Not long after I walked into the house, the door behind me suddenly closed heavily. This scene felt inexplicably familiar.
Shen Qi looked back silently, then squinted his eyes, opened his real eyes and looked at the house. The dim environment did not hinder his prying eyes. At this moment, the layout of the first floor of the house was directly displayed in his mind.
Utility room, guest room, bathroom, tables and chairs, stairwell... After a cursory scan, nothing special was found.
It's a bit strange how clean it is. The farmhouses I passed before were all covered with spore particles, but this house is a bit too clean. There are almost no spore particles here.
Then he looked at the wall on the left, which was covered with photos, depicting the bright smiles of a middle-aged couple and a pair of twin girls.
This is a happy family of four.
Shen Qi looked at these photos and commented, then moved his eyes away from the family photos hanging on the wall and walked around the house.
Martin boots made a squeaking sound on the wooden floor. He explored the rooms on the first floor and found nothing unusual.
Then he turned and looked at the corridor leading to the second floor. It was dark, deep and scary.
"Will it be upstairs?" Shen Qi stood in front of the stairs and was about to walk up. At this moment, there was a slight sound behind him.
咿——Pah.
It was very weak, but in this quiet environment, it seemed still loud.
"Um?"
Shen Qi turned around suddenly, his eyes glowing, and walked forward with a creaking sound, and then came to the door of the utility room.
The sound just now came from here. Shen Qi looked around, and then his eyes fell on the ground.
Not connected to the wooden floor of the living room outside, the utility room floor is made of concrete and covered with a carpet.
Shen Qi looked at the folded carpet and thought about everything.
...
At this time, in the cellar across the carpet, Gong Qianqing hugged her sister with a look of horror on her face, and covered her mouth with her hands. The two of them did not dare to take a breath, for fear that one breath would attract the attention of the person outside.
The two of them stared at the cellar partition with their eyes wide open. Through the gap in the partition, they could see the people outside, standing above the cellar, and the shadows reflected on their faces through the gap.
Gong Qianqian held the talisman in her hand, and her heart was beating wildly. Just now, she wanted to sneak out and take a look, but she didn't expect that the other party would react so quickly. She turned around and looked over as soon as the partition was opened.
If she hadn't quickly put down the partition and ran away, she might have been discovered.
But now it seems that the other party came here after looking for the sound she made when she put down the partition!
At this moment, she regretted a little, why she was so curious, why she secretly leaned out!
"Da da da......"
Suddenly there were heavy footsteps outside.
The two sisters in the cellar were so frightened that they covered each other's mouths and looked at each other with rapid breathing, as if to say: What should I do? He's coming!
Boom!
He's knocking on the door!
The two sisters slowly retreated into the cellar, and at this moment, the partition was opened.
The dim light from the first floor came in and shone on the faces of the two people. Fear gradually spread at this moment...
My body, hands and feet are getting colder!
What will he do to us?
"Hmm, so I'm hiding here..." Although he was a little confused as to why the two of them were afraid of him, it would be a good thing to find survivors, Shen Qi thought and laughed.
However, Shen Qi, who had his back turned to the dim light, looked like the weird guy in the movie "The Shining" to the two people opposite him.
"ah!!!"
The two sisters screamed at the same time. The elder sister subconsciously tore open the talisman and threw it towards Shen Qi.
"Quick, go away!"
The talisman paper spontaneously ignited the moment it was torn apart. As it flew towards Shen Qi, it left a mark in the space, and then bloomed with a ray of light, turning into a barrier in front of Shen Qi with a "whoosh". Shen Qi blocked the outside.
[Suffering the influence of ‘Zhu Xie’s retreat’, strange resistance is activated, and I am immune to the influence of ‘Zhu Xie’s retreat’. 】
When Shen Qi saw this prompt, he was slightly stunned.
Kill the evil and retreat?
Is it this dim light barrier in front of me?
The girl just threw out a piece of paper, and then it spontaneously ignited in the air, and then this barrier appeared. Is this a Taoist law?
Shen Qi had to be surprised, because he really didn't know that Qi Refiners would appear in such a world.
Now that these special talismans have appeared, there won’t be any gods descending to earth in the future, right?
This world is too dangerous!
[Acquired knowledge related to thaumaturgy.]
"Thumbology?"
There was something more in Shen Qi's mind, which was the explanation of thaumaturgy.
Simply put, thaumaturgy is a method of producing miracles, a kind of magic used to accomplish things that cannot be achieved by ordinary powerless means.
If you want to perform thaumaturgy, you need a kind of life energy to drive it, which is equivalent to the "magic particles" that need to be communicated to perform magic. This energy is available to everyone, which means that everyone can learn thaumaturgy.
But if you want to really show it, only a very few people can do it.
Because casting spells must abide by certain laws and costs, the most important decisive factor is the caster's own observation and understanding of reality, that is, the concept of things.
Thaumaturgy has three laws.
First, the part affects the whole. To put it simply, it is just like the talisman paper just now. Lighting the torn paper will cause the remaining paper to burn. This is an established concept of things.
Second, similarity begets similarity. To put it simply, phosphorus powder can make paper spontaneously ignite.
The third is to change the reality. After the talisman is burned, the "magic" that has been built inside is released.
At this time, Shen Qi thought of his own skills. It seemed that his skills were a kind of thaumaturgy, because they could also achieve effects that could not be achieved by physical means. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a miracle.
Then the energy bodies he relies on are the life energy needed to perform thaumaturgy...
In this case, this dim light barrier cannot exist for a long time, because it requires the consumption of life energy for the thaumaturgy to take effect, and the amount of energy represents the duration of the effect.
Shen Qi thought for a while, stretched out his hand and pressed it on the blue light barrier.
The two sisters in the cellar saw that after the talisman was torn, it turned into a blue light barrier, blocking the person out, and their tense hearts suddenly relaxed.
But at this moment, the person outside stretched out his hand and stamped it on the barrier. Hot white light burst out from his hand, and the dim light of the barrier became brighter and brighter. However, with a crisp glass sound, the barrier turned into fragments and scattered. go.
The little sisters in the cellar were stunned for a moment and looked at each other speechlessly.
"Sure enough, since it is a spell similar to magic, it will definitely follow the established trajectory. Each trajectory point is stable to each other, so that the loop can be guided..."
"But as long as a certain point is destroyed, the guidance of the circuit will fail and the thaumaturgy will be ineffective."
"Do you think what I said is right?"
Shen Qi squinted his eyes and smiled at the two sisters in the cellar.