Earth Exam [Unlimited]

Chapter 23 Masquerade Ball

"I always feel that the words in the notebook are very strange, as if there is something that I can't read clearly.

But if it refers to two people, it can be disassembled and interpreted.

The sentence belonging to the first person is:

[Her favorite fruit is grapes, the prince loves her very much.

Love is beautiful, but it has a shelf life. ]

The sentence belonging to the second person is:

[Her favorite fruit is strawberries, and the king loves her very much.

But among them [whether she likes to eat grapes or strawberries, he loves her very much. ]

Is that 'he' the same person? "

"The ending of Cinderella's story is that she married the prince." Ning Zhi was almost stunned by Jane, and she was also a little confused, "So let's make a hypothesis, the first one assumes that the prince and the king are the same person, Luo Duopi Sis is the real Cinderella, she married the prince, but then the prince lost her for some reason, so the queen became Cinderella.

In the second assumption, the prince and the king are still the same person. Cinderella married the prince, and when the prince ascended the throne, she became the queen.People's tastes will change, and love may also change, so that passage does not refer to two people, but refers to different periods of a person.

The third assumption is that the prince and the king are not the same person. The prince married Rhodopis, and the king married Cinderella. That passage is deliberately used to confuse our judgment. "

Ning Zhi spread out on the sofa behind her in disbelief: "It's a mess."

"I don't think the third argument is tenable." Jane retorted her quietly, "If the prince and the king are not the same person, then the existence of the story "The King and the Nightingale" is the biggest misleading. The gift I found was wrong. , then the act of giving us identity is meaningless.

There is a presenting session in the ball, and the gift is dedicated to the queen, which shows that the queen is the center of this additional question, and Cinderella's museum is built around the idea of ​​Cinderella, and there is no reason to identify the true and false as the background board prince. "

"It makes sense. Assuming that all the clues are on Cinderella, why must it be to identify the true and false?" Ning Zhi tried to find the loopholes in his words, "The system's customs clearance conditions have not been announced yet, in case The way we understand it is wrong, as long as the gift is offered, it can be completed, but we have triggered some taboos because of random searches, which has resulted in a lack of success, isn't it a loss?"

"Then you think you can find the gift with a little risk, and then present the gift at the ball to complete the mission without any twists and turns. Do you think this is possible?"

"I also think it's impossible." Ning Zhi wailed, "But people always have extravagant expectations!"

"I don't think there's anything wrong with the trend of distinguishing the true from the false." Jane said softly, "There are so many kinds of dances, dinner balls, fundraising balls, masquerade balls, graduation balls...why is it a masquerade ball?"

Everyone in the masquerade ball wears a mask and a fake face, and the real face is only after taking off the mask.

"Isn't it obvious enough that the title of the additional question implies?"

Ning Zhi: "..."

All right, count yourself as ruthless.

"Then what should we do now?" She had almost given up thinking, "Is the gift still available?"

"Gifting is definitely a must." Jian quietly answered her, "Gifting should be a mandatory part."

"I don't know if the barrier that traps people on the first floor will disappear after we finish giving the gifts?" Ning Zhi said, "There is also the door on the road. I haven't found a clue for the key."

"I didn't find it either." Jian Qiao spread her hands helplessly, "But who stipulated that the door must be opened with a key? We can climb over the wall!"

You are too doggy!

Outside the window of the "Greenville Princess" lounge, a red-eyed crow hides among the tall trees, faithfully recording the conversation between two people in the room.

If someone looks at it from the perspective of this crow, they will find that the tightly drawn curtains are actually transparent at this moment.

After discussing the details in the lounge, the two returned to the lobby on the first floor.At this time, the music has been replaced by a melodious piano piece.

By the time they get close to the dance floor, the piece just ends.

The men and women who danced on the dance floor left one after another.

The system beeps suddenly:

[The gift begins. 】

The king and queen, who had disappeared for a long time, appeared by the stairs on the second floor, and the men and women in the lobby on the first floor presented gifts from left to right.

It's all for the queen.

They walked to the middle of the dance floor and opened their gift boxes. The gifts slowly floated up as if by magic, and stopped at the hand of the queen on the second floor.

Under the soft light on the second floor, Cinderella looked even more beautiful. She accepted the gifts with a smile: "Thank you, I like it very much."

Every time she said it, the gift bypassed her and stopped in the space behind her, and the gifts flew over one by one, neatly arranged in several rows.

Jane also followed the crowd to present his gift, Queen Cinderella just smiled lightly, repeating the same words as she said before: "Thank you very much, I like it very much."

Ning Zhi stepped forward to present the starlight sapphire necklace, but only received a faint thank you.

Sure enough, there is no prompt sound for the system to complete.

One after another, the nobles had already given her gifts, and the last one was Prince Clarence.

He stood in the middle of the dance floor and summoned the little gray nightingale with his gemstone ring. It flapped its wings, soared around the hall on the first floor, and began to sing. The voice was softer than Jane. What I heard in the lounge before was more beautiful and ethereal. Everyone was immersed in its singing. In a trance, Jian Qiao seemed to see the moonlight flowing on the ground, the elves playing among the flowers, and on the hillside where few people visited. The clematis bloomed quietly, and there were dots of fireflies flying higher and higher. There was a slight sound in the air, like the sound of broken glass.

The barrier on the first floor was opened.

He woke up in an instant, pulled Ning Zhi who was next to him, and the two left the hall on the first floor lightly. The people in the hall were still listening to the singing of the nightingale, and did not notice the two of them leaving.

After walking away, Jian Qiao asked Ning Zhi: "When you hear the singing, is there any picture in front of your eyes?"

"I saw fireflies all over the mountains, clematis, and a swan swimming under the moonlight."

"Do you still remember the identity of Rhodopis? She is an ordinary Greek girl. Although Cinderella is only the daughter of a down-and-out count, she is still a nobleman. Additional questions will not give useless clues. Singing There are images of clematis and the direction of fireflies flying, which are obvious hints." Jian Qiao and Ning Zhi had already run to the square, and the moonlight gently illuminated the ground, and he expressed his final deduction, "Cinderella is a false nightingale, Rhodopis is a real nightingale."

The two of them ran across the square and on the small road. In order to distract people from feeling tired, Ning Zhi asked him: "The reason!"

"The flower language of clematis! And fireflies flying into the darkness!"

Ning Zhi instantly understood why he said that.

The general flower language of clematis is "noble, beautiful heart", but few people know that there are three other flower languages ​​of clematis --- "deception", "poverty", "forgive me You are guilty."

The queen is a false nightingale, that is deceit.

A real queen is not noble, it is poverty.

And some actions made by the prince led to the appearance of the real and false queens, which is a sin.

Even if the third meaning is uncertain, Cinderella does not match the first two points, so she can only be a fake nightingale.

The fireflies fly to the darkness, and in this fairy tale world, the only place that can be called dark is the castle by the cliff.

The superimposed screen that the two saw was the last correct clue.

The messy and specious words on the hard-shell notebook are both reminders and confusion. No matter who the former prince or the current king likes, they only need to be sure who they should go to. As for the others, It doesn't matter.

"The only thing we have to consider now is whether we can finish this additional question before 12 o'clock."

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" The soldier guarding the iron gate saw the figure, put his hand on the sword at his waist, stepped forward and said loudly, "No one is allowed to approach here!"

When he got closer, the figure in the dark revealed his true face. It was a noble lady in a pale yellow dress. The soldier couldn't help but relax a little: "Why is it you again?"

Before the words fell, there was darkness in front of his eyes. Something blocked his vision, and then violent blows hit his head and face like raindrops, making his helmet thud, and the back of his neck, which was not protected by anything, was even worse. A sharp pain instantly knocked him unconscious.

"It's done." Jane quietly dragged the soldier who was stunned by him aside, because the vegetation here was sparse, he had to fold two bushes from a little distance to cover him, and then collected a lot of dead branches and leaves Spread it evenly over him, trying to make the soldier look like a large pile of fallen leaves.

Jian Qiao also thoughtfully left the position of his nostrils free for him to breathe.

"Honestly, I've grown up, and this is the first time I've seen someone use a dress coat as a sack." Ning Zhi complained while helping, "You won't beat him to a concussion, right?"

"No, I'll do it properly." Jian Qiao responded to her while piling up leaves, "He's wearing a helmet, and the hit on the head is at most a little dizzy, and the blow on the back of the neck is hard, I'm a medical student, don't worry .”

Are all medical students this scary these days?

There was no key on the soldier, and after the two of them disguised the fainted soldier, Jane quickly climbed onto the wall: "Do you want help?"

"No, I was good at climbing trees when I was young, and I can also climb walls."

When Ning Zhi also climbed up the wall and was about to go down, Jane quietly stopped her.

"Wait a minute, let me test it." He suddenly took out a familiar helmet from behind, which was clearly worn on the soldier's head just now, "It's so dark here, if the wall is smooth and high from the ground, I'll What if you broke your leg?"

He threw the helmet down, and only a second later heard a dull sound, the sound of metal hitting the soil.

"It doesn't look too high." Jane said solemnly, "Let's go down."

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