Chapter 462: Light of the Heart
The next day, in the morning.
Victor finished his morning exercise, ordered the gambling paraphernalia to be prepared, and called Bertina into the study alone. He was going to test his suspicions, it was obviously easier to test Chubby than Father Miller.
"Bertina, we have many secrets. You kept the secret well. So I'm ready to reward you. ”
Victor smiled and took out pastries, preserves, jams, and cream pies from the basket and placed them on the desk one by one.
Bertina put her arm on the table, her round chin resting on her chubby little hand, staring intently at half of the table. She took a sip and asked cutely, "Master, are these for me?"
"Hmm...... Have you been to see Emerson?" asked Victor casually, pouring warm goat's milk into the crystal cup.
"Old ...... Emerson doesn't know me, huh, I don't know Emerson either. Rolling her brown-red eyes, Bertina changed her words in time.
Once Imerson's identity is revealed, I don't know how many people will be implicated. Both Victor and Emerson repeatedly told Bertina that she had to pretend to be strangers to her father. Bertina has always behaved well and has never mentioned life in the Swamp to anyone.
The little girl's mouth is still quite tight, after all, she is 17 or 8 years old...... Tsk, how do I think she's more of an elf than I am? If she had a natural lifespan of more than 200 years, she would be 6 or 7 years old now...... Victor thought as he handed over the goat's milk, but Bertina's next sentence startled him.
"Emerson is a big badass, he beats Melanie and Carol. Bertina said indignantly, and seeing her master's surprised expression, she added: "I heard with my own ears that Emerson locked them in the room, Melanie was called by Imerson, and the next night it was Carol's turn...... Thankfully, I don't know Imosen. ”
Victor's handsome face was blue for a while, white for a while, and finally turned black, and he shouted, "Someone!"
Barberry militia Renault pushed the door in. Victor instructed him: "Inform the Pinghu Town Government Office to arrange a large mansion, so that the Emerson family can move out of the lord's mansion today and settle down in Pinghu Town." ”
Renaud nodded, turned and left the study. Victor leaned back in his chair and watched Bertina gulp goat's milk and couldn't help but feel a headache.
Emerson hadn't tasted anything fishy in more than a decade, and it was normal to indulge it, but Bertina's habit of eavesdropping on corners was just too bad. The lord's mansion of Silvermoon Manor only has 2 alchemy auxiliaries, and the others have no way to get snacks...... It's spoiled!
Victor decided to punish Bertina by putting half of the snack back into the basket in front of the snack sellers, and said, "Bell, you must learn to behave, and when you sleep, you can't run around, and you can't eavesdrop on other people's conversations......"
"But Imerson didn't talk to Melanie, he was teaching them...... Why don't you believe me?" Beltina argued, puffing out.
Victor was silent for a while, and said with a straight face: "We will discuss this issue later...... Now, let's make a game. He took out a cowhide pocket from the drawer, "The simplest way to draw a wooden card is to draw a number, each person draws it once, and whoever draws the higher number wins." If you win, you can eat a snack, and if you lose, I'll take a snack. ”
Bertina sat up straight and looked at Victor with pity, looking like "I am the God of Gamblers", with a fleshy little face, not to mention how funny it was.
Victor smiled, handed the bag to the little gambler, and motioned for her to touch it first. Bertina reached into her leather pouch and pulled out the wooden sign with the number 12.
It's a big card!
The betting method of the number wooden card is very simple, the material size of the wooden card is almost the same, one side is painted with the number, the largest wooden card is only one card on the 14th, two cards on the 13th, three on the 12th, and so on. Specifically, the bet size, the bet is the same, and the big one takes all.
On the surface, this kind of gambling is fair, but in fact it is a scam. Experienced gamblers can judge the size of the wooden card numbers by the slight bump in the paint. The gambling stick of the banker uses the order of the idle five Zhuang eight to ensure that they win and do not lose, but the gamblers are not all fat sheep, they require that the time of each draw card can not exceed 2 seconds, otherwise the thousand is calculated.
Draw an all-you-can-eat big card within two seconds, which is really a great test of the dealer's gambling skills.
Victor's most important thing is skill, and with a gentle stir of his slender palm in the bag, he twisted out the No. 13 wooden plaque, and then put a snack back in the basket.
Bertina widened her eyes and opened her mouth, which was missing three front teeth. Victor's heart was secretly refreshed...... How can you be arrogant without killing you?
"Come again. ”
The two of you come and go, and you have a lot of fun. After two rounds, there was not a single snack left on the table. A small portion went into Bertina's stomach, and most of it was taken back into the basket by Victor.
Although Bertina drew almost always a big hand, with the smallest hand having a 9, she won more and lost more than she could.
This was not the result Victor wanted, and he vaguely felt that the dim sum was not attractive enough to Bertina.
When did the little girl who saw everyone love and saw flowers almost have a heart?
"Bell, it's time for you to lose weight!"
Victor knocked on the table with a serious expression and said solemnly: "From today onwards, your daily snack will be halved by ......" Before Bertina howled, he said: "Don't cry, little baby, give you a chance, let's bet another round, draw cards 13 times, and if you can beat me, your snacks will remain the same." How?"
Bertina rubbed her eyes, reached into her pouch with her little hand, and pulled out a wooden sign.
2 p.m.!
Victor didn't need to draw any more cards, and he motioned for Bell to continue.
It's 14 o'clock again!
It's still 14 o'clock!
It's still 14 o'clock......
Bertina touched 5 in a row, all of them were all-you-can-eat 14 points.
The back 8, it is Victor's turn to touch first. He reached out for a 13, and Bertina reached for a 14.
Bertina won 6 games in a row, she won one more game, and Victor lost...... Picking the only 14-point card out of a large bag of wooden cards in two seconds was not an easy task for Victor either.
He decisively entered the state of apocalypse, X-3 operated at full strength, the flow of time slowed down by more than ten times, his perception increased by 2 times, and the diameter of his blindness expanded to 3 meters. In Victor's eyes, Bertina put the number 14 wooden plaque back into the bag at a very slow pace, and then shook the leather bag. The crisp sound of wooden card 14 colliding with other wooden cards**-3 is recorded, organized, and formed into an image in Victor's mind. When the sound stopped, Victor circled a general area. He reached into the leather bag, and the image in his mind became clear with the touch of his fingertips, the inconsequential temperature and humidity weakened one by one, and the subtle differences in hardness and shape of different wooden signs were marked. After determining the number 14 wooden card, Victor's sense of touch remembered its characteristics.
14 o'clock! Continue at 14 o'clock! Always 14 o'clock......
Victor drew 6 14 points in a row. In the final tiebreaker, Bertina's face tensed, and she shook the pouch desperately with the strength of her milk. This shake is endless...... Anyway, there is no time limit for shake bags.
When Bertina's face turned red and she put down her pouch out of breath, Victor reached in and touched the 14-point wooden card, but deliberately took out the 11-point wooden card next to it.
Bertina was obviously relieved when she saw the 11-point wooden card, and then she wrinkled her little eyebrows, showing that she was suffering from gains and losses, and she was very unconfident. She muttered a prayer to the Most High and reached out for a wooden card with the number 13.
"I won! I won! I won......" Little Bell raised his hands and jumped and jumped in the study.
Victor shook his head and smiled, how could he really reduce the snacks of the snack goods. Bertina walked up to Victor, lifted her skirt, curtsied, and said very, very seriously: "The master should keep his promise. ”
"I keep my promises. Victor smiled and nodded.
"Wonderful, wonderful, Bell liked the host the most. ”
Bertina cheered, climbed onto Victor's knees, hugged his face, and kissed him with her mouth.
Victor wiped Chubby's saliva with a handkerchief, put her on the ground, touched her head dotingly, and said, "Go out and play, the snack basket is yours...... However, you can't tell anyone about today's gamble. Can you do it?"
"Bell is the best at keeping secrets. Bertina patted her chest and reassured, picked up her basket of hearts, and happily slipped out of the study.
Victor touched his chin and unconsciously took a wooden plaque from his bag. His pupils contracted instantly, and he spread out his palm, and it was the largest 14-point wooden card!
He didn't use any supernatural abilities at all this time!
Victor tried a few more times, and all the wooden cards he drew were 14 points. He thought for a moment and said in his mind, "I want a 13-point wooden card." ”
Then, he casually touched 13 points.
"I want 11 points. ”
I found out 11 o'clock...... Victor tried it 9 times in a row, and the wish-fulfillment effect was finally over.
X-3 records are as follows: Bertina, suspected wizard, possesses three extraordinary talents to be verified, first, longevity, Bertina's physical and mental development is delayed, her appetite is high, and no frailty has been observed at this time. Second, charming, Bertina is ordinary-looking, innocent and cute, and has an amazing affinity for intelligent life and animals. Thirdly, fortunately, Bertina's luck allowed her to interfere with reality almost to the extent of interfering with reality in her own favor. But the effect of the intervention is directly proportional to the intensity of her emotions, and the greater the desire, the stronger the effect. In addition, her lucky talent can be passed on to others, and the first pass is 23 seconds, and the specific data needs to be further collected. At the same time, it must be noted that the priority of the Lucky Talent is lower than the Absolute Strength, and when the probability of the outcome of the event is 100%, Bertina's Luck is invalid. There will be no real change in reality, for example, the other party will have illusions, mistakes, or various unexpected situations that will change the outcome. As a result, Bertina's talent has great limitations, and in a critical situation, she is likely to die.
Victor finished the X-3 record, excitedly spinning around the room, high-fived with a fist, and thought to himself:
What is this? Is Bertina the Son of Luck or the Plane of Plane? She has the aura of the protagonist? No, no...... Since I am her master and she is my little servant, then I am the protagonist...... Well, I bring the protagonist aura, and Bertina is the lucky aura, haha......
Oh, I'm so stupid, although Imerson's abilities are strong, but with his weak heart, how can he survive in the dangerous swamp......? This bastard, I'm afraid the story he told at the beginning was also false! Go back and ask Barol to take someone to the Rand Empire to find out the details of Imonson.
In this world of gods, it should not be by chance that Bertina and Miller appeared by my side...... Actually, I'm not the protagonist at all, but by chance, I became the inheritor of the inheritance of the Alchemy Empire...... The gladiatorial battle involving the gods is about to begin, and the forces of the same faction will naturally converge.
That's right, we're human...... Knights, wizards, clergy, and mortals are all remnants of the Alchemy Empire, and our enemies are behind the destruction of the Alchemy Empire!
I'm not alone......! Are I a human or not? If I become an elf...... Where do I stand?
Victor gradually calmed down, restrained his messy thoughts, and sat down in his chair, dazed. When he saw the wooden sign in his hand, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and muttered: "If you don't forget, there will be an echo, and if you work hard, you will be rewarded...... All wishes come true...... Behind the Psychic Fire is the Psychic Touch, and then there is a layer of realms that can interfere with the power of the Mind in reality...... Witchcraft interferes with reality, the Chosen One, the Divine Favorite, the Chosen Favor of the Gods...... In the realm of the Holy Light, my Lord is supreme?"
Faith is actually the power of the hearts of believers! The Lord of Radiance collects the power of the hearts of believers and transforms them into holy light and divine magic...... Victor stood up sharply, his eyes shining with golden light, and then dimmed again.
"I see...... The third level of the power of the mind is able to break through its own limitations and interfere with reality. ”
"It should be called the Light of the Heart!"
At this moment, in the corridor outside the study, there was a familiar sound of footsteps, interrupting Victor's thoughts. His mind sketched Lilia's feet in high heels.