"What kind of magic is this? One ring can have such an effect?"
Even Miss Louisa was surprised by this. She asked for some water to taste it, and then asked Shad to continue feeding the professor water.
Miss Louisa is indeed a fourth-ring sorcerer. She easily analyzed what Shade failed to analyze:
"Is this really a magic trick for overeating? It can actually transform emotions to replenish life energy. I see, healing is achieved by replenishing vitality. The increased feeling of fullness in the body is not an illusion, but it really makes the body reach a state of fullness. One ring can be learned, and it can actually be used on others. So far, the only side effect is that the desire to eat will decline significantly in a short period of time. This is really... hiccup~"
Xia De turned his head to look at her in surprise, and even stopped feeding the professor water. Miss Louisa's face turned red, she closed her mouth tightly and shrugged her shoulders upward, forcibly suppressing the urge to hiccup for the second time:
"What's wrong? Haven't you ever seen a lady burp?"
For some reason, Xia De thought of Mia's attitude yesterday, when she kept burping after drinking water and was angry with herself.
"Hurry up and wake up Professor Manning. I'm going to the bathroom to touch up my makeup. And by the way, tell the maid downstairs not to panic. You should be careful here too."
Having said that, he stood up with a red face and walked out of the bedroom without looking back.
Listening to Miss Louisa's receding footsteps, Shade looked at the small water bottle in his hand:
“This is probably a side effect.”
Miss Louisa took a long time to come back from downstairs, and Xia De consciously did not discuss the hiccups anymore.
Shade stopped only after confirming that Professor Manning could no longer drink water. From the outside, his body no longer looked so scary, but the professor still did not wake up.
"Why wouldn't he wake up? Could it be that the mental damage caused by the pen is too severe? Yes, my magic cannot heal mental damage."
Shade said, stuffing the bottle back into his pocket.
"I don't think this has anything to do with emotional damage, Detective. Do you know someone who can't be woken up?"
Miss Louisa took a look at the professor's condition and roughly understood the reason.
"You can't wake up someone who's pretending to be asleep... Oh, I get it!"
But Miss Louisa shook her head:
"No, the dead can't be awakened. Since the professor can't wake up, then we just put him..."
"Okay, okay, Louisa, stop joking. I'm awake. Young people, can't you give the elderly a little dignity... Hiccup!"
The professor suddenly opened his eyes and burped. He got up from the floor with a pale face, and his legs went weak and he almost fell. Xia De reached out and supported him:
"Your body has not fully recovered yet, professor. I'm afraid you will have to stay in bed for a long time. You must abstain from sex and avoid long periods of mental work."
Professor Manning covered his face with one hand. He pretended to be unconscious because he didn't want to ask such questions. He was almost choked to death by Xia De's water just now.
"Young man, can you just take that pen and leave? You can even rob my house and pretend that this never happened and I'm still unconscious."
The old professor's current painful expression should have nothing to do with his physical weakness:
"Why did you have to wake me up? Oh, can't you just leave a little dignity for an old man like me?"
His face, which had turned pale due to his physical weakness, turned red. Shade glanced at Miss Louisa, who motioned for him to speak:
"We didn't know you were dreaming about a black cat..."
"Oh, well, what do you want to extort from me? Take it all, take whatever you like, as long as you don't tell anyone about this, you can take whatever you want. I just want the last bit of dignity."
"No, no, that's not what I meant."
Shad explains:
"I want to say that what happened today..."
"Nothing happened. Everything I saw will go to my grave with me! No one should ever know what happened today! Never."
Judging from Professor Manning's current excited state, his physical and mental condition are much better than Shad thought.
"That's good. Then this pen..."
Xia De shook the relic, and the professor looked at it reluctantly, then gritted his teeth and said:
"Take it, take it quickly! It's yours."
Xia De nodded with satisfaction, then handed the pen to Miss Louisa, who looked very happy as she played with the clerical-level relic, the Dream Pen of Joy.
He helped Professor Manning sit on a chair and opened the curtains to let the bright afternoon sun in. The frail old man squinted at the sun, and his expression relaxed a lot.
"In fact, we also want to know, besides you, does anyone else know about this pen?"
Xia De asked again. Professor Manning stared at the sunlight in a daze for a long time before he said:
"How can I tell others about this?"
"Then how did you know how to use this pen? Did the old writer tell you?"
Xia De wanted to make sure that there was nothing strange about this.
"Of course not. I dreamed about it on the third day after I got the pen. I don't know why I just wanted to try it..."
He was suddenly stunned:
"So, the previous owner of this pen died... because of this?"
"If you continue to hold on, the outcome will be worse than death."
Miss Louisa said, but her tone was completely different from the gentle one she had used when she spoke to Shade:
"You should be thankful that you fainted just now and didn't see what happened. You are also a university professor, how could you not realize the weirdness of this thing?"
"I just couldn't resist the temptation."
The professor lowered his head, and Shade coughed to summarize the matter:
"Professor, since we saved your life, we will give you this pen as a thank you. At the same time, what happened today should be treated as if it never happened, and no one can tell anyone about it."
"I have no problem."
Miss Louisa, who received the relic, said.
“I have a question!”
The professor raised his head and suddenly said:
"Louisa won't tell anyone, but what if you tell anyone?"
Xia De was surprised:
"Why should I tell anyone? You probably guessed it. We are not ordinary people. How could we risk exposing our identities..."
"I've seen a lot of things in my life. You don't have to explain. I'll give you a little bit of benefit as hush money. How about that?"
He probably thought that Miss Louisa got the "hush money" while the detective didn't, and she might be resentful. Shade wanted to be polite, but the professor called the fat maid on the second floor and asked her to fetch something for Shade.
It turned out to be a Rhodes card, and a Rhodes card with special rules.
Northern City Coldwater Harbor City, Flower Moon 7. After drawing this card and actively showing it, if the number of cards in the deck that have been used exceeds one-half, choose one of your own cards and shuffle it into your opponent's deck.