In the large conference room of the school hospital, committee leaders including Guo Qian and Chang Lin, as well as Dean Wang and doctors including Feng Yao, a total of more than a dozen people, surrounded two young men who looked a little uneasy.
They are today's protagonists, Liu Pengfei and Mao Kai, both of whom are volunteers selected by the school to practice magic. They practiced the Hanging Feather Method from the wild magician Andrew, and after a month of hard work, they have reached the bottleneck of concentration and are qualified to read the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness".
The cover of "The Sea of Consciousness" was closed and placed diagonally on a podium. The simple cover was out of tune with the modern style of the surrounding room.
There was an emergency bed next to the door. Liu Yisheng, wearing a white coat, was leaning against the wall, looking ready to save people at any time, adding a bit of tension to the atmosphere in the room.
Xiao Chen and Luo Ling, as the first people to use this holy book, were naturally present at the scene.
Xiao Chen's sight swept across everyone in the room one by one, and finally stopped at the two magic apprentices. He found that as he practiced spiritual magic, he became more and more fond of observing everyone around him in recent days. The desires and weaknesses in people's hearts were often the breakthrough points for spiritual magic to break through the defense line.
Liu Pengfei, the student leader, had a mixture of excitement and nervousness on his face, as if he was about to take the first step towards the pinnacle of his life. Chang Lin was talking to him, perhaps to comfort him, perhaps to encourage him. He did not hide the fact that he had a close relationship with Liu Pengfei, and while he was talking, he patted his shoulder vigorously.
Mao Kai was eager to try. He gestured with his hands and excitedly talked about his scientific conjectures with two classmates. His eyes showed the enthusiasm of a researcher. This important member of the science and technology team was not a candidate at the beginning, but he asked the committee to join the plan through the science and technology team. He always believed that it was the magic particles that were everywhere that affected the entire chemical system. To study such particles, one must first be able to contact them, so becoming a magician became a very natural choice.
Xiao Chen saw something called ambition on the faces of both men, but the impressions given by the two different ambitions were completely different.
"What are you looking at?" Luo Ling asked.
"People. You don't know how interesting it is to look at people." Xiao Chen's eyes swept over Luo Ling.
"How do you know I don't know?" Luo Ling rolled her eyes at him. She covered her mouth with her hand and pointed at the people in front of her one by one. "This is a sleepy lion, that is a timid old deer, there is also a stupid gorilla, a hunting leopard, a proud rooster, and a reckless calf."
"Ha." Xiao Chen saw that she compared everyone to animals, pointed at himself and asked, "Then what am I?"
"You." Luo Ling looked at him with her watery eyes for a while, "You look like a carrot no matter how you look at it."
"radish?"
"Yeah, still a playboy."
"Heaven and earth, conscience!"
"You've been free these few days since you voted, right? You've been taking the girl out every day, and going to the school cafeteria together, right? You've given her a piece of clothing, right?"
Xiao Chen was stunned. For the first time in his life, he did not refute her. Instead, he smiled faintly: "When she threw herself on me without hesitation, I always felt that I owed her something. I know my limits. I just treat her as a little sister."
"Really?" Xiao Chen thought Luo Ling would tease him, but she just asked in a low voice and said nothing more.
"What's the matter with you?"
"It's about to start. This is a milestone event. Stay focused." Xiao Chen looked at her from the side and found that she had no expression. After a while, he looked again and felt that her eyes were red. Is this possible? The Luo Ling he knew was always very strong, which made him feel that he was just dazzled.
He was about to ask another question when he saw the "stupid ape" Liu Yisheng walking towards them.
"Xiao Chen, if these two guys open the book now, they will be in danger. When the time comes, you will be needed to help." Liu Yisheng still spoke in a naive manner, but the content of his words aroused Xiao Chen's interest.
"How do you know?" he asked.
"I feel like... I seem to have more fragments in my mind these days. But they are all miscellaneous and unclear things. But this scene today, I seem to have seen it in some fragment. The memory is not clear, but those pictures tell me that they are going to be unlucky." Liu Yisheng touched his head and said, "And then I have a feeling that tells me that a magician must come to help them."
Xiao Chen was in a dilemma. On the one hand, he had experienced so many mysterious things in magic, so it was hard for him to ignore Liu Yisheng's words. But on the other hand, there was no evidence for such a warning, and it came from a big fool in the eyes of others. Was he going to stop what was happening today based on such intuition or nonsense
Xiao Chen thought for a moment and said, "Do you have any details or evidence that you can show?"
Liu Yisheng rolled his eyes and said, "Why would I come to you if I could produce it? I would have already put the evidence in front of the bigwigs of the committee."
"In your memory, do their lives have been threatened?" Luo Ling asked.
"It seems, it doesn't seem that serious. But I can't guarantee it."
Xiao Chen stroked his chin and thought for a while before deciding to report the situation to Guo Qian.
"Premonition?" Guo Qian thought for a while, called Xiao Chen, Luo Ling, Feng Yao and Liu Yisheng out of the room, and asked, "Xiao Liu, how sure are you about this matter?"
Liu Yisheng stared at the principal blankly, and finally managed to say, "It seems not."
Guo Qian then asked Feng Yao, who had spent the most time with him, "Has Liu Yisheng ever shown this kind of predictive ability before?"
"No, that's not the case." Feng Yao said.
Guo Qian asked Xiao Chen again: "If I tell Liu Pengfei and Mao Kai about this, will it affect their success rate in forming a meditation space?"
"It's very likely." Xiao Chen nodded. "I heard from Master Ikasa that there is a high probability of failure in forming a meditation space. It is said that magic apprentices died in this kind of accident every year in the Dream Tower. In the process of forming a meditation space, emotional stability is a very important part. Telling them the bad results in advance will probably do no good."
"In that case..." Guo Qian paused, he glanced at Luo Ling, who shook her head gently, "We won't announce this news. I'm a scientific researcher, so my nature makes me believe only in logic and evidence. In addition, exploration is inherently risky. Since Liu Yisheng doesn't think his life will be in danger, let's continue. The risk Xiao Xiao took when he first opened the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness" was much greater than it is now."
When several people walked into the room again, Chang Lin told Guo Qian that everyone was ready and could start.
Guo Qian walked to the front of the Sea of Consciousness Scroll and said to Liu Pengfei and Mao Kai: "Then the second phase of our 'Magic Beginning' project is about to start. Before the implementation, I would like to ask the two volunteers seriously, are you sure you want to open this holy book? I just confirmed with Xiao Chen again that this is a very dangerous process. We have no experience and no remedies. Once you open this book, you can only rely on yourself and luck."
"I'm sure. This is a key step in our understanding of this world. It is important to me and to all of us." Mao Kai answered without hesitation.
Liu Pengfei seemed to sense something. He exchanged glances with Chang Lin, then nodded slightly and said, "Me too."
"Okay." Guo Qian nodded slowly, "Who's going first?"
Mao Kai looked back at Liu Pengfei, who was looking elsewhere. He lowered his head and said with a sneer, "I'll go first!"
Mao Kai stood in front of the podium where the Sea of Consciousness Scroll was placed. Everyone else stood on the other side of the podium to ensure that their eyes would not see the book. Mao Kai closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then opened the Sea of Consciousness Scroll. Suddenly, the holy book emitted a colorful light, and Mao Kai stood there motionless.
Everyone stood or sat quietly in the room waiting, and more than an hour passed quickly. But Xiao Chen found that Mao Kai's expression began to slowly become painful, just like a long-distance runner approaching his physical limit. Xiao Chen asked Luo Ling: "Was I like this at the time?"
Luo Ling's expression also became serious. She shook her head slightly and said, "I don't know."
Xiao Chen didn't think about Luo Ling's answer, his attention was attracted by Mao Kai's increasingly struggling appearance.
"That's it." Liu Yisheng said, "That's how I felt when I recalled that moment!"
Suddenly, Mao Kai, who was staring at the holy book with his eyes open, let out a muffled groan, and then the light on the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness" began to flicker like neon lights at night.
Everyone in the room exclaimed several times, followed by chaotic discussions, and everyone's eyes turned to Xiao Chen.
"I'll go take a look. No one else come over." Xiao Chen ran to the podium, his eyes looking through the flickering light on the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness" and saw a line of Chinese characters appearing on the wordless pages of the holy book: The meditation world is cracked, please ask the ceremony host to come in and repair it.
There was a whirlpool-like pattern below the words, which kept spinning. When Xiao Chen's eyes stayed on the whirlpool, he suddenly felt that the whirlpool was emitting strong light, rising from the page, and it became bigger and bigger, enveloping him completely.
From the perspective of Luo Ling and the others, they only saw Xiao Chen running to Mao Kai, looking down at the pages of the book, and then standing still like Mao Kai.
"What's going on?" Luo Ling was about to rush forward, but Liu Yisheng grabbed her wrist, "Don't worry. I remember it was like this, and then, then..."
"Luo Ling, don't be impulsive. What are you going to do?" Guo Qian also shouted from behind.
Luo Ling shook off Liu Yisheng's hand, ignored the shouts of others, and quickly walked to Xiao Chen's side, holding his arm with both hands involuntarily. There was still a line of words flashing on the "Shadow Scroll of Consciousness":
The master of ceremonies has entered.