Their eyes met for just a second and then separated. The big star didn't stop and looked at more guests.
Will the second act start on Recovery Day?
Zhou Jinru recalled the opening scene the night before, including the dice that changed luck. In a sitcom, there seemed to be something extraordinary.
"Melanza, is there any mysterious legend about Victoria two hundred years ago?"
"Mysterious legend?"
She recalled for a moment and said seriously: "There are indeed some legends, and most of them tend to be scary. It was an era when the Originium industry was in the ascendant, and it was normal for some strange stories to be spread."
Stories that can be passed down two hundred years later generally have prototypes, including but not limited to curiosities that have been collected into books.
Zhou Jinru took a sip of the drink and looked at Isabella again. If it was just to fill in the world view, the magical items that appeared in the plot were not something to be afraid of.
Again, can the villain in the movie crawl out of the screen?
After standing for a while, the granddaughter of the Duke of York came over and pitifully asked Zhou Jinru if she could lend Melanza to her for a few minutes. She had a lot to say.
Zhou Jinru was about to refuse, but the girl next to him said: "Okay, just a few minutes."
After watching the two beautiful girls leave, he turned around and his eyes fell on a plate of tender fish.
Zhou Jinru had just eaten some, and the fish tasted pretty good.
"week!"
A lady's voice came from behind, it was an unfamiliar aristocratic lady, and Zhou Jinru was sure that he and the other party had no intersection.
"Miss?"
The lady with smooth blond hair gently covered her mouth and said with a smile: "I just heard about you from Miss Elena, can I ask you a favor?"
In order to reduce trouble, Zhou Jinru pondered for a few seconds and shook his head slightly: "Sorry, I can't keep my female companion waiting for too long."
"It won't take long. One of our companions has left temporarily. There is one missing person at the card table. Can you please fill the vacancy? We only have a few minutes, so it won't take you too long."
The companion she was referring to was Elena who walked away with Melanza.
These ladies are all from the Western Region of Londinium.
Even if they don't appear in public much, their husbands and children will attend some important events.
Zhou Jinru looked back and couldn't find Melanza at the end of his eyes. He exhaled and raised his head: "Okay, if it's just a game, I'm willing to do it for you."
The beautiful lady lifted up her skirt and solemnly thanked:
"Thanks."
They walked through the banquet area one after another and came to the entertainment area shrouded in soft lights. Several ladies in gorgeous or graceful evening dresses were sitting at a card table. To Zhou Jinru's surprise, there was a card table on the card table. What was placed was not playing cards or other toys with gambling elements, but an oversized imitation parchment map, and cards of various sizes were placed in the corner of the card table.
Is this a group game?
"Zhou, you look surprised?"
Zhou Jinru admitted: "To be honest, I was a little surprised."
He didn't say more, leaving more room for everyone present to fill in the details.
The lady who guided him here blinked: "You can call me Mapel, um, Mrs. Mapel."
"Mrs. Mapel, you haven't introduced the rules of the game yet."
The lady sitting on the far right couldn't help but say.
She held a card in her hand, which seemed to correspond to an identity.
Through a brief understanding, Zhou Jinru confirmed that this is a group running game. It has been very popular among Victoria's aristocratic circles recently. However, in the eyes of these ladies, it is more like a role-playing adventure game with a strong novelty. feel.
"Zhou, you can draw an identity card, and we will add a new companion."
Zhou Jinru looked at the pile of cards in the box and thought that this should be a deluxe enhanced card pool, which was much higher than the standard pool.
He casually pulled out one, and when he saw the specific identity, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch: "Lucky manservant."
"lucky."
The lady who had urged Mrs. Mapel to introduce the rules before repeated the prefix of this identity card, and the companion beside her laughed and said: "Not bad, lucky affixes don't appear often, and good things usually happen."
Good things do happen.
Zhou Jinru looked at the special effects of the identity card and saw that luck had strengthened the effect of throwing points. He could throw points twice in a row and get the maximum value.
But why still a valet?
When he thought of this title, he could feel the veins on his forehead jumping.
"On a windy day, Margaret walked into the ancient library and opened an ancient book that had been dusty for a long time. The obscure words on the yellowed paper seemed to become clear."
The lady named Margaret began to make a judgment. She picked up a six-sided die placed on a large map and threw it on the table. The die turned a few times and stopped at three o'clock.
"Margaret was reading the ancient books with difficulty, and she didn't even notice that the lights in the library went out."
Zhou Jinru frowned slowly. This was such bad luck. It was only three o'clock and it was about to enter the final settlement stage?
Under normal circumstances, libraries, secret rooms, and books containing ancient knowledge can easily lead to bad endings.
"Due to the weather, the manservant who was patrolling the manor noticed something strange in the library. He quickly walked to the door, opened the door, and saw..."
Ms. Mapel placed the six-sided dice in front of Zhou Jinru, chuckled and said, "It's your turn."
Zhou Jinru pinched the dice and wondered if he would enter the settlement together with Ms. Margaret if he failed a little bit.
He threw the dice, and the polished white dice fell on the table. He turned over several low numbers with difficulty, and finally what was presented to everyone was a reasonable number, five points.
"You have one more chance."
Zhou Jinru, who had the blessing of lucky affixes, held the dice again. This time, he paused for two seconds and locked his eyes on the dice in his palm, with confusion in his eyes getting more and more intense.
It looked very similar to the luck-manipulating dice in the sitcom, or was it his imagination?
Thinking about it, he didn't hesitate and immediately rolled the dice, six o'clock, a big success.
Mrs. Mapel's eyes with a faint smile were replaced by surprise little by little. Mrs. Margaret opened her red lips and was speechless for a long time.
"Your luck is so good, truly lucky."
The speaker was a lady with short gray hair, known as Mrs. Green.
She flipped through a thick book of running group rules and explained it carefully: "When the valet opened the door of the library, the strong wind blew away the thick clouds in the sky, and the golden sunshine sprinkled on the ground, through the library door. The glass window shone on Lady Margaret, who was dizzy from reading. She decided to give up the interpretation and chose to go out for a horseback ride to change the environment."
"Awesome."
Mrs. Mapel chuckled.
Zhou Jinru took a deep breath and smiled: "It's really interesting."
Mrs. Green, who looked away from the rule book, said sincerely: "Almost every time we start, we lose our companions for various reasons. One moment we were very successful in obtaining important props, but the next time we judged that there is a greater probability of failure, great success brings us success." The fallout causes good things to turn into bad things, or even worse things.”
During their exchange, Elena, who had left earlier, came back with Melanza. Zhou Jinru's group running trip came to an end temporarily. When he stood up, he used one sentence as parting words: "Ladies, in my hometown There is a saying that as long as you participate in probabilistic events, you will inevitably face failure."
"It's just a game."
"No, I think you're right, Zhou."
Snapped.
Mrs. Green stood up after closing a thick rule book. Although she was wearing high heels, her height was less than Zhou Jinru's chin. The lady walked up to him with a strange emotion in her eyes: "In the game , only two kinds of people can survive to the end and usher in a good ending, one is the lucky person, and the other is the person who doesn’t go into details. It can be seen that you are very knowledgeable about this type of game, haha, Recovery Day I have a lot of time during the holidays.”
Zhou Jinru didn't give any answer and bowed slightly: "Ladies, I'm sorry."
He left with Melantha who had returned.
Melanza, who heard the conversation just now, grabbed Zhou Jinru's hand and said nervously: "Doctor, fortunately you didn't agree to her request!"
Zhou Jinru shook his head. Refusal was something he would definitely do. No matter what the other party's intentions were, he did not intend to leave any intersection.
Melanza was afraid that the doctor would not know what was going on, so she looked around a few times and lowered her voice: "Doctor, if any lady wants to see you alone, you must not agree, let alone go to the meeting alone."
"Why?"
The girl's eyes flickered: "Because, they may be attracted to you. In the aristocratic circles of Victoria, ladies often use stamp collecting as a code for such behavior. Do you want to be collected stamps?"
Zhou Jinru: "..."
It's one thing to be talented in this area, but it's another thing to be treated as a collectible.
If Melanza hadn't said it, he really wouldn't have taken it seriously. This shows that he was extremely lucky to have escaped from the dragon's den just now.
"Am I really lucky?"
In this private salon, he never saw Silver Ash and Skyfire again. They seemed to be a flash in the pan, and Duke Edward rarely showed up.
As late at night, Melanza excused herself from the Duke due to physical discomfort, and left the venue with Zhou Jinru.
The moment she walked out of the manor, she felt her body relaxed a lot, and even her breathing became easier.
Zhou Jinru looked at the rosy-faced girl and thought that you feel so relaxed because you no longer have to wear a mask.
Rose Sword Saint is not suitable for such an environment. She can hold a sword and fight the enemy to the death, but she cannot adapt to gatherings among nobles.
"Are we going back now?"
Melanza asked cautiously.
The sparkle in the girl's eyes shows that she is full of energy now, and there should be a better place to go than going home on Recovery Day.
"Not yet, since we are already in Londinium we should blend in with the festival."
Zhou Jinru lowered his head, looked at his tuxedo, then at Melanza's evening dress, and said with a smile: "I hope there will be a masquerade party on the streets."
…
…
In the old town of Londinium, opposite the Church of Saint Martin, a masquerade party with many participants is being held in the Place de la Pigeon.
People in strange costumes are wandering in the crowded streets, lights of various colors shine on the mobile stage, and funny street performers are performing hard, making exaggerated movements that make people laugh.
"In this way, we are the most normal."
The man in a tuxedo pulled the girl in the evening dress to prevent them from being separated by the sea of people.
Melantha pointed forward and shouted: "There is a circus there!"
Zhou Jinru looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a clown standing on a high platform riding a unicycle, throwing three small orange balls with both hands.
In fact, he agreed to come to the circus with Grani, but now he comes with Melantha first.
There was no need to buy tickets or queue up. They followed the sea of people into the circus. Amidst the noise and noise, they stood under the stage and looked at the trainer who directed the animals to jump through the fire hoop.
"Did you see that street artist who used a long sword to carve fruit? I also did this kind of work in the sitcom."
Zhou Jinru held Melanza's hand tightly. He suspected that if he let go, the girl next to him would rush to the stage, snatch the street performer's sword, and perform a show himself.
"There's a carousel over there."
In order to distract her, Zhou Jinru had to take the initiative, otherwise Rose Sword Saint might really become a member of the circus...
"Okay, let's go make the carousel."
The two walked through the crowd and headed towards the carousel, but because there were too many tourists around, they couldn't ride it for a while, so they had to go to a nearby cold drink stand to buy some ice cream.
"Two ice creams."
"OK."
Zhou Jinru said a few words casually, reached for his wallet, and when he was taking out money, he happened to raise his head and saw the owner of the ice cream stand:
A pair of white fluffy long ears stand on top of his head, with black hairpins hanging from his ears. A hat with a strawberry pattern is worn on his head, and he wears an apron with cute animal patterns.
"why you?!"
"why you?!"
The two said in unison.
Melanza was instantly alert and discovered that standing behind the mobile ice cream truck was actually Shuangxing, a cadre of the Integration Movement, or Shuangxing in disguise!
She subconsciously reached out to touch the sword and swiped her fingers in the air a few times before she realized that she was wearing an evening dress and not carrying a weapon at all, and it was inappropriate to take out a weapon in such an occasion.
"What are you looking for? Have you ever seen an ice cream seller?"
Someone who was transporting ingredients looked over and subconsciously turned around to run.
"Frost Leaf! Come here!"
Zhou Jinru shouted, which scared the little fox, who was also wearing an apron, to shrink his neck.
Ice cream master Shuangxing's eyes became more and more evil, and he secretly clenched his fists.
"PhD……"
Shuangye made an inaudible sound and looked at him almost pleadingly.
Zhou Jinru glanced at the two of them several times and cleared his throat: "Let's get a discount."
boom!
Shuangxing punched the counter, banging the pots and pans, and said in a deep voice: "There will be no discounts for small businesses!"
