fgbfgb

Bernadette sat on the floor, looking down at the book, looking up at the sky, looking at the butterflies flying around, and of course looking back at the direction of her father's study.

"Huh?"

She suddenly frowned and looked straight at where Edward was, "Who's there?!" (Edward had learned Intis language)

Chapter 451 Bernadette

"???"

Edward was shocked.

It's impossible. With the invisibility cloak activated and the [Hide] ability activated, even ordinary demigods can't sense my existence when I'm standing still. How could this little guy who's not even a Beyonder possibly discover me?

Are you cheating me?

"I see you!"

Bernadette yelled, "If you don't come out, I'll call for help!"

"…"

"Is that you, Dad?"

She stood up, still looking at Edward's position, "Although I don't know how you can become invisible, but..."

Bernadette pointed at Edward's feet and said, "You've left footprints all over the grass."

rnm!

Edward was speechless. I thought little Bernadette really had some special talent, but now this is the reason...

This is really a fatal flaw of the invisibility cloak. It can only make you invisible and hide your sound, but you are still standing there in reality, so you will naturally leave footprints on the grass.

Made a mistake.

"You're not the dad?"

Bernadette's expression changed at this moment, and she retreated cautiously:

"Mother..."

"Uncle Green? Uncle Edwards?"

"Grandpa Zaratul?"

After shouting the last sentence, she ran away.

Edward didn't stop her. By the time she found someone, he would have slipped away, and no one would know who was standing there just now.

Huh?

Just as he thought of this, he suddenly felt that the digestion of the secret wizard's potion had loosened a little. It was not digestion, but just a little loosening.

Edward was stunned. "This... can be considered keeping a secret?"

No, maybe... this belongs to "mystery".

Therefore, the role of the secret master is not only about "keeping secrets", but also about "mystery."

The future "Queen of Mystery" inadvertently made me realize that playing a mystic can also be "mysterious", which is… really interesting.

Thinking of this, Edward had an idea and took out one of the last two spare wands in his leather pocket - he must buy a few more to store next time he returns to Harry Potter.

He was suddenly stunned: If the Harry Potter world does not exist in this era, what will happen when he returns to the Harry Potter world in a few days?

Bernadette had just run seven or eight steps when she suddenly found herself turning around uncontrollably and running back. She was so scared that she wanted to scream, but no sound came out - her mouth was gone!

Her pupils trembled with fear, but she could do nothing but watch herself getting closer and closer to the "invisible man". Then a person seemed to jump out of the air and suddenly appeared in front of her.

"Hello, Bernadette."

Edward changed back to his Chinese face before he traveled through time, smiled and waved to her. _卡￠卡,小/税￠网` `埂_鑫`嶵′全.

"Wow... Hey? I can talk now?!"

Bernadette muttered something belatedly, and then she yelled at the top of her lungs, "Dad, help! Help! Someone help me!"

Edward folded his arms and let her scream. He had used [Space Concealment] to hide this area, so no one could hear her even if she screamed at the top of her lungs.

Bernadette soon realized this and decisively shut her mouth. Her blue eyes rolled around, and she looked cute and well-behaved: "I... I was just joking with you."

"I was just kidding you, too."

"…"

The little girl was stunned for a moment, then she said in a crackling voice: "Are you here to kidnap me? Do you want to ask my father for a ransom? I can cooperate with you! I promise to be obedient!"

Edward shrugged.

"I'm not a kidnapper. I just wanted to see the so-called 'Son of Steam'. But you found my tracks, so I can only..."

"I know nothing! I saw nothing! I can't say anything!"

Bernadette immediately closed her eyes and covered her mouth.

"You are quite a clever fellow."

Edward walked forward and subconsciously touched her head - well, it wasn't as nice as Lilith's.

"ah!"

She started but didn't open her eyes.

"Okay, I was just joking with you. I'm leaving now."

"ah?"

Her eyelashes fluttered and her eyes opened a little, and she found that the unknown man had indeed turned and left. However, after taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped, and Bernadette quickly closed her eyes again.

"Do you like Pinocchio very much?"

"ah?"

"Isn't that a picture on the book you're holding?"

"Why?"

Bernadette opened her eyes suddenly, and a few seconds later she suddenly put her hands on her waist and said angrily: "You are the father after all!!"

"What?"

This time Edward was confused. How did she make that judgment?

"You're wrong."

"You're still pretending!"

Edward conjured up a Pinocchio doll and threw it over - it was based on the one Bernadette would give him in the future. "If you don't tell anyone that you saw me today, I'll give you this Pinocchio doll. How about that?"

"ah?"

Is this person really not my father?

Bernadette became nervous again - she knew that she couldn't hide this kind of thing from her father, but she was worried that if she rejected this man, he would be angry and that would be bad for her.

So she shrank her head and said, "Okay, okay."

Edward smiled and snapped his fingers. "People who lie to me will have their noses grow longer."

The next second, Bernadette saw her nose begin to grow longer, one inch, two inches, three inches. After a brief moment of confusion, she screamed in horror: "Ah!!!!"

"You really lied to me. You must be planning to tell others that you have seen me, right?"

"No! No! I won't tell anyone, seriously! I swear!"

Bernadette shouted in panic, "I'm not lying, really."

"It's a deal then."

With that, Edward stepped into the spirit world and disappeared.

"My nose..."

Bernadette wanted to chase after him, but found that her nose had returned to normal at some point.

"Recovered?"

I still have to tell...

As soon as she had this thought, she saw that her nose had grown longer again.

"Ah! I won't tell anyone!"

The nose returned to normal.

Bernadette touched her nose in panic, and finally breathed a sigh of relief after a while. Then she looked down at the puppet in her hand, "But if this person is not my father, how would he know about Pinocchio? This fairy tale book was clearly written by my father specifically for me. No one else should know about it except me, my parents, and me."

"Could it be that he saw the words in the book?"

She looked back at the book. "But, there are only pictures on this page!"

"Can he see through things?"

"!!!"

Bernadette was immediately shocked and turned and ran: "Help!"

...

"Tsk, [False Truth] is really a great weapon against children. It is difficult for them to distinguish between truth and falsehood. So to them, everything is real."

Edward immediately left the Russell family's villa - he did not go to see Russell as originally planned. He couldn't run away anyway, so it made no difference whether he met him earlier or later.

In the dim hotel, he transformed two lanterns into something suspended in the air, then leaned over the table, impatiently took out a piece of paper and a pen, and wrote:

Rules for playing as a Mystic:

1. Keep it secret. Keep it secret.

2. Be mysterious, stay mysterious.

Edward currently has no idea how to keep the secret. Just as he had thought before, he has been keeping a secret in this era.

As for the mystery, we can probably guess from the brief contact with Bernadette just now that she is pretending to be profound, her words are vague, and her identity is unknown. In a word, she is maintaining the so-called "mystery" through various methods.

"Why?"

Edward then used a thread to connect the two words "keeping a secret" and "mysterious" together. Is it possible to be mysterious and keep a secret at the same time?

or...

Mystery often means keeping secrets, and the two are always closely linked.

Isn't this the Riddler?

At this moment, Edward suddenly understood why he had not been able to trigger the digestion of "secret keeping", because whether it is mystery or secret keeping, you have to have an "object".

You remain a mystery to whomever you keep a secret.

"If that's the case, then if you want to quickly digest the mystic's potion, it's actually... very simple."

Edward smiled helplessly, "Just pick a random god as a target and play the role of the Riddler."

But this is definitely a very bad option. Unless it is absolutely necessary, it is better not to expose yourself - who knows what the gods will think about time travel.

In this case,

Does it mean that my "time travel" this time was not discovered by any gods? Because once any of them discovered it, they would definitely take the initiative to observe me, and then my secret wizard's potion would definitely not be silent.

Well, this is good news.

"If the gods are not able to do it, who else is suitable?"

The first thing Edward thought of was Medici, who was still imprisoned underground. As the former King of Angels, he would definitely gain a lot by being a Riddler for him. Moreover, he was sealed underground, making it difficult for him to have contact with the outside world. Coupled with his current strength of Sequence 4, the danger was not great.

And... Mr. Men of this era?

I don't know if the uniqueness of the gate path is still in Him. If it is not, it means that His plan with Father Maozi has already begun. If it is still in Him, He will definitely be curious about why there are two unique gate paths in the world.

What the hell?

If this is true, this is a big joke, and it directly shakes the underlying logic of the mysterious world.

Well, so Mr. Men must also try to get in touch.

What else?

Mr. Azik should still be jumping back and forth between death and resurrection. He is eager to regain his lost memories and have a chance to fleece him, but how to find him is a problem.

In addition, the same goes for Mr. Pales. He doesn't know where he is hiding at the moment.

Other than that, there seems to be nothing else that can allow you to play the role of "Riddler" relatively safely.

Edward slapped his head fiercely:

"I want to do a split. There's no need to find a high-sequence character to play it. The key is to be suitable. I need to have a good understanding of the target, and the other party must be interested in the information I release. Only in this way can I keep him hanging."

Chapter 452: Searching for Lilith

Having written this, Edward tore off the pages and burned them to ashes.

When I looked up, I found that the sky had darkened without me noticing. The crimson moonlight was shining, shrouding everything in a light mist.

In this era, gas lamps had probably been invented only recently. As soon as the sun set, the whole world suddenly became dark, and there were rarely any people to be seen on the streets.

Being in such darkness, the feeling of loneliness became even stronger. His heart, which had originally calmed down, began to ache again.

Human beings always have a delayed sense of sadness over separation.

When Edward first realized that he had traveled through time, he was more confused and doubtful than sad.

The subsequent series of busyness left him no time to think about those things.

But at this moment, sitting in the empty room, Lilith and Audrey were far away at the two ends of time, so out of reach.

Edward then realized what was happening.

Unprecedented sadness, at this moment, drowned him like a flood, making him breathless. ~Hong￠特?暁￠税?旺\ *追￠醉~Xin, Zhang/Jie!

Pop.

The pen was broken and the ink sprayed all over the table, leaving spots of varying sizes, so conspicuous and deep, like scars burned deep in his soul.

a long time.

He waved his hand to clean up the ink, forced himself to cheer up, and started thinking again.

What did you just think of?

...the "target candidate" who plays the role of the mystic:

By the way, there is another person in this era who cannot be neglected: the other senior time traveler mentioned by Russell in his notes.

Regardless of whether this "predecessor" was the same person who later entered the star realm to find Chick, Russell clearly mentioned in his diary that the other party was still alive.

Then at least the two sides must have had contact to come to this conclusion, right?

So if you keep an eye on Russell, you will meet that person sooner or later...

Huh?

Edward suddenly froze, his heartbeat speeding up:

It is known that there was a "time traveler" who traveled to an earlier timeline. He understood Chinese and left a Chinese diary. The content of the diary was naive and simple, recording simple daily experiences and personal thoughts. Circles were used to replace words that could not be written - it was obviously written by a child.

Well, now, isn't there just such a person who seems to be more suitable for this identity?

"Lilith!"

Edward couldn't help but stand up.

She was just a child and her Chinese was only at the primary school level, so her diary was naturally full of childishness. She complained that the food was not tasty and she didn't like the environment at that time. She missed home and wanted to come back. She even beat... Chick!

His heart was shocked:

The person who hit Chick like a ball was Lilith? !

The person who gave Chike the potion formula was Lilith?

The person who went straight into the astral realm to find Chike... was Lilith? !

"I'll wait for you in the future!"

Edward's mind reappeared the last words that the black-haired girl said to him before she left. Was this what she really meant at the time?

No wonder, no wonder...

Now, everything makes sense.

No wonder Chick suddenly came and attacked Lilith. It turned out that there was a grudge between them.

However, judging from the contents of the previous few pages of the diary, she and Chick should have had a very good relationship later on. Why did it come to this?

What exactly happened to Lilith during that time?

Betrayal, deception, despair, pain... maybe even more terrifying.

At this moment, Edward was happy, distressed and worried.

Fortunately, Lilith has successfully survived from the Fourth Age to the present (future) and has acquired powerful strength.

What makes me sad is how many difficulties and obstacles she has gone through to get to where she is now.

What worries me is that she actually broke into the star realm alone to hunt down a true god? !

You know, there is already Chike, who is Sequence 0, at the top of the Witch Path, so Lilith can only be Sequence 2 at most. What's the difference between a Sequence 2 challenging the true God and seeking death?

Unless, she has jumped to another path, but the witch's adjacent path is the hunter, and if she jumps to the hunter she will become a man...she didn't look like a man at the time, did she?

Did he use Transfiguration?

But even if she jumped to the Hunter, Medici definitely possessed a Conqueror's Extraordinary Characteristics, and she would have no chance of being promoted to a Red Priest.

Of course, from a broader perspective, the paths of darkness, dusk and death are also adjacent paths of the witch, but these three paths are the "forbidden" of the goddess of night, so how could she let others get involved?

In this case, the only thing left is to ignore the adjacent routes and jump directly, but that is a choice that means either madness or death.

These questions emerged in Edward's mind one after another, but the answers to these questions existed two hundred years later. Although after being promoted to Sequence 4, he had a very long life, enough to last until the future.

But these long two hundred years need to be spent day by day.

"Wait, since Lilith exists in the future, she must also exist in the present."

Edward's eyes became fiery:

"Is it possible... that I can find Lilith in this era?"

Once this idea came up, there was no way to take it back.

So the new question is, how to find Lilith?

If the "senior" mentioned in Roselle's diary refers to Lilith, then we just need to keep an eye on him - but why did Lilith contact Roselle? Is it because she knew that Roselle was also a "traveler" and came to see him?

Or does Lilith have any special purpose in coming to Intis and Trier?

"By the way, in the future, she seemed to have mentioned the 'Conqueror's Extraordinary Characteristics'. She was looking for the 'Conqueror's Extraordinary Characteristics'... So, is she really planning to jump into the Hunter Path?"

If that happens, wouldn't my soft, cute and adorable daughter become a son? !

"…"

Just live safely.

It is certain that Lilith is interested in the Conqueror's extraordinary characteristics, and there happens to be a copy of the Conqueror's extraordinary characteristics in the underground of Trier. Could it be that she came here for this?

But even if that's the case, how can I find her?

Take the initiative to expose myself and let her come to me?

It's too unsafe.

Edward did not forget that the original witch Chick seemed to have been looking for Lilith.

So we can only try other ways -

The names of Medici, Azik, Pales and others flashed through her mind again. Judging from the previous diary, Lilith traveled to at least the early period of the Fourth Epoch. Later, she met Chick and even competed with Chick for the throne of God.

Such an experience must have involved the "strong people" of the same period, so Medici and others would most likely know her and know news about her.

Oh, and there's this guy who claims to know it all!