magician in town

Chapter 38 Du Zhengyi

Chapter 37

Du Zhengyi woke up from a chaotic dream, which tormented him, and he was more tired when he fell asleep than when he was awake.

He sat up from the single bed, lifted the gray quilt, walked to a narrow mirror standing in the corner, and looked at himself with the most boring eyes.

The mirror is a cheap product surrounded by white plastic tubes. There are simply a few hooks on the wall next to the mirror, on the most common black plastic hangers, on which are two pieces of clothes that Du Zhengyi usually wears.There is a plastic stool underneath, which can be used as a shoe stool.

With a cold face, he changed into the clothes for going out, and finally walked back to the bed, and picked up his usual energy crystal from the plastic stool used as a bedside table.The crystal is set in a silver turtle and snake pendant, which is worn by a silver chain.The energy stored in a crystal is not directly proportional to its appearance volume, but its preciousness is inversely proportional to its size.He put the chain around his neck and tucked it roughly into the innermost part of his clothes, letting the cold thing stick tightly to his chest.

Du Zhengyi's apartment is not big, including the bathroom, it does not exceed [-] square meters in total, and the window still faces east.On the opposite side of the room is a set of six-door white cabinets, two as bookcases and one as a utility cabinet.A desk was squeezed out of the space less than one meter between the bookcase and the east wall, and there was nothing on the desk.In the middle of the east wall was a small window with white shutters. Even when Du Zhengyi was at home, the shutters were half closed most of the day.

In a word, this place is extremely inconsistent with Du Zhengyi's appearance.

As a genius who fully knows that he is a genius, Du Zhengyi lacks patience, is inevitably domineering, behaves in style, and does not hesitate to show off his strength.But it was cold, dead and silent, and there was almost no breath of living people.

He stood straight in the middle of the room with no expression on his face, staring at the shutters, and slowly buttoned up the sleeves of his shirt.

A burst of unfamiliar buzzing pierced through the pool of stagnant water in the room. Du Zhengyi frowned and turned his head to look for the source of the sound.

An old iPhone 4 was vibrating on the plastic stool under the clothes rack. Guan Xinyue had stuffed the phone into him when he left Guan's old house. The original owner was Guan Xinyue's grandfather.He almost forgot all about it, and dropped the phone there when he got home, not expecting it to still have power.

Du Zhengyi walked over and picked up the phone.There was only one person who would make this call, he hesitated for a moment, and finally answered the call.

"Brother," Guan Xinyue called out cautiously. She imitated Luo Qi's way of addressing her, probably to get closer to each other.But Guan Xinyue is not a girl who is good at flattering people, so she calls her intimate names very bluntly.

Du Zhengyi didn't bother to answer.

"Hello?" Guan Xinyue said, "Are you there?"

Du Zhengyi kept quiet almost bored, but the other party somehow found confidence and said with certainty, "You must be listening, right?"

There was no flattering meaning in the voice anymore, it became more like Guan Xinyue.

"Yes." Du Zhengyi said.

"I want to meet you, and I want to talk to you about something." Guan Xinyue said.

"Let's talk on the phone."

"It's not convenient to talk on the phone," Guan Xinyue insisted, "Besides, I don't know if I will be tapped. I have a lot to say, and it's not safe to say it on the phone."

"Magicians are not good at electronic products, so no one will listen to them." Du Zhengyi said indifferently.

Guan Xinyue was shaken by his attitude, but she was still not repelled. She tried to find an angle that could persuade him. "I want to ask about Roach, and I want to talk to you face to face."

"I don't need to tell you." Du Zheng said indifferently, thinking about hanging up the phone.

But Guan Xinyue has always been determined and good at finding the right time, "Then there is something about my grandfather, I don't need to tell you."

Du Zhengyi hesitated, weighing the ability of a 16-year-old kid to speak freely.He silently pushed the pressure on Guan Xinyue, and heard Guan Xinyue's shortness of breath on the phone. If she gave more information on the phone, then he would ignore her.

It's a pity that Guan Xinyue withstood the pressure, and also withstood the clumsy strategy of not being selected to prove credible.

"Come and meet me at the teahouse last time." She said decisively, and hung up the phone neatly with a hint of baboon-like irritability.

Facts have proved that Guan Xinyue is very good at negotiating, even if her strength is crushed by the opponent, she can still win the chance to gain the upper hand.

Guan Xinyue didn't say when they met, but Du Zhengyi knew that she was very familiar with the mage and had a general understanding of the speed of the mage's actions, so the time of the meeting should be now.He also knew that with Guan Xinyue's patience to spend several months luring the mage to come to her door, if he didn't go, she would probably wait forever, and this matter would never end.

He was taken into the army by the little girl, and when he came to the teahouse where Guan Xinyue worked and played the piano, Guan Xinyue seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time, until her mobile phone almost ran out of battery.

She was sitting in a corner of the teahouse, in a good position, with her back against the wall, monitoring the entire teahouse from the front.This seat is also next to the window, which faces the courtyard of the teahouse.It is morning now, there is no one in the teahouse, ancient music is playing on the stereo, and the sound of the flute is like weeping and complaining.

As soon as Du Zheng sat down, Guan Xinyue threw away her phone and quickly poured him a cup of tea. "What the hell happened to Roach?"

"I don't know." Du Zhengyi looked at her and said.

Guan Xinyue's expression froze, her cheeks turned red slightly, but she was quite mature, "If it's not convenient for you to tell me, you just need to tell me if he's all right now."

"I don't know what I said, just the literal meaning." Du Zhengyi said, drinking the tea in the teacup. "I have no idea."

Guan Xinyue was slightly taken aback, thought for a while and continued, "I guess he still has something to do. I sent him a WeChat message, but he never replied. Later, I called his phone, but he still couldn't get through."

Du Zhengyi interrupted her, "Is there anything you can't say on the phone? Why do you have to let me come over?"

Guan Xinyue forced a smile, picked up the teapot and carefully refilled the tea for him, and also filled her own teacup. "Even face-to-face interviews are so difficult, how can we talk over the phone?"

Du Zhengyi didn't say a word about what she told the truth.

"Can't you think of a way?" Guan Xinyue looked at his face and said slowly.

"I have notified his parents and reported it to the authorities." Du Zhengyi said, frowning impatiently, "The matter will naturally be resolved."

Guan Xinyue didn't seem to hear him, her eyes fell on the napkin on the table, and she stubbornly repeated what she just said, "Can't you think of a way?"

Du Zhengyi took a deep breath. He used to see Guan Xinyue arguing with Luo Qi furiously before. She looked capricious and exaggerated. She was a middle school girl, so he didn't know that she could be so difficult.

"I won't stand up for anyone." Du Zhengyi said darkly, and kindly added an explanation, "I don't have that much time."

"Oh." Guan Xinyue whispered, lowering her eyes.

Du Zheng guessed that she was finally frustrated and angry, and she should also start to be depressed.He thought it was time to stand up and leave, but he didn't want to hear Guan Xinyue's strange tone, "You have dark circles under your eyes, have you looked in the mirror?"

Du Zhengyi looked at her in silence. She nervously folded a napkin with a lotus flower on it, folded it in half again, kept folding the napkin smaller, then opened it, and folded it in reverse.She just lowered her head like this, as if she was talking to the tissue, "You're actually worried about him."

Du Zhengyi felt that he was beginning to loathe humans.

"How bad is it?" she asked again, unexpectedly.

"I said, I won't stand up for anyone." Du Zhengyi said coldly, "It's not that I can't, it's that I don't want to."

Startled by his vague anger, Guan Xinyue shrank slightly, lowered her head and asked in a low voice, "Why?"

"You saw my dark circles, yes, you saw the traces of my conscience." Du Zhengyi said irritably, and then laughed softly, "He is still so young and completely innocent, and he may soon die due to the conspiracy of a lunatic Now, once I know him, of course I will feel uncomfortable. But I think time will help me get over this sadness."

Guan Xinyue raised her head in surprise, and looked at Du Zhengyi in disbelief. Her cheeks were flushed and her eyebrows became lighter.Du Zhengyi saw her face full of anger, but finally felt relieved.

"Strange," she murmured. "You were more human when Roach was around. Is that what Roach's mascot is for?"

Du Zhengyi's expression froze, as if he had thought of something, but he didn't grasp the thought, and immediately put his disgust for this world back on his face.

"It's useless to talk about conscience or moral thinking." Guan Xinyue seemed to see something from his expression, she snorted a little cynically. "Roach said that you have a bigger goal. As an ordinary person, I definitely have no way to understand it, and I can't get involved. For me, I only know that a black hole has appeared in my home. Since it appeared , One person after another was involved, and I didn't know when it would be my turn."

"If you keep looking into the abyss, one day the abyss will look back at you." Du Zhengyi said in a low voice.

Guan Xinyue shivered, she turned her head to look out of the window, it was still sunny outside in early spring, the sun's tone had warmed up, and it was no longer pale like winter.But she was sitting here, sitting across from a gloomy magician, and everything seemed a lifetime away.

"Although that's the case," Guan Xinyue said, "but I hate it. It ruined all the good things in my life, but I don't even know what it is. I can't pretend that the abyss doesn't exist, it has always been There, it keeps torturing me in my head. And my sister, still missing, I have to find her too. I know, maybe I won't find my sister in the end, and I won't be able to kill this in the end Black hole, I really don’t have much power, but at least I won’t let it always go my way! Now that I know it’s engulfing Roach now, I must make it impossible—my idea is that simple!”

"You hope to convince me with a speech?"

Guan Xinyue sighed for a long time, and Du Zhengyi almost thought that he was bullying the little girl, and that he was invincible.Unexpectedly, Guan Xinyue raised her head, and a hint of arrogance emerged from her face, "No, I plan to hire you at a price."

Du Zhengyi looked at her, "Tell me about it."

"I use a storage crystal belonging to Guan Yushan as a reward." Guan Xinyue said.

Du Zheng looked at her expressionlessly, as if evaluating the truth of her words.She looked at him, and probably knew that he was not so convincing, so she planned to say something more to prove that her quotation was not a fake.Unexpectedly, just when she was about to speak, Du Zhengyi seemed to have been hit, and his expression suddenly changed.He suddenly raised his hand and pressed it on Guan Xinyue's forearm, and ordered roughly, "Don't talk!"

Guan Xinyue was taken aback. She looked into Du Zhengyi's eyes, which were now as sharp as a falcon.He raised his hand and made a slight gesture to keep her still.However, his own body posture gradually relaxed. He seemed to be listening to something, and seemed to be able to extend the nerve endings infinitely. He seemed to feel something, and his body posture was almost completely still.

Guan Xinyue didn't know what he felt. She was sure that there was no one around them. She was sitting against the corner, and her vision was very wide. Wherever she saw, there was not even a place to hide.

(End of this chapter)