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"That's probably when my brain was full of water."
Hearing Will's words and seeing his serious expression, Lin Ruo blinked, neither surprised nor angry.
He just exaggeratedly widened his eyes a little, looking at Will and saying in an over-the-top tone, "So you mean everyone else's brains are full of water too?"
Will's expression stiffened slightly.
Lin Ruo continued, "If anyone else heard that, Will, you'd be hunted down by over eighty percent of the Angels and True Gods in the entire world. After all, you know me; besides a few I don't bother with, pretty much all the experts are my friends."
Will: ...
So angry, but unable to refute.
"But don't worry, I'll keep your secret." Lin Ruo said, patting his chest with a comradely air.
Will: ...
"Then, thank, you, very, much!" Will said, enunciating each word, feeling his teeth itch.
As a Sequence 1 Snake of Mercury, it wasn't so easy to break his defenses, but as an eight-year-old Will, he declared himself angry, the kind that couldn't be appeased.
"You're welcome." Lin Ruo seemed not to notice Will's anger, and his gentle smile returned.
After a pause, Lin Ruo suddenly thought of something and looked at Will, who was grinding his teeth while looking at him, seemingly considering where to bite him. He smiled and said, "Actually, you don't need to worry. My reconciliation with Ouroboros doesn't mean I'll stop Klein from helping you in the future."
Will froze. His entire demeanor instantly darkened as his true thoughts were abruptly exposed. At this moment, the anger of an eight-year-old child dissipated, replaced by the complex thoughts of a Snake of Mercury.
"Klein has his choice." When Lin Ruo said this, he looked at Klein beside him and said, "You don't need to have any scruples because of me. Just do what you want to do."
Of course, he wouldn't stop Klein from helping Will in the future, just as he wouldn't stop Medici and the others from helping Ouroboros in the future.
This was Will and Ouroboros's network, a part of their power. Similarly, if Will failed to keep Klein in the future and forced Klein to Ouroboros's side, Lin Ruo wouldn't do anything either.
Lin Ruo himself wouldn't participate in such a war between friends, but he wouldn't prevent friends from helping each other.
Klein pursed his lips, ultimately saying nothing, and not knowing what to say.
He was indeed inclined towards Will. After all, Klein met Will first, and Will was the one who invested in him first. If Will could be called a friend to Klein, then Ouroboros was just someone Klein had just met; let alone being familiar, they hadn't even exchanged a word, and the only impression he had was "teacher's friend."
But Lin Ruo had so many friends; you could throw a brick and hit several!
In this situation, Klein was naturally inclined to help Will, whom he was more familiar with.
Will looked at Lin Ruo, and after a long while, he muttered something in a low voice before saying, "You're still the same."
"No choice, who made me young at heart, forever a youth!" Lin Ruo smiled, answering seemingly irrelevantly, then added, "So, good luck, Will. If you win, you become the Wheel of Fortune. If you lose, obediently find a True God to rely on. Hmm, actually, that's not so bad either."
"Do you have the same attitude towards that stupid snake Ouroboros?" Will returned to his child-like state, grumbling, "That's too perfunctory."
"No, strictly speaking, I didn't cheer for Ouroboros… So you've already won against him once, aren't you happy?" Lin Ruo said in a half-joking, half-serious tone.
However, in a sense, this was indeed true, as Lin Ruo had only told Ouroboros to "wait and see."
Hmm, although he wouldn't participate in the struggle and wanted to believe in Ouroboros, thinking about Ouroboros's foolishness, Lin Ruo had to admit that he himself was actually inclined to have Ouroboros retreat gracefully.
Could that foolish snake truly maintain his humanity after advancing?
Lin Ruo was very doubtful, but no matter how doubtful, he wouldn't interfere with this struggle because of it.
This was Lin Ruo's respect for Will and Ouroboros.
As for introducing Klein to Will before… Ahem, at that time, he hadn't reconciled with Ouroboros yet, so it was a force majeure factor.
"Not happy at all, thank you!" Will said with a straight face, then changed the subject, "So, do you have anything else? If not, I'm hanging up."
"Goodbye?" Lin Ruo said in a probing tone, making it hard to tell if he was doing it on purpose.
Considering Lin Ruo's usual style, Klein thought he was probably doing it on purpose, and then Klein saw Will say with a dark face:
"Goodbye!"
Immediately after, this special dream, relying on Klein's dream, shattered.
Recalling this, Klein couldn't help but look at Apothecary Darkwill again, almost able to see the latter's potential future life.
But it wasn't a bad thing. Will's personality wasn't bad, and following him, at least Darkwill could learn a lot of knowledge he hadn't been able to access before… Klein thought this, and Lin Ruo beside him had already smiled and put down his teacup, saying, "Then I'll send you over now!"
"Eh?!" Apothecary Darkwill was immediately stunned.
Lin Ruo, however, had already slowly stood up. He first threw the Die of Probability by his hand to Klein, then silently whispered a word to switch to his Traveler state, and grabbed Apothecary Darkwill's shoulder.
Lin Ruo couldn't directly send the Die of Probability over using Travel, but he could directly send Apothecary Darkwill over using Travel. Of course, Lin Ruo didn't make this trip just to send Apothecary Darkwill; the main reason was to meet Will and take the item that sealed the Die of Probability from his hand—he couldn't really rely on the lingering prestige he had left behind to suppress it during this time, that would be too unstable.
So a few seconds later, with Apothecary Darkwill's "I don't understand but am greatly shocked" expression, they had arrived at a residential house in Backlund and met the eight-year-old boy waiting there.
"Here, what you wanted." Will, who was originally sitting on a high-backed chair with his feet not touching the ground, nimbly jumped off the chair and handed a box to Lin Ruo.
Lin Ruo took the box, casually opened it and glanced inside, and sure enough, saw that the box contained silver-white snakeskin—Will's shed snakeskin.
He looked at the snakeskin twice, then closed the box, and gently pushed Apothecary Darkwill towards Will, "Here, the person you wanted."
"Is this some kind of human trafficking scene?" Apothecary Darkwill swallowed, almost subconsciously complaining. He felt that this development was not quite what he had imagined, and looking at the 8-year-old little sprout in front of him, he immediately felt even more out of place.
Lin Ruo, of course, was not in a hurry to leave at this moment, but stood with his arms crossed, looking like he was watching a show.
And under his gaze, Will looked at Apothecary Darkwill with a straight face and said, "I am the Blessed of the Lord Chairman, and you will follow me from now on."
"Ah… Oh, oh!" Apothecary Darkwill was stunned for a moment, then quickly nodded, subconsciously letting out a sigh of relief.
So it was a Blessed, he had thought… Sure enough, the Chairman wouldn't be such a small sprout.
Lin Ruo, who was beside him, blinked. He almost had to suppress his laughter, instead saying seriously, "Then I'll be leaving now, little Mr. Blessed. Please give my regards to your Lord Chairman."
"I will." Will said with a straight face.
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