Chapter 6 Dungeon: Pelican Bar, the Nexus of Sin

Early the next morning, Inspector Haina went to Moriarty Manor with a warrant from the Inspectorate.

This time she clearly learned from yesterday's lesson.

After a simple breakfast, Haina rushed over immediately covered in travel. It wasn't even seven o'clock when we arrived.

At this point, Aiwass hadn't gotten up yet. So the housekeeper Oswald could only place her in the living room first, and let the maids serve her with some tea and snacks.

It wasn't until Aiwass got up, washed up, and finished breakfast that Oswald told him that Inspector Haina was already waiting in the living room.

"...You came so early this time, senior. Isn't the appointed time at nine-thirty?"

Aiwass was sitting in a wheelchair and was slowly pushed into the living room by Oswald.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Haina who was "formally dressed".

She was completely different from what she was wearing yesterday. At this moment, Haina was wearing a split two-piece leather armor.

However, this leather armor is closer to a uniform than protective gear. It does not completely cover all the skin. Although even this can play a somewhat protective role, I am afraid that its more significance lies in its ritual nature.

"Armor" is sacred in the Kingdom of Avalon.

In the Kingdom of Avalon, the main power class is divided into "knights" and "civil servants" in the civil service system. In addition to the hereditary knight families who can enter the Senate, the former also includes supervisors, arbitrators, and the entire cavalry system. Only "knights" can wear armor, and members must also wear armor when entering the Senate. Entering the Senate wearing regular clothes is regarded as a provocation to the authority of the Round Table Hall.

Except for knights, anyone who wears or even holds armor can be directly sentenced to severe punishment up to the death penalty. Even if they are a knight family, the children of the head of the family cannot wear their parents' armor without the queen's authorization.

Because of this, as long as you see an armored person on the street, you can directly recognize the other person's identity. You can even identify the opponent's level from the specifications of the armor - the more inconvenient it is for movement, the stronger the material, the more majestic the appearance, and the closer the color is to silver-white, the higher its status.

This does not come from experience in the game... After all, the Kingdom of Avalon was destroyed too early. The knowledge in this area comes entirely from little Aiwass's memory and common sense.

Aiwass could tell that Haina's leather armor was brand new. You can even smell some oil.

Because of this, Haina didn't even dare to sit on the sofa at Moriarty's house. She carefully sat on the corner of the sofa, sitting upright. I was afraid that if I accidentally soiled it, I would be disgusted.

"It's better to be early than late."

When Haina saw Aiwass coming, she breathed a sigh of relief and stood up from the soft sofa hurriedly: "It's okay, Mr. Aiwass. I can act at your convenience - this It’s the request given by the institute.”

Aiwass raised his eyebrows.

Last time I was two and a half hours late, this time I was three hours early...

"I feel like you are a bit too extreme."

"What?" Haina was a little confused.

"It's nothing," Aiwass smiled slightly, "The leather armor looks good."

"This was specially approved for me by the institute!"

Hearing this, Haina suddenly became energetic: "Although my equipment and griffons have been approved, they are still on the way to be deployed. The director said that it may take another two months to get them.

"However, because I reported your incident, the director felt that if something happened to you, the Supervisory Bureau would get into trouble, but he would also get into trouble if he disagreed. And if he sent many people to follow you, you might be unhappy; But if something happens to you, the problem will be even bigger. So the director made an exception and gave me the armor and the sword first!"

Saying that, Haina happily patted the sword she put on the table.

Aiwass followed her gaze and looked over.

It was a leaf-shaped dagger with a silver scabbard shining brightly. About twenty-four inches long, or sixty centimeters. The scabbard is etched with a beautiful pattern of thorns, and sand-sized broken glass in red, green, and blue colors is embedded among the thorns, which looks dazzling and bright under the reflection of the sunlight outside the window. At first glance, you can tell that it is a very typical elf style - whether it is easy to use or not is another matter, but at least it looks good.

Because the appearance of this sword is too beautiful, it is really different from the simple leather armor style of Haina. On the contrary, it blends very naturally with the elf-style ornaments in Aiwass’ home.

Aiwass immediately thought it was his own art ornament.

It turns out you brought it. That's okay.

"I will definitely protect you!"

Haina said extremely firmly.

Her calloused fingers carefully brushed the thorn pattern on the scabbard. After getting the sword in her hand, the confident aura in her body suddenly aroused.

Different from the timid, clumsy and cautious person last night, his whole temperament has become different. Even the eyes became brighter.

For example, it's like the difference between a horror game player without a gun and a horror game player with a gun.

Aiwass looked deeply into Haina's eyes and fell into silence and thinking.

He could notice that she had clearly not slept well the night before - she was agitated, so to speak.

Of course, there is also the reason for being exposed to his own sword in advance. But what's more exciting is that she thinks she can finally "show off her skills."

After yesterday's test, today's contact and investigation into her background, Aiwass can now roughly explore and sort out Haina's thinking circuit.

She's obviously not very smart and can't be bothered to think logically when things get complicated. At the same time, she should be born into a poor family, but have an extraordinary talent that she can be proud of in her own field, such as swordsmanship. Therefore, her personality will gradually tend to become stubborn. She will be willing to trust her own intuitive judgments rather than hesitation, reflection and complex analysis.

To put it simply, it is a kind of "martial arts fanatic".

Because her background is indeed ordinary, as a village girl who never dresses up, her appearance is naturally not as good as those of the exquisite young ladies in the royal capital. Therefore, she has a slight inferiority complex that she is not even aware of.

This low self-esteem will turn into a kind of aggression and hostility directed at people who are "higher than themselves". But at the same time, she is afraid of getting herself into trouble without background, so it will not become a solid word or action. But it can still be revealed from the attitude under pressure and the instinctive reaction when making a decision.

Because of her straightforward character, easily accessible background, excellent grades, and survival wisdom that does not offend others easily. Therefore, she will be very popular in the school environment, especially among students with relatively simple ideas - but if she encounters obstacles when she first comes into contact with society, she will easily become confused, even manipulated, and even go to the extreme. The wrong path of life.

Now was the moment when she felt confused.

This kind of person is completely exploitable.

The weak and helpless look that Aiwass saw yesterday was precisely the posture that he carefully selected after checking Haina's information in advance to make her attracted to her in the first place.

The act of "reading a collection of poems" will give people a subconscious hint, making people think that this person is inactive. The wheelchair under him further strengthened this "still" intention, thus avoiding a direct confrontation with Haina, who is confident in the fields of "sports", "physical fitness", "swordsmanship" and other fields, and preventing herself from being the first to do so. Time arouses the other party's competitive spirit or attention.

Aiwass has looked in the mirror and his aesthetics are normal. Of course he knew that his current body was quite good-looking.

So on this basis, Aiwass hired a personal maid to put makeup on himself in advance, creating a face that looked weak and pale due to blood loss. The temperature of a well-adjusted fireplace can give people a sense of relaxation, and the firelight can provide a warm-toned filter for Aiwass.

In this way, the image of Aiwass will arouse Haina's protective desire, at least it will not arouse her hostility because of her origin. A "weak", "injured" and "handsome" superior is completely under her control at this moment, which will make her "hope" that Aiwass is good. In this way, he will not become his enemy.

At this point, Haina's instinct would tell her not to continue the investigation. Her work experience is not rich enough, and her behavior is easily guided by emotions. After she had already given herself an answer, she was actually just looking for evidence for the answer.

However, when a person's impression is too strong, his image will easily be abstracted and one-sided in memory.

If Haina's favorable opinion of Aiwass is too high, she will be "self-consciously disappointed" when Aiwass does something that does not meet her expectations.

Because of this, Aiwass needs to do something in advance to make his first impression not so good and perfect. So he took advantage of Haina's lateness to tell some truths that she didn't want to believe, thus making her feel that he was attacking her.

In fact, she was wrong in the first place and actually expected Aiwass to attack her. This way she can relax more.

After she interprets Aiwass' strange words as an attack, she subconsciously eliminates the possibility of them. And when Aiwass proposed a possibility that she could accept, she immediately attached herself to the past, in order to reduce her guilt and relieve psychological pressure.

So today and in the future, she can become her very reliable bodyguard.

After yesterday's contact and exchange, Haina would think that the two had become friends. And she urgently needs to show off her proud strength - her swordsmanship - in front of this new friend who is noble and innocent, gentle and artistic, weak and handsome.

If she can really show this, she will feel that "she has demonstrated her strengths that she is proud of." Thus hoping to get Aiwass's affirmation.

If Aiwass confirms this and expresses that he really needs her help, this request will greatly satisfy her social needs.

In that case, Aiwass, who was obviously a suspect and whom she was wary of before contacting him, could become her good friend in just one day of contact. From this, Aiwass can be naturally drawn into her social circle at school.

Even though bullying a young girl who had just graduated like this made Aiwass feel a little bad.

This is his debt.

And Aiwass never likes to owe favors. Once you owe a favor, you should immediately find a way to pay it off.

Otherwise, it will be easy to get close to others every time you come and go. And having "friends" is a very dangerous thing. You will often drag yourself into dangerous situations in order to help your friends. It is also easy to be tragically betrayed because you relax your vigilance towards your friends.

Aiwass never liked getting too close to others.

——That would only make him nervous and uncomfortable.

It is better for both parties to maintain a state of mutual help and mutual use. Staying in a healthy, efficient and renewable business relationship, you will not be sad because of the other party's betrayal, you will not feel resentful because the other party abandoned you... and you will not feel hesitant and guilty when you are ready to betray others.

Aiwass's predecessor is an example.

Because he was too enthusiastic and simple, he trusted his pen pals and regarded them as his friends, and he paid a painful price.

But it is also very simple for him to repay the favor.

In Aiwass's memory, there is no name "Haina" in the game. If nothing unexpected happens, she should have died in the first version of the game because Avalon was invaded.

Aiwass did not save Avalon for her, he did it for the stability of his own life. Therefore, saving her at the same time is not a repayment of favors.

But with Haina's character, knowledge and ability, there must be many evil people in the school who have the same ulterior motives as herself who will try to become her fake friends. Aiwass can easily find those people, and then help her identify those true friends who are trustworthy and not so easy to betray.

He is very good at analyzing others.

To be honest, the HR profession is somewhat like Dongchang.

Not only does it require a sharp eye and an objective attitude, but it must also be cold and ruthless. Just a slight hook means that someone will be "eliminated", lose their job, and reduce their salary... and this is Aiwass's job itself.

What's more Dongchang is that ordinary employees cannot easily offend HR.

In fact, HRs of different companies in the same industry are usually in the same group and the same circle. If someone in a company has done something stupid, offended someone, or has a black history, everyone will know it as soon as they ask in the group. It's not a secret at all.

As long as you are still a social animal and are still changing jobs in the same industry, you can't offend HR.

At least you can't offend the first two companies-because the background check will only investigate the first two companies.

Aiwass just experienced three years of unemployment not long ago. Just found a job, and before he officially took office, he came to this world where the future is precarious.

Even though his attitude is calm and his expression is calm, he has done a psychological analysis of himself - he now feels a strong sense of insecurity.

He is very satisfied with his current life, but he clearly knows the disasters in the future.

He is eager to have a stable life and does not want to become a citizen of a fallen country, homeless and wandering around.

In order to fight the fear from the future of this world, he must climb up as much as possible and as quickly as possible. In this way, he can master part of the power of the Kingdom of Avalon. At the very least, he must not let himself be dragged down by his teammates behind him when he is alone against the world's enemy.

That is definitely not a persecution delusion.

Aiwass can be sure.

His vision is longer than that of most people in this world, and the decisions they make based on known information must be imperfect and incomplete. And Aiwass will not easily announce the future prophecy he has obtained - he is not a saint. This prophet's information can become his precious wealth.

Because of this, Aiwass needs to have enough influence.

Not the name of "Knight" of his adoptive father. That kind of thing is only a nominal status. Even if you enter the Senate, you will just have to compete with a group of old and experienced people. If you want to do anything, it will become as sticky as pulp and you can't do it.

The feeling of life drifting with the tide and destiny not being controlled by yourself... It's very uncomfortable.

What Aiwass wants is that those in power must ask for his opinion before making decisions. He can't be one of them, and it's best not to get close to any faction. He can't be a victim of internal power struggles... but to be a higher existence than them.

Not to control others, but to make yourself not controlled.

It's to prevent yourself from being sacrificed and not having to sacrifice others.

Aiwass vaguely remembered that this incident would directly involve a minister in the end.

In the original history, it was the player who gained a high reputation by solving this incident.

And there is no player character in this world, so he must join the investigation of this incident.

Fortunately, thanks to Yulia-although Aiwass still skipped the plot animation, he still remembered some details. For example, where is the most critical information, and what enemies are in the last dungeon and how high their levels are.

Because after a messy investigation, the first dungeon of this game will be opened:

The level 10 dungeon, "Sin Hub Pelican Bar".