Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

Subtitle: The Incident Book of King Nidhogg II (I personally recommend turning back and reading this plot from beginning to end)

Lu Mingfei was thinking about a question.

He and Janet are neither relatives nor friends, and they only met for a few hours. The so-called goodwill is one-sided from Janet to him - so why would he want to save her?

There was a sharp pain in my head.

As if an illusion, three other 'selves' appeared in Lu Mingfei's field of vision.

With white hair, a fairy-like look on his face, and particularly dark circles under his eyes, he looked like a 'Ludock' who might die suddenly at any time.

His face was expressionless and he didn't say a word, as if he was polishing himself all the time, waiting for the moment to unsheath a samurai sword like "Lu Zihang".

She has long orange-red hair and looks like she is deep in thought. She is wearing a JK sailor suit that is windless and automatic. Under her miniskirt, she wears "Lu Xiang" in white safety pants.

wrong.

This is not an illusion, it is Lu Mingfei's excessive use of simulating the thinking of the people around him, reaching a limit that is almost a side effect.

Lu Mingfei prides himself on being the top real-time strategy game player. An important reason why he can fight a super AI for 300 rounds in this type of game is because he is good at multi-threaded thinking, and is good at paying attention to, reasoning, and judging multiple things at the same time. The status of the battle line.

This is an ability similar to 'cutting off the ability to think'.

Thinking about it carefully, Lu Mingfei himself is not a normal person at all. There is no doubt about his abnormal bloodline. It's just that he is so weak that he always looks down on himself. No matter how exaggerated his talent in the game field is, he still feels that he is a ' It sucks to play games'.

At this time, when faced with the question Lu Mingfei was thinking: Why should I save Janet? It was Lu Zihang who gave the answer.

"Because of arrogance."

"Arrogant?" Lu Mingfei said to himself, talking to the other self in his heart.

"Yes," Lu Zihang said expressionlessly, "After confirming the contents of the trade agreement with the little devil, you have actually realized that according to Roman, there are seven singular points in total, but you have fourteen times. Opportunity to cheat.”

Ludock also spoke: "What does this mean? It means that you will feel in your heart that in addition to a cheating opportunity to 'solve the singularity', each of your singularities will also have the power to 'reverse the tragedy'. Consider In the end, as long as you only use one transaction at one of the seven singular points, and the number of transactions stops at 13, you will be fine."

".That's why you want to save that girl"

Lu Xiang smiled. Perhaps because Lu Mingfei felt that he couldn't see through Li Xiang at all, the biggest difference between Lu Xiang's conversation and Lu Mingfei himself was.

"Because you are still the one on the playground of the junior high school sports meeting, watching the athletes selected from the class competing for glory for the class, being surrounded and praised, thinking that they are 'heroes'. You are still the envious and eager person. A middle school boy who becomes someone’s hero.”

A reason to save others?

‘Wanting to save people’ is enough.

Saving people for profit is not a hero. What's more, according to the routine, Lu Mingfei will not get nothing after success. At least he will get a 'wife', right?

A mature person who cares too much about gains and losses, who wants to prove that he is not a sophomore in high school, and who wants to prove that he is self-righteous is just a sophomore in high school.

Lu Mingfei had already made up his mind to make a deal with the little devil to save Janet's tragedy.

But here comes another problem.

Since the little devil signed a formal contract with Lu Mingfei, the reminders and so-called "trial period" benefits to Lu Mingfei have basically disappeared. Obviously, the little devil himself is also looking forward to Lu Mingfei cheating on him.

But Leonardo da Vinci once said that the little devil is very cunning. He said, "If the requirements are not fulfilled, the transaction is not completed." But what does this mean in reverse?

Once the content of the transaction is determined but the specific thing he is asked to do is not clear, he may suddenly stop during the execution process and then say to Lu Mingfei, "Please use the next transaction to pay for subsequent services."

Although Lu Mingfei wanted to be a hero, he also cherished his life.

Therefore, even if you decide to make a deal with the little devil, the content of the transaction documents must be clarified - that is, you must find out the truth about all the causes of Janet's tragedy, and then come up with "all the conditions needed to create a happy end". Let the little devil realize all these conditions.

It must be investigated.

But Lu Mingfei didn't want to believe a word of Prelati's words.

"That scumbag woman" Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth.

The other parallel consciousnesses expressed their affirmation silently.

Janet No. 7 in her arms remained silent throughout.

She was like a passive doll. If Lu Mingfei didn't talk to her, she wouldn't say a word. Even if he asked various questions, she almost didn't know the answer.

The reason for being chased by monsters? have no idea.

Why ‘act’? have no idea.

What is the relationship with Prelati? I don’t know, but I think she is an important person.

There are too many mysteries

There seemed to be a lot of clues, but Lu Mingfei couldn't believe Prelati's words, so the surface of the many clues seemed to be covered with a layer of gray fog.

The biggest problem is that no matter how he imitates the smart people around him, Lu Mingfei's own occult knowledge is still not enough.

It’s not that Lu Mingfei didn’t work hard, but that there was so much knowledge that the more than ten years of learning from childhood to adulthood was really not enough. After the Battle of Fuyuki, all the occult knowledge that Lu Mingfei supplemented was related to Those who have connections with King Arthur are of no use now.

He needs someone with rich knowledge of occult science and someone who can help him figure it out.

Darian.

This name somehow doesn't look like a human being, but rather like a pet cat raised by a wealthy family.

Could this Dalian be someone who can help him?

Following the instructions given by Janet No. 5 before she disappeared, Lu Mingfei took the puppet-like No. 7 to the church where he first appeared.

The traces of previous damage have disappeared without a trace, and the new color of the church is visually unpleasant.

Lu Mingfei entered the church.

He thought he would have to put in a lot of effort, but unexpectedly, not long after walking inside, he discovered a passage to the underground that was not deliberately hidden in the confessional.

Lu Mingfei followed the spiral passage all the way down. It felt like he had arrived about ten meters underground, and the scenery in front of him suddenly became clear.

The magic light ball illuminated the entire underground with a soft yellow light.

There are many books piled up here like columns. There are various types of books, from parchment scrolls to clay tablets. At first glance, it looks like a library but a museum warehouse.

As if trying to hide among tens of thousands of books, a slender figure huddled among them.

That's a young girl.

The girl is sitting in an armchair with a book open in her lap.

She was reading in the dark basement of a church not far from the Boo Boo.

Is she the person named Darian?

Lu Mingfei subconsciously wanted to say something, but after blurting out his greeting, it inexplicably turned into this strange sentence:

"What are you looking at?"

As a greeting, this almost similar line can only be said to be barely qualified.

Dalian didn't seem to care. She was obviously a young girl, but her voice was strangely hoarse when she spoke, like an old witch cooking potion deep in a dense forest.

""Luoyan City Text Book", a magical book from the Xia Dynasty in ancient China that records the past secrets of the exiled old gods. After Marco Polo brought it from China to Europe, I heard that this thing was in the hands of Prelati. I am coming After that, I exchanged the knowledge she needed for the opportunity to read."

Dalian speaks fluent Chinese.

Although the words and sentences are somewhat primitive, Lu Mingfei's translation machine is not easy to understand.

Putting it this way, her appearance does seem to have obvious oriental characteristics.

It was the content of this speech that made Lu Mingfei a little confused as to how to answer the question.

Lu Mingfei could only ask awkwardly: "Who are you?"

"not human."

"?What?"

"I am the sky, the sky is in the pot."

Lu Mingfei: "???"

Lu Mingfei's blank gaze seemed to surprise Dalian.

"Didn't you understand what I said?"

"What? Should I understand it?" Lu Mingfei was confused.

"The Heaven in the Pot is a story recorded in "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty". I want to use this method to tell you that when you look at the witch's eyes, you can think of me as the 'immortal in the pot'."

".What's the point?"

Dalian sighed and closed the "Luoyan City Textbook" in her hand.

"I've hinted like this, don't you understand? 'Illiterate poor student'."

Lu Mingfei was speechless for a moment. Is this the first time recently that someone has criticized me for not having enough cultural knowledge?

Dalian could only say helplessly: "I see that you also look like an Oriental, so I want to get closer to you in this way."

"Oh!" Lu Mingfei suddenly realized, "Fellow! Are you trying to get close to me?"

Darian was completely speechless.

Lu Mingfei quickly gave a thumbs up, trying to save a little bit of his evaluation in the other party's mind: "High! Really high! He is a cultured person!"

Dalian sighed: "The guardian sent by Chaldea to travel through time, why is he such a bad student like you?"

"Well, how do you know I'm from Chaldea? Or did I come through time?"

"The badge on your uniform is the medal of the Chaldean Observatory of the Animusfia family. The inheritance of the Animusfia family is to protect human history, and human history is composed of three parts: the past, present and future. Disasters that threaten human history are naturally changes in time scale. The appearance of the Chaldeans here naturally shows that the changes taking place in France are not 'events in history', but wrong anomalies. .”

Lu Mingfei was a little happy to hear what Dalian, the "fairy in the pot" from China, said clearly and clearly, and her attitude seemed to be quite friendly.

What he lacks now is a friend with rich mystical knowledge, isn't it coming out now?

"In that case, please help me solve the mutation! Little fairy!"

".I am a spectator, and I don't intend to specifically help anyone solve the problem. However, when it comes to solving this mutation, I have already extended a helping hand, and I think it is enough."

"Help?" Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, "I just met you, what did you help me with?"

".You are indeed a poor student."

"?"

"Didn't Prelaty say that? She is on the same side as you. She has the same position as Chaldea. She will protect the world, and I have given her the knowledge she needs to protect the world in this book "Snail Annihilation" I have handed it over to her as a condition for reading the "City Education Edition", other than that I don't intend to interfere."

Dalian's eyes fell on Janet in Lu Mingfei's arms.

"Until now, she is also working hard to save the world. Although that woman is as evil as a fly, her existence exudes malice to everything all the time, taking pleasure in the tragedies of others, but for her For her, the world is an important place for fun, and she will not let it go.

And the way to save the world? When I was attracted to this village and found out that this was the ground where an angel had descended and bonded with the saint, I chose to stay here temporarily, and then I got to know Prelati. She traded away the necessary knowledge from me. "

Lu Mingfei: "."

"Don't you understand yet? Poor student, Prelati is the kind of devil who will act by wrong means and harm countless people in the process to please himself, but he will achieve the right result.

If the purpose of you looking for me is just to 'save the world', then I suggest you don't do anything. The devil will naturally use his worst tragic way to save the world. "

Darian's voice was hoarse.

But the meaning is clearly conveyed.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath.

The other party is obviously not a fool, so there is no need to beat around the bush.

"Please tell me how to save this girl. Please tell me how to save the 'Jealous Witch'! Fairy!"

"Yes, don't call me fairy, it sounds a little weird. Just call me Darian."

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Darian, a very mysterious girl.

Of course, Lu Mingfei would not take it for granted that the other party's actual age was that of a little girl just because of her young appearance.

She is probably another Tianshan child grandmother, an old monster who lives in seclusion like Prelati and was exploded by this world crisis, right? Lu Mingfei thought to himself.

So Lu Mingfei didn't have any special thoughts about the appearance of this 'fairy' named Dalian.

Dalian put a book into Lu Mingfei's hands after Lu Mingfei made the request. She told Lu Mingfei that this was the knowledge Lu Mingfei needed to save Janet.

Lu Mingfei was a little confused. He looked at the parchment with sparse content in the other person's hand and was a little at a loss: "In order to solve the problem, I have to figure out what Prelati wants to do. This requires only a little bit of mystical knowledge. ?”

"Bad student, listen carefully," Dalian told Lu Mingfei venomously, "laymen, don't be self-righteous and want quick results. What you need now is not 'theory', but analysis and reasoning from a 'logical' perspective. .

Listen up, magicians are not conspirators. They are all very simple guys. They will never turn around if they can walk in a straight line. The content of the ritual may be complicated, but the logic of 'why you do this' is very simple. Don't be fooled. Appearances are confusing. "

Lu Mingfei always felt that Darian's description of the magician's personality was similar to what he heard from Roman and Da Vinci many times.

"Remember, Prelati's ultimate goal is to save the world. She is a devil who enjoys tragedy, but she is not a conspirator. She will not deliberately design conspiracies, but torture others with conspiracy, so her actions are logical. very simple."

What Darian means is that it is actually easy to understand the content of Prelati's plan, and it is actually very simple to destroy Prelati?

Lu Mingfei looked even more bitter. How is this so simple? I, a normal person like me, can't understand the Riddler behavior of your magician, okay?

"Since Dalian is willing to help me, can't you just say it directly?"

".I'm not playing riddles with you here. [For magicians], this is not even an open-book exam. I'm telling you the answer directly. Poor student. Although Prelatti's approach is wrong, the result is But it's good. From the perspective of protecting the world, if you can't defeat her on your own, how can you make me believe that you can save the world without her?"

"I've given you all the hints. Think about it for yourself. If a poor student wants to defeat the magician, he must start with 'logic' rather than 'knowledge'. Everything is much simpler than you think, because magicians are very simple. , there will be no deceptive feints in their actions, they all have logical and clear purposes, but ordinary people cannot understand them."

".I, an ordinary person, cannot understand the logic of your magician's behavior. How can I think of myself as a magician?"

"You are not an ordinary person." Dalian shook her head, stopped talking, lowered her head and went back to reading.

Although Dalian repeatedly emphasized that it was 'very simple' and 'the mistake of poor students is to overcomplicate things', Lu Mingfei was still confused.

Lu Mingfei could only look at the parchment handed to him.

Are there any tips here?

The title of the book is "The Ship of Theseus"?

Lu Mingfei relied on the translation machine, so it was not difficult to read. However, what made Lu Mingfei even more speechless was that although the title of "The Ship of Theseus" looked like a legend, the actual content was completely wrong.

This is actually a philosophical discussion book!

That's exactly what happened. Lu Mingfei felt a headache.

However, the philosophical content discussed in The Ship of Theseus is quite simple.

To put it simply, there is a ship named Theseus. This ship has been in service for a long time. The way to support its operation is to remove the broken parts every time a rotten part of the hull appears, and then use Replace it with the same new material.

This leads to a philosophical thinking:

A boat—no, a person, Mr. A.

If Mr. A is about to die, in order to continue his life, he has to replace his broken body with a good one. His body parts, from skin to muscles, from facial features to bones, from internal organs to brain, from emotions to memories, all All have been replaced.

But whether it’s the skin, muscles, facial features, bones, internal organs, brain—even personality, emotion, and memory, they are exactly the same as before they were replaced. So is this ‘new Mr. B’ still Mr. A?

The content is that simple.

Lu Mingfei felt that similar discussions had appeared countless times in various games.

Lu Mingfei felt that this kind of matter should be discussed in categories. For example, let Lu Mingfei do it by himself, right? Because Lu Mingfei didn’t know Mr. A at all and didn’t know what kind of person Mr. A was, so when someone asked Lu Mingfei whether Mr. B or Mr. When it was not Mr. A, Lu Mingfei would answer without hesitation, "No, Mr. A is dead, and Mr. B is not Mr. A.".

But what about the other situation?

What would happen if someone who lived and died with Mr. A, loved Mr. A very much, knew Mr. A very well, and shared important memories with Mr. A could identify him?

The person who loves Mr. A cannot believe that Mr. A is dead, so he will communicate with Mr. B. When he discovers that not only the appearance and personality of Mr. B, but also the memory are exactly the same as Mr. A, this person will definitely think of Mr. B. Isn't it Mr. A who is swaying?

Because he wants to believe that Mr. B is Mr. A.

During the communication process, Mr. B will completely regard himself as Mr. A, and even Mr. B himself will think about whether he is Mr. A.

The essence of this question is actually a derivative of the old and common topic - "Who am I?"

The characteristic of philosophical questions is that there are no answers. If you think about it deeply, there will be no end.

The question Lu Mingfei is facing now is, where in the philosophical thinking content of "Ship of Theseus" contains the clues to understand Prelati's true purpose and then find a way to save Janet?

"Is it possible that the same person can come up with constant answers to the same questions from different standpoints, forcing analysis for the sake of analysis, and forcing understanding for the sake of understanding?"

Lu Mingfei covered his forehead.

Lu Xiang, Lu Duoke, and Lu Zihang also made the same move.

——"Magicians are very simple."

Darian, and before that Roman and Leonardo da Vinci, have said similar words many times.

——"There is no conspiracy, and the magician does not mince words when he acts."

——“All actions are meaningful and there is no falsehood.”

Ludock closed his eyes: "Don't think about 'how', but think about 'why', don't think about 'theory', but think about 'logic'."

What troubles Lu Mingfei the most when facing Prelati?

Answer: Lu Mingfei couldn’t believe every word Prelatti said

In fact, Prelati did lie, and it was all malicious, just to enjoy Lu Mingfei's troubled expression afterwards.

".!"

Lu Xiang bit her fingertips: "But magicians don't lie. Magicians are very simple. Their actions have a strong purpose, that is, they have a fixed logic. It's just that this logic is the thinking of normal people." I just can’t understand it.”

Lu Mingfei's eyes widened: "Prelati, her words are credible! Excluding the part about finding fun for herself, her words are all truth! The logic of his actions, the reason why she lied, It’s to see my distressed expression when faced with a lot of truth, but I can’t believe it!”

Lu Zihang's eyes suddenly widened: "If I am really troubled by lies, then she won't feel happy. He just wants to enjoy me facing the truth, but he can't believe that the truth is the truth." Confused expression!”

Lu Mingfei sat cross-legged on the ground, letting No. 7 find a book to read to pass the time, while he simulated his thoughts at full speed, like Sherlock Holmes in "Sherlock", temporarily imagining a palace of thinking in his head. , they started the meeting with their own parallel consciousness.

Lu Mingfei: "Prelati will not lie for the sake of lying. The purpose of that scornful woman's lie is to enjoy my troubled expression. Therefore, excluding the lie of 'having fun', all the information provided by Prelati It’s all true!”

Lu Zihang nodded: "If the information is false, that fly girl will have no fun."

Ludok clapped his hands: "That's it!"

Lu Xiang waved his hand and dragged out a blackboard in the palace of thinking.

"Since magicians are very simple and will not do useless work, then all actions are meaningful and have 'normal logic' in their thinking circuits. Then we will tell us what Prelati told us so far. List everything that happened in the singularity.

Find out what Prelati did, and then analyze the behavioral logic one by one to figure out ‘why she did such a thing’! "

Lu Mingfei snapped his fingers, and the music that matched this thought storm suddenly appeared in the palace of thinking, using "danganronpa".

This music is eerie and loud, with the feeling of being deep in a fog but constantly moving towards the truth.

Where did it all begin?

The initial incident was the events surrounding the burning of Joan of Arc in 1431 last month.

It is also the beginning of everything.

But this event itself is recorded in the correct history, so this event itself is not abnormal, but normal.

The exception is the subsequent event caused by this incident.

Among them, Prelati’s actions are——

Together with French Marshal Gilles, he attacked territory everywhere in order to find the place where Joan of Arc was imprisoned.

In the process, Prelati solved the "false saints" who pushed the church to confront the "true saint" Joan of Arc.

Then came the confirmation of Joan of Arc's death.

After this, Prelati's action was to try to resurrect Joan of Arc.

Then, seven false saints turned into witches appeared.

Then, the Jealous Witch attacked Donremi, where Prelati used illusions to create a nightmare and captured the Jealous Witch.

After that, in the nightmare of the jealous witch, a strange cycle of reincarnation appeared.

The content of reincarnation is roughly as follows:

Originally appeared on Janet #1

Janet No. 1 was chased by monsters. Janet No. 1 asked for help from the residents who were pulled into the nightmare. Some people opened the door, while others refused.

The ending of Janet No. 1 should be that she died under the claws of the monster together with the person who opened the door.

Immediately afterwards, as Janet No. 1’s ‘body’ was recovered by Prelati and returned to the clinic, Janet No. 2 appeared.

Janet No. 2 basically experienced the same experience as Janet No. 1, but in the process, she survived for a while longer. This strange situation made the residents start to fear Janet, and their fear further turned into malice.

After dying like this many times, Janet gradually began to learn some emotions from the initial numb doll. She understood fear and fear.

Finally, one Janet survived the initial chase.

Lu Xiang paused while writing on the blackboard, and then said: "The following part is my guess, but the credibility should be more than 90%."

Where will Janet go when she keeps running away?

Naturally, it was Prelati's clinic that they had a good impression of.

Prelati had a large number of weapons, and a Janet defeated the monster after calling for help to no avail.

Such a Janet would become "Jeanne".

——“The evidence is that Janet once said something strange, saying that she was ‘Janet now’.”

Then the next day, a new Janet will appear again, but this time Janet will be accompanied and protected by Jeanne.

——"The evidence is that some residents reported that they often see two girls, one big and one small, who look very similar together."

After arriving at the clinic alive, reincarnation is like a level-breaking game, and it will enter the next stage, which is Jeanne taking weapons and Janet to challenge Sariel.

The result of failure is not death, but the loss of some organs. The specific manifestation is the erosion of dragon disease.

——"The evidence is Prelati's testimony and the tragic situation in the clinic."

After the failure, Jeanne will take Janet with her to continue the next reincarnation until she is completely eroded and unable to move.

And Janet will follow Jeanne and study with Jeanne. When Jeanne is completely unable to move, if Jeanette can survive the first level alone and come to the clinic to get the weapon, she will become the next one. Jeanne', and then take the next Janet, starting a new round of reincarnation.

This is all about reincarnation.

The result of such continuous accumulation is that Jeanne becomes stronger and stronger from generation to generation.

However, the number of reincarnations should not be many, or in other words, Lu Mingfei came after not even a few reincarnations.

Therefore, Janet No. 6, whom Lu Mingfei met, was still very simple-minded and had not been driven crazy by the accumulation of maliciousness in reincarnation. Her last Jeanne should have just been completely eroded by the curse of dragon transformation and lost her ability to move.

Thanks to the fact that reincarnation has just started not long ago, so if the process has not become complicated yet, it is very simple to clarify it like this.

What did Prelati do during this reincarnation?

Lu Mingfei thought for a while: "A script? Although it's not clear yet what magic ritual logic this script has."

Then, the four Lu Mingfei fell into thinking together.

Quad-core computing, think about what else Prelati has done——

——[Difficulty: 25]——

——[Lu Mingfei’s ‘inspiration’: 1D100=36]——

Lu Mingfei clapped his hands suddenly, and as inspiration flashed like sparks, he remembered.

When Lu Mingfei was worried about the command spell on Janet and asked Prelaty, Prelaty behaved strangely.

Lu Mingfei thought that Prelatti was summoning heroic spirits, but Prelatti didn't know about the command spell at all. Instead, she said that her purpose was to summon angels!

In this mysterious reincarnation ritual, Lu Mingfei's identity is an 'angel'.

The new clues made Lu Mingfei excited.

After looking at the list of Prelati's actions, the question that can lead to the next stage of thinking is indeed "Why did Prelati summon the angel"!

Prelati is an alchemist and a magician. It is impossible for him to do useless work. This thing must have a purpose!

This purpose may be part of Prelati's action logic ("Why do you do this?"). As long as one link is clear, the truth of the whole picture may be deduced!

Think, think, think!

Are there any clues? Are there any clues that could explain this?

Lu Zihang's face was expressionless, while Lu Mingfei and Ludok were lost in thought.

But Lu Xiang suddenly opened his eyes. He seemed to have thought of something: "We are not the protagonists of short stories, but the protagonists of novels!"

Lu Mingfei was a little dazed: "Why is the Riddler started again?"

Ludok slapped the table, and he thought: "The things that can be used as clues should not be what happened after we entered the singularity. There were clues before that! It's not a short story, it's a long story!"

Lu Mingfei immediately began to think about it.

Before entering the singularity, was there anything that happened that could be related to what happened in the singularity?

——Of course!

That’s Su Enxi’s tutoring class!

What is the content of Su Enxi’s tutoring? By the way, it was Joan of Arc. She introduced many things about Joan of Arc, including her achievements, historical status, how she was slandered, and when she was rehabilitated.

Su Enxi also mentioned that Joan of Arc was officially called Joan of Arc because she was posthumously canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XV in 1920. The official name of Joan of Arc was in 1920. Confirmed only in the year

"In other words, the so-called saints and saints are honorary titles canonized by the church. Wait a minute."

Lu Mingfei scratched his head.

"If you say this, how can we talk about the true and false saints of this era? According to the logic of the church, Joan of Arc has not been canonized, so she is not a saint. Those who are now turned into witches are officially certified saints. Bar?"

"But objectively speaking, Joan of Arc is the real saint." Lu Xiang said.

"Why." Lu Mingfei asked to himself.

Ludock immediately answered: "It's very simple! Because Joan heard the oracle, because Joan met an angel in this Domremi! This incident made her no matter whether she was recognized or not, even if she herself was not If you think so, she is also a true saint!”

All Lu Mingfei covered their heads together again.

They feel that they are very close, everything is very close, and they are really very close to figuring out what Prelati wants to do!

The eggshell seems to be full of cracks, and the truth contained inside will almost break out.

——[Difficulty: 1D50+50=88]——

——[Lu Mingfei’s ‘inspiration’: 1D100=88]——

"--I remembered!"

Except for the expressionless Lu Zihang, all Lu Mingfei thumped the table and stood up!

"Normal people's logic cannot be applied to magicians, but magicians' logic is very simple! It is far less complicated than normal people, so what we should simulate now is the magician's thinking circuit!"

Just do what you say, and in the palace of thinking, the new Lu Mingfei appears again, that is - Lu Mary!

Impersonate Olga Marie, the girl who has performed many magic tricks and looks the most like a magician among the people Lu Mingfei is most familiar with.

Mary Lu immediately gave the clue.

That is--

"Do you still remember what Athena did back then?"

"At the beginning, in order to protect Chaldea, Athena weaved a "Prometheus Secret" on the spot to fight against the fire of humanity. What did Athena do to make this ritual possible?"

"That is to gather the 'materials' to prove that the clay tablet in your hand is the "Prometheus Secret Book" that contains the power of Prometheus!"

Lu Mingfei suddenly realized.

"Prelaty's actions are also gathering materials! She asked Janet to summon the angel in order to reproduce the fact that 'Joan of Arc met the angel in Doremy and became an objective saint' from a mystical perspective. !”

Contrast this with Athena's original behavior.

That is to say——

"Prelaty, I want to prove that Janet is Joan of Arc in terms of the concept of magic composition!"

connected in series.

The clues started to connect.

Lu Mingfei opened his eyes again, looked at the "Ship of Theseus" in his hand, and thought about the question in it about whether Mr. B is Mr. A. People with different degrees of closeness to Mr. A will have different answers. question.

The reason why there are different answers is because different people have different thinking circuits.

Just like the thinking circuits of ordinary people and magicians are different.

Then, the clues start to link.

——After the death of Joan of Arc was confirmed, what were Prelati’s subsequent actions?

Answer: Resurrection of Joan of Arc

right!

Resurrection of Joan of Arc!

This is the origin of everything, and even the jealous witch behind is just the material that Prelati got involved in this plan!

So the question is, what would a normal ordinary person do if they wanted to resurrect Joan of Arc?

A normal person's thinking logic should be to find the key to resurrecting the dead, to find the secret technique to resurrect the dead, or to go to the underworld to retrieve the soul.

But is Prelati a normal person?

Are magicians normal people?

Take "The Ship of Theseus" as a reference.

Magicians would not consider resurrecting Mr. A.

Magicians will go to great lengths to prove that Mr. B is Mr. A!

The method of proof is naturally from the perspective of magic ritual!

Prelati is trying to prove that the 'fake' Joan of Arc is the 'real' Joan of Arc! And I believe from the bottom of my heart that as long as the proof is completed, the fake Joan of Arc will be the real Joan of Arc who was resurrected!

Everything suddenly became clear!

Why can such a weird reincarnation ritual be used to prove that Jeanne d'Arc's fake character 'Janet' is Jeanne d'Arc?

Does it matter?

unimportant!

Just ignore it!

Because Lu Mingfei is a poor student! Lu Mingfei didn't understand the "Howdunit" of the magicians at all, so he only needed to know the "Whydunit" of the magicians!

right!

Just like the protagonist Natsuki Subaru in the story "Zero - Starting Life in Another World".

Natsuki Subaru in that story, as a person whose level of occult education is not enough, and who cannot understand why beings using various mysterious powers can do all kinds of incredible things, his way to pass the reincarnation in the story is not to investigate those " "Howdunit", but in the constant cycle of death, to investigate the "whydunit" of the key players in the case.

It's all straightened out now.

Lu Mingfei excitedly told Dalian the results of his reasoning, which he did not pursue the process of the incident, but pursued the logical perspective of the incident.

Dalian seemed a little impressed by Lu Mingfei.

"Not bad, bad student. Although I think it's disgusting how you kept switching your tone of voice and talking to yourself just now, you did get the answer right. By the way, the knowledge Prelati got from me is 'How to Summon Angels' Method'. Well, although the basis is actually the Heroic Spirit Summoning Technique, but modified and modified to connect with the Heroic Spirits that are related to angels, the results are actually similar——

——But, poor student, let me ask you the last and last key question for you to take the next step. "

A smile appeared on Darian's lips.

"The exiled outer god and demon king Prelati, what is her method to save the world?"

Prelati's way to save the world?

This question needs to be thought about in reverse.

What is the mutation that caused this singularity to take shape?

The answer is naturally the appearance of witches.

Even if history is not distorted, Prelati will try to resurrect Joan of Arc, so Prelati's action of resurrecting Joan of Arc is not an anomaly, but 'correct history'.

In other words, if Prelati wants to save the world, she must repair this singularity. If she wants to repair this singularity, she must deal with the mutation in this French singularity.

If you want to deal with the mutation in this French singularity, you must solve the problem of witches.

How does Prelati deal with the witch?

What did she do to the witches again?

This has to do with what role the witch played in the devil's ritual of 'resurrecting' Joan when she was captured by the devil and used as material to resurrect Joan of Arc.

The answer is - Janet

The reincarnation of Janet and Jeanne.

Then, the final outcome of Janet and Jeanne is to return to the body of the Jealousy Witch.

Yes.

They are all jealous witches. The BOSS is a jealous witch, Jeanne is a jealous witch, and Janet is also a jealous witch. The witches who disrupt time and space are nothing more than playthings for pleasure in the hands of monsters. Even the matter of saving the world itself is to avoid being destroyed. A place for yourself to have fun.

Any clues?

Of course there is.

As Dalian said, Prelatti just wanted to have fun watching Lu Mingfei's troubled appearance. She would not tell lies that were of a deceptive nature, and even deliberately threw various clues directly in Lu Mingfei's face.

The purpose was to enjoy Lu Mingfei's answer, which was obviously on his face but she didn't realize it, so she felt pleasure from it.

But now Lu Mingfei understands——

"Dalian, what you said is indeed correct. I don't have to think about complicated aspects at all. The answer lies on the surface of "Ship of Theseus"."

right.

There are hints from "The Ship of Theseus" that can also explain the content of Prelaty's actions and the relationship between Janet and Jeanne and the Jealousy Witch.

Do you still remember when Lu Mingfei fired at Prelati in anger, how Prelati used illusions to copy reality, and how he explained what his illusions could do?

"Plerati's illusion cannot materialize the fantasy of creating something out of thin air. It can only 'replace one thing with another thing.'"

"So Janet is the jealous witch and Jeanne is the jealous witch. This statement is true to the thinking circuit of a magician, but it is a lie to the thinking circuit of ordinary people."

"To me! Janet is not a jealous witch!"

Lu Mingfei raised his voice, attracting the attention of No. 7, who was reading a copy of "The Legend of the Paladin" next to him.

"Just like the "Ship of Theseus" that is constantly being replaced, Janet is the 'parts' that Prelati constantly removes from the Jealous Witch through illusions. Janet's final disappearance is not a disappearance. It’s not that she became the Jealous Witch, but Prelati is using this method to constantly replace the parts that make up the Jealous Witch with the parts that make up ‘Joan of Arc’!”

"YES!"

Dalian raised her voice, her voice became sharper, and she even opened and closed the book vigorously, as if she was "applauding."

"Correct answer! As a layman and a poor student, it's great to think of this step! Yes, although Prelati created countless craziness and tragedy in the process, the final result of her actions is indeed Solve the mutation that exists in this singularity!"

The right result was achieved through completely wrong, even evil, malicious means to create tragedy.

It really has the style of a magician.

It feels like I have seen many similar things in Chaldea.

"Finally, let me add a little bit of occult knowledge. The 'conceptually a person of Joan of Arc' created through this method should be called [Joan of Arc·Alter]"

"Alter?"

Lu Mingfei read it again in a strange and non-standard accent.

There seems to be no special word with the most appropriate meaning in the translation machine.

Naturally, Dalian will not continue to worry about the naming issue.

Instead, he asked: "What happens after this? You have now figured out the truth. Although for a real magician, it is not even an open-book exam, but the answer is written directly on your face."

Dali paused for a moment: "However, a real magician probably wouldn't think about saving the girl, but would directly participate in the experiment. Then here's the problem."

Dalian suppressed the smile on her face:

"After knowing all this, how are you going to save her?"

How to save?

Lu Mingfei looked at Dalian's side, the little devil who had not appeared for a long time, with a flattering smile on his face like a door-to-door salesman.

Little Devil and Dalian are both dressed in black and have oriental facial features. Standing together like this, they look more like brother and sister.

Lu Mingfei shook his head.

Get the weird thoughts out of your head.

He said in his mind: "Little devil."

"I'm here, dear~" the little devil deliberately said in a particularly exaggerated tone.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath.

".Fourteen trading opportunities, I will use the first one."

——to be continued!

The promised chapter, although a little late, has arrived.

Although I didn’t realize it until I looked back after writing it, it seems like it feels like déjà vu (laughs)

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