Minna screamed, and the floor above her head closed. She didn't know where she landed. Suddenly, a dim light appeared in the darkness, allowing her to barely see her surroundings.
This seems to be a space carved out of the heart of the mountain. The stone walls on both sides are inlaid with a few small yellow crystals, emitting a faint light. There was a winding track in front of her, leading to nowhere, and the chair she was sitting on was located at the beginning of this track. She looked down at her feet. It was pitch black and she couldn't seem to see the ground.
At this time, the chair suddenly moved and slid forward along the track. The speed was not very fast. She was curiously looking at the mountain walls on both sides when a pipe suddenly stretched out from the right and sprayed water all over her. Fortunately, the water was hot and it only shocked her.
But then another tube stretched out from the left side and sprayed out unknown liquid. She only felt that the thing was a little sticky and had the fragrance of herbs, but she didn't know what it was for. She touched it with her hands. Touch, huh? It's slippery and will produce bubbles.
The tube retracted, but several sponge sticks suddenly appeared above. They came over and rubbed back and forth on her head, face and body. They not only rubbed her hair and body, but also rubbed her clothes. She stared wide-eyed as the sticks moved around her body. She struggled and waved her arms a few times, and all the sticks retracted, but her whole body was already covered in foam.
Just when she was about to cry without tears, another pipe came out from the front, and this time it was hot water, which washed away the foam all over her body. At this time, she finally understood. It turned out that these things were used for bathing, washing hair and washing clothes? But aren’t clothes and people usually washed separately
Before she could figure it out, something new appeared on the mountain walls on both sides, but this time it was four large trumpets, from which four strong warm winds blew out, drying Ming Na's hair, body and clothes. . But when the warm wind stopped, her clothes were wrinkled and her hair was a mess. A comb came out from the front, and strangely combed it down from her forehead to her waist, going back and forth a few times before retracting it.
The speed of the chair suddenly accelerated, so fast that Ming Na couldn't help but scream. At this time, the track ahead reached the end, and the chair got stuck at the end and was forced to stop. However, Ming Na flew up due to inertia, and her body traced in the air. A parabola formed and landed on a big **. Despite the soft mattress, her chin still hurt from the impact. While touching her chin and getting up, her vision suddenly went dark, and something fell down, covering her completely.
Ming Na opened the thing on her body and found that it was a blanket, which seemed to be hanging on the wall on the left. Ming Na opened it and looked around, only to find that she was in a large room.
This should be a bedroom, which was also carved out of the heart of the mountain. The floor was covered with a thick woven carpet, and a fireplace almost identical to the one seen on the ground was also burning. There are several low cabinets next to the bed, and beyond that are two shelves. Although there are also a lot of medicine bottles, there are more books.
The space here is very large, the ceiling is very high, there are no hanging lights or chandeliers on it, and there are no crystal stones like those inlaid in the mountain wall that I just saw, so it looks very empty. Why is there such a place in Grandpa Sennett's house? Could this be his bedroom? How did you get it? It turns out that this is how he bathed, washed his hair and washed his clothes. No wonder his clothes were dirty.
Ming Na yawned greatly, and suddenly she smelled a scent that seemed to be wafting in the air, which made people feel very familiar, just like...the smell of her mother...
She yawned again and felt that her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier. The mattress on her body seemed to be quite soft. It should be very comfortable, right? She pulled the blanket around her body and fell asleep easily on her bed.
She didn't know how long she slept, but when she woke up, she was no longer in that bedroom. She was sleeping in a narrow den, and her grandfather Xiao Tianjian was sitting opposite, reading a book in his hand. When he saw her waking up, he smiled and said, "You girl, why did you get there? You were so scared. We jumped."
Ming Na got up with a smile and looked around this unfamiliar room. The space was very small and could only accommodate two narrow beds, a bedside table, and a clothes hanger. There is a window on the wall. Looking out through the window, all you can see are mountains.
Xiao Tianjian put down the book in his hand and patted her head: "This is the guest room of Lao Sen's house. It is much smaller than the room where he sleeps. That old ghost is so stingy!" After complaining for a few words, he became a little curious again: " How did you get down there? I've sat on that chair dozens of times and it's never moved."
Ming Na tilted her head and thought for a while: "It seems...my elbow hit something, and then it suddenly fell."
"A mechanism?" Xiao Tianjian asked, "I know he is good at magic mechanisms, but how could it be such a coincidence? I just touched the chair from top to bottom, and it didn't react at all. Why does it move when you touch it? Already?"
"Of course it won't move if you touch it." The old magician's voice came from the door, "My mechanism is a magic mechanism, and it is activated by magic power." The old man with a pink beard walked into the room, and his robe became even dirtier: "You have no magic power at all. It is impossible to make it move. Even if you dismantle it, it will be useless! My poor chair was actually molested by you." After saying this, he glared at Xiao Tianjian.
Xiao Tianjian sneered, but Ming Na asked with great interest: "Grandpa Sennett, did you dig out that room? Are those... mechanisms used by you to bathe, wash your hair and do laundry?"
Sennett coughed lightly: "It's almost the same, but I don't have hair. In fact, I just take a shower, wash my beard and wash clothes."
"Then why do you have to wash it with your clothes on? Others take off their clothes and wash them again?"
"That's such a waste of time." Sennett shook his finger. "You have to put it on again after you take it off and wash it. And when you take off your clothes in the shower, you have to put them on again after washing them. Why bother? It's better to wash them in them." , kill three birds with one stone.”
Xiao Tianjian made a "cut" sound: "Don't teach bad children and let my granddaughter develop your bad habits of being unkempt." He glanced sideways at the stains on Sennett's robe and turned away: "I don't have magic power. So I can’t touch your mechanism, but how can Minna have magic power? Last time when my grandson Bevin came, you clearly said that my descendants are affected by my bloodline and it is difficult to attract magic elements."
Sennett looked at Ming Na: "I'm not sure about this, why not give the child a test?"
They quickly returned to the large room in front. After searching for a long time, Sennett finally found a dusty crystal ball with a corner missing from the base: "It hasn't been used for decades. I don't know if it will work. But the quality of this brand of crystal ball is very reliable." He grabbed his sleeve and rubbed it randomly on the crystal ball a few times, then put it on the table: "Try it, just put your hand on it."
Ming Na heard this and was about to put her hand up, but was stopped by Xiao Tianjian. He took out a large piece of cloth and wiped it on the ball for a long time before putting it back on the base and raising his face to his granddaughter: "Try Come on, it’s clean.”
Ming Na put her hand up. At first, the crystal ball did not respond, but slowly, it began to emit a faint blue light, as blue as the sky. She looked at the light with some fascination and asked: "This color is so beautiful, Grandpa Sennett, do I have magic power?"
Sennett mumbled a few words and then there was no movement. Xiao Tianjian smiled and said: "Being able to shine means it has magic power. I have seen it tested by others. This... blue one is of the water type, right?"
Sennett hummed twice: "It's the water element, with a little light element, and maybe some wind element, but it doesn't have much effect. At most, it's just a trainee magician, and it can't be successful at all. You must have been involved in this, kid. There may be magician blood on my mother’s side, but it’s a pity that it’s been suppressed by your blood.”
Xiao Tianjian asked Ming Na: "Is there a magician in your mother's family?"
"Yes." She knew this. "Mom said that my grandmother was a junior magician. She also went to some magic academy in Shaonan, but she stopped studying after marrying my grandfather."
Sennett sighed after hearing this, but he quickly cheered up: "Although the magic power is a bit low, learning potions is not a problem. Xiao Mingna, don't you like my potions? Do you want to learn from me? I am alone. It's so boring here, I can't do anything while the potions are boiling in all four pots, and the half-elf doesn't like to talk."
Xiao Tianjian expressed strong opposition to this: "Stop talking nonsense, what does your boredom have to do with us? My granddaughter can't stay here for a long time, she will leave in a month or two at most. Your potion is complicated, and it won't last for a few years." It's impossible to learn it. According to me, it doesn't matter if your magic power is low. Just learn a few practical magics, such as water ball, lighting, fireball, etc. You can have water anytime and anywhere, so you don't have to worry about finding a water source. , you can make a fire even without flint, and it would be even better if you could get some cool breeze to cool yourself down in the summer."
Sennett glared at him: "You really have no foresight! Don't you have a storage ring? Are you worried about not having anything to eat and drink? If you are afraid of the heat, just don't go out. What are those little magics? My potions are better. If you get sick or injured, you don’t need to see a doctor, you can take care of it yourself.”
The two old men started quarreling like this. Mingna looked to the left and to the right, and she couldn't help but sigh. She touched her stomach and seemed a little hungry, so she left the two adults behind, ran to the tea tray, knocked it, shook it, eh? Why is there nothing to eat? She suddenly remembered that Sennett seemed to have used a small stick to knock the tea tray, so she went to find the stick.
Before they were found, the two old men had reached an agreement. Within a month, Sennett would teach Minna a few simple little magics. At the same time, Minna would also learn how to handle potion materials and prepare the four most practical potions. , which are cold medicine, cough medicine, fever medicine and hemostatic agent.
After listening to this, Ming Na put forward her own opinion: "I want to learn how to make potions that change the color of my hair and eyes!" Xiao Tianjian glared: "Your head now looks like a colorful feather duster, and you still want to learn? No!" Sennett He also advised: "That one is difficult, Xiao Mingna, you should learn this simple one first."
Ming Na had a puffy face, but Sennett looked soft and gave in: "Okay, okay, I'll teach you, but you have to learn those four first."
Only then was Mingna satisfied, and then she made her most urgent request at the moment: "I'm so hungry, Grandpa Sennett, how can I turn that tea tray into something to eat?"
Xiao Tianjian felt a little sad when he saw his granddaughter getting close to his old friend: "Tsk, don't be fooled by him. It's impossible to conjure food through magic."
"But I saw Grandpa Sennett knocking on the tea tray, and bread and milk came out of the tray?"
Sennett coughed a few times and looked at Minna with a smile in his eyes: "That one was not conjured. Someone made it in advance and stored it. I knocked on the tea tray and it just made it appear and heat up."
"Who did that?" Ming Na rolled her eyes, "Is it that very beautiful uncle?" She didn't see the fifth person here.
Sennett just coughed and mumbled "It's not him", then took out a stick...actually a wand...and knocked on the tea tray, and then took out three portions of bread and milk from the tray.
Ming Na just lived with her grandfather in this strange house, practicing martial arts for half a day every day, and learning magic and potions for half a day. Since Xiao Tianjian stayed in a small room all day long and didn't know what to do, she felt a little bored. Magic, which she originally thought was very interesting, turned out to be because she was still young and a beginner, so her magic power was low, so she could only increase her magic value through meditation first. As for potions, it is obvious that drying herbs, cutting insect limbs and identifying types of ores are not the same as preparing fun color-changing potions.
Because she was bored, she started to harass her two grandfathers, but they were busy with their business and had no time to pay attention to her. She had no choice but to focus on another thing, which was adventure.
She had lived here for a few days and was familiar with the surroundings of the house. Affected by the fright she experienced on the day of landing, she would not go anywhere other than the big lawn to avoid being blown down the mountain by the wind. However, there was a large forest farther to the west. She once wanted to go in and play, but was stopped by the half-elf: "It's poisonous inside, don't go in." She then remembered the woods with poisonous fog that her grandfather had mentioned that day, and thought, could this be it
Since it was poisonous, there was nothing she could do, so she had to run to the cave in the mountain wall. There are two caves on the mountain wall here that you can occasionally drill into. One of them has a spring. There are some strange fruits growing by the water. She wanted to pick them and eat them, but she was stopped by a half-elf who appeared out of nowhere: "It's poisonous. do not eat."
Well, she won't eat it. Throwing the fruit away, Minna turned to the half-elf: "Pretty uncle, shall we play together?" The half-elf gave her a cold look, turned around and left.
Look how boring she is. The two people who could talk to her ignored her except for giving guidance at a fixed time every day; but the only one who had time to talk to her ignored her. Ming Na puffed up her bun face again and decided to find new fun.
She had already visited most of the places in the strange house they lived in, including the underground library, the potion material storage room, and the magic mechanism production room, but there was one place she had never been to before, and that was The "skewed room" on the second floor is the inside of the house stuck diagonally.
She now knows the temper of Sennett, the great magician. No matter what she does in the house, as long as she touches a soft and transparent partition, it means that it is something that cannot be touched or a place that cannot be accessed. The building didn't have such a compartment, which meant she could go. So why does Grandpa Sennett always tell her not to go upstairs
Minna found an afternoon and completed the task assigned by Sennett early. She took a book and pretended to read it seriously in front of the fireplace. Xiao Tianjian and Sennett both thought that she would not bother her anymore, and their work was getting critical, so they closed the door and concentrated on their work. Unexpectedly, as soon as Mingna saw them closing the door, she quietly got up and moved back, tiptoeing up the stairs to the second floor.
There was only one door here. When she opened it, everything inside was crooked. But when she walked in, she found that she was standing there upright. When she turned around, the original door had become crooked. But when she exited the room, she was still standing upright, but the door was crooked again. Minna thought this was really interesting, so she kept going in and out, thinking to herself, what would it look like if there were something half in the room and half outside the room
But she tried it herself, but couldn't feel it, so she took out the handkerchief and put it on the floor by the door, so that it was half in the room and half outside the room. This time she could clearly see that the original The handkerchief, which should have been lying flat on the ground, was bent in the middle.
Why does this happen? What kind of secret does this room hold
Minna put away her handkerchief, walked into the room, and looked around. This place is no different from a normal room. It's even more like a normal room than downstairs. If there's anything special, it's probably the doors on the opposite wall. She walked to the door in the middle and looked out through the crack.
Huh? Is there someone over there? Moreover, there are many people walking around, it seems to be a street. How is this possible
She grabbed the doorknob and wanted to open it to see what was on the other side of the door.
(There are actually 8K today... two updates are really hurtful...)