Benjamin had another dream.
This time the dream finally had nothing to do with his boss. He dreamed that he was submerged in a deep blue sea, with a group of mermaids swimming around him, and the faces of these mermaids were exactly like everyone he had known since he came to this world.
Their expressions were unfamiliar and cold, and they looked a little scary.
However, soon, these swimming mermaids turned into blue characters one by one, flying faster and faster around him. The vast ocean water suddenly disappeared, and the surrounding area turned into boundless darkness.
Benjamin tried hard to identify the characters, but for some reason, he just couldn't see the characters clearly.
There was a buzzing sound in my ears.
He looked at everything around him and suddenly realized, isn't this his own conscious space? He thought again of the scene when he opened up his consciousness space, and when he heard the vaguely strange sound, an idea flashed in his mind.
He chanted the water balloon spell toward the humming voice.
Nothing happened.
Benjamin was strange. So, he pricked up his ears and started swimming towards the buzzing sound.
As the distance got closer, the sound became louder and louder. He suddenly had a hunch that this voice could tell him all the mysteries of the space of consciousness, giving him supreme power. Therefore, he swam harder and listened to the sound with all his concentration, a hundred times more focused than his English listening.
The voice slowly became clearer.
Like a sentence.
Benjamin felt very excited, he was only one step away from the answer.
Finally, it is like the first breath of air that sea creatures have evolved to breathe on land, like the most critical point of contact between foam and the tip of a needle. The voice emerged from the chaos and suddenly became clear:
"Master, you must not die!"
Benjamin in the dream was stunned, what does it mean
Suddenly, like a strong force hitting him, he took a sharp breath and opened his eyes.
He woke up.
"Master... Master, you, are you finally awake?" A shout of surprise came from my ears.
"You... don't make any noise first."
Benjamin was feeling groggy. He sat up, feeling a severe headache, and covered his forehead to calm himself. After a while, he gradually regained consciousness and was able to observe his surroundings.
All around... all around were his bedrooms in the Reese family.
He was lying on his chest.
Seeing this, he breathed a sigh of relief and lay back down again.
He was brought back.
Michelle's Curse... is so damn torturous. Fortunately, he fainted from the pain later, otherwise he would really have experienced the dual enjoyment of giving birth and breaking eggs.
However, from another perspective, he had to thank this curse for it struck at the right time.
Recalling the farce in the castle, Benjamin still felt lingering fear - it was not pleasant to be pointed at a gun. If the curse hadn't happened suddenly when he and Dick were fighting, if Dick hadn't thought that the shot hit Benjamin, if it hadn't been that the shot didn't really hit Benjamin...
How things will turn out is even harder to say.
It was a great time travel, why was it so bad
"Master, are you okay?"
Hearing this, Benjamin came back to his senses and raised his eyes. Jeremy was seen standing beside the bed, looking at him carefully.
"...Okay, don't worry, I'm fine." Although he knew that Jeremy was just doing his job, Benjamin was still a little moved.
"I'll go tell Madam and the others right now." Jeremy smiled sheepishly, turned around and ran away, disappearing in the blink of an eye. Benjamin couldn't even stop him in time.
I also want to ask him to continue running errands...
Forget it, this matter can't be rushed, his head still hurts now! Just put all those bad things behind you for the time being and take a good rest.
Benjamin closed his eyes, relaxed his whole body, and buried himself deeply in the soft quilt.
However, he didn't have time to lie down for long.
"Your Excellency Riise, long time no see. I wonder if you are satisfied with my little gift?"
A voice suddenly sounded in the room.
Benjamin suddenly woke up and opened his eyes. He sat up from his bed and looked at the source of the sound.
"…Michelle."
I saw a figure wrapped in a dark green robe, standing in the shadows of the corner of the room. Michelle was dressed exactly the same as last time, like a killer lurking in the dark, unable to see what was hidden in the robe.
Benjamin took a deep breath.
His mood was calmer than expected. Perhaps he should have been shocked by Michelle's ghostly whereabouts, but he wasn't. He just looked at Michelle, as if two old friends reunited after a long separation, so unfamiliar that they began to hate each other, but so familiar that they still felt a little nostalgic.
How could he not think of it? The curse had just happened once, and the lingering power had not faded away. For Michelle, this was the best time for her to show up. The advantage in momentum could give her more advantages in negotiations.
As for how she sneaked in here - she could leave a message under the pillow without anyone noticing, so what else could she not do
Benjamin felt the quilt starting to get cold.
He planned to call for help immediately. Everyone from the Riise family is here, and the knights sent by the church to watch over him should not be far away either. As long as he opens his mouth, the possibility that Michelle will have to leave is very high.
However, Benjamin also knew that if Michelle dared to appear here like this, it meant that she was sure of escaping unscathed. If you can't kill him with one blow, there is no point in forcing him back temporarily. Instead, he may annoy Michelle.
He decided to see what Michelle wanted.
Feeling the cross hanging around his neck, Benjamin felt much safer.
At least you still have capital, right
"I don't have enough time, so I'll keep it short." Finally, after a moment of confrontation, Michelle said, "I don't have time to teach you magic. I will leave you this Bible. You will Find what you want up there.”
As she spoke, she took out a pamphlet and threw it into Benjamin's chest.
"Bible?"
Benjamin was confused and looked at the book that fell on the quilt without touching it.
He couldn't understand what medicine Michelle was selling in his gourd.
"I know what you are thinking." Michelle replied, "It is different from the hypocritical carols distributed by the church. It belongs to our Bible, and it records real magic. If I am not wrong, your Magic should only be learned by chance, I'm sure you'll need it."
Hearing this, Benjamin glanced at the pamphlet again. He suppressed his curiosity about magic and said instead: "You won't give me benefits in vain. What do you want?"
Everyone said that the weasel had no good intentions when sending New Year greetings to the chicken. He wanted to know what Michelle's intention was in doing this.
She went to great lengths to leave a message saying that ten days later, she would send a letter to the church to set off a smoke bomb. And today, there is no way that such a surprise attack was just to deliver a book to Benjamin.
"My goal has always been simple, you should know." Michelle didn't seem to want to waste any more words, "You can think of this as an exchange of equal value, using the treasure house in exchange for your life."
After hearing this, Benjamin was silent for a while, then suddenly spoke and said quietly:
"Whether you believe it or not, but I really don't know how to open the treasure house."
He had confirmed with the system a long time ago that there was no way to open the treasure house in Benjamin's memory. Maybe Grant, whom Michelle intended to kidnap, knew how to open the treasure trove, but unfortunately, Benjamin didn't.
He doesn't plan to continue the lie about opening a treasure house with his own blood. Nowadays, he is not afraid to tell the truth to Michelle. What else could Michelle do, kill him? Moreover, in his heart, he vaguely felt that Michelle already knew this.
Sure enough, Michelle was not surprised.
"I know, Sir Benjamin Reese." Although her voice was calm, Benjamin could hear the anger in her words. She was probably a little angry that she had kidnapped the wrong person, "But you are always a member of the Reese family. Master, you don’t know how to open the treasure house now, but you will know it when I come next time.”
"How will I know next time?"
"This is not a problem that I have to worry about." Michelle was obviously angry, and she obviously took her anger out on Benjamin. "I believe in your intelligence, please don't let me down."
Oh shit.
Benjamin could only get angry.
From the moment he knew about this curse, he had expected that there would be such a moment. He had no choice but to be controlled by others. Michelle is also stubborn and wants others to do her best.
But he still wanted to try to fight for something more, even if he could understand something.
"What's going on with this Bible? Where did it come from? You have something similar..."
However, just in the middle of speaking, Benjamin stopped as if he had seen a ghost.
Michelle is gone.
There is a cabinet blocking the corner of the room, and the light is not good, showing a shadow. But in the shadow, Michelle, who was still standing in her robe just now, disappeared without a trace, as if she had never been there.
Damn it, she's gone
Benjamin felt horrified.
He suddenly felt that he might have really underestimated Michelle's strength.
From existence to nothing, he couldn't see clearly how it happened, and he couldn't even feel the slightest fluctuation of magic power. It is absolutely impossible to achieve this just by playing tricks. No wonder she was able to deal with the powerful church for so long.
Headache, in both senses of the word.
I'm afraid he really needs to inquire about that treasure house.
Although he was a little unhappy doing things for Michelle, he still calmed down a lot after taking a look at the pamphlet that was thrown on the bed.
…a magician’s version of the Bible
He took it carefully in his hands.
For a book billed as a religious masterpiece, it seems too thin. No matter which version of the Bible is compared with it, it is pitifully thin, like a health brochure.
But Michelle said so, so Benjamin believed this was a book worth looking forward to. It should be said that Benjamin was already looking forward to it and couldn't hold back his excitement.
He was about to open it.
"Master, madam, they have all rested. I will invite them to see you tomorrow."
Jeremy's voice suddenly came from the door, and Benjamin was so frightened that he quickly hid the book under the quilt.
He suddenly understood why Michelle said she didn't have much time and disappeared so suddenly.
Jeremy, Jeremy...
But he couldn't blame anyone else, Jeremy was just doing his job.
"Master, do you have any other orders?" Jeremy walked to the bedside and asked loyally.
"No, you go down and rest. I have to rest too. Let's talk about anything tomorrow."
Benjamin's mood at the moment was like a child secretly watching TV while his parents were away. His parents came back temporarily, and he could only turn off the TV in a hurry. Then, while still thinking about the plot of the TV series, he anxiously urged his parents to leave quickly, but he did not dare to show it too obviously.
He's going to learn new magic!
No matter who it is, please don't bother him, okay
"Okay, good night, young master." Jeremy nodded, turned and left.
"… wait."
Benjamin suddenly stopped him again.
Jeremy turned around again and looked at Benjamin with a question mark on his face.
"Um, how did you do with the thing I asked you to do last time?" Benjamin just remembered this, so he could only suppress his eagerness and continue the excavation plan of Anne's relics.
Although there is probably nothing in Anne's belongings that is as valuable as this Bible.
"Ah, that's right." Jeremy also looked reminded and replied, "I just remembered that you said last time that the carpenter would understand, but I asked the carpenter and he said he didn't understand. "
"No, he will understand." Benjamin said expressionlessly.
"But he said he didn't understand."
"No, you don't understand. Just tell him and he will understand."
"...Really? I still don't understand."
"Really, it doesn't matter if you don't understand. Just tell him and he will definitely understand."
It would be weird to know how to understand, Benjamin himself didn’t even know what he needed to understand.
He almost didn't recognize the word "understand".
Jeremy was also obviously stunned. He stood looking at the ceiling and thought for a while. Then, he came back to his senses and suddenly asked with some panic: "Now?"
Benjamin nodded, showing kind eyes:
"Now."
Jeremy was stunned. This time he didn't say anything about the time being too late or the distance being too far. He just nodded numbly and walked out of the room stupidly, dragging heavy steps, as if his body had been hollowed out.
It is said that after tonight, the carpenter in the east of the city suddenly fell seriously ill and closed his shop for a whole month. Everyone who saw him said that he had a high fever and kept mumbling something: "I don't understand... I don't understand..."
But these are all things for later.
At this moment, tonight, Benjamin sent Jeremy away and made sure that the doors and windows were closed and no one would disturb him again.
He took the book out from under the quilt again. He held it, like a true fanatic holding a real Bible, and took a deep breath involuntarily.
finally.
He was finally able to learn magic other than water polo.
What else could he say
When dinner time comes, let’s pray together.