Chapter Forty-Nine: The Beginning of Magic
In the large conference room of the school hospital, Guo Qian, Chang Lin and other committee leaders, as well as doctors such as President Wang and Feng Yao, there were more than ten people, surrounded by two young people with slightly uneasy expressions.
They are the protagonists of today, Liu Pengfei and Mao Kai, both of whom are magic cultivation volunteers selected by the school. They practiced the Hanging Feather Method from the wild mage Andrew, and after a month of hard work, they had reached the bottleneck of concentrating, and they had the qualifications to look through the "Knowing the Sea Shadow Scroll".
The cover of "Knowing the Sea Shadow Scroll" is folded and placed diagonally on a podium. The quaint cover is out of place with the modern style of the surrounding rooms.
There was also an emergency bed next to the door, and Liu Yisheng was leaning against the wall in a white coat, looking ready to save people at any time, which added a little tension to the atmosphere in the room.
Xiao Chen and Luo Ling, as first-time witnesses of using this holy scripture, were naturally also on the scene.
Xiao Chen's gaze swept over the bodies of everyone in the room one by one, and finally stopped at the two magic apprentices, he found that with the practice of spiritual magic, in recent days, he has become more and more fond of observing everyone around him, and the desires and weaknesses in people's hearts are often the breakthrough point for spiritual magic to break through the defense line.
Liu Pengfei, a student cadre, had excitement and nervousness on his face at this time, as if he was about to take the first step towards the pinnacle of his life. Chang Lin was talking to him about something, maybe it was comfort, maybe it was encouragement. He didn't hide that he had a close relationship with Liu Pengfei, and patted him the shoulder as he spoke.
Mao Kai was eager to try, he was gesturing with his hands, and his face was full of excitement and his two classmates talking about his scientific conjectures, and there was a kind of enthusiasm that belonged to the researcher in his eyes. This important member of the science and technology group was not an initial candidate, but he asked the committee to join the project through the science and technology group. He had always believed that it was the ubiquitous magic particles that affected the entire chemical system, and that in order to study such particles, one must first have access to them, so becoming a magician became a very natural choice.
Xiao Chen saw something called ambition from the faces of both of them, but the impression of the two different ambitions was like a cloud.
"What are you looking at?" asked Luo Ling.
"People. You don't know how interesting it is to watch people. Xiao Chen's gaze turned around Luo Ling.
"How do you know I don't know?" Luo Ling glanced at him, Luo Ling covered her mouth with her hand, and her fingers passed over the people in front of her a little: "This is a sleepy lion, that is a timid old deer, and a stunned orangutan, a hunting leopard, a proud rooster, and a reckless calf." β
"Huh. Xiao Chen saw that she compared everyone to animals, and pointed to himself, "Then what am I?"
"You. Luo Ling's watery eyes looked at him for a while, "No matter how you look at it, it looks like a radish." β
"Turnips?"
"Mm-hmm, it's still flowery. β
"The conscience of heaven and earth!"
"After voting for the past few days, are you free? I take other little girls around every day, and I go to the school cafeteria together, right?
Xiao Chen was stunned for a moment, and for the first time, he didn't refute her, but showed a faint smile: "When she pounced on me without hesitation, I always felt that I owed her something." I'm measured, I just treat her like a little sister. β
"Really?" Xiao Chen thought that Luo Ling would still make fun of him, but she just asked in a low voice and didn't speak again.
"What's wrong with you?"
"It's about to start, it's a milestone, focus. Xiao Chen looked at her from the side and found that she didn't have any expression. After a while, I looked at it again, and I felt that her eyes were a little red. Is this possible? The Luo Ling he knew was always extremely strong, which made him feel that he was just dazzled.
He just wanted to ask again, but saw the "stunned orangutan" Liu Yisheng walking towards the two of them.
"Xiao Chen, if these two guys open that book now, they will be in danger. When the time comes, it's time for you to help. Liu Yisheng was still naΓ―ve when he spoke, but the content of his words made Xiao Chen interested.
"How do you know?" he asked.
"Feeling...... I seem to have a few more fragments in my head these days. But it's all a mess of things that can't be seen clearly. But today's scene, I seem to have seen it in some clip. I don't know what I remember, but those images just tell me that they're going to be unlucky. Liu Yisheng touched his head and said, "Then I had another feeling that I had to have a magician to help them." β
Xiao Chen was a little embarrassed, on the one hand, he had experienced so many magical and mysterious things, it was difficult for him to ignore Liu Yisheng's words, but on the other hand, such a warning had no evidence, and it came from a stupid big man in the eyes of others. Do you have to rely on such intuition or nonsense to stop today's events?
Xiao Chen thought for a moment and said, "Do you have any detailed content, or evidence that you can get your hands on?"
Liu Yisheng rolled his eyes and said, "If I could get it, I would still come to you?" I would have already slapped the evidence in front of the bigwigs of the committee. β
"Do you remember that their lives were threatened?" Luo Ling asked.
"Like, it doesn't seem to be that serious. But I can't guarantee that. β
Xiao Chen touched his chin and thought about it for a while, but decided to report the situation to Guo Qian.
"Do you have a hunch?" Guo Qian thought for a while, called Xiao Chen, Luo Ling, Feng Yao and Liu Yisheng out of the room, and asked, "Xiao Liu, how sure are you about this?"
Liu Yisheng looked at the principal in a daze, and finally squeezed out a sentence: "It doesn't seem to be." β
Guo Qian asked Feng Yao, who got along with him the most, again: "Did Liu Yisheng show this kind of prophetic ability before?"
"Well, not really. Feng Yao said.
Guo Qian asked Xiao Chen again: "If you tell Liu Pengfei and Mao Kai about this, will it affect their success rate in forming a meditation space?" β
"Quite possibly. Xiao Chen nodded, "I've heard Master Icassa say that there is a high probability of failure in forming a meditation space. It is said that in the past, magic apprentices in the Tower of Dreams would die in such accidents every year. Emotional stability is an important part of the process of creating a meditation space. Tell them the bad results in advance, I'm afraid there is no benefit. β
"In that case...... Guo Qian paused, he glanced at Luo Ling, who shook his head slightly, "We don't announce this news." I'm a researcher, so it's in my nature to believe only in logic and evidence. Plus, exploration is inherently risky. Since Liu Yisheng doesn't feel that it will be life-threatening, let's continue. When Xiao Xiao first opened "Knowing the Sea Shadow Scroll", the risk was much greater than now. β
When several people walked into the room again, Chang Lin told Guo Qian that everyone was ready and could start.
Guo Qian walked to the front of "Knowing the Sea Shadow Scroll" and said to Liu Pengfei and Mao Kai: "Then the second phase of our 'Magic Beginning' project is about to start. Before the implementation, I would like to ask the two volunteers seriously, seriously, are you sure you want to open this holy book? I have just confirmed with Xiao Chen again that this is a very dangerous process. We have no experience and no remedy, and once you open this book, you will have to rely on yourselves and your luck. β
"I'm sure. It's a crucial step for us to understand the world, and it's important to me, to all of us. Mao Kai replied without hesitation.
And Liu Pengfei seemed to feel something, he exchanged a look with Chang Lin, and then bowed slightly: "Me too." β
"Okay. Guo Qian nodded slowly, "So who will come first?"
Mao Kai glanced back at Liu Pengfei, who looked elsewhere, he lowered his head and said with a hint of contempt: "I'll come first!"
Mao Kai stood in front of the podium where the "Knowing the Sea Shadow Scroll" was placed, and the others all stood on the other side of the podium, making sure that their eyes would not see the book. Mao Kai closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then opened the "Knowing the Sea Shadow Scroll", and suddenly the holy book emitted a colorful light, and Mao Kai stood there without moving.
The crowd waited quietly in the room, either standing or sitting, and the time quickly passed for more than an hour. But Xiao Chen found that Mao Kai's expression began to slowly become painful, as if a long-distance runner was beginning to approach his physical limit. Xiao Chen asked Luo Ling, "Was I like this at the time?"
Luo Ling's expression also became solemn, and she shook her head slightly and said, "I don't know." β
Xiao Chen didn't think about Luo Ling's answer, and his attention was attracted by Mao Kai's increasingly struggling appearance.
"That's it. Liu Yisheng said, "The clip I recalled at the time was like this!"
Suddenly, Mao Kai, who was staring at the holy text with his eyes open, let out a muffled snort, and then the light on the "Knowing the Sea Shadow Scroll" began to flicker like neon at night.
Everyone in the room suddenly let out several exclamations, followed by chaotic discussions, and everyone's eyes looked at Xiao Chen.
"I'll take a look. Don't come, everybody. Xiao Chen ran to the podium, and through the flickering light on the "Knowing the Sea Shadow Scroll", he saw that a line of Chinese characters appeared on the wordless page of the holy book: The meditation world is broken, please invite the presiding officer of the ceremony to enter and repair.
There is also a whirlpool-like pattern underneath this line, which keeps turning. When Xiao Chen's gaze stayed on the whirlpool, he suddenly felt that the whirlpool emitted a strong light, flying up from the page, and it became bigger and bigger, enveloping his whole person.
And in Luo Ling's field of vision, they only saw Xiao Chen running to Mao Kai's side, looking down at the pages, and standing still like Mao Kai.
"What's going on?" Luo Ling was about to rush forward, but Liu Yisheng grabbed her wrist, "Don't worry. I remember it was supposed to be like this, and later, later......"
"Luo Ling, don't be impulsive. What are you going to do?" Guo Qian also shouted from behind.
Luo Ling shook off Liu Yisheng's hand, ignored the shouts of others, walked quickly to Xiao Chen's side, and involuntarily grabbed his arm with both hands. There is still a line of words flashing on "Knowing the Sea Shadow Scroll":
The celebrant has entered.