【Thousand Fantasy】Snake and Rabbit in the Same Cage

Chapter 4

·Love is wanting to touch and take back

The dead blue sheep were washed for a long time in the imaginary heavy rain, but no passerby took a step forward.For humans, hiding from the rain is more important than spying on the cause of death of an orc, not to mention they can always see such a death.Huan watched the humans appearing in the alley one after another, only caring about the hurrying humans, and couldn't help but want the heavy rain to last for a while longer in the perception of every human who ignored the death of blue sheep.

They would be drenched to the skin and the cold would linger even when they took off their clothes.This is just a small vent of the anger that the rabbit illusionist has been holding back for a long time.

After a while, Huan said to Qiankong: "There is a funeral home in front, I'll go say hello to the boss."

Disposing of orc corpses is the voluntary work of all funeral homes.They don't have to build coffins, officiate funerals, or pick a burial site.Just clean up the dead bodies.

In human society, orcs die quietly every day.They handle this kind of thing with ease.

Of course, the orcs don't believe in the afterlife, so they don't care what happens to the dead body.To be buried in the black earth, to be decomposed into elements again, and to return to nature is the best destination.And the slightly worse destination is to disappear in the belly of a certain beast clan.

There is not much difference.

The owner of the funeral home with a black signboard opened the door impatiently after hearing the knock on the door. Seeing a young man with the appearance of a wizard standing outside, his face was immediately filled with a flattering smile.

Qian Kong saw what Huan was saying to the boss from a distance, and the other party nodded repeatedly.After explaining, Huan came over and said, "Let's go, we'll leave the rest to him."

Just like his illusion, the haze in the rabbit's eyes was swept away.He put on his smiling face again, but saw that the snake's expression was still dignified.

"What's the matter with you, isn't this the first time you've seen a violent corpse on the street?" He deliberately said in a joking tone: "Impossible, you should be more used to corpses than I am."

It's the first time.Senku wanted to say that, but he didn't think Rabbit would believe it.

Ishigami Island has been isolated from the world for a long time, so long that if it wasn't for the frequent invasion by humans, they would not know that such a huge empire has been established on the road next to it.I also don't know that those little animals who were once invited by them but refused to live with them because of fear are now surviving under the unequal covenant with humans.

He was silent for a long time, took off the dagger hanging from his waist, and handed it to Huan.

"Why?" Rabbit was puzzled.

"Pull it out and have a look." Qian Kong said.

The unsheathed dagger was carved with strange patterns, extending from the hilt to the tip.Like the veins of leaves, but also like blood vessels.

"I made this myself for fun." Qian Kong explained embarrassingly: "My venom is injected into the hilt of the knife. You only need to activate a little magic power, and the venom will spread all over the blade along these grooves. No matter how powerful the magic power is, If the orcs are poisoned, they will be paralyzed for at least a moment."

"Oh, your hands are so skillful." Huan was attracted by the fine lines, looked at it for a long time, then raised his head in surprise and asked, "Give it to me?"

"It's not something valuable, you should use it for self-defense." Qian Kong felt even more embarrassed when he saw the rabbit's eyes flicker.He didn't expect that the things that he hung on his belt as tools when he went out could come in handy.He continued: "This poison also has an effect on me. If you hold it, you don't have to worry about it all day long."

Gen really wanted to argue that I wasn't worried, it was just a physiological reaction.Just like a pepper sneezes when it gets in its nose, a rabbit gets scared when it sees a snake.

But he still didn't argue.

He knew that Qian Kong was worried about him.The guy couldn't speak soft words, so he had to use this method to divert his attention from his sadness.Maybe it's my own preconceived ideas, fantasy.Not all the superior orcs killed brutally. Didn't the prairie wolf let him go?

"Thank you." He put away the dagger and said with a smile, "I hope I won't use it against you."

This time it was probably a genuine smile, Qianku thought as he looked at him.

They continued to walk forward, and after passing a bridge across the river, Gen signaled that he had arrived at his destination.

The Central Library was even bigger than he had imagined, occupying an entire residential block.There are countless wizards and students from the Wizarding Academy inside, and there are people in cloaks everywhere.In such an environment where he couldn't help but feel a little nervous, Geng behaved calmly.He will put his hands on his chest and salute when he meets the eyes of other wizards.Even if the opponent is in the white robe, there is still no clue.

Such a scene is nothing to Phantom.When he performed for the king, the high priest stood beside the king. Didn't he also fail to see through his illusion when he was prepared?

Qian Kong followed suit, and soon learned the correct greeting etiquette between wizards.He found that when he saluted, most wizards would not look at him directly.Some people will deliberately turn a blind eye to it, as if returning a courtesy is a matter of losing face.

"Is blue the color of the lowest class?" Senku asked.

Both he and Gen are "draped" in blue cloaks.

"That's right, you are really sharp. Every wizard specializes in different fields, and they don't recognize the class rating standards set by the king, especially the top white robes and gray robes." The gray-robed wizard who saluted but did not respond stayed for a moment, just in time to see that he also ignored another blue-robed wizard who saluted him.

The pursuit of power and arrogance are common to these wizards with special treatment.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand.Just look at those small countries that are frequently harassed by the superior orcs and suffer unspeakably. It is this small group of people who endow most people in the empire with a stable life.When they were born, they were also humans who knew nothing about magic, but through learning, they became existences that were very different from ordinary people.It's hard not to be arrogant.

This kind of arrogance is more conducive to them hiding their identities.

The two stood in the area of ​​magic books, flipping through them one by one. This is really a huge project.Orcs don't need to be as troublesome as humans to cast magic, so they don't know anything about such complicated books.The only clue is the magic circle firmly in mind.After spending a whole day reading all the magic books, they still couldn't find any documents related to the magic circle.

"There is only one possibility. This is the unique magic of a certain wizard family." Huan closed the magic book in his hand about how to use the blood and bones of the beast clan to make potions, and his face was not very good: "That family style The magic will not be taught to wizards other than the tribe, and the central library can't find it. We can only find the murderer and ask him how to break the magic."

Now that the only clue is gone, Senku is frustrated.He had been out for several days and didn't know what happened to Liuli.

The rabbit saw through his emotions at a glance, and asked, "Is that friend you mentioned a girl?"

"Yes." Qian Kong reluctantly picked up a magic book that he had flipped through, thinking maybe he might have missed it.

"Oh——" Rabbit stretched his voice, he thought it's no wonder Qian Kong would come to such a dangerous place alone.The power and prestige of the wizards of the empire has spread far and wide, and it has been several decades since no higher-level orcs have invaded here rashly.He asked again: "Is it your partner?"

Unlike humans, orcs can only choose one partner in their lifetime.They will form a contract with special magic. After the contract is concluded, in addition to sharing magic power with each other, they can also sense each other's life and death at any time.When one party dies, the other party can no longer form a bond with others.

In fact, few orcs would choose to form a bond with a certain person, especially for rabbits.But for some reason, Gen always felt that Senku should be a very dedicated type.He can take such a big risk, which shows that the girl who is unconscious now is very important to him.

"No, but we did have a marriage contract when we were young." Qian Kong replied casually, focusing on the book.Of course, he didn't hear the deep meaning in the long voice of the rabbit.Originally, Liuli did have a marriage contract with him, but it was just a whim of the adults.Later, after she was chosen as a priestess, she could only become a partner with Wu Zhu, who also guarded Ishigami Island, and this joke-like engagement was cancelled.

Shishen Island has never been short of orcs and humans coveting the holy lake. In this sense, the existence of Liuli is indeed extremely important to Qiankong.After she lost consciousness, the enchantment was handed over to her sister, Amber, to continue maintaining it.But the two sisters practice magic in different directions. For Kohaber, protection is much more difficult than destruction.

Qiankong's mind was full of Ishigami Island, Anwei, and Liuli's situation, and he didn't realize that Rabbit was more depressed than him.The illusion made the pair of long ears invisible, otherwise Qian Kong would have seen them drooping again at this moment.

Huan really wanted to slap himself hard, knowing that Qian Kong had a fiancé, he was actually very disappointed.He said to himself: Be sober, this is a snake!

Now the snake has something to ask of itself, so it shows a gentle and harmless attitude.But at the end of the day, he's still a predator.From their birth, they were doomed to be enemies.Maybe at any time, this enemy will show his fierce face.

In order to strengthen his mind, Gen secretly glanced at the Predator's "ferocious side face".

It was a face that still retained the outline of a teenager, and it really didn't look too fierce.Especially after hiding the snake's vertical pupils, those crimson eyes are clearer than the gems he cheated.In fact, the original pupils are also very beautiful, if the rabbit is not instinctively afraid, it must feel so.

Before being discovered, the rabbit withdrew his gaze.

"Don't look for it, you can't find it here." He sighed: "Go back, the museum will be closed soon."

Walking out of the library gate, Chiku realized that it was already evening.Huan pressed his flat belly and said, "I searched with you all day, but I didn't even eat lunch. I'm starving to death."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Qian Kong vigilantly: "Aren't you hungry?"

High-level orcs cannot absorb magic power from ordinary food, and of course Gen has not forgotten this fact.Since Qian Kong went home with him yesterday, he hasn't eaten anything.In a hurry to go out in the morning, Huan Huan ate some fruit porridge cooked by the older children, and when he wanted to serve Qian Kong a bowl, he said he was not hungry.

"I'm not hungry." Snake still gave Gen an uneasy answer.

He looked at Huan with a suspicious expression, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't take revenge. Besides, I came out when I was 'full', and I don't need magic power replenishment for a while."

The rabbit's face turned pale.

"what are you eating?"

Qian Kong opened his mouth, but before he could speak, Huan said again: "Forget it, don't talk about it, I don't want to hear it."

He didn't want to know what small animal Qian Kong ate.Just imagining the appearance of a snake swallowing humans or beasts with its mouth wide open, the unidentified liking he had for Chiku disappeared completely.

like?

Huan froze.For a moment just now, he really felt that he fell in love with Qiankong.

Soon, he said to himself again in his heart: The empire's leading illusionist, you are a rabbit who has seen the world.How can you be easily moved just because you received two Sorcerer's Stones and a dagger?And the other party has a fiancé.

"What's the matter, Mr. Huan, you seem to be very troubled." Qian Kong really had a hard time understanding the unpredictable emotions of this rabbit, just as he habitually raised his hand to pat his shoulder, but froze in mid-air.

Rabbit doesn't like to touch him by himself.

Before stepping into the human land, his father Baiye once warned him that the orcs living there would not like to deal with him, so in order to prevent them from attracting wizards, it is best not to contact them.Chiku did the same thing. He wandered around the city for a few days looking for clues. He mistakenly thought that Gen was being attacked by a wizard, and after following him, he found that the other party was just teasing the ordinary human with magic.

Why didn't I turn around and leave?Why do you have to stand there stupidly all the time, unable to take a step forward?The answer even he himself is ashamed to admit.

Was it because he was caught by the obscene and unreasonably glamorous expression of the rabbit when he fell into the short illusion?

He withdrew his hand, suddenly feeling a little empty in his heart.He's not stupid, of course he can feel Gen's resistance to him, just because of the reason he heard from the old people - they are natural enemies.

In a world without holy lakes, Senku is doomed to eat rabbits like him.It should have been impossible for the two of them to chat calmly and side by side.

"It's nothing." Seeing Qianku raising his hand, Gen was taken aback again.He collected himself and was mentally prepared, thinking that it was just being touched by Qian Kong.

However, the other party didn't touch him after all, which made him a little depressed.

TBC

Useless little knowledge: a snake will poison itself, if it has nothing to do to bite itself for fun.