Touch my tail

Kang Yuan stood on one side of the stage, quietly watching Shen Jiusi in the audience.

The smoke of dry ice is like a waterfall of pure white flowing, the waterfall made of smoke in the man's hand... what does it look like?

Kang Yuan thought of Shen Jiusi's former name for no reason.

This person, like his apprentice Tu Twelve, was born in the Spring Festival Gala ten years ago, and has been nicknamed a flame magician ever since.

From what he looked like now, he had nothing to do with the flames.

But...he became more and more like a magician.

Kang Yuan has never realized so clearly for a moment that this is the magician that Qi She has been chasing for more than ten years, and this is Shen Jiusi, the emperor of magic.

Even if he has watched all of Shen Jiusi's public performances over and over again, even if he tried to copy Shen Jiusi's magic all night long.

None of that shocked him more than the moment in front of him.

For a moment, he thought, "He actually has dry ice with him?".After a while, I thought again, "How is dry ice brought? How did it change out?"

His chaotic thoughts made him forget to go on stage.

"Mr. Kang." The staff in the audience hurried to him, "It's your turn."

"Thank you, I'll go right away." Kang Nian came back to his senses and thanked him quickly.

He bent down and brushed the hem of his robe, trying to regain his composure.

I'm not bad, he thought.We are all magicians, then see the real tricks.

Concentrated, Kang Yuan straightened up and walked onto the stage.

……

Today's competition is a little bit like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing their magical powers.After several rounds of hot searches on the live broadcast of Cherry, the scene that had cooled down was once again heated up.

"I feel that they compromised so quickly..." Tu Shier lay on the back of the sofa, looking at Shen Jiusi who was making coffee at the bar, "I thought they would carry it to the end, and then they would be gossiped by various netizens The shady scenes on the field."

"They dare not." Shen Jiusi said.

"Why?"

"Hmm..." Shen Jiu thought for a while, and then said, "It seems that after you were approached by the Security Bureau, you didn't dare to use magic to pretend to be magic. If you make too much trouble, it will actually damage their interests."

Tu Twelve tilted his head, but still felt that something was wrong: "Then, isn't this being fooled?"

"No." Shen Jiusi lowered his head and poured the cocoa powder slowly, "My domestic magic development report has already been handed in. This farce is nothing more than evidence."

If those people from the Magic Association do not compromise, the shady scenes of this event will be pushed by the whole network of the Cherry Platform, and they will completely strip off all the faces they care about most and show them to the public.

Now that they have quickly compromised, of course they have to save some face.

The little vixen didn't know what was going on behind the scenes, the little vixen was just stunned: "Where did you get the time?"

Shen Jiusi smiled, and handed him the latte art coffee: "Try to see if it suits your mouth."

There was a little fox drawn on the coffee. When Tu Twelve saw it, he forgot the previous question and took a sip of the coffee happily.

The next second, the little fox said pitifully, "Bitter."

Shen Jiusi rubbed his head: "Then I will remember to put an extra candy for you next time."

"I want to taste yours!" The little fox straightened up, grabbed Shen Jiusi's wrist, and took a sip just by his hand.

"...Are you drinking medicine?!"

This bitter and sour thing, how can Mr. Shen drink it down!

"Lemon American." Shen Jiusi said, "Okay, twelve. When the competition ends tomorrow, your performance will be on the agenda. Are you ready?"

As soon as he said this, Tu Twelve froze immediately.

The big snow-white tail flicked left and right, and the little vixen said softly, "You go about your business first, and don't worry about mine."

"Your business is business." Shen Jiusi smiled and glanced at him, "Our Teacher Tu has been a vixen for 500 years, are you still afraid of the exam?"

"I... I'm not afraid!" Tu Twelve said suddenly, "It's just...you see my claws are swollen. And..."

The big tail flicked quickly, and the little vixen summoned up his courage and said, "And why should I learn it from scratch? The Security Bureau only requires copying it out, so I just need to learn those few magic tricks?"

Shen Jiusi was startled when he heard the words, he looked at the little vixen in front of him firmly: "You think so? You only want those few magic spells?"

Tu Twelve shrank his neck, a little afraid to respond.

Shen Jiusi looked at him deeply.

The little vixen almost shrank herself into the back of the sofa, and then said timidly: "Mr. Shen, it is very hard work for us to practice and learn spells in the mountains... Although I am wrong to call spells magic, but, This is also my own true ability!"

The little vixen has been thinking all this time, if human beings can cheat with their family background, contacts, and money to get the honor they don't deserve.Why can't the vixen?

A body of cultivation is also the result of hard work and hard work.

Why can't he make money with the skills he learned in the first 500 years?

Shen Jiusi looked into Tu Twelve's eyes.The little vixen's eyes were extremely innocent, with a trace of grievance inside.Shen Jiusi lowered his head and took a sip of the coffee in his hand.

He had never felt that the lemon Americano in his hand could be so sour, so sour that he frowned, and the bitterness made him feel astringent.

"Mr. Shen..." The little vixen called him softly, "Did I... say something wrong?"

"No." Shen Jiusi put down the coffee cup, he pondered for a moment, and then said, "Let's go out for a while before it's too late."

The weather is gradually getting hotter, and it is getting dark late.The neon lights on the street light up one by one, but the afterglow of the setting sun is still in the sky.

Tu Twelve followed Shen Jiusi not long after he heard Shen Jiusi say, "Here we are."

"Huh? It's so close." Tu Twelve looked up, "The stadium?"

"Let's go in and have a look." Shen Jiusi said.

Tu Twelve followed him in with a blank face. As soon as he entered the gymnasium, his ears suddenly caught a regular "bang bang" sound, as if something was hitting the ground non-stop, and he felt the temperature slow down while breathing. Slowly down.

Shen Jiusi was obviously familiar with this place, he took Tu Twelve upstairs without hesitation, turned around, walked through an empty corridor, and pushed open the door at the end.

As soon as the door opened, the "bang bang" sound suddenly became clear.

Tu Twelve walked in and was stunned: "What are they doing?"

Standing on the second floor and looking down, it is a whole white ice rink.There are thick anti-fall pads around the sidelines, and many people are training on ice.

They get on the ice, slide, jump, fall - and get up for the second round of sliding, jumping.

The "bang bang" sound that Tu Shier heard was the sound of them falling and hitting the anti-fall mat.

"I'm training, learning new jumps." Shen Jiusi said.

As soon as the words fell, someone found him in the ice rink. "Mr. Shen!" A young man shouted, "Why are you here today!"

As soon as he made a sound, many people looked up.

Shen Jiusi said: "You teacher Tu is a little confused about magic, so I'll take him to watch your training."

"Okay. Is Teacher Tu thinking of a new trick?" The young man shouted again, "Is it related to our figure skating?"

"It depends on whether you, Teacher Tu, have inspiration." Shen Jiusi said, "We don't disturb your training, we just watch here."

The coach below also raised his head to greet him, and then, like herding sheep, yelled at the young boys below to keep in touch.

Tu Shier leaned on the railing and watched for a long time without blinking, but still didn't understand.He whispered: "Mr. Shen, why did you let me watch this?"

Shen Jiusi looked at the ice rink and lowered his voice: "In the regulations given to you by the Security Bureau, there is a rule that prohibits you from participating in competitive sports, remember?"

Little Twelve nodded quickly.

"Humans are very stupid animals. Because they can't practice, they can only rely on practicing over and over again. But human beings are also very tough animals. They rely on such boring, painful and worn-out bodies. , to grope and climb to the top of the ultimate limit."

Shen Jiusi turned to look at Tu Twelve: "I wouldn't say that the rules made by the Security Bureau are fair. The rules made by humans will of course favor humans. But the rules made by the Security Bureau are at least trying to find a fairness."

"Twelve, you look at those people in the audience. Among them, maybe only one or two can stand on the stage of the competition and be known to others. It is more likely that all of them have been trained with injuries and are not yet known. .”

Tu Twelve looked at those people in the audience ignorantly.They are very thin, but their bodies are very powerful, and they can stretch out beautiful lines when jumping.

"The time of human beings is short, and most people can only do one thing with all their strength in their lifetime. This is the reason why the Security Bureau set up an employment ban for you." Shen Jiusi said warmly, "Because too many things are too much for monsters. For humans, it is too easy. Birds jump high, water swims, and humans who have nothing, how to chase after them.”

Tu Twelve faintly understood, but was still a little confused: "But...magic..."

"Don't your hands hurt anymore?" Shen Jiusi asked him with a smile, "Your body, which has been cultivated for 500 years, still hurts under high-intensity practice. What about other magicians? Hands hurt when you practice cards, and you vomit all over when you practice rumination Convulsions, some magic related to the body, the magician will abruptly dislocate his own bones, and it is normal for such magicians to go to the hospital."

Shen Jiusi felt a little emotional: "This is also a profession composed of will, pain and love."

Tu Twelve looked down at his palm.

In fact, his hands didn't hurt a long time ago, he just wanted to act like a baby with Teacher Shen.But if it is a human being... it will hurt for a long time, right?They are the weakest, and they can't even bear a fox's paw.

Teacher Shen forced himself to be a human being... Then when he was learning magic, did he suffer all that?

"I probably understand." Tu Twelve said in a low voice, "But, in this case... Isn't what those people did even more excessive?"

"So I'm working hard to bring fairness back." Shen Jiusi looked at him, "If Teacher Tu is willing to follow this difficult path, next year's competition will be a fair one, I promise."

The author has something to say:

Looking at the changes of the times from the nicknames of Mr. Shen and Huhu——

Teacher Shen's debut: Fire Magician.

The little fox made his debut: Hogwarts prefect at large.

Little Twelve: So why am I not the principal?

Teacher Shen: Probably because I became the principal at large.