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“You still haven’t guessed?”
A giggling voice came from behind Shelley, making his furrowed brow from thinking gradually relax.
Shelley silently leaned back, rested the back of his head on a soft valley, and said with a light laugh, “Let me guess…”
Keywords: this undulation, white crystal, childish, gluttonous, a faint dragon’s fear…
Then… there is only one truth.
The corners of Shelley’s mouth turned up. He said confidently, “That’s right. You are…”
“Erica.”
Shelley turned around and directly hugged the mischievous little friend behind him.
“Got you.”
Erica was a little surprised to be captured in his arms. She was stunned for a moment and then said with a grin, “How did you guess?”
Erica thought her disguise was not bad, but she hadn’t expected to be discovered directly.
Shelley sat back down on the stool, and then held Erica in his arms, continuing to look at the materials.
Shelley’s left hand was flipping through the materials, and his right hand was quietly sliding down. He explained, “First of all, your disguise is not a problem…”
Whether it was in terms of the tone or the quality of the voice, there was no difference from Catherine. Even the detail of the faint dragon’s fear on Catherine’s body was not missed.
“But, such a childish thing, even Catherine wouldn’t do it.”
She’s just naive, really not stupid… our child is really not a fool… what kind of impression do you all have of Catherine?
Catherine, while holding down his mischievous hand, turned her head and looked at Shelley with a very strange expression, “Childish?”
“Do you really… think she wouldn’t do it?”
Hmm?
“She… hmm~ Catherine before…”
“Before… she did it to me once…”
!!?
Shelley was stunned. Even the movements of his hands stopped. He looked down at the blushing Erica in his arms and asked, dazed, “…Really?”
No way… is my child really so childish?
Erica thought Shelley’s expression was very interesting. She reached out and gently pinched him, then avoided the protrusion of the stool and found a comfortable position to lie down.
“Don’t worry. She’s not completely clueless.”
“It’s just that she has no guard against us, so she’s like a child.”
Hearing Erica say this, Shelley’s heart relaxed a little… He was really afraid that Catherine would be deceived one day and do something irreparable. It wasn’t that he was afraid that she would be harmed, but that he was afraid that after she was tricked out of her food, she would tear others to pieces in a fit of rage…
Whether someone died or not was not a big deal. It would be bad if it harmed the greenery and flowers of Ir.
Erica looked at Shelley’s relieved expression and suddenly asked without any warning, “How do you really see Catherine?”
Shelley blinked, not knowing what Erica meant…
How do I see her? With my eyes…
Rolling her eyes at Shelley, Erica said seriously, “What is she in your heart? A friend? A pet? Or… like the rest of us?”
“You have to have an answer yourself.”
Influenced by Erica’s serious attitude, Shelley thought for a moment and came to a terrible conclusion… In her eyes, Catherine seemed to be all of these things… and even like a sister and a daughter…
Catherine’s exquisite face appeared before Shelley’s eyes. The perfect combination of maturity and purity greatly aroused the flames in Shelley’s heart…
“Hiss… not good, not good.”
No, I can’t think about it anymore. If I think about it anymore, it won’t pass the review.
“I see…”
“You should figure out your own heart soon.”
“A dragon that has successfully built its lair can…”
?
Shelley lowered his head and found that Erica was looking at him with a meaningful gaze.
[Not good~]
Shelley looked at Erica, who was looking straight at him, and kissed her without hesitation.
Hesitation will lead to defeat. A real man has no hesitation.
“Mmph, mmph…”
Erica was just about to mock Shelley a few times. She hadn’t expected this person to be so shameless. The previous second, he was still thinking about another woman, and the next second, he was kissing her.
In her anger, Erica wrapped her arms around Shelley’s neck and forcefully counterattacked.
As for why she didn’t dodge and slap him?
Erica: I’m not stupid.
After a long kiss, Erica looked at Shelley with a dazed expression, slowly revealed a smile, and then closed her eyes and kissed him again.
Holding the lazy Erica, Shelley continued to examine and think about the information before him.
“Although the things are all very good, there aren’t many that can be used.”
After nearly a year of compulsory education, many of the people of Ir could basically meet Shelley’s minimum requirements. They could read simple words and could do some of the most basic magic-related work.
But the biggest difficulty that Ir, or rather, Shelley, was facing now was… there were plenty of low-end personnel, but there were almost no high-end research talents.
It wasn’t just Ir alone. Other countries also had similar problems. The ones who could truly receive an education were always the very top, and their education was not interconnected.
The real high-end was all in the hands of the mages. It was possible that the knowledge taught by a highly respected noble lecturer was not as accurate as what an ordinary mage apprentice said.
Knowledge did not flow, and information lagged… this was a common problem in this world.
And the current situation led to Shelley having a lot of precious knowledge and research products, but no way to carry out research.
“Now we’re short of mages, high-end mages, at least high-rank or above.”
Shelley had a feeling of owning a gold mine but not being able to mine it.
“The Magister’s Alliance in the elven kingdom should be replying soon…”
“And why hasn’t the Witches’ Coven responded yet? I was clearly the first to send them a message.”
Compared to the Magister’s Alliance, Shelley was more inclined to cooperate with the Witches’ Coven. It wasn’t because the Witches’ Coven was all witches… although that was a big part of the reason. But it was more because the Magister’s Alliance was a more complex alliance, with spies from all sides. It would be easy to expose many of Ir’s secrets.
A man is not guilty, but his treasure is.
Before he had truly powerful strength, Shelley did not plan to have any open conflicts with these forces.
“By the way, where did Morgan go…”
Erica lay lazily in Shelley’s arms and said slowly, “She went out when she saw me come. Speaking of which, there’s one more thing…”
“Lydia asked me to tell you to go to her room.”
Looking at the drowsy Erica, Shelley smiled helplessly…
“Did I use too much force just now…”
Placing the slowly falling asleep Erica in the rest room of the laboratory, Shelley walked toward Lydia’s bedroom.
Not long after Shelley left, Morgan walked in with two glasses of red wine and handed one to Erica, who was now sitting up in bed.
“Thanks~”
“Hmph.”
The two of them sat side by side, quietly drinking red wine, not speaking for a while.
“He really forgot.”
“Yes, he completely forgot.”
