Hunting High School

Similar to the development of most urban areas in the old era, the closer to the transportation hub, the more prosperous it is, and the farther away from the transportation hub, the more desolate and deserted.

This point is particularly prominent in the northern area of ​​Beta Town.

As the distribution center for goods and people in the North District, the North District Wharf is undoubtedly the largest transportation hub here. Therefore, a slightly deformed prosperous area has been formed near the wharf compared to the entire concave area.

But walking along the Pier Avenue to the interior of the North District, you don't need to walk for too long to pierce the "emperor's coat" in this prosperous area and start to get in touch with the reality of the concave area.

Rough wooden partitions, dilapidated signboards that were whitened by rain, exposed steel bars on the walls, moldy bamboo huts, and tents filled with pudding. As far as the eyes can see, what they see is such a scene that seems to have nothing to do with the name Beta Town.

The blank walls on both sides of the street are covered with strange graffiti of various colors, including incomplete runes, chaotic spells, disordered magic circles, and curses with unknown meanings, many of which are flickering in a chilling scarlet color. The graffiti made the silent chaos of the neighborhood very clear to the guests.

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Except for Xiao Xiao, Zheng Qing felt that no one would be interested in this block, and he couldn't understand at all what Dr. Xiao Da's intention was for copying those weird graffiti on both sides of the street.

"Knowledge, insights... are hidden in places we can't see every day." Dr. Xiao Da explained.

Zheng Qing pouted, disapproving of this explanation.

He urgently needs a hidden corner now, so that he can grab the frog's tongue off his wrist and throw it away. A corner not far ahead seemed to be such a place he needed.

Turning the corner, Zheng Qing's raised arm was fixed in mid-air, and the relaxed smile on the corner of his mouth hadn't completely faded away before it quickly subsided, turning into a wave of annoyance and frustration.

An old man with a dark complexion and wrinkled face was wrapped in a dirty robe, hiding in this concave barrier on the corner of the street. Zheng Qing took a step towards the retreat and looked around.

That's right, he was 80% sure that this place should be a garbage dump. Moreover, the scattered sundries and medicinal residues in the block also proved his judgment very well.

But who would sit safely in the trash as if it were his home?

Seeing the old man's peaceful attitude, Zheng Qing had some doubts about his own judgment.

The sudden appearance of the stranger did not panic the old wizard who was suspected to be sitting in the garbage dump. He even took the time to make a hand gesture, and a string of crackling sparks burst out from his fingertips, like a bunch of tiny It was like fireworks, and Zheng Qing, who was looking directly at it, was terrified, lest he accidentally set off a fire and cause a catastrophe.

Xiao Xiao turned around the street corner expressionlessly, just popped out a copper coin, and threw it into the upside-down felt hat in front of the old man. It was only then that Zheng Qing noticed that there were still some old coppers, moldy slices of bread and fragments of peel in the felt hat.

"If you want to get rid of that frog tongue, this is a good place." When Xin Fatty passed by Zheng Qing, he said so casually.

The young wizard hesitated for a moment, then took off the so-called amulet made of the frog's tongue from his wrist, then took out a copper coin from the gray cloth bag, and threw them together into the broken felt hat in front of the old man.

"Merlin bless you, kind Young Master." The old man seemed to be awakened by the crisp sound of copper rolling, his eyes barely opened a slit, and a dry and insincere smile cracked on his face.

This smile frightened Zheng Qing and ran away.

"Is this the life state of magicians?" Zheng Qing trotted a few steps, followed his companion not far in front, and asked in a low voice: "It's worse than I imagined...why does he look like a beggar? !"

"He is indeed a beggar." Xin Fatty glanced at him sideways, and his tone seemed surprised: "Did anyone say that wizards can't be beggars?"

Zheng Qing's expression was stunned.

In his subconscious mind, all wizards can do magic, and the essence of magic is to make the impossible possible. With this premise, he never thought that a wizard would become a beggar, even a magician.

"Why doesn't he want to find a way to go outside? Like his little trick just now, being outside is enough to make him a good magician...I mean the tricks of the white men." Zheng Qing muttered, expressing his own thoughts.

"All kinds of reasons have history and reality, external law and self-choice." Xiao Xiao did not perfuse Zheng Qing's question, and answered quite seriously: "Just like the old magician just now, the one you saw String of sparks is the magic he has been playing for a lifetime, and he is best at... This place is called the concave area, and there is a reason. As for the reason for not going out, regardless of the tedious and legal process of submitting applications, some magicians are out of character Not good, banned from leaving the country by the Wizarding Union; and some stayed here voluntarily."

"Voluntary?" Zheng Qing felt unable to understand.

"Life has been here all my life, and I didn't have the courage to go out when I was young. Why do you think he will have the courage to touch that strange environment when he is old? The comfort zone of life and the comfort zone of spirit are two different things." Concept." Xiao Xiao's answer was a bit sharp:

"As for when you were young... when you were young, who didn't have any dreams!"

"Young magicians naturally have dreams. They are more ambitious than most wizards, and they hope to touch the true meaning of magic. When you are in the well, you can accept the sky as big as your palm; but you can see the endless starry sky When you are young, you can’t accept that you are dying of old age in a dry well. When dreams slip by your fingertips, do you try your best to catch them, or are you indifferent?”

"Of course I tried my best to catch it." Zheng Qing replied immediately.

"So they are trapped here." Xiao Xiao stopped, looked around, and sighed softly: "So, this is a concave area, and it is also a mountainous area. People at the foot of the mountain want to climb up, and people on the mountain are always so far away , and more, those poor souls who were frozen to death on the mountain road and turned into stone monuments."

"I want to write your words into the investigation report, as an introduction, no, as a concluding statement, no, no, let me think about it again." Xin Fatty quickly recorded Xiao Xiao's comments just now, delighted Said.

Dr. Xiao gave him a sideways glance, and spread his hand in front of Fatty.

Fatty froze for a moment.

"Running the pen." Xiao Xiao summed up his request in a short word.

There was nothing wrong with it, Zheng Qing laughed from the sidelines.