Chapter 2009: Seabed

With her pounce, the chill even made the air rustle with frost. The "evil ghost" with white frost on her eyelashes, cheeks, and hair, and whose face had completely turned blue, reached out her hand as if she wanted to strangle Miss Theresa.

But she was blocked by Xia De. The silver moonlight greatsword held in one hand blocked her hand. The sword light was dim, but it clearly revealed the sword runes that had been hidden in the light in the past.

Holding Miss Theresa with his left hand, Xia De held the sword in his right hand and looked at the girl with frost on her face. She staggered back two steps, and then pounced on the two again. The sword light was not bright, but it easily pierced through her. So starlight-like light points drifted out from the fake body. The girl, who seemed to have recovered her calm, looked at her hands and showed a miserable smile at Xia De:

"I look ugly now, right?"

"Although I don't know what you are, Miss Schluch Lake Theresa is really beautiful."

The girl, who had become semi-transparent, nodded bitterly:

"Can you hug me one last time?"

Xia De thought for a while, the moonlight greatsword dissipated, and he held her in his arms with his left hand. The fake body disappeared completely, scattering into light points. The transparent and pure white soul curled up in Xia De's arms, looking blankly at her body on the other side.

When the soul and the body held hands, in the violent coughing, the blood finally appeared on the pale face of the body that Xia De had "fished out of the sea." Miss Schluch Lake Theresa opened her eyes, and then hugged Xia De and trembled in pain. The soul returned to the body, and the discomfort from the body rushed to the soul in an instant.

Plus the soul and body were already weak, she couldn't even adapt to the feeling of "being alive" now:

"I seem to have had a dream, dreaming of playing with glass balls in the past, dreaming of the first time I saw Aunt, dreaming of rune courses, dreaming of..."

The faint voice was not easy to distinguish. Xia De carefully held her and sat by the bonfire. Looking at the other three, the frost on the ladies' faces disappeared at some point. They looked at the firelight blankly, as if they didn't know what had happened just now:

"Sir, what did the god say?"

Professor Evans asked while shivering.

The ordinary girl Miss Malone and the maid Miss Maxim also looked at him. Xia De held the gradually recovering Miss Theresa and hesitated for a while:

"The god is fishing, using the bait you provided, fishing for... the truth of the ship's sinking, and then sending you out. I will assist the god, you just wait here."

Although he didn't know the specific situation, the sinking of the "Radiant Messenger" was highly likely related to the four people present. The god seemed to be giving them a chance to survive, but this way was really strange. Since they didn't know yet that their bodies had long sunk into the deep sea with the ship, Xia De didn't need to expose this point.

The story this time is not difficult, and not even dangerous, but it is full of doubts and extremely complicated.

Of course, Xia De is not worried that he is also in a soul state now. "She" can monitor Xia De's physical state in real time, and the Tree Father let Xia De come to the past time just to witness the story and provide some help to the people of the past, not to let Xia De face danger.

"Fishing? Thank you, sir, it's up to you here."

The purple-haired maid whispered, moving her lips. Xia De then took the opportunity to make a request:

"Using your items for fishing requires passing some tests similar to illusions. Professor, Miss Maxim, Miss Malone, please think carefully about what wishes and desires you have had in the past. I don't know if you saw it just now, the wishes of the past fished up need to be satisfied. I am not very knowledgeable, I don't know what kind of past and entanglement you all have. In fact, I will leave here soon. If you have any difficulties, I can go outside to find a way to solve them."

"Who exactly are you?"

Professor Sarah Evans finally asked the question that had been held in her heart. And Miss Theresa, who had just woken up, held Xia De's shoulder and answered this question for Xia De:

"Xia De is the person chosen by His Majesty Violet, and the person closest to His Majesty."

She pinched Xia De's hand lightly. Except for Xia De, she also understood the current situation and knew that the three "partners" were not completely real. There were too many things she didn't want to recall in the dreams of the deep sea, but the dreams related to childhood, girlhood, and the conversation a few days ago were like nails, firmly stabilizing her spirit.

"My time is running out."

Xia De said:

"I only have one question now, why does this god want to help you?"

He turned his head and looked at the god who started fishing again. The god didn't use the remaining three baits, and he didn't know if he could really fish anything up with an empty hook:

"Have you had any connection with this great one?"

"When I was little, I probably prayed to this god."

Miss Theresa said in a low voice, and the other three also gave similar answers. The maid Miss Maxim even clearly remembered that she heard the legend of this god from her grandmother, and once naively thought that as long as she prayed devoutly, she could get a tree growing candy.

"Candy tree? This condition is easy to achieve."

Xia De said. The miracle 【Candy Making】 can turn any object that Xia De considers food into candy. Although he doesn't eat trees, he can make the fruits on the fruit trees that grow apples turn into apple candy.

He took out his notebook and let Miss Theresa, whose body temperature was returning to normal, replace him to collect the wishes that each of the remaining three souls wrote down about their childhood and girlhood, as well as the few regrets left behind. He was originally worried about whether the normal Miss Theresa would still be willing to stay with the three abnormal "partners," but he seemed to have underestimated the Eleventh-level witch of this era.

Xia De took advantage of the last moment and returned to the god who was fishing.

The god didn't look at him, and had been staring at the pitch-black sea.

Sitting on the edge of the floating board undulating in the ocean fishing, with his back to the souls waiting for redemption, even if the god's current appearance is a child, this scene is still extremely shocking.

"God, I want to seek answers from you."

"Of course, I am very happy to satisfy the wishes of a child."

Xia De adjusted his mood:

"How can they leave here? Since you are willing to give them a chance to live again, are you also willing to generously let them return to the normal world?"

"This is very simple, didn't you tell them yourself? Find the truth of the ship's sinking, and they can naturally continue their lives. Children can't lie, and they must do what they say."

The god looked at the sea and smiled:

"Of course, if you can really help them discover the truth, I can also give you a gift. The Creator of Innocence is so generous to you, of course I can't be stingy."

"Thank you for your generosity."

Xia De thanked softly:

"When I fished Miss Schluch Lake Theresa just now, I saw her last call with Miss Violet. Could it be that the four of them actually knew some key information before the accident, but couldn't piece together the truth?"

He asked tentatively, and the god smiled without saying a word.

"Also, why did you save them here?"

Xia De thought the god would say "for their wishes," but the god still smiled without saying a word. For some reason, he suddenly thought of the sentence "children can't lie" that the god said just now, so he nodded slightly to show he understood.

The time for this is about to end, so he thanked the god again, and then turned back to the bonfire.

Living people need to eat, so he left enough food, water, and other supplies, and then emphasized again the "task" of finding the truth of the ship's sinking. The task given to Xia De by the Tree Father did not include this, but sending people who can live out of the strange place is also something Xia De has been doing.

The three fake bodies had different expressions, and he didn't know what they were all thinking. It's just that it's too late to ask this time. Xia De took back his notebook and looked at the wishes that each person wrote down about their childhood and girlhood, as well as the few regrets left behind:

"No problem, I will find a way to solve it. Miss Theresa, you must be careful here, absolutely don't enter the seawater again."

He emphasized to the only living person other than him. Such a separate emphasis was not afraid of the other three being suspicious. After all, they looked very intimate from the beginning. The young golden-haired girl nodded. Although she didn't want to let the only reliance now leave, she knew this was something she couldn't stop. Miss Violet said that she would eventually become a great witch independently:

"Come back early, I'll wait for you here."

She hugged Xia De gently. Although there were many things she wanted to say in her heart, she couldn't speak. So, she kissed Xia De lightly. The shallow kiss with the taste of seawater tasted really novel.

Touching his lips, he put the blanket on her again, and Xia De waved goodbye:

"Then everyone, see you next time. Please be sure to believe that you are still alive, only in this way can you be saved."

The three souls also said goodbye to Xia De, and at the same time, white fog that these ladies couldn't see had emerged around Xia De.

He prepared to return to the time of the Sixth Era, but at the last moment, he heard the low whisper of the god who was fishing with his back to the crowd:

"Perhaps, you are very interested in what is in the water."

So, in the process of the white fog gradually becoming thick, Xia De walked quickly to the edge of the floating board for the last time. The seawater, which was completely impenetrable, was probably illuminated a lot because of the glowing white fog.

So, before the white fog completely wrapped Xia De and the outsider completely left this time point, he saw the scene under the water surface of the Sea of No Light for the first time.

At the bottom of the deep sea, countless corpses with only white eyes left were densely intertwined. Suspended in the water, everyone stretched out their arms wanting to touch the water surface. The unconscious trembling of the corpses in the sea without light was like thousands of worms trembling.

There were countless sundries whose specific appearance could not be seen clearly floating between the corpses, and the slightly glowing fishhook of the god floated between the corpses and the sundries, but no corpse or object touched it.

"Just now, I threw the fishhook between this group of things?"

At the moment of astonishment, those corpses actually seemed to want to jump out of the water, frantically surging toward Xia De who was watching them. But the next moment Xia De disappeared, so there was only an undercurrent under the water that pushed those corpses.

By the fire, the three ladies looked at the flames. Miss Schluch Lake Theresa pursed her lips and quietly observed them, and then wiped her lips with her fingers.

Professor Evans looked dazed, as if she was afraid of something; the purple-haired maid Miss Maxim hid her left hand in the blanket as if holding something, and frost began to appear on her face again; the ordinary girl Miss Malone moved her lips, as if she had been chanting someone's name, and her eyes looking at the fire were clearly hollow and godless.

Everyone has their own secrets, and their appearance here is by no means a coincidence. ===== CHAPTER 2010 =====

Everyone has their own secrets; it is by no means a coincidence that they appeared here.