Chapter 85

"Every time you seem to want to tell the truth, you're not telling the truth, are you playing me like a bear child? Can it be equal? Roach said loudly, "It's always this virtue, just like to dig out the heart and lungs, but it turns out that it's still half a sentence!" ”

"What exactly the Lonely Mountain Guard does has nothing to do with the reason I was sent, why should I talk about my own business? I am a Lonely Mountain Guard, and I was sent out to investigate the activities of the Lotus Burners, because the Qionglin has been infiltrated by the Lotus Burners, so they can only send people other than the executing mages. Any questions? Du Zhengyi also said angrily, and said sarcastically, "Do you want to know about the history of my ancestors' eighteen generations?" ”

Mahjong coughed, ignoring their quarrel, and asked with some excitement, "So the interest of the Lotus Burner has expanded to immortality?" Want to inquire about this secret? Is this the interest of the Lotus Burner organization or Li Xu's personal ambitions? "They had clearly touched a core secret, had made a breakthrough, but no one paid any attention to him.

He sighed, why the three of them could quarrel every two people, and they hadn't broken up yet. "Xinyue, can you roll their eyes for me?"

Guan Xinyue didn't pay attention to him, and asked hesitantly, "Is there really eternal life?" She actually thought of a question that she was more concerned about, "Is there really a soul?" ”

"Nope." It was Du Zhengyi who answered her question, his face was still dark and ugly, "There is no eternal life and no soul in this world, whether it is a mage or an ordinary human, it will die when it is time to die." ”

"There's no need to say it so directly in front of Guan Xinyue, right?" Roach frowned and said, "Don't you know that she means to ask if there is a chance to see her grandfather again?" ”

"If everyone can understand such a simple truth, there will be a lot less things in this world, why can't I just say it directly?" Du Zhengyi said mercilessly.

"It's okay." Guan Xinyue hurriedly said. "Shall we skip this part?"

Luo Qi angrily stiffened his neck and didn't say a word, Du Zheng raised his hand indifferently, as if to wave Luo Qi out, "Don't pay attention to him, let's continue to talk about ours." ”

Mahjong laughed dryly, "I only heard about the Lotus Burner recently, otherwise you will completely popularize the official science?" Considering that Roach may continue to be exposed to new sources of information in the future, you should be honest with you. "I don't know a lot of things." Du Zhengyi said stiffly, "The Lotus Burner was still a legend three or four years ago, and there were not many mages in Qionglin who believed that they were really acting. In the past two years, the reports have been handed in one after another, and only then did they begin to get the attention of Venerable Qionglin, and the reports were sent to the arithmetic for processing, and they began to go back and deal with the unnatural deaths of mages in human society, which you also know. ”

Mahjong said, "I didn't know the result at the beginning, and then when they came out, I left Qionglin." ”

"It turns out that in many places where mages are active, the number of human deaths from abuse is far higher than the usual average. In other words, from a human perspective, the probability of serial psychopathic killers appearing is higher than the historical average. In the past, this may have meant the emergence of a high anti-mage, as the mage's serial psychopathic killers are more efficient than humans. But," Du Zhengyi paused, and his worry began to overcome his annoyance just now, "But in the same way, if it is only an individual pervert, then the probability of the mage's perverted killer appearing is also higher than the historical average. ”

Mahjong pondered and said, "What do you mean is that at this time, it is almost certain that there will be organized action, a program, a pursuit, and a clear purpose. ”

"In a way that both of them are familiar with," Du Zhengyi said, "it is equivalent to the emergence of a terrorist organization among the mages." ”

Luo Qi said a little bitterly, "Then I knew much earlier than Qionglin, at that time, every child knew that there were people in every school who said that they were Lotus Burners. ”

"Compared with human beings, our form of social organization is much looser, and the speed of response to problems is much slower than that of human society." Du Zhengyi said, not noticing at all when the two of them started talking normally again. "When determining the size and trajectory of the Lotus Burner, a group of arithmetic were also recruited by Qionglin to analyze the death data of humans and mages. The arithmetic thinks that Jonlin's reaction speed is even slower than ever, so they think that Jonlin has something wrong with him as well. At this time, His Holiness did not know who was credible, and decided not to use the Commission's executors. My identity as a Lonely Mountain Guardian is almost a secret, and most people only know that I am a student trained as a battle mage. Therefore, Pei Shu, as one of Venerable Qionglin, proposed that since the executing mage could not be trusted, then the students should be sent to investigate. As for why the Guan Yushan case was used as a breakthrough point, I don't know. Pei Shu thinks that Qionglin has been infiltrated too much, and any data may have been contaminated, so it is best for me not to touch any background information, and rely on myself to investigate. ”

Luo Qi didn't know if he should breathe a sigh of relief after hearing this, "So the real reason why I was chosen should be that my ability level is too low, and I am very obsessed with human life, and I am the type of Lotus Burner who wants to torture and kill, and it can never be a Lotus Burner." ”

"This is the most logical reasoning." Du Zhengyi said.

Mahjong smiled, still refusing to let go of Roach completely, "It may indeed be that you are worth a lot." Innate emotional contagion, or an optimist, you should live a good life most of the time, and you are indeed very lucky in daily life. ”

Luo Qi ignored his teasing and said, "But I think Li Xu's investigation of the Guan family is true, and their suspicion of the Great Black Sky Temple is also true, otherwise there is no need for them to mention the internal situation of their organization to us." ”

"There are several possibilities." Du Zhengyi said, "The first possibility is that Li Xu's interest in the legend of the Lonely Mountain may be personal, so he may not be completely loyal to the organization of the Lotus Burner. The second possibility is that the Lotus Burners have been divided, and the Li Xu faction did not know what the group of people in the Great Black Heaven Temple was doing. At present, we only know that the top level of the Lotus Divider is the Sage Mage, and the number of Sage Mages is unknown, but I suspect that they will set up about nine according to the structure of Qionglin, and they have always had this tendency to proclaim themselves orthodox. With this number of people, it's normal for factions to arise internally, and I personally suspect that it's very likely that the Lotus Burners are splitting up internally. ”

"How do you know it's internal division?" Roach asked in surprise, "Have you been part of their organization?" ”

"Observed. The Lotus Burners are mostly young people, and although they claim to be the most traditional mages and perform the oldest mage rituals, they inevitably have many traces of human culture. Ironically, their rituals and the scale of their organization bear the shadow of many human games and movies. Du Zheng explained to mahjong again, "The organizational form of the Great Black Sky Temple is very similar to the form of game points, which was discovered by Luo Qi. ”

No one spoke, Du Zhengyi was the authority among these people in this regard, and he continued, "I also once suspected that the Great Black Heaven Temple was a purely human organization. But after seeing some of the reactions of the monks, I think they have been psychologically disturbed, and the intensity of psychological disturbances is not like what pure human beings can do. So this is the third possibility, but I've pretty much ruled it out. ”

"Speaking of this, Li Xu once said that the monks in the temple and the women of the Qi family are puppets." Roach said a little disgusted, "I think he meant something in particular about the word, but I didn't find an answer." ”

Du Zhengyi looked at mahjong, "Do you have an opinion on this?" ”

Mahjong shook his head, "The puppet is an old story, and now it's all a legend, I guess even Li Xu himself has only heard of it." It was all played by the early consciousness mages, and at that time they had their own secret societies, their own rules, and their own books. But now no one remembers those rules, the books have been burned, and the puppetry has long been regarded as a forbidden art, and it has been gone for eight hundred years. I don't know how strange those monks feel to you that would make you and Li Xu think of this, but from an academic point of view, it is unlikely that this ancient technique will be restored. ”

"Then we don't have to talk about this part first, the truth will slowly emerge sooner or later." Du Zhengyi said, turning to Guan Xinyue, who had been listening to the side, "The rest of the part is what Guan Yushan, the key point of this step, discovered." ”