Chapter 133 Sorry
"How much do you know about Duke Eddy's family?" Edith suddenly remembered, "Reed Eddy, have you heard of this name?"
"I don't have a deep impression." Shelly lowered his head and thought for a while, "I'll go check it out."
Edith nodded. She thought the matter was over and she would wait until Shelly had time to look into it again. Unexpectedly, he turned around and pulled out a thick book.
"I have backed up all the information about Duke Eddie." He randomly picked a page and flipped it open. "I was too panicked at the time... I must be fully prepared."
He had heard that the Eddie family had a long history and that the family manuals contained a large number of ancient spells. After his teacher's death, he began to study the magic array while investigating the various families. Once he found that he could not wake up his teacher again, he would immediately start his plan to kill Duke Eddie.
As long as you can get a valid ancient spell.
"Found it." His hand stopped on a page. Edith leaned over and said, "One, two, three... He is fourteen generations away from Hope."
Indeed, he was from the same era as Louisa.
"—Wait, he and Hope belong to the same direct bloodline?"
"At present, it seems so." Shelly pondered for a moment, "And judging from the family tree, Reed Eddie has no illegitimate children in the next three generations..."
This means that if he really wants to travel into someone else's body, he can only choose his own son or daughter - no, if he wants to keep a young body forever, the object of exchange should be his grandchildren.
"Tsk, what a piece of shit." Edith looked away. "It seems that Mrs. Eddie also changed bodies. In other words, every time Hope changes into his son's body, his wife will also change into his son's wife's body at the same time?"
"I don't think so."
Shelly shook his head; "I tend to think that only this wife has the power to change her body - the reason is still unknown. Most of the Eddies who inherited the title of Duke died before their wives, such as Reed's great-grandson, who died at the age of 67, while his wife lived to be 109."
There was a full forty-two years in between. If her favorite grandson had not died a year earlier, she would have been so heartbroken that she might have lived another ten years.
"Indeed... I don't think Hope himself is loyal enough to stay with a wife for hundreds of years." Edith carefully recalled Duke Eddie's behavior and shook her head: "Moreover, this kind of extremely dangerous array should be kept secret as few people as possible. He will definitely not leak it easily."
Then the other party’s actions in the past two years are very intriguing.
"Not only that, there was a period of time when all the heirs of the Eddie family were female." Shelly turned a few pages back, "From Hope's eight generations to the fourth generation, all the highly talented people in these four generations were girls, and the titles were naturally inherited by daughters. Hope would definitely not dare to enter the body of a person with low talent - the soul-changing array requires a lot of magic support. If he wants to prolong his life, he can only choose to dig out his daughter's soul and become a woman himself, and it is even more impossible for his wife to reincarnate with him."
Of course, at that time, I should call him husband...
"Before Hope Eddy was born, the Eddy family had no daughters for two consecutive generations, and the sons were extremely untalented. The real power of the family finally fell to the heir's wife."
"This is the normal rise and fall of a family. At the beginning, all the children born are geniuses, and they can be picky. Gradually, only one outstanding person is born in each generation, and he is elected as the heir without any suspense. In the end, no one can give birth, and they can only artificially select outstanding marriage partners." Edith concluded, "But if there is no wizard with this surname, the family will only decline more and more. Once the marriage is broken, it will be completely erased from history."
"That's why Duke Eddie was so panicked. He ignored the purity of his bloodline in recent decades and randomly recruited children from ordinary people to fill the family. At the same time, in order to promote the magic lock on a large scale, he had to make appropriate concessions and reveal the secret to some partners, which led to the current Rodney family."
"It's smooth." Shelly exhaled slowly, "It's all pushed out."
Edith did not feel relieved.
Yes, finally, they sorted out the general situation of the matter in the absence of other information, but this was only an understanding, and the solution was still nowhere to be found.
"The most important thing now is to protect you." She raised her head and looked at Shelly in front of her. "Duke Eddie's next target has always been you."
"From the family tree, we can see that the age of death of each 'Duke Eddie' is getting earlier. Only the generations in which the Duchess was in power lived long. The short-lived ones became the wives of the people in power. So we can probably infer that there are limits to body swapping, and the time a new body can bear the soul will only become shorter and shorter."
"The last Duke Eddie died at the age of 53." Shelly finally raised his head at this time, and unexpectedly bumped into the teacher's sight. Edith's expression was not good, "And Hope is 51 this year."
"Within two years, he will surely be dead."
A dying man and a young container at his fingertips - Hope's first attempt was unexpectedly blocked by Edith, but he would definitely be fully prepared for the second time.
"Don't have any private contact with Hope anymore." Edith said seriously, "Your contact is basically related to the experiment. When you must communicate, remember to let me follow you and follow the specifications of an assistant."
Shelly said nothing. He looked quietly into Edith's green eyes, which were as deep as a lake, and slowly looked away.
"I'm sorry." He lowered his head, letting his hair cover his vision, "It's because I--"
——It should be me who drank that cup of tea, it should be me who died of my original body and was forced to live in her body, forced to leave my hometown, and endure hunger and cold.
Why is it the teacher who has to bear all this?
"What does it have to do with you?" Edith was happy, and her tense heart suddenly relaxed. "Luckily it was me who messed up Hope's plan, and I'm lucky enough to have survived and passed it on to a child far away. If it was really you who drank it, Hope might have succeeded."
She couldn't even imagine how painful it would be for her to sleep at the home of her closest student, and then wake up to find that the student had become a completely changed person, just after she became a chief researcher with great enthusiasm.
Shelly still had his head down, his hands clasped together, not knowing what he was thinking.
Edith subconsciously reached out her hand, trying to touch Shelly's head like she did when she first brought him back to the lab. She was suspended in mid-air when she realized that he had already grown up for a long time.
Time flies.
She sighed softly and was about to withdraw her hand when the figure in front of her suddenly moved.
Shelly sat up gently and rested her head on Edith's palm.
Edith laughed and obediently touched him twice, "Okay, now that you know your life is hard-earned, you should be more cautious and don't let him succeed again."
Young, carefree and talented...plus, Shelly herself is much prettier than the ugly guy from Hope's family, no wonder she is being remembered.
"Yeah." Shelly responded softly, "You should be careful too. Don't go out alone in the near future."
"Mulin has been targeted since childhood. Your current body was not in the capital before, and Hope couldn't reach it. Now it is right under his eyes. It is hard not to be coveted."
Edith was no safer than he.
"I will." Edith agreed immediately. Just as she was about to say that her fame was limited and it wasn't that dangerous, her face suddenly changed.
The amount of information last night was too great, forcing her memories to move forward collectively. She almost forgot the fact that she had just finished a competition with Joe yesterday.
And those few newspapers that were just beginning to ferment.
"...It's over." When she was interviewed, she was just thinking about luring the snakes out of their holes, but she didn't expect there would be so many snakes. "Now I am also a highly talented commoner without parents, which makes it easy for me to fake my background."
It is simply the perfect soul container.
"By the way, how's Joe?" Edith asked Shirley.
Shelly shook his head: "I don't know, I've been in the lab."
"Do you need help asking?"
......
"Yes, I know."
Noon, restaurant.
Tuttle nodded reservedly and said calmly: "My parents also participated in the design of Joe's treatment plan."
"That's great." Edith breathed a sigh of relief.
She rejected Shelly's request for help that morning: "You haven't finished your experiment yet, and the time you can borrow the lab is short. Go back quickly, and I can ask myself."
"Who are you asking?" I didn't expect that Shelly, who always kept to the point, would suddenly become serious. Although he still looked calm on the surface - a truly calm Shelly would not ask so many questions.
"I'm not going to ask anyone in particular." Edith thought Shelly's attitude was a little strange. "I'm probably just going to ask everyone during the meal...but I think there's a higher chance that Tuttle knows." Lynchbell and Mulin definitely didn't know. Hedda had no communication with her family and couldn't get any news. Amy probably wouldn't ask such a sensitive question because she was afraid of her aunt.
That leaves Tuttle.
Shelly: "...Okay."
Edith didn't know why, but she felt like she read some reluctance into these two words.
......
Consciousness returns.
Tuttle drank some water to clear his mouth, then spoke again: "Joe is still in a coma, but his vital signs are stable and he is not in danger of death. His hand has grown back and he will not become disabled."
"That's a shame," Hedda muttered.
"Why can't he wake up even though his vital signs are stable?" This was a bit beyond Amy's understanding. "He must have gone to the Royal Hospital. Aren't the patients there supposed to be only those on the verge of death and those who are slightly weak?" All his illnesses were cured, so how could he not wake up.
"It's a bit like Mulin's state at that time." Edith thought, "No, or rather, it's a bit like Celeste."
Celeste was indeed seriously injured at the time, but the school doctor quickly controlled his condition and did not die that day. Now think about it, the day Celeste died, Mulin just happened to "wake up" from a coma, which was really a bit too coincidental.
At that time, Duke Eddie probably wanted to directly replace Mrs. Eddie into Mulin's body, but in the end he failed for some unknown reason, leaving only his wife moaning in the cave.
It seems that the body-swapped person's defense and self-healing abilities are lower than those of normal people, so Celeste and Qiao Yi are in a coma in a near-death state.
"Let's put him aside for now. Shall we get together tonight?" Heda suggested in a low voice. "A lot of information is inconvenient to communicate here."
"Well, tonight, at the same place."
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