Magus Tech (Technological Wizard)

The old man was dumbfounded watching Pandora drink all the hot water. Fortunately, Li Cha pulled the old man's attention in time and said: "This old gentleman, tell me about the castle, you just now Seeing the two of me walking out, the reaction was a bit abnormal, what's going on?"

"Uh, what about this?" The old man settled down, then hesitated, "How should I put this..."

"You can say whatever you want," Richard said.

"Okay..." The old man took a deep breath and spoke slowly.

After a while, Li Cha learned a lot about the situation.

The old man in front of him is the head of the current Arubak village. According to the old man, the castle existed before the village, and no one knows when it was built.

Strange to say, although the castle has always existed, it has never seen anyone come in or out, and it seems to be vacant all the time, but at night, you can occasionally see light from some windows of the castle, as if it is haunted.

Some daring youths from the village once ventured into the castle to explore to see what was going on...but...

"Gudong——" the old man swallowed, with a terrified expression on his face, and slowly said the result, "But... as long as you enter that castle, no one can come out alive."

"Is there such a thing?"

"Yes." The old man tried his best to calm down, picked up his cup of barley tea, took a sip, and said very seriously, "That's why I was so scared when I saw you and this little girl coming out of the castle just now , I thought you were...gudong...ghosts."

"Ghosts?" Li Cha smiled, "We are not ghosts, ghosts can't be active during the day, old man?"

"That's true." The old man nodded and agreed, "No matter how daring a ghost is, it won't come out until night, so who are you and why did you enter that old castle?"

"It's a bit complicated to say, but to put it simply, someone told me an address. I followed the address all the way to find this place, and then saw the castle, so I went in and took a look. After reading it, I found that the castle was empty. , I had to come out, hoping to find some other clues, and then I saw you."

"If you really want to find some clues or people, I would recommend you to visit a few big cities nearby." The old man said, giving advice very kindly.

"Nearby big city?"

"right.

The old man nodded, "For example, the city of Aga in the north, the city of Dole in the south, or the city of Morton in the east. There are more people there, and there are all kinds of characters, which may help you find the person you are looking for. "

Li Cha's eyes flickered when he heard this, he nodded after thinking for a while and said, "That makes sense, thank you very much."

"You're welcome." The old man said, "but please allow me not to send you away. After all, my old bones can't stand the toss. I felt like I was going to fall apart just now because I was afraid to run away. Now my whole body hurts Terrible, the cold air is constantly penetrating into the cracks in the bones, you must drink more hot tea to warm your body."

As he spoke, the old man picked up the wooden cup with slightly trembling hands, and continued to sip it sharply.

Li Cha stood up with a smile, and said to the old man, "Old man, you should have a good rest. I won't bother you, so I'll leave now. By the way, please accept this silver coin, it's my thanks. "Speaking, Li Cha put a silver coin on the table.

Old man: "Uh..."

The next moment, Li Cha nodded to the old man, said nothing more, pulled Pandora, turned around, walked out of the thatched cottage, and walked into the distance.

In the thatched hut, seeing Li Cha leave, the old man stood up slowly, glanced at the silver coins on the table and picked them up, then walked to the door.

Seeing the direction in which Li Cha left, the old man's eyes flickered, he didn't know what he was thinking, and the silver coins kept turning in his hands.

After a while, the old man suddenly remembered something negligent, his expression changed slightly, and the silver coin in his hand was instantly crushed with a "pop".

"It's broken!" the old man said, "I said the wrong thing! But... that kid may not have noticed."

"Well, I probably didn't notice it." The old man said in a deep voice, retreated slowly, closed the door, sat down at the wooden table, and said with a cloudy expression, "There is a high probability that I didn't notice it, it should be..."

...

the other side.

Li Cha and Pandora walked out of the village. Li Cha was thinking about whether to follow the old man's advice and go to a nearby city to settle down. In this way, you can research things and explore the secrets of the Black Spirit King, while looking for the cat slave girl Heidi.

Just thinking about it, Li Cha blinked and suddenly said, "No!"

"Huh?" Pandora, who was following, tilted her head, looked at Li Cha suspiciously, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"That old man is wrong." Richard said, "I remember that I didn't tell him who I was looking for, I just said that I was looking for some clues. If this is the case, how did he know that the purpose of my looking for clues is Looking for someone? And tell me, where can I find the person I'm looking for in Aga City, Dole City, or Morton City?"

Pandora's eyes widened, and he hesitated: "Are you... asking me?"

Li Cha didn't respond, turned his head to look aside, and said to himself: "Obviously there is only one explanation. That old man should have known my purpose long ago. He pretended to be like that on purpose. Maybe he is someone from the castle. , know where the people in the castle have gone, and deliberately lead me to the wrong place."

After saying this, Li Cha's eyes fixed, he pulled Pandora back to the way he came from.

"Walk!"

...

After a few minutes.

Li Cha reappeared in front of the familiar thatched cottage, and pushed the door open with a "squeak".

Inside the thatched hut, the old man was sitting behind the table, drinking tea. Hearing the sound of the door opening, he slowly put down his teacup and looked up. After seeing that it was Li Cha, his expression didn't change much, but he asked slowly, "What are you doing back?"

"I want to make sure of one thing." Li Cha stared into the old man's eyes and said, "That is, old man, how did you know that I was looking for someone before I told you 'I'm looking for someone'? "

The old man was silent, and said quietly for a while: "Do you want to confirm this matter? Or, have you already confirmed it?"

"So you admit that you're lying to me?"

"Boy, since you can see it, the smartest thing to do is not to expose all of this." The old man said, his rickety body gradually straightened, and a gloomy and cold breath radiated from his body, "Every existence has It's reasonable, and acting recklessly like you will only make things worse."

"How bad will it be?"

"It's as bad as it is now!" The old man roared, and with a wave of his hand, a lot of black air gushed out. ()