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

Li Ping swallowed his saliva, his legs were a little weak.

He is a policeman and it doesn't affect his fear of rats, not to mention that he would be afraid of bumping into two big rats in such a dark light.

Those two mice were not as gray as ordinary mice, but were covered with thick, thick black hair, and their bodies were too big. Li Ping roughly compared them to a circle bigger than his palm, and they were fat and strong. Looking at the sparrow, it is creepy to look at.

The light on Li Ping's hand flickered, and the two mice stopped moving at the same time, and their four bright black eyes stared at Li Ping's body whizzingly, making goose bumps pop out of him layer by layer.

They are not afraid of people, and even Li Ping feels a fierce and warlike aura.He took two steps back uncomfortably, and the two mice started to crawl in his direction. The speed was so fast that Li Ping turned around and ran away without even thinking about it.

It seemed that the back was not a mouse, but some man-eating monster.

While running, Li Ping saw a young man standing under the streetlight in front of him. He heard the movement from his side and was looking over. Before he could ask, he was grabbed by the responsible Li Ping and dragged him forward desperately.

Run now!

Li Ping suspected that the two mice might be infected with some kind of disease, which made them so aggressive, and they would definitely cause accidents if they were bitten.

The creaking sound behind him made him dare not turn his head, and he had no time to think about why the ordinary people who were dragged away by him were so cooperative, not only did not resist or struggle, but also kept up with his escape speed.

Even later, the other party led him around and fled into the house through the back door of the patio on the first floor.

It wasn't until he was dragged into the house that Li Ping sat down on the ground and took a breath, belatedly breaking out in a cold sweat.

This is not his home, and he didn't see the key to open the door just now, so he came in in a daze.

Let him think about it, just now under the street lamp, this person has a shadow, right...

"Are you okay?" A handkerchief was handed in front of him, and Li Ping raised his head tremblingly. The cold pale complexion of the young man under the lamp made him tremble.

But he looked down and saw the shadow under the young man's feet, and he felt relieved, "It's okay... I just got started in a hurry, I'm sorry."

He can keep up with him in a suit and leather shoes. This young man has definitely practiced.

Out of professional habits, Li Ping asked a few more questions after explaining the situation just now, concerned about whether this young man named Banxi had any secrets to stay outside at such a late hour.

Having trouble finding the police.

What's more, this is an international friend.

"..."

Bansi fell silent under the warm care of the local police.

Can he say that he just had dinner with a vampire on the Wizards Council's blacklist, and because the communication was not smooth enough, he had to break off a tooth of the other party to show his friendship?

"work overtime."

He could only vaguely mention this omnipotent reason, and got Li Ping's sympathetic eyes like a revolutionary comrade-in-arms.

Li Ping sat for a while longer, looked at the dark lights outside, then at Banxi, and said cheekily after thinking about it: "Well... can you, let me stay here for a night?"

He didn't know how many mice were digging outside like that, and he didn't know what door and number he was in just now, so he didn't dare to go home in the dark today even if he had the guts.

Li Ping took out his police ID and showed it to Banxi, proving that he is not a bad guy but really cowardly, as long as he is taken in for a night on the floor.

Tomorrow, he will contact the property management committee and a professional mouse catching company. If the mouse in the community is really sick and bites someone, it will be troublesome.

Banxi took a symbolic look at Li Ping's police ID and agreed to his request to stay overnight.

This person has an extremely balanced energy field, and the balance of justice radiates out the heat of kindness and order. In other words, he must be a good person.

"You can sleep in the guest room." Bancy cleared out the room opposite the master bedroom very early on. If Shi Li wanted to live in, he would live there. The aroma of the sun.

Li Ping was extremely tired. He worked overtime until late at night and ran wildly. He thought he would not be able to fall asleep when he lay down, but he fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.

Occasionally, one or two sounds could be heard outside the window. The slight creaking sound and the friction of branches and leaves did not disturb his sweet dream at all.

The dark night covered everything, and a few stars quietly dotted the night.

Bancy is dreaming.

Cheerful music lit up his dreams, and brainwashing tunes hovered in his dreams all night.

So much so that when Banxi was making breakfast the next day, he hummed subconsciously. As soon as the tune came out, Li Ping, who was helping him, froze for three seconds in silence.

What a cheerful and familiar tune, it is well-known in China by all ages, but it is too cheerful and familiar, and it is so strangely inconsistent with the style of the young people around him——

Little sloppy, really sloppy.

The sloppy king is him.

No one likes him.

Li Ping swore that no one could hold back the above few lines from singing.

Then he discovered that Bansy was not only humming the tune of the Sloppy King, but also opened "The Adventures of the Sloppy King" during breakfast, and watched the Sloppy King's Wisdom Fighting the Evil Mouse for ten minutes.

It's kind of ironic to watch this after last night's big black rat.

……

Fine.

It may also be that the aesthetic preferences of foreign friends are not the same as theirs, and in all fairness, this cartoon is actually very good, interesting and educational. After watching two episodes, he wanted to go back and find out and make it up again.

Li Ping had breakfast (and two episodes of cartoons) at Bansey's house. After breakfast, all the mouse-catching companies he contacted by phone came, and the group went to see the place where he was chased by mice yesterday.

"It's really big." Li Ping gestured at the big black-haired mouse he saw, "I'll chase it if I see it. If I didn't run fast, I would definitely be bitten."

There were no mice in the dug ditch, but the sparrow that was half eaten by the mouse yesterday could be found. I don’t know if the two mice didn’t come back or they were full. The property manager took two steps back. If it wasn't for Banxi's support, he would have fallen to the ground.

Rat catching companies rarely see this kind of scene in the community.Rats living in human-inhabited areas are less likely to actively hunt, let alone catch flying birds, and human leftovers alone are enough to feed them.

In addition to the situation reported by Li Ping, the rats in this community are indeed a hidden danger to the personal safety of the residents. The property manager feels disgusted just thinking about the rat nest under his feet, and quickly finalized the business of eliminating rodents in the community with the mouse catching company. .

"These few days, let the residents go out as little as possible at night." The master of the mouse catching company urged, "I will check the situation today and put some medicine, and bring the equipment tomorrow."

The mouse catcher looked around in the community, pointing out where is the mouse hole and where is the mouse hole. After confirming that there was a large-scale mouse nest extending in all directions under the community, he hurriedly drove back to get the medicine.

The property manager and the neighborhood committee rushed back to discuss how to send notices to the residents. The drugs used to trap rats are very poisonous, and those who walk dogs and children in the community must be notified in place, and their mascot, the white swan, must also be taken care of. Don’t miss it. Eat rat poison.

Li Ping chatted with his colleagues for a few more words, then turned to Banxi to assure them that they must be keeping an eye on the progress of rodent eradication in the community.

During the daytime, when he could see the road clearly, Li Ping found out that his house and Banxi's house were in the next building, and he could hear his shouts from one side to the other. If he hadn't had to go to work today, he would definitely invite Banxi to sit at his house for a while. Sit down and introduce (xuan) to Banxi his lovely and lively son.

Bansy got rid of Li Ping, added another contact to his WeChat friends list, and now he could finally squat quietly by the gutter alone to study the rat holes in it.

Oh, and the half-eaten sparrow.

Wizards don't have meaningless dreams. He first met a mouse, and then was cycled by the sloppy king fighting the mouse all night. The deep meaning is so clear that no one with a long brain can guess it.

Considering that he has never heard this song, it will not be a reflection of his subconscious mind, and his ancestors' dreams are not of this taste, and his mental barrier is not weak enough to be invaded casually... rule out all possibilities , the remaining options are the correct answers.

—this is the job the land gave him.

Although the taste is indeed a little...childlike, but there is indeed something that is having a negative impact on this land, so the land entrusted him with work.

The land accepts and tolerates his existence, and accordingly he must serve the land, just as he promised "I accept" and "I give".

This is also written in the authority manual he signed with the management center, and any work entrusted to him by this land, no matter who it involves, can be counted within the scope of his authority.

Bancina brushed away the soil next to the mouse hole with a branch, "How is it?" he asked his guardian spirit.

Odile was very disgusted and didn't want to get close to the mouse hole. She stood on Bansi's shoulder and stretched her neck down, barely smelling the smell left by the scene.

--quack.

it stink!It stinks of mice!

Bancy looked at a few other rat holes, and besides leftover food scraps, he found some shiny little hairpins with button bottle caps scattered inconspicuously in the soil.

This is not something a mouse would steal.

Bansy raised his eyebrows and picked up the rhinestone hairpin on the ground, "What do you think of the underground glitter lovers?"

Odile leaned over and shook her head to look at the hairpin. The shiny little thing was in line with the young lady's aesthetics. After her big goose spread her wings and showed the capital "want", she chirped twice to agree with Bancy's idea.

There are only goblins who are lovers of glitter in the underground and who like to live in a southern coastal city like Shen City with a humid and warm climate.

"Goblins are a real possibility." Bansy poked at the shiny hole, "But I'll have to go down and see to be sure... You know, if this was a goblin hole, they wouldn't just leave these things unpicked. "

Odile nodded gracefully in approval of Bancy's opinion.If this was a goblin lair, there wouldn't be any sparkles visible to the naked eye left on the ground.

Things were abnormal and strange, which made her raise her tail hair a little excitedly, and she didn't want to provoke those two poor white swans when she followed Bancy home.

Expeditions and fights are more ladylike (bushi) than writing those devious papers.

What is needed this time is not the sword and the cup. What Banci is about to do is a foreseeable and dangerous job, and the offensive and protective properties of the sword and the cup are not enough.

Bansy took a cane from the box, and took off the necklace hanging around his neck-a silver chain with a gold ring, and there was no decoration on it.

He placed his staff on the southern altar and his necklace on the northern altar.

A rod for attack, a shield for defense, and the water in the cup gives it strength.

Bancy sat cross-legged in front of the altar, candles burning in front of him, closed his eyes, and imagined the half-open door in front of him, slowly sinking into the calm and empty darkness.

He pictured himself pushing open the door and stepping over the threshold.

Instead of the "door" of divinity opening from the more distant outside to the inside, what he pushed open was a door that opened from the inside of him to the outside.

He opened his eyes and saw that his body was sitting upright, and his soul had left the body, and took up the rod of the south and the shield of the north.

Now that he is fully armed, his soul does not look back at the sitting body, but just nods to the proud black-haired girl next to him—she is Odile, his guardian spirit, the noble and beautiful black swan .

As his spirit departed, Odile watched over his physical body, chasing away any intruders who tried to occupy the vacant room.

Bancy went out through the open glass door. In his soul state, he still obeyed the rules of the flesh. He did not enter the sky or enter the ground, nor did he pass through walls or passers-by. land.

The rat hole was narrow enough to hold his invisible soul, and in a second he was standing at the mouth of the hole.As if he was Alice who drank the shrinking potion, the dark hole in front of him led to another world.