This fountain is large, at least twenty meters in diameter. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The info is snow-white and is made of precious stones. Surrounded by towering trees, the sun shines through the forest, like a fairyland.

Lantra sat down by the fountain and explained, "This is no ordinary spring, it has a nice name, it is called the Fountain of Truth. It has magical powers, connects people's souls, and allows people to see their own hearts. It is because of this spring that the central park is isolated."

As he spoke, Rand reached out and took some spring water and drank it, and then gently touched it into the spring with his index finger, and the water rippled and rippled, forming one beautiful ring after another.

The surface of the water began to glow. The light gently spreads out from the center of the circle to the outside, making people feel very warm and happy, and the irritable mood is calmed down.

Lant looked at me gently, and his tone was surprisingly calm: "I know a lot of unhappy things have happened to you these days, but it's only temporary. Don't pay attention to what my father just said, he's always been like this......"

"It's fine. I won't care. I whispered, smiling wryly at our worries about completely different things.

"You just don't care about anything." Rand looked up: "Have you ever wondered what you really want?" What do you want to do? You've been like that all these years, not caring about anything. That's not bad, but we can't go on like this for the rest of our lives. When we graduate, I will give you a ...... at the Foreign Affairs Academy."

"It's too early after graduation! What to bring up now? I interrupted Rand, feeling a little mixed in my heart. Fortunately, Rand was not angry, he saw that I was a little impatient, but smiled: "Okay, if you don't mention it, don't mention it!" By the way, now let's try it for you! Maybe this fountain of truth will tell you exactly what you want. ”

I nodded, and did what Rand had just done, but nothing else happened except the waves on the water. I did it again and still nothing happened.

Rand didn't seem to expect this, muttering to himself, "How can this be, nothing like this has ever happened before......"

"Forget it!" I was a little discouraged, but I felt warm in my heart, after all, it was good that Rand could think of bringing me here to relax my mind.

Just as I was about to pull Rand back to turn back, the spring suddenly began to glow, and then a surge surged into the air, three or four meters high, completely different from the one just now.

Then the light became more and more intense, and I felt that I was gradually losing my vision, and my five senses became a little dull. Then the light dimmed again, and although it was still strong, I could already see my surroundings. Somehow, there was nothing around me, not even Rand. I couldn't help but look around for Rand, and then a voice sounded behind me: "Rosa." ”

I looked back and saw a familiar smiling face, and was stunned for a moment: "Catherine? ”

The Catherine in front of me is different from what I remember, not so gloomy and sickly, but more like the state in the portrait, she is full of light, a little bright, very beautiful.

"How are you here, aren't you already dead?" I was a little surprised and blurted out.

Catherine smiled. She suddenly floated into the air, and that's when I realized that her feet were dangling. She said, "I'm dead." ”

"Then why am I seeing you here? Are you my consciousness? I asked.

"Consciousness? Of course not," Catherine smiled, "this is the fountain of truth, a place where people talk to their souls, but you will never have that opportunity, Rosa...... I know that if Rand trusts you, he will bring you here one day, so I have been waiting for you here. ”

Listening to her words, I reacted a little: what is this she waiting for me? I guess she sealed some of her power in me before she died, and now she has released it again through the fountain of truth.

After I figured out what was going on, I felt a little anxious, and there were some things that I wanted to figure out too much. I grabbed her arm, tried to keep her calm tone and asked, "Why did you do that to me seven years ago?" What is the curse you have placed on me? I ...... "I didn't expect that before I could finish speaking, Catherine suddenly hugged me, and I was startled by her sudden behavior, and my mind suddenly went blank.

I had the impression that she was thin, tall and weird, and that she was a terrible person, but now, seven years later, she has become petite and weak in her arms. Although she was Rand's mother, she was only twenty-six or seventeen years old, and it was hard for me to see her as an elder.

Catherine squeezed my arm and whispered, "You're hurt, but you're also grown, Rosa." My heart was beating fast as she had done when she had been a child, and I was worried that she would choke my neck as hard as she had done before, but she didn't. By the time I could react, a kiss had landed on my forehead. She whispered in my ear, "I'm sorry, I know you've had a hard time all these years, but as a mother, that's all I can do." I have nothing left, and I can't let my children become like me...... But I don't have time. The time is almost up, and it's all up to you...... Don't blame me for being ruthless, because I don't have a choice. Her body began to slowly crumble into sand and disappear.

I sighed and said, "What do you want me to do?" ”

"Protect yourself, protect Rand." Catherine took a deep breath: "Otherwise, you know what will happen." By the end of the sentence, she had vanished completely.

The surrounding light began to fade, and the surrounding scenery began to change back to its original appearance. Rand nudged me, "What do you see?" Okay? ”

I still haven't recovered from my state of distraction, and my reaction is a little slow, so I just made up some random words to prevaricate. Rand didn't ask anything.

When we came back, we went back the same way, but I don't know if it was because of the reverse direction, but I felt that the scenery in the tunnel was a little different from when we came. As I walked, I reminisced about the scene I had just seen Catherine and the kiss she had left on my forehead.

The feeling of Catherine holding me just now is very wonderful, is that what a mother feels? Since I've never met my mother, I don't really know what kind of relationship it is, so I can only figure it out by my own imagination. But why did the afterimage of Catherine appear at this time? Does this really mean that something big is going to happen?

I do not know. But the king's body is really not good, and the capital will no longer be as calm as before.

As we descended, a secret door suddenly appeared in front of us. Because the door was hidden, we found out. I was a little confused: "Rand, did we have this door when we came here just now?" ”

Rand shook his head: "I just looked at the portrait on the wall and didn't notice it. I couldn't help but glance through the door and saw that there seemed to be a lot of space inside, and there must be another use.

Rand said: "I've been here many times before and I haven't found another place like this, why don't we go in and have a look now?" ”

I hesitated slightly, but nodded.

The two of us turned to the door of the dark room, and since there was no light inside, we took an oil lamp from the wall before entering.

Once inside, we found that the chamber was very large, with a cage made of iron rods thicker than an arm. The cage was more than half a man's weight from the ground, and it was littered with arm-thick chains, both intact and broken, most of which had been corroded. Outside, all kinds of strange-shaped tools and white bones were piled up in a mess, and some of them were still stuck with finger-thick steel nails. Dark red mottles can be faintly seen on the ground, after a hundred years of precipitation. There was no smell in the room anymore, and the flesh was decaying, but the traces and blood of the struggles of the people had never disappeared with the passage of time. Since only the bones remained, the chamber didn't even look dirty. It seems that this was supposed to be a cage.

I looked at the scars on the bones and imagined how sinful they had been before they died, and how inhuman they had been.

I approached the cage and found that there was also a complete skeleton inside. Something seemed to glow between the white bones. The iron door was not locked, but because of the rust, it was very heavy to push and made a loud noise.

I walked down the stairs and crouched down to grope among the bones, and in a blink of an eye, I found the source of the glow, which turned out to be a golden key inlaid with precious stones. I showed the key to Rand through the iron fence, Rand squatted down outside the iron cage and put the oil lamp aside, took the key and looked at it carefully, and said with some confusion: "Why do I think this key is familiar?" ”;