"Can someone explain what's going on?"
As if time had stopped, Duan Qing slowly walked up to the purple-haired woman. His eyes glanced back and forth for a long time between this familiar face and the Imperial Library still standing not far behind. , finally couldn’t restrain his exaggerated weird face: “It’s really her, how did she get out?”
"Instead of studying this kind of easy-to-explain problem, you might as well think about why she came out." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who also stepped forward from the side, sighed heavily: "Don't you claim to have a complete understanding? Can I give her some basic orders based on her action pattern?"
"Well... I told her that no matter whether we were in the tavern in The Thebilis Castle or the Anfu Rose Tavern before." Duan Qing pinched his chin and muttered: "Isn't that what she said before? I have been staying in the tavern well, and I was almost burned to death just now..."
"Then how do you explain her appearance?" After circling around the purple-haired woman who was still silent and confused twice, Xue Ling Huan Bing pointed at her face angrily: "Is it because I am unwilling to be abandoned by you, so Did you catch up immediately?"
"Please, she can't even speak a complete sentence now, so don't be jealous of her."
Reaching out and pressing the other person's finger, Duan Qing smiled and comforted the white-haired woman: "Besides, I didn't say I would really abandon her, I just put her there temporarily... Well."
His words paused for a moment, and his eyes returned to the direction of the giant library building: "Did she also discover some danger like you, so she left early?"
"It's only been a few minutes since we left until we discovered her appearance. If that guy who calls himself Mahir really made a move... then he would be too impatient, wouldn't he?" Xue Ling Huan Bing squinted her eyes. The other party: "And didn't you say that she has no soul at all now? How did she realize all this?"
"Things like intuition are originally a matter of luck, or an instinctive behavior under the subconscious mind." His eyes gradually returned to his side, and Duan Qing answered with a bit of sadness in his voice: "As for her soul... …”
"The soul in the free world may be different from what we imagine - I have just said this."
He was silent for a moment, his thoughtful gaze gradually falling on the purple-haired woman in front of him, and then he tentatively asked his question when the woman was still staring blankly at him: "you……"
"Do you remember that library? That place you just entered?"
There was no reaction in her blank gaze. She just shifted slightly as Duan Qing pointed there. However, after a period of time, the emotionless lavender pupils were still in contact with the black cloak that enveloped her body. There was a regular up and down movement together: "..."
"This communication is even more difficult than that of Ayina." So Duan Qing wiped his sweaty forehead: "So... do you know the person just now?"
This time the answer was a shake of the head, and there didn't seem to be any lag.
"Look, the great news." Pointing at the other person's face, which was still like a doll, Duan Qing let out a sigh of relief and gestured to Xue Ling Huan Bing beside him: "Although I don't know why, I have experienced this process. We seem to have made some progress in treatment."
"God knows if it was caused by this short trip to the library." Xueling Huanbing poured cold water on her mercilessly: "Maybe I have regained some consciousness a long time ago, and I have been playing tricks on you before. Well...well."
"What she just meant is that she still remembers this library, but she doesn't know the guy named Maher?" The white-haired woman's eyes once again flashed with a feeling of thinking: "Can we determine based on this, Isn’t that guy a good person?”
"Okay, okay, I know your intuition is very powerful." Duan Qing responded helplessly: "If you let that guy cast some mind-changing secret method on Violet, then let the two of them fight. If both sides suffer, does that make your wish come true?"
"We left Violet there with the intention of testing it." Xue Ling Huan Bing crossed her arms without denying: "But the result is now like this... We Should we go back and take a look again?”
"No, how embarrassing it would be if he was really a good person and was found out." Duan Qing waved his hand hurriedly: "Instead of testing the other party in such an extreme way, it is better to be honest It would be better to actually check the details of Mahir. Anyway, now that we have you as a local expert, both the investigation methods and the investigation methods are not a problem... By the way."
"Where do you want to go?"
His eyes hesitated for a moment as the words paused, and he once again set his eyes on Violet: "Since you don't want to stay there, you must have somewhere you want to go, right?"
His confused eyes didn't respond, he just stared fixedly at Duan Qing's face who was staring at him. As if he didn't understand the problem, he slowly walked forward, just like the puppets and followers before. Followed behind Duan Qing. Duan Qing turned around helplessly. Duan Qing, who had his hands on his hips, looked at each other with Xue Ling Huan Bing beside him. He wanted to move forward to ask questions again, but was stopped by the white-haired female swordsman the next moment. Next, accompanied by her quiet voice: "Don't ask, you should decide what she means."
"But this will not help solve the problems between us." Duan Qing sighed and pointed to the next front of the street: "Even if I know the detailed distribution of Redcar, I don't know where her memory is. Restore the useful place."
"Then we can only try one by one." Turning around with his lips curled, Xue Ling Huan Bing took the lead and walked forward: "Hey, I knew when I left the tavern before, let me be the one This guide must be up to no good..."
"Just think of it as us revisiting our old place." Duan Qing, who followed, hurriedly replied with a smile: "And after going through the previous upgrade of the staff and the library..."
"We've made a good start, right?"
Time continued to pass as the three figures rejoined the crowd on the street and disappeared. Soon it came to the dusk of February 25, 796 of the New Calendar, and the vast imperial capital Redkar also followed. As the three people traveled on foot, several places of interest and historic sites that they included were displayed in front of them. Together with other players and tourists from all over the world, they showed Duan Qing the ancient and historic sites belonging to the largest city in the empire. Prosperity. Still serving as an introduction and guide, Xueling Huanbing, who was holding a cloak, still dutifully explained the origins and details of these famous places to Duan Qing and Violet when they arrived at each tourist attraction. However, before and after each introduction, she would always add one or two questions that seemed quite strange to others: "So this Wilhelm Hall - Violet, what impression do you have?" ?”
"This is the Carrea Mansion. It was the place where the ambassador from a country called the Principality of Carrea originally lived. However, that country seems to have gradually perished in the past period, so this mansion also Becoming part of the dust of history... How about Violet, do you still remember this place?"
"The Naglia colony is a place where a race called Naglia lives concentratedly in the empire. However, because of the unique exclusion and dependence of this race, they are particularly afraid of the royal family of the empire, but they never look down on the empire. Other nobles and commoners... Do you know this group, Violet?"
"Here, this place deserves to be introduced. Although it is already in ruins, this place should have been the location of a mansion where a well-known nobleman from the empire once lived. According to legend, this family named Roel was once very prosperous. , was the most powerful family in the Frey Empire besides the royal family in the past hundred years, but then, for unknown reasons, it disappeared overnight as quietly as wind and sand."
Pointing to a wasteland covered with weeds and trees in front of him and a distant place that still looked lush under the setting sun, Xue Ling Huan Bing, who stopped walking, also had an inexplicable sentimental emotion on his face: "The story in the story This family can be considered a legendary family, and their disappearance may be in line with the law that prosperity must inevitably decline. However, according to subsequent secret investigations and research by countless players, it has been shown that the disappearance of this family has various connections with countless imperial forces. Such implication..."
"Another victim of the struggle between the imperial nobles, right?" Duan Qing turned his head and looked at the wasteland indifferently, looking at the excitement around the scenic spots and historic sites that were different from the ones he had visited before. Yuanfang: "Although it happened in the game world, compared with our real world... this story seems too real."
"Don't look, this ruins area is very large." He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the other party. Xue Ling Huan Bing then explained with a smile: "Although all we can see now is only the desolation that remains here, at that time It is said that the mansion built here can be almost as tall as the entire palace."
"Such an exaggeration? No wonder it was destroyed by others." Duan Qing, who stared at him, waved his hand: "Which family that has offended the royal family in the past has had a good end? Look at this ruins that are still desolate, maybe everyone is the same. We are also afraid of the emperor's wrath, so we dare not continue to occupy this place... By the way."
"Do you know this place, Violet?"
Countless times of the same question had almost worn away the patience and hope of Duan Qing and Xueling Huanbing, but it still did not stop Duan Qing from asking this question as if it was a habit, but this time the person he was asked about The purple-haired woman's originally unresponsive face finally changed: "..."
The body covered by the cloak gradually began to tremble. She slowly crossed the shoulders of Duan Qing and Xue Ling Huan Bing, and gradually stood in front of the wasteland. However, her feet were shocked by Xue Ling Huan Bing. In the midst of the cry, he suddenly tilted and fell to the ground in a kneeling position: "Hey! Why are you lying down all of a sudden? Get up, get up -"
"...Woo."
A faint sobbing sound then sounded in the ears of the two people who rushed forward to help. Accompanying it was the purple-haired woman with her hands on the ground looking blankly at the open space, her eyes still in a hazy state. A few crystal tears oozed from his eyes, and he stared at the end of this desolate land with enough emotion to make everyone who saw this scene feel sad: "..."
"It seems that we have finally found the right place." He looked away from the purple-haired woman who was biting her lips. Duan Qing, who was kneeling on one side, glanced at Xueling Huanbing on the other side: "Remember, she is related to the Roel family you mentioned."
"If we look through those legends and stories now, we should be able to find a lot of clues." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who understood what the other party meant, nodded in agreement: "But other players should have dug up clues about these histories. It’s almost done.”
"Even if it is put in a museum, it is still useful to Violet." Duan Qing shook his head and said in a heavy voice: "Although this does not seem to be a good memory, it may even be a dark history. "
"Let's visit more other nobles, and we should be able to find other hints." He helped the purple-haired woman stand up with difficulty, and at the same time motioned to Xue Ling Huan Bing: "Follow this rhythm. …”
"Our Miss Violet is most likely one of the former imperial nobles."
The slow pace gradually extended towards the distance of the city as the sun gradually set. However, the aimless parade in the imperial capital finally gained some direction with this slight change. Xueling Huanbing took the lead and walked in front. Then he began to deliberately search for every aristocratic district located in this imperial capital, and introduced one famous imperial aristocrat to Duan Qing and the other two: "This is where the Crawford family, the minister of defense of the empire, lives." The place."
"This is the residence where Javi Bieber, the interior minister of the empire, lives. We have seen that guy in the previous hall, but for some unknown reason, he does not want to live with his family now. Together."
"Did you see that brightly lit building? That is the home of Finance Minister Field Parmuir. The finance minister of the empire controls all the money in the empire, and their family is also known as the richest family in the empire... If you want to go over and see you go by yourself, I won’t go over. I don’t want to see that fat pig’s appearance, it will make me unable to eat dinner.”
"Here...well, I'm really not familiar with this family. Let me confirm."
After walking along the aristocratic district for more than half a street, Xue Ling Huan Bing, who was accompanying Duan Qing on countless trials, finally stopped in front of a certain mansion. She repeatedly confirmed the lessons she had learned before. After a long while, he showed a somewhat enlightened smile: "It seems that we are settled tonight."
"If my information is correct, this should be where the Date family lives."
