Recap
There were sorcerer academies in both directions, and the more he looked at them, the more confused he became.
After a stalemate for more than a minute, Ji Huaizhe decided to continue walking along the original route.
He wanted to see what was going on with the pile of buildings in front of him that looked exactly like the Sorcerer Academy they had just come from.
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As soon as he entered the area, Chu Shici felt that something was wrong.
This place is so similar to where they came from, there is almost no difference at all.
Ji Huaizhe stepped lightly and walked quietly through the wooden houses.
He checked every wooden house. Whether it was the appearance or the formations engraved on it, they were exactly the same as the academy where he came from.
There wasn’t much light nearby, only the torches stuck on the ground emitted a faint glow, and the academy was particularly quiet under the night sky.
Ji Huaizhe’s face was cold, and his scarlet eyes were filled with vigilance.
The atmosphere was so heavy that Chu Shici didn’t dare to say anything. He just sat silently on Zhe-ge’s shoulders, looking around.
After wandering around for a while, they didn’t come up with any conclusive hypothesis. Ji Huaizhe was silent for a long time, and finally walked towards his original dormitory.
The door of the wooden house was closed, and he tried to press his hand on the wooden door.
The next second the wooden door slowly opened.
Chu Shici noticed that the moment the door opened, Zhe-ge’s face suddenly became extremely ugly.
He asked curiously: “Zhe-ge, what’s wrong?”
Ji Huaizhe pursed his thin lips and said, “Each apprentice’s dormitory door in the academy is equipped with an access control. The dormitory door will only be opened after the residing apprentice’s magic power is injected.”
Chu Shici didn’t react at first. He blinked blankly, and then let out a shocked exclamation.
According to Ji Huaizhe, only apprentices living in the specific dormitory can open the dormitory door, which is equivalent to giving each dormitory an exclusive key.
But since Zhe-ge is from another academy, why can he open this door?
Ji Huaizhe held his magic wand tightly and stepped into the wooden house.
Like his previous academy, this sorcerer academy also has two rooms in each wooden cabin.
Ji Huaizhe first opened the door to the room closest to the door. The display inside and even the books on the desk were exactly the same as his original dormitory.
He tapped the ground lightly with his wand. A faint red light streamed from the bottom of the wand, the detection technique swept across the room.
Wherever the red light passed, formations were revealed one after another. They are so densely packed there are at least hundreds of them.
Ji Huaizhe thought for a moment and then walked to the cabinet in the corner.
He opened the cabinet door and took out everything in the cabinet.
Finally, at the bottom of the cabinet, he saw a familiar black hole.
This time not only Chu Shici was completely confused, but Ji Huaizhe was also slightly stunned.
They slipped out of the academy and wanted to go to the beastman tribe through the dense forest. It turned out that there was another sorcerer academy in the dense forest.
Not only do the two academies have the same exact buildings, the same room even has the same black hole teleportation array in the cabinet just like in Ji Huaizhe’s dormitory.
It is a complete 1:1 replica, there is no difference between them at all.
Chu Shici took the initiative to ask if he could enter the black hole and check if there was a door engraved with human heads inside.
Ji Huaizhe said nothing.
Chu Shici thought that Zhe-ge didn’t hear what he said, so he repeated it again.
Before he finished speaking, Ji Huaizhe covered his head.
A man’s cold voice came from above his head: “Don’t take unnecessary risks. Think of other ways to verify.”
Hearing what he said, Chu Shici was a little happy.
When he had first asked to go into the hole before, Zhe-ge had appeared even more curious than him.
Now, even though it’s still the same situation, Zhe-ge is preventing him from entering the unknown depths.
This shows that for Ji Huaizhe, the little doll is no longer dispensable and occupies a certain position in his heart.
After checking the dormitory, Ji Huaizhe turned and walked into the next room.
He knocked on the wooden door of the dormitory. Chu Shici, who was sitting on his shoulder, nervously stretched his neck out to listen to the movements behind the door.
A minute later, a woman’s muffled voice came from the door, “Why are you knocking on the door in the middle of the night!”
Then the wooden door was opened, and Lilith stood at the door rubbing her eyes.
After seeing the person outside the door clearly, she frowned in confusion, “Ji, didn’t you change dormitories? What are you still doing here?”
Ji Huaizhe didn’t answer. He looked at Lilith carefully.
The voice, appearance, behavior and habits of the person in front of him were all exactly the same as the Lilith in his memory.
The two looked at each other for a long time, and the little witch gradually came to her senses and asked, “Is something wrong?”
Ji Huaizhe’s usually calm tone now contained some hesitation: “Lilith?”
“Yeah?”
“Where is this?”
“The Sorcerer Academy, what are you asking about?”
As if remembering something bad, the little witch took a step back and looked at Ji Huaizhe warily.
“You promised to let me go, and I don’t plan to target you anymore. I swear to the goddess of death that I will never make money from you in the future, or give you any more potions.”
Ji Huaizhe said nothing.
He looked around to make sure there was no one around, then pushed the little witch into the room and closed the door behind him.
Lilith wanted to resist, but she was only a junior apprentice who was not a match for Ji Huaizhe.
Ji Huaizhe pushed her to the ground, put his wand against her neck, and forced her to answer several questions.
There was a time when he actually considered Lilith a friend. They are often together and have many secrets that only each other knows.
With the wand against her neck, Lilith was very honest and answered whatever she was asked.
The result of the questioning revealed that she was indeed the Lilith he was familiar with.
When all the questions were asked, Ji Huaizhe let go of the little witch, stood up and walked out in confusion.
Lilith didn’t dare to stop or ask. After he went out, she immediately closed and locked the door.
Seeing Zhe-ge’s reaction, Chu Shici had the answer in his mind.
Not only are the dead things here the same as the academy they came from, but there is no difference between the living things either.
If he hadn’t just seen two sorcerer academies at the same time, Chu Shici would have thought that they were wandering around in the forest and back to their original place.
Ji Huaizhe was a very decisive person. He had promised to slip away from the academy, and he will not stay any longer.
Although he doesn’t understand what’s going on here, he just wants to leave.
Chu Shici had the same idea as him.
Anyway, no matter which sorcerer academy it is, it is not a place for ordinary people.
Ji Huaizhe walked towards the dense forest again.
This time he chose a new direction and walked straight.
If he encounters a tree blocking his path, he’ll just kick it down to make sure he is walking in a straight line from beginning to end.
After walking for a while, Ji Huaizhe paused again.
Chu Shici had a bad feeling in his heart, so he squinted his eyes and looked ahead.
There was a faint flickering of firelight ahead, and through the branches and leaves of the trees, dilapidated tents and rows of dilapidated wooden houses could be seen.
Ji Huaizhe stood sideways in the forest, while Chu Shici’s head darted to look back and forth.
In the direction they came from, he could see a sorcerer academy. At the end of the route, there was another sorcerer academy.
Chu Shici stayed with Zhe-ge the whole time.
He can be sure that Ji Huaizhe took the path in a completely different direction, and there was no possibility of returning to the starting point.
This means that in this forest…
Are there three sorcerer academies?
Chu Shici was stunned.
Ji Huaizhe thought for a long time and walked towards the academy in front of him.
This time he didn’t hesitate and walked quickly towards a wooden house. Used his magic to open the wooden door of the dormitory, and knocked hard on the door of one of the rooms.
A woman’s muffled voice sounded from inside the door again, “What’s wrong with you…?”
Then the door opened, and Lilith poked her head out with sleepy eyes.
The moment the two looked at each other, the little witch looked horrified. She jerked back and tried to lock the door.
Ji Huaizhe raised his hand and grabbed the edge of the door, forcing it open.
Pressing Lilith to the ground again, before he could ask any questions, the little witch burst into tears.
“What did I do wrong? I told you I will change! What is going on with you tonight? I just fell asleep. Why are you staring at me like that!”
Ji Huaizhe pursed his lips tightly and stared at the woman in front of him, trying to find any trace of deceit on her face.
Chu Shici jumped on Lilith and poked her chin with his short woolen arm, “Did you see him just now?”
Lilith looked at them like they are monsters.
Her reaction said it all.
Chu Shici couldn’t figure out what was going on. He only knew that they were trapped in the sorcerer academy.
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After leaving the little witch’s dormitory, Ji Huaizhe wandered aimlessly in the quiet academy.
He walked several times in the nearby dense forest and found the grave he had made for the old witch.
There was also a flower he had placed on the grave.
Ji Huaizhe sat beside the grave, quietly looking at the wooden tombstone carved by himself.
He picked up the little doll that had been sitting on his shoulder and gently stroked his little woolen head with his fingers.
Chu Shici could tell that Zhe-ge had something on his mind.
He asked Zhe-ge what he was thinking about, but Ji Huaizhe didn’t answer, as if he didn’t hear him.
The system poked its head out of the space and asked with a confused look on its face: [I’m so confused, what on earth is going on? Can’t you go out?]
Chu Shici sighed irritably.
Before he could think of what to say, Ji Huaizhe’s cold voice suddenly came from above his head, “I once left the Sorcerer Academy.”
Chu Shici was stunned for a moment, and then remembered what Zhe-ge had said to him a few days ago.
In order to win Ji Huaizhe’s trust and successfully get him into their beds, several sorcerers tried their best to make him happy.
They helped him find materials to make him a DIY wand, and took him to the nearby beastman tribe to tease the little foxes.
Ji Huaizhe met the canine people there. Those canine people who were too enthusiastic about humans left a deep impression on him.
At that time, he was not in this situation.
When he set out for the first time last night, he followed the route he remembered.
Ji Huaizhe has a good memory and he can be sure that he did not go the wrong way. But what they met was not the beastman tribe, but the sorcerer academy.
Zhe-ge’s words gave Chu Shici a flash of inspiration.
Since the group of wizards were able to bring Ji Huaizhe to the beastman tribe last time, they should be able to do the same this time.
As time goes by, the sky gradually becomes brighter.
The academy is located in the deepest part of the Erya Mountains, surrounded by endless forests. There are only very few hours of sunshine every day.
At eight o’clock in the morning, the light in the Sorcerer Academy was still dim, and a depressing and gloomy cold atmosphere enveloped the entire whole place like a thick fog.
Apprentices wandered out of their dormitories one after another and went to the tent to have breakfast together.
Ji Huaizhe watched for a while, but there was no one he was looking for in the crowd.
The sorcerers were all imprisoned by the old witch and Ji Huaizhe didn’t know where the confinement room was.
He followed the apprentices, hesitated several times, and finally did not ask.
Lilith went to the cafeteria with her friends, and when she saw him, she immediately shrank her neck and took a detour.
Ji Huaizhe glanced at the little witch out of the corner of his eye and suddenly remembered that Lilith had mentioned the canine beastmen to him when she was helping him choose an evil spirit servant.
Chu Shici also remembered this incident. At that time, Lilith still said with disgust that the canine people were stupid and useless.
One person and one doll narrowed their eyes and stared directly at Lilith, making the little witch feel goosebumps all over.
She tried to think but she didn’t know how she had offended him again.
That night, Lilith, who was sleeping soundly in her dormitory, heard another knock on the door.
She stood up in a daze, walked to the door and was about to open it, but suddenly paused when she reached the door handle.
She asked tentatively, “Who is it?”
Through the door, Lilith heard a cold, emotionless male voice.
“I am Ji Huaizhe.”
Lilith: ……
Why are you here again? This person is so scary.
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