Just when some uneasiness and fear emerged in Cheng Lin's heart, the voice call finally connected, but before he could react, he heard a short syllable from the other side: "Wait a moment."
Then the communication was hung up by the other party...
Hmm... what's going on? Cheng Lin stood in the room blankly, taking the phone away from his ear and looking at the chat dialog box on the screen.
During the short two seconds of connection, he seemed to hear something similar to the gurgling sound of water, or could it be more accurately described as a shower?
I looked at the time, well, it was around 22 o'clock in the evening... Are you taking a shower? So you didn't answer the call directly?
Cheng Lin reasoned, and then his hanging heart suddenly fell to the ground with a bang. He couldn't help but smile bitterly and said to himself: "Sure enough, a deduction that is too real can easily make people nervous.
"
In the previous deductions, whether it was the back of the new world or how many years in the future, those unfamiliar scenery and people kept reminding him that this was not real, but this time, it was not the case.
Everything was completely pushed forward based on the actual time point, which even made him doubt whether the deduction had even started. The two memories were mixed together, making him confused for a while.
Confirming that Huabei was still alive helped him successfully withdraw from the "drama" and return to reality. He boiled some hot water for himself. When the water was just boiling, his phone rang. It was the video that Huabei had opened.
call.
When he clicked it, a white "ghost face" appeared on the screen, which startled Cheng Lin.
Only when I looked carefully did I realize it was a facial mask.
In the picture, Huabei is wearing a pink and white loose pajamas, holding a mobile phone in one hand, and wiping her wet hair with a towel in the other hand. The lights in the room are bright, and her arms are shining white and she is dizzy.
There was a slight blush, "Why are you looking for me?"
Putting the towel aside, Hua Bei blinked curiously and asked.
"...It's okay, I just want to see if you can go back smoothly...after all, you drank a lot..." Cheng Lin made up a weak excuse in a hurry and said.
Hua Bei, who was wearing a facial mask, was puzzled at first, and then said disdainfully: "You drink less than one-tenth of what I drink."
Cheng Lin was embarrassed, and then he suddenly changed the topic and talked a few words, which made Hua Bei suspicious: "What exactly do you want to say?"
"Uh..." Cheng Lin coughed lightly and said with a serious face, "I mainly want to urge you to practice. I happen to be free now. If you have any questions about practice, I can answer them for you, such as about Reiki.
Three practice methods of micro-management, how to build a psychic field with the fewest steps, and how to maintain it in a complex environment..."
He spoke a long sentence in one breath. Hua Bei, who was opposite him, kept her ears upright at first and listened carefully, but soon she wilted, her mask almost collapsed, and her two big eyes were blank.
"Do you understand?" Cheng Lin asked after he finished speaking.
Then I saw the girl on the other end of the video nodding confusedly, and then she came back to her senses and asked blankly: "What did you just say?"
"...It's okay, good night, go to bed early."
"oh."
Cheng Lin was silent for a few seconds, said, and then hung up the video.
Then, he sighed helplessly.
"Rotten wood cannot be carved..."
After all, one scene in the deduction had a great impact on him. The scene in which Hua Bei died was also one of the scenes that impressed him deeply in the deduction. If possible, he really hoped to make Hua Bei stronger.
But now it seems... this is probably an extremely difficult task.
It is very difficult to turn over the salted fish, plus this salted fish is too lazy to move... this is a hell level difficulty.
"Forget it, it's good to just let her live happily..."
Cheng Lin shook his head and thought quietly.
As for the danger, as long as he becomes strong enough, he can become a big umbrella and shield Huabei from the miserable wind and rain.
For Cheng Lin, if the reason why he entered the spiritual path in the first place was to have enough self-preservation ability in this world that was gradually becoming magical, then now...he has another reason to work hard to become stronger.
Only if he is strong enough can he protect the people he wants to protect from harm.
After thinking about this, Cheng Lin no longer struggled, simply sat cross-legged and meditated, and began to practice.
Becoming powerful does not happen overnight. After all, the "Silver Moon Cane" is just a bug item that exists in the deduction. In reality, there is no shortcut to any success. All Cheng Lin can do is work harder, and then work harder.
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The night is getting darker and the bright moon is hanging high.
Under the same bright moon, in a deserted land thousands of kilometers away from the Ninth Academy of Spiritual Education, several urban youths had just extinguished the bonfire in front of them, then greeted each other and got into their respective tents.
This place is located in the northwest of Xia Kingdom. It is surrounded by desert except for the Gobi. It is endless as far as the eye can see. Only poplar trees stand silently like sentinels. The temperature difference between day and night is huge.
Located in the center of the Tarim Basin, it is the largest desert in the Xia Kingdom and the second largest mobile desert in the world. Its more formal name is "Taklimakan". "Taklimakan" means mountain, and "Lamagan" is translated as great desert.
Compared with this name, it also has a well-known nickname: "Sea of Death".
It has a total area of 330,000 square kilometers and is more than a thousand kilometers long from east to west. It has two highways that cross the desert, carrying local trade and transportation, and also carrying the dreams of some literary and artistic youths.
Crossing the desert seems very cool, attracting some people to come here and leave here every year.
Compared with taking a bus to and fro, there are also many people who travel by car. This is the case for this group of people. After nightfall, this group of urban youths parked their cars, picked up dry poplar trees, made a fire, and used the purchased
Local specialty tablecloths were spread on the sand, and then the beautifully packaged food brought over was placed.
After dinner was finished, and all the passion and excitement in their bodies had been squandered, they each yawned and went back to the tent.
After lying down and unable to sleep, some started to check their mobile phones, some chatted across the tent, and the organizer chatted with the team leader about tomorrow's route.
"Can we go back tomorrow?"
"Well, there's only over a hundred kilometers left. Drive slowly and we'll get there."
"When I get this deal, I'm going to try that internet celebrity store. I don't know if it's as good as it says."
"Go to sleep..."
They talked sporadically, and then gradually, everyone fell asleep.
In this desolate desert, hazy lights and shadows gradually appeared, and some huge shadows and strange creatures floated over the camp where they were camping, but they seemed to turn a blind eye to them.
It's like two parallel spaces intersecting and overlapping. On one side are urban youths sleeping in colorful tents, and on the other are weird-looking blurry lights and shadows wandering all over the sky. There are also layers of ripples in the air. If you look down from a high altitude
, like a big whirlpool.
A night of silence.
When the sun had just risen early the next morning, those strange shadows disappeared and were replaced by the mountains of the desert.
"Tear."
Pulling open the zipper of the tent, the leader squinted his eyes, walked out with his heavy head, stretched out in the morning light, and then subconsciously looked towards the road not far from the camp.
The next moment, the guide was stunned as if he had been struck by lightning. Immediately, his loud shout rang out in the camp.