Lord of the Mysteries

“These dried mushrooms don’t look… very delicious.” Rozanne looks at the bag of dried mushrooms in my hand seriously for a few seconds before replying hesitantly.

It’s obvious that she’s a little embarrassed to say that the mushroom looks dry and black—it causes alarms to go off, and it can hardly whet up an appetite. After all, I’d offered it out of kind intentions.

Hehe… I take this opportunity to change the topic.

“What’s your drink called?”

Rozanne immediately turns around and picks up the beverage bottle on the table. She says with a smile, “This is it! The design looks cool, right?”

The beverage bottle has a streamlined design with a footprint theme. The name is:

“Reporter.”

That’s different from mine… I politely compliment, “Looks good.”

Rozanne twists the cap that has been opened a long time ago as if she’s preparing to take a sip.

I instinctively want to stop her, but after opening my mouth, I realize that I don’t have a reason.

Furthermore, a third of the Reporter beverage is gone. This means that Rozanne has already drank it. There’s no point in stopping her now.

Gulp… Rozanne lowers the bottle and twists the cap back on.

“It doesn’t taste bad. Try it.”

“Okay, okay,” I say perfunctorily.

Rozanne doesn’t urge me any further. Instead, she points at the remaining beverage bottles in the plastic bag.

“You can also switch bottles.”

“No need, there’s no need,” I reply without hesitation.

Either way, I don’t intend to drink it. It doesn’t matter if I switch it or not.

After two seconds of deliberation, I look at Rozanne and probe, “How do you feel after drinking it? Any special sensations?”

“Special sensations? Do you think this is a drug? Erm, it’s moderately sweet and refreshing. The fragrance will definitely be better after chilling it.” Rozanne says, a little pissed.

She doesn’t look like she’s lying… This means that she probably didn’t obtain superpowers from the Reporter beverage… I subconsciously survey my surroundings and realize that my fellow colleagues have more or less drunk some of Rozanne’s beverages, but none of them show any signs of abnormality.

appear dazed

I wonder if that’s considered being lucky

need to get down to

ahead. Don’t let me stop you.” Rozanne

at the Instigator beverage in front

I use my large mug meant for drinking water. This is something I prepare for taking pleasant gulps of water. I open the

beverage, I’m curious about what the liquid inside looks

I pour all of the Instigator beverage into

definitely isn’t 500 milliliters! I can’t help but look down on this beverage’s

hold the entirety of a 550-ml bottle of mineral

quite a bit of “Instigator” in it, the manufacturer had actually

it’s quite enticing… I carefully observe the liquid in the mug

no different from anything else, at least

some thought, I decide to throw something into the mug to see if

throw? I look around when I suddenly get

Those dried mushrooms!

plan on eating,

really am a

throw the black dried mushrooms into the dark blue liquid, watching them stretch out

any changes. I’m starting to think that

messages come from my work’s chat

work and

see

mushroom with red star dots all

glance over and discover that

tender and supple. On the cap, there are mushrooms of the same breed, just

hell is

that moment, the mushroom sways and the cap moves upwards as though it has lifted its

larger red stars that look like eyes meet

like that, I look at it, and

and using the edge of the

it jumps to the floor and wildly runs towards the

F*ck… I’m still confused.

the same time, I discover a problem: All of the Instigator beverage

up and chase after the

suspect that it’s a product from the fusion of the Instigator beverage and the

this accident