The boat entered the city along the narrow river. There were trees planted on the river embankment with dense branches and leaves, which looked a bit eerie at night. There are rows of houses not far from the shore. Only some of them have oil lamps lit outside the houses. The dim light shines over them, allowing ships traveling on the water to barely see their surroundings.
Ming Na lay on the bow of the boat and looked around, feeling that this magical city was no different from an ordinary town. It even lacked some of the characteristics of her country compared to the small town of Shaonan she passed on the road. The houses and streets don't look much different from those in Qedon and Merton. The only thing that is special is that some of the houses are oddly shaped, even more out of place than the old magician Sennett's home.
One of them looks like a huge flower. The "petal"-shaped walls on the outside are stacked on top of each other and are not completely closed. There are lights shining through the "stamens" and "flower core". It should be habitable. place, but it seems too cramped. The other room looked like a giant bowl with green water constantly pouring out. After Xiao Tianjian explained, Ming Na realized that the green water-like things were actually a kind of magic plant that would keep flowing around the house. Mobile and defensive.
Are these the homes of magicians? So why do most houses look so ordinary? Or is it unusual inside? Ming Na was a little excited when she thought of this.
However, after asking her grandfather, she learned that the place where the ship passed now could only be regarded as the "civilian area" of the Magic City, where non-magical residents lived. Because land prices and rents are cheap, many students from the Magic Academy rent or buy houses here, and those weird houses are their works. But in places where magicians live together, there is absolutely no such house, because they believe that when ability and knowledge reach a certain level, they should no longer waste time and energy on such things. If any great magician wants to make some different changes to his residence, people will talk about it.
"Old Sen simply ran to Tulei Mountain because he didn't want to see this rule." Xiao Tianjian said.
Ming Na said "Oh" and asked again: "Are there any ordinary people here? I thought everyone here was a magician."
"Little fool, even a magician still has to eat, drink, and defecate." Xiao Tianjian said with a smile, "Magic can't be turned into food. How can we let magicians farm the land, grow vegetables, kill pigs, bake bread, and milk cows? Not only are there many Ordinary people, what they have in other towns, they also have here, but the security here is good and people live a stable life, so life is much more peaceful than in other towns."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud noise from the shore on the right, which startled Minna. Then a house caught fire. A man rushed out of the house screaming, rolled on the ground a few times, and finally The fire in his body was extinguished. Several neighbors nearby opened their windows to take a look, then immediately closed their windows and retreated. But the man got up, as if nothing had happened, and ignored the fire. He just squatted by the river and muttered something. Ming Na only vaguely heard a few words, which seemed to be "The portion is too heavy...it should be reduced by two-thirds..."
She was stunned. Is this called "peaceful days"? She turned to look at Grandpa, but he just smiled and said nothing. Seeing Ming Na pouting, she reached out and pointed in the direction of the fire. Ming Na looked back and saw that several people had already arrived in front of the burning house, wearing the same style of sky blue robes. After chanting a few spells, a heavy downpour appeared over the house, extinguishing the fire in the blink of an eye. With just a word of incantation, the originally wet ground dried instantly, making the house look as if it had not been affected by the fire. One of the men approached the house owner and said something, and then left with his companions amidst the other party's thanks.
Xiao Tianjian smiled and said: "The Magic City version of the fire brigade, with them here, you really don't need to worry about anything."
Ming Na blinked and recalled the time two years ago when she almost set the kitchen on fire, and wondered why Qidun didn't have this? If so, I wouldn't have to be scolded so badly by my mother.
The boat slowly turned into another waterway. The river here was narrower, but the water was very deep. There were more oil lamps hanging on the shore, and the houses were denser, but most of them were small buildings with two or three floors. Every few dozen meters, there is a bridge spanning both sides. Ming Na sat on the boat and passed under the bridge, feeling very fresh.
Boatman Bao Deman asked Xiao Tianjian: "Lord Earl, where are you going?" Xiao Tianjian said: "Let's go up the mountain first. You can spend the night in my house. I'll find someone to clean it up tomorrow." After saying that, he threw a bunch of keys and went over. .
Minna asked curiously: "Grandpa also has a house here? So are we going to live there?"
"Forget it tonight, we'll talk about it later." Xiao Tianjian said, "I haven't been back for two or three years, and the house has long been covered with dust. Now that I'm back, there's not even firewood for boiling water. Let's go find my friend. There are ready-made beds.”
The boat sailed quietly on the water and finally docked at a small pier at the foot of the mountain. Mingna said goodbye to Boderman and watched him continue to drive along the waterway. Suddenly, her grandfather picked her up and said, "Little Mingna, let's go." Mingna struggled: "I want to leave by myself." But she was knocked on the head by her grandfather: "Listen! Didn't you say that your legs feel uncomfortable?" She pouted and stopped resisting.
The two of them climbed up the stairs and soon came to an intersection, walking up the mountain along the road that spiraled around the mountainside. Mingna noticed that there were stairs every hundred meters or so on the roadside connecting the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and asked, "Grandpa, why don't we take the stairs? Isn't that faster?"
Xiao Tianjian smiled: "That is indeed a shortcut, but it can only be passed during the day. A spell will be cast as soon as it gets dark. Now in the middle of the night, you can only take the main road."
Ming Na nodded and looked around at the lamps hanging outside the decent houses. She felt that they were not the oil lamps she had just seen: "Grandpa, those don't look like oil lamps, what are they?"
"That's a magic lamp. It uses low-grade crystals as energy. It's very popular here. If you like it, grandpa will buy you one later."
"Thank you, Grandpa!" Mingna thanked her happily, but soon she couldn't help but yawn, and then she felt a little dizzy. She shook her head and suddenly found a golden brown light flashing in the air above her head: "Grandpa! Look! There is something above us! What is it?"
"That's the communication network of the magician colony. It's similar to the telephone I told you, except it uses the silk of the sea spider, a specialty of the Coral Sea, instead of cables. It can be used as long as there is magic power. The light is the signal." Xiao Tianjian was The little granddaughter's question made her a little annoyed, "Okay, Mingna, it's very late now, don't disturb others. I will tell you these things slowly in the future."
Ming Na stuck out her tongue and clung to her grandfather's neck obediently, but her eyes continued to look around her. However, she gradually felt that she had no strength in her body and her dizziness worsened, so she had to rest on her grandfather's shoulder.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, when Ming Na woke up from her half-asleep, she and her grandfather were already standing in front of a three-story building with chestnut-colored exterior walls halfway up the mountain. Xiao Tianjian knocked on the door twice casually and then opened the door and entered the house. The inside was unexpectedly big. Ming Na looked at the foyer, which was twice as spacious as her own hall, as well as the several large rooms with half-closed doors that she could see and the height of the carved stairs leading to the second floor. Then she thought about what it looked like from the outside. When I saw the size of the house, I immediately understood that it must be a space curse.
Xiao Tianjian carried his granddaughter into the corridor behind the hall, came to a room, and opened the door. Sitting behind the desk in the room was a man with messy blond shawl hair. He looked to be in his thirties, with a pair of green eyes, wearing a unilateral glasses, and his face was a little pale.
He was carefully reading an old and yellowed parchment. After hearing the sound of the door opening for a while, he looked up in confusion to see who it was. When he saw the person, he jumped up with an "ah" sound and pointed at Xiao Tianjian: " You! You! You! When did you come back?! I don’t have time to make things for you now!"
"I'm not asking you to make something, so there's no need to overreact, Han Lin." Xiao Tianjian rolled his eyes and put down his granddaughter. As soon as Mingna landed, she started to look around. She saw the things on the shelf next to her and recognized that one of them was the mosquito repellent box that her grandfather gave her.
"Then what are you doing here?!" Lin, a blond man, didn't notice Ming Na at all. He seemed to have thought of something terrible, and his face turned even bluer, "Patty's not here!"
Xiao Tianjian was closing the door and almost fell down after hearing this: "What does your wife's presence have to do with me?!"
Hanlin looked at him with suspicion, which made him feel resentful: "I've said it eight hundred times before, Patty and I are just good friends! I have no intentions towards her at all! If you say such things, If she heard it, do you know what the consequences will be?!"
Han Lin thought for a while, his face turned from green to white: "Oh my God, God of Light..."
"Stop calling you the God of Light. My child and I will come stay with you for one night. Is that okay?"
"Of course it's no problem. I'm not letting students stay overnight tonight. You can go ahead and sleep on whichever bed you like." He seemed to have finally discovered Ming Na's existence and looked at her curiously. "This is you Daughter? Who is she born to? Brown hair and green eyes? Oh my God, it can’t be Patty’s sister, right?!”
"Who would have a child with that dinosaur?!" Xiao Tianjian went crazy, "This is my granddaughter! Granddaughter! She is the only daughter of my second son!"
Hanlin's eyes widened: "Huh? So you even have a granddaughter? Doesn't that make you an old man?" He rolled his eyes and laughed softly: "That's great, Patty will definitely not fall in love with the old man. .”
Xiao Tianjian resisted the urge to go crazy again, and reluctantly lowered his voice and said: "I am...an old man! My grandson has come to see you a few times, don't you remember? Okay, stop talking nonsense, I My granddaughter is not in good health. Haven't you learned about potions? Come and help."
But the other party glared at him: "Are you kidding?! I'm an alchemist! Not a potion master! You go to the potion master, find Sennett."
"Where did you ask me to find Old Sen?!" Xiao Tianjian seemed to roll his eyes a lot tonight, "You are the nearest one, and you can also cook potions, right? I saw you cooking a cold for yourself last time Potion.”
"That's different! Who among the people from the academy doesn't know how to cook some potions? But if you want me to see a doctor, I can't do it! You, my granddaughter..." Han Lin pointed at Ming Na and was about to say something when he saw her first glance. Feeling sleepy little by little, he suddenly stopped and murmured: "Oh my, this is not good..." He quickly sat back in his seat, pulled out a piece of paper and wrote two lines in a hurry, then stood up and walked to the window. , raised his hand upwards, and shouted "Cephus Sauron", a golden brown light flashed in the air, and the note in his hand had disappeared.
Ming Na opened her eyes wide to see what was going on, but her mind became increasingly drowsy and she was no longer able to stand still. She heard Han Lin ask her grandfather to carry her to the room, and then felt herself being moved to a comfortable bed. As soon as her head hit the pillow, she completely lost consciousness.
In a daze, she felt as if she was still sleeping on the boat, her body swaying gently with the hull and water waves. Suddenly she heard the sound of drums beating outside. It turned out to be a clown performing. After he finished throwing and catching the ball, he jumped into the water. She lay on the bow of the boat and looked underwater worriedly. She never saw him come out, but the surrounding suddenly turned into darkness. She felt that something was not good, and she wanted to She hid in the cabin. In the blink of an eye, the cabin disappeared, but a strong wind blew suddenly. The wind mixed with sand and soil hit her. She hugged her head tightly and had nowhere to hide. When she saw a cave next to her , and ran towards the cave desperately. She ran into the cave, but the wind and sand couldn't get in. She finally breathed a sigh of relief. Unexpectedly, there was a loud roar in the cave, and a snowfield monster came out, and when it opened its mouth, a white light appeared. She couldn't hide in time, and was shot in the stomach. There was a sudden coldness in her abdomen, and then it suddenly turned into burning heat, and then cramping began. After a while, not only did the pain in her stomach not subside, but other parts of her body also started to hurt. She was rolling on the ground, sweating from the pain all over her body.
At this moment, a warm current fell on her head, from head to toe, and spread all over her body. The pain was no longer so severe, and she wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but suddenly she smelled a very bad smell, and her whole body Suddenly I woke up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw an old man with a dark brown goatee staring at him with his small eyes wide open. At the same time, he was making himself drink a dark gray-green bubbling sticky potion with that stinky smell. It's from this. She felt sick in her heart. She didn't want to drink the potion, but she had no strength at all and couldn't lift her hands. She could only be forced to drink up the cup of medicine. The terrible touch in her mouth made her feel so wronged that she almost cried. .
"Is the child awake? How is it?" Xiao Tianjian's voice came from the side. Ming Na turned her eyes and saw him looking at her with concern, his face a little haggard, but the person she was asking was the goatee.
"It has been stabilized for the time being, and then she will have to drink medicine to nurse her back to health." Goatee said, "You are too messy. Magical chaos is a very troublesome disease. You can just take her back to your residence. Why? Brought here? Don’t you know that there are magicians and magic items everywhere here? Fortunately, he was treated in time, otherwise this child may never be able to use magic again in his life."
Xiao Tianjian scratched his head, feeling a little ashamed: "I don't know much about this... Then should I take her back to my place now? It's a civilian area over there, and there aren't many magic apprentices there, so there won't be any...magic fluctuations."
Goatee glared at him: "No! Let her stay here. She has stabilized. What if she moves and gets confused again? She is not allowed to move until she is completely recovered!"
Xiao Tianjian smiled coquettishly, and then comforted his granddaughter, whose eyes were wandering around: "It's okay, it's okay. You're sick now and can't move yet. You'll be able to play around in a few days."
She just wanted to rinse her mouth! But not only could she not move, she couldn't even speak. Isn't this strange? She could obviously say that before? What happened to her
(I’m back...there are so many people and it’s raining...)