Filed to story: A Little Princess's Journey from Darkness to Light Novel
There were a few others that Blake hadn’t seen before. One of them had dark skin and looked grumpy, as if he wanted to fight Blake immediately.
There was even a parrot flapping its wings and shouting, “Caw! Caw!”
Blake looked around without changing his expression and asked, “What’s going on?”
Bettany gritted her teeth and scolded, “What’s wrong with Lilly’s forehead? You should have protected her!”
Blake paused for a moment.
Bettany continued to nag incessantly. Even though they had just met, she scolded Blake without any hesitation or distance. It made
Blake involuntarily think of his mother’s nagging. He never expected to hear similar complaints again after such a long time.
Blake pursed his lips and apologized, “I’m sorry.”
Bettany snorted and didn’t accept his apology. She wouldn’t forgive anyone who caused Lilly to get hurt!
Seeing that everyone misunderstood, Lilly quickly explained, “Granny, it’s not Daddy’s fault!”
Upon hearing this, everyone felt upset. It had only been one night, but Lilly was already familiar with Blake and even helped him.
After a careful inspection, Gilbert found that Lilly’s forehead was only scratched and swollen. It wasn’t anything serious. The red medicated ointment had just startled them.
He asked softly, “Lilly, tell me, how did you hit your head?”
Lilly explained in detail, “Daddy took me to give flowers to Great-Grandpa, Grandpa, and Grandma. I imitated Daddy and saluted, but accidentally hit the ground.”
Everyone was speechless upon learning the truth.
Blake raised an eyebrow. “See, it’s not my fault.”
Bettany glanced at him with an indescribable emotion. As Hugh had described, Blake, who had tempted Jean and Lilly, seemed like a criminal boss.
Gilbert smiled and asked, “Lilly, why did you come back late? Where did your daddy take you to play?”
Lilly thought carefully and answered, “We didn’t go anywhere! Daddy only took me to greet Great-Grandpa, Grandpa, and Grandma.”
Josh didn’t believe that Lilly had spent so long just greeting her great-grandpa and grandparents. So he asked, “And then?”
Lilly replied, “Then Daddy taught me how to defeat enemies.”
The Crawford family was stunned, while
Blake was speechless.
The Crawford family members stared at Blake with sharp gazes.
Blake’s lips twitched, “You don’t have to say that, little girl.”
Bettany grew angrier when she saw Blake admit to it.
What did he teach Lilly?
She suspected that the injuries on Lilly’s forehead were a result of Blake teaching her to split bricks with her forehead.
Bettany scrutinized Blake from head to toe.
This “criminal” is too tall. He has a nice posture, black hair with slight curls, and mysterious dark eyes.
“Have a seat since you’re here,” Bettany pointed to the sofa.
Gilbert ruffled Lilly’s hair, “Lilly, go and have fun with Josh first. We’ll have a chat with your
dad, okay?”
Josh took Lilly’s hand and said, “Come on. I’ll show you something cool!”
“Okay!” Lilly answered happily and went off with Josh.
From Lilly’s perspective, her grandparents, uncle, and daddy were nice people. There was nothing for her to worry about.
Blake watched her run up the stairs excitedly with a parrot following her. Was he just abandoned by his daughter?
Blake looked around and saw Old Mr. Crawford, Old Mrs. Crawford, and the Crawford brothers.
They made Lilly leave because they are going to interrogate him about what happened that year.
It was understandable, Jean was their precious daughter.
If Lilly was taken away by some brat for no reason, he would act more aggressively.
Although Blake sat properly on the sofa, he still looked as wild as ever.
“Just ask whatever you want to ask.”
Blake was not afraid of the interrogations as he had countless experiences with them.
Josh dragged Lilly to his room and showed her his inventions from the past few days.
“Look at this!” Josh excitedly picked up a digital HD video recorder.
Lilly took it and turned it around curiously. “I modified this video recorder. I enhanced the infrared night vision function. It can search for its target using infrared light and form an image from the refracted light…”
Maybe it could photograph a spirit.
“Oh, I see,” Lilly said with a blank face. She didn’t understand anything at all.
Josh casually left the video recorder on the table. Then, he took out a large, round object that looked like an iron bowl. It was covered with a piece of cloth.
Lilly asked, “Josh, what is this?”
Josh untied the straps and lifted the black cloth, revealing a large iron bowl.
“After my tireless efforts and calculations, I discovered a close relationship between magnetic fields and spirit sightings. It took me days to figure out the closest formula and engraved it here.
Josh explained, “This iron bowl may look normal, but underneath, I placed two NdFeB magnets. Assuming the magnetic surface density is o, then…”
Lilly was confused, “Josh, what are you talking about?”
Josh paused for a moment and said, “I think spirits are a specific substance that can interfere with the magnetic field. There’s a regular pattern of the magnetic field in my iron bowl. However, when a spirit is close, it changes the magnetic field…”
“The needle is set with very small magnetic fluctuations, which means the needle is very sensitive. Whenever a spirit appears nearby, the needle will rotate quickly until it points in a certain direction…”
Lilly remained silent and after thinking for a moment, she asked, “Josh, isn’t it a compass then?”
Josh was speechless.
He was stunned.
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
I spent a few days making this. How could there be a prototype in reality?
Lilly comforted Josh, “Josh, you made a compass! You are very cool!”
Josh was upset.
Lilly added, “Josh, your compass is different. Others have words on it, yours has formulas.”
“Formulas are cooler than words!”
“That’s right!” Josh’s eyes lit up.
