Volume 5 Western Continent Getaway 07 Victor City at the Bottom of the Sea 05
Sweat...... It's completely different from sitting on Lulu's back, Mark's shoulders are too steady, and he doesn't feel much when he walks away. It's like a lulu, flying up and riding feels like a super roller coaster, and from time to time there is a slalom and flip, if you don't have a mental preparation, you will definitely have to fall.
"Thanks!" Xu Zheng slid off Mark's body, and wanted to pat him on the shoulder, but he was depressed to find that his height was only a little above his waist, and he raised his hands for a long time, and couldn't find a place to start, so he had to touch the back of his head and walk away.
Mark lowered his head and looked at Xu Zheng, there was no human in his memory who had extremely rich expressions and body movements like the human boy in front of him. He saw that the young man's intention was to pat himself on the shoulder, but suddenly he found that the height was not excessive, and a strange expression appeared on his face, as if he was disappointed not to photograph himself. Then he turned his head away, and the expression on his face was stupid, but some of it made Mark want to squat down and let him reach his shoulder.
Xu Zheng turned around and saw Mark looking at him, blue light flashing in his eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking. This magic envoy seems to be very fond of thinking about things, but his memory is not good, Xu Zheng couldn't help laughing, and asked, "Is this here?"
Mark nodded yes.
Xu Zheng turned his head again, and saw that there was a three-story mage tower structure in front of him, circular, with a wooden door opening on the left at the bottom, and a mark of a cross between a staff and a wand was painted on it. Such buildings abound throughout Victor City, there are many four- and five-story ones, and among all the things Xu Zheng has seen along the way, this one is so ordinary that he didn't notice it at all.
Xu Zheng stepped forward and pushed the door slightly, and sure enough, as he expected, the door opened as soon as he pushed it, and the familiar * old smell came to him.
The first floor is a living room and kitchen. It was very messy, and Xu Zheng did not find a dry body in the bedroom. He walked to the second floor again.
The second floor was even more messy than the first, and there were parchment scrolls thrown everywhere, and the ones that were not bound in general were magician's manuals and magician's notes. Because of their age, Xu Zheng was worried that he would break the parchment rolls. I only dared to carefully look through some of them, the content in them was astringent and difficult to understand, some were in Victor City script, some were lingua franca that could be understood, and a small part of them could be understood, Xu Zheng noticed that almost all of them had such words on them: Sigart Audi.
Almost certainly. This Cillette Audi is the master of this room, a magician. It seems that he is still a very powerful magician for the exam.
Continuing to the third floor, Xu Zheng finally found this Cillette Audi.
He was lying in a rocking chair. With a blanket on his knees, his face tilted upwards slightly, his eyes closed peacefully. It is facing a skylight that is slanted at 40 degrees. It seems that at the moment when he lost his life, he was looking in the direction of the sky outside the window.
Looking at this magician carefully, Xu Zheng noticed a difference on his face. The other dried corpses have either calm expressions or smiles, but this one is different. Although he looked quiet and peaceful at first glance, if you look closely, you can always feel the strong sadness on his face.
Xu Zheng's heart moved slightly, and he looked at the side of the dry corpse. There was a small table with a dry inkwell in it, a quill in it, and an open bound parchment roll beside it.
Xu Zheng walked over and picked up the parchment roll, but fortunately it was the last page, which was written in distorted characters: It's my turn. I also did not escape such a fate. Maybe that's the best, but if not, what's the point of having me alone? A hundred-year-old dream, in the end, is an empty dream! Sleep, sleep like this, I hope never to wake up again.
After that, the handwriting became haphazard, and I could no longer see what was written.
Xu Zheng didn't want to stay with the dry corpse, so he carefully took the sheepskin roll downstairs, found the lulu who was reluctant to come in, sat down against it that was dozing off, and looked at the sheepskin from the beginning.
After less than two pages, Xu Zheng was immersed in the story of Cillette Audi, and he didn't even feel the hairball grabbing his hair and drilling into it like a flea.
The parchment scroll was Silgart's diary and notes, and he had the same habit as the old alchemy guru Forrest Gan, who liked to write down everything and ideas so that he could check them later.
The diary reads:
Aris Continental Calendar 335, October, Autumn, Light Rain:
Old friends haven't seen each other for years, but when they get together, the old days are back, and everyone is happy. So I proposed, why not build a city of mages, so that those of us who like to study magic can get together and study what we like without being scratched. This proposal was unanimously approved, and Farne Scott even proposed that it would be better to call the alchemist as well, anyway, magic and alchemy go hand in hand, and those who like these are scholars who like to study. So, it was unanimously adopted.
In the year 339 of the Aris Continent calendar, January, winter, first sight:
Today, the city of Victor has finally been built. Everyone stood outside the city gate together, looking at this city of mages and alchemists established by one hand, and their hearts were very proud. As one of the founders who made the proposal, I was proposed to be elected lord of the castle. Hehe, I'm very happy, I will definitely be the lord of this city. I was so excited, so I drank a lot of alcohol at night, and when I was writing in my diary, my head still hurt.
In the 347th year of the Aris Continental Calendar, June, early summer, sunny:
Today, the female mage Armani's floating plan has finally been perfected, and with the help of the gnomes and dwarves, the entire Victor has floated into the sky! What a spectacular spectacle! 11,417 magic arrays form a complex magic array system nested with each other, so complicated that you will be dazzled just by looking at it, and finally succeeded in making Victor City float into the sky and become a paradise for mages and alchemists.
Aris Continental Calendar 417, November, late autumn, light rain:
Everyone didn't like the rain, so they teamed up to create an enchantment to protect all of Victor City inside. This barrier is quite strong, and once opened, not a drop of rain can enter. I stood under the light shield of the enchantment, looked up, and for some reason, felt that something was wrong with my life right now. It seems that there is a deviation somewhere, but it is impossible to find it. Victor's life was quiet and peaceful. Far away from the world, I always feel that something is missing, and I don't know what is really missing.
Yesterday a census was conducted, and on the day it was floating, there were 2,160 people. Now a check, there are still so many, no more, no less, no new births, no aging and death, it seems that time has stopped here. Talk to Farne Scott about it. He said that it was very good, which means that everyone's magic level has been improving, and they have surpassed the limits of life and death. But I don't know why, I always feel uneasy in my heart.
The Great Array of Aris lasted 426 years. July, summer, muggy:
Today I made myself a magic circle to cool down. Blowing a cool breeze, my heart is still uncomfortable. Victor was getting quieter and quieter, and there was no one walking around the street, and everyone seemed to stay in the house and not come out. I'm also busy, and I don't seem to be doing my duty as a city lord. But in all fairness, I don't really want to go out, and I always feel like I can't get the energy to socialize. Every time I am in the gap of research, I always feel very confused, as if there is something missing in my life, and there is no goal in my research, as if I don't know what I am doing.
Aris the Great Calendar 466 Calendar, December, Winter, Great Cold:
Today, Zuman is dead. He was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, and his face was very serene. Everyone went to see him, didn't say much, and the situation seemed very indifferent. I looked down at Zuman, although he was almost three hundred years old, his magical power had reached this level, and he had surpassed life and death, as evidenced by his appearance stuck at the age of thirty. How can such a person say that he has passed away when he dies?
I felt even more uneasy, as if there was a dark cloud hanging overhead.
Aris Continental Calendar 518 Year, October, Autumn, Gale:
Today it was very windy, and in the sky, the wind was even stronger, blowing spotlessly on the streets. Let's go bid farewell to Melania. She is the one hundred and second mage to die in nearly fifty years. In the same way, her countenance was indescribably calm, but I became more and more uneasy, something was wrong with Victor. I offered them to return to the surface and re-enter human life, but no one wanted to, they liked it like it was now. I thought about it and gave up. Perhaps, we are not truly detached from life and death, the laws of nature cannot be broken, we just live longer. In the end, there will still be birth, old age, sickness and death.
The continent of Aris was decorated with heavy rains in July, summer and 622:
It was raining heavily outside, and not a single drop of rain could pass through it due to the effect of the barrier. But in the city of Victor, an even bigger storm is brewing!
The whole city was sick! People had a strange disease, they didn't want to eat, they didn't want to move, they didn't even bother to move their fingers. I'm the same, I just want to lie down and do nothing.
Aris Continental Calendar 624, June, Spring, Breeze:
I did get sick. I don't want to move at all, the wind blows so comfortably, I just want to lie down like this, think about nothing, do nothing.
In the year 624 of the Aris Continental Calendar, July, Summer, Heavy Rain:
I think I'm going to die. I only ate four times in seven days, I had no appetite at all, I ate like chewing wax, I just wanted to lie down.
Aris Continental Calendar 624, August, Summer, Heavy Rain:
Today is about my last day, and I know that I am going to die soon. Suddenly, I understood. In this city, there is really a strange disease, it is contagious like a plague, the symptom is like fake death, and I don't want to do anything. I never understood why this disease happened.
But just before I died, I understood!
We are doing our own sins and cannot live!
This disease turned out to be loneliness and loneliness.
Far from the crowd, away from the world. Our group of people has forgotten how to live as a person, and we only instinctively study for the sake of research, but we have forgotten the original purpose of research: to come from the people, return to the people, and benefit the people.
It may be God's punishment that we have contracted this disease called loneliness, and we will eventually die in loneliness. Loneliness and loneliness slowly erode our hearts and make us forget that we are still alone. I heard the sound of rain and the envoys downstairs talking in a whisper. They all know how to communicate, and we, as the best human beings at all, have not talked to each other for many years?
Retribution!
We will die alone and lonely, leaving the city of mages to witness our defeat.
In the year 624 of the Aris Continental calendar, July, summer, and heavy rain:
I'm going to die.
I didn't even want to take notes, and my eyes were dizzy.
Before I died, I made a decision: I wanted to make this city disappear forever and never let the world make such mistakes again. In the future, if future generations see my notes, please remember: never stay away from the crowd, live in the crowd, laugh in the world, and don't let loneliness and loneliness swallow you. Victor City, let it go away! It's not a testament to the splendor of magic, it's just a testimony of a group of failed people!
Magic should come from life, be brilliant in life, and benefit life, not just research.
Sciart Audi's masterpiece.
After reading it, Xu Zheng covered the scroll, sat quietly for a long time, did not say a word, only felt a chill lingering around, the temperature seemed to drop to freezing, and the whole body stiffened. Lulu realized that the atmosphere was wrong, and subconsciously approached Xu Zheng, put his head into his arms, arched, and tried to attract Xu Zheng's attention. The hairball grabbed Xu Zheng's two strands of hair, hung in front of Xu Zheng's face like a hanged ghost, and shouted: "Ugly, you, ugly!"
The warm body temperature of Lulu softened Xu Zheng, and Xu Zheng pulled out an extremely ugly smile and said, "These people are all lonely and lonely. The city of Victor, the legendary city of mages, turned out to be nothing more than a dilapidated city eroded by loneliness and loneliness. ”
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