Throne Steps

Unsurprisingly, the person Li Chen was looking for was not found.

Even though Yulia notified the people up and down the mountain in a unique way within 1 minute, and even notified Zhuoya Qiuming's black swan within a quarter of an hour, there was still no Li Chen on the heavily guarded thoroughfare and among the crowd who were constantly being searched. someone to look for.

"It's really fantastic!" Fudexi, who came to monitor this matter in a hurry, squinted his eyes irritably, he felt that the black swan was being provoked, "It's been less than 10 minutes, and the person can't be found, and he can even spread his wings Fly?"

"Okay, dear, don't worry too much." Li Chen comforted, "It's just flying with wings."

Fordhi glanced at him: "What do you mean?"

"We can also suddenly 'fly'..." Li Chen smiled, "Did you forget?"

Fudexi was stunned for a moment, and said in a daze: "...you mean 'teleportation'?"

Li Chen smiled meaningfully.

"But isn't it a secret we're keeping to ourselves?!" Furdhi was startled, "Even if it's a black swan, not everyone..."

"Hush—" Li Chen interrupted him, leading him to the table, "Come and see."

Furdhi walked over and saw a piece of black wrapping paper spread out on the table, a carefully framed hard-shell book with a sense of age lay inside.Its hard shell has a brown base, and the simple bronzing pattern on the side has already faded away, and there is something like a line of text printed in the middle.Furdhi knew that should be the title, but he didn't know the writing.

"What is this?" he asked.

Li Chen didn't answer, just opened the book casually.The fingertips slid across the pages, and the contents above were displayed in front of Fudexi page by page.

Large and small paragraphs of text are still difficult to understand, but the large and small patterns mixed in it look familiar.Some of them are circular, some are polygonal, and some are difficult to describe the shape; these patterns are densely distributed with even more confusing strokes, because it seems to be very old, and Fudexi can't tell the difference between them. Is the partition already there, or is it caused by deinking.

In general, Verdesi can draw a conclusion.

"Is this... talking about alchemy?"

Although they couldn't read the text, those patterns looked like alchemy formations.

"Probably." Li Chen flipped back to the cover, pointed to a topic that Fudexi couldn't understand, and suddenly came out a series of pronunciations that Fudexi was completely unfamiliar with.

Fordhi was taken aback.

Immediately afterwards, Li Chen explained: "'manipulating time'."

"Wha...!" The translation was too terrifying, and Furdhi was surprised and suspicious, "Are you serious? Manipulating time?! No, wait... How do you know what this means? What language is this?"

"To be honest, I don't even know what language it is called." Li Chen shrugged, "But even if I don't know the name of the tool, it won't affect my use of it, will it?"

He said it so easily that Furdhi's suspicions rose instead of lowered.

Li Chen saw his doubts, and smiled twice: "I said Fudexi, I can save the 'cursed son', let people without any talent use the magic power in the magic crystal, and also understand the 'teleportation array' and 'teleportation array'." Time Reappears'—Is it so unbelievable that such a person can speak a language you don't know?"

"Reappearance of time" is actually a kind of "manipulation of time", and Fudexi reluctantly believed this kind of rhetoric.Then, he found more doubts popping up.

"I need an explanation, if you will."

"Not yet, dear. But on the bright side, you know me best already, don't you?"

Fudexi and the elves know that Li Chen is also a "necromancer" in a sense, so Lichen is willing to share this secret with Fudexi a little.But for now, that's where the secrets are shared.

Fordhi raised his eyebrows: "You don't even know about Clement?"

"do not know."

"May I ask who gave you these things? I heard he called himself 'Old Man'."

"To be honest, the person who sent the book should not be my 'old friend'." Li Chen smiled, "The original owner of this book is."

That person... unexpectedly recognized me, and came to my door!

Li Chen didn't know what he was thinking, silently and slowly turned the pages of the book again, and stopped at the place where there was a bookmark.

At the title of this page, it says "Time Wanders" in a non-common language that Fudexi can't understand.

Li Chen received the book and immediately mobilized Black Swan to secretly find someone, but he kept it a secret after all.

Although he really wanted to retreat and study this book, but he didn't wait for anyone. After sending Fudexi away, he had to go to the theater with the leader to go to the theater with the money.

God knows which nerve of Saenz was wrong, and he actually wanted to arrange to watch a play immediately after Fuzhao Enyan.You know, I didn't watch it every year before, let alone when I just finished my work!

Li Chen complained on the surface, but actually had an answer in his heart.He didn't want to admit the answer, so he had to pretend to be stupid.

Saenz, who met him in Kilan as usual, didn't mind his absent-mindedness, and asked while eating: "You have met a lot of people."

Li Chen choked.He sort of knew why Saenz had to set the meal in the room this time, but can he stop talking about this kind of topic during the meal?Really indigestion.

But he had to reply again: "Yes, I met two elves... and Mrs. Tanya."

Saenz asked, "What did my mother do?"

He asked casually, but Li Chen could hear some anger.Indeed, with his temper, he would definitely be unhappy if someone came in to pry him out of nowhere, even if it was his mother.

"Madam didn't do anything." Li Chen looked at his face, paused, and found that he was still waiting, so he had to continue, "I just had a cup of afternoon tea with Yang Xiaoxiao."

"And Yang Xiaoxiao..." Saenz thought for a while, "Has she discovered the clue of the elves?"

Li Chen was eager to get over the topic of "Tanya inquiring about Yang Xiaoxiao", so he cooperated with the elf and said, "Madam has recognized that the elf's clothes are different. Although we tried our best to conceal it, if she starts to investigate, Tracking elves..."

"You don't need to worry about that." Saenz interrupted him, "The elves have auctioned a handicraft that is unique to the Redia Alliance, but no one can find the trace of the seller, which shows that the elves have their own security. way of hiding."

Li Chen nodded.

"But even if she noticed the abnormality of the elves, it didn't happen until she arrived at the temple." Saenz suddenly changed the subject again, "Why did she go to the temple?"

Li Chen was taken aback, and subconsciously replied: "I don't know..."

"Li Chen." Saenz looked at him, tapped his knuckles on the table, "I have plenty of ways to make you tell the truth, you know, I just don't want to do that."

Li Chen couldn't avoid it, he lamented in his heart, and replied: "She... probably came to see Yang Xiaoxiao."

"Then?"

"Then, determine if she's going to be a threat to Ruby."

Saenz didn't know that "Fire Rose" had met Li Chen once in Cervantes' mansion and asked Yang Xiaoxiao once, otherwise Saenz would not have guessed Tanya's purpose.Of course, he also had this kind of speculation before, but Yang Xiaoxiao and Lu Bi were so different, he thought it was ridiculous to compare these two people.Even now that Li Chen has explained Tanya's purpose, Saenz still finds it ridiculous.

"She's afraid that I'll fall in love with Yang Xiaoxiao? Oh my god..." Saenz laughed, "My mother is really more and more fond of whimsical ideas."

Li Chen couldn't comment on his mother in front of Saenz, so he had to keep silent.

But he remembered something again: "Yang Xiaoxiao used to imagine that Mogadishu would favor her. This time Madam went to find her, if she guessed Madam's purpose, she would inevitably think too much..."

Saenz glanced at him: "So what?"

Well, there are countless girls in the Redia Alliance who are willing to marry Saenz, not many of them.

"But..." Saenz laughed again, "It's not bad to have such a shield."

Li Chen really didn't want to know who Saenz used Yang Xiaoxiao as a shield.

Seeing him pretending not to hear, Saenz knew that he would never answer this topic, so he changed the direction and continued to tease him: "I heard that you rushed back to meet those two elves, and there was only one person left. Out of breath?"

Li Chen said helplessly, "I'm just a little anxious..."

"Are you thinking highly of yourself again?" Saenz said and stretched out his hand to grab Li Chen's wrist. Li Chen subconsciously wanted to hide, but he held back forcefully.

He thought: It's better not to resist this stupid thing.

The power of Saenz spread from the place of contact extremely smoothly, and the light magic quickly swept away Li Chen's fatigue.He sighed comfortably: "Actually, I have nothing to do. I will rest on the day I arrive at the temple."

"People were carried up the mountain, and they were fed with water..." Saenz let go of his hand and looked at him, "This is your 'nothing happened', huh?"

Li Chen almost wanted to touch his forehead, he knew what Khorkina was reporting to Saenz.

He had no choice but to explain: "Well, I'm a little bit exaggerated... I just want to hurry up, after all, they were forced to drag them to the temple at that time."

Saenz said: "But they finally participated in Fuzhao Grace."

"That's because they're waiting for Fordhi."

"Details."

To elaborate... Li Chen summed it up in one sentence: "Looking at it, even Fudexi has the blood of the elves on his body, he has to go back."

Saenz still knew something about Fudexi, and when he changed his mind, he immediately guessed: "Can the elves undo his 'curse'?"

Li Chen nodded.

Saenz said: "Since it can be solved, then it can be..."

"I've asked." Li Chen knew what he meant, and replied directly, "It must be of the blood of the elves, and it can only be solved by going to the elves' territory."

Saenz said "Understood", thinking in his heart: It is because of this tacit understanding that people cannot let go.

Wouldn't it be the same as losing a soul if someone who is so close in thought is almost one body?

Saenz said again: "Besides these, is there anything else you want to confess?"

It's not that he can't find out what's going on around Li Chen, but listening to someone's report and hearing what Li Chen himself said are two different things.It is also a pleasure to see Li Chen racking his brains to express what he wants to say, and to hide what he doesn't want to say.

Li Chen looked at him with a calm expression: "No more."

Even with all his strength, he must hide the existence of that book "Manipulating Time"!

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