Vol 5 Chapter 36: Go deep

Similar to the development of most urban areas in the old age, the closer to the transportation hub, the more prosperous, and the farther away from the transportation hub, the more desolate and deserted it is.
This is particularly prominent in the northern district of Beta Town.
As a distribution center for goods and people in the North District, the North District Wharf is undoubtedly the largest transportation hub here. Therefore, a prosperous area that is slightly deformed relative to the entire concave area is formed near the wharf.
But follow the pier avenue all the way to the interior of the North District. It doesn’t take too long to pierce the "emperor's coat" in this prosperous area and start to get in touch with the truth of the concave area.
Rough wooden partitions, dilapidated and white signboards flooded by rain, steel bars exposed on the wall, moldy bamboo huts, and tents filled with pudding. As far as I can see, what I see is such a scene that seems to have nothing to do with the name Beta Town.
The blank walls on both sides of the street are covered with weird graffiti shining in various colors-broken runes, spells with messy word sequences, unstructured magic circles, and curses of unknown meaning-many of which are flashing people. The chilling scarlet color. These graffiti clearly showed the guests the chaos in the silence of this block.
Except for Xiao Xiao, Zheng Qing felt that no one would be interested in this block, and he couldn't understand at all, the purpose of Dr. Xiao's copying the weird graffiti on both sides of the street.
"Knowledge, insight... is hidden in places we can't see in our daily life." Dr. Xiao Da explained.
Zheng Qing curled his lips, disagreeing with this explanation.
He desperately needs a secret corner now to pull the frog tongue off his wrist and throw it away. A corner not far ahead seemed to be the place he needed.
Turning the corner of the street, Zheng Qing's just raised arms froze in mid-air, and the relaxed smile from the corners of his mouth quickly converged, turning into a wave of annoyance and frustration.
A dark, wrinkled old man was wrapped in a dirty robe, hiding in this concave block on the corner of the street. Zheng Qinglue took a step back and looked around.
Yes, he is 80% sure that this place should be a garbage dump. Moreover, the scattered debris and medicine dregs in the block also proved his judgment.
But who would sit in the garbage dump, as if this is his home?
Seeing the old man's peaceful and Ruo Su attitude, Zheng Qing had a little doubt about his judgment.
The sudden appearance of the stranger did not panic the old wizard who was suspected to be sitting in the garbage dump. He even took a leisurely pinch, and a string of crackling sparks burst from his fingertips, like a tiny bunch of tiny sparks. Like fireworks, Zheng Qing, who was looking straight ahead, was frightened, lest he accidentally cause a fire and cause catastrophe.
Xiao Xiao turned the street corner expressionlessly, only to pop out a copper piece and threw it away from the felt hat buttoned upside down in front of the old man. Zheng Qing only noticed that there were some old copper, moldy slices of bread, and fragments of peel in the felt hat.
"If you want to get rid of that frog tongue, this is a good place." Fatty Xin said as he passed by Zheng Qing.
The young wizard hesitated for a moment, took the so-called amulet made of the frog's tongue from his wrist, then took out a copper piece from the gray cloth bag and threw it into the rags in front of the old man.
"Merlin bless you, kind master." The old man seemed to be awakened by the crisp sound of the copper rolling, his eyes barely opened, and a dry, insincere smile cracked on his face.
The scared Zheng Qing fled.
"Is this the state of life of the magicians?" Zheng Qing trot a few steps, followed his companion not far away, and asked in a low voice: "It's worse than I thought...How does he look like a beggar? !"
"He is indeed a beggar," Fatty Xin squinted at him, with a surprised tone: "Has anyone ever said that a wizard cannot be a beggar?"
Zheng Qing's expression was suffocated.
In his subconscious mind, wizards are all capable of magic, and the essence of magic is to make impossible possible. With this premise, he has never felt that a wizard will become a beggar, even a juggler.
"Why doesn't he want to go outside? Like his trick just now, being outside is enough to make him a good magician... I mean the tricks of the Bai Dings." Zheng Qing muttered and said his thoughts.
"There are all kinds of reasons-history and reality, external laws and self-choice." Xiao Xiao didn't perfuse Zheng Qing's question, and answered very seriously: "Like the old juggler just now, you see That string of sparks is the magic he has played all his life and is best at... This is called the concave area, not without reason. As for the reason of not going out, regardless of the cumbersome and legal process of submitting an application, some of the magicians are Because of their poor character, they were restricted from leaving the country by the Wizarding League; some of them stayed here voluntarily."
"Voluntary?" Zheng Qing felt unable to understand.
"Living here all my life, when I was young, I didn't pluck up the courage to go out. Why do you think he will have the courage to touch that strange environment when he is old? The comfort zone of life and the comfort zone of spirit are two Concept." Xiao Xiao's answer was a bit sharp:
"As for when I was young... when I was young, who didn't have any dreams!"
"Young jugglers naturally have dreams. They are more ambitious than most wizards and want to touch the true meaning of magic. When you are in the well, you can accept the palm of the sky; but you can see the endless starry sky. When the time comes, you can’t accept that you are dying all the time in a dry well. When the dream glides over your fingertips, do you try to grasp it, or are you indifferent?"
"Of course I tried my best to catch it." Zheng Qing replied immediately.
"So they are trapped here~EbookFREE.me~ Xiao Xiao stopped, looked around, and sighed slightly: "So, this is a concave area, but also a mountainous area. The people at the foot of the mountain want to climb up, the people on the mountain are always so far away, and more are those poor souls who have been frozen to death on the mountain road and turned into stone tablets. "
"I want to write this statement of yours in the investigation report as an introduction, no, as a summary statement, no, no, let me ponder it." Fatty Xin quickly recorded Xiao Xiao's comments just now, delighted Said.
Dr. Xiao Da squinted at him and put his hand in front of the fat man.
The fat man froze for a moment.
"Run the pen." Xiao Xiao summed up his request in a short word.
Nothing wrong, Zheng Qing laughed at the sidelines.
Three heads
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