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"That's right. I got the book "Book+City" first published,"

He took a few pages of the diary and flipped through them, and saw the first sentence:

"Today, I met a woman who looked very strange and kept following me and refused to leave. I was so angry that I beat her up."

Huh?

I feel like I've read the contents of this diary before.

Chapter 378 Chick!

Edward continued to look back:

"Ah, I've been here for many days. It's so boring, even more boring than before. The food is not delicious. I don't like it here!"

"That woman has been following me for more than ten days. During this time, I beat her several times, but she just refused to leave and refused to talk. She is really a strange person."

"Today, that woman actually spoke. I thought she was mute. She told me her name..."

Seeing this, Edward finally remembered that these were the pages of the diary that he had taken from the gang leader's safe when he wiped out the Zmanger Gang - suspected to have come from another senior time traveler.

Unfortunately, he only read the first two pages before Bernadette suddenly appeared and took the diary away - Edward suspected that Bernadette had set her sights on him at that time.

Edward gently flipped through the diary and reached the penultimate page. The first four words that caught his eye made his pupils shrink:

"Her name is Chick."

Chick?

Edward took another closer look and it was really Chick!

Chick, this seemingly ordinary name is not simple at all in the world of the Lord of Mysteries. It represents a true god of sequence 0, the original witch!

But, but this diary entry actually said that a woman named Chick had been following "me", and "me" had beaten Chick several times? !

These few simple sentences, with a sense of absurdity of postmodern magical realism, caused Edward's brain to short-circuit.

After a moment, Edward's mind moved: Could it be that they just have the same name? You know, the true name of the gods is a secret to most extraordinary people, and even fewer people know the evil gods like Chike.

So, if you don't know, this name seems to be quite right...

But Chick is a man's name. There's something wrong with a woman being named that!

"You seem to have seen something incredible?"

Bernadette asked. 'The content is not bad!

"It's a little unbelievable... Wait for me to finish reading it."

Edward rubbed his brows and continued to look down:

"Hey, these past few days have been boring, just eating, sleeping, and playing Chick."

"…Today I finally finished walking through the endless wasteland and saw people again. They told me that this is the Solomon Empire, a country ruled by gods. But now I just want to have a good meal!"

"The feast... wasn't tasty! Chick liked it, so I beat her up again! Humph, she said she was my little brother, but she still dared to contradict me!"

"Chike suddenly came to me last night and wanted to know the formula of the Witch of Despair. How could I know that? She insisted that I had seen all the witch's formulas. I asked her where she saw them, and she said it was on a gray-white stone tablet. Oh, I remember, I did see it, but I didn't recognize the words on it... In order to prevent Chike from saying that I was illiterate, I beat her up again."

"…I haven't written a diary for a long time, because I was attacked half a month ago. If Chick hadn't helped me block it, I would have died! Well, I decided not to hit (crossed out) in the future, and I'd better hit her less. She has also officially been promoted from my little brother to my little sister."

"I've been recovering from my injuries these past few days, and I'm kind of confused. I seem to remember the stone tablet I saw at that time. It's the kind of text I've never seen before, but... I don't know why I can suddenly understand it! It's just right. I don't know how to thank Chike, so I'll tell her the formula of the Witch of Despair!"

This is the end of the two-page diary.

Edward stared at the last few articles and fell into deep thought: He was now completely certain that this Chick was the original witch Chick!

However, when she was mentioned in the diary, she was only Sequence 5.

Oh my god, this senior traveled through time (awoke) quite a long time ago?

The original book does not clearly mention the time when the goddess Chikeden became a god, but based on the entire article, we can roughly infer that she became a god at the beginning of the Fourth Epoch.

Because the Third Epoch was the epoch of the ancient sun god, there was no record of the original witch during this period. However, during the Fourth Epoch's Four Emperors' War, the original witch already existed. She and the Hades Emperor Salinger jointly launched the Pale Disaster.

According to this diary, Chick should have become a god in the early stage of the Fourth Epoch. Edward did not know how she changed from a male to a female and became a Sequence 0 god step by step in the original work, but now it seems that Chick may have become a god with the help of that "senior time traveler".

Then, the gray-white stone slab that this "predecessor" saw should be the blasphemy stone slab, but we don't know whether it was the first or second one, nor do we know how he saw it at that time.

Edward looked at Bernadette: "I believe that even if you can't read Roselle's text now, you should be able to tell that these pages of notes are not from the hand of Emperor Roselle."

Bernadette nodded slightly: "Yes, but this makes me more curious."

She explained, "I have seen some things imitating the Roselle language in the past, but they were basically very crude. Even if I didn't know Roselle language at all at the time, I could conclude that they were just made up by people in later generations."

"But these pages are clearly different."

Edward sighed secretly. As Bernadette became more and more familiar with Chinese, she would sooner or later know what he had deliberately not translated for her. In fact, the romantic affairs of Emperor Roselle were not a big deal.

After all, I can explain that it was to maintain the good impression of her father in her mind.

Anyway, I'm not the one who will be socially ruined, so I don't have much to lose—wait, if Bernadette really thinks I'm Emperor Roselle, will she be so angry that she will stab me, her "old father", in the back?

But if she asked about the other time traveler, how should I explain it?

Well, why not just tell her the truth: Beibei, although I am indeed not your father, I am from the same place as your father and we are of the same generation, so from now on you can call me uncle.

"You are thinking about how to make it reasonable, right?"

At this time, Bernadette asked lightly.

"No way, Beibei… Your Majesty, the person who wrote these pages should be from the same place as Emperor Roselle."

Her eyes flickered, "Hometown?"

Huh?

Edward was shocked. In the original novel, she should have learned the meaning of "homeland" from Klein. Why did she know it so early? Did she ask Mr. Fool when she entered Sefirah Castle in the Forsaken Land of God?

"That's right."

Edward simply said, "But these words seem to be about the early Fourth Epoch. It mentioned that he traveled abroad and came to the Solomon Empire at that time, and met a man..." He hesitated for a moment and said, "The man's name is Chick."

Bernadette was stunned. "Original Witch?"

"To be precise, it was Chick before he became a god. According to what is written here, the formula for Chick's advancement to Sequence 4 was given to him by the owner of the notebook."

Her azure eyes suddenly became deep, "This is really... shocking news."

A few seconds later, she asked again: "So, the so-called Roselle language was not invented by Dad at all, but is the writing system there?"

"This... should be it."

Bernadette looked into Edward's eyes quietly. "What about you? Why do you know Luo... this kind of language? Are you also from 'homeland'?"

"That's right."

Edward was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "So, if... you had any misunderstandings about me before..."

"There is no misunderstanding."

She said lightly.

"ah?"

Bernadette stood up from the swing chair at this time. "In two days, I will go back to the Emerald City to get more of my father's notes. That is my palace in the Misty Sea, located on the island of Lasha. Since you can't go to Intis, come to the Emerald City."

"As for the next two days, please continue to take the time to teach me Rosellewen."

After saying this, Bernadette's figure disappeared along with the pea vines.

"Edward, she's gone~"

"Um."

Edward looked at the place where Bernadette disappeared and fell into a brief contemplation: Everything had been basically revealed just now, why did Bernadette firmly believe that "there was no misunderstanding" and asked me to go to her palace to find her?

What is she thinking?

Tsk, I have absolutely no idea.

Dirty, dirty, dirty~~

At this time, the whistle of the White Agate sounded, the hull shook, and slowly sailed away from the dock.

...

At noon, the warm sun dispelled the chill of late autumn. Although there was still wind on the deck, many passengers chose to come here to bask in the sun.

Edward and Klein chose a seat near the edge and ate lunch while listening to the sound of the sea. Lilith ran around carefree, looking at this and that. Occasionally, when she saw a flying fish jumping out of the sea, she would prepare to go into the sea to catch it - this feeling was truly comfortable.

Klein couldn't help but think, how nice it would be if this trip was really just for vacation.

Edward saw what he was thinking and said with a smile, "We have just started sailing. Think about it. All you will see every day is endless sea and blue sky. There is only a small area for you to move around. Wouldn't it get boring soon?"

"Yeah, that's true. But I've seen the White Onyx's navigation table, and it basically stops at an island every 2-3 days, so it's not as scary as you say."

After a pause, he thought of something and asked, "It seems that we will arrive at Damir Port tomorrow afternoon. Do you plan to get off the ship there and change to another route?"

Edward's heart moved, and he crossed his hands and said, "How about you tell my fortune? Do you think I should get off the ship there?"

As a beacon of destiny in the mysterious world, Klein's divination is still worth referring to.

"Ah? What do you want to predict?"

Klein immediately reacted, "Don't you know how to tell fortunes?"

"Alas, who can compare to you fortune tellers when it comes to divination? I'd better not show off my little ability."

"I always feel like you are harassing me."

Klein took out the yellow crystal and said, "What do you want to divine?"

"It's just... should I get off the ship at Damir Port?"

"Hey, you know, there's no way to tell fortunes about this kind of thing, okay?"

Edward took out a gold coin and handed it over. "Then don't use divination. Just flip it. If it's heads, I'll get off the boat. If it's tails, I won't. This gold coin will be your reward."

Klein narrowed his eyes and took the gold coin. "Since you insist on giving me money, I won't be polite."

He held the gold coin and showed it to Edward. "Watch it."