The magician in the city

Chapter 565 Meeting (7)

"Mr. Shi's complexion is good." The man who resembled Du Zhengyi parted from the hug with Pei Shu, turned around and spoke to Mr. Shi again.Roach could see that he was very happy, expressing his delight to his old friends with the utmost candor an old-time gentleman could be.If his emotional intensity were placed on Roach, he would definitely be smiling with joy, jumping up and down is not enough to express joy, but these old-fashioned people can only go so far.

Mr. Shi pretended to complain and said, "You know, old wives and young husbands are not good after all. Who made me 20 years older than Mr. Pei? I was already mentally prepared, and I wouldn't change my career to become a dissatisfied woman just because I was abandoned by others." But Tingxiu, when you have been divorced three times like me, and two of them were with the same person, then you will be as good-humoured as I am when you see your ex-husband." Then he really is Du Tingxiu.

Pei Shu raised his face, and Luo Qi realized at this time that Pei Shu is much younger than now, just like Du Tingxiu, who is just approaching old age.

Du Tingxiu smiled slightly, "Since he can invite you, maybe there is still room for darning in fate?"

"Ha," Mr. Shi said, "No, I just said it casually just now. In fact, as a man, it's better to be young and handsome. I'm not interested in this old guy."

Luo Qi couldn't help laughing, Pei Shu's face was green enough, he turned to Mr. Shi and said, "Don't you feel ashamed to deceive young humans with magic?"

Mr. Shi carelessly brushed the petals of crabapple petals stained on his shoulders with the glove he was holding, and jokingly said to him, "Pei Shu, if you don't accuse me like a mother-in-law for a day, maybe you will really marry me for the first time." Three chances of marriage."

"Thank you!" Pei Shu said angrily, "I would rather marry Qiongqi than marry you again."

Du Tingxiu smiled and stretched out his arms to comfort Pei Shu's shoulders, and pushed him into the room, "Come on, I have Mingqian new tea here, and I have drunk it. Mr. Shi, do you still want coffee?"

"Yes." Mr. Shi said, followed the two men over the threshold and walked into the house.Roach felt eternal joy around her phantom, and she was not angry at all about the conflict just now.She likes here, likes the two of them, it has nothing to do with love, she seems to like this kind of friendship that lasts a long time in spring, and she is content at this moment.

I don't know why, although Pei Shu is definitely a mind master at this time, and he is not too young, he is still a little stunned.No wonder the reputation in the mage world at this time belongs to Du Tingxiu, not Pei Shu.

There is no change in light and shadow, but the details in the house are clearer than before.Luo Qi smelled the smell of wooden doors, windows and beams. The faint woody fragrance mixed with a little flower fragrance in the yard. The old house is so high that the spring breeze blows in through the long and narrow windows and blows slowly between the tall beams. return.There was a portrait hanging on the wall opposite the door. He wanted to take a closer look, but as soon as he thought about it, the details of the old portrait came out.In the painting sits a young man, dressed in the attire of an ancestor sorcerer, with narrow waist and broad shoulders, slender body, unruly hair, very handsome, and many traits of the Du family can be vaguely seen.A strange beast was leaning against his right knee, although it was ferocious, it was also a little silly.The young man's right hand rested on the head of the strange beast, as if he was stroking it. His left hand on his lap held a wine gourd, and he wore a conspicuous jade ring on his left middle finger.Luo Qi silently replaced the person in the painting with Du Zhengyi. After thinking about it, he did not violate the harmony. This ancestor was indeed tough and strong in gene.

He turned his attention away from the painting, and he was able to look at it so carefully, probably because Mr. Shi had also studied it carefully and engraved it in his memory.There was a burst of laughter, and Luo Qi naturally looked to the left. There was a six-leaf screen behind a row of armchairs, and a row of white chubby chirps skimmed across the bottom of the red sandalwood screen.The three of them had already turned around the screen, and were led by Du Tingxiu to a more comfortable round table. At some point, a few tall bowls were placed on the table, containing eight kinds of snacks.Du Tingxiu poured tea for Pei Shu, while Mr. Shi held a delicate Western porcelain cup and drank the coffee with satisfaction.

This clearly means that meeting old friends is an extremely personal memory.

Roach understood, but fell into confusion.Peeping at elders is fun, but it's not right.He thought that the memory given to him by Mr. Shi was like data, which recorded information circulating in the black market.He once flipped through some random information without purpose, and it was indeed boring information, which was the information after Mr. Shi's subjective induction.But she shouldn't give him the memory of her own life, it's too private, and Roach fears whether he subconsciously stole the old man's memory at that time.

But even if he accidentally stole someone's memory, how could he find this stolen memory in the dreamland of fuzzy search?Roach hesitated for a moment, intending to listen to a few more words. If they just planned to have afternoon tea and talk nonsense to tease each other, then he would leave the door.

Roach wandered around the room again, realizing that if he wanted to see anything, he could see details.It can be seen that Mr. Shi is really familiar with this place, and the relationship between the three of them may be quite close.He suddenly couldn't help sneering in his dream, and at this moment the voice behind the screen also became louder.

"We must face death squarely. It is an undeniable fact that the group of mages is destined to become extinct in the foreseeable future."

Luo Qi was taken aback, it was Pei Shu's voice.

He hurried over and turned the screen, he was surprised to see that Pei Shu was not yelling at his ex-wife, he was getting angry with Du Tingxiu.

From this moment on, Pei Shu looked slovenly, with his arms resting on the table and his sleeves dipped into the tea.Du Tingxiu was sitting like a knife, his expression was unclear, but Luo Qi saw him take Pei Shu's sleeve out of the tea.Mr. Shi shook his head helplessly, and leaned back in his chair, as if he wanted to escape from this dinner table war.

Roach became interested. He didn't exist in this memory, and the people deep in the memory couldn't see him, so he also sat at the round table.

"So what?" Du Tingxiu asked in a low voice, Roach glanced at him, but still couldn't tell the soft and sad expression on his face. "Pei Shu, what do you want?"

"I want a meaning!"

Luo Qi was stunned, and looked at Pei Shu in surprise.He actually said that too.

"The meaning is relative. Human beings live and die, and it takes only 50 to years to establish a career in a short life. What is the meaning in the eyes of a mage?" Du Tingxiu said in a low voice.

"But they have a tomorrow, but we don't." Pei Shu's voice also sank, "What are we? The ancestor mage created us in his own image, as if we were the chosen ones. But why can human beings reproduce like locusts? , our existence in this world seems to have been set for a long time. Don't you think? Just when human beings are just mature, we are going to die, as if... as if we were just created to be human nannies The ridiculous thing is that for tens of thousands of years we have thought ourselves to be gods. As long as the calculator calculates what is best for the world, we will execute it. We have taught human beings to worship in order to make them unite, and we have taught them to end In the age of religion, we believed in logic and experiments. We let them fight, tempered them, and terminated the war so that they could survive. The calculator said that we shortened the growth time of human beings by at least 5000 years and helped them quickly enter the current mature period. And then? And then we are going to die, a whole race, there is not even a trace of existence in this world."

Luo Qi was shocked by the heavy sadness in these words, and looked at Pei Shu in astonishment.

Du Tingxiu also looked at Pei Shu, his expression unmoved, he was almost as stubborn as Pei Shu, and asked the same sentence he asked just now, "So what?"

For a moment, Pei Shu seemed to have received a huge blow, and his expression became sluggish, as if he had fallen into deeper mourning. "You're not a human being at all."

Mr. Shi trembled, and shouted warningly, "Pei Shu!"

Pei Shu frowned stubbornly. Luo Qi now understood why he was dumped by his wife twice, and his ex-wife couldn't stop him from talking. "You are tied to those rags, you can only be regarded as half a puppet, as long as the contract entanglement is activated, you have no free will at all. Even if your wife and children are standing in front of you, you will cut them off, and your brows will be cut off." Don’t wrinkle. They call this warrior, and they give you a nickname, Guard of the Lonely Mountain, don’t you think this name sounds nice?”

"Okay!" Mr. Shi shouted, and slapped Pei Shu hard, "You will regret it in 10 minutes, and you will feel bad for it in ten years. Just shut your crap! I beg you I beg you!"

Luo Qi stared closely at Du Tingxiu, and he actually smiled gently, with a little self-mockery, and said honestly, "That's right."

However, it didn't take 10 minutes at all, Pei Shu's expression immediately showed regret, his ex-wife really understood him.

Du Tingxiu saw it, and reached out to pat him on the shoulder, "Then don't stand between me and the lonely mountain. Besides, we will listen carefully to what you want to say. I don't know what the meaning of a mage is, maybe There is no meaning for mages to exist independently, but if we are one and inseparable from human beings, then the glory of human beings is also ours. Have you ever thought about it, perhaps integrating into human society is our ultimate destination."

Luo Qi didn't know what Pei Shu answered, his dream became blurred, as if the dream had come to an end.

In his generation, the magical world did encourage them to integrate into humans, and also streamlined Qionglin's establishment.But perhaps it is precisely because of this that the contradictions in the magical world have become sharper, and the group of lotus burners has become stronger and stronger.

The dream disappeared, and when Roach woke up drowsily, he finally thought of the most important question. Mr. Shi showed him this memory, what exactly was he trying to tell him.

(End of this chapter)