. Instead, he thought it was just right. It didn't matter whether he could catch the other party. Anyway, the captain said that this matter would be handed over to the Church of the Mother Earth. If he formed a group to give a wave of equipment, it would be uncomfortable.

  "Bang!~Bangbang!~" "Ah!"

  Eliza wanted to say something, at this time, there was a sound of something exploding upstairs, accompanied by screams.

  "Don't be in a hurry, go slowly, pay attention to the people around you and their expressions, the thief may be hiding nearby, think about it several times, and have more thoughts in your mind, so that even if the thief wants to steal our ideas, he will have to steal them several times, which will give us some time to react." Renekton grabbed the vampire girl who was about to run up quickly and warned her. Chapter 15 Prank

  Renekton and Eliza came to the third floor of the hospital where the explosion had just occurred. The doctors on this floor had already maintained order, and only a few people were left, each gathering together to discuss something. At the end of the corridor, there was a floor of ribbons, confetti, and some broken balloon debris at the door of the bathroom.

  Looking at the mess in front of him, Renekton could already guess what had just happened: the mischievous thief had prepared a lot of balloons filled with inflated ribbons and confetti in the bathroom, using mechanisms or extraordinary abilities, and when someone pushed open the door of the bathroom, these balloons would suddenly explode. This was probably the source of the explosion and screams that he and Eliza had heard downstairs just now.

  The balloon staircase was not far from the bathroom, and Renekton could even see the words on the confetti on the floor. After finally recognizing the scattered words on it, Renekton's expression became outrageous: "Isn't this thief always failing exams when he was studying? He had nothing to do so he stole my books just to tear them into pieces and throw them everywhere?"

  "Now you know how bored and hateful this thief is, right? It's just right, you can try to see if you can tell anything through these pieces of paper." Eliza said.

  "This is not my book, I borrowed it from the library! I have to return it." Renekton said speechlessly, but he still walked to the ground in front of the bathroom door and picked up some pieces of paper.

  While Renekton was collecting the pieces of paper on the ground, Eliza turned and walked in the other direction of the corridor. For the vampires with a keen sense of smell, the bathroom is not a good place.

  After Renekton collected the scraps of paper that could be used, Eliza had disappeared. Renekton looked around, but didn't see the captain and the others. He didn't know whether they hadn't arrived yet or had already left. Renekton speculated that it was more likely the latter.

  But Renekton was not in a hurry to reunite with the captain. Since the captain did not come to find him immediately after he fell behind, it meant that he should have a mark left by the captain, and the other party could roughly know his situation in this hospital. He leaned against the wall in front of the window opposite the stairs on one side.

  "Fortunately, the knowledge of mysticism that I have mastered is related to divination." After sighing in his heart, Renekton put the scraps of paper in his hand against his forehead and closed his eyes to meditate.

  After a while, a picture emerged in Renekton's mind: a person in a linen robe holding a book, with the words "Hermes Language - From Beginner to Mastery" printed on the cover of the book, but the person's appearance was blurred, and it was impossible to tell whether he was a man or a woman. The picture changed and it became a gentleman in a formal suit, a top hat and a bow tie, tearing a book into pieces as if to vent.

  The dream divination ended there. Rekton opened his eyes and sighed. He didn't get much useful information. He only knew that his book was indeed picked up by someone and then torn into pieces by another person. However, the two people were dressed completely differently, and the divination picture was too blurry to determine the changes in the details of the body, so it was impossible to determine whether it was a disguise of one person.

  "Are you fortune-telling? Any results?" Captain Ikonton's voice suddenly came from the side.

  Rekton turned around and saw Captain Ikonton standing aside and watching him silently, while Josie and Mr. Koss were nowhere to be found.

  "Captain! When did you come here? I bumped into someone at the hospital gate and wasted some time, and then I found that you were gone." After seeing Captain Ikonton, Rekton first explained the reason why he fell behind.

  "As for divination, there is a little information, but it's useless!" Rekton shook his head and added.

  "Well, it's okay. I know. We were originally planning to go around the floors of the hospital separately. If we acted together, we would be too conspicuous, so we didn't wait for you. I've already left a mark on you. As long as you don't leave this building, I'll know anything at the first time." Captain Ikonton nodded and said, not caring about Rekton falling behind.

  "By the way, Captain, the book I took out from the library was stolen by that thief, and it was torn into pieces, all over the floor." Rekton stretched out his palm to reveal the scraps of paper on his hand, and at the same time looked at the ground in front of the bathroom door not far away. There were already workers in charge of cleaning the ground there, cleaning the scraps of paper and ribbons scattered all over the ground.

  "Is that so! No wonder Kos said the scraps of paper on the ground looked familiar." Ikonton pondered.

  "Do you remember how the book was stolen?" Captain Ikonton asked.

  "Well, I remember some." Renekton nodded and continued to speak when the captain did not interrupt him: "When I first entered the hospital and bumped into someone, the book in my hand also fell to the ground, but I didn't seem to notice it at the time. After I stood up from the ground, I didn't remember that I still had a book. It wasn't until the lady who bumped into me said that I brought a book that I remembered it, but at that time the book had been taken away."

  "Well, I see." Captain Ikonton frowned.

  "Captain, is there any problem with this? I always feel like I forgot something." Renekton mentioned the topic of forgetting part of the memory in a vague way, so that the captain could associate it with the Dream Stealer in the Thief's Path.

  "Next, you stay with me. Let's go find Josie and Kos. This matter is more troublesome than I expected. We can't act separately. The other party is a high-sequence strongman with strange abilities." Ikonton's tone became serious.

  After speaking, Ikonton turned around and stepped onto the stairs and walked upstairs.

  "Okay, Captain." Renekton replied while quickly following the captain's pace.

  Following Ikonton, I found Josie on the fourth floor of the hospital, chatting with a doctor about the recent gossip in the hospital. The doctor was chatting with another doctor who looked about the same age, but had a severely receding hairline and looked tired.

  "Huh? Let's talk about it next time. My friend is here to see me. Don't be too stressed. The authorities will definitely solve this matter. It's just a shameful thing! As long as everyone is embarrassed together, no one will be embarrassed." Josie patted the shoulder of the haggard doctor opposite and said.

  After saying goodbye to the other party, Josie rushed to meet up with the captain and Renekton who were waiting a little further away.     "Hey! Captain? Have you found any clues?" As soon as he came over, Josie couldn't help but start asking.

  According to the previous agreement, everyone should reunite after finding clues or visiting the entire hospital, but now it's only been a short time since I entered the hospital, and the captain and Rekton have come to find me, which means that they have found a relatively important clue.

  Captain Ikonton didn't say much, just nodded and walked downstairs. Josie and Rekton looked at each other, and then followed the captain downstairs.

  The three of them saw Mr. Kos who was asking for information at the front desk of the hospital on the first floor of the hospital. After the three of them approached, Mr. Kos also noticed the three people coming.

  "Captain? Why are you all down here?" Mr. Kos asked in confusion.

  "Huh? Hello, are you Mr. Joshua?" The front desk staff suddenly asked Rekton at this time.

  Rekton's spiritual intuition was triggered at this time, and he looked at the staff in front of him and subconsciously asked: "Did someone leave something for me?"

  "Yes, it's a book." The staff nodded.

  Then he took out a book that Renekton was very familiar with from the drawer of the table on the side, "Hermes Language - From Beginner to Mastery". Renekton reached out to take the book, but was stopped by the captain beside him and was told to just put it on the table.

  "But, that gentleman said that it must be handed over to Mr. Joshua." The staff member said somewhat helplessly.

  "It's okay, just leave it there, I'll take it when I leave the hospital later." Renekton didn't know why the captain didn't let him touch the book, but he still chose to listen to the captain's suggestion.

  "But" the staff member wanted to continue persuading.

  "Swish!"

  Captain Ikonton suddenly shook out a paper man from his pocket, and the paper man stuck directly to the staff member. The staff member opposite stopped what he was about to say, and the other party suddenly froze in place.

  Then Ikonton threw out another paper man from the pocket on the other side of his clothes. This paper man expanded and deformed in the air, becoming the appearance of a real person.

  "Go pick up that book." Ikonton quickly gave the order.

  After receiving the order from Ikton, the person transformed from the paper man reached out and took the book in the staff's hand. Before he could make the next move, the person transformed from the paper man suddenly rushed towards the staff on the opposite side, twisted and turned into a pile of paper scraps floating in the air, and before it landed, it spontaneously combusted in the air and turned into ashes and dissipated.

  The change came too suddenly. Although Renekton thought that there would be problems after the paper man took the book, he did not expect that in just a moment, the person transformed from the paper man rushed towards the hospital staff in front of him, and there was no time to stop it. Fortunately, the paper man then broke into paper scraps and spontaneously combusted.

  "No, this is not good at all. If the captain hadn't used the paper man to take the book, wouldn't I be the one who got hit?" Renekton secretly thanked himself for being with the captain.

  The four stood there in silence for a while, and Ikton reached out and pulled the paper man off the hospital staff, crumpled it into a ball and put it in his pocket.

  "Let's go. The paper figurine carries a psychological hint. She will wake up in a while and forget what happened just now." Captain Ikonton explained.

  "Okay, Captain, what should we do with this book?" Renekton pointed to the book that was thrown on the ground by the paper figurine and asked.

  "Take it back to the church!" Ikonton said.

  "Okay!" Renekton saw that the captain didn't say anything else, and knew that there should be no problem with the book. Then Renekton bent down and picked up the book on the ground.

  The weight was much lighter than Renekton expected. Renekton reached out and opened the book. As expected, only the outer cover and the edge of the paper were left. The content in the middle had been hollowed out and torn into pieces and scattered at the door of the bathroom on the third floor.