magician in town

Chapter 78 Book Sea

Chapter 77

Just as Lorian walked into the bookstore, the girl disappeared behind rows of bookshelves.He hurriedly walked to the depths of the bookshelves. The storefront of this store is very large, the shelves of the house are very high, and the bookshelves are densely arranged, from the ground to the high ceiling. The deeper you go, the deeper you feel.Coupled with the unique dark and profound atmosphere of the bookstore, it really seems to have escaped into another world.

At first, he saw the girl's clothes skirt flashing between the bookshelves, and then he walked around the two philosophical bookshelves, and the girl suddenly stood still behind the bookshelves.The girl's consciousness was still clattering loudly in his mind world, so he walked into the art area without hesitation, almost defenseless.

The change happened here, as soon as he passed between the two rows of bookshelves, the girl's loud consciousness disappeared like suffocation.In all his experiences this situation represented the end of consciousness, the death of man.

He was so startled that his body trembled, and his spine felt cold.It was, after all, the death of an innocent little girl, far more sad than all other deaths, and he instinctively quickened his pace.With one step forward, he was ready to see the fallen body, and if he was quick enough, he could see the shadow of the murderer.

However, there were still bookshelves behind the bookshelves, and the empty aisles made his hair stand on end.

When he looked back, the way he came from was endless bookshelves, as vast as an absurd world.

Sometimes the way back may not be the way back, he understands the truth of the illusion, the destination is always the sweetest and deadliest temptation of the illusion.

Lorian thought for a while, walked into the bookshelf area where the girl disappeared, and carefully inspected the books on the front and back rows of bookshelves.The books covering the entire shelf are closely arranged under the theme of painting art, regardless of the language of the books, regardless of the newness of the books.

He observed it carefully, but apart from the strange way of selling books, there was nothing special about it.He pulled out a book at random. It was a book of Impressionist painting by a woman named Mary Cassatt.This is a real American woman. He remembered this female painter. He once took Roach to see her exhibition.He also remembered that the children in her paintings were extraordinarily pink and soft under the style of impressionism. There was nothing abnormal about this album, just like a book in the real world.

He put the book back and pulled out another Titian, still unremarkable.He pulled out seven or eight books in a row, from Dali's clocks to Katsushika Hokusai's The Waves of Kanagawa, each of which has no contradiction with his cognition.He put all the books back, and instead of blindly checking them, he began to realize that he wasn't in the hallucinations of another mind master.In this world, there are not many people who can hallucinate him.What's more, who would want to trap him in a bookstore?What is the point of building such a complex illusion?

Lorian paced back and forth among the bookshelves, thinking about what the person hiding behind him, the enemy, had done.He used a human girl to seduce him, because the human consciousness is the loudest and most defenseless.Even if he doesn't want to listen, he's drawn to her strong emotions and directed thoughts.

She is a bait set by a smart person. She must really have something to do with her son. She knows something about Roach and is very worried about Roach. Someone let her know part of Roach's affairs. But be careful not to let her know more.To deal with a mind master, the safest way is to push out someone who doesn't know anything.If you don't know anything, there is no way to reveal it. If you only know half of it, it is enough to attract the mind mage.

In other words, the person behind him clearly knew that he was a mind mage.

Lorian took a deep breath, the light of the chandelier swayed slightly above his head, and the backs of countless books swayed slightly under the shadow of the lamp.He held out a hand and rubbed a small ball of fire between his fingertips.

The fireball flickered at his fingertips and then went out.

He completely understood.In this sea of ​​books, he can't create burning fireballs. The rules here are that fire magic is forbidden.The hallucinations produced by hypnosis have no active rules, but another trick similar to idea magic can have complete game rules, here is a sandbox.

A sandbox like a decryption game.

Someone hid a gaming sandbox between two bookshelves.He became more and more curious about the person behind all this, it must be an extremely intelligent person.There are not many people who can successfully deal with the mind mage. He once again took advantage of the mind mage's confidence and blind spots. Even if a human girl sees him arranging a sandbox, she won't know what it is, and she won't even care. .She must have been led here by a series of vague persuasions to perform a series of actions that she didn't even care about herself.Unless the mind mage had time to dig through the girl's subconscious, how would he know that the trap was here.

Lorian stretched out his hand and brushed over the spine of the book. There was no real malice in the sandbox. It was a puzzle, a puzzle that he could easily solve but others could not easily solve.Even if the human girl is difficult to control, and she does not follow the induction to complete the operation on a whim, and brings other people, the wrong person will not get the message from this sandbox.

He knows that all games have keywords, and the keyword of this game is - Roach.

He remembered the first book he pulled out. He walked back to the place in his memory and pulled out an impressionist picture album full of children's paintings. He believed that no matter who it was, the first picture album drawn out must be this one.He looked through the album carefully, but still couldn't find any clues.He stuffed the album back, and suddenly thought that the theme of this album was children.

He thought that this game would not be particularly complicated, and it would never be so complicated that it would take too much time for him, or so complicated that he would be caught by the people following him outside.The first key word he was looking for was Roach, and the second key word was children. This is a bookstore... He raised his head and looked at the boundless sea of ​​books. Only then did I know about his children's books.When his child was a child, he read it most often, and it is still an impression of him today.

He stretched out his hand and concentrated his thoughts. He wanted to find a picture album in the bookshelf, ""David, no"" he murmured.A children's picture book fell out of the bookshelf and landed in his hand.

Lorian could hardly open that book for a while, and it took him a while to force himself to open the album. On the lower right corner of the last page of the album, there was a string of numbers written. He could clearly see that it was a geographic coordinate.

He inserted the picture book back into the bookshelf, the light changed slightly, the chandelier disappeared, and more reasonable modern lighting appeared on the ceiling of the bookstore.Lorian walked back to the path between the bookshelves, and the glass door of the bookstore was not far away.Through the glass door, he saw the little girl stop a taxi at the door.

He let out a long breath.

(End of this chapter)