The dusk outside the window is quiet and soft, dyeing the horizon with a light violet color, spreading under the vast sky like a soft watercolor painting.
The afterglow shines through the ancient oak window lattice into the library, immersing this ocean of knowledge in a unique atmosphere that is both dark and warm.
A blond girl as delicate as a doll sits on a crescent-shaped seat. The young man opposite was surrounded by the mess scattered on the ground. The two looked at each other in a subtle confrontation, and seemed to fall into silence at the same time.
The silence just flowed silently.
This scene seemed inexplicably strange and harmonious.
"Vivian, nice to meet you... You speak Chinese fluently. Have you been to China?"
After a moment of silence, Xia Zhi seemed to have finally returned to reality from his distant thoughts. He raised his slender index finger, lightly scratched his cheek, and hesitantly showed an embarrassed yet polite expression.
It was just obvious that although he tried hard to act like "nice to meet you", he was not very successful.
It's not that he can't manage his expressions well, nor that his psychological quality is bad. The main reason is that the impact of this unfolding is a bit strange, no less than the feeling of trying to communicate with the time traveler before, but in turn scaring the other person away.
After all, it’s really weird——
It was obvious that he was the weak side, but as a result, the extraordinary being who could travel across the world was scared away as soon as he opened his mouth...
The opposite person is obviously a foreign girl, with blond hair and blue eyes, as delicate as a doll, but not only can she understand her own words, but she can also speak fluent Chinese...
——Well, if that’s all, it’s nothing.
After all, among the Wai Guo Ren whom Xia Zhi knew, there were also many who spoke Chinese very well. This was not surprising and was nothing to worry about.
But the problem is...
The time is wrong and the place is wrong.
Because in Xia Zhi's opinion, he should have successfully passed through the "door", so he should have arrived in a different world, right? Although you were forced to ride the bus, and you got on the bus first without paying the ticket, you still got the ride, right?
But why...
The first person I met in another world...
Will be able to talk to myself in such fluent Chinese...
The moment he noticed this problem, his excitement and excitement quickly turned into anxiety. He subconsciously thought about several possibilities, and his heart sank uncontrollably. Because the first thing that comes to mind is naturally that his plan has failed——
For example, if he failed to escape successfully...
Although the spatial coordinates have changed, he has not actually escaped, he has just changed locations on this planet...
And so on.
Thinking of this, Xia Zhi felt heavy in his heart. Although he didn't want to become a pessimist, the countless cycles had tortured him so much that he no longer had any expectations for the future.
How can such a person be optimistic?
Naturally, as soon as something goes wrong, you will subconsciously think about the worst.
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“Am I fluent in Chinese?”
The girl named Vivian raised her slender eyebrows and looked at the strange visitor who suddenly broke in before her with a more peculiar look.
After coming to the fairy country, she has the highest level of "fairy eyes" and has seen a lot of lies.
After all, in this world, in this cruel fairy country, in order to survive, every fairy has to abandon its natural instincts, and lies have naturally become an indispensable strategy for maintaining survival.
Not to mention anything else, even the Rain Clan, which gave her shelter, could not escape from this established order. ——Otherwise, how can we conceal her true identity and protect her existence?
Even though they were scared, the Rain Clan still felt pity for Vivian, so they chose the path of protecting the fairies in the paradise.
Vivian also understood this clearly, feeling the tenderness of the fairies in the Land of Rain, and grew up honestly.
Today, she has learned a lot. She is no longer confused about everything in Britain. She has also changed from the initial instinctive rejection and disgust to lies, concealment and other phenomena to a rational acceptance.
Things that exist objectively must be fairly recognized and allowed.
Vivian believes that this is necessary if she wants to save Britain and describe the ideal country of her dreams.
Therefore, the girl didn't really care about Xia Zhi's "Nice to meet you". She knew that this person had no ill intentions and was just being perfunctory at most. What really surprised her was the sentence that followed——
Does this person think she is speaking Chinese?
It sounds strange.
But in her field of vision, this sentence was not a lie.
"Yes, he ranks first among the people I know. His articulation is clear and his pronunciation is accurate..." The uninvited guest opposite seemed to be taking the opportunity to look at the environment of the library. He nodded and said.
This sentence seems to be sincere.
The girl frowned and found that the other party was actually very sincere at this time and really thought so.
the other side--
Xia Zhi also frowned secretly. He couldn't see any more useful information from the style of this library.
It’s not that the styles don’t match, but that there are too many styles that match, and the devil is hidden in the details. The more he looked at it, the more strange he felt. He felt that the library was like a hodgepodge, from the architecture to the layout, to the tables, chairs, equipment, and even decorative patterns...
They all seem to be the product of some random mixture.
It's as if the craftsmen who made them didn't think about other issues at all, and just copied and pasted them here and there, and then mixed them together.
Some of them have good chemical reactions and are original and unique; but more of them appear nondescript and inexplicable.
Xia Zhi twitched the corner of his mouth, glanced at the ground again, and simply started to clean up naturally. He picked up all the books on the ground one by one, as if he was seriously and consciously cleaning up the mess he had made earlier.
Although he was not sure about the girl's attitude, she seemed to be quite calm at the moment.
After the initial shock, he sat there quietly, looking neither scared nor worried, with only curiosity and inquiry in his emerald green eyes.
No matter what happens, it's fine, as long as the other party doesn't waver, delaying time will definitely be beneficial to him... Xia Zhi realized this, so he naturally wanted to take advantage of it decisively, so he also shamelessly pretended to be natural.
The books scattered on the floor exude the atmosphere of books accumulated over time.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to pick them up, Xia Zhi quickly checked the books and then narrowed his eyes slightly.
do not know!
Completely unfamiliar words.
In his huge language library and font library, there is no relevant search record, which is undoubtedly a completely different system of text.
This is undoubtedly good news, but combined with so many clues so far, it has also succeeded in making Xia Zhi's thinking a little confusing. He stroked his fingers quickly, and a thought suddenly popped into his mind - could this be a parallel world?
Blinking her eyes, Xia Zhi raised her head, looked at the girl opposite who was frowning and thinking about something, and asked: "By the way, Miss Vivian, where did you learn Chinese?"
"..."
"..."
"Why are you asking this?" The girl tilted her head and did not answer directly immediately.
"Just...simply curious." The young man opposite didn't know why, but his face showed an imperceptible change in an instant, and his tone also took on a subtle strangeness. He looked directly at the girl.
"I just went to China to learn it."
Vivian pursed her lips and said softly. The other party seems to be very interested in this. If this is the case, let’s take a look at it from this point of view.
She pretended to be indifferent and lowered her eyes, flipping through a few pages of the book in her hand, her heartbeat quietly speeding up.
Although she has been able to treat lies objectively, this is the first time she has lied.
A very strange experience, a bit nervous.
It was an unexpected choice, but she wanted to try it, and it wasn't done on a whim.
Because this person is obviously not a resident of this world. Although he doesn't know what he can bring, he definitely belongs to "life outside the realm". This is her understanding of this kind of heterogeneous existence that seems to come directly from the original memory and inherited knowledge of the planet.
This is very important.
If I want to save Britain and protect this fairy country...
Maybe you need this help.
"..."
"..."
Silence, the spread of silence.
The girl raised her eyes again and found that the young man opposite was still staring at her, with a very subtle strange expression on his face.
After a moment, he sighed: "It turns out that's not the case..."
For a moment, Vivian intuitively noticed a sharp tacit understanding, her cheeks were instantly stained with red, and her whole body became stammering: "伱...you...I...I'm not... "
Do you really have no talent for lying?
Is my flaw so obvious?
It was not easy for her to lie for the first time, but she was found out in person. This fact made her feel ashamed and angry.
Xia Zhi twitched her lips and explained kindly: "I can read lips..."
This was also one of the skills he maxed out when he was extremely bored. Usually it is rarely useful, and it may even cause some minor troubles inadvertently. For example, when watching dubbed movies, he will always subconsciously capture and analyze the subtle movement information of the character's lips.
Then he will compare what he understands through lip reading with the dialogue he actually heard.
It took me some time to correct this troublesome little habit.
So until now, he suddenly discovered the clue inadvertently, and after confirming it again, he suddenly understood a strange fact - the other party was not actually speaking Chinese at all!
"..."
The girl bit her lower lip gently, somewhat unwillingly.
However, before she could say anything else, footsteps could be heard outside, from far to near, and there seemed to be a lot of people.
Oops!
Xia Zhi's heart trembled, why at this critical time!
He glanced at the shameful and angry look on Vivian's face, and suddenly felt that he might be cut into pieces next.
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(PS: Signed...)
(PS: It’s finally released... I deleted, deleted, changed, and changed in a hurry...)
(PS: I don’t even know what else is wrong, what can be deleted or modified, so I went to the editor to release it... I heard from the editor that it should be because of the recent audit convulsions, there are quite a lot of this kind of situation)
