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After Pei Xiang settled Esfar properly, he raised his head and happened to meet the disgusted gaze of witch Alice.A subtle and complicated feeling suddenly appeared in her heart, and after a while, she continued to ask:

"You met the human Alice near the potion storage room, what happened after that?"

Witch Alice hooked the corners of her lips, and replied in a cold voice:

"Even if I lost a horn, it was more than enough to deal with such a defenseless little girl. In addition, I was very suspicious of her at the time, so I directly gave her the sea mushroom specially cultivated outside the pharmacy."

"Cultivated specially? Is there any special effect?"

"Hey, it's a cute little thing that can induce hallucinations. It only takes one flower to make a fragile human being obedient and willingly hand over the thread of memory."

Hearing the word "memory thread", Pei Xiang's eyes flickered slightly, and she asked Asfar in her mind:

"If someone handed over the thread of memory, will he or she completely forget that memory?"

Esfar gave a "hmm" and added:

"There is an ancient spell that can help the thread of memory return to the owner of the memory, but that spell is very remote."

Pei Xiang nodded slightly, and at the same time thought to himself that the human Alice should have lost that memory forever, because the witch Alice obviously wouldn't be so kind and return the memory thread back intact.

When Pei Xiang and Esfar communicated through the contract, the story of the witch Alice was still going on, just listen to her narration:

"I saw some truths in the thread of memory floating out of human Alice. I knew that 'Helena' was actually a human man named Heqiu, and I knew... Before Heqiu came to rescue Alice, he accepted Bo The mission secretly assigned by the Holy See of Laiguo requires him to replace His Majesty's healing potion with a bottle of God-given elixir of salvation, bah, it's actually a despicable and shameless poison.

"I also saw, huh, I saw He Qiu mercilessly cut off my horn after I was unconscious, and then opened my pendant space with excitement. I saw He Qiu found the purple conch The key, and asked Alice to go back to the mainland with him. Otherwise, Alice's relatives will definitely fall into great pain, and will be despised and spurned by everyone, because their daughter will fall in love with a sea clan..."

Pei Xiang raised his eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "He Qiu is threatening Alice? If he doesn't say a few words after returning, no one will know why human Alice stayed in the deep sea."

Witch Alice froze for a moment, then sneered indifferently and said:

"Maybe, but I didn't care about those things at the time. Because I suddenly realized that although He Qiu is hateful, those behind-the-scenes masterminds who ordered Her Qiu to hurt His Majesty Asfar are even more hateful!

"The potion that He Qiu took to disguise himself as a woman, the potion that He Qiu made me unconscious, and the potion that He Qiu prepared to poison His Majesty, each of them is extremely powerful. They are definitely not ordinary goods, nor are they ordinary. No, I can be sure that there were no such powerful potions on the mainland before. Otherwise, our Sea Clan would have heard the news a long time ago.

"I think this is a great conspiracy, perhaps, the battle between His Majesty and the giants of the abyss is part of the conspiracy.

"What a coincidence, His Majesty will take some kind of special potion only when he is injured in a place like the abyss to drive away the damage caused by the devilish energy of the abyss. And before Heqiu entered the deep sea, he actually prepared that kind of potion in advance. A substitute for a potion - another poison that is sufficiently fake! Oh, what a 'coincidence'.

"Once I think about this, I know that I should find out all the culprits for His Majesty, and I should avenge His Majesty! Only in that way, and only in that way, can I make up for the mistakes I have made, and I am qualified I beg Your Majesty's understanding."

After the witch Alice finished speaking in one breath, the room was quiet for a moment.

The breeze with the fragrance of flowers slipped by the open door, but did not come in as a guest.

Asfar, who was sitting in Pei Xiang's palm, changed his sitting position, and finally asked a question on his own initiative. Of course, he asked Pei Xiang to ask him through a contract.

"Amy, help me ask Alice, why did she refine her horn into a dagger and connect to my sealed place?"

Pei Xiang nodded, and relayed Esfar's question to the witch Alice.

Hearing that the Lord of the Sea Clan personally asked this question, the witch Alice, who had just looked resentful and sad, suddenly took a deep breath, and she became excited all of a sudden.

She looked straight at the dagger in Pei Xiang's hand, and said eagerly and sincerely:

"Your Majesty, I didn't mean to disturb your peace. I just wanted to do my best to welcome you back as soon as possible. Before that, I overheard an important prophecy. According to the content of the prophecy, there is a The method can allow you to leave the abyss earlier. Your Majesty, I am eager to tell you all the secrets I know, so I connected to your sleeping place without permission. Moreover, I refined the horn bone into a dagger, and also about the prophecy."

"Prophecy?" Pei Xiang's eyes turned slightly, and he said puzzledly: "Alice, you have mentioned the word 'prophecy' many times, one moment you say 'prophecy' is absurd and abhorrent, it is a deceitful trick of human beings, and the other moment you are convinced by 'prophecy' No doubt, it's kind of weird."

Witch Alice reluctantly gave Pei Xiang a look, then looked at the dagger eagerly again, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Your Majesty, I have knocked the old magician from the Bole Kingdom into a coma, and the patrols around the Holy See are so powerful that they won't find any abnormalities in a short time. But this is the Holy See of humans, full of intrigues and tricks. Can we Get out of here first, and then let me elaborate on the prophecy?"

Pei Xiang knew that this proposal made some sense, and it sounded like a very safe approach.However, the really safe premise is that the witch Alice is completely credible, and she is harmless to herself.

Thinking of the tragedy of the little mermaid and the dagger that was given away, Pei Xiang tapped the magic circle on the ground with his toe, hesitating a little.

Esfar stopped her directly:

"Don't leave the magic circle first, the reason why Alice is called a witch is because she acts according to her own moods, and sometimes she will use unscrupulous means to achieve her goals, and she is also extremely stubborn.

"She chose to 'exchange' the daggers to the little mermaid's sisters, and induced the little mermaid to kill the human prince. It must be a big picture. Maybe the key to the prophecy lies in the little mermaid. Now you use the little mermaid to kill the human prince. The mermaid's body is also her target, so don't leave the safe place easily."

Pei Xiang's heart warmed up.She sincerely appreciated Asfar's willingness to put herself in her shoes.Even though the witch Alice has been hinting that the so-called prophecy can help the Lord of the Sea Clan get out of trouble as soon as possible, but he still does not ignore the safety of his friends.

Keeping his gratitude in his heart, Pei Xiang expressed his position through contract communication:

"Indeed, we have guessed before that the human Alice may have married Heinsey later and became the ancestor of the mermaid princesses. And the witch Alice tried every means to send the important dagger to the descendants of the human Alice so that she could use it Killing the beloved prince with a dagger, I always feel that this seemingly strange thing is related to that prophecy.

"No matter what, I want to listen to the prophecy before deciding how to deal with the witch Alice. Esfar, if it turns out that I and her are destined to become life and death enemies, then I probably have to act first .”

Esfar said lightly: "What kind of prophecy is not important. I can leave the abyss with my own strength and become stronger. I don't need to sacrifice you."

Pei Xiang smiled, and couldn't help touching Esfar's hand lightly.Esfar looked up at Pei Xiang, his eyes were quiet and deep. After a while, he got up and flew away from Pei Xiang's palm, stopped at her fingertips, and reached out to touch her.

The witch Alice on the opposite side saw that after Pei Xiang was quiet for a while, she suddenly played a game with her contracted elf, and couldn't help curling her lips.

"Little girl, what does His Majesty say?"

Pei Xiang shook the dagger, smiled slightly and said:

"His Majesty Asfar said that he hopes to hear you talk about the prophecy here, as well as the cause and effect of the prophecy that you overheard. By the way, in view of my friendship with the little mermaid princess Amy, I also want to know, you Why must she use this dagger to stab Prince Lancelot in the heart?"

Hearing Pei Xiang's reply, the witch Alice frowned, but she thought of the master of the sea clan behind Pei Xiang, so she held back her bad temper and said coldly:

"Since it is His Majesty's intention, then I will say it here. Of course, if someone breaks in and disturbs me later, I will definitely not show mercy. Little human girl, don't worry about the lives and I'm right, I can't beat and cry."

Pei Xiang raised his eyebrows, neither saying yes nor no, just staring at the witch Alice with a smile, waiting for her to explain.

Witch Alice pursed her lips, deliberately slowed down and said:

"After checking the memory of the human Alice, I knocked her unconscious and threw her in the coral bushes, and then quickly ran into the potion storage room. There, instead of seeing His Majesty, I found Heqiu who had passed out .

"I also fed Heqiu a sea mushroom, intending to check his memory and find the mastermind behind it, but unfortunately, Heqiu's memory is protected by a very powerful magic, and the relevant memory threads cannot be extracted at all.

"In addition to my disappointment, I am even more convinced that this is a huge conspiracy. In order to investigate the truth, I took some high-level transformation and camouflage potions from the pharmacy, and collected the hair and nails of human Alice, and then Transform yourself into her image."

Hearing this, Pei Xiang slightly opened his eyes wide.

"You pretended to be a human Alice? Wait, according to those hero legends, Heqiu successfully rescued his sweetheart and returned to the motherland with Alice... So, you are the one who returned to Bolai with Heqiu? And the human beings Alice was left in the deep sea?"

"Of course," the witch Alice's brows flashed a smug look, obviously very proud of her original plan, "If I hadn't chosen to go back to Bole Country with Heqiu, how could I have gotten that crucial prophecy?"

"You travel together all the way, accompany you day and night, and He Qiu didn't realize that your sweetheart has changed?" Pei Xiang sighed.

"I pretended to be a sad girl who missed her lover. I cried or sighed along the way. Anyway, whenever Heqiu wanted to talk to me a few more words, I would say that I miss Heinsey so much, and it hurts so much. Oh, a farewell to my lover forever Isn't it reasonable that the lovelorn girl has changed? He Qiu is jealous and guilty, and he doesn't have the extra mental energy to doubt and distinguish anything."

Pei Xiang nodded slightly, complimented the witch Alice's intelligence, and asked casually:

"Didn't that human Alice return to her hometown? Will she disrupt your plan?"

Witch Alice snorted and said:

"I naturally thought of this. Therefore, before leaving the deep sea with the unconscious Heqiu, I fed the human Alice the blood-changing potion, making her lucky to become a mermaid.

"Oh, if I wasn't worried that Heinsey would seek revenge on me and ruin my investigation plan, I would have killed that human Alice who forgot everything. How much I want to make He Qiu die of pain, haha, but , I went back to the deep sea to hide later, and found that Alice still married Heinsey and gave birth to the little mermaid. I was even happier. Because He Qiu lost his sweetheart forever, and the prophecy, the prophecy began to be fulfilled. "

At this time, Pei Xiang did not hide the curiosity on her face. She stared at the witch Alice with burning eyes: "What did the prophecy say?"

"The prophecy says," the witch Alice paused, before slowly speaking word by word, "When Alice's descendants kill the warrior's descendants, the hot blood will soak the bones of the same race, and eventually wake up the sleeping monarch."

After understanding the content of the prophecy, Pei Xiang's thoughts raced, and she immediately connected all the details together, and suddenly said:

"If the prophecy is true, then the little mermaid Amy is the descendant of Alice, and the bones of the same family may refer to this dagger. So, you asked Amy to insert the dagger into Prince Lancelot's chest... So, Lancelot is a descendant of the warrior Hercule?"

Witch Alice's eyebrows were raised high, and her voice sounded a bit harsh at this moment:

"You guessed it right, little girl, Hercule's dirty blood is indeed flowing in that Lancelot's body. Do you know that I have been staring at Hercule and Hercule's descendants all these years. I see Watch him establish a country far away from Burleigh, watch him ascend the throne and marry the queen, watch him pass the throne to his eldest son...

"Oh, how much I want the mermaids in the sea to kill Heqiu's descendants immediately, and use my dagger to stain the blue sea with their blood. But... no, no! I know, I understand, I You can't take the initiative to intervene in this prophecy, that will backfire, maybe change the trajectory of fate, and maybe make His Majesty lose the precious opportunity to leave the abyss as soon as possible.

"So, for 1000 years, I have been enduring the descendants of my enemies to live happily, just for the day when the prophecy is fulfilled. Ha, when that day comes, it will be the perfect moment for me to settle the score."

Pei Xiang really admired the witch Alice this time.To a certain extent, she was really stubborn enough to wait for 1000 years day and night for a prophecy.It is true that the concept of time of the sea people is different from that of human beings. Maybe a sound sleep can last a hundred years, but no matter what, it is not easy.

"You just let your enemy go just because of a prophecy?"

Witch Alice nodded gloomyly, also feeling deeply that she was not easy, she sighed helplessly:

"In order not to change the course of fate, I endured until Heqiu's sons gave birth to sons, and then I cut off his head. However, the archbishop and king of the Bole Kingdom were blessed by the gods. I have been unable to do it. However, although I can't kill them, I can make all the accomplices live in fear and anxiety for the rest of their lives, which can be regarded as recovering some interest. Oh, wait for the day when the prophecy is fulfilled in the future, I will continue to take revenge."

Pei Xiang choked up a little, and found that his standard of "letting go" seemed to be different from that of Witch Alice.

"Are you sure the prophecy is true? Amy didn't insert the dagger into the prince's chest, which doesn't conform to the prophecy."

"Of course the prophecy is true!"

Witch Alice first glared at Pei Xiang who was questioning, and then hurriedly explained to the dagger:

"Your Majesty, please listen to my explanation. Back then, when I followed He Qiu back to Bolai, I planned to secretly kill their archbishop. Oh, it was the treacherous person who secretly ordered He Qiu to murder you.

"That night, after taking the invisibility potion you left behind, I successfully sneaked into the altar of wisdom, just in time to see the archbishop confessing in front of the altar.

"I heard that shameful archbishop saying to himself that when he got the god-given medicine, he came up with a good plan to deal with the Lord of the Sea Clan. But the king of Burleigh at that time asked the archbishop, Using the holy medicine bestowed by the gods to hurt others, will it be rejected by the gods?

"The archbishop comforted the young king, saying that when the gods gave the holy medicine, they only said that this gift was used to help the country of Burleigh resist powerful enemies and overcome difficulties. Therefore, if those holy medicines are used to deal with the Lord of the Sea Clan , It is not a violation of the teachings of God. At the same time, if the Bolai Kingdom can defeat the Lord of the Sea Clan, they will definitely gain great reputation and prestige, and will also be respected and supported by other countries on the mainland.

"When the archbishop came here to confess, Heqiu suddenly appeared. He also heard what the archbishop said to himself, and asked the archbishop in shock, saying that the reason why he agreed to assassinate the Lord of the Sea Clan was because The archbishop told him that the gods gave prophecies.

"In the prophecy fabricated by the archbishop, the gods said that if the lord of the sea clan is not eliminated, the country of Bolai and the entire continent will become a vast ocean. All human beings will be destroyed, and even if they survive, they will become sea creatures. A slave of the Sea Clan, he lost his freedom and dignity. In order to save mankind and his motherland, Heqiu was willing to take the risk of assassinating the leader of the Sea Clan. But he didn't expect that the so-called prophecy of annihilation was the archbishop's lies..."

At this point, witch Alice's eyes showed strong resentment and a trace of fear, and she whispered in the direction of the dagger:

"Your Majesty, in order to appease He Qiu, the archbishop said a lot and analyzed a lot of reasons. Although that person is cunning and despicable, I think some of his views are correct.

"He told Heqiu that using the rare top potion to plot against the Lord of the Sea Clan was actually what the gods meant. Otherwise, why would the gods suddenly give such a precious potion formula? Why would there be someone in it who could pretend to be another The poison of a healing potion happens to be related to the devil energy of the abyss? Why does that powerful potion turn magical creatures into ordinary humans?

"The gods are sympathetic to the world. They don't have the heart to hurt any living beings, but they also want to redeem the weak who are suffering, so they give the holy medicine. If human beings seize this opportunity to save themselves and bravely defeat evil and tyranny with justice, then they will not fail the gods. Compassion and compassion.

"After the archbishop analyzed these principles, Heqiu also listened to it. He apologized to the archbishop, and the archbishop immediately forgave him, and pulled him away from the altar of wisdom. I was so surprised at the time. After staying for a moment, he also forgot the original intention of killing the archbishop.

"When I finally calmed down a bit and was about to leave, a beam of golden light suddenly hung from the top of the Wisdom Altar, and then, a huge white feather fell down, just landing on the place where the archbishop was praying for confession. superior."

Pei Xiang was fascinated by this, and couldn't help asking: "What about after that? What's so magical about that feather?"

Witch Alice cleared her throat and continued:

"When the light beam disappeared, I hurried to the front of the altar, picked up the feathers on the ground and ran. It was not until I was far away from the altar of wisdom that I had time to carefully observe the white feather. After that, I suddenly found that the feather was written in gold. The content of the ancient divine text is the prophecy I just mentioned."

At this time, Pei Xiang finally understood why the witch Alice believed in this prophecy.Because according to the law of magic, false words cannot be written in the golden ancient divine script, and only the truth can leave traces.

"Is the feather still there?"

"No, that feather carried a special power that made me feel very uncomfortable. After I wrote down the prophecy, I destroyed that feather." Witch Alice shook her head.

Pei Xiang murmured and said: "Alice and the warrior were mentioned in the prophecy... If Heqiu is considered a warrior, how can you be sure that 'Alice' is Alice who turned into a mermaid, not yourself?"

Hearing this, Witch Alice brushed her hair, and answered frankly and directly:

"In this world, apart from my fellow clan, who is worthy to be the father of my child? But His Majesty rejected my courtship very early. Alas, if our clan is not willing, we will not give birth to offspring, so , I don't think I'll have an heir."

This explanation made Pei Xiang suddenly gossip.She began to harass Asfar through the contract, asking him if it was true, and what kind of willingness was this "willingness"?

Esfar sighed helplessly, and advised Pei Xiang to deal with the matter in front of him first, and then they would talk about these minutiae when they had free time.

Pei Xiang retorted in his heart, falling in love, getting married and having children is not such a trivial matter.However, the current situation is indeed not suitable for distracted chatting. Calculating the time, in about 10 minutes, someone will definitely find something wrong here.She had to get out of here before someone came to check, and she had to finish the finishing work.

"Why did Heqiu leave the country of Bolai?"

"After I got the prophecy, I was worried that there would be another oracle. At that time, what if the people of Bolai directly killed Heqiu in order to prevent future troubles? Everyone died, and of course there would be no descendants.

"Therefore, I used some lies and tricks to convince Heqiu that the dignitaries of Bolai Kingdom were afraid of Heqiu's current reputation and wanted to kill him. Then, I persuaded Heqiu to leave his hometown and hide his name to find a new home, so as not to One day, he will face his fellow countrymen.

"Heqiu...Although it is hateful, he really loves his country, and because of the misunderstanding I made, he was completely chilled, so he agreed to my proposal, and quietly left the country of Bolai with me.

"Afterwards, Heqiu met many people during the journey, and he gradually had loyalists and followers around him. Those people supported him to become the king of a land. At the same time, he finally gave up on 'Alice' and married Another girl as a bride."