The magician in the city

Chapter 206 The Missing Roach

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As soon as Du Zheng woke up from the nightmare, he still had the lingering sound of severe pain in his head. He stretched out his hand and rubbed his forehead, and turned his head to see that the blackout curtain was only half closed, and the morning light came in from the other half of the gauze curtain. , he closed his eyes again.

He took a long breath of air, and Mahjong and Guan Xinyue came over upon hearing the sound.Du Zhengyi asked without even looking at it, "What happened to Roach?"

Mahjong laughed dryly, "Going to have breakfast, that kid likes to get up early."

Guan Xinyue was a little nervous, hiding behind the tall man, hiding herself in the shadow.

"He's not in the hotel." Du Zhengyi said.

After being exposed as a lie, Mahjong pushed his glasses, thick-skinned to the end, "It's weird, how...how did you know that Luo Qi is not here. He hardly uses any energy magic on a daily basis."

Du Zhengyi smiled with difficulty, "When Roach is here, I won't have such a severe headache." I won't have nightmares either, but it's not so easy to say these words.

Mahjong nodded knowingly, "He is an output-type telepath, and he is also a gentle optimist."

"When he's in a bad mood, it's hard to stay by his side. To be fair, he's an emotional person." Du Zhengyi said with a slight smile, "It's like two sides of a coin."

"Drink water?" Mahjong asked. "You have to continue to sleep for a while before you can recover."

"Did you miss Roach again?" Du Zhengyi asked patiently on the pillow.

"He's just... bored here. He just went out for a stroll, and he'll be back in a while." Mahjong carefully looked at Du Zhengyi's face.

Du Zhengyi closed his eyes and said in a low voice, "Roach can squat for a whole day even picking his fingers between the brooms. How could he feel bored and disappear?"

Mahjong didn't say a word, and refrained from arguing with Du Zhengyi. He knew that Du Zhengyi would fall asleep again soon, and it would not be today if he wanted to lose his temper.

Du Zhengyi was really powerless, so he asked vaguely, "What day is today?"

"The second day." Mahjong said, looking at the morning light outside the window. As expected, Du Zhengyi couldn't say anything more, and fell into a deep sleep again.

Mahjong let out a sigh of relief, turned around and stared at Guan Xinyue.Mahjong asked after a while, "You said he was being unreasonable? Why is he so defensive? When did Roach act as well-behaved as he said?"

Guan Xinyue shrugged, "This matter is so unreasonable, you are not blind, Luo Qi has always behaved like a cat in front of the leader."

"You really don't know where Luo Qi has gone? It's been a day and a night, girl, if you know, please tell me, I'm also doing it for Luo Qi's sake." Mahjong said anxiously looking at Guan Xinyue.

"I really don't know." Guan Xinyue sat down on the sofa, "When did you ever see Roach tell us the truth? If this is the case, Roach will never stay with us and pick his fingers of the head."

Mahjong sighed helplessly, "Yes, I don't blame you for this matter, I was careless. I also saw him feel uncomfortable, and my heart softened for a while, so I didn't keep staring at him."

"Why don't you go and look for it?" Guan Xinyue suggested.

"I can't go away." Mahjong said, "Du Zhengyi is still recovering, and his self-protection ability is insufficient. It would be too dangerous if I leave too. I hope nothing happens to Roach. Fortunately, Roach is very important to many people. , or a person who does not exist at all, maybe no one will notice him."

"Then why did Brother Du's illness come on so suddenly? Luo Qi also said that there was no trauma at all, and he collapsed suddenly." Guan Xinyue said.

Mahjong looked at the sleeping Du Zhengyi, lowered his head and did not speak.

"When will Brother Du's illness be completely cured?" Guan Xinyue asked in a low voice.

Mahjong didn't answer her, but not answering said enough in itself.

"Roach will be very miserable."

"It's more than uncomfortable," Mahjong said. "Do you remember when we had to keep you away from Roach? An A-level telepath with cognitive confusion was a disaster. Roach couldn't face the sudden unfolding of consciousness." Space, he needs an anchor to stabilize his conscious world and rebuild cognitive ability.”

"What exactly does that mean?" Guan Xinyue asked puzzled, "I can't imagine it."

"It's like... It's like the real world and the conscious world overlap, and sometimes it's not Roach's conscious world alone, and all the thinking consciousnesses in this world are open to him. If Roach stands in the square So thousands of humans, mages, pigeons, and wild cats, their subjective worlds are open to him at the same time. He can look at the same square through thousands of eyes, he can hear their thoughts, and he can even see He can see their imaginations and their absurd subjective world. He can see his own memory and the memory of others, so when he looks back, what he sees is his own past and thousands of different pasts at the same time. .” Mahjong said.

"Zhuang Shengxiao dreams of butterflies?" Guan Xinyue said. "I understand a little bit. A Zhuang Sheng and a butterfly still can't tell who they are. Even human beings often have the illusion of whether reality is reality or not."

Mahjong nodded, "Roch is always in the Vientiane Forest, and there are thousands of mirrors in front of him. When he looks into the mirror, he can see thousands of faces. He must know which face is himself."

Guan Xinyue thought nervously, "This is kind of scary."

"For example, if you have a realistic dream, you may be confused for a while when you wake up from the dream. Then how do you distinguish between dreams and reality?" Mahjong said.

"I... probably think about who I am and where I am? Then I will recall many details. Real memories are always clearer than dreams." Guan Xinyue said.

Mahjong smiled slightly, "But imagine that if Roach stayed in the conscious world for a long time, he could clearly perceive the details of all the memories of everyone, the details of the spirit, the details of the body, and the details of the soul, so which one is he? Myself? It’s like Roach has always wanted to have a dream that is as real as his own memory.”

"So he needs an anchor." Guan Xinyue finally realized that she understood.

"Yes, he needs an anchor point." Mahjong said approvingly, "If a person has been a telepath since childhood, and his telepathic ability gradually increases, then the self will instinctively strengthen. For example, the deepest memory of childhood, Then they are continuously superimposed to form branches, and all the worlds of life hang on this tree. But Roach, he suddenly entered the world of high-level telepaths, and what's more terrible is that his parents planted a tree in his childhood memory. into a false anchor."

"So he doubted all his memories?" Guan Xinyue covered her mouth in horror.

"Self-doubt is terrible for high-level telepaths. When they are lost, their instincts will defend themselves. Low-level mages and humans will be completely destroyed. That is a scene of hell that I can't even imagine. So follow Qionglin's style , Roach is indeed a highly dangerous anti-mage, and this has nothing to do with his own good or evil." Mahjong said.

(End of this chapter)