Volume 8: The Bug House Chapter 8: Standing
More than an hour later, Sun Yu and Lin Yu arrived at the insect house.
Lin Yu opened the shop door and said to Sun Yu, "Please sit down for a while. I'll go upstairs and get you some clothes."
Having said that, he went upstairs.
Zhaocai jumped from Sun Yu's arms to the ground, walked lazily to the door, and chirped a few times in the direction of the camphor tree. Then, he saw Jiujiu flying in, and the bird and the cat chirped and meowed to communicate.
After Sun Yu changed his clothes, Guan Qingtong and Wu Yulan walked in.
Guan Qingtong tied her hair up, looking quite capable. She first walked to the camphor tree, which had grown quite a bit taller in recent days. She looked up at it for a while before walking into the store.
"Sister Guan, Sister Wu, what happened?" Sun Yu asked.
"It's a big deal," Guan Qingtong pulled out a chair and sat down, saying, "Has the way of heaven changed?"
"What?" Sun Yu was confused. He looked at Lin Yu, who shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.
"Did you just walk into an illusion?" Guan Qingtong asked?
Sun Yu nodded, "Yes, and there have been a lot of missing persons recently. Is this related to the change in the way of heaven you mentioned?"
Guan Qingtong said: "Yes, I am in charge of Tangjiang now. People and equipment will be coming here soon, and Cultural Street will be temporarily blocked. The notice has been issued."
"So..." Sun Yu took out his mobile phone, and the system indeed sent a notification.
Guan Qingtong glanced outside the door. The rain had covered the bluestone steps. She said, "Sun Yu, tell me what happened in your illusion now."
"Okay." After Sun Yu sorted out his thoughts, he told Guan Qingtong everything that had happened since he took on the case .
"Was it Zhaocai who saved you?" Guan Qingtong asked, turning her gaze to Zhaocai.
After Zhaocai and Jiujiu finished communicating, they even had a small fight, both of them had some hair lost, and each found a corner to heal their wounds.
Sun Woo said, "That's right, I don't know why it's there either."
"I took the subway." Lin Yu interjected.
Sun Yu, Guan Qingtong and Wu Yulan all turned their heads to look at him.
Lin Yu raised his phone and said, "I saw it on my WeChat Moments. Someone took a photo of the recruitment event on the subway."
Guan Qingtong nodded and said, "Let me tell you about the current situation."
"Since two days ago, spiritual particles have become abnormally active, and many dormant illusions have been activated. Some are just remnants of special powers that would have dissipated over time, but now they are rapidly growing into illusions. This is probably what you encountered, and there may be tens of thousands of such illusions across the country, or even more."
"Will the number of missing people increase?" Sun Yu asked.
"Not only that," Guan Qingtong tapped the table with her fingers and said, "According to the judgment of the institute, we are just in the process now, and the final result is still unknown. If we are optimistic, when the situation stabilizes, the number of disappearances will decrease or even disappear. If we are pessimistic, the continuous generation and expansion of illusions will have unpredictable impacts on reality."
"There is something even more troublesome. Information has come from the mountain that there are currently countless demons from outside the domain hovering in the cracks of our world, and their numbers are constantly increasing. They may want to take advantage of the changes in the way of heaven to invade."
"No way?" Sun Yu was shocked. "Why did it suddenly..."
"At present, they are still unable to enter due to the rules of heaven, but later... all the cultivators who were in seclusion on the mountain have come out, and the seniors who were practicing in Yanjing have also come out to deal with this crisis." Guan Qingtong turned his eyes to Lin Yu, "Can you contact Jiang You now?"
Lin Yu was a little confused. "He's on the mountain. It's more convenient for you, right?"
"He took Tang Butian into the extraterritorial space, and we can't contact them." Guan Qingtong paused to observe Lin Yu's expression. After a while, she said with some disappointment: "I thought you had a way to contact him."
"No," Lin Yu shook his head. He asked, "What about Jiang Mo? He also went to the mountain."
"Jiang Mo..." Guan Qingtong thought for a moment, "I'll ask him later. He should still be on the mountain."
"OK."
"Didn't Jiang You say anything to you before he left?"
"Before he left, he just told me to take good care of the store and maybe work part-time in the Special Operations Department from time to time."
"Then I can only look for you," Guan Qingtong sighed and said, "I want to borrow this place for a while."
"What do you want to do?" Lin Yu asked.
Guan Qingtong stood up and walked to the door. "According to the conclusion of the research institute, this place should have become a fantasy world long ago. It can even be transformed into a small world."
Chirp spread its wings, flew through the rain, and hovered above the camphor tree.
"This is his territory, so," Guan Qingtong turned around and said, "I want to borrow the power of the camphor tree to deduce the secrets of heaven!"
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The Jiang You she mentioned was fleeing towards the main world in a panic.
When they brushed past the demon several times, Ren Qingning felt a divine thought sweeping past. The bubbles became fainter and thinner. But in the end, they still managed to escape into the depths of the crack.
The bubble burst.
After Jiang You laid the unconscious Tang Butian flat, he sat down on the ground, supporting himself with his sword, breathing heavily.
Lin Shunan looked around. This seemed to be a cave, with a bluish-gray light flickering on the stone walls.
He heard Ren Qingning ask Jiang You: "Why did you save me?"
Jiang You took out his candy box from his bag, ate two candies, and stuffed another into Tang Butian's mouth. Then he said, "It's the last quarter. If I don't take you back, I'll lose points in the evaluation and my year-end bonus will be discounted. How can I do this?"
After hearing what Jiang You said, Ren Qingning sneered and said, "I didn't expect you to be a saint."
Jiang You glanced at him and said, "Then change the reason. I'm particularly worried that you have reached some kind of agreement with those things. I must bring you back and torture you to extract a confession."
Ren Qingning was silent for a while, then he said: "No matter what I did, it's too late. The way of heaven has changed, and the gods and demons will return to the world."
"Why are you doing this?" Lin Shunan couldn't help but ask.
Without waiting for Ren Qingning to answer, Jiang You said, "What the hell are you talking about? Do you think they can get in?"
After hearing Jiang You's words, Ren Qingning and Lin Shunan looked outside the cave at the same time.
Those terrifying beings hovered silently outside the crack, as if waiting for an opportunity.
Ren Qingning said: "The way of heaven is still changing."
Tang Butian, who was in a coma, pursed her lips. It was cool and slightly sweet. She licked the mint candy with her tongue. Then she opened her eyes.
She heard Jiang You say, "It's all changed. What's changed is the different forces acting according to the new rules. I've said it before, this is the era for us humans."
Tang Butian struggled to sit up with her hands, then she looked at Jiang You and said, "We, humans?"
Jiang You nodded, "Yes, we humans."
