In the rental house.
Jana cleaned up the table, picked up the soy milk and meat buns she had specially left for Franka, and said to Ludwig beside her:
"You can read and study."
Ludwig's expression changed a few times, and he argued reasonably:
"What can I do with learning?
"If you want to master knowledge, eat scientists, and if you want to master ability, eat extraordinary!"
Jian Na smiled lightly and said:
"Learning is really not important to you, but it is important for us to let you learn."
"......" Jane was so frank that Ludwig, who was already stupid, was completely unable to respond.
Jian Na thought about it for a while and then said:
"Although we don't know the specific process, you should have forgotten, but the fact that you were sealed by the Church of Knowledge was like steel, and what is the biggest difference between you and the clergy of the Church of Knowledge? It is the attitude of learning!"
Ludwig was a little confused when he was spoken, reluctantly and helplessly sat down at the table and spread out his textbooks.
Jane Na returned to the master bedroom and closed the door casually.
Franka struggled to get up half-sitting, stuffed a pillow behind her back, and said in a low voice:
"You are fooling Ludwig again, and if you want to use learning to defeat the Church of Knowledge, it is equivalent to competing with the other party on the track they are best at and under the rules they like, so how can you win? The best way is to give full play to your strengths.
"Hey, 'witches' really have to be good at deceiving people."
Many "witches" have had the experience of deceiving others to digest the "painful" magic potion, and several of them themselves also invested in it and eventually had to be cruelly separated, so there was also a part that made them suffer.
Jian Na laughed:
"I have to find a reason for him, and he just wants to find a reason."
Jane Na paused for a moment and said thoughtfully:
"Moreover, I think learning still works for Ludwig, you also saw it during the battle last night, he looks like a monster at all, but the details of our daily relationship make me feel that he is a normal little boy in other aspects except that he can eat, loves to eat, and must eat.
"This is due to the sealing of the Church of Knowledge, and it should also be the reason why he brought about changes through learning to master rules, morals, and common sense in human society."
As she spoke, Janna brought the plastic cup containing soy milk to Franka's mouth, let her take a sip, and then handed over the meat bun, watching her nibble until it was filled.
Franka had never enjoyed such treatment before, and her heart suddenly became happy.
She nodded thoughtfully:
"You mean, learning is one of the ways to integrate Ludwig into human society, and learning gave him some humanity?"
"Hmm." While feeding Franka breakfast, Jana chatted casually with her, and in the end, she wiped Franka's mouth clean and washed her face with wet wipes.
After doing these things, Jane Na took the garbage out of the master bedroom.
After being busy for dozens of seconds, she sat next to Ludwig, as if supervising her children's studies.
After looking at it for a while, she took out two bags of things from the "traveler's bag" and put them on the table.
It was two poorly packaged pot rice balls.
While Ludwig looked over in astonishment, Jane smiled and said:
"If you can pass my assessment later, they will be yours.
"Do you like spicy or plain?"
"I like them all!" Ludwig buried his head again, his eyes unusually focused.
"I prefer the plain flavor." Jane Na tore open the package, stuffed two pieces into her mouth, and chewed them.
Ludwig looked at her with his mouth half open and his expression blank.
Isn't this my reward?
"Before you finish studying, I'll eat something first, don't worry, I'll leave it for you." Jane smiled.
Franka on the bed in the master bedroom couldn't help but laugh when she heard such a conversation.
She suddenly thought that although Jane Na usually behaves very maturely, according to her actual age, she is actually a girl who has just graduated from college.
The smile on Franka's face gradually softened, and a new conversation came from the living room outside:
"This is a puffed food with corn soup flavor."
"These are cucumber-flavored potato chips."
"This is a chocolate wafer cookie."
「……」
"These snacks are not large because they are not as cheap as staple foods, but they are all prepared for you and are rewards for you to study hard and take exams."
"You, eat less! I will work hard!"
Franka leaned on the pillow and slowly had a strange feeling:
I am a father who recuperates from illness, and outside is a greedy child and a mother who supervises her children's homework.
If you ignore the words "corpse fingers are also your reward today", the daily life of a family of three is really warm and beautiful.
…………
Beep! Beep! Beep!
The horn kept ringing behind and on the side of the gray car, urging Lumian to drive faster, but Lumian was calm and completely ignored the noise around him, allowing the vehicle to move steadily at the lowest speed allowed by the current section.
Novice drivers, safety first!
Anthony sat in the co-pilot, swiping his phone and reading the local news.
"What are you looking for?" Lumian glanced at his companion out of the corner of his eye.
Anthony should not have reached the stage of being addicted to the Internet yet, after all, he had just learned to surf the Internet.
Anthony turned his head sideways and said solemnly:
"I still feel that there are a few details in last night's battle, the more wrong it becomes."
"For example?" Lumian focused on driving.
Anthony said after consideration:
"The second security guard who self-destructed, he was in a very similar state before the explosion, but he blew himself up like that."
"The ability to swap the positions of the secret puppet and the main body? Do you suspect that there was indeed a demigod-level 'Secret Puppet Master' at the scene at that time to assist the Heavenly Venerable's secret puppet?" Lumian understood what Anthony was trying to express, "But we paid attention to the situation within a few tens of meters and found no traces, could it be that the demigod-level 'Secret Puppet Master' is in a state where we can't see, hear, or touch?"
"This is the most terrifying point, and if there really is such a 'secret puppet master', why didn't he save the resurrected female corpse later, and why didn't he spread our appearance and image characteristics in the future?" Anthony put his gaze back on his phone.
Lumian nodded slowly and said:
"Are you scrolling through reports and private rumors about last night's incident to see if our information has been leaked?"
"Yes." Anthony's finger kept sliding on the screen, "The current rumor is that a conflict at work caused one of the security guards to get a detonator, killing his colleague and killing himself......
Before Anthony could finish speaking, he suddenly stopped.
He frowned slightly:
"I saw a strange local news, this morning, a madman was found next to the garbage dump near Mingyue Mall, a completely irrational and unable to communicate maniac, and then he was sent to the hospital for treatment."
"Near the mall? Madman?" Lumian also noticed the strangeness of this news, and asked keenly, "Which hospital did you send it to?"
Could this madman be the "secret puppet master" who was hidden last night?
He didn't intervene in the subsequent battle because something happened to him?
What happened? Why did something happen?
"The news didn't tell me." Anthony continued to brush up on this report.
Lumian maintained his speed and it took him more than ten minutes to reach his destination.
After finding a parking space and struggling to park the car, he and Anthony walked to the "Star Dream Grocery Store" located on the corner of the street.
The shop was not lit and the inside was narrow and dim, and the moment Lumian entered, it felt like he had moved from morning to night.
He glanced at the tall shelves lined with strange goods on both sides, and walked to the innermost cash register.
Behind the cash register sat a woman in a black dress, with her back against the wooden cabinet behind her, her head down playing with her mobile phone, and a tablet in front of her that played a series.
Lumian said politely:
"Hello, I want to send a letter."
He actually said he was here to send the letter at a grocery store.
The woman in the black dress who was playing with her mobile phone didn't find it strange, and asked without raising her head:
"Where to send it and to whom?"
"Send it to Tranquility Church, send it to Leonard. Senior Deacon Mitchell." Lumian took out the letter to the Major Arcana cards.
The woman in the black dress was still looking at her mobile phone, her voice was gentle, and she said calmly:
"There is a silver-inlaid black mailbox on the third shelf on the right, you can put the letter in it.
"I'll get the letter back tomorrow."
"Thank you." Lumian breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the shelf.
What he saw at a glance was not a toy mailbox, but a brass-like book and a silver mirror with black eyeballs on both sides.
Lumian quickly scanned and found classical quills, various bizarre dice and other goods, if it weren't for the shopkeeper playing with his phone and looking at the tablet, he would have felt that he had returned to the real world, back to Trier.
The style of these items is different from Dream City, more like things from the North Continent!
After putting the letter into the silver-encrusted toy mailbox, Lumian turned to the side and asked the shopkeeper:
"Can I take a look at the products here?"
The owner's voice was a bit smiling:
"These are all available for sale."
Can it be sold? As a "witch", Lumian first picked up the silver mirror with an ancient pattern and a black gemstone on each side.
In the mirror, Lumian's face quickly emerged:
The eyes are light blue, clear and deep, the face shape is slightly thin, almost perfect, the lips are neither thick nor thin, the color is light but moist, with a faint light......
This is his female image.
It directly reflected my "witch" state...... There is something magical about this mirror...... As soon as Lumian flashed such a thought, he saw the surface of the mirror swaying with water, outlining lines of blood-colored Gufusak words:
"I am the great Arolds, and I can answer any question you have, but you also have to answer my equal number of questions, in the presence of at least one audience member.
"If you refuse to answer, or lie, you will be punished."
Aroldes, the great Arolds? Lumian knew the name.
Franka mentioned that this is the magic mirror belonging to Mr. "Fool", and it answers questions most accurately, but each of its questions will cause the diviner to die socially.
Mr. "Fool"'s magic mirror is actually located in this grocery store in a dream? What does this mean and what does it symbolize? Lumian couldn't help but look at the shopkeeper again, the woman in black who was playing with her mobile phone.
After a little deliberation, Lumian said calmly:
"My question is, what do you want to remind you about awakening Mr. Fool?"
ps: Recommend a book, "Strange Books"
A story of traditional fairy energy and aura, Sanhua Niangniang's new book
(End of this chapter)