Chapter 371 - 260 Dark Fairy Tale Book
Several minutes later, Zhou Yuan had figured out what had happened.
The deceased was named Belinda Yang, a violinist for a famous symphony orchestra, hailing from a musical family, an official Old Londoner under the red flag of standard, and an upper-class individual with financial freedom.
Two days earlier, she had visited the London branch of the Holy Crow Church, stating that she had been having strange dreams lately. In her dreams, she was the Little Mermaid from the classic fairy tale "The Little Mermaid."
The dreams were extremely realistic, and they were serialized; each night’s events continued from where the previous night left off, which made Belinda believe she was definitely under the influence of supernatural power. Having heard that the Holy Crow Church was exceptionally skilled with dreams, she went to them for help.
The Holy Crow Church conducted a "physical examination" on her but found no traces of supernatural power affecting her. They also entered her dream that night and came up empty-handed as well—there were no so-called fairy tale dreams.
However, the next day, Belinda woke up claiming that she still had a nightmare the night before and that the story in her dream was about to come to an end. She was terrified that her fate would be like that of the Little Mermaid in the story, turning into foam under the sunlight, so she requested the protection of the Holy Crow Church.
Since there were no findings, the Holy Crow Church thought Belinda was suffering from "Transcendental Panic Disorder," a condition that became very common after the reveal of the transcendent. Symptoms are manifested in everyday life: whenever encountering anything unusual, such as getting sick or having a nightmare, one would subconsciously believe it’s the influence of supernatural forces, further imagining that someone is out to get them. This leads to a series of chain reactions: panic, paranoia, nervous breakdown...
Interestingly, the incidence rate of this condition in the elite class is higher than among the lower-class people.
Hatred, power struggles, political conflicts, business wars... these things became particularly simple and brutal after the emergence of supernatural powers. Just by hiring a curse master, one could easily assassinate an adversary from afar without leaving any trace.
Similar cases had occurred many times, and elites and tycoons were all extremely anxious, afraid of becoming the next headline death, so they were willing to spend a lot of money to hire extraordinary people as bodyguards to prevent being assassinated in various forms, which also caused a significant boost to the economy of the transcendental world.