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"It should be said, you succeeded!"

Charlotte smiled.

"After learning about your two identities, I do covet your power a bit. However, I don't want to pay the price at all."

"Don't want to follow the truth of equivalent exchange?"

Mephistopheles really has the style of a master alchemist at this time-although according to Charlotte's inference, he is indeed a master alchemist Paracelsus.

"It's very unreasonable for you to be like this!"

"This world is unreasonable!"

Charlotte shrugged.

"Furthermore, the true equivalent exchange does not exist in this world!"

"Well, if you have to say that--"

There was a fierce light in Mephistophet’s eyes.

"Then we have nothing to say!"

"Why is there nothing to say?"

Charlotte laughed.

"At least, how did your story spread from China to the Middle East and then to Europe? I haven't analyzed this process yet!"

"I see what you can say!"

"There is so much to say!"

Charlotte nodded.

"First of all, it spread from the Middle East to Europe because of the Crusades. Christian culture has the characteristic of demonizing the deities of other cultures. It is normal for you to turn from a lamp **** to a demon."

"As far as I said your story was still spread from China to the Middle East, the reason is very simple-the story of Aladdin's magic lamp originally happened in China!"

"..."

Whether it was Mephistopheles, or Judy Foster who had been eavesdropping on the side, they were stunned for a moment.

"Although "A Thousand and One Nights" is a story from the Middle East, the background of some of the stories in it, according to the story, did take place in China—"

Charlotte gave an example,

"Like "Turandot" and "Aladdin's Lamp", both have a Chinese story background."

"But don't you think that this is like the saying that old people often say when telling stories to children?"

Mephistopheles smiled hypocritically.

""A long, long time ago, in a very remote place..."-Every old story has such a beginning. However, in fact, the story may not be long ago, nor is it far away. ."

"You are right to say that!"

Charlotte smiled.

"However, the reason I am so sure is because the person who taught me the spell told me that in "A Thousand Miles and One Night", the legends about Chinese ghosts and monsters basically have prototypes."

"Someone told you!?"

Mephistopheles' face suddenly became serious.

"You and... no, go ahead!"

Charlotte glanced at Mephistopheles in surprise. Obviously, the other party also noticed something from his words, maybe even something he didn't know.

However, since the other party didn't say anything, Charlotte wasn't ready to take the initiative to speak.

He probably guessed something.

——Furthermore, it is important to take the initiative when dealing with ghosts.

"Since the story of "Aladdin's Lamp" really has a prototype in China, on the other hand, it should be true to say that you passed it from China to the Middle East, right?"

"……Yes."

Maybe it is because knowing that denial is meaningless, Mephistopheles still chose to admit it.

However, this time, the leisurely expression on his face was completely gone.

But even so, he still doesn't seem to have any sense of crisis.

"Even if you are all right, can you guess what my archetype in ancient Chinese legends is?"

"I really can't guess this!"

Charlotte scratched her head.

"In ancient Chinese legends, immortals and ghosts are more casual. They realize the wishes of ordinary people, often only between one thought, and there are no rules-whether it is equivalent exchange or restriction. There are three in number, none of them."

"Yes!"

Mephistopheles smiled triumphantly.

"So, even if you track down to this point, you are still one step short of my true origin!"

"That's not necessarily!"

Charlotte had a big smile on her face.

"Because I don't need to find it, someone found it for me!"

"Who!?"

"You!"

Charlotte pointed her finger to Mephistopheles.

"You are actually not a simple ghost, but like Dracula, a living person swallowed a ghost or a **** in the original legend, and then transformed it!"

"So, compared to ordinary ghosts, you will be more intelligent and insidious."

"As for the ghosts or gods that you swallowed up, I guess it's one of the pre-Qin myths in China, right?"

"you--"

Mephistopheles' face was completely gloomy, he had predicted what Charlotte would say.

That was something that he was very confident that he would not be discovered, but now it seems—

"Although the ancient history of China is very long, due to wars and customs, most of the legends and ghosts before the Qin Dynasty were wiped out in the Qin Dynasty."

Charlotte poses as an expert in ancient Chinese history,

"Therefore, most of the various myths and ghost legends in China afterwards originated in the Qin Dynasty and are somewhat related to a historical figure."

"Which historical figure?"

"Didn't you ever meet him?"

Charlotte blinked at Mephistopheles.

"Zulong-Qin Shihuang!"

Speaking of which, Charlotte ignored Mephistophet with a gloomy face and said to himself.

"Qin Shihuang's unification of China and the burning of books and Confucianism have left some of the legendary ghosts before Qin in a state of dissipating and stopping. But he is also a fan of immortality, and he has gathered a large number of alchemists who like to play mystery. You are one of them. The best of them~www.readwn.com~ isn't it?"

"Xu Fu!?"

With Charlotte's questioning, Murphy's face grew gloomy.

"...I haven't heard this name for a long time!"

Mephistopheles, no, Xu Fu stared at Charlotte as if looking at a dead person.

"What I am more curious about is how did you determine my identity? You know, I am confident that there is no clue left-after all, Emperor Shi did not find me in the end!"

"He didn't find you because he kept looking in the wrong direction!"

Charlotte didn't care about Xu Fu's murderous eyes.

"He always thought that you would flee eastward to overseas at most, but he didn't expect that you actually took the people in the fleet as sacrifices, and instead fled to the west."

"But you know--"

"I will know there is a reason!"

Charlotte waved her hand, but turned her head.

"Actually, I would guess that you are Xu Fu and are related to Paracelsus?"

"Paracelsus!?"

Xu Fu was stunned for a moment.

"Don't you already know that that is an incarnation of me?"

"Yes."

Charlotte nodded.

"People's earliest summary of the concept of a wishing machine is the sage's stone."

"And in the legend, the two most magical wishes that it can satisfy are refinement of gold and immortality—"

"The former is the eternal pursuit of the Western world, while the latter is the obsession of countless kings in Chinese history."

"So, since in the Western world, Paracelsus is the one who has the greatest relationship with the Sage's Stone, then, on the other hand, Xu Fu, who has the greatest relationship with the elixir in the Eastern world, will it be you?"

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