"This kind of good luck feels even worse than Reynolds' situation." Angel said in surprise.
"There's no need to make an analogy. I haven't finished telling my story yet." The inspector may not have had normal communication with people for a long time, and it was rare to find someone to talk to. Once the conversation started, he couldn't stop it.
“When this story is told, does it sound like a perfect comeback story?”
Angel nodded. From poverty to wealthy businessman, this can indeed be called a turnaround story.
"However, this story is not really perfect."
"oh?"
"Only Child's relatives are perfect, but Child himself is the only flaw."
The inspector continued to tell, and more truth about this story was revealed in front of Angel.
As the inspector said, luck exists, but this luck does not cover Child. Not only is Child unlucky, he has had bad luck since he was born.
When he was still a baby, Child either fell out of bed or fell into scalding water due to his parents' negligence.
This is actually nothing, it can only be said to be a slight misfortune. But as Child grew up, more misfortune befell him.
His married eldest sister was a vicious-hearted woman who often went to snatch food from Child while his parents were working in the fields. At the same time, in order to prevent Child from opening his mouth, she also forced him to drink a drink that would make him drunk. Poisonous weed juice that numbs the tongue and makes one unable to speak. Every time his parents came back, they thought Child had eaten something and did not give him any more food. Over the years, Child not only had tongue problems and could not speak clearly, but he was also starved to the point of skin and bones.
Later, the second sister discovered what the eldest sister had done. Not only did she not help Child, she also became an accomplice with the eldest sister. When Child was starved to the skin and bones, they both slandered Child and said that he was cursed by the gods and was an outcast who was not welcomed by the gods.
At that time, class solidification became more and more serious, and a large number of elites were behind the scenes, leading to the prevalence of illiteracy and anti-intellectual ideas among the poor, and religion became the only authority other than the royal family. Child's parents were also victims of anti-intellectual thinking. They easily believed the words of their two daughters and became increasingly alienated from their biological son, Child.
And because they encountered several bursts of luck, the eldest sister and the second sister even spread the word that this was a gift from the gods because their parents were disgusted with Child.
Child has always been in a position of being despised in his family, while others have been getting better and better because of their wanton bullying of Child.
The abuser's humiliation, coupled with Child's low self-esteem that he had developed since childhood, made him unable to resist, and he did not know that the word "dignity" existed in the world.
Thus, a longer vicious cycle began.
After more than ten years of violence, Child's family's luck is getting worse and worse.
The eldest sister is vicious and has many thoughts. She has discovered many details in her years of life. For example, whenever she travels far away, her good luck will disappear. Even at home, as long as Child is not nearby, her luck will become normal.
Even though the eldest sister didn't know that extraordinary things existed in the world, after thinking about it for a moment, she vaguely understood that it was probably Child who was responsible for their good luck.
But even though she indirectly learned some of the truth, the eldest sister still didn't treat Child well. Instead, she went even worse and imprisoned Child like a beast.
Her words were full of grace and power, and her parents were fooled into following her lead. As for herself, she didn't believe it at first, but as she talked too much, she deceived herself and became more and more cruel to Child.
When the inspector said this, he paused and asked Angel: "At this point, what do you think the final outcome will be like?"
"If it were written according to the pattern of a storybook, Child's family would definitely suffer the backlash of luck and get a bleak ending." After Angel finished speaking, he smiled and changed the topic: "However, I My mentor once told me that only the first half of a fairy tale is enough. Most of it is the author's emotional self-narration of what he saw and experienced personally, but the subsequent development is the dream weaved by the author to make up for the regrets of reality. And the storybook is The nature is similar to that of fairy tales. After all, it just caters to the reader's orientation. The real ending is often...tragedy hidden under the beauty."
The inspector nodded: "Your enlightenment mentor is right, but whether it is a tragedy or a fairy tale depends on who you substitute. If it is the Child family, then this is a typical fairy tale. If it is Cha Virtue, then naturally the opposite will happen.”
"Because Child's final ending, as you said, was not a happy one."
Under the deliberate outline of the eldest sister, Child betrayed all his relatives and eventually died in a dog cage in a corner of the magnificent living room of his home due to infection from the whipping injury.
As for the Child family, they did not suffer much evil.
It was only after Child's death that Child's bad luck began to spread, and they were unlucky for a few days in a short period of time. Later, after throwing Child's body into a graveyard in a cemetery outside the city, the bad luck disappeared naturally.
However, because Child died, their incredible luck was gone and they returned to normal luck. But this does not affect anything. At this time, they already have the background of wealthy businessmen and even bought a title. As long as they do not commit suicide, there is no problem in passing on the inheritance.
"Is this the ending of the story? It's very true." Angel: "However, what you want to talk about should be more than that, right?"
The inspector smiled and nodded: "Yes, Child's story is over, but his influence is very far-reaching. It even caused a legendary wizard to be besieged and was forced into a state of disorder. The disordered rhythm of the thing has not returned so far, and he should be dead if nothing unexpected happens."
"As for why this is so, can you guess?"
Angel fell into deep thought.
He was not thinking about the inspector's question, but the inspector's story reminded him of another thing.
Lucas lies.
Lucas used a series of lies to compile a logbook, which recorded a large number of absurd stories, such as tears falling into the sea and turning into a sea of flowers, the always clear sea in the Devil's Sea, the huge and terrifying island spirit, the glowing wishing tree... …Wait, these were all false at the time and did not exist at all.
But after Lucas died, these original lies came true one by one. Although some of them can only be said to be barely true, it is amazing to see lies come true.
After investigation by all parties, Angel finally confirmed the truth.
A lie is still a lie, it's just that when the lie comes out of Lucas' mouth, it becomes the truth. And Lucas's mouth is not a gift of "making prophecies come true", but...a mysterious thing.
Although there is no obvious connection between Lucas's story and Child's story, the underlying threads are vaguely similar.
After thinking about these two different things, an answer vaguely emerged in Angel's mind: "Is it a mysterious thing?"
The inspector raised his eyebrows: "Your intuition is very keen. Yes, it is a mysterious thing."
The inspector continued to tell the story of Child, but this story had nothing to do with Child, it happened after his death.
After Child's death, the body decomposed not long after. As the body decomposed, the suppressed bad luck began to take hold in the cemetery.
Everyone who steps into the cemetery will be more or less unlucky after leaving. A minor one can lead to a loss of money; a serious one can even lead to death.
That cemetery is also called the "Cemetery of Doom" by locals.
The reputation of the Cemetery of Doom spread far and wide, so a wizard family went to investigate, but none of the apprentices they sent came back from the Cemetery of Doom. The wizard family reported this matter to the nearby wizard organization. Seeing that the matter was related to bad luck, the wizard organization thought it was caused by the Urfa wizards, and handed the matter over to the Urfa wizards.
In this way, an Erfa wizard was sent to the Cemetery of Doom to investigate the situation.
Urfa wizards are a special category of wizards in the wizarding world of the Western Continent. They are barely prophetic, but they are not prophetic wizards, nor do they explore destiny. Instead, they hide behind destiny and control misfortune.
Everything related to bad luck and curses is their specialty.
But an evil wizard who has been accompanied by the curse of doom all year round was unable to withstand the bad luck of the Doom Cemetery and eventually died.
This time, the Erfa wizard exploded. A large number of Erfa wizards went to investigate.
Then they discovered that no evil wizard could resist the bad luck in the Cemetery of Doom. This kind of bad luck even exceeded the limit of the rules. It was like an unreasonable underlying logic loophole. As long as you get involved, you will be unlucky.
The more powerful the evil wizard is, the easier it is for him to die in the Cemetery of Doom.
Later, this matter spread to the source world, and a large number of legendary wizards went to investigate, and it was finally confirmed that the thing that caused the bad luck in the cemetery was a mysterious object.
Because of bad luck, the mysterious power was covered up and was not discovered immediately.
A mysterious hunter from the Lawful Guild dug out the mysterious object from the ground and was finally able to identify it.
"And this mysterious object, I believe you have guessed it, came from Child. It is a small round bone fragment that fell after his skull cracked."
"The emergence of this round bone fragment caused many legendary wizards to take action for this purpose. As I said before, a legendary wizard was forced into a chaotic rhythm just because he obtained the bone fragment and was besieged. In desperation , he decided to die together, taking the bone fragments into the disordered rhythm of other disordered things."
"It's a pity that he was captured by the disordered rhythm, but the bone fragments remained."
"Later, this bone fragment was obtained by a fifth-level Urfa wizard. This Urfa wizard had a good relationship with the Lawful Guild and was a registered mystery hunter. He gave the bone fragment to our Lawful Guild for processing. Study for a while.”
At this point, the inspector made a digression.
——The lawful guild can analyze the effects of mysterious objects for a small price. If you obtain a mysterious object and its effect is not clear, you can leave it to the lawful guild for analysis.
The inspector also enthusiastically suggested to Angel that if he obtained a mysterious object in the future, he could also go to the Lawful Guild to find specialized technicians to help analyze it. Tell his name and the price will be much cheaper.
Angel smiled instead of answering.
He believed that the inspector might have good intentions, but once he handed over the mysterious objects to the Lawful Guild for analysis, he would inevitably bear the corresponding price. For example, the mysterious objects that are analyzed will definitely be recorded by the lawful guild; also, one's own background will be found out by the lawful guild.
No matter how fair and objective the Lawful Guild is, it cannot bear the change of people's minds. If someone has evil thoughts and his background is discovered, this will put him in a very dangerous situation.
Ignoring this topic, the inspector continued.
"After research by the Lawful Guild, Child's bone fragment was finally named: Coin of Doom."
"As for the effect of the misfortune coin, it remains consistent with the situation Charles encountered."
Angel: "Will the holder bring bad luck?"
The inspector nodded: "Yes, misfortune coins can only be held by humans, and those who hold misfortune coins will continue to have bad luck, and this bad luck will increase over time."
"Correspondingly, once a coin of misfortune is held by someone, the luck of other people around that person will become better. The better your luck, the unluckier the person holding the coin will be."
That is to say, the magnitude of bad luck increases in two ways: first, the longer it is held, the deeper the bad luck piles up; second, the greater the blessings received by other people around it, the stronger the bad luck of the holder.
At first glance, this is a mysterious creature that sacrifices itself for the benefit of the masses. Appropriately used, it seems pretty good.
But the real situation depends on many factors, such as the strength of the holder.
The end result of the backlash of misfortune is death. If the holder is not strong enough, he will die in a few seconds.
As for letting ordinary people hold coins of misfortune and extraordinary people enjoy blessings, this is even more impossible.
In order for a transcendent to receive blessings, a transcendent of the same level must accept the sanction of misfortune.
This restriction greatly reduces the value of the Doom Coin. After all, many people who use misfortune coins are legendary wizards. To enjoy the blessings of luck, they must be held by another legendary wizard. No legendary wizard would be willing to hold a coin of misfortune...
"Also, once no one holds the misfortune coin, it will form a doom field with a range of one kilometer."
"This Doom Field is similar to the Doom Cemetery. Whoever enters will be unlucky. The stronger you are, the more unlucky you will be."
Overall, although the Doom Coin works well, it is extremely restrictive and rarely useful.
Currently, the Coin of Doom is being held by the Lawful Guild. Of course, the lawful guild only has the right to accommodate and use part of it, and the real ownership still belongs to the fifth-level Erfa wizard.
…
After listening to the story told by the inspector, Angel seemed to vaguely understand what the inspector wanted to express.
"Your Majesty, what you are saying is that Reynolds' situation may be similar to Child's?"
Inspector: "I'm just guessing, it's my own personal experience and there's no proof."
"Then if Reynolds dies now, a mysterious thing will be born on his body?" Angel whispered in a low voice.
The inspector waved his hand: "It's not as simple as you think. Although Reynolds seems to have a lucky talent, it is not obvious. It is still a bit different from Child's situation."
Reynolds' luck is not too strong, it can only be said to be within a reasonable range of luck.
If he was really strong, Reynolds would not have been pulled down so quickly during the Rising Stars competition, but would have triumphed all the way to the top.
Also, Reynolds escaped from the laboratory more than ten years ago. If he is really lucky, he will not be captured.
Apparently, his luck was not as strong as he thought.
"If his luck is really as obvious as Child's, then it would be easy to confirm. Now, it's still hard to say. Maybe it's just good luck?"
"Furthermore, if Reynolds is killed, a mysterious thing may not be born. After all, I have never heard of anyone who killed someone with a special talent and a mysterious thing was born."
"The things I tell you are just to tell you a direction of thinking, a possibility. It is not an absolute answer."
"As for mysterious things, apart from those that are artificially refined, let them be born naturally."
