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.

even appear dazed

only the Assassin beverage I picked last time has a special effect? I wonder if

get down to

me stop you.” Rozanne waves her

to my seat, I sit down. I look at the Instigator beverage in front

drinking water. This is something I prepare for taking pleasant gulps of water. I open the cap of the Instigator

drinking this beverage, I’m curious about what the liquid inside looks like, and whether it contains some special

pour all of the Instigator beverage into my

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

mug isn’t small, but it usually can’t hold the entirety of a 550-ml bottle

appeared to be quite a bit of “Instigator” in it, the manufacturer had

blue. It’s clear, and it’s quite enticing… I carefully observe the

is no different from anything else, at least not on the

to throw something into the mug to see if there will be any

do I throw? I look around when

Those dried mushrooms!

on eating, so I can

am

tear open the packaging and throw the black dried mushrooms into the dark blue liquid, watching them stretch out and expand

any changes. I’m starting to think that I’m overthinking

work’s chat group. I start

later, I finish my work and raise my head,

I see

and tender mushroom with

did this mushroom come from? I glance over and discover that it’s growing in

so tender and supple. On the cap, there are mushrooms of the same breed, just like its hands and

hell is

the cap moves upwards as though it

larger red stars that look like eyes meet

that, I look at it, and it seems to be looking at

and using the edge of the mug as

the next second, it jumps to the floor and wildly runs towards the

F*ck… I’m still confused.

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

stand up

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

resolve this accident I caused,