Chapter 21: At the Beginning

Xiao Chen held a notebook, a T-shirt on top, and a pair of quick-drying pants below, and walked on the second floor of the teaching without hurry. Sunlight filters in through the windows, and a gentle breeze blows through the porch, giving people a cosy feeling of early autumn. In the quiet and comfortable campus, everything seems to be the same as it was a few days ago. However, this is just an illusion, there is no class bell, no frolicking classmates, no old professors who talk endlessly, and the whole aisle is quiet and cranky.

Xiao Chen thought of the rescue and excavation a few days ago, at first frustration and hope coexisted, but the frustration slowly overpowered the hope after all, and as time passed, the survivors' hope of survival gradually decreased to zero. Xiao Chen's mind flashed the tragic images of the victims, the screams and wails of the wounded, and the silent weeping of countless rescuers.

Xiao Chen still remembered the red dress, and he had seen that beautiful and energetic figure on the way to the print shop that morning, and he walked behind the unknown girl, admiring the beauty of summer. And the next time he saw her, it was under the deep rubble, whether it was a beautiful figure or that red dress, it was all shattered. A strong resentment and resentment hit his heart deeply, hard to forget.

He remembered Principal Guo's conversation with him again, and at that time, in order to save the magician, he didn't expect to become a cocoon and self-binding cover. For the sake of the school's safety and the need to deter the locals, he had to overcome the worries and fears in his heart and continue to play this role.

Xiao Chen thought of those magic items and his sudden appearance again, it was a mood of anticipation, trepidation, worry, and excitement. He has been instilled with scientific ideas for half his life, and he has a fear of things that are difficult to explain by science, and this fear is like a time bomb, I don't know if it will explode, but it is buried in my heart. However, he also has this expectation, one day, will I really harness this power and realize the superhuman dream that every boy has in his heart?

There have been so many things he has encountered in the past few days, and all kinds of images have appeared in his mind one after another, strange encounters in the dungeon, mysterious notes of magicians, shrewd bald man Ciro, and a desperate moment when he returns to food......

Xiao Chen's heart became more and more chaotic, and his pace became more and more urgent.

But then he slowed down again, and he didn't know when a figure appeared in his mind that made him feel at ease: Luo Ling.

When Xiao Chen walked into the classroom at the end of this corridor, he found that the door was open, he looked inside, and was surprised to find that Luo Ling had arrived first. She changed her previous steady office style, wearing a purple printed sundress, a silk cardigan over it, her hair tied in a loose ponytail, one hand on her cheek, sitting in the first row of seats by the window, looking out the window at the treetops.

Xiao Chen looked at her outside the door, his eyes swept over her delicate collarbones and the slightly exposed furrows on her chest, her eyebrows and eyes that looked a little sleepy because of exhaustion, her long black hair and her hair fluttering gently in the breeze, and finally stopped on the warm and white hand and red lips at hand, only then did she realize that she was such a feminine woman.

He scratched his nose lightly with his fingers, as if to criticize himself for how he had always regarded her as a strong comrade-in-arms and a reliable comrade.

However, this atmosphere and thoughts only lasted for a moment, and when Luo Ling heard the sound and turned around, lowered her arms, folded them on the desk, and looked at him very dignifiedly, everything changed. She smiled slightly, but Xiao Chen didn't feel like a spring breeze, and the little thoughts she had before were even more cloudy, and the only thing she felt was a ...... Pressure?

"You have listened to the briefing, and President Guo has also talked to you alone. I heard him say, you are still a little reluctant to come over, how about playing a big name?" Luo Ling tilted her head slightly, with a little naughty feeling in her scrutiny.

"Miss Luo Mingjian, I was forced to go to Liangshan at that time. Xiao Chen pretended to hug his fist and sat on the long table in front of Luo Ling, "I really don't want to do this every day." ”

Luo Ling couldn't help laughing, no matter how she looked at it, she felt that he really looked like a monkey begging for money. Xiao Chen let out a long sigh and said, "Don't laugh at me, we all know that those farmers don't know anything, and although Xiluo has seen some markets, he definitely hasn't dealt with magicians." To deceive these people, it is enough for me to use a lighter, and ensure that they will treat me as a superior person. But we have to go out after all, how can we deceive those really knowledgeable nobles, or real magicians?"

"If a magician really comes, and he doesn't like me, he wants to compare with me. Xiao Chen jumped off the table, drew a big circle with both hands, and then pushed forward, "Just slam a big fireball over, won't I be glorious?"

"You have a good name, live in a simple place, how can someone trouble you?" Luo Ling looked at him with a smile and analyzed: "Look, so many people here have never seen a magician, and even the leading Scarface was scared away by that fire sword. I know that the magician is a rare animal. Your fire sword, your flying castle, and those rifles have already given so many people the impression of a powerful magician, and they will only exaggerate it when they add fuel to the spread of falsehood. Whether it's a nobleman or a real magician, why should you have trouble with you who seem so powerful?"

"That's hard to say, maybe it's like in a story, one day, your Miss Luo was kidnapped by an evil magician, and the righteous Xiao Chen had to come forward to save you, so it would be exposed. ”

"If that's the case, will you save me?" Luo Ling suddenly stared at him with those big eyes without blinking.

"Of course it will ......" Xiao Chen felt that he was an idiot, and set himself a trap.

"I'm serious!" Luo Ling leaned over a little.

"Of course ......"

"It's not just a casual talk. She leaned closer.

"When...... That one...... If you stare at me too closely, you'll be cross-eyed......" Xiao Chen moved back uncomfortably, and stumbled off the table.

"Ha, alright, alright, don't be nervous. You've already passed the first test two days ago. Luo Ling withdrew her aggressive gaze and resumed her posture with one hand on her cheeks.

"Uh...... All right. Xiao Chen felt that he couldn't keep up with this woman's train of thought at all.

"It's a wonderful world, and there's a lot of stuff that we can't understand. Luo Ling looked at the sky outside the window and said, "Even the sun looks bigger than the original world, which reminds us not to look at things with the old way of thinking." How do you know you can't be a real magician? If you can activate that sword, it means that a miracle has happened to you. Maybe it's caused by the white light, or maybe it's not. But I feel like a new door has opened. What we need to do is to walk in more courageously. ”

"You also feel like this?" Xiao Chen asked with some excitement, he hesitated for a moment, and then decided to tell Luo Ling the truth, "I seem to get a kind of power from the white light...... When I want to see clearly, my eyes can see more clearly, and when I want to carry you to the hospital, my strength becomes greater. You were there at the time, what happened to your body?"

Luo Ling jumped up when she heard this.

"You...... What increases eyesight and strength?then how can I ......" Luo Ling's face suddenly turned red, and she hurriedly clasped her hands around her chest, afraid that Xiao Chen would find that her figure was suddenly better.

"You have changed too? I suspect that the white light changes our constitution according to our thoughts. Where have you changed?"

Luo Ling glared at Xiao Chen and said, "Don't talk about this...... Do you want me to say more? Have you figured it out as a big man?"

"Alas. Now that you have gone to Liangshan, you can't do it if you don't join the gang. ”

"Then from today onwards, you will be a member of my foreign affairs team! When our people arrive, you can pick two of your people. Luo Ling waved her little hand, quite a bit of leadership temperament.

Just when Xiao Chen was secretly wondering where Luo Ling had been transformed by the white light. There were several more footsteps at the door, and two men and two women came in one after another.

Luo Ling beckoned them to sit down and walked to the podium by herself.

"Alright, now that everyone is here. Then our foreign affairs team will be officially opened. I am your team leader Luo Ling, and next to me is Xiao Chen, the deputy team leader, who is also the male number one in our group, playing the role of "Master Magician" full-time, and he will inevitably appear everywhere in the future. ”

Others also made their own introductions. One of them was Zhang Hong, the translator in the grain trading team, Xiao Chen didn't treat him very much, because Li Jia was deeply impressed by his performance in several times when he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and was as timid as a mouse, when the story was told to Xiao Chen.

However, Zhang Hong didn't feel that he had lost too much, after returning to school, he raised his eyebrows well, everyone regarded the people who participated in the grain trading team as heroes, so Zhang Hong walked with his head held high these days, he boasted about how calm he was before the rain of bullets, and finally successfully transported back the grain, earning a lot of applause from boys and screams from girls. This time he was assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he thought that he could at least be a deputy team leader, but he didn't expect to be preempted by a junior teacher and a graduate student with very little qualifications.

Another sophomore boy named Ding Lunquan, tall and strong, is a lap bigger than Xiao Chen in terms of length and width, this guy said that he came from the school football team, because he participated in a football training camp in Spain in high school, so he speaks Spanish well. One of the two women is named Liu Wan, who is in her thirties, is a teacher majoring in Spanish, and the other is named Du Mei, a third-year student majoring in Spanish.

"Mr. Luo, in this way, our foreign affairs group is equivalent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? Dealing with those natives? You, the foreign minister, are you also a member of the 'Central Standing Committee'? Great! And I'm a diplomat now? Haha, this is my dream since I was a child. The girl named Du Mei asked a little excitedly after listening to the introduction.

"This disaster has led to 721 of us coming into this world, and all the work needs to be led, and the disaster relief committee is only a transitional body, and the other 12 people are the leaders of each task group except for President Guo. Now this model is also to facilitate collaboration and communication, and we are not a central boss. Luo Ling smiled and began to answer a series of questions from this anxious child, "Our foreign affairs team currently has only six people, which is the smallest group, but it is also the most responsible one, you are more important than ordinary diplomats, because sometimes war or peace may depend on what we say." ”

The girl's face turned red, but when she heard a sneer, Zhang Hong crossed Erlang's legs and said disdainfully: "What are you Yelang arrogant, the committee obviously doesn't pay much attention to our group." Otherwise, you two young people can be in charge?"