Chapter X

"You're not a magician." Du Zhengyi stopped calculating, looked at her without any emotion, and said bluntly.

This sentence is not a question sentence, Guan Xinyue blinked, only hesitated, and then laughed again in an instant, as if giving up the idea of lying, and affirmed his judgment with great interest. "I'm not a magician."

"But you know our world well." Du Zheng added one step at a time. Not only did she know, but she easily judged their identities and lured them here.

"Not at all." Guan Xinyue smiled harshly again. "It's just that there are four magicians in our family of seven, and mages are not a rarity in our family."

"Indeed." Du Zhengyi humbly agreed, and his hands were withdrawn from his pants pockets, "I forgot about this. ”

Guan Xinyue put away her smile and stared at Du Zhengyi's hand, as if she smelled danger out of thin air.

"Where's your friend?" She reminded him, and she was warning him.

Du Zhengyi ignored her game, he didn't like to match the pace of others, and he was not interested in guessing riddles. He hadn't forgotten that the old house he was in had devoured the lives of the three mages. Maybe even four lives, including the young girl in the photo. Sometimes, some mages are fascinated by humans and reveal their secrets in violation of the law, and their superior power may not be able to match the humans who are good at cunning. So he doesn't want to deal with humans, and he doesn't want to waste time.

He raised a hand, and the air in his palm quickly cooled, condensing into water, and almost instantly the water turned into ice again.

"Wait a minute." Guan Xinyue shouted with a blank face, "Don't you care about your friend's life at all?" ”

Du Zhengyi suddenly realized that she was gambling with him with her will, and she was about to be hysterical. Yesterday he was not mistaken, she was supported by a flame that would eventually burn her to the ground, whether she could achieve her goal or not. She understood it herself, but she didn't care, like a gambler with nothing making a last-ditch attempt.

He suddenly changed his mind and took a step forward, closing in on the pale girl, who took a sharp breath. He continued on, the dim moonlight outside the window casting a shadow in front of him. Guan Xinyue held her breath, all the disguises that had the upper hand had almost fallen, and she was already too frightened to move.

He continued his test, the ice suspended above his palm gradually elongated and thinned, and he carved it with his mind until the ice flakes were thin and sharp like blades.

Guan Xinyue's gaze at him was not only fear, but also more disgust, which was simply disgusting.

"It's amazing." Guan Xinyue sarcastically mocked him in a strange tone, she glared at him hysterically with red eyes, and said irritably, "Kill me as you like, you're useless as a junior mage anyway, your friends will stay in a place you will never find for the rest of your life!" ”

"Maybe I ......," Du Zhengyi's threat was interrupted by music before he could finish speaking.

Guan Xinyue trembled with fright from the voice, her pupils contracted suddenly, and it took her a few words before she realized that her phone was ringing.

Du Zhengyi was surprised to see her detached and glanced at the screen of her mobile phone, he was a little depressed, and began to hope that the person who fell into the trap now was himself, and Luo Qi was standing here, although Luo Qi was not as good as a magician, but he was definitely better at dealing with this kind of scene than him.

"You don't have a helper," Du Zhengyi said, turning his fingertips to play with the ice blade, then letting it slip off his fingertips, fall to the ground and shatter in two, quickly dissolving in the air, vaporizing, and finally disappearing without a trace. "If any mage has deceived you and asked you to be their spokesperson, I advise you to tell me who they are, and then go back to study hard, and don't get involved in our affairs. If your family has a habit of slaughtering mages...... You shouldn't deliberately draw our attention either, that's not how fire plays. ”

Guan Xinyue stared at him, her eyes were still bright in the darker and thicker darkness in the room, she was also observing Du Zhengyi, her eyes were frozen from the hollowness of Fang Cai, and they became more and more complicated.

"Don't keep pretending to be a child, what are you supposed to be according to humans? Perverted? Du Zhengyi continued to say seriously, and he seemed to deduce a word out of the air, "Perverted magician maniac?" It's ridiculous, it's like a baby murderer. ”

"Are you a police officer?" Guan Xinyue suddenly asked suspiciously.

Du Zhengyi ignored her words and looked at her indifferently. Her cell phone rang again, and this time even she ignored it, and it rang for a while and then went quiet.

Guan Xinyue shook her head and answered her own question, "You are not from the executive committee, you are too young. ”

"If I were part of the Executive Committee, I would be responsible for dealing with the mages who leaked so much information to you."

Guan Xinyue smiled sadly, "Are you amnesia?" They're all dead. ”

"Isn't there one left?" Du Zhengyi took it casually.

Guan Xinyue glared straight at him, "She's still alive?" You're here to kill her? ”

Du Zhengyi was also looking at her, assessing the change in the situation. "Why should I kill?" He said, both hands back in his trouser pockets, and his posture relaxed.

The mobile phone rang again, and he suddenly felt that the melody of the ringtone was somewhat familiar, and after a little thought, he seemed to be able to remember the lyrics, and it seemed to be......

"The soul is back! The East is not allowed to be trusted. There are thousands of elders, but the soul is a few. Ten days out, flowing gold and stones. They are all accustomed to it, and the soul will be released. Return, return! No, you can't make excuses. ”

He was stunned, although he didn't dare to let Guan Xinyue out of his sight, but the lyrics became clearer and clearer,

"The soul is back! The South can't stop there. The carving theme is black teeth, and the flesh of the human is worshipped, and the bones are used as the base. The pit viper is viper, and the fox is thousands of miles away. There are nine male heads, coming and going, swallowing people to benefit their hearts. Return, return! You can't be promiscuous. ”

Sentence by sentence, it seems that someone is really singing. The song did not come from the girl's mobile phone, it was ethereal, as if someone was singing softly in the depths of his mind, word by word, he could hear it clearly. The tone is soothing, calling him softly. Calling his soul back, he remembered the song, he remembered every word, he echoed softly, and a trace of clarity suddenly flashed in his heart.

He opened his eyes again, and it was dark all around, and a cluster of flames burned weakly on the ground, and the light faintly illuminated the red brick walls around him. In the darkness of the void above, there was a light-colored round spot, and he guessed that he was probably at the bottom of the well.

Then a magnified face suddenly appeared in his line of sight, obscuring most of his field of vision. He said weakly, "Roach, stay away from me." ”

Roach shrank back, his dark eyes still staring at him, closely watching his every move. "You're finally awake. I don't know what you're seeing, but those are hallucinations. ”

He slowly sat up with his body propped up, spinning around, lightheaded, and a little like throwing up.

Roach reached out to help him and said, "It's true now, and to prevent you from causing confusion, I can say something you would never have thought of." ”

Du Zhengyi knew that it was not an illusion now, but he didn't bother to tell Luo Qi.

Du Zheng glanced at Luo Qi, it was really comforting to see that he was still a bear child, and he didn't even have the heart to beat him up with relief. "You woke me up?" He glanced around, and the well was spacious and dry, like a renovated basement.

Luo Qi didn't answer immediately, a little bit not quite in line with his braggaking character, Du Zhengyi glanced at him again, and then he said hesitantly, "I did it according to the textbook, but I don't know if it's right or not, and I don't know if you will have any sequelae or something......

"I'm fine." Du Zhengyi interrupted him, "Are you all right?" ”

"Guan Xinyue was dragged to the backyard by me, and their Pendragon orbital site is in this well. To be honest, her steppa was a pervert, and I ...... the thought of someone seeing him coming in and out of the well," Roach shuddered, "but she—and I pointed to you—was her, she knew everything, and she kicked the stone drum when she struggled in the doorway, and we were just dragged down by the broken force of the track, and we didn't hallucinate like you." ”

"Are you embarrassed? Do you have the face to drag a girl to death, just relying on thick arms and legs? Guan Xinyue raised her head and glared at him resentfully, "Do you have any discipline or not!" ”

Luo Qi stood up and threw down four words loudly, "The first to flirt is cheap!" ”

"You!" Guan Xinyue glared at Luo Qi and suddenly cried.

Du Zhengyi's head was big, and he tugged on Luo Qi's trouser legs, "You're okay, she's only sixteen, can you give in a little?" ”

Luo Qi didn't expect her to cry, he looked at the crying girl in dismay, with a look of stepping on, unlucky and depressed, flashed to Du Zheng and sat down, avoiding Guan Xinyue from a distance.

Du Zhengyi rubbed his aching temples, glanced at the cluster of ghostly flames that Luo Qi had raised, sighed, adjusted the elemental composition of the burning, and the bonfire burned steadily and vigorously. Then, he looked at the girl who had been crying, and did not comfort her, but said calmly, "Why are you crying so angry with Roach?" That's a small thing. Besides, someone like you, who has lost several relatives in a row, should have known that crying is useless. ”

As if there was something strange in his words, Luo Qi quietly poked his head out from behind Du Zhengyi, and saw that Guan Xinyue was really raining and the wind was resting, and his expression became inexplicably real. After the hysteria or trance had faded, she looked more like a real sixteen-year-old girl.

Du Zhengyi looked at her quietly, and asked in a low voice by the campfire at the bottom of the well, "Who set this illusion trap?" ”

Guan Xinyue didn't answer, she lowered her head and looked at the bonfire.

"It's your grandfather." Du Zhengyi answered for her.

"When I was little." Guan Xinyue said, her voice was already hoarse, "Grandpa sometimes sends me a small ball of fire, put it in a glass jar, and remember to feed some dried lemongrass every day, the small ball of fire will live for a long time, and it will smell good." ”

Roach remembered that he had this when he was a child, a traditional gift from the mage to tease the children, and he once fed his fire ball corn and only fried a jar of popcorn and the fire ball was gone. That time, he was scolded by his family, saying that he violated the original intention of traditional customs, and he himself was a little embarrassed, not to mention that he was spread by children and became a laughing stock. Now that Guan Xinyue mentioned this, he suddenly felt that Guan Xinyue was not much different from him, not so much like a perverted shrew, and he was a little embarrassed by the simplicity and rudeness of his talents.

Du Zhengyi's expression was faint, and he always looked at Guan Xinyue's face, "Your relationship is not so bad." ”

Guan Xinyue smiled weirdly, "I sometimes wish we had a bad relationship, so that even if they both died, it wouldn't be a big deal. ”

She's such a local pervert! Luo Qi secretly thought, otherwise it would be the rebellious period of the second disease.

Du Zhengyi suddenly said beside him, "This is a way to repair yourself after being severely traumatized." ”

Luo Qi shrunk his neck, always feeling that Du Zhengyi's words were addressed to him, as if he could hear his heart now. He hurriedly threw away those belly slanders and observed the bonfires that Du Zhengyi had processed, they were just bonfires, which could only be used for heating and lighting, which were very boring. With a stroke of his mind, he added a few dried pine branches to the campfire. The pine branches burned in the flames, making a pleasant slight crackling sound, more like a real campfire. He was complacent with the warm environment he had created, and while listening to Du Zhengyi and Guan Xinyue talking, he filled the bonfire with two pine branches.

"But that's not right." Guan Xinyue said that her eyes were large, and tears flowed from those frightened and desperate eyes, as if she was not aware of her tears at all. "I want to know who killed them! I want to find out those people! I grew up with them, and I never thought we were different, and it wasn't until they were gone that I realized I couldn't do anything about it. I know magicians exist! I know your world exists! But what's the use? Your world has ruined mine in the end! ”

Roach was frightened by the heaviness and hatred of her tone, and absentmindedly carved a new batch of pine branches.

"Hate." Du Zhengyi took a deep breath and said suddenly.

Luo Qi was stunned for a moment, Du Zhengyi's way of speaking is like a human AI, who would be a normal person to make sentences like this?

Du Zhengyi himself quickly changed a mode, and his tone became more colorful, "You want to kill the mage, because you are too hateful, so you don't care about the loss." You understand how our world works, so find a way to attract mages. ”

That's what Roach thought of as well.

Then Du Zhengyi spit out a single word, "Anxiety." ”

He paused, his inky eyes looked at the girl deeply, his pupils dilated slightly, as if because of the light of the campfire, there seemed to be an undercurrent in those eyes, and his eyes were amazingly bright. "Oh-" he sighed suddenly in a low voice, "anxiety is because you're hiding...... What is hidden? Hide another girl's information. ”

Guan Xinyue gasped, stood up suddenly, and glared at Du Zhengyi with a pant, "You...... Get out of here! Are you in my head? Are you looking at my thoughts? ”

Roach was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect this girl to be so smart.

Du Zhengyi didn't stand up, his expression became leisurely again, and he waved his hand to Guan Xinyue casually, "I can only see some emotions, and at most some flashes of thinking." Sit down so we can talk better. Even if it's a little girl, you have to be reasonable, don't you? You know our world, don't you? You look at the age of Roach and me, it's not enough to plan a big deal to kill the three mages, right? What's more, none of us are opponents of an archmage like your grandfather. ”

Guan Xinyue stared at him defensively.

He smiled, "I just don't want to be cheated on anymore." But don't worry, I won't look at your brain anymore, I don't have that much mental energy to expend. I'm not good at mind control, and I've consumed too much energy in the illusion just now. ”

He was indeed tired, and his exhaustion could barely be concealed.

Guan Xinyue stood with her back pressed against the cold wall, and Du Zhengyi waited patiently for her until she finally leaned against the wall and slid on the ground.

"I've never seen a mage outside." She said ominously.

Du Zhengyi replied, "Mages usually don't like to live in groups. ”

"I mean, even after my grandfather, aunt, and uncle died, none of the mages came to my door to ask." Guan Xinyue said, "If it were us humans, the police would have come a long time ago. ”

"Our people must have been here." Du Zhengyi said without thinking, "They will not be seen by humans, and we have a standard process when dealing with mages who live with humans. Moreover, I guess the result of the investigation must have been a natural death. ”

"Lie!" Guan Xinyue said suddenly, furious, "My grandfather won't die of alcoholism!" A person like him can die no matter what, but he won't drink himself to death! ”

Du Zheng thought for a while and did not speak.

"Besides," Guan Xinyue added, "after my grandfather died, my sister disappeared. She gritted her teeth and popped out word by word, desperate and resentful. Do you guys, really, care? ”

Du Zhengyi was a little hesitant, he wanted to reason with Guan Xinyue, but the little girl was obviously blinded by hatred, although he could explain the rules of the mage's actions, but for a little girl who had lost her relatives, all the explanations did not make much sense. And he obviously broke down with the little girl again, and he didn't know how much time he would waste to ask her what she knew.

Just as he was in a dilemma, looking down and thinking, a loud bang suddenly sounded in his ears, and he was stunned, and he saw the flames rising into the air and the girl screaming.

Du Zheng raised his shield to protect the three of them, and then allowed for space to control the fire. Once the campfire was back to its normal size, he couldn't help but roar, "Roach! ”

He had just noticed that Roach had been tirelessly throwing things into the fire.

Roach was now behind him, standing against the wall in a panic, unobtrusive.

"Come and sit in front of me, so I can see your hands." Du Zhengyi said angrily.

It's a deceptive, merciless, and especially bastard's request. But Luo Qi, who had already scared himself into a trance, didn't take care of it, so he actually tiptoed to the front and sat down with Guan Xinyue through the bonfire.

After this incident, Du Zhengyi and Guan Xinyue were silent for a while. Guan Xinyue was frightened and needed to stabilize her mind, while Du Zhengyi was probably angry. Luo Qi secretly looked at him several times with pity, and seeing that he was unlikely to pay attention to himself in a short time, he turned to Guan Xinyue. After listening to her conversation just now, he also sympathized with her a little, and his anger disappeared a lot.

In this way, he was almost unconscious, and while Roch was roasting the fire, he said something that was fixed, "The mage world is like that bird." ”

Guan Xinyue turned her head to look at him, and her expression actually eased, and there was only a look of exhaustion on her face.

Du Zhengyi hurriedly asked, "Yesterday about the death of your family, what you said is true, right?" ”

Guan Xinyue nodded, and added, "My sister disappeared after her grandfather died, and she was supposed to go to college, you know...... It's your kind of university. But she disappeared before school started, and she hadn't called me for so long, and I knew something must have happened to her. ”

"Oh," Roach said, "so you're writing those ghostly posts to get in touch with the mage world, right?" But you're worried about attracting murderers, so you want to try it first? ”

Guan Xinyue straightened her neck reservedly, judging the two of them from crying and begging them to catch ghosts yesterday.

Luo Qi snorted, "If you want someone to help, just say it." ”

Guan Xinyue turned her head, stared at him from above the bonfire, and looked him up and down unceremoniously, "Please, is it useful?" Didn't you say you're not a mage? Since you're not a mage, what's the difference between you and me, you can do what I can't do? Because do you have thick arms and strong legs? ”

Roach's face flushed.

Du Zheng glanced at him and took over the topic, "Did your grandfather really have an abnormality before he died?" ”

Guan Xinyue breathed a sigh of relief, and there was some real annoyance in her expression, "He's a little abnormal, it's like his brain is overwhelmed." Sometimes he chattered and said a lot of things that I didn't understand, sometimes he was scared, sometimes he was angry, sometimes he was standing alone at the window for hours, and when I talked to him, he didn't respond. ”

Roach thinks that a sixteen-year-old girl, in the second stage of her youth, is a bit exaggerated and uses metaphors indiscriminately. She is not deeply involved in the world, how can she know what a person's brain looks like when it is overwhelmed? He glanced at Du Zhengyi and found that he was listening thoughtfully, but his expression was serious. He didn't want to express his opinion, and then Guan Xinyue attacked him with a gun and a stick.

Guan Xinyue continued, "At that time, there was indeed a woman who was very close to my uncle, she lived in this village, and I met her a few times when I went out for a walk with my aunt, and every time she glared at my aunt strangely, and of course my aunt was very angry when she saw her. She is the daughter of a family in this village, and I heard that she originally went to a health school, graduated and worked as a nurse in a private hospital in the city, and married a doctor there. But then I got divorced for some reason, and I lost my job and moved back to my parents' house in the countryside. That's how I met my uncle. ”

"I went to health school and was a nurse." Du Zhengyi repeated, "You mean to say that she is a human being?" ”

Guan Xinyue nodded, "A human." So I don't understand how a human could kill a mage. And my sister said that grandpa was a very powerful archmage. She paused, gave some little girl a look, and added anxiously, "My sister is certainly not talking nonsense. ”

"She's certainly not bragging." Du Zhengyi said, "The illusion he laid here can still be used after such a long time, and it is so complicated that only an archmage can do it." ”

Luo Qi suddenly felt that Du Zhengyi was quite gentle, although his face was serious, but this sentence was clearly comforting the little girl, which made it seem that Du Zhengyi was really very old, old enough to know how to accommodate and care for others.

"My aunt hasn't been sick before." Guan Xinyue whispered, "All of a sudden, I had a heart attack." ”

"Did you see that woman later?" Du Zhengyi asked.

Guan Xinyue's expression was a little disgusted and a little awkward, "She often comes back to the Pure Land Temple, and I have seen her a few times. ”

"Temple?" Du Zhengyi was a little surprised, "Can a monk get married and have children?" ”

Guan Xinyue was stunned for a moment, looking at Du Zhengyi like a monster, "Of course not, she didn't go home, she went there to incense." After she finished speaking, the look on her face became more awkward, and she looked up at the mouth of the well as if she was reflexive, and her voice became softer, as if she was afraid of being heard. I've heard...... I heard from the girls in the village that incense at the Pure Land Temple is very effective, and everything you ask for will be rewarded. ”

Roach's heart moved, "Any wish will be rewarded?" Just such a small temple in the countryside? ”

"That's the Pure Land Sect." Guan Xinyue said, "I've heard that if you want to get what you want, you need to make enough merit first, and the greater your wish, the more merit you need to cultivate. I don't believe that gods and Buddhas listen to people's evil thoughts, but I'm still a little scared after hearing more rumors. My grandfather and grandmother didn't like the temple and always wanted our sisters to stay away from it. ”

"Then why do you want to live next door to the temple?" Roach asked curiously.

"When we first lived here, there was no temple, just a few dilapidated houses next door, and the locals said it was the ruins of a temple. About four or five years ago, suddenly a big brother in the underworld washed his hands and returned to the village, probably thinking that although he put down the butcher's knife, he might not be able to become a Buddha, so he gave up his money, built a temple there, and invited a monk to live. That man originally wanted to name the temple after his father, but the monk swore to death, so he beat him and drove him away. Later, the eldest brother died of illness, but the temple had been built, and then I don't know which day a few monks lived in, and then the temple suddenly became very effective, and many outsiders came from afar to burn incense. Guan Xinyue said.

Luo Qi sighed, "If her wish is to kill, then how many lives does she have to release to be able to count, really release raw caviar?" ”

Du Zhengyi suddenly looked at Luo Qi, "What about you?" Don't want to go to the temple to make a wish? ”

Luo Qi was a little surprised, of course he wanted to go and see, but he couldn't figure out Du Zhengyi's temperament, afraid that he was talking the opposite to amuse himself. After all, he had already made a mistake today, and looking at Du Zhengyi's sluggish appearance, he knew that he was hurt very badly. Geniuses are always impatient, Du Zhengyi's temper is not too good, it is estimated that the quota that can be allocated to himself today must have been used up, he had better not rush into the trap and send his family to the door to beg for scolding.

He hesitated and just said a word, Du Zhengyi seemed to be annoyed again, and without waiting for him to answer, he suddenly asked, "Have you learned the principle of spatial movement?" ”

This topic...... It's too jumpy, isn't it? Roach was a little incompatible, "Learning is...... Learned a little. "But that's just some basic theories learned in the basic courses, and I don't have much understanding.

Du Zhengyi nodded, and suddenly began to tell him all kinds of knowledge about traveling through space in an instant. Du Zhengyi's speaking style is concise and to the point, although he said a lot of things that Luo Qi has learned in class, but Du Zhengyi's angle of telling is very different, what once made Luo Qi feel very vague, he opened it in a few words, and Luo Qi actually understood. Later, Roach reflected that Du Zhengyi's explanation was full of pragmatism, and many things were based on experience rather than difficult theories.

Du Zhengyi seemed to be very happy, completely left Guan Xinyue behind, and showed the mathematical calculation formula out of thin air, taking jumping out of the wellhead as an example, Luo Qi calculated how to set the coordinates from here to the flat ground in the backyard, and how to choose the reference system.

After the class was over, Du Zhengyi stood up, "I'm going to close this broken hub station from below now." ”

Luo Qi and Guan Xinyue glanced at each other, and then they all followed Du Zhengyi's actions, watching him open a niche and remove the artificial crystal inside.

Roach understood a little, "Then how do we go up?" If you don't take me with you, I'll apply for a rope and I can climb up on my own. ”

As soon as Du Zhengyi walked back, one hand landed on Guan Xinyue's forearm, lifted her up from the ground, and pressed her right hand on her waist. However, his face was always facing Roach, and there was a particularly pleasant smile on his face, "Remember the story I told about the little fox fairy?" Don't get yourself stuck in the wall, be careful. ”

Roach was completely stupid. Guan Xinyue only had time to glance at his dumb face, and then she felt a squeezing sensation around her body, which felt very unreal, and it came and went quickly. When she settled down, she found that she was standing face to face with Du Zheng in her kitchen.

Du Zhengyi let go of her, turned around and rummaged around in her kitchen, and finally took out a bag of tea from the cupboard above and looked at it, and then began to boil water.

Guan Xinyue looked uneasily through the window at the backyard in the thick fog, the well they were in just now couldn't even see clearly in the night. Thinking that Roach was really still there, she felt a little uncomfortable, thought about it, and reached out to turn on the light in the backyard.

"Are you really not going to bring him up? I heard my grandfather say that moving in space is very difficult, and neither my aunt nor my uncle can do it. ”

Du Zhengyi watched the water in the kettle boil with satisfaction, he made a pot of tea, and also poured a cup for Guan Xinyue, "I just want to see if he dares to jump the threshold first next time." ”