magician in town

Chapter 30 The Beginning Point 2

A time coordinate appeared in the sky, the starting point was 4821.211 years, and the symbolic event was the death of Lu Jinfeng.

"4821.211?" Guan Xinyue said in surprise, "What time is this?"

"This is how we date," said Roach, "meaning the 4821th day in 211 years after our world year one."

"Oh." Guan Xinyue said, "Our history is 5000 years old!"

"Then why didn't you use the five-character prefix to indicate the year?" Roach looked at her slyly.

Just as she was about to explain, she suddenly came to her senses, "Did you have a mature civilization 4000 years ago?"

"We were your gods 4000 years ago." Roach said with a smile. "Many human legends describe our history, our wars, and our blessings—think Cangjie, think Prometheus."

Guan Xinyue opened her mouth in surprise.

"4000 years ago was the time when the magical civilization flourished, but there is nothing to be proud of, because we have not changed since then, at least not as much as humans. Humans are about to land on Mars, and our past, present and future , I’m afraid they all have to be on Earth.”

"How about going further?" Guan Xinyue asked curiously, "What about 4000 years ago? Don't you have your own legends? Do you also have your own gods?"

"Our gods are also your gods. The earliest civilizations are all of the same origin. We are also human, aren't we? In our earliest records, there was also a great flood." Roach said.He modified the coordinates and extended the coordinates forward by ten years. Many events of the Guanlu family appeared on the coordinates, but there was no intersection.

Roach began to concentrate on fast reading, no longer chatting, one after another fuzzy clouds unfolded in front of him, and he adjusted their positions, constantly shrinking and unfolding new information clouds.Guan Xinyue didn't speak anymore either, she was dazzled to see the mist of information flickering in the air, Luo Qi's slender fingers dexterously flipped and guided, becoming more and more like a magician.

"This is the approximate time coordinate." Roach waved his hand suddenly, and a group of characters flew down the branches like birds, perched on a golden coordinate, and some of them were particularly conspicuous. "4821.211, Lu Jinfeng was killed. 4821.275, Guan Ya died of illness. 4823.42, Lu Chengzhi died of a gas explosion. 4823.65, Guan Yushan passed away, and Lu Xinchen disappeared around the same time. It is now the beginning of 4824."

"This is indeed a clearer description than Zhao Zhiyan's." Guan Xinyue said, "It turns out that my aunt and Lu Jinfeng died in the same year, and the time of death was only two months apart."

"Yes." Roach said, and he leaned back into the chair, watching the information in the air floating lightly, breathing, as if there was really some secret about to be poured out.

"Is there really any connection?" Guan Xinyue tentatively took two steps forward, stretched out her fingers, and gently traced the golden link between the two information clouds floating behind the coordinates.But now the two ends of this link are only in time. "Are mages so easy to die?"

"No," said Roach, "we generally live very long."

After a while, he whispered again, "It's hard to die by accident."

He stretched out his hand and took out Guan Ya's date of birth again, and the information poured in front of him like water. "Actualists, scholars, scholars among mages." He murmured, "No bad habits, quiet, focused. There is no intersection with the scum among mages."

He gave up Guan Ya's information cloud, and grabbed Guan Yushan's information cloud again. Even though he covered up a lot of information, Guan Yushan's cloud was still very thick. "It started with Guan Ya, and ended with Guan Yushan and Lu Xinchen. Lu Xinchen is just a child, and Guan Yushan is the most important thing. The focus must be Guan Yushan. Xinyue, if it were you, and wanted to kill a great mage, what would you do? No Thinking about your grandfather, if...if you wanted to kill Du Zhengyi, what would you do?"

"Kill him?" Guan Xinyue rolled his eyes at him, "I don't even dare to think about it. Besides, he is different from my grandfather, he doesn't have any bad habits, and he never talks about his personal affairs. I have nothing to do with him I know, I don’t even know if he is your friend or not, and if he cares about you. If you are friends, I might find a way to kidnap you first, you seem to be easier to start. Then I will use you to blackmail him— —If I don’t kill myself, I’ll kill his friend!”

Roach laughed, "You've watched too many TV shows."

Guan Xinyue snorted, "Indeed. To stab a friend in both sides, that is a story that children don't even believe."

"Yes." Roach said, lost in thought, and murmured, "That's impossible, and it's too easy to be self-defeating. If you are not careful, you will be caught and beaten to death by the Archmage."

"What did you think of?" Guan Xinyue looked at Luo Qi's face. "Speak up and listen."

"You said that you don't know Du Zhengyi well, so you can't catch his weakness and prescribe the right medicine?" Roach said thoughtfully.

"Yeah." Guan Xinyue said, "That's it."

"But if you know a strong person and what he values, you can find opportunities by destroying his emotions." Roach's eyes lit up, "If you want to kill Guan Yushan, first create a messy family The question is, killing his only daughter in such a nasty way, thereby destroying his spirit, is indeed a way. It's really shameful. Would someone really not hesitate to kill a few people and spread such a long thread to lay it out? "

Guan Xinyue opened her mouth in astonishment, and Luo Qi's words made her hands tremble slightly, "After my aunt died, grandpa began to drink heavily. He used to be a bit greedy, but it was my aunt who kept watching him not drink too much. Then ...My sister..." Guan Xinyue bit her lips suddenly, Luo Qi looked at her, and vaguely guessed the part she didn't say.Humans are always like this, whether they are humans or mage humans, they are full of weaknesses and good at hurting each other.

Guan Xinyue took a deep breath and said, "My grandpa kept saying that my uncle killed my aunt, but my sister refused to believe it. She quarreled with my grandpa. When my uncle died, my sister refused to believe that it had nothing to do with grandpa." , she kept saying that grandpa is a great mage who can easily kill others. She ran away from home for a while, but came to live with me at my house, she said... She said she hated grandpa. Grandpa's temper is actually He was a bit irritable, and after his aunt died, he was even more irritable than most people could accept. Sometimes I also hate him a little bit. But I... I don’t really hate him. He and his sister quarreled too much, the two of them He couldn't calm down. In the two months before his death, he drank so much that he passed out every night, my sister wouldn't let him drink, and once he accidentally injured my sister in order to grab the bottle."

Guan Xinyue shook her head in pain, and said, "But my dad said that he had already started to suffer from alcoholism at that time, and had a withdrawal reaction when he stopped drinking. But my sister couldn't forgive him, and he couldn't forgive himself too much. .By the way, I said he was out of his mind at the time, and started talking nonsense. I'm not completely lying, he always seemed to feel that there were many people around him, and he kept talking to them, Sometimes it’s apologizing to them. My sister says he’s totally crazy...he died shortly after anyway, and my sister...is nowhere to be found.”

"There is still a long distance between alcoholism and death due to alcoholism," Roach said softly.

Guan Xinyue nodded, "My dad said the same thing."

Luo Qi stayed quietly with her for a while, but soon his thoughts changed, "Let me try again to see if there is any intersection between the lives of Lu Jinfeng and Guan Yushan."

However still nothing.Roach looked at the data in the air in disappointment, and he knew very well in his heart that this was an inevitable result, and the execution mage must have compared it in this way long ago.

But he still refused to give up, staring at the data and pondering.If this series of murders were driven by the same hands, killing Lu Jinfeng would be very straightforward, not as complicated as the subsequent series of actions.The murderer who killed Lu Jinfeng is still serving his sentence in prison, and the execution mage has also investigated him.But at the stage of Guan Ya, Lu Chengzhi, and Guan Yushan, the murderer never really appeared, and the methods behind the scenes became more sophisticated, and their actions became more meticulous, and even the scapegoat was wiped out.Regardless of whether the mistress is the murderer or not, she is a key link, and her disappearance makes it impossible for the execution mages to go any further.

Luo Qi suddenly realized that he might have really found something, he sat up straight again, and began to carefully track the cloud that sprang out from Lu Jinfeng, which was the detailed information of the murderer who killed him.

Roach quickly scans through human life, which is just an ordinary life full of frustrations, everyone is like that.He adjusted the angle of information presentation, looking for the name of the executive mage who investigated him.Following these names and opening the biographies of these mages, all of them are second-level executive mages, and there is no problem.He browsed through their investigation report, and finally, his attention stopped on a report submitted by a mage requesting a mind test on the murderer.The instructions stamped on the back of the report are: OK, dispatch immediately.

He immediately set out to find the mage sent to read someone's brain as if it were an open book.But nothing more, and Roach knew that telepathic mages were taboo, they had a lot of dirty work to do and were regarded with suspicion, so telepathic mages, though registered, often worked anonymously.The committee protects the privacy of telepaths from outsiders, which in turn is somewhat of a control tool.

Roach was not trapped by the door, and almost immediately weaved forward, looking for the return report of the mind master.He rummaged through the chaotic data cloud for a while before he found a concise report, which stated that the murderer's brain had not been disturbed by external forces.The report was also unsigned, but Roach found a time stamp.

"4821.219," Roach said, and he did the math. "August 2014, 8. Do you have any memories of that day?"

"Yes." Guan Xinyue nodded gloomily.

"What?" Roach couldn't believe his good luck, "What made you remember such a day a few years ago?"

"Because it's my birthday." Guan Xinyue said, "My grandfather didn't know where he went, and he didn't come back all day. He originally agreed to take me to Disneyland. Of course, I will never forget this kind of thing."

"Oh." Roach sighed, and threw himself back into the depths of the chair, unable to stop the excitement in his heart. "So, I may know why your grandpa didn't celebrate your birthday with you. And maybe, I also found the starting point of everything."

(End of this chapter)