Mystery: Lucky One

Chapter 179 Chapter 53 The warmth after the disaster
The credibility of Alice's words in Klein's eyes is the same as special luck in the eyes of fate - you can't say it's wrong, but her perspective on understanding the problem is a bit strange.

After looking at Alice carefully for a long time and realizing that she really looked at him with a sincere smile without any guilt, Klein gave up and continued to question Alice.

With worries about the next Tarot session, Klein brought up another topic: "I might go to the sea to look for mermaids."

"Mermaid!" Alice sat upright, "Ariel!"

"...Who?" Klein was stunned.

"The Little Mermaid Ariel," Alice explained, "I also want to see the mermaid with my own eyes, preferably if I can take a photo..."

"...Did you think you were going on a trip?" Klein looked at Alice, thinking of the vampire Emlyn White, and suddenly had an unpleasant premonition.

Alice blinked twice.

Klein pondered for a moment and asked, "Would you like to take a photo with a vampire?"

Alice's bright eyes explained the answer to this question. Klein looked at this scene and suddenly regretted allowing Emlyn White to participate in the Tarot Club.

Klein looked at Alice dumbfounded.

In the end, she did not go to send Klein off. The reason was that after Klein took out the sealed "Creeping Hunger" and described the effect, she asked a question that Klein could not answer:

……

Although Alice did not have time to hand over the dumpling recipe developed by Klein to Mrs. Greenland, Mrs. Greenland still managed to serve up a plate of dumplings and a pair of chopsticks.

...I always feel that Mr. Fool is getting more and more unable to control himself.

After thinking for a moment, Alice followed this logic and continued:

Klein painfully cuts off Alice's network cable to stop her from speaking.

When Klein got on the train to Pulitzer Harbour, Alice was at Evelyn's house.

After Alice gave the reason of "infected by the plague in the haze", Mrs. Greenland and Evelyn happily accepted her break, and Mrs. Greenland even brought out the prepared dumplings.

"According to what you said, the extraordinary characteristics can be released later, isn't that equivalent to...

"Eating people, and then digesting the flesh and blood. The extraordinary characteristics couldn't digest it, so they excreted it..."

After being driven away, Alice hurried to find Evelyn after a night's rest.

"You said, since it has the characteristic of being alive and needs to eat on time, if you don't feed it like this, will it starve to death?"

Alice was confused when she raised her chopsticks.

Klein sighed deeply.

She did mention to Evelin that neither a knife, fork nor a spoon was convenient enough for eating dumplings, and chopsticks were much more suitable.

Yes, dumplings.

So...where did this pair of chopsticks come from?
Seeing Alice's look of shock and nostalgia, Mrs. Greenland laughed:

"When Eli told me that these were the chopsticks you were talking about...chopsticks, I didn't believe it. It seems that walking out more is beneficial."

"Eli?" Alice repeated a name doubtfully. "It's my husband, you probably haven't seen him before," Mrs. Greenland smiled gently, "come and try how it tastes."

Although full of doubts, Alice knew that now was not the time to ask questions. She smiled gratefully at Mrs. Greenland and whispered:

"I don't know how to thank you. I thought, I thought I would never see the food from my hometown again..."

Although the intention was just to pretend, Alice, who had just passed the promotion ceremony and remembered Shen Yinghuan's memory, couldn't help but choke up as she spoke.

She really could never go back.

Tears fell into the bowl. Alice reacted, stretched out her hand to wipe away her tears, looked at Mrs. Greenland solemnly and said:

"Thank you very much...thank you for letting me see this again."

After speaking, she picked up a dumpling with chopsticks and put it into her mouth without waiting for Mrs. Greenland's response.

Alice, who had been using knives and forks for three years, was obviously a little jerky and unfluent when she used chopsticks for the first time in another time and space.

But that was very short-lived. After just a few attempts, Alice regained the feeling of using chopsticks and focused on tasting.

There is a huge gap between the taste of dumplings made under Loen's conditions and the local ones. At least in Alice's view, except for the shape, these are not the dumplings she remembers at all.

The flour that was not fine enough created a tougher dumpling wrapper. After one bite, she could bear the taste of the fillings inside. Who taught you to add mashed potatoes? !
Alice buried her head in the bowl to prevent her expression from accidentally showing.

Probably because she had never made dumplings before, Mrs. Greenland only dared to put a very small amount of fillings to prevent the dumplings from bursting. This is indeed something novices often do - either they are reluctant to add fillings, or they add fillings to death.

The dumpling wrappers were actually not good enough. Compared with real dumplings, this bowl of dumplings actually had various flaws, but Alice still found something familiar in them - the 1 penny that gave her a toothache. coin.

Alice spit out the coin in surprise and looked at Mrs. Greenland - she never expected that this would be replicated.

Mrs. Greenland pretended to be surprised and applauded to celebrate her: "Oh my god, I asked you why no one in our family got the lucky coin. It turns out it's you!"

Alice was silent for a moment, and finally did not expose Mrs. Greenland, but picked up the second dumpling.

...how many coins are put in this bowl of dumplings?
Alice was silent for a moment after spitting out 1 penny again, and became much more careful when biting the third dumpling - and sure enough, she spit out another coin.

After finishing the bowl of dumplings, Alice finally realized something - Mrs. Greenland actually put a coin in each dumpling!
After sincerely thanking her, Alice confirmed this from Evelin.

...This is much better than deceiving children by marking them!
Alice opened her mouth to complain, but she was not an unscrupulous girl, and Evelin was not Klein, so in the end she just thanked Mrs. Greenland again and again and gave Evelin a New Year's gift.

That's Evelyn's oil painting.

——As a former art student, of course she can not only draw comics.

……

After saying goodbye to her Greenland home, Alice returned home and began to ponder.

After becoming the "winner", she did not digest the potion immediately like when she drank the potion of the "Priest of Disaster".

This means that just like Klein needs to go to the sea to find mermaids to complete the promotion ceremony, she needs to find her own way of acting.

(End of this chapter)