magician in town

Chapter 10

Du Zhengyi knew that he was connected to the Pendragon track system.

A reclusive old mage, it's impossible that his home doesn't have an access point to the Pendragon Orbit.Since there is no trace of any energy in the front yard or inside the house, the entrance to the track must be in the back yard.After a quick look around the house, he headed for the backyard, hoping to find a record of the last time the track entrance had been used.

When he opened the back door for the first time, he noticed that the energy flow was disordered. It may be because the access point has been in disrepair for a long time, and something went wrong.It's not a big deal.But before he could take the formal test, Roach suddenly yelled at him, and he ran back before he had time to think about it.When he brought Roach back to the back door again, he had many things on his mind, and without thinking about it, Roach bravely threw the pot at him.

Getting annoyed doesn't help. If you want to beat Roach, you have to go back. Besides, Roach has a very good temper most of the time, and beating him may not be able to relieve his anger.Du Zhengyi sighed helplessly, lying on the ground quietly waiting for the impact of the lost and regained gravity on him to gradually calm down.

Weightlessness is a common failure of the Pendragon track system, he is like a fish thrown ashore, paralyzed is the best choice.It's just that he still doesn't know which bank of the river he was thrown at random.

There was a strong wind whistling in his ears, the place was colder than the village he had left, and the icy wind cut his skin.There was still a ray of light in the sky, and black clouds lingered on the horizon. For a while, he thought he was hallucinating, and that's why he saw a huge shadow at the end of the sky.It took him a while to realize that it was a mountain rising from the ground, blocking the eastern sky alone. The mountain was huge, but symmetrical like a perfect cone, floating in the void like a man-made object.At this time, he also realized that he had finally regained control of his body.

Du Zhengyi sat up slowly, looked at the shadow of the mountain to the east for a while, and stood up thinking.

The hillside under his feet sloped all the way to the east, and snow covered the place as far as he could see. Several huge silver pine trees were silent in the frost and snow in the north. The only sound here other than the wind.The small village at the foot of the hill was decayed and silent in such dead silence.

No matter where it is, he is sure that he has never been here, and he is not familiar with such a landscape.

His heart sank, for some reason, the power that sent him here disappeared without a trace, it was impossible to measure it, and it was impossible to trace it back.

He stood silently for a while, finally wrapped his windbreaker tightly, and walked along the long slope to the village under the hillside.The snow was as deep as his calves, and the wet and cold snow climbed up his calves.He walked hard all the way, and there was only one set of his footprints on the long snowy road.Occasionally, a small cluster of snowflakes would be blown up by the swirling wind, dancing around him like an invisible elf, and there seemed to be a woman's singing in the mist.He was determined, he refused to concentrate on listening to the vague singing in the wind, and he didn't waste his energy to test the power behind it.Intuition told him that before the Lord came out, he needed to maintain his spirit.

Although the snowy road was difficult, the village was within reach in a blink of an eye.There is a small crossroads in front of the village, just like the story Roach told.He took a deep breath. There was only a pile of rubble in the yard on the right, and the houses no longer existed. There was a small upside-down earthen house facing the street on the left, covering the yard behind it.The sky is getting darker, the twilight is falling, and the courtyard behind the earthen house can no longer be seen clearly.

As soon as Du Zheng walked towards the room, there was no light in the room, so he collected himself, and suddenly pushed open the door.

For a moment, the wind also calmed down.

The earthen house that looked intact from the outside had a big hole in the roof, and the straw on the roof was exposed like intestines. The faint blue moonlight fell through the hole and fell in the middle of the house. Du Zheng stared at a white man in a daze. The old man squatted under the moonlight in the house, his disheveled white hair like a lion's mane was dyed a ghostly blue by the moonlight.If it weren't for his sharp eyes, maybe Du Zhengyi would have thought he was a lunatic wandering here.

In fact, he was basically a lunatic. He looked at Du Zhengyi with a wild smile in his eyes, and made a face at Du Zhengyi.

How familiar!

Du Zhengyi secretly swallowed.

"You." The old lunatic said, standing up from the ground.

He looked around himself, at Du Zhengyi, and then at Du Zhengyi's back, his eyes kept turning, as if he couldn't concentrate and his mind was not complete.Then he sniffled, rubbed his nose with his right hand into a fist, and muttered, "That's great, I only saw a mouse here the day before yesterday, and I saw a hyena here yesterday, and I saw a hyena here today." I saw you here."

Du Zhengyi didn't understand, so what he said was as incomprehensible as what Roach sometimes said, as if he came from a world different from his.Suddenly, he froze.This thought, like a flash of lightning, flashed across his mind, but struck his chest.He took a step back and re-examined the old man's eyebrows and eyes in horror. There was a strange light in those cloudy old eyes, with a familiar narrowness.

It caught his gaze almost immediately, as if able to intercept his thoughts.The old lunatic burst into a cunning smile that was almost cruel, looked at him bitterly, and winked at him, as if to see if he dared to tell the answer to the riddle.

"Roach?" His chest was churning violently, and he spit out this terrifying answer, which almost made him suffocate.

"Haha." The old lunatic almost jumped up, he yelled happily, "How long have we not seen each other, old friend, let me calculate. The day before yesterday you were in Langhuan Pavilion, yesterday you were in Qijia Youfang Village..."

Du Zhengyi's heart was filled with a heavy layer of fear, but it was not because of his current situation, but because of the mistakes he might make.Did he not have time to help Roach escape from the force field?The principle of the Pendragon track cannot be fully explained by mages. There are already many problems in it, not to mention that some archmages often break the law and associate complex time and space traps with it.

This cold thought almost engulfed him, could it be that Roach was trapped in a trap, and the regional clock experienced dozens or even hundreds of years?He is only one step behind Roach, and he is already decades behind.Roach has been tortured here for a long time, and then finally went crazy?

The old lunatic seemed to read his answer, and his whole body was about to explode with excitement, circling in the middle of the broken house, "Yes, you figured it out! You are a genius! I envy you, I have always envied you. You were always such a genius! Not like me."

Du Zhengyi opened his mouth with difficulty, but lost his voice, "I..."

The look of the old lunatic became complicated, almost becoming more like the young Roach who was just a few hours ago.As soon as Du Zheng heard him mumble over and over again, "it's not like me".His hands trembled, and he couldn't tell whether it was from self-blame or from seeing a person's life force drained out of nothing.

Just when his emotions were in chaos, the silence was suddenly broken. A drum sound of "Boom" was sounded silently from the depths of the village.

Du Zhengyi restrained his breath vigilantly.

The old maniac suddenly covered his mouth, a pair of eyes that were once full of enthusiasm flashed abnormally above the palm of his hand, as if he couldn't suppress the excitement, and the excitement made his old and thin body tremble like a dead branch.

"Oh." He said with a sweet smile like a little girl, looked at Du Zhengyi slyly, as if to tell him a shocking secret, and said warmly and in a low voice, "They are here!"

The old lunatic grinned, backed away, and shrank towards the corner of the room, but stared at Du Zhengyi maliciously.

Du Zhengyi didn't have time to think about it anymore, he had an intuition that something must be approaching, and the sound of war drums made his heart almost burst, so he turned around abruptly and exited the old house.If Roach has lived here for a long time, he must know how to avoid danger, and the house he stays in must be safe.He could see that Roach was full of jealousy and malice towards him, but it was indeed his fault, and he didn't want to bring danger to him again.He can handle the danger outside, and after that he wants to take Roach back.

But where to go back?He heard an irritable voice in his heart asking desperately.Those stolen years have been spent.Can they go back to school?Go back to the teacher?The teacher can't solve the problems outside the test paper, can't he?

He threw a beam of rage, and a circle of flames burned on the snow, and he stared at the shadow that emerged from the night.The stars twinkled in the clear night above the hills, and he smelled the stench of excrement and urine mixed with the smell of blood. Before he could think about what kind of weapon to condense, anger helped him choose an epee .

His hands were covered by the guard of the epee, and a part of the virtual power helped him manipulate the sword, and he slashed fiercely for the first time.The thick blade cut off the icy body, and the zombie-shaped puppet fell down.He turned around, met a pair of dry eyes, and the stiff body rushed towards him.

He dealt with it calmly, using the method of hand-to-hand combat, looking for the rules in it.Traps are often placed in sandboxes, where mage creations exist, avoiding interference with the world, leaving no traces to be discovered by the law enforcement committee, and making their own rules within the scope of the box.

The rules of a world in a box are limited, but this is like an exquisite maze, the more talented people are, the more complex and delicate the sandbox will be designed.Some insidious mages use this as a trap, like creating a spider web to catch their prey.However, there are also some mages who are simply bored. They create exquisite sandboxes and discard them casually, waiting for the misfortune of travelers who go astray, but the purpose is just to show off their exquisite technology.

This one in front of me is more like the former.

It is not too difficult to find the action rules of the zombies. He summoned hundreds of weapons and cut off the waist bones of the zombies.There was silence on the snow for a moment, but then, as if receiving a silent order, the puppet whose spine had been broken supported by its shoulders and legs, squirmed and crawled on the ground like a caterpillar, and rushed over like Du Zhengyi again.The scene was creepy and disgusting.The first human caterpillar squirmed to his feet, springing up like a snake attacking.An eager, greedy dead face flashed in front of him, and he kicked the thing out.

He continued to fight while thinking.

The earthen house behind him was silent, and the old lunatic seemed to be asleep.

The twinkling stars in the sky disappeared.

Fire can cleanse all the filth in the world.

There was nothing left in the sky but thick clouds.

The temperature rises suddenly.

fire.

The pouring rain came as expected, and quenched the fire he had spread earlier to drive away the darkness.

Du Zhengyi finally understood, he threw away the epee in his hand, and allowed it to quickly decompose and become the basic substance that constitutes this world.

A caterpillar with a black head squirmed to his feet and bounced like a snake.He didn't resist, the thing grabbed his neck and severed it.

Du Zhengyi suddenly woke up. The zombies, old lunatics, barren villages and suspended mountains all disappeared. He was lying on the ground in the backyard in the countryside, next to the well. He believed that his car was still parked outside the front door.Thick fog covered everything here, and the fog was filled with hot smoke, which made him cough.He sat up, coughing and rubbing his neck, the pain of being cut off by a zombie puppet in the illusion still lingered for a while.

He had just finally figured out that what he was in was not a sandbox, but an illusion.The rules in the box are changing according to his thoughts, just like the mirror image of his thinking, the rules will make up for his thoughts.He thought of fire, and immediately it began to rain in the box.But there is no box like that in this world.Unless he is the box itself.

He stood up and looked around with lingering fear. It was so quiet that he couldn't feel Roach's presence.However, there was a man outside the front door.

The ancient well, the dense fog, everything seems to be the same as the scene in the story, and the knock on the door suddenly sounded in the story.Du Zhengyi turned around, walked quietly through the corridor, and opened the front door.

In the dense fog, the obscure moonlight fell on the person. She still looked pale and fragile, with deep blue eyes.It's just that she no longer has the cuteness of yesterday, and her expression is empty like a ghost.

(End of this chapter)