The magician in the city

Chapter 472 Ruins 17

第470章废墟17

The first ray of morning light falls among the ruins of the city. Rows of dilapidated reinforced concrete buildings stand upright silently. The city is like a huge cemetery.

A puppet slowly walked into the street. The gravel blown into the city from the Gobi the day before disappeared, and the street became tidy again.In other words, it is as neat as a certain day many years ago.

The puppet is a man, boy.Wearing a vest and a tattered coat, the exposed collarbone is thin and prominent.He walked slowly down the street, staggering, as if he had forgotten how to walk.He stopped by a car on the side of the road for a while, bent down tentatively and awkwardly, and looked around into the car.

A gust of wind blew from the Gobi, and he straightened up, raising his thin arms to shield his eyes.A loud noise came from the underground in the west. He turned his head and looked at the sun, as if trying to identify the location.Then he turned into a narrow alley and continued walking along the alley towards the center of the city.

His footsteps were in a hurry, getting faster and faster, and his steps became more and more steady.Sweat dripped from his forehead, gravel stuck to his body, he walked ten kilometers?Twelve kilometers?The distance was not easy to judge, but he finally approached a square.

The square is connected to eight roads, and there is an obelisk in the center of the square. Other than that, there is only the hollow sound of wind in the square.The young puppet clung to the back of a street lamp, watching everything in the square.Suddenly, a sharp howl came from the block not far behind him, and he shuddered and looked back stiffly.

Determination poured in at this moment, he suddenly walked out from behind the street lamp, walked along the wind-eroded asphalt road with stones exposed, and walked into the empty square.

He ran towards the obelisk, running faster and faster, crossing half of the square, and ran straight to the obelisk.He hurriedly searched on the obelisk. Someone had polished the surface of this monument. There was once something engraved there, but now there are only vague traces.He looked hard, and even stretched out his hand to eagerly stroke the rough stone surface, trying to find a few characters.

No, the puppet suddenly stood still, its blank face stretched its muscles with difficulty, and a disappointed shadow slowly appeared.

After hesitating for a moment, the little puppet squatted down and reached out to touch the bottom of the obelisk.Under an inconspicuous broken stone, he turned a dark groove.It wasn't an obelisk, but a piece of the base on the ground was removed, exposing complex crystal filaments.He looked at it for a long time without moving, almost as if thinking.He made a move, as if he wanted to pull out the fragile crystal thread, but his fingers stopped in mid-air, and then slowly stretched out his right index finger, touching the crystal thread.The crystal thread seemed to be alive, tangled and wrapped around his fingertips.

The little puppet squatted blankly, its empty eyes staring unblinkingly at its own hand and the crystal thread wrapped around his fingertips.

Five meters away from him, on the back of the obelisk, there was a slight explosion.Two figures appeared out of nowhere, a man and a woman. The man held a black knife in his hand.

"Damn it, can they find a place that is less open than here to teleport us?" The woman scolded as soon as she appeared.

"Fan Ning translated the underlying magic and marked that this is the main base station. Wei Zhen must think that the success rate of transmission to the base station is the highest. It's good to be able to come in, don't complain."

"Really? Du Zhengyi? Are you speaking for Fanning? You are so easy to impress. Do you know what he has in mind? Maybe he wants to put you and Roach together here."

"Speaking of the truth, this sandbox belongs to our battle mages, and it has never been in their hands." Du Zhengyi suddenly stopped when he said this.

Xiang Gan also turned back suddenly, and the two of them realized that there were other people here at the same time.The female mage smiled indifferently, "There seems to be a brat, it's disgusting. Of all the training grounds for battle mages, this is the one I hate the most. I always hoped that someone could destroy this place. I once hoped that that person would be you, In the end, you disappointed me too much, and you still graduated here with a high score."

Du Zheng frowned and turned around. He noticed something abnormal. For a puppet whose life base should be extremely stable, the one near them was breathing too fast, getting faster and faster.

"Leave..." The puppet made a difficult sound, as if his quick panting just now was to make the vocal cords vibrate normally.

"What are you doing? This is the first time I heard the dead puppet talking. Threatening me?" Xiang Gan said, walking around the obelisk.

Du Zhengyi's heartbeat suddenly accelerated.Xiang Gan felt it immediately, and sneered, "How did you decline so quickly? You can't control yourself now? Do you know? For a battle mage, a rapid heartbeat is equivalent to incontinence..."

Her voice stopped abruptly, and the old mage was stunned beside the obelisk.Du Zhengyi rushed out from her side, but was dragged back by her.

"Calm down!" she shouted, "Are you a brat? He won't be Roach's. Remember this is the Yan Luo Temple of the mind mage, and there is the will of the old man here. It is normal for a battle mage to see something wrong .”

Du Zhengyi stood still and stared straight into the eyes of the little puppet, Roach's eyes.

The puppet stood there, motionless, swaying, as if a force was about to break free from his stiff body, and Du Zhengyi's eyes shivered at the sight of that force.That force made him speak again, "Quick...go...leave...this..."

"Roach?" Du Zhengyi called out.

The puppet's eyes reacted, and he raised a hand, "Quick... let's go..."

"Du Zhengyi, we have to get out of here!" Xiang Gan felt the danger, and she believed that Du Zhengyi must have felt it too, he was just terribly dull now.

"He..." Du Zhengyi said, he couldn't move, his legs seemed to be filled with lead. "What puppet will notify them of danger?" Except for the puppet that still has Roach's will.

"Fuck, the square is a trap." Xiang Gan said resignedly, she knew it was too late. "It's safe only as puppets here, they recognize our active consciousness."

Yes, Du Zhengyi knew.The empty square around the obelisk was cracked, and the stone slabs were folded and indented downwards. Du Zhengyi didn't see how deep the chasm they planned to draw.That doesn't make sense, all physical distance isn't the biggest problem for mages.

The biggest problem was the few figures that appeared around them.

"Have you seen this?" Xiang Qian asked.

"You know that the test papers are randomly generated in the Obelisk examination room." Du Zhengyi said, he had to look away from the puppet and watched those figures warily. "When I took the exam here, space magic was disabled."

"You can't teleport." Xiang Gan said, "But when I take the exam here, I can teleport."

"It's better not to..." Du Zhengyi didn't finish his sentence, because the shadow he was staring at disappeared.

"Oh fuck." Xiang Gan wailed, "I don't want to fight against you who is not a human, the chances of winning are too low."

Du Zhengyi's heart turned cold. What's more terrifying than this is that it means that for Roach, there is nowhere to hide here.Whether he's hiding in a tower or deep underground, a killer puppet that can teleport will appear in front of him.He shouldn't have compromised, he should have come here the first time...

He was confused, and this was the first time he had been confused on the battlefield.Roach was killed by a monster that resembled his friend?What was it like when his familiar teleportation became the shadow of death?

An existence suddenly appeared behind him, Du Zheng was stunned for a moment, the corner of his eyes blurred, another person rushed over and went straight behind him.He turned around in astonishment, and he heard the sound of a sharp knife piercing into the gap between flesh and bones, but the wounded couldn't even utter a cry of pain.

As soon as Du Zheng turned around, he kicked over the stabbed killer puppet, and it rolled into the distance and disappeared again.As soon as Du Zheng seized this little time, he quickly rescued the wound on the little puppet's shoulder, his heart was at a loss.

"Du Zhengyi!" Xiang Gan roared angrily, throwing a flame, "You must believe that he is not Roach! If he is the only thing Roach has left, kill him! There is no point!"

Du Zhengyi's hands trembled, he pushed up the little puppet, pushed him towards the obelisk, and let him lean against the stone tablet.Du Zheng turned around and stood in front of him.

(End of this chapter)