The magician in the city

Chapter 539 Du Tingxiu (6)

Han Yi took out a stack of folded papers from his pocket and handed it to Luo Qi.

Roach guessed what it was when he received it. A4 printing paper, this is the original of the mobile phone photo.

He opened the folded paper, and after just one glance, he believed that Han Yi should not have lied.On this piece of paper, someone wrote ten lines of high-level spells with the thickest gel pen. Regardless of the difficulty of the spell itself, the person who copied it clumsily leaked a lot of ink at the corners of the strokes of the spell. It should be.All spells have something in common. A mage may not know advanced spells like Roach, but a mage has learned simple spells since he was a child, and at least knows how to use a pen.The person who wrote the incantations by hand didn't understand the incantations at all. Every stroke seemed to be hard-drawn according to a gourd painting. If you look closely, there are still many low-level writing errors.

Roach looked at the printing paper carefully several times, and finally believed it completely. "How is this going?"

Han Yi didn't answer right away, he swiped again on the phone screen, and opened the next photo, a little ashen girl was wolfing down a bowl of rice.

The little girl looked about eight or nine years old, her skin was tanned, her hands holding the rice bowl were rough and chapped, and the cuffs of her clothes were worn out.This is a little girl from the countryside who has been treated badly, and she seems to come from an area where human beings are underdeveloped.

"She copied the spell?" Luo Qi frowned slightly, "The drawing is not bad."

"It's really a little devil's talisman." Han Yi nodded and commented. "But no one asked her to copy it. It's a long story. You can take a look at the next photo first."

Luo Qi swiped the phone screen according to his words, and opened the second photo.An old black-and-white photo, a young girl with her lips pursed coldly, with two thick braids, a wide and strong jaw, two rude eyes staring at the camera, with a gloomy expression.Roach observed carefully and recognized from this half-length photo that she was wearing a military uniform many years ago, with an armed belt around her waist, but no epaulets on her shoulders.So although she dresses like a soldier and looks like a soldier, she is not a soldier. In the era when she didn't like red makeup and preferred armed forces, this was considered a fashion photo.

Roach looked at the photo with interest. He knew that things were getting complicated, but it was also more interesting.

"You know, I traced the last path of Du Tingxiu's life. It can be said that Du Tingxiu's temperament changed a lot in the last stage of his life. The turning point was when he arrived at Kongsang Mountain in Qianzhou and left three months later to return to our world. Kongsang Mountain is a poor place, and there are no mages living there. The reason why Du Tingxiu went here and embarked on the last part of his life was a letter from a stranger." Han Yi said.

"Who gave him the letter?" Roach asked.

"Let's start with this old photo." Han Yi said, "The woman in the photo is a human being, and you can probably guess that it was a photo taken many years ago. This woman's name is Liu Xiaofen, and she lived in Kongsang Mountain back then. In a village in the depths. When she was young, everyone said that she was not normal, but she happened to be born in an era when everyone was crazy, so it didn't seem too prominent."

Roach understood what he meant. He probably knew what time she was when she was young. It took a lot of effort for humans to stop that madness.

"Those lunatics also absorbed her into their own organization. She always rushed to the front line in crazy actions, and she fought so viciously that she even became a small boss. Human society at that time often used some models and Some unfortunate people were assigned to the village where she lived. One of them was originally a foreign language teacher in a university in the city. He was very handsome and unmarried. This Liu Xiaofen somehow He actually fell in love with this talented man from the city. Maybe to make his situation better, that young talented man who had studied abroad married this female soldier." Han Yi laughed disdainfully when he said this.

Roach didn't say anything, what qualifications does he have to easily comment on others' hardships and comfort.

Han Yi continued, "Perhaps Liu Xiaofen wasn't very crazy at first, but only intermittently, and when she was crazy, she scribbled and scribbled nonsense. This talented man has been married to her for a long time, and he will always catch up. When he was crazy, he didn't know what he felt like a man, but as a linguistic genius, he found that the things Liu Xiaofen scribbled were very logical, like a formed language. With his own Knowledge and professional sensitivity to judge that this language does not belong to any language family in the world."

Roach took a breath, "Advanced spell texts are originally the language of ancient mages."

"Correct. It is said that in ancient times, when magic was at its peak, the ancestor mage cast spells much more easily than us." Han Yi said, "But at that time, the scholar certainly couldn't imagine what it would be. He thought that Liu Xiaofen must have seen these words somewhere. , there must be some kind of ancient relics in that mountain. Although he was in a bad situation at the time, his academic enthusiasm was still there, and he really wanted to find the lost ancient civilization. But Liu Xiaofen denied it. She didn't even admit that she wrote it, and I am very afraid of this matter. In fact, it is understandable. When she became crazy, she smeared these ghost symbols everywhere. It was like being fascinated by ghosts. Everything is wrong, maybe she will be regarded as a saboteur, deliberately pretending to be crazy and foolish to scare the masses and sabotage production. Sabotaging production seems to be a big crime? This is the part I don't quite understand, so let's ignore it for the time being, anyway It doesn't matter. It's the same for her husband, a cultural person among human beings. He doesn't care about these things, and he doesn't believe in the nonsense that ghosts possess and harass human beings. He speculates that his wife may have Accidentally saw some ancient tombs, was frightened, mentally troubled, and would silently write the ancient texts he saw back then. During the few years he lived in the mountain village, he relied on his wife's protection to live his life. I’m very comfortable, and I spend all my time wandering around in the mountains looking for legends and exploring ancient ruins.”

"What did he find?" Roach asked nervously.

Unexpectedly, Han Yi shook his head, "He didn't find anything."

"Didn't find it?" Roach asked in surprise, "He didn't find anything?"

"Yes." Han Yi said, "I'm sure, even if we go to Kongsang Mountain now, don't expect to find a stone tablet with words engraved on it. Because that thing doesn't exist at all."

(End of this chapter)