"I was just waiting for you to say these things in person, and when we first met, I made my position clear, but you didn't notice it at all. If you weren't in a desperate situation now, I think you'd continue to waste your time. The dean said knowingly, his expectations were visible, and no one would categorically refuse this kindness, but most humans would have concerns when faced with such a naked invitation.

Hou Cunxin does not scruple now, the main reason is not a desperate situation, but that he has enough understanding of the power arrangement in this place, which is a serious confession after knowing the stakes, so this point is very optimistic about the professor.

It was getting late, and Hou Cunxin stood up and was about to leave, because the words were finished, and if the professor really wanted to say something, he would have done it a long time ago, so he wouldn't have waited until now. However, he miscalculated this time, the professor only deliberately slowed down half a beat, and when he got up, the dean immediately said something to help: "If you don't have anything important to do, can you stay and listen to my chatter." ”

"I can't ask for it." The boy turned to look at the dean, nodded earnestly, and sat back down on the comfortable sofa, to be honest, he was really a little reluctant to accept the warmth of this room.

However, after sitting down, Hou Cunxin waited for a long time, and the dean drank his hot tea alone, which stopped for a long time. Finally, when Hou Cunxin couldn't wait to speak, the dean replied unhurriedly: "I can give you the key to the door you want immediately, but whether you can face the power behind the door below alone is another matter; Unless you choose someone who is willing to trust your life and faith to accompany you, even the key will make it impossible for you to find the keyhole. ”

said something unclear, Hou Cunxin could only regard this implication as the old man's gossip, and now there are still some people in the academy who are rumoring that he and Dark Fragrance are not in agreement. It is necessary for a dean to be concerned about this journey, and it feels like an excuse to say that it will be difficult to go alone without a person to whom he has been entrusted.

"I'll go find Dark Incense. Please give me the key before I have a chance to be with her. ”

"Lovers don't need that kind of boring excuses, sometimes a word. A bowl of tea. "The dean is old, but he is very interested in the private relationship between Hou Cunxin's couple, and it is really impossible to find a reason not to talk about his gossip." Don't talk about that. You'll be given the key before you leave, but do you have a clue about the artifact you want? ”

Hou Cunxin was relieved, but then the old man's words raised his new question to the highest, why was he able to enter the mysterious basement but still care about the location of the artifact, could it be that the dean meant that there was no goal behind opening that door. Some disappointed teenagers looked at the dean, but they couldn't get any answer from the old man's expression.

The dean didn't think so, saying, "I'm guarding the artifact though. But that doesn't mean I'm willing to give anything to you, and even if I do, you won't get anything until the artifact's will is met. Young man, there's no point in being impatient or impulsive, and even if you kill me here, you won't make any progress. ”

When he said this, Hou Cunxin didn't know whether he was happy or frustrated, just like after a lot of hard work, he finally found that the answer given by this person had gone off topic from the beginning. In the face of this unreasonableness, the young man just showed an embarrassed expression, expecting a reply from the other party.

Of course. The Dean never answered honestly, including this time. He fiddled with the glowing teacup in his hand, then gently rubbed the spoon to dig something out of the jar that was unseen in the void. Put it in the cup. The behavior that was originally visible seemed to Hou Cunxin to be a complete secret, the jar in the invisible seemed to be there, and the dean seemed to have put something in the cup, but it seemed that he had done nothing.

"Just now the demon beside me provided me with more than a dozen cans, which contain flavoring for tea, do you know what I put in this cup?" The dean pretended to be deep and pushed the cup to Hou Cunxin, as if there was calm coffee in the cup that had never been touched. The liquid was steaming into the air, but there was not even a lip mark on the rim of the cup. How to look at it, it's like a cup of sealed coffee.

He must have drunk it.

With this thought in mind, the boy said boredly, "You don't show me how I know what you put in it." And only you know if you've drunk it. ”

"Eun, I know. Do I know? The professor nodded, smiling knowingly. I told you that I put sugar, put a small piece of sugar cube, do you know now? What did I put please answer me again. ”

"Is the old man kidding me? Didn't you say it was a sugar cube? I'm guessing you're putting sugar cubes, really, like a fool. Touching his hair, Hou Cunxin's ears were red as if he had been tricked, and he felt that he was being fooled by stupid questions, and most importantly, because the dean was a clue and had helped everyone once, he had to do this boring question and answer together.

"En, I'm not kidding you, I said I put sugar myself, but I can also lie, what you hear can't be objective facts, but my lies may not be, in other words, the truth is that there are a lot of other things in it." The dean dragged his cup over and shook it gently, but the dark liquid surface was nothing but foam and swirls, and if he put a little sugar in it, Hou Cunxin would definitely not be able to see it, even if he got close and smelled it, it was useless.

"Is what we see before our eyes real? Or is it someone else's language, which is made up of the mind itself, necessarily correct? The professor spoke again, this time in a tone that Hou Cunxin couldn't imitate, and at the same time couldn't stand it. What you see may be a lie, like seeing another man standing in front of his girlfriend in pajamas, and what you hear may be a lie, for example, your dark fragrance doesn't want to see you like this at all, isn't the essence of breaking a lie to tear your face? Would you dare to taste the liquid in my cup to see if it's sugar, if it's hot, or even if it's coffee in the cup in the first place. ”

Hou Cunxin looked at the steaming thing, listening to the professor say this, he really felt that the things in this life were like something else, or would such an unfriendly professor who was making trouble everywhere put poison in it? Ignoring motives, ignoring assumptions, what is the behavior of people themselves, what is reality, and what falsehood refers to, this qiē makes Hou Cunxin unable to distinguish between black and white right and wrong.

At this moment, the young man hesitated, he didn't dare to say lightly to taste the liquid in the cup. Waiting quietly, the dean smiled: "You dare not drink my tea for fear of offense or other reasons, which means that you have begun to fear reality from the inside, and you are afraid of the price you pay because you don't know; In the same way, you don't dare to go to the girl you love immediately and make it clear to her because you don't know the consequences, you are afraid of the price, and people will become cautious and careful when they don't know the details. ”

Then, the dean pulled his cup, apparently Hou Cunxin had stiffened in place, and he smiled as he scooped out a spoonful of something from the invisible demon in the void and put it into his cup. Hou Cunxin didn't know what it was, he didn't dare to be sure, he didn't dare to guess, and he didn't even know if it was true or false even if the dean deliberately shook the spoon heavily. After a while, the tea was refilled, and the dean pushed the cup forward to Hou Cunxin, but the cup of tea was still brownish-red, still foamy, still making Hou Cunxin unable to see what was inside, and the foam was like arsenic.

"Can you still guess what I put it in?" The professor waited, but what Hou Cunxin saw in front of him was the same as the cup just now, which could not be guessed by intuition at all, Hou Cunxin blinked his eyes and panted for breath, and suddenly his mind was confused, looking at the surface of a glass of liquid quietly, and the original opacity surface was seen by him to recall.

Countless bits and pieces of the past are displayed on the surface of this liquid, whether it is the magnificent battles or the days that were once sweet and infinitely fragrant, this cup contains nothing, but it contains everything. Hou Cunxin swallowed and spat, looked at the dean who was waiting for a reply, and then he grabbed the cup suddenly, narrowed the distance between his face and the mouth of the cup, and didn't want to take a sip of it.

This sudden mouthful of bitter and sweet taste made Hou Cunxin almost faint, and the next second he felt the most bad signal in his brain, and then he heard the professor's half-dead tone: "I was poisoned, little fool hahahaha." ”

Suddenly, Hou Cunxin put down the cup and felt an ominous signal from the brain, toxins or something else spread in the body, paralyzing his nerves, Hou Cunxin felt the twitching of his muscles, he immediately collapsed on the carpet, trying in vain to vomit out the liquid he had just swallowed, the terrible bitterness and sweetness still stayed on the tip of the tongue and the top of the throat, but the liquid had already entered the stomach, and it was too late.

Hou Cunxin, who was convulsing in pain, gripped his own throat desperately, as if he was going to tear the whole throat open, and then he could only look at the sky helplessly, struggling to hold his breath to make himself look more painful and look even more

Ale? Why does it look more painful, isn't it poisoned?

Suddenly, the professor came over and reached out and dragged the boy to place him on the sofa, and looked at the boy's eyes again, from distraction to regain his vigor and consciousness: "From just now, your sight and feeling have deceived you, and then, your intuition has fooled you. You must have done the task of poisoning the target, and you've seen the painful convulsions of the target you killed, Colonel Kate. This glass of water didn't put anything, this glass of water was just plain water from the beginning, no sugar, no poison. ”

Suddenly, in response to the professor's voice, the lamp directly above the coffee table suddenly went out and turned into an even more dazzling white crystal. The light shone on the water cup, and more than half of the liquid in the cup flashed a transparent luster, the steaming liquid was not coffee, no wonder Hou Cunxin couldn't even smell the taste, that thing was boiled water from beginning to end. (To be continued)