XVIII. Expeditions in the Magician's House

Minna screamed, the floor above her head had closed, she didn't know where she had landed, and suddenly, a dim light appeared in the darkness, making her barely able to see her surroundings.

It seemed to be a space carved out of the mountain's belly, and the stone walls on both sides were inlaid with a few small yellow crystals, emitting a faint glow. There was a curvy track in front of her, which led nowhere, and the chair she was sitting on was at the beginning of the track. She looked underneath her feet, and it was pitch black, and she couldn't seem to see the ground.

At this moment, the chair suddenly moved, sliding forward along the track, and the speed was not fast. She was curiously surveying the mountain walls on both sides, when suddenly a pipe came out from her right and sprayed her with water, which was fortunately hot, but it startled her.

But then another tube stretched out on the left, squirting out an unknown liquid, she only felt that the thing was a little sticky, and it had the fragrance of some herbs, but she didn't know what it was for, she touched it with her hand, huh? It's slippery and bubbles.

The tube retracted, but suddenly several sponge sticks appeared above her, and they came over and rubbed back and forth on her head, face, and body, rubbing not only her hair and body, but also her clothes. She watched as the rods writhed around her, and with a few swings of her arms, all the rods retracted, but she was covered in foam.

Just as she was about to cry without tears, another pipe came out in front of her, this time it was also hot water, which washed away the foam all over her body. She understood at this time, it turned out that these things were used to take a bath, wash her hair, and wash clothes by the way? But don't you usually wash your clothes separately from people?

Before she could figure it out, something new appeared in the mountain walls on either side, but this time it was four loud horns, and four strong warm winds blew out of them, drying Minna's hair, body, and clothes. It's just that when the warm wind stopped, her clothes were crumpled and her hair was messy. A comb came out from the front, very strangely combed down from her forehead, all the way to her waist, back and forth a few times, before retracting.

The speed of the chair suddenly accelerated, so fast that Minna couldn't help but scream, and then the track ahead came to an end, the chair was stuck at the end, and was forced to stop, but Minna flew up because of inertia, and her body drew a parabola in the air, landing on a big bed. Despite the soft mattress, her jaw ached, and as she touched her chin as she got up, it suddenly went dark in front of her eyes, and something fell and covered her entirely.

Lifting the object on her body, it turned out to be a blanket, which seemed to be hanging on the left wall, Minna picked it up and looked left and right, only to find that she was in a large room.

It was supposed to be a bedroom, also carved out of the belly of the mountain, with a thick woven carpet on the floor, and a fireplace almost identical to the one seen on the ground. There were a few low cabinets next to the bed, and then there were two shelves, although there were also a lot of medicine bottles, but more books.

The space here is large, the ceiling is high, there are no hanging lamps and chandeliers on it, and there are no spars like the ones just seen in the mountain wall, so it looks empty. Why is there such a place in Grandpa Sennet's house? Could this be his bedroom? How did you come up with it? It turns out that he bathes, washes his hair and washes his clothes like this, no wonder his clothes are dirty.

Minna yawned a lot, and suddenly she smelled a fragrance that seemed to waft through the air, which felt familiar, as if it were ...... The smell of Mom's body......

She yawned again, feeling that her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and the mattress on her body seemed to be quite soft, it should be very comfortable, right? She pulled the blanket off her body and fell asleep on the bed.

I don't know how long she slept, and when she woke up, she was no longer in that bedroom. She was sleeping on a narrow bed, and her grandfather Xiao Tianjian was sitting opposite, reading a book in his hand, and when he saw her wake up, he smiled and said, "You girl, why did you run there?" It scared us. ”

Minna grinned and got up and looked at the strange room, which was small enough to fit two narrow beds, a bedside table, and a hanger. There is a window on the wall, and when you look out through the window, you can see the mountains.

Xiao Tianjian put down the book in his hand and patted her head: "This is the guest room of Lao Sen's family, which is much smaller than the room where he sleeps." That old ghost is stingy! After complaining twice, he was a little curious: "How did you go down?" I've sat on that chair dozens of times and never moved it. ”

Minna tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Looks like ...... My elbow hit something, and it just fell down. ”

"Organs?" Xiao Tianjian asked, "I know he's good at magic mechanisms, but how could he be so coincidental?" I just touched the chair from beginning to end, and it didn't respond. Why does it move as soon as you touch it? ”

"Of course it won't move if you touch it." The voice of the old magician came from the doorway, "My mechanism is a magic mechanism, and it is activated by magic. The old man with the pink beard walked into the room, his robe even dirtier: "You don't have any magic at all, you can't make it move, even if you dismantle it, it's useless!" My poor chair was actually insulted by you. After that, he glared at Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian sneered, but Minna asked with great interest, "Grandpa Sennet, did you dig out that room?" Those...... Isn't it for you to take a shower, wash your hair and do laundry? ”

Sennett coughed lightly, "It's pretty much the same, but I don't have any hair, in fact, I take it for bathing, washing my beard and doing laundry." ”

"Then why do you want to wash your clothes? Everyone else takes off their clothes and washes them, right? ”

"That's a waste of time." Sennett shook his finger, "Anyway, I'll have to put it back on when I take it off and wash it, and I have to put it back on when I take off my clothes and wash it when I'm in the shower, so why bother?" It's better to wear a wash, killing three birds with one stone. ”

Xiao Tianjian "cut" and said: "Don't teach bad children, let my granddaughter also develop your raunchy bad habits." He glanced at the stain on Sennett's robe and turned his face away, "I don't have magic so I can't touch your mechanism, but how can Minna have magic power?" Last time my grandson Bevin came, you said that my descendants are affected by my bloodline, and it is difficult for them to attract magical elements. ”

Sennett looked at Minna: "I'm not sure about that, why don't you test the child?" ”

They quickly turned back to the large room in front, and Sonnett searched for a long time, and finally found a dusty crystal ball, and the base was still missing a corner: "It's been useless for decades, I don't know if it's okay, but the quality of this brand of crystal ball is very reliable." He grabbed his sleeve and rubbed it on the crystal ball a few times, then put it on the table: "Try it, just put your hand on it." ”

Hearing this, Minna was about to put her hand on it, but was stopped by Xiao Tianjian, he took out a large piece of cloth and wiped it on the ball for a long time before putting it back on the base, and raised her face at her granddaughter: "Try it, it's clean." ”

Minna put her hand up, and at first the crystal ball did not react, but slowly, it began to glow a faint blue light, as blue as the sky. She looked at the light with some fascination and asked, "This color is so beautiful, Grandpa Sennet, do I have magic?" ”

Sennett said a few words, and then stopped moving. Xiao Tianjian said with a smile: "Being able to shine means that it has magical power, I have seen others test it, this ...... The blue one is a water system, isn't it? ”

Sennett snorted twice: "It's a water system, and it has a bit of a light system, and maybe some wind system, but it doesn't have a big effect, at most it's a trainee magician, and it can't be a climate at all." This must have been affected by you, the child's mother may have the blood of a magician, but unfortunately it was suppressed by your bloodline. ”

Xiao Tianjian asked Minna, "Has there ever been a magician in your mother's house?" ”

"Yes." She knows this, "Mom said that my grandmother is a junior magician, and she went to some magic academy in Shaonan, but after marrying my grandfather, she didn't study anymore." ”

Sennet sighed when he heard this, but quickly cheered up: "Although the magic power is a little lower, it is not a problem to learn potions, little Minna, don't you like my potions?" Do you want to learn from me? I'm so bored here by myself, I can't do anything when all four potions are boiling potions, and the half-elf doesn't like to talk. ”

Xiao Tianjian objected to this: "Don't talk nonsense, what does it have to do with us that you are bored?" My granddaughter can't stay here for long, at most in a month or two. Your potions are complicated, and you won't be able to learn them in a few years. According to me, it doesn't matter if the magic is low, just learn a few practical magic, such as water polo, lighting, fireball, etc., you can drink water anytime and anywhere, you don't have to worry about finding a water source, you can make a fire even if you don't have flint, and it would be even better if you could get a cool breeze to cool yourself down in the summer. ”

Sennett glared at him, "What a vision! Don't you have a storage ring? Still worried about not having anything to eat or drink? If you're afraid of the heat, just don't go out. What are those little magics? My potion is good, I am sick or injured, I don't need to find a doctor, I can solve it myself. ”

The two old men quarreled like this, and Minna looked to the left and the right for a while, and couldn't help sighing. She touched her stomach, and seemed to be a little hungry, so she left the two adults, ran to the tea tray, knocked it, shook it, huh? Why didn't you run out without food? She suddenly remembered that Sennet seemed to be using a small stick to knock on the tea tray, so she went to find the stick.

Before they could be found, the two old men had come to an agreement, and within a month, Sennet would teach Minna a few simple little magic, and Minna would also have to learn how to handle potion materials and prepare the four most practical potions, which were cold potions, cough potions, fever potions, and hemostatic potions.

After listening to this, Minna offered her own opinion: "I want to learn to make potions that change the color of my hair and eyes!" Xiao Tianjian glared: "Your head is now like a colorful feather duster, do you still want to learn?" No way! Sennett also persuaded: "That's hard, little Minna, you learn this simple first." ”

Minna puffed up her bun face, and Sennett looked soft-hearted, so she gave in: "Okay, okay, I'll teach you, but you have to learn those four first." ”

Minna was satisfied, and turned to the most urgent request of the moment: "I'm so hungry, Grandpa Sennett, how can that tea tray be made into something to eat?" ”

Xiao Tianjian saw that his granddaughter was close to his old friend, and his heart was a little sour: "Cut, don't fall for him, food can't be conjured through magic." ”

"But I saw Grandpa Sennett knock on the tea tray, and bread and milk came out of it?"

Sennett coughed a few times and looked at Minna with a smile in his eyes: "That one didn't come out, someone made it in advance and stored it." I knocked on the tray and just made it appear and get hot. ”

"Who did that?" Minna's eyes rolled, "Could it be that beautiful uncle?" "She hasn't seen a fifth person here.

Sennett only coughed, muttered "not him," and took out his stickβ€”a wand, actuallyβ€”and tapped the tea tray, from which he took out three portions of bread and milk.

Minna followed her grandfather to live in this strange house, practicing martial arts for half a day every day, and then learning magic and potions for half a day. Because Xiao Tianjian was stuck in a small room all day and didn't know what to do, she felt a little bored, she originally thought it was very interesting magic, but because she was still young and a beginner, her magic power was low, so she could only increase her magic value through meditation first, as for the potions, it was obvious that drying herbs, cutting insect limbs, and distinguishing the types of ores were not a little bit different from preparing a fun color-changing potion.

Because she was bored, she started harassing her two grandfathers, but they were too busy with business to pay attention to her, so she had to focus on another thing, which was adventure.

She had been living here for a few days by this time, and she was familiar with the surroundings of the house. Affected by the fright of the day she landed, she would not go outside the lawn, lest the wind blow down the mountain, but there was a large forest farther to the west, and she wanted to go in to play, but was stopped by the half-elf: "It's poisonous inside, don't go in." She remembered the day she remembered, the woods of poisonous fog that her grandfather had mentioned, and wondered if this was it?

Since it was poisonous, there was no way out, so she had to run to the cave in the mountain wall. There are two caves in the mountain wall here where you can occasionally drill and drill, and one of them has a spring, and there are some strange fruits growing on the water's edge, and she wants to pick them to eat, but she is stopped by the half-elf who appears at some time: "Poisonous, don't eat it." ”

Well, she doesn't eat. Throwing the fruit away, Minna turned to the half-elf: "Pretty uncle, let's play together, shall we?" The half-elf gave her a cold look and turned to leave.

Look, how boring she is. The two people who can talk ignore her except for a fixed time every day; And the only one who had time to talk to her ignored her. Minna puffs up her bun face again and decides to find new fun.

She had been to most of the strange house they lived in, including the library underground, the potion material storage room, and the magic mechanism making room, but there was one place she had never been to before, and that was the "crooked room" on the second floor, the interior of the house that was stuck diagonally.

She now knew the temper of the great magician Sennet, no matter what she did in the house, as long as she touched a soft transparent compartment, it meant that it was something that could not be touched or a place that could not be visited, and there was no such compartment on the second floor, which meant that she could go. So why does Grandpa Sennett always tell her not to go upstairs?

Minna spent the afternoon finishing the task assigned by Sennett, took the book and pretended to read it seriously in front of the fireplace. Xiao Tianjian and Sennet both thought that she would not toss anymore, and their work was also critical, so they closed the door and concentrated on their business. As soon as Minna saw them close the door, she quietly got up and moved back, tiptoeing up the stairs to the second floor.

There was only one door here, and when she opened it, everything inside was crooked, but when she walked in, she found herself standing there squarely, and when she turned around, the original door had become crooked. But when she exited the room, she was still standing upright, but the door was crooked again. Minna thought it was funny, and kept coming in and out, coming in and out, thinking to herself, what would it be like if something was half inside the room and half outside?

But she tried it herself, but she couldn't feel it, so she took out the handkerchief she had on her and placed it on the floor of the door, so that it was half inside and half outside, and this time she could clearly see that the handkerchief, which was supposed to lie flat on the floor, was bent in the middle.

Why is this happening? What kind of secrets does this room have?

Minna put away her handkerchief and walked into the room, looking around. It's not a normal room, it's even more like a normal room downstairs, and if anything, it's probably a few doors on the opposite wall. She walked over to the middle door and peered through the crack.

Hey? Is there anyone over there? And it's a lot of people walking around, it seems to be a street, how is this possible?

She gripped the doorknob and tried to open it to see what was on the other side of the door.

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