Light Spirit Epic Chapter 2750: Shadow of Paradise (4)
Chapter 2750 Shadow of Paradise (4)
Standing in front of Elaine is Pope Eugene IV.
This smiling, kind-looking elder who, despite being the Pope, doesn't put on airs in front of Elaine, seems trustworthy. If Elaine were just an ordinary person, he would have been deceived by the Pope's expression. But Elaine was originally with Arthur and the others. He knew everything the Pope was doing in secret, and he never planned to trust the Pope from the beginning.
"Remember, no matter what the other party says, you just need to keep silent as much as possible and respond with your usual expression." King Arthur's original command echoed in Elaine's mind again. Elaine knows that her brain is not good, and she is afraid of losing her position at a critical moment, so according to Arthur's instructions, it is best to talk as little as possible. The key is how to ask as much information as possible about Joan of Arc while speaking as little as possible.
"You, hello, Lord Pope." Elaine said timidly, looking around again.
He was summoned here to see the Pope, and was in a small dark room with the Pope, with no light source other than a lamp. He could vaguely feel that someone was waiting outside the room. In addition to Goff, who had to stay outside, there should be the Pope's own guard.
Talking to the Pope one-on-one in this situation, Elaine has a bad feeling about what the **** Pope Eugene IV wants to do to him...
"I'm not being polite, I'll cut to the chase with you, Dr. Joffrey." The Pope said, "I've invited you to the Vatican this time for another purpose besides allowing you to heal the cardinal."
"Another, another...?"
"Are you interested in [Paradise]?" the Pope asked, taking a small tree from his arms.
"This is...?"
"The key that leads us into [Paradise]," said the Pope, while taking out another object, a small silver dagger: "Can I borrow your blood? One drop is enough. Use it. Come and open your own paradise, and you will understand everything after entering."
Elaine was confused, but in this case he couldn't refuse the Pope's request, so he could only take the dagger obediently and stabbed the tip of his finger lightly. A drop of blood fell on the wonderful tree species that was mixed with red and blue, and the tree species suddenly reacted, emitting a beam of light from it.
"Touch it. The gates of [Eden] will open for you." The Pope ordered: "Go in and see."
Elaine had never heard of [the Garden of Eden] before and had no idea of the true purpose of the Church of Rome. But he seemed to have seen this peculiar tree species with a mixture of red and blue before (by the way, he saw it "ten years ago"), and vaguely felt that this tree species had something to do with the disappearance of Joan of Arc.
He boldly reached out and touched the light emanating from the tree species. The moment his hand touched the light, everything in front of him was suddenly engulfed by white light.
After the blinding light passed, Elaine found herself in a wondrous white forest.
The ground is covered in a layer of snow, no more than Elaine's ankle height. But he couldn't feel the cold, the snow was even a little warm. Trees are not just covered with snow and turned white, the leaves of that peculiar coniferous pine tree are themselves gray-white, as if it didn't need chlorophyll for photosynthesis at all to survive, so even the green in the leaves was spared . The pine cones they produced fell to the ground, and the ice-ball-like snow-white translucent pine cones were full of the aroma of pine resin. They are both a decoration and a natural air freshener in this snow-white land, and they can even be picked up and eaten directly.
Everything around is so peaceful and harmonious, quiet and mysterious, full of the unique beauty of winter, but not as cold and harsh as winter should be. Elaine didn't know what the Pope said about Paradise. But there seems to be some basis for the "paradise" he said. Nothing here hurts people or harms anything, and even the biting cold it should have is gone. What is left is the beauty and tranquility left over from the winter.
...Only for Elaine, [Paradise]?
He vaguely remembered that when he was very young, when he was very young, living in the snowfields of Western Siberia, what he saw and longed for was the beauty of this winter. Maybe this paradise just reproduced the scenery in his memory, but he was gentler and more pleasant than everything in his memory.
Is this an illusion? Dedicated to using this beautiful snow scene to please him, an illusory [paradise]?
Elaine picks up an ice pine cone from the ground and tries to taste it. If it's just a hallucination, it's definitely not enough to fill the stomach. But at this time, he realized that his palm was not a human palm, but a furry white bear's paw, so he understood that in this [paradise] that only belonged to him, he showed his original form.
Generally speaking, the pine nuts in the pine cones are still in the shell and must be roasted and then peeled before eating. However, the pine nuts poured out by the ice pine cones have no hard shells, just countless small pine nuts. These slender and translucent ice-like little things have plump flesh and an attractive aroma that seems to have been roasted. They are very soft and can be eaten whole. Elaine poured them into his mouth and chewed a few bites, the satiety spreading in his mouth with the aroma of pine nuts before sliding down his throat and into his stomach. Even though he had swallowed it, the rich taste of the ice pine nuts remained deep in his throat.
"Good, delicious." Elaine whispered blushing. For ten years, trapped in a different world nine hundred years later, Elaine can't taste any food she eats, and everything she eats is like sand. He has endured for ten years, and now is the only time he can eat such delicious food from it.
This is paradise. Other than that this can't be anywhere else. It's a real paradise, not just superficial beauty, it's unshakable [truth] - it knows what Elaine wants.
The white bear looked around nervously, trying to find the entrance to the park. He thinks that this [paradise] can be entered and exited in some way, and the beam of light on the tree species he touched just now is its entrance and exit. But he couldn't find anything. There was only an endless snow forest around him, and the sky was that clear icy blue, as if it was noon.
The Pope who let him touch the light of the tree seed and sent him into this [Paradise] is nowhere to be seen. There was absolutely no feeling that the Pope was hiding somewhere to observe Elaine.
So what the **** is going on here? He was sent into this [Paradise] just to "experience" the authenticity of this [Paradise]. The Pope let him in and let him go? Since the Pope was not looking, he let Elaine come in with a clear expression on his chest, which means that although this paradise has no exit, it should have some kind of time limit. come out?
But how long is this time frame? An hour, a day, or a year? The polar bear frowned, a little bewildered. He has been trapped in a world that does not belong to him for ten years, and he has endured to the limit. If he was to be trapped in this kind of "paradise" for another year, he would probably go crazy. There is no point in enjoying the favor of [Paradise] here, all he wants is to find Queen Greenville as soon as possible and bring her back to the correct time and space to save his friend Leopold.
If you are in [Paradise] and don't feel like you are in [Paradise], this place is definitely not [Paradise]. The [home] Elaine wants is not here. He doesn't care about this [Paradise], he just wants to get out of here as soon as possible.
"Elaine." Just as he thought so, a familiar voice sounded.
That voice! ......how is this possible!
The white bear was shocked. He heard voices that did not exist in this world, and in this [paradise] that was both true and false. Did he really hallucinate?
"Elaine. This way." But he did hear the boy's call.
He then sprinted across the snow, trotting to the source of the sound, trying to find out what it really was.
There, in an open field without pine trees, on a large rock covered with gray and white snow, the golden lion Leopold sat quietly.
"Lei...Leo?" The bear man exclaimed, "How could it be possible...!"
Leopold couldn't have appeared in such a place. He was still fighting the disease in the original world nine hundred years ago. It is too unrealistic for people from nine hundred years ago to cross the barriers of time and space to appear in this dreamlike "paradise" out of thin air.
"It's possible, because this is your [paradise]." The golden lion smiled, the smile on his face was as bright as ever, and his voice sounded so real.
"...Leo!" Elaine collapsed in an instant, rushed over and hugged Leopold desperately, crying and crying: "Wow ah ah ah ah啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊......！＂
"Hey, you crybaby." Leo didn't resist Elaine's almost broken hug, and reached out and stroked the white bear man's hair: "I haven't seen you for a while, just think of me like that. ?"
"Ten, ten years!" Elaine cried, "I have endured, endured, and have been enduring. In order to find a way to heal you, I have endured for ten years in this strange and unfamiliar world!"
"Elaine..."
"I know you, you're just an illusion, you can't be the real Leo. But let me hug...for a while..." Elaine cried: "I I can't take it anymore! No, if I don't, I'm going to go crazy!"
So Leopold's phantom did not speak, waiting quietly for Elaine to finish crying. The completely collapsed white bear hugged the lion boy and cried, his voice resounding in this ice and snow world.
I don't know how long it has passed, Leo stroked Elaine's head and said softly: "Elaine, since you know this is just an illusion, I will make a long story short. This is what I give to the body in the future. The message you left, the real me is not here of course. This [Paradise] is the real [Paradise], but it is only open to a small part, it is an existence similar to [Refuge]~IndoMTL.com~ and It's deceptive. I was worried that Elaine, who is weak-willed, would be deceived by this [paradise], so I recorded this video."
"Um..." Elaine, who finally stopped crying, let go of Leo's arms and reached out to wipe her tears: "I know, know. The real Leo is still waiting for me to go back for treatment. How can I be deceived by this and this false [paradise] and stop moving forward. Thank you. I have enough to vent and vent, I know what to do next, and I will not be confused or confused anymore."
"Looks like I'm worried too much." The lion boy's illusion smiled with satisfaction: "Then you go back, Elaine, do what you should do. The Pope is not a good person, what he said You can't believe it, but you have to pretend to believe it and obey his orders. As long as you stay calm, you can definitely seize the opportunity to turn the situation around and successfully do what you want to do."
"Hmm, um." The white bear nodded.
"Also, Elaine------" Leopold smiled and lip-mouthed, and said a word silently.
After understanding what Leo wanted to say, two lines of tears poured out of Elaine's eyes again. Also at this time, the surrounding scenery was gradually surrounded by pure white, and Elaine's consciousness was expelled from [Paradise] and returned to reality.