Along with the sound of three baked potatoes rolling on the table, Cyrus's indifferent voice echoed in the dim room.
"I have to go out to do some errands. Just stay here and wait for me to come back. If you're hungry, just eat baked potatoes. Remember?"
Rosen nodded silently.
Cyrus turned around and put the suitcase in the corner, picked up the cloth bag containing his head and walked towards the door.
When he arrived at the door, he warned again: "Remember, don't touch my things! Don't leave the room! Don't talk to strangers! If I find you disobedient, you will be in trouble!"
Rosen thought secretly: 'This is trying to trap me.'
Of course, the situation is stronger than the person. He currently has no room for resistance and can only nod respectfully: "I remember, mentor."
‘Clang~Click~’
Cyrus closed the door and left, locking the door outside.
When he was gone, Rosen quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Staying with a cruel and narrow-minded mage all day long was very stressful.
He turned around and began to look at the hotel room.
The windows are small and made of green glass with poor light transmittance. It is also dusk now, so the light in the room is quite dim.
The room is not big, and all the furnishings inside are made of wood.
Next to him was a table, and in addition to the potatoes, there was a small oil lamp placed on the table. The lamp stand was dark, with a hint of patina, and seemed to be made of brass.
Looking at the lamp again, the oil inside was dark and fragrant. It should be extracted vegetable oil.
There is a triangular wooden stand in the corner of the room, and there is a wooden basin on the shelf. There is also something like a toothbrush placed next to the basin, which is probably a toiletries provided by the hotel.
There is also a wooden cabinet. There is a ceramic teapot on the cabinet. I opened it and looked at it. It was filled with water. I poured it out and tasted it. The water was quite clean. It should have been boiled, but it had a faint smell.
It has an earthy smell and is not very tasty.
Then there was only a wooden bed left. The mattress was made of neatly cut hay, and it made a sizzling sound when you sat on it. The quilt looked quite thick, and when I touched it with my hand, I found that the filling inside was not cotton, but
Reed flowers.
By the way, I looked under the bed and found a wooden bucket with a lid. I pulled it out out of curiosity. As soon as I opened the lid, a strong smell of feces and urine hit my nose.
Well, it's actually a toilet.
After reading the whole thing, Rosen sighed: "It feels like I have traveled back to the old society. Hey, there seems to be a crack in the wall."
Being alone in a closed room is extremely boring. When he saw a crack in the wall, Rosen went up to observe.
'Hmm~ I can see the room next door. There is no one in the room and there is no luggage. It should be unoccupied yet.'
'This room is really big, with big windows and a beautiful screen. There is a mirror behind the screen, which looks like a small bathroom.'
'The bed is also very big, and it's a big round bed. The gloss of the quilt looks like silk. I understand, the reason why my room is simple is mainly because I didn't give it enough money.'
It seems that Cyrus is really short of money.
When he was bored, Rosen observed almost everything that could be seen and touched in the room, even the mouse holes in the corners.
But the room was so big, and he still felt bored after reading it quickly.
Suddenly something clicked in my mind: 'Hmm~ Isn't there a new program installed on the desktop? I just want to study it.'
When I summoned the desktop, I found a new icon on the blue background. It was a little man carrying a bag, and the name was "Rosen's Adventure Diary".
Try opening it, and a video playback window will appear. On the right side of the window is a timeline, with important time nodes briefly marked with text next to the timeline.
Quite a fool's errand.
Rosen looked at the text next to the timeline and found that there was a node in the middle, and the node annotation was 'travel'.
The upper part of the journey is called ‘past life’, and the lower part is called ‘this life’.
When I try to go back to my past life, I find that the experiences of my previous life are accurately recorded.
Born, toddlers, learning languages, reading for enlightenment, then going to college, taking postgraduate entrance examinations after graduation, studying for Ph.D., and finally entering society, getting married and starting a business.
During the whole process, everything he heard, saw, smelled, in short, as long as it was information felt by the five senses, was all accurate and recorded.
Rosen clicked his tongue and exclaimed: "Oh~~ It's like a holographic recorder of life!"
After roughly looking at the past life, I looked at this life again.
After casually looking at it, I selected the time when I first entered the Green Orioles Hotel and met the beautiful girl Lilith, and then tried to say: 'Play' silently in my heart.
The next moment, the window lit up and a three-dimensional image began to play.
In the video, the beautiful girl named Lilith walked over and said in a teasing tone: "Mr. Mage, do you want to have some fun?"
This feels a bit like playing a first-person online game.
Rosen thought back to the stream of information he had received: 'What does it mean to see it from all angles?'
Since it was boring anyway, he studied it seriously.
Soon, he understood the meaning of these words.
Under normal circumstances, the human eye has only one focus and can only see clearly what is in the focus.
However, the eye has peripheral vision, so the real field of view of the human eye is much larger than the focus range.
Through the playback of the adventure log, as long as the target is within the field of view, he can adjust the focus again and carefully observe things that originally only appeared in the peripheral vision.
Rosen slapped his thigh in excitement and exclaimed, "Isn't this Plath's version of photographic memory?"
This function was ridiculously powerful, far beyond his expectations.
But soon, he discovered that although the function was very powerful, he still could not change his embarrassing situation in a short period of time.
'Hey~ take your time, don't be hasty.'
At this moment, familiar footsteps came from outside the door, followed closely by the sound of unlocking from outside the door.
Cyrus is back.
As soon as I entered the door, I immediately checked the suitcase in the corner. After confirming that everything was intact, I nodded with satisfaction.
"Yes, you are an honest child."
Rosen looked at him carefully and saw that his eyebrows were relaxed and he was slightly happy. The robber's head in his hand was also gone. He knew that he had successfully collected the bounty.
Taking advantage of the other person's good mood, he boldly asked: "Teacher, when will you teach me spells?"
Cyrus' face froze, and his joy suddenly disappeared.
He silently walked to the luggage rack, opened the top drawer, took out a complete set of oil painting tools he bought before, and placed it heavily on the table with a bang.
"Learning magic is very expensive, but as you can see, I am not rich."
"If you want to learn it early, just make money by painting first. When you make enough, I will teach you."
After saying that, seeing Rosen's face full of disappointment, he pondered for a moment and added: "Of course, you have earned 1 kei for me. In return, I will teach you the basic lessons of a mage today."
Rosen was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "Teacher, thank you very much for your generosity and kindness."
Cyrus snorted coldly: "Don't be in a hurry to thank me. I'm only responsible for teaching. As for whether you can learn it, it depends on your own ability."
"Teacher, I will do my best."
"Very good, now go to the bed and find the most comfortable sleeping position and lie down."
Rosen immediately complied.
"Close your eyes."
Rosen closed his eyes with some anxiety.
After a while, Cyrus's somewhat ethereal voice came to my ears.
"The most basic and important thing for a mage is mana. And the only way to obtain mana is meditation."
“There are many types of meditation. The more effective the meditation, the more difficult it is to get started and the higher the risk.
"Considering that you have no foundation, today I will teach you the safest and easiest meditation to master: quiet meditation."
"Next, listen to me carefully and do as I say."
Rosen immediately held his breath for fear of missing even half a word.
Cyrus' voice continued to come from his side.
"Slow down your mind, breathe slowly, and feel your body carefully."
"Feel the rhythm of your heart, feel the flow of blood in your body, feel the vitality contained in every piece of flesh and blood, and understand the trace of mystery left by the Creator in your body."
For a young man who has lived in a bandit den since childhood, these words should be difficult to understand.
But for a veteran who comes from the earth and has been baptized by the craze of information, there is no obstacle to understanding at all.
He felt his body without any distractions.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly, my mind was slightly shaken, and two streams of information flashed through my mind.
"The new program "Rosen's Spellbook" is installed."
"New skill: Quiet Meditation has been learned."
Rosen's heart moved slightly, and he immediately focused on the desktop. Sure enough, there was a new icon that looked like a book, and the name was 'Rosen's Spell Book'.
He tried to activate the icon.
The book quickly grew in size and occupied the entire table. On the cover were written "Rosen's Spell Book" in six large golden characters.
Rosen thought expectantly: 'Can you open it?'
The next moment, the book page opened, and when you turned to the first page, there was an icon 'Basic Mage Course: Quiet Meditation'.
Looking at this icon, Rosen's heart moved slightly, and he thought of a possibility.
There was something in his mind, and he tried to gather his energy and focus on the icon.
Just as he expected, two seconds later, an option popped up on the icon: 'Do you want to run this skill?'
Of course you choose yes!
In an instant, Rosen felt that the whole world had gone silent. Cyrus's voice disappeared without a trace, and all the noise coming from the first floor of the hotel disappeared.
The next moment, he clearly heard his own heartbeat, the sound of blood flowing in his blood vessels, the buzzing of his intestines, and the slight clicking sound of joints and bones.
After another moment, Rosen faintly felt a very weak warmth in his body.
It is moving, but it is different from blood circulation, more like breathing.
It's not the body that breathes, it's the soul that breathes.
Because the hub of 'breathing' is not in the chest, but in the brain.
When I say 'call', a warm feeling comes out of my head, just like the stars in the sky scattering my limbs and bones.
When you 'inhale', the warmth returns to your brain, like all rivers returning to the sea.
Rosen vaguely felt that with every 'breath', this strange warmth seemed to become slightly stronger than before.
Strong joy flashed in his heart: 'Ha, do I have magic power now?!'
But this joy did not last long. He suddenly felt heart palpitations, as if he was being stared at by a beast.
He was shocked: "Why is there a beast in the room?"
Frightened, the meditation was automatically interrupted.
Rosen immediately opened his eyes and found Cyrus standing beside the bed.
He lowered his head, his gray eyes staring closely at him, with a strong sense of gloom in them, like a poisonous snake that wanted to choose someone to eat.
