CHAPTER XXXVII

Du Zhengyi woke up from chaotic dreams, messy dreams tormented him, and he was more tired when he fell asleep than when he was awake.

He sat up from the single bed, lifted the gray quilt, walked to a narrow mirror standing in the corner, and looked at himself with the most uninteresting eyes.

The mirror is a cheap product surrounded by white plastic tubes, and on the wall next to the mirror are simply a few hooks, hooked to the most ordinary black plastic hangers, and hang two pieces of clothing that Du Zhengyi often wears. There is a plastic stool placed underneath, which is used as a shoe-wearing stool.

With a cold face, he changed into the clothes he had gone out of, and finally walked back to the bed, picking up his usual energy crystal from the plastic stool used as the bedside table. The crystal is set in a silver turtle and snake necklace pendant, on which a silver chain is worn. The amount of magic a crystal stores is not directly proportional to its size, but its preciousness is inversely proportional to its size. He slipped the chain around his neck and shoved it roughly into the innermost part of his garment, letting the cold cling to his chest.

Du Zhengyi's apartment is not big, including the bathroom, the total is no more than 50 square meters, and the window is still facing east. On the opposite side of the room is a set of white cabinets with six doors, two serving as bookcases and one as a utility cabinet. A desk was squeezed out of less than a meter between the bookcase and the east wall, and there was nothing on the table. In the middle of the east wall there is a small window with white blinds, which are half-closed for most of the day, even when Du Zhengyi is at home.

In a word, this place is extremely inconsistent with Du Zhengyi's appearance.

As a genius who knows that he is a genius, Du Zhengyi lacks patience, inevitably behaves in a domineering manner, and does not hesitate to show off his strength. But it was cold, it was desolate, and there was hardly the smell of a living person.

Expressionless, he stood straight in the middle of the room, staring at the blinds and slowly buttoning the sleeves of his shirt.

An unfamiliar humming sound pierced a pool of stagnant water in the room, and Du Zhengyi frowned and turned his head to find the source of the sound.

An old iPhone4 was vibrating on a plastic stool under a clothes rack, and the phone was given to him by Guan Xinyue when he left the Guan family's old house, and the original owner was Guan Xinyue's grandfather. He almost forgot about it, and when he got home, he threw his phone there, but he didn't expect it to have power.

Du Zhengyi walked over and picked up his phone. There was only one person who could make this call, and he hesitated for a moment, but finally picked up the phone.

"Brother," Guan Xinyue called carefully, she imitated Luo Qi's way of calling her, probably trying to get closer to each other. But Guan Xinyue is not a girl who is good at pleasing people, and her affectionate call is very blunt.

Du Zhengyi didn't bother to answer.

"Hello?" Guan Xinyue said, "Are you there? ”

Du Zhengyi kept a quiet that was almost boring, but the other party somehow found confidence and said affirmatively, "You must be listening, right?" ”

There is no longer flattery in his voice, and it has become more like Guan Xinyue.

"Yes." Du Zhengyi said.

"I want to meet you, I have something to talk to you about." Guan Xinyue said.

"Say it on the phone."

"It's not convenient to say it on the phone," Guan Xinyue insisted, "I don't know if it will be eavesdropped, there are many things I want to say, and it's not safe to say on the phone." ”

"Wizards aren't good at electronics, and no one will listen." Du Zhengyi said indifferently.

Guan Xinyue was shaken by his attitude, but she was still not repulsed, and she tried to find an angle that could move him. "I want to ask about Roach, I want to talk to you in person."

"I don't have to tell you." Du Zheng said blandly, thinking about hanging up the phone.

But Guan Xinyue has always been strong-willed, and she is also very good at finding the right time, "Then there are some things about my grandfather, I don't need to tell you." ”

Du Zhengyi hesitated, and somewhat weighed the sixteen-year-old child's ability to speak up. He was silent and pushed the pressure on Guan Xinyue, hearing Guan Xinyue breathing rapidly on the phone, if she gave more information on the phone, then he would not have to pay attention to her.

It's a pity that Guan Xinyue withstood the pressure, and also withstood the clumsy strategy of not choosing to prove credible.

"Come see me at the teahouse last time." She said arbitrarily, with a hint of baboon-like irritability, and hung up the phone neatly.

It turns out that Guan Xinyue is very good at negotiating, even if her strength is crushed by the other party, she can still win the opportunity to gain the upper hand.

Guan Xinyue didn't say when they met, but Du Zhengyi knew that she was very familiar with the mage and roughly understood the speed of the mage's actions, so the meeting time should be now. He also knew that Guan Xinyue had the patience to spend months luring the mage to the door, and if he didn't go, she would probably keep waiting, and the matter was not over.

When he was ordered by the little girl and came to the teahouse where Guan Xinyue worked and played the piano, Guan Xinyue seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time, and her mobile phone was almost out of battery.

She sat in a corner of the teahouse, in a good position, with her back against the wall, monitoring the entire teahouse from the front. The seat was also next to the window, which faced the courtyard of the teahouse. It's morning, there is no one in the teahouse, ancient songs are playing in the stereo, and the sound of the flute is like crying.

As soon as Du Zhengyi sat down, Guan Xinyue threw away his mobile phone, and Ma Li poured him a cup of tea. "What the hell is going on with Roach?"

"I don't know." Du Zhengyi looked at her and said.

Guan Xinyue's expression was stunned, her cheeks were slightly red, but she was quite mature, "If it's inconvenient to reveal it to me, you just need to tell me if he's okay now." ”

"I don't know, I mean it literally." Du Zhengyi said, drinking the tea in the teacup. "I don't know."

Guan Xinyue was slightly taken aback, thought for a moment and continued, "I guess he probably still has something." I sent him WeChat, but he never replied, and then I called his phone, but I couldn't get through. ”

Du Zhengyi interrupted her, "Is there anything you can't say on the phone?" Why do you have to let me come? ”

Guan Xinyue smiled reluctantly, picked up the teapot and carefully refilled the tea for him, and filled her own teacup as well. "It's so hard to even talk in person, how can you talk on the phone?"

Du Zhengyi didn't say a word about her truth.

"Can't you think of a way?" Guan Xinyue looked at his face and said slowly.

"I have already informed his parents and reported it to the authorities." Du Zhengyi said, frowning impatiently, "There will naturally be a time when things will be resolved." ”

Guan Xinyue didn't seem to hear his words, her eyes fell on the napkin on the table, and she stubbornly repeated what she had just said, "Can't you think of a way?" ”

Du Zheng took a breath, he had always seen Guan Xinyue quarrel with Luo Qi like thunder before, she looked willful and exaggerated, but she was actually a second-year girl, so he didn't know that she could be so difficult.

"I'm not going to stand up for anyone." Du Zhengyi said gloomily, and kindly attached an explanation, "I don't have that much time." ”

"Oh." Guan Xinyue whispered, lowering her eyes.

Du Zheng guessed that she was finally frustrated, and she should start to be depressed. He thought it was time to get up and leave, and he didn't want to hear Guan Xinyue say in a rather strange tone, "You have a little dark circles under your eyes, have you looked in the mirror?" ”

Du Zhengyi looked at her in silence, she folded a napkin with lotus flowers printed with a little nervousness, folded it in half, and constantly folded the napkin smaller, then disassembled, and folded it in reverse. She just kept her head down, as if to speak to the tissue, "You're actually worried about him." ”

Du Zhengyi felt that he was starting to hate humans.

"How bad is this?" She asked again in surprise.

"I said, I'm not going to stand up for anyone." Du Zhengyi said coldly, "It's not that I can't, it's that I don't want to." ”

Guan Xinyue was frightened by his vague anger, shrank slightly, lowered her head and asked in a low voice, "Why?" ”

"You see that I have dark circles under my eyes, yes, you see the traces of my conscience." Du Zhengyi said irritably, and then sneered softly, "He is still so young, completely innocent, and now he may soon die from the conspiracy of a madman, I know him once, of course I will feel uncomfortable." But I think time will help me overcome this sadness. ”

Guan Xinyue raised her head in surprise and looked at Du Zhengyi in disbelief, her cheeks were swollen and red, and her eyebrows appeared even lighter. Du Zhengyi looked at her with anger on his face, but finally felt that he was somewhat relieved.

"It's weird." She muttered, "When Roach was here, you were more human. Is this what the Roach mascot does? ”

Du Zheng's face was stunned, as if he had thought of something, but he didn't catch the slightest thought, and then put his disgust for this world back on his face.

"It's useless to say anything, conscience, morality, and want to know." Guan Xinyue seemed to see through his face, and she snorted a little cynically. "Roach said that you have a bigger goal, and I, as an ordinary person, must have no way to understand it, and I can't mix it in. For me, all I know is that there is a black hole in my home, and since it appeared, one person after another has been swept into it, and I don't know when it will be my turn. ”

"If you keep looking into the abyss, one day the abyss will come back to you." Du Zhengyi said in a low voice.

Guan Xinyue shuddered, she looked back at the window, it was still sunny and good weather in early spring outside, and the hue of the sun had warmed up, no longer pale in winter. But here she sits, across from a gloomy magician, and everything feels like a world away.

"Even so," said Ms. Kwan, "I hate it, it ruins all the good things in my life, and I don't even know what it is." I can't pretend the abyss doesn't exist, it's always there, tormenting me in my head. And my sister, who is still missing, and I have to find her. I know, maybe I won't be able to find my sister in the end, and I won't be able to kill this black hole in the end, I really don't have any strength, but at least I won't let it always go as I wish! Now that I know it's engulfing Roach, I'm going to make it impossible for it to succeed – that's how simple my idea is! ”

"You want to move me with a speech?"

Guan Xinyue let out a long sigh, Du Zhengyi almost thought that he was bullying the little girl and was invincible. Who knew that Guan Xinyue raised her head, and a trace of arrogance came out of her face, "No, I plan to hire you at a price." ”

Du Zhengyi looked at her, "Let's talk about it." ”

"I'll pay for a storage crystal that belongs to Guan Yushan." Guan Xinyue said.

Du Zheng looked at her expressionlessly, as if assessing the truth of her words. She looked at him, probably knowing that he was not so easy to convince, and she was going to say something more to prove that her offer was not a fraud. Who knew that just when she was about to speak, Du Zhengyi seemed to have been beaten, and his expression changed suddenly. He suddenly raised his hand and pressed it on Guan Xinyue's forearm, and commanded rudely, "Don't speak!" ”

Guan Xinyue was startled, she looked at Du Zhengyi's eyes, which were now as sharp as an eagle falcon. He raised his hand and made a slight gesture to keep her still. His own body posture slowly relaxed, as if he was listening to something, as if he could extend the nerve endings infinitely, he seemed to feel something, and the posture of his body was almost completely still.

Guan Xinyue didn't know what he felt, she was sure that there was no one around them, she was sitting against the corner of the wall, and her vision was very wide, and there was not even a place to hide people wherever she could see.