The door was unlocked, Ming Na only twisted it slightly, and the doorknob opened with a flash of silver light.
As expected, there is a lively street outside the door. Many people are coming and going. There is a dazzling array of goods. Vendors are setting up stalls on the street. Store clerks are enthusiastically soliciting customers to come in. Occasionally, a few children run past laughing, just like usual. There is no difference in the commercial streets. If there is anything different, it's probably that the clothes worn by people on the street are different from what Ming Na usually sees. They are thin but colorful, with a lot of tulle and embroidery, and from time to time there are a few wearing robes. Men and women with pointed hats passed by, and she remembered that old Sennett occasionally wore a similar style of pointed hat.
What is this place? She clearly remembered that there was only a small piece of grass behind the house, and then there was the mountain wall. Why did the street suddenly appear? And it's obviously cloudy today, so why is the sun so bright on this street? Although she has heard that some magic potions can cause hallucinations, it is true. There are stone steps under her feet. When she steps on them, she can feel that they are hard and will sting her feet; they are more than one meter away from her. On the street, there was an old woman selling candy balls who said hello to her: "Child, do you want to try some delicious candy balls?"
The candy balls failed to attract her attention, because she smelled a strong aroma coming from across the street. It was the smell of her favorite roasted chicken legs, which she had not eaten for ten days. She touched the small pocket on her body. There was a silver coin and ten copper plates in it. Marshall quietly stuffed them into her pocket when she went out. They were enough to eat several chicken drumsticks. She looked at the shop opposite and decided to walk over and buy two. No, three. By the way, let Grandpa and Grandpa Sennett try it too. As for the beautiful uncle, he doesn’t eat meat.
She had just walked down two steps when she was stopped: "Ming... Na..." She recognized the old magician's voice, but it sounded a little slow. She turned around and called "Grandpa Sennett" with a smile. Then he was stunned. The room she just walked out of was already dark. Only a small nose, a forehead, two lips and a pink beard were exposed in the darkness. The lips were opening and closing slowly, which looked a little scary. She couldn't help but go to took a step back.
The old magician's voice sounded again, this time a little faster: "Don't... move... come back... come..." At this moment, a hand slowly stretched out from the darkness, grabbed Minna suddenly, and then Pulled her back. Mingna was a little scared at first, but she felt that Sennett would not hurt her, so she did not break away. She only felt that her eyes were gradually getting dark, but soon it became bright again. She was already in the crooked room. The person who caught her just now was the beautiful half-elf. He gave her a cold look and then He let go of his hand.
Sennett quickly closed the door, breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to Minna very seriously: "Child, didn't I tell you not to go upstairs? Why did you come up? Fortunately, Keith found out early, otherwise it would have been terrible. "
Minna smiled and apologized: "I'm sorry, Grandpa Sennett, I'm just a little curious. Where was that place just now? Why is there a street on the other side of the door?"
Sennett's eyes flashed: "Uh... that place is not here... you also know... it is inconvenient to travel here, but sometimes, there are always urgent needs for certain materials... This is just a little trick, a little trick..." He quickly put on a serious Shense: "In short, you are not allowed to come again. Fortunately, you didn't really go out just now, otherwise you would be lost in a foreign country alone. Even if we want to find you, we may not be able to find you."
"No." Ming Na blushed a little, "I just want to go across the street to... take a look..."
"As soon as you let go of the doorknob, the door will disappear immediately. It's not always in the same place." Sennett muttered, "Sometimes I can't find the door back. Last time I was thrown In Wester, I walked for a full month before I came back. The concoction I was boiling had already dried up and the pot exploded... If Keith hadn't informed me today, I wouldn't have known about it. Little girl, you almost lost it. Shaonan can’t be found..."
Ming Na half understood what she heard. She only vaguely understood that if she had walked out of the street just now, she would not be able to come back. She was a little scared, but she was still curious: "Grandpa Sennett, what is outside those doors?" Where is the place?”
"They are all places I often go to..." Sennett suddenly stopped and turned to stare at Ming Na, "Why should I tell you? Little girl, let me say it again, you are not allowed to come to the 'Crooked Room' again!"
He decisively pulled the child out of the room. After half-elf Keith also came out, he closed the door, tapped the doorknob a few times with his wand, and his face relaxed: "It's better now. I forgot to buy materials when I went back last time." Locked up, now it’s foolproof.”
Ming Na poked at the door in disappointment, and it turned out to be that soft, transparent partition again. She knew that it was impossible for her to go in again. She couldn't help complaining: "You haven't cast spells before, why are you casting them now? I won't go outside those doors." At most, she would open them to see what it was like outside.
But Sennett was very serious on this issue: "This is safe. I didn't cast a spell before because no one else could get in except me. Your grandfather and Keith would never be able to open this door!"
What's the meaning? Mingna was about to ask, but Xiao Tianjian's voice came from downstairs: "Old Sen! Where are you? Come back quickly!" After hearing this, the old magician hurried away, leaving only Mingna and the half-elf in front of the door. look on in despair.
The work of the two grandfathers obviously came to a critical moment. If it weren't for the interruption of half-elf Keith, Sennett would never have left the small room. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian didn't hear about what happened to his granddaughter until dinner. He said to the child seriously: "Xiao Mingna, if you encounter this kind of thing in the future, such as an unreasonable door or room, never open it casually, it is very dangerous. Grandpa once saw someone open a strange door. The door was blown away by the tornado inside, and its whereabouts are still unknown. Those doors and windows related to magic often lead to weird and weird places, so don’t be reckless anymore.”
Ming Na nodded hesitantly and asked puzzledly: "But why? Why does the room upstairs lead to other places?"
"That's probably a type of space magic. It seems to be called a space door, right? The 'crooked room' is not actually upstairs, but a special space. Those doors can lead to other places. But the location is different every time, and to be honest, I don’t know the details.”
"Space magic? What kind of magic is that?"
"You don't know about space magic?" Sennett couldn't help but interject, "This is common sense about magic. Just like your grandfather's storage ring, it is a type of space magic." These are the basics that beginners of magic should master. Although not many people study the theory in depth, there are very few people who don't even know common sense. The old magician began to reflect on himself. As Ming Na's guide on the path of magic, had he neglected his duty? Unexpectedly, she was not even taught these basic knowledge.
But speaking of it, in the past ten days or so, apart from giving guidance on Ming Na's homework every day, he spent most of the time doing "that kind of stuff" with Xiao Tianjian. It is true that he did not seriously impart any knowledge to the child. He only taught meditation methods, the identification and main functions of dozens of magic potions, and the making of cold potions. As for the basic theory, he just took out a book and let the children read it by themselves. But this is not enough. Ming Na is just a child and has no patience. If she is asked to read a brick-sized magic theory textbook, she may be more interested in exploring and playing. Neither he nor Xiao Tianjian noticed this, which caused The result of the child's lack of common sense.
This made Sennett very ashamed and decided to squeeze in more time to teach Minna. He told Ming Na the basic theories of the eight magic systems of water, fire, wind, earth, wood, light, darkness, and space, as well as the release methods of the basic magic of water and light. He also taught her to identify more magic materials and teach her personally Demonstrated the making process of several magic potions.
With the teacher's guidance, Ming Na has made great progress. After she has been here for a month, she can already send out five or six water balls the size of a thumb cap, and her lighting technique can also illuminate an area as large as a palm (although it is only the size of a palm). (can last for ten seconds). As for potions, she knew more than a hundred magic materials and prepared the first potion.
These successes greatly increased Minna's interest in magic. Probably because she was already familiar with the situation here, and there was no place for her to explore, so she spent most of her time there. Learn magic and potions.
That day she was boiling a fever potion in front of the fireplace. This was the third potion she had learned. She was very confident in herself and she would succeed this time.
Just as she was closely watching the changes in the crucible and preparing to throw new materials into it, there was a sudden explosion in the small room on the right, and the whole house shook. Ming Na couldn't stand still for a moment and sat down on the ground.
What happened
When the shaking stopped, she saw bursts of black smoke coming from the door of the small room. Her heart tightened, and she was about to get up, but was suddenly pulled away by someone. She looked up and saw half-elf Keith, and she was confused and wanted to ask him what he was going to do, but she heard a bang behind her, and the cauldron where the medicine had been brewed fell right where she was, and the boiling liquid poured all over the floor.
It turns out Keith was trying to save her. Minna smiled and thanked the half-elf, but the other half just looked at her briefly, put out the fire, said "wait here", and walked to the small room.
Before he could get closer, the door was suddenly opened, and two human-shaped black coals came out. Both Minna and Keith were surprised.
Upon closer inspection, Xiao Tianjian's clothes were all burned to tatters, his face and hands were covered with burns, and half of his hair was burned off. Sennett was even worse. There was only a brim left on his hat, more than a dozen blisters on his face, and his entire beard was gone. Only a few pink hairs were hanging there half untouched, and his robe was also wet. One sleeve is missing.
Ming Na was so frightened that she screamed "Grandpa", but Xiao Tianjian just waved his hands nonchalantly, glanced at Sennett, and suddenly burst into laughter. Sennett wiped his chin and smiled too. The two old men just laughed at each other for a long time, making both Minna and Keith confused. Finally, Keith got angry and asked with a gloomy face: "What happened? Why did it explode?!"
Sennett stopped laughing, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes... and the gum in his eyes, and said with a smile: "It has to explode to succeed. We have always prevented it from exploding, so it failed every time. This time we finally succeeded."
"Yes, it finally worked." Xiao Tianjian sighed with a smile, "It's not easy after waiting for twenty years. Now I have the nerve to go back to the Elf Forest to see my old friends."
"Elf forest?" Keith raised an eyebrow.
Minna also asked: "Grandpa, what are you and Grandpa Sennett doing? Why do you have to wait twenty years?"
Xiao Tianjian patted his granddaughter on the head and said to Keith: "You are a half-elf. You may have heard of it, right? The Elf City is located in the north of the forest, close to the northern snowfield. More than twenty years ago, a group of snowfield monsters broke through the knot. The world broke into the forest, causing heavy casualties to the elves. When I was there, helping to exterminate the monsters, I was careless and allowed them to escape. In order to avoid further casualties, the Elf Queen ordered the elf city to be abandoned and retreat to the central and southern part of the forest to live. . In order to make up for the mistakes I made, I have been looking for ways to deal with the monsters in the snow field for the past twenty years. Finally, I discovered a fire poison that can corrode the internal organs of the monsters. I collected a lot of materials to aggravate the fire poison. Toxic, attacking monsters with arrows stained with this poison will definitely kill them."
Keith smiled coldly: "It's a good idea, but you seem to have forgotten that the shell of the snow monsters is very strong, and ordinary arrows cannot cause damage to them. If you can't shoot the poison into the monsters' bodies, what's the point? what's the function?"
"So I prepared this." Xiao Tianjian flipped his palm and took out a fine steel arrow, "I asked my dwarf friend to make this. It is made of fine steel and is one of the hardest weapons in the world. I experimented However, even the outer shells of demonic creatures can’t resist it, so it’s no problem to deal with them. I have a hundred of them here, which should be enough.”
"How do you know it's enough? That was twenty years ago, wasn't it? Maybe the number of those monsters has increased again? Isn't it too much for you to compensate for the mistakes made twenty years ago twenty years later? Is it too late?" Keith still looked cold.
Xiao Tianjian still had a smile on his face: "If Warcraft was so easy to reproduce, it would be dead by now. As for time, for elves who can live for thousands of years, these twenty years are equivalent to one year for us humans. What is it? I have not been idle in the past twenty years. If it had not been that long, many materials would not have been collected in sufficient quantities. Others may not have this patience."
Keith stared at him for a while, smiled sarcastically, then turned and walked away. Minna looked at his back, full of doubts. The beautiful Uncle Keith seemed to dislike her grandpa very much. Why
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