The Death Knell

In the small yard, a piece of wintersweet is blooming. Even if there are snowflakes in the sky, the curved branches are still full of pale yellow flowers, wrapped in frost-like snow.

This courtyard is just a part of the huge garden. If you look along the covered bridges covered with green tiles, you can see that they are connected to more buildings and courtyards. And if you look down from the edge here, it is endless. The snowy mountains and the seemingly endless distance.

The wind blew up some snowflakes on the hillside, and these smoky white satins surrounded the entire valley, making everything look like a dream.

Su Ming pushed open the door of the main room in the courtyard. The upper half of the door had lattice windows covered with window paper, and the lower half was embossed with plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums, full of oriental charm.

He walked straight in and sat down behind a low table in the middle of the hall in a familiar manner. He lit the small stove on the side, put the copper teapot that was slightly blackened, and took out some small jars to look through. As if thinking about what tea to drink.

"Where is this?"

Of course, Hermione, who came here with him, was obviously surprised. Although it had been snowing in the courtyard, the temperature of the surrounding air was always over 20 degrees, and the snow still refused to melt.

This made her feel that all her past courses were in vain, which was obviously illogical.

"Marvel Earth 40K, my main world, your current location is the Kama Taj Temple, but just think of it as a school." Su Ming looked up from behind the low table with a smile. There was a sandalwood tree in the room. The smell of incense and other expensive aromatherapy is as if the incense burner starts to operate automatically when someone comes in.

"Do you really have a magic school?"

Miss Granger pursed her lips. She was very curious about everything in a strange place. She reached out to touch the gilt-bronze crane on the side, and then opened the golden toad incense burner not far away to see what was inside.

"Of course, including the things I told you in the past, many of them are true. At that time, your level of understanding was not as high as the truth, and you would only think that they were jokes." The professor put his arms on the table and supported his own He was holding a tea can the size of a flash grenade and playing with it.

She found a small table and sat down. Not used to sitting cross-legged on a cushion, she swayed a little: "Am I really in another world?"

"If it's true, in the following days, you will learn several new systems of magic here. There are advantages and disadvantages to using 'cost' or 'spell slots'... By the way, the time of this universe The thread is under my control, and I can activate your time converter and give it similar functions to before, so that you can learn better."

The little girl looked numb. She knew this would happen. After so many years, he could always find something to do for himself.

"Then who will teach me? You never seem to teach me magic." Hermione tilted her head.

"It's been prepared a long time ago." Su Ming smiled slightly, pulled out a red telephone from under the low table, and pressed a button: "It's me, help me inform Master Mordenkainen in the spider space. I will tell him What was said should be done.”

She was not surprised to see the phone here. Her professor had this mixed style.

Putting down the phone, Su Ming motioned her to wait for a while, and started chatting: "I'll get you a new phone later. It will be convenient to contact you then. You can also access the Internet. Kama Taj is WIFI." It’s fully covered, I guess you won’t want to go home once you’re used to having internet.”

"No way, my parents and friends are still there, and there are still a lot of things I haven't done."

Hermione rolled her eyes. She wasn't sure what the net the professor was talking about was, but even if she starved to death and jumped from this mountain, there was no way she wouldn't be able to go home.

"In short, there are plenty of rooms in Kama Taj. You can go to school or live on campus." Su Ming did not compete with her. Now even Hamil holds a mobile phone every day. How could the young man stop him: "Oh, yours The new teacher is here."

As soon as Hermione turned around, she saw a bald man with an evil smile on his face entering the room. The mage was wearing a gorgeous robe, the kind embellished with gold threads and gems.

But this man looked very fierce just by looking at his face, as if he was always holding back something bad.

"Supreme Mage, haha... It seems that my new student is ready."

Mordenkainen's hawk-like gaze fell on Hermione's face, revealing a weird smile that was uglier than crying.

The little girl looked at the professor secretly with an embarrassed look on her face, asking if she could change to another one? Doesn't this look gloomy too?

Since it is a magic school, there should be many teachers. Are there any female teachers? The kinder and kinder one.

However, there really were no female teachers after Kama Taj left. There were female students, but they had not yet passed the exam for senior professional titles and could not become teachers.

"Do you think Master Mordenkainen is too harsh? It doesn't matter. As my apprentice, of course you have the right to choose." As if seeing her thoughts, Su Ming nodded and picked up the phone again: "Let Modu come and meet you. A trip to the guest room.”

The golden portal appeared instantly, and a muscular man with a smile on his face came out. He was wearing tight black leather pants, but only an X-shaped leather strap tightened around his upper body. His big hands continued to smooth the olives on his chest. Oil.

The black chest hair was like sticky waterweed, tangled into a ball, Modu chuckled:

"Master, you called me? Is there any pleasant task? I will definitely handle it."

Su Ming turned to look at the girl, raised his hand and made a "please look" gesture: "Okay, you choose, whether it is Master Mordenkainen or Master Mordo, their magic strength is enough to teach you."

What else to choose? ! Hermione covered her eyes.

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That night, the secluded Wilson Mountain Villa in the mountains of Maine.

There are advantages and disadvantages to living with a Valkyrie. The advantage is that there is always food to eat when you go home, but the disadvantage is that three meals a day are all barbecue.

But as long as she is happy, Su Ming can eat anything. His body can survive on X metal and cosmic energy. Now eating is just to make life more ritualistic.

After dinner, the two hugged each other and leaned on the sofa to watch TV. The TV in the villa has now been replaced with a large LCD screen. The products of Wilson Enterprises have already penetrated into all aspects of human society.

"How has the situation been at Marvel these years?"

"What do you mean? Our preparations? Or the emergence of seven other parallel universes to allow us to upgrade our diversity?"

Gin was holding the wine bottle in her hand, her blond hair spread behind her head and bent against the back of the sofa.

"Both." Su Ming grabbed her hand and kissed it.

"Things are calm, except for Thanos expanding his power throughout the universe. More and more refugees are entering the earth after the destruction of the Skrulls' home planet. The battle in hell is still going on. Things are happening within the Shi'ar Empire and the Kree Empire. There was a rebellion, there was a big war between the mutants on the earth... Apart from major events such as Pioneer Technology almost blowing us all up into the sky, there are no other particularly obvious problems in the main world."

Gin smiled and touched his face, resting her head on his shoulder.

"Well, it sounds quite peaceful. What about the seven parallel universes in 40K?" Su Ming continued to ask.

Valkyrie took a few sips of wine and raised her hand to wipe her mouth: "We are not in those worlds. They are just ordinary worlds. They are like closed loops of time divided by Kang. They have no past and no future. They can be used as posters. Gardens, but don’t expect them to be of any use.”

"Then let's arrange to grow food. People always need to eat. It will be useful in the future."

Su Ming picked up the remote control and changed the channel. He didn't want to watch soap operas, but he soon stopped on a news channel.

The news being broadcast at this time is that the newly built private space station encountered an unprecedented supernova explosion. Due to the strong radiation, it is impossible to determine whether the four-person scientific team headed by Dr. Reed Richards survived. NASA is trying to determine Orbit, launch another spacecraft to explore...

"Tsk, these four...don't care." He picked up the gin next to him and walked towards the bedroom.