Chapter 109: Making Good Use of Items

Chapter 109: Making Good Use of Items

Klein still remembered the matter of the paper crane clearly, because back then, Will Auceptin, that Mercury Snake, had used that very object to locate Dr. Allen’s astral body. When the doctor’s spirit roamed the spirit world in a dream, Will had poured information into him, forming a revelation and evolving it into a specific dream.

Later, Klein had used a paper crane he folded himself to replace Will Auceptin’s. He had then taken the original above the gray fog and performed a divination, yet failed to obtain an effective result. Only after Dr. Allen’s wife became pregnant, through calculations involving time and his vague understanding of the situation from Sequence 1 to Sequence 0, did he guess that the child was Will Auceptin, who had restarted by swallowing his own tail. He guessed that Will was locked in an intense struggle with another Mercury Snake over the position of Sequence 0, and that the nightmares caused by the paper crane were merely an addition. Its true purpose was to help Will Auceptin secretly become an infant.

The funniest part of the entire affair was that the paper crane Klein had folded had been mistaken by Backlund’s Nighthawks for Will Auceptin’s original. They had used their even rougher craftsmanship to counterfeit another one and replace it.

“Will Auceptin’s paper crane has been left above the gray fog all this time. I almost forgot about it… Using it for divination can only produce very vague revelations. Without other encounters, it would be very difficult to infer that the child Dr. Allen’s wife is carrying is Will Auceptin. But in reverse, Will Auceptin was able to use it to determine a location in the spirit world, just like the magic mirror Arrodes used the aura of the gray fog to connect to that wireless telegraph receiver from the spirit world…

“Huh. This seems to contain a certain possibility…” Klein abruptly sat up, having come up with an extremely creative idea.

He was going to use that paper crane to communicate with Will Auceptin in a dream!

This may be of no use to me right now, and it might even hide a certain amount of danger. But if Will Auceptin really is the Life School of Thought’s Mercury Snake, then providing the relevant intelligence will definitely earn me a measure of goodwill… For an existence at the level of a King of Angels, early investment is necessary. Once he is truly born, perhaps the returns will be dozens of times greater. In any case, trying will not kill me. Er… even if I die, I can resurrect… Though Klein thought this, in practice he was very cautious. He planned to first go above the gray fog and divine the level of danger before deciding whether to actually carry it out.

After some busy preparations, he confirmed that the danger involved was acceptable. He then used a ritual to bring that paper crane down from above the gray fog and back into the real world.

Perhaps because it came from Sequence 1, Mercury Snake, this paper crane showed no special changes from having spent so long above the gray fog. It remained plain, ordinary, and unremarkable.

“I hope the aura above the gray fog has not neutralized its original specialness. Otherwise, Will Auceptin will not be able to locate it… Mm… The Sequence before Mercury Snake is Soothsayer. Could what I am about to do be within Will Auceptin’s expectations?

“Did he choose Dr. Allen as his father because Dr. Allen is my friend, indirectly establishing a connection with me? Isn’t that a little too narcissistic…

“However, there is one suspicious point. After Will Auceptin used the paper crane to locate Dr. Allen, he could have simply ‘reincarnated’ directly. Why did he make him repeatedly have nightmares, with those dreams even revealing the struggle between Mercury Snakes? To an ordinary person, not only would they be unable to understand it, they would also have no way of playing any role in the matter. Wasn’t that like using one’s eyes to flirt with a blind…