Volume 7: Frost Chapter 73 Secret
Jiang You covered his head and slept for more than an hour.
When he woke up, Jiang Mo was no longer in the room. The window was open, and the wind blew in gusts, carrying the scent of leaves and grass.
Jiang You pulled up the pillow and half sat up. He played two rounds of connect the dots. When he was about to catch up on the novel, he found that although the page showed an update, he couldn't get the latest chapter. The internet connection was too bad.
He stared at the scenery outside the window for a while, and then called Sun Yu.
The ringback tone was mixed with noise and was intermittent.
It took a long time for the call to get through.
Jiang You explained to Sun Yu on the phone: "I just fell asleep. It was very quiet on the mountain. I slept very deeply and didn't hear...what did you say..."
Sun Yu's voice was caught in the crackling sound of the electric current and was completely inaudible.
"Wait, I'll change places, this..."
Jiang You walked to the window, but there was no improvement, so he had to walk out of the house. After walking twenty or thirty meters away, Sun Yu's voice became clearer.
So Sun Yu briefly explained the whole story to Jiang You.
Jiang You replied, "The section chief also told me. Yes, Mr. Zhuang should know about it too. He's a veteran of the special forces, so he must know how to arrange it... Are you in the unit now? Did you miss me when you recruited? When I come back, I'll bring some soil from my hometown... It's nice up in the mountains, the air is good, and besides there's nothing to eat, it's like going back to the dial-up era. It's really like returning to nature."
"Well, Brother Jiang, take a good vacation."
"Oh, that's right..."
"What?" Sun Yu asked.
"If there is any accident, for example, if you need labor, go to my place and find Mr. Lin..."
"Understood."
After hanging up the phone, Jiang You looked up and saw Tang Butian walking towards him from a distance.
She was wearing a white robe and her hair was loose, looking very different from usual.
Tang Butian quickly walked up to Jiang You and stood in front of him.
"Have you been to Zhuang Zekun's place? How was it there? Is there anyone to cook?" Jiang You asked her.
"They are practicing." Tang Butian replied.
"Yes, the mountain is full of spiritual energy..."
"Guan Nuo made a prediction. Although the road ahead is dangerous, as long as a gentleman sticks to the right path, there will be no problem." Tang Butian stroked his hair that was messed up by the mountain wind. "Mr. Zhuang called the research institute. He also contacted Su Wangshu."
"Su Wangshu?"
"He escorted the body up the mountain. There were military personnel in the team."
“That’s very thoughtful.”
"He believes that precognitive dreams don't necessarily happen." Tang Butian calmly repeated Zhuang Zekun's statement: "It is out of control and difficult to make an accurate interpretation. It can only be regarded as a sign. We should pay attention to it and act more cautiously, but we can't be timid and stop everything related to it because of the existence of precognitive dreams. This may cause the dream to become reality. All we can do is to abide by our duties and do our own things well."
Jiang You said: "I agree with this view very much."
Tang Butian looked at Jiang You and asked, "Are you waiting for something, or expecting something to happen?"
"Why do you always think the worst of me, kid?"
"No. It's more," Tang Butian pursed her lips, "This time when I came back, this place gave me a different feeling. I don't know why."
Jiang You glanced at the wooden sword in her hand and said, "Because you have grown up."
“I felt uneasy, too.”
"Tang Xiaotian, there is no place where you can practice peacefully without thinking about anything," Jiang You rubbed his neck a few times. "If there is, it only means that you have seen a very small part of it. Primary school students can study peacefully without thinking about anything. Do you think I should sign Jiang Mo up for the equestrian class or the ice hockey class?"
"What did you see?" Tang Butian asked.
"What do you think the law is?" Jiang You asked back.
Tang Butian looked down at her wooden sword and said, "Creating rules?"
"To look at it from another angle, God said, let there be light, and so all things obeyed God's will and evolved light. The so-called law is the embodiment of the will of the strong," Jiang You stretched out his hand and pulled out the wooden sword from Tang Butian's hand, "the law left in this sword, and," he looked into the distance and waved the wooden sword at a fat crane flying through the clouds, "this world, the former immortal cave, were all born in accordance with the will of the strong, and are gradually heading towards collapse and extinction, so," Jiang You turned to face Tang Butian, "this sword chose you, and here, what I see is almost the same as a broken screen mobile phone," he saw Tang Butian pursed his lips, so he added, "It's just a small crack, it was broken when he came here before, I guess, anyway, it doesn't affect the use, the ice cracks are pretty good."
Tang Butian recalled the conversation between Jiang You and Zhang Xianren in the pavilion. She asked, "That dark place?"
"It has caused some impact on the transmission. Immortal Zhang has gone to repair it. You haven't seen him in the past few days, right?"
"I rarely see him."
"You have gotten a little bit of the hang of it now, so the feeling here is different now. You can't go back to the past."
Tang Butian asked: "So the contest between laws is not a contest of strength, but a contest of will?"
"You can think of it that way. The actual operation is very complicated, but I'm thinking of something."
"What's up?"
Jiang You returned the wooden sword to Tang Butian, "If you use this wooden sword to cut off all the meanings related to fatness in me, will I become thin in an instant?"
Tang Butian tightened his grip on the knife handle and said, "Do you want to give it a try?"
"No, no," Jiang You took a step back and rejected it repeatedly. "I'm just thinking about it, just thinking about it. Taking shortcuts will always have side effects. Hey, hey, hey, don't point a knife at me. I've been hungry for a few days. I've already reached the weight loss target for this month..."
Tang Butian asked, "Will the mountain disappear one day?"
"That will be a long, long time in the future. If Immortal Zhang can break through his limitations, then everything here will be under his control and it is possible for it to be reborn. Who can predict what will happen in the future? But there is one thing that is particularly interesting."
Tang Butian put away the wooden sword and looked at Jiang You.
Jiang You didn't keep the secret. He said, "In a sense, the world below the mountain is a land without a master."
"What's the meaning?"
"There is no clear and powerful will dominating our world. However, it shows no signs of decay. Instead, it keeps absorbing some fragmented worlds and some laws that conflict with itself. It also subtly invites many beings to come play in its arena and promises them rewards. The final winner can become its master. It's interesting, isn't it?"
“I don’t understand what’s interesting about it.”
"The interesting point is that this is a paradox. It is precisely because there is no clear dominant will that it has evolved into the current ecology, which is particularly complex and more vital than any will. So," Jiang You raised his hands and rubbed the stiff muscles on both sides of his neck, "we might as well discuss several ways to knit a sweater."
…
With a crackling sound, the dead branches grew upward, gradually supporting the gray sky.
A pair of white, thin bare feet stepped on the charred soil.
…
The car body jolted.
Lin Shunan opened his eyes and vaguely saw a light flashing on the black metal box. He blinked hard a few times, and then he heard someone say to him, "Are you awake? We'll be there in half a day."
The speaker's voice was familiar.
It’s Ren Qingning.
Lin Shunan woke up and asked, "So fast? I thought the mountain was far away."
"Whether it's far or not depends on which road we take." It was Su Wangshu who answered him.
Lin Shunan sat up a little straighter and asked, "If it's on a mountain, is it really a mountain?"
"There are many mountains," Zhong Yan spoke this time. He said, "I grew up in the mountains, but I have never counted how many mountains there are, nor do I know how big the mountains are."
"There used to be an immortal's cave on the mountain, and he once had 3,000 disciples," Ren Qingning took over Zhong Yan's words, "There is a sword tomb on the mountain, which contains countless spiritual swords. It is also said that a good friend of the immortal was a sword cultivator. He left a sword in the sword tomb, which contained his inheritance. But many years have passed, and no one has figured out the secret of the sword, and no one has been able to understand the secret of the heaven and become an immortal after going through the tribulation."
Zhong Yan and Wang Jin looked at each other, and Wang Jin retorted to Ren Qingning, "Uncle Ren, why do you have to say such discouraging words? Cultivation is against the will of heaven. Immortal Zhang and several elders are only a hair's breadth away from enlightenment..."
"That line is the natural moat," Ren Qingning interrupted Wang Jin, "Do you know why I went down the mountain that year?"
"Why?"
"None of you experienced the disaster in person," Ren Qingning stared at the black metal box wrapped with heavy chains, "It wasn't like there was no way out on the mountain at that time."
