Chapter 262: Handwriting on the Drawing (Ai)
"W-is this really me?" Rebecca said in a dreamy voice as she looked at the girl in the projection.
Alfie and Barnett glanced at each other and shook their heads tacitly, they couldn't find even a little bit of the noble temperament of the girl in the projection from Rebecca, and there was no similarity between the two except for their appearance. To put it mildly, Rebecca is more of a violent female robber.
"Do you think I look like this?" Rebecca tried to make a noble appearance as she learned from the girl in the projection, but the roughness in her bones could not be concealed in any way.
"Forget it, I don't think so. Seeing that Alfie and the others lowered their heads again in disarray, Rebecca herself was deflated.
"So you're not the person I'm looking for?" Barnett came to this conclusion in frustration, "I thought I had finally fulfilled the teacher's three conditions, but I didn't expect ......"
"Not necessarily. We visited Ingnier's lab not long ago and found some drawings from there. Alfie took out the drawings with the Craftsman's Heart mark written "To Rebecca" from the spatial ring and handed them to Barnett.
"What? You guys went to that lab a while ago, didn't that hateful Dobby stop you?" Barnett shouted excitedly.
"That story will tell you later, but let's see if the words are from the hand of Mr. Kenobi whom you know?" Alfie asked, pointing to the words.
"That's right, that's exactly what the teacher Kenobi is doing. Barnett affirmed.
"This at least proves that the Kenobi you know and the Rebecca in Rebecca's memory are the same person. Alfie said thoughtfully.
"Wait a minute! the handwriting has changed!" Barnett said in a trembling voice, and out of habit, he squirted a sip of rum onto the drawings, and sure enough, one of them changed.
Alfie followed Barnett's chubby fingers and noticed the words on the back of one of the parchment drawings he hadn't noticed: "I haven't found you for all these years, maybe I'm wrong, you didn't use the name Ethleine, but the pseudonym you took when we were playing, Rebecca." I should have realized the mistake a long time ago, but I didn't have a chance to tell Barnett that little fool. ”
"Changing fonts!Mr. Kenobi's unique method!" Barnett excitedly pointed to the new handwriting.
"Oh, and this wonderful method, how did he do it!" Alfie didn't expect to have this kind of hidden handwriting here.
"I don't know, but it's something that only Mr. Kenobi can do. Transform special characters for special people. Barnett said as he took out the map that had been conjured with handwriting, and took a sip of wine on it as usual, pointing to the handwriting that had been transformed on it.
"It's such an ingenious idea, I didn't expect anyone here to think of it. Alfie said thoughtfully as she looked at herself.
"Does that prove that I'm that Etheline?, and the reason why I'm so different now is because of my amnesia?" asked Rebecca, pointing to the handwriting in a trembling voice.
"Pretty much sure, now there's one last question, what year did you first meet Mr. Kenobi?" Alfie wasn't as optimistic as Rebecca, and after all the clues were strung together, he found that they were missing the most important link.
"104 years in the continental calendar. Barnett replied without hesitation that he would never be wrong about this point in time.
"That's the problem. It is now the year 2119 of the continental calendar, and a full year 2015 has passed. If Rebecca is really that Etheline, why hasn't her appearance changed in the slightest? I don't know of any other race other than the elves who have such a gift for eternal youth. It was clear that Rebecca was not of elven blood. Alfi pointed out the key.
"Or is there another explanation, such as reincarnation?" Barnett asked tentatively. This is already the realm of God.
"No kidding, in order for a person to be reincarnated exactly like in a previous life, it must be the result of the combined efforts of the Lord of Light, the Goddess of Nature, and the God of Souls, do you think it is possible?"
"Actually, Rebecca's reincarnation is not complete, such as personality, temperament, ......" Barnett was interrupted by Alfie before he could finish speaking.
"Her memories have been sealed, and I can assure her that she is no different from that Ethelyn in the time before her memories were sealed. Alfie swore by it.
"Then there are only two ways to prove it, either find my teacher, Kenobi, who is undoubtedly the most vocal, or find a way to recover her memory. Barnett said helplessly, it seemed that there was still a long way to go before he completely fulfilled the teacher's conditions.
"You say you haven't been in touch with Mr. Kenobi in fifteen years?" Alfie asked.
"In fact, we haven't seen each other for nearly two thousand years, and we haven't seen Mr. Kenobi since I left Ingneil's lab and set out on a journey to find Etheline. Barnett recalled.
"And how did you get in touch?" Alfie thought it was unbelievable that the titular teacher and student hadn't seen each other for two thousand years!
"It's simple, a microphone ball will do the trick. Barnett pulls out a microphone ball that both Alfie and Rebecca are all too familiar with, and it was through this thing that Dobby was using it to transmit sound and spy on them.
"You're saying that this microphone can connect with Kenobi?" Rebecca asked excitedly, snatching the microphone from it.
"It used to be, but now it's long gone. Barnett shrugged at Rebecca's snatching,
"How long?" Alfie felt as if she had caught something.
"Fifteen years, right? Since the cataclysm, many mechanisms have lost their function, and this microsphere is one of them. Barnett said helplessly. Kenobi didn't teach him how to make mechanical engineering products other than making various mechanical parts, so he became helpless when the cataclysm caused the mechanical devices to fail.
"But we saw Dobby in Ingenier's lab still using the microphone. Rebecca asked, confused.
"I'm guessing that's because those microphone balls that Dobby used were made after the cataclysm. It seems that the Cataclysm only affected the machines that had been made, and not the machines that had been built since then. Alfie gave a plausible explanation, but in his heart he knew there must be another reason. After all, the O'Bright family's airship and the Holy See's mechanical chariot are still in use, and those were definitely made before the cataclysm.