Chapter 2008: Half-Life Not Dead

The protagonist of the phantom was still the golden-haired girl wearing round-framed glasses, but she had grown up a lot compared to just now, and was now fifteen or sixteen years old. Her hairstyle was no longer braided, but fluffy curly hair. Miss Theresa's golden hair was straight in both childhood and adulthood, so this should be the effect of a heated curling iron.

And at this time, the girl who showed a distressed expression again was holding the piece of chalk and standing in front of the blackboard. On the blackboard was a huge pentagram ritual array, filled with dense ancient runes.

Xia De recognized that this was an ancient rune course, not asking for translation, but asking to find errors in the rune ritual array and correct them.

This is already a field that only supernatural beings can involve. Therefore, at this time, Miss Theresa should have become a witch. The distressed expression on her face immediately reminded Xia De of the expression Margaret had when she talked about the math homework left by Miss Sylvia.

"This ritual is... offset pentagram, holy blessing rune, Saman language family... Sun Church's divine ritual?"

Although a bit surprised, fortunately, this still counts as basic rune knowledge. Xia De had never seen this ritual array. If the difficulty of the corresponding ritual was compared with the education Xia De received at St. Byrons, it would be equivalent to the fourth or fifth grade.

Having never seen the ritual array, he could only guess the function of the ritual was "sleep and beautiful dreams" through the meaning of the runes. Then through basic rune studies and related knowledge in the "Witch Echo," Xia De reached out and erased three runes on the blackboard, and used chalk to correct them to what he thought was correct.

"Is it like this?"

After he finished the modification, the golden-haired girl holding the chalk looked at the blackboard suspiciously and muttered to herself. But immediately after, she smiled and threw the chalk aside:

"It doesn't matter, being able to make three corrections is good enough! There will be time to study in the future, can't be too harsh on yourself."

Saying that, she grabbed Xia De's sleeve:

"Try again, the fishing position just now was not wrong, it's just that your luck was slightly worse."

She looked up at Xia De with a smile. Miss Theresa, who was about the same age as Grace and Helen, blinked at him affectionately:

"Rune studies, I actually studied very well."

【Outsider, Witch Echo · Theresa, has obtained further correction.】

More advanced and complete knowledge about ritual studies entered Xia De's mind, and the young girl who was smiling also disappeared at this time.

"The leisure and openness of the girlhood became the foundation of character after adulthood. People always complain after adulthood that the past self made many wrong decisions, but few people remember the excitement when they made immature decisions for themselves."

The child-like god seemed to be sighing. Seeing Xia De holding his head to digest the knowledge, he added:

"Helping them, you will also gain something. When the dream reflects to you and me, did we dream of them, or did they dream of us?"

The question of dreams and reality is inherently extremely complicated. Once it involves gods, it is even more unclear. Xia De cast the rod for the third time. This time he waited for two minutes before getting a response, and the force transmitted from the other end of the fishing line was even greater, even dragging Xia De into the water.

He felt as if he was wrestling with a giant dragon in the water. If this fishing rod wasn't borrowed from the god, it would have been damaged long ago. In a state where he couldn't borrow force, he slid from the edge of the floating board into the water little by little, while the god just watched this scene with a smile.

Xia De suddenly remembered the time he went fishing with Mr. Edmond, so dim thunder jumped in both hands. However, this time he didn't throw a thunder spear into the strange sea, just let the thunder enter the water along the fishing line.

The struggle force on the side of the fishhook was indeed lighter, so Xia De, who felt his arms were about to tremble, finally won and successfully held the ribbon tied to the glasses in his hand. The god then brushed over the ribbon, and the sky-blue ribbon emitted a faint light. Following that, what came was actually the voice of Miss Violet:

"Is the trip going well?"

"What?"

Xia De was startled, and then realized that she was not talking to him. Under the lightless sky, the long-unseen Witch Emperor appeared in a more illusory form, standing in front of her young distant niece.

Miss Theresa's phantom, dressed exactly the same as now, smiled and nodded at her, with the ribbon tied in her hair:

"The Radiant Messenger has set sail for two days. This trip is very interesting, and Miss Maxim is also taking good care of me. Aunt, thank you again for being willing to sponsor this graduation trip of mine."

She seemed to be communicating remotely with Miss Violet on the ship. The Witch Emperor, who had starlight-like fragments in her eyes, nodded with satisfaction. Behind her was the illusory silhouette of the environment she was in. She was in a huge alchemical workshop:

"I'm glad you like this trip. It's night, you should go to rest soon. Oh, I received news this morning that two months ago, something that shouldn't have appeared appeared on the route of the Radiant Messenger. Come and guess what it is. The clue is: black lightning, storm, fish schools with heads cut off, frogs falling from the sky, invisible players."

Miss Theresa showed a distressed expression again, and then looked at Xia De, revealing a look for help:

"What is it?"

Of course, Miss Theresa, who has a fake body and a real soul, is still by the bonfire at this time. This is just a phantom from that ribbon.

Under normal circumstances, when encountering such a strange question, it would be Xia De's turn to go to his time point to look up information. But this time, after hesitating for a long while, Xia De actually felt that he could give an answer.

There are countless evil things and even unnamed terrifying monsters in the deep sea, such as the thing that peeked at the hotel through the 【Seaview Window】 during the Battle of Green Lake. And according to the clues provided by Miss Violet, Xia De really found a corresponding evil thing.

It's just that, even in the Fifth Era, there is no reason for that thing to appear on the route:

"Deep Sea Pantanal Xiewu - Seven-Tailed Player.

The body is said to be an ancient stone statue that sank into the deep sea in the First Era, and has gained life because of unknown reasons. It has been entrenched and existed in the deep sea all year round, and there has never been a record of surfacing. Each tail flapping the water can play different musical notes. The strange music played from the deep seabed abyss is constantly enticing intelligent life that dares to peek at the deep sea to enter the seabed abyss with it, eternally dancing with the music."

This knowledge comes from the part of incomplete knowledge attached to the divinity after absorbing the divinity of the Evil God - Drowned of the Deep Sea. This strange evil thing obeys this god, and Xia De even knows a ritual knowledge called "Contacting the 'Seven-Tailed Player'." Of course, because the ritual requires a large number of living sacrifices, Xia De will never use it.

"Correct, Schluch Lake, I am very surprised that you even know this kind of knowledge."

The illusory Miss Violet smiled and said to Miss Theresa, who was a bit embarrassed:

"Aunt, two months ago, did this dangerous thing appear near the route?"

"It shouldn't be the body, just reports that the witch responsible for monitoring this area by the council heard the strange music unique to the evil thing, but there was no gain after careful investigation. It is not clear what the reason is for now. In short, be careful."

"Yes. Then I will go back to rest. Let's contact again tomorrow. Good night, Your Majesty."

"Okay, let's contact again tomorrow, have fun."

Miss Violet's figure disappeared. Miss Theresa patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, then turned and pulled Xia De's sleeve, asking him to cast the rod again:

"Try again~ Try again~ It will definitely work next time!"

After saying that, she disappeared. Xia De frowned slightly and asked the god who was watching this scene:

"Could it be that the accident of the Radiant Messenger cruise ship is related to what the Witch Emperor mentioned?"

The god shook his head:

"I just came here to fish. As for the truth of the matter, if you are interested, you can find it yourself."

Time is running out, Xia De threw the fishing rod for the fourth time. After waiting for dozens of seconds, the force of the fishing line pulling this time was not very large.

He reeled in the line carefully. With the help of his own light, he saw that what was "caught" this time was a large human silhouette.

"Finally hooked."

The god said with a smile, but didn't mean to help. And after Xia De manipulated the fishing line and let the shadow finally reach near the water surface, he also saw clearly that it was a human silhouette. He already had a guess in his heart, so he reached into the water and picked up Miss Schluch Lake Theresa from the water.

The golden-haired girl's body was cold and her face was pale. Having soaked in the seawater for an unknown amount of time, she only had the weakest breathing left. Xia De untied the fishing line that bound her, pushed aside the wet hair covering her eyes, and put the glasses on her face. She held Xia De instinctively almost immediately.

The constantly shivering body seemed to be able to draw temperature from him. Xia De didn't push her away, but nodded to the god and returned to the bonfire with her in his arms.

The ladies by the fire only saw Xia De walking over with someone in his arms at first, thinking he had encountered a new survivor. But when that familiar figure was illuminated by the firelight, the faces of the ladies wrapped in blankets by the bonfire turned completely pale.

The four fake bodies, which only Xia De could detect when he was in contact, seemed to have completely lost their vitality. The four froze there. As Miss Theresa, who was held by Xia De, spat out a mouthful of seawater and then coughed violently, the other three sat blankly in place without moving. Miss Theresa, with a fake body, stood up:

"So, so that's how it is."

She opened her arms and pounced on Xia De, or rather, the girl in his arms, like an evil spirit. ===== CHAPTER 2009 =====