Big is power. When a giant accuses you with a straight face, the effect is certainly much stronger than that of a short man. Especially when you're still ashamed.

Nina felt that this was the most terrible moment of her life, and the reproach of the other party made her tremble, as if she would be eaten by the magician who covered the sky at any moment.

"Everything, everything is a decision of the young lady. I, I can't promise anything on behalf of Miss. I couldn't resist her orders. It's always been what she says and what I do. Nina argued, her hands clutching the corners of her clothes like a kitten cornered.

"But as far as I can remember, I've seen you disobey her orders more than once, albeit only secretly. You see, once you gave two loaves of bread to the attendants at the penalty station. Once you let the lazy gardener go, he should have been given a few lashes. Another time, you tried on her dress at home while Selinda was out hunting. Well, there are so many things about stealing pastries that I won't mention it here. Ah, you've dated the knight she hates twice. One more time......"

"Please, please stop saying more. What exactly do you want from me?" Nina asked in a pleading tone.

"I'm just proving that you are an ordinary person, sometimes kind, sometimes compassionate, sometimes taking advantage of a little advantage, and sometimes bursting with love in your heart. You are living for yourself, not your lady. Her interests are not inherently aligned with yours. You are a flesh-and-blood person, not a shadow of her. ”

"But I never betrayed her. I've done something wrong, but I've never betrayed her!I'm not going to help you deal with my master!" Nina exclaimed.

Xiao Chen looked at Nina, who was hoarse, and felt a little unbearable in his heart, but he forcibly suppressed this emotion, and continued: "Actually, I sympathize with you, fate is sometimes a very bad naughty ghost, he gave you two paths, but each path will hurt you, all you can do seems to be a choice between hurting yourself and hurting others." However, at this time, you have to understand that maybe you can ignore this bastard, the path it gives you may be just an illusion, what you have to do is to accept the help of others and get out of the third way. ”

"I don't understand. ”

"Quite simply, you don't have to be on my side against her, your master. And don't put yourself in her shoes against me, the one who took the risk to save you. You just need to help me maintain a harmonious situation. After all, I don't want to be hostile to my best friend's fiancée. ”

"You want me to spy on her?"

"She's lost my trust, and if I had been on my guard this time before she tried to do something stupid, it wouldn't have gotten the way it was, would it? ”

Nina was silent.

"What you did almost sparked a confrontation between us and the Earl. Think about it, if your young lady or his father really clashed with me, would they be better than me?" Xiao Chen said, waving his hand into the sky, the heavy rain stopped suddenly, and the dark clouds dispersed, revealing the "sun" above. This rapidly changing celestial phenomenon gives people a feeling of palpitations.

Nina's eyes were stung by the sun.

"You don't know. Actually, I don't know. Xiao Chen said and beckoned to Nina, and in Nina's exclamation, the round stool she was sitting on carried her and flew out directly from the window of the "Exquisite Water Pavilion", Nina was so frightened that she hugged the stool with her hands and feet, and she flew all the way to Xiao Chen. Seeing Xiao Chen give her a toothy smile, he said, "But in the face of this kind of power, huge damage is always unavoidable. The victim may be an ambitious earl, or a young lady who is not very peaceful, or you who are submissive, or your taciturn father, or even the knight you have a good opinion of. We're going to try to avoid that, don't you?"

Nina looked at Xiao Chen's smiling face, didn't know why she felt a little relieved, and nodded involuntarily.

"Very good!" Xiao Chen snapped his fingers and said, "It's going to be sunny, let's get along well." Maybe I can give you a small gift as well. ”

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Li Jia walked in a castle that was similar in style to the castle they lived in, but it was not at all like it because it looked very unreal. To use a less apt metaphor, the castle is like a 3D animation with poor textures, with all the objects looking rough and stiff, lacking real-life detail. Li Jia touched a gray wall, which looked like a stone wall, but it actually felt like plastic, without the texture of a stone. He glanced at the torch on the wall again, the flame resembling a giant glowing brush, with no movement at all. For a moment, he had the illusion that he was playing an old, low-quality online game.

And to make matters worse, the structure of the castle seems to have been dismantled and rebuilt by a urchin, and various doorways and walkways are messily intertwined to form a labyrinth.

Li Jia took a torch off the wall, it was still a plastic feel, he concentrated on the flame, the flame was shaking the same way a thousand times suddenly changed the rhythm, and suddenly became lively, Li Jia stood with the torch for a few minutes, and the torch finally became what it should be in reality.

Selinda, I'm coming, holding the torch, Li Jia picked a path that looked flatter, and walked forward.

It's really "seen horizontally as a peak on the side of the ridge, with different heights and heights near and far." Walking in such a labyrinth, Li Jia feels like he is climbing a mountain, and he must be very careful, because from time to time a big pothole will appear on the road, or when turning a corner, he will suddenly encounter a cliff in front of him. In some places, the passage slope is very high, even vertical wellheads, and in some places there is only a large pit that is bottomless, and there is no other way. But he knew that Selinda could be anywhere in the labyrinth, so he had to go there. Whenever this happens, Li Jia has to use his creation ability to make a grid of ladders in order to climb over.

"If only Xiao Chen were here. According to his ability, I am afraid that he can change this broken place with a raise of his hand, I really don't know where the faith of the book spirit is in me. He was talking to himself as he carried the torch against all odds. In this weird and oppressive environment, if he didn't say something, he felt like he would go crazy.

After walking for a while, he was in a fairly clear downward passage, and in the distance he saw a red mass on the ground in front of him. Along the way, except for the walls and stairs, Li Jia didn't see anything out of the building, and now he finally found something, which made him a little nervous. He pulled a dagger from his waist and held it in his hand, and slowly leaned over.

When he got closer, he saw a red-haired, leather-clad figure on the ground, with his head facing down in the direction he had come.

"Selinda?" Li Jia tried to shout from a distance of two meters.

The man didn't move.

"Selinda?" Li Jia shouted several times in a louder voice.

The man shuddered on the ground, and seemed to have woken up from a coma, and she tried several times but could not stand up, and could only look up with difficulty, revealing a pale face.

"It's really you!" Li Jia dropped the dagger and torch, and rushed forward with an arrow, trying to hold her arm, but he didn't expect his hand to pass through Selinda's shoulder.

"This is ......" Li Jia tried to touch her arm again, but there was still no substance, only a faint resistance was generated on the fingertips, which felt like a hand sliding in water.

"You, it's Li Jia......" Selinda said with her eyes half-open.

"Yes, it's me. I've found you. ”

"Li Jia, Li Jia! You're finally here. I've been shouting at you for a long, long time!" Selinda was very weak, her voice was soft, but she trembled with excitement, "I, I don't have the strength. And, moreover, I can't feel my legs anymore. ”

Li Jia looked down at her, and Selinda's visible body only reached her waist, and the part below was so blurred that it was invisible. He said in a bit of a panic: "Selinda, just find you! Don't worry, everything here is not real, not real." You're lying on the castle bed now!"

"I was wrong, Li Jia, I was really wrong! If I wasn't too greedy! I regret it! I really regret it!" Selinda said over and over again, "I wandered around this palace for a long time, there was no food, no one spoke, I was so hungry, but I couldn't find anything to eat, and then my body slowly disappeared. Then I crawled on the ground, and then I couldn't even climb anymore. I regret it, I'm scared, but I don't remember what I did wrong, why I came here. By the way, here, where the hell is this?"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!" Li Jia looked at her distressedly, stretched out a finger and gently pressed it against her mouth, trying to calm her down. He was surprised to find that Selinda's lips were palpable, but they were terrifyingly cold, like a smooth piece of jade. He was overjoyed, and groped his lips to find that he could touch her cheeks and neck, but below the neck, there was only an illusory shadow.

Selinda watched Li Jia's hand pass through her body, and her face was distorted with fright: "Help me, help me!

"Don't panic, it's not true! It's not your real body that disappears, it's your consciousness. ”

"Consciousness disappears...... Am I dying?"

"No! no!" Li Jia cupped her face and said softly, "Look at me, Selinda! Look at me, dear! I'm here to figure it out with you. Do you remember the book you opened? There's a very powerful book spirit in it, and she's taught me how to save you. Let me think about what the Book Spirit said......" He crouched down beside Selinda, concentrating his energy, and trying to patch up Selinda's consciousness with the methods that the Book Spirit had taught him.