Chapter 60 "Why don't they look alike?"
Rhine nodded:
"Of course. It is not difficult for me to find the girl. Divination is not a panacea and requires a medium and pre-information.
“But the information provided by His Highness is enough, and His Highness himself standing here is the best medium.
"Besides, not long time has passed."
What he didn't say was that the pre-information he needed for divination came not only from the prince's narration, but also from the advantage of knowing the causes and consequences of the story in advance; the medium he used for divination was not just the prince standing here, And the fish scale in the wide pocket.
——This beautiful fish scale comes from another witness to the prince’s story.
"Let's get started."
Rhine took out a crystal ball and chanted a strange spell.
This crystal ball is also a gift from the kingdom of the deep sea. It was a gift from Neptune and Ariel's sisters to strengthen his prophecy and divination magic.
Ordinary crystals come from the depths of the earth, but what is absurd is that people who study mysticism and seers who like crystals classify crystals as having the attribute of water. But the crystal ball in Rhine's hand comes from the deep sea. It is a gem formed after the water of the deep sea has been compressed for thousands of years. It has magic power that is not available on the earth.
It was with this magical crystal ball that he was able to see what the painting would look like before the palace painter finished painting it!
"Let me untie the knot in His Highness the Prince's heart." Rhine said while casting the spell.
Dots of starlight emerged in the crystal ball, as if the boy was holding the vast universe in his hands.
"Wait a moment!" the prince dissuaded, "let's deal with the father's mission first. The origin of the amnesia girl is more important than what I want to know!"
Rhine smiled:
"My Lord, destiny has its subtleties.
"Sometimes, people choose different paths on forked paths, but end up at the same destination. Sometimes, different questions may get the same answer."
The prince could not understand what Rhine said, but he vaguely felt what the prophet was implying.
The darkness in the crystal ball dissipated, and the stars gathered into a colorful picture. This sight made the prince couldn't help but marvel in his heart.
"This is the magician! Although my father said that he has seen many magicians perform spells and perform miracles, for me, this is still the first time I have seen something new!"
The scene that appeared in the crystal ball was clearly Rhine holding the crystal ball and the two princes who squatted down and looked at the picture in the crystal ball.
"What is this?" asked the prince.
"Your Highness, this is our present." Rhine explained, "Next, we will look from the back to the front."
The pictures in the crystal ball seem to have gone back in time, just like modern film and television works rewinding, scenes from the past emerge one after another;
First, the crystal ball taken back by Rhine, the two walked backwards and talked while walking; followed by the game just now, the prince announced Rhine's victory on the fishing boat. After that, the scene in the crystal ball rewinded faster and faster, until the prince couldn't see clearly at all.
Immediately afterwards, the ever-changing colored blocks were reframed back to the specific scene and began to play in the normal time sequence.
In the crystal ball, the unconscious prince lay on the shore, the dawn light shining on his face.
He looked pale and bloodless, just as a man who had just fallen into the water would look.
"That's me, that's me, I'll see the girl who saved me soon!"
The prince was very excited.
That was the person he longed for day and night.
After a while, a young woman came over. She was shocked to see the unconscious prince. She woke up the prince and found the people around her - everything was exactly the same as in the prince's memory. "Quick, respected magician, please enlarge the face of the woman. I want to see what she looks like again." The prince said eagerly.
"As you wish," Rhine said.
Then the woman's face became bigger and bigger, becoming clearer and clearer. The prince really saw that beautiful face:
Her skin is delicate and white, and her eyes are smiling under her long black eyelashes.
This was the face he had been dreaming about day and night!
"Yes, it's her, it's her!" the prince shouted excitedly. After all, he was just a young boy under 16 years old.
But then, the prince suddenly discovered something was wrong.
"No, no, why is it different?"
The prince remembered the amnesiac girl with a beautiful singing voice.
When he first picked her up, he thought she looked a lot like the girl who once saved him.
However, when Prince Eric saw the woman who rescued him with his own eyes, he realized that the two girls looked nothing alike!
Although they are both equally beautiful, there is nothing similar in body shape or facial features.
But the prince is extremely convinced that the beautiful woman shown in the crystal ball is indeed the one who saved him in the first place.
"Why? Why do they look nothing alike?" The prince was stunned, confused and confused, as if he had just woken up from a big dream.
"Your Highness, please continue reading."
Rhine stroked the smooth surface of the crystal ball again, and the scene in the crystal ball rewinded again.
Time went back again, and the peaceful dawn in the crystal ball disappeared, replaced by the stormy night.
The howling wind, the deafening thunder, and the sailors' cries and prayers came out from the crystal ball. Silver electric snakes shuttled through the heavy dark clouds, and the dark waves were as huge as mountains, setting off the smallness of the ship.
The prince clenched his fists, as if he had fallen into the nightmare of the past again.
They're back, they're all back! All the elements from that unbearable nightmare are back!
In the crystal ball, he saw the ship he was on, he saw himself on the ship, he saw the ship being thrown up in the air and then falling by the huge black waves, he saw the thick ship planks being smashed by the rough waves, he saw himself fell into the sea.
"Dear Magician, why are you playing such a scene?" the prince asked, his face turning pale.
"Isn't this exactly what you and your father asked for?" Rhine smiled, "Don't you want to know where the amnesiac girl with the most beautiful singing voice in the world came from?"
In the crystal ball screen, a beautiful figure was quickly shuttled across the dark sea.
The beautiful figure bravely swam against the violent currents, passing through the broken beams and planks of the ship, not caring at all about the danger that they might crush her to death.
The figure looked like a human in half, but the lower body was trailing a long fish tail. She jumped out of the wave, rushed to the prince's side, hugged him tightly in her arms, and did not dare to let go for a moment.
Then the prince saw the face of that beautiful figure—a face so familiar.
He saw her again.
(End of chapter)