Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

Chapter 3715 Fellow Travelers

Before noon, Nanatsuki Koshimizu and Akiko Koizumi selected the photos they wanted to keep.

Nanatsuki Koshimizu saw the flowers and plants that Hiroki Sawada had inserted into the cracks of the monster's body, took her phone and walked away a little, took a photo of Hiroki Sawada's flower arrangement as a souvenir.

Chi Feichi expelled the excess soil from his body, and restored it to its original state with Feichi, letting Feichi wrap around his wrist, and went to the relatively flat grass nearby, using the earth power to combine a pile of stones into a stone table and stone bench.

Nanatsuki Koshimizu and Akiko Koizumi took out bottled water, processed ingredients, and seasonings from their backpacks, and put everything on the stone table.

Chi Feichi carried Sawada Hiroki to a stone bench and sat him down. He then used rocks to make a stone pot, a stone bowl, and a stone slab. After Nanatsuki Koshimizu and Akako Koizumi washed the dishes with bottled water, he poured the bottled water into the stone pot and used fire to heat the stone slab and the stone pot.

The water in the stone pot soon boiled. Under Chi Feichi's command, Nanatsuki Koshimizu put the processed chicken, mushrooms and other seasonings into the stone pot. Akako Koizumi took out chopsticks from her backpack, opened a lunch box on the table, took out the marinated meat slices from the box, and put them on the stone slab one by one.

The stone slab was roasted hot by the flames. After the fat and lean meat slices touched the stone slab, oil soon came out, sizzling on the stone slab, exuding the unique rich aroma of meat.

Chi Feichi, Nanatsuki Koshimizu, and Akako Koizumi soon sat down around the table, taking care of Sawada Hiroki, whose mind was childish after the Internet was disconnected, and had a pure stone slab roast together.

Fei Chi was lying on the stone table, and was also fed by the four people.

After eating almost all the barbecue and grilled vegetables, the four people sat together and drank chicken soup.

Koizumi Hongzi sipped the chicken soup in the stone bowl, feeling the breeze blowing across the grass, and couldn't help feeling happy. She sighed, "The ability of the Son of Nature is really suitable for camping. In the future, if we want to go camping, we don't need to bring a bunch of messy tools. It's enough to bring the Son of Nature..."

"With the ability of earth, camping will be much more convenient." Chi Feichi agreed with Koizumi Hongzi's words.

At first, he found that Koizumi Hongzi used the orb as a tool to eliminate acne and used magic to help him ask for leave from school. He also felt that Koizumi Hongzi's way of using magic was a bit of a waste of talent, but after he gained a lot of abilities himself, he gradually began to understand Koizumi Hongzi.

In this era, technology can take ordinary people to the sky and the sea, and can also provide ordinary people with powerful attack power. What magic can do originally, technology can also do a lot, and it can do better than magic.

Modern magic is in an awkward situation.

If you say it is useless, it can bring some convenience and advantages to life, but if you say it is useful, it doesn't seem to be very useful. One or two witches are not capable of defeating the power of science and technology and ruling the world. In order not to be targeted and hunted by ordinary people, witches usually have to keep a low profile. Even in daily life, some household appliances are more practical than magic. Those appliances are easy to operate and do not consume magic power. It is much more convenient to find someone to repair them than to repair magic props by yourself. There is really not much room for magic.

A person with magic is like a person who has traveled through time from the Middle Ages: he has excellent carriage driving skills, but the streets are full of cars; his sewing skills are comparable to those of masters in the Middle Ages, but the workers point to the automated machines in the factory, saying that they can do it more accurately than you and save time and trouble than handmade; he has superb swordsmanship, but can only gain an advantage in cold weapon battles, and when he encounters an opponent with a musket, he can only fight with his hands tied and feel extremely frustrated; he has such and such excellent skills, and they are obviously obtained with wisdom and sweat, but they seem to be unable to play a big role in this era...

This is a conflict between the individual and the development of the times.

Faced with this conflict, some people will stay in the glory of the past and complain all day long, some people will choose to completely abandon the old and useless knowledge and actively reshape themselves according to the characteristics of the new era, and some people will adapt to the new era while preserving the old knowledge as a kind of inheritance.

Marvin of the Montgomery family is an innovator and remodeler. He doesn't care whether magic exists or not. As long as he knows that believing in science can make himself and his family live better, he will embrace science decisively. The Red Magic Family chose the last way to deal with it, hoping that the heirs can adapt to the technological era and inherit the magic heritage.

It is not difficult to understand why the Red Magic Family made this choice.

When the Red Magic Family escaped from the center of the witch-hunting storm, they received selfless help from many families such as Montgomery. After the demise of Montgomery and other families, the Red Magic Family had no way to repay their gratitude. As a legacy of the power of the times, the Red Magic Family is a tragic symbol hidden under the trend of the times. In this case, the Red Magic Family chose to retain the heritage, probably not only for the Red Magic Family, but also to pass on some common things to those extinct families and that era.

But the Red Magic Family's choice to take both into account will inevitably add pressure to the heirs.

This requires the heirs to learn the knowledge of the new era and adapt to the technological era, while also learning the old knowledge passed down from the family to understand a world completely different from technology. In this way, the heirs will have a harder time than ordinary people and will be more likely to fall into confusion.

When the heir finds that he has paid a lot but the return is less than expected, he will certainly think about whether his ancestors' persistence is correct, whether he should innovate the old family thinking, and whether magic is really necessary to pass on.

Especially Hongzi, the heir of the Red Magic Family who can possess magic power, has to practice magic while learning both new and old knowledge to become a real witch. She will be more confused than ordinary heirs.

Before meeting him, Hongzi's mentality must have fluctuated between perseverance and giving up. Otherwise, Hongzi would not have felt heavy about the identities of "witch" and "heir of the Red Magic Family". It was only because of her sense of responsibility for family inheritance that Hongzi always stood on the side of perseverance in her actions.

After meeting him, Hongzi finally had a fellow traveler. Even if he didn't need to practice magic hard, even if he and the witch didn't belong to the same category, and his ability would probably be much stronger than the witch in the end, as long as they both had abilities that were not in the mainstream of the times, his existence would be a comfort to Hongzi, making him feel that he was not the only "medieval man". With a fellow traveler, people would not be so easily confused.

In short, for Hongzi, magic is actually good enough to be used. No matter whether it is a waste of talent, it is a good thing to bring convenience. This at least proves that magic is not useless and that you have gained benefits from your efforts, which is worth being happy about.

The same is true for him: there are not many times when you need to use your abilities, so use them when it is convenient, just as a way to improve your skill proficiency.

Of course, after he gained the earth ability, his survival ability was greatly improved. When using his own ability, he didn't have to be as restrained as before. In fact, as long as he protected his personal information, he could use his own ability to shock the world a little, such as playing a game of "Godzilla Landing at the Headquarters of the Church". However, considering that the Church might also have the ability, he thought it would be better to stay in the dark for the time being and try to accumulate advantages, so he didn't take any action.

His ability improvement this time actually gave him and Hongzi a hope: as long as their own abilities are strong enough, the constraints brought to them by the mainstream development of the times will also be reduced. Whether it is magic power or god power, it is useless when it is weak, but it may not be useless after it becomes strong.

In addition, he proposed the idea of ​​"magic and technology promote each other's development". After Hongzi found that magic has many uses waiting to be developed and magic is not on the opposite side of technology, he should no longer feel confused about the inheritance of magic.

Sometimes, confusion is also a very torturous state. It makes people anxious and worried that they have taken the wrong path, but they don't know how to go right.

He and Hongzi are friends and in a sense, "kind of people". If Hongzi is no longer troubled by confusion in the future, he will be happy for Hongzi.