magician in town

Chapter 86

Chapter 85

"Every time you seem to be telling the truth, you are not telling the truth. Are you playing me like a bear? Can you still be a little bit more equal?" Roach said loudly, "It's always this kind of virtue. Lungs, what came out was half a sentence!"

"What the Lonely Mountain Guard does has nothing to do with the reason I was sent here. Why should I say things about myself? I am a Lonely Mountain Guard, and I was sent out to investigate the activities of the Lotus Burner." , because Qionglin was infiltrated by lotus burners, so they can only send someone other than the execution mage. Is there any problem?" Du Zhengyi also said angrily, and then said sarcastically, "Do you want to know more about it? The history of eighteen generations of my ancestors?"

Mahjong coughed, ignoring their quarrel, and asked a little excitedly, "So the interest of the Lotus Burner has expanded to immortality? What do you want to inquire about? Is this the interest of the Lotus Burner organization or Li Xu Personal ambition?" They obviously touched a core secret and made a breakthrough, but no one paid attention to him.

He sighed, why could two of the three of them quarrel, yet they still haven't broken up. "Xinyue, can you roll their eyes for me?"

Guan Xinyue also ignored him, and asked hesitantly, "Does... really have eternal life?" She actually thought of a question that she was more concerned about, "Is there really a soul?"

"No." It was Du Zhengyi who answered her question, his face was still dark and ugly, "There is no immortality and no soul in this world. Whether it is a mage or an ordinary human being, they will die when they deserve to die."

"There's no need to say it so directly in front of Guan Xinyue, right?" Luo Qi frowned and said, "Don't you know that she wants to ask if there is a chance to see her grandfather again?"

"If everyone can understand such a simple truth, there will be many fewer things in this world. Why can't I say it directly and clearly?" Du Zhengyi said mercilessly.

"It's okay." Guan Xinyue said quickly. "Shall we skip this part and move on?"

Luo Qi was so angry that his neck was stuck and Du Zhengyi raised his hand indifferently, as if he wanted to wave Luo Qi away, "Don't pay attention to him, let's continue talking about us."

Mahjong laughed a few times, "I only heard about the lotus burner recently, why don't you give a complete official science popularization? Considering that Roach may continue to come into contact with new sources of information in the future, you should be more frank. "I don't know much about the situation." Du Zhengyi said stiffly, "The Burner of the Lotus was still a legend three or four years ago, and few mages in Qionglin believed that they were really acting. In the past two years The reports were handed in one after another, and then Venerable Qionglin began to pay attention, and the reports were sent to the operator for processing, and began to deal with the abnormal deaths of mages in human society—you also know this.”

Mahjong said, "I knew that I didn't know the result at the beginning, but when they came out with the result, I left Qionglin."

"It turns out that in many places where mages are active, the number of human beings who die of abuse far exceeds the usual average. In other words, from a human perspective, the probability of serial killers is higher than the historical average. In the past, this kind of situation may have meant the emergence of highly anti-mages, because the efficiency of serial killers of mages is higher than that of humans. But..." Du Zhengyi paused, and his worry began to overcome his annoyance just now, "but Similarly, if it's just an individual perversion, the probability of a mage's perverted killer appearing is also higher than the historical average."

Mahjong thought about it and said, "You mean that at this time, it is basically certain that there will be organized actions, with a program and pursuit, and a clear purpose."

"Let's use an expression that both of them are familiar with," Du Zhengyi said, "it's equivalent to the emergence of a terrorist organization among mages."

Luo Qi said bitterly, "Then I knew about it much earlier than Qionglin. At that time, every child knew about it, and there were people in every school who said they were the lotus burner."

"Compared to human beings, our social organization is much looser after all, and the response speed to discovering problems is much slower than that of human society." Du Zhengyi said, not noticing when the two of them started talking normally again up. "When determining the scale and trajectory of the lotus burners, a group of calculators was also recruited by Qionglin to analyze the death data of humans and mages. The calculators believe that Qionglin's reaction speed is faster than ever Slower, so they think that Qionglin has a problem. At this time, the venerables don’t know who is trustworthy, so they decide not to use the executive mage of the committee. My identity as the guard of the lonely mountain is almost a secret , most people only know that I was trained as a combat mage. Therefore, Pei Shu, as one of Qionglin Venerables, proposed that since the executive mage cannot be trusted, then students should be sent to investigate. As for why it is from the case of Guan Yushan As a breakthrough point, I don’t know about it. Pei Shu believes that Qionglin has been infiltrated too much, and any data may have been contaminated, so I’d better not have any background information and investigate everything by myself.”

Luo Qi didn't know if he should breathe a sigh of relief after hearing this, "So the real reason why I was selected should be that my ability level is too low, and I am very obsessed with human life. I am the type of lotus burner who wants to torture and kill. It might be the lotus burner."

"This is the most logical reasoning." Du Zhengyi said.

Mahjong smiled, but still refused to let Luo Qi go completely, "It may indeed be that your L value is high. Innate emotional appeal is strong, and you are still an optimist. You should live a good life most of the time. Very lucky."

Luo Qi ignored his teasing, and said, "But I think Li Xu's investigation of the Guan family is true, and their suspicions about the Great Heitian Temple are also true, otherwise there is no need for them to mention their own organization to us. internal situation."

"There are several possibilities." Du Zhengyi said, "The first possibility is that Li Xu's interest in the legend of the lonely mountain may be his own, so he may not be completely loyal to the organization of the Lotus Burner. The second possibility It was the lotus burners who split up. Li Xu’s faction didn’t know what the people in the Dahetian Temple did. At present, we only know that the top leaders of the lotus burners are sage mages. The number of sage mages is unknown, but I suspect Compared with Qionglin's establishment, they will set up about nine. They have always had the tendency to promote themselves as orthodox. With this number, it is normal for internal factions to form. I personally suspect that it is very possible that the Lotus Burner is splitting up. "

"How do you know it's internal differentiation?" Roach asked in surprise, "Have you ever joined their organization?"

"It's been observed. Most of the lotus burners are young people. Although they advertise themselves as the most traditional mages and perform the oldest mage rituals, they still inevitably have many traces of human culture. Ironically, Their ceremonies and organizational scale bear a lot of shadows of human games and movies." Du Zhengyi explained to Mahjong, "The organizational form of the Mahakala Temple is very similar to the form of game points, which Roach discovered. .”

No one spoke. Du Zhengyi was the authority among these few people in this regard. He continued, "I also once suspected that the Dahetian Temple was a purely human organization. But after seeing some reactions from the monks , I think they have been subjected to psychological interference, and that kind of intensity of psychological interference is not something that pure human beings can do. So this is the third possibility, but I have basically ruled it out."

"Speaking of this, Li Xu once said that the monks in the temple and the women of the Qi family are all puppets." Luo Qi said with a little disgust, "I think he had a special meaning to say this word, but I didn't find it Answer."

Du Zhengyi looked at Mahjong, "Do you have any opinion on this?"

Mahjong shook his head, "Puppet is an old story, and now it is a legend, I guess even Li Xu himself has only heard of it. It was something played by the early consciousness mages, and they still had their own The secret society has its own rules and classics. But now no one remembers those rules, and the classics have been burned. Puppetry has long been regarded as a forbidden technique, and it has disappeared for 800 years. I don’t know those monks How strange it feels to you, it will make you and Li Xu think of this, but from an academic point of view, it is impossible to restore this ancient technology."

"Then we don't need to talk about this part, the truth will slowly surface sooner or later." Du Zhengyi said, turning to Guan Xinyue who had been listening blankly, "The rest is this step. The key point—what exactly did Guan Yushan discover.”

(End of this chapter)