Soon, the night passed, the night faded, and dawn fell.
The red glow of the eastern firefly penetrates the white mist and shines from the horizon.
"Da da da… "
The sound of horse hooves sounded, and according to his memory, Richard rode to the town where he had stayed overnight.
But all that existed in front of him was a ruin - a dilapidated, deserted town, completely different from what he saw at first.
Riding a horse into the town, Richard tried hard to compare what he saw in his memory with what he saw now. He could find many similarities, such as the direction of the streets, the location of some buildings, the open space in the middle of the town, etc. But more is different.
According to his memory, he walked to the location of the hotel where he stayed for the night, and found that the hotel did exist, and he also found traces of his stay in the dilapidated rooms inside the hotel.
Everything in front of him clearly showed that the place where he stayed for a night was this shabby town. It was just a misunderstanding caused by some kind of influence.
Is it an illusion
But how can a fantasy achieve this level? How can it be made so huge, so real, and not easily noticed
According to his understanding, the illusion created by mental illusion spells has very high requirements on the caster. In order to avoid problems in the illusion, spellcasters always make the illusion as simple as possible. Even so, it is often seen through. Back in the private library of the King of the Black Holy Mountain Kingdom, it was because of the details of the echo that he saw through the illusion of the old man in yellow.
But in all the scenes he experienced in the past few days, he found no problems. If he hadn't gone back and took a look, he might never know the truth.
If this was indeed caused by an illusion, it would be simply terrifying.
So the question is, when did this situation start
When did his experiences and memories become unreal
In other words, is everything he sees now really the 100% real world? Or are you still in an extremely real illusion
Or even more terrifying, maybe he has not left the private library of the King of the Black Holy Mountain Kingdom at all, and is still standing in front of the bookshelf - after seeing through the first layer of the illusion of the old man in yellow robe, he was immediately dragged in by the old man in yellow robe. He couldn't extricate himself from the second level of illusion. All the experiences he had when he left the Black Holy Mountain Kingdom and everyone he met were just wrong signals in his brain!
can you
There is a way to figure this out.
The next moment, Richard took out the space suitcase from the space iron ring, placed it on the ground, opened it, and quickly shouted: "Pandora!"
"Huh?" Pandora walked out of the suitcase. Because she had made up for her previous mistakes, she was working with her head down and looked busy.
A ball of iron the size of a finger is held in the hand, and the flames cover it, causing the iron to quickly deform into a standard ring and then cool.
After the cooling was over, Pandora looked at the iron ring, flicked the iron ring extremely carefully, heard a crisp echo, nodded with satisfaction, and skillfully threw the iron ring into her left pocket.
After doing this, Pandora took out another finger-sized piece of iron from her right pocket, held it in her hand, then looked up at Richard and asked: "Richard, what are you calling me for? Come on, tell me. , I still have more than 500 parts to finish.”
Richard glanced at Pandora, raised his eyebrows, and said: "Don't rush the parts processing, you can put it aside for a while. What I want you to do now is to recite the multiplication table for me. "
"Huh?" Pandora's eyes widened instantly, the iron block in her hand was crushed with a "click", and she shouted, "Many days ago, I... didn't I already memorize the nine-nine multiplication for you completely? Did you recite it? I have already passed the test! Why... why do you have to memorize it again? You... you can't do this!"
"What?!" Richard frowned slightly and said, "Did you forget it after memorizing it last time?"
"How could it be!" Pandora's eyes widened and she categorically denied, "I remember it very firmly."
"Okay then, let's memorize it again."
"I-" Pandora had no choice but to pouted and reluctantly carried it on her back.
"One for one gets one."
"One two makes two, two two makes four."
"One three makes three, two three makes six..."
"One four is four, two four is eight..."
At the beginning, Pandora recited it relatively fluently. After all, practice makes perfect. But after memorizing the four-character form, the old problem started to happen - I started to stumble. It took a lot of effort to pass the five-character form, and the following six-character form, seven-character form, and eight-character form were even more difficult. reluctantly.
Finally, when it came to the nine-character table, Pandora took a deep breath, as if mustering up great courage, and then started to recite.
"One nine makes nine, two nine and eighteen, three nine... gah!"
The result was no surprise at all. Pandora got stuck after carrying it halfway. His eyes moved rapidly in his eye sockets, but he couldn't figure out the outcome. With a somewhat anxious tone, he repeatedly said: "Three-nine... Three-nine... Three-nine... "
Finally looking at Richard, Pandora said tentatively: "Thirty-nine...twenty-one?"
"Snapped!"
Richard's slap immediately fell on Pandora's head, and Pandora said: "I...did I carry it wrong?"
"Of course it's wrong, three-nine-twenty-seven, not twenty-one!" Richard replied, "But from another aspect, you performed very well. Because if you memorize it wrong, it is your true level and your ability." The real you. If you really recited it from beginning to end, word for word, I would doubt whether it is true."
"Huh?" Pandora looked confused.
"Okay, you go back to Eden to continue processing parts. I will tell you the reason then." Richard said.
"Oh, okay." Pandora turned around, not curious at all, and quickly got into the suitcase, fearing that she would be left behind to recite the ninety-nine watch again.
But just as she was about to enter the suitcase, Pandora seemed to feel something. She stopped, turned her head, looked at Richard, blinked her eyes and said, "Richard, did you lose something?"
"Huh? Throwing something?" Richard was stunned, "Why do you say that?"
"I..." Pandora tilted her head and scratched her hair and said, "No reason, it's just that you don't seem happy, it makes me feel like you have lost something, and what you lost is still very important. If it is true If that’s the case, then I think you can go look for it over there!”
As she spoke, Pandora pointed toward the outside of the ruined town: "It should be a day's journey away, but don't blame me if you can't find it. I just guessed based on my feelings."
After speaking, Pandora stuck out her tongue and quickly got into the Garden of Eden.
Richard raised his eyebrows slightly and looked in the direction Pandora pointed, thinking about everything. After a while, he quickly put away his suitcase, mounted his horse, and left the town with great ease, heading in the direction pointed by Pandora.
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