As she thought, this gourmet referred to the story mentioned at the end of "The Demonic Serpent".
At the same time, this is also the only story narrated in the third person. The main perspective is placed on the history teacher of the protagonist of "The Demonic Serpent". It starts from an ordinary archaeology class and describes how he took the opportunity to scare his students with this story.
['You all don't believe me, and don't believe that these monsters really exist. But what I am about to tell you is true, and I dare to use my life, all my property and faith to guarantee that I have not lied. ']
[Scott's face was serious when he said this, no longer as friendly as usual. The students thought he was joking at first, but as time went on they realized that something was wrong and they quieted down one by one.]
['That was a deserted island.' His voice began to spread, like a ghost whispering in the silent space, 'I was an eyewitness... Yes, I am one of the few people who survived the accident. I saw everything terrible with my own eyes.']
Next, the man began to describe to the students in a rhythmic tone the magical animals he encountered and saw on the deserted island.
He used a lot of modifiers and metaphors, which made Hitzfeld's eyebrows raise wildly.
It was like he was deliberately showing off to intimidate others... She couldn't understand the point of it.
Because she had already seen the descriptions of these animals in the "Magic Serpent" chapter. Although it was not so detailed and some species were not mentioned, it was concise and realistic. She felt that the reading experience was better than this paragraph.
What was the person who collected the stories and bound them into a whole book thinking, and why did he arrange the two stories in this way?
The end of "The Demon Serpent" introduces "The Gourmet" in a flashback, which can be described as a technique, but doesn't he think that "The Gourmet" is too long-winded and repetitive?
It's as if this approach was intentional to emphasize that this is a story told by two different authors.
Ignoring the discomfort, she continued reading, and soon 'Scott' began describing how they encountered the human-faced demon snake.
['It is five times larger than a python, and its head is like a locomotive, with densely packed scales on the top where the hair should be.']
[When Scott said this, the whole class was silent. Everyone stopped breathing and just stared at his lips, as if they could turn the words he uttered into pictures from the void.]
['This terrible monster came up and ate the six of us without saying a word. It said that it didn't want to do this, and if one of us could cook something that satisfied it, it would consider letting us go. ']
['So you managed to kill it, didn't you?' someone asked him. 'You've succeeded if you can stand here and describe it to us, otherwise -']
['No.' Scott's expression was amused. 'We really did the best cooking.']
['Of course, I personally don't have this ability... My cooking skills are not much better than yours, it's pretty bad. But there happened to be someone among us who had this talent, and they began to try one after another, trying to please this monster. ']
[The story Scott described was both realistic and scary. When he talked about the first and second cooks who were swallowed up directly because they were not appreciated by the magic snake, there was a cry of surprise in the classroom.]
['We were really close to despair,' he said, 'but fortunately, the honorable lady stepped forward and used the most intelligent brain and the most agile ability to adapt to the situation I have ever seen in my life to prepare a delicious dish that she praised.']
['So we were set free by it. ']
['That was the moment I realised that it actually had a moral. ']
['That's not just the wisdom extracted from a beast in disguise, it actually has human emotions. This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. The only regret is that no one believes it.']
[The atmosphere in the classroom finally calmed down after the story came to an end.]
[I finally breathed a sigh of relief and completely threw my trust in the story out of my mind...]
Ok?
Seeing this, Hitzfeld couldn't help but widen his eyes.
Am I relieved too?
I?
It turns out that this story is still told in the first person, but the protagonist, "I", only appears at the very last moment?
Is this me independent in this story, or is I related to the previous story and am I actually the protagonist of the "Demon Snake" chapter...?
Hitzfeld turned the pages while thinking and read the last chapter again. He always felt that the content of the book was not as simple as it seemed.
Thinking of her experience with the Crystal Sea, she tried to pick out various phrases and arrange the letters in the book to decipher them, but in the end she still found nothing.
There are so many mysteries...
She frowned in thought.
The first is whether there is any pattern in the arrangement and combination of these articles.
If they are all written by different authors, then the author of "The Demonic Serpent" and "The Gourmet" seems to be the same person.
If the pattern is to describe disasters, then "Thermidor" is out of place in the entire collection of stories.
The only thing that is certain is that these stories all mention the sun, fire, and flowers in some way.
These nouns appear in every chapter.
How about trying the stupid method?
she thought.
The so-called stupid method is to start the investigation from the name "Scott".
There is a name, a position, and the exact date is recorded in the notes. If such a person really existed in history, there should be information about him...
There was a sound of wind in my ears.
Before he could react, the book in his hand was violently snatched away. Then, Ruth-Annual's cold eyes appeared.
"Why are you here?"
She squinted her eyes and almost squeezed the sound out of her throat.
"answer me."
"Why are you going to the library at this hour?"
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Chapter 78: Surprising Discovery
At this time...can't we come to the library?
Hitzfeld stared blankly at the leader of the tree people, his lips slightly parted, and it was obvious that he had not yet come to his senses.
"Your Majesty!" Asfin and Darent immediately stepped forward and saluted her when they saw her appear.
...Although they were also very curious about the silence in the library during this period, the difference in status was there, and no matter how curious they were, they could not question it.
Torres did not have this worry. Although many bishop-level positions within the diocese were secretly held by tree people, he was 100% sure that the Pope was a human.
As long as the supreme leader is a human being, there is no need for him to feel that he is inferior to the annual rings.
"Is there something wrong with you guys?" He said bluntly, "We wanted to follow the procedures properly... but we didn't meet anyone when we came up from downstairs. You should thank us for helping you look after the house!"
"If I'm sure there are people who know more than me about something I don't understand, I won't make rash comments." Nian Lun glanced at him calmly and gave his comment.
Torres was stunned, then became furious.
Who are you mocking in a roundabout way?
"What exactly happened in the library?" Hitzfeld looked at her carefully.
Unlike the previous times we met, when Nian Lun was always wearing a "dancer"-like tulle dress and veil, today she was rarely wearing casual clothes.
She was wearing a pure black tuxedo, her hair was tied up behind her head, and her face was half covered by a black cloth mask. She was able to recognize who she was at first glance thanks to her charming eyes. She was too impressed by these eyes.
How strange, could it be that she took the tree people out to a banquet?
There's no way that idiot Mapus had guessed it right. They were celebrating the birthday of one of their members, right?
"Answer me first what's going on!" Nian Lun was very angry and kept waving the book "The Shadow of the Ancient God". "A book with level 6 clearance involves high-level secrets. Even if the clearance is appropriate, it must be reported. Who gave you the courage to come up directly?"
"Let me explain this." Asfin stepped forward, took out the letter from Prince Gaunt from his arms and handed it to her, describing the cause and effect of the matter as concisely as possible.
"That's it..." After hearing this, the charming woman relaxed her brows slightly, flicked her wrist and put down the letter, "Okay, I understand."
Then she turned and walked away, seemingly not intending to stay at all.
"Your Highness." Hitzfeld called her with a respectful title, his eyes fixed on the book she was still holding tightly in her hand, "You haven't returned my things to me yet."
"This should be the property of the library."
"With His Highness Gaunt's approval, I am eligible to borrow them, at least today."
"So you are really troublesome..."
With a low complaint, she threw the book back and said, "Go on!"
The force of this blow was quite strong. Carlo, who had been watching from the sidelines, immediately rushed out, took the book off, and handed it respectfully to Hitzfeld.
He is not familiar with the annual rings.
But he knew very well who he was counting on to return safely from the Crystal Sea.
"Since you said you want to borrow it, then don't stay here." Nian Lun's cold voice came, "If you need any books, just tell me and I'll get them for you, and then you can just leave."
Something is wrong with the Tree People today.
Hitzfeld looked at Darent, who was desperately trying to wink at her, telling her to quit while she was ahead and not to get into further conflict with Nian Lun.
After thinking about it, Hitzfeld did not reject the proposal.
Anyway, her primary mission here was just to find the book that Pusiens mentioned. As long as this goal could be achieved, the trip would be worthwhile.
"The Relics of Sicinna?" Hearing the title of another book she mentioned, Nianlun's eyebrows curved: "When did you start studying archaeology?"
In the face of ridicule, Hitzfeld remained calm.
She did not forget that she still had a "side quest", which was to find Nianlun to inquire about clues about the old king's party and the old king's descendants. After getting the second book, she still mentioned it tentatively.
As expected, I was rejected very coldly and then thrown out.
"Are all tree people so rude?"
On the way back, Torres complained to everyone all the way, "The leader of the tree people... is that all? He has no manners at all. Even I know how to entertain guests on a snowy day like this!"
The weather was not so cold when they took on the mission and followed Hitzfeld. But as soon as they came out tonight, they immediately felt the temperature difference. Torres, who didn't have time to change clothes, was frozen to death.
"Maybe there is something he can't tell you." Cybert said tremblingly.
The pink-haired nun was also severely frozen.
"How about this." Carlo thought for a moment, "Anyway, you will be fine at the Security Bureau headquarters. I will go back to the cathedral tonight and report this to him."
"Him?" Pippen asked the only question that could prove his existence so far.
"Not Captain Red." Carlo glanced at him.
"It's His Majesty Senar."
Returning to the headquarters, Hitzfeld ran head-on into the group led by Kleinamis.
The other party had a very unhappy look on his face. He first loudly accused her in front of a group of people in the hall and said that she shouldn't choose to go out at such a dangerous time. After being blocked by the letter, he became angry and announced that she would be under house arrest indefinitely and was not allowed to go out again.
Hitzfeld didn't take his threat seriously. She stared at Pippen's back as he was pulled away by Kleinamis for a while, then returned to the temporary lounge with the others. As expected, she saw Xia Yibing already waiting there.
"I heard about it."
They returned to her private room together and were alone again. Xia Yibing helped her take off her hat and gently brushed away the ice and snow accumulated on her hair and shoulders with her fingers.
"How was the harvest?"
Hitzfeld's tone barely fluctuated as he began the story from the moment Prins gave her the hint until he showed her the two books she had obtained.
“That’s very strange…”
Flipping through the book "Shadow of the Ancient God", Xia Yibing's tone was filled with confusion.
"That's not like her at all... Did you observe her expression carefully? Was there anything unusual about her when she was facing you?"
"The tone of voice was a little shaky, and the movements of walking and turning were a little stiff."
Hitzfeld thought about it.
It was very strange, totally unlike her. If she didn't know who she was, she would have suspected that she was a little girl who was accepting an award for the first time on stage and was under tremendous pressure.
"Have you ever thought that this guess is true?"
"What's the meaning."
"I mean, Aisuen, you do have a sharp mind, but you have to know first before facing these things."
Xia Yibing frowned and spoke in a very low voice.
"She probably didn't mean to be mad at you."
"Expelling you may actually be a form of protection."
