Neverland

Xu Muzhou only felt the cool wind blowing from his back, he swallowed, and turned his head to look at Yan Cen.

"Tuoya..." Xu Muzhou asked hesitantly, "Is she still alive?"

But after he asked, he felt that something was wrong, because strictly speaking, Yan Cen himself was not a "living person", but the crystal ball obviously recognized this very well, and Yan Cen was still alive during the mission. Using the identity of an "ordinary person", the crystal ball did not show any deviation in the identification process, and "seeing the essence through the phenomenon" was treated equally.

So if you look at it from this point of view, this guess does not seem to be true.

Xu Muzhou frowned in embarrassment, he didn't have any clue at the moment.

In his impression, the soul is the only thing in this world. Schrödinger, who is alive, and Yan Cen, who is objectively dead, have filled both situations, but they still haven't triggered Toya's hidden situation.

——That means, either Toya can control this thing, or Toya herself is very special.

Yan Cen pinched the hydrangea in his hand and turned it around, pondered for a moment, did not speak, obviously did not find any substantive clues.

The task seemed to be at an impasse. On the bright side, there seemed to be nothing special about this task other than some psychological counseling for the interns of Neverland.

But Yan Cen always felt that it was more than that, he squeezed the hydrangea again, thought about it for a while, then stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers in front of Xu Muzhou.

"Come back to your senses." Yan Cen said: "Since you can't figure it out, don't think about it for now."

As Yan Cen said, he dug out the crystal ball from Xu Muzhou's arms, pulled the quilt and wrapped it around it, wrapped it into a small round bundle, and half hugged it in his arms.

Xu Muzhou stared blankly at his movements, and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Send it back to Toya." Yan Cen said, "It's useless for us to hold this thing."

As Yan Cen said, he turned over and got off the bed, and walked out with the crystal ball in his arms.Xu Muzhou hurriedly got up, while straightening out the voluminous robe that was wrinkled from sleeping on his body, while stepping on his shoes, he chased after Yan Cen.

Maybe it was because the crystal ball fell into someone else's hands, or maybe it was because of something else, in short, Toya didn't disappear for no reason this time. As soon as Yan Cen opened the door, he found him wandering around the door anxiously.

I don't know if it was Xu Muzhou's illusion, but he only felt that the small piece of floor was polished by Toya's back and forth, and it seemed that there was even less floating dust than other places.

As soon as Yan Cen opened the door, Toya was like a frightened rabbit, she raised her head with a bang, and her eyes fell on Yan Cen's hands.

Yan Cen held the ball firmly in his hand and passed it forward.

A look of obvious surprise flashed in Toya's eyes, and she raised her hands subconsciously, wanting to come over and take the crystal ball.

However, before Toya's fingers touched the sphere, Yan Cen's hand took half a step back slightly.

Xu Muzhou: "..."

——He already knew that it would not be so easy for Yan Cen to exchange this thing for Toya.

He chased him out in a hurry, and the shoes on his feet were not worn properly, and half of the upper was trampled under his feet, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Since Toya was at the door, there was no reason for her to disappear from under people's noses for no reason, so Xu Muzhou relaxed a little, bent down and tightened the laces on the shoes.

"You..." Toya quickly looked up at Yan Cen's face, then lowered her head deeply, and said in a voice like a mosquito, "Can you return the crystal ball to me?"

"Yes." Yan Cen said calmly, "But you have to answer a few questions for me first."

This questioning method, which is almost threatening, is not friendly, and even Toya, who has always shown a good personality, inevitably showed some embarrassment. He pursed his lips and retorted in a low voice with a pale face: "Even if the crystal ball is not with you In your hand, I will answer your questions."

Xu Muzhou who was leaning against the door frame raised his eyebrows.

——The little rabbit still has a temper.

From an objective point of view, a normal person will subconsciously reflect on whether he has gone too far if he can force a limp little bun to resist hard.

But if Yan Cen felt "ashamed" because of this, it would be the sun coming out from the west.

So he simply ignored Toya's face, and ruthlessly put a finger in front of him.

"The first question." Yan Cen said, "Where did you get this thing?"

"From the storage room in my house." Whether it was voluntary or not, Toya still responded cooperatively: "I had it when I was very young... I thought I was an ordinary toy at first."

"The second question." Yan Cen said, "When did you discover that it has the function of seeing the future?"

It would be fine if this thing belonged exclusively to Toya, but if this thing was thrown away in the storage room as miscellaneous items, the chances of it not being touched by others before were very small.

Yan Cen has read Toya's information. When he was a child, his family was not a noble family, but an ordinary peasant family.For this kind of family, there are no secrets under the cramped small house.

That is to say, maybe this crystal ball was "activated" by Toya.

This question is a bit more difficult to answer than the previous one, and Toya's face became a little ugly, he opened his mouth hesitantly, and finally answered reluctantly for the sake of the "hostage" in Yan Cen's hands up.

"...Not long after I found it." Toya said, "I was just playing with it. Another child in the same village saw it and wanted to snatch it. I found it during a dispute."

Yan Cen thought about it and made an addition to this question.

"And then." Yan Cen asked.

Toya's lips were pale, and his neck was bent downward to reveal a fragile mark, the fair and slender back of his neck was exposed under Yan Cen's eyelids, and his chin almost reached his chest.

Xu Muzhou changed his posture with great interest, thinking that Toya's expression was a bit exciting.

——It was a remorseful and bewildered expression.

"He seemed to have seen a ghost." Toya said: "In just a few seconds, he let go of his hand and ran away quickly."

Toya paused, Yan Cen said: "Continue."

"Then he fell into the river and drowned," Toya said.

After Toya finished speaking, her delicate eyebrows were unconsciously raised, and a little bit of water was faintly revealed in her beautiful green eyes.He seemed to be in a bad state, as if he was enveloped by a sudden sadness.

"It's really..." Toya whispered, "It's unfortunate."

Toya looked like a selfless and compassionate angel, but Xu Muzhou suddenly noticed a detail.

——After saying these two sentences, Toya's muscles that had been tensed since seeing Yan Cen suddenly relaxed a little.

His thin shoulders were slightly bent downwards, and the hands raised in mid-air trembled unconsciously.

Toya's subconscious behavior was only for a moment, but Xu Muzhou saw it clearly - this shows that in just a moment, Toya had a subjective "relaxation" action.

It's strange, Xu Muzhou thought, what is he relaxing.

The "angel", who seems to be as selfless as a god, actually shows a subconsciousness that is completely opposite to his personality in the face of such a situation that is definitely not a good thing.

Xu Muzhou thought that Toya was a very contradictory person from before, he didn't look like a person who was good at lying, and his personality was extremely meek.But precisely because of this, Toya always showed very strange contradictions in such extremely subtle places.

Yan Cen accepted the answer to this question well, without any pause, he raised a third finger in front of Toya.

"The third question." Yan Cen said, "Have you seen your future?"

This question obviously hit Toya's blind spot. His hand trembling in mid-air, he subconsciously wanted to take it back.

Unexpectedly, Yan Cen didn't seem to intend to answer this question at all. As soon as he finished asking, the hand holding the crystal ball turned slightly to one side, and loosened the ball with force.

The crystal ball gurgled half a circle in the palm of his hand, followed the force of gravity and fell downwards, hitting Toya's hand below.

Toya was stunned for a moment, almost unable to react.

The crystal ball moved a bit anyway, Yan Cen let go of it so suddenly, Toya couldn't catch it in time, and almost fell to the ground with her arms and the ball. Fortunately, she fumbled around twice in a hurry, and managed to hold it firmly.

The lost and recovered crystal ball stayed in the hands of the "bandit" Yan Cen for a long time, and as soon as it returned to the embrace of its owner, it was hugged back into its arms with great care.

Now that she got the things back, Toya also took the opportunity to take the question just now without answering.

But Xu Muzhou always felt that Yan Cen seemed to have got his answer.

Xu Muzhou subconsciously looked at Yan Cen's wrist, the progress bar on it was still not much different from before, and it still seemed that there was no progress.

During the confrontation, the rusty clock at the gate of the castle suddenly rang a few times muffled.

Xu Muzhou heard the sound and looked around, only to realize that it was the hourly telltale.

The hands on the clock rotated forward rapidly, and Xu Muzhou just turned his head, and the scale on it jumped out for a full minute.

Yan Cen was not distracted to look at the clock that suddenly became a presence. He returned the things, but it seemed that he still didn't want to let Toya go so simply, and insisted on charging some "storage interest".

"One last question." Yan Cen said, "Where did Joseph go?"

Xu Muzhou asked this question once before, so Toya answered quickly.

"He's redeemed," Toya said.

Yan Cen did not ask what the nature of this "salvation" was, but nodded and said, "Have you seen him off yet?"

"Of course." Toya hugged the crystal ball in her hand, smiled shyly, and said, "He's my friend."

After Toya finished speaking, she might feel that this was not very good, and added another sentence: "Of course you also..."

"I believe." Yan Cen's tone was relaxed, he looked around Toya meaningfully, and said in a low voice: "I also believe that you will not hurt your friend, right."

The smile on Toya's face became a little stiff, he lowered his eyes, avoiding Yan Cen's gaze, and said, "Yes, of course."

"That's good." Yan Cen said, "Then you can go about your own business."

Yan Cen's nonchalant tone seemed to be dismissing the servant, but Toya felt as if she was being pardoned, and left without saying a word, holding the crystal ball. Xu Muzhou took a careful look and found that he entered the second floor same room.

Xu Muzhou withdrew his gaze and asked, "What's next?"

Yan Cen turned around to look at him, smiled and looked at the key chain that came out of the room in his hand without saying a word.

Xu Muzhou was not very annoyed when he saw through him at a glance, he simply hooked the ring on the keychain with his index finger, and waved the bunch of keys in front of Yan Cen's eyes.

"Go and see the last room of Blue Beard." Xu Muzhou said with a smile: "...Of course, if 'Blue Beard' comes home suddenly and wants to chop me up for a drink, you have to protect me."