Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 654 Not the Evil King
Well, now it's time to go back to the time before departure, when the Reflection World hadn't been created yet.

"Alice, go back." Xia Shou said.

"Yes, Master Xia Shou."

Alice stretched out her hands, held Xia Shou's head, and made a mistake.

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Tianyu Mansion.

"Don't follow me." Van Cleef said to the woman behind him while sitting on the rooftop.

"As a subject, how can I not follow Your Majesty?" The woman with short black hair and a stern expression replied very respectfully.

Van Cleef sighed and said, "You really think too highly of me. I can't compare to that person at all.

As you all know, I am actually just the character corresponding to him in the book. I am not him at all. Although there is a connection, I really don’t have the ability to help you restore your country.

To be honest, you have all read about my life. In fact, I am just an ordinary person. Although I sympathize with you, I have neither the mood nor the desire to help you restore your country.

Besides, it's been so long, and ancient Britain is gone, so why bother clinging to it? You're not really who you used to be.

Since you are all like me, why don't you live your own life? "

"Please don't say such discouraging words, Your Majesty." The woman said calmly.

Van Cleef sighed, “No matter what you think, I have already decided that after killing Xia Shou, I will go back to the book, and I want to forget about these things. I am not the kind of person who can kill people for myself.

Do you understand? How can someone like me be the evil king in the legend? "

"Your Majesty, you are not an evil king. That is a derogatory term used by future generations to describe you. Please do not call yourself that."

"I didn't call myself that, didn't you understand? I'm not Van Cleef at all! No, I mean I'm not the Van Cleef you're waiting for!"

"Your Majesty, we have already told you that even though it is a character, it is still you. All the decisions you make in the book, all the thoughts and reflections, are the reactions you would make in that situation, just like the named human body. Even though the human body is an incomplete named person, it is undoubtedly a part of the named person."

"So what you mean is that I am part of his remnant." Van Cleef sighed helplessly and seemed to lose interest.

"A part is the whole, and what is lost is not lost forever. Things that are truly one are always connected to each other, just as you can now use all the objects you once had, and you can also draw on the power you once had from your own skull.

All this just shows that you are you, and that is why your death in the book led to your death outside the book." The woman explained seriously.

Van Cleef had heard these words of hers countless times.

But whether it is right or not is one thing, and whether he admits it or not is another. Anyway, even though he knows all this, Van Cleef still has no interest in the old stories of the time of King Arthur, nor does he have any sense of reality. His heart is in the world in the books where he has lived for decades, not the ancient British era whose pictures cannot even be imagined.

On the other hand, Van Cleef couldn't just leave these old ministers of the evil king alone. Their persistence and perseverance made him feel sad and pitiful. He felt bad if he ignored them completely. After all, if it weren't for the efforts of these old ministers, he wouldn't have known the truth outside the book. However, it was impossible for him to bear the mission that didn't belong to him, so he decided to forget about it all after solving this matter.

This approach is certainly a bit cowardly, but forgetting is also a choice. Isn't the existence of choice for people to choose? What's wrong with avoiding a mission that you shouldn't bear? It's just putting aside the troubles that don't belong to you.

"Your Majesty, you don't have to care about our opinions. Just live according to your own ideas. Whether you return to the book or choose to stay in this world, we will follow your wishes. But in the end, you will definitely pick up the big spear and lead us to sweep across the world.

This is a destiny that even you cannot escape.

This time, we will not lose again. In the first test of seeing death, I will take back your eyes and let death fill them again."

Hearing this, Van Cleef shook his head: "Don't say such scary things, I don't need anything. Since you said you would respect my wishes, I really won't be polite."

"Your Majesty, please do not worry about us. I will take my leave now. The Five Bookworms will not be able to win without our help... Also, please be prepared, they will be here soon."

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In Shangguan Yan's apartment, Xia Shou took off the mirror cloth and his figure appeared in the air.

He walked into the living room and spread the mirror cloth on the tiles. The cloth was concave on the flat tiles, as if there was a hole underneath instead of a flat ground.

As the space opposite the mirror continues to switch, the tiles are silently cut off layer by layer until the reinforced concrete underneath is exposed.

Then, a dirty old box embedded in the cement was exposed to the air.

The boxes were not glued to the cement, and the cavity in the floor was not poured directly, but was designed from the beginning to hold the boxes.

Xia Shou took out the box and pressed the spring buckles on the left and right. The metal buckles did not bounce back as he pressed them. It seemed that the springs had rusted and got stuck due to age.

He pried the metal buckle apart with force and opened the lid. Powder rustled and fell from the seam. Inside was a bottle of blood, a strange-looking box with runes engraved on the surface, and a "scar".

The box and the blood bottle are both physical objects, but the scar is very unusual. It is like a crack that is incompatible with reality, attached to the surface of the box. Through the wound, you can see the deep wood grain after the box was cracked, but visually the scar is separated from the box.

"It looks a bit dangerous." Xia Shou frowned and used the text description to observe the scar, and he really saw something.

[An unresolved scar of death]

[Introduction: A slash that can cut an object to death has already occurred but has not yet landed, but it will eventually fall. ]

[Effect: Through the scar, you can see what the object looks like when it is cut by this slash. When you activate this scar, the result you see will occur. By using conscious living contact, you can move this intangible scar.]

Xia Shou picked up the toothpick on the coffee table and poked it, and found that the realistic wound on the scar was just an image, and the scar itself had no entity.

Then Xia Shou stretched out two fingers, pinched the edge of the scar, and actually picked up this intangible object!

(End of this chapter)