Chapter 61: Apartment 2
Chapter 61
Du Zhengyi woke up from a deep sleep, and few were satisfied at the beginning of the day.
He pushed away the quilt and sat up, turned to get out of bed, and almost stepped on the quilt under the bed. Du Zheng stared at Luo Qi who was curled up on the ground tightly wrapped in a quilt for a while, his whole person only showed a little back of his head, and his breathing sounded calm, not knowing that he had just escaped the storm of consciousness and was almost trampled to death.
Du Zheng stepped on the small gap left for him by Luo Qi under the bed, stood up carefully, and suddenly wanted to kick him out. Shaking his head helplessly, he stepped over from Roach to the small kitchen area next to the entrance door, and poured himself a glass of water.
He thought about yesterday's satisfactory situation, Luo Qi, a fool, slept until midnight last night and somehow slept out of his self-confidence, it is estimated that his body is indeed recovering, and Roche's curiosity has also risen, and he secretly got up and opened the door and went out to check around.
Du Zhengyi woke up as soon as he got up, lying on the bed without moving, listening to Roach's footsteps in the hallway, walking and stopping in shock. Du Zhengyi almost rolled over to lock the door, Luo Qi spent more than twenty minutes outside to finally figure out that this was an empty haunted and unfinished building, Du Zhengyi finally overcame the low-level interest he had already overcome in these twenty minutes, and did not lock Luo Qi outside just to see if he dared to knock on the door. He listened as Roach ran back and put himself under the bed before he fell back asleep, a bit like a pet.
Luo Pet and the unlucky mascot Qi will be buried deep in his quilt and curl up comfortably. In fact, he had already woken up, and had been thinking about the situation where he had inexplicably betrayed his relatives and left, thinking that when the mountains and rivers were exhausted, he never imagined that it was Du Zhengyi, who he had always thought he would not be able to catch up with, when he reached out to him.
He thought about Li Xu's evaluation of Du Zhengyi, and through the memory of Li Xu, who had dimmed, he could also vaguely see Du Zhengyi's sporadic past, which was observed from the perspective of a third party, Du Zhengyi was undoubtedly a cold and rampant psychopath. But as far as Luo Qi is concerned, from his heart, he doesn't feel at all that even Du Zhengyi's humble apartment like a mental ward is a safe habitat for him.
He lay down and listened to the various small voices of Du Zheng in bed, listened to him carefully step over his body, didn't say anything, and tolerated him sleeping everywhere. Others may think that Du Zhengyi is indifferent, but Du Zhengyi's silence is a comfortable understanding for him.
Suddenly, Roach realized what he was thinking, that he had been able to separate himself from the minds of others.
Luo Qi sat up from the ground, still wrapped in a quilt, and looked at Du Zhengyi who was drinking water in the kitchen in a daze.
Du Zheng immediately consciously strengthened his mental defense, but fortunately, he didn't feel any tentacles of his thoughts stretching out, but he was angry at the thought of beware of such a hairball.
"I seem to be a little more normal." Roach hesitated for a moment, then said uncertainly.
"That's good news." Du Zhengyi looked at him suspiciously, "Do you want to take you to the vegetable market to try?" ”
Roach pushed back, "Give me some more time, I've just been able to digest the garbage in my head now." ”
"Even if you can instinctively reach a balance point where you want to be able to use it freely, or to put it mildly, if you want to make sure that your floodgates open and close automatically, you need to go back to school and get another four years of education." Du Zhengyi said as if he didn't care at all.
"So can I go back to school now?" Roach said in surprise.
"Of course not." Du Zhengyi said calmly, "Let me make it clear first, how you were brought into Qionglin, and how you were taken out, although you can rely on Li Xu at the moment, you can't stand scrutiny and investigation." Once you go back to school, you will inevitably be interrogated in the presence of a conscious master, and the most suspicious thing at that time is how you suddenly became telepathic. Then you're bound to be involved in the person who closed your brain, and I can't figure out how big of a maelstrom you're involved in right now. Of course, I don't care about you, I don't care if your parents are involved, what I care about is that you're a fucking advanced telepath, and you're like a glowing LED light embedded in the most superficial part of this matter, and all eyes will be drawn to you. Ever since I entered Qionglin yesterday, I've had a relationship with you everywhere, no, since the day I left school, I've had a relationship with you everywhere, so if they find out that you're much heavier than they thought, then I'll be implicated all of a sudden. Everyone would think that I had a big conspiracy, and that I was a crazy pervert who dared to steal the defense crystal of Jonlin and shut down Jonlin's defenses for hours. Luo Qi listened quietly, and the more he listened, the more awe-inspiring he became, and finally firmly grasped the point, "You closed Qionglin's defense?" ”
Du Zheng frowned and looked at him, "Otherwise, with your crippled appearance that is neither human nor ghost, you can actually walk out of the building in Qionglin and pass through half of the forest?" Are you invincible when you open the hanging? ”
Roach's mouth opened wide, and it took a long time for him to say "oh", "I thought it was all thanks to the marks that my predecessors left on the wall!" ”
"What mark?" Du Zheng asked him suspiciously.
"You know I can't see visions, do you?" Roach asked, "Of course, now I know it's because of this barrier in my head." ”
Du Zheng nodded, and suddenly realized the problem, "That interrogation room is the oldest interrogation room under the Qionglin Ground, and it has always been used to interrogate telepaths. Could it be that someone took advantage of this characteristic to leave a secret message for those who came after him? ”
"I think so." "It seems to me that it's a rough dungeon, and if you say it's the oldest interrogation room, you'd be right, the walls are all made of stone, and the code is on the stone wall. ”
Du Zheng thought of the tapestries he saw on the wall, which described ancient legends from the mythological era. He was able to discern the existence of the illusion, but Roach was able to see the essence behind the illusion. If this was prepared for telepaths by some imprisoned mind mage, then ...... "Didn't Li Xu see it?" ”
Roach shook his head, "He shouldn't be able to see it." The code was so obvious that when I first sat in that interrogation room, I had been looking curiously at the wall, but Li Xu asked me what I was looking at. It occurred to me that there must have been an illusion wrapped around the walls of that room, and I guess it was probably to save you some trouble when it was renovated......"
"Maybe Li Xu's telepathic ability is not strong enough." Du Zhengyi guessed and said, "Maybe that code is reserved for telepaths above a certain level, after all, it is the interrogation room used by Qionglin's Mind Master, if it weren't for this, I'm afraid it would have been seen a long time ago." ”
"Brother, to tell you the truth, is my telepathic ability really high?" Rocky asked worriedly. "The look of that piece of mahjong yesterday was completely like I was a freak. He's a telepathic himself, but if he wants to look at me like that, how perverted am I? ”
"Don't interrupt, what's the role of that mark in the interrogation room?" Du Zhengyi asked.
"It's a bit peculiar, and I'm sure I'll want to study it when I see it, I'm so curious. There had been a lot of voices in the obsidian table urging me to touch it, and I didn't quite come to consciousness and walked over to do it. After that, the door to the interrogation room opened, and without thinking too much, I hurried out. Then I walked up the underground corridor, walked for a long time, and then there were lights on the road, and then I came across a fork in the road, but the intersection was marked, and I followed the mark, and finally walked out through a basement door. Rocky said, "Later, ......"
"Wait," Du Zhengyi interrupted him, "what kind of mark will make you feel so curious, you must go up and touch it?" I know your paws are very cheap, but they won't be that cheap, right? Could it be that your name is written on the wall? ”
"Would you want to touch your name? Isn't that a bit narcissistic? Roach asked.
Du Zheng was speechless and glared at Luo Qi.
"Okay, okay, I'll just explain." Luo Qi accepted it when he saw it, and didn't dare to go any further, "The mark on the wall is a smiling man with a green fluorescent face. ”
Luo Qi looked at Du Zhengyi expectantly, waiting for Du Zhengyi to suddenly realize, but Du Zhengyi just looked at him blankly.
"Okay." Roach grunted in disappointment, rubbed his nose, and began to explain, "The smiling man is a pop culture figure from a smash hit anime with a little bit of irony. I saw that this thing was actually graffiti in Qionglin's interrogation room, what do you think I would think? If you knew what this thing was, wouldn't you want to go up and look into it? Do you have a cell phone? I can show you. ”
"I'll see later," Du Zhengyi hurriedly said, "You mean someone left something almost equivalent to a totem on the wall?" ”
"Hmm......" Roach muttered for a moment, "I might say that." Anyway, it's very human and very pop culture, and Ghost in the Shell has a lot of die-hard fans. ”
"The interrogation room is very old, and it existed underground before the renovation of the superstructure." Du Zhengyi said, "It's not easy to judge the person who left the mark, but if you say this, the person who left the mark is the mage of the present world." ”
"Ghost in the Shell should have been a hit in the mid-nineties." "The person who left the mark was probably around this time period, and I thought about that. ”
"This man is both an advanced telepath, and a person who is not particularly old and has some knowledge of human culture." Du Zhengyi continued, "He either chooses the redeemed according to his telepathic ability, or he is ......."
"How did he manage to open the door to the interrogation room?" Roach didn't realize what he was talking about, and asked again, "Shouldn't the door lock be set up in a particularly difficult way?" ”
"It's supposed to be in obsidian, like the defensive crystals used by Jonlin. According to Jonlin's account, the obsidian of that interrogation room must have copied the thoughts of many opinion masters. I think the person who left the mark must have cracked the magic that existed in the obsidian and left his own magic in the obsidian. He left the mark as a trigger, and once someone triggers the trigger, his magic will devour the original magic and unlock the door. Du Zhengyi said.
"Is he a **?" Roach said stunned.
"What I'm thinking about is whether he is indiscriminately guiding a high-energy telepathic mage, or is he .....waiting" Du Zhengyi hesitated, "You?" ”
"Me?" Roach faltered, "You mean, could it be my dad?" ”
"That's not impossible." Du Zhengyi said, looking at Luo Qi with annoyance, "But what is your father trying to do?" ”
Roach was speechless, and after a while, he said without any hope, "Maybe he's perverted." ”
Du Zhengyi ignored his complaints, and said, "There is another issue that should also be taken seriously, which is the starting point of this matter." Who pushed you to me at that time, to the cusp. Is it really Liu Li? From what I know about her, I don't think so. ”
Luo Qi's expression hesitated, his face was still pale, and there were serious dark circles under his eyes, which looked a little pitiful.
Du Zhengyi looked at Luo Qi and fell into deep thought. In that interrogation room, he couldn't see the marks that Rocky could see. With his ability, he can defend his mind, but he can't guarantee that he will not be captured by illusions, and Roach's barrier, reinforced by his own strength and external forces, can completely isolate illusions. Isn't that an analogy, that is, Roach's barrier is too thick, and the strong barrier isolates almost all magical possibilities. What if this magic was not just telepathy-based mental magic? It is very likely that Roach's predicament is completely limited by this barrier like a fortress.
"In any case, you can't get around the most important clue you have." Du Zhengyi said in a low voice.
Luo Qi didn't react, as if he didn't understand Du Zhengyi's words, and wrapped himself more tightly in the quilt.
"Pretend to be ignorant?" Du Zhengyi exposed him, "The initiator of all this, sooner or later, I have to find an opportunity to ask what is going on." ”
Roach angrily put the quilt over his head, threw himself back to the ground, and shouted through the quilt, "What are you talking about? I can't hear you. ”
"Don't you want to face your mom and dad so much?" Du Zhengyi didn't plan to let him go, "Do you still plan to hide here with me for the rest of your life?" ”
Roach's muffled voice came from the bed, "I can do laundry and cook!" ”