After a few seconds, Lumian looked into Aurore's eyes and spoke slowly:
"How many days until Lent?"
He suspected that his sister was playing a prank on him, but over the years, he had never seen his sister act frivolously about important matters, and the current situation was a critical moment involving the survival and destruction of the entire village, including himself and his siblings.
Aurore looked her brother up and down.
"You just took a nap, are you sleepy
"Today is March 29, 1358. It's still a few days until Lent."
March 29th... Lumian chewed on the date and suddenly felt like he was dreaming.
He had clearly experienced the Lent celebration that started out joyful but ended in blood, and had clearly seen Ava’s head being chopped off by the shepherd Pierre Berry with an axe, with blood spurting into the air…
Was she dreaming now, or was she dreaming before? No matter which one it was, it was too real, wasn't it? Lumian couldn't find any trace of lying on her sister's face.
Of course, this could also be explained by Aurore's excellent acting skills, but Lumian believed that Aurore was definitely not such a person.
During these five years of getting along, there were countless details. It was impossible for him to lie about what kind of person his sister was!
There are only two possibilities for Aurore to have lied to him about the date:
One is that she was controlled by the parish priest or someone in secret;
Second, the matter had been resolved perfectly, so she was in the mood to joke and play pranks.
If neither of these two possibilities is true, then there is a high probability that what she said is true:
Time really went back to March 29th, several days before Lent.
According to Lumian's common sense, this was obviously impossible and should not appear in the real world, but his sister's attitude made him confused.
I have to find a way to confirm it... Lumian tried his best to recall his experiences during this period and found that he could still remember most of the details. For example, on March 29, the day when the Lenten celebration had been "successfully" held, Aurore was indeed wearing this light blue dress. That night, he also met three strangers, Leah, Ryan, and Valentine, and took them to the church to catch the parish priest committing adultery.
"What's wrong?" Auror stretched out her right hand and waved it in front of her brother who was stunned.
Lumian came back to his senses and said hurriedly:
"Aurore, I suddenly thought of something and I have to go out for a while.
"Be back soon!"
The best way to confirm whether time has really gone back to March 29th is to find Ava!
If she were still alive, Lumian would have to seriously consider whether to accept this incredible change.
Without waiting for Aurore's response, Lumian bypassed her and hurried to the door.
"Call me sister! Don't miss dinner!" Auror raised her voice and reminded.
After leaving his own house, Lumian ran madly towards Ava Lizier's house, fearing that if he was a second slower, he would be caught up by the unspeakable nightmare and completely swallowed up.
Along the way, he attracted the attention of many villagers, but no one stopped him or asked the reason. They were afraid that this was a prank he had staged and was waiting for them to fall for it.
Finally, Lumian arrived at his destination.
Ava's father, Guillaume Lizier, is a famous shoemaker in the village of Cordou and the mountainous area. His family is not well off but not bad either. The house they live in is also a semi-underground two-story gray-blue building with an open space at the back where grass and firewood are piled and a goose house is built.
At this time, it was almost dinner time, and there were several figures busy in the kitchen of Lizier's house.
Lumian walked straight in through the open door and saw Ava at a glance.
The brown-haired girl with aqua blue eyes was wearing a gray-white dress and was helping her mother prepare dinner. Her hands and feet were nimble and her eyes were bright, and she looked like a living person at first glance.
She really wasn't dead... Lumian subconsciously looked at Ava's neck, trying to find the stitches.
In one of Aurore's horror novels, body parts were sewn together to pass for living people.
However, Ava's neck was long and smooth, without even a scar.
"Lumian, what's the matter?" Guillaume Lizier, the shoemaker, who was sitting on a chair in the kitchen, noticed the uninvited guest.
His brown hair was disheveled, and he wore a slightly greasy brown and white apron hanging in front of him. He stood up slowly and walked towards Lumian.
Hearing her father's call, Ava stopped what she was doing, turned around in surprise and looked towards the door.
She then saw Lumian standing there stunned and bewildered.
"What's the matter?" she asked.
Lumian snapped back to his senses and tried to make up an excuse.
But the shoemaker Guillaume Lizier who came by gave him an instant inspiration.
He considered it for a moment and said:
"Uncle Guillaume, did Pierre of Berry order a pair of shoes from you?"
Lumian remembered clearly that he and Raymond "would" meet the shepherd Pierre Berry tomorrow morning, and would be surprised that he would ignore his flock and the danger and hardship of the long journey and rush back to participate in the Lenten celebration.
At that time, Pierre Berry had put on a pair of brand new, soft leather shoes.
Unless you go to the ready-made shoe store in Darriege to buy them, it takes time to make a pair of leather shoes, which means that Pierre Berry has been back in the village for at least two or three days!
"How did you know?" Guillaume Lizier was quite surprised. "Pierre Berry came back a few days ago, but few people in the village knew about it. He also asked me not to tell anyone else."
As expected... Lumian made up a reason:
“I saw a guy who looked like him and thought I was hallucinating.
"Because that person is wearing new leather shoes, I came to you to confirm."
"It was him," Guillaume Lizier replied affirmatively. "He was herding three or four sheep at the time, and he said they were given to him by his employer."
Aren't the sheep allowed back to the village for shearing and milking in early May? How can we herd the sheep now? The highland pastures are still in the grazing ban period... The more Lumian thought about it, the more he felt that the shepherd Pierre Berry's behavior was extremely abnormal.
And his performance at the end of the celebration proved Lumian's judgment.
But Lumian had no idea what he and the parish priest were trying to do or what they had done.
Thinking of this, Lumian smiled at Guillaume Lizier and Ava:
"I feel relieved if it's really him. I thought I had problems with my brain and eyes because of drinking so much."
He then waved to the Lizier family and said:
"goodbye."
After leaving Lizier's house, the smile on Lumian's face quickly faded.
He is now very confident that today is indeed March 29th.
Did time go back, or did I have a precognitive dream? Dreams can't be so real, so real that every detail is there... Lumian tried his best to think as he walked.
Whether it was time travel or precognitive dreams, he learned about them from Aurore's novels and had never thought that this would happen in reality.
On the way home, Lumian went around to the square and came to the side of the "Eternal Sun" Church.
The stained glass window that should have been completely shattered with the window frame flying away was now intactly embedded in the wall, and the image of Saint Six's missionary work depicted on the surface shone brightly under the glow of the setting sun.
Lumian watched this scene with extremely complicated emotions, and felt that the various thoughts in his mind were rubbing against each other to the point that white smoke was about to come out.
On his way back to the square, he saw a familiar figure coming out of the church's main entrance.
He was the parish priest Guillaume Bennet, who had a slightly hooked nose, a dignified temperament, and was wearing a white robe with gold thread.
Lumian's heart tightened, his legs slightly parted, and his body slightly arched.
This is both a preparation for launching an attack and a precursor to a mad escape.
Guillaume Bene glanced at him and nodded expressionlessly:
"Pray again tomorrow."
Uh... yes, on the evening of March 29, he had not been caught cheating by me and my men, and we had not fallen out yet, and there was no worry that his secret plot would be exposed... Thinking of this, Lumian reacted instinctively.
He stood up straight, opened his arms and said:
"Praise the sun!"
"Praise the sun!" Guillaume Bennet responded with the same gesture.
After leaving the village square, Lumian habitually recalled what had just happened.
Suddenly, he discovered a point that he had previously overlooked because he was shocked by the "reversal of time".
His extraordinary abilities are still there!
He is still a "hunter"!
Whether it was the fact that he ran to Lizier's house without even taking a breath, or his reaction of immediately putting on his best attitude when facing the parish priest, both showed that his physical fitness and corresponding state were far better than before he took the potion!
Lumian made a conclusion based on this:
The previous experience was not a precognitive dream!
He is already a Sequence 9 Beyonder!
Try to enter that special dream at night and see if you can still enter it and if there are any changes... Lumian quickly came up with a plan for the next step.
When he got home, he pretended nothing had happened and had dinner with his sister Aurora.
Because his younger brother often got into trouble and didn't want her to help clean up the mess every time, he behaved like this from time to time, so Aurore saw it but didn't ask any questions.
After washing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen, Lumian said hello to his sister and headed straight for the old tavern.
He wanted to confirm whether the outsiders who did not belong to Koldu Village would show up.
After entering the old tavern, Lumian sat at the bar and greeted the owner and bartender Maurice Bennet, the thin middle-aged man Pierre Guillaume and others.
"A glass of sour wine," he said familiarly.
Sour beer refers to a low-quality apple wine that is only more expensive than some beers in pubs and is often sold on the streets of cities.
"You mean boy, don't you really like the painful feeling of absinthe?" Maurice Bennet muttered.
"Will you buy me a drink?" Lumian said in familiar words.
This gave him a trance-like feeling.
Maurice Bennet immediately stopped talking, poured a glass of sour wine and pushed it to Lumian.
Lumian sipped his wine while waiting.
Soon, he heard a tinkling sound.
He turned around and saw Ryan, wearing a simple dark bowler hat, a brown tweed jacket and light yellow trousers.
The one who attracted the attention of almost all the men in the old tavern was Leah. She was wearing a white pleatless cashmere tight skirt with a beige jacket and Marseille boots. There were two small silver bells tied on the boots and the veil that served as a headscarf.
Likewise, Valentine wore a white waistcoat, a blue tweed jacket, and black trousers, with his blond hair dusted with powder.
The three of them walked to the bar under everyone's gaze and sat down next to Lumian.
A glass of Darriege red wine, a glass of rye beer, and a glass of "Spicy Heart"... Lumian said silently in his heart without looking up.
Ryan took off his hat and put it aside, then said to Morris Bennet:
"A glass of Darriege red wine, a glass of rye beer, and a glass of 'Spicy Heart'."
Hearing this, Lumian let out a long, drawn-out sigh.
"What's wrong?" Ryan turned his head and looked at him.
He took a sip of sour wine and said in a low voice:
"I am a loser who hardly notices whether the sun is shining or not, because I don't have the time..."