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What happened 1000 years ago?

For Witch Alice, it was a past full of shame and regret.If Pei Xiang asked her alone and asked her to expose her scars, she would definitely cut off Pei Xiang's tongue in anger, and let her remember the fate of talking too much.

However, now not only Pei Xiang wants to hear her tell the truth, but also His Majesty Asfar who listens to the outside world through the dagger, the mentality of the witch Alice is immediately different.

"Back then, I met Helena who was pretending to be He Qiu by accident, and then became very good friends. Together..."

Witch Alice briefly explained how she got to know He Qiu, and the general process was not much different from the truth that Pei Xiang had investigated before.

When the witch Alice talked about the triumphant return of the Lord of the Sea Clan, when she went to the palace to meet the monarch and asked him for a potion to change bloodlines, Pei Xiang's eyes became very bright, and the serial plot she was chasing was finally about to pick up up.

However, just as Pei Xiang quietly pricked up his ears, the witch Alice suddenly stopped talking.She ignored Pei Xiang's curious eyes and just stared at the dagger quietly.I don't know from which minute or second, the gloomy and cruel look on the eyebrows of the witch Alice gradually faded away, replaced by solemnity.

Pei Xiang's heart moved, she did not urge the witch Alice, but waited quietly.

After a while, the witch Alice sighed softly.

Immediately afterwards, she spoke again, but did not continue to state the past.Instead, she swears by her own original magic power, and earnestly guarantees word by word that what she said afterwards is the truth, and she dare not conceal or modify it in the slightest.

Pei Xiang subconsciously glanced at the potion in his hand, the mantra potion that Xin Dao had mixed into it before was a bit wasted.However, since the witch Alice is willing to take the initiative to swear, does it mean that no matter what the truth was at the beginning, the current witch Alice does not have much malice towards Esfar?

Just when Pei Xiang was secretly thinking about the true attitude of the witch Alice, the other party finally started to recall the past again.

"Your Majesty's refusal to give me the medicine made me feel very sorry. After returning to the palace, I told He Qiu, heh, he was still Helena at that time. Then give the potion to change the blood.

"He Qiu immediately expressed great reluctance when he heard about it. Instead, he advised me to go back to land with him and stop staying in the sunless seabed. I immediately rejected him, saying that His Majesty trusts me very much. I am entrusted with a heavy responsibility and have great expectations. It is impossible for me to leave everything of the Sea Clan and go to land.

"After hearing my refusal, He Qiu suddenly became very sad and angry. He kept saying that His Majesty didn't trust and value me that much at all, otherwise why would he not even give me a potion to change blood? Said I didn't treat him as an equal friend, kept making excuses...

"He said a lot of complaints and questions. I was also very excited at the time. In a hurry, I revealed His Majesty's injury to He Qiu, in order to prove that I did not deceive him. I also took out the conch key that His Majesty gave me. , tell him that I can freely enter and exit His Majesty's potion storage room, and can take many precious potions at will..."

Having said that, the witch Alice laughed at herself and said in a low voice:

"Thinking back now, He Qiu was just beating around the bush at that time. Relying on our 'friendship', he managed to find out from me about His Majesty's physical condition, and he also knew that I had the right to enter the medicine storage room.

"From the beginning of the meeting, he has actually been setting traps for me. He has been treating me purposefully, getting close to me, and letting me let go of my guard step by step. I have even been guessing that when he just arrived in the deep sea, it was Are you really lost and looking for the wrong place, or are you yelling outside my palace on purpose, hoping to get my attention?"

Pei Xiang looked at the witch Alice quietly, without saying anything.

She remembered that at the beginning of the story, the witch Alice was still very wary about the Lord of the Sea Clan.She has always avoided talking too much about Asfar in front of her human friend Helena.However, with the deepening of friendship, a sense of trust between the two has been established unconsciously.

Otherwise, the witch Alice would not have thought of leaving her friend Helena at the bottom of the sea forever.

——Although, this idea is likely to be subtly induced by Heqiu.

Pei Xiang's timely silence suits the witch Alice's wishes, because she has always been proud and does not need the comfort of strangers.Taking a deep breath, the witch Alice tried her best to suppress the shame of being deceived and calculated, looked at the dagger in Pei Xiang's hand and continued:

"I tried my best to defend, and He Qiu questioned me one after another. Later, I also got angry, and I was not going to explain more inside information to a friend who doubted me for no reason. But when I was about to leave, He Qiu apologized to me.

"At that time, he said a lot of good things, and complained about his bad temper and unreasonable troubles, and his tone was very sincere. I stopped being angry immediately, and felt very sad because of the upcoming separation. He Qiu began to comfort me, saying As he said that, he suddenly proposed a way for Li to substitute for Tao's stiffness."

Pei Xiang frowned slightly, and exchanged glances with Esfar, who was flying aside, feeling that the main event was coming.

Sure enough, I heard Witch Alice gritted her teeth and said:

"Heqiu has never forgotten that he came to rescue human Alice from the deep sea, and he has always insisted that human Alice will not regard turning into a mermaid as a reward. Compared with staying in the cold deep sea, Human Alice is definitely more willing to return to her hometown and hope to be reunited with relatives and friends.

"Therefore, Heqiu suggested to me that since 'Helena' wants to stay and human Alice wants to leave, and the potions are limited, it is better to let 'Helena' replace human Alice to accept the reward from the Lord of the Sea Clan , and take the potion that transforms the blood. After that, we will secretly send the human Alice back to the land who does not want to stay in the deep sea. Heh, I was persuaded by Heqiu, and I think his idea is very good. "

"You actually agreed?" Pei Xiang raised his eyebrows, but he was not surprised.

Witch Alice twitched the corners of her mouth. She subconsciously avoided the position of the dagger, and her voice was dry:

"I was in a daze at the time, and felt that Heqiu had proposed a good way to achieve the best of both worlds. I know that His Majesty never cared what happened to those human girls, and the reward was because of Heinsey's proposal and his character of always distinguishing between rewards and punishments. So , I agreed without much hesitation.

"Not only that, I also secretly went to meet the human Alice who came back with the triumphant army, and told her about my replacement plan with Heqiu. But to my surprise, that human Alice was not like what Heqiu said. She couldn’t wait to return to the land. She fell in love with a sea tribe, and she was hesitating whether to leave or stay.”

Pei Xiang was stunned for a moment, and in a flash, she connected some of the details she had obtained before, and blurted out:

"The Sea Clan who fell in love with human Alice is General Heinsey?"

Hearing this, a look of surprise flashed across the eyes of the witch Alice, as if she didn't expect Pei Xianghui to guess the correct answer all at once.

However, when her eyes fell on the dagger in Pei Xiang's hand, she felt that everything was taken for granted.

"Did His Majesty tell you? It turns out that His Majesty also knew about Heinsey's love affair with human Alice. That's right, Heinsey tried her best to persuade His Majesty to reward those human girls at that time. It would be no wonder if he had no selfish intentions. And His Majesty always How could you not have discovered Heinsey's thoughts when you are aware of the details?"

Pei Xiang blinked, and silently looked at Asfar, who was perceptive. Asfar also blinked, silently expressing that he had never paid much attention to the emotional issues of his subordinates.Frankly speaking, this is also the first time he knows about this.

Pei Xiang smiled.She could guess that it was Heinsey, because Esfar once said that the source of magic power of mermaid princesses is not very pure, and there should be a human being transformed into a mermaid among the ancestors, so she produced such Lenovo.

——It’s just that Heinsey, the ancestor of the mermaid princesses, fell in love with human Alice, and it may not be possible to achieve a positive result.

——Will that senior mermaid transformed from a human really be Heqiu's sweetheart, Alice?After all, there were several human girls who were eligible to obtain the blood transformation potion at that time. Perhaps, Heinsey later married someone else?

——But if it was really a human Alice... then what happened afterwards?

Witch Alice quickly told Pei Xiang and Esfar.

She said in a deep voice: "Human Alice didn't immediately agree to the proposal to replace the candidate. She said that she needs to seriously think about whether to go home or stay and marry Heinsey."

"Wait," Pei Xiang interrupted and asked, "After you met Alice, didn't she say that she didn't know Helena? Isn't that He Qiu's temporary fake identity?"

"Have you thought of this too? Heh, you humans are really good at intrigue," the witch Alice snorted coldly, her eyes full of sarcasm, "Heqiu also thought of this."

"He Qiu told me not to mention Helena's name in front of the human Alice, lest the other party refuse the replacement proposal after learning of 'Helena''s performance in the deep sea, because she was moved and did not want to hurt her friends, and then made a A decision that goes against my heart. At the same time, I also hate extra troubles, and I don't trust that human Alice, so I never mentioned the name of "Helena" from the beginning to the end, and only used "my human friend" instead. "

"It seems that Mr. Heqiu really understands your temper very well." Hearing this, Pei Xiang couldn't help sighing, "He predicted every reaction of yours very accurately, and guided you step by step into him. set a trap."

These words caused a look of embarrassment to appear between Witch Alice's eyebrows.She closed her eyes and told herself not to argue with Pei Xiang, a little human girl who was valued by the Lord of the Sea Clan for the time being.So, she continued the narration interrupted by Pei Xiang with a cold face.

"After I went back, I told Heqiu the reason why the human Alice was hesitant. Oh, yes, I didn't know that Alice was Heqiu's sweetheart at the time, and I thought they were very good friends, so I Totally surprised at the anger and pain Hyechul showed.

"Just when I was a little suspicious, Heqiu managed to calm down. He told me that human Alice was just deceived, and she might not really be in love with a sea tribe. It might also be because she was in a In a strange and isolated environment, she suddenly found that the sea tribe took good care of her, so she took her gratitude as love, and even ignored her long-awaited relatives and friends.

"He asked me to help him meet with Alice. He will personally confirm the other party's thoughts and try his best to persuade the other party to leave the bottom of the sea."

Speaking of this, the witch Alice shook her head with a wry smile, and said frankly in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, I don't want to hide my mistakes. I did have a lot of selfishness at the time. I can feel that 'Helena' cares more about that human Alice. I am very jealous, I feel offended, and I am not reconciled. I At that time, I especially hoped that 'Helena' could stay, and hoped that the human Alice would leave the deep sea immediately and never come back again.

"In order for Heqiu to understand who is his most reliable and powerful friend, I once again agreed to his request and prepared to arrange for him to meet human Alice. But those human girls came back with Heinsey's team. It is also within the protection of Heinsey. Therefore, it is difficult for me to arrange He Qiu and Alice to meet without telling Heinsey and to ensure that the content of their conversation is not leaked, so I set the time and place for the meeting to celebrate the victory In the Sea Palace on the day of the banquet."

Pei Xiang showed doubts.

Witch Alice explained:

"I was in charge of the preparations for the celebration banquet, especially the part where the human woman received the award, which was all arranged by me. Therefore, only at that time can I secretly arrange for He Qiu to meet her without telling Heinsey's protection of the human Alice. She side, talk to her.

"Even... I have already made other preparations. If that human Alice still refuses to agree to the exchange, I will force her to be locked up and guarded, and then I will lie to He Qiu that the other party has changed his mind temporarily and is willing to agree to change the candidate." proposal."

Hearing this, Pei Xiang couldn't help laughing, thinking that the protagonists in this story really have their own ideas, and it depends on which one is better in the end.

Witch Alice doesn't care what Pei Xiang thinks of her, she only cares about whether Asfar will continue to trust her.Therefore, she confessed very thoroughly, not daring to hide anything.

"On the day of the celebration banquet, I secretly arranged for He Qiu to meet the human Alice in the pink scallop bead room on the west side of the banquet hall. At that time, only the three of us were present. He Qiu was very excited to see Alice and immediately hugged her she……

"Recalling now, his reaction at that time was too exaggerated. It should be because he was worried that Alice would not react in time and expose his true gender and identity. Anyway, after the two people met, they soon had a good conversation. , Heqiu poured a glass of wine for me and the human Alice, I didn't think much about it, and quickly drank the wine in the glass, and then I lost consciousness."

"You're in a coma, so you don't know what's going to happen, right?" Pei Xiang and the witch Alice confirmed this question.

Witch Alice nodded and eagerly argued:

"I was stupid before, before, and told He Qiu many secrets that should not be revealed. But I know very well that as long as I keep the key to the pharmacy, He Qiu knows no matter how much he knows. And space Only I can open the pendant, and only recognize my original magic power, so it is very safe."

Pei Xiang has also heard about the identity of this precious alchemy tool, she frowned suspiciously at first, then suddenly, her gaze was fixed on the dagger in her hand, and she asked in surprise and doubt:

"Is it your...horn? His Majesty Asfar said that this horn once contained half of your magical origin..."

Witch Alice showed a painful and distorted smile, she looked at the dagger complicatedly, and hissed:

"You are so smart, no wonder His Majesty values ​​you. Little girl, you guessed right, I don't know what kind of potion Heqiu mixed into the wine, so that he could successfully cut off my horn while I was unconscious. Then , Then, he used my original magic power to open my space pendant, and took out the conch key from it... When I woke up, I was really in pain, it was... too painful..."

While muttering to herself, the witch Alice suddenly covered her head. For 1000 years, the pain of losing her horn has not been resolved. Although the wound on her head has healed, some pain still penetrates deep into the bone marrow and soul.Every time I think about it, the witch Alice shudders and regrets.

Pei Xiang watched silently for a while without saying anything comforting.Because she clearly remembered that in the memories shared by Esfar, the poisoned Sea Clan Lord also faced the pain of losing his horns, and even more than that.

If Esfar didn't think of a way to save himself in time, his horns would be stripped off, his magic source would shrink and dry up, and his blood and abilities belonging to the sea clan would be forcibly taken away.For him, it was tantamount to a torture of cramp, skinning and deboning.

The most important thing is that once the conspiracy of Heqiu and others succeeds, it will be tantamount to trampling on Asfar's pride in the mud.

What's more, during these 1000 years, Esfar definitely didn't sleep comfortably in the abyss.Although he never mentioned his specific situation in the abyss to Pei Xiang, relying on the destructive and violent energy that devours the abyssal devil energy to resolve the foreign intrusion in the original magic power...just think about it, you should know That's not an easy thing to do.

At this moment, the Witch Alice finally woke up from the whirlpool of pain. She gasped for breath and spoke quickly about the next thing.

"Your Majesty, after I found out that the conch key was missing, I chased it to the medicine storage room. But because, because I just lost a horn at that time, I had no spare time to contact other people, so I could only track it by myself. And along the way, along the way I didn't see any guards or sea people either. I think Heqiu used my identity to give some order to remove the guards.

"At that time, my heart was full of doubts, resentment, and hatred. I wanted to take revenge, and I had to take revenge, but I wasn't even sure if the culprit was 'Helena'? I imagined that maybe it was the human Alice, maybe it was Who else or the Sea Clan, I am eager to find Heqiu and ask him what happened? I am also worried about your safety, the potion that can make me unconscious is very powerful, I am afraid that you will also be recruited... …

"However, before I arrived at the medicine storage room, I received a summons from Lilahart. He said, he said that he would block off the sea area where the Sea Palace is located immediately, and asked me to go to help him. I immediately realized that By the way, you also encountered an accident!

"My magic power was not stable at the time, and I couldn't summon Lilahart to ask for details, so I could only continue to rush towards the potion storage room. Later, I met that human Alice outside the storage room."

Pei Xiang's eyes were stunned, and she analyzed with Esfar through the contract:

"At that time, He Qiu was so frightened by you that there was almost no possibility of lying. But the truth is that Alice was indeed waiting outside, but she was not the Alice you said. Or, in He Qiu In my heart, there has always been only one Alice."

Esfar responded lightly, looking a little tired.

Pei Xiang thought that he had been consuming magic power before, so he quickly reached out to support the Lord of the Sea Clan flying in mid-air, and let him sit in her palm to rest.

Seeing this scene, witch Alice turned her head with no interest.

She thought, only a little human girl would like this kind of coquettish and useless contract elf, and even spend a lot of time and energy taking care of her.

——If it is according to the aesthetics of our family, it is really better to raise a few long, fat and bright Raya deep trench sea snakes. Alas, I don’t know what the mighty majesty likes this weak human being?