The dark clouds in the sky remained and had not dissipated for a long time. The heavy rain had stopped. The dim street lights flashed due to poor circuit contact, illuminating the two small figures below.

The moist and cold air made the two people extremely clear.

Alice was the first to break the silence that lasted for a while and said to Edward who was sitting on the roadside:

"How did you show up here?"

Edward was wearing a cheap cloth dress and his linen hair was still dripping with water. He stood up from the ground, looked at Alice with dark brown eyes, and said coldly, "Why should I tell you?"

Alice shrugged, pursed her lips, and said in an indifferent tone: "It's okay if you don't say it, but you always have to tell me why you secretly attacked me just now. You and you have no grudges and no friends, and you are not considered friends. It's unreasonable to suddenly attack, right?"

Upon hearing this, Edward's shoulders covered with thin fabric trembled, his hands hanging on his side were clenched secretly, staring at the little blonde witch in front of him, and said with a cold expression:

"Don't be self-righteous there. You think we are not enemies, but this does not represent my opinion. In my heart, you will always be an enemy, an opponent, and an unforgivable monster!"

Alice didn't feel anything at first, but when Edward said she was a "monster", the most sensitive string in his heart was touched.

Alice took a deep breath. It was not the time to argue with the other party. Although Edward did not make it clear, Alice could already be sure that the illusion was not made by Edward.

Like himself, Edward is a magic student in the lower grade. He has not yet been exposed to how to make illusions, and it is even more impossible to make superb illusions that can simulate weather changes... So Edward can be directly excluded.

Edward has been hostile to Alice since the moment in the orphanage, when Edward betrayed his friendship with Alice and accused Alice of being a monster.

However, as the hated party, Alice does not understand why the other party hates her so much? The transition from being the only friend to an enemy was too sudden, and there must be some important reason why Alice doesn't know.

However, because the two had already broken up completely, Alice did not want to ask why Edward suddenly felt resentful to her. She had never been able to figure out this matter. But it seemed that even if she took the initiative to ask, Edward would keep his mouth shut and did not intend to explain to her about it.

"You can hate me, this is your freedom. But don't call me monsters anymore, I will only remind you once."

Seeing that Edward was not going to explain why he was sneak attacking her, Alice had no intention of talking too much with the other party, and her tone changed from indifferent to indifference.

Edward saw Alice turning and leaving, his back wearing a cloth gradually fading away, and he hid into the darkness...

At this moment, the only street light on above my head suddenly made a loud "sniff" sound, and then the dim light struggled to flash and went out.

The young stone sculpture whose head was smashed by lightning suddenly turned slowly, facing Edward's direction, the sound of the stone rubbing on the ground was harsh and clear.

Edward was scared to take a step back. The ten-year-old boy's face was full of horror. He turned around and looked at the direction Alice left. He struggled for two seconds in his heart. He gritted his teeth and followed him.

Alice's night vision ability is more acute than that of ordinary people, so even if the light is dim, she will not trip over the small stones on the road.

The reason why Alice left was not that she found a new clue, but that she simply didn't want to stay with Edward. She didn't want to look for clues to break through the fantasy at a guy who kept staring at you, as if you owe him eight million.

The dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and a crescent moon hung in the sky. Alice raised her eyebrows, suddenly stopped, without turning around, and said:

"...You have been following me for three minutes. If you have anything to say, just say it directly. I don't have time to quarrel with you."

Edward's eyesight was far less than Alice's. He walked in the dim light, sometimes tripped by stones, sometimes rubbed against leaves on the roadside, and sometimes hit the telephone pole... He made so many noises, but he thought he had not been discovered, so he tiptoed to follow Alice.

Just listening to the sound, you know that Edward was tripped no less than ten times along the way, and Alice could even hear the other party's gasp in pain.

Such a clumsy tracking is even more difficult to avoid being discovered.

"That stone sculpture...it moved by itself and the street lights were broken. I didn't want to stand alone there. It was too boring...so I followed it."

Edward paused for a few seconds, feeling afraid and annoyed, not wanting to be alone, and not wanting to admit that he was afraid, so he followed Alice and insisted on making up a reason... However, even he himself did not believe this reason.

Alice sighed. Isn’t this because she is afraid of being timid and dare not be alone? Even if she says it directly, Alice didn’t intend to laugh at Edward. She didn’t expect that Edward was such a face-loving person.

"I won't feel bored after following me? I don't want to chat with you."

Alice said casually, her vision was locked at a hundred meters ahead. There was a huge white statue. Alice remembered that when she lived in the Love Orphanage before, there was no such large white statue there.

The statue looks like a cobra. The cobra stands up, twists its body, as if dancing. From a distance, if you don't look closely, it looks like a real giant cobra frozen on a stone mount, lifelike.

The cobra's head was just in the direction where Alice and Edward were, and the slender core in his mouth was spit out, revealing a bit of ruthlessness and viciousness in the cold moonlight at night.

Alice did not hesitate and walked towards the stone statue. Edward saw Alice looking for the terrifying cobra stone sculpture, and felt a little scared and swallowed secretly. He always felt like the statue was staring at him. It was so far away, but this feeling was extremely clear.

But Alice has gone all the way. As a man, how could he be compared by a little witch who is one year younger than him? He is the heir of the White family and the future leader of the family, and cannot be timid.

Thinking of this, Edward straightened his back again, and followed Alice with his teeth, walked along the sidewalk towards the stone sculpture carved into a cobra...

"I didn't want to chat with you. Why do you go to find that statue? What if it moves and suddenly attacks people like the stone sculpture with a broken head, what should I do?"

Edward accelerated his pace, but he was still a little slower than Alice's speed. In this way, he could evacuate in time if an emergency occurred. He was not those powerful magic powers, and he could cast magic without a magic wand. Without a magic wand, he was not much stronger than an ordinary human boy.

Alice did not look back when she heard Edward's question. Her eyes remained on the cobra statue seven or eight meters tall in front of her, observing every detail of the statue, and said:

"Of course we are fighting. Although it is a statue of a cobra, it will not be venomous. A statue is a statue. Even if it can attack people, what's there to be afraid of?"

Edward was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to answer this sentence. When Alice said this, he seemed to have become a timid and afraid of trouble. When he lowered his head, he noticed that Alice was holding a slender black magic wand in his right hand.

Edward couldn't help but blink, sure that it wasn't her dazzled eyes. Alice did have a magic wand in her hand.

But why did he not have a magic wand when he came to this illusion? Edward was puzzled and finally pulled down his face and asked:

"...How come there is a magic wand in your hand? Did you have it when you came, or would you find a way to find it?"

Alice retracted her gaze from observing the white statue and finally looked at the little boy who looked confused and wanted to get the answer:

"Of course I created it myself. When did you become a curious baby?"

Edward was choked by Alice's words again. He couldn't ask Alice how she transformed her wand, right? Asking this way seemed so ignorant!

Of course Edward wouldn't know, but Alice herself didn't know how she transformed her wand.

Just as Alice and Edward were talking to each other, a "hiss" sounded in their ears. Alice and Edward looked at each other, turning their heads and looking in the direction that made the sound...

The originally motionless cobra sculpture had quietly poked its head over at some point. A pair of cold vertical pupils stared at Alice and Edward from the bottom of their mouths, and the core in their mouths spit out and retracted. The "hiss" sound that made the scalp numb was from the cobra's mouth.

“Ahhhhhh…!!”

The boy's screams pierced the night sky, and several birds hiding under the eaves flew out with their wings. When passing by Edward, incontinence pulled out a piece of yellow and white bird droppings, and landed on Edward's nose with a "click".

Alice grabbed Edward's neckline and ran for more than ten meters without saying a word in the opposite direction. After a distance from the Cobra statue, she released Edward's neckline and put the other person back on the ground.

"I said, do you want to attract all the statues around you? Don't forget that they can move."

Alice was not scared by the cobra that suddenly approached, but was stinging her eardrums by Edward's voice who screamed too much.

I didn't expect that the boy's voice could be so sharp, and his lethality could be so powerful...

Alice reached out and rubbed her ears that were hurt, her eyes swept through the darkness around her. The mysterious footsteps followed. Under the moonlight, ripples appeared on the puddle, as if someone was gently stirring the water surface.

But except for Alice and Edward, there is no shadow of any living person in the empty neighborhood...who will it be stirring the water?

The cobra stone sculpture "hissed" with its core was still standing there, not climbing down from the stone mount, and did not seem to intend to attack the two little wizards who broke into its territory.

At least not attacking them for the time being.

"Who is...is walking?"

Edward heard herself asking Alice in a trembling voice, filled with fear of the unknown.

He felt the hairs on his scalp standing up because of tension. Something cold was pressed against the inner wall of his throat. He forced himself to panic, but his heart couldn't help but jump faster and his chest was so stuffy that it was uncomfortable.

"Don't be nervous, the sound of swallowing is a little less, I've heard it."

Alice was a little bit overwhelmed by the timid Edward. Such a timid personality was almost catching up with Jensen. I remember that although Edward was bullied, he was not so timid that he could tremble when he spoke.

But Alice didn't know that the reason why Edward was so timid was actually because he had a little secret that he had always hidden and never told anyone. He was born to be afraid of ghosts.

Very, very scared.

So he dared not stay in the dark alone. One of the reasons why he made friends with Alice was that he needed company. When he was locked in a small dark room, Alice could stay by his side, so he would not be particularly afraid.

If he was the only one, staying in the darkness deep, he would fall into a swamp of tension and fear, fearing the life that exists in the dark, fearing that something would suddenly appear, and then open his mouth and chew off his nose.

This is so scary.

A person can't stay in the darkness, and now, those fearful unknowns are approaching step by step and will suddenly appear at any time. This unknown also infinitely magnifies the fear in his heart and his imagination of fear...

If Alice, who was the mortal enemy, was here, Edward would have collapsed long ago and cried regardless of his image.

"You... don't scare me, I, I didn't swallow at all, my throat was uncomfortable, I wanted to vomit..."

Edward resisted the sour water gushing up from his throat, his nervous face pale, and his speech became incoherent.

Alice heard this and suddenly felt an alarm in her heart. If the person who swallowed was not Edward, who would it be?

That person was close to them, no, to be precise, it should be very close, just like a sound made by lying on her ear...

Even though Alice was brave, her hair was still standing upside down by the sudden swallowing sound. Her strong intuition once again reminded her at a critical moment.

Without hesitation, Alice quickly jumped up from the ground, flew into the air, and left her original position.
Chapter completed!