707 Books The world is big
In the small city, it is actually easy to determine whether a person is a magician or not, and it is even easier to catch a group of magicians.
Zhou Shu had just returned home, and before he had time to get close to his wife and children, and he didn't have time to introduce Xiao San to them, the whole person was in a depressed state. In the Book of Summonings, a large group of magically powerful foreigners poured in, much to his dismay.
Judging from the age group of these people, middle-aged and elderly people account for more than 70 percent, and there are very few young people. Their label is simply 'magic owner', but they are definitely not native, and there are not such blue-eyed and green-eyed guys growing on Chinese soil. They came to the town in an organized, planned, and leading big brother, and it is very likely that they are magicians.
Zhou Shu has now found a contradiction.
He remembered that the Gray Witch had said that she herself was the tail of the crane in the wizarding world, the female dick. The social structure of the wizarding world is fusiformal, narrow at the ends and wide in the middle, with a large middle class, just like the United States.
The Grey Witch is a member of the bottom of the shuttle, and if this shuttle can stab someone to death, then the part where the Grey Witch is located is the first place to touch the victim's body, and she is already too weak to be weak.
In this case, the Gray Witch can still maintain 180,000 summoning points, and recently I don't know what panacea she has taken and it has risen by tens of thousands. But now the hundreds of people who suddenly appeared, all of them are two thousand or three thousand masters, like the money that a little fart got when playing mahjong, which is not worth mentioning.
This situation made Zhou Shu ponder for a while, and then he also made a wise decision to call the gray witch and ask her to help him solve this problem.
In front of the three girls, Yu Feiniao, Yang Xi and Turrell, leaving them aside, Zhou Shu called the fourth girl by himself.
"What? very weak, very weak magician, how weak?"
"Probably a little weaker than Tourrell, very weak. When Zhou Shu said this, he was also heard by Tourelle, who was carrying a translator. Her self-esteem, which is unparalleled in the world, has been hurt.
"It's so weak. The Gray Witch's voice floated out of the microphone, continuing to stimulate Turel, who looked like a child in his body but was unparalleled in the world. "Then I know what's going on!"
The Grey Witch says that these creatures are supposed to be magicians born from the influence of a mana collection device. This kind of thing is not uncommon, for example, Ula Mystery and Smith are both negative magic owners, they have magic in their bodies but the amount is very small, and they can't hook up without special means.
These new creatures live between the world of the surface and the world inside. Naturally Formed Magician. Their combat power is not enough for them to enter the inner world, and they can't even reach it. The ability to be different from ordinary people makes these guys who are by no means ordinary people hidden under the world.
"Simply put, it's a bunch of guys who live in the subcutaneous fat layer. The Grey Witch made a rather elusive analogy, "If something goes wrong in the world, this fat will be the first to be burned." After all, the watch world is guarded by the people of our world!"
Hanging up the phone of this shameless guy, Zhou Shu looked at the unhappy Turrell and the dazed Yu Feiniao and Yang Xi. "We're going to have trouble again, magician, a hundred or so people are wandering around our territory, not knowing what to toss. β
Yu Feiniao shrugged. "Don't be afraid, Lu Bu and the female demon are in the upstairs room. β
"Well, that's really not to be afraid of. β
So far, Zhou Shu's combat effectiveness is definitely not Lu Bu's opponent. That guy belongs to the kind of undead who absolutely can't be hurt, and his body won't be damaged.
For such a person nearby, Zhou Shu can relax on a certain distance. He knew very well that this matter would have to fall on his own head, just like the million troubles that had to be handled by himself before. Before trouble erupted, though. He decided to rest for a few days first.
"Aren't you going to go home and greet Zhou Shize?" Yu Feiniao pointed to Zhou Shu's house next door with his chin.
Most of the reason why she and Yang Xi moved here was because they wanted to help Zhou Shu take care of the Gu family, and they didn't have any special places they wanted to go anyway. So he came this way.
As a returning wanderer and a lazy man, Zhou Shu wanted to spend a few days on the bird's side, taking her little sister of Turrell with a foreign friend to go around. In his opinion, his mother is not the kind of mother of ordinary people, and she doesn't need to accompany herself.
Back to your own turf. Zhou Shuyi, who had temporarily forgotten about the troubles, lay on the sofa of the bird, took out the trinkets he bought from the West Country and the White Moon Country as gifts, and gave them to the owner of this place quite perfunctorily.
With all of this done, he had the courage to pull Turel over and introduce her to her. I could hear that Asuka and Yang Xi were stunned.
"A magician from another world?!" Yang Xi's eyes lit up when he heard this setting.
Zhou Shu knew that this guy would be interested in this kind of thing. Even though she's now a transhuman and lives in the house of 'Black Jack', she'll still be interested in them.
It can be seen that this guy has more love for the biological sci-fi setting of Asuka and has a better impression of the subject matter he likes. When she was a radio wave girl, she fantasized about this kind of thing in her head, and now she has been living in a world where dreams come true.
When Turrell saw Yang Xi's expression, she thought she was very popular. Although this is true, it is quite different from the situation she imagined.
Looking at the poor Turel who was kept in the dark and still happy, Zhou Shu couldn't bear to tell her the truth. For Yang Xi, she is a monkey in a zoo or a novelty in a strange store.
After Yu Feiniao heard about Turrell's identity, he also found that he had forgotten to ask one thing before. She heard that Zhou Shu led someone to smuggle over and bypass the magician's interrogation, but she didn't know how he did it.
Master Zhou also conjured up his own box, opened it and put Yang Xi in, closed the lid and turned it in.
He was sure that Yang Xi would enjoy this kind of game, and she was indeed full of excitement when he got her out. "So, can I smuggle into that world too?" Yang Xi, who crawled out of the box, shook his fists up and down excitedly, as well as his frighteningly sized chest.
"Uh......"
Zhou Shu suddenly felt as if he had calculated himself, while Yu Feiniao was snickering on the side.
This kind of thing is really a bit difficult to do. Yang Xi neither goes to school nor works in this world. Doing nothing all day. It is impossible for her to learn anything from Yu Feiniao, first, she can't learn it, and even if she does, it will be troublesome. Zhou Shu doesn't plan to let his godson grow up and open other people's stomachs and drag other people's intestines to play, it is immoral to use these things for entertainment.
From his point of view, it seems that Yang Xi will be brought to the White Moon Kingdom. It's also good to find her something to do. However, he was not ready to let Yang Xi do any work of fighting and killing, although it was normal for the godfather to provoke his godson to kill people and set fires, but for Yang Xi, it was better to give her a bodyguard job to do.
The sick princess has always been understaffed, and Fu Hu's guy doesn't know if he wants to be lazy or what, so he has been stationed in White Moon City for a few months. For so long after her coronation, she had never heard of the fir princess, and she still served as the queen's bodyguard diligently.
There are occasional monsters in the White Moon Kingdom now, and this kind of thing should be handled by Princess Fuhu no matter how you think about it. But she just couldn't be separated.
As a bodyguard, being trapped in the palace all the time is actually a very boring thing. Zhou Shu didn't know if Yang Xi would be able to survive this boredom by relying on her advantage in secondary two diseases, and if she could, maybe she would have a destiny for the rest of her life.
Regarding this kind of matter, Yang Xi's opinion cannot be unilaterally heard. If you ask her if she wants to go, this guy will definitely take over the job without saying a word. It's like asking a junkie if she wants to knock two pills, and doing what he wants is hurting her.
Zhou Shu will be thinking about whether leaving Yang Xi in such a closed and backward world will have a bad impact on her growth. What if you can't find the right person in that world? What about the people of these two worlds?
A lot of questions plagued Zhou Shu, but he, a father, deeply experienced the anxiety of having a daughter who was about to become an adult.
Yang Xi could see that Zhou Shu was not very willing to let her go. She was obedient and didn't insist on it.
"I'm thinking about getting you a job in that world. Zhou Shu said honestly, "But there is no electricity or Internet there, and I can't even watch a new animated American drama movie, I don't think it's suitable for you to live for a long time." β
Yang Xi knew that this would be the case, and he was a little disappointed. However, Zhou Shu's tone quickly changed. "It's not okay to live for a long time, when I go back, you can come and play with me for two months, but I have to buy an oxygen cylinder first. You also have to make sure in advance that there is no such hypocrisy as claustrophobia. β
Hypocrisy naturally doesn't happen to Yang Xi. For the past 10 years, she has only eaten breakfast once a day and has been picking up pocket money on the street to save money. Every day now feels like heaven for her, comfortable and happy, but lacks some fresh sensory stimulation.
After getting Yang Xi done, the next step is to arrange Turrell. As a guest, she was arranged in the apartment of the female demon upstairs, and the female demon was happily ordered to move to Lu Bu's apartment and started her life.
Zhou Shu was going to stay here for about ten days before going back, he was very sure that Yu Feiniao would definitely not be able to spare himself during this time, and he also planned to feed this guy a little, so it was still necessary to separate Turrell-
Early the next morning, after Zhou Shu made sure that his mother who lived next door went out to work, he got up from Yu Feiniao's bed, hugged her to take a shower together, and prepared to start today's trip. As for Yang Xi, who lived in the next room, she was fainted by Yu Feiniao early, and she is currently sleeping like a dead person.
After Yu Feiniao was slightly satisfied, he was no longer so clingy, and Zhou Shu was able to get out and go to find Turrell.
Turrell was awake and was looking out the window at the world below. Zhou Shu bet that this guy must want to move a few pieces of glass from the window back, and the sick princess had this idea at the beginning.
Seeing Zhou Shu coming, Turrell smiled and touched his stomach, "I'm hungry and want to eat!"
"There should be food in the fridge. Zhou Shu ran to the female demon's refrigerator and put a bunch of quick-frozen food.
After 'ding' two pizzas and grilled sausages in the small oven, and cooking two dumplings, Zhou Shu accompanied Turrell to have a somewhat greasy breakfast.
Carbonated drinks seem to be very much to the taste of the inhabitants of the Eighth World, not just the sick princess. Turrell also has a crush on him.
"I'm going to take you out today. Where do you want to go?"
There are many things that Tourel wants to see and understand about this completely unfamiliar world. Faced with Zhou Shu's question, she also gave a rather difficult answer, "I want to visit your magician here." With that, she got up and walked to the window and pointed to the traffic outside. "I want to know. How these metal vehicles are made. β
"Uh......" Zhou Shu scratched his head in embarrassment, "These are the two places you said...... Cars are not made by magicians......"
He really didn't know how to explain it to this guy, so he grabbed his phone and opened Google Baidu to see if there were any good movies in the movie theater near him.
He's not a perfunctory little girl, Tourel has a translator and can learn about the world from movies. Turrell is very smart, although the content in the movie is one-sided, the more she is given an incomplete thing for a smart person, the more she can use her brain to deduce what is hidden in it. If you take the way of indoctrination to such a person, let her understand the world, and explain it to her little by little. Instead, it will hinder her because of the ability of the narrator.
This situation is the problem faced by exam-oriented education, and in order to avoid these tragedies, Zhou Shu grabbed Tourelle's hand and went to the cinema.
Zhou Shu took her to a box-style theater, which was actually the same thing as a video hall in the early years, and all the high-definition network resources collected by some movie theaters were placed. In contrast, the screen is a little bigger, and the projector can be as big as the wall, but it's pretty good.
Mr. Zhou asked the waiter in a low voice if there was anything particularly suitable for couples to watch.
The young man who worked at the job glanced at Turrell with great regret. It is also to understand what Zhou Shu is asking.
"I'm sorry, sir. We don't have this taste of yours. Those films are also illegal abroad. can't be shot in a bright way to sell money, so there is no high-definition film source. Thank you for your understanding. β
Hearing this answer, Zhou Shu was also convinced. He originally asked casually to play, but people answered seriously, and it is estimated that he usually encounters similar problems.
This kind of box theater feels similar to KTV, and Zhou Shu takes Tourel to the expensive supermarket in the store to buy snacks. It used the money given by Yu Asuka.
As a result, in the supermarket, he meets someone he really doesn't want to see - a magician.
He met two female magicians, young and not very easy to judge, should be twenty-five or six, which looked quite delicious.
Zhou Shu didn't want to have anything to do with them. He left without buying anything from Turrell, and ran into the treasure chest like a creditor.
After he escaped, the two sorceresses soon left the theater as well. The panic of these two people was not much worse than Zhou Shu, and the campers quickly turned into the alley and walked for a long time, before they stopped, talked with solemn faces, and spoke in English.
"Caroline, I still can't believe that a city of a million people can completely disappear from the world in this day and age, and not half of us will realize it. β
"Kate, magic is omnipotent. β
"But it still doesn't help people evade taxes. β
The two girls smiled and took out a small Wen JiΓ n clip from their carry-on bags. The object grew in size as soon as it fell into their hands, and the paper it was holding appeared to contain some accounts.
"I finally found a store that uses English to keep accounts, this city is too small, there are not many English-speaking immigrants to open a small shop here and keep accounts in person, Chinese It's too difficult for me to learn......" The two girls took out their tablets, called up a column of text, and compared them with the account books they stole in the small theater.
"Sure enough, there are many problems with public accounts, and private accounts for tax evasion are also full of loopholes. β
"Who would do anything to the black accounts they see, and make them full of loopholes?"
The two women looked at each other and said in unison, "Unless a third party changes the accounts." β
The magician named Kate pointed to the ledger and said of his discovery, "The number of guests received is strange, and the ratio of income and shipments is inflated, one-third higher than it is now. Coincidentally, about one-third of the store's fake accounts are also unreasonable. β
This is not the first time they have noticed such a situation. For a few days, the two of them searched around for the ledgers of the small shops in the city, the kind they could understand. Then double-check.
The conclusion is very similar, that the city is oddly enough to consume energy, electricity and commodities, and that people here use much more of these consumables per capita than other cities of the same economic size.
It is almost impossible for this to happen in two cities in the same region in the same country. In their opinion, the per capita consumption of dairy products alone has exceeded that of the Australian country.
The two women counted the numbers they had gotten. "According to the rule of majority...... A third of the people in this city have disappeared for no apparent reason?"
"Not necessarily. Kate closed the ledger and threw it to the side of the road. "We also need to take into account the age group and the group, judging by the usual situation, the city should have died about a fifth of the total population not long ago, and then someone has covered up all the traces left by these sudden deaths, and only the discrepancies in the numbers on these ledgers can prove that they have survived. β
The two sorceresses knew very well that the dead were not a big deal in themselves, and that what terrified them were the people who had completely covered up the situation.
Caroline looked at the gray sky of the city with a worried expression, "A city is completely gone. There was a large number of deaths in the city next door......"
"Add up to at least 1.2 million to 1.5 million or so revenant souls......"
The two of them understood that in an era of civilization and peace, if there was such a mass death, there would definitely be people who wanted to put it to rest and do their best to cover it up. However, they did not believe that magicians employed by the government had this ability. But they couldn't think of any other group other than the government that would spend so much energy to conceal these things.
Kate wasn't interested in researching it. "We're not here looking for some mystical power. Whoever does this, their intentions are good. It is to stabilize this society. What is at stake are those who caused the destruction of the city and the death of people, as well as ......"
Caroline spread her hands, "And the Germans who stole the Holy Grail of Satan! More than a million unjust dead souls, no wonder those Germans would come here." The souls in the vicinity of the vanished city have probably been absorbed by the Holy Grail of Satan, and I wonder if the hundreds of thousands of people in this city can satisfy their appetites. β
The two magicians stood in the alley and talked for a long time, until their mobile phones were dialed. Only then did they move their beautiful figures out of this dirty alleyβ
In the cinema, Zhou Shu drank juice, hugged Tourelle, and told her the history of World War II.
The two of them watched a movie called World War II.
Tourel now understands the meaning of cinema, something akin to drama. It's just that the table is more high-end, high enough to make her a magician attracted to it.
Through the movie, she learned that there was a large-scale war in this world not long ago, and she also learned that the form of war is completely different from her own country.
In this regard, she did not express the fear that the sick princess had when she saw the atomic bomb. She's not the head of a country, and she doesn't need to think about what to do if her country is invaded by something like this.
On the contrary, she is glad that the world is not as unpredictable and incomprehensible as she imagined. At least in the movie, it is said that there is still war in this world, and everyone's thinking mode under the war is similar to that of the people in the West who they are familiar with, and even more real than their own dramas.
This means that the gap between her and Zhou Shu is not big, and everyone is an ordinary person.
At the same time, she also learned that Zhou Shu was not ordinary in this world. The combat ability he showed was far beyond the scale of the war in this world, and the kind of iron lump called the tank was simply given for nothing in front of him. If the opponent is Zhou Shu, those tanks will not be able to show the charm of the movie at all.
Zhou Shu asked Turrell to save his brain, "You still have to stay in this world for a few days, you don't need to be in such a hurry to figure it out." The world is big. (To be continued......)