Part 1 The Joker Chapter 142 – Associations
Of course, Klein couldn’t have mentioned the Mind Reader formula right off the bat, but he didn’t hide the fact that he had something else on his mind; after all, he was in the audience, and it wasn’t easy to fool him.
”Has Hood Orgen been acting out of character lately?” He began by asking about the “patient” from the asylum who had developed Duster Guderian into a member of the Psycho-Alchemy Society.
Duster scrutinized Klein’s eyes, expression and movements and thought for a moment:
”No, he’s the same as always. Frankly, I think he could have acted healthy and sane right away if he wanted to leave the asylum, but he didn’t, he remained inside and seemed to want to try to heal every patient, well, the guys who were confused or raging or thinking abnormally got a little bit better, and maybe, maybe Hood Orgen was exercising his extraordinary abilities in that way.”
”Audience” corresponds to sequence 7, “Psychiatrist”? Maybe higher …… From the fact that Hood Orgen is not acting as an asylum doctor, but infiltrating as a patient, it is clear that he has not really mastered the “playing method”, but that he is exercising his extraordinary abilities in a way that is close to the “playing method”, as Dusty speculates. “Playing the role”, to some extent, can alleviate the negative effects of the magic potion, so Hoodoo O’Gannon simply to use the asylum as a home …… Klein frankly show that he has a deep thought about the Hoodoo O’Gannon thing.
Because it would make Dusty Guderian think he knew a lot, understood a lot, and was profound.
Thinking about this, Klein also deduced another thing, that is, the Psycho-Alchemy Society did not master the “play method”, after all, a powerful member of at least the Sequence 7 is not clear – this is the era of the scarcity of extraordinary people, regardless of the hidden organization, the Sequence 7 is at least the middle level, at least the middle level. In this age of few Extraordinary Beings, a Sequence 7 in any secretive organization is at least middle-ranking enough to know something important, especially something that can effectively help its members fight against losing control.
It’s also true that the Psycho-Alchemy Society is a secretive organization that was founded in the last two to three hundred years, or even later, so it’s normal that they haven’t mastered or summarized the “play method”, and the only one who has explicitly proposed such a method is the Mistery of the Secret Doctrine Society, which has a history of more than fifteen hundred years and can be traced back to the last epoch!
Gee, the Church of the Goddess is even older than the Occult, with a history of almost 3,000 years, not counting the myths and legends that precede it. …… Why didn’t a church like this get discovered? “Playing the Law”?
In such a long history, in such a huge organization, there will always be members with unique ideas who try various possibilities unconsciously or with an experimental mindset, just like “psychic” Daley, they may not have been able to explicitly put forward the play method, but they have already started from the name of the magic potion, touched the right path, and gradually figured out something through the good feedback, and so on from generation to generation. They may not have been able to come up with something explicitly, but they had already touched on the right path from the name of the magic potion, and gradually figured out something through good feedback. With such an accumulation of generations and examples, it would be impossible for them not to summarize the “playing method” unless the top management was a bunch of curly-haired baboons!
Klein’s thoughts diverged to make an association, and he was suddenly startled.
In the eyes of other night watchmen who didn’t know the “play method”, people like “psychic” Daley were geniuses, an existence that ordinary members couldn’t emulate, so no one would wonder why Daley and the others couldn’t transfer their experience to themselves.
However, in the minds of those who have mastered the “play method”, this is very strange!
Klein believed that in the long history of the Church of the Goddess of the Night, “psychic” Daley was definitely not the first member to use a similar playing method to quickly digest a low sequence of magical potions, and she might not even be ranked in the top ten, top fifty!
”This doesn’t make sense probabilistically. …… Unless Dai Li didn’t comprehend the ‘playing method’ by herself, and had someone else’s guidance, then it can be explained that the Church of the Goddess of the Night couldn’t summarize the ‘playing method’ because of the old paths. ‘Because of the old path, all the members follow the will of the past, believe in the experience of the predecessors, do not dare to have the slightest rebellion, after all, a rebellion often means out of control …… Well, in addition to this explanation, there is another possibility, the church senior because of certain problems hidden ‘Playing the Law’ ……”
”I’ll have to go through the correspondence and look for instances where extraordinary people belonging to the Church of the Goddess quickly digested the magic potion, as well as figure out where they ended up later on ……” Klein pondered gruffly.
Dusty watched his face, waited a minute or two, and asked suspiciously:
”Sergeant, is there anything wrong with Hood Ogan’s behavior?”
”Not at the moment; I just associated it with something else.” Crane answered with a smile, putting his doubts aside for the moment.
He turned to ask:
”Has the Psycho-Alchemy Society done anything recently?”
”No, except for a small gathering in Ahova County to exchange items and experiences.” Duster answered without making a secret.
Klein nodded softly:
”And how are you doing in your own right?”
Dast said controlling his own expression:
”Not too good, still hearing ravings and hallucinations quite often, if I wasn’t a psychiatrist, I would even think that I had developed similar aspects of the disease.”
As he said this, his face became a little more heavy, “I followed Hood Orgen’s and your instructions not to pay attention to the hallucinations and ravings, which made me a lot more comfortable, but they still interfered with my sleep and made me cranky, irritable, and unlike myself, as if a whole new me, or what could be described as a new personality, was growing inside me, and for that, I was very worried and scared that maybe one day I will suddenly lose control.”
Just as I expected, and didn’t even need divination to predict it …… Klein was prepared for it and smiled:
”You don’t need to worry, you are now a peripheral member of the Nightwatchman with benefits that belong to you, and as an ancient organization, we have mastered quite a few ways to avoid losing control, which may not necessarily be one hundred percent effective, but can definitely help you.”
”Also, I’m privately willing to share my experience with you, and just so you know, the gentleman standing in front of you took only a month to completely rid himself of the hallucinations and ravings and get them to stop, and you should know from Hood Orgen and the rest of his companions just how difficult that can be.”
For the sake of the “audience” counterpart of Sequence 8, “Mind Reader,” Klein boasted slightly and frankly.
”Officer, there are lies in your words, but the main Part 1s true.” Duster spoke with sudden calm, “What do you want from me?”
”The audience” is so hard to deceive …… Klein replied with a smirk:
”It’s not just what I want from you.”
It’s also Ms. Justice. ……
Of course, he knew that Dusty would surely assume that it was the Duty Squad that wanted something.
”If your approach does work, and there is an item or piece of information you want to get that I can touch …… ” Duster said with deliberation.
”I’ll pay you in advance for the benefits.” Klein said frankly, “We want the formula for ‘Mind Reader’.”
He wouldn’t hide the potion formula, and would turn it over to the captain, saying that Duster had traded it for his own experience in mastering magic potions.
And in the process, Klein would surely verify the formula, “accidentally” memorizing it in his head.
In addition, the formula that was exchanged for his personal experience could accumulate more merits for him.
By that time, together with the previous part, he might even be able to apply for the “Joker’s Recipe” plus the main ingredients without having to be extra busy.
It’s a good deal to make two transactions for one formula,” thought Klein in a positive mood.
Duster stared into his eyes and said in silence for a moment:
”You’re very frank …… I’ll try to obtain the formula, but I’m not sure how long it will take, and if it’s too risky, I’d like to replace it with other compensation.”
”No problem.” Klein didn’t intend to push the other party too much, and then implicitly described the “playing method”, “The key to fighting against loss of control lies in the name of the magic potion, we have to know it and understand what it really means, and that’s not something that can be accomplished by just thinking about it, it has to be actually experienced, for example, as a ‘spectator’, you have to understand that you are just a ‘spectator’, not an ‘actor’, and that the ‘spectator’ has to be what it looks like, you need to dig in your life, try it out, summarize its ‘code of conduct’ and be strict with it.”
Duster listened very intently for a while before saying:
”That’s a whole new theory, heh, I’d rather use ‘theory’ to describe what you just said, it’s like, like a counterpart theory for theater and opera singers …… I’ll give it a try and hope for a good change. ”
”If, if it really works, I will do my best to help you get the ‘Mind Reader’ formula!”
”May the Goddess bless you.” Klein drew a Crimson Moon on his chest.
He didn’t attach the ‘Psychic’ magic potion formula because he knew that it was a task that Duster would definitely not be able to accomplish in his current position, and the other party would be exposed if he wasn’t careful.
Therefore, he planned to take his time and help Duster gain a higher position in the Psycho Alchemy Society step by step.
That way, the long-term benefits would be very, very lucrative.
Without lingering any longer, Klein first observed the outside through the hole in the door, then quickly left and turned towards the small shooting range belonging to the night watchmen.
Entering there and locking the door, his face once again turned dark, in the speculation that the Church of the Goddess did not summarize the “playing method”, he associated with a thing that had been overlooked by himself!
The reason why he overlooked it was because the two things that should have been connected together, due to the reversal of the order of acquisition, he did not bother to do further thinking.
The first thing was that the Antigonus family was destroyed by the Church of the Goddess of the Night.
The second was that the Antigonus family held the Soothsayer Sequence, or at least a large portion of it.
Because Klein knew that there was a long gap between the two events, he almost didn’t analyze them together, and ignored the weirdness that existed in them, but now, when they were listed out like this, the problem became quite obvious.
Since the Antigonus family held at least a large portion of the “Diviner” pathway, how could the Church of the Goddess of the Night, which had completely destroyed them, have only obtained Sequence 9 “Diviners”?
The spoils of war could not be just this!
Just the members of the “Aurora Society” who got a magical notebook from the Antigonus family could get the “Joker” formula, what about the Church of the Goddess of the Night that destroyed the entire Antigonus family?
Even if the Antigonus family had prepared for this, and hid the most valuable thing in the main peak of the Hornachis mountain range, the Church of the Goddess of the Night shouldn’t be able to get only this little harvest, but they have killed many members of the Antigonus family, and the dead can talk!