Mystery: Lucky One

Chapter 310 The Legend of the Superpower

Alice was stunned for two seconds, then she covered her mouth with her hand and looked at Edwina with her big innocent eyes.

After staring at her for more than ten seconds, Edwina realized that Alice was indeed very good at pretending to be innocent, so she slightly emphasized her tone and asked again:

"Taste? Flavor?"

Alice was silent for two seconds, then her left hand drooped naturally, and she raised her right hand, with her palm facing outwards, three fingers together, and her thumb and little finger bent close to the palm. Then she said in a firm tone:
"I promise, the book is no different than when I first got it!"

Edwina thought of the sleeve whose wrinkles were exactly the same as at the beginning, and looked at Alice, frowning slightly, and fell into deep thought.

After being stared at by Edwina for more than ten seconds, Alice finally couldn't bear the pressure anymore. She silently put her hands behind her back and lowered her head guiltily.

Edwina felt that she fully understood what had happened. She took a deep breath and asked in the gentlest voice possible:

"Why did you do that?"

"Because..." Alice carefully raised her eyes and peeked. After confirming that Edwina at least didn't look angry, she stammered and explained, "I, I want to taste what a book tastes like..."

Edwina remained calm and continued to ask in a gentle voice: "Why do you have such an idea?"

This attitude made Alice feel a little relieved. She gave up the idea of ​​running away and explained while pinching the corner of her clothes:
"Because I hope to gain knowledge by eating the book, then, I thought..."

The entire logical chain was connected. Edwina looked at Alice and smiled.

“There are people in the church who have actually done this kind of research.”

"Huh?!" Alice widened her eyes and looked up in surprise.

Edwina saw her expression and knew that she was interested, so she continued:

“A saint in the church was once curious about the same question as you. After researching, he invented a kind of magic.

"This magic can be released on ink, injecting one's own knowledge into the ink. As long as you drink the ink, you can master the knowledge injected by the caster.

“Leaving aside the smell of the ink, after multiple experiments, the effectiveness of this magic has been confirmed.

"For a period of time after that, this magic was very popular in the church. Everyone liked to pass on knowledge in this way. I also received and passed on knowledge in this way, but...

"We soon discovered that when our bodies excrete the ink, the knowledge leaves with it..."

Alice was lost in thought.

Edwina then asked:

"If you want to try it, there should be some ink in the captain's room. I also master this magic... Do you want to try it?"

Alice shook her head decisively, then asked curiously, "Then isn't this magic very...useless?"

Edwina shook her head and said:
"For ordinary Beyonders, it is indeed like what Emperor Roselle said, chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw away.

"But for the 'reader', this is not the case."

Alice was slightly startled, ignoring Emperor Roselle who was checking in at various places, and looked at Edwina who didn't intend to elaborate, and asked curiously:

"Are you like the 'Secret Peepers'? To a certain extent, knowledge represents power?" After a pause, she suddenly remembered that Edwina could imitate the extraordinary abilities she had seen. An idea flashed in her mind and she blurted out:
"The prerequisite for you to imitate extraordinary abilities is not to have seen them, but to have a full understanding of them, which requires knowledge!"

This time it was Edwina's turn to be surprised. The conditions she gave were obviously not enough to come up with this result. Even the steps to the middle seat seemed very forced.

This jumping way of thinking is obviously fundamentally different from the step-by-step logic of the "detective". She is more like directly looking for the answer. After looking at Alice, Edwina realized that this might be the particularity of the "destiny" path.

Excessive spirituality and spiritual intuition bring not only danger, but also a kind of mysterious sense of connection. Sometimes they can guess the answers to some things without divination.

This is a reasoning process led by intuition.

Similarly, this irrational and illogical way of thinking is more suitable for interpreting language... Edwina looked at Alice thoughtfully. She didn't admit it explicitly, but she didn't deny it either. Instead, she smiled and asked another question:

"What is the origin of that gesture you just made?"

The question about Russell came to Alice's lips but was swallowed back. She was clearly aware that no matter whether Russell said it or not, asking this question was equivalent to giving Edwina a clear clue.

Alice didn't care if the members of the Tarot Club knew that Roselle had a relationship with her or them - they didn't dare to say anything anyway, but Edwina...

Alice was impressed by the "hermit" Cattleya's experience as a lesson, and she realized that these adults were not much better than a child like her in keeping their promises.

No, maybe even worse than her.

Tsk, what a hypocritical sir.

Alice cursed at him in her heart before she spoke:

"This is the Boy Scouts' oath gesture... I don't remember which country's Boy Scouts it was from, and you wouldn't know even if I told you, but in the version I saw, the three fingers together represent loyalty, friendship, and bravery."

Boy Scouts… It was a completely unfamiliar word. Alice used "children" and "army" to spell out a phrase, and Edwina roughly understood what she wanted to express - an army of children.

But...letting children join the army?

Although there was no law to protect minors in this era and no one cared about children's human rights, with the prevalence of the Beyonder army, Edwina couldn't think of what an army composed of children could be used for.

This sounds more like a joke.

However, Alice's words were enough for Edwina to make some guesses: "Before the First Age...did a civilization exist?"

Alice's eyes widened.

This is no different from affirmation. Edwina then asked: "There are many countries in that civilization?"

Alice pursed her lips.

In this case, Edwina curiously asked the question that she was most concerned about just now:
"Does that civilization allow children to join the army? From your description, it seems that more than one country would do this..."

Alice was silent for more than ten seconds, then raised her head and said sincerely:
“At that time, becoming extraordinary was not just a game for a few people. Everyone would awaken strange powers at the age of eighteen and be recruited into the army.

"At that time, we called these people superpowers..." (End of this chapter)

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