Chapter 5: The Wind and the Children of Darkness
After saying goodbye to Xiaoxi, I walked alone to the vast sea of people. The world is big, and there is no place for me. Home, what is that, even if I have the current one, I can't go back.
Walking on the bustling street, there are many shops on all sides, the traffic is busy, and even the sky that should be clean is full of "smart flying cars" coming and going. Even if it is past 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the shops on the street do not intend to close at all, but in fact, there is no need to close at all, and there is no need for anyone to watch the shops anyway. (Stores in the 22nd century have achieved a comprehensive and intelligent sales system, and store owners only need to engage in information advertising at home every day, and the money earned by the physical store will be seamlessly refreshed on the person's "Lingzi Bank Card".) )
Although it is a bustling scene, there are few pedestrians on the avenue. People are either hiding behind the "Lingzi Information Display" or hiding in the "Lingzi Flying Car". Don't blame them, the scorching sun in early September has not yet receded from the summer heat wave, and in the great southeast of the Celestial Empire, the temperature is still around 30 degrees Celsius. I looked up at Jin Ri, who was hanging right above my head, and it was so flashing that I couldn't even open my eyes: who would be happy and bored to come out to find the sun in such a ghost weather!
"It's so hot, why don't I cool myself down a little. In this mentality, I unloaded my duffel bag and found my exclusive "mam" in it (my mam is a ring-shaped thing, a spirit storage and caster, which can be programmed into the spirit child style used by the caster, and when I cast it again, I can save two of the four necessary programs for the spirit code, which greatly saves spiritual power and time. )
"Lingfa" is just a general term, the spirit mages use the spirit son, its essence is to combine the spirit child in their own and the existing spirit child in the surrounding atmosphere to react, and the same amount, different positions, different attributes of the spirit child reaction will have completely different results, then the caster needs to control these variables, each situation corresponds to their own results, so that the "amount" that has been agreed into is called "spirit style". If it is a conventional casting, then the casting must be inseparable from four links, namely: "pre-issuance quantification", "environmental adaptation", "spirit code programming" and "spirit buffer". However, if MAM is used for intelligent casting, the caster can directly perform "environmental adaptation" and "spiritual code programming", and the initial preparation and final aftercare can be directly filtered out with MAM.
Sorry, I didn't mention it before: I'm a wind spirit mage.
I put the mam on the ring finger of my left hand and quickly mentally calculated the spirit child formula, and the spirit code programming in my brain flashed around me like a fly.
Psi: "Breeze Haunting" began to initialize on the MAM after I found it: I saw that the green visual Lingzi were constantly wound around my small ring, and they were arranged into a number of information under the command of the MAM (using the simplest binary code), and as the Lingzi continued to gather, the arrangement of the Lingzi began to become denser and longer, and gradually wrapped around my entire left hand.
"It's so slow.,Even if you use mam, it's really slow.,It's really not suitable for using the daily spiritual form.。 "I started to complain about whether thirty seconds was good or not. It's true that I'm not very good at this kind of spirit child pose.
But no matter how good he is, "Breeze Lingering" is just a small spirit after all, which does not consume much spiritual power and does not require too precise calculations. In less than a minute, the calculation is done.
At the moment when the spirit form was completed, all the spirit codes suddenly burst out, and immediately after, several streams of fresh air overflowed from the ring, wrapping around my whole body at once.
"It's finally cooling," I felt the cool breeze caressing every inch of my skin, and exhaled a long breath of heat, "The Wind Attribute Spirit Method is really convenient." ”
"Yes, the wind attribute spirit method is indeed one of the most convenient things in the world. Out of nowhere, there was a echoing tone, it was a male voice, a middle-aged man.
I was startled and looked alertly at where the voice had come from. Because I could hear that there was no good meaning in the voice.
I saw a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes standing there, wearing a top hat and a painless smile on his face. He was more than eight feet tall and sleek, and if you looked a little closer, you could see that on his neat tie, there was a "Merlion" logo shining in the sunlight.
"The pointed fins of the Merlion, right? "I blurted out without thinking when I recognized the shining logo. The "Merlion's Pointed Fin" is one of the many spirit mage guilds in the Celestial Empire, and its popularity is not to mention that it is a household name, but it is also famous among spirit mages. Unfortunately, it doesn't have a good name, and the "Merlion's Pointed Fin" is one of the most famous guilds in the assassination world.
(The spirit mage, who originally subverted the original scientific view, is difficult to find its accurate position in society except for war.) As a result, out of the pressure of survival and self-preservation, and the fact that not all the spirit mages are from big families, the scattered spirit mages began to gather independently in society, and after forming a certain scale, they became such a thing as the "Spirit Mage Guild". Similar to the "Wizards' Guild" that appears in most magical works, the so-called "Spiritual Law Guild" is also a place that offers "bounty quests" for psychic mages to work and support their families. )
"Now that you've recognized me, I'm going to get straight to the point. Without waiting for him to continue. I couldn't wait to interrupt it.
"I'm not interested in the 'Merlion's Pointed Fins' at all, and what you want to say has nothing to do with me, so please go somewhere else. I had already restrained my emotions and said to him very politely. If it had been before, it might have been a fierce head-on attack.
Just as I was walking on my way dissatisfied, the unpleasant man spoke again.
"Children of Wind and Darkness, are you really going to spend three years of your good youth? If you mess around like this, you're not convinced, aren't you? ”
This sentence made me pause, and all of a sudden, it was quiet, and the atmosphere suddenly turned solemn.
"I said you were the wrong person, I'm not a 'child of wind and darkness'. My ID card is very well written - I was born on January 1, 2000, in Jiangzhou City, Jiangzhou District, Jiangbei Province. I really don't know what you mean by 'Children of Wind and Darkness,' sir. ”
"Sorry to bother you, but when you think about it, I'll naturally reappear then, beloved 'Children of Wind and Darkness'. However, if you don't join now, you may regret it later, but since it is your own wish, we will not force it, so please go back and think again. "The man made a ninety-degree bow in my direction. "Goodbye. ”
"Wait a minute, can you offer me a comfortable two-story apartment?"
"Huh?" The man couldn't help but be taken aback when she saw my attitude take a big turn, but her rich social experience made her calm after a brief moment of surprise and showed her usual smile. People like him can always take every opportunity.
"Not to mention the two-story apartment, it is a Balinese sea boat, and we will give it away without discount. The surprise that suddenly came did not make the man get carried away, he just usually induced the customer. (Sure enough, it's the old rivers and lakes)
"I'm not interested in the sea boat in Bali, so I'll find a three-story apartment around Jiangzhou No. 2 High School. I'm not demanding. "It seems that I have almost awakened the black attribute of the belly, and it is not a good habit to get an inch, and one advance and one retreat is the first secret of all communication activities.
"But we said that I would only pick up the task on weekends, and it was better not to send out the general 'task indicators'. "You must negotiate everything before you join, or you won't know how you're going to be killed right away. (Just like companies now, there are inevitably "task metrics" in the Soul Mage's Guild, which is the share of "bounty tasks" that individuals have to complete every month or week.)
"Also, I won't take the assassination job, if you want me to kill someone, don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people at that time, did you hear it? But if you are still satisfied, I will let your performance in Jiangzhou City come to a second time. ”
Anyway, doing more business is only good for me, but there is no harm, and if you add money and get reputation, why not do it. Besides, I'm determined to live a serious life, so I have to do my best no matter what I do.
"It's completely fine, whatever you ask for, as long as it doesn't violate our bottom line, there's no problem at all. ”
"But am I really that famous?" I myself couldn't figure out now, "why would such an international guild be so accommodating to me?"
Should I continue the pursuit at this point?
"Can you not register the job name 'Children of Wind and Darkness', and change it to something that you can accept?" After all, they are super guilds, and after making a few requests, it is time to speak in a consultative tone.
"We can also meet this, all we need is for you to join, and there is really no requirement for a job name. ”
"Okay, decided, I'm not going to join now. After hearing the man's final answer, I uttered the above sentence dramatically. "Haha!"
"Huh?" The man was startled again, and then showed a little anger, (The feeling of being played by someone like this, it's not comfortable for anyone to change, and besides, people should also be regarded as having an identity, and it is already very calm if you don't hit it directly in this situation.) "Do you think we didn't make an offer......?
"Hey, hey, I mean don't join now, let me go to the public bathroom and take a shower. When I come out, I will prepare all the conditions, and the 1 million joint currency will also be put on my collar bank card, and when the time comes, I will really join. "Well, the belly black attribute has fully awakened, and even the battle-hardened old rivers and lakes have been tricked by me, there is really an inexplicable sense of achievement.
By this time, I had already turned around and walked towards a public bathroom. And that man's face, you don't have to think about it, it must be quite exciting, hehe.
"It's better to bring the first commission with you, I'm already in a panic. ”
"Hmph, this kid, it's really not easy," the man whispered to himself, and then replied in a loud voice: "Yes, it will be delivered on time." ”
Children of Wind and Darkness, what is it that makes this title attractive to a union of this rank? Forget it, forget it, just work hard.