Kamel came to Gawain's study, but he didn't see Gawain's figure, only the little maid who looked dazed was waiting for him in the study.
"Mr. Kamel," Betty saw Kamel open the door and floated in, and immediately came forward with a large teapot in his hand, "The master left for a while, he said he would be back soon, and asked you to wait here for a while. "
After thinking and settling all the way, Kamel's mood has calmed down, and he was a little glad to hear Betty's words - before Gao Wen came back, he could spend a few more minutes to adjust his mood and sort out his discoveries .
"Did he say where he went?" Kamel randomly found a place to rest in the corner of the study, and asked casually at the same time.
"Master went to the laboratory, he said that there is a place on the drawing that is not sure yet, and he needs to test again... um..." Betty tried hard to recall what he heard from Gao Wen, "Test the 'data'! That word That's what it said."
"Data? Drawings?" Carmelton suddenly became curious, "What is it about?"
Betty thought about it carefully, raised her head and raised her chest: "Forget it!"
Kamel was silent—forgot, not ignorance, which meant that Gawain must have told the little maid about other things, but she obviously didn't remember... But this is not surprising.
Kamel knew Betty. Although this little girl was only a maid, she was said to have followed the lord through life and death, and was extremely trusted and loved by the lord's family. You could always see this little girl running around in the lord's mansion. , Sometimes she would learn to write from the lord in the study. Of course such a special little girl would impress Kamel deeply.
So Kamel knows Betty, not only knows her, but also knows some things about this little girl, such as knowing that she is a bit dull, knowing that she likes to write, knowing that she always forgets things that are not easy for her to understand... Frankly speaking, Kamel also couldn't understand how such an unreliable maid became the head maid who took care of the entire lord's mansion, and was able to command several servants here...
It can only be said that the amiable lord is too lenient towards the servants in the mansion—but Kamel does not intend to comment on this, he is just a researcher, and is rarely interested in anything other than academic issues .
While waiting, he began to study a map hanging on the wall of his study, which seemed to be a topographic map of a rather vast area around the territory. Betty stood beside her, holding a large teapot and looking at the guest thoughtfully, seeming to be in a very tangled thought.
After thinking hard, Betty finally spoke: "Mr. Kamel, would you like some tea?"
Kamel was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the serious little maid, and waved her hand in embarrassment: "Ah, no, thank you."
Betty blinked, and returned to the table with the teapot in her hand: "Oh."
But after a while, she came forward again: "Mr. Kamel, would you like some tea?"
Kamel: "... really no need, thank you little girl."
"… oh."
After a while, Betty's voice sounded behind Kamel for the third time: "Mr. Kamel, would you like some tea?"
Kamel finally felt that he couldn't continue to study the map. He turned around and tried his best to hide his embarrassment: "Little girl, didn't you realize that I don't have a mouth?"
Betty seemed to have finally figured out something, she suddenly realized "Oh", and then put the teapot on the desk in a little disappointment: "Oh..."
Looking at this dazed little girl, Kamel suddenly couldn't help but want to say something, but after hesitating for a long time, he could only say a dry sentence: "But thank you very much... for the tea."
"Master said you should remember to serve tea when entertaining guests," Betty still looked depressed, "but I always feel that I haven't done well..."
"You have worked hard... My situation is too special, I don't think any maid probably knows how to entertain a 'guest' like me," Kamel didn't know why he said to a little maid So many words, but he couldn't help but say, "How long have you served the Cecil family?"
Betty counted carefully this time—she had never been able to count the years before, but now she knew how to count, and she also wanted to understand a lot of things that she didn't understand before: "Six years, but the first two years were just Help Mrs. Hansen with the dishes..."
She is only sixteen years old now... In other words, she was sold to the castle as a servant when she was ten years old? Dishwashing girls
Kamel knew that he had no reason to continue asking, but he couldn't help but ask, "Do you like living like this?"
"... I don't know," Betty obviously didn't think about this question, she was stunned for a moment before answering, "but Miss Rebecca and the old Viscount are very good to me, Mrs Hetty, and the master, they all treat me Very good. And my family and I were always hungry when we were young, but since I entered the castle, we can all have enough to eat... "
It took Kamel a few seconds to understand the reason for this period—it was simply because Betty had a ration of the lowest servant in the castle, and her family not only sold the money back, but also lost a meal mouth.
This is the way for the low-level pariahs to survive in desperation in this era, and even this requires some luck to achieve it-because it is not always necessary for the lord to buy servants.
This is something that people in this era take as common sense, but for Kamel who came to this era from the heyday of the Gondor Empire, there are too many unimaginable things during this period.
However, he couldn't change the status quo of the entire era, and thousands of words finally converged into one sentence: "It's a cruel era."
"Master said that too," Betty said suddenly when she heard this, "but I don't understand what he means."
"The lord also said so?"
"Yes, the master said that this era is very cruel, and he also said that a new order will be established..." Betty recalled vigorously, "In short, it is very complicated. I heard him tell Miss Rebecca and Mrs. Hetty. "
"So that's how it is..." Kamel listened silently, sighing softly, "This is also normal, he is a person who has experienced that glorious era, so he must not be able to bear the ignorance and darkness now."
Betty looked at Kamel blankly, she didn't quite understand the meaning of the words muttered by the other party, but Kamel looked down at Betty, and suddenly realized why he couldn't help but talk so much to this little girl.
"I once had a sister... ah, she didn't look like you, but the last time I saw her, she was about your age," the ancient magister said quietly, "She was... very fond of Make tea for me."
Betty blinked: "Is your sister also a great magister?"
"... No, she has no magical talent, she is just an ordinary person, and she died of illness before she became an adult," Kamel said in a very calm tone, "If it wasn't for this, I probably wouldn't have left the imperial capital and become a magician. Part of Project 'Disobedience'."
Betty lowered her head: "Well..."
"It's all in the past," Kamel lowered his head, wanting to touch Betty's hair, but before his "palm" full of arcane energy touched the latter, there were already bits and pieces of arcane energy. Sparks jumped around Betty's hair. Seeing this scene, the ancient magister slowly withdrew his hand and let out a soft sigh, "Alas..."
Betty felt a little itchy scalp and couldn't help scratching her hair, but when she looked up, she found that Kamel had floated elsewhere: this conversation is over.
The little maid didn't know what happened, so she had to go back to the desk and continue to be in a daze.
Not long after, the door of the study was pushed open, and Gawain returned to the room with a roll of blueprints. He saw Kamel, who seemed to be studying the bookshelf, and Betty, who was standing beside the desk, wandering away, and couldn't help smiling. Get up: "Are you tired of waiting?"
Kamel turned around and floated towards Gao Wen: "No, I was chatting with the little girl just now, and it wasn't boring."
Betty ran up to Gao Wen with the big teapot in her hand: "Master, Mr. Kamel doesn't drink tea! He said he has no mouth..."
"Ahem, I got it, I got it," Gao Wen patted Betty's head in embarrassment, telling the little girl to step back first, "Go back and rest, I don't need anyone here for the time being."
"Um!"
Betty ran out patteringly, leaving Gawain looking at Kamel with an embarrassed face: "Sometimes this kid is rather dumbfounded when he talks..."
"It's okay, I don't care, she is a very cute girl," Kamel said lightly, "Lord, I have something to report to you."
Gao Wen was about to show Kamel his artillery design ideas, but he was taken aback when he heard this: "Oh? What's the matter?"
"It's about those aberrations," Kamel's expression no one could understand, but his tone was full of seriousness at the moment, "I think... I know where they come from."
"Have you figured out the origin of the aberrations?" Gawain's expression turned serious instantly. He immediately walked to the desk and put down the documents and drawings in his hand, "Where did they come from?"
"We made it," Kamel said slowly, "the product of disobedience to the plan."
"..."
Gawain was silent and didn't speak for almost ten seconds. It wasn't until Kamel felt a little uneasy that he shook his head with a silent smile: "It's such an answer..."
"You expected it?"
"It's just a guess," Gao Wen breathed out, "After knowing your rebellious plan, I came up with a little guess about it based on the information I got when I rushed out of the Gondor wasteland, but I didn't expect... the situation It’s exactly what I thought. Tell me, how did you find out?”
"Miss Till gave me a sample of an aberrant body, which is a clean sample that can be analyzed by magic after eliminating the chaotic magic energy. I found signs of type ii genetic factor mutation in that sample, and this mutation... was the original Characteristic of the 'abominations' we create."
"Sit down," Gawain sighed, took a seat behind the desk, and pointed to a chair next to him, "Maybe we need to talk about this matter."