Chapter 199 Legacy (Two in One)
Hitchhik Gaode was in a happy mood after leaving the library.
Another big thing has been accomplished.
Gaode feels that except for the beginning, his luck has always been pretty good.
Especially after entering Seres College, I met a lot of noble people.
Whether it's Jelika who gave herself a large amount of financial aid, or her mentor Jose O'Kenley.
"It's time to tell the mentor the good news about being promoted to the first level." Gothe said secretly.
After the successful promotion yesterday, he first went to the committee to go through the process, and then went to the library.
After finishing these things, it was already very late, so he didn't bother He Xi.
Such a major matter should be reported to the instructor as soon as possible.
Hence, Gothe immediately walked towards Gavin Building, where the Rune Department belongs.
Walking into the building, he walked all the way in as usual.
However, Gavin Building, which was originally relatively deserted, was somehow so deserted today that no one could be seen.
It was not until he came to the door of the rune workshop that he realized that the door was closed.
In front of the workroom, he saw several people wearing the official uniforms of Siris College. They should be official staff of the college.
They did not have the permission to enter the rune workshop circle, so they could not go in. They just waited outside the gate.
“Student Gaode?” One of the leading middle-aged people asked when he saw the person coming.
"Yes."
"I have something to tell you, Director He Xi has fallen ill."
Gaode's hands were held tightly.
The word "sick" swirled in his mind.
He couldn't tell what he felt, but he felt an inexplicable soreness in his heart.
Maybe it’s because he clearly understands what it means for He Xi to fall ill at this age.
"Teacher, where is he now?" Gothe asked in a low voice.
When I left Gavin House, it happened to be drizzling.
Gaode was silent and rushed to the college's medical clinic.
"We must do our best to treat Director He Xi. Director He Xi has worked hard in the college for so many years, and now he is even more exhausted. The college has mistreated him!"
In the medical office, a middle-aged male mage with a sharp and mean look was spitting and shouting, for fear that others would not hear.
seems to be the vice chairman of the Academy Committee.
The fairly spacious corridor of the medical clinic was crowded with people.
Gaode glanced over and saw that he had met many faces in Gavin Building.
These are all tutors from the rune department, most of them are here.
In addition to them, there are also people from the Academy Committee.
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The speaker was Donnie Usher, the current chief student of the Rune Department. He looked arrogant and accused him in a condescending manner.
"As Tutor He Xi's only student at the moment, he has been ill all night, and you are here just now?"
Following Donnie Usher's accusation, everyone in the corridor looked over unconsciously.
Gaode seemed unaware and did not choose to respond to Downey.
He walked straight to the door and asked the medical mage standing at the door about his situation.
"How is Master He Xi's situation now?"
The mage shook his head, "Not optimistic."
Gaode made a gesture to push the door in, wanting to see He Xi's current situation, but unexpectedly a hand stretched out and held the door.
“Director He Xi said, I don’t want to be disturbed and need to have a good rest.”
It was the vice chairman who was looking at Gothe with an unkind expression.
Although Gothe didn't know where his hostility came from, it was obvious that this person was not friendly to him.
Gothe frowned and was about to say something.
At this time, He Xi's familiar voice came from the door.
"Is it Gao De? Let him in."
This situation seems familiar.
The same thing is separated by a door.
It's just that it was in the rune workshop before, and the old voice was not as weak as it is now.
Gothe raised his head and glanced at the vice chairman's hand holding the door, but did not speak.
"Humph!" The vice-chairman threw away his hand dissatisfied.
No one was stopping him, Gao De pushed the door open and wanted to enter.
His hand suddenly paused and his movements became much gentler.
The room is quite large, with a large bed and table.
Gaode took two steps forward and came to the bed.
· He Xi was lying on the bed, looking not very good, with his eyes slightly closed, as if he was resting.
"Coming." Seeing Gothe come in, he opened his eyes and looked at Gothe.
"Mentor." Gao De looked at He Xi with mixed feelings in his heart.
It was only in these recent days that he and He Xi became really familiar with each other and began to have communications other than runes.
But this time is too short.
"I was successfully promoted to a first-level mage yesterday." He said.
Hearing this, He Xi's cloudy eyes instantly brightened.
"Not bad, not bad," he praised repeatedly. Halfway through the praise, he waved his hand again: "Sit down first."
At the same time, He Xi held the bed with his hands and sat up.
José is very old.
Gaode had previously noticed that there were more and more yellow-brown spots on the old man's face.
But what I didn't expect was that the face of the sick old man turned out to be unusually radiant at this moment.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to survive this time."
Hose Xi's first words made Gothe silent as soon as he got up.
"I sent someone to call you last night. Why did you come?" he asked.
Gothe was silent for a while and said slowly: "No one came to inform me."
"How could it be." He Xi's subconscious rhetorical question stopped abruptly.
He understood something.
Hose Xi said "Oh" and took a long time to take a breath.
"The interference constant is right," he said: "I was afraid that I wouldn't have time to tell you, so I rushed someone to call you last night."
After saying this, He Xi laughed with satisfaction.
Smiling, there was a violent cough in his mouth.
While coughing, he groped around on his body, and then took out a piece of parchment and a deed.
"Here you go."
Gaode took the parchment and the deed.
Parchment is a will.
The date of signing is at the beginning of this year.
The deed is the contract signed by Ho Xi and Dean Gavin.
The deed states that the rune workshop is permanently transferred to He Xi. Below it is the seal of Dean Gavin and the official seal of Siris College.
"The rune workshop is left to you, including all the things in it, including my information, materials and research results."
"In the last days, finding an heir can be regarded as an explanation for what I have researched for hundreds of years."
"This is the secret order of the magic circle in the rune workshop. Remember it."
"I could have left you some money." He Xi said, "But in the end, in order to verify the interference constant, I spent all my savings."
"At the Oakenley Chamber of Commerce's St. Sean Branch, I also left something to you, but I didn't write it in my will."
"Don't let outsiders know about this thing, and you remember to keep it secret."
Gothe put down the parchment and looked at the old man, with a strange look in his eyes, and was speechless for a long time.
Ho Xi murmured to himself:
"I studied alchemy with my father since I was a child, and my qualifications were mediocre."
"Later, when I was sixteen, my father passed away in an accident while testing alchemy weapons for the family. From then on, I developed a rejection of alchemy."
"I could only try my best to hide my rejection of alchemy."
". It wasn't until I was twenty years old, when I came into contact with runes for the first time, that I realized what I was really interested in. From then on, it was out of control." The old man's throat was surging, and his eyes began to wander.
"When I was thirty years old, I became a second-level rune master. It wasn't that it took me ten years to become a second-level rune master. It was the mage level that limited the speed at which I could become a second-level rune master."
"I was thinking at that time, why are all the mage arts, including runes, restricted by the mage level?"
"In 9326, I am thirty-five years old, and I have discovered that there may be logic and rules for the arrangement of runes."
"I began to devote myself wholeheartedly to the study of rune rules."
"In 9365, I was seventy-four years old. After thirty-nine years of research, the mage level remained unchanged, but I initially discovered six major rules. Although it is not complete, it has a prototype."
"I took the results that I spent thirty-nine years to produce and reported them to my family. As a result, the results did not even pass the family's first review and were thrown out like garbage." I threw the result into the trash, but I didn’t know that my mother secretly picked it up. "In 9366, when I had given up on the six basic rules of runes, my mother came back to me excitedly and told me that someone in the family recognized my research results.
I believed it was true, but after waiting and waiting, I never got any follow-up. "
I finally found out that it was my mother who used my father's pension to bribe the family's auditors to send the results I threw away to the family's Lingsi Building."
"Don't you think it's ridiculous? The research results of the past forty years passed the preliminary review through bribery, but in the end they still did not escape the end of being regarded as garbage."
"Then, for twenty-three years, I locked myself in my room, never taking a step out, and never touching runes. This is a subject that I thought I would devote my life to my passion."
"In the spring of 19389, my mother fell ill. Before she left, she held my hand and said that she believed that my research results were great and hoped that I could prove it to everyone. It's not that my results are not good, but that their vision is not good."
"I know that her original intention was never to prove anything. How could she care about this?"
"The only thing she cares about is her children. She just knows the pain I have experienced over the years when I gave up the runes. She wants to help me get rid of the pain and want me to get back on my feet." The child is good. "
"At that time, I was already ninety-eight years old, but I was still not sensible. Even before my mother left, she had to worry about me. Gao De, do you think I am unfilial?"
Hose Xi's breath was getting faster and faster.
"Don't think about the past anymore." Gothe held the old man's hand tightly with both hands.
"But I can't get through it." He Xi muttered.
"After my mother passed away, I left the family and went far away, and continued to study the six basic rules of runes."
h "With your help, I did it. I proved that the six basic rules of runes are correct and exist, but it was too late, she couldn't see it."
From 9389 to now 9656, there were many storms and ups and downs, which finally turned into the few words in He Xi's mouth at this moment.
"She can't see it anymore, and I did it, so what's the point?"
"Others say I am stubborn, and you say I am pure, but I admit it. In fact, I have regretted it. If I had never touched the runes and stayed with her, would the outcome have been better?"
It is said that a gentleman has nothing to be ashamed of in his life.
But who can really live a life without any regrets?
"She never blamed you." Gao De comforted softly.
Mother's tolerance is the breeding ground for genius.
"But I blame myself." The old man's voice has become unclear and his breath is getting shorter.
The old man's hands in Gaode's hands suddenly tightened.
He used up his last strength and shouted softly.
This is the first and last word that Jose said after coming into this world.
The clenched hands softened little by little.
José O'Kenley closed his eyes.
Gaode lowered his head and said nothing.
Birth, old age, illness and death are always sudden and unreasonable.
The light rain outside the window suddenly stopped.
The air felt like it was being squeezed tightly, very stuffy.
Gaode was stunned for a long time before he digested the sad news that the old man had left.
He stood up, opened the door, and said to everyone who was still waiting outside.
"Teacher He Xi is gone."
Gaode is still immersed in a slightly confused and sad mood.
But it was different from what he thought.
Happily, among the people who were noisy outside the door just now and seemed to be very concerned about the old man's physical condition, no one looked sad at this moment.
Among them, the vice chairman and Donny Usher are the most obvious.
The two of them were expressionless and silent, seeming to be thinking about something.
A moment later.
The Vice Chairman took a step forward, looked straight at Gothe, condescendingly: "Should He Xi tell you the secret order of the rune workshop array?"
"Give it to me."
His tone revealed an unquestionable domineering tone.
Gothe was suddenly pulled out of his sad mood.
He squinted his eyes and looked at the cold and arrogant Vice Chairman.
Obviously, the other party was not at all sad because of He Xi's death.
Even the blustering instructions outside just now were just for fun.
This is normal.
What is unusual is that He Xi’s body is not cold yet, or even buried, but the other party is already so impatient.
A little too naked and shameless.
Gaode knew that the opponent was at least a mage of level three or above.
But it does not affect his anger.
"Why should I give it to you?" Gothe asked after being silent for a moment.
Gaode's answer obviously exceeded the Vice Chairman's expectations.
He laughed angrily, "The rune workshop is an asset of the college. It was only lent to He Xi before, but now that he is gone, it should be taken back."
"That's not the case." Gothe shook his head lightly, "This rune workshop was not borrowed by instructor He Xi, but belongs to him."
"Instructor He Xi has signed a transfer agreement with Dean Gavin."
"And now, the instructor has left the rune workshop to me."
"So, this rune workshop now belongs to me, not the assets of the college."
"Haha. Who are you?"
Seeing Gao De's rebuttal, the Vice Chairman pointed at Gao De and reprimanded loudly: "Things in the college have always been the assets of the college. If you are not a student, even if He Xi is still there, there is no way you can own it privately."
Even at the beginning, He Xi had already made things more complicated.
Living people will never recognize things belonging to the dead.
People who are alive only care about interests.
(End of this chapter)