After the contract was signed, Elena did not immediately break away from the sapling and walk out of the transparent ball as Zheng Qing imagined.
She still had her eyes closed and her head lowered, like a sculpture.
"She will come back, but not now."
Regarding this point, the gentleman did not mince words: "You need to know that everything we can do has been done. The rest depends on her. Just like a person who falls off a cliff, we have thrown the rope down, and she She was also caught, but it is unknown when she will be able to climb back to the cliff along the rope."
"Maybe an hour, maybe a day, maybe a month, maybe a year."
The gentleman did not continue.
Zheng Qing felt that he had explained enough.
"Okay, okay, now that you're done with your business, you should go back to school!" The yellow fox man stood, clapped his paws, swung his tail, and motioned for the two young wizards to follow him: "I'm only responsible for You are sent to school...if you go back too late and are locked out of the dormitory by Mr. Ni Wu, you must stop doing my business."
Zheng Qing took out his pocket watch and took a look. It was already eight o'clock in the evening.
"We seem to have missed today's regular class meeting." He mumbled and forced a smile at Jiang Yu: "Is it too late for me to ask you for leave now?"
The witch glanced at the young public-funded student.
"Today is Saturday." She reminded softly: "The class meeting is tomorrow night."
The boy suddenly realized that he had remembered the wrong time.
So many things happened in just one day, making him feel disconnected from the real world. Magic can transform life and death and reverse time and space, but it cannot shorten the distance in the heart.
"Attention, I'm opening the door!" Huanghuali opened the glass door of the big clock in the corner of the bookstore and shouted to the two young wizards: "Pay attention to hurrying up..."
Jiang Yu tightened her windbreaker, nodded to Zheng Qing, and walked over first.
Zheng Qing hesitated for a moment, then looked back at the transparent ball floating above the desk not far away, looking at the sapling, and finally couldn't help but ask his husband: "Where... could she be?"
"Do you want to ask if she will be taken away by the Gypsy Witches?" The gentleman was very clear about his disciple's mentality and comforted: "At present, the Gypsy Witches do not have enough ability to maintain this protective barrier. ...She will stay in our bookstore for the time being. Until she wakes up."
This answer made the boy sigh in relief.
He didn't know where the Gypsy Witches were based, and his contact with those witches was limited to Elena alone. If Elena is taken away by her elders, I am afraid that we will never see each other again.
Now that his husband is taking care of him, he can rest assured.
"Hurry up!!" the yellow raccoon screamed.
Before the wizard finally left, the gentleman gave one last instruction: "This ends today, but your real trouble has just begun."
“The more you know, the greater your responsibility.”
"There are still a few weeks left in this semester. I will find suitable opportunities to take you around and look around so that you can become familiar with your identity as soon as possible...and prepare yourself to take on more responsibilities."
Zheng Qing nodded, not knowing whether he should be happy or heavy.
"Let's talk later if we have something to do! The passage is about to be closed!!" The yellow raccoon roared loudly while pulling on the glass door of the clock.
The sound made the whole bookstore buzz and tremble.
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After sending the two young wizards back to school, the yellow tabby went straight back to the front desk of the bookstore.
Mr. Wu has returned to his desk, squinting and staring at the bookshelf a few steps away, as if he is thinking about which book to choose. A glass ball containing a sapling floats on the side of the desk. There are dots of golden light in the ball, which makes the sapling appear energetic.
"Do you really not care about what happens at school?" Huang Huali jumped up on the desk and stared at Mr.
"What happened at school?" The husband seemed a little surprised: "Isn't everything fine?"
"Everything is fine?!" The cat face of the yellow lily was distorted, and he screamed at the top of his voice: "Students from the two colleges are fighting everywhere, the professors are indifferent and go into the black prison to stare at the black yellow wood in a daze, the dark wizard and Under the moon, the Parliament is having sex on Phuket Island, and there are two rats running around!! You actually said everything is fine?!"
"You missed the most important point," the gentleman raised a finger and reminded: "A great wizard has appeared in the North District, a great wizard who has created a future for magicians."
The yellow tabby puffed up its cheeks, as if it wanted to appear more angry.
The teacher raised a second finger: "Why should I worry about the school? When students fight, there will naturally be school rules and disciplines to deal with it; professors guard the black prison because it is worth guarding... Maybe you are worried about Xiao Shihui and Ruoyu There were opinions one way or another, but they were all very wise wizards.”
"As for the Moon Parliament and the Dark Parliament, they have been like this for thousands of years. It makes no difference whether I am here or not."
"The only thing worth caring about is the newly promoted great wizard in the North District of Beta Town."
"It's just a great wizard, what's worth caring about?" Huanghuali obviously didn't understand why the bookstore owner cared so much about the young witch: "And the North District is just a group of magicians..."
"Jugglers are also wizards." Mr. Wu corrected seriously.
The tabby cat raised its paws: "Yes, yes... I mean, a group of ordinary wizards, that's all."
The gentleman put away two fingers, crossed his hands, hugged each other, and looked at the bookshelf a few steps away in trance. His voice seemed a bit deep in the silent bookstore:
"They were originally free and had no gods, but they created a god. Standing on the outside, it is difficult for us to evaluate their behavior. But I know that there are gods in this world. Real gods, for them His behavior will make him very angry."
“People would rather be a believer in the sun than huddle in the freedom of a sewer.”
"The history of the North End is like the ramblings of a madman, made up of chaos, distortion and darkness intertwined with each other. For the first time in history, the people of the North End can escape from the chaos and distorted reality, and history has The anchor point, the soil where 'reason' exists."
“This is to prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness, to make his paths smooth in the sand” (adapted from Isaiah 40:3)
"'He who is holy and true has the key of David, and when he opens it no one can shut it'" (Revelation)
"So? What do you want to explain?" The yellow-breasted civet sounded a little impatient, waving its claws as if to swat the harassing insects in the air.
"Time is great. One day, you and I will all perish. Dreams, ambitions, fears, good and evil, everything will turn into dust and be buried together in the unfathomable place of Guixu. And in Guixu After that, a new world is born and a new life blooms. Everything, neither you nor me, will belong to the new generation."
