magician in town

Chapter 16 Beginner Village

The countryside at night is not as beautiful as the story says.For people who are used to city life, the tranquility here is rather dead, and the darkness here is like a solid, not to mention the layers of smog that fill up on time at dinner time.

"You still need to kill thirty kobolds," said Roach, who was crouching behind a dark bush. "There is no other quick upgrade route."

He looked up at the layers of smoke rushing towards him under the moonlight, "Are you ready? Even if I don't freeze to death, I'm about to be choked to death by the smoke."

No one responded to his words, and Roach poked his head out from behind the bushes, even his own breathing was too harsh in the silent wilderness.He stood in a forest in the northern country, the decayed grass was covered with thick snow, the forest was empty, and the cold wind of early spring whizzed through the forest like a leather whip, penetrating to the bone.The village was at the end of the slope below him, dimly lit.From the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, there is not even a ghost.

Damn, I don't know what to say when I leave.Roach muttered in a low voice.

In fact, he wasn't genuinely upset, things had moved forward to this point, and all he was left with was excitement.

A few hours ago, he had analyzed the current situation with Du Zhengyi. They had to force the followers of Jingtu Temple to make an urgent wish.Roach decomposed this matter into several key parts, namely the believers, the urgent wish-making environment, and the difficulty of completing the task as much as possible.If this is a game, then this sentence can be replaced with - the task NPC on this map, the conditions for unlocking the task, and the task with high experience value.

"Once this task is completed, they may be introduced to the chief!" He told Du Zhengyi.In order for Du Zhengyi to understand his metaphor, he later instructed Du Zhengyi to play the game.In the end, just as he expected, although Du Zhengyi had no expression on his face, he went up to level [-] without Panasonic Guan Xinyue's mouse.It wasn't until Roach urged him to go out to work quickly that he went out with a straight face.

As for the specific analysis process, first of all, the believers are well positioned. According to Guan Xinyue, there are a large number of Jingtu Temple believers in this village, and the Christian church next door with the red love hanging on it can't compete with the Jingtu Temple.

Luo Qi felt that this place was very similar to the Novice Village in the game.In order to create tasks, they should create a certain crisis for the village, which is an urgent wishing environment, in other words, force NPCs to post tasks.The greater the crisis, according to the calculation method of the temple, the greater the merit added to the wish will be.

After discussing with Guan Xinyue to revise his ideas again and again, Luo Qi generally had some ideas.He sketched an outline of the plan in his mind.The troubles in the village can't be as huge as landslides and ground cracks, otherwise they won't be able to deal with it.Don't be too detached from common sense, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to the school when you go back.So this trouble must be very mundane, and it cannot be separated from the things common to country people.

After that, Guan Xinyue went home, to her grandma and father's house.They didn't know how many days they would delay here. Guan Xinyue didn't have to wait here all the time, and she couldn't stay home forever.Before leaving, she confirmed the phone number with him again. In the last time they lied to each other, at least the phone number part was true to each other.In the end, they added WeChat again, and he also promised that if there was any trouble here, he would tell her in WeChat in detail.

In the end, Roach decided to create a temple release crisis, and out-of-control wild dogs with rabies symptoms were the best choice.

He and Du Zhengyi had been checking the terrain around the village in detail just now and making plans.Mages used to be very good at driving animals, but after humans ended the era of cold weapons, mages stopped using them.The reason is simple, psychic beast technology has gradually become less useful, and animals no longer have the upper hand in front of firearms.Besides, human beings are about to drive all animals to extinction. Does the mage want to psychic with the homely hens and goldfish?As mages gave up most of the gathering areas and gradually sank deeper and deeper into human society, skills that were not easy to hide, such as summoning and spiritism, lost even the last bit of value.

Fortunately, mages have been out of the retro trend recently, and the history department of the school has restored some ancient magic, including summoning and spiritism.The Department of History once held a wonderful academic report meeting for this purpose, and Roach was deeply impressed by it.He was also very fortunate that Du Zhengyi didn't pick his mouth, he learned a lot, he knew at least a little in every field, and he knew his school's innovative projects like the back of his hand.

Luo Qi's only worry is that Du Zhengyi's strength cannot be retracted freely. After all, they are in a human village now, and they can't really do anything big. Don't let the psychic beast hurt people, otherwise he will be killed in the future. I can no longer touch my conscience.

When Du Zhengyi was doing business, he didn't talk much, and when he checked the terrain around the village and in the mountains, he didn't say a word, and Luo Qi was very worried.Roach himself chattered and designed a vertical and horizontal route to make it easier for Du Zhengyi's mad dog to pass through, but Du Zhengyi ignored him.He reminded him to pay attention like an old mother, but Du Zhengyi still ignored him.He wanted to say something else in exchange for a little interaction, so he started to talk about Du Zhengyi's game strategy, but it turned out to be good, and Du Zheng disappeared without saying a word.

Now Luo Qi is standing alone in the mountain forest, feeling the wind is getting stronger and stronger. Although the temperature is still very low, there are already some shadows of spring winds.He raised his head and looked at the top of the tree. Through the sparse branches, he could see the thin clouds flowing in the sky, and the edge of the half moon hanging high on the top of the mountain became clearer and clearer.The smog was gradually dissipating in the strong wind, and he smelled a trace of real air, coming from the depths of the forest, with the fragrance of earth.

A gust of wind stopped just at this time, and the silence enveloped the forest again, and Roach heard a slight sound of trampling dead branches.

"Brother?" He asked softly, but no one answered him, so he asked again tentatively, "Du Zhengyi?"

He listened, and another gust of wind blew up, and he could hear nothing but the sound of the wind.A chill down his spine made him lean against the thick trunk of an old tree.

At about this time, there was the first long howling like a wolf and a dog from the bottom of the mountain. Several groups of black shadows ran across the path between the cottages, and Roach could almost hear their heavy footsteps.Then, all the dogs in the village barked.

The bottom has already been tossed about by Du Zhengyi.Luo Qi was distracted by the chaos at the foot of the mountain, and the lights in the village were lit up one after another, and the villagers who had always saved electricity finally paid off.

Roach felt sorry for them, and began to wonder if there was anything else that Du Zhengyi should be reminded of.I don't know when it started, the wind stopped again, the mountains were quiet, and the hustle and bustle of the village sounded like a goldfish bowl, all of Roach's senses were amplified by the silence.

He shivered, woke up from his disturbing thoughts, raised his head blankly, and finally stared at the dark woods a few steps away.The pale bark of several birch trees reflected faintly in the moonlight.

It seems that there is a wind blowing, which is opposite to the direction of the wind just now.There was a faint static in the wind, slightly hallucinatory, but it was the sting of fear.Like the deepest fear etched in his genes, the most primal instinct ran down his spine.He lowered his head involuntarily, lowered his body's center of gravity, and retracted his neck.

His left hand went numb for a while, as if he was excited after drinking six cups of strong coffee.

It happened at this very moment, and the lowered angle of view made him meet a pair of green eyes shining under the moonlight. The thing was definitely not human, but it was as high as the chest of an adult man. He blurred Knowing that it was a giant.

Roach's mind went blank, and then instinct took over his body, he shrank suddenly, and rolled to the grass beside him.

The sound of the wind passed behind his ears almost immediately, and the ferocious force of passing by made him think that the thing would definitely hit a tree.

But the heavy footsteps behind him fell lightly, and that thing had an agility that didn't match its weight.Roach didn't dare to stop at all, and rolled a few times in a row, beware of that thing launching a second attack immediately.

There was silence in the wind, and Roach got up from the ground in shock, not knowing whether he should be confused or afraid.With some strength in his hands, he raised his head and looked at the place where he was standing two meters away, but the focal length was simply wrong.As soon as he raised his head, his whole body was exhausted, and he almost collapsed to the ground.A pair of bright eyes looked at him close at hand, and the thing followed him silently just now.His fine hair stood on end, and he opened his mouth to make a sound, but he only took a mouthful of the cold night wind, mixed with the cold light snow blown up by the wind.

shit.

He finished the swear word in his mind.

He thought of a cat catching mice, approaching silently, calculating cunningly, and only saving the fatal blow at the right time.Now he is a mouse, and that ginger-yellow giant cat is majestic, and there seems to be intelligence in his piercing eyes.Did he really see a lion?

He suddenly became indignant, did Du Zhengyi have any clues, and told him that he wanted a dog and a dog!Could it be that he couldn't tell the difference between a lion and a dog?Or was that how he understood the word "poodle"?A yellow dog with a length of three meters and a weight of 500 catties?After finishing the work, he will give Du Zhengyi a good education on what human words are.

Luo Qi felt a sudden chill. Could it be that all the people in the village below are running around like this now?He already thought of the scenario where he would never get his diploma.

He restrained the primitive timidity in his body, he knew that this was a laboratory-bred lion.Their brains are different from those of real lions, not as complete as lions in nature.In other words, it is much stupider than lions in natural ecology. This is why animal protectionists have always opposed the restoration of spiritism and summoning. It is somewhat inhumane to create such things.Their incomplete brains wait for the human mind to join them and patch them up.They are more like the kind of mechs that humans aspire to realize. Part of Du Zhengyi's thinking must be wandering in its mind at the moment, maybe it's just some subconsciousness, some simple instructions, but in the final analysis, it is responding to Du Zhengyi now. will.

That's why Roach got a little frightened after being frightened.

The Lion looked at him without moving.

"You're playing tricks on me, aren't you?" He became even more annoyed. Du Zhengyi must have deliberately frightened him.

"Go away." He waved his hand in front of the lion puppet.

The lion stared at him, its huge head tilted with his movements, it was a little ignorant and cute.

Luo Qi smiled, thinking it was a bit amusing, and boldly stretched out his hand to touch the mane of the man-eating beast, thinking that it looked a bit like Du Zhengyi's mentor, the lion-like old mage. "You're still a little cute, but get out of here."

Roach withdrew his hand, scowled, and taught like a dog, "Sit down!"

A low growl came from the giant beast's throat, and Roach trembled instinctively, then he frowned again when he came back to his senses, "Why are you still threatening me?"

He had barely finished his words, and just as he was shouting, he saw the lion baring its teeth.A giant claw seemed to be carelessly waving across his chest, but it was too fast to distinguish, and Luo Qi was knocked down to the ground in a blink of an eye.

A slap from the lion scratched his clothes, and when he was in severe pain in his chest, he saw feathers flying all over the sky in front of his eyes, as if an angel had descended, and he hoped it was an angel from Victoria's Secret.Then the lion stomped him almost out of breath, and his mind cleared up a lot. He remembered that his down jacket must have been scratched, and he had to ask Du Zhengyi to pay for his clothes.

His numb left hand gathered the strength that he could hardly muster on weekdays. This was basically the explosion of the limit of his mage power. He didn't have the illusion that he had the power to overturn his hand. He raised his hand and threw a violent flash .

The animal with good night vision roared, its eyes were hurt, and it instinctively moved aside.Luo Qi wanted to take the opportunity to get up and escape, but he didn't move himself with a little effort. His chest pain was so painful that he was dying, and it was difficult to breathe. His right hand, which could still move, felt wet on his chest.I'm afraid his ribs have been crushed by this overweight thing, but I hope his internal organs are all right.

And that lion seemed to be completely enraged, it retreated a little bit and then jumped up for the second time, Roach saw its dark white teeth go straight to his neck under the bright light, he closed his eyes, death came It was too fast, he didn't have time to be afraid at all, he just vaguely thought about the way he died was a bit worthless.

The sharp teeth with a huge bite force stopped near his neck, and Roach waited stiffly, his scalp tingling and smelling the pungent smell of blood on the lion's body.But this moment was prolonged, until he got impatient and opened his eyes suddenly.He was surprised to see a strange scene, the lion seemed to be contending with some invisible force, as if two instinctive forces were tearing it apart.It stared at Roach, with extreme bloodthirsty desire in its eyes, eager to bite Roach's soft and warm neck.But it shook its head uneasily, as if trying to restrain its desire to kill, it looked like a lion suffering from schizophrenia.

At the same time, Roach himself was panting with difficulty. He could feel the vitality flowing out of his body little by little. He might become one of the rare people who was trampled to death by a lion.Life is useless, death is aggrieved.He seemed to see a human figure out of the corner of his eyes. When that shadow completely transformed into a human being, a force fighting against the lion won, and the male lion retreated abruptly.

Roach gasped for breath, and the scene in front of him became dark, but his beating heart finally slowed down, and the cold air poured into his lungs, and he felt better.He felt that Du Zhengyi was beside him, his fingers were working softly and swiftly on his chest, and he was calling his name in an almost gentle voice.Hospice?

Luo Qi sighed in his mind, and wanted to pass his full-level game account to Du Zhengyi as an inheritance, but before he could speak, he fell into darkness.

(End of this chapter)