The magician in the city

Chapter 369 Meeting

Chapter 360 Seven

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 were trapped in the magic laboratory after they came out of school, and they didn't have much time to come out to play.As soon as Du Zheng sent them into the tourist area, he couldn't stand the fuss they made when they discovered the ruins of the ancient mage.

He tugged Roach who was looking at a painting with great interest, "I'm going out to get some air, and you watch them not to provoke humans."

"Hmm." Roach nodded absently, still focusing on the painting.

Du Zheng glanced at the painting. It was a geometric pattern with complex structure and regular shapes. He turned and walked away without saying anything.

Walking out of this ancient human building, there is a bustling street market outside, and all kinds of turquoise jewelry are sold on the roadside, mixed with some real and fake dzi beads.On extremely rare occasions, wizards can find one or two precious artifacts of ancient wizards among these things.But that was almost ten years ago, and now it's a rare occurrence, and the chances of encountering plastic are much higher.

Du Zhengyi walked unhurriedly in the chaotic and bustling market, choosing directions randomly.He carefully avoids devout human beings, most of them are people with strong human-centered inspiration. When they are so concentrated and discard distracting thoughts, they cause a lot of trouble to Du Zhengyi.

In this way of going around with confidence, Du Zhengyi gradually had fewer and fewer people around him, and he walked out of the city unknowingly.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.Red walls and white pagodas, spring flowers bloom in the walls, but in the wind, you can hear your own breathing quietly.As far as Du Zhengyi's hearing is concerned, he can still hear his own heartbeat.

He sat down on the parapet of the temple, took out a cigarette and lit it.The clouds in the sky changed their shapes several times, and the wind brought down a few thin flowers from the branches, as well as the crackling sound of dead branches breaking.

"Are you here?" Du Zheng said without looking back.

The voice behind him was suffocated, and suddenly became obvious again.The sound of the crutches hitting the ground, the sound of walking dragging, the sound of breathing, all kinds of sounds seemed to burst out in an instant, and synthesized into a person's existence.Once it is revealed, it will no longer be covered up.

The man approached Du Zhengyi and sat down beside him.

"I didn't expect to be noticed by you."

"I didn't expect that one day I would sit with you." Du Zhengyi took a puff of cigarette.

"I feel that you are looking for me." Said the clownfish, whose face and body were blurred. He sat next to Du Zhengyi, as if sitting in a deep fog.

"I feel you are following me." Du Zhengyi replied.

The clownfish let out a deep laugh, "How did you find me here? I don't mean now."

"Intuition." Du Zhengyi continued to smoke, looking forward as if chatting with the air, "I always feel that you are not far from us. Intuition tells me that you are the real player behind the game. Now that you have set up After launching the game, why didn’t you come and watch? I think the figure Roach saw was you, right?”

Clownfish didn't answer.

Du Zhengyi didn't care, "How did you get into the highland mage's territory? No, you don't have to answer me, I don't really care."

"You are already in a state of confusion and flustered, and you really don't care about my affairs." The clownfish said unceremoniously.

Du Zhengyi smiled, not feeling ashamed at all about being punctured, "How could I possibly try to avoid the perspective of a great mind master?"

"But I'm curious, how did you find out about Roach's problem?" the clownfish asked.

"With all due respect, what you're asking is nonsense." Du Zhengyi said, taking a deep drag on his cigarette.

The clownfish was not irritated either. The two of them sat together on the low wall of the lama, as if they were sitting outside the world. The intricate hatred, entanglement, and interests of this world have nothing to do with them for the time being.The two life-and-death enemies gave themselves an afternoon off together.But anyway, at the level of clownfish or Du Zhengyi, this extremely weird little thing is not surprising.

"I don't understand," said the clownfish.

"Are you human?" Du Zhengyi asked seriously.

"You're not scolding me, are you?"

"He is my friend, we are very close, of course I will know that it is not him anymore." Du Zhengyi said, the cigarette butt disappeared from his fingertips, a new cigarette appeared in his hand, he lit it Second cigarette.

"I still don't quite understand, no matter who is in his body, that person must have obtained all of Roach's memories." The clownfish asked.

"Satisfy your curiosity." Du Zhengyi said, "Many times Roach's mouth and body are faster than his brain. In other words, many of his actions are not thoughtful, and I doubt he remembers it himself." Don’t remember what you’re doing every day.”

The clownfish rubbed his hands together and said, "Sounds like a brainless idiot."

"He's not brainless." Du Zhengyi said, he was silent for a while.The clownfish didn't urge him. For Du Zhengyi, the situation was so bad that it couldn't get any worse.For the clownfish he was completely out of control.As a result, the two of them suddenly had all the time in the world.

Du Zhengyi continued to smoke, and said slowly, "The details are like a gossamer. You can't catch them when you want to catch them, but they are there. When they pile up together, you can no longer ignore them. He is not Luo strange."

The clownfish understood what he meant, and after a while he asked, "What do you think I would do for him?"

"I guess you will be interested in this matter." Du Zhengyi said, "I can only try it, maybe you will do something for some purpose."

"I was the one who came here, aren't you worried about getting into a moral dilemma?" the clownfish asked, he was very interested in Du Zhengyi.

"Don't worry." Du Zhengyi said, "If we happen to be going the same way, we can go together. If you still want to ask for a price, then I'll go back and invite Pei Shu."

"It was a joy to say."

"You treated Roach well." Du Zhengyi said, "You let him go once and didn't kill him, so I think if it's not too much effort, maybe you will help him."

"I was going to kill him. Before he died, he begged me not to make his death too dramatic. It was better to burn him to ashes, so that his friends would not be too sad to see his miserable death." The Clown Yu said that he saw Du Zhengyi shaking his hand holding the cigarette.But Du Zhengyi didn't say anything and continued smoking. "So I paid you a life debt. There are too many mages in this world who deserve to die, but you shouldn't. In fact, I hope you didn't happen to be in my way that day."

Du Zhengyi didn't want to talk about himself, so he asked, "Then do you know that the cave that Luo Qi and the others entered really contained the ancestor's undead soul?"

"I'm not sure. But it's an ancient consciousness. Ancient, cunning, and incomplete," said the clownfish. "I once glanced at it."

"incomplete?"

"If it is completely enough to understand human nature, I'm afraid you won't be able to tell that he is not Roach so easily." The clownfish said.

Du Zhengyi didn't want to argue with the clownfish, he would eventually figure it out no matter what. "I want to know whether Roach's consciousness still exists? Is it possible that he is still in his own mind, but is suppressed so that he can only show that person's personality?"

"I don't know." The clownfish said, "If he is still there, it won't be long. Two consciousnesses compete for a body, and the one that loses will eventually disappear."

Just like the dull monks in the village, like the zombie-like puppet in the mountain village... Du Zhengyi felt sick to his stomach.He hates clownfish and knows that those are all from his handwriting.But he also reminded himself that that's why he was looking for clownfish, and he was the best at it.

"The consciousness occupying Roach's body may be feminine." Du Zhengyi said, "Is knowing the gender useful to you? For you mind mages, the more you know, the more helpful it is?"

"How did you find out it was a woman?" the clownfish asked curiously.

"More than a year ago, I dealt with a vicious incident. An old witch took control of someone else's body. That time it wasn't a complete stealing of the body. She only used his body briefly after he fell asleep." Du Zhengyi He took out his 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 pick up women more easily."

The clownfish seemed to be able to imagine that scene.There was a faint wave of laughter in the deep fog around him.

"In the end, women still don't love her." Du Zhengyi said while biting his cigarette, "Men and women are different, and this difference doesn't lie in appearance. Even if you can't find a flaw, you can feel it."

Having said that, they fell silent.As soon as Du Zheng lit the third cigarette, he finished smoking quietly, neither rushing to urge the clownfish, nor rushing back to think of a solution.

"Are you not in a hurry to solve this matter, are you avoiding facing the matter that Roach may no longer exist?" The clownfish asked suddenly.

Du Zhengyi didn't answer, "Are you interested in expelling the undead?"

"The ancient consciousness contains infinite wisdom, I want to get it." The clownfish said.

Du Zhengyi took a deep puff of the cigarette, "Take it."

"It might be safer if you go to Pei Shu. Maybe there is a one-in-a-thousand chance that Roach's mind is now filled with the secret you guard."

"If I go to find Pei Shu, Luo Qi will never come back again. For Qionglin, a consciousness that may come from the ancestor mage is much more important than Luo Qi. There is no need to weigh the choice. If you are looking for you , I still have a chance to control the field." Du Zhengyi said, "Mr. Yu, why do we have to make it clear? Don't you know I made a foul?"

"The contract can only be established if you say it yourself. Words have their own power." The clownfish said in a low voice.

"Whatever." Du Zhengyi said, "Just return Roach to himself, and take whatever you want."

(End of this chapter)