Chapter 3: Kryptonite Dog's Eyes
"Shoichi." Pei Shu finally said with a little reproach.
Luo Qi sighed in his heart, he can finally manage Du Zhengyi, what is this used to? I really didn't expect Du Zhengyi to learn from Pei Shu, let alone that an archmage like Pei Shu could teach a young man like Du Zhengyi, who was a little unsound at first glance.
"Let's just say that." Roach said in a long voice that he had survived the shock of seeing the legendary archmage for the first time and was back to normal. "Tell me the truth, do I have some terminal illness so I can see something abnormal?"
Du Zheng looked at his teacher, and the two of them looked at each other.
Roach was as anxious as a monkey, "Can you two talk with your mind?" ”
"Of course not," Du Zhengyi said, "I don't have that much compatibility with the teacher, and I haven't reached that level of mind now." ”
Exercise. Roach eased his emotions, "So what do you mean?" ”
"We're thinking," Du Zheng smiled slightly, and subtly underknuckled, "Maybe your head looks a little abnormal." ”
Luo Qi burst into flames, "I'm just waiting for you to laugh at me, my head is different from yours, so I can't teleport, I can't move objects in the air, rub a fireball and burn my hands." I've decided not to take any credits, I'm going to go back and review for the make-up exam, and I don't have time to talk to you in this shabby little shop. ”
Du Zhengyi's expression changed, and he hurriedly raised his hands and made a gesture asking him not to get angry. He got up halfway, and looked at Du Zhengyi, who seemed to apologize to him, hesitantly, but the underbeaten face couldn't hold back a smile, "Are you really so big that you rub a fireball and burn your hands?" ”
Assi! Roach stood up, grabbed his bag and walked away without looking back.
He knew that he would not be so lucky, there was a shameful high L value to ensure that he could get the opportunity to participate in the social survey, but it was that his mother looked at him and saw that he was going to graduate, so he asked his aunt to intercede with Liu Li and find him a step. What else is the L value? not only provoked the self-righteous bastard to laugh at him, but also embarrassed himself in front of a mage like Pei Shu. Assi, Fake, Day, Red Deer Taro!
He went downstairs in a rage, walked out of the unit door, and kicked a Heineken can away. The cans flew into the field of the Wildcat Gang, and a fat tabby cat jumped up and meowed at him sharply, and took a majestic posture of disobedience. Annoyed, he bypassed the wildcat and walked in the direction of the gate of the complex.
"Roach!" Someone shouted at him.
He knew who it was, and when he turned around, he saw Du Zhengyi running out with a one-shoulder schoolbag, still with a smile on his face, and he looked indifferent.
"Make up for the bird." He said, "Let's go, let's go tonight." ”
What?
Roach stood on his feet and looked at him in surprise.
Du Zhengyi had already walked to the car parked on the side of the road.
"What?" Rocky yelled, "You drive? ”
"Why can't I drive?" Du Zheng threw his schoolbag into the back seat of a Ford Mustang, "Don't talk nonsense, come in, come in and I'll explain your problems to you." ”
Roach hesitated, but he knew he couldn't refuse. Du Zhengyi had already sat in the car, and was looking up at him, as if a kraken was singing in his car, he sighed and sat in.
Roach stepped into the two-door car with a cool livery, his human-leaning side distracted him from the bad things, he hadn't been in such a good car before, as a mage's son, he went out on the Pendragon track, which was a facility that provided long-distance public teleportation services, which was convenient and safe, but it was not much fun. After so many years, he can only take human buses, subways and taxis to enjoy himself, and the human friends he has made in e-sports Internet cafes and libraries are all standard poor young people like him, and no one can have such a stylish car.
"Is this your car?" Roach excitedly fumbled around in the car, "You bought it?" ”
Du Zheng glanced at him, began to reverse, and got out of the parking space. "When I was in the fourth grade, I was not in good health for a while, and it was not suitable for subspace traversal, and even the Pendragon track could not be used, so I simply bought this second-hand car."
Luo Qi knew that it must be the time when Du Zhengyi was hospitalized in his parents' hospital, "This car is worth millions of soft girl coins, right?" Have you robbed humans? No way, Pei Shu will kill you. So did you sell yourself to humans? ”
Du Zheng stepped on the accelerator one by one, and Luo Qi was used to the back of the chair.
"You were born a boy, and your mother didn't worry a lot about it." Du Zhengyi said in the roar of the Mustang after the modification. "There is no bad man who drives a 300,000 car to fish you for a luxury car, is this the reason why your L value is high?"
"What do you mean?" Roach said angrily.
Du Zhengyi said, "Do you think I can afford to buy a car worth millions?" ”
Roach thought for a moment, took out his phone from his trouser pocket and searched for it, and opened his mouth wide at the offer of three hundred and fifty thousand to one million. "Why did you buy such a car that is not as good as the one on the outside?"
"Because I'm just a person who doesn't look as good as he seems." Du Zheng suffocated him.
Roach was silent, and after a while he couldn't help it, "You shouldn't merge the lines out of order." You shouldn't run a red light either. Slow down, I remember, you definitely don't have a driver's license. ”
"You're not wearing a seatbelt either." Du Zheng replied.
"I believe that as a mage, your reaction speed is not comparable to that of humans." Roach said.
"Yes, if there is a car accident, my quick reflexes will ensure that I can teleport and leave safely."
"Won't you save me?" Roach said dryly.
"Have you ever heard of conditioning? Teleportation has become a hazard avoidance instinct of mine, and by the time I realized that I should have saved you, I was already standing under a street lamp twenty meters away, watching you struggle in the rubble of the car accident site. ”
Roach pulled his seat belt and tied himself up angrily.
They got on a viaduct, and Rocky looked at the huge advertisements on the building outside the car window and suddenly knew where they were going. Sure enough, they quickly got off the bridge and turned into a multi-storey parking lot, which was both a parking lot and the main station of the Pendragon Rail Company in the city. Pendragon Orbit has always been in business on both sides, and human money is useful, and there are so many things and services that can be bought. There are many companies like Pendragon in the mage world, and some mages, such as Liu Xing's cousin, simply work in the human world and earn human money directly, without being bound by the rules and regulations of the mage world. Currency exchange is also simple, as the Mage World uses credits as a valuable medium of circulation, not physical currency.
It was 5 p.m., and the parking lot was adjacent to the bustling business district, and there were many humans driving into the parking lot, causing a jam at the entrance of the parking lot. They had no choice but to line up at the door, waiting to enter slowly.
Outside the window is the street in the evening, the street lights are starting to light up, and the horizon in the distance is a deepest blue. With the soothing music of the radio running through the car, they had nothing to do, and finally got back to the original serious topic.
"Is there something wrong with me?" Luo Qi asked Du Zhengyi.
"I don't know." Du Zhengyi said, his attitude can finally be regarded as honest. He paused for a moment, as if to think about what to say, and drove the car forward another parking space. "The teacher I saw today was a middle-aged man with a stilted head, wearing a brown casual suit made of thick tweed fabric with a pair of leather patches on his elbows. He wears a pair of black, full-rimed nearsighted glasses and, of course, no tattoos on his face. ”
Roach hesitated and asked, "Which one is the disguise?" ”
"I've been studying with him for many years, so I know that he is an old man, not very fond of cutting hair, and has a tattoo on his face."
Even though Luo Qi had already guessed it, when he heard Du Zhengyi admit it in person, he was still shocked and sat in the passenger seat. He may have been a little excited, and he was confused that Du Zhengyi's blindfolding method was actually seen through by him, and he finally won half of Du Zheng's moves. But most of the time he still couldn't believe it, and subconsciously felt that something must have gone wrong, probably because he had eaten something abnormal today, which caused his eyes to be particularly bad. It may be the mint candy that Liu Xing gave him, and he may be allergic to mint.
"Mages are more or less fond of changing their appearance, especially old women and people with secrets." Mr. Du said he finally pulled his car into the parking lot and drove along a sign in an employee walkway.
The Pendragon Rail Junction Station is located in the area marked with the employee parking lot, and mages who plan to go on adventures in human society can drive their cars into it and move around the space with them. Normally, mages don't need to come here, and usually the mage's home will have a porch as a terminal connected to the Pendragon track. The entrance to Roach's house is in the basement of their house and looks like an elevator that can be activated by voice. Rocky often comes here from the entrance of his home, and there is a subway station just across the street from this hub, and Roach will take the subway to meet his human friends and pass the time together.
"The way to change one's appearance is usually done through mental inducement, through consciousness to make the other person see the face that he wants others to see. This doesn't necessarily require a lot of spiritual power, it can be effective with practice, and there are many ingenious ways to help induce it. Du Zhengyi said, "I once met a mage with schizophrenia, he would be a man and a woman, he would be a hanging eye, and he would have a blister eye every now and then, and from time to time he would have a cracked mouth and cat lips that switched between each other. ”
Roach couldn't help but laugh when he thought about that scene.
Du Zheng glanced at him meaningfully and said, "But I think if you meet him, you may just see a sloppy neurotic man." Because even Archmage Pei Shu's most exquisite psychological manipulation has no effect on you. ”
Rocky didn't know if he should be happy, and in his experience, there must have been a less optimistic explanation for it.
Du Zhengyi asked him, "Have you never realized that it is difficult for you to fall into hallucinations?" ”
Roach laughed, not sounding very enthusiastic. "My family members have very low psychic ratings, they are not good at mind control, and our family doesn't talk much about this. I'm in the third grade this year, and the basic courses before the fourth grade don't involve psychology classes, and I haven't done a mind rating yet, in fact, I didn't even think about choosing such an awesome course to study. As for the ability not to fall into hallucinations...... I didn't feel it. On the contrary, I feel that I often illusion myself, and I accidentally wander into a daze. Lack of concentration, is this considered an ability? ”
"Possibly. Creating illusions requires the caster to hypnotize the recipient, and your attention wanders and the master can't grasp your mind. Du Zheng smiled as soon as he finished speaking, "This is really funny." ”
Luo Qi couldn't even hold up the thought of insulting him, and slumped in his position, "Do you think I need to apply for a mage ability disability?" Maybe they'll give me some money. ”
Du Zhengyi laughed, and at this time they had already driven into a closed parking space.
"There's another possibility, which is the exact opposite. If your brain is well suited to mind control, even subconsciously, you receive projections of someone else's superficial consciousness. You are not yet trained, and the consciousness that is superficial and chaotic and unseeable like mottled shadows is always disturbing you and distracting you. In other words, the problem of your lack of concentration is not a cause, but an effect. ”
Luo Qi didn't speak, he felt that Du Zhengyi was too optimistic. And even if it's true, it's not a good thing. The talent of mind control is not what a good person should have, and if he really has this talent, maybe no girl will be willing to marry him at all.
When the garage door fell, he suddenly thought that he hadn't heard Du Zhengyi report the name of the place, but the Pendragon track had already started, and the next second the garage door opened, and they were already in the hub station of another city. He was secretly a little surprised, Du Zhengyi was already able to skillfully use consciousness to manipulate at the age of 24, and in the mage group with an average lifespan of 225 years old, it was possible for ordinary people to develop such an ability after about 90 years old.
But it doesn't matter if it doesn't develop, Rocky thought to himself, because humans can replace this ability with a remote control.
"Don't worry about it now." Du Zhengyi drove the car out of the hub station with high spirits, and was very optimistic in all aspects, "There is a person who is not very good at falling into illusions, I am like getting a test strip, and I can use it repeatedly." The L-value is really high, man. Under the light of your little sun, my L-value has risen. ”
Roach didn't have the strength to talk to him, "I'm hungry." ”