Chapter 2703: Revealing the True Identity
After revealing the logo on the gloves and the logo on the pendant, Angell's entire story was finished.
However, for the sake of rigor, Angell added: "The above are all my inferences based on the clues I found. Whether it is true or not, it still needs Mu Ling to explain it himself."
After Angell finished speaking, he knocked on the vine on the cane again, signaling it to come out and say a few words.
However, Mu Ling was still pretending to be dead.
Angell: "Think about it, it's obviously your little crown, it's obviously a beautiful pendant worn on your body, but it was snatched away by the Wumu ghost. Don't you feel sad?"
Mu Ling trembled, but stopped again.
Angel continued: "Do you know that when I saw the witch ghost, it placed the pendant in the most conspicuous position on its body. It was the most eye-catching among all the witch ghosts. I saw it at a glance, and I also saw the beautiful pendant at a glance. Although it is a witch ghost, it is unusually beautiful. With the pendant, it is even more beautiful..."
The more Angel praised the witch ghost, the more the vines trembled, but Mu Ling remained silent.
But Mu Ling expressed his weak protest in another way.
It extended a thin vine and placed a word mine on the table.
Perhaps to strengthen the tone, Mu Ling grew three green buds with faint light at the end of the vine, like three exclamation marks.
The expression of words is full of mysteries. If you just look at the words "mine!!!" on the table, you will probably think how domineering Mu Ling is.
But in reality, it is still hard to describe from the heart.
However, Mu Ling dared to answer in words, which is already a progress.
Angel hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and said, "I know this pendant is yours, and the crown is yours, too. But what I want you to answer now is, is there any difference between the story I just told and the facts?"
In Angel's view, any living being will actually have a certain degree of dilemma. This dilemma may be a survival dilemma, an inferiority dilemma, an environmental dilemma, a social dilemma... and so on. Some of these dilemmas are confined to species and cannot be overcome; but more of them are confined to the mind and can be overcome.
As long as the first breakthrough is made, the second time will be relatively simple.
Angel's expectations for Mu Ling are the same.
Since Mu Ling expressed the first time in words, wouldn't the second time be a matter of course?
Angel looked at Mu Ling warmly, but he still underestimated Mu Ling's character weaknesses. Time passed by... Two minutes later, Mu Ling still did not give any feedback.
On the contrary, the "Mine!!!" on the table slowly shrank back.
Seeing that the vine was about to wrap around the cane again, Angel grabbed the end of the vine and said, "Don't forget our agreement."
The so-called agreement was naturally to let the wood spirit meet its "master" Sanders.
Although Angel mentioned the agreement without saying anything, it seemed to be just an emotionless sentence, but the wood spirit heard the threat in it.
After struggling for a long time, the wood spirit still stretched out the vine again and put a word on the table: There is a difference.
"There is a difference? What's the difference?" Angel continued to ask.
Perhaps the effect of the threat is still there, the wood spirit hesitated for a moment, and continued to answer. However, the wood spirit seemed to be very dissatisfied with Angel's threat, and its answer always jumped out word by word.
It took Angel a long time to sort out what it meant by "there is a difference".
In fact, the story told by Angel has been almost complete. However, there are some differences in details. The crown and the carved pendant were indeed taken away by the witch ghost who pursues beauty. However, the witch ghost looked down on the remaining two rings, so he didn't take them. It was not what Angel said, that he took it and then threw it away.
The remaining two rings were naturally precious to the wood spirit at that time. For this reason, the wood spirit also plucked up the courage to move to a hiding place.
But there were too many witch ghosts in that area, and the wood spirit later ran into a witch ghost. The witch ghost may have wanted to please the beauty-loving witch ghost, so he took another ring from it.
Now, the wood spirit only had one ring left.
The treasured thing was robbed, and after thinking it over, the wood spirit finally made up his mind to leave. As a result, it met Xixia...
The whole story is like this. To others, it is almost the same as Angel's guess. However, for the wood spirit, the difference is huge. After all, it is the person involved, and at the same time, the four lost ornaments are all its treasures.
The wood spirit used the vine to tell the experience word by word. Seeing that Angel did not continue to ask, it immediately retracted to the cane and continued to be the entangled vine pendant.
Angel raised his head and looked at the wise master opposite him: "Now the story is clear. I don't have the ability to predict the future. I collected these ornaments only because of my mentor. I didn't think that this was related to the wood spirit. However, later I got the last silver ring from Miss Xixia. After comparing it with other silver rings, I made an association. I guessed that these all belonged to the wood spirit."
"At the same time, I also have another guess."
Angel did not say the other guess, but the wise master spoke: "The wood spirit is the spirit of the cane, and the cane is your mentor's thing."
Angel nodded: "That's right."
The wise master fell into deep thought. In his opinion, this matter was really a coincidence. But after Mu Ling's narration and Angel's review, the logic here does make sense.
The most important thing is that if it is really not a coincidence, then this is at least a centuries-old layout. This layout even needs to take into account the birth of spirits, the witch-eyed ghosts who pursue beauty... and so on.
A century-old layout is not difficult. But those who can do this are all supported by powerful prophetic wizards. Based on the current level of prophecy in the wizarding world of the Southern Territory, it is estimated that only the "Immortal Crowned Star" Lapuye and the "Old Judge" Hastur can do it.
But what reason does a prophetic wizard of this level have to come here to plan?
When the Wise Lord was thinking more and more deeply, Angel spoke: "Wise Lord, do you think it's a coincidence? In fact, I think it's a coincidence too. Who would have thought that hundreds of years ago, I was just an apprentice's mentor? , the first time I came to the underground sewer ruins, I was chased by a witch-eyed ghost and lost my walking stick. "
Angel specifically mentioned that when he lost his cane, his mentor was still an "apprentice".
What kind of plan can an apprentice have, and what kind of energy can he have behind him, affecting the current development hundreds of years later?
Next, Angel also mentioned that the cane was lost after being chased by the Wumugui.
And who trained Wumugui there? …The wise rule themselves.
Therefore, when it comes to coincidence, the wise master himself should also be included.
"What's even more coincidental is that the walking stick actually gave birth to a spirit body." Angel sighed: "This is indeed a coincidence, but it is really just a coincidence."
The wise master understood what Angel meant. He raised his head and looked at Angel: "I can believe that all the coincidences you mentioned are coincidences. However, it is hard for me to believe that your appearance here is a coincidence."
Angel's expression paused, and then he chuckled: "Has the wise master forgotten the first sentence I wrote in the mantra book? I am just a passerby, not a returner."
The wise master stared at Angel quietly. There was indeed this sentence in the mantra book, but Angel's writing was ambiguous and there was room for manipulation.
"I can also give a complete explanation for this question, but it does not belong to these two questions." Angel: "Let's go back to the two questions originally asked by the wise master, right?"
The wise master did not refuse and nodded.
"As for the second question, how did I get the wood spirit to follow me? Now I think the wise master should have the answer."
"The true form of the wood spirit is my mentor's lost cane. I promised to take it to see my mentor. This is why the wood spirit followed me."
The facts are before our eyes, and the wise master has no objection to this. This is the truth with a logical chain.
"Now let me answer the first question again, how did I find the wood spirit?"
Angel: "I don't need to answer this. I'm wearing the gloves given to me by my mentor, and I'm holding the same cane that my mentor used. The body of the staff is still a derivative of the wood spirit. As long as the wood spirit sees it, I will naturally have doubts in my heart.”
"What I said before on the Road to the Void was not false. The wood spirit was indeed talking to me at that time. It took the initiative to contact me. I only need to explain the situation roughly clearly, and that's about it."
Judging from the entire process, things should be similar to what Angel said.
But there was one question that Angel still didn't explain: "How did you know the fork in the road?"
Faced with the wise master's inquiry, Angel also looked helpless: "There is something fishy at the fork in the road. The master only reminded me when he asked. I didn't know it at the time."
Under the suspicious eyes of the wise master, Angel recounted the two coordinate points sensed by the cane after entering the second level.
And why it was inferred from the two coordinate points that the wood spirit was at a fork in the road.
"After the wood spirit contacted me, it suddenly became silent. I guessed that it must have retreated again, so I came to the place where the wood spirit was most likely to appear: the fork in the road, and called the wood spirit there."
"As for the intrigue at the fork in the road you mentioned, I don't know about it at all."
After Angel finished speaking, in order to prove that he was not lying, he directly wrote in the mantra book: There is something fishy at the fork in the road. The wise master reminded me, and I was completely unaware of it before this.
The words did not disappear, indicating that what Angel said was true.
It's just that he deliberately wrote this sentence, which obviously has deep meaning...
The wise master also understood clearly that Angel was both proving himself and hinting to him not to think too much about conspiracy theories. Many times, the answer is that simple. If you think too complicated, it's your own problem.
The wise master looked at this sentence in the mantra book and remained silent.
Even if Angel didn't write it down, he still believed it. Because this is consistent with Angel's various strange behaviors after going to the second floor, such as why he ran into the void full of spatial cracks, and why he only ran to two points along the way, it was all because the wood spirit was secretly controlling him.
After thinking about this, the wise ruler felt a rare embarrassment.
What he originally cared about the most turned out to be a misunderstanding. For this reason, he also imagined various secret transactions between Angel and the goddess.
Now, Angel has put the truth in the truth book so that everyone can see it at a glance, which makes the wise master even more embarrassed.
He felt a little regretful that he shouldn't have used the mantra book. It's okay to use other methods.
After being silent for a long time, the wise master finally gathered his mood and faced Angel again: "I agree with these two issues. However, you seem to have missed one thing."
Angel sighed in his heart: Here it comes, here it comes, his vest is about to fall off.
As expected, the next sentence of the wise master was to let Angel take off his vest, or to be more precise, to let Angel take off his mentor's vest.
"As the teacher of the wood spirit, I can respect it and go to see its former master. However, I need to know his information and make a decision after judging it."
Angel wanted to say: How to choose is the freedom of the wood spirit.
However, considering the reality, this is still impossible. In the wizard world of the Southern Territory, it is difficult to have absolute freedom of choice; what's more, the character of the wood spirit has great defects. From a certain perspective, it is okay to treat the wood spirit as a patient who needs to be cared for and accompanied.
And the wise master, who has cared for and taught the wood spirit for hundreds of years, is indeed qualified to make decisions for the wood spirit.
Because Angel understands the truth, he will not argue with the wise master on this issue. However, when he thought that the vest was about to fall off, his mood was slightly complicated.
Under the watchful eyes of the wise master, Angel finally spoke out the name of his mentor.
"Sanders. Igulo."
The Wise Lord pondered for a moment: "So it was him..."
Angel: "Wise Lord knows the mentor?"
The Wise Lord: "Although I haven't been out for a long time, I still have a channel of information from the outside world. The Southern Region God of War, known as the Master of Illusion, has been very popular in recent years. I heard that his illusion is unique. Judging from your illusion, it is indeed interesting."
After a pause, the Wise Lord looked at Angel again: "However, according to the information I got, among Sanders' students, the one who inherited his illusion is a formal wizard named Su Mishi."
Anyway, since he had already revealed his identity, Angel didn't hide it anymore and said directly: "Su Mishi is now a true wizard, and he is considered my senior. I became the mentor's disciple a few years ago."
"By the way, do I need to introduce myself formally? My name is Angel Pat, and I come from the Savage Cave."
Dox muttered beside him: "It is rumored that it was intercepted by the Lord of Illusion."
Angel smiled and did not refute. This is something that the public already knows, so it doesn't matter whether it is explained or not.
The focus of the wise master is not on Sanders intercepting Angel, but on the fact that Angel really became a superhuman in recent years... This kind of supernova is extremely rare even ten thousand years ago.
Let's put aside Angel's specialness for the time being and talk about his background, the Savage Cave.
The wise master now understands why Angel has such a deep foundation and has such a super mountain behind him. The Savage Cave was a super-large wizard organization ten thousand years ago, and even the foundation of Naraku City cannot be compared with it. Because the legendary wizards born in the Savage Cave are all over the pan-plane. Ten thousand years ago, as long as you came out of the Savage Cave, you will always find a place in a world where wizards gather.
Even now, in the era of the decline of legends, the Savage Cave still belongs to a super-large wizard organization.
Moreover, the old man of the spirit book who was remembered by countless people ten thousand years ago. He has also lived to this day and is still guarding the knowledge inheritance of the Savage Cave.
Therefore, it is normal to be able to cultivate Angel.
However, since Angel came from the Savage Cave, some of the previous speculations may really be wrong.
What about planning for a hundred years? It's totally impossible.
He was very familiar with the situation of the Savage Cave hundreds of years ago. The Savage Cave was a comprehensive wizard organization. There were strong people in the three major structures, but there were only two types of wizards missing: one, the gourmet wizard; the other, the prophecy wizard.
Without the prophecy wizard to give strong support behind the scenes, to clear the fog and reduce the variables, it was impossible to plan for a hundred years.
What's more, the Savage Cave was far away from here, and no core figures had come to the underground waterway for so many years. If they really wanted to say that they had any covetousness for Naraku City, the wise master would not believe it.
The foundation of the Savage Cave was much stronger than the underground waterway. With their own magnificent palace, who would want to covet the shabby and dilapidated hut with leaks.
The wise master had solved the doubts about the wood spirit and Sanders' cane.
However, he still had a doubt. He always felt that Angel's arrival was really a coincidence as he said?