Volume 7: Frost Chapter 27: The Path
"Does it still have memories of the past?" Tang Butian asked.
"Maybe, I'm not sure." Jiang You stood up with the help of the coffee table. He grabbed a handful of melon seeds, took out a few tissues, and then lay back on the sofa. "It used to be too strong. The kind of strong that I would avoid when I saw it."
"So strong?"
"If you are too strong, you will fail easily. If you fail, you will fail completely."
Hearing this, Tang Butian seemed to understand something. She stood up, walked quickly to the bedroom door, and looked towards the window.
Jiujiu has already flown far away.
The waning moon lies in the night sky like a small boat.
She turned around and asked, "There are many surveillance cameras here, energy surveillance, spiritual power fluctuation surveillance, and all kinds of surveillance. How are you going to get through?"
"If Jiojiu can avoid it, we can certainly avoid it."
"Shall we fly over?" Tang Butian asked.
"I'm not a bird person," Jiang You said, eating melon seeds. "After you made such a fuss this afternoon, the spiritual energy on this ground became as chaotic as a boiling hot pot. All kinds of meat slices and meatballs were flopping and swimming in it." He swallowed his saliva. "The heat is rushing up, and the fragrance is wafting out. I need a glass of iced bayberry juice..."
The wooden sword flew towards him and stopped ten centimeters in front of him.
"Be careful, be careful," Jiang You reached out and grabbed the wooden sword, "Take a break recently and take care of your body. Don't always rely on your youth to hold on."
"How do we get there?" Tang Butian asked again.
Jiang You drew a small circle with his wooden sword, "Let's take the small path. Although it's a little dangerous, it's flat and we don't have to climb stairs."
Tang Butian walked up to Jiang You and took the wooden sword from his hand.
Chirp!
Tang Butian turned around and saw Jiujiu flying back and landing in front of Jiang You.
Jiang You had just finished eating the melon seeds in his hand. He folded the paper towel containing the melon seed shells into a neat small square and threw it into the trash can.
"Have you found the treasure?" Jiang You asked Jiujiu.
It flapped its wings and called out a few times.
“I don’t understand bird language.”
Coo coo!
Jiujiu called twice more.
Jiang You reached out and touched its head, then stood up and stretched, "Okay, remember to stand guard for us later."
After finishing this round, he grabbed Tang Butian's left wrist and said, "Let's go."
The walls, sofas, coffee tables, the tissue boxes and snack bags on the coffee tables are all filled with overlapping shadows, which sway, rise and fall, and constantly blend.
Everything around me became increasingly blurry, like a hazy mist.
And darkness melted in.
Tang Butian gripped the wooden sword tightly and looked around.
The darkness gradually sank, until it reached a point where she could no longer see.
It seems like something is disconnected.
She felt an urgent sense of emptiness spreading in her body, which made her anxious, and a dark light appeared on the wooden sword...
Then--
"Let's go."
It was Jiang You’s voice.
She turned her head and met Jiang You's gaze.
"The road is ahead." Jiang You said.
She looked forward again and saw the road. It was very narrow, only about one meter wide, and not long, about five or six meters. Further ahead, it became a blur again.
She asked, “Where is this?”
"In the gap between rules and chaos. When the rules were first born, their binding force was very small, and it was easy to enter and exit. It was easy for people to become immortals and beasts to become monsters. Gradually, the rules occupied a larger and larger area, becoming more and more complicated. The world also became more and more perfect, and the gap gradually became smaller."
"So the spiritual power has become thinner?"
"No, it's just that the rules themselves have used it. I tell you that the human era was the best." Jiang You pulled Tang Butian forward a step. "Gods and fairies don't do human things. They have lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years, and they can only do two things."
"Which two?" Tang Butian asked.
As we walked, the road extended forward.
"The first thing is to fight. Once the fight starts, it can't be stopped. It's devastating."
"What else?"
"When it comes to love, love triangles and love quadrangles, it's very messy, and the generations are often mixed up."
"Really?" Tang Butian was a little unconvinced.
"That's what both the online articles and the TV series say. Isn't that right?"
Tang Butian stopped.
The road beneath her feet suddenly disappeared. Before she could react, Jiang You grabbed her hand and dragged her forward, "Be careful, it's scary if you fall."
"What will happen?" Tang Butian asked.
"All traces you left in the world will be wiped out in an instant. No one will remember you. You have lost your past, present, and future. In short, you no longer exist."
After walking a little further, Jiang You suddenly stopped and put his hands around Tang Butian's shoulders, "Don't move."
The next moment, Tang Butian also felt the danger approaching.
Getting closer and closer, rushing towards her.
She tensed herself.
It's coming.
Here it comes.
Suddenly, everything became silent and still.
Then she saw a red mist appearing in front of her. There seemed to be some insects swimming in the mist. Before she could see their appearance clearly, the mist was blown away, flowing through her hair, flowing between her fingers, and then disappeared.
After an unknown amount of time, Jiang You said, "Okay, let's go."
"What is that?"
"Little bug."
"Was he killed by that power just now?"
"That is the corrosive force that represents brutality and chaos," Jiang You once again held Tang Butian's wrist, "I told you it's not a good time to go out today. I was almost scared to death just now."
They walked forward quietly, and after walking about a hundred meters, Jiang You stopped again.
"What's wrong?" Tang Butian asked.
“Almost there.”
The surroundings changed again. She gradually saw the wall, the lights in the corridor, and...
Lin Shunan and Guan Nuo walked out of the laboratory.
Tang Butian seemed to be looking at them through a distorted lens.
Lin Shunan closed the door and said to Guan Nuo, "If you are interested in my research, you can also apply to participate. Mr. Zhuang has provided us with great help."
"I actually, I," Guan Nuola took off the hood of the isolation suit and said, "I, I actually don't know what I should do."
They talked as they walked.
Guan Nuo said: "I want to develop the Special Operations Department. I can't let down Uncle Zhuang and his friends, as well as my father. I want to be a son that he can be proud of. But when I first joined the Special Operations Department, I thought I could do it, but now I'm a little confused."
"Why are you confused?" Lin Shunan asked.
Guan Nuo said: "I don't know what is the right thing to do."
When their figures disappeared around the corner, Jiang You said, "It's good to be young."
"In the lab?"
"It's underground. Come over and see how the repair is going. Let's go."
The lens disappeared, and Lu appeared in front of Tang Butian again.
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laboratory.
After Lin Shunan and Guan Nuo left, a very thin figure folded up from the ground and floated towards the small world. When it was about to touch the energy barrier, the figure stopped.
The light in the small world revealed her appearance.
It's a little girl.
Barefoot.
Wear a very loose shirt.
She stretched out her hand, and her thin and slender fingers slowly penetrated the barrier, moving forward little by little...
Suddenly, she saw a transparent spider silk falling into her palm. She turned around hurriedly, and there was nothing behind her except darkness.
