"Bang...bang bang..."
As the fire gradually grew stronger, more and more stones fell from the ceiling, as if it was about to collapse, causing the entire control room to become shaky and causing bursts of explosions.
Both Luo Zhen and Ma Xiu stared blankly at the completely closed door in front of them and fell into silence.
Luo Zhen understands.
Neither he nor Matthew can leave here.
The door of the control room is specially made, and the magic measures are also very good. Even the highest-ranking magician cannot break it with brute force. Even with physical means, it is stronger than steel. It is imaginable how difficult this door is.
Unless you can summon a superior familiar, it's still worth a try.
Otherwise, relying on Luo Zhen's current words, there would be no way to escape from here.
And if you can't escape from here, it goes without saying what your fate will be.
Not only will Ma Xiu not be saved, but Luo Zhen himself will be swallowed up by the fire and lose this hard-won life.
This is the current situation.
For a moment, Luo Zhen didn't know how to react.
As for Mashu, his voice sounded slightly.
"I'm sorry...Senior...it's all because of me..."
The fragile voice that seemed like it might disappear at any time and the guilt contained in the voice made people feel distressed.
However, for some reason, Luo Zhen felt peaceful after hearing this voice.
He was obviously about to die, but his mood was incredibly calm.
The feelings are even more straightforward.
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it."
Luo Zhen's voice returned to its previous casual tone, and he smiled as if he was relaxed.
This made all the words in Ma Xiu's heart dissipate, turning into a weak but extremely beautiful smile.
"Senior...you are still a senior after all..."
Matthew was left with this feeling.
The fire grew stronger again, engulfing Luo Zhen and Ma Xiu's retreat.
Luo Zhen hugged Mashu and sat in front of the blocked door, looking at the sea of fire in front of him.
"senior…"
I don’t know how much time passed before Mashu’s weak voice sounded again.
"Do you remember what happened when we first met...?"
These words immediately brought Luo Zhen's memories back to the past.
That was two years ago now.
At that time, Luo Zhen had been in Chaldea for a year.
As the person with the best master qualifications in current records, Luo Zhen was welcomed by many people when he came to Chaldea. However, in that year, Luo Zhen's attitude towards Chaldea His various uncooperative actions have gradually worn away Chaldea's patience, causing his interpersonal relationships in Chaldea to reach their lowest point.
To put it bluntly, except for Roman, there was no one else around Luo Zhen at that time.
For Luo Zhen at the time, this was something he could only dream of.
"Instead of wasting time with these guys who don't know what kind of inhuman magic experiments they are conducting secretly, I might as well play games."
Luo Zhen sincerely held these thoughts, and at the same time held his resistance to Chaldea, and lived a life alone.
Sometimes I practice my magic in places that no one else knows about.
Sometimes I play games alone in my room.
Except for Roman coming in person and asking Luo Zhen to go out and cooperate with some inspections, Luo Zhen never stepped out of the door.
This was Luo Zhen's life in Chaldea two years ago.
A life of utter solitude.
until one day…
"Her name is Mashu Kirilet, and she will live in Chaldea like you in the future. You must get along well."
Roman suddenly came to him with a girl of similar age to Luo Zhen, and introduced the girl standing beside him to Luo Zhen.
Luo Zhen still remembers Ma Xiu at that time.
The shoulder-length short hair is no different from today.
A delicate face no different from today.
A wonderful atmosphere not unlike today.
The intellectual appearance is no different from today.
The only difference is the slightly childish look and the unusually calm look in a pair of pure eyes.
Luo Zhen knew that look.
It was exactly the same as the look in his eyes when he was two years old, before he got the miracle.
So, Luo Zhen realized it.
The girl in front of her is the same as her past self.
Both had resigned themselves to their fate and accepted it.
Therefore, even at that time, Luo Zhen did not know what happened to Ma Xiu, but Luo Zhen knew that the girl in front of him was walking the same path that he had walked before, and she did not regard cruelty as cruelty.
At the moment when he understood this, Luo Zhen could no longer remain alone by his side.
Just like how he accepted Roman, Luo Zhen, who had always rejected others, simply accepted the girl in front of him.
At the same time, Mashu also accepted the young man in front of him.
Just because Luo Zhen said something to Ma Xiu at that time.
"In that case, I am your senior."
Just this sentence also pried open Mashu's heart.
This is the scene when a boy and girl meet for the first time.
"To this day...I have never forgotten the words of my senior..."
In the fire, only Ma Xiu's weak but peaceful voice could clearly reach Luo Zhen's ears, as if it had some warmth.
"For me at that time...senpai...was really dazzling..."
Everyone is like this, right
People will have a kind of longing for someone who is the same as themselves, but has achieved something that they have not yet achieved.
Luo Zhen is such a character in Ma Xiu's heart.
The pasts of the two are similar, and they are both so cruel in the eyes of others.
However, Luo Zhen got a miracle and escaped from this fate.
Therefore, as a girl who has not yet received a miracle, Mashu feels that this senior is very dazzling, which is natural.
It is because of this that Matthew can tell anyone from the bottom of his heart.
"It's really great to meet senior..."
The girl's confession made Deluo Zhen's heart extremely complicated.
That's what it says.
"I'm just luckier than you."
This is a fact.
Luo Zhen is just luckier than Masuo.
Even if a miracle happened, it was not something Luo Zhen fought for, but a gift that appeared out of thin air.
If this is not good luck, what is good luck
but…
"Thanks to this, I was able to meet Mashu."
In other words…
"It's great for me to meet you."
Luo Zhen's words with a slight smile made Masuo completely relax his mind.
"senior…"
Ma Xiu couldn't help but use up her last bit of strength to hold Luo Zhen's hand.
Luo Zhen immediately grasped it back, as if holding it tightly in his hand, and kept exerting force.
In this case, the fire engulfed the entire control room.
However, at that moment, a mechanical system sound also sounded.
"It has been detected that the system experiment is in progress and manual operation has stopped. Please resume operation within three seconds."
“3…”
"2…"
"1…"
"The operation will not be restored and will switch from manual operation to automatic operation."
"The experiment continues and the search for the Master begins."
"It has been detected that the master in the is in an abnormal state. The only master listed is the qualified number 1, and the qualified number 1 is set as the main subject of the experiment."
"Anti-summoning system, activate."
"Spirit transfer begins."