After finishing her day's work, Talia returned to the dormitory without even thinking about eating.
She quickly took out the notebook that Nafie had given her, and immediately began to try according to the string of numbers—soon, she found that the three numbers in each paragraph represented the "page number", "line number" and the "vocabulary number" respectively. ", so Talia successfully deciphered the content of this note.
Only now did she understand why she felt that there were many "penal errors" in this note, because after "deciphering" these uncommon words that seemed unreasonable, they were actually disassembled and reassembled into new sentences!
"The world... is illusory, someone wants to control you... escape."
She silently read this sentence, frowning tightly.
Talia was really puzzled at this moment. If Nafie had warned herself about other things, she would have accepted it, but did the phrase "the world is illusory" be literal, or... a metaphor
Putting the note away, she remembered that she hadn't eaten today, so she walked towards the "canteen" in the magic tower with full of doubts. What is different from usual is that Talia involuntarily began to observe the surroundings and other "members" in the magic tower today.
Everything seemed normal, and the content of their chat was also related to magic. Talia listened to it for a long time, but she didn't find anything unusual, and she finished her meal inwardly.
But that night, she didn't sleep well.
The next day, Talia started working in the laboratory as usual, but Talia accidentally discovered that the people on the lower floor of the magic tower seemed to be doing repetitive work all the time—the ground that had just been wiped, the ground that she passed by. Time to wipe it again.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, and didn't step forward to ask anything, but lived as usual.
After getting up every morning, Talia kept busy in the magic tower as usual, but at night, she often stood in front of the window of the magic tower for a long time. At the same time these days, she would always take advantage of the short breaks to hang out in the square market, looking around, as if she was interested in everything.
In this way, when time passed and half a month passed, Talia never showed a smiling face again.
When the "rest day" came, Talia put on her gray mage robe, walked straight through the market with her notebook in her hand, and knocked on Nephi's door.
The latter opened the door, still in the same posture as when he saw Talia last time, and asked a little strangely after the greeting: "You seem to be in a bad mood? Did something happen?"
"That... let's go in and talk about it."
Talia's posture was a bit abnormal, and she didn't smile. Naifei asked her to enter the room and sit down, but before she could speak, Talia took out the note with numbers on it: "Do you still have any memory of this?"
"What's this?"
Naifei looked strange, took it over and looked at it, and frowned: "Number? What do you mean?"
Talia kept staring at her face, her hands twisted together nervously under her robe. Seeing that Nefei didn't know about it at all, she seemed to confirm a certain idea in her heart, and suddenly said, "You gave this to me."
"Huh? When did I give it to you?"
Nefei was stunned, and then asked back: "This word doesn't look like I wrote it, and... what does this number mean? Could it be a mistake?"
But Talia got up slowly, raised her finger and pointed out the window: "There will be a carriage passing over there soon. The driver is wearing yellow clothes and a straw hat."
"ha?"
Nefer turned her head and looked out the window, only to see that there was indeed a carriage slowly passing by as she said.
"The peasant woman over there is talking about her husband falling into the ditch every day. For so many days, what she said has hardly changed. The same... Although some of the people in the magic tower are doing things, some of them are the same It is something that is repeated while sitting, some in two days, some in three days..."
Talia narrowed her eyes: "I feel that many people in this world are actually fake, and only a few are thoughtful existences. Now I suspect that someone deliberately pushed me into this magic tower. I There must be some strange content in the things you learn, otherwise no one would have made such deliberate arrangements..."
"how could be?"
Nafi still couldn't believe it, but Talia said loudly: "You must know something! Otherwise, you wouldn't use this method to tell me that there must be problems in this world! You have problems too, but you are the only one Someone who might wake up! Answer me, Nephi! What's going on!"
As Talia was talking, she suddenly realized something was wrong. She suddenly looked out the window and found that the bustling streets were suddenly empty!
This weird scene made Talia's scalp tingle instantly, because she saw that the carriage that drove past just now was now swaying on the ground, and even the horse and the driver disappeared.
Turning her gaze back, Naifei also looked outside with wide-eyed eyes. Before she could speak, a magic circle in the room rang quickly. Talia knew that this meant a warning, and she immediately prepared to fight, but the gate was still open When she opened it, she felt a "hum" in her brain, and her whole body began to fall sideways uncontrollably.
And Nai Fei seems to have encountered the same thing, she lost focus and leaned on the back of the chair behind her, but in the next moment she turned into the strange appearance that Talia had seen before—she rushed desperately He came over and grabbed Naifei, put his mouth almost close to her ear, and hurriedly said: "Don't forget! Never forget! They will clean your memory! Don't be controlled! Don't—"
Before she finished speaking, the door was slammed open, and sawdust splattered on Talia's face. She saw many tall figures rushing into the room, and tried to focus on the leader. As a result, another violent mental shock hit her, she rolled her eyes and passed out completely...
"The plan is terminated!"
Krups' face was not very good-looking, but he quickly remembered something, and asked Nai Fei, who was still supporting Talia, "Don't tell me...is this part of the plan?"
The Crystal Dragon Lord remembered what Rody had said. He believed that these small actions by Naifei were intentional, so he quickly calmed down from his previous anxiety: "I'm afraid this will make her always have doubts in her heart." Right? Then the second stage..."
Krups suddenly stopped because he thought of a possibility.
Looking up to the other side, Rody and Camilla had already walked in through the rear portal at this time, looked down at Talia who was unconscious, and he pulled Naifei up: "Good job!"
Then Rody said to the Crystal Dragon Lord: "In order to make the plan less flawed, I used this arrangement... Now everything is going well, I declare—the first stage successfully completed the goal!"
But the dragons in the room were all confused. They thought the plan had failed, and their faces were full of anxiety, while Krups smiled wryly and stroked his beard, but shook his head and said, "I said you Why did you specifically emphasize it to me before, you should have expected this scene..."
After a pause, he asked with some unfinished business: "Speaking of it—how did you come up with such an idea?"