Whispering Verse

Chapter 2613 Tough Mortal

"James doesn't know."

The baron shook his head and looked at the flames in front of him. He suddenly looked much older:

"My mother never told James that the man she was engaged to was also named Cumming, so James knew nothing about it. As for my mother, she probably guessed something before I was born, but because of love, she didn't want to accept the reality. So pretend not to know.

Her mother's early death was probably related to the speculation that the future would be a little bit closer to her and she didn't want to pay attention to it. Coupled with the fact that she was unable to contact her father again, her heart finally died and she died of anxiety and longing.

So in our family's fifty-year story, among all the tragic and comical participants, I know everything best. "

Shade looked at him curiously:

"But I still don't understand. What does this have to do with when you were young and went to 1809 to steal your one-year-old wife?"

"It took me, at the age of 23, more than half a year to read my mother's diary and figure out what happened. At that time, I almost went crazy, and even wanted to regard the diary and the book as evidence of my mother's madness. After all, my mother was indeed mentally disturbed when she was alive.”

He took a deep breath, trying to stop himself from being so excited:

"I read a lot of books and searched for a lot of information during that time, and then I realized one thing: many things that have not happened in the future have jointly caused me to be who I am at that time. And once some things in the future do not happens, then I cease to exist.”

He paused, and then asked Shade seriously:

"Do you get me?"

Shade nodded slightly:

"Understood, normally the [past] determines the [present]. But because your family's affairs involve time travel, for you the [future] determines the [past] and [the present]."

The baron exhaled a breath of white air and picked up the teacup given by the hermit monks just now:

"I never thought about changing the past. When I was young at that time, I just thought that I must exist and what should happen must happen.

It took me a long time to sort out everything that happened in the past and future, and the occasional voices in that book, which I guess came from other times, allowed me to further complete the story from my mother to me. The entire experience of three generations of my family up to my son, including the origin of my wife.

Later I found out that I was speaking near that book in 1850. "

He looked at Shade:

"The only thing I didn't figure out when I was young was who James' father was. It seemed that the previous holders of this book didn't figure it out. But at least I knew the origin of my wife, and I knew that James must get it. to this book. It’s what ‘I am’.”

"So, was it really you who gave Open Doors: Our Animal Companions to James Cumming?"

"I didn't give it away, I just let him discover it. I didn't give him any hints. He discovered the function of the book on his own, and he also contacted his mother who lived in the 1800s."

The Baron took a deep breath again and looked at Shade in the snow:

"So the answer is this, I'm not sure who stole my wife. But if she didn't become my wife, if she didn't become a baroness, then James wouldn't have been born, and then the mother Erica wouldn't have To have known James across time, I would not have been born.”

Both Shade and Owl understood:

"Did you do this yourself for you or you?"

"Yes, although I am not familiar with Ximu Town and the farm where her real parents live, I only tried once and successfully brought out the child.

While I was able to determine the address of her real family, I was unsure of her adoptive parents' schedule that day. I had already planned to wait for a long time before I found the opportunity to send the child away, but in the afternoon when I took the child away, I met the timber merchant couple in the forest. "

At this point, everything was closed, and Shade could even think of the expression on the young Kane Cumming's face when he saw the timber merchant riding a carriage in the forest, holding a baby.

And Baron Cumming has his own thoughts to say:

"I'm not a magician like you, I'm just an ordinary person. When I took her away, I thought it was fate that was arranging three generations of our family. But when I watched her being adopted, I suddenly understood that my Existence itself proves that I must do this.

As I said when I told you this story at the beginning, this story spanning fifty years is a circle. All beginnings are endings, and all endings are also beginnings. "

"No, it all started when Erica got the book. And it ended when James Cumming lost the book and cut off contact with Erica."

Shade corrected, still savoring the story in his mind.

Compared with what outsiders have experienced before, the story of the three generations of the Cumming family is more complicated. Two time travels, namely James Cumming impregnating Erica and Baron Cumming stealing the baby, together complete this fifty-year cycle.

For the Baron, this is indeed a circle. The fate of three generations keeps wandering in this cycle. Only people like Shade outside the story are qualified to say "beginning" and "end".

The most bizarre thing about this story is that there is no pure bad guy in it, but everyone did something wrong.

The love between two young people across time is not immoral, but it is just immoral and despised. After all, they both have their own marriages; Baron Cumming made a big mistake of stealing a baby, but since he exists, then this matter Things are bound to happen, and it can even be said that he took the initiative to maintain the stability of time.

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Therefore, neither Shade nor Miss Winslet knew how to evaluate all this. Absurd but very reasonable, taboo but if you think about it, everything is voluntary.

Snowflakes fell from the top of the head, and the sound of the round-faced owl on the shoulders shaking its body broke the silence of this moment:

"According to what you just said, when you married your wife, you actually knew that she was actually your grandmother?"

The Baroness gave birth to James Cumming, and James Cumming traveled through time and gave birth to the current Baron with Erica, so this title is correct.

The baron nodded silently.

"So when you married her, you knew that she would definitely give birth to someone else's child?"

Shade asked again, trying not to let pity appear in his tone. He actually didn't really want to ask this kind of question. This matter would tear a wound from the other person's body, but he had to ask for the truth.

The Baron did not nod this time, but said in a hoarse voice:

"I thought at the time, if James was my biological son and my biological son gave birth to me, then it wouldn't really matter, but then I met them."

He looked at the hermits:

"They told me some basic common sense about time travel. If I am James's father and James is my father, then our paternal bloodline is equivalent to being created out of thin air. This level of paradox is not something ordinary people can create, so James My wife gave birth to me in an affair and she still thinks I don’t know about it.”

Shade is now envious of the owl on her shoulder, because she can care less about her expression, but Shade must not show more pity:

"I'm sorry to hear that."

The baron shook his head:

"Don't be sorry, because she also doesn't know that I also have illegitimate children outside, two sons and a daughter. I only made up my mind to do this after I knew that James could not be my son. After all, I have to do it no matter what. Leave your own descendants. Although in terms of blood, James and I have nothing to do with the blood of the Cumming family.”

The sad man looked up at the falling snow. Even by the bonfire, the snow had already dyed his shoulders white:

"Besides, I don't want to leave any descendants with her. The relationship between her bloodline and mine is very complicated. I want my descendants to be free of this."

At this time, Shade even admired the ordinary man who was shivering from the cold. As an ordinary person, Baron Cumming had extraordinary thoughts, ideas and actions. He did do something wrong, but all this was wrong. It's really not his fault.

The closed time loop was completed, without embarrassing the other parties involved, and he himself realized his wish. Even if the outsider doesn't appear here, he has already achieved a result that everyone can be satisfied with by his own hands.

"So you see, sir, you don't have to give me a hard time. It's over. Even if you want the book, just take it back to 1854. I've done everything I can do and it's over." , it’s all over.”

The baron showed a sad smile, shook his head and looked at the flame again.

Shade heard what he meant:

"So, Erica Cumming is pregnant?"

"Yes. If they can meet again next time, mother will tell James about it. So actually it doesn't matter whether they meet or not. My age has reached the end of all things. If you don't find me, I will I will find an opportunity to get rid of that book.”

Shade touched the owl again:

"Where on earth did your mother get this book?"

The baron shook his head:

"It's not written in the diary, and I haven't found any clues. But I should have bought it from a bookstore. I have researched this book. It is a very common book in this era. It is now available in bookstores in the town. Sell."

"So who is James Cumming's biological father?"

Shade asked again. This question was actually not very important. After all, this man was not involved in this fifty-year cycle. He was just having an affair with the Baroness, but Shade was still curious.

The baron still shook his head:

“If I wanted to investigate, with my status and financial resources, I would definitely be able to find some private investigators, but I didn’t do that.

Even if it is found, what will happen? It's impossible for me not to love James, after all, we are indeed the closest blood relationship. My wife cheated on me, but she gave birth to James, and I had an illegitimate son. So I shouldn’t know who it is, and if I do, I’ll have other ideas.”

He laughed self-deprecatingly:

"I have experienced too many things in the first half of my life. I understand that the less you know, the happier and safer you are. Knowing too much is what makes me what I am now. If I had not discovered my mother back then, For those relics left behind, time will actually close the loop in other ways. This is also a very dangerous idea. I can’t think about ‘what if I didn’t have it’.”

What he said at the moment, "the less you know, the safer" is also the consensus of the ring warlocks, and Shade understands his thoughts.

PS: Additional update 3/3. There is another chapter after turning back, which is a normal update this morning.