Defeating Magic Chapter 14: Sudden Attack

Chapter 14: Sudden Attack 

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Kiramekineko

Thank you Wendy for the Ko-Fi!

Zhou Yan’s home was relatively large and well-equipped, with an attic, basement and storage, but when it was built, he planned more space for laboratories, storage rooms and other functional spaces, resulting in very little space in the living area—only enough for him to move around alone.

Anyway, he initially planned to live here alone, and did not want to invite anyone to his home as a guest, so the original planned space was perfectly adequate. But now with one more person, it seemed a bit crowded.

In Zhou Yan’s entire house, there was only one bedroom, and there was only one bed inside the bedroom. In order not to freeze to death during sleep, Zhou Yan could only sleep with Luo Futu in the bedroom.

There was floor heating in the bedroom, but not anywhere else.

The good thing was that Zhou Yan was not very demanding about where to sleep; he made a floor bunk on the bedroom floor and let Luo Futu sleep on the spring bed.

Zhou Yan came back from watching the stars in the attic and saw Luo Futu sitting alone on his bed playing with something, concentrating on it, just like he did when he first came across the Rubik’s Cube when he was young, Zhou Yan was curious and glanced over at him, but saw Luo Futu holding a small toy by its legs and hanging it in mid-air.

Zhou Yan immediately frowned. “What do you want to do with my Jerry?”

Jerry was the little robot that could serve tea and say welcome, but at this time was like a pendant in Luo Futu’s hands, from time to time letting out a pathetic zhi la la sound, looking very badly bullied.

Luo Futu smiled and looked at Zhou Yan, then straightened his arm and handed Jerry to Zhou Yan. “It has a name?”

Luo Futu actually noticed this little toy a long time ago. It was obviously a puppet made of wood and iron, but it could move and talk—it was amazing. In the Zedoary Continent, only a mystic could play this kind of trick. But he had just examined the inside of this little toy and found no sign of a spirit either.

“When the spirit of a living being is drawn out and stuffed into a doll, the wood becomes talking and walking, but there is no sign of a spirit in here, how on earth did you do that?” Luo Futu asked while carrying Jerry’s legs and shaking them hard, as if trying to pour something out of Jerry’s body.

Zhou Yan grabbed the little robot from his hand. “Don’t break it!” He pressed a few buttons on the back of the robot and put it on the floor, and Jerry staggered out of the bedroom, making a squeak… as he went. Squeak… The sound, as if running for his life.

“Jerry is an electric robot, a battery is installed inside; the power can support his walking and action.”

Luo Futu looked more and more amused, staring at Jerry’s fugitive-like back laughing, especially creepily. “Interesting, then how he speaks?”

“He didn’t open his mouth, it was the recorder in his abdomen that made the sound.” Zhou Yan glanced at Luo Futu. “The recorder can record a specific few words, and then play it out as if it were talking, but in fact, it was recorded in advance.”

Luo Futu raised his eyebrows. “What is a tape recorder?”

“A machine that records sound.”

Luo Futu stared at him without saying anything, obviously not understanding, and Zhou Yan frowned slightly. “It involves the recording of sound waves… For example, if you hear a nice bird call, but you can only hear it from afar, what if you want to hear it again later? At this time there is a tape recorder, then you can record the bird’s call, repeatedly play it. If you want to listen to it several times, you can listen to it several times.”

Luo Futu smiled like a demon. “If it’s really good, I can catch it and make it a collector’s item and let it chirp for me every day.”

“A collector’s item?”

Luo Futu stroked his chin and mused, “There is a spell that can suspend a creature’s time to the most beautiful moment in their life.”

“…” What a damn pervert!

Luo Futu did not continue to discuss his “collection” and brought the topic back to the little robot. “That little doll can only repeat what others have said before?”

Zhou Yan looked at him and gave him a small nod. “Jerry can only say a few simple words, please have tea, welcome, goodbye, we have guests…”

“Oh? You didn’t record your own voice into it, did you?”

“…”

“Oh, I didn’t expect you to be such an unsympathetic person.”

Acting so unsympathetic, as if you don’t like interacting with people very much, but secretly making these small dolls that were specially designed to welcome guests… It’s so contradictory.

Luo Futu was a little disappointed to conclude, “But it’s just a bluff and a trick after all.”

“…” There was no way to communicate normally with such tears of time.

Zhou Yan said indifferently, “Now it’s my turn to ask, is there really such a thing as spirit extraction?”

Zhou Yan was an extreme materialist—he used to be—he has changed a lot now, but he definitely did not believe that there were any spirits in the world.

Luo Futu, however, spoke as if it were true, leaning slightly on the bed. “Of course. But this technique is a secret art even within mystics, and most people can’t do it. Some people, because they can’t do it and find it too mysterious, will also describe it as evil sorcery… If you let others see your little Jerry, you might be taken as a black wizard.”

Zhou Yan caught a hint of unusual information from his words. “So you can do it?”

Luo Futu looked at him without saying anything, Zhou Yan then confirmed, “It seems that you can do it… To be honest, you are the black wizard, right? You were injured not because of being chased by the partners of justice.”

As if the six factions besieged the top of the light, this person in front of you, he feared was also a big villain. Once Zhou Yan said that, Luo Futu’s expression suddenly became a little scary, and Zhou Yan felt a very cold pressure coming from him, making him a little breathless.

Click—

It was the sound of a pistol being loaded, and Luo Futu seemed a little speechless as he stared at the black hole that suddenly appeared in front of him.

“…What are you doing?”

He was having a gun pointed at his head by Zhou Yan.

“I’m not interested in your identity at all.” Zhou Yan stared at him with a cold smile. “But I have to be clear about whose territory this is. If you dare to bare your teeth to me again, I will break all your fangs.”

Bare your teeth? Does he look like a dog? “I didn’t do anything.”

“I feel malice from you.”

“…” Luo Futu had never met such an unreasonable person. Of course, he hadn’t met anyone so perceptive either. Just now he did get a little angry because of Zhou Yan’s analogy, which somehow poked his secret. He was now losing his spiritual power, and his identity was very sensitive, so if the news leaked out, he would be in danger.

Luo Futu looked at him in silence for a long time. “I have no intention to do anything to you.”

Zhou Yan stared at him and narrowed his eyes. “Then you’d better be careful, I’m very sensitive to killing intent.”

“…”

This guy Zhou Yan, with his sensitivity to killing intent, was definitely not an ordinary person either.

Luo Futu had seen Zhou Yan with this gun, the day he escorted another omega home, he pinned this thing on a strange backstrap on his pants before he went out. From his movements, it was clear that this should be some kind of weapon.

Zhou Yan put the pistol back after he finished, and went to the cabinet to get the bedding and spread it on the floor. While arranging the bedding, he said, “From tonight, we will take turns to sleep on the floor, you are almost well enough, do not stay in my bed all the time.”

Luo Futu was a little quiet. “Do we have to do this?”

Zhou Yan stopped talking and kicked the pillow twice after finishing the bedding, then laid back on the bed and stared at Luo Futu expressionlessly. “Let’s go.”

“…” Luo Futu could only reluctantly crawl off the bed and sleep on the floor, Zhou Yan hugged his arms and burrowed under the blanket, and then closed his eyes. He admitted that it was because he was angry with Luo Futu that he let him sleep on the floor. Luo Futu was an ungrateful villain—he obviously saved him yet he had the audacity to treat him in this manner.

Next time, he would just blow his head off, in short, he could tolerate him until now, but also just to study the secrets of his body. It was not a problem to kill him and then dissect him.

Zhou Yan made up his mind and turned over hard, turning his back to Luo Futu. He had to sleep quickly; tomorrow he had to plant those crocus flower seeds, hoping they would mature sooner. He was looking forward to the time when Luo Futu showed the so-called spells in front of him.

However, Zhou Yan had just closed his eyes for a short time when he suddenly felt someone approaching behind him. He opened his eyes violently and fired a shot directly at the back of his neck. After the shot, Luo Futu’s laughing voice crawled up against the back of his neck: “You’re so ruthless, you almost hit me.”

He said this while directly embracing Zhou Yan from behind, resting his chin on his shoulder, and hugging him tightly. This intimate position made Zhou Yan’s whole body explode; he immediately struggled, but Luo Futu hugged him even tighter.

“Are you crazy again?”

Luo Futu held Zhou Yan’s wrist to prevent him from hitting him with the gun again, and said against his neck, “The bed is so big, we can both sleep on it. Why must I sleep on the floor?”

“I like to sleep alone!” Zhou Yan said while gritting his teeth and bending his elbow towards Luo Futu’s chest, but as if the latter had been prepared for this move, he grabbed his elbow and snapped both arms into his sides, and Zhou Yan was wrapped up by his whole body. Luo Futu stifled a laugh. “Anyway, you have used your inhibitors, what else can happen? Unless you are not confident about your inhibitors.”

Zhou Yan was just about to say something when a loud bang suddenly came from outside. Boom—! It shook Zhou Yan’s entire house. Some fine dust fell from the ceiling and fell on Zhou Yan’s face. He froze slightly, and Luo Futu behind him also suddenly let go of him and sat up violently from the bed.

“There is an attack.”

Zhou Yan frowned and sat up after him. “Not an earthquake?”

He turned around and saw Luo Futu staring coldly out the window, looking very grave—he had never shown such an expression before, not even when he was exposed as a villain.

Zhou Yan looked up at the window, but saw that the moonlight outside turned a bright blue as if poisoned, and it seemed to melt like chocolate, slowly dripping down from the roof.

Zhou Yan suddenly remembered something. “Ah, there is something I forgot to tell you.”

“What?” Luo Futu looked back at him.

Zhou Yan pointed to the direction of the roof and said calmly, “When I was watching the stars, I saw some people in black robes flying past.”

“…”

“Could it be the people who are after you?”

“Damn it… Get out of the way!” Luo Futu’s handsome face almost distorted as he shouted, grabbed Zhou Yan and rolled violently to the side with him. The blue moonlight seemed to fall from the sky like lightning, splitting the roof of the house and then hitting the spot where they had just been lying.

The two of them were covered by the falling dust, and Zhou Yan kept fanning the dust with both hands in mid-air. “What’s going on?”

Luo Futu said in exasperation, “What do you think? Why don’t you just wait until they kill me before you tell me?”

“I’m not your sentry, so what’s my obligation to tell you…”

Boom—!

The blue moonlight fell one after another, and kept making loud noises, Zhou Yan hurriedly pulled Luo Futu. “Follow me!”