I, the leader of the esoteric sect, am doing great things in the infinite world!

"Where did Li Lin go?" Seeing that both groups' attempts to slack off and wander around had failed, Xing Ti suddenly remembered Li Lin.

Nian's spirits lifted, and he nestled in Virtue's arms, his gaze sweeping across the entire room with scrutiny.

Seeing this, everyone else remained silent, afraid that making a sound would interrupt Nian's train of thought.

The room was cluttered with tables and chairs, and there were leftover snacks on the tables.

The curtains were half-drawn, leaving long streaks of rain on the glass.

The rainy weather made the apartment feel even more gloomy.

After a long pause, Nian slowly spoke: "The carpet on the ground is tangled and slightly damp, which means someone came back after the rain and then left again."

Everyone looked down and, just as Nian had said, there were damp footprints on the carpet on the ground.

"The sofa is cold, which means the person who came has been gone for a long time. I didn't see any blankets that were taken off, which means the person who came wasn't wet in the rain and didn't stay for long."

“But we all know that the body temperature of a Casting Phase transcendent is very high,” Xingti said, implying that Li Lin, as a transcendent, could dry his body himself.

Nian was silent for a moment: "I didn't even think of this if you hadn't reminded me."

"so?"

“I could never have imagined it, so Li Lin could never have imagined it,” Nian said confidently.

It can only be said that there was a reason why she could hang out with Li Lin; it's just that Li Lin's eccentricities usually overshadowed Nian's personality.

Nian closed her eyes, as if the scene from several hours ago was replaying before her eyes. She slowly said, "In short, Li Lin did not choose to do those unnecessary actions. He came back briefly, but left quickly again to meet with the target at the Great Mosque. Meanwhile, Snyder was sent to the police station because of a dispute with the patrolman."

If the previous items could be explained by reasoning, then what I'm about to say has absolutely nothing to do with reasoning.

What she says so casually should be called prophecy rather than reasoning, especially since she hasn't done anything related to reasoning at all.

"So how exactly did you come to these conclusions?" Wilding still couldn't suppress his questions.

"Because of my wisdom..."

"Ladies, someone seems to have found a note left by Mr. Li Lin." Apple's voice rang out from not far away as he landed next to the note left by Li Lin.

Veltin watched the year silently.

The little dumpling shouted even louder, waving its four short legs and tail: "Because of my wisdom!"

Veltin silently looked away.

Oh no, she's a little too cute.

A short while later, the group gathered again. They had learned from the note left by Li Lin that the exile had indeed been arrested and taken to the police station, and that Li Lin had become an undercover agent on the governor's orders. It sounded absurd, but it wasn't unusual for Li Lin to have done it.

After some deliberation, the group decided to rescue the exiles first. As for why they didn't go to Li Lin, it was because they believed that Li Lin could handle it on his own.

He might be living in a big villa by now.

......

Li Lin returned to his wealthy villa in the Caspar district, looking quite pleased with himself. A middle-aged white man who appeared very refined and easy-going followed closely behind him, looking rather respectful.

"What's your name?"

“I am Lester, your butler.”

"Your name sounds like a capitalist's name." Li Lin touched his chin in confusion, completely unaware of the strange expression on the butler's face behind him.

Li Lin, who didn't know how many thoughts had been running through his mind in that instant, began to think. Time flowed slowly, and the butler, Lester, stood quietly beside him. Suddenly, Li Lin stood up and began to stretch.

Naturally, he hadn't figured anything out yet. As everyone knows, whenever Li Lin tried to think, Si Chen would laugh.

Realizing he couldn't just sit around doing nothing, Li Lin turned to the innocent housekeeper and started harassing her: "What should I do next?"

Lester nodded silently, turned a page from the board in his hand, and scanned the contents. His gaze stopped when he read a certain line: "You have a class on the origins of humankind to teach tomorrow, then you have to organize a student club activity, and... report the results to the organization."

These three things seem somewhat out of place together, especially the last one.

Li Lin couldn't understand at first, but he soon realized that he had actually unilaterally replaced Said's identity, and only his superior and subordinate knew about the change in his identity.

His informant was his superior, while his butler, Lester, was his subordinate. From the organization's perspective, he still needed to give a summary report of his work over this period.

Li Lin readily agreed and, with a wave of his hand, crossed out the courses and club activities.

"No attendance check or roll call tomorrow." Li Lin showed absolutely no sense of responsibility as a university professor.

"Excuse me for being blunt, but you can't do that," Lester quietly stepped forward and said to Li Lin. "Your personal income, besides the funding from your employer, comes only from the tuition fees for teaching."

304 Your downline is my follower

"Why?!"

Li Lin expressed his indignation, wondering why he was still destined to work and clock in at a regular job even though he had changed worlds.

Lester remained silent behind him, only reaching out to adjust his glasses.

Of all the Saideries he'd worked with, Li Lin was the most eccentric, but as a competent subordinate and steward, Lester made no comment on it.

Considering Li Lin's firm stance, Lester silently checked the option to attend class tomorrow on the board. Just as he was putting the boards away, he heard Li Lin complaining again: "Damn it, I guess I'll just go to class then."

Lester paused, then unconsciously clenched his pen. After taking a few quick breaths, he finally calmed himself down and rewrote what he had previously crossed out.

The thought of quitting his job only flashed through his mind for a moment before Lester managed to banish it.

If it weren't for my family's business going bankrupt during World War I, forcing me to join the army at the end of the war—neither getting a good salary like my predecessors nor dying a clean and carefree death on the North African battlefield...—I would have returned to my homeland only to find that the government had embezzled all my assets... and I would have had no choice but to come back here and serve the National Liberation Front for money...

Lester carefully considered the possibility of resigning, and finally sighed, realizing that he could not leave the National Liberation Front normally, which made him even more melancholy.

Li Lin suddenly asked, "How much do you know about the mysterious?"

Lester pulled back the strange thoughts from his mind and replied calmly, "Not many, but I know the truth of the world is not as simple as it seems."

After a moment's hesitation, Lester continued, "When I joined the army, we encountered German troops in the North African campaign. Their banner was strange; it was a black sun with a cross running through its very center."

Whether it was some kind of stirring in his heart or a desire to confide that drove Lester to continue speaking.

"At that time, we were a small squad belonging to the cavalry regiment, led by Major Remmett. Major Remmett wanted to take advantage of the chaos to attack the Germans, and coincidentally, a thick fog rose that evening."

"We had a hundred men, and the other side was no less formidable. Major Remmett led our charge, but the thick fog prevented us from seeing the other side clearly. When we got closer, I discovered that the Germans had already calmly arranged a forest of bayonets, waiting for our charge."

"Major Renmett took the lead and leaped over the hail of bayonets, and so did I, but I fell to the ground after I got over, luckily without breaking my leg—my comrades were not so lucky. I saw one man flip over the bayonets, but he broke his horse's leg on the landing and his neck snapped instantly—and some others just rushed toward the bayonets for no reason, as if the blades had some kind of magic."

"I seized a bayonet and saw that the blade was coated with a green ointment that smelled like snow and ash."

"The thick fog prevented us from seeing the enemy immediately, but they could see us. Their military flag was emitting a strange light. We were being slaughtered in a one-sided manner until Major Renmet cut the flag down."

Lester was silent for a moment, seemingly recalling the day he lay exhausted among the corpses, watching the luminous figure riding towards him on horseback.

"Major Remmett rode into the German ranks and cut down their flag. Strangely enough, they lost their will to fight in an instant, like gladiators who had been blindfolded again."

"Afterwards, we were all awarded the Victoria Cross, and Major Renmett was promoted to colonel. He's probably a general now—I asked him about it before I retired, and he said that he had unleashed his potential that day, and that it was God's blessing."

Lester said firmly, "I don't believe it. I still feel that the person who rode up on horseback wasn't him."

Where is that military flag?

“The flag seems to be kept in some museum; I last saw it before I retired,” Lester replied. “But I don’t know where it is now.”

Li Lin didn't say anything.

It is now quite clear that Major Remmett is a follower of Colonel Sichen. At that critical moment, he may have used some kind of invisible magic or some forbidden knowledge to defeat the German army in one fell swoop.

As for the German army, they were no pushovers either.

Li Lin recalled the information he had seen in the Reconstruction Hand materials: along the Mediterranean coast and in Central and Eastern Europe, there had always been a secret practice of sun worship, and they believed in a god called "Black Sun Eragabalus".

Unlike other gods, Eragabalus was actually a Roman emperor known for his debauchery. He was bisexual, caused chaos in the Roman Senate and army, and even forced the saint who guarded the sacred fire to marry someone else. He was eventually assassinated by the angry guards.

He once rejected the polytheistic worship of the pantheon and instead introduced the worship of the sun from the Mithraic religion of Eastern Europe, even equating himself with the sun at one point.

In other words, the belief in "Black Sun Eragabalus" also originated from Mithraism, but times have changed. They no longer worship the sun, but one of the four aspects of the sun, the one most similar to its predecessor, Sichen·Canyang.

That was a secret group that worshipped the setting sun. They were conscripted into the army when Germany was at its lowest point, and were slaughtered when they encountered the colonel's disciples.

The colonel was probably pleased that his followers had offered such a generous gift.

Seeing that Li Lin was unusually silent, Lester tentatively asked, "Sir... was what I just said something of the mysterious?"

"Yes."

Li Lin turned around, looked into Lester's eyes, and the dark green tabletop in front of him rose silently.

Invisible brushstrokes swiftly sketched in the void, and pure white light gathered and condensed into the shape of a card. Lester's brown hair and waiter's attire leaped onto the paper, his eyes particularly bright.

[Leicester, an acquaintance]

[Sexual Form: Lamp]

[Leicester was once a soldier, now a butler; what will he be in those bright dreams?]

You can use rituals to elevate this person and open their first mark by using sufficient light to influence their progress.

"Do you crave power?"

Lester's eyes gradually brightened, but what he said was different: "Sir, I have longed for it, but now I want to know why."

A few years ago he might have craved power, but now he wants to explore all the secrets of this world, everything.

If Li Lin can give him this opportunity...

Li Lin nodded: "Then you can cover my class tomorrow."