Chapter 367: Meeting
Chapter 367
Du Zhengyi wandered the streets and alleys of the highland city with this group of mages who had never seen the world, most of them had been trapped in the magic laboratory since they came out of school, and they didn't have much time to come out and play. After Du Zheng sent them into the tourist area, he was surprised by the fuss after they discovered the ruins of the ancient mage, and he couldn't stand it.
He dragged Roach, who was looking at a painting with great interest, "I'll go out to breathe, you watch them don't provoke humans." ”
"Hmm." Lodge nodded absentmindedly, still focused on the painting.
Du Zheng glanced at the painting, which was a geometric pattern with a complex structure and regular shapes, he didn't say anything more, turned around and walked away.
Walking out of this ancient human building, you will find a bustling street market, with all kinds of turquoise jewelry peddled on the roadside, mixed with some real and fake dzi. On the rare occasion that mages can find one or two of the ancient mages' precious artifacts from these items. But that was almost a decade ago, and now it's a rare of rare, and the probability of encountering plastic is much higher.
Du Zhengyi walked unhurriedly through the chaotic and bustling street market, choosing a random direction. He carefully avoided the human beings who worshipped sincerely, most of them were people with strong anthropocentric inspiration, and when they concentrated on distracting thoughts like this, it caused Du Zhengyi a lot of trouble.
With such a twist and turn, gradually there were fewer and fewer people around Du Zhengyi, and he walked out of the city unconsciously. Many people must not know that there is a quiet ancient temple almost a few steps away from the city, which is rarely visited by tourists. The red wall and white tower, the spring flowers bloom in the wall, but the wind is quiet and you can hear your own breathing. With Du Zhengyi's ears, he can still hear his own heartbeat.
He sat down on a low wall in the temple area and smoked a cigarette to light it. The clouds in the sky changed shape several times, and the wind carried a few thin flowers down from the branches, and also sent the sound of the dead branches breaking.
"You're here?" Du Zheng said without looking back.
The voice behind him was suffocated, and suddenly it became obvious again. The sound of crutches tapping the ground, the sound of footsteps, the sound of breathing, all kinds of voices seemed to burst out in an instant, synthesizing a person's existence. If it is said to be broken, it will no longer be covered up.
The man approached Du Zhengyi and sat down next to him.
"I didn't expect you to notice."
"I didn't expect to sit with you one day." Du Zheng took a puff of his cigarette.
"I feel like you're looking for me." The clownfish, whose face and body were blurred, said, and he sat next to Du Zhengyi, as if he was sitting in a deep fog.
"I feel like you're stalking me." Du Zhengyi replied.
The clownfish let out a low laugh, "How did you find out I was here?" I don't mean now. ”
"Intuition." Du Zhengyi continued to smoke, looking ahead as if chatting with the air, "I always feel that you are not far from us." My gut tells me that you are the real player behind the game. Now that you've laid out the game and started the game, why don't you watch it? I guess the figure Rocky saw was you, right? ”
The clownfish did not answer.
Du Zhengyi didn't care, "How did you sneak into the territory of the highland mage?" No, you don't have to answer me, I don't really care. ”
"You're already distracted, you're flustered, and you really don't care about me." Clownfish said unceremoniously.
Du Zheng smiled, not ashamed at all about being poked inside, "How could I have delusionally tried to avoid the perspective of a mind master? ”
"But I'm curious, how did you find out about Roach's problem?" Clownfish asked.
"With all due respect, you're asking a piece of." Du Zhengyi said, taking a hard puff of his cigarette.
The clownfish was not provoked, and the two of them sat together on the lama's low wall, as if they were sitting outside the world, and the intricate hatred and entanglement of interests in this world had nothing to do with them for the time being. The two enemies of life and death gave themselves an afternoon off together. But in any case, when it comes to the level of clownfish or Du Zhengyi, this extremely weird little thing is not very strange.
"I don't understand." Clownfish said.
"Are you human?" Du Zhengyi asked seriously.
"You're not scolding me, are you?"
"He's my friend, we're close, and of course I'll know it's not him anymore." Du Zhengyi said, the cigarette butt disappeared from his fingertips, a new cigarette appeared in his hand, and he lit the second cigarette.
"I still don't quite understand that whoever is in his body must have had all of Roach's memories." Clownfish asked.
"Satisfy your curiosity." Du Zhengyi said, "There are many times when Roach's mouth and body are faster than his brain. In other words, he did a lot of things that he didn't think through, and I doubt he could remember what he was doing every day. ”
Clownfish rubbed her hands together and said, "Sounds like a brainless B." ”
"He's not brainless." Du Zhengyi said, he was silent for a while. The clownfish didn't rush him, and for Du Zhengyi, things were so bad that they couldn't be worse. For Clownfish, he's completely out of control. As a result, the two of them suddenly have the world's time.
Du Zhengyi continued to smoke and said slowly, "Details are like a gossamer, you can't catch it when you want to catch it, but it's there, and when it is piled up, you can't ignore it anymore." He's not Roach. ”
Clownfish understood what he meant, and after a moment he asked, "What do you think I'm willing to do for him?" ”
"I'm guessing you're going to be interested in that." Du Zhengyi said, "I can only try, maybe you will do something for what purpose." ”
"It's me who came up, aren't you worried about getting into a moral dilemma?" Clownfish asked, he was very interested in Du Zhengyi.
"Don't worry." Du Zhengyi said, "If we happen to be on the same road, we will go on a journey." If you still want to make an offer, then I'll go back and ask Pei Shu. ”
"It's a pleasure."
"You're pretty good with Roach." Du Zhengyi said, "You let him go once and didn't kill him, so I think if it doesn't take too much effort, maybe you will help him." ”
"I was meant to kill him. Before he died, he begged me not to make his death too dramatic, and that it was better to burn him to ashes, lest his friends would be too sad to see his death. The clownfish said, and he saw Du Zhengyi's hand holding the cigarette tremble. But Du Zhengyi didn't say anything and continued to smoke. "So I paid you a penny of your life. There are too many mages in this world to damn it, but you shouldn't, and I hope you didn't stand in my way that day. ”
Du Zhengyi didn't want to talk about himself, he asked, "Then do you know that there is really the undead of the ancestor in the cave that Luo Qi and the others walked into?" ”
"I'm not sure. But it's an old consciousness. Ancient, cunning, and incomplete. Clownfish said. I once glanced at it. ”
"Incomplete?"
"If it was completely human, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to tell if he wasn't Roach so easily." Clownfish said.
Du Zhengyi didn't want to argue with the clownfish, no matter what, he would eventually tell. "I wonder if Roach's consciousness still exists? Is it possible that he is still in his own head, just suppressed so that he can only show the personality of that person? ”
"I don't know." Clownfish said, "If he still exists, it won't be long, two consciousnesses fight for a body, and the consciousness that loses will eventually disappear." ”
Just like the monk in the village, like the zombie-like puppet Du Zheng in the mountain village, he felt sick to his stomach. He hated clownfish and knew they were all his work. But he also reminded himself that that was why he was looking for clownfish, and that he was the one who was the best at it.
"The consciousness that occupies Roach's body may be feminine." Du Zhengyi said, "Is it useful for you to know gender? For you mind mages, the more you know, the more helpful it is, right? ”
"How did you find out it was a woman?" Clownfish asked curiously.
"More than a year ago, I dealt with a bad case. An old witch takes control of someone else's body. It wasn't a complete stealing of the body, she only used someone else's body for a short time after he fell asleep. Du Zhengyi took out a third cigarette and smiled briefly. She likes women, so at the end of her life, when she was desperate, she chose a muscular man like Hercules for herself, wanting to make it easier to soak women. ”
The clownfish seemed to be imagining that. A smile faintly conveyed in the deep fog around him.
"As a result, the women still don't love her." Du Zhengyi took a bite of his cigarette and said, "Men and women are different, and this difference is not in appearance. Even if you can't find a flaw, you can feel it. ”
At this point, they fell silent. Du Zhengyi lit the third cigarette, and he finished smoking quietly, not in a hurry to urge the clownfish, nor in a hurry to go back and find a way.
"You're not in a hurry to solve this matter, are you avoiding facing this matter that Roach may no longer exist?" Clownfish asked suddenly.
Du Zhengyi didn't answer, "Are you interested in expelling the undead?" ”
"Ancient consciousness contains infinite wisdom, and I want to get it." Clownfish said.
Du Zhengyi took a hard puff of his cigarette, "Take it." ”
"If you go to Pei Shu, it may be safer. Perhaps one in a thousand chances, Roach's mind is now holding the secret you are guarding. ”
"If I go to Pei Shu, Roach really won't be able to come back. For Jonlin, a consciousness that might come from the Ancestral Mage was much more important than Roach, and there was no need to weigh the trade-offs. If I look for you, I still have a chance to control the game. Du Zhengyi said, "Mr. Yu, why do we have to make it clear? Don't you know I'm foul? ”
"You have to say it yourself to make a contract, and words have their own power." Clownfish said in a low voice.
"Whatever." Du Zhengyi said, "As long as you return Luo Qi to himself, you can take whatever you want." ”11