Magic!

Chapter 106 104. Duncan’s warning (more updates due to Niye’s reward)

Duncan! Russell, who always had a calm expression, focused his eyes.

Isn't this the old man's friend from more than ten years ago?

Duncan is still alive? Can you still send me information?

wrong! What does he mean when he says he is outside the real world?

Russell's thoughts were spinning, and he continued reading:

"I can only affect reality to a very limited extent, and I cannot proactively disclose certain important information to the real world, such as where to rescue me and how to rescue me."

Are you trapped somewhere? Or is it in some kind of non-existence between life and death?

Was he given some kind of special ban? Can't pass certain information to the outside world? Russell suddenly had a suspicion.

"Then how should I save you?" Russell murmured in a low voice, while slowly unfolding the note, and the subsequent content of the note continued to answer his questions like a prophet:

"I can glimpse certain nodes in the future. As long as you walk through these future nodes normally and follow the trajectory of destiny, you can finally save me.

"If the college professor assigns you any tasks, you should take the initiative and actively complete these tasks before you can learn the secrets from the cult people."

The words of a good stickman are worthy of a student of the Department of Astrology and Numerology. Is this really a first-year student?

Task?

What I’m talking about here is the task assigned to me by Professor Black Amber to monitor the Red Devil Cultists of Chaos?

What does it mean to be proactive?

Russell thought for a moment and suddenly had a guess:

Professor Black Amber now leaves the others staring at the vermouth.

According to Duncan's instructions, he should take the initiative to track the status of vermouth!

Duncan foresaw that if I followed vermouth, I would find valuable information?

And this information may contain the conditions for rescuing Duncan, or at least be related to it?

"What else can I do?"

Although he knew that he was just reading a written note and not having a conversation with someone, Russell still deliberately whispered, as if the person who wrote the note could predict what he was saying in advance.

Russell spoke in a low voice while continuing to slowly unfold the note and looking down.

A new "answer" appears:

"In the next three days, you will definitely find the footprints of the devil again.

“At the end of the school year, the blood redness bred in the chaos will explode.

"Also, when you have questions in your mind in the future, the book may tell you the answer."

Russell tried to understand these few words of the magician and translated them into words he could understand:

In the next three days, will I find traces of the demon cultists' actions? Need to pay attention to this trace?

At the end of the school year, the Red Order of Chaos will make big moves.

Only 4 months left!

"The scroll may tell you the answer"? What does this mean? Russell was incomprehensible.

He suspected that Duncan meant that if he encountered any problems in the future, he could consider searching for books in the college library.

Because in the current Internet era, physical books are used less and less, and the most concentrated place for books is the library.

There may be secrets in the college library that you are not aware of!

Russell's eyes moved to the end of the note and read the last few lines:

"One final reminder, remember, don't tell anyone!"

If it weren't for Duncan's emphasis, Russell would very much like to tell the old man this information.

If this student who had been repeating grades for decades knew that his former best friend Duncan had sent a message, he would definitely be very excited... Thinking of this, Russell was actually a little sentimental.

Two classmates who spanned time and space could not meet each other for some reason.

Just as Russell was thinking about what to do with the note, the note suddenly burst into flames.

A faint blue flame rose from the white paper, and the next moment, the entire note was engulfed in flames.

The flame suddenly appeared and disappeared, leaving not even ashes behind. And Russell's hands didn't feel the heat of the flames.

The note was gone, and my hand was empty, with nothing in it.

Everything just now, Duncan's plea for help, warnings and reminders about the future, everything seemed like a dream.

Russell turned his head and saw Subway sitting in his seat playing with his mobile phone, completely unaware of the strange movement on his side.

Do you want to trust this Duncan? Russell tapped his fingers on the table, lost in thought.

What's more, even if the initiator of the distress letter calls himself Duncan, it may not be the Duncan the old man knows, or it may be someone else pretending to be Duncan.

Traces of Satanists will be found in the next three days... Actively track vermouth... If you encounter any problems, you can go to the library to check the books... Russell probably went through these Duncan's warnings in his mind and wrote them down.

There seems to be no trace of a trap in these warnings, and they only involve things that normal Russell would do.

After thinking for a while, Russell put the previous episode behind him, returned to reality, and turned his attention to the computer in front of his desk, ready to continue his original task——

It's time to buy some extraordinary items.

Russell clicked the mouse and found the transaction area of ​​the college's official website.

Except for a quick look at it when he first started school, Russell hasn't browsed the trading area much since then.

The transactions on the official website of the college follow a set of fair rules. Any student can register a store and list the items he wants to sell in the official website trading area.

There are also cases where multiple students work together to run a store. Most of the students who jointly run a shop are from the same college force and represent a certain gang in the college that runs the shop.

After watching it for a while, Russell suddenly realized something was wrong:

"Strange, compared to the beginning of the school year, why have the prices of extraordinary items in the official website's trading area increased so much?"

Take the lightning strike talisman as an example - it is the same talisman that Russell used on the Emerald Cat during the previous magic showdown. Russell noticed at the beginning of the school year that the price of this second-year level talisman is about 4 to 5 college gold coins, which is relatively rare. At most, it can only be sold for 6 college gold coins.

But now, the price of the same lightning strike spell has actually increased to 8 college gold coins.

Russell compared several other impressive products, and the prices were all higher than before.

What's even stranger is that the shops in the trading area are now very different from those at the beginning of the school year.

Russell saw several cheaper stores before and deliberately collected them, but now they have all been written off.

Nowadays, the prices in the remaining stores are not very fair.

"Fortunately, I saw the prices half a year ago and knew that these products could be cheaper. Otherwise, I would have placed the order." Russell felt dissatisfied.

Of the college gold coins he had on hand, after deducting the second-year tuition and textbook budget, he still had 32 gold coins at his disposal. However, at the current prices of mainstream extraordinary items in the trading area, he could not buy anything and squandered them all.

Russell was even lucky that he spent 2 gold coins to buy various occult materials a few months ago. If you buy it now, you will definitely waste more money.

"What's going on? Has the price been raised collectively?"

Russell glanced at the few dozen or so shops left in the trading area.

The name of a store attracted him.

"White Wolf Club Store"

The customer service staff was an old acquaintance - Ms. Osprey, who was almost killed by Russell's fireball.

You White Wolf Club students still engage in this side job?

Russell browsed the store and found that he could not find the extraordinary items he wanted, and the prices were as expensive as other stores.

He opened the customer service Osprey's chat interface anonymously, intending to ask her what happened recently.

"Are you there?" Russell asked.

Osprey immediately replied:

"Madam, you said you wanted to divine your relationship situation before. Let me help you figure it out using the astrolabe and plum blossom number. You are a Virgo and belong to the tiger. He is an ENTJ personality and was born at midnight. What you saw in your dream The half-golden dragon and rabbit, according to dream interpretation, symbolizes prosperity that cannot last long. Then take into account the tarot divination results of the tower's upright position, as well as your face with a full forehead. We did a regression analysis on the above data and came up with the final suggestions. ——You two, it’s better to break up.”

"Customer service, did you reply to the wrong person? And your divination method is quite complex." Russell replied.

"Sorry, sorry, I got confused and replied to the wrong person. Just now I was replying to a customer who was experiencing fortune-telling services." Osprey quickly apologized, "This customer, do you have any questions?"

"Excuse me, why are the extraordinary items sold in your store so expensive?" Russell asked.

"Everyone has this price, dear."

"But when I looked at it a few months ago, the prices of extraordinary items and materials in the trading area of ​​the academy's official website were not that high. What happened recently? Did everyone increase the prices so much?" Russell asked.

On the other end of the computer, Osprey was silent for a while before replying:

"Anyway, the price is like this. The specific reasons for the price adjustment are very complicated and it's not convenient for me to say. Which product you like, you can negotiate a little price, but you can't say too much. If you really can't accept this price, then Never mind."

According to Osprey, there is indeed an ulterior reason here! Russell thought.