How can one become an immortal if he is so lazy? Chapter 469: Let go of yesterday’s worries, guard today’s happiness, and look forward to tomorrow’s beauty
Chapter 469: Let go of yesterday’s worries, guard today’s happiness, and look forward to tomorrow’s beauty
The unknown incoming message directly called Hei Yang Hongli's name. At that moment, the two of them felt their brains trembling.
It felt like I had just woken up in my pajamas, rubbed my sleepy eyes and opened the door, and suddenly found myself standing in the center of the stage, illuminated by the spotlight!
"Oh my God!"
Hong Li screamed, and immediately covered her mouth vigilantly. In a flash, she hid behind Hei Yang's back, trembling.
"Positive……"
Hong Li's voice trembled, and she tried her best to lower her voice and said: "How did the other party know our names? Has it really locked us in?"
"Ah, calm down, Xiaoli! Don't panic, the problem is huge, there's no point in panicking!"
Although Hei Yang was also panicking, when he saw Hong Li's frightened look, he still forced himself to appear calmer and tried his best to calm Hong Li's emotions with a calm tone.
But it can be seen from Hei Yang's hand that tightly grasps his wife's arm that he is also afraid.
Moreover, Heiyang's behavior when he is scared is exactly the same as Hongli's. They both cling to each other and regard each other as a life-saving straw.
The two have been together for so many years and have always hugged each other.
To Hongli, Heiyang is a tall city wall that protects her from wind and rain, but in Heiyang's eyes, Hongli is also a warm hut that protects her from wind and waves.
So once they encounter a situation that makes both of them feel panic, they will huddle together like this: for some reason, even though they are both in a panic state, they always have this kind of mysterious trust in each other.
Not to mention whether this mysterious trust can really play a role in the current situation, at least Hei Yang Hongli, who was holding the opponent's arm tightly, quickly stabilized his mood. He would be very unreasonable if he felt each other's aura.
The land becomes peaceful.
After calming down, Hei Yang Hongli gradually heard some clues from the unknown message.
"Xiaoli, do you feel that this voice seems familiar to you, as if you have heard it somewhere before?"
Heiyang kept a vigilant distance from the communication mirror while showing a thoughtful expression.
"Eh? Hei Yang, do you feel this way too? I thought it was my illusion."
There was a little surprise on Hong Li's face, and she slowly moved a third of her body from behind Hei Yang to look at the communication mirror, also lost in thought.
"It's a bit similar..."
Hei Yang murmured softly: "Compared with the memory..."
"Compared with the memory, this voice seems younger?"
Hong Li murmured thoughtfully: "Think carefully, who can do this kind of thing at this time, and who knows the two of us..."
Heiyang Hongli looked at each other, nodded, and started by placing dozens of national-protection-level magic circles around them, then carefully and tentatively chose to call back.
"Du~du~ding!"
The brightness of the communication mirror suddenly changed, and a picture appeared.
The camera shook slightly, and a young and beautiful white-haired woman appeared on the screen.
The white-haired woman adjusted her camera lens and looked at the communication device in front of her, but all she saw was a dark and empty cosmic background mixed with faint starlight in the distance, and she couldn't help but show some confusion on her face.
"Strange, where are the people?"
No one answered the white-haired woman's question.
Before the communication was fully connected, Heiyang Hongli had already moved to a place where the camera could not reach, and was secretly peeking at the screen with her consciousness.
After seeing the white-haired woman on the camera through his spiritual consciousness, Hei Yang Hongli couldn't help but show some doubts on his face.
[Hei Yang: Is this the one we know? 】
[Hong Li: That’s right. You know us, and you have the ability to proactively contact us outside the world shield. There shouldn’t be anyone else, right? 】
[Hei Yang: It’s better to be careful. We can’t be too sure about everything, and it may not be what we think...]
[Hong Li: If we hadn’t speculated like that, the nature of the matter would have changed, and it would have turned into Heiyang, who secretly met a beautiful girl somewhere without telling me! 】
【Heiyang:???】
[Hei Yang: That’s so outrageous. I’ll be with you all day long, let alone pretty girls. As long as I know you, I won’t recognize anyone, okay? 】
[Hei Yang: On the other hand, if you don’t know someone, it’s even less likely for me to know it! 】
[Hong Li: That’s even more terrifying. Hei Yang, you kid, has reached the damn state where you can be known by a beautiful girl without even knowing the other person. You’re in the invisible position! 】
【Heiyang:???】
[Hongli: Pfft, just kidding to relieve the tension, haha...]
[Heiyang:...]
[Hong Li: In short, it’s better to just go up and ask the other person if you are just guessing here. Come on, Hei Yang! 】
[Hei Yang: No, that stinky girl just doubted me randomly. I'm sad now and don't want to ask others, lest Mouli say again that I deliberately interacted with others. 】
【Hongli:???】
[Hongli: Husband, I was wrong!!!]
[Hongli: The child is still young, ignorant, and just talking nonsense.]
[Hongli: Forgive me!!!]
[Hei Yang: Do you want to forgive? 】
[Hongli: Hmm!!!]
[Hei Yang: It’s not impossible to forgive. This time it’s Xiaoli and you go up and communicate! 】
[Hongli: Huh???]
[Hongli: Don’t worry, Yangyang, you want me to die! I usually hide behind you every time I talk to people I don’t know!]
[Hei Yang: If you want to be forgiven, you have to fight sometimes!]
[Hei Yang: And this time the other party may not be a stranger. 】
[Hei Yang: Don’t worry, don’t worry, it’s not like I’m not with you. You go up and try first. If it doesn’t work, I will come to the rescue - love comes from your solid support, husband! 】
[Hongli:...]
[Hongli: Okay————]
[Heiyang: Xiaoli, your resentment is about to become real...]
[Hongli: You know it too?!]
Hong Li sighed, and under Hei Yang's encouraging eyes of "Come on, you are the best", she cheered up and slowly floated back to the camera.
"That's weird, where are Xiaoyang Xiaoli and the others?"
The white-haired woman frowned and looked at the empty universe. She didn't know what she was thinking of, and her face changed: "Could it be that something unexpected happened and the two of them have turned into cosmic dust?!!"
"Hey, here, here, here..."
Hong Li's figure suddenly appeared in the camera lens and said faintly: "Don't panic, he's still alive."
"Oh my goodness!"
The white-haired woman was startled by Hong Li who suddenly floated into the camera. She forced herself to calm down and finally recognized the other person: "It's you Xiaoli, it's true... I just tried calling for a long time but no one answered.
Appeared, and now suddenly appears again, shocking me, it’s really you!”
"Well……"
Listening to this familiar and intimate tone and the familiar voice, the tension in Hongli's heart suddenly dropped by half. She tentatively expressed the question in her heart: "Um, are you, Grandma Meng?"
"Huh? What? You didn't recognize me just now?"
Mrs. Meng raised her eyebrows: "Who else but me could contact you all the way across the universe? Cross-universe communication is very troublesome. It took me a long time to use your breath to locate the signal receiving device in the area where you two are. Who else?
I am willing to worry about you two..."
"Is it really you!?"
When Hongli heard the affirmative answer, she let out a sigh of relief and smiled sheepishly: "I'm sorry, I didn't answer the call just now because I didn't know you were calling.
And I didn’t even recognize you at first after I was connected…”
"No, it's only been so long since I said goodbye to you, and you've almost forgotten all about me?"
Po Meng showed a dissatisfied look and guessed suspiciously: "Is it possible that you ran to Naihe to steal the soup from my junior?
No, I remember you disliked the taste of the soup. Could it be that the soup made by the new young girl tastes better than the one I made back then?"
"Is this a question of whether it tastes good or not? Who would drink that when they have nothing to do?"
Hong Li relaxed and couldn't help but complain out of habit: "And to be honest, if you want to make a soup that tastes worse than yours, it is a skill. It should be said that it is very difficult for latecomers to surpass you in this aspect...
…”
"Girl, you are still so naughty. If it had been two years ago when you were working at my place, I would have been so angry with you that I got injured at work!"
Po Meng rolled her eyes. The feeling of alienation she felt after not seeing each other for more than a year was extinguished by this girl Hongli who just said a few words. In a way, she was quite powerful.
However, Po Meng had not just met this little girl, and she knew that she was not a bad character, so she was not really angry.
She can't help but hit each other with a spoon like she did back then - mainly because she can't do it now even if she wants to.
"It's even worse that you almost forgot about me if you didn't drink Meng Po soup!"
Po Meng glared at Hongli and said, "It's a shame I still think about you after I retire!"
"Oh, you can't blame us, can you? Seriously, your image has become so big, who can recognize it at once?"
Hong Li exclaimed, "Even just now, I only recognized your identity by guessing!"
"How has your image changed so much?"
Po Meng didn't believe Hong Li's sophistry at all: "I used to have two eyes, a nose and a mouth, but now I still have two eyes, a nose and a mouth, okay!"
"Um, is it possible that most normal humans look like what you said..."
Hongli paused and added: "There are many non-human animals that can be described as you did!"
"Ha, after all, you have worked with me in the underworld for a while, and you are still so stuck on appearance?"
Po Meng said disapprovingly: "The appearance is always ever-changing, but the soul reveals the essence.
I have worked for so many years and have seen countless people coming and going. If I could only identify them by their appearance, I would have gone wrong a long time ago!
Besides, I think my current appearance is not much different from before. Not to mention my nose, eyes, and mouth. You see, I had white hair before, and I still have white hair now. Can’t I recognize such obvious features at once?
come out?"
Hongli: "???"
No, your gray hair before was not due to old age?
What kind of obvious feature is this? It’s only normal if you can’t recognize it!
Hongli was speechless, holding her forehead and waving her hands: "Then just say yes, as long as you are happy..."
"Look at what you said. Do I look like the kind of person who speaks forcefully?"
Po Meng shook her head: "Forget it, let's not talk about that for now. Xiaoyang is also with you, right?"
"uh-huh."
Hong Li snorted softly and stretched out her hand to pull Hei Yang, who was watching on the side.
"Ah haha, long time no see, Grandma Meng!"
Hei Yang was suddenly pulled into the camera, and he quickly greeted with a smile: "Have you had a good time? How are you doing?"
"It's been a while since I last saw you."
Po Meng showed a relaxed expression and responded: "For me, retirement life is not bad. Some basic rules of the universe here have been specially edited by someone, so they are quite suitable for retirement.
Every day I bask in the sun, drink tea, take a walk and read a book. At first, I suddenly felt unaccustomed to being free, and I always felt like I was still serving soup day and night!
But after getting used to it, I got used to the pace of life here. I'm not like those adventurous young people who deliberately go to that messy universe, so I applied for a decent place to live here and live my own life.
.
And because of my initiative, most of the neighbors around me have similar living habits to me. Most of them are retired from some cosmic-level official forces, so we usually have a common language..."
After retiring, Grandma Meng obviously had a stronger desire to talk, and facing two familiar young people, Hei Yang Hongli, she couldn't even stop talking for a while, and talked about her retirement life for a long time.
But Hei Yang Hongli was not impatient. Listening to Grandma Meng's description of life was like listening to a science fiction movie, their eyes were shining and they were so envious.
It wasn't until Grandma Meng realized that she had talked a lot when she was excited, that she smiled at the two of them with some embarrassment: "We haven't seen each other for a while, and life here is really comfortable, so I accidentally talked too much.
It’s a mess.”
"No, no, we are very interested in what you said."
Hei Yang waved his hands repeatedly, showing a curious and inquiring expression, and asked: "Grandma Meng, you should know that our seniors in the travel world are also trying to find the legendary universe of complete happiness. What we are looking for is the one you are now retired from."
That place?"
"Haha, there is no such thing as complete happiness. It's just that the tone of this universe is relatively peaceful and friendly."
Po Meng smiled helplessly, waved her hand and said, "But the target you seniors are looking for is indeed in this universe.
It should have been some young people here who were unwilling to be lonely at first and ran to your side of the universe and described to some people the prosperity and peace of the universe here.
To the ears of people in your universe, it is almost like a fairy tale, so if it is passed on, it will become a completely happy universe."
"Sure enough, I was thinking before that people's pursuit of happiness is inherently different. Most people love peace, while some prefer disputes. How could there be a completely happy environment..."
Hong Li suddenly realized: "So that's it!"
"Ha, I can't help it. Rumors are always getting more and more outrageous as they spread. On the contrary, the ones passed down by your seniors are already very close to reality."
Po Meng explained with a smile: "The will of the universe here has a certain rejection of disputes, and there are also some special institutions with good reputations to maintain it.
For your world that has escaped from the war, this universe can indeed be said to be an ideal place to live."
"I see!"
Hei Yang carefully took note of Grandma Meng's words, and planned to repeat the actual situation to his seniors when he returned, and then discuss whether to change the original plan.
However, with understanding, Hei Yang's mind did gradually become clearer.
If it was the "completely happy universe" that was ambiguous and didn't really exist before, Hei Yang was actually never quite sure whether it was the world he wanted to live in.
Just like Hong Li said, if things are going wrong over there, it’s better to just maintain the stable life now, stop and move on!
After listening to Grandma Meng's explanation, Hei Yang Hongli had a definite goal: they didn't know the so-called completely happy universe, but they could definitely move towards the universe where Grandma Meng was located as their destination.
According to Grandma Meng, because of its abundant resources and the jurisdiction of special agencies, the universe there does not exclude "immigrant worlds" like Hei Yang and others.
In fact, Hei Yang and the others were not the first forerunners, there were fellow travelers who had already helped them find the way!
Therefore, after understanding the differences between the two universes, Heiyang Hongli finally woke up from wandering around in a daze outside the world's shield, and their goals gradually became clear!
But now, if you want to achieve your goals, you have a very important question to ask.
"Grandma Meng, how far away is the universe you live in now from us?"
Hei Yang asked something that seniors in the traveling world have been concerned about for thousands of years: "Are we heading in the right direction now, and how long will it take to reach our destination?"
This is an important question that must be clarified!