The door was unlocked, and Minna only twisted slightly, and the doorknob flashed with a silver light, and it opened.

Outside the door, there is a lively street, many people come and go, all kinds of goods are dazzling, vendors set up stalls on the street, shop clerks are enthusiastically beckoning customers to enter the door, and occasionally a few children are laughing and running by, just like a common commercial street. If there was anything different, it was probably that the clothes worn by the people on the street were different from what Minna usually saw, thin but brightly colored, with a lot of tulle and embroidery, and from time to time a few men and women in robes and pointed hats passed by, and the pointed hats, she remembered that old Sennet occasionally wore similar styles.

What is this place? She clearly remembered that there was only a small meadow behind the house, and then there was a mountain wall, so why did the street suddenly appear? And it's obviously cloudy today, why is the sun shining so brightly on this street? Although she had heard of potions that could hallucinate, it was real, and there were stone steps under her feet, and when she stepped on them, she could feel that they were hard and sloppy; On the side of the street more than a meter away from her, an aunt who sells candy balls greeted her: "Child, do you want to try the delicious candy balls?" ”

The candy ball failed to capture her attention as she smelled a strong aroma coming from across the street, the smell of her favorite roast chicken thigh, which she hadn't eaten in ten days. Touching the small pocket on her body, there was a silver coin and ten copper plates, which Marshall had quietly stuffed into her pocket when she went out, enough to eat several chicken legs, and she looked at the shop opposite, and decided to go over and buy two, no, three, by the way, let Grandpa and Grandpa Sennet taste it too, as for the pretty uncle, he didn't eat meat.

She had barely walked down the stairs when she was stopped, "Ming-Na-" She heard the voice of the old magician, but it sounded a little slow, and she turned around and smiled and called "Grandpa Sennett", and froze. The room she had just walked out of was already pitch black, and in the darkness only a small nose, a forehead, two lips, and a pink beard were revealed, and the lips were slowly opening and closing, looking a little terrifying, and she couldn't help but take a step back.

The old magician's voice sounded again, this time a little faster: "Don't—move—hurry—return—come—" A hand slowly reached out in the darkness, grabbed Minna, and pulled her back. Minna was a little scared, but she didn't break away because she didn't think Sennet would hurt her. She only felt that her eyes were gradually getting darker, but soon they were bright again, and she was already in a crooked room, and it was the beautiful half-elf who had just grabbed her, and she gave her a cold look, and then let go of her hand.

Sennet quickly closed the door, greatly relieved, and then said to Minna very seriously, "Kid, didn't I say you can't go upstairs?" How did you get up? Luckily, Keith found it early, otherwise it would have been bad. ”

Minna grinned and apologized, "I'm sorry, Grandpa Sennet, I'm just a little curious. What was that place just now? Why is there a street on the other side of the door? ”

Sennett's eyes flickered: "Uh...... That place is not here...... You know that...... It's not easy to get around, but sometimes, there's always something you need urgently...... It's just a little trick, a little trick ......" He quickly changed into a serious look: "In short, you are not allowed to come again, fortunately you didn't really go out just now, otherwise you will be separated alone in a foreign country, even if we want to find you, we may not be able to find you." ”

"No, it won't." Minna blushed a little, "I just wanted to go across the street...... Look at ......"

"As soon as you let go of the doorknob, the door will disappear immediately, it doesn't always be in the same place." Sennett muttered, "I sometimes can't find the way back, the last time I was left at West, and it took me a month to come back, and the potion that was boiling had dried up, and the pot was blown up...... If Keith hadn't informed me today, I wouldn't have known, little girl, you almost lost it in Shaonan and couldn't find it......"

Minna didn't understand what she heard, but only vaguely understood that if she walked out of the street just now, she wouldn't be able to come back, and she was a little scared, but she was still curious: "Grandpa Sennett, what's the place outside those doors?" ”

"It's all where I go......" Sennett suddenly stopped talking and turned his head to stare at Minna, "Why should I tell you?" I repeat, little girl, don't come back to the 'crooked room'! ”

He decisively pulled the child out of the room, and when the half-elf Keith also came out, he closed the door, clicked the doorknob a few times with his wand, and his face relaxed: "It's okay now, I forgot to lock it when I went back to buy materials, and now it's safe." ”

Minna poked at the door in disappointment, and sure enough, it was the soft, transparent compartment again, knowing that she couldn't go in again. She couldn't help but complain, "You didn't cast a spell before, why do you want to cast it now?" I'm not going to go out of those doors. "At most, it's just to open it up and see what it's like outside.

But Sennett was serious on the subject: "It's safe this way, I didn't cast a spell before, because no one else can enter but me." If you change your grandfather and Keith, you will never be able to open this door! ”

What do you mean? Minna was about to ask, but Xiao Tianjian's voice came from downstairs: "Lao Sen! Where are you? Come back! The old magician hurried away, leaving Minna and the half-elf staring dryly at the door.

The work of the two grandfathers was obviously at an important time, and if it weren't for the half-elf Keith's interference, Sennet would never leave the small room, so Xiao Tianjian didn't hear about what happened to his little granddaughter until dinner. He said to the child: "Xiao Mingna, if you encounter this kind of thing in the future, such as an unreasonable door or room, you must not open it casually, it will be very dangerous." Grandpa once saw someone open a strange door, only to be blown away by a tornado inside, and his whereabouts are still unknown. Doors and windows that have to do with magic often lead to weird places, so don't be reckless. ”

Minna nodded hesitantly and asked puzzledly, "But why?" Why does the upstairs room lead to something else? ”

"That's probably a type of space magic, like it's called a space gate, right?" The skewed room isn't really upstairs, it's a peculiar space, and the doors lead to other places, but the location is different each time, and to be honest, I don't know the specifics. ”

"Space magic? What kind of magic is that? ”

"You don't know about space magic?" Sennet couldn't help but interject, "This is common sense of magic, just like your grandfather's storage ring, which is a kind of space magic." "These are all basic theories that beginners should master, and although there are not many people who study it in depth, there are very few people who don't even know common sense. The old magician began to reflect on himself, was it too dereliction of duty to be Minna's guide on the path of magic? He didn't even teach her these basics.

However, in the past ten days, in addition to instructing Minna on his homework every day, he spent most of his time doing "that kind of thing" with Xiao Tianjian, and he really didn't seriously teach any knowledge to the children. All he taught was the method of meditation, the identification and main functions of dozens of potions, and the making of cold potions, and as for the basic theory, he just took out a book and let the children read it on their own. But this is not enough, Minna is just a child, and she has no patience, asking her to read a brick-sized magic theory textbook, she is afraid that she is more interested in exploration and play, he and Xiao Tianjian did not notice this, which caused the result of the child's lack of common sense.

This makes Sennet very ashamed and decides to squeeze in more time to teach Minna. He told Minna about the basic theories of the eight magic systems of water, fire, wind, earth, wood, light, darkness, and space, as well as the release methods of the basic magic of water and light, and also taught her to identify more magic materials, and personally demonstrated the process of making several magic potions.

With her teacher's teaching, Minna has improved a lot, and by the time she has been here for a month, she has been able to send out five or six balls of water the size of a thumb cap, and the illumination can also illuminate a large area of the palm (although it only lasts ten seconds), and as for potions, she has learned more than a hundred magic materials and formulated her first potion.

These successes greatly increased Minna's interest in magic, presumably because she was already familiar with the situation in the area, and there was nothing left and right for her to explore, so she spent most of her time studying magic and potions.

On this day, she was boiling a fever potion in front of the fireplace, this was the third potion she had learned, and she was confident that she would succeed this time.

Just as she was staring at the change in the liquid in the crucible, and was about to throw new materials into it, an explosion suddenly sounded in the small room on the right, and the whole house shook. Minna didn't stand still for a moment, and sat down on the ground.

What happened?

When the shaking stopped, she saw a puff of black smoke coming out of the door of the small room, and her heart tightened, and she was about to get up, but someone suddenly pulled it away. She looked up and saw that it was the half-elf Keith, and she was puzzled to ask him what he was going to do, but she heard a bang behind her, and the crucible that had been boiling the medicine fell right on her place, and the boiling medicine was poured on the ground.

It turned out that Keith was trying to save her. Minna smiled and thanked the half-elf, but the other party only gave her a faint look, extinguished the fire, dropped the sentence "wait here", and walked to the small room.

Before he could get closer, the door slammed open, and two humanoid black coals came out, and Minna and Keith were taken aback.

A closer look showed that Xiao Tianjian's clothes were burned all over his body, his face and hands were full of burns, and half of his hair was burned off. Sennett was even worse, his hat was only a brim, his face was blistered, his whole beard was gone, only a few pink hairs hung there half-stained, and his robe was missing a sleeve.

Minna was so frightened that she screamed "Grandpa", but Xiao Tianjian just waved his hand nonchalantly, glanced at Sennet, and suddenly laughed. Sennett wiped his chin and laughed as well. The two old men laughed at each other like this for a long time, laughing so much that Minna and Keith were confused, and finally Keith got angry and asked with a gloomy face, "What happened?" Why did it explode?! ”

Sennett stopped laughing, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes—and the droppings of his eyes—and said with a smile: "It will only succeed if it explodes, and we have always prevented it from exploding, so it has failed every time, and this time it has finally succeeded." ”

"That's right, it worked." Xiao Tianjian smiled and sighed, "It's not easy to wait for twenty years, and now I have the face to go back to the Elven Forest to see my old friends." ”

"Elven Forest?" Keith raised an eyebrow.

Minna also asked, "Grandpa, what are you doing with Grandpa Sennet?" Why wait twenty years? ”

Xiao Tianjian patted his granddaughter's head and said to Keith, "You are a half-elf, you have probably heard of it, right?" Elven City is located in the northern part of the forest, near the northern snowfields. More than 20 years ago, a group of snowfield demonic beasts broke through the barrier and broke into the forest, causing heavy casualties to the elves. I was there, helping to exterminate the monsters, when I was careless and let them escape. In order to avoid further casualties, the elven queen ordered to abandon the elven city and retreat to live in the central and southern forests. In order to make up for the mistakes I made, I have been looking for a way to deal with the Snow Beast for the past twenty years, and finally I have discovered a fire poison that can corrode the internal organs of the Monster. I've collected a lot of materials to increase the toxicity of the fire poison, and if I attack the monsters with arrows stained with this poison, I will definitely kill them. ”

Keith smiled coldly: "It's a good idea, but you seem to have forgotten that the shells of the Snow Monsters are very strong, and ordinary arrows can't damage them at all." What's the use if you can't shoot these poisonous juices into the beast's body? ”

"So I've got this ready." Xiao Tianjian flipped his palm and took out a stainless steel arrow, "This is what I asked my dwarf friend to build, made of stainless steel, it is one of the hardest weapons in the world." I've tried it, but I can't even resist the shell of the demon creatures, so it's naturally easy to deal with the monsters. I've got a whole hundred here, which should be enough. ”

"How do you know enough is enough? That was twenty years ago, wasn't it? Maybe the number of those monsters has increased again? Isn't it too late for you to make up for your mistakes twenty years later? Keith was still the same cold look.

Xiao Tianjian still smiled: "If the demonic beast was so easy to breed, it would have rotted on the street by now." As for time, for elves who can live for thousands of years at every turn, these twenty years are equivalent to one year for us humans, what is it? I haven't been idle for the past 20 years, and if I hadn't been for that long, I wouldn't have been able to collect enough materials, and if I had changed someone else, I might not have the patience. ”

Keith stared at him for a moment, smirked sarcastically, and turned away. Minna looked at his back, full of doubts, the beautiful Uncle Keith seemed to dislike grandpa, why?

(I was reminded that I should be canvassing in PK now.) So, everyone, please vote for me a few more times~~~)