Chapter 3333

"The task is to read the newspaper for two consecutive days; this is easy."

Xia De said and showed a smile; Luweiya knew at a glance that Xia De thought his "good luck" had been ended by "bad luck," so "good luck" would soon come again.

The girls went to work separately, and before Xia De set off for the snow mountain, he went to the academy first to inform Dannister that he would come to pick up Emilia to go to the island tomorrow:

"Let Emilia concentrate on preparing for her coronation ceremony; we can't always occupy her time."

Xia De could imagine the disappointed look of the pointed-eared girl without saying it, but he really didn't want to keep delaying Emilia's classes and homework.

Considering that if there was time today, he would go to see the spring mentioned by the elders, Xia De brought Little Mia to Fatumunster Island. Claire knew that Xia De was going to the ice and snow castle again today, so she did not specially wait for him in the Snow Mountain Hall.

Xia De greeted Elder Harald, and then entered the snow mountain with Ai Li.

Xia De could not understand the unicorn's words, but the unicorn could understand Xia De's words. Like last week, it took Xia De to wander around in the cedar forest, and it was not until ten o'clock in the morning that it found the cave on the rock wall with him. And after passing through the cave, they entered the unobservable area of the snow mountain again.

The exit of this cave was a bit different from the last time, and Xia De did not recognize the location until he saw the narrow canyon entrance.

And after entering the canyon, he unexpectedly discovered that although the large ice sheet covering the sky of the canyon was hit with several large holes last Friday, the ice sheet was now intact.

The sunlight was scattered into colorful rays and sprinkled onto the canyon under the ice sheet, and at the same time, it also made the castle building complex at the end of the canyon look even more beautiful. There were still dense ice sculptures standing in front of the castle, but this time these ice sculptures were really just ice sculptures.

Ai Li knew that the demon had been beaten away, so this "going home" was even more lively than the last time. After entering the canyon, it threw off Xia De and ran happily in the snow in front of the castle.

Xia De actually hoped that Little Mia could also have this kind of liveliness, but it was a pity that after the cat let out a few threatening calls at Ai Li before climbing the mountain, it directly drilled into his pocket; it was not willing to run around in the snow.

When Xia De passed through the canyon and walked towards the castle, he did not forget to look at the sky in front of the castle. That black iron-colored spiritual light had disappeared; although if one felt carefully, one could still perceive very weak whispers of elements scattered all over the canyon, but this level of whispers of elements was already quite slight.

It seems that the castle maid has successfully handled that big trouble.

When Xia De arrived in front of the castle, Ai Li had already dashed into the castle. And the ice maid, who had just been thought of by Xia De, was already standing at the very top of the steps in front of the castle gate waiting for him.

Her attire was no different from last week, and when Xia De was climbing the stairs, she even bent down and bowed to express welcome:

"Please follow me."

Last time, they passed directly through the gate, and today the castle was still closed. After passing through the ice layer directly like last time, the temperature in the castle was actually about the same as outside, far less cold than when Xia De and Miss Sabel came last Friday.

It seems that the low temperature they experienced in the castle last Friday was also part of the test.

The maid led Xia De all the way to the fourth floor, and the room they finally entered was the reception room where Emilia and Ai Li waited for him to complete the test last time.

The maid asked Xia De to wait here for a while, and then she went to prepare tea. When she returned five minutes later, Ai Li had also arrived in the room, and was now obediently lying beside Xia De, who was sitting on the sofa, eating an apple.

"Is it my illusion? This child looks a bit fatter than half a week ago."

The maid asked when she placed the tea tray on the coffee table, Ai Li ignored her at all, and Xia De wanted to laugh a little:

"Ai Li was originally a bit malnourished, and still belongs to a thin body type... Although this looks like black tea, I want to confirm, is this really black tea?"

He pointed to the coffee table, and the maid said respectfully:

"Yes, this is black tea specially used to entertain you, it was left by Her Majesty before she left back then."

"Then let's not beat around the bush—where is Chloe?"

Xia De picked up the teacup, and the maid did not sit down, but stood opposite the coffee table, which looked like Xia De was interrogating her:

"For you, Her Majesty is of course in the past space-time. I know what you are guessing, but I'm sorry, Her Majesty is not here."

The taste of the black tea was unexpectedly quite good, and Xia De was not disappointed either:

"Then can you tell me now? Why did Chloe leave this castle on this island? I have already contacted the remnant left by Chloe on the snow mountain, I know she had long known that I would appear on this island in the Sixth Era."

But the maid shook her head slightly:

"This..."

"Interrupting a little, sorry, I have always forgotten to ask—may I ask what your name is? What should I use to address you later?"

Xia De asked again at this time, and a look of surprise appeared on the ice maid's face, but soon the expression on her face turned into a smile:

"You can call me 'Winnie'. I am not a pure elemental life, but a combination of the castle's own consciousness and elemental life."

"Winnie" is a very ordinary name.

"Sit down and talk, I'm not used to someone standing and talking to me."

Xia De made a request again, but just like Tifa, a professional maid would refuse even in the face of the master's excessive opinions:

"I want to correct one thing for you; although Her Majesty guessed that you might appear on this island, this castle was not specially prepared for you. If Her Majesty wanted to leave something for you and you would definitely be able to receive it, then you should have already obtained many gifts from Her Majesty.

Time has rules; things specially left for you actually cannot be left behind."

Xia De also understood this truth, otherwise, Miss Violet and Theresa, who lived at the end of the Fifth Era, should not have sent only Miss Eilais.

"So what exactly is this place?"

"This is just one of Her Majesty's laboratories. Although it looks like a castle, it is actually far from the real castles used by demigod great witches."

"Laboratory?"

Xia De glanced at Ai Li who was gnawing on an apple:

"Can you reveal what experiment Chloe is doing?"

"Of course. Her Majesty wanted to study the power of freezing time along with living life after freezing it. In this way, when the freezing is lifted, no matter how much time has passed outside, for the frozen object, it is just an instant. This is actually time jumping.

This research was launched in multiple laboratories at the same time; the initial test objects were plants, then expanded to small animals such as ants, and finally to medium-sized animals such as goats, until it involved alien life with extraordinary power."

She stood opposite the coffee table and introduced to Xia De with an elegant posture:

"I have not been to Her Majesty's other laboratories, but during the heyday of this laboratory, ice crystals of all sizes almost filled all floors except the fifth floor, and experimental records piled up like mountains in the study you visited last time.

This castle can ensure that ordinary people will not be in danger of life within fifty years of being frozen, which is also based on the research results of this experiment."

Although the maid only introduced the research content, Xia De had already thought of Chloe's purpose. She wanted to rely on this method of freezing her own time so that she could come to the Sixth Era.

"So did Chloe succeed?"

The maid shook her head gently with regret:

"The experimental results were very unsatisfactory; for ordinary life, even if the body can be frozen by time, the soul of a mortal without extraordinary power will still rot in the scouring of time. And for life with extraordinary power, freezing its time is even more difficult.

Before this laboratory was abandoned, after time-accelerated tests, Her Majesty could finally only stably freeze the time of a living body for 500 years, and it could only be used once for the same life."

"Then what is the situation with Ai Li?"

The unicorn, who was happily eating an apple, heard its name being called, raised its head and looked at Xia De with its azure blue eyes, and seeing that Xia De had nothing to do, it concentrated on continuing to eat the apple.

Xia De felt that its recent weight gain mainly relied not on Emilia's supplements but on these apples.

"You must have prepared potions, and also tried making alchemical props. Sometimes, perhaps in a flash of inspiration, destiny will generously lift its skirt for you, letting you complete the production that you could not complete originally.

Ai Li belongs to this situation; perhaps Her Majesty welcomed good luck, or perhaps Ai Li possesses some trait that cannot be replicated. The unicorns that conducted experiments in the same batch as it were mostly forced to recover from the frozen state after about 300 years of time acceleration, otherwise it would damage their souls.

Only Ai Li's time freezing successfully exceeded 500 years, and afterwards Her Majesty confirmed that her frozen state could be maintained until the Sixth Era, so she left her in the depths of the castle as the only achievement here."

The expression she looked at Ai Li with was also a bit affectionate:

"This child is favored by destiny; although I don't know the results of similar experiments conducted in Her Majesty's other laboratories, it is probably the only achievement. Unfortunately, this achievement cannot be replicated and promoted, so this achievement has no value to Her Majesty."

Xia De reached out and touched Ai Li's back gently, and then touched Little Mia who had shrunk into his arms because she disliked the cold too much. He didn't understand Chloe's research, but he could imagine the silver-haired short girl living at the beginning of the Fifth Era making various attempts in order to be able to truly live with him.

Sighing gently, thinking about hugging her well next time he saw Chloe, and then asked:

"But why doesn't Ai Li remember this matter?"

The maid's answer was still fluent:

"Although it is a miracle that she was successfully frozen in time and came to the current era, miracles also have a price. Currently, it seems that it is just that the memory before being frozen is blurred; this price is really small, and in my opinion, it doesn't even count as a price."

While speaking, she and Xia De watched Ai Li eat together. After the conversation paused for more than ten seconds, she spoke again:

"Although Her Majesty did not hope that you would definitely arrive here, since destiny actively led you to meet Ai Li, and Ai Li brought you here, then please take care of it in the future, or let it live with the modern unicorn population.

This child was far away from all relatives and friends because of Her Majesty's experiment; miraculous destiny is a double-edged sword for it, and its mission ended long ago. Of course, the most critical thing is... there are no apple trees in this castle."