Chapter 1656: Bruce Wei En and the Philosopher's Stone (Part 7)

Schiller met little Bruce on the way back to the dean's office after dinner.

Because it was close to lights-out time, all of little Bruce's followers had returned to their houses and were no longer following him. He returned to the dormitory alone, and just as he turned the corner, he ran into Schiller who was about to return to the office.

"Ah!" Little Bruce was startled, so he screamed. Schiller raised his eyebrows slightly, looked him up and down and asked: "Mr. Wei En, why are you not going back to sleep so late? What are you running around in the corridor for?"

"I'm not running around." Little Bruce retorted instinctively. He looked up at Schiller and said with some complaint: "Besides, it's only eight o'clock now. Only a three-year-old child would go to bed at eight o'clock."

"Well, it seems you are not sleepy. Since you have so much time, tell me how you came here."

"I just want to visit the school, I..."

"I mean, how did you come to this universe?" Schiller looked into little Bruce's eyes and asked: "You are Bruce Wei En, just another Bruce Wei En from another universe, right?"

Little Bruce immediately widened his eyes. He opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to deny it, but finally said quite irritably: "Yes, I am Bruce Wei En. Those idiots thought I was an illegitimate son. It's really stupid and unreasonable."

"Then how did you get here?"

"I..." Little Bruce paused, suddenly as if someone had stepped on his tail, looked up at Schiller, and said in a sharp voice: "Why should I tell you? What does this have to do with you?!"

"I am just caring about you as the dean of this academy." Schiller said unhurriedly. He looked little Bruce up and down, and then said: "You lost your school uniform. If you tell me the truth, I will give you a new set, how about that?"

"I won't wear that ugly school uniform." Little Bruce hugged his arms and turned his head to the side, saying: "You are all the same. You must preach to me with those big truths about integrating into society. Why should I dress the same as that group of idiots?"

Schiller raised his head slightly. He looked at little Bruce with eyes that began to become focused. This slightly neurotic look made little Bruce feel a chill on his back. He instinctively took two steps back and stammered: "You, what are you looking at me for?"

Suddenly, Schiller showed a look of understanding. He touched his chin lightly, and then said: "You quarreled with your butler because he hoped you could return to school as soon as possible. You ran away from home and met someone who had similar ideas to you... Who could it be? Joker?... No, then you wouldn't have lived until now... John Constantine?"

Little Bruce finally showed a look of being truly frightened. He took two steps back in a panic, looked at Schiller in disbelief and said: "Can you read minds? Can you read my memory?!"

"No, I'm just speculating." Schiller took a magic wand that Strange gave him from his sleeve, and then he touched the side of the wand with his fingers, and then said: "You met Constantine, but judging from your age, he should also be very young, with rebellious ideas similar to yours."

"It's just that his rebellion stems from the environment he lives in and the unique magical talent he possesses, while you, your hatred for ordinary people comes from... their prejudice, to be precise, their pity."

"After your parents passed away, many people should have looked at you with pity, but you don't like this gaze, as if you are a little pitiful person who can't do anything without your parents."

"Your butler hopes you can return to normal school life, but as soon as you think that once you return to school, they will look at you with such eyes again, you feel very irritable and determined not to go back, so you choose to run away from home."

"After running away from home, you met Constantine who came to Cat Getan, but why did he come to Cat Getan?... Because of debt? Can't he pay off his debt?"

Schiller narrowed his eyes slightly, combined the slightly messy information in his brain, and then said: "His magic went wrong, causing his debt to be unable to be repaid smoothly, so he came to Cat Getan to seek a solution, and then met you who ran away from home."

"His more extreme and rebellious ideas made you more convinced that your view was correct, so you performed more and more extremely."

"Can you tell me who brought you here? Mr. Wei En?"

Little Bruce looked at Schiller a bit blankly. He pursed his lips tightly, trying his best to maintain his expression, not letting himself show a look of fear, like a trapped young beast.

"If you tell me now, you might get some benefits from me, but if you don't tell me, I will always be able to guess it one day. You have seen it, haven't you?"

"You damn evil mage!" Little Bruce gritted his teeth and said: "You peeked into my memory. Constantine was right, there is no good person among mages!"

"You can understand it that way." Schiller shook his head lightly, and then asked: "So do you intend to tell me?"

"I..." Little Bruce took a deep breath, but still summoned the courage to look into Schiller's eyes, but moved his gaze away in a panic when he touched those gray eyes.

"The mage named John Constantine said something about 'the runes of divine power being changed'. He drew a large magic circle on the ground and modified it there for several hours."

"And then?"

"I did quarrel with Alfred because he insisted that I attend the opening ceremony on time. I felt very angry, so I ran out of Wei En Manor, but I had nowhere to go. After meeting Constantine, I kept watching him draw the magic circle."

Little Bruce opened his mouth again, seemingly feeling that what he was about to say was a bit shocking, hesitating whether to continue, but after a pause, he still continued.

"I understood."

"What?"

"I understood how those runes of divine power work. Someone is constantly changing the way they are used. That Constantine is like a stupid fish seeing tempting bait. He is about to be hooked."

"So you..."

"I took advantage of the divine power he had used and the runes of condensing time to lock the state of the magic circle when he was away. This can temporarily immunize against the changes made by the source of divine power to the way power passes."

"Did it work?"

Little Bruce showed a slightly embarrassed expression again, but finally he shook his head and said: "I'm not sure. The magic circle emitted a very strong light. Vaguely, I saw a pair of eyes. The moment our eyes met, the magic circle collapsed."

"Later, Alfred found me. I followed him back to Wei En Manor. A few days later, a big bat flew to the attic of my house. I received the admission notice for this Academy of Magic."

"I can't figure out what's going on." Little Bruce licked his lips, which were a bit dry due to nervousness, with his tongue. After swallowing, he said: "I saw words like 'Heaven' in the runes of divine power that Constantine engraved."

"Do you want to know if your parents went to Heaven?"

"They all say so..."

Little Bruce began to become nervous and irritable again. He kept turning his eyes, refusing to look at anyone, and his finger muscles were also twitching. He said at a fast speed: "At the funeral, everyone said they would go to Heaven, and Alfred also said that if I were pious enough, I could see them later, but I know this is just ghost talk to fool children."

"People are dead when they are dead, there is no later, but I didn't know there was magic in this world at that time."

"Do you want to resurrect your parents?"

"Constantine said resurrection is a trap of angels and demons." Little Bruce took a deep breath, then lowered his head and said: "This cannot lure me like it lures other children who have lost their parents, because I know everything has a price."

"Very good, I hope you can always be so firm."

Little Bruce looked up at Schiller. He didn't understand what Schiller meant by this. When Schiller turned and left, little Bruce stared tightly at his back. The fear and tension had not completely dissipated, and when the cold wind in the corridor blew, the bone-chilling coolness from his back reminded him that the back of his shirt had been completely soaked with cold sweat.

"Rodriguez..." When little Bruce turned around and read the name, the forceful tone was as if he was about to crush the words.

Originally, he chose this house just because he wanted to find news about Heaven in the countless materials about the magical world. The house that learns theory is the most suitable, but now he feels that in front of this mysterious dean, it is as if all his thoughts have been seen through.

Is mind reading also a kind of magic?

When discovering that one might have all one's thoughts read by others, the feeling of being peeped at will make people feel great pressure. Little Bruce returned to the dormitory with a heavy heart, and then saw Barry standing in the middle of the students in the common room saying something.

"... I don't think I have the right to be above other students, but I'm afraid I still have to tirelessly remind you to abide by school rules, respect teachers and classmates, and be responsible for your own safety and the safety of others."

"I must emphasize again that the second room at the end of the corridor on the fourth floor of the main castle cannot be entered. There are some important things there. Not touching things that others don't let you touch is the most basic quality and politeness."

"Don't make incompetence sound so good..."

Little Bruce's voice came from the door. Barry immediately looked over with a frown. Little Bruce walked over with a gloomy face. He looked Barry up and down, then walked straight past his side, and deliberately bumped into his shoulder.

"Return it to you." Little Bruce said this, turned and entered his dormitory, and then closed the door with a "bang".

Everyone looked at Barry. Barry stared at Bruce's bedroom door with a frown. After a while, he shook his head and said: "If Mr. Wei En insists on being a bad role model, we don't need to care too much about him, because without those followers, he alone can't do anything, so why should we care about him?"

He deliberately raised his volume a little to ensure that his voice could pass through the door. Sure enough, the door opened again, and Bruce rushed out from inside with an angry face.

He rushed directly to Barry, grabbed Barry's collar, and raised his fist. The surrounding students became panicked.

But at this time, Harley walked out of the room rubbing her eyes and said with some dissatisfaction: "What are you doing without sleeping in the middle of the night? Lei Fa, Lei Fa, don't you intend to manage it?"

Kane and other senior students were called out of the room. Kane walked over, looked at the two arguing in the field with a serious tone and said: "It's sleeping time now, go back to your dormitory immediately."

Little Bruce looked left and right at the senior students who gathered around, let go of Barry's collar like venting, and pushed him along the way.

Seeing the slightly dissatisfied expressions of the senior students around, Kane sighed, and then said: "Disputes between students of the same grade are not allowed in the school. This seriously violates school rules, and your quarrel has affected others."

"I'm afraid I have to tell you that you have to go to clean the big garden together tomorrow morning, and you, Harley, your homework is not finished, go with them tomorrow." ===== CHAPTER 1657 =====