Chapter 515: The Caretaker
"Only one of the two shadow maidens is true."
Xu Rui looked at the shadow maid beside him and said calmly.
The shadow maid looked at him and wondered, "When did you start doubting me?" ”
Xu Rui pointed to the shadow maid lying on the yellow sand and said, "At the moment I saw her." ”
The shadow maid frowned: "You never doubted my identity, and I am confident that the disguise technique is unparalleled in the world, but you don't seem to have trusted me from the beginning." ”
Xu Rui nodded: "I really didn't trust you from the beginning, because you are not a good lurker, although I have never doubted your identity, but I am sure that you have an abnormality, so that at first I even suspected that the shadow maid was a spy planted by someone else around me." ”
"So, it was my mistake not to make a counter-plot?"
The Shadow Maiden laughed self-deprecatingly.
Xu Rui was noncommittal, and the fake shadow maid asked again: "Where did you see the flaws?" ”
Xu Rui smiled and said: "How to say it, there are too many flaws, but your appearance is too real, so I haven't dared to act rashly."
Since you're interested, I'll start from the beginning, on the day of the sandstorm, someone first caught Princess Qixia who was thrown into the air by me, and then someone rescued me from the crack in the ground.
Originally, I thought that these two people were you, but these two things happened almost at the same time, how can a person be separated and do two different things at the same time? ”
"So you were suspicious from the start?"
Artifact Maid interface to.
Xu Rui nodded: "It's also your bad luck, if my expectations are good, you should have been following me for a long time, this time it should be you who followed the shadow maid at the beginning, wanting to take the opportunity to deal with her, and then approach me as her."
It's just that the sandstorm and the earthquake came too suddenly, and after entering the stone forest, you lost the shadow maid and disrupted your plans.
But at this time, you found out that I was in danger with the princess, so you made a mistake and pretended to be her in advance and mixed up with me.
After I fell unconscious, you met Princess Qixia and brought us to safety.
Then you feel that the existence of the real shadow maid is always a hidden danger, so you use the excuse of going out to look for food, but in fact, you want to find the real shadow maid, kill her, and erase the biggest flaw.
It's just that you didn't expect the sandstorm to make the real shadow maid disappear, no matter how you searched for it, there was no result, and you didn't expect that the shadow maid had rescued me from the crack in the ground before she disappeared, so that I could see the flaw from the beginning. ”
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
The Shadow Maiden applauded softly and exclaimed: "Champion Hou is really incomparably intelligent, even if he doesn't see things, he can say that he is not far from ten, but I am a little puzzled, the wind and sand were very strong at that time, how can you be sure that the person who saved you is the real Shadow Maiden?" ”
Xu Rui pointed to the sword in the shadow maid's arms and said, "Do you see this sword?" ”
The Shadow Maiden looked down, and really saw that the Shadow Maiden was holding a long sword in her arms, and even though she had passed out in the desert, she still refused to let go.
The shadow maid's face changed slightly, and she suddenly sighed self-deprecatingly.
"I see, this sword was probably lost when you were rescued by her, and she held this sword, not only proving her identity, but also making you sure that she was the one who saved you at the crack at that time, not me."
Xu Rui nodded: "And that rabbit, you yourself said that the animals on the Gobi are the most spiritual, and they have already sought good fortune to avoid evil before the catastrophe, how can you catch a live rabbit in the sandstorm?"
This rabbit is probably the dry food you have prepared for a long time, just to cover up your real purpose in seeking the Shadow Maiden.
As for why you carry a live rabbit with you, I guess it's because you've been following us, and you don't know how long you're going to chase us, so you've been eating on the spot, and the live rabbit is probably the prey you caught the night before, and you didn't want to eat it, so you were going to keep it for later.
And the real shadow maid has been living in the army, and all three meals are served, and there is no need to prepare food such as live rabbits in advance, so this alone makes me understand that you must have premeditated. ”
The shadow maid nodded, and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that it was a rabbit that made me show my flaws......"
Xu Rui shook his head: "The rabbit is just one of them, although the shadow maid has been with me for a long time and has won my trust, but she has been trained to be a dead soldier since she was a child.
And you are obviously accustomed to being in a high position, unrestrained, compared to the shadow maid, there are really a little more words, a little more opinions, but the determination to defend the young master to the death is pitiful.
Take the incident of me blowing up the boulder with a grenade, the shadow maid knows that I am in love with the princess, and will never rush to stop it, and if she does stop it, she will never be persuaded by my words, let alone watch her young master face the explosion alone and hide herself.
In addition, your understanding of CPR and a lot of modern knowledge is also much stronger than that of the shadow maid, as long as you open your mouth and do things, the flaws will be clear.
In the end, the shadow maid has always been used to acting alone, and the days spent with me for years are numbered, and if you were really her, you would either explore the way in advance, or protect in secret, and you would never stay by my side in a big way. ”
Hearing this, the shadow maid nodded again: "It makes sense, you still guessed something, you might as well say it at once." ”
Xu Rui said: "Also, before the cave collapsed, I happened to see a small hole in the stone wall, which was dug out by you, and the purpose was to bury me in the cave, right?" ”
The shadow maid smiled: "You guessed this wrong, that small hole was indeed hit by me, shattering the load-bearing structure in the cave, usually there is no problem passing through the hole, but as long as you stand at the entrance of the cave for too long, the damaged structure will not be able to bear the load, and it will naturally collapse."
After the earthquake, the appearance of the cave has changed greatly, and the bottomless cracks in the ground are even more spectacular, I am sure that you will be shocked by this scene as soon as you wake up from the cave entrance, and stop and stay.
And your princess Qixia is deeply affectionate to you, and she is so understanding, she will naturally be half a step behind you, just standing on top of my trap. ”
"You wanted to deal with Qingwu from the beginning?"
Xu Rui's face instantly turned cold.
The shadow maid nodded: "Yes and no, I did plan to kill her, but then I saw that you looked stupid and couldn't live without her, so I relented for a while, and used a precious heart shot to bring her back to life after just suffocating and faking death." ”
A trace of doubt flashed on Xu Rui's face: "Princess Qixia has no quarrel with the world, why did you want to kill her?" If you killed her, why did you save her because of me?
Also, who are you? Why is there such a disguise technique that is difficult to distinguish between real and fake? And so painstakingly approaching me? ”
He asked a series of questions in one breath, but the Shadow Maiden seemed to know that he would ask these questions without the slightest surprise.
She sighed and said, "Actually, I have no interest in killing any princesses, and I have no grudges with you, it's just that for your good, these people must die." ”
"For my good?"
Xu Rui's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the fake shadow maid and said, "Why do you want to be good for me?" ”
The Shadow Maiden smiled faintly, "It's simple, because you are my companion. ”
"Companion?"
Xu Rui seemed to have heard a big joke and laughed on the spot.
The Shadow Maiden didn't have the slightest smile, waiting for Xu Rui's laughter to pause, then stared at Xu Rui and said, "You haven't fully awakened yet, so you naturally feel that all this is ridiculous, but no matter what, it can't change the fact that we are companions."
Since you were born, your bloody night has been branded with the same brand as mine, fate has made you here, sooner or later you will have to fulfill your mission, like me, to become a true caretaker! ”
"Keeper?!"
Hearing these three words, Xu Rui was suddenly shocked.
The fake shadow maid seemed to be surprised that Xu Rui was not surprised enough, and snapped her fingers with a sneer, and the next scene suddenly made Xu Rui's eyes freeze and her pupils shrink sharply.