magician in town

Chapter 52 The reason for the attack

Chapter 51

Du Zhengyi walked through the interrogation room without a sound, and Li Xu and Zhao Zhiyan fell to the ground not far away, both still alive.He walked quietly between them, feeling their steady breath blowing the dust off the ground.

He raised his hand and deftly sent a luminous fireball to the ceiling.A new source of light replaced the eerie bleak blue light of the interrogation room, and the room was brightened by a steady fire.The obsidian tabletop reflected a strange light in the middle of the room. Du Zhengyi only paid a little attention to the table, and the whispers in his mind immediately resounded.

Frowning, he focused again, firmly keeping the whispers out of his awareness.He took a few steps forward, being careful not to touch the obsidian. The crystal coffin on the long table looked even more ominous than the huge obsidian.The coffin made it look like a mortuary, or an ancient tomb, but he wasn't sure whether the oppression in his chest came from the crypt or from the ancient soul sleeping in the obsidian.

But when he got closer and observed it carefully, he found that the crystal coffin was not made in an old age, at least there was no way to compare it with the obsidian.He suspected that the form of the crystal coffin was imitating some kind of human experimental equipment. He couldn't help raising his head and looking around. There were beautiful tapestries hanging on the four walls. At first glance, he thought the tapestries were some Central Asian style, but then He found them to be much older than his own time.

Looking carefully, he realized that the tapestry told a series of complicated stories.He could recognize the scene of the black bird landing, the ancient ancestors praying in the temple, and the human beings crawling farther away from the holy mountain, so small that they could almost be ignored.The style of the temple is older than the temple in the depths of the Lonely Mountain cave, and its shape is somewhat like that of Ramses II, with the shadow of a hodgepodge of many civilizations.Du Zhengyi didn't find it strange. In ancient times, geographical restrictions were not as insurmountable to magicians as they were to humans.

He quickly glanced at the stories on the four walls. The tapestry completely narrated the magician who descended into this world with the black bird, experienced various trials by the devil, and finally became a god in the temple.The only thing that made Du Zhengyi a little concerned was that, unlike general myths and legends where one person attains the Tao and all living beings admire him, in every scene of becoming a god here, the becoming a god is a group of people.In the last scene they held hands, as if they were praying together, and in the next scene they became the gods of the clouds together.It's just that this idea just passed through his mind. He didn't care about the original metaphors that historians would be interested in. Instead, he probed the composition of the tapestry, and conducted a deep research between the material and the year of the tapestry. A contradictory set of data was quickly found.

The wool component of the tapestry was a specialty of Shuofang County in the Tang Dynasty. There are many items left over from the previous temple in Qionglin, most of which are products of the late Tang Dynasty.Du Zhengyi grew up here since he was a child, so he is very familiar with these things.This is nothing at all, but everything will gradually annihilate with the passage of time, even with the careful care of magic, it can only slightly delay this process.

So here lies the problem.The tapestry has a white felt base from the Tang Dynasty that cannot be reproduced, but it is too new to look like something that has passed through the millennium.The contradiction between material and time may not be noticed by most people, but Du Zheng has always been meticulous.He is very good at finding contradictions, and once there are contradictions, no amount of true details is but a lie.A slight contradiction can puncture the grandest illusion.

Once he realized this, Du Zhengyi immediately withdrew all detection of nodules in the interrogation room, and carefully wrapped all his consciousness within the shield.He knew that this ancient interrogation room was densely covered with complex barriers, layer upon layer of locks made of sporadic thoughts, wrapping the four walls like vines.On the outermost layer of these phantom barriers are the real door locks. Prisoners cannot break through this huge layer of locks and get out of this interrogation room.Even the prisoners couldn't even find the most basic truth, let alone find a chance to leave.

In other words, if Du Zhengyi is stuck here, the best he can do is to ensure that his mind is clear.This premise must be that his body is in good condition, full of energy, healthy, and able to build a shield of thought.No magician can successfully escape from prison with this interrogation room activated, unless... Du Zhengyi thought helplessly, unless there is someone like Roach, illusions have almost no effect on him.He never really thought about what it meant that Roach could not see the vision, because the most logical answer was undoubtedly the most incredible.

Du Zhengyi looked around, imagining what he would see from Roach's perspective, maybe it was the origin of things, a wall made of stones or a cave rammed with loess.He didn't know whether it was sometimes a good thing to be able to see the essence of things clearly. It was more comforting to be led into a hole in the ground than to see brilliant visions.

He frowned, anxiety eating a bigger and bigger hole in his chest.He condensed a test tube out of thin air, and quickly took part of the liquid in the crystal coffin.He didn't want to think about what this crystal coffin was used for, nor did he want to know what Roach looked like now.

After he finished all the work of collecting samples, he turned back reluctantly to check the two people on the ground carefully. He had to decide what to do, and he had to be quick.

There was a circle of strangulation marks on Zhao Zhiyan's neck, which seemed to be strangled by someone's hand.He didn't think that Luo Qi had such great strength that he could let a second-level executive mage like Zhao Zhiyan let him choke his neck without any resistance. It was ridiculous to think about it.But if this possibility is ruled out, then we can only guess that Li Xu and Zhao Zhiyan have turned against each other.If that's the case, the situation would be a bit funny. It's probably because Zhao Zhiyan cursed the archmage Li Xu into a vegetative with open eyes, and the vegetative archmage strangled Zhao Zhiyan half to death.

Du Zhengyi hoped that he could compile a report from this point of view, otherwise, Roach would shock the entire magical world, and he would be lucky enough to get most of the wanted orders from the magical world.

Du Zhengyi fell into thinking, but he was always impatient, and within 30 seconds he knew that he was sure of at least one thing—that is, he definitely had no time to waste writing reports.The sensor crystal he left on the underground tunnel alerted him that someone was coming here.

He stood up, raised his hands, and attacked the two unconscious poor people lying on the ground without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)