Mystery: Emerging From Knowledge Moor

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After encountering that individual who seemed to be a worshiper of an evil god, Leyton was no longer in the mood to continue wandering outside. After buying some grilled meat and fruit for lunch, Leyton returned to the Executor Squad's office with Bugs Bunny perched on his shoulder.

"You're eating grilled meat and fruit for lunch? And a portion for you, and a portion for the rabbit!" Josie said, pointing at Leyton with a rather distressed expression.

"What's wrong?" Leyton, who was eating grilled meat, and Bugs Bunny, who was munching on fruit, looked up at Josie, who was approaching.

"It's nothing, I'm just lamenting that my quality of life is actually inferior to that of a rabbit." Josie said dramatically, clutching her chest.

"I know a shortcut that will 100% improve your quality of life, want to know it?" Leyton said, narrowing his eyes.

"What shortcut?" Josie immediately became interested.

It wasn't so much that she was interested in shortcuts, but more that she was eager to improve her own standard of living.

Leyton smiled mysteriously, leaned close to Josie's ear, and lowered his voice, "Go find a noble lady who is middle-aged, widowed, or divorced. You just need to relieve their worries, and I believe they will be happy to help you improve your quality of life."

"Hahaha~"

Josie's face suddenly turned red and then white.

"Is this how you give advice to your colleagues?" Josie asked loudly.

Josie's ears were still turning red as she spoke.

"Hahaha, you were the one who was curious! Isn't this a shortcut? Doesn't it meet your needs?" Leyton spread his hands innocently.

"Your advice is too improper!" Josie retorted.

"But it's useful! Didn't you have a moment of temptation?" Leyton looked at her, and her ears, which had returned to normal, flushed red again.

"Are you really not tempted? You should know that as Beyonders advance, the money needed later will increase exponentially!" Leyton continued to entice.

At this moment, Leyton was like a demon tempting people's hearts, every word was tempting Josie to think about what he had just said.

"Of course I'm not tempted, my body and soul are dedicated to my Lord." Josie said solemnly after controlling her expression.

"Really? I think little Leyton makes a lot of sense. Don't you like the ones who are divorced, but the ones who still have families?" Sia appeared next to them at some point, looking at Josie with a teasing expression.

"I'm not! I didn't! Don't talk nonsense!" Josie shook her head frantically, denying it three times in a row.

"Hahaha! Sister Sia, when did you get here?" Leyton said, laughing.

"When you were recommending shortcuts to our little Josie." Sia said with an expression that said, 'So, you're that kind of person.'

"Uh…" Leyton was stunned, suddenly feeling a little socially awkward.

However, he soon felt relieved. Social awkwardness was nothing, it wasn't serious, he would just take it as accumulating humanity for the future.

"But, why are you so skilled at this kind of thing? Have you been secretly researching it?" Sia also narrowed her eyes like Leyton had done before.

Sia's words made Josie, who was still annoyed and ashamed, also cast a gossipy gaze over.

Based on the principle of not admitting defeat, Leyton shrugged without any timidity: "With my family's conditions, how could I do this kind of thing, unless the other party gave too much."

"Huh? Are you sure you didn't say something wrong?" Josie looked surprised.

"Oh! I didn't expect our little Leyton to be this kind of person?" Sia said, looking at Leyton meaningfully.

"Tsk tsk! I'm just telling the truth, it's not like someone actually gave me that much, don't you all have a bottom line that would make you give up your principles?" Leyton said with a tsk tsk sound.

Leyton's words made Sia and Josie fall into a brief silence.

After a long while, Josie shook her head and said, "Leyton! You really are like a demon in the bards' tales, tempting the world."

"Indeed, I can only say that it's fortunate you're not a cultist, otherwise I think you could even become a cult leader." Sia rarely agreed with Josie's words.

Leyton was rendered speechless by these two. After all, in a sense, he was actually a cultist, highly bound to the Knowledge Moor, and could be considered a colleague of the Hidden Sage.

"Thank you for the compliment, if I can really get to that point, I will definitely give you each a demigod-level Beyonder characteristic." Leyton said sincerely.

"I was just saying it casually, don't take it seriously." Josie was obviously frightened by Leyton's sincere tone.

Sia gave Leyton a big eye roll: "You really are not modest, you can take anything and run with it."

"Since you all sincerely asked, of course I have to answer to the best of my ability!" Leyton smacked his lips and said.

Visible resentment appeared on Josie and Sia's faces, and Leyton quickly changed the subject.

"Let's not talk about this, let's talk about something serious. When I was outside buying things with Bugs Bunny just now, I encountered a Beyonder who looked very much like a cultist." Leyton described the person he and Bugs Bunny had encountered earlier.

"That's right, that's right, it's very dangerous!" Bugs Bunny also chimed in.

Sia's brows gradually furrowed, and after thinking for a while, she said, "Based on your description, it sounds like a Beyonder from the Criminal or Prisoner pathway, most of them are indeed cultists."

"Criminal and Prisoner? What pathways are those?" Josie asked in confusion.

"They also have another more striking name, which are the Demon pathway and the Mutant pathway." Sia didn't explain too much.

"Madan has really been uneasy recently, first the Sanguine, then the thieves, and now suddenly cultists of unknown origin appear." Sia sighed, looking like a corporate slave facing overtime.

"Do we need to notify the captain?" Josie asked.

"Perhaps the captain already knows, but it's still necessary, I'll go talk to the captain." Sia said, twisting her body and leaving the lounge.

Leyton turned his head to look at Josie and asked solemnly, "Are you really not considering it?"

Josie was stunned for a moment before realizing that Leyton was talking about the so-called shortcut, and her face turned white and red again.

She reached out and intercepted the fruit that Bugs Bunny was about to pick up and eat, and took a bite angrily.

"No need!" Josie said through gritted teeth, and also turned and left the lounge.

Leyton and Bugs Bunny looked at each other, then continued to lower their heads and eat. The grilled meat from this shop they bought today was pretty good, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

After finishing the grilled meat, he took another fruit, and while munching on it, he returned to the team's office.

In the office, Mr. Kosith was explaining to Joseph and Josie about divination-related mysticism knowledge: "In mysticism, mirrors are doors to the unknown, to the strange, to the spiritual world."

Mr. Kosith noticed Leyton approaching, and stopped what he was saying, gesturing for Leyton to come over and listen as well.

Leyton was stunned in place for a moment, as if he were a student who had been caught skipping class by the teacher. Awkwardly and obediently, he nodded and dragged a chair over to sit and listen.

Bugs Bunny, who was following Leyton, was also dragged over by Leyton to listen to the lecture. Bugs Bunny was holding a top hat full of fruit, sitting under Leyton's chair with a look of suspicion about his rabbit life.

However, Leyton felt that the Great Magician's Top Hat, which Bugs Bunny used to hold fruit, seeds, and even books, was also doubting its hat life. After all, this sealed artifact had a certain living characteristic, although not much and not very intelligent.

"I remember Leyton, you used divination when you were at the Crimson Advanced Hospital, right?" Mr. Kosith asked Leyton.

"Ah? Yes." Leyton didn't expect to be asked a question as soon as he sat down.

"Can you talk about what a Beyonder of the Reader pathway needs to pay attention to when divining?" Mr. Kosith continued to ask.

"What do you need to pay attention to? Of course, don't divine if you can avoid it!" Leyton said as a matter of course.

Leyton's answer successfully stunned the person asking the question, the person listening to the lecture, and the rabbit eating the melon.

Mr. Kosith was the first to recover, and continued to say somewhat helplessly: "Why do you have this idea?"

Leyton shrugged and said: "After all, the Reader pathway is not good at divination, at least in the low sequences."

"Divination is performed through the Astral Body, using one's own spirituality to communicate with the spirit world to obtain enlightenment, and the main enhancement brought by our Reader potion is reflected in the Mind Body, divination is not our area of expertise." Leyton added.

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