magician in town

Chapter 24 Birdman

Chapter 23 Birdman

They sat down at the kitchen table, and Roach had just finished washing his hair, which was still dripping wet, and he rubbed it twice in annoyance.

It took a few years for this place to die slowly, and even long after the mages here were dead, no one cared about it.But all of a sudden, two waves of mages came, just as they were making noise in this wave.

During the few days they were away, Du Zhengyi arranged things very well, and there was still chaos around the village.Although there was no incident of hurting people, the villagers were really disturbed and organized a dog-beating operation, which of course failed.Originally, villagers should go to the city to seek help from relevant departments at such times, but the normal process always takes time, and it has become a habit for them to enjoy the convenience brought by the temple.Therefore, the wishing card was hung up yesterday afternoon.

Regardless of the urgency or the difficulty of completing it, this wish was almost immediately judged by the temple as a wish of high merit.From this point of view, the high experience value task Roach wanted to create has been completed.According to Du Zhengyi's inquiry this morning, if they have time to finish this matter, they will definitely be able to accumulate enough merit to enter the hall and make an appointment with the master.

But in the early hours of this morning, maybe when they returned to the Guan family's old house, someone rushed over and killed all the psychic dogs.

Isn't this finding fault?

Du Zhengyi's lion was supposed to play a leading role, but he searched the surrounding forest all morning, but there was no sign of a lion.The most likely result is that the lion was also killed by people. For unreasonable creatures that cannot see the light, the mage's practice has always been to directly destroy them.

This angered Du Zhengyi more than anything else, probably because he felt sorry for his pet, but also because he never had the chance to bring the lion back to the laboratory to carefully examine what caused it to attack Roach.

Luo Qi intuitively felt that this matter had something to do with Li Xu, otherwise it would be a coincidence.

Guan Xinyue listened for a long time, then interrupted worriedly, "The lion and the dog are dead, do you need to pay for the lost experimental equipment? If necessary, I will save money to compensate you in the future."

Luo Qi suspected that she was acting cute maliciously. If he said this, it is impossible for Du Zheng to continue beating him in a while, but when the girl said it, he looked amiable, and even controlled the anger just now.

Old pervert!

"Today is the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar. It is said that a guru will come here," Du Zhengyi said with a sullen face. "Our fellow clan who is blocking the way will definitely come here too."

They talked about these things for a while, but they didn't come up with anything.After Du Zhengyi had briefly described what happened, he didn't bother to repeat the details, and Roach couldn't chase him for endless questions. They could only wait for the further development of the situation.Roach kept coming up with one idea after another, but they were all far-fetched and useless.He also didn't feel that he should talk to Du Zhengyi about his dream now, he was annoying enough, he shouldn't bother him with his dream.What's more, since he opened his eyes, the details of the dream poured out like water in the palm of his hand. The only thing he remembered was that Li Xu seemed to have killed Du Zhengyi.Unless he wanted to be beaten, he would tell Du Zhengyi about it.

He emphasized to himself at least three times in his heart that it was impossible for Li Xu to kill Du Zhengyi. Now that it is a civilized society of mages, murder is a felony in any society, and the Supreme Council cannot let the murderer go.Not to mention that Du Zhengyi is still the proud student of that great mage, Pei Shu is one of the greatest mages in a century, his influence is enough to promote huge power, Du Zhengyi is not some unknown person.

It's just that when he thought this way, he faintly felt more uneasy.Guan Xinyue's grandfather didn't look like an unknown mage either, he died in this room.Thinking about Pei Shu's identity again, doesn't he want to investigate the cause of the death of a reclusive archmage?

Would it be reasonable if Pei Shu sent his favorite student to investigate the death of an archmage?The so-called social survey, as his friend Liu Xing pointed out, was just a cover to deceive people.It might be a little unreasonable to bring Luo Qi together, but Pei Shu said that Luo Qi understands human society very well, but Du Zhengyi doesn't.It is also reasonable to explain it this way.

But in this way, it still can't explain why Teacher Liu Li said that he was selected because of his high L value?Teacher Liu Li is not a person with a great sense of humor.

When he came here, the three of them were wandering around the village.Du Zhengyi glanced at him suddenly, "What's wrong with you? Why are you suddenly so angry when we're idling around in such a fine weather? Can you quarrel with yourself?"

Guan Xinyue seemed to be waiting there, and immediately filled the gun, "Auntie is here."

Luo Qi was stunned for a moment, and glanced at the two of them angrily, too angry to speak.

They had been wandering around the village for a long time, Quan Zuo observed the environment, and Luo Qi had already memorized most of the people related to Guan Xinyue's family by heart.This is really a boring village. The architectural style is surprisingly consistent and lacks aesthetic feeling. At noon, drunk people start to appear, wobbling on motorcycles, which shows that the spiritual civilization is not very good.There was a lack of people on the village road, and a few dirty children ran out to play for a while. The theme of the game was still bullying a dog. Luo Qi went to stop it, and the child gave him a "grass mud horse" and ran away.

He really didn't understand why the great mage of the Guan family chose this kind of place to remain independent!

They stopped at the entrance of the village to bask in the sun and drive away their boredom. This bland and vulgar small village outside the city is really meaningless, not even a little bit of beauty.Roach felt that as a mage, he shouldn't choose this place to die.This place is not as fun as the nervous Guan Xinyue.

Two women came out of the village, as if they were going to catch a bus at the bus stop outside the village.When they saw Guan Xinyue, they greeted her and called her the little girl of the Guan family. Guan Xinyue folded her arms and ignored her.Obviously, the Guan family themselves are out of place here.

Luo Qi also wanted to criticize Guan Xinyue's impoliteness, but Guan Xinyue suddenly became angry for some reason, and directly attacked him, saying that he had a crush on someone——wife. Du Zhengyi didn't understand.In fact, Du Zhengyi didn't participate in the conversation between the two of them at all.

Luo Qi ignored Guan Xinyue boredly, and Guan Xinyue ran to the other side of Du Zhengyi and stood there, pretending to be hurt.Roach really didn't know where she was hurt, and he refused to speak softly.

A small bus running on the suburban line came from the bus station outside the village. The car body was shattered several times, and the car was not very environmentally friendly. When passing by them, the exhaust fumes sprayed the faces of the three of them.Roach's mood was even worse, "Sometimes you humans are like the virus on this planet."

Guan Xinyue immediately fought back, "Down with the ****!"

Roach turned his head to stare at her, her face was accurately hidden behind the shadow of Du Zheng's shoulder, and she just couldn't see her from Roach's perspective.Luo Qi's gaze was attracted by the group of people squeezed out of the bus door behind Guan Xinyue, a tall and slender man naturally fit into the crowd, as if he just got off the bus .But when he glanced over for the first time just now, he didn't see this person.Roach believed in his own judgment. Among a group of locals wearing various furs and taking the bus, this young man wearing Canada Goose, stepping on Chelsea boots and combing fashionable "yin and yang hair" was out of place here.He had two long legs and a slender neck. When Roach saw him, he thought of a water bird, and a familiar feeling twisted his stomach.

Birdman took a few steps forward on his two long legs, and his eyes suddenly drifted to this side. He has a pair of sharp eyes and a nice slender face.His eyes jumped, as if taken aback, and then he burst out laughing, as if laughing at his fright.

Birdman straightened his collar and came over, looking radiant. He seemed to have increased the exposure of the foreground, as if he had entered a state of awakened consciousness, and his face was as radiant as if a peacock had opened its tail.

He looked at Guan Xinyue pretentiously, gave Luo Qi a self-righteous perfunctory smile, then turned to Du Zhengyi who was standing in the middle, and said in a fake manner, "Brother, I seem to have seen you somewhere?"

Guan Xinyue raised her mean little face that was always full of sarcasm, smiled, and asked bitterly, "Are you going to make a date with my brother, buddy? Buddy?"

The bird man ignored Guan Xinyue's words with a high attitude, and the adults smiled a lot.When he smiled, the corner of his mouth on the right was much higher than the left.This person, this smiling face, Roach will never forget.

There was ice in Roach's stomach, and his heart was beating fiercely in his chest. The scenes from countless nightmares came back again. In a trance, he felt the coldness of the railroad tracks again, and smelled the smell of dry grass and mud. You can hear the sound of the wind blowing through the decayed grass, and the huge roar of the approaching train, and the earth trembles in this roar.Desperation and fear engulfed him, and he wanted to watch one of his legs crushed by the heavy and cold machinery.

He still remembers Birdman's voice, his shrill whistle still scratching Roach's ears in some of his dreams, excitedly encouraging his dumbass friends, bragging about the Lotus Burner's guide to membership, Roach Qi is their vote.

Birdman noticed something, and looked at Roach suspiciously, his expression changed slightly, and he said hesitantly, "Brother, you also look a little familiar."

Luo Qi swallowed silently, so he had already forgotten the incident three years ago.His throat was muffled, and his thighs were filled with lead.

Guan Xinyue snorted, "Then do I look familiar to you?"

Du Zhengyi interrupted them. He looked at Birdman and suggested, "Talk to a place with few people?"

Birdman's attention was attracted by this person who exuded the aura of being in charge, and he readily obeyed.

They came to the frozen pond outside the village. The tall willow trees and bushes surrounding the national road outside the village blocked the prying sight from the village.Luo Qi left Guan Xinyue on the side of the road. He stopped for a while, and told her to stand in a conspicuous position out of Birdman's hearing range, and not to go out of his sight.Guan Xinyue nodded gloomily in agreement, but fortunately she was willing to cooperate most of the time.

Du Zhengyi and Birdman walked towards the snow-covered pond. From a distance, they looked like two urbanites who came to the countryside to find fun in the countryside. Roach quickened his pace and chased after them.

"The dog is yours?" he heard Birdman ask indifferently.

"Both the dog and the lion belong to Laboratory 57. You need to submit proof materials to the laboratory and wait for the committee to deduct your credit points as appropriate." Du Zhengyi said honestly, looking surprisingly patient.Luo Qi couldn't help feeling a little different. He walked to a place one step behind Du Zhengyi, and didn't want to speak rashly.

"Oh, so." Birdman laughed, revealing a mouthful of shining white teeth. "Okay, okay. You really acted according to the rules. Sorry, brother, how do you say it according to the world? Yes, you were cut off by me."

Roach frowned, his dislike for the birdman burned in his heart, and his ears were filled with the sound of the tide of blood in his own body.

Du Zhengyi didn't seem to notice his cynicism, and showed restraint and politeness.With the reasonable patience of an adult, his face was calm, and his words were polite, "It may be a misunderstanding. We are students from the Northern District College, and we are responsible for investigating the supernatural sighting of the human girl over there. During the investigation, we discovered that There are some doubts, and I am trying to understand and complete the report.”

Birdman smiled, "When I saw the psychic beast, I guessed it was from the North College, but I didn't expect it to be a student." His eyes flicked between the two of them, and he couldn't help laughing again, "Your college Really like the duo, the tradition of the tortoise and the snake?"

He was referring to the totem of their school. The mage and the origin of human culture are intertwined. There are four universities with the longest history on this continent. The school has always been named after the direction. In history, the names of gods and beasts and gossip .But as time went by, the beast became a tattoo on the arm of the hooligan, and the gossip was reduced to the art of the blue bird. After several rounds of slow changes, the name of the school finally became the College of Southeast and Northwest honestly, with "" The form of the word "工" hastily divided the scope of enrollment on the earth.

However, despite the vicissitudes of life, people say that change is the only eternity, but there are still some things that will not change drastically, such as the totem of the academy.

Du Zhengyi took out a copper button from his pocket, and Roach knew what it was at a glance.He was familiar with that thing, because he had one too, and every mage apprentice in the school had his own brass button.The seal on the top of the copper button is a snake and turtle representing Xuanwu, and it is one of the four-way totems intertwined with turtles and snakes. The seal below is engraved with the student's name.As soon as Du Zheng took this out, he was actually confessing his identity.

Birdman took the copper button, weighed it in his hand, turned it over and glanced at the name, he seemed to have no impression of Du Zhengyi's name, and his expression became more and more disapproving.He turned the seal over again, looked at the stamp on it, and made a grimace. "Snake wrapped around a tortoise, tsk, it's a bit lewd. You know that this school badge was a symbol of fertility in ancient times, right? Xuanwu is the god of fertility." He may think his jokes are funny, but some insiders You can open it casually, but the context is not very good when outsiders say it.

Du Zhengyi took the copper button he returned, nodded politely, and for some reason he explained in a tone of a university lecturer, which sounded a bit wooden, "The ancients regarded it as inconceivable that a snake sheds its skin and regenerates. In many ancient cultures Snakes mean reincarnation and eternal life; turtles enjoy longevity, needless to say. The northern totem is a symbol of longevity and eternal life, and Xuanwu is the god of destiny."

Luo Qi looked at him suspiciously, wondering what Du Zheng was doing as soon as he arrived.

Birdman was amused by Du Zhengyi, and his expression was a little helpless, probably because he didn't expect Du Zhengyi to seriously reason with him. "That's it..."

"May I ask who you are?" Du Zhengyi asked seriously.

"I'm an executive mage." Birdman said quickly, as if he was afraid that Du Zhengyi would continue to tell him about the totem. "Sent by the committee. You can probably guess why I came here. Is that girl the old man's granddaughter? Isn't she a mage?" He nodded in Guan Xinyue's direction with his chin.

Roach instinctively did not express anything, staring at Du Zhengyi closely.Du Zhengyi frowned slightly, "According to the regulations, I would like to ask you to show the proof first, after all, this matter is somewhat sensitive."

"Oh, that's right, that's how it should be." Birdman said with a smile, his words somewhat mocking the students, and he stretched out his left hand towards Du Zhengyi with the palm facing upwards.On his thumb was a green jade wrench, like an old thing.

Du Zhengyi didn't respond to his actions.He smiled helplessly, and his impatience became more obvious, "You don't know what it means, do you? You need to touch my crystal, hurry up, there is my identification information in it."

Du Zhengyi nodded as if he had just figured it out, and turned to look at Roach.Roach mechanically stepped forward, stretched out his right hand and placed it on Birdman's outstretched palm, and did not have time to think about why Du Zhengyi asked him to do it for him.

He carefully only touched the jade wrench with his little finger, but the flow of information was still flowing smoothly. He suddenly thought that the equipment of Birdman was not low in value.Then his brain felt the formation of the information. This feeling was like an epiphany in meditation, or a puzzle that suddenly became clear.Some information naturally became a part of his memory. He knew that "Birdman"'s real name was Zhao Zhiyan. He was 29 years old this year and was currently the second-level executive mage of the mage committee.

That's all the information Zhao Zhiyan disclosed to him.He withdrew his hand, clenched into a fist unconsciously, turned his head to look at Du Zhengyi, and told Du Zhengyi the situation.

"Can this information be confirmed as true?" Du Zhengyi asked him.

Roach was embarrassed for a while, he was not able to tell whether the information in the crystal was legally authorized, nor could he tell whether the information had been disguised.He has learned the theoretical knowledge of appraising these things, and he can probably pass the written test, but it is a pity that it does not help in practice.

Both Du Zhengyi and Zhao Zhiyan looked at him, he hesitated, "I can't tell the truth from the fake."

"Okay." Du Zhengyi said neatly.

Roach froze for a moment.I don't know if it's an illusion, but Du Zhengyi said the word extremely lightly, as if he was in a good mood.At the same time, the wind died down.There is a tension in the air, and static electricity that seems to be there is entwined around, as if between the last bird song and the next bird song, the world stopped.

illusion?Luo Qi was in a daze for a moment, and then saw Zhao Zhiyan's unbelievable expression.A sound of ice cracking came from under Zhao Zhiyan's feet, and his body fell suddenly. He could barely maintain his standing posture, and lowered his head to look at his ankle with a strange expression.

He stepped into the ice hole with one foot, and the water under the ice of the pond wetted his trousers.

Roach took a silent step back.Following Zhao Zhiyan's line of sight, he clearly saw a skinny hand sticking out from the ice hole, tightly grasping Zhao Zhiyan's calf.

(End of this chapter)