magician in town

Chapter 8 The Court of the Damned

The dark iron gates opened to both sides, and an old tree stood in the middle of the quiet courtyard, with slanted branches, and the canopy above it gloomyly covered half of the courtyard on one side.The courtyard was neatly tidied up, and it was much more elegant than ordinary countrymen's yards. There were traces of gardens under the residual snow, and the area was huge. Although it was decaying and deserted at the moment, it must have been full of flowers in summer.

Luo Qi carefully looked at everything in the courtyard, and Du Zhengyi had already walked in. His purpose was stronger, even though his goals were all invisible to the naked eye.To outsiders, Du Zhengyi looked like he was inspecting something empty, but he really looked like a master ghost hunter.

In the half of the yard covered by the canopy of trees, there stood a stone lamp holder. Because of its ancient flavor, it was out of tune with the pattern of the farmhouse.There was a circle of stones half a person's height around the stone lamp holder. Luo Qi stepped forward slowly, walked closer and stared at those stones carefully. Thinking of the weird story Guan Xinyue told, his stomach churns a little.

After all, the residence of a strange old man is next to the church on the west and the temple on the east.Roach pondered, searching for traces in his half-understood knowledge base, thinking darkly of the Black Mass in Christendom.Could these stone arrays have been prayed to the devil here?Is it Guan Xinyue's grandfather?Could it be that he held a black mass after his daughter's death, received the arrival of the devil, and cursed and killed his son-in-law?If human faith is really powerful, this explains the mysterious behavior of the old man when he was drunk from another angle.

He didn't know if there was any reason for this explanation. Maybe both God and the devil existed and did not exist.Humans have observed some abnormal behaviors and explained them in a way that they can explain, which is relatively true.

He was thinking about it endlessly, but at some point Du Zhengyi came back to him and pushed him.

"What?" he said warily.

"You can get distracted at a time like this? There's not even a single person here, no matter how well-developed your brain's synapses are, no one here can interfere with you, right?" Du Zhengyi said in a frustrated tone, "There's no one here! There is no energy! There is no trace of any mage ever existed! You must have lowered your luck value, so hurry up and use a big move to add a status to me. Otherwise, I can only tell you that there are really ghosts here."

"I'm thinking about history and philosophy," said Don Roach generally.I felt that Du Zhengyi was a little irritable, probably because of his unfavorable start.

"Stop talking nonsense. If you're full of hot pot at noon, just say it. I won't laugh at your lack of brain just because your blood is flowing into your stomach and busy digesting."

"I found that you are particularly impatient with me." Roach pointed out to him patiently, "You are particularly disrespectful to me, this is not good, after all, we have to cooperate for a long time within sight .”

"There is no such thing." Du Zhengyi decisively denied, and continued, "I treat everyone equally with disrespect and lack of patience."

Roach was blocked back and looked at Du Zhengyi in surprise, "Are you a cat boy?"

Du Zhengyi narrowed his eyes and looked at him, "If you want to scold me, can you use allusions that I can understand?"

Roach glanced at him, put his hands in his pockets, and turned his eyes back to the black stones scattered in the residual snow. They stood in the snow like a group of ominous Madagascar lemurs.

"Okay." Seeing that Roach ignored him, Du Zhengyi gave in strategically and temporarily, "Then tell me about the history and philosophy of your thinking. Is it related to these strange standing stones?"

"You also think these stones are strange?" Roach became interested. He was still a little unconfident about his doubts.

Du Zheng nodded his head, as if he wanted to say something, but stopped talking.

Roach felt that he had to share his knowledge with Du Zhengyi. No matter what the truth behind this incident was, the details here would definitely support some of their ideas.He briefly told Du Zhengyi about human Christian beliefs and the Black Mass. He actually knew a little about human belief culture, but he still knew more than Du Zhengyi. Common phenomena in various cultures are completely unfamiliar to mages.Whether it's black mass, raising Gu or sticking villains, it doesn't exist in the culture of magicians. They have a certain degree of insensitivity to imagination.After all, if you particularly like fantasy horror stories, then in the ancient war years, you have a huge handle and short board. As long as you meet a mage who is good at mind control, you will really be killed by the spirit.

But Roach couldn't help but think that mind control itself is very similar to the curse in the mouth of human beings.Human culture has been disturbed by mages layer by layer, and even briefly controlled.Maybe the original origin of the curse is hard to explain clearly.

During Roach's narration, Du Zhengyi listened very carefully and did not laugh at his unbelievable guesses.As soon as Roach started to explain, he entered the studious top student mode, and after listening to it, he asked the question astutely, "Is God the supreme God of Christianity?"

Although Roach didn't expect him to ask, he still answered this simple question immediately, "Of course."

"The devil is against God?"

"Yes." Roach said cautiously.

"The object that the supreme god can't kill is another god? It can be seen that Christianity has two supreme gods. Since God can't protect believers from poisonous hands, the devil can help believers to curse each other, so wise people still Is it more cost-effective to convert to the devil?" Du Zhengyi said eloquently.

Roach was stunned, and said instinctively, "That's not the case. The devil is..." Roach scratched his stomach and thought, "The devil is not supreme, it is a fallen archangel, originally serving God. I explained Not sure, but what you're talking about should be called duality in Christianity or something."

Du Zhengyi interrupted him, "God can't fuck his little brother. It sounds like my goldfish will turn around and fuck me one day. Will you fuck me, Roach? Forget it, don't listen, No need to explain, anyway, human beings are good at sophistry, and they must use a lot of cloudy words to cover up the fundamental paradox in their beliefs."

"How can you be like this? If you don't listen to what you say, you won't listen. I will continue to talk." Roach said with a sullen face.

"Shut up first." Du Zhengyi said bluntly, "Have you ever seen Suanchou?"

"A straw stick that can be used for toileting and arithmetic?"

"That's the calculation of human beings. When we use some complex magic, we often need to carefully calculate some complex parameters, such as the change of light." Du Zhengyi sighed. "Seriously, are you really a magician?"

Luo Qi didn't bother to answer, Du Zhengyi walked slowly to the center of the stone formation, suddenly raised his head, raised his arms, and swung them down like a conductor of a symphony orchestra.His slender figure and his neurotic temperament also make him very much like a musician.But when the storm roared from above his head, when the windbreaker on his body flew up handsomely, when the snow on the ground was swept up by the storm, snowflakes were flying around them, and the place where he was was like this snowstorm In the eye of the storm.Luo Qi sincerely felt that Du Zhengyi was indeed handsome, not only handsome, but also interpreted the word "pull the wind" in a literal sense.

Luo Qi looked up at Feixue, barely controlling his facial muscles not to laugh.But to be honest, controlling the weather is not a trivial matter. Even if they all call themselves magicians, few of them can do it.Du Zhengyi had suggested several times to kill him with lightning, and now he should seriously consider the true extent of Du Zhengyi's threat.

The strong wind blew away the snow on the ground, exposing the ground paved with gravel.The dark red stones are mixed with the gray crushed stones, forming complex arcs on the ground, as if blood once overflowed here, and finally dried up in the intricate and precise ditches.Roach stared at the ground in surprise, then stepped back suddenly, and stood at a position where he could roughly see the whole picture of the ground.Sure enough, the red crushed stones embedded in the ground formed complicated orbits around the stone pillars and lampstands.If it was accompanied by an ancient inscription, he must have seen this orbit map in a textbook. The fact slapped him in the face. This is not a cursed court for humans, at worst it can be regarded as a mage laboratory.

Roach slowly stepped on the bloody figure, muttering with a sour face, "This is our facility, not human."

"Of course." Du Zhengyi replied, as if he didn't have the time to laugh at him, he kept looking down at the dark red track under his feet, "but using counting chips is very uncommon knowledge, these stones contain some rare crystal components, it needs to be done like this Only the archmage can control the magic that uses large chips to assist calculations. So..."

Roach shivered subconsciously.

Du Zheng turned his head and looked at the old house not far away. The dark windows were silent in the north wind in the winter evening, "This must be the residence of a great mage."

"How is it possible?" Roach called out.

Du Zhengyi thought about it and said, "He and Guan Xinyue's grandmother have no children, which is also in line with the fact that it is difficult for mages and humans to have children."

Luo Qi couldn't accept this, "If that's the case, then the daughter he had with his ex-wife must also be a mage, and his son-in-law is probably also a mage. Three mages died in this family? Among them is an archmage ? Didn’t the Supreme Council receive an emergency report? If it did, why wouldn’t students like us be sent here? In this case, a team of senior executive mages should be sent directly.”

"Didn't you hear Guan Xinyue say that their relatives died naturally? One died of illness, one died of a fire caused by a gas explosion, and the other died of alcohol poisoning. If the three mages all died of natural causes, then there is nothing to investigate Yes. Having said that, if it is true that the three suffering masters are all mages, don’t you think Guan Xinyue’s words are very interesting?——all people who have no blood relationship with her suddenly disappeared, just like in the summer Maybe she has already noticed the unusualness of these three people to some extent." Du Zhengyi pointed to the complicated trajectory on the ground, the degree of sophistication and complexity is beyond anyone's knowledge that it cannot be just a simple courtyard landscape.

Luo Qi suddenly realized an important question, "Can you be sure that Guan Xinyue is human?"

As soon as this thought ran through his mind, his heart panicked.If Guan Xinyue was not human, then not only were they deceived, but the situation might have been reversed—Guan Xinyue and her father and grandmother were both mages, and the identities of the murderer and the victim had just changed.

"She must be human." Du Zhengyi said firmly.

Roach breathed a sigh of relief.

Du Zhengyi stood up, "Although I don't think there will be anything found in the house, let's go in and have a look."

Roach hurriedly followed.

(End of this chapter)