Volume 6: Summer Chapter 70 Courage
Guan Qingtong stopped, turned around, and said, "I'm observing the environment."
Hearing this, Liu Boyang also looked around. Both sides of the river were hidden in the sea of fog, and some tree shadows could be vaguely seen, and occasionally a black shadow passed by.
Liu Boyang said: "Last time, Guan Nuo fainted as soon as he came in."
"Yeah?"
"That's right. He would just shake his head no matter what you asked him." After saying that, Liu Boyang realized that he had said something wrong, and he added, "Then I fainted right after that."
Guan Qingtong smiled and asked, "You are an ordinary person, aren't you afraid?"
"Scared, a little bit."
"Do you trust Jiang You very much?"
Liu Boyang was alert. He asked back, "What do you mean?"
Guan Qingtong asked him back: "Do you know where this is?"
Liu Boyang shook his head.
"Have you ever thought about the price you have to pay to bring your bird back to the world?" Guan Qingtong took a step forward and looked directly into Liu Boyang's eyes. "Have you ever thought that maybe you can never go back."
"How is that possible?" Liu Boyang laughed and said, "Aunt Guan, don't scare me. I came to Brother Jiang's place today, and I didn't hide it from anyone. My car is parked in the parking lot next to Wenhua Street. And, Brother Jiang is a people's policeman," he paused and concluded, "Although he lacks a little in aesthetics, he still likes me to do this and that for him. He is a good person."
Guan Qingtong was a little dazed listening to Liu Boyang's words.
After a while, she asked, "Because he's a policeman, do you trust him?"
"We can still get along," Liu Boyang thought for a moment and said, "I didn't know the police were in charge of this before, and there is a special department..."
Guan Qingtong's expression suddenly softened. She said, "The Special Operations Department was built up bit by bit by my brother, Lao Zhuang, Brother Xu, and Wang Shu."
The pale golden river water was reflected in her eyes.
She sang softly.
Each syllable forms an ancient and mysterious melody.
The river water rose and fell along the rhythm of the syllables, flowing. Gradually, some hexagram-like words floated on the water surface, surrounding Guan Qingtong and constantly changing.
Chirp.
Chirp.
Liu Boyang heard the sound of birds. He looked in the direction of the sound. At this time, Guan Qingtong said to him: "Go forward, keep going, keep going forward."
Her voice was low and distant, carrying some power.
Liu Boyang looked ahead and walked forward.
…
The air is filled with water vapor.
A root broke through the surface of the river, bringing the conversation between Guan Qingtong and Liu Boyang to the ears of Jiang You and Tang Butian.
Jiang You said: "She is right, there is a price to pay."
Tang Butian asked: "What's the price?"
"Perhaps the word 'test' is more appropriate," Jiang You grabbed some peanuts and stuffed them into Tang Butian's hand. "You can see in online literature that cultivators will be struck by lightning several times when they break through a realm."
“Heavenly Tribulation.”
"There has to be a sense of ceremony. The birth of a new law always requires a few lightning strikes to show the firmness of one's faith."
"Liu Boyang is an ordinary person." Tang Butian said.
"Aren't we here to protect him, Sir Tang?" Jiang You threw a peanut upwards, opened his mouth, and caught it.
"What's the success rate?"
"About 50 to 60 percent, more than half."
“What are the consequences of failure?”
"The consequences," Jiang You said vaguely while chewing peanuts, "This place will collapse in an instant, leaving no trace. There will be no trace left to prove its existence..."
The wooden sword fell on Jiang You's shoulder.
Jiang You said, "Knock twice, right here. I think I got a stiff neck last night, and now I feel like a muscle is being pulled."
Tang Butian glared at him.
Jiang You threw another peanut into his mouth and said, "Then I'll have to try my best to build a small world that's barely usable."
The wooden sword hit Jiang You's shoulders and neck twice, neither lightly nor heavily, and then Tang Butian put away the sword.
Jiang You said: "I have a problem that I haven't solved yet."
"What's the problem?"
"Which one is cuter, the fox-eared girl or the cat-eared girl? I think the fox's tail is bigger and fluffier, and feels better. But if you consider the tail, the little squirrel is also pretty cute, right..."
Tang Butian held the wooden sword tightly in his hand.
Chirp.
Chirp.
The crisp sound of birds rang out.
Jiang You looked into the distance: "Guan Qingtong has started."
Tang Butian also looked forward following Jiang You's gaze.
Several arcs of light swam across the river.
"Let's go over there." He threw the tray aside, stood up and walked forward.
Tang Butian followed.
…
Clang.
A tray fell on the bluestone road in front of the swing, and some of the melon seed shells and peanut shells on it fell to the ground.
…
Liu Boyang walked forward.
The water was getting deeper and deeper, gradually covering his waist, neck, and head. He did not feel the water pressure, nor did he feel suffocated. He could still breathe and move forward.
The car moved forward.
The street lights flashed across the car window, brushing against his face and shoulders again and again.
He kept driving forward.
Layers of black fog hung down from the sky; light and shadow blended together and gradually became nothingness.
He walked into the woods. The ground was muddy, and the smell of soil and some indescribable smell of decay lingered in his nose. He walked forward, passing by trees.
Keep going until...
He stopped.
Sissi stood in front of him.
"Boyang, let's go abroad together."
“I can’t live like this anymore.”
"Every time you say you'll solve it if you give it a little more time, what have you solved?"
"I can't figure it out, really, Boyang, I can't figure it out. I know you have difficulties, but I have proposed a solution. You just need to take one step , just one step, but you don't want to."
Sissi turned around.
The plane soared into the blue sky.
He looked up at the big tree in front of him. Its branches and leaves were neatly arranged, as if they had been combed, and its crown was also symmetrical.
"Going abroad doesn't solve the problem. It just leaves the problem behind. One day, I will have to face it again," he licked his cracked lips. "My parents have a strong control desire, but it is also because they have been strict with me since I was a child that I didn't go astray. I can't really go abroad and never come back just because they can't communicate with me now. I am their only son, and there is Wenjun. I also know that many opportunities will be gone if you don't seize them. However, Wenjun and I are friends. If I find something wrong and I don't pull him back and tell him, who else can remind him to pay attention?"
He sighed.
"I have the courage now."
After a long silence , he said: "I, I have a bird, a coal tit, very beautiful, I call it, call it..."
He couldn't remember.
My mind is completely blank.
A little light floated down from the treetops, and Liu Boyang's attention was drawn to it. He felt his body was hot, as if something was about to rush out.
More and more points of light floated out from the trees, flickering and blooming before his eyes. There was a bright light before his eyes. The fallen leaves flew upwards, and he heard many wonderful sounds.
"Chiu..."
There was a sharp pain in his body.
He doubled over in pain.
His body was pierced by some sharp objects. Branches grew out of his body and stretched out in all directions.
He fell to his knees.
“Chirp.”
He called out its name through gritted teeth.
All is quiet.
Suddenly, he heard the clear sound of birds singing.
The rising and falling sound of chirping dyed the light golden, falling through the cracks in the fallen leaves that obscured the sky, and he saw a coal tit fly towards him through the bright and dazzling sunlight.
He shed tears.
“Chirp.”
