magician in town

Chapter 11 The Magician

Chapter 10

"You are not a magician." Du Zhengyi stopped calculating, looked at her without any emotion, and said bluntly.

This sentence was not an interrogative sentence, Guan Xinyue blinked, hesitated for a moment, then smiled again in an instant, as if giving up the idea of ​​lying, affirming his judgment with great interest. "I'm not a magician."

"But you know our world very well." Du Zheng added one step at a time.Not only did she know, but she easily judged their identities and lured them here.

"I don't really understand." Guan Xinyue smiled meanly again. "It's just that there are four magicians in our family of seven, and mages are not a rare thing in our family."

"Indeed." Du Zhengyi humbly agreed, pulling his hands out of his trouser pockets, "I forgot about that."

Guan Xinyue put away her smile and stared fixedly at Du Zhengyi's hand, as if smelling danger out of thin air.

"Where are your friends?" She reminded him, also warning him.

Du Zhengyi ignored her game, he didn't like to follow other people's pace, and he was not interested in guessing riddles.He didn't forget that the old house he was in had swallowed the lives of three mages.Maybe even four lives, including the young girl in the photo.Sometimes, some mages will be fascinated by humans and reveal their secrets in violation of the rules. The strength they have the upper hand may not be able to defeat humans who are good at ingenuity.So he doesn't want to deal with humans, and he doesn't want to waste time.

He raised a hand, and the air on the palm of his hand cooled rapidly, condensing into water, and the water turned into ice almost instantly.

"Wait a minute." Guan Xinyue yelled palely, "Don't you care about your friend's life at all?"

Du Zhengyi suddenly realized that she was trying to gamble with him, and she was almost hysterical.He was not mistaken yesterday, she was supported by a flame, no matter whether she could achieve her goal or not, that cluster of flames would eventually burn her to death.She knew it herself, but she didn't care, like a gambler with nothing in his last attempt.

He suddenly changed his mind and took a step forward, approaching the pale girl, who drew a sharp breath.He continued to move forward, and the dim moonlight outside the window cast a shadow in front of him.Guan Xinyue held her breath, all the pretense that had gained the upper hand almost fell off, she was too scared to move.

He continued his own test, the ice suspended above his palm was gradually elongated and thinned, he sculpted it with his mind, until the ice was thin and sharp, more and more like a blade.

Guan Xinyue looked at him not only with fear, but also with more disgust, it was simply disgusting.

"It's amazing." Guan Xinyue satirized him in a strange tone. She glared at him hysterically with red eyes, and said irritably, "You can kill me as you please. You are useless as a junior mage anyway. Your friend will be there Spend your life somewhere you'll never find it!"

"Maybe I..." Du Zhengyi's threat was interrupted by the music before he finished speaking.

Guan Xinyue trembled in shock from the sound, her pupils constricted suddenly, and it took her a few words before she realized that her cell phone had rang.

Du Zhengyi was surprised to see her distracted and glanced at the screen of the mobile phone. He was a little depressed, and began to hope that he was the one who fell into the trap now, and Roach was standing here. Not as good as a magician, but he is definitely better at dealing with this kind of scene.

"You have no helper," Du Zhengyi said. He twirled and played with the ice blade on his fingertips, then let it slip from his fingertips, fell to the ground and shattered into two pieces, quickly dissolved in the air, gasified, and finally Disappeared without a trace. "If there are any mages who lie to you and ask you to be their spokesperson, I advise you to tell me who they are, then go back and study hard, and don't meddle in our affairs. If your family has the habit of killing mages... you also It shouldn’t be trying to get our attention, that’s not how fire is played.”

Guan Xinyue stared at him, her eyes were still bright in the growing darkness of the room, she was also observing Du Zhengyi, her eyes were frozen from the emptiness just now, and they became more and more complicated.

"Stop pretending to be a child. According to human beings, what are you supposed to be? Pervert?" Du Zhengyi continued to speak solemnly. He seemed to have derived a word from the air, "Perverted magician killer? It's ridiculous. Yeah, like a baby murderer."

"Are you a policeman?" Guan Xinyue suddenly asked suspiciously.

Du Zhengyi ignored her words and looked at her indifferently.Her cell phone rang again, this time even she ignored it, the phone rang persistently for a while and then fell silent.

Guan Xinyue shook her head and answered her own question, "You are not from the executive committee, you are too young."

"If I were on the executive committee, I would be responsible for dealing with the mage who leaked so much information to you."

Guan Xinyue smiled sadly, "Have you lost your memory? They are all dead."

"Isn't there one left?" Du Zhengyi continued.

Guan Xinyue stared straight at him, "Is she still alive? You came here to kill her?"

Du Zhengyi was also looking at her, assessing the changes in the situation. "Why would I kill?" he said, putting both hands back in his trouser pockets, his posture relaxed.

The phone rang again, and he suddenly felt that the melody of the ringtone was a little familiar. After a little thought, he seemed to be able to remember the lyrics again, which seemed to be...

"The soul is back! The east cannot be entrusted with it. A man is a thousand years old, but the soul is something to be found. It will come out in ten days, and the gold will melt the stone. Everyone is accustomed to it, and the soul will be released. Come back! You can't entrust it. some."

He woke up dazed, although he didn't dare to let Guan Xinyue out of his sight, but the lyrics became clearer,

"The soul is back! The south can't stop. Carve black teeth, get human flesh as a sacrifice, and use its bones as a sacrifice. Viper Zhenzhen, seal foxes for thousands of miles. Nine male cockroaches, minnows come and go, and swallow people. Improve your heart. Come back! Don't be lewd for a long time."

Sentence by sentence, it seems that someone is really singing.The singing voice did not come from the girl's mobile phone, it was ethereal, as if someone was singing softly in the depths of his mind, and he could clearly hear every word.The tone was soothing, calling him softly.Calling his soul to return, he remembered the song, he remembered every word, he echoed softly, a flash of clarity suddenly flashed in his heart.

He opened his eyes again, the surroundings were dim, a cluster of flames was burning feebly on the ground, and the flickering light vaguely illuminated the surrounding red brick walls.In the darkness like the void above, a light-colored round spot hung, and he guessed that he was probably at the bottom of the well.

Then a magnified face suddenly appeared in his sight, blocking most of his field of vision.He said weakly, "Roach, stay away from me."

Roach shrank back, his dark eyes were still staring at him, paying close attention to his every move. "You finally woke up. Don't know what you saw, but it was hallucinations."

He sat up slowly propping up his body, his head was spinning, he was light-headed, and felt a little nauseous.

Roach reached out to help him, and said, "Now it's real. In order to prevent you from confusing me, I can say something that you will never think of."

Du Zhengyi knew that it was not a hallucination, but he was too lazy to tell Roach.

Du Zheng glanced at Luo Qi, it was comforting to see that he was still a brat, and he didn't even have the intention of beating him up. "You woke me up?" He glanced around, the well was spacious and dry, like a renovated basement.

Roach didn't answer right away, because it didn't fit his bragging personality. Du Zhengyi glanced at him again before he stammered and said, "I did it according to the textbook, but I don't know if it's right or not. I don't know if you will have any sequelae or something..."

"I'm fine." Du Zhengyi interrupted him, "Are you all right?"

"Guan Xinyue was dragged to the backyard by me. Their family's Pendragon orbit site is in this well. To be honest, her step-grandpa is really perverted. When I thought that someone might see him coming out of the well When I entered the scene, I just..." Roach trembled, "but she—I'll just point at you—it's her, she knows everything, and when she struggled at the door, she kicked her. Footstone Drum, in the end we were just dragged down by the power of the broken track, and we didn't fall into hallucinations like you."

"Are you embarrassed to say? Do you have the guts to drag a girl to death just by relying on your thick arms and strong legs?" Guan Xinyue raised her head and stared at him resentfully, "Do you have any morals?"

Luo Qiteng stood up, and threw down four words loudly, "The first to flirt is the cheapest!"

"You!" Guan Xinyue stared at Luo Qi, and suddenly cried.

Du Zhengyi's head was getting bigger, and he tugged on Luo Qi's trousers, "You can do it, she is only sixteen, can you give me a little bit?"

Luo Qi didn't expect her to cry. He looked at the weeping girl in astonishment, with a look of stepping on shit, with depression mixed with bad luck, and sat down behind Du Zhengyi, avoiding Guan Xinyue far away.

Du Zheng rubbed his sore temples, glanced at the cluster of will-o'-the-wisp flames raised by Roach, sighed, adjusted the burning elements, and the bonfire burned steadily and vigorously.Then, he looked at the girl who had been weeping all the time, and did not comfort her, but said calmly, "Why are you crying at Roach? It's such a small thing. Besides, you have lost so many times like this." A few relatives should already know that crying is useless."

As if there was something strange in his words, Luo Qi quietly poked his head out from behind Du Zhengyi, and saw that Guan Xinyue had really stopped the rain, his expression became inexplicably real.After those traces of hysteria or trance faded, she looked more like a real 16-year-old girl.

As soon as Du Zheng watched her quietly, he asked in a low voice by the bonfire at the bottom of the well, "Who set up this illusion trap?"

Guan Xinyue didn't answer, she lowered her head and also looked at the bonfire.

"It's your grandfather." Du Zhengyi answered for her.

"When I was young." Guan Xinyue said, her voice was already hoarse, "Grandpa would sometimes give me a small fire ball, put it in a glass jar, and remember to feed some dried lemongrass every day, Small fire balls will live for a long time and still smell good."

Roach remembered that he also had this when he was a child. It was a traditional gift for mages to amuse children. He once fed his fire balls to eat corn, but he exploded a can of popcorn, and the fire balls disappeared.That time, he was scolded miserably by his family, saying that he had violated the beautiful original intention of traditional customs, and he himself was a little embarrassed, not to mention that he was spread by the children and made a laughingstock.Now that Guan Xinyue mentioned this, he suddenly felt that Guan Xinyue was not very different from him, and he was not so like a perverted shrew. He felt a little embarrassed about his simplicity and rudeness just now.

Du Zhengyi kept looking at Guan Xinyue's face with a calm expression, "Your relationship is not that bad."

Guan Xinyue smiled strangely, "Sometimes I really wish our relationship was bad, so that it wouldn't be a big deal even if they all died."

She is such a pervert!Luo Qi thought secretly, or else it was the rebellious period of the second disease.

Du Zhengyi suddenly said from the side, "This is a way to repair yourself after being severely traumatized."

Roach shrank his neck, always feeling that Du Zhengyi's words were meant for him, as if he could hear his heart now.He hurriedly put aside those slanders, and observed Du Zhengyi's processed bonfires. They were just bonfires, which could only be used for heating and lighting, and were very boring.He moved his mind and added a few dry pine branches to the campfire.The pine branches burned in the flames, making a pleasant slight crackling sound, more like a real campfire.He was satisfied with the warm environment he created, and while listening to Du Zhengyi and Guan Xinyue talking, he stuffed two more pine branches into the campfire.

"But it's wrong." Guan Xinyue said, her eyes were big, and tears flowed from those frightened and desperate eyes again, as if she didn't notice her tears at all. "I want to know who killed them! I want to find those people! I grew up with them and I never thought we were different until they were all gone and I didn't realize I couldn't do anything. I know Magicians exist! I know your world exists! But what's the use of that? Your world will eventually destroy my world!"

Scared by the gravity and hatred of her tone, Roach absent-mindedly carved a new batch of pine branches.

"Hate." Du Zhengyi took a deep breath and said suddenly.

Luo Qi was stunned for a moment. Du Zhengyi's way of speaking was like a human AI. How could a normal person choose words and sentences like this?

Du Zhengyi himself quickly changed the mode, and his tone became more colorful, "You want to kill the mage, because you hate too much, so you don't count the loss. You understand the way our world works, so find a way to attract Mage."

Roach also thought of this.

Then Du Zhengyi uttered a single word, "Anxiety."

He paused, looking deeply at the girl with black eyes, the pupils were slightly enlarged, as if because of the light of the bonfire, there seemed to be an undercurrent in those eyes, and the pupils were astonishingly bright. "Oh——" he suddenly sighed deeply, "the anxiety is because you are hiding... what are you hiding? Hiding another girl's information."

Guan Xinyue gasped, stood up abruptly, panted and stared at Du Zhengyi, "You...you get out! Are you in my head? Are you looking at my thoughts?"

Luo Qi was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that this girl is really smart.

Du Zhengyi didn't stand up, but his expression became more relaxed again, and he waved his hand to Guan Xinyue amiably, "I can only see some emotions, and at most some fleeting thoughts. Sit down, so that we You can talk better. Even a little girl has to be reasonable, right? You know our world, don't you? Look at me and Roach are not old enough to plan something big enough to kill three mages Come on? What's more, none of us are opponents of an archmage like your grandfather."

Guan Xinyue stared at him defensively.

He smiled, "I just don't want to be cheated anymore. But don't worry, I won't look at your brain anymore, I don't have so much mental power to consume. I'm not good at mind control, and I also consumed it in the illusion just now." Too much spirit."

He was indeed tired, and his exhaustion could hardly be concealed.

Guan Xinyue stood with her back tightly against the cold wall, and Du Zhengyi waited patiently for her until she finally leaned against the wall and slid on the ground.

"I've never seen a mage outside," she said vaguely.

Du Zhengyi replied, "Masters usually don't like to live in groups."

"I mean, even after my grandfather, aunt and uncle died, no sorcerer came to ask me." Guan Xinyue said, "If it was us humans, the police would have come to the door long ago."

"Our people must have been here." Du Zhengyi said without hesitation, "They will not be seen by humans. We have standard procedures when dealing with the affairs of mages who live with humans. Moreover, I think the result of the investigation must be a natural death. "

"Lie!" Guan Xinyue said suddenly, furious, "My grandfather won't die from alcohol poisoning! A person like him can die anyway, but he won't drink himself to death!"

Du Zhengyi thought about it, but didn't speak.

"Besides," Guan Xinyue said again, "after my grandfather passed away, my sister disappeared." She gritted her teeth and spit out each word, desperate and resentful. "You guys, really, care?"

Du Zhengyi was a little hesitant. He wanted to reason with Guan Xinyue, but the little girl was obviously blinded by hatred. Although he could explain the rules of a mage's actions, all explanations to a little girl who had lost her loved ones were not enough. Neither makes much sense.And he obviously broke up with the little girl again, wanting to ask how much time she would waste if she didn't know what the situation was.

Just when he was in a dilemma, lowering his head to think, there was a sudden loud noise in his ear, he was startled, and from the corner of his eye, he saw flames rising into the sky, and the girl screamed.

Du Zheng instinctively raised his shield to protect the three of them, and then took the time to control the fire.Once he had brought the fire back to its normal size, he let out an unbearable roar, "Roach!"

He'd just been fucking noticing that Roach had been throwing stuff into the fire.

Roach was right behind him now, standing panicked against the wall, completely exposed.

"Come and sit in front of me so that I can see your hands." Du Zhengyi said angrily.

This is a request that is too deceitful, merciless, and especially asshole.But Luo Qi, who had already scared himself into a trance, didn't make sense at first, so he tiptoed, walked to the front, and sat down with Guan Xinyue across the bonfire, forming horns.

After this accident happened, Du Zhengyi and Guan Xinyue fell silent for a moment.Guan Xinyue was frightened and needed to calm down, while Du Zhengyi was probably angry.Luo Qi looked at him secretly several times in pity, and seeing that he was unlikely to pay attention to him in a short time, he turned to Guan Xinyue.He had some sympathy for her after listening to her talk just now, and his anger also subsided a lot.

In this way, I was almost unconscious, and Roach said a sentence while warming the fire, "The mage world is like that bird."

Guan Xinyue turned her head and glanced at him, but her expression softened, only tiredness remained on her face.

Du Zhengyi hurriedly asked, "What you said about your family's death yesterday is true, right?"

Guan Xinyue nodded, and added, "My sister disappeared after my grandfather passed away. She was supposed to go to university, you know... it's your kind of university. But she disappeared before the start of school. I haven't called me for a long time, and I know something must have happened to her."

"Oh," Roach said, "So you wrote those ghost posts to get in touch with the mage world? But you are worried that you will attract murderers, so you want to try first?"

Guan Xinyue straightened her neck reservedly, she was totally different from yesterday when she cried and begged them to catch ghosts.

Luo Qi snorted, "If you want to ask someone for help, just say so."

Guan Xinyue turned her head, stared at him from above the bonfire, and looked him up and down unceremoniously, "Please, is it useful? Didn't you say you're not a mage? Since you're not a mage, why don't you follow me?" What's the difference, you can do what I can't do? Because you have thick arms and legs?"

Roach blushed.

Du Zheng took a look at him and took over the topic, "Did your grandfather really have any abnormalities before he died?"

Guan Xinyue breathed a sigh of relief, and added some real upset in his expression, "He is a little abnormal, as if his brain is overwhelmed. Sometimes he chatters endlessly, saying a lot of words that I can't understand, sometimes Panic, sometimes angry, and sometimes standing alone by the window for hours in a daze, I talked to him, but he didn't respond."

Luo Qi felt that what a 16-year-old girl said was a bit exaggerated and used metaphors indiscriminately.She was not deeply involved in the world, so how could she know how a person's brain was overwhelmed?He glanced at Du Zhengyi, and found that he listened thoughtfully, but his expression was serious.He didn't want to express his opinion, and then caused Guan Xinyue to attack him with a gun and a stick.

Guan Xinyue continued, "At that time, there was indeed a woman who lived very close to my uncle. She lived in this village. I met her a few times when I went for a walk with my aunt. Every time, she acted strangely. Staring at her aunt, she was of course very angry when she saw her. She is the daughter of a family in this village. I heard that she went to a health school, graduated as a nurse in a private hospital in the city, and married a doctor there. Later, I got divorced for some reason, and I also lost my job, and moved back to my parents’ house in the countryside. That’s how I met my uncle.”

"I went to medical school and was a nurse." Du Zhengyi repeated, "You mean, she is a human?"

Guan Xinyue nodded, "A human being. So I don't understand why a human being will kill a mage. And my sister said that grandpa is a very powerful archmage." She paused, revealing Looking at the looks of some little girls, she added anxiously, "My sister is definitely not talking nonsense."

"Of course she's not bragging." Du Zhengyi said, "The illusion he created here can still be used after such a long time, and it's so complicated that only an archmage can do it."

Luo Qi suddenly felt that Du Zhengyi was quite gentle. Although his face was serious, these words were clearly comforting the little girl, which showed that Du Zhengyi was really old, old enough to know how to accommodate and care for others.

"My aunt has never been ill before." Guan Xinyue said in a low voice, "Suddenly she had a heart attack."

"Did you see that woman later?" Du Zhengyi asked.

Guan Xinyue looked disgusted and awkward, "She often comes back to the Pure Land Temple, and I've seen her a few times."

"Temple?" Du Zhengyi was a little surprised, "Can monks get married and have children?"

Guan Xinyue was taken aback, and looked at Du Zhengyi as if she was looking at a monster, "Of course not, she's not going home, she's going there to offer incense." After she finished speaking, the expression on her face became even more awkward, as if a conditioned reflex He looked up at the mouth of the well in general, and his voice became softer, as if he was afraid of being heard by someone. "I heard... I heard from girls in the village that offering incense in Jingtu Temple is very effective, and everything you ask for will be rewarded."

Luo Qi's heart moved, "Every wish will be rewarded? Just such a small rural temple?"

"That's the Pure Land School." Guan Xinyue said, "I heard that if you want to get what you want, you need to cultivate enough merit first. The greater the wish, the more merit you need to cultivate. I don't believe that gods and Buddhas will listen to people's evil thoughts. But after hearing more rumors, I am still a little scared. My grandpa and grandma dislike this temple very much, and I always hope that our sisters will stay away from it."

"Then why live next door to the temple?" Roach asked curiously.

"When we first lived here, there was no temple, and the next door was just a few dilapidated houses. I heard from the locals that it was a temple site. About four or five years ago, a gangster brother Jinpen suddenly washed his hands and returned to the village. Although I put down the butcher knife, I may not be able to become a Buddha, so I gave up my money, built a temple there, and invited a monk to live there. That person originally wanted to name the temple after his father , but the monk swore to die, so he beat him up and drove him away. Later, the elder brother died of illness, but the temple was completed, and some monks moved in someday, and then the temple suddenly disappeared. It became very effective, and many foreigners came from far away to burn incense." Guan Xinyue said.

Luo Qi let out a "huh", "If the wish is to kill people, how many lives would she have to release to count? Are you really releasing raw fish seeds?"

Du Zhengyi suddenly looked at Luo Qi, "What about you? Don't want to go to the temple and make a wish?"

Luo Qi was a little surprised. Of course he wanted to go and have a look, but he was not sure about Du Zhengyi's temper, fearing that he was talking ironically to tease himself.After all, I had already been reckless once today, and seeing Du Zhengyi's listless state of mind, he knew that he had hurt him badly.Geniuses are always impatient. Du Zhengyi's temper is not very good. He probably has used up all the trouble quotas that he can allocate to him today.

He hesitated for a few words, but Du Zhengyi seemed annoyed again, and without waiting for him to answer, he suddenly asked, "Have you ever learned the principle of space movement?"

This topic... is too jumpy.Luo Qi couldn't connect, "Learning is... I have learned a little bit." But that's just some basic theories learned in basic courses, not to mention a deep understanding.

Du Zhengyi nodded, and suddenly began to tell him all kinds of knowledge about traveling through space in an instant.Du Zhengyi's speaking style is concise and to the point. Although Roach has learned many things he said in class, Du Zhengyi tells them from a very different angle. What Roach once thought was very vague, he took it apart in a few words , Roach even understood.Later, Roach reflected on it. Du Zhengyi's explanation was full of pragmatism, and many things were based on experience rather than difficult theories.

Du Zhengyi seemed to be very happy with the talk, and completely forgot about Guan Xinyue. He was so excited that he even showed mathematical calculation formulas out of thin air. Taking jumping out of the wellhead as an example, he gave Roach a calculation from here to the backyard. How to set the coordinates on the flat ground and how to choose the reference system.

After the lecture was over, Du Zhengyi stood up, "I'm going to close this broken hub from below now."

Luo Qi and Guan Xinyue looked at each other, and followed Du Zhengyi's actions, watching him open a niche and remove the artificial crystal inside.

Luo Qi understood a little bit, "Then how do we go up? It's okay if you don't take me with you. I'll apply for a rope, and I can climb up by myself."

As soon as Du Zheng walked back, one hand fell on Guan Xinyue's forearm, helped her up from the ground, and pressed her right hand on her waist.But his face was always facing Roach, with a particularly pleasant smile on his face, "Remember the story about the little fox fairy I told? Don't get yourself stuck in the wall, be careful."

Roach was completely dumbfounded.Guan Xinyue only had time to glance at his dumbfounded face before she felt a squeeze around her body, which was very unreal, and it came and went quickly.When she regained her composure, she realized that she was standing face to face with Du Zheng in the kitchen of her home.

As soon as Du Zheng let go of her, he turned around and rummaged around in the kitchen of her house. Finally, he found a bag of tea from the upper cabinet to have a look, and then started to boil water.

Guan Xinyue looked anxiously through the window at the backyard in the thick fog. The well they were in just now couldn't even see clearly in the night.Thinking that Roach was really still there, she felt a little uncomfortable. After thinking about it, she reached out and turned on the light in the backyard.

"Are you really not going to bring him up? I heard from my grandfather that it is very difficult to move in space. Neither my aunt nor my uncle can do it."

Du Zhengyi watched the water in the kettle boil with satisfaction. He made a pot of tea and poured a cup for Guan Xinyue, "I just want to see if he dares to jump over the threshold next time."

(End of this chapter)