Mystery: Higher-Dimensional Overlookers

Chapter 494 Sewer Walker

Tick, tick.

Damp water vapor spread in the darkness. It was silent here, as if one had fallen into silence and death without realizing it. There was not even the usual smell of decay in the sewers. It seemed that even the lives of microorganisms had been deprived by the sudden influx of darkness.

But as the sound of splashing water began, a faint light emerged from the thick darkness. As the sound of water echoing in the sewer became louder and louder, the light gradually expanded and finally revealed its true appearance.

——It was an oil lamp with a glass cover that was burning steadily.

A white, even pale, slender hand was holding the oil lamp and walking in the darkness. The owner of the hand seemed to be very familiar with this route. Soon, she found a place and tapped lightly on the top of her head with her fingers, making a dull sound of knocking on metal.

"Huh, I didn't expect the smell here to be not so bad. This is really unexpected. But, what is going on now?"

The footsteps stopped, replaced by the clear voice of a young girl.

The lower half of Hazel's face was illuminated by the flickering light. She was talking to herself while staring at the weak light. If you look closely, you can see that there is a faint light on her fingers, provided by the extraordinary object.

Moreover, even after the flame of the oil lamp in her hand went out, the ring made of extraordinary properties on her finger could prevent Hazel from being swallowed by the darkness for a short period of time, giving her a chance to relight the oil lamp.

Hazel was originally worried that some strange monsters might breed in the sewers because of the darkness, but now it seems that there is no life here, not even the usual smell of garbage.

She stood there quietly, with her ear close to the wall, allowing the Beyonder characteristic to expand her hearing. After a moment, Hazel said in surprise:

"There's actually a passage here... Did the government build an underground city based on the previous sewers and underground city areas?"

The echo spread all around, causing Hazel to close her lips and hesitate: "According to what the teacher said before, the church of the goddess of night is just ahead..."

She closed her eyes and seemed to encourage herself: "Come on, Hazel... In order to protect my father and mother, I will investigate the source of this darkness..."

She is now a Sequence 5 "Dream Thief", and is only one sequence away from her then teacher Amon (she thinks so). Although the government has stated that darkness is harmless, Hazel, who has experienced the Backlund Cataclysm and the War of Gods, believes that she still needs to do some investigation on this.

After encouraging herself, she walked forward cautiously. As her figure disappeared into the darkness, a stone sculpture in the shape of an eye turned strangely and looked at the little bear child brought out by the big bear child.

Hazel continued to walk forward, her steps were very slow, for fear that her big movements would cause the oil lamp to go out. She had seen with her own eyes that as long as one blended into the darkness without a light source, one would be swallowed up by the darkness and would not know where to go.

Many people have already disappeared into the darkness.

However, when she turned a corner, she saw a young man with a broad forehead, thin face and wearing a monocle standing there quietly.

"...Ah!" Hazel was startled at first, causing the flame of the oil lamp in her hand to shake suddenly. After she took two steps back in panic, she calmed down and looked at the young man in front of her, recognizing his identity.

"Teacher? Why are you here?"

Could it be that the teacher is also here to investigate Backlund's situation? Hazel looked at Amon in front of her with some joy, and couldn't help but ask. However, she saw that the teacher in front of her was looking at her with a serious expression that she had never seen before. After a long while, Amon spoke:
"What are you doing here?"

"I..." Hai Rou lowered her head with a guilty conscience. She hesitated for a moment and decided to confess to her teacher: "I'll investigate the situation here, teacher."

She tried to change the subject: "By the way, teacher, when did you come back?"

"Hey..." Amon's mouth curled up immediately: "Just now, someone told me that my student secretly ran to the sewer and asked me to catch her back."

"Ah?" Hazel was stunned. She didn't know at which step she had exposed herself and let herself be discovered by others. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't remember at which step she had been exposed.

Amon looked at Hazel's reaction and laughed immediately - he laughed out of anger.

He was having a great time at the circus, when suddenly a rising sun came over and mocked him—and then showed him a photo of a Sequence Five Beyonder bravely entering the old dream.

Amon didn't remember asking Hazel to do these things. Although he had tricked her into going to investigate Klein, who was still a demigod at the time, Amon didn't remember asking Hazel to do these things. But now Hazel's behavior was obviously better than hers.

She succeeded in doing what even Amon, the Angel King, could not do, and directly investigated the source of the dreams of an old one who was being promoted without knowing anything about the matter.

In Gao Wei's words, this is a big explosion of S attributes... San Check (Sanity Test) 100/1 big failure, and perhaps an inspiration big failure (CoC terminology).

"Oh? Why are you investigating here?" Amon looked at Hazel expressionlessly: "Why do you think you can come here?"

"Teacher, I'm already Sequence 5 now..." Listening to Amon's words, Hazel said a little aggrievedly: "Besides, my father has been running around outside these days to solve this matter. I'm worried about his safety... Besides, aren't you here to investigate as well?"

Amon obviously heard Hazel's subtext. What Hazel wanted to say was that since Amon, a demigod-level extraordinary person, could come here to investigate, she also had the ability to come here to investigate.

Amon was silent for a few seconds again. He pushed his monocle and said to Hairol in front of him, "What gave you the illusion that I am only Sequence 4?"

Hazel screamed "Ah" again and looked at Amon in front of her with extremely shocked eyes. Amon said to Hazel in front of him slowly:
"Sequence 4 is called a demigod, Sequence 3 is also called a demigod, not to mention that within this classification there are 'demigods' of angelic status at the demigod level... Hehe, no matter which path you take, becoming a demigod is a qualitative change. Even if you need Sequence 4 to set foot here, why do you think you can come here?"

Amon said with a hint of joking in his tone: "Do you think those Beyonders with higher Sequences than you are the kind of idiots who are inferior to you in other aspects?"

Hearing her teacher's tone, Hazel immediately lowered her head.

Amon sighed:

"Go back. The source here is not something you can investigate, and I am not here to investigate. I am only here to take you back. As for the situation here, heh, someone is already working on it."

"Don't you want to go back?"

Hazel opened her mouth and said with some difficulty: "I haven't registered with the authorities..."

To put it bluntly, this was one of the reasons why she came here to investigate. The church and the government had already taken all the Beyonders to a certain place for centralized control, and ordinary people were also entering the dungeon one after another. However, entering the dungeon required extremely strict registration measures, and Hazel, who had hidden her Beyonder identity, was unwilling to undergo such a test.

Amon immediately looked into Hazel's eyes calmly, causing Hazel to lower her head even lower. After a long time, Amon twisted his wrist and released the "light", making the place suddenly bright.

"I'll give you two choices. The first is to get out of here and turn yourself in to the church. If nothing goes wrong, you will probably stay in jail for ten days to half a month. We will release you after we have investigated your entire identity."

"I choose the second one."

Hazel said without hesitation that if she was really imprisoned in the church's prison, then first of all, she didn't know how she would be treated. Even though the current church had a good reputation among extraordinary people, when they thought of how the Storm Church treated wild extraordinary people in the past, many wild extraordinary people were unwilling to reveal their identities.

And secondly… when she was released from the cell, she really didn’t know how to explain this to her parents. After all, the previous method of counting extraordinary people was voluntary registration, but now there are high-sequence extraordinary people to check the identity of each one.

"Oh? Really?" Hearing Hazel's answer, Amon said indifferently: "The second option is that I will go and tell your father that you are a Beyonder, and then you will go out with me. This time we are going to Feysac."

Seeing Hazel's resistance, Amon laughed:
"I'm just kidding you. I'll take you to the Church of Fools later and ask the bishop there to register your identity. After that, someone will take you to the dungeon and let you play the role that a Beyonder who has come on the 'wrong' path should play."

After weighing the pros and cons of these three options, Hazel nodded and agreed to Amon's request. In other words, she also understood that her teacher had given her a chance and even spent a lot of time to help her solve her identity problem.

"Then, I'll give you a little advice, Hazel. It's different now than the time when the church's Beyonders could capture wild Beyonders at will. The church is trustworthy. And now Beyonders... are more like a profession than a mysterious identity."

After hesitating for a while, Amon said to his student, "Don't think about investigating something extremely dangerous on your own. If you haven't determined your true faith yet, you can believe in the Fool. Haha, your actions remind me of Roselle back then."

What is referred to here is of course Roselle's fearless spirit. Perhaps the only one who dared to explore the abyss and look up at the stars before he possessed divinity was Roselle Gustav, the "Old Emperor".

"Rossel? Emperor Roselle? I look like him?" Hazel was a little surprised. "From an ordinary person to the emperor of a country, and finally resurrected to become a god... Speaking of which, teacher, do you know Roselle?"

You seem to have no remorse at all... I really taught you to be another me.

Amon sighed secretly in his heart, and then a subtle arc appeared on the corner of his mouth. "I mean, your recklessness and impulsiveness are very similar. If He had not been so reckless back then, He would not have died last time. Haha, if it were not for the help provided by someone, He would probably not have come back to life now."

Hazel was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting such a secret.

"Also, I changed my mind."

Amon looked at Hazel and smiled strangely: "You don't seem to realize the seriousness of the matter. Before sending you home, I am going to let you witness what the real extraordinary world is, what the bloody and dark extraordinary world is."

"Okay - let's go, but before we leave, I will take you to the Church of Fools to complete your identity registration."

Hazel watched as Amon pressed directly on her shoulder. The next moment, the scene around her changed rapidly and turned into a dim corridor.

"Is this... the Church of Fools?"

Amon said with a smile: "Yes - are you sure what your true belief is now? Is it the Goddess of Night?"

Hazel hesitated and shook her head.

"You haven't decided on your faith yet..." A smile gradually appeared on Amon's face. "When you apply for your ID, you need to fill in your faith, which is one of the subsequent branches of the Fool's faith. Remember to fill in the 'Fallen Angels' under the Fool's seat."

"Ah? Why?" Hazel said puzzledly: "And teacher, do you know why there is such a fallen angel? The description in the scriptures is that He is the fallen Son of God, the fallen morning star, who once usurped the authority of God, but finally surrendered to the 'Fool'..."

Compared to other gods, there are very few fools who believe in this "fallen angel" and "fallen morning star", unlike the "angel of time" and "angel of stars" who have widespread believers.

After all, as believers in gods, ordinary people also have likes and dislikes for gods' followers, and there are really not many ordinary people who believe in fallen angels.

"I don't know."

Amon, knowing why he was called the "Fallen Angel", turned away:
"You can fill it out when the time comes. It will not affect your beliefs."

(End of this chapter)