What...it turns out to be a man." Li Yifei poked his head out, took a look, and muttered in a low voice.
"Um?"
Merlin, who was sitting quietly on the chair, glanced at him, a faint brilliance flashed in his eyes, and the next moment his body, which was covered under the dark blue robe, twisted violently...
In the blink of an eye, she turned into a slim girl with blonde hair and blue eyes!
"Gender means nothing to me." Merlin's soft voice sounded, making Li Yifei at the door dumbfounded.
"Dean...this, this..." Li Yifei pointed at Merlin and stammered.
Lin Qiye didn't seem surprised by this. He shook his head and spoke slowly:
"He is Merlin, a legendary magician who is proficient in transformation. Let alone a woman, he can become your father."
As soon as Lin Qiye finished speaking, Merlin's body twisted again and expanded rapidly. The dark blue robe on his body also grew in size rapidly. However, it was unknown what material this robe was made of. No matter how his body expanded, it could not be torn into pieces.
.
Pieces of snake scales appeared on his body, and scarlet snake letters spit out. In just a moment, Merlin turned into a Nanda snake demon that was several times larger than Li Yifei's original body!
This snake demon in a dark blue robe was entrenched on the chair, staring at Li Yifei's eyes with a pair of vertical pupils. An invisible pressure fell on Li Yifei, making him shiver.
Lin Qiye turned to look at Li Yifei, "Is this your father?"
"...How do I know?" Li Yifei muttered and took half a step back, "I don't even know what my father looks like."
"He can see through your true identity and what your father looks like...is this the power of prophecy?"
Lin Qiye sighed, his eyes fell on the snake demon, and he spoke calmly:
"Lord Merlin, you'd better change back and let's have a good talk."
The snake demon nodded slightly, swayed, and turned into that ordinary young man again, sitting quietly on the chair.
In the dim room, the two of them stared at each other silently, and the air suddenly fell into silence.
"Are you Lin Qiye?" Merlin said slowly.
"You know me?"
"As early as ten years ago, I predicted that you would open this door."
Lin Qiye immediately became interested when he heard such a magician's words, "Then let's see, what is my future like?"
Merlin shook his head, "I don't know."
"Don't you know how to predict?"
"Prophecy is not omnipotent." Merlin looked into Lin Qiye's eyes, "When you first opened the door, I tried to pry into your destiny, but your 'past' and 'future' were all blurry.
Only 'now' can give you a glimpse."
"Now?" Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow, "What does my 'now' look like?"
"You are now in a dangerous whirlpool. If you make a wrong step, you will be shattered to pieces, and this may also involve the people around you..."
Lin Qiye's eyes gradually became serious.
"No matter how clear it is, I can't see it anymore." Merlin shook his head, "Now, I can't make too precise predictions."
"Why?"
"I lost my crystal ball."
"Lost?" Lin Qiye was stunned.
Merlin seemed to have thought of something, and there was a bitterness in the corner of his mouth, "Ten years ago, a little girl came to this room and had a competition with me. She said that if I won, she would let me go, but if I lost,
, I have to give her the crystal ball..."
"Then you lost?" Lin Qiye's eyes gradually lit up, "That little girl, is she twelve or thirteen years old, with long black hair, and a strange pattern on the back of her hand?"
"That's right."
Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, "What are you competing against?"
There was a bitterness in the corner of Merlin's mouth, "Prophecy, or... inference."
"Deduction? How does this compare?" Li Yifei couldn't help but ask.
"We started from a fallen leaf and deduced the changes in the entire forest in the past 50 years, the present, and the next 50 years, regardless of victory or defeat, and then deduced stones, water droplets...
Later, we discovered that when it comes to foreign objects, we can't compare to each other no matter how much we compare, so we simply target each other and deduce everything about each other.
In the second round, she successfully deduced part of my destiny, but in the third round, I failed to see through her..."
Merlin's brows furrowed as he recalled the situation at that time.
"Her existence is completely beyond my expectation. No trace of 'past', 'present' or 'future' can be found... She is like a ghost that does not belong to this world. No matter what method I use,
No one can get a glimpse of her destiny.
So...I lost."
Li Yifei swallowed, cupped Gong Lin Qiye with his hand, and whispered: "So evil? Who is that girl?"
"I don't know either." Lin Qiye shook his head, his brows also furrowed.
There is no doubt that the girl who won Merlin's crystal ball, the girl who won Nyx's bracelet, and the girl who left the envelope in the dean's office are all the same person, that is, "Memorial".
But how did a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl defeat the goddess of the night in terms of creation, and also defeat the great prophet Merlin in deducing destiny?
The more he learned about it, the more Lin Qiye felt that this girl who called herself "Memorial" was full of mystery. If we could know who she was, then the origin of this mysterious mental hospital of the gods might be revealed...
But for Lin Qiye now, it seems that it is still too early to explore this.
Now, the top priority is to find a way to cure this legendary magician and extract some of his abilities!
Lin Qiye nodded slightly and observed Merlin carefully for a while, with some doubts appearing on his brows.
Merlin's situation is different from that of Nyx. At least so far, he has not shown any mental problems, so where should he start?
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Qiye looked into Merlin's eyes and spoke seriously:
"What's wrong with you?"
"?" Merlin raised his eyebrows, "You are the one who is sick."
"Why are you here if you're not sick?"
"I don't know." Merlin shrugged, "I'm just a scholar trying to find out the true face of the world."
"What is the true face of the world?"
"What do you think the world is and what are we?"
Before Lin Qiye could speak, Merlin continued talking on his own, "For deep-sea fish, seawater and deep-sea creatures are their world. They don't know that there is land outside the ocean, let alone
Didn't know there were creatures on land that were completely different from them.
For two-dimensional creatures, the world is a plane, and their existence itself limits their worldview. They cannot imagine that there are three-dimensional creatures observing their actions outside the plane.
For deep-sea fish, the ocean is their world; for two-dimensional creatures, the plane is their world...
But is the world they think of the real world?
no.
Then how do you know that the 'world' we know is the real world?
What is real reality, what is the real 'world'?!
What is beyond this world? And what are we looking at from creatures at higher latitudes?"
Merlin's eyes gradually became fiery, and in his eyes, Lin Qiye could clearly see the flame called "seeking knowledge"!
He stood up from the chair, pointed to the sky with one hand, held Lin Qiye's wrist with the other hand, stared into his eyes, and spoke word by word:
"Have you ever thought that maybe... the world we live in is just created by a being from a higher latitude?