Volume 5: Qingming Chapter 12 Comfort
Tang Butian handed the bead back to Jiang You and asked, "What's it for?"
"Marbles? Ping-pong balls?" Jiang You threw the marbles forward. After hitting the wall, the marbles bounced back. He reached out and caught them. "How is it? Is it fun?"
When he threw the bead out again, a wooden sword intercepted the bead. The wooden sword slapped forward, and the bead flew out with a "whoosh", even leaving an afterimage.
Just as the bead was about to hit the wall, the wooden sword flew out of Tang Butian's hand and stuck in the moment before the bead hit the wall, stopping it and hitting it back.
"It can also be used to hold ghosts or something, maybe it can keep things fresh? I don't know about these things." Jiang You put the porcelain plate on his lap, he opened the Coke, poured it into a disposable paper cup, picked it up and took a sip, "The Coke bottle is still better, low-key, convenient and practical."
He watched Tang Butian playing with the beads as if they were ping-pong balls.
A pair of butterflies flew out from the flowers, their wings illuminated by the sunlight, dancing and interlacing with the outline of light.
Jiang You put the cup back on the table and caught a glimpse of a white and smooth calf exposed from under the skirt.
"Guan Nuo just came."
Tang Butian turned his head and looked at Jiang You.
Jiang You raised his head slightly and asked, "What happened in that small world before I came back to find you?"
Tang Butian reached out and grabbed the bead that was still spinning rapidly, "Zhuang Zekun wanted to leave, but Guan Nuo refused."
"Where is he going?"
"He asked Guan Nuo to calculate the direction, hoping to use the energy of the branch," Tang Butian thought for a moment, "probably like that."
"Neither honest nor reliable," Jiang You commented.
"Are you angry?"
"It's also expected," Jiang You scooped a large spoonful of ice cream with a spoon and swallowed it, "Should I be angry and bear a grudge? Next time I see him outside, I will decisively take action and leave him and his subordinates there, or just kill them. If Guan Nuo is suspicious, I will take the initiative to kill him," he turned to look at Tang Butian, "Isn't it a bit exciting?"
"I will beat him up three times." said Tang Butian.
Jiang You smiled, "Okay, I'm just talking nonsense. If I can take action," he thought for a moment, "I should be able to expand my postcard business overseas."
He took another sip of Coke. "You still have a long way to go to beat him. I'm closed this month anyway. Come here, I'll let Jiang Mo give you some special training. You can practice a big move and beat him up by surprise. Then take a picture for me and I'll frame it and hang it on the wall of the Special Operations Department's office."
"Okay." Tang Butian agreed immediately.
"My son recently played a game where when he used his ultimate move, the whole screen was filled with special effects and slow motion. It was so cool."
Jiang You finished his ice cream. He put the plate aside, picked up the strawberry milk cream, took out a box of chicken nuggets from the bucket, took a sip of the drink and a bite of the chicken nuggets, feeling very comfortable.
Tang Butian looked at the slightly melted ice cream on the plate. She tried hard to eat a few more bites, then said, "After I came back, I couldn't feel that sword intent anymore, the sword intent that could cut off meaning."
“It’s covered up by the rules.”
"How can I feel again?" Tang Butian asked.
"The easiest way is to go back to the mountain." Jiang You finished eating a few pieces. He took a tissue from the table and wiped his hands and mouth. He turned his head and met Tang Butian's gaze. "I'm actually a little surprised."
"What?"
"You stay. "
"As long as I can remember, I have lived in the mountains. Everything in the mountains is natural to me. I can learn about the outside world if I want to, but we don't think so, because the outside world is the outside world and the mountain is the mountain. I only need to concentrate cultivation. I don't need to think about or care about the rest."
"I understand."
"If I go back and they plot against me again, what should I do?" Tang Butian looked at the butterflies chasing each other in the flowers. "On the mountain, the strong are respected, and I am not strong enough."
"But now if you want to comprehend the sword intent, the easiest way is to go back to the mountain." Jiang You looked at Tang Butian, the look in his eyes behind the lenses was somewhat ambiguous.
"I had already made the decision before I knew it."
"You can regret it."
"I am a swordsman."
Jiang You smiled and said, "Look, here, in the world of the living, the main world, the spiritual energy is thin. But on the mountain, the spiritual energy is abundant, and the legendary spiritual plants and beasts live there. Why?"
“The mountain was once a secret place for immortals.”
"It means that the mountain can't keep up with the times." Jiang You corrected Tang Butian.
Tang Butian looked at Jiang You in confusion.
"Each version has its own god. The artifacts in the old version may still be usable in the new version, and may still retain some of the glowing special effects, but their time has passed. Their collection value is greater than their practical value." Jiang You touched his stomach. "I ate too much and feel a little uncomfortable. I should have some stomach-strengthening and digestion-promoting tablets at home."
He lay back.
"Are you saying that cultivation is meaningless?"
"That's not the case, Tang Xiaotian. Meaning is given by people. As long as there is one player playing the old version of the game, it has meaning. Some of the past rules have been weakened, and some have been invalidated. Only special scenarios can call and analyze them. But as long as one day someone gives it new meaning, it can be reborn in the new rules. In the mountains, you only understand its past meaning. Here, if you can master it, its meaning is what you give it."
He paused, "Of course, this is the nightmare difficulty." He turned his head and looked at Tang Butian with a smile, "Then, you go to the mountain again and cut down a mountain with one sword. I like the special effect of the weapon becoming huge when using the ultimate move. It is particularly domineering. Then you will be called Tang Batian."
"My name is Tang Butian."
"Go buy me some digestive tablets. What do you want to eat for dinner?"
A man and a woman walked to Wenfeng Road.
The beads in Tang Butian's hand suddenly became hot, and the smile on Jiang You's face disappeared.
"What's wrong?" Tang Butian asked.
“There’s business.”
Fang Wensong and Lao Cai's niece walked past the yard gate.
"But I don't really want to care. My son will definitely be the CEO of a multinational corporation in the future."
Tang Butian felt the light dimming.
In the shadows on the ground, a figure slowly stood up. It was a woman with long hair and quite pretty.
…
Lin Yu sat in the back seat of the car.
A black fender separated him from the front of the car.
The windows on both sides of the car were black, and you couldn't see anything when you looked out from inside.
There was a middle-aged woman sitting next to him. Before getting in the car, she introduced herself as Wu Yulan, a subordinate of Zhuang Zekun. She put a metal bracelet on his hand.
After putting it on, he felt that the world around him suddenly became different, his five senses became dull, and his body seemed to become heavy.
He gradually became drowsy.
The car body was shaking slightly, and he kept counting numbers while trying hard not to fall asleep.
