poor magician

Chi Mu and Fu Er ate a bowl of noodles at the entrance of the village, and then wandered around the village.

The villagers are devoting themselves to their daily lives, washing and cooking, plowing and weaving.If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Chi Mu might not have believed that there would be such a place in the world.

The two walked slowly towards the depths of the village, and the scenery didn't change much, but the number of people living seemed to be less, and the bungalows were sparsely arranged.

Chi Mu looked around, and suddenly noticed that a few houses were much deserted compared to others, and there were no villagers inside or outside.He pulled Fuer up to one of the rooms and knocked on the door, but no one answered.

A nearby villager noticed them, and kindly reminded that these few houses were unoccupied and had been vacant for a long time.

The two looked at each other and decided to open the door and go in.

"It's all here." Fuer said as he pushed open the door.

The sight behind the door is not surprising.It's just the furnishings of ordinary people, such as tables, chairs, pots and pans that can be seen everywhere.It's just that they were covered with a thick layer of dust, which made the two of them sneezed several times as soon as they entered.

"Let's go, it's nothing special." Fuer pulled Chi Mu to go, but Chi Mu's heels were still firmly pressed against the floor.

"There are still a few rooms, open them and have a look." Chi Mu walked forward to the first door on the left and opened it. It was still an ordinary scene, with dust flying all over the sky.He pushed open all the doors and looked at it. It was nothing more than a simple bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and finally a utility room, which was filled with all kinds of messy waste products. The rope and two tapes that had been removed from nowhere were messed up and thrown on the ground outside the window.

The two felt that they had eaten a pile of dust for nothing, and after seeing the house, they rushed out as if escaping some disaster.

"It looks like someone lived there before." Fuer said, "Go back and ask the village chief."

"Well, there were indeed people living there before." The village head sitting in the lobby on the first floor said while smoking a cigarette, "It happened a few years ago."

"Why isn't there anyone now?" Foor asked.

"I think this place is backward. If I want to go out and work hard, I don't know where to go." The village chief paused his smoking hand, "I think of it, it seems that something happened to my family."

"What's that?" Chi Mu couldn't help asking.

"A few years ago, a family of three came to our place, a couple with a son." The village head sighed, "The story spread quickly, and almost everyone knew about it, so I still remember it."

He took another puff of cigarette, and continued: "It was peaceful at first, and it was fine. Then something happened to their son, and he was locked up at home by them. He didn't see him for a whole year, and everyone guessed." Go, some said they got sick and some said they went crazy. No one knew what happened. Afterwards, the husband and wife seemed to have moved out, and the son was nowhere to be seen. Everyone said that they were probably dead. The couple probably died. Don't want to stay in a sad place."

Chi Mu nodded: "We understand, thank you."

"Would you like one?" The village chief handed Chi Mu a cigarette.

Chi Mu didn't think much about it, took it and put it in his mouth, and borrowed a lighter to light it.He remembered that when he was counting down in the exam, he would occasionally smoke a few cigarettes when he was in a bad mood.During this period of practice, I often stay with others, so I hardly smoke.

He was worried that Fuer would find the smell of cigarettes too strong, so he moved outside to finish smoking before returning.At this time, only the village chief and a few team members surrounded him asking questions were left in the hall.Chi Mu thought that Fuer should have gone back to the room, so he also planned to go back to the room to rest.

Linxue was idle and bored at the moment, sitting on the bed and turning into a rabbit, slowly stroking the black fluff on the rabbit's body with one hand.

Chi Mu knocked on the door: "Is the teacher there? I'm coming in."

The rabbit ears moved slightly, and the two black eyes looked at the door.

"Good morning." Linxue greeted Chi Mu while stroking the rabbit.

"This rabbit is..." Chi Mu couldn't help but be attracted by the rabbit.

"Magic."

"Does teacher like rabbits?" Chi Mu silently sat beside him.

"I like it." Linxue picked up the rabbit and put it in front of Chi Mu, "You try it too."

"is it okay?"

"Ah."

Chi Mu reached out and touched the rabbit's back twice.

"So comfortable..."

There was a smile in Linxue's eyes, and she touched it twice.After a while, the rabbit suddenly disappeared out of thin air, leaving no trace.

"The magic power is condensed. There is a time limit." Linxue stood up from the bed and sat on the chair, "Are you sleepy? Come to sleep."

Chi Mu didn't go to bed until after three o'clock last night, and woke up after eight o'clock in the morning. It would be a lie to say that he was not sleepy.

"Teacher got up earlier than me, so you should rest." Chi Mu quickly got up from the bed.

"Together?" Linxue locked the door silently and closed the old curtains painted with green leaves, "Or do you have something to investigate?"

Although I often slept on the same bed with Linxue, I was still a little embarrassed to hear the other party inviting me like this.

"I'm fine...then teacher, good morning..."

"Good morning." Lin Xue replied while lying on the bed, and Chi Mu also lay next to him.

"Looking for something... Could it be related to the empty house?" Chi Mu was woken up by Rinxue at noon, went down to the first floor for dinner and met Fu Er, "For example, a couple looking for a son or a son looking for his parents?"

"Maybe there is such a possibility." Fuer said while gobbling, "The villagers must have been controlled in their minds."

Who is controlling the mind?Chi Mu still can't figure it out.

"Will you not remember what you did after being controlled?" Chi Mu asked.

"According to the file, it is indeed so." Fur said, "What did you think of?"

Chi Mu remembered last night, he tried to recall what happened in the woods, but a part seemed to disappear out of thin air.

"I'm not sure... there should be something in the woods I was in last night."

He guessed that he might not be able to remember things because his mind was controlled like the villagers.

"Then go and make sure!" Fuer threw the spoon in his hand excitedly, "Let's go to the woods together tonight. How did you find this?"

"I... After arriving in the woods last night, it seems that a memory has disappeared."

Fu'er couldn't help frowning: "You're looking for something too? You didn't return to the village until dawn?"

"No... I was in the woods when I woke up, and the teacher came to take me back."

"That's weird..." Fuer picked up the spoon again, and put the food into his mouth thoughtfully.

"Is it okay that it was thrown to the ground...?"

Fuer heard the words, paused for a moment with the hand holding the spoon, couldn't help yelling, and then returned to eating after a while: "Forget it, I ate everything."

Chi Mu: "..."