Chapter 36: Goodbye

Thinking of this, Lumian came to a conclusion:

If your guess is true, it means that only the village of Cordu and the surrounding area have gone back in time, and the rest of the world has not been affected!

Does this mean that as long as you can get out of here, you can return to normal life? Lumian's thoughts flickered, and he looked sideways at Aurel, pretending to be weak-hearted:

"This, uh, this telegram was actually made by me."

"You?" Aurel is angry and funny, but more of a dazed.

She wondered if she had been accidentally mischievoked by her brother.

This is simply a perennial hunting to the eagle's peck!

Lumien explained "sincerely":

"Well, haven't I always wanted to visit Trier? So, two days ago, I secretly sent a telegram to the corresponding telegraph office of the "Novel Weekly", and asked you when the nearest writers' salon was, and they really warmly sent out an invitation. ”

"I see...... "The mystery has finally been solved" on O'Horore's face.

The next second, she picked up the wooden stick placed next to her, gritted her teeth and said:

"The child has grown up!"

Lumien hastened to add:

"Aurel, no, sister, you listen to my quibbles, no, listen to my explanations."

He didn't panic, and deliberately made a joke.

"Okay, you speak." Aurel pestle the wooden stick and said, "Your sister and I have always convinced people from the bottom of our hearts with our good virtues, how can we convict people without listening to the statements of the suspects?"

"Death must make you die clearly!"

Lumian spoke very quickly:

"In Intis, the place with the largest number of universities and the best quality is Trier, and I am about to take the entrance examination for higher education, and I want to go to the field in advance to decide which three to apply for."

Aurore nodded imperceptibly and motioned for her brother to continue.

Lumian praised her sister earnestly:

"I am sure that if I make this legitimate request, you will certainly take me around Trier, but in this way it will cost you your money, and if the Novel Weekly sends an invitation, you will be reimbursed not only for the steam train tickets, for the accommodation of the hotel, but also for all the entertainment expenses in Trier.

"I know you don't lack so much money, but it's all written by you word by word, and I will definitely not let it go if there is a way to save it."

Aurore's expression soothed:

"I still know that I feel sorry for my sister.

"But have you ever considered what writers' salons I don't want to attend? I hate being in contact with so many strangers. ”

Lumian smiled:

"Aurel, uh, sister, have you ever thought that the Novel Weekly invites you so warmly, not to let you attend the salon, but to use the salon to get on good terms with you, you are a well-known best-selling novelist.

"So, Sharon doesn't matter, what matters is that you are the person, as long as you are willing to accept their invitation to go to Trier to play for a while, then you can find a reason to push Sharon away, and the people of Novel Weekly will not only not be angry, but will rejoice, glad that you accepted the reception in the previous part."

Aurel looked Lumian up and down a few times:

"You're getting better at figuring out people."

She then exhaled and said:

"Okay, I'll take care of something, pack my bags, and take you to Trier in two days, and when the time comes, send a telegram to the Fiction Weekly in advance, and let them pick us up at the Trier train station."

"Good!" Lumian didn't hide his joy.

Although he suspected that he and Auror would not be able to simply get out of the village of Cordu, and that the act of "disengagement" could lead to some kind of unpredictable change until the secret of going back in time could be unraveled and the corresponding root cause could be found, he had to try and not be able to trap himself in the same place.

With this in mind, he had just tried to convince Auror.

Lumian didn't plan to tell his sister about going back in time now, because Aurore had lost his corresponding memory and was unlikely to believe this almost delusional speculation, unless Lumian kept making "predictions" and the predictions were verified, but he himself wanted to pretend that he was unaware of the time turnback, and he was not ready to "predict" for the time being, to see if he could find some clues.

Under the pretext of reading, Lumian returned to the second floor and entered the study.

He sat down, took the book casually, opened it, and checked to see if it was reversed.

Then he got into his own thoughts, hoping to further clarify what was going on through the details he had discovered last night and today.

Wandering his gaze, Lumian swept to the small blue book on the table.

His heart jumped, he retracted his thoughts, reached out in his palm, took the little blue book, and flipped it quickly.

Some words were missing, and the corresponding empty pages came into his eyes.

"That letter ......," Lumian whispered silently.

Combined with the "belated" reply from "Novel Weekly", he had a new guess about the letter for help received by Leah, Ryan and others:

"Perhaps, that letter was really written by me, and I am the 'murderer'!

"It's likely that going back in time has happened more than once, and that's supposed to be called a time loop, as defined in Auroel's novel.

"In a previous cycle, I discovered a certain anomaly through some exploratory behavior, and decided to ask for help from the outside world by sending an anonymous letter without implicating Oroel? By the time the officials realized the seriousness of the problem and sent Ryan to deal with it, Cordu had already started a new cycle, and I, like Oroel now, had lost all of my memories and returned to my 'original' state......

"Now there is a question, why does this little blue book still have some of the words cut out?

"It stands to reason that it should return to its 'original' state, just like the food I ate in the last cycle......

Well, two possibilities:

"One is to find an anomaly and ask for help before time starts to loop, but in that case, the relevant memories shouldn't be reset, could it be that there are other reasons why I lost some of my memories? It's getting more and more complicated......

"The second is that in that cycle I also found a way to keep something out of the loop...... What could it be? If so, why not just find a piece of paper and write down what you find? ”

Lumian felt that he had cleared away a layer of fog and restored the general situation, but he fell into more doubts.

He thought that he must have gone through many time loops, but in the previous cycles, once he started from scratch, his memory and physical state would be reset, so he was completely unaware.

And the reason why I was able to retain my memories and retain the extraordinary characteristics of the "Hunter" this time was because I met the lady, got the scepter card, entered the ruins of the dream realm, and stimulated the special in my body.

Since the peculiarity of these two symbols allows Lumian to "bring" the Extraordinary state of his dreams to reality, it is entirely possible that they "preserve" his complete physical condition to the beginning of the cycle.

"So, that shotgun monster still hasn't been able to 'recapture' the 'Hunter' extraordinary trait after the state reset......" Lumian leaned back in his chair, stared at the ceiling, and exhaled slowly.

He then laughed to himself:

"When I first become an extraordinary, I have to face this kind of extraordinary thing, and I don't have time to develop......

"Well, I can't quite confirm that I made the letter for help, and it's possible that Oroel and Madame Puaris are also suspicious...... As extraordinary beings, it is possible for them to detect something wrong in a previous cycle and try to save themselves, and with their occult knowledge, it is easier for them to find a way to retain a certain trace than me...... Either way, the occurrence of a time loop is indeed the most appropriate speculation for the current situation. ”

Thinking about it, Lumian had a way to confirm the source of the letter asking for help.

The solution is simple, that is, enter the ruins of the dream realm and turn over a small blue book in the home there.

If the little blue book also has missing words, it means that the letter for help was made by Lumian himself, because the home in the special dream was formed by his subconscious projection mixed with the ruined world, and everything he subconsciously knew should appear there.

If not, it is likely that Aurel or Madame Pualis did it, and Lumian's subconscious could not have known about it and was not responsible for it.

Lumian didn't rush to "catch up on sleep", and seeing that the time was almost up, he sneaked out of the house and went straight to the old tavern.

In the corner of the old tavern, a familiar figure caught his eye.

The lady who had given him the Wands card and potion recipe reappeared.

She wore a ruffled orange stand-up collar dress and a light-colored women's frilly hat at her hand.

Lumian breathed a sigh of relief, just as the drowning man had finally caught a lifebuoy.

He quickly leaned over and saw that instead of breakfast, there was a tarot card on the table in front of the lady in three stacks.

"Need me to draw a card?" Lumian asked tentatively.

"You've already smoked it." Without raising her head, the lady mixed together the three stacks of tarot cards:

Lumian instantly felt pantothenic acid in his eyes.

Sure enough, she wasn't affected by the time loop!

Without taking a tactful approach, Lumian sat down and asked directly:

"I, and the entire village of Koldu, are stuck in a time loop?"

The lady raised her head and replied with a smile:

"Yes, you're all ring-minded."

The Man in the Ring...... Lumian repeated the term in his mind.

Puzzled, he asked:

"What does this mean, someone caught in a time loop?"

The lady smiled:

"There are two explanations for it, one is the special power equivalent to Sequence 4 obtained after praying to a certain being, and the other is the situation you are in now."

"Strength can be gained by praying to a hidden being?" Lumien's first interpretation of the "man in the ring" was astoniting.

Isn't it said that the twenty-two transcendent paths are all promoted by taking potions?

The lady bowed her head slightly:

"Theoretically, the Eternal Sun would allow his followers to become extraordinary without the need for potions and by gifts alone, but for Him it was a burden, only as a temporary means, and the more people who needed it, the greater the burden, and even affected His state.

"The giver is not without harm, and they will slowly approach the 'Eternal Sun', both physically and mentally and spiritually.

"Also, since it is a gift from the higher, they can be withdrawn at any time, unless you have the unique power of some way, and you have secretly completed a certain covert stealing in the life where you retain the gift."