magician in town

Chapter 12 Straight Male Cancer and Secondary Diseases

Guan Xinyue was sitting in the kitchen of her own home, with a cup of hot tea in front of her, and the lights in the kitchen were as warm as ever.

Her grandma and aunt both love to cook and they spend a lot of time in the kitchen, so naturally she and her sister would play here after school, begging for cookies and juice, and then grandpa and uncle would find it when they got home come here.Those relaxed laughter and the smell of food didn't seem to dissipate in the air, she restrained the idea of ​​looking for them in other rooms, otherwise she might not be far from going crazy.She had searched here countless times by herself, knowing that she couldn't find them, knowing that they no longer existed.

She touched the ceramic teacup filled with hot tea, warmed her cold fingertips, and slowly forced her nerves to relax.Withdrawing her thoughts, she suddenly became curious about Du Zhengyi. He had been sitting and drinking tea very quietly, as if he didn't plan to sleep tonight.Guan Xinyue remembered that coffee and tea had the same effect on mages. Their physical structures were not much different, although the slight difference in their brains made them completely two species.

She secretly looked at Du Zhengyi again. He had the typical characteristics of their race, tall, good-looking, and indifferent.To be honest, Roach doesn't really look like a mage. He is of medium build and easy-going personality. His eyes are always bright and bright, and the expression on his face is even more negligent. It is not difficult to see that his heart must be turbulent from time to time.Roach, in other words, is one hell of a showman.She was a little thankful that it was Du Zhengyi who was alone with her at the moment, and it was too tiring to get along with Luo Qi.Du Zhengyi can swallow her emotions, and Luo Qi can add more firecrackers to all her emotions.

"Isn't Luo Qi really a mage?" She was originally grateful for Du Zhengyi's silence, but after half an hour of relative silence, she couldn't stand the silence anymore.

As if waking up from meditation, Du Zhengyi thought about her question inexplicably, before asking after a while, "Did he say that himself?"

Guan Xinyue nodded, "He hasn't moved at all now, you really don't need to go and see..."

Du Zhengyi didn't answer, but turned his eyes slightly out of the window, and the thick fog still shrouded everything. "I came here according to the time mentioned in your story, trying to confirm what you said. You hinted at the relationship between Gujing and your grandfather. There is nothing to say about it, but how did you predict the time of the fog ?”

Guan Xinyue looked out the window, "It's not all fog, it's smoke. The air condition is very bad now. The villagers are used to burning fires to keep warm when the sun sets, and the smoke soon turns into haze. The air is worse than that in the city." Oops."

Du Zhengyi showed a clear look, and asked again, "Has it always been like this?"

"It's been like this for years."

"It was the same when your grandfather lived here?"

"Yes." Guan Xinyue was finally a little surprised. "Why? The general environment is like this. The whole north is like this. What does it have to do with my grandfather?"

Du Zhengyi looked at her, "Mages like your grandfather are capable of dispelling smog in a small area."

She was stunned.

"If we want to get along with humans, we have to find a way to keep the surroundings from being too noisy and dirty." Du Zhengyi said.

Guan Xinyue raised her eyebrows again.

Du Zhengyi continued, "If we don't have the ability to purify air, water and noise, we will have no choice but to purify human beings."

Guan Xinyue took a breath, and the sarcasm she was about to spit out was swallowed hard by her.

As a result, Du Zheng smiled, and she was shocked, realizing that the mage was just joking with her.

The smile was fleeting, Du Zheng pushed her teacup to Guan Xinyue, she subconsciously picked up the teapot and filled it up for him, and it was only when she got up to refill the teapot that she remembered why she was doing this job .

But Du Zhengyi's next sentence immediately caught her attention, making her forget about the crap about pouring tea and water. "If a mage doesn't want to use his ability, it must be for better seclusion."

"Reclusive?" Guan Xinyue repeated these two words, "No one could have discovered their identities at first. Who would believe in superpowers in this day and age? Marvel fans? At most, I think our Huang Daxian's upper body, Hutong Just burn some paper in your mouth and it will break."

"The seclusion I'm talking about," Du Zhengyi pointed out to her patiently, "is relative to the seclusion in my world. Those who want to avoid are also our own people. Why are you as stupid as Roach?"

"Oh." Guan Xinyue lowered her head and rolled her eyes.

"Can I look around?" Du Zhengyi asked.

Guan Xinyue nodded.

Roach sat on the cold ground, quietly waiting for Du Zhengyi's prank to end, until his patience ran out.It took about 3 minutes in total.

He was so angry that he had to set a limit when joking, not to mention that they had only known each other for a few days, so they were not close at all.Unless it's not a joke at all, Du Zhengyi is a vengeful character, with a sour face and a hard heart, a little bastard.

He tried to climb out of the well, but unfortunately the walls were all vertical brick walls and there was nowhere to climb.Mages are always blindly confident, unlike safe humans, even if they can use the elevator to go up and down, they don't forget to build an old-fashioned staircase for emergency.The mage is much more fucked up, and never thinks about what to do if the pendragon rail system fails one day.Du Zheng only left him a way, and gave him a set of simplified courses as a gift.I don't know if that can be used for a fart?

Luo Qi was so useless for the mages, he went around the well, but it was only about forty square meters, and it didn't take long to finish the round.It was almost empty, except for a wooden shelf on one wall, on which stood a folding umbrella, some expired candies, and a dusty bucket hat.

Roach casually picked up the hat and looked at it. There were a few gray hairs inside, which must have been worn by the old mage before his death.He put the relic back, and said a few words that Amitabha didn't take it on purpose, don't come to me.

He studied the crystal removed by Du Zhengyi for a while. Unfortunately, the principle of this crystal is too profound. It is usually produced and sold by a specific mage family, and the method is rarely circulated.The crystal itself is not precious, the value lies in the power stored in it.Certain crystals store certain powers.For example, the crystals used by the Pendragon rail system - the mage's ability to move through space.

With a thought in his mind, he suddenly thought of a long-standing saying.It is said that the family that made the crystal is good at secret arts, which can intimidate the soul, trapped in the crystal, and then rely on infinite copying of the crystal to create the hard labor of infinite souls.In other words, each mage family has enslaved at least one soul to guard the gatehouse for them.In addition to storing the ability to travel through space, this crystal also has the ability to cause hallucinations, which can be regarded as very complicated.But if this was originally a crystal sold by Pendragon, it should be purely used for space travel, and the hallucinogenic ability should have been added later.The only one who can modify the crystal is the Archmage, the one who set the trap here.In other words... It is possible, very possible, that Guan Xinyue's grandfather moved part of his soul into this crystal?

He burned his fingers with his own thoughts.

But for some reason, he didn't want to let go of the crystal in his hand, but examined it carefully, slowly feeling a little sad.I don't know if it's because I thought of these legends about souls, or because I thought of the old mage who lost his beloved daughter.It didn't seem to be the case, he just thought of his own sad things.A burst of grief engulfed him, his legs lost the strength to support him, and he sat on the ground slumped.

There was one thing, one important thing, something he had sworn never to forget, and now he suddenly couldn't remember it.He tried his best to recall, but there was only a big black hole in his mind exuding severe pain. He couldn't remember what was there originally, only a wound that would never heal after a memory was uprooted.

He was not reconciled, and desperately recalled that for a while, that incident had been lurking under the water of his memory, ready to come out, but it did not show up after all.His thoughts were wild, his heart was full of sorrow, and he had nothing to do.

"Roach!" Someone called his name loudly.

He raised his head, and Du Zhengyi appeared in front of him out of thin air, looking down at him with an anxious expression, "What's wrong with you? I feel..."

"I..." He choked up.

"Fuck." Du Zhengyi said in horror, "Why are you crying? Are you crying?"

"I..." Luo Qi came back to his senses, and wiped his face with his sleeve indiscriminately, he didn't even know that he was crying.

Du Zhengyi looked at him suspiciously, looked down, and finally saw the crystal he was holding in his hand.Du Zheng was stunned for a moment, furious, "Didn't your mother tell you not to touch suspicious things casually?"

Luo Qi was startled, as if he had just realized it, and threw away the hot potato he was holding tightly.

The crystal fell to the ground and broke into three pieces.He received another death stare from Du Zhengyi, "Did I let you drop it?"

"I..." Luo Qi was at a loss for words again, but he couldn't help sobbing. He must have cried a lot just now, and now he is still a little out of breath.

Du Zheng gave him a look of resentment, and wanted to talk about him again, but he had already cried like that for no reason, so what effect could he say.

"What's wrong with you? It doesn't look like you're hallucinating."

Luo Qi couldn't figure it out, he didn't know what happened to him, but he told the story exactly.At this time, even though he knew that Cai's condition was abnormal, the sadness still lingered on him, and the feeling of loss was lingering.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Du Zheng heard what he said, he didn't even hesitate, and immediately denied his doubts, "That's not your emotion, and you haven't forgotten anything."

"But..." Roach was still a little skeptical.

Du Zhengyi interrupted him bluntly, "At your age, what painful life experience can you have?"

This is annoying, but it does make sense.Luo Qi breathed a sigh of relief, as if waking up from a nightmare. Although the strange feeling in his heart was still there, it was disappearing into the air at an alarming speed.Du Zhengyi was right, he really had no chance of pain.With both parents still alive, life is neither satisfactory nor painful.The girl's little hand has not yet been held, so there is no separation.Besides, when he thought about it for a while, no matter what stage he was in the past, his memories were sound, and amnesia was completely nonsense.

"Then...you should still be hallucinating." Roach said eagerly.

Du Zhengyi didn't answer him, he couldn't help but looked up at Du Zhengyi, to his surprise, Du Zhengyi avoided his gaze.

Luo Qi was a little puzzled, and suddenly thought of something else, "Why did you suddenly realize that you came to the well to fish me?"

Du Zheng frowned, as if impatient, "I've waited for you for three hours, but I haven't seen you try to move in space, so I came down to see why you are so cowardly."

"Three hours?" Roach was stunned. He felt that this was only a matter of one minute.But after saying this, he realized that he was frozen through, and his legs and feet were a little uncomfortable.

"If you don't come to me, I might freeze to death here." He said gratefully.

As soon as Du Zheng was told this, he immediately felt a little uncomfortable.

Luo Qi glanced at him, and belatedly realized the key point, "Oh, if I freeze to death here, you'll be the one who killed me, are you guilty? So guilty, why don't you burn paper for me every New Year's Day? "

Du Zhengyi's face darkened, but he didn't speak back.

Luo Qi is a little uncomfortable, Du Zhengyi is too sour-faced, he jokes with you when he wants to joke with you, but you just thought that you two are good buddies, so you couldn't help joking with him, but he said you turned your face Just turn around.

He licked his lips in boredom and embarrassment, trying to find something mild to say, but he didn't think of saying anything, so he just stared at Du Zhengyi squatting down to carefully collect the broken crystals.Luo Qi was annoyed, in that case, why didn't you put away the crystal just now?As if knowing it, Du Zhengyi glanced at him again, his expression cold and thoughtful.

Roach touched his nose nervously, "What?"

Du Zhengyi didn't answer him, and stretched out his hand to grab his upper arm with a stinky face. The interrogative sentence he was about to say was stuffed into his throat by an invisible strong wind.He stumbled and fell on Du Zhengyi's body, and was picked up by Du Zhengyi again. He was dizzy for a while, his stomach was overwhelmed, and he almost vomited on the floor.

Fortunately, when he raised his head, he saw a warmly lit human kitchen in front of him.There is also Guan Xinyue, who is not used to it. She is still not used to the invisibility of the mage. She jumped up when the two men suddenly appeared, and her back was pressed against the cabinet door.

Luo Qi suddenly regained his energy. Although he was still holding back his nausea, he still had the energy to criticize her, "Look at you, you are so timid, you have the nerve to claim that you killed the mage!"

Unexpectedly, Du Zhengyi whispered above his head, "She didn't faint when she came up."

The teasing expression on Luo Qi's face immediately disappeared, and Guan Xinyue looked at him gloatingly.

"It seems that you are really not suitable for space travel." Du Zhengyi added, looking up and down at Roach with an appraising look.

"Now you know that throwing me directly into the deep water is useless."

"Are you quite proud?" Du Zhengyi asked him in disbelief.

Luo Qi became irritated, not because Du Zhengyi's derogatory words hurt him, but because he had an intuition that Du Zhengyi was worried about him, and that suspicious observation was like static electricity, covering his body itchy. .He believed that he was not guessing out of thin air. As a mage apprentice with basically no ability, he had always relied on his intuition to dawdle.He thought for three seconds, "Can the crystal be handed over to Guan Xinyue for safekeeping?"

Both of them raised their heads to look at him when they heard the words, and he licked his lips, "That thing seems to have the least influence on her."

Du Zhengyi looked at him calmly, intending to ask, but also threatening.

He withstood the pressure, "If you are [-]% sure, you should take it away after the first disassembly, right? I guess your teacher is willing to study this crystal." Avoiding Du Zhengyi's gaze, He simply took out the crystal shards from his pocket and stuffed them directly into Guan Xinyue.

Guan Xinyue laughed dryly, "Swarovski? It's not very popular now."

"Maybe this is a clue, you should put it away first." Roach said, I don't know if it is the psychological effect of self-deception, but after this hot potato was confessed, he relaxed a lot. "I'm hungry, have you cooked yet?"

Guan Xinyue's face immediately turned ugly, and she said with a gun, "Why should I cook? Because I'm a girl, are you a straight man?"

"Because this is your home." Roach looked at her inexplicably. "I'm a straight male cancer, are you in the late stage of the second disease?"

Guan Xinyue stared at him, and said forcefully, "I don't know how to cook."

Luo Qi turned to Du Zhengyi helplessly, "How about...you..." He didn't dare to finish his sentence, and the intuition honed over the years of survival crisis came into play again, "How about I go buy instant noodles?"

(End of this chapter)