Chapter 524 – Accidental Encounter
Chapter 524: An Unexpected Encounter
Heidi admitted that she had encountered countless tricky situations in her years of practicing medicine – but none as awkward as the one she was in now.
But just when she was already embarrassed and on the verge of pinching fingerprints out of the golden awl in her hand, Taran-El suddenly laughed again.
“Even so, I still think you’re telling the truth.”
Heidi instantly revealed a somewhat surprised look.
“The ‘Golden Cone’ you used bore a very distinctive emblem,” Taran-El smiled, pointing to the ‘weapon’ and ‘medical tool’ in Heidi’s hand. “Even in this dream world, you still accurately reproduced that emblem, which shows that you value it very highly – Miss Heidi, you are an outstanding graduate of the Academy of Truth, and there are only ten places for this kind of emblem each year, and it is only given to the most outstanding young apprentices and inscribed on one of their items according to their wishes.”
Heidi was stunned for a moment, her gaze following the direction of the other’s finger to the end of the Golden Cone’s handle – a “Wisdom Eye” emblem surrounded by dots of light was engraved in that spot.
Ordinary people could easily confuse this emblem with the common symbol of the God of Wisdom, but only those who truly understood the various symbols of the Academy of Truth would be able to tell the difference between this emblem and the ordinary “Eye of Wisdom”.
It was not until then that Heidi’s mind suddenly flashed, and as she stared fixedly at the elf scholar who called himself “Taran El”, some rough impressions in her mind finally came together:
A member of the Academy of Truth, an elf, with the ancient family name of “Elle”, would do such an amazing act as observing the surface of the sun when the vision 001 was extinguished. ……
“Taran Elle …… Wait, are you that Mr. ‘Taran Elle’ of Lightwind Harbor?!” Heidi’s eyes widened, “That master of border and hidden knowledge ……”
“I can’t talk about any master, I’m just a researcher who’s busy all day long,” Taran El smiled and waved his hand, despite the modest words on his lips, the moment he was recognized, he was obviously quite pleasant, but immediately after that he was a bit puzzled, “You’ve heard of me? This is not common …… I don’t show my face much, although I have some fame, it is limited to Lightwind Harbor as well as within the elven society, how did a distant human like you hear about me?”
“I’ve heard of you from my father,” Heidi said immediately, “since I was a child!”
“Your father?” Taran-El frowned.
“His name was Maurice,” Heidi said with a hint of pride in her tone, “Maurice Underwood, he studied at the headquarters of the Truth Academy when he was young, and he also traveled in Lightwind Harbor ……”
Taran Ayer felt some familiarity when he heard that name, and after listening to Heidi’s words, he immediately remembered, “Ah! It’s that young man! I have an impression, he is a young man with amazing talent …… You are actually his daughter?!”
This elf great scholar marveled, looked Heidi up and down with wide eyes several times, and couldn’t help but tsk, “Then he married and had a daughter early enough ……”
Heidi’s face instantly blushed a bit strangely and hesitantly spoke, “…… Father had me when he was almost forty years old, which is already very, very late ……”
“Four ……” Taran-El opened his mouth, then slapped his head, “Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot, it should be by human standards, I’m sorry, I can be so careless sometimes. ”
Heidi could only smile awkwardly, she was seeing that the elven scholar, who was quite praised in her father’s mouth, did indeed have horribly thick nerves at times ……
Talan-El, on the other hand, could not help but open his mouth again with anticipation after a few moments of silence, “How did your father speak of me?”
Heidi subconsciously spoke, “He said that you as an elf can rely on the power of a strong work and rest to suffer from cervical spondylosis and frozen shoulder is really awe-inspiring ……”
Taran-El: “……”
Heidi: “……”
“There’s no need to apologize,” the Great Elf Scholar waved his hand, interrupting Miss Psychiatrist, who had just reacted with a look of embarrassment, apparently immune to similar remarks for a long time now, “We’re pretty much done with the small talk, Miss Heidi, now it’s time to exercise your professionalism and figure out how to get me out of this dream world now.”
This appropriate change of topic instantly dissolved Heidi’s embarrassment, and the latter hurriedly organized her expression as well as her mood, and began to consider ways to unravel this dream world.
But just as she was beginning to recall her own “expertise”, Taran-El chimed in, “I’d like to start by reminding you, Ms. Heidi – I’ve already tried the Falling Method myself, Asphyxiation, Testimonial Questioning, and Reverse Hypnosis, all to no avail, all of which have failed to awaken me from this place, and instead have only kept me more and more awake in this dream world.”
Heidi stared at her words and her complexion changed slightly immediately afterward, “Becoming more and more lucid in a dream world?!”
“Yes, one of the most dangerous of the various dangerous scenarios after experiencing a ‘trapped in a dream’ accident,” Taran-El spread his hands, “Becoming more and more lucid in the dream realm while failing to awaken , which suggests that my sanity is gradually being assimilated into the underlying logic of this dream – subconsciously, I no longer see the need to wake up, even …… if my subconscious now believes that I am already awake.” “Have you tried praying to Rahm?”
“Do you think so?” Taran El asked rhetorically with a bitter smile.
“…… You have been awake enough in this dream to even accept Rahm’s patronage ……” Heidi’s tone grew gravelly, “So You are, in fact, awake, but the scary thing is that you are ‘awake in a dream’ …… I’m afraid that none of the conventional methods of guidance will work.”
“Why don’t …… you try poking me with that awl again?” Taran El pointed to the golden cone in Heidi’s hand, “Give my subconscious a hint of near-death, and I’ll try to see if I can rely on the ‘Sudden Death Method’ to return to the real world.”
Heidi was stunned for a moment and hurriedly shook her head, “I don’t think that’s a good idea ……”
As soon as her words fell, a strange and slightly lethargic female voice suddenly came out of thin air from the side, “I don’t think it’s a good idea either, little girl.”
Heidi was startled by this voice, instantly gripping the gold cone in her hand and looking in the direction from which the voice came, and the next second, a flurry of colorful paper steeply confused her eyes – a flurry of colors like snowflakes swept down from the sky, and an elegant and mysterious aura shrouded in mystery walked out from that flurry of colors! The woman was a woman with a graceful and mysterious aura who came out of the flying colors.
When Heidi raised her alertness and made a guard posture, this mysterious lady who suddenly appeared did not even look this way, but walked straight to Taran Ayer: “I’m serious, Master Ayer, don’t think about your ‘Sudden Death Law’, with your current health level, this psychiatrist lady can hit you with an awl. With your current level of health, you’d really die a sudden death in the real world with a single cone from this psychiatrist lady.”
“Ah, Ms. Lucrecia!” Taran-El’s face instantly showed a happy look after seeing the visitor, “You’re here to help – well, it seems that although those apprentices of mine didn’t go to the psychiatrist, they found a more powerful helper by bringing the Witch of the Sea here… …”
Lucrecia waved her hand, “I’m the one who turned away the psychiatrist those apprentices of yours sought out, they couldn’t help you – you’re in my lab now.”
Heidi froze at the scene in front of her, the first thing she noticed was that Taran-El and the mysterious lady who had suddenly appeared were actually acquainted, and she couldn’t help but feel a little surprised, but right after that, she noticed the lady’s name.
Lucrecia.
In this world, there might be more than one person named Lucrecia, but there was only one who was called the “Witch of the Sea”!
In great shock, Heidi first felt a sense of nervousness and wariness, and then realized she had to say something, but stuttered as the words came out of her mouth, “Are you …… are ……? “
“Don’t be nervous, young lady, ‘witches’ don’t eat people,” Lucrecia laughed, seeming to find the reaction of the young human girl in front of her amusing, “It’s funny, I hadn’t realized that Master Taran-El’s Dreamland even had a ‘guest’, for a ‘dilemma’ this place can be a bit too lively for its own good.”
She said with a light smile, but gradually, the temperature in that gentle, light smile faded a little, her eyes still filled with a smile, but the bottom of her eyes grew as cold and scrutinizing as frost.
“What is your name, strange guest?”
Heidi didn’t even notice the change in temperature in Lucrecia’s smile.
However, her mind suddenly began to warn her, and an “intuition” rooted in her psychic gift made her suddenly tense up!
The “witch” in front of her was analyzing her own soul and mind, she was treating herself as a “contaminating factor” in the dream!
The moment she realized this horrible fact, Heidi tried to protect herself mentally, but she found that she was disconnected from all transcendental powers, even the “golden cone” in her hand, which was the closest connection to her, seemed to have become something that had nothing to do with her, and she could only try to stabilize her consciousness amidst the great uneasiness and tension. She could only try her best to stabilize her consciousness, and at the same time, while desperately thinking, she spoke with great difficulty: “My name is Heidi, I am a psychiatrist – I entered Mr. Taran Ayer’s dream by mistake, and the intruders are other people, and several of them have already been solved by Mr. Taran Ayer himself! ……”
The pressure that had caused his own psychic gifts to go wildly alarming disappeared abruptly.
Heidi was instantly relieved, but at the same time as she relaxed she was profoundly bewildered –
She hadn’t finished herself.
She looked up in confusion; at some point, the amethyst pendant hanging on her chest had begun to heat up slightly again, and she pressed it with one hand while looking across the room at the “witch” in disbelief.
Lucrecia, however, just frowned tightly.
“You are a follower of my father?”
(Another bold thought for the day.)
(End of chapter)