Chapter 123: The Real World?
"What...... It turned out to be a man. Li Yifei poked his head out and glanced at it, muttering in a low voice.
"Huh?"
Merlin, who was sitting quietly in his chair, glanced at him, a faint light flashed in his eyes, and the next moment his body, which was hidden under the dark blue robes, twisted violently......
Turned into a blonde fair girl in the blink of an eye!
"Gender, it doesn't mean anything to me." Merlin's soft voice sounded, making Li Yifei at the door directly dumbfounded.
"Dean...... This, this ......" Li Yifei stretched out his hand and pointed at Merlin, stammering.
Lin Qiye didn't seem surprised by this, he shook his head and slowly spoke:
"He is Merlin, the legendary great magician who is proficient in transfiguration, let alone become a woman, let him become your father."
As soon as Lin Qiye's words fell, Merlin's body twisted again, expanding rapidly, and the dark blue robe on his body also quickly became larger, but this robe was made of unknown materials, no matter how his body swelled, it couldn't be torn apart.
Pieces of snake scales appeared on his body, and scarlet snake letters spewed out, but in just a moment, Merlin turned into a Nanda snake demon several times larger than Li Yifei's original body!
The snake demon in a dark blue robe was entrenched on the chair, a pair of vertical pupils stared at Li Yifei's eyes, and an invisible coercion descended on Li Yifei's body, making him shudder.
Lin Qiye turned his head to look at Li Yifei, "This is your father?" "
"…… I don't know. Li Yifei muttered and took half a step back, "I don't even know what my father looks like." "
"He can see through your true body and see what your father looks like...... Is this the power of prophecy? "
Lin Qiye sighed, his eyes fell on the snake demon, and he said calmly:
"Lord Merlin, you better change back, let's have a good talk."
The snake demon nodded slightly, his body flickered, and he turned into the ordinary young man again, sitting quietly on the chair.
In the dimly lit room, the two looked at each other silently, and the air suddenly fell silent.
"You are Lin Qiye?" Merlin spoke slowly.
"You know me?"
"Ten years ago, I predicted that you would open this door."
When Lin Qiye heard such a divine word, he immediately became interested, "Then take a look at it, what is my future?" "
Merlin shook his head, "I don't know. "
"Don't you prophesy?"
"Prophecy is not omnipotent." Merlin looked into Lin Qiye's eyes, "When you first opened the door, I tried to spy on your fate, but your 'past' and 'future' are all blurred, and only the 'present' can be spied on. "
"Now?" Lin Qiye raised his eyebrows, "What does my 'now' look like?" "
"You're in a dangerous mael, and if you take one wrong step, you'll be shattered, and it could involve the people around you......"
Lin Qiye's gaze gradually became solemn.
"No matter how clear it is, I can't see it." Merlin shook his head, "I can't make too precise predictions right now. "
"Why?"
"I lost my crystal ball."
"Lost?" Lin Qiye was stunned.
Merlin seemed to think of something, and the corners of his mouth flashed with bitterness, "Ten years ago, a little girl came to this room and competed with me, saying that if I win, she will let me go, but if I lose, I will give her the crystal ball......"
"And then you lost?" Lin Qiye's eyes gradually lit up, "That little girl, is she twelve or thirteen years old, with long black hair and a strange pattern on the back of her hand?" "
"That's right."
Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, "What did you compare?" "
The corners of Merlin's mouth turned into bitterness, "Prophecy, or rather...... Derivation. "
"Derivation? How does this compare? Li Yifei couldn't help but ask.
"We started with a fallen leaf, extrapolated the changes of the forest in the past 50 years, the present, and the next 50 years, winning or losing, and then extrapolated the rocks, the droplets......
Later, we found that no matter how we compare with foreign objects, we can't compare with each other, so we simply target each other and deduce everything about each other.
In the second round, she successfully deduced part of my destiny, but in the third round, I couldn't see through her ......"
Merlin recalled the situation, and his brow furrowed more and more.
"Her presence was completely unexpected by me, neither the 'past', nor the 'present', nor the 'future'...... She's like a ghost who doesn't belong to this world, and no matter what method I use, I can't get a glimpse of her fate.
So...... I lost. "
Li Yifei swallowed his saliva, arched Gonglin Qiye with his hand, and whispered, "So evil? Who is that girl? "
"I don't know." Lin Qiye shook his head, his brows also tightly locked.
There is no doubt that the girl who won Merlin's crystal ball, the girl who won the Nyx bracelet, and the girl who left the envelope in the dean's room are the same person, that is, "remembrance".
But how did a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl win over the goddess of the night in creation, and the great prophet Merlin in the deduction of fate?
The more she understood, the more Lin Qiye felt that this self-proclaimed "commemorating" girl was full of mystery. If we can know who she is, then the origin of this mysterious mental hospital of the gods may be revealed......
However, for Lin Qiye now, it seems that it is still too early to explore this.
Now, it is imperative to find a way to cure this legendary archmage first, and extract some of his abilities!
Lin Qiye nodded slightly, and carefully observed Merlin for a while, and some doubts appeared between his eyebrows.
Merlin's situation is not the same as Nyx's, at least so far, he hasn't shown any mental problems, so where do you start?
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Qiye looked at Merlin's eyes and said seriously:
"What's wrong with you?"
"?" Merlin raised his eyebrows, "You're sick." "
"Why are you here?"
"I don't know." Merlin shrugged, "I'm just a scholar trying to find out what the world really is. "
"The true face of the world?"
"What do you think the world is and what are we?"
Without waiting for Lin Qiye to speak, Merlin continued to speak to himself, "For the fish of the deep sea, the sea water and the deep-sea creatures are their world, and they will not know that there is land beyond the ocean, let alone that there are creatures on land that are completely different from them.
For two-dimensional beings, the world is a plane, and their very existence limits their worldview, and they cannot imagine that there are three-dimensional beings observing their actions outside the plane.
For deep-sea fish, the ocean is their world, and for two-dimensional creatures, the plane is their world......
But is the world they think to be the real world?
No.
So how do you know that this 'world' as we know it is the real world?
What is truly real and what is truly 'the world'?!
What is beyond this world? And what are we under the observation of creatures at higher latitudes? "
Merlin's eyes gradually became hot, and in his eyes, Lin Qiye clearly saw the flame called "Seeking Knowledge"!
He stood up from the chair, pointed to the sky with one hand, grabbed Lin Qiye's wrist with the other, stared at his eyes, and said word by word:
"Have you ever thought that maybe...... Is the world we live in just a higher latitude created by a higher being? "