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Chapter 3982 Coercing favors
Chapter 3982 Coercing favors
April 1st hung his head and recounted yesterday's experience in an innocent and helpless manner.
It is not actually scary to encounter Lizzie, because under normal circumstances, Lizzie would never set her sights on April 1st.
But April 1st happened to meet Lizzie in the dream of the box garden. When they met again, he completely ignored the gap between reality and dreams and called out her name directly.
However, not many ordinary people know Lizzie's name.
April 1st's call immediately aroused Lizzie's suspicion.
Next, after April 1st called out Lizzie's name, he was attacked by the gossip spirit. His consciousness entered the challenge space, and his body fainted in front of Lizzie.
This incident made Lizzie pay more attention to April 1st.
But this is not the end. When Lizzie was about to take April 1st away, she heard a conversation coming from the ventilation duct under the red pillar at April 1st's location.
April 1st had no idea how Lizzie reacted after hearing the conversation because he was already unconscious at that time.
When he completed the challenge and woke up with the newly arrived magic book in his hand, the first thing he saw was Li Zi, who was sitting not far away, with her arms folded, looking him up and down.
"Congratulations on becoming a fashion magician." Lizzie raised her eyebrows and said.
April 1st opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say, so he could only whisper: "...Thank you."
After saying thank you on April 1st, he began to glance around secretly.
Ink black, creamy white, and iron grey are the three colors that make up this minimalist...office?
Could it be that he was taken to the Fashion Guild after falling into a coma?
Perhaps seeing April 1st's eyes, Liz slowly said: "This is my home. After all, if you faint in front of me, even if you are a scammer, I will be responsible for rescuing you."
"I originally wanted to send you to the hospital. But after checking your condition, I found that you had just started the challenge mission, so the hospital was not suitable. I took you home."
Home? On April 1, I couldn't imagine anyone decorating their home to look like an office, but that wasn't the point.
"Then, then can I go back now? My sister is still waiting for me at home..."
April 1st even raised his hand when he said this.
For some reason, when he met Lizzie in the dream of the small garden, he felt a vague sense of oppression. Now in reality, that sense of oppression is even stronger.
It’s like when I was naughty at school and met the dean, I didn’t even dare to look him in the eye.
But what April 1st didn't know was that it wasn't the oppression from Lizzie that made him feel, but his own lack of self-confidence that made him unconsciously tend to lower his status towards people who were obviously not from his own class.
Lizzie: "You have a sister?"
April 1st raised his head and faced Lizzie: "Of course, I have a sister. She is waiting for me to come home..."
At first his eyes were firm, but later his tone became weaker and weaker.
Lizi looked at April 1st deeply, sat down at the desk, leaned one hand on the table, rested her chin on the back of her hand, and glanced at April 1st casually.
"Name: April 1st. I used to be a resident of the underground district. Five years ago, I became a citizen through the official Sneeu Act. Later, I studied at... I came to the central district a year ago. I am currently working at the Night Light Bakery. I live in the basement of the Prus Community on Mihua Street. The monthly rent is 200 Modern coins. The landlord is..."
April 1st suddenly looked up and looked at Liz with surprise.
"Are you investigating me?"
Lizzie didn't say anything, but continued, "Today, you went to the Sheriff's Office because of a missing child case. Then after you came out of the Sheriff's Office, you went to the pharmacy to inquire about sleeping pills, but you didn't buy any."
"Then you went to the 61st town in the underground district. The specific location should be Upside Down Alley... If nothing unexpected happens, you found a sum of money there."
April 1: “?!!”
Lizzie: "Don't be surprised. Since you were unconscious, I must have looked through your pockets. The large amount of Modern Coins in your pocket is not something you can own."
April 1: “…”
Lizzie continued, "Then, you took the money to Senhai Road, where there is a magazine office. You stayed outside the magazine office for a while, probably learning how to dress like a gossip reporter."
"And gossip reporter outfits are actually very famous in the fashion magic world, because it is a common method to attract gossip spirits."
"Then, you came to No. 44, Pu Lu Street, North District 14, on the basement floor of Wan Zhong Apartment. Then, we met, and then, you were targeted by the fashion monster and entered the consciousness space where the challenge mission was located."
When Lizzie said this, she glanced at the new magic book in April 1st's hand.
"If nothing unexpected happens, the fashion monster you met is the gossip monster." Lizzie: "No need to deny it, because I just saw the illustration in the magic book, and the way you dress is also completely attracting the gossip monster."
"But I'm curious, how did you know there was a gossip spirit there?"
After listening to Lizzie's words, a normal person would most likely be angry about the other party's investigation into him or her.
April 1st was also resentful at first, but his thoughts were completely led by Liz, and he was subconsciously drawn into her story.
Therefore, when Liz asked him, he had ignored the resentment about "his privacy being investigated" and was thinking about what excuses and reasons he could use to justify himself.
Just when April 1st was about to find an excuse, Lizzie said again.
"You'd better not lie. As a magician, it's very easy to know if you're lying." Lizzie: "Just like if I want to know your whereabouts, I just need to move my fingers."
Lizzie is actually cheating on April 1st.
As the deputy director of the Arts and Literature Department, her card pool abilities tend to be in the Gorgeous Series, Fusion Series, and Creative Series, and she does not have any direct authentication abilities.
Similarly, the investigation of whereabouts was not done through magic, but rather through the records of holographic devices throughout the city.
Holographic devices can project and naturally record images.
In a sense, wherever there is a holographic device, there is a pair of eyes staring at you.
April 1st didn't know that Lizzie was lying to him, but after listening to Lizzie's story, he didn't dare to make up excuses. However, he didn't know how to answer, so he could only keep silent with his head down.
Lizzie chuckled: "There is a mastermind behind you, right?"
April 1st still didn't say anything, and Lizi didn't get angry, but spoke slowly.
"The money you got should be given to you by the messenger."
"And the instigator told you that there are clues about the gossip spirit on the basement floor of Wanzhong Apartment."
"Don't think I'm trying to trick you, because looking at your route of action this time, your goal is very clear from beginning to end. Get money, buy and rent gossip reporter equipment, and then go to a place where there might be gossip spirits and wait."
“The fact that you didn’t do anything in the middle means you know exactly what you are doing and what you want to get.”
"Finally, you succeeded in achieving your goal."
Lizi stared at April 1st and said, "This is not something you can plan and accomplish on your own. There must be someone behind the scenes directing you. Even the fact that you recognized me may have been told by someone behind the scenes."
April 1st said subconsciously: "No!"
"What do you mean? Are you denying that there is someone behind you? Or is it that the person behind you told you that you denied my identity?"
April 1st felt that he seemed to have said too much and fell silent again.
Li Zi narrowed her eyes slightly, as if a faint light flashed in them: "You didn't refute it earlier or later, but you refuted it at the end. So my identity may not be told to you by future generations?"
"So does this mean that you admit that there really is a mastermind behind this?"
April 1st felt beads of sweat on his forehead. In the dream of the box garden, he just felt that Lizzie was Angel's assistant and was very professional.
But here, he felt Lizzie's keen observation and strong insight into details.
In front of Lizzie, April 1st knew that the more he spoke, the more mistakes he would make and the more information he would reveal, so he simply stopped talking.
Lizzie: "As a magician, I know very well how excited a new magician will be after completing the challenge mission and obtaining the magic book."
"But in you, this excitement is not obvious."
"Perhaps because you already knew that you would definitely get the magic book, your excitement was reduced, am I right?"
April 1st pursed his lips, his eyes determined like a soldier going to die.
Never speak!
Lizzie seemed to see what April 1st was thinking. She raised her eyebrows and said, "It seems that you have made up your mind not to speak?"
After a while of silence.
Lizzie picked up the information on the table and said, "I looked at your information. From what I saw, you must have been a good kid before. Now it seems that there are mistakes in the information. I didn't expect you to be a person who repays kindness with enmity."
Repaying kindness with enmity? April 1st was stunned and wanted to say that he didn't do that.
But after raising his head, he thought of his own stupid mouth and did not dare to speak.
Li Zi caught April 1's little action. She raised a smile but it soon faded away. "Why do you say you are ungrateful?"
"Since you met the gossip spirit on the basement floor of Wanzhong Apartment, you must have heard the gossip there. Right?"
April 1st subconsciously recalled the gossip coming from the ventilation duct.
Who would have thought that idols and celebrities who look so glamorous on the outside would actually be...
Lizzie: "Since you heard those gossips, you should know that if you are discovered by those underground people, you will definitely have no chance of survival."
"The power of that underground group of people is so great that even I cannot compare to them. It is precisely because of their strong background and power that their gossip is more likely to attract gossipers, isn't it?"
"Do you remember what you did before you passed out?"
Although April 1st didn't say anything, he still recalled what happened before he fell into a coma under Lizzie's guidance.
He didn't actually do anything before he fell into a coma. He just discovered that Lizzie was also here, and then he...
"Yes, you cried out and called my name."
Lizzie's expression changed from smiling to solemn, even indifferent.
"Don't forget, you called out my name in front of the ventilation duct. You could hear the voices below through the ventilation duct. Do you think the people below could hear you?"
"If they hear your voice, will they come up and kill you immediately to prevent you from passing on the information?"
April 1: “…”
Although he felt the logic was a bit strange, he had to admit that what Liz said might be true.
If he was really discovered by that group of people, he would definitely have no chance of survival.
"You had already fainted on the ground. If I hadn't brought you back, do you think you would still be alive?"
“Is this a favor?”
April 1st finally spoke this time, because due to his personality, he could not deny the kindness of others.
"Yes."
Li Zi's lips curled up and she continued, "You called out my name at that time. Does this mean that you have dragged me down with you? I even have to take the blame for you. Does this count as a favor from me to you?"
April 1st thought about it and nodded: "Yes."
"Besides, you left a lot of traces along the way. Even if I took you away from there, if those people really wanted to find you, they could still catch you based on the traces you left along the way. Moreover, I helped you deal with these traces and prevented you from being found by them. Is this a favor?"
April 1st smiled bitterly: "...Yes."
Lizzie lifted her left leg and placed it on her right leg, tapping the toes of her red-soled high heels: "Now, you owe me three favors, and even dragged me into a dangerous place, but you are adopting a non-violent non-cooperative attitude and are unwilling to even tell me the reason behind it. Isn't this repaying kindness with enmity?"
April 1st always felt that Liz's words were a bit far-fetched, but he really couldn't find any way to refute them.
He hated himself a little. He should have learned more logic when he was in school, or participated in a debate competition... This way, he wouldn't be in a situation where he felt something was wrong but couldn't refute it.
But putting aside those logically incorrect things, Liz rescued herself, and because he called out Liz's name, Liz might have been discovered by that group of people. These two things are indeed facts.
He is also a person who cares deeply about favors.
Faced with Lizzie directly using her favor to pressure him, he was really at a loss at this moment.
And then, Lizzie said something else.
"By the way, the reason why I showed up at the Late Bell Apartments is because I was investigating a missing persons case. To be more precise, a group of missing persons."
As Lizzie was talking, she threw a case report in front of April 1st.
On the page were color portraits of six young women.
"Six young and beautiful girls suddenly disappeared. One of them is a distant relative of mine, so I was asked by her mother to investigate the case."
"Finally I found out that one of them disappeared near the Evening Bell Apartments."
"So I went there to investigate, and met you, and heard the 'gossip' of the group down there."
"Perhaps, this group of missing girls is related to that group of people. But I feel that it may also be related to the person behind you, otherwise why would he instruct you to go there to listen to gossip? This means that he already knew what was going on there, doesn't it?"
Lizzie's words caused April 1st to fall into a long silence.
The case of the missing girl reminded him of his sister.
There was no news about his sister suddenly. Could it be related to the group of "big shots" in the underground?
And Lizzie is investigating this matter, maybe it will benefit her.
The most important thing is that April 1st saw Lizzie in the dream of the box garden.
Mr. Angell trusted Lizzie very much, which actually affected April 1st's judgment. Perhaps, he could trust Lizzie too?
After hesitating and struggling for a moment, April 1st said, "This matter has nothing to do with him."
"Him? A man? There's no honorific, so he's a man who can't be much older?"
April 1st smiled bitterly, Lizzie's ability to capture and analyze information was extremely accurate.
This is also the reason why he chose to remain silent before, because if he said a few more words, he probably wouldn't even need to explain in detail, Lizzie would have guessed it.
April 1st did not confirm Liz's inference, but continued: "I am very grateful for Ms. Liz's help. I will never forget your kindness. However, I am not sure if I can tell you the information about the person behind me. He..."
“He also owes me a very important favor.”
"I……"
April 1st paused and said, "I want to ask his opinion first before giving an answer."