Chapter 34: Common Sayings(1/2)
Lumian carefully observed and went through the entire process of "getting acquainted" with Liya and others until the two parties arrived outside the church of "Eternal Blazing Sun".
He initially confirmed that these three foreigners really no longer "recognized" him and were completely unprepared for the corresponding "pranks".
Has time really turned back... Lumian was in a daze for a moment.
"We've been here before, and there was no one." Valentine looked at the majestic building in front of him that was half blended into the night, and said the line "predetermined".
Lumi calmed down and stopped following the process.
He said directly:
"That's because the priest doesn't want to pay attention to you."
He planned to leave the impression of "joking but not bad-natured" in the eyes of outsiders who were suspected of being official extraordinary beings.
"You mean, the parish priest is inside the church, but he just didn't answer the knock on the door due to some things?" Liya thought of several possibilities.
Lumian smiled:
"It is not appropriate to have an affair in a church and be seen by others."
After saying this, he instinctively muttered in his heart: It's a pity that this time I can't hear the classic line "You have destroyed the actions of the Holy Church."
Of course, after getting to know Mrs. Poialis better, he felt that in a sense, what the priest said was not completely unreasonable.
Are we not allowed to be like the protagonist in Aurore's undercover novel, who is willing to endure temporary humiliation and sell his body in order to complete an important task in order to infiltrate the evil forces represented by Mrs. Poialis?
"Having an affair in the church?" Valentine changed his indifferent attitude and asked urgently.
Lumian spread his hands:
"What's the problem? This is a daily routine for the priest.
"You don't have to be so excited. Isn't there a saying that says, 'It's the same throughout the ages, men will always steal their wives'?"
"But this is in church!" Valentine said sharply.
Lumian thought for a while and asked curiously:
"In other words, as long as clergy do not have affairs in the church, it is acceptable?"
"This is blasphemy to God!" Valentine looked like he was about to explode.
Ryan patted him on the shoulder, telling him to calm down.
At the same time, this most calm foreigner asked Lumian:
"Do you know who the priest is having an affair with tonight?"
Lumian shook his head:
"There are too many possibilities. His mistresses, which I only know of, include Madame Poialis, Madena Benet, Philippa Guillaume, Sybil Berry..."
"Madena Bene, has the same surname as the priest?" Liya grasped this point keenly.
Lumian nodded:
"She and the parish priest are cousins two generations apart."
"..." Valentine was stunned for a few seconds, gritted his teeth and said, "Is Guillaume Benet a servant of God or a servant of the devil?"
Do you know this line? I haven’t seen you blow his head off... Lumian deliberately defended the priest:
"It's actually nothing. There is a saying in the Daliez area, 'distant cousins, feel free to sleep together'."
"Why do you have so many common sayings?" Liya couldn't help laughing, and the silver bell above her head jingled.
Lumian showed his hands again:
"That's what it's like in the countryside."
At this time, Ryan asked thoughtfully:
"How do you know we are not from the Liège area?
"Otherwise, you wouldn't say, 'There is a saying in the Daliège area.'"
This is what you told me yourself... Lumian was so quick to talk that he actually regarded what happened "before" as information he already knew.
He had to make up reasons:
"Your temperament doesn't look like that of a native of Dalie."
He then pointed to the road leading to the village:
"I have helped you find the priest, and now I have to go home."
"I thought you would follow us in." Liya glanced at him and said with a smile.
"I don't dare to offend the priest." Lumian said casually, "The villager who reported the last report has been missing for a long time."
Without waiting for Ryan and others to respond, he waved his hand and ran to the other side of the square, saying as he ran:
"Remember to keep it a secret, my cabbages!"
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The red moon was covered by clouds, and Lumian was walking on a country road sprinkled with starlight.
He put his hands in his pockets and thought about what had happened recently.
When he was almost home, Lumian stopped and looked up at the roof of the two-story building that was half-terrained.
Sure enough, Aurore, wearing a light blue dress, was sitting there, hugging her knees and looking at the stars quietly.
In the night, her figure was lonely and distant.
It really happened again... Is there a possibility that those things before were true and now I am dreaming? Lumian just had a new guess and suddenly discovered the difference between the two March 29ths:
He didn't see the lady in the old tavern today who gave him the scepter and taught him occult knowledge.
This made him a little unclear whether he was dreaming or not.
I will make a confirmation tomorrow... Lumian gathered his mood, walked to the house, and pushed the door open.
Just like "last time", he used the ladder on the second floor to climb to the roof, walked briskly to Aurore and sat down.
"What's so interesting about this?" Lumian said deliberately.
Aurore turned her head sideways, sighed, and was about to speak when Lumian added:
"I mean, what does stargazing mean to you?"
Aurore looked him up and down:
"So direct today?"
She then looked at the starry sky again and said in a faint tone:
"You know, I'm not from Kordu, nor from Dalège.
"I don't know if you have ever heard the saying, it's your hometown that you can't go back to..."
Lumian was not joking and looked at the starry sky.
When Aurore flew into her bedroom and wrote a letter to her pen pal, Lumian returned to the second floor along the same route without revealing that he had become an extraordinary person, and communicated with his sister about the pen pal for a while.
Then, he helped Aurore close the door and walked back to his bedroom.
Looking at the bed covered with a white four-piece suit, Lumian suddenly felt something in his heart, walked over and lifted the pillow.
There is a card lying quietly under the pillow, which is the Tarot Minor Arcana card representing the "Seven of Wands"!
Looking at the man with a resolute face on the card, wearing green clothes and holding a scepter to resist the enemy's attack, Lumian suddenly thought of the lady's interpretation of this card:
"Crisis, challenge, confrontation, courage..."
The more Lumian thought about it, the more he felt that these four words truly revealed his current situation.
Before drawing the card, he will most likely be in crisis and facing challenges!
What needs to be done next is to muster up the courage to confront the problem? Wait, hasn’t time turned back? I haven’t even met that lady or drawn a card, so why does it appear here? Lumi
An was frightened for a moment and was no longer sure about his previous guess.
Various thoughts and inferences quickly popped up in his mind, like bubbles in boiling water.
This made Lumian's head hurt, and he felt like he was going crazy.
In the end, he temporarily set the woman and the items she gave as "exceptions" to prevent his thoughts from exploding.
With the mystery and specialness shown by that lady, it is a fairly normal development to not be affected by the time travel!
If I can find her tomorrow and she still knows me, it means that my inference is correct... Lumian breathed out, feeling mentally exhausted.
He went to the bathroom to wash up briefly and lay down on the bed early.
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In the familiar, light gray fog, Lumian woke up, turned over and sat up, and saw the wooden table and slanted chairs in front of the window.
He came to this special dreamland again.
After discovering that the scepter card still existed, he knew that he could definitely still enter.
To be continued...