Chapter 36: The Shadow
Jiang Qiu was very unhappy to be called the master by Liu Ye, but he underestimated Liu Ye's cheekiness, and he didn't change his words, always saying that it sounded very handsome, there was a kind of martial arts style that the apprentice on the rivers and lakes was wronged, and the master would help take revenge, Jiang Qiu was helpless, and blamed the film and television dramas for misleading the little girl.
Moreover, not everyone can preach and solve doubts and become a respected master, not a master, the two are not the same.
Mr. You is his master, also a master and a father, and Master Song, who is also a cleaner, is a skilled person.
When Liu Ye learned that Jiang Qiu's purpose tonight was to match Xun Ke and Li Rongrong, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't hold back the gossip anymore, and wanted to go home with Jiang Qiu to change clothes, but was stopped by Jiang Qiu.
The reasons given by Jiang Qiu are also very sufficient.
"You help Li Rongrong choose beautiful clothes, and I also have to help Xun Cao change his clothes, this can be regarded as their blind date occasion, the first side is the most important."
Liu Ye readily agreed, she was also curious about the man who was better looking than her in Sister Rong Rong's mouth, what kind of man could be better looking than a girl?
Before that, Jiang Qiu went on a trip of 800 meters, accompanied the tomboy to wade through the water for two hours, groped for many stones, and used them to carve chess pieces in her leisure time, until her parents picked her up, and then returned to her apartment building.
Xun Ke sat in front of the full-length mirror, his face full of sorrow, while Meng Zikun stayed in the tavern, planning to take a little sweat medicine according to Jiang Qiu's instructions in advance.
Xun Ke glanced left and right a few times, and said suspiciously: "Brother Jiang, apart from you, is there anyone else living in the family?" My sister-in-law is here too? ”
With such a keen consciousness, Jiang Qiu was shocked, and then smiled: "It should be Lu Qingyan's girl, who sneaked into my house while I was in the hospital and brought me clothes." ”
In this regard, Xun Ke didn't say much, and handed Jiang Qiu a list, "Recently, I got the information of the law firm, which has the details of some big names, the date of birth, I sorted out the general relationship between them, you can take a look at it when you have time, but the people in the 'Ice Gate' can't find it, and even a few strong people are not clear." ”
"Good work."
"Brother Jiang," there was a trace of doubt on Xun Cao's almost perfect cheeks, just this slightly sad face was worthy of the second highest place on the beauty list, "You won't sell me at the banquet, will you?" ”
Jiang Qiu smiled and shook his head, "If you like this thing, you like it, if you don't like it, you don't like it, you can't force it, but Li Rongrong's demon girl has a strong desire to control, if she is coquettish, I can't stand it, you respect me above the drinking party, I respect you." You are on the bed and she is on it, and there is not much difference. ”
"When the time comes, one will come out of the wall, one will gently raise his waist, and he will help each other with a sigh of hey, thinking that it is a very beautiful scenery, I will definitely take Meng Zikun to squat at the door of the hotel and cheer you on."
Xun Cao had nothing to say, the better his friends are, the more people he loses, so he had to change the topic.
"Brother Jiang, do you want to participate in the big competition of Xusheng Academy?"
"Participate."
"This time it's not the same as in previous years."
Jiang Qiu sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the black clouds outside the window, extracted the memory of the first school competition, reviewed the competition process slightly, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, it's all the same." I'm going to win this time. ”
Because my master is here, and he wants me to be number one, then I will definitely be number one.
The Huashao Kingdom in Asia, the Luoxiang Country in the Americas, and the Yeying Country in Europe will all send their own Tianzhizi to participate in the big competition, and there is also a mentality to compete with Tianyang City, and the old rival of Xusheng Academy, Mingde Academy, should be one of the biggest competitiveness.
Xun Ke didn't know where Jiang Qiu's confidence came from, but his eyes were a little dazed, he hadn't seen such a confident and high-spirited Brother Jiang for two years, and muttered, "Brother Jiang is back?" ”
Just as the two were about to leave, the familiar 'pop pop' came from the neighbor's house upstairs, and such a rhythmic sound was moving from the window position of the room to the sofa and then to the bed.
The apartment building was very well insulated, but it was not audible, not even the sound of the car overhead, which had been replaced by a racing championship, but the slight vibration from the rocking of the bed up and down was transmitted directly through the stairs, so it fell on the ears of the two magicians, and it was clearly visible.
For the sorcerer, with the blessing of Qi, the eyesight, ear power, reactions, five senses, muscle density, and even the control of the heart rate will be greatly improved.
Even a fifth-level magician who has just started, as long as he concentrates his qi a little, he can see the wrinkles on the woman's face from thirty meters away, and if he continues to raise his qi and gather it in his eyes, then the wrinkles are like mountains and hills, and they are clearly visible.
As for this vibration overhead, it was like thunder.
Jiang Qiu touched Xun Cao with his elbow, with an expression that I understand you, "Do you want to take a sneak peek?" If you're fighting at night, you can't do it without some experience. ”
Xun Cao flatly refused, "It's boring." ”
Jiang Qiu shrugged his shoulders, took two umbrellas and prepared to go out, it seemed that the black clouds in the sky were drifting in Tianyang City, and there might be a heavy rain at night.
Suddenly, the sound of the upstairs bed stopped abruptly, and it came so abruptly that the two magicians who had come out of the fight noticed the abnormality at the same time.
At the same time, a drop of rain dropped onto Jiang Qiu's nose, with a slightly fishy smell.
The two didn't look at each other, and they didn't need to speak, one of them flashed to the roof of the apartment building, and used a spell to block the apartment building, and the other strode down the stairs to the door of the neighbor's house upstairs.
In the next second, Jiang Qiu broke into the door, Xun Ke jumped into the house from the window, and the sound insulation effect disappeared suddenly.
Both of them were stunned.
I saw that in the room, a dark figure swayed in the wind, holding a human skin in his hand, as if admiring his masterpiece, and as if he was thinking about whether to cover the human skin on his hollow face.
The screams of the man came from the bedroom, and a young woman clutched her throat in pain, leaning against the door frame and struggling, trying to speak, but missing her vocal cords, and could only make a 'gurgling' hiss.
Jiang Qiu suddenly moved, and the shadow in his hand was condensed into a sharp blade, and he slashed at the black shadow in the room, but the figure was staggering, and he actually passed through the black shadow and cut it in half, but this hand felt like it had been cut into a hollow.
Xun Cao frowned and looked at Jiang Qiu suspiciously, "Brother Jiang? ”
A word was not uttered because the two people in the room were not dead.
It's your shadow, isn't it?
Jiang Qiu took a deep breath, but it was difficult to suppress the anger in his heart and nodded.
This is actually his own shadow clone!
Is he independent?
And disconnecting the shadow and then splicing it with qi is the method he has only recently learned, how can he do it?
Could it be that what the main body will be, what the shadow clone will be?
The two of them didn't act rashly, but the black shadow in the middle of the room, with both hands dragging their bodies hard, they would be spliced together by the crack that Jiang Qiu had cut out, and then compared to the mirror, they wiped it on their necks one by one, and a woman's voice suddenly came out of his throat, "Ah, ah, ah." ”
Looking at Jiang Qiu, the corners of his mouth slowly outlined a terrifying arc, "I'm Jiang Qiu." ”
The two of them stood on end, and as soon as Jiang Qiu's leg muscles exerted force, he was stopped by Xun Ke and signaled to wait a little longer.
As for the wails of the neighbor and the woman, they were all subconsciously ignored by the two.
After the shadow in the house introduced himself, he stood in place for a few seconds, and then pasted the bloody face in his hand to his face, and I don't know if it was the ability given by the land temple to the black shadow, or if the shadow had changed, at least Jiang Qiu was extremely sure that his shadow could not be like the black shadow in the house, after sticking the other party's face to his face, he actually began to grow hair, skin, and organs, and that appearance was exactly the same as the neighbor who fell to the ground!
A big change of life, but that's it.
Xun Cao moved, first cut his palm with a knife, and sang in a low voice, like a demon god whispering, the speed of speech was extremely fast, and the characters of hundreds of words were only sung in two seconds.
"The rules of this place have changed, and the law stipulates that no flight is allowed."
"The rules of this place have changed, and no surgery is allowed."
"The rules have been changed here, and superpowers are not allowed."
As soon as the three prohibitions came out, Jiang Qiu took Xun Cao's knife, and with the strength of his body, he pressed the shadow in the room to the ground, he was smart, he did not attack the heart, but slashed again and again, completely chopping the skin on the black shadow's face, and chopping the throat of the black shadow with another knife, so that the black shadow could not speak for the time being, and the body returned to the state of shadow from the physical body.
But how do you get the shadow clone back?
You can't let him wander outside and live in the city with other people's voices and faces like he does today, right?
"Brother Jiang, the Land Temple is a bit evil, it's really not good, let's leave Tianyang City temporarily, how about it?" Xun Cao's face had a sense of palpitation, which could no longer be regarded as a superpower.
One hundred and eight sorcerers, there was a good deed person who made a list of sequences, arranged in the order of thirty-six Tiangang and seventy-two earth demons, and each one appeared, it would be on the list in an established order, but this good deed called himself 'Prince', and he came out for more than 20 years, and he has never been found by anyone.
On the wizard sequence list, I haven't introduced the situation where the previous shadow magician was so weird that his own shadow clone could be independent.
What's more, the strange urban legends on the Internet, the Land Temple has been ranked in the top five together with the full moon well, the prophet, and the two-color flower of the high school of Xusheng Academy, and the new urban legend that broke into the top five is the breath of the earth.
"The top priority is how to take back my shadow clone," Jiang Qiu thought for a moment, "It's useless to escape, but the matter of the Land Temple is not in a hurry, and after the big competition of the Academy, if the Land Temple is still there, we will be too late to run." ”
In fact, Jiang Qiu was a little cautious in his heart.
When he saw that the shadow could actually break away from his own master, and even live in place of others, he had already believed that the wish of the Land Temple could come true, and at the same time he was jealous, he also had a trace of longing.
What if.
What if you make a wish for your family to come back to you, it will come true!
Otherwise, let this shadow go out first to test the temptation, and see how long the desire of the Land Temple can last?
Because of Jiang Qiu's hesitation, the black shadow that was pressed under him began to dissipate little by little, Xun Cao's 'law' could not stop this trend, Jiang Qiu could have forcibly recovered it, but after hesitating again and again, he still watched his shadow disappear from the house.
Xun Ke wanted to speak and stopped, Jiang Qiu comforted him in turn, "I'm not a good person. ”
Xun Cao looked at the two people in the house, if he didn't lift the 'law', the medical car outside would never be able to find the movement of the two people upstairs, and the two would bleed to death.
Jiang Qiu blinked, "I'm not a bad person either. ”
Xun Cao's face was full of helplessness, "I let you say everything." ”
According to Xun Cao's meaning, letting them die is not a good thing anyway.
Jiang Qiu grabbed Xun Ke's shoulders, and the two figures dissipated at the same time, appearing near the peach grove downstairs in the apartment. Xun Ke rubbed his wrist, "It is still possible to change the space in a short distance, but it is not possible to change it a little farther, when it comes to the underlying logical rules of this world, my 'law' is not strong enough, so I just followed two cases." ”
"If the whole world walked according to the law which I have given...... Hum. ”
Speaking of this, Xun Ke was slightly envious, "I heard that there is a superpower, his superpower is spatial teleportation, he doesn't need to consume qi, and he doesn't need a strong body, he only needs to calculate the weight that needs to be moved and the coordinates that need to be moved, and he can teleport endlessly, which is much more convenient than our magicians." ”
Having said that, Xun Ke is determined to become the law-maker in the world, open up a path to improve the law for the people of future generations, so that the country has a law to follow, and eliminate criminal behavior in the world through the law, but this ambition is only clear to Mencius and Brother Jiang.
He also doesn't think his technique is bad, on the contrary, his technique and ambition go hand in hand.
Jiang Qiu still said the same thing, "Superpowers are just some children." ”
The two of them looked up together.
The black clouds have covered the whole city, but in the eyes of all the magicians, the brilliant Milky Way in the sky is like the brightest luminous body in the world, and the heavy black clouds block the sight of ordinary people and superpowers, but the Milky Way seems to be reflected in the eyes of the magicians, and it is extremely clear.
They don't know what it means, but there is a sense of stress and tension in their hearts.
After five minutes, medical vehicles and law enforcement robots could already be seen flying over in the distance, Jiang Qiu sent a message to Lu Qingyan, informing his girlfriend of his itinerary and plans, and the approximate participants, and then smiled: "Let's go." ”
The two walked side by side, during which Jiang Qiu put away the umbrella, hid under Xun Cao's umbrella, took out a willow leaf from his pocket, and slowly poured qi into it.
Unlike Mr. You's golden qi, Jiang Qiu's qi seems to have the fragrance of orchids, and the color is similar to it, it is cyan.
But it's not always easy.
A gust of wind blows, a small slope when walking, a stone is mixed in, or the sound of an old scooter horn driving on the road will make Jiang Qiu's qi a little more or a little less, causing the willow leaves to explode quickly.
Xun Ke looked at it for a while, and at first felt unimpressed, but as time went by, Xun Ke felt more and more that this seemingly ordinary practice was so good.
Xun Cao curiously took out a willow leaf from Jiang Qiu's pocket, and slowly injected qi into the willow leaf in Jiang Qiu's way, but the result was the same as Jiang Qiu, and it would fail if there was a little wind and grass.
About an hour later, even in the hot summer, the two of them went out in formal clothes, dressed rigorously, but there was not a drop of sweat left on their bodies.
In the end, when approaching the tavern on Seventy-seventh Street, Jiang Qiu finally mastered the knock on the door, and was able to ensure that it would not be affected by the slightest disturbance.
Xun Ke just wanted to praise Brother Jiang for being so powerful, but he saw Jiang Qiu take out another pebble the size of a baby's fist and carve it carefully.
If it is a one-time success, Jiang Qiu will collect it as a colorful chess piece, and collect 361 pieces to give to the master in the future, and it is best to engrave a little word or some pictures on the chess pieces. If there is a crack in the failed pebble, it is placed on the ground, and the stone is bent to smash it if it leaves a small hole in the ground.
Xun Ke squatted on the ground, carefully looked at the small hole on the ground, rubbed his hand for a moment, raised his head and asked, "Brother Jiang, can I learn this method together?" ”
Jiang Qiu smiled: "Of course you can." ”
"It's ...... I learned it from a master, and I pondered it for a long time, and I had some doorways. ”
Jiang Qiu pinched the willow leaf in his hand, "I can't do it with qi, but it is feasible to use qi to turn shields and spears." ”
"But there is a problem here that most magicians ignore, the efficiency of the use of qi."
"According to our daily habits, when the technique is activated, the qi in the body is poured into the technique, and the enemy is killed through the change of the technique."
"If the qi in the body is reduced to 100 parts, it will take about three parts to perform a single spell, and we usually enter the amount of 10 parts, which is the first problem. Second, I found that when the total amount of qi we put in exactly matches the amount required for the technique, it will produce an effect called resonance, which can greatly increase the power and intensity of the technique. ”
"Of course, the flesh has the same effect."
"The problem is that it's hard for us to be 100% consistent, so that master came up with such a 'stupid' solution."
"Use the slender willow leaves to control the output of your own qi, use the stones to refine the stability of the qi, and bend your fingers to break the stones without leaving traces on the ground, just to find that feeling of resonance."
Xun Ke concentrated on Jiang Qiu's lecture, and asked at the end: "Compared with superpowers, between the same level, if the magician can achieve 100% resonance, how big is the gap between the two?" ”
Jiang Qiu shook his head, "There's a fun place here, I'll tell you later, let's go in first, don't let them wait." ”
Jiang Qiu squeezed his eyes and teased, "Maybe you kid will know what a woman tastes like tonight?" ”
Xun Cao stared at Jiang Qiu stunned, "Women are boring." ”
Jiang Qiu was also stunned for a moment, with a strange expression, walked in front and walked into the tavern.
Xun Ke looked up at the plaque on the tavern, "Jiang Ke's Meng...... It's so dirty. ”