Gray agreed quickly, but she regretted it soon after, because she saw the red ponytail in front of her just raised her left hand with a smile, and then pointed it at the back of El-Melloi II who was lying on the ground. The next moment, a beam of light appeared and swept across El-Melloi II's back. Then she saw the burns on his back healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it was restored in less than a minute.

"Okay, done."

Fang Zheng put away his personal terminal and snapped his fingers.

"I have healed his physical injuries. I will wait for him to recover from the internal shock. After all, it is not easy for him to wake up. It will probably take at least one night."

“It’s unbelievable.”

Seeing this, Ryougi Shiki and the others did not react much, but Olga Marie widened her eyes.

"Such a serious injury, and it healed so quickly... What method did you use? Could it be the druid's elixir?"

"Haha, stop joking."

Fang Zheng once again displayed the personal terminal in his hand and shook it towards Olga Marie.

"This is not magic, this is the power of science."

"science?"

Hearing this, Olga Marie frowned, while Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders.

"That's right, the power of science, history is moving forward, and so is the world. Even if we lose the mysteries of the past, it doesn't mean that we have really lost the exploration of the unknown. So this is why I said that magic has fallen behind. There is no good end to sticking to the old ways, but most magicians can't see this."

In Fang Zheng's opinion, the magician's act of hiding the mystery is itself a manifestation of ignorance and stubbornness. They insist that science and mystery are incompatible, and when the development of science reveals the secrets of mystery, mystery will lose its effect. This is itself the ultimate manifestation of illiteracy and superstition, and it also means that these magicians have no common sense about science at all.

Solving a mathematical conjecture does not mean that the mathematical problems have ended. On the contrary, it will lead to more puzzles. The discovery of a new particle does not mean that humans have a way to observe the whole world. On the contrary, it will make humans feel more and more insignificant and the world is huge. With the development of science, mysteries will not decrease, but increase. When you solve one why, another why will emerge. It can be said that this process is endless.

But magicians simply cannot keep up with the times.

This is normal, after all, most magicians have never been to college (pout).

It is too difficult to expect a group of illiterate people to understand the world. They are not even as capable as those amateur scientists who submit papers to the Chinese Academy of Sciences every day claiming that they have proved the Goldbach conjecture.

Some people may argue that the magician also paid the price of blood and life, but what good is that? The primitive tribes in the Amazon rainforest also pass down the rituals of blood and death from generation to generation. Who in civilized society cares?

The Amazon butterflies can bring a storm in the Pacific Ocean by flapping their wings, so what can your Amazon primitive people do by performing magic tricks? Can they also cause earthquakes in the Eurasian continent?

From this perspective, the primitive people in the Amazon are not as important as butterflies.

"alright."

After casually retorting to the magician again, Fang Zheng turned around and patted Gray's little head.

"It's done. It should be fine after a good night's sleep. When he wakes up, come and tell me about your face."

"Oh, okay..."

Seeing that El-Melloi II's back had recovered, Gray relaxed a lot. She nodded, then looked at Fang Zheng curiously.

"That... Miss Red Ponytail."

"Um?"

"Aren't you curious about who hurt Master like this?"

However, in response to Gray's question, Fang Zheng yawned.

"Servant, please."

"Why?!"

Hearing this, Olga Marie, Gray and Coles all cried out.

"Servant? Why are you here?"

"How did you know that!?"

"I am a master after all."

Fang Zheng pointed at himself.

"The aura of a Servant may be unfamiliar to others, but I have participated in the Holy Grail War, and the other party is not an Assassin, and there is no aura blocking. In fact, I felt it when she appeared. I just didn't bother to care..."

Having said that, Fang Zheng waved his hand.

"Well, let's go back to bed, good night."

After returning to their rooms, the girls went to sleep, but Olga Marie——hidden herself in the bed of the red ponytail.

"I'm not scared!"

Looking at Fang Zheng beside her, Olga Marie snorted.

"Didn't you say you would protect me? And you also said that the criminal would attack me. If that's the case, then I have to see who the criminal is!"

What else can Fang Zheng say about this? He can only say, "Okay, okay, okay, you are right anyway." But it doesn't matter. Olga Marie and Red Ponytail are still children, so they don't feel crowded sleeping in the same bed.

"Aren't you afraid that I'm the murderer?"

Seeing Olga Marie who was trying to hide something, Fang Zheng couldn't help but want to tease her.

"I'm not afraid. Besides, I'm very good at judging people."

"Really?"

Since the other party said so, Fang Zheng didn't say anything else. He just yawned, closed his eyes and prepared to go to sleep.

But after a while, Olga Marie's voice came again beside her.

"Hey, Red Ponytail."

"Hmm? What's up?"

"Does magic...seem so bad to you?"

Olga Marie still found it somewhat hard to accept. She was also a magician and had been trained as a magician since she was a child, so she was somewhat resistant to Red Ponytail's remarks.

"Hmm? No, it doesn't matter to me what the magic is like. I just think magicians are stupid."

"magician?"

"Yes, the magicians of the Age of Gods had more powerful powers than we have now, but why didn't they seek the source? Because seeking the source is not the purpose of magic. The birth, existence and development of magic are also for people to master, control, resist, manipulate and observe the world. Magic is just a means, not an end. In this sense, the essence of magic is not much different from science. In fact, many so-called magic skills in ancient times were accomplished by scientific means, right?"

Having said this, Fang Zheng snorted.

"It's just that compared to technology, the threshold for magic is too high, so it's declining. After all, the world is driven and advanced by the majority. However, magicians have forgotten this. Instead of keeping up with the times, they desperately try to grasp the glory of the past that has long passed. It's like a beggar who used to be a king, still trying to return to the era when he was the only one who could command the support of everyone, while ignoring the reality that he can only beg for food in the corner now."

"You're saying that... isn't that too much?"

Olga Marie immediately became dissatisfied when she heard Fang Zheng's words.

"Someone has to say these things. It's okay for you to find them offensive, because that means I'm on to something. If I'm just talking nonsense, you can just laugh it off. Why get angry?"

"ah……"

Hearing this, Olga Marie couldn't help but let out a low cry. Indeed, the rude words spoken by Red Ponytail made her very uncomfortable. It was as if all her disguises had been stripped off and she was executed in broad daylight... Could it be that she also knew that what she said was right?

"In my country, there is an idiom called 'carving a boat to find a sword'. It comes from a story about a swordsman who was traveling by boat. When he was in the middle of a lake, his sword accidentally fell into the lake. Then the man hurriedly made a mark on the boat where the sword fell. When others asked him why, he pointed to the mark on the boat and said that the sword fell into the water from here. When the boat docked, he only needed to follow the mark to find his sword."

“Huh?”

Olga Marie cried out when she heard this story.

"Is that a fool? How can this be found?"

"That's right. So after the ship docked, the man followed the mark and searched for a long time, but couldn't find the sword... Hehe, I think this is quite similar to a magician."

“…”

This time, Olga Marie didn't say anything for a long while. Then she snorted, grabbed the quilt and turned around.

"I'm going to sleep."

"Good night, sweet dreams."

Although the little girl is a little bit arrogant, she is essentially a good person. As the saying goes, education should start from childhood. Well... it's not too late now.

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng closed his eyes and fell asleep.

When Fang Zheng woke up the next day, Olga Marie had already left. He heard from his roommate Jingyin that she had gone back to her own room, saying that she wanted to think about something. Fang Zheng did not pay much attention to this.

But what no one expected was that just when Fang Zheng and the girls finished washing up and were about to go for breakfast, suddenly, an unexpected voice came from the car's broadcast.

"——Hello, passengers. This Demon Eye Collection Train has now deviated from the original route and is expected to enter Fuhailin Son in thirty minutes."

"Why?"

Upon hearing this, Fujino and Shizune both cried out, but the volume of the broadcast did not change at all.

"Before the auction begins, please ensure your own safety. We apologize for the inconvenience."

"It's still possible..."

After listening to the broadcast, the girls were all stunned. Not to mention the previous notice, the sentence at the end was simply telling them "It's up to you to handle your own life and death, we are not responsible"... If this happened in Japan, this kind of service attitude alone would probably lead to complaints and the person would resign and apologize!

"Xiaohong, what is the Son of Fuhailin?"

Shizune asked curiously.

"It should be a Dead Apostle... I remember there was a vampire named Fuhailin in the Twenty-Seven Ancestors. He was different from ordinary vampires. I heard that it was a man-eating forest. As for this Fuhailin's Son, I'm afraid it's the same thing."

As if to verify Fang Zheng's words, the train shook violently and then slowly stopped. At the same time, everyone instinctively looked out the window, and then Fujino's eyes widened in surprise.

“It’s snowing!”

That's right, if what everyone saw from the window a few days ago was the summer grassland and wilderness, then what appeared now was the cold pure white snowfield. The howling cold wind mixed with snow passed by the window, and dense woods could be seen not far away.

“How interesting!”

Seeing this scene, Ryougi Shiki couldn't help but lick her lips excitedly.

"Xiao Hong, can we do anything? This thing suddenly appeared and blocked our way, right? So is it our enemy? Can we kill it?"

"Of course, the Son of Fu Hailin should be the same thing in essence."

Fang Zheng nodded.

"You can try it if you are interested."

"Okay, I'll go now."

"Be careful."

At this moment, Ryougi Shiki couldn't wait any longer. After all, both Flowers and Qiuye had fought monsters before, but she had never encountered a monster before. Now that she had encountered one and could kill it, how could she let it go? Therefore, after getting the permission of Red Ponytail, Ryougi Shiki didn't even eat breakfast, and ran out excitedly.

"Ah, Ryougi-san!"

"Shiki, wait for me!!"

Seeing Ryougi Shiki leave, Asagami Fujino and Seo Shizune hurriedly followed her out of the guest room and rushed towards the forest outside.