Capítulo 837: Chapter 837: Scarlett Jennings’s Choice
There was no surprise on Scarlett Jennings’ face, she just looked at him,
“That’s not what I want to know.”
She said, “I want to know where the real Samuel Chalmers is.”
Simon said, “That’s him.”
“No, that’s not him.”
Scarlett Jennings’ tone carried certainty, with an obstinacy even she hadn’t noticed in her eyes.
Simon seemed a bit helpless as he touched his nose, then as if pondering how to begin, he asked her,
“Have you read fantasy novels? Those Immortals after undergoing tribulations and returning to the Celestial Court, they still remember what happened during their trials, but those experiences, to them, are more like watching a movie of another person.”
He said, “The experiences belonging to Samuel Chalmers, the Family Head of the Chalmers Family, are just a small part of his memories, no longer his entirety.”
Scarlett Jennings was expressionless, “So you’re saying, I was just a tribulation he went through?”
That could be said.
This sentence quickly swirled in Simon’s throat after meeting Scarlett Jennings’ expressionless face, and he amended,
“Well, it can’t be said like that!”
He said, “The tribulation, that’s just a metaphor… You were never just a tribulation for him.”
Though the Master never explicitly said it, he could sense it.
Scarlett Jennings was the first presence in that person’s millennia that he wanted to linger for.
“You know, unlike all the Demon Ghosts and creatures in the world, the Dragon Vein is the only existence that needs to sleep to accumulate power.”
The National Protection Dragon Vein within Cathay also represents Cathay’s fortune.
Every time he sleeps, it’s to accumulate strength for future potential disasters.
The world often has impurities, representing disaster, misfortune, resentment, pain, so every few hundred years, the Dragon Vein will, in the form of the Vein Soul, descend into the world to cleanse the accumulated impurities.
He doesn’t undergo Reincarnation, his existence is just because he exists.
Samuel Chalmers is the Vein Soul.
“I don’t know what exactly went wrong in the middle that led to a connection different from the usual between you two. But I’m sure you are the first in a millennium to successfully make a contract with him.”
The Dragon Vein cannot make contracts with anyone, yet she could.
Simon isn’t unaware of what Magnolia Hearne did.
But he doesn’t think that merely with a Peach Wood Mark confusing fated marriages, Magnolia Hearne could make that person successfully make a marriage contract with someone.
Perhaps there is indeed some reason involving Magnolia Hearne’s meddling, but it’s definitely not everything.
As for the rest of the reason, maybe only Samuel Chalmers himself knows.
“These things, he has never told me.”
Scarlett Jennings’ voice lacked much emotion,
“Whether it’s his identity, or all that you just said, he never thought about telling me.”
Simon sighed,
“It’s not that he doesn’t want to say, but he can’t say, it’s unspeakable.”
Just like mortals shouldn’t easily call out the names of ghosts or gods.
For Samuel Chalmers, even though he has already awakened to his consciousness as a Dragon Vein, he can’t easily express this identity verbally.
Because as the Soulvein, he only awakened part of the consciousness of the Dragon Vein, once spoken, it would further awaken all the consciousness belonging to the Dragon Vein within him, when all consciousness awakens, the Vein Soul would automatically return to the main body.
“He probably just wants to accompany you a little longer.”
If not for the fortune of Sea City being stolen, Simon believes that person would have been more willing to maintain the current situation, just like before, staying by her side until he inevitably had to leave.
Scarlett Jennings’ eyelashes lightly trembled, seeming to finally understand the countless times he looked at her with helpless yet silent eyes.
While she, because of his past concealment, kept his genuine heart at bay.
Seeing her expression, Simon could tell she probably listened, thus the task that person entrusted him with was half completed.
“What needed to be said, I have said. Whether you choose to accept him now and continue forward, or let go and walk your own path, it’s up to you.”
Saying this, Simon furtively concealed the depth in his eyes while Scarlett Jennings wasn’t noticing.
In fact, there was still the most important sentence that Samuel Chalmers had once entrusted him with, but he didn’t plan to tell her just yet.
The Dragon Clan for generations was nurtured atop the Dragon Vein, if the Dragon Vein protects Cathay, then the Dragon Clan protects the Dragon Vein.
For Simon, Samuel Chalmers is unlike everyone else.
Hence, he has his own considerations regarding Scarlett Jennings, whom Samuel Chalmers cares about.
He wants to see her choice, and only after she makes her choice will he decide whether to convey that sentence to her.
Scarlett Jennings didn’t know Simon’s thoughts, after hearing everything Simon said, she needed to reorganize her thoughts, and then make a choice based on what he said.
…
Simon soon left.
Scarlett Jennings stayed alone in the desolate forest of unknown location.
And shortly after Simon left, Dashiell emerged.
Since Scarlett Jennings walked out of the barrier, Dashiell, who was originally wandering outside the barrier, naturally noticed her location.
In fact, while she was speaking with Simon, he had been hiding in a corner eavesdropping.
He hadn’t seen Samuel Chalmers.
But from the words just heard, he had vaguely guessed Samuel Chalmers’ situation.
Irritatedly scratching his head, Dashiell looked at Scarlett Jennings,
“Did you see him? Is it true that he… doesn’t recognize you anymore?”
Just like those old-school melodramatic love dramas Lucas Jennings showed him.
Scarlett Jennings knew he had heard the earlier conversation, and she didn’t intend to hide it from him,
“He recognizes me.”
But, he no longer views her as a future partner, that’s all.
Dashiell, having witnessed the two’s journey from initial strangers to today as a witness flood dragon, was anxious for them.
“What can we do then? Is there a way to make him return to how he was before?”
Whether losing memory or emotions, there should be some way to restore them, right?
Even in dramas, they manage to recover.
“If nothing works, we could also consider the methods in those dramas. You see, in those dramas where amnesia is caused by a car accident hitting the head, they accidentally get hit again and it gets better, we could follow that thought. How did Samuel Chalmers become like this?”
Oh, returning to the main body, what if we try to make the main body sleep again and extract the Vein Soul?
Dashiell brainstormed alone and saw Scarlett Jennings listening to him, seeming deep in thought, suddenly taking out a purple Thunder Talisman from her bag.
The highest level purple Thunder Talisman, just looking at it made his scales prickle.
Unable to help but ask,
“Scarlett, what are you going to do with that Talisman?”
Scarlett Jennings then said,
“Samuel Chalmers initially awakened his consciousness of the Dragon Vein after being struck by the Heavenly Dao’s Fire Thunder.”
Then conversely, striking him again, could it awaken the consciousness of the Vein Soul?
Just that he’s unsure whether Samuel Chalmers, now as the main body of the Dragon Vein, can withstand a thunder strike…