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Alice looked up in surprise. She was a little overwhelmed by the sudden change. "Where! Is this place?!"

"Very interesting, right?"

Lei Mu smiled softly, took Alice's hand and scratched her palm, "This is the New York Temple. It is invisible to ordinary people because of magic. Also because of magic, we can walk directly from here to Nepal later... It won't even take ten minutes."

As he said that, Lai Mu walked up and knocked on the door.

The person who opened the door was a bald black man. He was wearing a simple brown sleeveless robe and looked quite tough.

"Hello, Master Daniel."

Lai Mu nodded politely.

The black wizard Daniel looked him over, smiled politely and nodded, waving his hand to invite them in, "Hello too. Wizard Ancient One has already told me to take you to see her if you come."

As you walk through the door, you will see the antique interior of the New York Temple.

Exquisite porcelain is placed in the corner, the wooden walls are decorated with simple and elegant patterns, and most of the furniture is made of wood, which makes it even more extraordinary.

Opposite the door is a wide staircase.

The three of them stood in front of the stairs. Master Daniel pointed to the corridor on the left, then pointed to the stairs, and said in a gentle voice: "If you want to go directly to see Master Ancient One, please go to the left. If you want to visit us, please follow me to the second floor, and I will show you around."

Lai Mu looked up at the second floor and said, "I heard there are many magical instruments here. Can you introduce them to us?"

"Of course, please come with me."

The black wizard smiled and nodded slightly, leading the two to the second floor.

Going up the stairs, you will see a corridor. At the end of the corridor, there are three glass doors, leading to the rain forest, desert and snow-capped mountains respectively.

"This is a portal for monitoring various parts of the Earth. We can observe the ecology of different places, and if any unexpected situation occurs, we can arrive at the first time."

The black wizard said as he pushed open one of the glass doors.

This door leads to the rainforest, where it is raining heavily. As the door opens, the rustling sound of rain and the moist smell hit you in the face.

Alice was a little amazed, with a curious light in her eyes, "How magical..."

Going back, on both sides of the stairs, there is a place similar to a museum or showroom. There are many strange things here, some hanging on the wall, some in glass cabinets, and some simply placed on the table.

Some of them were magical instruments, while others were just ordinary decorations. These decorations might have hundreds or thousands of years of history and were extremely valuable, but they were just ordinary objects here.

As Laimu and Alice walked around, Daniel, who was following them, kept introducing them. "This is Setorak's Crimson Belt. Its power comes from the spell of the same name. It can completely bind a person, and its energy comes from the Crimson Universe..."

"This one is..."

Lei Mu could roughly understand Daniel's story, but Alice was just amazed. It sounded very mysterious and sophisticated, but she couldn't understand a word.

Lai Mu was holding Alice's hand and passing a corner when they suddenly heard the sound of knocking on the glass behind them.

He turned his head and saw a red cloak. It was placed in a glass cabinet as tall as a person, floating in the air, and at this moment, one corner of the cloak was extending out and knocking against the glass cabinet.

Lei Mu recognized this thing. It was the equipment of the future strange wizard Slantchi, a spiritual cloak that could carry its owner to fly.

"What do you want from me?"

Slime tilted his head and looked at the cloak... You'd better have something to do, otherwise don't make a fuss.

Lai Mu noticed that the Magic Float Cloak seemed to be a little happy. It spun up and down in the cabinet, opened the cabinet with the corner of its clothes and flew out.

Lai Mu was confused, his eyes fixed on the cloak that flew to his side, "What are you doing?"

Alice was also a little curious, but she stood behind Lai Mu and obviously had no intention of touching him.

Daniel looked over and said, "It likes you. It might want to go with you."

There was a strange expression on the black wizard's face.

This magic weapon has a long history. It has been here for a long time and has had many owners. But currently, apart from Master Ancient One, no living person has been able to gain its favor.

"Is that so..."

Slime hesitated for a few seconds and shook his head, "But I don't like this style..."

Hearing that he was rejected, the Magic Floating Cloak huddled up into a ball with some grievance, then stretched out a corner of his clothes and tried to grab Lai Mu's arm.

"What are you doing! Go away!"

The slime didn't appreciate it at all and slapped off the Magic Floating Cloak's friendly little paw.

After touring the second floor for a while, Lai Mu and Alice returned to the first floor.

Under Daniel's guidance, we walked to the end of a corridor on the left. We pushed open the door at the end and found Kamar-Taj in Nepal.

When Lai Mu arrived at the opposite room, Gu Yi was already standing there. She seemed to know that Lai Mu would come here at this time.

Daniel said hello to Gu Yi and left on his own.

Lai Mu stepped forward, "Hello, sorry for the long wait, Master Ancient One. I am here at your invitation... Do you mind if I bring one more person with me?"

Gu Yi smiled gently, "Of course I don't mind... I just came in a minute ago and didn't wait long."

As the two were talking, a ball of cloth flew stealthily from the corridor leading to New York, carefully hiding in the blind spot behind Lai Mu.

It was the magic floating cloak. For some unknown reason, it had entangled Lei Mu and was determined to send itself away.

Lai Mu smacked his lips and grabbed it without looking back.

"What on earth do you want to do? You're so ugly, don't follow me! I already told you I don't like your style!"

Looking at the fight between the man and the cloak, Gu Yi couldn't help but smile, "In fact, it can change its appearance according to the user's wishes."

Slime tilted his head, "Really?"

If that was the case, he was really tempted.

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"Of course. It only takes a simple spell to change the appearance of the magic floating cloak at will. I can teach you."

"So you're going to give it to me?"

Lai Mu was a little uncertain. This cloak should be very important to the future Doctor Strange.

Gu Yi took a look at the balled-up Magic Floating Cloak, smiled and shook his head, "It's a very playboy, but a little picky. If it likes you, I have no reason to refuse."

"Thank you, Master Ancient One."

Looking at the magic floating cloak that was twisted into a knot with joy, Lei Mu had a new doubt in his heart, "...Then is this the gift you said you would give me a few days ago?"

"No, it's another one, you'll find out later."

Gu Yi deliberately kept the secret secret, blinking mysteriously, with a naughty look on his serious face, "...Please follow me first."

She led the two into a quiet corridor.

The magic floating cloak followed the three people quietly.

There are many classical murals embossed on the wooden corridor, some of which resemble characters and animals in Western mythology, such as Medusa with snake hair, Griffin with an eagle head and a lion body, and Nidhogg, the black dragon gnawing at the World Tree.

Some are oriental auspicious clouds and the legendary soaring dragon, wandering phoenix, nine infants, black tortoise and red yan.

There are also mountains and rivers, bamboo forests and streams, carp, dragonflies, prawns, tall buildings, and cars and airplanes.

The styles vary greatly.

"I have been observing you for a long time. At first, your arrival made me feel uneasy..."

Gu Yi, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around and looked at him meaningfully, "Until I saw something very interesting."

But she turned her head away again, obviously not intending to say what she saw.

Lai Mu subconsciously gritted his teeth because he stopped speaking twice in a short period of time, which was very annoying.

On the contrary, Lai Mu was not too surprised or panicked by what the other party said. He knew that Ancient One had the Time Stone, so he was not surprised by anything he saw.

Moreover, if he would cause a great disaster in a certain period of time, Ancient One should have traveled through time to strangle his original self to death in the desert. There was no way he could stand here and be received by Ancient One.

He ran his fingers over the reliefs in the corridor, feeling their bumps and ruggedness, and suddenly remembered something in his divergent thoughts, "Can I ask you some questions?"

"Of course, I will tell you everything I know."

Looking at the other person's back, Lai Mu pondered for a while and finally asked his question.

"Why... don't the mystics stand up and lead humanity? There are so many powerful people on Earth who are protecting the Earth and humanity, but they have been hiding in the darkness all along."

"I mean, those in the shadows are heroes too. But if there were someone like the Sorcerer Supreme in human history who stood up and gave guidance, we would have been able to avoid many wrong paths, right? Wars, massacres, changes, and the progress of human science..."

Gu Yi, who was walking in front, just smiled and didn't look back. His voice was very light, "I saw myself walking with you through this corridor 13,679 times, and you asked this question 6,531 times..."

Lai Mu was a little stunned.

Alice also withdrew her gaze from the mural relief and looked at Ancient One's back curiously... Have you seen it? How?

Gu Yi's steady words were still ringing slowly, neither hurried nor slow, with a kind of firm power.

"Magic is amazing. Its power is almost omnipotent. It can bring you here from thousands of miles away in an instant... But, even magic is difficult to influence people's hearts."

"We may be able to change the course of history by force, but we cannot change people's inner thoughts. In the end, history will return to its original trajectory, and everything we have done will be in vain."

Lai Mu nodded thoughtfully... Indeed, even if one could see through the course of time, it would be almost impossible to guide tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions of people with different ideas to walk onto the same path.

"do you know?"

Gu Yi suddenly stopped and turned to look at the two of them. Her face looked a little weathered, but her eyes were soft and clear.

"I have always admired those great thinkers. Their lives are only a few decades long, but they can continuously influence people's thoughts for hundreds or thousands of years and lead them onto the right path. I have lived for hundreds of years, but I have only made some achievements in resisting the invasion of other dimensions."

Lai Mu laughed and shook his head, "You are too modest."

If even Ancient One is just alive, then the others are not alive at all.

Alice was thinking about another question...Has this person lived for hundreds of years?

She looked at Gu Yi in surprise, but did not make a sound to interrupt their conversation.

The group walked out of the corridor.