Volume 7 The Inverted Man Chapter 18 The Loophole of Restriction
In the current era, in this world, the belief in deities is universal, the difference only lies in which deity one believes in, so even if Roy, Pasha and the others don’t understand what the term angel means in the occult, they have more or less heard the legends about angels from the mouths of the priest bishops and the elders around them, and they know that they are the servants of deities, powerful creatures that are qualified to be called “k They knew that they were the attendants of the gods, powerful creatures that could be called “k”, and could create miracles with every move, and were by no means comparable to ordinary people.
In the hearts of these four extraordinary people, angels are the Holy Spirit of another level and another world, normally living in the Kingdom of God, will not come down to reality, and can be treated as real legends, without considering the significance of the realities of the k’s, just like in the wars they had experienced before, although there were occasional extraordinary people that made them feel terrified until today, but that definitely did not make them think of angels.
The two were simply not on the same level!
But today, a wandering, mysterious “magician” told them that the Archpriest of the Church of the God of War was an angel who walked the earth.
Phil and the others believed in that magical gentleman from the bottom of their hearts, firstly, because the other party fulfilled their wishes and was friendly enough, and secondly, because they didn’t think that they were qualified to be deceived in this regard, and it didn’t make any difference whether the Archpriest was an angel or an unusually powerful and extraordinary person.
The reality of this world is far beyond our imagination …… Pasha’s mind once again flashed within her own often spoken words.
Roy, on the other hand, associated it with more.
He remembered that the lady whom Mr. Wizard had invited out of the air had said that she was tracking the Archpriest of the Church of the God of War, and it seemed that she was qualified to see the oracle of the Goddess of the Night.
The one who can track down an angel can only be another angel. …… Judging from the way Mr. Wizard behaved in front of that lady, his status can’t be too far from the truth. …… Roy was busy to turn his eyes towards Crane’s back. The eyes that subconsciously looked at Klein’s back were withdrawn, and he didn’t dare to look directly at the other party.
He glanced left and right each, and found that Phil seemed to have a similar suspicion, and that face that was white from blood loss surged with extremely complex emotions.
Byers held his breath for several seconds before he spoke:
”It is no wonder that Beldan has undergone this incomprehensible mutation ……”
”Now is not the time to feel these emotions, let’s get going, the curfew is about to come into effect.” Klein reminded with a smile like he wasn’t nervous at all.
Pasha busily glanced at the bulletin board again, imprinting the full contents of the curfew order into her mind:
”…… Walking outdoors and gathering …… is strictly prohibited from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.”
”Where are we supposed to go?” She asked offhandedly.
With the dual restrictions of the curfew order and the crime of trespassing, it seemed that the only option they had was to accept the punishment.
Klein chuckled:
”It’s just that walking and gathering outdoors is strictly forbidden.”
As he spoke, he used his foot to point at the sewer manhole cover next to him.
Byers’ eyes lit up and said:
”Right, it doesn’t say you can’t walk through the inside of the sewers!
”In places where curfew orders were previously in place, the vagabonds were hiding inside the sewers or abandoned buildings.”
Roy and the others no longer hesitated, immediately stepping forward and utilizing their strength advantage, they pushed open the manhole cover and climbed into the sewers.
In the darkness, a yellowish firelight lit up, and Klein had a horse lamp in his hand.
As he followed the magical “wizard,” Phil said thoughtfully:
”We can go to the inn next.
”Byers, being a native, will not be attacked, and can get a suite of rooms, and then, as we climb in through the window from the outside, it will not be considered trespassing, as we have the owner’s permission.
”That way, we can stay until dawn when the curfew is automatically lifted.”
”An interesting idea, but our purpose is not to survive until dawn.” Klein, who was traveling ahead carrying a horse lamp, responded with a smile.
Roy nodded and said:
”If we don’t do anything and stay at the inn all the time, then the laws will increase one by one and be refined to the point where no outsiders can stay in the inn rooms.”
”Actually, the most interesting point of that proposal just now wasn’t finding a loophole in the restrictions, but reminding me of something.” Klein half-turned his body to look at Byers and said, “As a local resident of Beldan, it’s surprising that he didn’t try to arrest the outlanders.”
That is, unaffected by that order on the yellow paper.
This …… Pasha and the others looked at Byers slightly warily, with an expression of unconcealable doubt.
What they had just encountered made them certain that the citizens of Beldan City had lost their minds in the matter of arresting outlanders.
”I don’t know why ……,” Byers murmured with equal confusion.
”Are you still a citizen of Beldan?” Klein asked in a seemingly casual manner as he jogged forward within the damp and foul-smelling sewers.
Byers followed him and replied with a fair amount of certainty:
”Of course.”
Klein said thoughtfully:
”You’re a citizen of Beldan on the one hand, and a standard outsider on the other, two attributes that overlap and appear to contradict each other, allowing you to be under that order without having to be attacked, and unaffected by the sanity aspect of the situation.”
”If we can create this ‘contradiction’, won’t we be able to escape the rules?” Phil said with a mental pep talk.
Pasha shook her head:
”But this kind of ‘contradiction’ is hard to create, at least I can’t think of any possibility right now ……”
Here, she suddenly paused and hesitated before saying:
”Most importantly, we are far away from the bulletin boards, completely unaware of what laws will follow, and there is no way to circumvent them.”
When the time came, nothing would dare be done!
Klein laughed and said:
”Don’t worry, this mirror will help us see the new additions to the bulletin board.”
He casually showed the “magic mirror” that had slipped into his left palm.
Pasha breathed a sigh of relief, then asked in confusion:
”Isn’t this a voyeuristic offense?”
On the surface of the silver mirror, a word that seemed to be dripping blood emerged:
”I look at bulletin boards like I look at the sun in the daytime without peeping.”
Klein retracted the “Magic Mirror” and added with a smile:
”Besides, it’s just an object, how is it a crime?”
It really makes sense …… Byers and Phil couldn’t help but nod their heads.
After Roy figured it out, he exhaled and turned to ask:
”Our next most important thing is to find that item, but we have no clue at all, as a ‘book’, it can be anywhere, we can only do a city-wide search, but it’s obviously too late.”
”Indeed, we have absolutely no idea where ‘0-02’ is, no clue at all, but there is one being who knows exactly.” Klein replied languidly as he listened to the sound of footsteps echoing through the sewers.
Pasha’s heart fluttered:
”You mean that Archpriest?”
Klein smiled and nodded:
”‘0-02’ is either in K’s hands or hidden somewhere by K. And a ‘book’ obviously can’t be transferred on its own, and that’s not something the current rules can help it accomplish. ”
”But how do we find the archprelate?” Byers asked offhandedly.
I wondered if it was because Mr. Magical Wizard was right next to him that he wasn’t so afraid of finding the earthly angel.
Klein calmly carried his horse’s lamp and said:
”As long as ‘0-02’ does not grant immunity to the Archpriest, then K will also have to abide by the law on the bulletin.
”K is originally a Forsak, and is undoubtedly not a citizen of Beldan to be treated as a native, and likewise, though K is an alien angel and not an outlander in the narrow sense of the word, K is just as likely to be hunted down by the citizens, that much is certain.”
”In short, that Archprelate will have to abide by the curfew order, he can’t trespass on people’s houses, he can’t hide in public areas that are not open to the public at night, at the same time, the tracked K shouldn’t have any companions with dual attributes like Byers, so you guys, what places would K be in?”
Roy’s eyes rolled slightly and he named several answers:
”Sewers, cemeteries, pre-zero hour churches, abandoned buildings ……”
”The cemetery at night is off limits, and the abandoned buildings themselves are titled and belong to someone or some group.” Pasha was busy reminding.
”Well, when sewer penetration is restricted as well, we’ll go to the church and look for that Archpriest or wait for K,” Klein said in a relaxed tone, as if deciding on a trivial matter.
Roy, Phil, and the others froze a bit, not realizing it would be so easy to pinpoint a target.
Just three words of discussion and the whereabouts of an angel was revealed!
”However, there are several churches in Beltane, so we’ll have to split up to save time, and there’s also the possibility that that archpriest could rely on the angel’s hierarchy and power to forcefully fight the punishment.” When Klein said this, he lowered his head and said to the “Magic Mirror” in his palm, “Arodes, you monitor the entire city and keep an eye on the abnormal situation.”
Instructing the Magic Mirror, Klein once again dragged out Ms. Arianna from within the Historical Mist and asked K to take charge of those churches of the Church of Darkness.
After doing so, he half-turned his body and said to Roy, Pasha, and the others:
”If we can’t find that Archpriest even like this, it means that k has either left Beldan and just left ‘0-02’ behind to block the enemy, or has already taken control of ‘0-02’ to some extent, in short, we can only do elimination for now.”
Roy and the others nodded at the same time and continued to follow Klein within the sewers.
After several minutes, the ancient silver mirror flooded with water and reflected a picture:
On the bulletin board, there was another piece of white paper with new rules written on it:
”…… Due to municipal maintenance needs, from now on, no living creature is allowed to enter the sewers.”
”The additions have gotten faster ……,” Klein whispered with a slight, unnoticeable frown and pulled a human skin glove out of the air.
Immediately afterward, he gestured for Pasha and the others to hold hands.
He then grabbed one of them by the shoulder and led them out of the sewers, “teleporting” them to the nearest storm church.
During this process, the four extraordinary people first saw the rats and cockroaches in the sewer twitching and dying one after another, and then they were attracted by the strange and abstract spiritual world, as if they had been baptized on a spiritual level.