When Nelem saw the halfling mage, he raised his hand and cast a "petrification spell". Without hesitation, he turned the halfling mage into a stone statue. Then he gestured towards the distance, and a mage and two mystery knights rushed away.
Come here and take this halfling stone statue away without saying anything more.
"I must dig out the behind-the-scenes of these guys! They dare to cause trouble on my land. Do you really think I am easy to bully?" Master Nelum said through gritted teeth.
Xuan Weizi was too lazy to say anything. From the first time he rushed to Can Can Street to prevent the explosion and fire from spreading, and later to treat the injured, he wasted a lot of energy and was even more tired than ordinary fighting. He simply found a place to sit down and concentrate on
Hold on to the divine energy and conserve the essence.
Rosalian squatted beside Xuan Weizi and guarded silently. She could see that Xuan Weizi was very exhausted, but she didn't understand why he did this, but she didn't dare to ask questions to disturb him.
But Master Nelum didn't understand this. He shouted loudly and commanded a large number of his men to gather all the poor people in Can Can Street and not allow them to leave. At the same time, he sent people to investigate the Can Can Street that had been bombed to a mess, pointing fingers and imposing.
people.
"Doctor Olenso! This time it didn't turn into a big fire and spread to other streets. It's all thanks to you!" Master Nelem approached and said, "I can see that this time the 'door lock' incident was aimed at
Mine. If the fire in Can Can Street cannot be extinguished and burns to other neighborhoods, they will have every reason to incite citizens to cause trouble. They don’t dare to attack me, but they can pull down the governor and use this opportunity to weaken my power...
It just so happens that Forsman is also in the city now, huh!"
Xuan Weizi raised his eyes slightly and said, "What do you plan to do next?"
"Check!" Master Nelum immediately made up his mind: "And I have sent people to control the slums of 'Door Lock' to disrupt the nearby teleportation and communication spells. As soon as the halfling opens his mouth, rush in and check!"
Xuan Weizi just sat still, looking at the poor people in the distance who were surrounded by armed guards and huddled together. They were all unkempt and had numb expressions, as if their homes were destroyed but they had no inner feelings. Under the sharp blade,
He curled up and said nothing.
Seeing Xuan Weizi's eyes, little Taylor, who was leaning drowsily on his mother's shoulder, waved to Xuan Weizi with a pure smile on his face.
"What about these people?" Xuan Weizi gestured to the poor people in Can Can Street.
"Detain them all and find out what they did to cause a big explosion here!" Master Nelum said.
Xuan Weizi said: "It should just be some blazing fire glue."
Master Nelum shook his head and said: "Doctor Olanso, how can it be so simple? What do they want to do by hiding so much blazing glue in a place like this? And they just stocked it up before and after Forsman's arrival? I don't know.
Is he specialized in fire spells?"
"Do you suspect that the poor people in Can Can Street are colluding with Fusman?" Xuan Weizi asked calmly.
Master Nelum said with a confident smile: "Even if it's not true, under severe torture, I can turn it into the truth. Besides, who cares about the truth these days? Whoever speaks loudly and has a loud voice can turn the lie into the truth.
real!"
Xuan Weizi said with some dissatisfaction: "But as far as I know, it should be just the gangsters in Can Can Street making their own decisions. Others can't even afford food and clothing. Do you expect them to buy a large amount of hot glue from other places?"
Master Nelum said with a smile: "I didn't expect Dr. Olenso to care so much about the poor. But you may not have come into contact with these poor people. They have always been a source of instability in the city. After strict statistics, we found that
Most robberies, murders, rapes, and thefts in Dance City basically occur in these poor streets and their surrounding areas."
Xuan Weizi's face darkened: "Since you think they are a source of instability, why are you leaving these people in the city?"
"Hey! It's not that I want to keep them in the city, but these people refuse to leave." Master Nelem said with a normal expression: "Actually, I can't make the decision in this matter. I just have to rely on that.
Help 'Piper'."
"The flute player?" Xuan Weizi didn't understand.
"A group of bards who claim to be righteous." Master Nelum couldn't help but roll his eyes, which showed how much he disliked this group of people in the past: "To put it bluntly, they are just a group of vultures that pounce on them when they smell some blood.
, to make a big fuss about various things and publish them in newspapers and periodicals. It has attracted the attention of many wealthy people, and the Chamber of Commerce Alliance has invested heavily in them, specializing in digging up scandals about the Imperial Legion and local governors."
Xuan Weizi asked: "Are these 'pipers' opposed to your expulsion of the poor?"
"Yes, they don't know how. They spread the news to the mainland of the empire, and there seem to be many ways to do it. In short, they forced all the provinces and towns in the New World to pass laws prohibiting the eviction of the poor in the city." Master Nelum rambled:
"Also, those bullshit citizens have only had enough to eat for a few days, and they are showing off their kindness here? And they also learn how to do charity, saying that they don't want to see others starve and suffer... Bah! This canned street
I have been poor for many years, but I haven’t seen them come to hand out money. I just stare at the slums that are extremely rich! To satisfy my little kindness that makes people laugh to death!”
Xuan Weizi understood: "The explosion in Can Can Street will be evidence that the 'Piper' attacks you and the governor of Huowu City. Are you worried that Fusman will take advantage of this to replace you?"
"Absolutely." Master Nelum knocked on his scepter and said: "If they were just some bards who could only write articles, I wouldn't be afraid. But this kind of accident in Can Can Street will make me have a deeper understanding of the slums and the door.
Lock's actions have caused obstacles. Doctor Olanso, you may not know yet, but the slums in Fire Dance City are actually closely related to the interests within our Pentagram Tower, and it is not so easy to attack."
"I have known it for a long time." Xuan Weizi did not say these words, but he also understood Master Nelem's difficulties.
As the chief mage advisor of Fire Dance City, it is impossible for Master Nelum not to know about the various dirty transactions in the slums. He just turned a blind eye to them in the past. This is regarded as acquiescence to this form of underground trading, and it is also in line with Master Nelem's loose governance.
Habit.
It's just that when any unspoken rules develop to a certain extent, they will be related to the interests of many groups. Nelem himself is a ninth-level mage, but he does not manage Huowu City and surrounding affairs by himself. Taking action against the slums is undoubtedly
He also wants to make his subordinates lose profits.
Originally, with the armistice contract, the momentum of interest expansion had slowed down. Now that we have to cut it one more time, and we are faced with the threat of Forsman, it is no wonder that Master Nelum has difficulty in taking action.
"If you are worried that the poor people here may be disadvantageous to you, then don't imprison them." Xuan Weizi said: "They are poor people to begin with, and their homes are now destroyed. If you show them a little kindness, they will be more grateful.
"
Master Nelum looked at Xuan Weizi and asked: "Master Olanso, how about I entrust you with this matter?"
"You really save trouble." Xuan Weizi smiled and did not refute.
"Does that mean you agree?" Master Nelum slapped his thigh and said, "Anyway, it's just a show. When this period passes, I will immediately invest more in Woodpile Town!"
Xuan Weizi didn't say much. After Master Nelum left, the guards just blocked the nearby streets to prevent the poor people in Can Can Street from leaving.
Looking at the charred ruins of Can Can Street, many poor people just sat there blankly. Now they don't even have a small shelter to protect themselves from the wind and rain, leaving only deep despair.
"Hey, are you really okay?" Rosalian came closer and rubbed Xuan Weizi with her cheek.
"It's nothing serious." Xuan Weizi sat upright and adjusted his breathing. Wolf came over with sweat on his face and said:
"The dead bodies have been buried. It's so miserable. They are almost unrecognizable. They are all burnt."
Xuan Weizi held Biyun Ruyi's arm sideways and remained silent. Even Wolf noticed something was wrong and did not dare to speak loudly.
"I don't quite understand why you chose to save these people?" Rosaleen took the initiative to break the silence.
"Yes, why?" Xuan Weizi also seemed to wake up.
Rosaleen said unhappily: "You ask me? I still want to ask you!"
"This is my wind evil calamity." Xuan Weizi said.
"Wind evil tribulation? Is it the same as the lust tribulation, encountered in the process of cultivation?" Rosalian saw Xuan Weizi nodded, glanced at the canned food street, but was even more confused: "But... this has nothing to do with you.
What does my cultivation have to do with it? Even if you don't come, this place will still catch fire and explode, and there will probably be more casualties."
Xuan Weizi's expression was a little erratic: "The inner scene of the Yuan Shen matches the outer scene, and the inner and outer Yuan Qi interact and blend together. At this time, the perception will be greatly expanded, and it seems that the power will be greatly enhanced. After practicing to this point, there will also be various kinds of things that are difficult to distinguish between true and false.
of fantasy.
Because the meridians follow the laws of the sky and the earth, you may think that you can mobilize the boundless power of heaven and earth at will, or you may find yourself flying high in the sky, overlooking the earth, or your body may become bigger, comparable to a mountain... I am a little special.
Some, during the conversation with little Taylor, I had an uneasy premonition."
Wolf seemed to understand a little bit: "Yes, doctor, you seemed to have noticed the explosion before it happened."
Rosalian asked about other things: "Isn't it a good thing to feel that my strength has increased and my perception has improved?"
"There is nothing good or bad here, but this feeling itself is a manifestation of the wind evil tribulation, not an actual improvement." Xuan Weizi said: "When experiencing the wind evil tribulation, the perception will be greatly expanded, and naturally
It greatly improves the information reception ability of the body's organs, and at the same time, it also enhances the screening and processing of information by the consciousness.
Even if you sit still in a closed environment, your mind will sense all kinds of things, and then your consciousness will stir up your mind and disturb the soul. The soul is restless, and the energy cannot be quiet, but now it is...
At this critical moment of internal and external communication, something unclean may be attracted, so it is called the Wind Evil Tribulation."
Generally speaking, when the divine energy reached the "Nine Returns" state, Xuanweizi encountered a wind evil disaster. At that time, he was still in the castle in the mountain. But at that time, Xuanweizi did not clear the meridians of the law, heaven, elephant and earth. , the interaction between internal and external Yuan Qi is not obvious, and Xuan Weizi himself has deep Yuan Shen skills, so he can easily survive the wind evil disaster.
But what is supposed to come will still come. Xuan Weizi has re-established his foundation, and his Yuan Shen Gong is high and his Yuan Qi is naturally profound. The wind evil catastrophe that comes again is much more violent than expected. In addition to the various things that were sensed after being sent to Can Can Street in the first place. Disturbance of thoughts is more importantly about how to break through the various thoughts that are involved when the inner and outer scenes of the Yuan Shen are combined, so as to achieve "breaking attachment".
Wind evil calamity is actually not difficult due to those illusions. For those who practice hard, they can get rid of the illusion with a little concentration of mind. The difficulty lies in daily actions. The external scene appears in the inner scene all the time. A thought arises, and all thoughts arise. Wind evil Coming all the time, everywhere.
Generally speaking, when you have reached this level of cultivation, you should go into the mountains to observe inner meditation and penetrate your mind bit by bit. If you wander around again, if you really attract any evil spirits and are possessed by you, and the wind evil will intensify, you can This is not an ordinary illusion, but an external demon has invaded.
Especially in this world, who knows what weird and bizarre tricks those mages have, and even Xuan Weizi cannot guarantee that he has the means to deal with them.
"Then what are you going to do, doctor?" Wolf was both curious and worried. He guessed that if he encountered this weird wind evil calamity, would he be able to get through it by fucking a woman?
"The Wind Evil Tribulation is very special. It is a calamity caused by people's inability to exist apart from reality." Xuan Weizi said: "The external environment will have various effects on people's judgment and behavior. To survive the Wind Evil Tribulation, , it is to deeply understand this influence and find a more thorough and comprehensive way of thinking and behavior. This is why I chose to save the poor people in Can Can Street."
Rosalin stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, and said, "Well, after hearing you say these words, it seems that you are almost feeling better."
Xuan Weizi raised his hand and scratched the fur on Rosalian's body. It felt tight and warm, even a little slippery.
"Don't, don't touch around!" Rosalian suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, broke away from Xuan Weizi's hand, and asked: "Then what are you going to do now? Are you going to take care of these poor people?"
"Care? Just treating them makes me unable to stand up. How can I take care of them?" Xuan Weizi said: "Human abilities are limited, but there are too many difficulties to face. The reality gap creates problems , this is also wind evil. Wind evil is not something that only practitioners will encounter. Look at these poor people who have long been numb and insensitive. Which one has not suffered from wind evil?"
"Is poverty also a wind evil?" Wolf suddenly asked with emotion.
"It's not poverty, it's the environment that creates poverty, or it's the state of mind not being content with poverty, but can you and I ask these people to be content with poverty? They have long been numb." As a flying bird scout, take your own sapphire star emblem and raise your hand to let it fly.
"Are you looking for someone to help?" Rosalian asked puzzledly: "Why don't you contact Master Nelum directly? Don't you have a communication item?"
"He can't solve these people's problems. In fact, no one can. In the end, they have to rely on themselves." Xuan Weizi said to Wolf: "Ask those people and find out what skills they have, even the simplest ones." Washing clothes and sewing cloth, shoveling earth and moving bricks... Also, take that little Taylor with you to find out the situation of everyone in Can Can Street."