After talking to the merfolk, Wolf Fang and I left the chamber the same way we came.

As soon as I left the chamber, I told him that Wolf Fang was the real princess, but to my surprise, Wolf Fang just nodded calmly, without any hint of shock or surprise.

"Did you already know?" I couldn't help but ask Wolf Fang suspiciously.

Wolf Fang glanced at me and nodded slightly, "I guessed it, I also heard Lin Ya mention the fairy tale of Princess Pea before, plus it is not difficult to think of the abnormality when sleeping." ”

"Actually, I'm confused." I frowned, "Even if the real princess must appear among us, it should be a woman, how could it be you?" ”

Wolf Fang shook his head slightly, "Have you ever wondered how you opened the door to the secret room?" ”

"I guessed that the magic on that door should also be able to be opened by the blood of the royal heir, and I happened to let it suck blood, so I opened it."

"And what about the secret room of the Crystal Slipper?"

"It's the same as this one." I didn't understand what the wolf fangs meant, so I pursed my lips and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with that, but what about moving forward? Why are you the heir to the royal family, have you thought about it? ”

The wolf's words made me ponder, indeed, why do I have the status of royal heir? I had thought about this question in the secret room of the crystal slipper, but I couldn't think of a reasonable explanation after racking my brains, so I had to give up. Wolf Fang asked, does it mean

"Do you know why I'm the heir to the royal family?" I looked at the wolf's fangs with wide eyes, and there was some surprise in my words.

"Vaguely guessed." Wolffang nodded and explained to me, "Do you remember the second fairy tale we experienced? The one I almost died. ”

"I remember." I nodded, knowing that Wolf Fang was referring to Snow White without Snow White, but what does that have to do with what we're talking about now?

As if aware of my confusion and incomprehension, Wolf Fang continued, "I have carefully inquired about all the fairy tales in Lin Ya later, and now we have encountered a situation, I can only think of one explanation. ”

"What is it?"

"If my assumption is correct, what happened in the second fairy tale gives you and me an identity."

"Identity?" I was stunned for a moment before I understood what the wolf fang meant, and my eyes widened in disbelief, "You mean that in the fairy tale of "Snow White", it is not that there is no princess and a prince, but these two identities are given to you and me?" ”

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, that's true."

Seeing that the wolf's fangs confirmed my guess, I was amazed and funny. Even if I'm Prince Charming, Wolf Fang is Snow White?

Oh my God, Snow White is going to cry, okay? Have you ever seen such a big and three thick princess?

"So what do we do now? Do you have any plans? I asked Wolf Fang and followed him up the stairs on the left, "Shall we go back to the guest room?" I think I can't sleep anymore knowing that there are three ogres here. ”

"Don't think about sleeping, let's go back and get our things, wake up Lin Ya and the others and discuss what to do." Wolffang said, pausing for a few seconds before adding, "Don't take that merfolk to her word for it"

"Don't believe it?" I was stunned, "Why?" Is there anything wrong with it? ”

"I asked her how long she had been in captivity, and you heard that."

"Yes, I heard you, and I was surprised why you asked, does that mean?"

"Based on the various metal objects in the room I've looked at before," Wolf Fang's voice was low, even more oppressive in the dark, "The invoices we've seen have been going on for a long time, maybe decades. ”

"Decades," I repeated in a low voice, no matter how vague the concept of "soon" was, I knew very well that decades could never be counted as short, "So, that mermaid lied to us, and probably something else—hmm"

As I was thinking about the wolf's teeth, the lights around me were very dim, and I stepped into the air unprepared, lost my balance, and fell to the side.

Not good! A fall was nothing but a little painful, but it was so quiet that the sound of the fall was likely to alarm the three ogres!

In a panic, my hands flailed around me in an attempt to hold on to something. Fortunately, although I was afraid of being discovered, I insisted on cutting off the scream that I blurted out, but the first rapid sound was heard by Wolf Fang, who reacted quickly and turned around and grabbed my hand, so that I didn't really fall down the stairs.

I stood firm by the tug of the wolf's fangs, still clutching to the armrest in horror as the wolffangs let go.

"Are you alright?"

Hearing the wolffang's slightly concerned voice, I shook my head wildly to indicate that I was fine, and only released the armrest after calming down a little.

Hey? What is it?

A chance glance made me stop what I was trying to do and instead turn around to take a closer look at what I had found.

"What's wrong?" Sensing my movements, the wolf fang also walked up to me and followed my gaze, presumably guessing what I had found.

"This portrait looks so familiar, why do I feel like that middle-aged man?"

I frowned and looked at the portrait in front of me, it was an old man, who looked like he was seventy or eighty years old, was it the man's father or grandfather? But how can it be so similar? I turned my head to look at the portraits next to me, and when I looked closely, I saw that the whole wall was lined up with portraits, one after the other. I know that many members of the royal family have a habit of keeping their portraits as decorations, and they are usually displayed on a wall in chronological order, and this should be the case.

This is the penultimate one, and to the right of it there are two other portraits, one of a woman of the same age as the painting, and the next of a man in his forties and fifties, who is probably a descendant of the painting I first saw.

It's just that the portrait of the woman is also similar to that of a middle-aged woman, how can this be? I can still think that the men may be related by blood, but the women above are impossible to be related to each other!

"It's not like, it's the man." I was stunned by the wolf's words, and when I turned my head, I saw him stretching out his hand to point to a part of the portrait to show me, and I looked in the direction he was pointing, and I heard him explain, "The middle-aged man, like the man in the portrait, has a mole on his ear. ”

My heart trembled, and I didn't doubt Wolf Fang's ability to observe. If the painting and the middle-aged man are really a person, the mermaid is definitely lying!

"The mermaid's words are false," I said as if to the wolf's fangs and as if to myself, "if according to her, the king, queen, and prince were only in their original state and not rejuvenated, then their age when they took her blood would be the age we see them now!" But judging from the portraits, they are not so simple as stopping aging at all, but rejuvenating! ”

"Yes, according to the meaning of the mermaid's words, the prince should not be old, at least he should be about thirty years old, and the maximum should not be more than forty, but," Wolf Fang also continued, "The age of the man on this last painting should also be more than forty years old, according to the order of arrangement, it should be the prince." ”

"She really lied to us, but why?" I frowned violently, feeling as if things were getting more complicated.

"It won't be for our sake anyway." Wolf Fang's voice was slightly cold, "It seems that it is not only the king's family that is in danger, but also the mermaid. ”

I turned to look at the wolffang, "You said about the key to the Wall of Thorns, could it be that she lied to us?" Since what she said is not credible, there is no way to guarantee that she has no other purpose, do we really have to help her? ”

Wolf Fang didn't seem to know what to do, and was silent for a few seconds before saying, "At least what she said is the only clue we get, and although we can't believe it, we can't ignore it completely." Anyway, let's go back and meet Lin Ya first, and then let's start from scratch. ”

"Okay, let's go back quickly." I said yes, and Wolf Fang and I resumed climbing the stairs.

In our anxious mood, we quickly returned to the door of the guest room after such a short distance, but to my surprise, when we opened the door and entered it, we found that everyone else was gone!

"What's going on?" I stood at the door of the guest room and asked in horror. They were all sleeping in their beds before we left! How could it all be gone all at once!? Even if they all woke up on their own, they wouldn't have left here when they woke up and found that we weren't there! What the hell is going on!?

Wolf Fang didn't speak, but quickly climbed onto the nearest bed, and after a few seconds, he jumped back to the ground, "The indentation on the bed is still there, and there is still some residual warmth to the touch, they should have just left." ”

"And"

I followed the wolf's tooth gaze, and for a moment my eyes froze, and I saw that their shoes were still on the floor under the bed, which was enough to explain

"They didn't leave on their own!"

"They were taken away."

I said at the same time as Wolf Fang.