Similar to most old-time urban developments, the closer you are to the transportation hub, the more prosperous it is, and the farther away from the transportation hub, the more desolate and deserted.

This is especially true in the northern district of Beta Town.

As a distribution center for goods and people in the North District, the North District Wharf is undoubtedly the largest transportation hub here, and as a result, a slightly deformed and prosperous area has been formed near the wharf compared to the entire recess.

However, it doesn't take too long to walk along the dock avenue all the way to the interior of the North District, and you can pierce the 'Emperor's coat' of this prosperous area and begin to contact the truth of the recess.

Rough wooden partitions, dilapidated signs that have been whitished by rainwater, steel bars that expose the walls, moldy bamboo squatters, and tents covered with puddings. As far as the eye can see, there is a scene that seems to have nothing to do with the name Beta.

The blank walls on both sides of the street were covered in eerie graffiti shimmering in a variety of colors—mutilated runes, disorganized spells, disorganized circles, and curses of unknown meaning—many of which shimmered in a chilling scarlet hue. These graffiti make the chaos beneath the silence of the neighborhood very clear to the guests.

Except for Xiao Xiao, Zheng Qing felt that no one would be interested in this neighborhood, and he couldn't understand the purpose of Dr. Xiao's copying of the weird graffiti on both sides of the street.

"Knowledge, insight...... It's hidden in a place we can't see every day. Dr. Siu explained.

Zheng Qing pursed his lips, disapproving at this explanation.

He desperately needed a hidden corner to pull the frog's tongue off his wrist and throw it away. A corner not far ahead seemed to be the place he needed.

Turning the corner of the street, Zheng Qing's arm that had just been raised was stunned in mid-air, and the relaxed smile on the corner of his mouth had not completely faded, and it quickly converged, turning into a wave of chagrin and frustration.

A dark-faced, wrinkled old man was wrapped in a dirty robe, hiding in this concave block on the corner of the street. Zheng Qing took a slight step back and looked left and right.

That's right, he's eighty percent sure that this place should be a garbage heap. And the scattered sundries and medicine residues in the block also corroborate his judgment.

But who would sit in the garbage heap as if it were his home?

Looking at the old man's calm attitude, Zheng Qing had some doubts about his judgment.

The sudden appearance of the stranger did not panic the old wizard who was suspected of sitting in the garbage heap, he even pinched his hand for a long time, and a string of crackling sparks burst out from his fingertips, like a small firework, Zheng Qing was frightened when he looked at it, lest he accidentally cause a fire and cause a catastrophe.

Xiao Xiao turned the corner with an expressionless face, but just popped out a copper and threw it into the upside-down felt hat in front of the old man. Only then did Zheng Qing notice that there were still some old coppers, moldy slices of bread, and bits and pieces of fruit peels in the felt hat.

"If you want to get rid of that frog tongue, this is the place to be. When Fat Xin passed by Zheng Qing, he said this in passing.

The young wizard hesitated for a moment, took the so-called amulet made of the frog's tongue from his wrist, and then took a grain of copper from the gray cloth bag and threw it into the broken felt hat in front of the old man.

"Merlin bless you, kind young master. The old man seemed to be awakened by the crisp sound of the copper rolling, his eyes barely opened a slit, and a dry, insincere smile split into his face.

Zheng Qing, who was scared with a smile, fled.

"Is this the life of the pranksters?" Zheng Qing trotted a few steps, followed his companions not far in front, and asked in a low voice, "It's even worse than I imagined...... How does he look like a beggar?!"

"He's a beggar," Fat Xin glanced at him, his tone of surprise "Did anyone say that a wizard can't be a beggar?"

Zheng Qing's expression was suffocated.

In his subconscious, wizards are all magical, and the essence of magic is to make the impossible possible. With this premise, he never thought that a wizard would fall into a beggar, even a trickster.

"Why didn't he want to go outside? like that little trick he had just done was enough to make him a good magician...... I'm referring to the tricks of the whites. Zheng Qing muttered and said what he thought.

"There are all sorts of reasons – history and reality, external law and self-selection. Xiao Xiao was not perfunctory to Zheng Qing's question, and answered quite seriously: "Just like the old trickster just now, the string of sparks you saw is the magic he has been playing all his life and is best at...... It is called a concave here, not without reason. As for the reason for not going out, regardless of the cumbersome and legal process of submitting the application, some of the tricksters were restricted from leaving the country by the Wizarding Alliance because of their bad conduct, and some stayed here voluntarily. ”

"Voluntary?" Zheng Qing felt that he couldn't understand.

"I have lived here all my life, and when I was young, I didn't have the courage to go out, why do you think that when he is old, he will have the courage to touch that strange environment? The comfort zone of life and the comfort zone of the spirit are two different concepts. Xiao Xiao's answer was a little sharp:

"As for when you were young...... When you are young, who doesn't have a dream!"

"Young pacters naturally have dreams. They are more ambitious than most wizards and want to touch the true meaning of magic. When you are in a well, you can accept the palm-sized sky, but when you can see the endless starry sky, you can't accept that you are dying in a dry well. When dreams glide across your fingertips, do you try to hold onto them, or do you remain indifferent?"

"Of course, I tried my best to catch it. Zheng Qing replied immediately.

"So they're stuck here. Xiao Xiao stopped, looked left and right, and sighed lightly: "So, this is a recess, and it is also a mountainous area." The people at the foot of the mountain want to climb up, but the people on the mountain are always so far away, and more are the poor souls who were frozen to death on the mountain road and turned into stone monuments. ”

"I'm going to put that in your report, as an introduction, no, as a concluding statement, no, no, let me think about it again. Xin Fatzi quickly recorded Xiao Xiao's comment just now, and said happily.

Dr. Xiao glanced at him and spread his hands in front of the fat man.

The fat man was stunned for a moment.

"Polishing the pen. Xiao Xiao summed up his request in one short word.

There was nothing wrong with it, Zheng Qing laughed on the side.

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