Whispering Poems

Chapter 3199 The Returning Doctor

"This way!"

Dorothy waved to Shad at the bedroom door, and after Shad took the red-haired girl out, he realized that everyone was in the living room.

All the furniture in the living room had been moved against the walls, and the carpet was now covered with thick mattresses that were joined together, with quilts, pillows and light blankets scattered around the mattresses.

The fire in the fireplace is brighter in this "old dream" about home than in reality, which seems to indicate that Shade has a very deep memory of the fireplace. The warm firelight blends with the wonderful background light that permeates the old dream, making the home at this moment look even more hazy and dreamy.

Dorothy gave Shad a gentle push, causing him to take two steps forward, kick off his slippers, and come to the mattress.

Luvia, Dorothy, Resia, Carina, Vanessa, Megan/Audrey, Sylvia, Danister, eight girls approached Shad until they surrounded him in the center. Purple, golden, green and rose-red eyes looked at him together, and then everyone took a step back in tacit understanding, stepped on the mattress with bare feet, lowered their heads slightly, pulled the hem of their skirts with both hands, stepped back with their left foot behind their right heel, and put their toes on the ground, and then kept this posture and bowed to Shad very elegantly while pulling their skirts.

This gave Shade the illusion that he was becoming some kind of strange sacrifice.

Then, strips of skirts fell onto the mattress in the firelight of the fireplace, and the warm yellow light illuminated the jade statues that looked like glowing mutton-fat jade.

They laughed and danced around Xia De, but also seemed to be setting up something. Until the eight girls gathered inward again, completely sandwiching him in the middle. In that warm and soft feeling, Xia De only felt that his eyes went dark, as if something covered his eyes.

He completely lost his sense of sight at this moment, and even his powerful perception was severely suppressed. However, his ears could still hear their laughter, and his body could still feel their gradually becoming chirpy:
"We're going to try tonight to see if you can tell the difference between us."

Leicia's voice sounded from behind, and Shade felt her biting his ear:

"Choose one from eight?"

He didn't care who was in front of him, he just reached out and grabbed the girl and held her in his arms. His pajamas had been torn off by someone, and just as he was about to take action, he noticed that the girl he was holding had broken free from his arms.

Although the girl holding him from behind did not change, the voice changed from Leicia to Vanessa:
"No, not one out of eight."

The Witch of the Earth corrected with a smile, followed by a whisper, as if everyone was encouraging Danister to say the last sentence. The administrator was finally infected by the atmosphere and whispered in Shade's ear:

"It's one of two, twenty-four. Shad, can you tell us apart?"

The blindfolded stranger noticed the loophole:
"Wait a minute, there are actually nine people including Megan and Audrey, and there is no difference between the two of them. If they put tongue where it shouldn't be, it will be difficult for me to guess."

He heard the girls' laughter, either shy or bold, and this time it was Karina's voice that came from behind him:
"Shad, this is your own problem."

It is worth mentioning that although he is alone and his opponents this time are eight terrifying people, because of the wonderful pink series of small magic such as "empathy", plus the application of various wonderful space powers, Shade will not neglect anyone - the world with extraordinary powers is indeed very good.

"Shad, use your magic to turn into a giant again~"

【Stranger, you have some understanding of the "old days". 】

(Little Mia is running.)

As the festivities of the year-end festival gradually faded, as the girls said goodbye to Shade and left Tobesk one after another, and as the new year of 1855 gradually got on track, Shade, who was gradually emerging from the afterglow of the year-end festival, was most worried about whether Dr. Schneider would be able to return safely before the exam week.

The doctor's absence was a formal leave, and Xia De was responsible for temporarily taking on the position of team leader during the doctor's absence. In fact, there was nothing to do during the entire year-end festival, and on the second day after the year-end festival, which was the first day of the birth month in 1855, Thursday, the college sent the official examination date notice.

The Tobysk group was assigned an exam date on Sunday of that week, the fourth day of the first month.

This date was not particularly urgent for the four people who had already prepared. They even had enough time to deal with post-holiday matters - for example, Shade had to accompany the ladies around the city and the countryside, and also see off the ladies who came to visit. But for Dr. Schneider, who was currently in Winterfell, no one could say for sure whether he could return on time.

After receiving the notice from the college on Thursday, Xia De accompanied the girls to form a "travel group" in and outside the city. They watched the grand New Year's parade together and went to Karina's farm outside the city to ride horses.

Starting from Friday, Shade saw them off one by one. When Sivi and Miss Elizabeth, who were the last to leave, also set out on their way back on Saturday morning, the maids restored No. 6 St. Teresa's Square to the way it was when Shade lived alone. No. 7 St. Teresa's Square next door was temporarily closed, leaving only the "door" from No. 6, but Shade didn't think he would use that side.

Because he was really worried that the doctor would miss the exam, Shad even took a carriage to Dr. Schneider's psychological clinic in the east side of the city on Saturday afternoon, but the doctor on duty and the maids in the clinic said that Bill Schneider had not returned.

Shad waited in the clinic until six in the evening before leaving. He expressed his concerns to Dorothy while having dinner with her:

"If the doctor doesn't show up by the time the exam starts tomorrow, I'll have to ask for leave for him."

Because of their different living environments, correspondence ring sorcerers are allowed to take leave for important matters such as exams, but this means they can only get the lowest grade in the year-end evaluation. Moreover, because correspondence students cannot retake the exam, the annual upgrade exam can only be postponed to the end of the next year, which will seriously interfere with their learning progress.

Shad even thought about asking Danister to hold another exam for the doctor alone, such as letting the doctor go to areas with later exam times and take the exam together with ring warlocks from other groups. This way, it would not be considered a complete violation of the student management regulations.

Fortunately, early on Sunday morning, when Xia De had just washed the breakfast bowl and was about to clean up to welcome the arrival of others, he heard someone ringing the doorbell downstairs. He walked downstairs in slippers and opened the door. The blue-eyed middle-aged psychologist standing in the snowy background smiled and waved at him. Xia De breathed a sigh of relief:

"Doctor, I almost thought you would miss the exam."

The doctor seemed to be in a good mood:
"I said before I left that I would definitely come back in time. After I received the letter you wrote to me informing me of the exam date, I immediately set out to rush back. I got off the train at ten o'clock last night. Look, I brought all the travel souvenirs for you. There are really many travelers in Winterfell around the end of the year, and the tourism business there is quite booming."

"Come in first. The exam starts at nine o'clock. They should be here soon. Doctor, how are you preparing? I hope everything goes well this year."

The doctor came here early, on the one hand to let Shade not worry, and on the other hand of course to talk to him alone about the gains of this trip to the north.

After Shade prepared the tea, the two sat down on the sofa in front of the fireplace. When Shade asked if the trip went well, the doctor immediately covered his forehead:
"I won't tell you about the relic going out of control. In a few days, you will probably hear about the story of the ancient alchemical killer puppet that revived in the northern glacier. If you hear someone else tell a story about a ring sorcerer who can summon a pillar of fire in a glacial environment, that person is most likely me."

"Let's not talk about that. How about the year-end festival celebration in Winterfell?"

"It's quite good. The ice sculptures and ice lanterns of Winterfell are combined. When night falls, the atmosphere is something you can never experience in Tobesk."

The two chatted for a while about the details of the doctor's trip, and then the topic got down to business:
"So how's the investigation into the demon going?"

"The records in the Soul Tales Collection are true. I left Winterfell last Sunday and entered the uninhabited glacier area in the far north. It took me three days and three nights to find the seal under the permafrost according to the records in the book and my own perception of the power of demons and hunters."

"Wait a moment, doctor."

Xia De raised his hand to interrupt the doctor's story and asked in disbelief:
"That book records the location of the seal in the Third Age. How did you find it in the Sixth Age? I mean, the topography of the material world in the Sixth Age is very different from that in the Fifth Age. In the Fifth Age, the material world had five main continents: east, west, south, north, and center."

The doctor shook his head.

“In fact, I didn’t know how to find it according to the terrain of the Third Age, but there were illustrations in the story collection. I matched the shape of the glacier depicted in the illustrations with the current world map and found that the place was very similar to a certain area north of Winterfell, so I gave it a try.

I actually have some guesses about the changes in the topography of the material world in each era. It has been confirmed that with the change of eras, the total area of ​​the material world is shrinking, whether it is the ocean area or the land area. The changes in the topography are definitely not disorderly and chaotic. It is more like only a part of the world in the previous era is completely preserved, while most of the rest of the area disappears directly, and a small part merges with the remaining world, so that the next era's material world has a completely different topography and layout. "

(End of this chapter)