The magician in the city

Chapter 456 Ruins

Chapter 450 Ruins

The setting sun came through the incomplete corner of the building, Roach narrowed his eyes.They first saw an abandoned three-story building from the gravel road, and then a second dilapidated building.When they climbed a little higher on the gentle slope, an abandoned city loomed in front of them.Obtrusive and unaesthetic, like a misshapen pearl in the center of a gravel stand.

The streets entering the city are inclined and extend upwards. There seem to be some skyscrapers in another area of ​​the city, and some shadows can be seen in the distance.None of the buildings in sight were intact, and most of them collapsed.There is no glass on the windows, the facade of the building has long been mottled, and the plants are growing freely inside and outside the building. It seems that nature will gain the upper hand here soon.

There were some rusty cars parked messily on the right side of the street, Roach got closer and found some personal belongings in the car.He reached out and grabbed a fluffy rabbit from the back seat of a car. It was dirty and dusty, but it was still a fluffy rabbit.He knocked on the roof of the car with his rabbit ears, causing a miniature sandstorm.

He stared at the rabbit for a while, then suddenly gave it to Liu Ziyu, "I hunted a rabbit."

Liu Ziyu took the plush toy subconsciously, and looked at Luo Qi's excited and passionate eyes in confusion. "Is it the same when you were with my senior brother? I mean, so relaxed?" She looked around suspiciously again, the traces of human beings were too obvious here.The man who manipulated everything built a human city here?They packed a human-abandoned city into a sandbox?Picture what?

"Are you kidding me? He's going to beat me up for being so underhanded in front of him." Roach said, and he reached into the car and picked out a children's water bottle with a tiger pattern. "The years are very close. I seem to often see children holding this thing."

"What's the point?" Liu Ziyu asked.

"Children generally don't let go of their stuffed toys when they're calm, and their parents don't let go of their water bottles. So if this is true, or if this is imitating something real, then the People were evacuated suddenly." Roach let go of his hand and threw the water bottle back into the car, "By the way, is there any sign of excessive radiation here?"

"No, otherwise the machine will ring again." Liu Ziyu said, she looked down at the rabbit, and carefully placed the rabbit on the front hood of the car.

"Don't you think it's a little pompous?" Roach asked, walking down the street, searching all the cars.He can vaguely recognize the brand of the car, but as a child of a mage, he can only recognize part of the model, and he can't tell the year.

"It's too big to be reasonable." Liu Ziyu said with a sigh. She had nothing to do, so she automatically followed Luo Qi's pace. "Unless they originally planned to trap a group of people here. It's too costly to deal with scattered customers like the two of us."

Roach didn't speak. This was aimed at him here. It might not be a temporary idea, but a common routine.In other words, he should correct his thoughts, this is not aimed at him, it is more likely aimed at mind mages like him.In a place where there are no people and no consciousness, the ability of the mind mage is completely useless.

But if this was the case, Du Zhengyi would never have specifically reminded him not to fully let go of his abilities.

"Under what circumstances would human beings abandon a city? I heard that you are still an anthropologist? Anyway, that's how my elder brother explained it to the old scholar in Qionglin before." Liu Ziyu said from the side, pulling back his attention.Her eyes gave up guessing the rationality of the enemy's behavior, which was temporarily an insoluble puzzle, lacking parameters.So she turned to other content, looking around curiously, "I haven't looked at human cities from this angle yet."

Luo Qi remembered that she was a laboratory child raised by Qionglin, unlike other mages who were immersed in the human world so deeply, she was actually relatively more isolated.But Luo Qi suddenly thought that she has a mobile phone and uses WeChat, which is much more fashionable than Du Zhengyi.She is not in the human world, but she seems more reasonable than ordinary mages, which may be due to IQ in the final analysis.

He thought about Liu Ziyu's question, "Humans will abandon some villages due to the shrinking population, but they will never abandon cities. There are very complicated reasons for the location of each city. Generally speaking, even if there are frequent major earthquakes in that place , they will continue to rebuild on the original site. So far, there is only one possibility that human beings will abandon the city, and that is radioactive pollution."

"It's really interesting." Liu Ziyu said with interest, and then continued to ask purely out of curiosity, "If human beings disappear from the city inexplicably like this, how many years will the remains left by them last?"

"You mean the reinforced concrete city?" Roach asked.

"That kind of magnificent and magnificent city, oh, yes, it is a reinforced concrete city."

"100 years, at most 200 years." Roach said.

"What? During the lifetime of a mage?" Liu Ziyu asked in amazement. They were walking deep into the city, and the silent city cast dark shadows on them. "I don't think it should be. The city...is it grand, isn't it? Many human cities have a history of hundreds of years, right? And it's not our mages who help maintain it!"

"It is not maintained by us, but humans have their own magic. Without human magic, traces of their existence will soon disappear. They will continue to paint the exposed steel of bridges to prevent corrosion. They build water conservancy projects to prevent rivers and oceans from Backwatering, building a sewer system to relieve the waterlogging problem of rainfall. They will also use various methods to inhibit the growth of plants and prevent the roots of the plants from propping up their houses. You saw that the highland mage was almost killed by the plants." Luo Qi endured He couldn't help laughing, although thinking of that incident still made him feel extremely weird.

"Oh." Liu Ziyu understood, "That's right. It's not that I haven't seen human beings do these things. Well, thinking about it, human beings are busy with maintenance all year round. I just didn't think of this. You are really special. , I guess humans themselves are not all aware of this.”

Luo Qi was in a daze when he heard the words. He suddenly realized that before Liu Ziyu asked, he actually didn't know, and he didn't pay attention to these things himself.But when she asked and he thought, he found the answer easily in his mind.But he didn't know which head this answer came from, too many people's memories existed in his mind.In moments when his anchor is unsteady, these marginal parts of "being" begin to blur ominously.

(End of this chapter)