Chapter 475: Ruins 19

A cluster of cold fire floated in the underground corridor. Du Zhengyi walked forward in silence, his left hand gripping the right wrist of the small puppet, which followed him forward with a blank expression. The building overhead trembled in the hurricane, as if it would be torn apart at any moment.

"Du Zhengyi, if the outside collapses, we might be buried alive here," Xiang Qian said casually, her eyes looking around with weariness. "This world shouldn't be able to contain such violent Magic; the dimensions are limited, and the energy is limited. If I were to summon a Magic hurricane as well, it might overload the Magic Energy of this small world, and then no one would be able to use high-energy Magic again. Look at the hurricane outside! They can't blame us for taking extreme measures; this place has already gone completely to the extreme."

"You and I have no problem, but those two likely don't have the ability to deal with two hurricanes," Du Zhengyi said, pushing open a broken door to reveal a pitch-black stairwell. "We should first find a place suitable for dealing with a Teleportation Mage, and handle the most dangerous person first. Although it's a bit slow, sometimes one can only use a clumsy method."

"I never imagined a kid would be teaching an old timer to use a clumsy method," Xiang Qian sneered, saying with self-mockery.

"When I was young, the method they used to educate me was to be decent and refined," Du Zhengyi said. He led the way into a corridor piled with old trash; the small puppet stumbled, and he reached out in time to steady it.

"Before you came to the Qionglin?" Xiang Qian said. "Perhaps I know where you came from."

"Perhaps." Du Zhengyi did not follow her topic, speaking ambiguously.

"You don't care?"

Du Zhengyi did not answer. They walked down the stairs, and Du Zhengyi cast two Spells. Xiang Qian suddenly asked, "Is Luo Qi the same?"

"What?" Du Zhengyi turned his head in confusion to look at her, taking a few seconds to understand where her topic had connected. "Oh, no, of course not. Luo Yisheng and his wife are his biological parents; he is a rare descendant of two consecutive generations of Mind Mages. If a Mind Mage can appear for three consecutive generations, they will definitely be a Great Mage."

"One in tens of millions, a lucky one," Xiang Qian nodded and said.

Du Zhengyi paused, "Lucky?"

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Du Zhengyi said.

"If it really comes to it, we can also build a shelter ourselves," Xiang Qian said, following Du Zhengyi into the depths of the second underground floor corridor, checking the surrounding rooms one by one. The walls here were all too thin. "Tell me about that Storm Kid you caught before? This hurricane is quite genius; did the one you caught have such high talent?"

"There's nothing to talk about; I know what you mean," Du Zhengyi said flatly.

"Tell me about it. We Battle Mages rarely like to chat, and we've missed many opportunities to exchange information. If it weren't for your rather bleak mood today, I imagine you wouldn't be chatting so much with an old person like me," Xiang Qian said, reaching out to knock on the wall.

"If this hurricane were placed in the outside world, it could sweep across half a continent," Du Zhengyi said. "High-energy Mages are already very rare; it is almost impossible for two high-energy Mages with similar talent to appear at the same time within five years. Mage Xiang, you have been a Battle Mage for at least a hundred years, haven't you? How many people have you met who can manipulate such complex, catastrophic weather? If you ask me, fire-starting and cooling Magic are as weak as the difficulty of striking a match in the face of this hurricane."

"So... you have encountered the same person a second time," Xiang Qian said dismissively. "That's really unlucky."

"If he can still be considered a person," Du Zhengyi said in a low voice. He had already selected a room at the end of the corridor; it wasn't very good, but it had a sturdy dead corner that could be utilized.

"Have you ever thought about how they use out-of-control high-energy Mages?" Xiang Qian said knowingly. Du Zhengyi had a feeling that Xiang Qian had guessed it long ago, but just like him, she chose to avoid it, or rather, chose loyalty and silence.

Du Zhengyi was silent for a while. He suddenly felt very tired, but he still said these words; keeping them in his stomach made him feel a bit sick. "When I truly began to ponder why Luo Yisheng would rather take huge risks than let Luo Qi's abilities be hidden, I vaguely guessed it."

"Pei Shu's First Laboratory, they disposed of the High-Reaction Mage's self-awareness," Xiang Qian said in a low voice, as if fearing her own echo. It was as if she couldn't believe that all the Sensing Crystals here had been dismantled by Luo Qi and Liu Ziyu, and they had accidentally decided to start talking.

"Luo Yisheng always said he did dirty work," Du Zhengyi looked at the quiet small puppet beside him; regardless of whether it was him or not, it was now completely in Luo Qi's likeness. "However, the High-Reaction Mage I captured was indeed a madman, a complete High-Reaction Mage; he was so crazy he didn't even know what he was doing. I don't know if he could still be counted as a person; in this instance, I don't want to argue the moral issue with Pei Shu."

"We Mages don't think as much as humans do," Xiang Qian said, "but we still feel sick."

"After all, we are all people, and the difference from ordinary humans is not very large," Du Zhengyi said. "I don't want to think about these things, and I don't have the time. But I think Luo Qi might retort: if humans believe that the mentally ill are no longer people, and turn to dismantling the internal organs of the mentally ill for use, what would that be? Where exactly is the so-called boundary?"

He pressed his lips together tightly, not saying the more fearful words. That was that he knew they might have already lost control, and the boundary had long since become blurred. From the moment they swallowed Luo Qi into the other side of the boundary before his eyes, he had never been able to calm down again. Come to think of it, it was clearly Luo Qi who used him as an Anchor, yet he ended up as if he had also regarded Luo Qi as an Anchor on some level; the person who was the most turbulent was him.

"Then if this is Luo Qi, what did he encounter? A Telepathic Mage even rarer than him subdued him? Cut away his self-awareness? Do you think such a Mage could exist here?" Xiang Qian suddenly said, pushing the small puppet forward, not with much force, not reaching the point of completely infuriating Du Zhengyi. "Calm down, Du Zhengyi. This cannot be Luo Qi. Your mental pressure is too great; ever since you were injured, you have been under tremendous mental pressure, and after meeting Luo Qi, things changed too violently, which only adds to your pressure. You should ponder, since he is not Luo Qi, why does he have Luo Qi's appearance instead."