Chapter 2007: Fishing

Miss Maxim took off a pair of her earrings:

"This was given to me by my mother when I was young. My grandmother gave these earrings to her when she got married. My mother was bedridden when I was young, worried that she wouldn't see me get married..."

She has now become a witch.

"Later, I met His Majesty Violet. His Majesty saw that I had the potential to become a witch, so she treated my mother and took me away. But I didn't return these earrings to my mother. I always hoped that my mother could live healthily, and I never wanted to see my mother sick again."

Professor Sarah Evans thought for a while and took off her ring, which was some kind of alchemical item:

"This was a gift from my mentor to celebrate my 14th birthday, and she hoped that I, like her, could stay at Zalas Academy of Literature and become a professor. My mentor has been gone for many years, and I have also fulfilled my childhood dream."

Everyone looked at Miss Maggie Malone. She pursed her lips and thought for a while:

"I was an orphan since I was little. Although I was adopted, my childhood life was not happy. I didn't have any childhood wishes, I just hoped that I could live healthily and grow up."

"Then your blood or hair should be fine, you are your own gift."

Professor Evans said. Miss Malone hesitated, but finally pricked her finger with a pin she carried with her, took a small amount of blood and put it into a glass test tube provided by Xia De, and put a hair into it.

The four "gifts" were placed by the four people next to the fire. Miss Theresa muttered to herself:

"So, the god saved us, so he is demanding these childhood wishes and memories as a reward?"

"Don't talk nonsense."

Xia De reminded softly, and they all looked at Xia De, and then lowered their heads fiercely. The ordinary girl, Miss Malone, even tilted her head and bled from seven orifices, almost fainting directly.

Although Xia De didn't know what they saw, at the moment they lowered their heads just now, he also realized that a certain indescribable existence, which didn't even need to be looked at directly to be felt, had descended here.

So he twisted his body to look back. The waves were surging, and at the edge of the floating board directly behind him, a person wearing a black robe, not tall, looking like a child, appeared at some point.

That "child" had his back to the crowd, facing the sea of no light, holding a fishing rod in his hand.

At the moment of looking at the god, golden cracks pierced Xia De's eyes. And when he turned his head again to face the bonfire, the ladies who didn't dare to look at the situation behind Xia De all saw that the golden cracks had spread all over his body surface. Although the golden light was not as strong as the fire, the appearance of the brand-new light still made them feel peace and safety.

Even Miss Theresa, who was warming herself in Xia De's arms, saw the "special state" that Xia De had appeared in the Lost Lake, and her eyes turned red and she almost cried. Although she didn't know why she had this emotion herself. But it didn't matter anymore. The unprecedented sense of peace made her feel sleepy. Even though she knew it was still dangerous here, the sense of peace had overcome all fear.

"Where are you going?"

Noticing that Xia De was about to push her away and get up, the witch lady asked pitifully.

"Talk to that great one, wait for me to come back here, don't move around."

After leaving Xia De's embrace for only a few seconds, her eyebrows also began to frost. Knowing that she couldn't get close to the god, and feeling her body getting weaker and weaker, Miss Theresa had to say goodbye to Xia De.

So he picked up everyone's "gifts" and climbed to the side of the black-robed angler on the floating board.

Even though he is now at the Seventh Ring, as he gradually approached that figure, the influence of the god on the surrounding environment and the pressure on the soul still made Xia De a bit suffocated. In his senses, the thin figure pressed on the edge of the floating board like a huge mountain. But fortunately, this was just an illusion in his senses, otherwise this floating board would have lost its balance long ago.

However, Xia De's guess just now was not wrong. The god - Giver of Dreams, really appeared here in the identity of a child.

It's just that after Xia De came to His side, the god still held the fishing rod and looked at the pitch-black sea, without talking to him. Xia De then placed the four "gifts" by the god's hand, not worried that the waves would roll them away.

The god then said softly:

"Creator of Innocence, choosing you to inherit the last work, it seems that the choice was not wrong."

Xia De was a bit ashamed:

"That god gave me a lot of help. His gift box also gave me a lot of good gifts, but I couldn't think of a way to repay Him."

"God does not ask for repayment, child, you are actually doing quite well."

The feeling of being called "child" by a child was very strange, but before Xia De could figure it out, the god handed the fishing rod to Xia De. The "child's" eyes, as deep as the night sky, stared at Xia De:

"The first dream, you do the fishing."

The god's gaze even made the outsider think of his childhood in his hometown for a moment. And the ordinary fishing rod felt less good in his hand than the one Mr. Edmond lent to Xia De.

Xia De nodded gently, picked up the fishing rod, and while having no confidence in his fishing skills in his heart, he looked at the four "gifts":

"May I ask which one I should start with?"

"This should be your choice."

The god watched Xia De's choice, and after a few seconds of hesitation, Xia De picked up Miss Schluch Lake Theresa's round-framed glasses. After pulling the fishing line up, he tied the glasses to the fishing line. This move was very strange, but the god had been watching him with a smile on the side and instructed him on how to fish:

"Very good, now cast the bait. Don't be nervous, fishing for other people's dreams is a very interesting thing. This doesn't require too much skill, it requires more curiosity and... some just-right luck."

"But what exactly am I fishing for?"

"Of course, it's what the bait can attract, child. Childhood dreams and past dreams are intertwined into the self after adulthood. And when using childhood as a beacon to try to find the past again, people can often see things they didn't notice before."

The fishing line tied with glasses was thrown into the deep sea of no light like this. Almost the next second the glasses entered the water, Xia De immediately felt the dragging force.

He hurriedly reeled in the line, but what he saw was a beautiful glass ball caught between the two frames of the glasses. This is a toy that children play with, and it can often be seen at the time point of 1854 Sixth Era.

"What does this mean?"

Xia De asked the god while holding the glass ball, but the child-like god smiled and brushed lightly on the glass ball, so it glowed.

The light projected the figure of an eleven or twelve-year-old girl beside Xia De. She was kneeling on the ground at this time, looking at the front in distress. The little girl wearing round-framed glasses and braided hair was holding the same beautiful glass ball in her hand, and there were five other glass balls evenly scattered in front of her. She seemed to be playing a game, but she was hesitant and didn't know how to start.

The child-like god watched this scene with a smile, and Xia De felt that he understood.

So Xia De moved his body, placed the glass ball he fished up into the depression formed by his right index finger, touched the edge of the glass ball with his thumb, closed one eye, and pressed his face against the wet floating board.

【To the left, to the right, go back a bit, yes, don't use so much force, very good.】

The thumb flicked the glass ball in his hand. In the sound of the waves, he couldn't hear the collision sound of the glass ball and the glass ball, he could only see the glass ball flicked by Xia De hit the first one, then change direction and hit the second one. The two hit glass balls continued to roll and hit the third and fourth ones. The third and fourth glass balls collided with each other while rolling, and finally hit the fifth glass ball.

Clearly, it was Xia De who flicked the glass ball, but the little girl with braided hair who was eleven or twelve years old stood up happily, laughing and clapping her hands. She held Xia De's hand, and then pointed to the sea in the front left:

"I am over here, don't get the direction wrong."

Then the little girl disappeared. Xia De looked back at the four people curled up by the bonfire who seemed to have fallen asleep again, feeling that he had completely understood the purpose of this time exploration:

"Childhood dreams?"

"Even after adulthood, perhaps one will still miss the game that was not completed in childhood. The regrets of childhood will become the sweet or bitter wine of memories after adulthood. In the eyes of others, this may be just a trivial matter, but one day when she looks at this glass ball in the corner again, she will definitely show a smile that only she knows."

The god commented, reached out to Xia De to ask for the glass ball back, and put it solemnly into his pocket, as if the ordinary glass ball was more precious than everything here.

Xia De said:

"Can you not use brewing wine as a metaphor... Children shouldn't drink."

The smile on the god's face became more obvious:

"The first fishing is not finished yet, use that bait to continue, you should have guessed what to fish up in the end."

The fishing line tied with glasses was thrown out again. The direction of the throw was of course the direction pointed by the little girl who flicked the glass beads just now. This time, after waiting for more than ten seconds, the fishing line shook again. This time the "fish" struggled with greater force. Xia De, because it was not easy to borrow force on the floating board, activated 【Red Dragon Power】 to barely fish the "fish" up.

Half a piece of white chalk was caught between the left eyeglass leg and the frame. The chalk was completely soaked in seawater and could no longer be used. And the god brushed over it, and with the appearance of a faint light, a new phantom was displayed beside Xia De and the god. ■ ===== CHAPTER 2008 =====