It's time to improve the strength of the infinite world

Chapter 4 Lies
The dusk outside the window is peaceful and gentle, dyeing the sky a light violet, like a soft watercolor painting spread out under the vast sky.

The afterglow shines into the library through the ancient oak window frames, immersing this ocean of knowledge in a unique atmosphere that is both dark and warm.

The delicate blonde girl, who looked like a doll, sat on a crescent-shaped seat. The young man opposite her was in the mess scattered all over the floor. The two looked at each other in a subtle confrontation, and seemed to fall into silence at the same time.

The silence flows silently.

This scene seemed strange and harmonious inexplicably.

"Vivian, nice to meet you... You speak fluent Chinese, have you been to China?"

After a moment's silence, Xia Zhi seemed to have finally returned to reality from his distant thoughts. He raised his slender index finger, gently scratched his cheek, and hesitated with an embarrassed but polite expression.

It was obvious that although he tried very hard to act like "Nice to meet you", he was not very successful.

It’s not that he can’t manage his facial expressions, nor that his psychological quality is bad. It’s mainly because the impact that unfolded was a bit strange. It was no less than the feeling of wanting to communicate with the time traveler before, but scaring the other person away instead.

After all, it's really bizarre -

I was clearly the weaker party, but the extraordinary person who could travel across worlds was scared away as soon as I opened my mouth...

The person opposite him was a foreign girl, with blonde hair and blue eyes, as delicate as a doll, but she not only understood what he said, but also spoke fluent Chinese...

——Well, if it’s just that, it’s nothing.

After all, among the foreigners Xia Zhi knows, there are also many who speak Chinese very well. This is not surprising and there is nothing to worry about.

But here’s the thing…

Now is not the right time, and it is not the right place.

Because in Xia Zhi's opinion, he should have successfully passed through the "door", which means he should have arrived in another world, right? Although he had to hitchhike by force, and got on the bus first without paying for the ticket, but he still got there, right?
But why...

The first person I met in the other world...

I can talk to myself in such fluent Chinese...

The moment he realized this problem, his excitement quickly turned into anxiety. He subconsciously thought about several possibilities, and his heart couldn't help but sink. Because the first thing that came to his mind was that his plan would fail.

For example, if I didn't manage to escape...

Although the spatial coordinates had changed, he had not actually escaped, he had only changed his location on this planet...

And so on.

Thinking of this, Xia Zhi felt heavy in his heart. Although he didn't want to become a pessimist, the countless cycles had tortured him so much that he no longer had any expectations for the future.

How can such a person be optimistic?

Naturally, when a problem occurs, people subconsciously think of the worst.

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“Am I fluent in Chinese?”

The girl named Vivian raised her slender eyebrows and looked at the strange visitor who suddenly broke in front of her with an even more peculiar look.

After coming to the fairy kingdom, she, who possesses the highest level "Fairy Eyes", has seen many lies.

After all, in this world, in this cruel fairy country, in order to survive, every fairy has to abandon his or her original nature and instincts, and lies naturally become an indispensable strategy to maintain survival.

Apart from anything else, even the Rain Clan that gave her shelter could not escape this established order. ——Otherwise, how could they conceal her true identity and protect her existence?

Although they were obviously scared and terrified, the Rain Clan still felt pity for Vivian, so they chose the path of protecting the fairies of paradise.

Vivian also understood this clearly, and she grew up innocently while feeling the tenderness of the fairies from the Rain Country.

Today, she has learned a lot. She is no longer confused by everything in Britain. She has also changed from her initial instinctive rejection and disgust towards lies and concealment to a rational attitude towards acceptance.

We should fairly recognize and allow things that exist objectively.

Vivian believes this is necessary if she wants to save Britain and depict the ideal country of her dreams.

Therefore, the girl didn't really care about Xia Zhi's "Nice to meet you". She knew that this person had no ill intentions and was just perfunctory at most. What really surprised her was the sentence that followed -

This person thinks she is speaking Chinese?
It just sounds weird.

But in her opinion, this sentence is not a lie.

"Yes, he is definitely the best among the people I know. His enunciation is clear and his pronunciation is accurate..." The uninvited guest opposite seemed to be taking the opportunity to look at the environment of the library. He nodded when he heard what he said.

This statement seems to be sincere.

The girl frowned and found that the other party was actually very honest at this time and really believed so.

the other side--

Xia Zhi also frowned secretly. He couldn't see more useful information from the style of this library.

It's not that the styles don't match, but there are too many styles that match. The devil is in the details. The more he looked at it, the weirder it felt. He felt that this library was like a hodgepodge, from the architecture to the layout, to the tables, chairs, and even the decorative patterns...

They all look like some kind of random mix. It's as if the craftsmen who made them didn't consider anything else and simply copied and pasted them here and there and mixed them together.

Some of them have good chemical reactions and are unique and distinctive; but more of them seem out of place and inexplicable.

Xia Zhi curled the corner of his mouth, glanced at the ground again, and began to clean up naturally. He picked up all the books on the ground one by one, as if he was carefully and consciously cleaning up the mess he had made earlier.

Although he was not sure about the girl's attitude, she seemed quite calm at the moment.

After the initial shock, he sat there quietly, looking neither afraid nor worried, with only curiosity and inquiry in his emerald green eyes.

No matter what happens, as long as the other party doesn't wave his men, delaying time will definitely be beneficial to oneself... Xia Zhi noticed this and naturally wanted to take advantage of it decisively, so he shamelessly pretended to be very natural.

The books scattered on the ground exude the scholarly atmosphere accumulated over the years.

Taking the opportunity to pick up the books, Xia Zhi quickly checked them and then narrowed his eyes slightly.

do not know!
Completely unfamiliar text.

In his huge language and font library, he could not find any relevant search records. It was undoubtedly a text that belonged to another system completely.

This was undoubtedly good news, but the combination of so many clues at present also successfully confused Xia Zhi's mind. He quickly sorted it out, and an idea suddenly popped up in his mind - could this be a parallel world?

Blinking his eyes, Xia Zhi raised his head and looked at the girl opposite him who was frowning and thinking about something, and asked, "By the way, Miss Vivian, where did you learn Chinese?"

"..."

"..."

"Why are you asking this?" The girl tilted her head and did not answer directly immediately.

"It's just... simply a little curious." For some reason, the young man opposite revealed an imperceptible change in his expression in an instant, and his tone became slightly strange. He looked directly at the girl.

“I learned it in China.”

Vivian pursed her lips and said softly, "The other party seems to be very concerned about this. In this case, let's start from this point and see."

She pretended to be indifferent, lowered her eyes, flipped a few pages of the book in her hand, and her heartbeat quickened quietly.

Although she was able to treat lies objectively, this was the first time she told a lie.

It was a very strange experience, and a bit stressful.

This was an unexpected decision, but she wanted to give it a try, and it was not a spur-of-the-moment decision.

Because this person obviously did not belong to this world. Although she did not know what he could bring, he was definitely an "outside life". This was her understanding of this kind of heterogeneous existence, which seemed to come directly from the original memory and inherited knowledge of the planet.

This is very important.

If I want to save Britain, if I want to protect this fairy country...

Maybe this is the help you need.

"..."

"..."

Silence spreads silently.

The girl raised her eyes again and found that the young man opposite her was still staring at her with a strange expression on his face.

After a moment, he sighed: "So it's not..."

In an instant, Vivian intuitively sensed a sharp tacit understanding, her cheeks instantly flushed, and she began to stammer: "You...you...I...I'm not..."

Is it really that I have no talent for lying?
Is my flaw so obvious?
It was not easy to tell a lie for the first time, but she was caught in the act in front of him. This fact made her feel ashamed and angry.

Xia Zhi pulled the corner of his mouth and explained kindly: "I can read lips..."

This was one of the skills he maxed out when he was extremely bored. It was rarely useful and would even cause some minor troubles. For example, when watching a dubbed movie, he would always subconsciously capture and analyze the subtle lip movements of the characters.

Then, they will compare and confirm what they understand through lip reading with the actual dialogue they hear.

It took some time to correct this troublesome little habit.

So it was not until now that he suddenly discovered the clue inadvertently, and after confirming it again, he suddenly realized a strange fact - the other party was not actually speaking Chinese at all!
"..."

The girl bit her lower lip lightly, somewhat unwillingly.

However, before she could say anything else, footsteps were heard outside, coming closer and closer, and it seemed that there were quite a few people.

Oops!

Xia Zhi's heart shuddered. Why was it at this critical moment?
He glanced at the shame and anger on Vivian's face, and suddenly felt that he might be chopped into pieces next.

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(PS: Signed...)
(PS: It’s finally released… I deleted, deleted, and revised it in a hurry…)
(PS: I don’t know what else is wrong, what can be deleted or changed, so I went to the editor to release it... I heard from the editor that it must be because the review has been crazy recently, and there are quite a lot of such cases)

(End of this chapter)