Chapter 12: Lady Karin (Part II)
The whole space seemed to be frozen in the momentum of the gaze, and only the sound of the standing girl bowing her head to pour coffee to the speaker.
Picking up the coffee cup and taking a sip, the speaker put the cup back on the coaster and looked at Ye Zhi quietly, as if waiting for Ye Zhi to speak.
"I'm sorry, but I came to visit Ms. Karin, and I walked into this study for some reason." Ye Zhi bent down and saluted, the suppression in the game was even more exaggerated than in reality, he bent down under pressure and straightened up again, Ye Zhi's forehead was covered with sweat.
"What a polite young man, sit down since you visit me, this study has an indescribable allure for those who study spells, and it is understandable that you will walk in." The man claiming to be Ms. Karin brushed his hand across the table, and a chair gradually grew from the ground.
What did this person just say? Is she Ms. Karin? No, in his memory Lady Karin was a kind old woman, how could she be so young. Although he suspected that this person was not Ms. Karin, out of scruples about the other party's ability, Ye Zhi walked up to the person who called herself Ms. Karin and sat down.
"Are you wondering if Karin isn't a bad old woman? How can you look so young. The person who called herself Karin motioned to the girl standing behind her to pour Ye Zhiya a cup of coffee, "This is the power of forbidden spells, including what happened to you when you came. ”
"Thank you." Out of politeness, Ye Zhi said something to the girl, picked up the cup and took a sip of coffee and put it down, "Forbidden spells? ”
"yes, but you don't need to know much, it's not time for a young person like you to get to know them." Ms. Karin smiled mysteriously and skipped the topic, "What did you come to visit me for?" ”
The matter stopped as soon as he said a sentence or two, it was something that everyone felt very irritated, and he didn't want to anger Karin in front of him, Ye Zhi could only let go of his doubts and look for answers later, and now he answered Karin's question honestly: "That's right, I heard that Ms. Karin is sick, and your granddaughter wants to find a priest, so I took the liberty to visit." ”
"Oh, that's right." Karin nodded understandingly, she did let her granddaughter invite the priest to come as a guest, but the pastor Ye Zhi who came directly to the door was the first.
"How can I help? Or maybe my visit is too presumptuous to disturb your rest. Ye Zhi pondered his words again and again, and decided to say this sentence, whether to continue to develop the plot or be ruthlessly expelled depends on Ms. Karin's words.
"No, I don't bother, I do need a priest's help, and I thank you so much for coming, Mr. Alpha."
"You know me?" Ye Zhi was taken aback, don't mix his data with NPCs, if the identity of Alpha originally intersected with other NPCs, it would be a big trouble.
"I don't know, but I've heard of the fastest person to complete the primary assessment after Jane."
"I see." Ye Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it wasn't for the identity of Alpha, it was not very special before Ms. Karin's words were not said halfway, "Then may I have anything to help you?" Ye Zhi asked again.
"Of course, my husband's priest's robe was originally stored in the cupboard, but when I took it out to clean it recently, I noticed that there was some dirt on the priest's robe that had passed through the Holy Light." Karin suddenly restrained the smile on her face and asked Ye Zhi seriously, "So I want to ask you to help me add a layer of blessing to my husband's priest's robe." ”
"Of course that's fine, but where is your husband's priest's robe?" Ye Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, it was just a blessing technique, but was it really just a blessing technique? Ye Zhi became suspicious again.
"In the collection room on the second floor, I'll ask Kana to take you." The girl behind Karin put down the coffee pot in her hand and carried the corner of her skirt to Ye to perform a court ceremony.
"Lady Karin, I went to the collection room earlier." Ye Zhi hesitated for a while after returning the salute, but still felt that it was better to solve it quickly and go quickly, and greeted Karin, Ye Zhi followed the girl called Kana, Ms. Karin's granddaughter, to the collection room.
Kana took Ye Zhi to walk the stairs behind a door on the platform, the stairs zigzagged downward, Ye Zhi counted as he walked, he counted the steps of the ladder when he went up to the platform, and he also planned to count them when he went downstairs, in case of emergency.
"Here we are." Kana reached out and opened a door, motioning for Haji to enter.
Stepping into the collection room completely, Ye Zhi heard the sound of the door closing behind him, and Kana did not follow.
The room was surrounded by oil paintings, most of which, if Ye Zhi remembered correctly, were portraits of demons that should have been destroyed a long time ago.
Part of the setting of "Parallel" is as follows:
Tens of millions of years ago, several great sages led the army to drive the demons out of this world, so that they could only survive in parallel extradimensional rifts, the peaceful world lasted less than five million years, the power of demons penetrated into the world from the cracks in the world caused by accommodating too many people, various animals underwent mutations, and human beings were eroded and lost their minds and even became bandits, robbers and even zombies.
Because of this anomaly, the world's population has decreased on a large scale, and it has gradually reached a stable state, so that the spatial rift will not become bigger even if it cannot be repaired. In order to survive, find the notes left by the sage before he disappeared after the victory in the battle, learn martial arts magic and how to use the power of the gods.
The people who got the different notes gathered together, chose their own names, and established the academy to teach more people to resist the mutated creatures.
In the records of the history books, most of the demons were driven into the rifts of another dimension, and a small number of demons were still hiding in this world, but when the various academies gradually grew, these small numbers of demons were also constantly destroyed.
Ye Zhi had read a book about the destruction of the portraits left after the demon was destroyed.
After the demon is destroyed, in order to confirm the eradication, the people who participate in the battle often ask the artist to draw the portrait of the demon after the battle and save it in the major academies for backup.
But it was for this reason that something unfortunate happened, because of the portrait of the demon, the painter went mad and died one after another. In desperation, they abandoned the portrait and sealed it up, but did not destroy the existing portrait. The greatest tragedy has arisen from this.
During a test of courage, a few students of the academy who were not determined to enter the place where the portrait of the demon was sealed were tempted, and the remnants of the demon in the portrait betrayed the academy and became the demon's minions, lurking in the academy to cause chaos, triggering one of the worst infighting between the academy at that time.
The infighting between the academies made the strength of the academy drop sharply, and the monsters in the wild actually fought back against the people, and directly attacked the city, and after paying a greater price, the monsters drove out of the city, but the occupation of the human beings has shrunk a lot, and the vitality of the major academies has not recovered until now.
Ye Zhi walked in front of the portrait, and what made him feel strange was that the portrait did not have any effect on him, and there was no buff about temptation on the character panel.
Ms. Karin's husband's priest's robe hung in a closet in the corner of the room.
In addition to the portrait, there is only one wardrobe in the whole room, which is very conspicuous, very abrupt, and very weird, and the curiosity that he has brought with him all his life still makes Ye Zhi go straight up, and then open the wardrobe.
No surprise, the wardrobe was just a wardrobe, and there was only one priest's robe that was a little worn out inside.
Reaching out to take off the priest's robe, Ye Zhi gently touched the black dot on the clothes, and there was no harm and the system reminder that jumped out, indicating that it was just a black spot, either a dirty thing or a punctuation point that was deliberately pointed.
Although he knew that there would definitely be an accident in such a setting in the game, Ye Zhi, who couldn't trigger it, could only think that he was thinking too much, and there was actually no problem with this room at all.
Gently hanging the priest's robe back to the closet, Ye Zhi took a step back, held the cross, and chanted the blessing technique to the priest's robe, a faint halo appeared on the priest's robe, and gradually disappeared into the priest's robe, and the invisible dust on the priest's robe seemed to be dispelled by the halo of blessing, making the whole dress look a lot cleaner.
Ye Zhi breathed a sigh of relief with a little regret, although he didn't want an accident to disrupt his plans, but he still couldn't help but have a little expectation, looking forward to encountering an extra plot, what he could get, even if he had become an NPC now.
Closing the wardrobe door, the moment the cabinet door closed, Ye Zhi seemed to see something, the black spots on his clothes moved, and he attributed this to his mistake, and the uneasiness in his heart urged Ye Zhi to leave the room.
The hand has been put on the door, open the door, waiting outside is Kana, nothing special appeared, Kana helped Ye Zhi close the door, from the crack of the door that was about to close, Ye Zhi saw the demon on the oil painting.
Laughed.
The door closed quietly, leaving Ye Zhi without a chance to confirm whether what he saw was true or false.
"Mr. Pastor?" Kana stood in front and tilted her head to look at Alpha, "It's easy to get lost if you don't follow." ”
"Sorry, I was distracted." Looking at Karin, who was standing in front of her at a distance, Ye Zhi quickly followed, why did Kana say that it was easy to get lost, isn't there only one way here?
"It's fine." Kana covered her mouth and smiled, this priest is quite polite.
Ye Zhi followed behind Kana, but found that the way back was completely different from the way he came, and it stands to reason that there was only one way.
Kana hung the oil lamp she had been carrying on the wall and pushed open the door next to her, "Please come in, grandma is waiting for you inside." ”