Otherworldly Mysterious Gate

() Although Li Xiaoxin tried his best to comfort Xiao Xuanzi, and Li Jinglong also coaxed Xiao Xuanzi to be happy from time to time, but in the few days after the explosion, Xiao Xuanzi's mood was a little depressed. <>..

Lin Shu was still the same as before, while training his younger siblings, he was studying some messy things in his laboratory, at least in the eyes of Xiao Xuanzi and Li Xiaoxin.

"Here, Xiaoyong, don't be distracted all the time!"

"Oh!"

"This is the part that absorbs energy. Pay attention. When the magic circle is activated, pay attention to the flow of energy from the magic core and magic crystal. What happened?"

"Brother, the energy is spinning!" It was not Lin Xiaoyong who answered, but Lin Xiaomei. Lin Shu turned to Lin Xiaomei in surprise. This was the first time that Lin Shu and his brother and sister had taken a basic magic class, and the props for the demonstration were Lin Shu. The magic circles made.

However, how Lin Xiaomei sensed the flow of magic energy, and how she was able to sense the movement of magic energy, was really incredible!Could it be that Lin Xiaomei was born with a strong soul?This is not absolutely impossible, maybe her origin is also as mysterious as Lin Shu, or it is like Ao Yun.

Lin Shu turned to Lin Xiaomei in surprise, and carefully felt her soul power, but found nothing unusual. Maybe Lin Xiaomei belonged to the kind of innate soul power that is relatively concentrated, but the strength is not very strong. Strong, this is what is often said to be a person with spiritual roots.

Lin Shu couldn't help shaking his head, why did he always meet strange people?Speaking of it, the most normal one should be Lin Xiaoyong.

"Is the little girl here, or do you feel it?"

"When it's here, I could only feel it vaguely before, but now I can feel a twist like a spiral."

"Is there any color?"

"No, it's distortion!"

Lin Shu stretched out his hand and patted the little girl's head and said with a smile: "Young girl is awesome, well, starting tonight, you can practice our family-inherited mystical refining technique."

"Oh, great! Great!" Lin Xiaomei jumped up and jumped around a few times.She threw herself on Lin Shu again and twisted and acted coquettishly, venting the joy in her heart. Lin Xiaomei was so jealous that only her second elder brother could practice alchemy. Now she can finally practice it herself. How could she? Not happy yet.

Lin Shu turned his face away.Lin Xiaoyong stared at the sundries shelf again.I couldn't help going to the sundry shelf curiously. It turned out that there were a few flat beetles crawling in the corner of the sundry shelf.Moreover, these flat beetles are not small in size, and their color is slightly darker than usual, and the carapace exudes a blue-purple light.

Lin Shu smiled. After all, he is a child, and he likes these small animals.However, when did you have these residents in your laboratory?Could it be because of the rain?

Just as Lin Shu was about to greet Lin Xiaoyong, his heart suddenly moved, and he couldn't help looking at the beetles again, then patted the little girl in his arms, turned to Xiaoyong and said, "Xiaoyong, go and turn off the lights."

Lin Xiaoyong gave Lin Shu a surprised look, but he still stood up and walked towards the switch, while Lin Shu walked to the window.With a bang, the shutter of the window was pulled shut.

"Hehe, sure enough!" These beetles still emitted a faint light in the dark environment. These are not ordinary lights, but the lights of mana fluctuations.Although it was extremely dim, there was still nothing to hide in front of Lin Shu's primordial spirit.

Lin Xiaomei was held by Lin Shu all the time, and heard her brother muttering to himself in the dark.I couldn't help raising my face, but it was so dark that I couldn't see anything.She curiously went around the room, trying to find something that caught her brother's attention, but unfortunately there was nothing.

"Open!"

"Oh!"

With a snap, the room reappeared brightly, and Lin Shu also opened the baffle of the window, revealing the mountain village scenery outside with slanting wind and drizzle.

"Okay, let's continue!"

Lin Shu glanced at the beetles, and continued to teach the two children, resolutely not mentioning the weird things he discovered just now, and not touching those strange beetles, not even looking at them, completely ignoring them.

It wasn't until after lunch that Lin Shu gave Li Jinglong a wink, and Li Jinglong cooperated and called Lin Shu to his office.

"What's the matter? Is there any new discovery?" Li Jinglong asked curiously.

Lin Shu carefully inspected Li Jinglong's office, especially the corners, to see if there were any strange animals, but there didn't seem to be anything unusual.

"I have some questions and I want to ask the teacher, can I invite Leng Feng in?"

Li Jinglong looked at Lin Shu strangely, Lin Shu smiled helplessly, Li Jinglong raised his hand and clicked on an inconspicuous place on the table, the short magic energy halo on his fingertips flashed away, and the office door was immediately pulled by Leng Feng opened.

"Something happened."

"Well, come in and talk!"

After Leng Feng closed the office door, Li Jinglong said to Lin Shu, "Say, what is it?"

Leng Feng knew that Li Jinglong attached great importance to Lin Shu, so he also paid close attention to Lin Shu, but he didn't find anything special except that Lin Shu was very smart.

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"It's like this. Can Mr. Leng check to see if there are any living beings other than us in this room, but it's best not to let people outside the room find that we are doing this check."

"Okay, and then add a protective barrier, is that okay?"

"That's great!"

Leng Feng immediately chanted the mantra, a small cyan halo formed on his finger, and then slowly spread to the entire room, without any corner being spared, Lin Shu was surprised at such a slow spell casting, Knowing that fast casting is a world-class problem, slow casting is more difficult than fast casting, and it is conceivable that it is so difficult to control so finely.

However, Leng Feng's speed is still very fast. After about a few seconds, Leng Feng completed the entire casting process, and then quickly chanted a short incantation, setting up a powerful barrier for the entire room. The world can basically isolate sound and magic energy from penetrating.

After finishing all this, Leng Feng said to Lin Shu, "Okay, no other life forms were found."

Lin Shu nodded in satisfaction, then went to the window and closed the shutter, and said to Li Jinglong: "Teacher, what I want to ask is if there is an insect like a flat beetle, but it is a creature belonging to a monster. ? It’s bigger than the flat beetle, and its color is darker, but there’s no difference at all.”

Li Jinglong looked at Lin Shu strangely, then frowned and thought about it, Leng Feng also paid attention to Li Jinglong, he had already heard something from Lin Shu's words, obviously, Lin Shu really found the existence of that kind of beetle in this building, and I was very suspicious of the origin of the beetle, so I came to ask Li Jinglong so carefully.

If there were really problems with these beetles, then the person who dared to reach out to Li Jinglong would definitely not be a simple guy, so Leng Feng was also very concerned about this.

Li Jinglong thought for a while, and seemed to have found some relevant information from quite a long time ago. His face was full of memories, and he said slowly: "The animal you mentioned reminds me of a long time ago. It was more than 40 years ago when I visited a historic site, and I was still following my teacher, when I received a request from the Magic Research Association, we went to a newly discovered historic site to join an expedition."

Teacher Lin Shu seemed to be about to speak at length, so he consciously found a stool and sat down, signaling Leng Feng to listen patiently.

"It's a historic site that is tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of years old. It should be a religious place, or a witchcraft altar. We found a lot of very ancient plant specimens and suspected medicinal formulas there. That time, We have made great discoveries about the application of plants in the ancient witchcraft of the Eastern Continent, and discovered some new configuration ideas for potions, so the teacher was very happy at that time, and I also have a deep memory."

"Teacher, there is no content about beetles." Lin Shu reminded.

Li Jinglong chuckled, as if he had returned to reality from his memories, squinted his eyes and said: "The beetle will appear soon, haha. The things like flat beetles you mentioned exist in large numbers in that ruins, of course they are not alive, and they are also It is not a corpse, but is carved in various places in the ruins, which seems to be a kind of worship object of this religion. At first I thought it was just an ordinary flat beetle, but later a colleague who studied animals told me that this so-called flat beetle It should be called a dark scarab, and it is precisely because of this beetle that filled the ruins that archaeologists quickly determined that this ruin was a religious altar of ancient black magic. And the so-called dark scarab is a kind of magical beast because of its darker color. , not advanced, but it is a very good psychic medium."

"Spiritual medium? Is it the medium for casting soul spells?"

"Yes, this is the current term. In ancient times, it should be called a medium for performing witchcraft!"

Lin Shu suddenly realized that his office was invaded by someone from the soul department, and he might also be proficient in ancient witchcraft. Thinking of the secrets of witchcraft, Lin Shu felt a little headache.

"Are there still groups that study witchcraft?"

"Of course there are, but there are not many, and they are all quite low-key. The researchers among them are generally soul mages. It is said that your arcanist surnamed Lin is also proficient in ancient witchcraft."

Li Jinglong said with a smile, and then asked curiously: "You asked this matter so seriously, did you find a dark scarab in this building?"

Lin Shu grinned: "The teacher is the teacher, and I came here to ask because it's here! Also, how should we deal with these dark scarabs?"

Li Jinglong sighed, looked up at Leng Feng, who nodded knowingly: "Leave it to me, where did you find it?"

"My laboratory, it seems that Xuanzi's laboratory also has it, I didn't pay attention to other places."

"I understand, take this opportunity to catch the people behind it first."

"You do it yourself, safety is the first priority." Li Jinglong said helplessly: "I'm here to urge the demon seminar. If it doesn't work, we'll go back to the capital."

Leng Feng thought for a while and said, "Alright!"