【Thousand Fantasy】Snake and Rabbit in the Same Cage

· Mainly snakes

A piece of white paper was folded into a paper crane. He rubbed the sharp beak of the paper crane, then opened his hand, and the little guy flew up with flapping wings.

"What are you doing?" Qian Kong saw that paper crane flew straight out of the window, turned into a white bird, and gradually disappeared into the evening sky.

While stacking the second one, Huan said: "This is my messenger. They will fly to the residences of all the orcs in the city, and help me deliver the news that 'someone is hunting the orcs' to them. Not many orcs I know There are many, but once such a thing happens, everyone will do their best to inform each other, and I believe the news will spread quickly.”

The children on the side were also helping to fold the paper crane. Xigua picked up a paper crane with crookedly folded wings from one of them, and handed it to Huan after crushing and flattening it bit by bit with his fingertips.Gen took it and cast a spell on the tip of his mouth.

"Let me help too." Qian Kong carefully observed the structure of the paper crane for a while, then spread his hand, and after a burst of white light, countless paper cranes appeared above his palm.He controlled the paper cranes to fly up so that they would not fall all over the ground, and said, "This is the first time I did it, is it like this?"

The children screamed in surprise.

"Did you do this?" Huan asked.

"Compared to attack magic, I am better at controlling elements to create things." Qiankong explained: "The dagger I gave you was also made by me. The blade is made of a variety of metals, which is very hard and not easy to break. "

"Thank you very much." Huan took the pile of paper cranes calmly, in fact he was more surprised than the children.It is true that the superior orcs have a huge reserve of magic power, but most of them are reflected in their combat capabilities.Manipulating the elements to create items is a very fine art of magic, almost only capable of being performed by human wizards.Moreover, wizards also need to go through a lot of learning and repeated practice before they can reach the realm of successful creation.Some people are unable to completely control the elements throughout their lives.

After all, "creation" has always been the field closest to the Protoss.

"This is a real paper crane, which is different from Teacher Huan's magic!" A child picked up the paper crane on the table, compared it with the one made by Huan, and shouted happily: "Big brother is so amazing!"

Qian Kong was immediately surrounded by a group of children, who pulled his clothes and wanted to watch the "performance" just now again.

Qian Kong, who had never been surrounded by so many children, was a little at a loss. He smiled and said that he really had nothing to do with you, and created a few paper cranes out of thin air.This time the paper cranes took on color and scattered among the children like wild flowers on the prairie.Cheers immediately filled the room again.

The oldest watermelon also keeps staring at the colorful paper cranes, but because she is the older sister, she is too embarrassed to compete with other children.Qian Kong handed her one, and the blond girl was stunned for a moment, then immediately took it carefully, holding it in her palm like a treasure.

"Watermelon will be cherished." She said, her eyes became wet.

The children here are all orphans whose parents were eaten, Chiku suddenly remembered what Gen said.Although he had never hurt any orcs, he was inexplicably sorry.

Moreover, Han said he grew up here.

Qian Kong somewhat understood why Gen was so afraid of him.If it were me, I wouldn't be able to stand staying with a guy who didn't know when he wanted to eat me.On the secluded island where he grew up, the existence of the holy lake disrupted the balance of the source of magic power, making the law of survival of the weak and the strong a story in the mouths of the old people.No matter how many times the story has been heard, it is just a story. Only when he really saw the cruelty of death, Qian Kong realized that he was completely different from the other people in the room.

If he changed back to his original form at this moment, what expressions would the children around him show?There is nothing but fear in those eyes that are unabashedly showing kindness towards him, right?

For a moment he wished he was not a snake.

Soon, he felt that his idea was ridiculous.He would actually want to give up the powerful magical power that he has been proud of since he was born, just to get closer to a rabbit.

He didn't understand why he had such irrational and unrealistic thoughts, so he shook his head with a self-deprecating smile, trying to drive the silly thoughts out of his mind.His eyes fell on the rabbit who was releasing the paper cranes. The latter was leaning on the window frame dyed citrus by the sunset, and the birds flew from his hand one by one.They are like a group of pigeons returning home through the sky of the city, silently conveying the news of the death of a beast race.After releasing all the paper cranes, the rabbit closed his eyes and whispered a eulogy.

The breeze blew by, blowing the fine silver hair around the rabbit's cheeks, and Senku couldn't take his eyes off it.

Sensing that Qiankong was looking at him, Gen turned around, and Qiankong didn't dodge when he met his gaze, but Hanwen who just wanted to open his mouth to ask "what are you looking at me" couldn't speak.He looked away, but could still feel the red pupils still staying on him.Qian Kong's personality is like this, he is not like himself, he always wants to cover up.

This silent watching and being watched did not last long. A child acted like a baby and said that he was hungry, so he fancied that he would cook by himself.

When the adults are busy on weekdays, the older children cook together.The watermelon is responsible for using the fire, and the other children wash and chop the vegetables, cook the ingredients in one pot, and distribute them to everyone's bowls.The children here have all been hungry, suffered, and are not fussy about what they eat.However, when Huan is free, he will still try to make some delicious food for them.

He turned and walked towards the kitchen, Qianku gave a feed from behind.Looking back, Chiku looked at him as if he was begging for help.The performance just now made the child who was already easy to get acquainted with people no longer regard him as an outsider at all.Some are snuggling beside him, some want him to hug, and some are playing with his clothes.Qian Kong is really not good at dealing with children, he is afraid that Huan just leave him here to take care of the children.The rabbit who understood this clearly waved his hand and said, "You also come here to help."

After being rescued, Qian Kong usually opened a path through the pile of children, and finally escaped.

With the kitchen door closed, they were just continuing to discuss issues they hadn't been able to resolve during the day.

Huan handed Qianku a small basket of potatoes and told him to peel them.I broke off the cabbage I just picked from the backyard piece by piece, and washed it with well water.While washing, he said: "I don't know when the wizard will attack next time. It is a coincidence that the baker was killed this time. I am worried that there will be more orcs killed in places we don't know. Let me My messenger begs everyone to let me know if anyone goes missing."

Senku clumsily peeled off half of the potato with a knife, put down the knife, and tried to break down the potato's skin with magic power."I do have an idea, but it's not very efficient," he said.

"Do you want to say, let's make him a bait?" Huan smiled.He was just talking casually, but when he raised his eyes to see Qian Kong's eyes, he realized that he was mistaken.

It is indeed the only way.

The whole city does not know how many wizards there are.Just for the blue-robed wizards who are responsible for guarding the security, there is at least one on duty in every block.Just using the magic circle as a clue to find the criminal is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

It is very likely that the wizard is still hunting the orcs.When the paper cranes spread the news to all the orcs in the city, they will definitely be vigilant.Huan told them not to leave alone or go out at night.Then the wizard's hunt and hunt will become more difficult.

At this time, the appearance of the bait made it very easy for him to take the bait.

"I'm going to make my own bait." Qiankong looked at the basket of potatoes whose skin had been decomposed by himself with satisfaction, and after handing it to Huan, he took a round head of garlic from his hand.

The smile on Huan's face froze: "Wouldn't it be more efficient for us to act separately?"

"I can't let you go. Liuli... She is the most powerful witch on our island. She is no match for that wizard. Going is tantamount to death." Qiankong picked up the garlic and sniffed it, then frowned. He raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you want to peel this one too?"

"Yes, peeling and slicing. I'm going to die, so you're not going to die? I don't agree." Huan vetoed: "You don't have to worry about my safety. I want to run, but no one can catch me. And my illusion, It's more effective than any magic to trap a human being."

The phantasy is not unreasonable.Illusions invade the mind from the five senses, and then act on the brain.For humans with weak physical defenses, it is the most difficult magic to deal with.However, this is also an extremely rare type of magic.It's not aggressive, and fame-seeking wizards never bother to delve into it.Even if he knew that he had been hit by an illusion, he would not feel flustered.

As long as one can clearly realize that everything is false, illusion is nothing to fear.

However, the illusion used by phantom to perform is essentially different from the illusion used to protect oneself.The former is spiritually pleasing and can only be regarded as a sideshow.The latter directly hits the mental realm of the hitter, and its destructive power is no less than that of an attack directly on the body.

Rabbit is always used to put on a harmless smiling face, but in fact he doesn't want to show his cards.Because once a wizard realizes that his illusion performance is dangerous, not only will his financial resources be cut off, but his existence may even be wiped out by the empire.

Chiku was lost in thought.He really didn't want Gen to take risks, but he had to admit that Gen did have the ability to trap wizards.He backed down and said, "Okay, it's okay to let you be the bait, but I want to go with you."

Huan smiled: "Xiao Qiankong, this doesn't seem like a stupid thing you would say. If the two of us act together, won't it lose the meaning of being a bait? If there is only one person on the other side, he may not want to Take a risk against two people."

Qian Kong took off his belt, and the soft cloth instantly transformed into a blue snake in his hands.He brought the little snake in front of Huan: "This is my familiar, and it communicates with my senses. You carry it with you, and I can know your location and status at any time..."

Before he finished speaking, Qiankong saw that the rabbit was frightened again and became stiff all over.

The little snake wrapped around Qiankong's arm and meandered towards Huan's direction. It stood up, stared at the rabbit with small red pomegranate-like eyes, and spat out a letter.The rabbit clenched the kitchen knife with a pale face, and stammered, "Take...carry it with you? I think I might not be able to do it."

"Relax, Mr. Huan, it won't bite you." Qian Kong took a step back. He bullied Huan too much before, and he has already reflected on it.And now, for some unknown reason, he began to be afraid of being hated by the rabbit.

The rabbit didn't feel a little better until the little snake was held by Qian Kong and completely walked out of the range that could attack Huan.He complained in his heart why he was so timid, but he just looked at the little snake's red eyes for a moment, and his hands kept shaking.

However, the little snake did look like Qian Kong.The scales are emerald green close to the lake water, and the eyes are as red as blood.What a beautiful little guy.

Qian Kong said: "You put it in your clothes, and you won't be afraid if you can't see it."

"Is there no other way?" Huan whimpered.

Qian Kong shrugged his shoulders, and said with a rare force: "I will be the bait, and you will take it as the bait, choose one."

What's the difference between this and no choice?

After nightfall, the rabbit tremblingly came to the empty street.He mustered up a lot of courage to put the little snake into his sleeve.As a result, as soon as the cold little thing sensed the body temperature of the warm-blooded animal, it immediately wrapped his arms around him.Apart from walking, Huan didn't even dare to do extra movements.Even when his arm accidentally rubbed against his body, and the little snake wriggled slowly, he would break out in a cold sweat.

Before going out, all the origami cranes that Huan Fang flew back flew back.The messenger he enchanted brought back several Orcish messages.In addition to the blue sheep in the bakery, several orcs were missing or dead.Around the dead orcs, without exception, there was that strange magic circle.

Qian Konghuan found the map of the imperial capital and marked the places where the orcs disappeared on the map.They found that these locations were concentrated and very close to the coastline where Liuli was attacked.

"The murderer is unscrupulous, and there is a high possibility that he will strike near his own residence." Qian Kong concluded by connecting the marks on the map.

"And he should not be of high class." Huan added: "The wizards living in this area are mainly blue robes and brown robes. I have considered this issue before: the wealth of a wizard is directly related to his class in this country, and the rich All wizards like to raise a large number of orcs as house slaves. Even if there is any reason to kill them, just start with your own house slaves."

Qian Kong nodded: "Then there is a great possibility that the wizard himself lives in this relatively impoverished area."

After walking from the place where Gen lived to the bridge in front of the Central Library, the street became wider.There are no longer only stone-built houses on the street, but many beautiful tall buildings are lined up neatly.The difference in financial resources between the two regions is very clear even to Chiku, who has never understood human society.

After reaching this conclusion, Huan took the little snake and wandered in the area circled by Qiankong.

The night wind was chilly, and he couldn't help but put his hands up. This habitual movement disturbed the little snake in his sleeves.The little snake poked its head out of its cuff and hissed at Gen.

"What are you doing, go back quickly." Huan covered his eyes with one hand, and stretched his hand far away.He felt that the little snake had understood his instructions and slipped back into his sleeve.This time, it didn't wrap around the arm obediently, it seemed that because of the coldness of the blowing night style, it crawled along the arm to a warmer place.

Gen froze in place, feeling the slippery body sink into his chest.

"Little Qiankong, can you hear me?" He looked at a small piece of his chest slowly bulging, and grabbed his ears nervously: "Can you stop your snake from crawling around?"

TBC