Chapter 42: The Lotus Burner

"What the hell is a Lotus Burner?" Guan Xinyue couldn't hide her curiosity, "Can I ask?" ”

Jin Yu glanced at her weakly, and looked away dejectedly, indifferent to her question.

Guan Xinyue looked back and forth between the two of them several times, she really didn't know why she had such a name, and she couldn't guess what other factions could be fought among the magicians. Are they really divided into battle mages and ranged healers as they are in the game? But that's impossible, most of the mages in the game can't be melee, but from her distant observation, it seems that Du Zhengyi herself likes melee very much.

She waited for a while and didn't get an answer, and suddenly thought that Luo Qi's method could really be tried at this time, every time he couldn't get a response from Du Zhengyi, he could annoy Du Zhengyi to death with a broken mouth, and finally give him an answer.

Just when Guan Xinyue took a deep breath, organized her language, and was about to tell the inferences in this game, Du Zhengyi suddenly asked, "Do you know the story of the Lotus Eater?" ”

"Lost ...... Lovers...... The story? There are a lot of them. Guan Xinyue was stunned for a moment and said.

"There is a story in Homer's epic," explains Du Zhengyi, "that the hero Odysseus encountered a great storm for nine days on the sea returning home, and on the tenth day when the storm stopped, a strange island appeared. Odysseus docked his ship and sent sailors aboard the island, where he found that the islanders fed on lotus flowers. Odysseus's sailors ate the lotus, that is, they forgot their homeland and never returned. The hero Odysseus had to order them to be tied to the ship and set sail quickly, finally returning to their homeland. Du Zhengyi said.

"It turned out to be a lotus eater." Guan Xinyue suddenly repeated, thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but look a little solemn, "You guys mind this story very much?" ”

"Even I can't help but feel a little emotional." Du Zhengyi said, "We originally lived in nature, we are different from human beings, we are born with enough skills to survive in nature, we don't need to develop industry, and we don't have much interest in science." In the golden age of the past, humans called us many times, immortals in caves, elves in the forest, and gods on the mountains. But the funny thing is that the immortals, elves and gods are gradually lost in the comfortable life created by human technology, and we have become magicians in the city. Life in human cities is so easy that the magical instincts we once relied on for survival seem less and less important, and sometimes even we don't think about magic anymore. The traces of our existence are like morning dew, and they are about to disappear in the middle of a breath. The hometown is long gone, and it is difficult to return to the other side. ”

Guan Xinyue was stunned for a while, Du Zhengyi rarely showed his emotions, he narrated very calmly, but he said it solemnly, less of his usual impatience, and there was some trace of sadness. On the contrary, Jin Yu, who was a lotus burner, was indifferent, frowning absentmindedly, and subconsciously picking at his nails.

Guan Xinyue couldn't see others uncomfortable, and felt very uncomfortable when she heard this, but after slowly recalling it, she suddenly realized that there was a fatal problem here. "You...... You mean to say that the intentions of the Lotus Eater are the exact opposite of the Lotus Eater, right? They think the way to perpetuate your racial independence is to burn the lotus? Destroy our world? ”

"That's pretty much it." Du Zheng came back to his senses and said, "These ideas of the Lotus Burner were originally just radical ideas put forward by a small group of students decades ago, and they only spread among students, and no one really cared, and it seems to me that there are not many decent magicians who would take these ideas seriously. It wasn't until about three years ago that the Supreme Council of Mages realized that they were really putting it into action. By the time they found out, it was already a little late, and their organization was staggering in size and infiltrated a lot of territory. ”

Guan Xinyue suddenly felt that she had no strength to pity the fate of others, if the magician decided to wipe out human civilization, no matter whether the goal could be achieved perfectly or not, there would inevitably be a river of blood in the middle, and countless humans who had not yet figured out the situation would be crushed to death like ants. That kind of situation, just think about it, it's like a thriller movie. "Can't we find a way to coexist? Our home is a positive example. We all know that half of our families are magicians, and of course they all know that we are human, what we like, and what we do. But we are still living well, so why do we have to hope that all people are exactly the same? ”

"Don't you understand? Master Guan is a lotus eater in their eyes. A mage who is extremely obsessed with human civilization and even marries with humans. Du Zhengyi said in a low voice. There are also mages who have no magical abilities and want to survive in human society, such as Roach, who are also regarded as Lotus Practitioners. ”

"What do you mean......" Guan Xinyue felt that she was speechless, and she began to feel that the world was spinning for a while, and her breathing was tight.

"I'm not sure." Du Zhengyi said, his attitude is still realistic, "It is not easy to murder Guan Yushan, now that he has succeeded, there is no need to still lay out nearby and provoke right and wrong." ”

His eyes fell on Jin Yu, she was in a daze, and looked back at Du Zhengyi with hindsight, and immediately shook her head as if she was shocked, "I don't know, I really don't know." ”

"Is Li Xu a Mind Mage?" Du Zhengyi took a deep breath, stood up, and took a few steps forward. Now that all the plates were about to be put together, he could almost get a glimpse of the whole picture, even though he didn't really want to see the whole thing.

Jin Yu became nervous and stared at Du Zhengyi vigilantly, "I don't know." ”

"Roach just doesn't respond to the touch of his mind, you can feel it, but you can't figure out if Li Xu is a telepath?" His words are piercing, and his eyes are piercing.

Jin Yu groaned in despair, "I don't know, that person Li Xu has always hidden deeply, I don't know who dares to say that he can see him clearly." ”

Du Zhengyi looked at her deeply, and finally seemed to agree with what she said, and put the bone handle knife in his hand into the inner pocket of his suit jacket.

Jin Yu's eyes rolled, he had already guessed that their conversation was over, and hurriedly shouted, "You promised to let me go!" ”

"You're much smarter than Guan Xinyue." Du Zhengyi said, it seems that he has finally made up his mind now, "You wait here, someone will come to you." I won't hand you over to Qionglin, and I won't hand you over to the Lotus Burner, because I don't want to startle the snake. ”

He stared at the small face of the sorceress, who kept her mouth shut and did not refute his decision, her face heavy with frustration and complaints, like an ordinary girl who had walked ten kilometers hungry and had not yet found a taxi.

Guan Xinyue rolled her eyes and walked to his side, even if she was nervous and in a bad mood, but when she heard that she was not smart enough, she could at least roll her eyes. He hesitated for a moment, and finally turned back to Jin Yu and said, "Being alive is not an ordinary thing, there is really no need to look for other stimuli." ”

Jin Yu buried his face and did not answer his words. Guan Xinyue stared at him curiously, his expression was calm, he turned around and took a step towards the center of the classroom, Guan Xinyue hurriedly followed, and Du Zhengyi grabbed her arm. The classroom disappeared from them, and they stood in the teahouse's employee parking lot, which was riddled with broken bricks.

"Let's go!" Du Zheng stepped out one by one, his expression changed, and he hurried to the back door of the parking lot.

Guan Xinyue saw Du Zhengyi so anxious for the first time, and swallowed the words she wanted to ask, so she delayed Du Zhengyi's long legs had already taken a long step. Guan Xinyue trotted to catch up, and Du Zhengyi grabbed her arm casually and looked back at the situation around her. Guan Xinyue only had time to let out a low breath, dizzy and in a trance, they were already standing next to Du Zhengyi's Ford Mustang car.

"You ...... next time" Guan Xinyue swallowed, "Before you teleport next time, you must tell me, I am a human, I am a human!" It's impossible to get used to your way of exercising! ”

"Get in the car." Du Zheng said succinctly. "You're fine, you're already much better than Roach."

Guan Xinyue was quite satisfied with this compliment, and without delay, she ran around to the other side of the car, sat directly in the car, and pulled the seat belt to tie herself up. "Where are you going?"

"The seat of the Supreme Council of Mages, Qionglin," Du Zhengyi started his engine, and the wild horses roared and rushed out, "I want to save my strength, so let's go like this, go to the Pendragon Orbital Hub first, get off at the nearest hub station, and then teleport over." ”

"Are you going to update the situation, or are you going to help Roach?" Guan Xinyue seemed to have expected that Du Zheng would change lanes and overtake frantically, so she stretched out her hand to support herself in advance and make herself sit more comfortably.

Du Zheng glanced at her, "Luo Qi is very crooked in my car, you are much better than him." Your grandfather drove like that, too? ”

"My grandfather was a good law-abiding citizen." Guan Xinyue said, sticking out her tongue, "But I grew up playing with my sister, and I know how good your reaction speed and dynamic vision are." ”

Du Zheng nodded and answered her last question, "I have to at least make sure that Luo Qi didn't have an accident first, I have a bad premonition." ”

"Li Xu?" Guan Xinyue asked, shuddering, "I don't like him either, I feel creepy when I see him." ”

"He's a little too targeted at Roach, I thought he would have some scruples in Qionglin, but now that it's confirmed that he is the Lotus Burner, then everything is uncertain." Du Zhengyi said, suddenly hesitated, "Can you ......?"

"What?" Guan Xinyue was listening carefully, and suddenly heard Du Zhengyi's tone turn to a request, and she was only halfway there, and she was taken aback.

"When I brought Roach over, he ...... He ......" Du Zhengyi honked the horn in annoyance, "He seems to be able to see on his mobile phone where the road is more blocked, can you ......"

"Needless to say, I see." Guan Xinyue grimaced and reached out to touch her phone, "Finally, there is a place where we can, but you can't." Where is the destination? I'll look at the map of Gaode, you go on. ”

Du Zhengyi reported the name of the mall, helplessly watching the traffic gradually slow down, no matter how fast his reaction speed was, he couldn't fly over. He had to use this time to continue, "I've been wondering what Li Xu's identity is in this matter, at first I thought he was an official investigator with a very long hand, but now I think it's probably not bad. Otherwise, a lot of things don't make sense, especially since they don't need to reveal Lu Jinfeng's affairs to me. ”

"Do you mean that Li Xu represents both the Supreme Committee and the Lotus Burner, and you and Luo Qi represent the power of the non-Lotus Burner in the Supreme Council. But there is another force, and that is the strange temples. Both you and the Lotus Burners have been drawn to this power of the temple? Guan Xinyue handed him the phone in front of the red light to show him the map, "Can I ask, you and Luo Qi are still students, but they were sent out, is it because your Supreme Committee has begun to have no one to trust?" Actually, the whole thing has nothing to do with the weird talk I posted, doesn't it? ”

"You've given us a good reason to hide from others," Mr. Du said, "and to take advantage of some surprises." ”

Guan Xinyue nodded solemnly, receiving some comfort.

Du Zhengyi drove off the viaduct and turned into a small road, "You already know more than Luo Qi, he doesn't know this yet." He paused, and suddenly said, "Maybe he already knows." ”

"Qi Yue was killed by Li Xu and them, and it has nothing to do with Luo Qi." Guan Xinyue said stubbornly again, but even she could hear it, and there was still room in her words.

Du Zhengyi took her words, "The question is, how exactly did Roach tell that story. ”

There was a long silence in the car for a long time, and finally Guan Xinyue held back a sentence, "Do you magicians have the ability to predict the future?" ”

"That kind of ability belongs to the blind man who sets up a stall at the entrance of the temple to tell fortunes." Du Zhengyi said impatiently.

Guan Xinyue hurriedly shouted, "Turn right at the next intersection", for fear that he would be irritated and drove the car over again.

"I have a guess," Du Zhengyi turned straight right from the straight lane in frustration, "but it doesn't matter anymore." Li Xu is crazy, I'm going to get Roach out first. I can't just put you anywhere now, and I have to get involved with the Lotus Burner, and all risks have to be reassessed. ”

"It's okay." Guan Xinyue said lightly, "Don't hide it, I've long been used to fear. ”

Du Zhengyi turned his head and looked at her seriously.

"Roach will be fine, too." She said, as if to comfort him.

The girl was really young, only sixteen years old, and she was human. And he couldn't even say that she was a calm and calm girl, she was both insane and a little nervous. She was so stubborn, even paranoid, but that paranoia was also a strong willpower, and he had nothing to say.