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"Phew…"
Still in the Future's captain's cabin, Cattleya opened her eyes, looking at the familiar surroundings, and let out a heartfelt sigh of relief.
For Cattleya, who had to attend a meeting with a Angel of Judgment of her grandfather's generation, and who had just courted death under the eyes of both the Angel of Judgment and Mr. Fool, a god, the recent Tarot Club meeting had been truly agonizing.
However, I did indeed gain a lot of useful information… While sighing in relief, Cattleya couldn't help but think about the possible identities of the Tarot Club members and the significance these identities represented, immediately feeling an urge to write to the Queen.
This was not courting death; a reply letter from His Highness Lin Ruo's student to the Queen had mentioned that after Cattleya joined the Tarot Club as Bernadette's representative, she could inform Bernadette about the Tarot Club's information, unless it was information explicitly forbidden from being leaked by Mr. Fool.
After all, with Bernadette taking this step, she was somewhat considered half an insider by Mr. Fool; perhaps not loyal or reliable enough, and for a time, not enjoying the same treatment as Mr. Fool's original Angel dependents, but this benefit was still available.
However, before Cattleya could pick up her pen, she suddenly heard urgent footsteps outside the door, followed by a frantic knocking.
"Captain, it's bad! Frank's lab is in trouble again! Now the entire ship is emitting Holy Light, and Heath has already jumped into the sea because he couldn't stand it!"
Cattleya: …
Forget Heath, she wanted to jump into the sea too!
She shouldn't have lent that Sun pathway Beyonder item to Frank!
At that moment, Cattleya felt an intense throbbing in her temples. She raised a hand to massage them, taking a deep breath to calm herself, reminding herself that Frank was conducting research under the commission of a Angel of Judgment, who was both a grandfather and a expert, someone she couldn't afford to offend…
"blackface grass!"
Cattleya finally couldn't help but curse out loud. She walked to the door, opened the door that had been specially locked for the Tarot Club meeting, and looked at Nina outside, suddenly feeling a flash.
This time, it wasn't the psychological effect of being 'flashed' by money during the Tarot Club meeting, but a genuine, physical flash.
Because in the hallway behind Nina, there were several mushrooms, some growing from the walls, some from the floor, emitting dazzling and sacred golden light. Individually, these glowing mushrooms were fine, but when gathered together, they were like miniature Suns.
Cattleya couldn't help but close her eyes, taking a deep breath.
Her chest heaved, and after several seconds, Cattleya reopened her eyes. While avoiding the Holy Light, she asked in a deep voice, "Where is Frank?"
"On the deck. There's a super huge mushroom there. I wanted to destroy it directly, but Frank actually said it was an important sample and wouldn't let me touch it." Nina replied, the usually fierce female pirate growing increasingly agitated as she spoke, looking as if she desperately wanted to beat Frank up.
In fact, if it weren't for Frank's recent advancement to Sequence 5, she would have already acted without hesitation.
Super huge… Cattleya felt her temples ache even more. She took another deep breath and told Nina, "Let's go to the deck." Then she walked towards the deck at a very fast pace.
…
"By the way, Gehrman, don't you think the Future seems a bit too bright?"
On the deck of the Diamond, Lin Ruo, estimating the time and waiting for the Future to pick them up, held his chin with one hand, looking at the slowly approaching Future in the distance, and suddenly spoke.
"…It does seem a bit bright." Klein, standing next to Lin Ruo, also gazed into the distance. After observing for a few seconds, he let out a puzzled sound, "It looks as if ten Sun pathway Beyonders are simultaneously casting Holy Light on the Future."
As he spoke, Klein suddenly thought of something and looked at Lin Ruo. The latter clearly also thought of something, turned his head, and after the two looked at each other.
Lin Ruo said with a subtle expression, "Could it be… the sun mushroom's fault?"
Given the situation of the Future, Lin Ruo would be a hundred percent disbelieving if someone said it was attacked by Eternal Blazing Sun Church Beyonders and ended up like this.
"I think you can be more confident and remove 'could it be'," Klein said seriously.
"But it's only been a few days since I made that suggestion. Frank's initiative shouldn't be this strong, should it?" Lin Ruo still tried to struggle a bit.
In response, Klein glanced at him, saying nothing, but the information revealed by his gaze made everything clear without words.
Initiative isn't that strong?
Frank's initiative wasn't originally that strong, but ever since someone provided him with a large number of ideas, Materials, monster corpses, and even helped him advance to Druid, his initiative?
Just thinking about the terrifying, diverse mushrooms in Frank's lab should make one realize how strong his initiative is.
One could even say that the current Frank is no longer the Frank of the past; he is now an enhanced 2.0 version.
"Cough…" Lin Ruo, feeling guilty for once, lightly coughed. He glanced again at the increasingly close Future in the distance, suddenly a little worried about Cattleya's outburst later.
Although he knew the possibility was almost zero.
"What are you two talking about?" Danitz, also standing nearby with a suitcase in each hand, looked at the two beside him in confusion, clearly not understanding what these two experts were discussing.
However… Danitz, with a puzzled glance, also caught a glimpse of the Future in the distance. He had to admit, the Future did look a bit bright.
"Hmm, you'll know in a bit." Lin Ruo glanced at the bewildered Danitz, and thinking that the other party had not yet experienced the mushroom baptism, his smile immediately became strange.
But then, he looked at the crowd, who had clearly noticed the approaching Future and were becoming restless, and the visibly alert but also passively resigned ship personnel, and immediately said, "We should go. If we don't leave now, we'll scare these people."
Although the Future, led by Cattleya, was considered a lawful faction and rarely engaged in plundering civilians or attacking ordinary passenger ships, being an anomaly among pirate admirals like the Golden Dream, for ordinary people, the fear brought by Admiral of Stars might be less than that of Admiral of Blood, but it was still overwhelming.
"Huh? Aren't we waiting for the Future to send a small boat over? How do we get there then?" Danitz asked in confusion.
Facing his question, Lin Ruo smiled, then whistled.
A few seconds later, a large fish, somewhat resembling a whale, appeared beside the deck, its blue and white back exposed above the water, clearly waiting for people to board.
—This was a marine creature with certain Beyonder Characteristics that Lin Ruo had already communicated with using the power of the Storm Pathway.
"Let's go!" Lin Ruo said with a smile. Having wanted to do this for a long time, he jumped onto the back of the large fish.
Klein naturally followed closely.
And Danitz, after his initial surprise, also excitedly jumped on, carrying his luggage.
After the three of them settled down, the large fish quickly adjusted itself and swam towards the Future, leaving behind a group of stunned and shocked passengers on the deck.
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