Chapter 152: The Trap (2)
"Mu, Feng said that he is actually a person from your sect called 'Zhengyi'. ”
In Mu Qinyi's tent, the female mage Motley took out a small bag of peanuts refined with rose essence and honey and placed it on the folding table, then lowered her voice and said to Mu Qinyi mysteriously.
"What, really?" Mu Qinyi was also slightly surprised. He took out a peanut from the finely made silk pocket and threw it in his mouth, and after the particles were bitten, a perfectly mixed sweet smell instantly filled his mouth. "Ouch, how is this made, how is it so delicious?"
"The mayor gave me a very precious look, probably a delicacy that the mages in their family specially cultivated with arcane and cooked with specific arcane arts. The female mage also threw one into her mouth, and her casual appearance and the dignified and serious appearance in front of Mayor Jamal and the other mages looked completely two people. "This is a popular food in the upper class society during the imperial era, even if it is only in terms of cost, this small pocket of peanuts is worth more than the same weight of Aojin, and now it has become a thing for many families to show their own heritage and strength, even if they tighten their belts, they have to get some out of it to entertain guests. With Mr. Jamal's status in the Rodriguez family, it would not be easy to come up with such a package. ”
"It seems that the mayor is very serious about you, and he comes to greet you almost every day. Haven't you ever been moved?" Mu Qinyi couldn't help but tease. She is now very familiar with the folk customs of this Europe, and the directness of these Europeans' love for men and women may seem vulgar and obscene like a beast in the eyes of Mr. Daoist like Master Li, but it is quite suitable for her spleen and stomach.
"Of course not, there are so few flashes of light in Mr. Jamal that can catch my attention. The mage pursed her lips, and suddenly remembered that this was not a small talk. "By the way, did you hear what I said just now? Is that sect called 'Zhengyi' famous in your Western Continent?"
"Ah, yes. Mu Qinyi also came back to his senses. This is also because when the two of them are around, they are used to that laid-back mentality, eating snacks from all over the place and chatting about various stories, but she feels most comfortable in this land of Europe. The friendship with this female mage of Euro is also the happiest for her, and this one is the one who is close in age and is also a woman, so the unique simplicity of the Euro people also makes people feel very happy to get along with.
However, Mu Qinyi is not one of those deep boudoir girls who know nothing, she still knows the importance very well, after Feng Yinqiu specially came over to give instructions, she is emotionally unwilling to accept it, and she also knows that it is better to pay more attention to this female mage of Europe. She nodded: "Yes, the Zhengyi Sect is the largest native sect in our country, is Feng originally a member of the Zhengyi Sect?"
"I don't know if it's true or not. He also said it was a secret and asked me not to tell anyone else. The female mage shared the secret without any burden. "What the hell is this sect like? Can you tell me about it? ”
"Oh, it seems that Mr. Wind has a lot of sparkles on him that can catch your attention. Mu Qinyi smiled meaningfully.
"Haha, of course, he's so powerful, so mysterious, it's really fascinating. The female mage smiled unnaturally. "So I'd love to know more about him......"
"That's it, okay, although I don't know much......" Mu Qinyi thought about it, nodded and said slowly. "This is a sect with a small history, but it is very powerful, and they once had a completely autonomous territory in one part of our empire......"
"Feng said that they actually made their own genealogy of gods and used the beliefs of the people to shape the gods......"
"Yes, the title of the leader of their sect is 'Heavenly Master', which is to replace the heavens to govern the world and educate people, and drawing up the genealogy of the gods is what they like to do the most, because the true gods on our side are almost extinct, and what people believe in is a molded ......"
"Then do they have a core member who can only learn the secret method, what is the only correct way to weave the laws of the world......
“...... This is the core secret method of their sect, and when combined with the method of their virtual gods, they can indeed do a lot of incredible things, and their sect's spells are also recognized as the most widely applicable......"
"But why does he want me to keep it a secret from him? Is there something wrong with this identity?"
“...... Well, it should be like this, the 'Zhengyi' religion has been inherited for hundreds of years, and the core has always been a family system, and the main members are actually all descendants of the founder Zhang Tianshi. In other words, there are not only colleague relationships in the sect, but also family relations, and this family has always been involved in our empire. Mr. Feng's identity may be very complicated, maybe there will be other big backgrounds involved, he is reluctant to say it probably because he is afraid of the leading bureaucrat Li, and Mr. Liu knows that everyone gets along a little awkwardly......
"Is it? In this way, it is possible that he is still a nobleman with an extraordinary background...... Why do I feel that after you say this, he is getting stronger and more mysterious...?"
"Isn't that just right? Your crush is not only powerful and mysterious, but also has an extraordinary background...... Wouldn't it be nice to encourage you to like him with all your heart?"
"No, it's not like that... When did I say he was my crush?" the female mage's face turned red. "I just want to know more about him..."
"Oh, you don't like him, so why do you want to get to know him?" Mu Qinyi's eyes rolled. "You don't like Mayor Jamal being so enthusiastic, and you don't like the wind being so powerful and mysterious and ignoring you, so what do you like?"
"I... Why do you have to have someone you like?" said the female mage as if she was reckless, and after thinking about it, she was in a trance and shook her head. "One of the archmage mentors I respect is also a woman, she has never been married, and she once said, 'I've actually been married to Arcane in my life'. I think I should be like that. ”
"That's not right. Mu Qinyi shook his head. "Although I don't know your guru, my guru said that a person can only be himself, and when he wants to be someone else, it means that he can't see himself clearly and he can't see others. I didn't understand it before, but now I know that it is......"
"Fairy Mu, fairy Mu...... Are you there?" and suddenly there was a shouting outside.
“...... Jiang Yu?" Mu Qinyi tilted his head, and knew the people outside from his voice and breath. This is a sailor in the legation, he is clever and intelligent, likes to run around, and he knows each other. "What's the matter? ”
A young man of about twenty got into the tent, panting slightly, with some sweat on his forehead, it seemed that he was running, his eyes turned flexibly in the tent, and he was immediately stunned when he landed on the female mage: "Ah, this... Mo Jiaoxi is also here, what a coincidence. The young man turned around again, leaned his upper body out of the tent and shouted into the distance: "Lord Hong, that Mo Jiaoxi is here." ”
After retracting into the tent again, the young sailor named Jiang Yu said with a smile on his face to Mu Qinyi: "That's the case, Mr. Feng and Master Li are negotiating something important with those Euro people, and it seems that they want to invite Miss Mu and this Mo Jiaoxi to go together, so Mr. Feng called me to inform you, and called Lord Hong to find this Mo Jiaoxi, I didn't expect that both of them were here, it was really a coincidence." ”
"Tell us to go together?" Mu Qinyi and the female mage looked at each other, both a little surprised. Both of them rarely participated in the official affairs of the legations, so they were able to relax to the extreme.
At this time, Hong Tongyi also got into the tent, but he was sweating profusely and panting, looking at the female mage as if he had seen his own mother, he almost knelt down, panting and saying in Eurotic: "Ms. Motri, I can be regarded as finding you, please hurry up." ”
"What the hell is going on?" Mu Qinyi and the female mage Motri couldn't help but be curious.
Led by Jiang Yu and Hong Tongyi, they came to a wooded edge not far from the envoy's camp, still in the direct territory of the Rodriguez family, and they seemed to be able to hear the noise and quarrels coming from inside from a distance.
"It seems that the Rodriguez family has found some strong backer, and why are they arguing here?" said the Mage Motri scoffed. Along the way, Jiang Yu and Hong Tongyi both explained the matter, it was those Euro people who spoke disrespectfully at the welcome ceremony, saying that the envoys were trying to detain a female mage of Oroyusta, and they also suspected that something unbearable happened, which almost made Li Daren faint with anger, Hong Tongyi was foaming at the mouth and filled with righteous indignation, Jiang Yu didn't say much, but occasionally glanced at the two of them, his face was red.
Walking into the woods, past the sparse trees, you can see the figures of Lord Feng Yinqiu Li and a few mages of the Rodriguez family in front of you, who seem to have carved out a clearing in the woods, arranged tables, chairs, dishes, melons and fruits to make a meeting place, but now they are all arguing fiercely about something.
“...... Wait a minute... It seems that something is wrong..."Mu Qinyi suddenly stopped, reached out and grabbed the female mage.
"What's wrong?" the female mage didn't care, she seemed to see Feng Yinqiu slamming the table, which intrigued her, and she couldn't wait to see what the man looked like when he was angry.
“...... Those are illusions, this is a trap!" Mu Qinyi screamed violently, pulling the female mage to retreat. But an inexplicable force vibrated out of the void, completely freezing her whole body, and the water elemental she had just tried to stimulate immediately dissipated.
Not only her, but the female mage also turned into a clay wood sculpture in an instant, unable to move anymore. On the other hand, Jiang Yu and Hong Tongyi on the side didn't seem to see it, and they still walked forward while foaming at the mouth.
The scene in the woods disappeared, and two figures came out, one was a sloppy old man with strange old fur and white hair, and the other was a middle-aged man with exquisite clothes and elegant bearing.
"Master Li, Mr. Feng!" Hong Tongyi seemed to be blind and crazy, and stepped forward to salute respectfully to the two Euro people who were obviously not Li Wenmin and Feng Yinqiu, and the flattering smile on his face was really like that of a gift to the Lord. Sailor Jiang Yu also nodded a little stiffly, and didn't even dare to say anything when he lowered his hand.
The female mage still maintained the same excited expression as before, but her eyes were full of panic and fear. Of course she understood what was going on. Now she is not only completely immobile, but she can't even use her spirit to connect to the magic net or activate the arcane props on her body, this is not a simple means of imprisonment such as paralysis or force field imprisonment, but a legal arcane that works together with the body and spirit. The younger, middle-aged man didn't know him, but the old man in the strange leather robe was clearly the Archmage Minsk of Incre who had fought against Wind Whisper in the Rodriguez family mansion before.
Arcane, even when used for hostility and fighting, is not used in person, but in the minds of the mentally retarded who are full of muscles. An archmage who knows hundreds of arcane ways to fight must be full of traps, traps, and foreshadowing. Of course, the mage knew this, but she didn't expect these traps and traps to encompass her.
"These are these two women, and according to the memories of these people, it should be easier to approach the Westerner called Wind with their identity. Which one do you think is better?" The cloudy eyes of the Minsk archmage looked at Mu Qinyi and the female mage, making them all have goosebumps, it was not that there was any dirty or indecent meaning, but the fishmonger's eyes looked at the fish in his hand, naked and without any emotion. "This Western woman has been with him longer, and the ethnic relationship should be closer to him, but the power of the clergy comes from the soul and cannot be replicated, which would be a big flaw...... Then choose this woman of the Revival Society. ”
Adler's eyes wandered over the two women, still showing hesitation: "... Do you have to do it this way?"
"This is the most efficient way to do it. Didn't you hear it just now, the news that came out of the mouths of these soldiers all pointed out that the Westerner had a great relationship with these two women, and they should be partners. But judging by what I saw at the time, this woman didn't seem to care too much about the person...... It doesn't matter, just extract specific memories. Minsk made a few gestures in the air with one hand, and a faint arcane aura began to swirl around his hand, and then the dry and rough hands of the old peasant pressed towards the female mage's head.
The female mage's pupils had shrunk to the extreme with fear. If she had known at other times that those lower-class soldiers and sailors had imagined the relationship between the two of them and Feng Yinqiu, she might have laughed, but now she couldn't even cry at this time. The arcane art of extracting memories can cause considerable damage to the brain if you are not careful, and as a person who is dedicated to the path of arcane, it is no different from dying.
And judging from the temperament of this old mage Incre, the chances of the two of them surviving are very low.
"Wait. Adler reached out and stopped Minsk. "Don't do it to women, they're innocent. ”
"Oh. I'm sorry. The Archmage of Minsk shrugged somewhat unexpectedly. "I don't know if you care if it's a hen or a rooster when you eat chicken. ”
"They're not chickens, they're people. ”
"Well, you probably haven't killed anyone yet, I understand. But my advice is to try it out more if you get the chance, otherwise you'll be very constrained. The Archmage of Minsk smiled rarely, and the smell of an old man mixed with the fishy smell permeated his breath. "If you don't extract your memories, is it okay for you to manipulate this woman's illusion, and you can fool that Westerner?"
"The outer memory cannot be obtained, but the instincts that have been formed in the depths of the memory will be imprinted together, and there will be no problems in action, and I will naturally deal with problems in words. ”
Archmage Adler took out a small golem that was about half a person tall and multi-legged spider-like from the folding bag and threw it on the ground, and the golem immediately moved quickly around the female mage Motri, and more than a dozen slender limbs of all kinds quickly and orderly leveled the ground, took out all kinds of gems and crystals from the hollow body, stretched out the Aojin wire to connect them, and it didn't take long for a small but extremely complex arcane circle to surround the female mage in the middle.
Feeling the arcane aura sweeping over her body repeatedly, the cold sweat on the female mage's forehead was like rain, it was not that these arcane arts made her feel uncomfortable, but she knew that all her previous plans and hopes were likely to end here. But now she couldn't speak, she couldn't use arcane arts, she couldn't move a finger, she could only suffer quietly in despair.
After a few minutes, the scanning of the arcane circle was over, and the dwarf golem on the ground cleaned up all the remaining materials with the same swift and orderly movements, and then folded into a ball of its own. Archmage Adler put the shrunken golem back into the folding bag, closed his eyes and muttered for a moment, then reached out and plucked a few hairs from the female mage's head. The hair dissolved in the arcane light, and an identical female mage replaced Archmage Adler.
“... This is the first time I've simulated being a woman...... It's a strange feeling..."Adler, the female mage of Motri, touched his hand and his face, as if he was adapting to this new form. His figure, the gesture of reaching out and stroking, is exactly the same as that of a female mage, and the virtual appearance of the eight-ring arcane is not just an image, but a more essential existence, along with all instincts, will be completely reproduced.
"Huh... This ......" Archmage Adler squeezed his hand, as if sensing some subtle difference in this body. "This lady seems to have done some little ...... of arcane art."
At this time, the Archmage of Minsk had already waved his hand, and three more people came out of the woods, these three were all dressed as soldiers and sailors in the envoy corps, and the expressions on their faces at the moment were the same as Hong Tongyi and the sailor Jiang Yu, all of them looked deferential and obedient, as if they were facing the supreme commander of the envoy corps, Master Li Wenmin, and they didn't seem to have heard everything that these two archmages said and did just now.
"You, all stand together, try to get as close as you can. The Archmage of Minsk commanded in a cold voice. Hong Tongyi immediately hurriedly stretched out his hand and pulled and commanded a few people to get as close to him as possible, as for why this adult who gave orders would use Eurotic, this question didn't seem to have appeared in his mind at all. There is no problem with his speech, demeanor, and memory, but the spirit of an ordinary person has been completely shackled in a small circuit under the effect of arcane, and he only knows that the person in front of him must be Lord Li. Even if this Master Li stabbed him and cut off one of his arms and thighs or something, he would be surprised, frightened, begging for mercy, and would wonder why Master Li did this, but he would not doubt it.
By the time the five men were already close together like hams tied together, the Archmage of Minsk reached out and shook it lightly, and countless sharp and small whistling sounds suddenly sounded from the air around these people and then converged into a storm. Like tomatoes that fell into the gears that were spinning fast, the five people in the center of the storm were shattered almost in the blink of an eye, but this invisible storm seemed to have a strange and perfect binding force, and those vague flesh bones and organs did not splash out at all, not even the smell of blood wafted out at all, only the large mass of flesh and mud seemed to be frantically stirred by the invisible giant whisk, constantly becoming more and more broken and fine.
"You...... What are you doing?" the female mage conjured up by Archmage Adler, screaming in shock and rage.
"What's the matter? These are men. The Archmage of Minsk manipulated the arcane in his hand and replied indifferently. "Leaving them is leaving clues, and of course they have to be dealt with cleanly. ”
As he spoke, the five-person mass of flesh and mud finally stopped stirring, and the Archmage of Minsk casually used another arcane technique, and the flesh turned from red to black at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if it was decaying at a speed of hundreds or thousands of times, and soon turned into a large mass of black sludge.
An invisible force field arcane dug a small but very deep hole in the ground, and with a wave of his hand, the Minsk archmage poured all the flesh and blood into it, and then the mud was covered again, and all traces of the five people in this world just now disappeared. Even if someone comes to dig up the dirt in the future, there will be no sign of a corpse, only the vegetation in this area will inexplicably flourish for a few years.
"See? This is a more standard way to dispose of corpses. Be careful not to leak out the smell during the treatment, and the buried soil layer should be more than five meters, so that even the hunting dog can not smell the traces. ”
The Archmage of Minsk clapped his hands and said to the female mage incarnated by Adler like a skilled old worker teaching a rookie. The female mage's face was full of anger, and her towering chest kept rising and falling, but in the end she still didn't say anything.
"Alright, let's start executing the plan. Don't forget, Lord Adler, if you help me catch that Westerner, I will fulfill my promise. For the sake of Inclave, please use snacks to give me the best chance. The Archmage of Minsk smiled with an ambiguous smile that stenched of decay. "I'll give you a hint, what is the most relaxed and unguarded time for a man in general, and if you can make good use of this virtual body, I believe it will not be difficult...... Of course, there may be a little psychological resistance, but isn't it also a rare experience? ”