Should I raise you too?

Elsie was taken aback.

The sound should be that of an insect, but generally speaking, shouldn't insects express a need for "parasitism"? For example, by exposing the back of their necks.

Why did this bug present me with a math problem right away?

Elsie, still half-asleep, assumed it was just a bug's quirk and began to seriously calculate the problem.

Haha, I'm an engineer who can calculate excavation plans and has been deeply involved in engineering design, so this mere math problem... I really can't solve it.

There's no need to calculate this kind of thing in engineering!

Elsie heard a sigh, then the blue door opened, and she was kicked out.

Elsie stood up from the woodland floor, patted her bottom, and looked a little dazed.

What's going on? It's not parasitic? What does this mean?

She hesitated for a moment, then continued walking forward and soon saw another green door.

Does this mean I should go to the new "insect" place?

Elsie mentally prepared herself again and pushed open the green door.

Inside the dark space, there was a chessboard with black and white chess pieces neatly arranged.

Are they going to play chess?

I am not very good at chess, but I have a little knowledge of it. When I played chess with the construction workers in the capital, I never lost!

Elsie sat down at the chessboard and confidently picked up a piece.

Three minutes later, Elsie looked at her only remaining king piece and fell silent.

Another sigh echoed through the space, and she was kicked out of the green door again, and then kicked out of the "small door in the woods".

Good news, she was not parasitized.

Bad news: the "bugs" think she's too stupid!

Chapter 115: Is this a test for the master?

On the sea below the Kingdom Star, Elsie's dream was swallowed by the waves, while two other dreams occupied the middle position.

That was Eve and Maria's dream, a dream of their familiar manor with its spacious courtyard, the gentle Miss Elisa, and... well, Simon wasn't in the dream.

The dream flashed by, one image after another, one scene after another, Eve and Maria once again experienced a period of manor life, but without Simon.

The dream entered the Night of the Living Dead, into that gray fog. This time, the sun did not rise in time. On the morning of the third day after Miss Elisa left the manor, half of the capital returned to sunlight.

Only half of the capital city returned to the sunlight.

Eve and Maria had no idea what had happened, why the capital was missing half its buildings and population, or why Miss Mabel and Miss Eleanor had disappeared.

Miss Elisa became gloomy, and the army was stationed in the capital, declaring that the disaster was caused by poison gas from the factory.

Subsequently, Miss Elisa became one of the heirs to the kingdom, vying for the throne with the other heirs.

Several times, Eve and Maria found bloodstains in the young lady's clothes.

Amid the struggle for the throne, the chaos in the capital is escalating daily, and if it weren't for the military's intervention, war would have been imminent.

What happened next is unknown to Eve and Maria. One dark and stormy night, when Miss Elisa was not at home, a group of assassins broke into the manor, and blood stained the carpet.

……

Eve woke up with a start, soaking wet and still shaken.

Her dreams contained not only images, but also emotions: fear, sadness, helplessness, despair... Often, the emotions from the previous scene would linger before the emotions from the next scene would switch over, making it almost impossible for her to breathe.

She grasped the pearl under her pillow; the "mermaid teardrop" emitted a soft glow, soothing her heart.

There were no windows in the entourage cabin, so she got up in the dark, quickly opened the cabin door, crossed the living room, and pushed open the bedroom door.

Outside the porthole, dawn was breaking, and the faint light streamed into the cabin, illuminating Simon's face on the bed; he was still asleep.

Eve breathed a deep sigh of relief.

Mr. Simon is still here; it was just a dream, and none of that happened.

Eve turned to go back to the entourage cabin. She came in a hurry, without even putting on her clothes.

As soon as her gaze left the boy, the despair of the dream invaded her body again. She hesitated for a moment, then knelt on the carpet beside the bed, wanting to look at Simon for a while and wait until she calmed down before leaving.

But the carpet was so comfortable, and Mr. Simon's scent so reassuring, that she lay down by the bed and closed her eyes.

Maria used the key to open the hatch, pushed open the bedroom door, and was startled by the scene she saw.

Simon lay there, while Eve lay wearily beside him—a scene typically seen on the verge of death.

Approaching the bed, she lowered her head, leaned close to Simon's chest, listened to his strong heartbeat, and relaxed.

She looked at Eve by the bedside. The little maid had probably had the same dream as her, which was why she had rushed over without even putting on her coat.

She raised her hand and placed it on Eve's shoulder, then thought for a moment and withdrew it.

She tiptoed out of the bedroom and prepared black tea and toiletries. She also needed to wash up herself. After waking up, she quickly dressed and came here, having no time to take care of herself.

With hot water prepared and tea leaves placed in the pot, Maria opened the bedroom door after washing up, straightened her maid dress, and, like Eve, lay down on the edge of the bed.

Eve occupied the upper half of the bed, so Maria had to move to the lower half. When she saw the small mound on the blanket, her cheeks flushed slightly. She examined it carefully for a while before closing her eyes.

Hearing their even breathing and confirming that Maria was also fast asleep, Simon opened his eyes.

He had already woken up when Eve came in, but he had been pretending to be asleep because he wanted to see what the little maid was going to do.

Yeah, I just snapped a few photos.

To his surprise, Eve simply lay down next to his bed and fell asleep without any warning.

He couldn't wake her up, as it would be too embarrassing to do so. The little maid was only wearing a vest and harem pants, which wouldn't have been a big deal in his previous life, but it was far too revealing in the Victorian era.

He waited until Maria arrived, thinking that the stern housekeeper would wake Eve up or at least put clothes on her. But Maria not only ignored Eve, she also lay down next to him!

What on earth did you dream about?! Why are you suddenly being so proactive?

“Your time to be tested has come,” Alysander thought to herself.

Simon wholeheartedly agreed; this was indeed a test of integrity.

“To mate without waking them is a gentleman’s essential skill,” Alysander continued.

What kind of test is this? And what kind of gentlemanly behavior is this!

"Hehehe." Sensing Simon's tension, Alexandra laughed.

Simon noticed that the Queen was in a good mood today, so he activated Alysander's light screen.

Simon is curious, what kind of dream did you have?

"Don't tell you."

So stingy!

What did you dream about?

I won't tell you either.

Simon carefully sat up, stepped over Eve and Maria, and walked out of the room.

Although he wanted to continue lying down, his bladder couldn't hold on any longer. He could only use the power of a demigod, not a true demigod, and was currently unable to resist the human body's systems.

Stepping out of the washroom and wiping his hands, he recalled his dream from the previous night. In the dream, he didn't go to the capital, didn't participate in the plot, and didn't even become a superhuman. Instead, he stayed in the village, living a peaceful and ordinary life.

Actually, this is not bad, it's just a pity there are no maid dresses to see.

Simon found the black tea and hot water that Maria had prepared, brewed a pot for himself, and picked up the newspaper next to the sofa.

As it unfolded, a photo of a semi-nude woman appeared. Simon closed it. This morning had been exciting enough; he didn't need any more.

He held his teacup, went to the porthole, and pulled back a corner of the gauze curtain. The sky was gradually brightening, and the Kingdom Star had already left the Misty Sea.

He finished his cup of tea, and then the two maids in the bedroom stirred. Eve exclaimed in surprise, followed by Maria's voice.

Simon glanced over there instinctively and met the gaze of the maid who was hurrying back to her room to get dressed.

"..."

Since things have come to this, let's take a picture first.

"The panicked little maid - in pajamas.jpg"

Maria sighed. She had just tried to stop Eve, but the flustered Eve wouldn't listen to her.

Eve didn't realize there was no one in bed. When she woke up, her first thought was about her own clothes. She wanted to escape the bedroom immediately to avoid Simon's gaze, but she didn't expect that Simon wasn't in the room, but in the living room. Instead, she walked right into his trap.

Maria pulled her back to the bedroom, went to the servants' cabin, and brought her a maid's outfit.

Eve hid behind Maria, head down, face flushed, and came out.

"Shy little maid.jpg"

Adding the photos to the album, Simon pretended nothing had happened: "The crew should have just woken up too. We'll go to the restaurant later."

Chapter 116 I died, and I came back to life (Bonus Chapter)