Chapter 1685: Miracle - Heart Link

"Are you a psychologist?"

Xia De asked curiously.

"I can only be considered a scholar. Let's begin."

Mr. Richard said, and Xia De nodded. The cover of the album was a hand-painted landscape, nothing worth noting. Opening the first page, Xia De looked at the strange painting where black, purple, and white were intertwined, and the color blocks constantly squirmed and exchanged colors dynamically. After hesitating, he said:

"The first one, an eye."

Mr. Richard recorded it in his notebook with a pencil:

"Please continue."

The second picture was even more abstract; it was hundreds of eyes of various sizes, densely distributed against a background of mottled black. Those eyes blinked constantly, enough to drive a person with trypophobia crazy. Xia De tried hard to force himself to look for a while, and because the answer "eye" had already been used, he barely managed to find another shape in it this time:

"A butterfly."

The third picture turned into a colorful butterfly with abstract eye patterns, fragmented and filling the entire screen against a colorful background.

The butterfly looked as if it had been forcibly torn apart, and the delicate fluff and antennae depicted on its body were still shaking constantly.

"Beauty torn apart by violence."

He made this answer a bit more complex.

The fourth picture, against a pure black background, blood-red irregular strips divided the screen into two, and those strips were still dancing up and down.

"A tail."

He answered the questions one after another. When he turned to the thirteenth page, it happened to be the last page. He had seen various strange and uncomfortable patterns before, so when the last picture, a huge moon in the starry sky, appeared, this normal scene actually surprised him a little:

"The last one... a silver moon, yes, a silver moon."

"Is it over?"

Mr. Richard asked, then nodded and took the album Xia De handed back:

"Different people flip through this album and see different content and page numbers. Usually, it's three or four pages; it's quite rare for someone like you to flip to thirteen pages at once."

His tone was very calm, but he still glanced at Xia De, a look that made Xia De feel more and more like a guilty person:

"Then can you tell me the test result? Or do you need time to analyze it?"

He was very curious about the result.

"I can tell you now, but I must declare: this is not divination or prophecy, just psychological analysis, so it may be completely wrong. If you are not satisfied, you can take my words as a joke."

After Xia De nodded to show he understood, the old man said while looking at his own records:

"It is very obvious that you like many girls; having beautiful eyes, being twins, being more powerful than you, being extremely charming, and having a tail are your favorite characteristics."

"This... I..."

"I am just doing an analysis, not guaranteeing right or wrong, so you don't need to defend yourself."

Mr. Richard said quite understandingly, clearly having seen many similar reactions. Then, he drew a holy emblem in front of him:

"Swearing in the name of God, this result will not be leaked. Besides, I don't even know you; even if others knew, they wouldn't know who this relates to... By the way, your result is actually considered normal, what are you panicking about? I've seen people who like humanoid steam machines, humanoid cockroaches, rotting female corpses, or worn high heels; what is this compared to that?"

"Um... please continue."

Xia De thought it would be best not to dwell on this topic.

"You have a relatively conservative tendency toward marriage and love, and you are willing to give your true heart to obtain love, and hope the other party does the same. You have a certain desire for control, but it is not very strong. You are very greedy, longing to get more..."

"Ahem, can we skip to the next paragraph?"

"Sure, it's almost finished anyway. The last paragraph is about the part you desire in your heart; this is not the type of girl you like, nor is it the love story you yearn for, but your own truest thoughts that perhaps even you cannot see clearly... You yearn for the moon."

Old Mr. Richard still said very calmly, completely indifferent to what Xia De thought:

"By the way, what is your age and family situation? If convenient, also your income status; I need an income file."

"About 22 years old, no relatives... at least I haven't found any relatives with blood ties. As for income... not much, but I have shares in a mine, and the girls around me like to be responsible for my expenses... Oh, God, honestly, I already regret sitting down."

"Then I am very glad you don't have the ability to turn back time, otherwise I would have one less record... Okay, recorded."

Mr. Richard hurriedly wrote down the last few strokes:

"I only do psychological analysis, but most people who accept my invitation like me to give a concluding summary at the end. Are you interested in hearing it?"

Xia De nodded. Since the investigation had already been done, of course, he had to hear it to the end:

"Of course, please speak."

"You don't even know what you want yourself; you are pursuing a goal like an illusory dream. You are very lonely, so you want to be loved, longing for a lot of love. You are afraid of losing, so you desperately want to grasp what you have already obtained."

Xia De nodded again, pursing his lips for a long time, and suspected that the other party was not a believer of the God of Love, but a believer of mind-reading.

Mr. Richard had probably really seen such things often, so he didn't disturb Xia De's thinking. After a long time, he suddenly asked:

"Speaking of which, what is the matter you came to find me for?"

Xia De also woke up from his thoughts; the psychological test just now shocked him greatly:

"I saw a passage in an ancient book: Love, the fusion of souls; Sex, the collision of bodies; Romance, the connection of spirits; Love, the promise of two people becoming one.

This passage was inserted abruptly into the paragraph, having no connection with the preceding or following text, so I want to know what this passage represents. It just so happens that I know the Fu De gentlemen, and they introduced me to seek help from you. I will pay the reward."

Mr. Richard shook his head:

"Forget the reward. Since you are a friend of that pair of brothers and have accepted my psychological test, you can be considered my friend. The sentence you mentioned is indeed one of the most important maxims before the sect perished. In the distant Fifth Era, before my Lord left, this sentence was printed on the first or last page of every church classic. But now, this is part of the incantation of one of the most special miracles among the few miracles we can still use... calling it a miracle is also fine; this requires the corresponding spirit runes to learn."

"May I ask what miracle it is?"

"The Fu De brothers also know that miracle—Heart Link. It requires spirit runes like 【Connection】, 【Twin】, 【Emotion】, etc., to learn.

The basic function of the miracle is just to allow two people to communicate without speaking while holding hands. In a state of mutual trust and emotional fusion, they can transfer injuries to each other. However, the Fu De brothers have special talents and have developed this miracle into other functions, so by slightly changing the casting method, they can cast it together. But if you want to do this, the casting requirements are also higher."

This requirement should refer to "twins" or "complete trust," but Xia De did not have the corresponding spirit runes and could not learn this miracle.

"Will this strengthen the connection between Dorothy and Princess Lei Qianya?"

He asked in his heart.

【No, the fusion of souls will not be promoted so easily.】

Although he didn't know Chloe's meaning, whether it was to let Xia De find this miracle, Xia De still thought about letting Dorothy and Princess Lei Qianya try it. Xia De remembered they had the 【Emotion】 spirit rune.

"Then, can this miracle be taught to me? I can pay, or let me help do other things."

Xia De said, and Mr. Richard shook his head again:

"This is not under my control. This miracle is both the knowledge of the former sect and the knowledge of the current 【Rose Cross Society】. If you want to learn it, go downstairs and find Updun and Hope. Updun is the keeper of secrets inherited from the sect; learning the miracle requires his consent. Hope is the financial supervisor of our trip this time; she will give you a price... I suggest you go find Kelly Hope first; Updun has an eccentric personality, if you go directly to him, it is highly likely there will be no result. But if you say Hope has already set the price, he might be willing to talk to you."

So Xia De bid farewell to Mr. Richard and prepared to go downstairs. Before leaving, the old gentleman also gave Xia De a business card, inviting Xia De to sit at his psychological counseling office if he had time to go to the city of Willendale. It seems this old gentleman should be considered a peer of Doctor Shi Nai De.

Kelly Hope, who was temporarily staying in room 211 of the hotel, was a lady who looked to be in her forties, and although there were wrinkles on her face, she was still very charming. She wore a black long dress and a pink crystal earring in her left ear; other than that, her attire was quite simple.

This lady did not make any special requests to Xia De. After inviting Xia De into the room, she first listened to him finish talking about his experience with Mr. Richard just now, and then nodded gently:

"No problem, this miracle belongs to knowledge that can be sold. But I must warn you in advance, both people must learn this miracle at the same time to communicate and talk while holding hands. As for the effects of injury transfer and joint casting, there are more stringent prerequisites, which is not something ordinary friends can do."

"It doesn't matter, I want to try."

Because Xia De was a friend of the Fu De brothers, Ms. Hope did not set a very high price. In Xia De's estimation, the price of such a miracle containing many unique characteristics should be around 350 pounds excluding materials, but Ms. Hope finally only asked Xia De for 320 pounds.

And when Xia De was holding her approval note, preparing to go persuade the last Mr. Updun, Ms. Hope let Xia De wait a moment:

"I actually have a different view on the maxim you just mentioned to Richard."

"Isn't that the incantation for this miracle?" ===== CHAPTER 1686 =====