The magician in the city

Chapter 387

第380五章守灵

Du Zhengyi went straight back to the highland mage's residence, and the journey went smoothly without any twists and turns.He felt in a daze as if he was sailing a ship on the sea. He was a very good sailor, but whether there was wind or not, he was completely out of his hands.

The highland mages changed the entrance to the garden with the most pleasant climate, but looking around, they have almost repaired the broken houses.In other words, they finally solved the problem of even the plants going crazy.

There were not many people in the garden, and they probably all stayed in the house.The highland mage temporarily pulled out a door on the closed building, even installed a door frame, repainted dark red oil paint, and painted golden patterns.He couldn't tell if the pattern was hand-painted, it had a hand-painted roughness and incomplete symmetry.So they still have some parts to work on, but the work is still going well.

His friends were waiting in the garden, and Mahjong, who was chatting with a group of Qionglin mages, spotted him almost immediately, leaving those people and hurried over, as soon as Du Zheng saw him, his eyes fell on Luo Qi who was holding him , looking worried.Guan Xinyue ran faster than him, and was full of excitement.I don't know why she made such an optimistic judgment. It may be because she has not grown up yet. As a child, she surprisingly trusts the adults around her, thinking that he can solve any problems.

"How?" Mahjong asked.

It took Du Zhengyi a while to regain his ability to speak, "Doctor, I hope you can take another look."

He emphasized his status as a mahjong doctor. Although he didn't say anything else, Guan Xinyue's expression had changed, and she stood tremblingly, as if she was resisting the discovery of the truth.

Mahjong's eyes widened behind the lens, and he reacted slowly, "Of course, yes. Our corridor just happened to be repaired, go... go back to his room, I'll take a look there. There are too many people here , I need a secluded environment."

As soon as Du Zheng did so, Guan Xinyue followed into the corridor, but was far behind. After they entered the room, Guan Xinyue also waited in the corridor.Du Zhengyi didn't have the heart to care about her thoughts. He put Luo Qi on the bed and backed away as much as possible, not to interfere with mahjong, nor to interfere with his last hope.

Mahjong looked at him strangely, "Are you injured?"

"It's okay." Du Zhengyi said, "You should take a look at him first."

"I don't think he's in a hurry." Mahjong persisted, staring at Du Zhengyi. Du Zhengyi was defeated in this confrontation and complied with Mahjong's medical requirements.As far as he was concerned, he really didn't care about the time, and he was even vaguely relieved that he could postpone the judgment for a while.

The room was quiet, except for the subtle sound of medical magic. Du Zhengyi was very familiar with this sound, and sometimes wondered if it was the sound of his tissues being repaired and his skin healing.I can't remember how many times he was stitched back. If the mage's medical skills were not so superb, he might have been riddled with holes.

"Okay." Mahjong finally said, wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned to face Luo Qi who was lying motionless on the bed, and pushed his glasses. "The brain exam may take some time."

Du Zheng nodded, stretched out his hand as if dragging a chair out of the void.He sat down on the chair and waited for the mahjong to announce the final result.

Time passed by, and the medical smell in the room became stronger and stronger.Du Zhengyi realized that Mahjong took much more time than clownfish, maybe because his magic ability is much lower than clownfish, or maybe because he didn't want to give up any hope.But as time passed, Du Zhengyi became more aware that his result might be consistent with the clownfish's seemingly hasty judgment.He began to regret letting Mahjong do this, otherwise he wouldn't have to stay in such a small room, endure the smell of medical treatment, and endure the heat from the medical magic. The heat and transpiration in this small room made him almost throw up.If Roach had been here, he might have told Roach privately that he was getting a little bit mahjong-sick, like some people get carsick and seasick.

Finally, Mahjong turned around and looked at him.He too raised his eyes to his friend, his face calm.

"His brain structure is not damaged at all." Mahjong looked at him and said, "He may be able to open his eyes for a certain period of time every day, and he may be able to eat, but to the extent of walking, alcohol is unlikely It does. It's a complete, but blank body now, to be exact. You know, in our world, that's the way it is... that Roach is dead."

Du Zheng nodded.

Mahjong hesitated for a while, and asked him, "How do you feel now?"

"Me?" Du Zhengyi thought for a while, there were only him and his friends here, and it didn't seem to matter if he said what he felt. "I feel weird."

"Strange?" Mahjong asked puzzled. "Whether you want to admit it or not, I think you're actually having a hard time right now."

"I can only feel strange that everything is the same as before," he whispered, his eyes looking out of the window, and Roach's window was the garden.It was evening now, some people were walking in the garden, people were sitting by the lake in twos and threes, even the sunlight was soft, falling gently on the clearing in the forest and by the green lake. "You see, everyone is the same as before, nothing has changed, and I am still me. Nothing has changed in this world, only Roach's orbit has ended, and the rest... everything else continues to operate as usual, tomorrow's sun will rise as usual, and the rest of the world will wake up at that time as usual."

Mahjong looked out of the window for a while, then looked back at the calm Du Zhengyi, feeling a little worried.Everyone has to find their own way to solve the problem of grief, and their emotions must be released. What he worries about is that Du Zhengyi will not be able to solve this problem.But he wouldn't say that to Du Zhengyi, Du Zhengyi may have cut off his own ability to grieve, this is the way a battle mage solves the problem of grief - keep the grief in his heart, and then let the goddess of fate arrange, etc. Wait for the wound to heal, or wait for yourself to slowly rot away.

Mahjong was silent for a while, thinking about Roach, no matter how worried he was about him when Roach was there, now thinking about when Roach is there, everyone is actually better than when he was lost.

Mahjong pondered for a while and said cautiously, "Although you can't understand it yourself, you just find it strange, but I think if Luo Qi is here, he will understand what you are talking about. One day I heard Luo Qi talking to Guan Xinyue Chatting in the library of the Mind Society, because of what happened to Guan Xinyue, they talked about how to face the death of people around them. Luo Qi said that he understood why Guan Xinyue was sometimes irritable. He said that it was like King Lear lost What I said when I killed Cordelia—why does a dog, a horse, a mouse, have their lives, but you don't breathe?"

The silence in the room became real, and finally Du Zhengyi sighed, "So that's how it is."

The lines on his face became softer, not as stiff as before. He smiled again and said, "Roach really read a lot, didn't he? It doesn't match the childish appearance at all."

"Children who don't study well have a lot of time to do nosy things." Mahjong also smiled.He looked at Roach silently for a while, then turned and went out, leaving Du Zhengyi alone in the room.

Du Zhengyi was still sitting on the chair. He heard Guan Xinyue asking about mahjong at the door, and Mahjong told her.He had expected her to rush in for one last look at Roach, but she burst into tears and ran away crying.

Mahjong said just now that everyone has a different way of dealing with grief, and Guan Xinyue probably couldn't face the "last side".In fact, this is not the last time, because when Roach came back last time, he was actually gone.

Du Zhengyi didn't know why he was sitting here, but anyway, he had nothing else to do, nothing else he wanted to do.

After midnight, Mahjong is back, bringing a light.

"Are you still sitting here?" Mahjong said, and sighed. "You don't...want...to let Roach's body just exist?"

"Why not?" Du Zheng asked rhetorically, "In my hometown, a strand of hair of the deceased is often preserved as a memory. This is of course better than preserving only a strand of hair."

"In my hometown, we usually keep a photo!" Mahjong said, looking at Du Zhengyi worriedly, "You don't really think so, do you?"

"Then do you want me to strangle him to death?" Du Zhengyi suddenly became angry, "Maybe he will open his eyes tomorrow morning, do you want me to look into his eyes and let him die?"

Mahjong has nothing to say, he has also thought about this issue, he even hoped that even if Roach were to die, he would not die in this way, it is normal for the soul and body to die together.Everyone is afraid of mind mages, because they are afraid of encountering this kind of death of the soul before the body.

Roach really didn't deserve such a tragic end.

But Du Zhengyi gradually calmed down again, "I will not keep him, I will send him home. Everything should be decided by his parents. Before that..."

Before that, he wanted to be with him—Mahjong would complete what Du Zhengyi hadn't said.He didn't ask what happened to the soul occupying Roach's body. If she was still alive, Du Zhengyi wouldn't be sitting here.Luo Qi was killed, and the person who killed Luo Qi had already paid the price, so there was nothing left but helplessness.damn it!

He wanted to talk to Du Zhengyi. Du Zhengyi's situation was not very good. Now he began to think that even if he risked saying something that might lead to worse results, it would be better than the current situation.

"Speaking of his parents, have you figured out why his parents blocked his ability?" Mahjong asked.

As soon as Du Zheng raised his head, Mahjong could see that he was thinking. "In order to avoid the current result?"

"Lorian is a high-level mind master. He serves Qionglin's top secrets. He may know a lot of things that we didn't know." Mahjong said, "Maybe when Luo Qi was young, he assessed the situation and thought that Luo Qi Once Qi’s abilities are exposed to the world, it will be difficult to live until full-fledged.”

"Then he has a reason to punch me in the face now." Du Zhengyi said.

"You can't say that." Mahjong said uneasily. "Have you heard that there are many ancient calculators who believe that the future is doomed and cannot be changed. They believe that the future is always fixed. No matter how people cheat, the universe will Fix bug."

Under the light, Du Zhengyi's face looked very unpredictable, "Repair the system paradox?"

Mahjong waited for him to say something more, but he didn't say anything more.He thought that this topic might not have started very well, and when the chat got to unknown academic issues, he couldn't continue after a few sentences.

"Hey, let's chat freely, what else can I do?" He couldn't take it anymore, and made a chair to sit on, and summoned two glasses of spirits, stuffed one into Du Zhengyi's hand . "Tell me, how did you find out that Roach is not Roach? Tell the truth, tell me the thing that made you most sure?"

Du Zhengyi took a sip of wine hesitantly, just as cautious as before, soldiers can't really get drunk.But the taste of this wine was too mellow, and the smell of burning alcohol warmed his cold body.He laughed. "You have no idea how annoying Roach is."

"I don't want to imagine." Mahjong drank a glass of wine in one breath, and the glass was full again. "But you're still willing to let him follow you!"

"I don't want him to follow me." Du Zhengyi said, drank some more wine, and looked up at the dark ceiling. Although the room here is small, the dome is high, and a small lamp cannot illuminate the ceiling above his head. dark. "I am willing to be with him. He knows my happiness and sadness, and he knows what I am thinking. Every time I look back, he will give me knowing eyes. I can always see from his eyes. It was a clear understanding. It was like...like the world finally saw me."

"You guard the world, but the world has never seen you?" Mahjong asked.

"Almost." Du Zheng said with a smile.The room was too small, and the chair was not far from the end of Roach's bed, so he stretched out his hand and naturally landed on Roach's calf.He patted it, like his lazy buddy could stand up and share a joke with him. "When he is no longer him, of course I know."

Mahjong was speechless, and he drank another glass of wine.

"He is very talkative. I really don't know why Guan Xinyue likes him? Don't girls like a cold man like me? Or a warm uncle like you? Luo Qi is talkative, trivial, chatty, troublesome, a chicken thief, Turtle hair..." Du Zhengyi said, swallowing a sip of wine, "Why can I be sure it's not him? Because Roach has always wanted to establish an entanglement with me."

Mahjong raised his head in surprise and looked at Du Zhengyi.

"There is a life-and-death entanglement between me and the guards of the lonely mountain that cannot kill each other. As long as the total number of guards of the lonely mountain is more than three, no, to be precise, as long as there are three active consciousnesses, there will be constraints on each other's consciousness. , our will will always guard the secrets of the Lonely Mountain. But of course what Roach wants is not this, what he wants is entanglement in a general sense." Du Zhengyi said, he himself did not realize that the more he talked, the more he talked. Much, without realizing that I started pouring out.

For the first time, mahjong plays the role of this kind of human psychiatrist. "Roach wants you to keep your mortal tangles, wide open? No secrets? No privacy?"

"You Mind Masters all share this kind of entanglement." Du Zhengyi said, and added, "As far as I know?"

"It is true that sometimes this kind of connection is established with other mind mages in the family members, especially when there are children in the family, so that it is convenient to take care of the children. But most of the time it is the impulsive entanglement with the wife after drinking. That kind of ending is generally sad, and people are already divorced before the tangle is untied... Human nature cannot withstand prying eyes." Mahjong said, "I really admire Roach. According to my opinion, he You must have something to hide, a little secret, but if you establish this kind of honest connection..."

"I know what he thinks. He's a telepath and I'm just a junior telepath. He's sure that he can successfully hide his little secrets from me after the entanglement is established." Du Zhengyi said mercilessly , but Mahjong could hear his undisguised love from his tone.Like he's boasting about Roach's clever little tricks and flattering himself about his cunning.Preference and protection of shortcomings are so obvious.But thinking that the beloved person will never be there... Mahjong raised his head and poured a full glass of wine.

"He wants your secrets?" Mahjong asked.

"He can't get it. Gushan's contract comes first, and its priority is higher than ordinary entanglements." Du Zhengyi said, his tone became cold again, like a fire in a furnace, which was just burning to burst into sparks , and is now gradually extinguishing. "He probably just wanted this on a whim, tangling with me, maybe satisfying him, going around bragging. He just thought it was fun. I didn't say yes, of course I wouldn't, being his anchor has been It should not be, one more entanglement will leave a bigger and deeper gap in his spiritual world when I leave, I'm afraid it will be like a black hole with cold wind, it will never heal and swallow him Happiness in life in the future. However, I am too conceited. After his accident, I thought about it several times. If I agreed at that time, I might have known it when he had an accident. Maybe, maybe I can I had time to save him. Who would have thought that he would walk in front of me..."

"It's impossible for anyone to think of it." Mahjong said, "No one would think of it."

Du Zhengyi was silent for a while, then patted Roach's leg again, Mahjong couldn't bear to watch, Du Zhengyi acted like he still believed that Roach was just asleep.Du Zhengyi himself continued, "As a substitute for not being entangled, he will take a look in my conscious world when he is free."

"Can he cross the barrier?" Mahjong asked in surprise.

"He couldn't get through, he just took a shot on the wall, like a child kicking the gate of the next door, or taking a sneak shot behind a friend, and he ran away after taking the shot." Du Zhengyi said, looking down at the wine glass .

Mahjong really couldn't help laughing this time, he really couldn't figure out how Du Zhengyi endured Roach, and he couldn't even figure out why Roche was naturally not afraid of Du Zhengyi, a murderous god with such a fierce aura.When Tai Sui broke ground, there was only Luo Qi, and it happened that he was the only one who retreated in good spirits.

"Maybe he wants to tell me that he is always here." Du Zhengyi continued, "This is his way of expression, I can understand. Although it is annoying, but, to be honest, it is also very warm. Even if it is me, And I don’t want to reject the warmth of others.”

He raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, not realizing that it was full again, and he looked at his friend's sleeping face by the light of the lamp.He resisted the urge to wake him up, as if he could just call Roach's name and Roach would wake up and they would be able to go back to the past.The so-called past is just a few days ago.A few days ago, he thought the highland mages would bring safety, because those mortals couldn't reach here...

What's the use of thinking about mistakes afterwards?

"So when he suddenly doesn't do it, you know it?"

"Ah, it's a little more complicated than that." Du Zhengyi said after recovering, "He can feel my mental damage, and that kind of problem always occurs when I'm asleep, after all, that's when the subjective consciousness is the weakest. I always go to bed earlier than him, and he will come to check before going to bed, and I am basically in a deep sleep stage at that time. When he comes, my consciousness can still feel him a little bit, and he will pass some on the outside of the barrier The feeling of comfort is like the steady sound of the waves, and it is also a bit like shaking my consciousness to sleep. I will sleep to a deeper stage, beyond the level of mental damage, and sleep deeper. Of course, he will go out and carry This is usually the stage when I do bad things. But... I know what his intentions are. Since he started doing it, there hasn't been a day when he hasn't done it. I haven't had a nightmare in a long time. Until... the day I Bring him back, and my nightmares come back with me."

Listening to mahjong attentively, I can't help but marvel, this is not easy.He has been a doctor for so long, but he couldn't figure out how Roach did it. If there was such a way, he would have tried it on Du Zhengyi a long time ago.It may relieve Du Zhengyi's symptoms and buy them critical time to finally find a solution. "How did he do that?"

Du Zheng smiled, very gently. He looked at Roach's face and said in a low voice, "You can ask him."

Mahjong froze, and all the coldness and reality brought by death returned to this bedroom in an instant.

Everything no longer exists.

They chatted casually for a while, drinking more than talking.Mahjong was so drunk that he was so drunk that he began to sing a toast song to Roach with a hoarse voice while holding a wine glass.

"I once had thousands of dollars of wealth, and I shared it with my comrades.

The harm I have caused, in the end, only hurt me alone.

The efforts I have made for my talent and learning have long since passed away.

Come on, let me fill up this cup of parting wine, good night, may joy always be with you.

All my comrades-in-arms regretted my departure.

All my lovers hope that I can accompany them one more day.

Let me gently raise my glass and wish softly, good night, and may happiness always be with you.

Good night, may happiness always be with you.

Good night, may happiness always be with you.

Good night, may happiness always be with you. "

Even Du Zhengyi didn't know where this song came from, but he had a hunch that Roach would like it.He drank the wine silently, and he didn't notice when Mahjong left in the end.He sat on the mahjong chair, which was closer to Roach.He sat on the chair and fell asleep on the edge of the bed.

"Good night." He murmured, reached out and grabbed Roach's warm forearm, and fell into a painful dream.

Good night, more than once in the night he seemed to hear Roach whispering.See you tomorrow, and he will hear Roach say that too.He thought in a trance, see you tomorrow, never again tomorrow...

Suddenly, he woke up from the nightmare, sat up straight suddenly, and squeezed Roach's arm tightly.He took a deep breath, the cold air burning his lungs. "Oh my God, I'm such an idiot. Am I?"

(End of this chapter)