What is it like to be a wizard in modern times?

After being accepted by the land, Bansi spent three days going through the formalities and familiarizing himself with his jurisdiction.

The mystery of this land is very inclusive. Although the energy operation system is different, after being accepted, his inner perception quickly became close to the land, and his power flow was adjusted to a more suitable channel.

In the past three days, Banxi has also completed most of the procedures for applying for permission, and the international courier sent him the relevant materials compiled by the family for him.

As the only direct descendant of Rothbart's generation, even if he is exiled, they dare not really ignore him completely, otherwise if he dies outside, one or the other will be crushed by the old ancestor's midnight ghost.

Of course, if they are willing to abandon the old tradition that text can only be written by hand, it would be better to send him electronic documents.

The thick twenty-odd sets of folders were enough to fill up eight large express boxes, and the courier brother was exhausted moving it, and it took only two nights for Banxi to read them all.

However, it was not parchment, and the content was a little bit too much decorated with pictures and texts. After reading it, it was enough for Banxi to have a general understanding of his jurisdiction.

——His jurisdiction is divided into three parts on the map, with Shen City as the center, and also includes a small part of Qing City and Si City in the neighboring Huaiqing Province. Since these three areas are bounded by the same energy river, It was the so-called "spiritual pulse" that supported and nurtured them, and they were unified and assigned to Banxi's management.

This is a pilot area. If the effect is good, the wizard council will contact Huaguo to send more permanent wizards to solve the troublesome problems of cross-border migration of spirits and monsters.

The river of energy that flows through Banci's jurisdiction is active and powerful, creating an extremely hospitable environment for mysterious creatures.The list of mysterious creatures in Bancy's hands includes common and uncommon species such as white goblins, goblins, vampires, werewolves, sub-dragons, and even sea monsters.

Bancy recorded the names, identities, and living areas in his notebook one by one, and made an appointment for afternoon tea with these people after preparation.

If you are a newcomer, you must first inform the old residents that someone is taking care of this place, and they will live here permanently because they take advantage of the gray areas of different systems, and you will always have to give them time to move overnight.

"Drip, drip."

Bancy's alarm clock rang, reminding him to get ready to change clothes and go out.

He made an appointment with his future landlord today to go and see the house arranged for him by the Wizarding Council.

……

The taxi stopped at the gate of Huaihu New Village.

This is an old community built in the 90s and 1992s. On the manhole cover on the road, you can still see the words "[-]" marked with the year of construction. At the gate of the community, there is a grandma sitting in the sun and chatting, which is very lively.

Xupu District, where Huaihu New Village is located, is an old urban area of ​​Shen City, and it is common to see such old residential areas.However, it is located on the edge of the Xupu District business district, and no matter how old or small the house is, the monthly rent is five to six thousand.

According to the information that Banxi got, the landlord only wanted [-] a month's rent, which was a large apartment with three bedrooms and two living rooms.

Of course, it wasn't Bansy who paid the rent. Even if he hadn't seen the house yet, the Wizarding Council had already paid him a deposit of three months and rent for the next whole year.

I'm afraid he won't be able to go in.

To be honest, it was completely unnecessary. After checking what happened in this house and finding hundreds of discussions about haunted and haunted houses on the Internet, Bansy was actually quite looking forward to it.

The landlord's surname is Zhou. She is an elderly aunt. She has fashionable curly hair and light makeup. She is waiting at the gate of the community with a small handbag.

The cicadas screamed hoarsely. Aunt Zhou wiped the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief, and greeted Banxi warmly.

The end of her speech has a bit of Wu Nong's soft tone, and the chatter is not annoying.

The exterior wall of the community has just been repaired, the gaps and cracks have been repaired, and the new paint is painted, and it looks neat and upright. It has a bit of style when it was just built. There is no rubbish on the road, and the big electronic display board is circulating. Play Fire Precautions.

Although it is an old community, it can be seen that the management is good.

To get to Aunt Zhou’s house, you have to cross a bridge—there is a running river flowing through the community, and the property has fenced the river bank. Someone put a fishing rod on the railing and hid in the shade of a tree waiting for the fish to take the bait.

"Old Zheng!" Aunt Zhou greeted the fisherman, turned to Banxi and said, "That's Old Zheng who lives upstairs. He is the team leader of our building. You can ask him for help in the future."

The fisherman who came over slammed his mouth when he heard the words, "Hey, Lennon's house is rented out?"

"Don't you bring someone to hand over the house." Aunt Zhou pointed to Banxi and said to Old Zheng, "This is Banxi. Xiaoban just came from abroad, so please take care of me if you don't know the place well."

"Don't worry, don't worry." Lao Zheng patted his chest, looked at Banxi and nodded, "The young man is quite handsome, is there a girlfriend?"

"There's a big-headed ghost!" Aunt Zhou rolled his eyes at him, and pulled Banxi to leave, "I won't talk to you anymore, I have things to do in the future."

"Wait, don't worry." Old Zheng took Banxi's other hand, took out his phone and squinted his eyes to open the lock screen, "Come, come, add a WeChat, and I will pull you into the group in our building later oh."

Bancy: "...OK."

He took out his mobile phone, and under the guidance of Lao Zheng, scanned to add friends, and added Aunt Zhou to his friend list by the way.

He downloaded and registered this APP the day before yesterday, mainly to follow the official applet of Huaguo Special Affairs Processing Center.

Fortunately, he is a wizard who is not allergic to modern technology. If those few old wizards who stayed in the telegraph era came, they would probably be killed by the perfect hermit in the market on the mysterious side of Huaguo.

……

Quietly dissing some old antiques that were too old-fashioned in his heart, Bancy suddenly felt his guardian spirit agitated, and the sound of flapping wings and a low, threatening cry sounded in his ears.

"Mom! Goose goose!"

The child by the railing uttered a cry, and saw two white swans swimming unhurriedly in the river, with slender necks and graceful postures, it looked like they were free-range meat geese in someone's house.

Seeing Banxi staring at the two white swans, Lao Zheng proudly introduced: "This is Baibai and Yuyu, the mascots of our community, and they are both purebred white swans imported from abroad!"

Purebred, white swan.

Bancy's guardian spirit was ready to rush down the river to pluck the feathers of the two white swans. Bancy rubbed his forehead, fully feeling the deep malice against him.

He, a Rothbart, a Rothbart whose ancestral grievances with white swans is famous all over the world, raised two white swans in the place where he lived.

This thing could run for the annual joke of the Wizarding Council.

He said how could it be as simple as arranging a haunted house for him, as if no wizard had ever seen it before.

Although this haunted house... is indeed interesting.

Bancy felt the oppression and discomfort brought by this house right outside the gate. He raised his eyebrows and walked into the house.

It doesn't have the smell of a ghost, it's a haunted house, but it doesn't look like a haunted house. If it's a ghost, the flow of energy is too gentle.

While Aunt Zhou was showing Banxi the house, she couldn't help but read to him about her bad luck.

She has lived in this house with her husband for decades. After her husband passed away two years ago, she moved in with her son, and the house was repainted and rented out.

The house that has been lived in for decades has feelings. Aunt Zhou rented the house to a man named Lin Mingzu.

The other party was in his early thirties, with a decent job and good looks, a man who lived alone and was not sloppy at all, no matter when he went there, he was clean and tidy, and attracted many aunts and uncles to introduce him to him during the one and a half years of renting.

"Sigh." Aunt Zhou sighed as she spoke, "Why is such a nice person so hard to think about?"

No one knew exactly what happened. One night half a year ago, Lin Mingzu committed suicide in his room.

He put the rope around the doorknob and strangled himself.

And because he lived alone, he said before that he was going to travel. When he was found, the body was so decomposed that it was almost unrecognizable.

Immediately afterwards, rumors spread that the house was haunted.

"No one can expect this kind of thing." Bancy comforted him, and then asked, "Does he have a cat?"

There was a hint of cat smell mixed in the turbid breath, very, very slight, probably just the smell of a cat hair or a footprint, but Bancy was still keen to distinguish it.

As soon as she asked, Aunt Zhou's face changed, "Cat—" she swallowed her saliva, tightened her lips and pursed her lips, trying to look nonchalant, "Xiao Lin did have one, it seems to be picked up from outside Wild cats are very obedient and never bite...how did you think of asking this?"

When she asked, she knew exactly why the cat was mentioned.

In the [-] versions of the haunted rumors about this house, the cat is the protagonist who is never absent.

"Just ask." Bancy said, looking at the glass door on the other side of the living room.

This is a house on the first floor, with two bedrooms and a study room. The small dining room and the living room are separated by cabinets.There is a small patio connected to the living room. Aunt Zhou put a set of tables and chairs. When the weather is good, you can drink tea outside in the sun.

"I see that there are quite a lot of cats in the community."

At this time, there was clearly a black cat sitting outside. It was a strong and beautiful adult black cat with black and shiny hair, except for a small white patch on the top of its head. Because the sun was bright, it was impossible to judge that it was a spot of light. Still a white pattern.

Haunted house, black cat, pretty good match.

Aunt Zhou also saw the cat.

"Snapped."

Her small handbag fell to the ground, her face was pale and she staggered two steps.Bansy could hear her teeth chattering.

Bansy knew the black cat was watching them.

Those amber eyes stared straight at the movement in the room through the glass, and the pupils contracted into a thin slit under the sunlight, revealing a soul-stirring light.

"Is it a stray cat?" Bancy asked and walked over, without expecting any answer from Aunt Zhou, and opened the glass sliding door on her own.

As soon as the door was opened, the chirping of the cicadas, which was muffled outside, picked up a higher pitch, and two low-pitched grunts sounded in his ears.

Stay, stay, stay.

Like some wild animal snoring.

Aunt Zhou looked like she was going to pass out in the next second.

Outside the door, the black cat was still sitting upright, watching Bancy open the glass door and approaching it motionlessly, with its long tail looped around its front paws, and the tips of its ears quivering alertly to the sound of the wind.

Even when Bancy walked in front of it, it didn't have the slightest intention of running away, it just raised its eyes and looked at Bancy with a serious expression.

The sun melted into the warm and sweet color of honey in its eyes, which tightened the solemn and dignified expression of the cat's face, and did not weaken the almost substantive sweetness at all.

The black cat tilted its head, looked from Bancy's face to his coat pocket, and moved its pink nose.

It didn't run.

There is no fried hair showing teeth and claws.

Bancy stopped in his tracks because of this unusual plot development, and the sound of his own heart beating rapidly filled his ears.It took a few seconds for him to come to his senses, and he took out a small pack of meat strips in his pocket, unpacked it and placed it in front of the black cat.

He moved cautiously, his fingertips trembling slightly.

Although he has always had the habit of stuffing cat snacks in his pocket, this is the first time he has been so close to a cat and actually fed a cat.

a cat!

Live!

Bansy held his breath, lest he startle the vigilant Cat.

The black cat cautiously sniffed the jerky he handed over. The smell of the meat was paired with the Rothbart family's unique recipe for snacks. Soon it put down its vigilance and lowered its head to eat big mouthfuls, purring contentedly in its throat.

Maybe because it was really hungry, the black cat ate up all the meat strips in Bancy's pocket in one go, and it seemed that it just realized that it was a cat-hating Rosbart in front of it when it was licking its fur. Big feather duster.

Before Banxi could react, the black cat jumped up and disappeared into the dense green belt of the community.