Under Melody Summers’ pressing gaze, Joanne White recounted everything she had been through recently.
Joanne said that after her parents passed away, she had sought refuge with "Mr. Caelus," a master her mother had always worshipped.
The title made Melody Summers frown instinctively. She asked, "Mr. Caelus? What sect is he a master of? Why did your mother trust him so much?"
Joanne shook her head silently at the question. "I only know that their sect used to be called ’The Advent Sect,’ I think. They seemed to have changed the name later, but I don’t remember for sure... I was only there for a couple of days before they arranged for me to come to the Sutton Family..."
Melody’s pupils contracted sharply. *The Advent Sect?!*
*Isn’t that the cult that carried out the terrorist attack at The Metropolis Residences?!*
*They haven’t been completely wiped out yet?!*
*And Joanne actually came into contact with the leader of this cult?!*
Joanne was oblivious to the tempest raging in Melody’s mind. She lowered her eyes and continued, "Mrs. Sutton, Margaret Adler, has always been a believer in Mr. Caelus. He wants the rest of the Sutton family’s fortune, so he came up with a plan..."
"He lied to Margaret Adler, telling her that I had a ’New God’s Gifted Fetus’ constitution, that I could conceive through a miraculous connection... Margaret believed I could give her son, Ethan Sutton, a child, so she brought me back. Mr. Caelus told me to find a way to gain the Suttons’ trust and get my hands on their fortune..."
Melody’s brow grew tighter and tighter as she listened to Joanne’s story.
A miraculous conception?
What was all this nonsense??
And why did Ethan Sutton’s mother trust a cult so deeply?
As far as she knew, Margaret Adler had always been an extremely shrewd woman.
Recalling the schemes Ethan Sutton’s mother had used to drive a wedge between her and Sylvia Lancaster in her past life, Melody found it impossible to believe she could be so easily fooled and so superstitious.
Melody frowned, asking thoughtfully, "Margaret Adler is, after all, the wife of a magnate and a member of a listed company’s management. Why would she trust this cult so much? And your mother, why did she place so much faith in this Mr. Caelus? Do you know the reason?"
Joanne thought for a moment before answering, "Because he correctly predicted many things."
Melody was taken aback. "Predicted?" she asked, confused.
Joanne nodded. "Yes. He accurately predicted the start and end dates of every natural disaster. He even predicted, months in advance and with pinpoint accuracy, which days it would snow and which it wouldn’t during this blizzard."
Upon hearing this, Melody’s mind suddenly went blank. She was completely stunned.
She had previously seen discussions in the residence’s group chat about The Advent Sect, where people also claimed its leader could predict the timing of the volcanic eruption.
At the time, she had suspected the cult leader might also be a regressor, which would explain how he could predict these events.
But she later dismissed the idea as too absurd. It was more plausible, she had thought, that the organization had someone from the national meteorological research institute who could provide inside information. After all, volcanic eruptions have many observable precursors, and the national meteorological and seismological bureaus had also predicted the eruption time. Predicting such things wasn’t that difficult.
But...
If this Mr. Caelus could even predict which specific days it would snow so far in advance, then these predictions couldn’t possibly be a coincidence!
This Mr. Caelus was very likely a regressor!
The thought gave Melody a headache...
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