Chapter 2698 The Test of the Teacup
While the wise master was surprised by the extremely luxurious nightmare, the black earl was not surprised. Although he did not know the principle of the nightmare, he had seen Sanders release the black tower nightmare.
The extremely luxurious nightmare released by Angel gave him the feeling that it was completely the same as the black tower nightmare.
Countless people had studied Sanders's black tower nightmare, including the black earl, but in the end, they did not find any results and could only regard it as a unique illusion of the magic island.
Currently, the only people who are still studying the black tower nightmare are probably the group of wilderness wizards in the rat and ant underground meeting. They think they are Sanders' nemesis, so they naturally want to study all of Sanders' abilities thoroughly. In fact, Sanders has never even looked at them.
As for studying the nightmare? Back then, the black earl secretly tricked Su Mishi to the Noah tribe to secretly study his demon abyss nightmare, but he was almost dragged into an unknown cave by the shadow in the demon abyss.
Later, the Black Earl asked his old friend Rhine about the Nightmare. Rhine did not answer directly, but gave a very clear message: Only people from the Phantom Demon Island can use this thing. Moreover, at present, only Sanders can perfectly use the Nightmare, and the Nightmare of others is basically cut out by Sanders.
At that time, Angel was not born yet, so what Rhine said was not wrong. But now, the answer is naturally different.
Having said that, after the Black Earl asked Rhine, he had no interest in studying the Nightmare.
Now when he looks at the Nightmare, although he will observe everywhere, he is not studying the underlying logic of the Nightmare, but more guessing the effect of the Nightmare.
Sanders' Black Tower Nightmare combines suppression, imprisonment, and blood moon amplification.
Su Mishi's Demon Abyss Nightmare is offensive in nature, fighting through magic shadows.
As for Angel's Nightmare, the Black Earl has not seen any effect yet, which is exactly the same as the normal noble hall. There is a gorgeous main hall, a conference area separated by curtains, a bartender for entertainment, and a piano area illuminated by a beam of light.
If the Black Earl was not too familiar with the atmosphere of the nightmare, he probably really thought it was just an ordinary illusion.
"Is this Angel's nightmare?" The Black Earl thought to himself, it seems that it is not a control route, nor an attack route, so what could it be?
When the Black Earl thought about this, his eyes accidentally saw a lonely long table in the corner.
The wall candle illuminated the piles of manuscripts on the long table. The ink bottle next to it was empty, and even the feather pen inserted in the ink bottle was missing a few feather bones.
"Is this where Angel does research?"
The Black Earl thought about it and felt that this answer might really be close to the truth. Angel is an academic wizard who cares more about research than fighting. And a scholar cares most about the research environment when doing research.
It must be said that this place is fine as a research environment.
The Black Earl thought of this and chuckled in his heart. The people of the Magic Island are really interesting. Sanders likes to suppress people in the black tower, Su Mishi creates a bunch of demon shadows when he disagrees with others, and Flora raises a pink skeleton in her nightmare.
Compared to this, Angel is much more normal.
After confirming that this nightmare has no special effects, the Black Earl leisurely landed on Wai's shoulder and motioned him to find a seat at the long table next door.
"Aren't we in the earth ring wall? Will we leave the earth ring wall like this?" Wai was a little worried.
"It's different. Your state can be both illusory and real. When you are attacked, you are an illusory illusion; but when you are safe, you are real here." The Black Earl said.
It can be said that under Angel's manipulation, their current state is in a state that is both illusory and real.
As long as Angel is willing, they can transform from real bodies to illusions at any time and return to the earth ring wall.
This is actually Angel's application of illusion: the real and the fake change, and the heart is at ease.
However, this is only the case for Wai, Kael and others, because they are isolated in the earth ring wall, and there are safety considerations. Angel will let them be in a state where they can take the initiative to leave the nightmare at any time and return to reality.
Angel, the Black Earl and the Wise Lord are completely covered by the nightmare. If they want to leave, either Angel will remove the nightmare or destroy it.
From this point of view, the Black Earl admires Angel very much. He considered it very comprehensively, not only so that the people in the earth ring wall would not be completely unaware of their conversation, but also to some extent isolated the people in the earth ring wall to avoid direct contact with the Wise Lord. It can be said that this is the most perfect way to have both. If it were someone else, even if they could achieve this double-win strategy, they would probably not spend time considering other people's ideas.
Wai was relieved when he heard that he could leave at any time without worrying about safety issues.
Then, he followed the advice of the Black Earl and came behind the curtain.
Some people were already seated at the long conference table. Angel and the Wise Lord sat at the two ends, facing each other from a distance. The others sat on the side seats, and the seat on Angel's left hand was vacant.
Undoubtedly, this was the seat reserved for the Black Earl. But the Black Earl was on Wai's shoulder, so... Wai could only sit over there.
As Wai just sank into the slightly soft chair, he heard a burst of string plucking sounds coming from the side.
He looked up and saw a light gold spotted teacup with a harp handle, swaying to his side.
The light golden speckled tea cup not only stretched out its white porcelain-like thin hands to play the piano, but also obediently dropped the cup into Vai's hand, gesturing for him to taste the golden tea in the cup.
Vai was a little at a loss and looked at Angel next to him.
Angel: "Drink, that's what they want."
"Them", "mind"? Vai didn't understand what it meant, but Angel's words made him slightly excited.
Are you being treated specially?
However, the excitement did not last long. When he looked back, he found that there was a musical instrument teacup in front of everyone, containing various kinds of steaming tea.
Vai was a little disappointed. Originally, he thought he was being treated specially by his idol...
But soon, Vai cheered up again because he discovered another detail.
Except for the light golden teacup that played the harp in front of him, the other teacups had strange tempers.
For example, the teacup placed in front of Doakes is a pink teacup holding a baton. Doakes was already very dissatisfied with the pink teacup, which went against his macho image, but what made Doakes even more dissatisfied was that whenever he wanted to drink tea, the teacup would not let him go, instead holding the command The stick hit Doakes with a flurry of blows.
Also, in front of Kael was a tambourine teacup. The tambourine teacup would not beat Kael, but it was concentrating on playing the drum and completely ignoring Kael.
The teacup placed in front of the wise master was even more bizarre. It was a Shiqin teacup, which was the only teacup with a mouth.
The Shiqin teacup recited incomprehensible words while playing the high-pitched harp.
The wise master did not try to touch the Shiqin teacup. Although the dark green tea liquid in the teacup smelled very fragrant, it was not enough to attract him.
As for the Black Earl...because he has no mouth, there is no teacup to serve him.
Looking at it like this, Vai feels that he seems pretty good? At least, he can drink tea?
Thinking of this, he took a sip of the shimmering golden tea in the teacup.
Overall, the taste is a bit bitter and not very tasty. And it’s just ordinary tea, which can quench your thirst, but it’s not so much that you must try it.
But even so, Vai's tutor still asked him to drink all the tea and subconsciously said thank you. When he came to his senses, he realized that the other person was just a teacup, so thanking him seemed useless.
When Vai was stunned, the pale golden harp teacup played a beautiful piece of music for him, and then he retreated.
"You are drinking golden night flower tea. How does it taste?" At this time, Angel walked up to Vai and asked.
Vai still said modestly: "It tastes pretty good."
Angel smiled and looked at Vai with eyes full of meaning: "You are quite lucky."
After speaking, Angel did not explain, but turned his head and looked at Doakes in the distance.
Because Doakes had begun to become irritable, and while crying out in pain, he asked Angel: "Can I smash this tea cup! It's so disgusting! Even if you don't give me a drink, you still dare to hit me!" "
Angel: "You can do whatever you want. But if something happens, don't rely on me."
"Something happened? What happened?" Doakes wondered.
Angel didn't explain, just looked at Doakes with a smile.
Doakes was stared at by Angel, who sent chills down his spine. Angel usually would not say such words, and once he said such words, it might be really dangerous.
Thinking of this, Doakes cursed a few times, but still did not dare to touch those teacups. I could only cast a defensive spell on myself and sit on the sofa sulking.
Looking at Doakes' deflated appearance, Vai felt happy in his heart. If it was before when he and Doakes were taking risks, Vai would definitely go over and laugh at them, but now that not only his own adults were around, but also his idol, he restrained himself.
Vai: "Sir, what's the matter with these teacups? They're quite cute."
Doakes: "Cute! Lovely! Cute?! You say cute again, and you say cute to my tea cup!"
Doakes tried to push his teacup towards Vai, but the pink teacup seemed to recognize Doakes and refused to move.
At this time, Angel said: "These teacups are all attracted by your characteristics. The pink teacup will like you, and it will come to you no matter who you push it to."
"My trait? What do you mean?" Doakes asked confused.
Angel shrugged: "I can't tell. I brought these out from some mysterious place. They usually play music and dance, but when they meet people with similar characteristics, they are also willing to pour tea for the guests."
"By the way, you'd better send them away when you leave here, otherwise something bad may happen."
Angel deliberately said it mysteriously.
Doakes didn't care at all, but Vai, a little fanboy, naturally accepted whatever Angel said: "Why? What bad things will happen?"
Angel: "I don't know what will happen specifically. Maybe it will deprive you of your fighting ability, or make you unlucky for a period of time, or maybe it will simply haunt you..."
What Angel said was very mysterious, but in fact it was more of an exaggeration.
These few teacup bands of his, after a period of nourishment, do have something magical about them. But it's not to the level that Angel said.
There is so-called deprivation of ability, but if your hands are sore for a minute and you are unable to use weapons to fight, this can be regarded as deprivation of combat ability.
If you have been unlucky for a while, you might secretly combine it with other musical instruments and pour a basin of butter on your head while you are not paying attention. Is this also unlucky?
I've been pestering you, yes, and I'm pestering you right now.
Therefore, Angel is purely a bad factor and is online again.
Doakes was actually a little skeptical after hearing Angel's "alarmism", but he had no evidence to prove that Angel was telling lies.
At this time, Vai continued to ask: "What does sending away mean? Did I just send away the harp teacup?"
Angel didn't hesitate to say a few more words to Vai who was very flattering: "Yes, the so-called sending him away is just drinking the tea they sent."
Vai: "That seems very simple."
Angel smiled mysteriously: "It's really simple, but I can reveal a secret to you. The Harp Teacup is the most unpleasant tea among all the teacup bands. If you said it didn't taste good at the time, or just spit it out, Then the consequence may be that the strings of the harp tea cup are cramped, so you are lucky, or the etiquette teaching is very good.”
Vai said before that it tasted good and drank it all in one gulp. It was more of a courtesy. To put it bluntly, it was hypocritical. But Harp Teacup happened to follow this trick, so Vai passed the level safely.
After Vai breathed a sigh of relief, he looked at Kael and Doakes.
He also wanted to see how they sent away the tea cups.
Doakes was dubious and made no move. Kael believed in Angel...even if he didn't believe Angel's words, he didn't dare to show it.
However, according to what Angel said, the only way to give away this teacup was to drink the tea inside, but how should he drink it?
Kael had a tambourine tea cup in front of him. He was concentrating on playing the drum and had no intention of bringing tea to him.
When Kael was at a loss, everyone saw the wise master sitting directly opposite Angel. He quickly said a few words to the Shiqin teacup, and then the Shiqin teacup brought his cup to the wise master’s mouth. , poured it down on his own initiative, and then left quickly.
What did the wise master do?
Everyone looked at the wise master in confusion.
Others wanted to drink tea, but there were still traces to follow, but the wise man dominated the Shiqin teacup over there, completely treating himself as a bard, and kept reciting unknown words. As a result, the wise man drank it earlier than they did. arrive?
What's going on?
Faced with everyone's questions, the wise master did not speak, but the Black Earl gave an explanation.
"The Shiqin tea cup just now sounded like nonsense, but it was actually a simple language association test. And in the end, you also saw that the wise master gave an accurate answer."
After a pause, the Black Earl continued: "Jin said before that these teacups are attracted by your characteristics. Then find a way to drink tea according to your own characteristics."
Angel nodded repeatedly. The Black Earl was worthy of being a Black Earl, and he could see through the trick at a glance.
The characteristic of the wise master is "wisdom", so Shiqin Teacup wants to test the wisdom of the wise master, but obviously it overestimates its own intelligence. In the end, under the crushing IQ, Shiqin Tea Cup almost ran away.
As for why it was etiquette that tested Vai, Angel didn't know. Perhaps Harp Teacup also noticed that the only person at the scene who would praise the taste of its tea was Vai...
With the hint from the Black Earl, Doakes and Kael quickly drank the tea.
Ka-El's is actually the simplest. His characteristic is concentration. The reason why Tambourine Teacup completely ignores Ka-El is because it is focused on playing the drum. He was naturally focused and would not be distracted. Kael ignored the drumming and directly put his head over to drink from the back of the tea cup.
Doakes's is also very simple. To solve the puzzle of the baton teacup, you just need to follow the trajectory of the baton and sing along. Moreover, the baton teacup is also half-filled. As long as you sing the pitch correctly, you can pass.
Doakes also sensed the mystery, but his shame prevented him from just humming along.
But when he thought about how dangerous these teacups were, even if he thought it was alarmist, if there was even a chance that it was true, then he would be at a big loss.
So in the end, Doakes gritted his teeth and hummed a few words and settled the matter.
The entire pre-tea process takes less than three minutes. But it made the atmosphere at the scene noticeably warmer.