magician in town

Chapter 43 The Lotus Burner

Chapter 42 Lotus Burner

"What exactly is a lotus burner?" Guan Xinyue couldn't hide her curiosity, "Can I ask?"

Jin Yu glanced at her weakly, then turned his gaze away dejectedly, indifferent to her question.

Guan Xinyue looked back and forth between the two of them several times. She really didn't know why there was such a name, and she couldn't guess what faction disputes could exist among magicians.Are they really divided into battle mages and remote healers like in the game?But that's impossible. Most mages in the game can't fight in close combat, but from her observation from a distance, Du Zhengyi himself likes close combat very much.

She waited for a while without getting an answer, and suddenly thought that Roach's method could really be tried at this time. Every time he didn't get a response from Du Zhengyi, he could annoy Du Zhengyi to death with his broken mouth. Finally give him an answer.

Just when Guan Xinyue took a deep breath, organized her words, and was about to tell the inference in this game, Du Zhengyi suddenly asked, "Do you know the story of the lotus eater?"

"The story of... the lover...? There are many stories." Guan Xinyue said in a daze.

"There is a story recorded in Homer's Epic," Du Zhengyi explained, "the hero Odysseus encountered a big storm for nine days in a row on the sea returning home. When the storm stopped on the tenth day, a strange The island appeared. Odysseus stopped the ship and sent sailors to the island, and found that the islanders here lived on lotus flowers, and they lived in peace all day long. Odysseus’ sailors ate lotus flowers, and they forgot their hometown and no longer thought about it. Return. The hero Odysseus had to order them to be tied to the boat and set sail quickly, and finally they were able to return to their homeland." Du Zhengyi said.

"It turned out to be the lotus eater." Guan Xinyue repeated it suddenly, and after thinking about it carefully, she couldn't help but look a little dignified, "Do you really mind this story?"

"Even I can't help feeling a little bit emotional." Du Zhengyi said, "We originally lived in nature. We are different from human beings. We are born with enough ability to survive in nature. We don't need to develop industries, and we don't have much knowledge of science. Great interest. In the past golden age, human beings have called us many things, fairy in the cave, elf in the forest, god on the mountain. But it is ridiculous that the fairy, elf and god are gradually lost in the comfort made by human beings with technology In life, we become the magicians in the city. Life in human cities is so easy, the magical instinct we once relied on for survival seems to be less and less important, and sometimes we don't even think about magic anymore. The traces of our existence are like the dew in the morning, which will disappear in a breath. The hometown has long gone, and the other shore is hard to return.”

Guan Xinyue was stunned for a while, Du Zhengyi seldom showed emotion, he narrated very calmly, but said it a little more solemnly, without his usual impatience, there was a little trace of sadness.On the contrary, Jin Yu, who was a lotus burner, was indifferent, frowning absently, and subconsciously picking his nails.

Guan Xinyue couldn't see other people's suffering, and felt very uncomfortable after hearing this, but after slowly thinking about it, she suddenly realized that there was a fatal problem in it. "You...you mean to say that the intentions of the lotus burners are the exact opposite of those of the lotus eaters, right? They think that the way to continue the independence of your race is to burn the lotus? To destroy our world?"

"It's almost like this." Du Zhengyi came back to his senses and said, "These thoughts of the lotus burner were originally radical ideas put forward by a small group of students decades ago, and they were only spread among the students, and no one had them." Really caring, in my opinion not many decent mages take these thoughts seriously. It wasn't until about three years ago that the Mages Supreme Council realized they were actually doing it. By the time they found out, it was a bit late. The size of their organization is astounding and the areas they penetrate are numerous."

Guan Xinyue suddenly felt that she had no time to pity the fate of others. If a magician decides to obliterate human civilization, no matter whether the goal can be perfectly achieved, blood will inevitably flow into rivers in the middle, and countless human beings who have not yet figured out the situation Will be crushed to death like ants.Such a situation, just thinking about it, is like a horror movie. "Can't we find a way to co-exist? Our family is a good example. We all know that half of our family are magicians, and of course they all know that we are human, what we like, and what we do. But we Still living a good life, why do you have to hope that all people are exactly the same?"

"Don't you understand? Master Guan family is a lotus eater in their eyes. A mage who is extremely obsessed with human civilization, and even married with human beings." Du Zhengyi said in a low voice. "There are also mages who don't have magical abilities and want to survive in human society, such as Roach, are also regarded as true lotus."

"You mean..." Guan Xinyue felt speechless, and she began to feel dizzy for a while, and her breathing was tight.

"I'm not sure." Du Zhengyi said, his attitude was still seeking truth from facts, "It's not easy to murder Guan Yushan. Now that he's succeeded, there's no need to make arrangements nearby to stir up trouble."

He cast his eyes on Jin Yu, who was in a daze, and looked back at Du Zhengyi belatedly, and immediately shook her head as if she had received an electric shock, "I don't know, I really don't know."

"Is Li Xu a mind mage?" Du Zhengyi took a deep breath, stood up, and took a few steps forward.Now all the plates are about to be spliced ​​together, and he can almost see the whole picture of the matter, although he actually doesn't want to see the whole thing at all.

Jin Yu became nervous, staring at Du Zhengyi warily, "I don't know."

"Luo Qi just doesn't respond to the touch of his mind, you can feel it, but you don't know if Li Xu is a telepath?" His words were stinging, and his eyes were sharp and menacing.

Jin Yu groaned in despair, "I don't know, Li Xu has always been hiding very deeply, I don't know who can say that he can see him clearly."

Du Zhengyi took a deep look at her, and finally seemed to agree with what she said, and put the bone-handled knife in his suit jacket's inner pocket.

Jin Yu rolled his eyes, guessing that their conversation was over, and quickly shouted, "You promise to let me go!"

"You are much smarter than Guan Xinyue." Du Zhengyi said, as if he had finally made up his mind now, "You wait here, someone will come to you. I will not hand you over to Qionglin, nor will I You hand it over to the lotus burner, because I don't want to startle the snake."

He stared at the small face of the female magician. She kept her mouth shut and did not refute his decision. Her face was full of frustration and complaints, like a hungry woman who walked ten kilometers without getting a taxi. ordinary girl.

Guan Xinyue rolled her eyes and walked to his side. Even if she was nervous and in a bad mood, she could at least roll her eyes when she heard that she was not smart enough.He hesitated for a while, and finally turned his head and said to Jin Yu, "It's not an ordinary thing to be alive, there is really no need to look for other excitement."

Jin Yu buried his face and didn't answer his words.Guan Xinyue stared at him curiously. With a calm expression on his face, he turned and took a step towards the center of the classroom. Guan Xinyue hurriedly followed, and Du Zhengyi grabbed her arm.The classroom disappeared from them, and they stood in the teahouse's staff parking lot littered with broken bricks.

"Let's go!" Du Zheng stepped out one by one, his expression changed, and he hurried to the back door of the parking lot.

It was the first time Guan Xinyue saw Du Zhengyi so anxious, and she swallowed the question she wanted to ask. Du Zhengyi's long legs had already strode a long way.Guan Xinyue trotted after her, but Du Zhengyi casually grabbed her arm and looked around.Guan Xinyue only had time to let out a low cry, and she was in a daze, and they were already standing beside Du Zhengyi's Ford Mustang.

"Next time..." Guan Xinyue swallowed, "Before you teleport next time, you must tell me that I am a human, a human! It is impossible for me to get used to your movement methods!"

"Get in the car." Du Zheng said concisely. "You're fine, you're already much better than Roach."

Guan Xinyue was quite satisfied with this compliment, and without any delay, she ran around to the other side of the car, got into the car, and pulled the seat belt to tie herself up. "Where are you going?"

"The seat of the Supreme Council of Mages, Qionglin," Du Zhengyi started the engine, and the wild horse roared and rushed out, "I want to save energy, so let's go this way, first go to the Pendragon orbital hub, and go to the nearest hub After getting off the bus, teleport over there."

"Are you going to report the latest situation, or are you going to help Luo Qi?" Guan Xinyue seemed to have expected that Du Zhengyi would crazily change lanes and overtake, so she stretched out her hand to support herself in advance, so that she could sit more comfortably .

Du Zheng glanced at her, "Roach is very crooked in my car, you are much better than him. Does your grandfather drive like this?"

"My grandfather is a good citizen who abides by the law." Guan Xinyue said, sticking out her tongue, "But I have played with my sister since I was a child, and I know how good your reaction speed and dynamic vision are."

Du Zheng nodded, and answered her last question, "I must at least make sure that Roach is fine, I have a bad feeling."

"Li Xu?" Guan Xinyue asked, shivering, "I don't like him either, I feel creepy when I see him."

"He's a bit too aimed at Roche. I thought he would have some scruples in Qionglin, but now that he is confirmed as the lotus burner, everything is uncertain." Du Zhengyi said, suddenly hesitated ,"Can you……"

"What?" Guan Xinyue was listening carefully, when she suddenly heard Du Zhengyi's tone turn into a request, and she only spoke halfway, she was startled.

"When I brought Roach here, he...he..." Du Zhengyi honked his horn angrily, "He seems to be able to see where the roads are congested on his mobile phone, can you..."

"Needless to say, I understand." Guan Xinyue made a grimace, and reached out to touch her phone, "Finally, there is a place where we can and you can't. Where is the destination? I'll take a look at the map of Gaode, and you continue to say .”

As soon as Du Zheng reported the name of a shopping mall, he watched helplessly as the traffic gradually slowed down. No matter how fast his reaction was, he couldn't fly past.He had no choice but to use this time to continue, "I've been thinking about Li Xu's identity in this matter. At first I thought he was an official investigator with particularly long hands, but now it seems that it might be good to say so. Otherwise Many things don't make sense, especially they don't need to tell me about Lu Jinfeng."

"Do you mean to say that Li Xu represents both the Supreme Council and the Lotus Burner, and you and Luo Qi represent the power of the Supreme Council that is not the Lotus Burner. But there is another force, those strange The temple. Both you and the lotus burner were attracted by the power of the temple?" Guan Xinyue handed her mobile phone to him before the red light to show him the map, "Can I ask, you and Luo Qi are obviously still students, But you were sent out, is it because your Supreme Committee has begun to be trusted by no one? In fact, the whole thing has nothing to do with the weird talks I sent, does it?"

"You gave us a good reason to deceive others," Du Zhengyi said, "and took advantage of some surprises."

Guan Xinyue nodded solemnly and got some comfort.

Du Zhengyi drove off the viaduct and turned into a small road, "You already know more than Roach, and he doesn't know this yet." He stopped and said suddenly, "Maybe he already knows."

"Qi Yue was killed by Li Xu and the others, and has nothing to do with Luo Qi." Guan Xinyue said stubbornly again, but even she could tell that there was still room for her words.

Du Zhengyi took her words, "The question is, how did Roach tell that story."

There was a long silence in the car, and finally Guan Xinyue choked out a sentence, "Do you magicians have the ability to predict the future?"

"That kind of ability belongs to the blind man who sets up a fortune-telling stall at the gate of the temple." Du Zhengyi said impatiently.

Guan Xinyue hurriedly yelled, "Turn right at the next intersection" for fear that he would overdrive the car again in agitation.

"I have a guess," Du Zhengyi turned right from the straight-through lane irritably, "but that's not important. Li Xu is too crazy, I want to get Luo Qi out first. I can't just put you in the Well, if you have something to do with the Lotus Burner, all risks have to be reassessed."

"It's okay." Guan Xinyue said relaxedly, "To tell you the truth, I've long been used to fear."

Du Zhengyi turned his head and gave her a serious look.

"Roach will be fine too," she said, as if to reassure him.

This girl is really very young, only 16 years old, and she is a human being.And he couldn't even call her a calm girl, she was mad and neurotic.She was so stubborn, even paranoid, but that paranoia turned out to be a powerful force of will, and he had nothing to say.

(End of this chapter)