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"So, haven't I already switched to the 'Hunter' pathway? What's wrong, Mr. Medici, do you want me to give you a live performance of swallowing a characteristic whole?"
Hearing the familiar sarcastic tone, Medici raised an eyebrow, then adjusted his sitting posture, crossed his legs, and completely looked like a boss, saying, "You're quite proud of yourself?"
"Proud? Not really, just stating the truth!" Lin Ruo said, suddenly sighing, "After all, life isn't easy. If I didn't have to, who would be willing to jump to another pathway, right?"
Medici paused for a moment, the expression on his face not changing much, but Lin Ruo, who had been observing him since just now, was sure that Medici seemed a little angry.
As for whether he was angry because Lin Ruo, his good friend, had jumped pathways, or because he thought about himself being cooked into a hot pot because the Blood Emperor had jumped pathways, Lin Ruo didn't know.
He just walked to Medici's side, consciously took out a cushion from his backpack, sat down comfortably, and looked at Medici, saying, "Medici, I've always been curious, can you still drink in your current state?"
Medici glanced at him, suddenly scoffed, and said, "I am not like you, who doesn't even dare to drink a sip of wine."
The implication was, he could.
"That's such a pity. I originally thought that in your current state, you couldn't drink or eat anything. That way, I could enjoy eating and drinking happily in front of you while you could only look on with envious and distorted expressions. Alas!" Lin Ruo sighed pretentiously, but his hands didn't stop, taking out the food and wine he had bought earlier and arranging them, then throwing the only bottle of wine to Medici.
As the 'Red Angel, Medici, even if he was weakened, naturally wouldn't be in a situation where he couldn't even catch a bottle of wine, so he neatly caught the bottle, opened it, smelled it, and looked at Lin Ruo with a disgusted look, saying, "Is that it?"
It could be seen that he was very disgusted with the quality of the wine.
"Be content, I don't drink wine anyway, it's already good enough that I remembered to buy you a bottle. If you dislike it, then don't drink it!" Lin Ruo didn't indulge him. Buying wine was purely a matter of convenience, it didn't mean he intended to please Medici.
Moreover, although he didn't remember, Lin Ruo's intuition told him that he hadn't indulged the other party before either.
"Heh!" Medici sneered, then took a big gulp straight from the bottle. He drank without any elegance, completely failing the inherent temperament of red wine, creating the momentum of drinking beer.
Lin Ruo frowned as he watched him drink, feeling that buying Medici the best red wine in the restaurant was really a waste. Wouldn't it be better to buy a bucket of beer for this kind of drinking?
Although he wasn't a wine drinker, the various anime and movies he had seen in the past still gave Lin Ruo a deep-rooted understanding of how to drink red wine—red wine should be drunk elegantly with a goblet.
However, Medici obviously didn't intend to finish a bottle of wine in one gulp. In fact, he only drank about a third of it in that one gulp.
Then, wiping away the wine that had spilled from the corner of his mouth due to his bold drinking method just now, Medici looked at Lin Ruo, his eyes clear and without intoxication, and said, "Little Black, it seems your memory is recovering well."
"I can't say it's good, I can only say that I finally have a general understanding of my past self," Lin Ruo corrected, also looking at Medici, "You should have guessed why I came to see you this time."
"Why? For memories? Or to seek my help?" Medici looked at Lin Ruo, with a condescending aura.
"Let's not mention the matter of memories for now, Medici…" Lin Ruo blinked, looked up at him, but didn't show any weakness in terms of momentum, and asked, "Can you leave here and go to the outside world now?"
Before Medici opened his mouth, he really hadn't thought about seeking Medici's help, after all, Medici's own state didn't seem to be very good.
But now, hearing these words, Lin Ruo remembered that the Medici in front of him was not the pure unlucky person in the original book.
The Medici in front of him held a characteristic of the Weather Warlock and had obtained Ince Zangwill's handkerchief. Could he really not leave this underground ruin?
It should be known that even in the original book, Medici of this timeline was already almost able to influence the outside world with the descendants of the Blood Emperor, with only a month or two of time difference.
"Guess?" Regarding Lin Ruo's question, Medici only slowly uttered two words, coupled with that expression, indescribably irritating.
"I guess, you can," Lin Ruo didn't intend to play an endless game of 'guess what' with Medici, he just gave his own answer.
"Heh!" Medici laughed, and after laughing, his expression finally became more serious, and he looked at Lin Ruo with sharp eyes, saying, "Since I obtained the characteristic of the Weather Warlock, what has trapped me is no longer the ruins left by that Lunatic Tudor, but some other things."
"Little Black, why don't you guess, what is it?"
Eh?
Lin Ruo was stunned for a moment. He looked at Medici in front of him, who seemed to be serious and brought a bit of danger, and after turning his mind a few times, he tentatively said, "Is it related to me?"
"You guessed right," Medici looked at Lin Ruo, his aura becoming more and more dangerous, and said, "Little Black, before you seek my help, why don't you first explain why, after your last arrival, the power that trapped me showed a significant decline…"
Ah, this!
Lin Ruo was actually a little horrified at this moment, after all, how could this scene not have a trend of a bloody drama of good friends turning against each other immediately?
Logically speaking, Lin Ruo should feel scared in this situation, or turn around and run away, but in reality, although Lin Ruo was also instinctively alert, he really didn't have much fear in his heart.
He just calmly stared at Medici, saying, "I don't know."
"As you can see, I have amnesia."
Speaking of which, Lin Ruo paused, then looked at Medici and raised a smile, saying:
"But if I'm not mistaken, that power that restricts you here appeared together with the characteristic of the Weather Warlock in your hand, right?"
"Perhaps, it also helped you stabilize your humanity, so that you wouldn't become a true evil spirit?"
Medici remained noncommittal.
Lin Ruo then continued:
"I don't know what purpose I had in restricting you here, but I think it certainly wasn't to harm you."
"What about you, Medici, do you think I'm harming you?"
He stared at Medici, just watching quietly. Obviously, it was Medici who had started the trouble at the beginning, and it was also Medici who had been trapped here all along, but facing such Lin Ruo, it was still he who compromised first.
Medici suddenly took another big gulp of the wine in his hand, seeming a little irritable, and also a little relieved.
"Alright, I'll let you pass!"
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