Chapter 42: From the Heart

"This is magic." Xiao Chen held a small light spot in his hand. The light spot was only as big as a fingernail and was very bright, like a small light bulb. But this light spot is very unstable. Rather than a point, it is more like a ball of windy sand or a small group of fireflies gathering together. It swayed and trembled, causing the light and shadow in the entire room to constantly change.

"It's like a small universe." Luo Ling said seriously.

"I have lived for most of my life, and I never expected to see such a scene. It's like suddenly jumping into a movie." Guo Qian sighed.

"When Morey demonstrated this simplest light-emitting technique to me, I also found it very bizarre." Xiao Chen agreed.

"It's nothing. When you reach my age and have seen all kinds of monsters and monsters in society, you will understand that weirder things than this happen around us every day." Guo Qian raised his eyebrows and said.

"Uncle, you are an angry young man again. I always feel that you are younger than me." Luo Ling teased.

Guo Qian laughed and reached out to touch the light spot. But Xiao Chen quickly blocked it with his hand, "Principal, don't touch it. I still can't control it well. It might be dangerous."

"Sorry, sorry, we are doing research, and when we see something novel, we feel itchy in our hearts and can't control our hands. It's like a little thief who sees the bag and wants to take it out."

Xiao Chen slowly closed his palms, trying to extinguish the light spot. Unexpectedly, just when he was halfway closing it, the small light spot suddenly shined brightly. The brightness of the light suddenly increased several times, and then turned into a There was a light smoke.

None of them were prepared, and all of a sudden they shed tears.

Xiao Chen covered his eyes and said, "I'm so sorry. This is what Morey said is the problem with my mental power. It's strong enough, but too unstable. To release magic correctly, it requires much more practice than others."

"No matter what, this is a great thing. With this small spot of light, at least you will be on the path of a magician." Guo Qian wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief and walked to the sofa in the office to sit down.

Luo Ling walked to the window of the office and opened the curtains. The afternoon sun shone in, seeming to pull people back from fantasy to reality. Xiao Chen stared at the palm of his hand for a while, making sure that there were no more changes, and then he and Luo Ling sat across from Guo Qian.

"For now, this matter needs to be kept secret from other people." Guo Qian thought for a while and said.

"What do you mean?"

"This is a very attractive power. However, we know nothing about its nature and dangers. If you learn it by mistake, then study it carefully. As for other people, their main focus now must be Concentrate on building our home in another world. As you know, most of the people here are young children, and every boy has a heroic dream in his heart. "

"Some girls do too." Luo Ling said with a smile.

Guo Qian pointed at Luo Ling and said with a smile: "You, you, since you were a child, I have seen that you are a kid who can't stop and has a big heart." He looked at Xiao Chen again and continued: "In any case, I don't want those young people to think about how to get such power all day long and neglect the matter at hand. We can say that we are in a thorny road now, and we are trembling with fear and dare not relax. What's more, we don't understand There are great potential risks in the nature of magic, and what kind of mutations will happen to people after gaining this power."

"Your concerns are very reasonable." Xiao Chen agreed.

"You can keep and study the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of ​​​​Consciousness". Anyone who has seen you release magic, I will ask them to keep this secret for the time being, at least not to spread it widely. This matter must be done step by step."

"I see."

"I hope you will understand this power well, and we will try our best to support you with various resources. After all, the fact that you mastered it so quickly shows that this power is ubiquitous in this world. Maybe one day, our enemies will This kind of power will appear in front of us. If we cannot know ourselves and our enemies, we will fall into passivity."

"You are right. I always feel that we are in great danger. What I encountered this time has made me even more convinced."

Guo Qian took out a cigarette and rubbed it in his hand: "If you don't have long-term worries, you will have immediate worries. It would be great if everyone around you thought like you. It's a pity that some people have begun to worry about it without knowing it. Is this kind of calmness the norm? Is this naivety or an ostrich mentality?”

"Some people are so desperate that they actually oppose Wang Jiyuan's plan to turn all people into soldiers. They don't even think about it. With just a few people in the escort team, they can't even see past the school wall." Luo Ling said.

"You don't need to pay too much attention to a small group of people." However, Guo Qian seemed unwilling to say more on this topic. He lit a cigarette himself and said with a sly smile: "If you smoke something with less than one cigarette, it won't matter." Please, young people cannot get addicted to smoking here, it is a torture that cannot be saved. "

When Guo Qian was smoking, the whole room fell into silence. Luo Ling couldn't stand the second-hand smoke, so she walked to the window and leaned on the window sill. Xiao Chen buried himself in the sofa, smelling the faint smell of smoke, as if he was experiencing the atmosphere of the past world.

After Guo Qian finished smoking, he carefully removed the filter tip from the cigarette butt. Put it into a small cigarette box on the table.

"What are you doing?"

"The people in the industrial group said that no needle or thread is allowed to be wasted. The garbage in modern society is also the wealth of this world. So we try to recycle anything that may be useful. Although I don't know what Xiaodian Duan can do, it counts. Let’s start with me.”

"I know what you can do. I saw you secretly sniffing the filter to get drunk." Luo Ling exposed Guo Qian without hesitation.

"Stop talking nonsense." Guo Qian looked around and said, "Well, so the goblin attack Xiao Chen encountered this time is both a bad thing and a good thing. We have to come up with a goblin threat theory, publicize it more, and scare those guys. By the way, we will advance the national training proposed by the military group, the crossbow manufacturing planned by the industrial group, and the hiring of local guards suggested by the diplomatic group. "

Seeing both of them nodding, Guo Qian asked Xiao Chen: "What do you think of Morey? Does he have any complicated background?"

Xiao Chen did not answer immediately. He knew that Principal Guo asked a difficult question. It is not easy to understand a person by simply getting along with him. At least he, Xiao Chen, didn't have this ability, so he had to tell the truth without emotion: "He said that he was an alchemist who was looking for alchemy materials in the surrounding mountains and was accidentally kidnapped by goblins. He turned out to be in a place called Moncayo. He studied alchemy with his teacher in the city. Because of his background, he was shunned by his noble classmates. After completing his studies, he left the school. He hoped to find a town with rich resources and open an alchemy workshop. I think he should be useful to us. , we brought him back after rescuing him. However, we didn’t reveal too much details to him.”

"Is it possible that he got into our school for some purpose?" Luo Ling's eyes seemed to be looking through Xiao Chen's body, making Xiao Chen answer with great pressure: "I think the possibility is very small. He He was really caught by the goblins, and he was almost tied to a pillar and disemboweled. If we hadn't rushed in in time, he would have died in the hands of the goblins. "

"I heard that he had a strange silver wire that could be used as a weapon. How did you know that he had no other backup plan at that time? Maybe if you didn't take action, the script would have been that he rescued Li Tianrui and others and sold the school to a good one. Then he sneaked in." Luo Ling analyzed in a different way.

"This..." Luo Ling's imagination left Xiao Chen speechless. He thought for a while and said: "I always feel that there are too many variables in this way. It is better to come to the camp and join us directly."

Luo Ling was still about to argue, but Guo Qian waved her hand to stop her.

"Okay, it's useless to think about this kind of speculation. The spies can be used by me, and our people may also be developed into spies. The key now is, what does he think of us?"

"He could tell at a glance that we were not from this continent. I told him that we came from a very far away place, but he didn't ask further. However, I think it is difficult for this person to be like the villagers who were exposed to that set of magic tests. The excuse that led to the accidental fall was fooled. After all, he is an expert in magic. Now he also knows that my magic level is very low and I have no inheritance. However, he is very interested in our technology and is keenly aware of our technological products. It is fundamentally different from the civilization of this world. When we were walking together, he studied it for a long time with my watch and flashlight, and finally told me that this is a great power that is completely different from alchemy."

"Haha, an alchemist who is interested in science, do you understand what alchemy is?" Guo Qian asked curiously, "I know that alchemy on earth is almost superstitious. In this world, ?”

"Morey said that alchemy is a branch of magic that specializes in making various items with magical effects. Most alchemists have very low levels of direct use of magic, but they can often make substitutes for advanced magic. He told me I have seen some of his potions and gadgets. They are really useful things and help us avoid many dangers in the forest. I feel that alchemy is a bit like a mixture of our chemistry, biology, medicine and materials science.”

"Very valuable technology."

"Yes, his knowledge of magic alone is valuable. That day in the goblin camp, he judged from the goblin sacrificial rituals that they were summoning some kind of soul."

"soul?"

"Well, it seems to be something like a ghost." Those weird and terrifying scenes made Xiao Chen shudder when he recalled it now. "Goblins pay attention to ancestor worship and also sacrifice various totems. Ancestors and totem beasts will be in the form of souls. Summoned. Morey said that pure-blood human blood is very popular with these souls, so goblins go out everywhere and kidnap people for sacrifice. However, why do goblins suddenly appear in this forest and then hold a ceremony. He doesn’t know about the blood sacrifice ceremony.”

"That's right! Without him, we might not even understand the cause of the attack. In this case, we will find a way to get him to stay and cooperate with us." Guo Qian patted the armrest of the sofa and stood up, " If he wants to read our books, let him read them. If he wants to learn from us, he can learn from us. At the same time, our people also learn alchemy and knowledge about this world from him. He is the real person in this world. Intellectuals are of great value to us.”

"Is this really good? As long as such a smart person reads a little bit of our books and has some in-depth communication with our people, our origins will be exposed." Luo Ling couldn't bear to see Guo Qian getting more and more excited as he spoke. I poured some cold water on it.

Guo Qian smiled and asked: "So what if the origin is exposed? Can you really hide it?"

"Yes, exposing our origins will not make us more dangerous. Our danger lies in our own weakness, not in whether others know where we come from. It is very important to absorb the power of the locals in time. What's more, we suspect that the ancestors of these people are all earthlings." He admired Principal Guo's decisiveness in his heart. Luo Ling's skepticism was smaller than his.

"Yes, if our people are caught and tortured. I don't expect them to die rather than surrender." Luo Ling sighed.

Guo Qian said: "For smart people, honesty may be the best way to get along. Instead of letting him fall into speculation and distrust, it is better to take the initiative to make everything clear. I look forward to the day when he joins."

Xiao Chen said happily: "I feel relieved when you say that. In my opinion, he has been fascinated."