Chapter 60 "Why don't they look alike?"
Rhine nodded:
"Of course. It's not difficult for me to find that girl. Divination is not omnipotent. It requires a medium and prior information.
“But the information provided by Your Highness is sufficient, and Your Highness standing here is the best medium.
"Besides, not a lot of time has passed."
What he didn't say was that the prior information he needed for divination came not only from the prince's narration, but more from the advantage of knowing the cause and effect of the story in advance; the medium he used for divination was not only the prince standing here, but also the fish scale in his wide pocket.
——This beautiful fish scale comes from another witness of the prince’s story.
"Let's get started."
Rhine took out a crystal ball and chanted a strange spell.
This crystal ball is also a gift from the deep sea kingdom. It was given to him by Aquaman and Ariel's sisters. It can enhance his magic of prophecy and divination.
Ordinary crystals come from deep in the earth, but absurdly, people who study mysticism and prophet who like crystals classify crystals as properties of water. However, the crystal ball in Rhine's hand comes from the deep sea. It is a gem formed after thousands of years of compression of deep sea water, and it has magic power that does not exist on earth.
It was with this magical crystal ball that he could see what the painting would look like before the court painter finished it! "Let me help your Highness to resolve the problem." Rhine said as he cast the spell.
Stars appeared in the crystal ball, as if the boy was holding the vast universe in his hands.
"Wait a moment!" the prince advised, "Let's deal with father's task first. The origin of that amnesiac girl is more important than what I want to know!"
Rhine smiled: "My Lord, fate has its own subtleties in its arrangements.
“Sometimes people take different paths at forks in the road and end up at the same destination. Sometimes different questions can have the same answer.”
The prince did not understand what Rhine said, but he vaguely felt that the prophet was hinting at something.
The darkness in the crystal ball dissipated, and the starlight gathered into a colorful picture. The prince couldn't help but marvel at the sight.
"This is the magician! Although my father said that he has seen many magicians perform spells and miracles, for me, this is still the first time I have seen such a new thing!"
The only scene that emerged in the crystal ball was Rhine holding the crystal ball and the prince squatting down and looking closely at the picture in the crystal ball.
"What is this?" asked the prince.
"Your Highness, this is our present," Rhine explained. "Next, we will look from the back to the front."
The scene in the crystal ball seemed to have experienced a time reversal, just like the rewinding of modern film and television works, and the past scenes emerged one by one; first, Rhine took back the crystal ball and the two walked backwards and talked while walking; then it was the previous game, and the prince announced Rhine's victory on the fishing boat. After that, the scene in the crystal ball rewound faster and faster, so fast that the prince could not see clearly at all.
Then, the constantly changing color blocks froze back to the specific scene and began to play in normal time sequence.
In the crystal ball, the unconscious prince was lying on the shore, with the dawn light shining on his face.
He looked pale and bloodless, exactly the same expression as someone who had just fallen into the water.
"That's me, it's me, I'll see the girl who saved me soon!"
The prince was very excited.
That was the person he had been thinking about day and night.
After a while, a young woman came over and was shocked to see the unconscious prince. She woke the prince up and called the people around him - everything was exactly the same as in the prince's memory.
"Quick, respected magician, please enlarge the woman's face a little bit. I want to see what she looks like again." The prince said anxiously.
"As you wish." Rhine said.
Then the woman's face became larger and larger, and clearer and clearer. The prince really saw that beautiful face:
Her skin is delicate and white, and her eyes are smiling under her long black eyelashes.
This was the face he had been dreaming about! "Yes, it's her, it's her!" the prince shouted excitedly. After all, he was just a young boy under 16 years old.
But then, the prince suddenly discovered something was wrong.
"No, no, why is it different?"
The prince remembered the amnesiac girl with the beautiful singing voice.
When he picked her up, he thought she looked very much like the girl who had saved him.
However, when Prince Eric saw the woman who saved him, he realized that the two girls looked nothing alike! Although they were both equally beautiful, there was no similarity in their figures or facial features.
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But the prince was extremely sure that the beautiful woman now appearing in the crystal ball was indeed the one who saved him.
"Why? Why do they look nothing alike?" The prince was stunned, confused and bewildered, as if he had just awakened from a big dream.
"Your Highness. Please continue reading."
Rhine stroked the smooth surface of the crystal ball again, and the scene in the crystal ball rewound again.
Time went back again, and the peaceful dawn in the crystal ball disappeared, replaced by a stormy night.
The howling wind, the deafening thunder, the cries and prayers of the sailors came out of the crystal ball. Silver electric snakes shuttled through the heavy dark clouds, and the dark waves were as huge as mountains, setting off the smallness of the ship.
The prince clenched his fists, as if he had fallen into an old nightmare again.
They are back, they are all back! All the elements from that unbearable nightmare are back!
In the crystal ball, he saw the ship he was on, and himself on the ship. He saw the ship being thrown into the air and then falling down by huge dark waves, he saw the thick planks being smashed by the rough waves, and he saw himself falling into the sea.
"Respected magician, why do you want to play such a scene?" asked the prince, his face had turned pale.
"Isn't this exactly what you and your father asked for?" Rhine said with a smile, "Don't you want to know where the amnesiac girl with the most beautiful singing voice in the world came from?"
In the crystal ball, I saw a beautiful figure flying rapidly across the dark sea.
The beautiful figure swam bravely against the violent current, passing through the broken beams and planks of the ship, without caring at all about the danger that they might crush her to death.
The figure's upper body was that of a human, but the lower body had a long fish tail. She leaped out of the waves, rushed to the prince, and hugged him tightly in her arms, not daring to let go for a moment.
Then the prince saw the face of the beautiful figure - a face that was so familiar.
He saw her again.
(End of this chapter)