Chapter 127. Gifts of the Fathers (16)
127.The Gift of the Ancestors (16)
The lotus burners gathered together and held a brief funeral ceremony. In Roach's view, the funeral rites of mages are similar to those of ordinary humans, or rather, they follow the local customs, most mages will burn paper, and a small number of mages who live elsewhere will float themselves into the river or bury themselves in the back of the church.
But in the eyes of the lotus burner, I am afraid that he is still too lotus-eater, and completely succumbs to human culture. After all, mages don't believe in God, they see themselves as gods. Mages don't really believe that they have a past and present life, because if there is really reincarnation, then can't the mage not be able to do magic in his previous life, and he may not be able to do magic in the next life? Of course, a mage can only always be a mage, born in this life and disappear in this life, a mage can only exist and exist once. Unless, someone can have a ticket to the legendary ship, board the legendary ship and sail to the other side. When the body dies out, the spirit continues to exist...... Roach thought of something, but firmly forgot about it.
Lotus burners have their own rituals.
They sang a song in the oldest language of the mages. If you use that language to express a command, it's a spell. Now the Lotus Burners are simply singing a soothing song about a distant journey to the seaβfar away from disaster and suffering, they go to the countryside of their homeland, where the original Garden of Eden is, the beginning of all hope.
The silent sealed land was like an empty tomb, and the mournful song seeped into the tomb with the power that the mage had inherited from the bloodline, and was faintly answered. Between the ethereal and the vague, it seems that this sleeping building should be in a low mood and a sad song. At first Rocky thought it was a hallucination, but it wasn't until he saw another faint glow on the wall, holy and soft, that reminded him of the snow beyond the Qionglin. He should have had some bad memories of it, but when he thought about it later, he remembered more of his rebirth. And there's Du Zhengyi there, isn't there? Du Zhengyi belonged there, and the snow of Qionglin was like a part of his friends, a place close to him in this world.
It wasn't until the Lotus Burners finished singing that Rocky realized that he wasn't the only one to be soothed, and the smell of despair that hung over the Lotus Burners had dissipated a lot. Sect Leader Zhao finally restrained his emotions and made an inward speech, reuniting his ball.
It's nothing, on the one hand, the firmness of extremist believers is difficult to easily destroy. Roach, on the other hand, remembered the Highland Mages, who were even able to use plants to have a psychological effect on people, and those plants also came from the Sealed Lands.
The hand that had been on his shoulder squeezed him a little harder, and Du Zhengyi lowered his head and whispered to him, "I'm not sure if there are any souls alive here." Don't risk probing, prevent active contact, don't be caught again, don't know the height of the sky. β
Speaking of the last time, he may be reminded of his usual repeated teachings, Du Zhengyi suddenly "hissed", and the hand that was pinched on his shoulder went straight up, Luo Qi didn't pinch his face, his shoulder might be blue. Everyone can be relaxed at this moment under the comfort of the sealed land, and Du Zhengyi can still be angry with him because of old accounts, he really admires it so much. He really shouldn't have been suspicious at the beginning, compared to this, the emotional inducements he inadvertently leaked could not shake Du Zhengyi's mind at all.
"What are you doing? I didn't say anything! Roach said silently, not wanting to disturb the grief of the Lotus Burners, they had better be uncomfortable for a while.
Du Zhengyi smirked, rubbed his shoulders, and continued to whisper, "They also have a mind mage, let them play this card first." β
Luo Qi was persuaded and extended a thumbs up to Du Zhengyi.
"Fragment or not, I don't want you to run into the shadow of the Ancestral Mage again. Boss Zhao, that idiot who dreamed of communicating with the Ancestor Mage, then let him find his own spirit medium, if the fish is willing to help him......" Du Zhengyi pinched his shoulder again, this time not pinching him, just telling him that the conversation was over.
Luo Qi looked at the clownfish who looked like the Zhao Sect Master, he maintained a form shrouded in chaos, and no one knew if he was really attending the funeral. The funeral also came to an end at this time, and the Lotus Burner set up a cube enchantment, and cast a high-energy magic in the enchantment, which was operated by Sect Master Zhao himself, and the deceased disappeared in the storm of magic, leaving not even a drop of blood or a bone.
But then Sect Leader Zhao said some more bullshit, and Luo Qi listened in shock as he forcibly twisted the murderous insect incident left by the Ancestor Mage into the fact that it was all human fault.
"What?" Luo Qi spoke, "I've always known that mages have poor logical thinking skills, but to this extent, it's completely heresy. β
"Shut up." Du Zhengyi said calmly, "It has nothing to do with us. β
"Oh." Luo Qi shrank back, glanced at his own people twice, and grabbed Zhou Ruisi who was hiding behind. "What do you think?"
Zhou Ruisi struggled backwards, "What's the matter?" β
"Don't you think there's something wrong with what he said? Don't you want to debate with them? Roach's eyes sparkled as he encouraged.
"No!" Zhou Ruisi insisted on hiding backwards, and dealt with nonsense, "I'm so frightened that I can't think anymore." β
It just so happened that Sect Leader Zhao said at this time, "...... Just like before, human-transmitted viruses have contaminated the place. β
Luo Qi turned his head back to look at Sect Leader Zhao in disbelief, and Zhou Ruisi said at this moment, "I didn't see clearly, isn't it a virus infection that is not bitten by insects?" So will we get infected? Oh my God, it's horrible, like the Ebola virus in humans. β
"If it will be infected, we are all dead now, you don't want to be infected by someone else, human Ebola will not develop so quickly." Roach couldn't help but say.
"Shut up Roach." Du Zhengyi said.
But it was already too late, Sect Leader Zhao looked at them with an unkind face, and then walked over to them. Zhou Ruisi actually took a step back from the conditional launch site, "Could it be colloidal gas?" β
"Shut up, that word is aerosol." Luo Qi said, his eyes were still staring at Sect Leader Zhao, and he couldn't control his anger a little. He originally thought that the Lotus Burner was just born with too much superiority, plus he liked to bully the weak. But now he began to realize that they were just timid, just fearful, and their fear and cowardice were the same as those of an illiterate person facing the unknown.
"Ancestral mages will never slaughter their own offspring, and all weaponized psychic beasts are targeted by races other than mages." Sect Leader Zhao said.
"Roach!" Du Zhengyi raised his voice.
Yes, they shouldn't turn their faces here, they don't have a chance of winning.
Roach resisted the impulsive words, swallowed, and burst out laughing. "All weaponized psychic beasts need to be linked by a Mind Mage, otherwise, only the Mind Mage can use it."
Sect Leader Zhao looked at him.
"Are you a Mind Mage? Sect Leader Zhao? Roach said, "It suddenly occurred to me that we were thinking that the mage might be higher. Speaking of which, we are actually very different, and from my point of view, ordinary mages are not my kind. Maybe one day I'll be perverted and want to blow up all the races that aren't as advanced as me. β
More than one mage stared at him in horror, with different expressions. Sect Leader Zhao's expression was obscure, "You kid, you're really cynical. I remember, your best friend is the one who specializes in dealing with high anti-mages, right? Kid, you're just cynical, not high-minded, right? β
"Yes, he is." Luo Qi said lazily, not caring to let his shoulder touch Du Zhengyi's shoulder, "He is my conscience." It means that here he is, I am a tethered foal, and the stumble is just a kick of the little mushroom by the stake. β
His eyes were staring at Sect Leader Zhao, and there was a faint vortex in his bright eyes, but Sect Leader Zhao withdrew his gaze first. The Lotus Burner's leader's expression became more gloomy, but his voice calmer. "I have promised that there will be no more war between us here today, at least. But I hope you'll remember that there hasn't been a single mage's catastrophe that hasn't come from humans. β
Luo Qi did not say anything, ordinary mages are reluctant to record history, but at this point, it is the Lotus Burner who is willing to dig up history out of ancestor worship.
"We can solve the physical injury, but we can't solve the virus that humans have transmitted to us, not to mention that humans have been contaminating everything and even making viruses themselves."
Luo Qi couldn't help but didn't say that the insect bite was not a virus, and the mages might not understand this, so directly dismantling Sect Leader Zhao's platform was completely tearing his face. "When animals spread the virus to humans, they didn't think about exterminating all animals. They do make viruses, but they also solve them. β
"Alright." Du Zhengyi suddenly said, "Don't argue anymore, no matter what it is, the current situation has proven that there is something wrong with this sealed land." As is customary for us, if something goes wrong with the seal, we are responsible for destroying it. At my mission level, this matter has a higher priority than the others, Master Zhao, and even higher than dealing with the Lotus Burner. There will be no more war here today, and I'm sure you'll continue to agree with us to either destroy the Sealed Lands or let more mages die here. β
No objections were raised.