Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 176 The Night Watchman
The red moon outside the window was obscured by clouds, and the moonlight that penetrated the curtains could only barely outline the large items in the bedroom, and gloom and dimness became the dominant theme of the room.
Klein sat in such a setting, in no hurry to leave.
He looked at the sleeping Dr. Allen on the bed and quietly analyzed a picture he had just seen in his dream:
”The last thing Will Onsettin held in his hand was the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ card, and everything in a dream like this possesses symbolic meaning, it’s all a revelation gained by one’s own astral spirit body …… That is to say, Will Onsettin’s thing is related to ‘destiny’, and with the giant silver and white serpent that most likely represents the ‘Mercury Serpent’, the child may be related to which high sequence powerhouse of the ‘monster’ pathway or which bizarre Seal Object related ……
”His crisis stems from the ‘Serpent of Mercury’s’ covetousness for him, or that bizarre sealing object he is involved with?
”But the ‘Serpent of Mercury’ is a Sequence 1 ah, belonging to the kind of existence closest to the gods, only the name itself reflects the high status of k, it’s impossible that it can’t help such a child as Will Onsettin, that Amon who still doesn’t know whether it’s Sequence 1, or Sequence 2, or Sequence 3, only relying on an Split, almost invaded the gray fog above ……
”This matter doesn’t seem to be that simple, it definitely hides a great secret.”
Thinking of this, Klein had already decided to retreat.
”This is very dangerous to hear, and that deck of tarot cards may not be a magical item, the special and great possibility is Will Onsettin himself, well, Dr. Allen has already gotten rid of his obsession except for the nightmares he would have, there is no reason at all for me to get involved in this matter, to actively perform and challenge the impossibility on this, it’s almost the same as committing suicide… . well, yes, I have to follow the will of my heart!” Klein braced his black gloved right palm against the surface of the dresser and slowly stood up.
After the dream entry just now, he was completely certain that Dr. Allen’s nightmare originated from the revelation that his astral spirit body had received from the spirit world, and that revelation had been deliberately created and provided by a certain high-level, high-positioned being, and the thousand paper cranes belonged to the positioning props.
According to a certain chapter in the Book of Secrets, Klein could also try to use that Thousand Paper Cranes to locate Dr. Allen’s astral spirit body that was roaming the spirit world and secretly observe where those revelations came from, but he had just decided to stay out of it.
Moving his body around, Klein, with a final curiosity, rummaged through Dr. Allen’s leather wallet and pulled the thousand-paper crane out of it.
He placed the thousand paper cranes at the end of his cane staff, holding them both at the same time, and then his eyes turned deep as he whispered to himself:
”Will Onsettin’s current location.”
After the divination statement was repeated seven times, a breeze suddenly swirled around the room with a blowing soul-like coolness.
Klein released his right palm, and the cane first stood steady, then fell with the thousand paper cranes, pointing diagonally toward the sleeping bed.
”There ……” Klein frowned slightly and changed his position, repeating the divination he had just done and getting feedback without any problems.
And the pointing intersection of the two divinations was, Dr. Allen!
Will Onsettin’s position overlapped with Dr. Allen …… This is a bit interesting …… Klein muttered twice to himself with amusement and consternation.
His curiosity climbed to the extreme at once.
Although he didn’t intend to get involved in this matter, he wanted to figure out why the overlapping situation had occurred.
Well …… take the thousand paper cranes above the gray fog to divine it, with the gray fog blocking it, nothing will happen …… Klein quickly had a new idea.
And since it was inconvenient to perform the ritual of summoning himself in Dr. Allen’s bedroom, he decided to bring the thousand paper cranes home first.
For this, he actually had prepared – before coming, Klein was not sure of the seriousness of the matter, holding the possibility that he might go looking for Will Onsettin to see if he could get the deck of tarot cards, so he prepared another thousand paper cranes ahead of time, intending to use it as a replacement for the genuine one, to facilitate all kinds of divination for himself, and then when the problem was solved, he would change it back again.
As soon as he thought of it, Klein pulled out the prepared one thousand paper crane from his coat pocket.
This was something he had deliberately folded above the gray mist, preventing Dr. Allen from suddenly deciding to turn over Will Onsettin-related items to the Church of the Goddess of the Night, thus allowing the fake him to be divined.
Being well thought out and detailed in advance really does make things a lot simpler …… Klein praised himself.
Borrowing the thin moonlight, he carefully compared Will Onsettin’s thousand paper cranes with his own folded thousand paper cranes to see if there were any obvious differences.
At this look, Klein fell into silence.
His handicraft ability is not as good as a small child ……
In fact, they are both thousand paper cranes, and there is not much difference, my one is a little rough at best, and Allen, as long as he has not repeatedly studied the original one, he will definitely not be able to tell that it has been switched …… Klein muttered a few words to himself silently, took out a coin, and used the divination method to make a final confirmation.
After receiving a positive revelation, he put the crane he folded into Allen’s wallet and put it back to its original location, while he dealt with the scene and left No. 3 Burningham Road with Will Onsettin’s crane.
By “divination staff”, Klein smoothly returned home, taking advantage of the leisure of the bath, using their own method of summoning themselves, the crane together with the “master key” sent to the gray fog.
Sitting in the silence of the palace, he picked up the crane and scrutinized it for a few seconds, but found nothing unusual.
Then, Klein manifested a pen and paper and wrote down the same divination statement as before:
”Will Onsettin’s current location.”
This time, he switched to the “dream divination method”, and was surprised to see a picture appear in the grayish world:
It was a dark room, and the tiger-headed, dark-eyed Will Onsettin, with the help of a chair, was lying on a desk in front of the window, looking out at the scenery.
He had a stack of tarot cards grasped in each hand, and a pile of blocks beside him.
The blocks spelled out a serpent in the shape of a ring with its head and tail connected.
The scene outside the window was equally dark, with only the faint sound of clattering water coming through.
The dream ended soundlessly here, and Klein opened his eyes and tapped his fingers up on the edge of the long bronze table, muttering wordlessly to himself:
”The serpent with the tail, is it really the ‘Serpent of Mercury’? The ‘Mercury Serpent’ that represents fate ……
”The sound of running water outside the window suggests that Will Onsettin’s current location is adjacent to the Tasok River?
”Earlier, I divined that his position overlapped with Dr. Allen, and was interfered with from fate?”
Seeing that divination above the gray mist could only yield this level of revelation, Klein, no longer plagued by curiosity, reluctantly made a reading and planned to change the thousand paper cranes back tomorrow night and find a chance to instruct Dr. Allen to go to the church of the Goddess of the Night to tell the bishop about this matter.
This kind of thing is still better to be done by the regular army …… Klein gave a low laugh and returned to the real world.
After a leisurely soak, he didn’t get busy again and burrowed under the covers.
After an indeterminate amount of time, Klein suddenly startled, awake and sensible enough to know that he was dreaming, dreaming of flipping through the Book of Secrets within the living room.
This, this familiar sensation …… He made his customary show of bewilderment and inclined his head to look at the door.
The door to the room was opened with a creak, and a figure wearing a gray coat walked in.
He was probably in his thirties, with long thin cheeks, a broad forehead, and dark blue eyes that looked quite wise.
Not Captain …… Klein suddenly smiled to himself, exhaled silently, and let the Book of Secrets in his hand turn into a Ladies Aesthetic magazine.
He flipped through the magazine as he casually greeted his visitor.
The man in the gray trench coat removed his hat, sat down across from him, and asked casually:
”Alan came to see you this morning?”
Sure enough, it was the night watchman, a “nightmare”…… Klein resisted the urge to sigh and replied with a smile:
”Yes.”
He had already figured out why the Night Watchman had suddenly entered his dream.
The “nightmare” in front of him should be a Night Watch team leader who was responsible for the Will Onsettin incident, but had not been able to find any useful clues.
Under such circumstances, Dr. Allen and Detective Sherlock Moriarty’s visit to the door to inquire about the whereabouts of Will Ensettin should have been made known to them last night or this morning, and at the same time, they found that Dr. Allen had just had breakfast and hurried to Minsk Street to visit Detective Sherlock Moriarty.
In the spirit of professionalism, nocturnal dreaming was of the most normal and natural development, and as Dr. Allen was more sensitive there, and a hasty entry was likely to break up the trail, a certain detective became the unquestioned first choice.
”What happened to him?” The night watchman squad leader asked “casually”.
Klein answered truthfully:
”He had a nightmare ……”
Klein described the scenes of the pitch-black tower, the silver-colored giant snake, and Will Onsettin under the layers of protection, and finally said:
”Before having this nightmare, Alan went to Will Onsettin’s house to look for the kid, because he was uneasy about his recovery, because he was troubled by his previous bad luck, unfortunately, the Will Onsettin family had already moved away, however, Alan recalled that the kid had given him a thousand paper cranes he had folded and wished him good luck.
”It was probably stimulated by those two events that he had such nightmares.”
The man in the gray coat said with a surprised expression:
”A thousand paper cranes?”
”Right.” Klein nodded softly, “The kid gave it to Alan before he was discharged from the hospital, Alan casually threw it in his office drawer and forgot about it after that until last night.”
”I see, thanks for the explanation.” The night watchman squad leader stood up and politely pressed his chest in a salute.
There was a sudden watery shaking of the dreamscape, and he disappeared directly into the room.
Looking at the spot where he had sat, Klein leisurely speculated on what would happen next:
The night watchmen would probably go to Dr. Allen’s tonight, enter the dream to examine it and take away the thousand paper cranes, and so the question arose of the one that Klein had folded, right on top of the gray mist.
Forget it, no matter which thousand paper cranes are used, they are unlikely to be able to divine the answer, and it is irrelevant whether or not they are changed back …… Klein muttered to himself.
Collecting his thoughts, he continued to sit there, in no hurry to break away from the dream, transfixed for a long time.
After a while, he curled up the corners of his mouth and sighed in a small voice:
”It’s so nostalgic ……”