booktalesy Chapter 4209 Discussion on Rubbing
Chapter 4209 Discussion on Rubbing
Chapter 4209 Discussion on Rubbing
The audience was stunned as they listened to Gabriel's battle.
"You can actually gain the upper hand and defeat your opponent by relying on a cursed slip?" Gray Porcelain looked shocked.
After the initial shock, it suddenly remembered something: "Does the book demon have hands?"
Angel recalled the image of the book demon and said directly, "I remember that book demons don't have hands. The book demon that had the 'Mastery of Flames' had its book floating in front of it."
In other words, the book demon controls the book with mental power or some other energy invisible to the naked eye.
But Gabriel was the one who cursed the book demon with a "slip of the hand".
In the end, the book demon really did "slip its hand" and even the summoned book fell to the floor.
What is this?
Forcibly using the book demon's spiritual power as a "hand"?
Faced with everyone's doubts, Gabriel said dismissively, "Although I said 'slip of the hand,' what I really wanted was for the book demon's book to fall to the ground. So, following my heart is the only way, isn't that normal?"
"How is this normal?" Gray Porcelain frowned. "Your talent is the power of dark words, it's the power of words! It's not wish fulfillment!"
Gabriel: "It's the power of words, didn't I just shout it out loud?"
Gray Porcelain: "But what you're saying doesn't match what you're actually saying!"
Gabriel: "Never mind that."
"Just tell me, did you shout or not?"
Gray Porcelain: "..."
Seeing that Gray Porcelain and Gabriel seemed about to start arguing again, the rabbit girl sighed, walked over to Gray Porcelain, and gently patted its shoulder: "Think about what everyone thinks of the dog butler's mind-reading ability?"
—Unreasonable.
"As a special talent on par with dog butlers, Gabriel's Word of Power is somewhat 'unreasonable,' which is normal."
Gray Porcelain stammered, "But my talent is also a special talent, so why don't I...act unreasonable?"
Angell sighed: "Your danger perception talent is just as unreasonable. Think about it carefully, you haven't even entered the dungeon, yet you judged its danger and difficulty from across a crystal artifact. How unreasonable is that?"
"You've just gotten used to your abilities and think it's normal."
"Just like Gabriel got used to his abilities, he also felt that he was normal."
"But in reality, neither you, Gabriel, nor the dog butler... seem reasonable to us."
Gray Porcelain was speechless.
It sounds like that makes sense, doesn't it?
At this moment, Hui Ci suddenly remembered Lü Nuo, who was also a special talent user. So his talent must also be quite unreasonable, right?
Angel shrugged: "Logically speaking, that's true. But we haven't seen it yet. Let's wait until Lü Nuo finishes the 'Starry Night Dreams Chapter' before we see."
Angel paused for a moment, temporarily ending the topic of special talents.
Then, he changed the subject and looked at Gabriel: "By the way, did you receive any notification about the rubbing?"
Gabriel nodded: "Yes!"
Gabriel floated to the edge of the drawing paper and pointed to the "proverb" left by the book demon.
"When I saw this proverb just now, the text box prompted me that I had discovered a hidden message and asked if I wanted to make a copy of it."
"I naturally chose yes."
"But it told me that the imprinting failed, and that only a perfect completion mode could be used for imprinting..."
After Gabriel finished speaking, he echoed Angor's sentiment: "If you can only make an imprint in perfect completion mode, why are you giving me this hint now?"
sigh.
Angell: "The hint now is most likely meant to tell us that this happened, so that we don't forget it."
"But that's not important. I brought this up just to tell you... it seems that only those who defeat the Book Demon can see this imprinted information?"
The rabbit girl and the gray porcelain nodded. That's right, they arrived at the hidden space first, but they didn't receive this imprint notification. So this notification should only be visible to the book demon's challengers.
“While the imprinted information isn’t very useful right now, we should really consider it when we get to the Perfect Clear mode.” Angell continued, “I’m thinking, since the imprinted information can’t be shared by the whole team, what’s the point of it? When we go to the Perfect Clear mode, should we have one person imprint the information throughout the entire process, or should everyone imprint a little?”
Angell's thoughts caused everyone else to fall into deep thought as well.
After a moment, the rabbit girl spoke up: "If the imprinting of this hidden information is, as Teresa said, related to hidden plots and hidden missions, then it would be best if this imprinted information were concentrated on one person."
"But if the information imprinted is ultimately related to the existence of that seal, for example, in the final battle, every piece of information is a talisman in the battle."
"At this time, it is best to distribute the information to different people, and have each person make a little bit."
The rabbit girl's statement was quite comprehensive.
The main thing is to see what the final result of the rubbing information will be, and then to make arrangements accordingly.
But here's the thing.
They don't know whether the imprinted information is related to the hidden mission or the seal.
Gabriel then shared his thoughts: "I agree with the commander, but I personally think it would be better to distribute the imprint information to each individual."
"After all, hidden missions don't necessarily require concentrating all the imprint information on one person to activate."
"But if what the leader said is true, in the final battle, the imprinted information becomes something like a 'talisman,' then everyone having a 'talisman' is definitely more meaningful than one person having a 'talisman.'"
Angell and the rabbit girl nodded in agreement.
Gabriel's statement has some merit.
But if we really have to distribute the rubbing information to everyone, wouldn't that mean...?
All eyes turned to the gray porcelain.
Gray Porcelain seemed to understand the meaning behind everyone's gazes. It moved its lips and said with difficulty, "If it really needs to disperse the information for rubbing, then... then I'll go and challenge the Book Demon."
After saying these words, Gray Porcelain seemed to have used up all her strength and leaned against the wall of the hidden space, remaining motionless.
Gabriel floated to the side of the gray porcelain and tapped it with his tentacles: "Don't be discouraged. We'll leave the easier book demons for you and help you break down its attack patterns. You definitely won't be unable to pass!"
Gray Porcelain hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
The rabbit girl coughed to draw everyone's attention before slowly saying, "Imitation information is something that only needs to be considered in the perfect completion mode, and it's still a bit far off now."
"Let's take it one step at a time. Maybe we'll discover new clues later, and the information won't need to be spread out?"
Angell then chimed in, "That's right, let's clear the normal mode first."
"Moreover, we might discover, after unlocking more hidden information, that the sealed being has surpassed our comprehension. In that case, we might not even need to go to Perfect Mode."
If we're not going to challenge the perfect model, why should we care about whether the imprinted information is scattered?
Thinking about it that way, Gray Porcelain realized it made sense.
There's no need to worry about the future now, let alone achieve a perfect playthrough.
Seeing that Gray Porcelain had regained her spirits, the rabbit girl spoke up this time: "Let's go, let's keep going!"
Just after issuing the command, the rabbit girl suddenly thought of something and looked at Angel: "Should we follow the positioning cursor now, or follow you?"
The subtext is: should we first gather hidden information about the Book Demon, or should we first lock down the rift?
Upon hearing this question, Angell remained calm at first, but suddenly his expression became somewhat subtle.
The rabbit girl asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"
Angell was silent for a moment, then said softly, "Let's follow the direction of the cursor first."
After saying that, Angel winked at the rabbit girl and then pointed to his brow.
The rabbit girl didn't understand what it meant at first, until a spiritual bond connected her to it.
The mental ligament was naturally discovered by Ingres.
"Why are you suddenly using the mind-binding technique?" the rabbit girl asked curiously.
Angel transmitted his voice through the telepathic link: "I was just trying to use God's perspective to look at the real sandbox, to see if it was better to follow the cursor or take another path to deal with more book demons."
Do you know what I found?
The rabbit girl asked curiously, "What?"
Angell: "The observer of this level is currently observing us..."
At that moment, Angell had just opened his God's-eye view and his vision had just left their sleeping glowing bubble when he saw the "observer" lying outside the glowing bubble.
The observer seemed very interested in them, lying on the bubble and watching their progress.
It was precisely because he discovered this observer that Angell's expression suddenly became subtle.
Upon hearing this information, the rabbit girl's eyes lit up: "The observers are observing us so early this time? Doesn't that mean... we have a chance to get the observer's score?"
As soon as the rabbit girl thought of this possibility, she straightened up and puffed out her chest, as if she wanted to present a better image to the observer.
“You’re being too deliberate right now, and besides, the observers won’t give you extra points just because you suddenly start marching.” Angell looked at the rabbit girl’s steps and suddenly felt that he shouldn’t have told her this information.
However, he also understood the changes in the rabbit girl.
In the Golden Country level, although she completed it perfectly in the end, her score did not widen the gap with the Singer team because the Observer's score was too low.
Therefore, the rabbit girl felt guilty and wanted to make up for it in the later levels.
Now that she knows the observer of the Echo Library is watching the rabbit hole, she naturally wants to make a good impression in order to gain their high praise.
To put it bluntly, he still hasn't gotten over the trauma from before.
However, looking at the rabbit girl's flustered appearance, Angel found it quite amusing.
After all, the bunny girl is different from Luigi and Gleipnir. The other two had some external memories incorporated into them, while the bunny girl was purely Laplace's childhood self.
In other words, the bunny girl's every word and action is actually Laplace's most authentic childhood self.
The bunny girl's current awkwardness is a stark contrast to Laplace's almost ingrained composure.
Looking at the scene before him, Angel felt inexplicably satisfied, which completely made up for the fact that he had never seen Laplace in a "discomfortable" state.
Of course, Angell would never dare to voice such thoughts.
Even if the person in front of him wasn't Laplace himself, he couldn't say it.
"Then how should I behave?" the rabbit girl asked hurriedly through the telepathic link.
Angell: "We don't need to put on any show; we'll just keep going at our own pace."
"But will this kind of performance earn you extra points?"
"I don't know if it will add points, because the observer's personality is the key to determining the score."
Just like Montessori and Maggie.
One values bonds, the other values justice in the process.
Only by satisfying their personality traits can they get high scores.
As for the personality of the observer in the Library of Echoes, no one can say for sure.
"Although I don't know the observer's personality, I'm sure that our strategy for tackling this level, and the final result, will definitely be a plus."
Because both Montessori and Maggie, despite giving high scores to other teams due to their own preferences, still ultimately gave Rabbit Hole a certain number of points.
This means that no matter how much they favor other teams, they must respect the result.
"So, we just need to proceed at our own pace and follow the normal strategy. We don't need to take the observers too seriously."
At this point, Angel quickly changed the subject to avoid the rabbit girl overthinking.
"The reason I suddenly mentioned the observer is because I just heard her murmur."
The rabbit girl was taken aback: "What did she say?"
Angell: "We just finished talking about the rubbings, and she overheard our conversation..."
Just then, when Angell looked out from his omniscient perspective and saw her, she was muttering to herself, evaluating their strategy—
"Is it better to make rubbings separately or all at once?" The observer's eyes flashed with surprise: "I didn't expect them to have considered this step."
"This guy who looks like a sea urchin makes a lot of sense. I wonder if they'll take the 'sea urchin's' advice in the end?"
These were the whispers that Angell heard.
Only two or three simple self-talks, but they precisely revealed their predicament.
The "sea urchin" she mentioned is, without a doubt, Gabriel.
Gabriel suggested that it would be better to hold the rubbings in a more dispersed manner, a statement that was heard by the observers and even agreed with.
This also means that Gabriel's proposed method should be correct.
The rabbit girl also showed a look of surprise: "I didn't expect there to be such an unexpected bonus?"
Angel nodded: "If we decide to participate in the Perfect Challenge, we will hold the imprints separately."
After a pause, Angell continued, "Don't tell them these things yet."
The rabbit girl nodded knowingly.
After all, this involves Angell's authority, so some concealment is necessary.