Chapter 142: Honest and Reliable Mr. Duncan
Chapter 142: Honest and Trustworthy Mr. Duncan
Facts have proved that in this world full of weird things, “spiritual healing” this skill is much more hardcore than Duncan imagined – its degree of hardcore has even exceeded the word “skill” to describe it. The degree of hardcore has even exceeded the description of the word “skill”, and has gone straight to the direction of “craft”. ……
But fortunately, Heidi’s box of things was not prepared for Nina, this psychiatrist lady could see the shocked expressions on the faces of the two uncles and nephews at the scene, she showed a smile of “I have seen this kind of reaction from the parties concerned many times”, and then touched the bottom of the box and pulled out a printed form and handed it to Nina: “You should probably fill it out first.”
Nina was instantly relieved, “I thought these …… tools were for me.”
“They’re for my work – when I work for the authorities and the Church,” Heidi smiled, “I often have to deal with dangerous people who are extremely paranoid and stubborn, and I can’t pry into their heretical minds with ordinary means. reinforced brains.”
The more Duncan heard, the more he felt that there was something wrong with this statement, and next to her, Shirley, who was trying to reduce her presence but couldn’t help but eavesdrop with her side ears, even more subconsciously shrunk her neck, and she quickly ducked to a place farther away, pretending to clean the dust on the shelves while muttering through the spiritual connection to Dog, who was in a state of invisibility, “Scary, scary! …… This place is scary …… Mr. Duncan is scary enough, why would an Inquisitor pop up …… and that Heidi… …”
Dog’s voice rang out in her mind, more vapid than she was, “How the fuck do I know why! I don’t know why I can be caught by a Ghost Captain when I’m on land, and why I can be a guest of the Church’s Inquisitor when I’m with a Ghost Captain – are we crazy or is the world crazy? Would you believe it?”
Shirley muttered inwardly with a saddened frown as she kept a watchful eye on the counter, “Who’d believe it? A fish wouldn’t believe it if you told it that it was going to die in a car accident one day. ……”
“…… Don’t mention ‘fish’, I’m afraid ……”
Shirley froze: “When did Dog you start to be afraid of fish?”
“And don’t talk to me, you don’t want that Inquisitor to see anything – although theoretically I’m in a state of invisibility right now, but around Mr. Duncan, I always feel like all my abilities work sometimes and sometimes not …… “
Shirley hurriedly gathered her thoughts and headed for the other end of the shelf, while a few of the people at the counter clearly weren’t focusing on the inconspicuous Shirley.
Nina looked at the form in front of her and realized that it was filled out with some pretty routine psychological evaluation items, not much different from the usual psychometric forms you’d have to fill out in school before taking an occult class or visiting a museum, except that there were a little more items and a few more questions that weren’t often asked.
As she moved her pen to fill out the form, she said with some curiosity, “I heard you say that your treatment methods are more specialized, and I thought that you wouldn’t be able to use this kind of form that a normal doctor would use ……”
“Filling out the form is the basic part of conducting psychometric measurements, and the difference between me and those half-baked people is that their diagnosis often ends after filling out the form,” Heidi smiled as she removed the amethyst pendant around her neck, casually remarking while fiddling with the pendant, “whereas my therapy is just beginning when you’re filling out the forms is just beginning.”
Vanna’s eyes unconsciously fell on Heidi’s crystal pendant and she was a little curious, “I’ve always seen you wearing this new pendant for the past two days …… You seem to like it a lot?”
Heidi froze for a moment, glancing down at the pendant in her hand as if she remembered something, but shook her head immediately afterwards, “It’s just that it’s rare for my father to bring me a gift – ah, do you know, Vanna, this pendant is still my father’s ‘purchase’ from this store ‘.”
She emphasized the word ‘bought’ as if to forcefully deny the fact that it was just a gift, while Duncan nodded gently with a smile on his face, “Indeed, it is a product of this store – I hope this pendant brings you good luck.”
Vanna couldn’t help but take a second look at the obviously imitation “crystal” pendant, and almost said, “What’s a famous scholar like Maurice doing falling for this?
But at least she was considerate of the Duncan in question, and the words lingered near her bronchial tubes before returning to her lungs, while at the same time, Nina quickly checked off the boxes on the form, and pushed it over to Heidi as she said, “I’m done, can you see if there are any questions?”
“I’ve read through it as you filled it out – including all the little details in your subtle expressions and movements,” Heidi said bluntly as she collected the piece of paper straight away, “Do you have a mental shadow that’s been lurking for years? Has there been any additional stress in recent times that has caused you to think about this shadow from time to time? Has your weird dream situation eased in the last couple of days …… is the stress gone, or has it shifted?”
Nina couldn’t help but widen her eyes, as if she had been told what was on her mind, and then she subconsciously glanced in Duncan’s direction with a slightly hesitant expression on her face.
“We need a quiet and private environment for further mental relief and release,” Heidi said as she looked up to Duncan, “Of course, this will first require your consent as a guardian, as well as Ms. Nina’s own cooperation.”
“Go upstairs,” Duncan nodded and looked to Nina, “Is that alright?”
“Good.” Nina nodded curtly, without any objection, except that a hint of nervousness still showed under her eyes, and it didn’t escape Heidi’s notice.
“Don’t worry, Nina, it’s a simple mental relaxation technique – there’s nothing wrong with you at all, just a bit of stress as well as anxiety,” Heidi smiled, a trusting and reassuring aura seeming to be released in her smile, her voice calming, making the tension in Nina’s mind dissolve without her realizing it, while she casually closed her medical kit and set it aside, “I don’t think we’ll even need any implements, incense or medication, I’ll just ask you a few questions.”
Nina let her heart drop completely at that, and with a nod to Duncan, she led Heidi up the staircase that led to the second floor. The sound of two footsteps faded away on the stairs.
Shirley was still hiding a long way away, fully focused on gathering up the clutter in the corner.
Duncan was finally the only one left at the counter, along with Miss Inquisitor, who sat across from him.
Today was the first time that Duncan had met face to face with the Inquisitor who had left a “mark” of the Spirit Flame on his body by chance, and at this very moment, he could sense the mark that had been left in Vanna’s body more and more clearly, and felt that this originally extremely weak mark was slowly growing stronger and stronger due to his proximity.
Even without actually touching it, the little spark was still replenished from the “source” and began to fill Vanna’s soul with a shadowy flame.
After realizing this, Duncan consciously controlled the growth of the imprint – he didn’t want it to be detected by the mysterious and unpredictable Storm Goddess, which could cost him Vanna’s special “node”.
He was curious about Vanna, but technically he was interested in the other woman’s status as a cleric, and the faith behind her.
Vanna, on the other hand, was also curious about this place, and “Mr. Duncan” sitting across from her.
It was true that she had come here today to accompany Heidi to pay her respects, but there was also the fact that there had been too many suspicious points in the museum fire.
The sudden extinction of a fire that theoretically could never have been extinguished for a short period of time, Heidi’s sighting of a suspected projection of sun debris in the middle of the fire, and Duncan, an ordinary man who rushed into the fire to save the lives of others and brought out the stranded people unharmed – she couldn’t find any tangible evidence in between to make the correlation, but she had intuitively thought it was time to come to this antique store to Take a look.
“Mr. Duncan,” Vanna broke the silence first, looking at Duncan with a stoic expression on her face, “there are a few things I’d like to know about that fire at the museum, may I?”
“Of course,” Duncan nodded matter-of-factly, “I was there at the time and should be able to provide some information.”
“Thank you for your cooperation,” Vanna nodded gently, “You were rushing in to save people when the museum fire was still burning, correct?”
“That’s right,” Duncan nodded without hesitation – since he didn’t know how much information about the scene the inquisitor in front of him even had, he decided to be truthful on some of the points where there was a possibility of evidence being left behind, “It was There was a lot of fire, especially in that direction of the corridor leading to the main exhibition hall, and almost all of it burned.”
“But you came out unscathed in the end,” Vanna asked immediately afterward, “Can you tell me what all happened after you entered the museum?”
Duncan made a thoughtful face and pondered for two or three seconds before saying with less certainty, “I also think it’s pretty incredible that I made it out alive …… but the fire in the museum suddenly went down then, can you imagine? It wasn’t doused by the fire hoses outside, nor was it extinguished after the combustibles burned out, it was the fire itself that just disappeared all of a sudden, even the smoke was gone ……”
He tsked as he reminisced, and finally reached out and gestured, “That’s got to be a goddess blessing, right?”
As soon as the words left his side, he heard a clatter from Shirley’s side – she had accidentally knocked over a wooden statue in the corner.
“Careful!” He immediately turned his head and shouted, like a real shopkeeper reminding his staff, “I already dropped the base of that thing once, and now it’s glued, so don’t drop it again!”
“…… Goddess of Shelter for all in the City State,” Vanna’s expression changed subtly as she looked Duncan in the eye, “I can see that you are truly a . . honest man.”
Duncan’s expression was serious and frank, “That’s true, those like us who do open-door business are concerned about not being able to lie to people.”
(End of chapter)