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The roof of the Tibetan temple was forcibly destroyed by hordes of human-faced vultures, the dirty ground covered with dirt, large pieces of torn thangka rags, and the strong smell of blood spreading wantonly in the air It all merged into a rather hideous and tragic scene.

Ordinary people obviously can't imagine what a fight between creatures just happened here, and now they are standing under the ruins of half of the wall, their faces are covered with bloodstains and scratches, and their necks are almost cut open. Wen Ying stood motionless in the dark night without making any sound for a long time. ,

It wasn't until the sound of Jiang Shanglu coughing behind him that he turned around and slowly put away his canopy of the phoenix tree that almost broke the roof of the entire Tibetan temple, and then walked over and half-kneeled in front of Jiang Shanglu Then he started to treat the wound on his face.

"He definitely didn't try his best. We were lucky enough to save our lives today, but after tonight, the ecosystem around Mount Kailash is really at stake. He spent so long paving the way for us It's really well-intentioned to cheat here..."

Hearing what he said, Wen Ying, who had indifferent eyes, looked as usual, but he had to expose some cruel truths with his own hands, which still made his face terribly cold. He didn't even want to respond to Jiang Shanglu's words for a while, He just closed his eyes and simply chose silence.

And Jiang Shanglu, who was taken aback when he saw this, also knew that he might have accidentally said something unpleasant just now, so he could only sigh softly, and raised his finger to wipe his face carefully and carefully for him. The bloodstains opened his mouth and said,

"Sorry, I shouldn't be talking to you now, otherwise you can find a place to stay alone for a while, and I can clean it up here..."

Saying this, Jiang Shanglu, who was still suffering from taking medicine for the past few days, covered his lips and spoke softly to the young man in front of him. He didn't mind taking a few steps back. Give Wen Ying, who is in a bad mood, a little space to calm down. In fact, as long as it makes Wen Ying feel better, he can take a few steps back.

But when his other hand was about to be withdrawn, Jiang Shanglu felt that he was suddenly pulled, and then the young man with downcast eyes gently held his hand and wiped it for him again. After wiping the blood on the palm of his hand, he said in a heavy tone.

"I'm fine, just leave it alone."

"Really?"

Jiang Shanglu narrowed his eyes and looked at him as soon as he heard the fake words. Who would have thought that the stern-faced Wen Ying would deliberately pretend to be dumb again when he heard him say that, and just ignored his words and started to disinfect him seriously. .

Jiang Shanglu was made even more uneasy by this attitude that was clearly contradicting him, so he could only stay silent with him and wait for him to speak on his own initiative. Holding his face so thin that the cheeks were sunken, she kissed the wound at the corner of his mouth.

"Just now you deliberately ignored me, and now you're taking advantage of me again?"

While responding to his kiss, Jiang Shanglu also asked with a vague smile, and without saying a word, he just lowered his head and started to help him eliminate the inflammation seriously. He opened his mouth complicatedly and said,

"Actually, you really want to find someone to get angry. Don't worry about whether that person is me. This is because I talked too much after I came back that night. I really thought you didn't notice it. But if I change another way, in fact, tonight We don't have to confront him so directly, you should have other ways to deal with it... But to be honest, I really didn't expect him to be... Forget it, you and him have been friends for so many years, sorry... "

Jiang Shanglu rubbed his temples helplessly when he said this. He always knew how to take care of Wen Ying’s emotions. Wang Zhimo must have cheated him many times behind his back. He was not angry about this matter, but he was also afraid of rashness. Wen Ying, who knew the truth, could not accept it psychologically.

But ever since Jiang Shanglu left the capital and killed Chen Yongming himself, he has been thinking about why the sugar palm knew how to parasitize Yong Jincheng when he was on the verge of death.

Because countless facts have proved that there is no normal plant that does not have the ability that microorganisms have. Unless someone has taught him, then this person should not know Xiao Ao except that he has been in contact with him. If it was someone else, then who taught it to Xiao Ao at that time?

At first, neither he nor Wen Ying could figure it out, so they just found a place to lock up Xiao Ao who was mentally abnormal, and then began to monitor Xiao Ao who seemed helpless to a certain extent through Yao Donglin.

But who would have thought that after they entered Mount Kailash together, before they had a chance to catch their breath, all these things would all be directed at Jiang Shanglu, and at this time, if he was always vigilant enough, he would not be aware of it. If something went wrong somewhere, then he would have gone through so many crises in vain.

Although at the beginning he didn't immediately suspect Wang Zhimo, who had never been with them from the beginning to the end, because compared to this reliable friend who left them early and went to Kailash Rinpoche, and even once asked them for help, he always It's the bitterness that likes to hide some things, which is more suspicious than this seemingly harmless nonsense.

But that night when he was brought back from the Zhuomala Pass with a high fever by Wen Ying, he was carrying the virus in his body, and he actually vaguely felt that a very powerful monster was near him, still fighting with him. Countless weak and noisy little monsters whispered.

At that moment, Jiang Shanglu finally understood where the limitations of everyone's previous thinking were, and how this unpredictable person used such a clever way to perfectly wash away all his suspicions, because he never lied from the beginning to the end, But his frankness is based on the ingenious rhythm that all the truth about Gang Rinpoche is brought out by him step by step.

Because he found an excuse to return to Gang Rinpoche, Shan would get sick again, and people outside who should know knew about it, so they would automatically send him to the door.

He didn't even need to walk out of Gang Rinpoche Mountain himself, he could easily use the power of Xiao Ao, who was rescued by him and saved his life with the help of microbial parasitism, to know everything that happened far away in the capital, regardless of the first survivor At the end of the year, Chen Yongming is still Jiang Shanglu, as long as there is a nutritious fresh food that can be delivered to his mouth, then his goal has been achieved.

The moment he figured this out, Jiang Shanglu almost wondered if he had been so stimulated by that group of people, so he would be so suspicious about a person who seemed to have no problems at all, but Wenying then had a strange His attitude also showed that he was not without doubts in his heart.

But it's one thing to figure it out, it's another thing to really verify it. After all, even Wen Ying, who is so quiet and boring, has mentioned to him more than once that Wang Zhimo helped him a lot back then. A close friend was deliberately dragged into such a scene by me to expose it, no matter who it is, there will be some unknown anger in the heart that has no place to vent.

As a result, what Jiang Shanglu never expected was that Wen Ying, who was silent in front of him, just raised his head and frowned at him after hearing so much at the moment, and asked again with a puzzled expression,

"He did something wrong, why did you come to apologize to me, did you know him well before?"

"Huh? No, didn't I... want to make you feel better? Do you feel better now? Do you still want to get angry at others?"

Asked by Wen Ying with such a weird look, after being obviously stunned for a moment, he seemed to feel that he seemed to be a little troubled, Jiang Shanglu couldn't help laughing lowly, but he didn't say anything that was completely useless Comforting words, just let the two people hold hands together and slowly start to adjust the messy and depressed emotions in their hearts.

And seeing that this person didn't have any sense of nervousness about imminent disaster at all, on the contrary, he was still in the mood to pretend to be talking and laughing with himself here. Wen Ying, who was really full of indescribable anger in his heart, only hugged him and was almost caught by Wang Zhimo just now. The injured Jiang Shanglu sighed softly after a while suppressing the anger in his heart,

"Thank you."

"En? Thank you for what?" Jiang Shanglu asked him with a narrow smile on purpose.

"It's nothing, think for yourself."

Wen Ying, who usually has a bad temper, and was in a particularly bad mood today because of this shitty incident, frowned and replied to someone who was deliberately pretending to be stupid.

Immediately felt that after the two of them talked for more than a year, he really wasn't as unconditionally spoiled as before. Jiang Shanglu just looked at him with a sad look on his face, and felt helpless when he saw Wen Ying who had a straight face. Yes, Jiang Shanglu, who covered his mouth and coughed, waved his hand and then sighed and said with a smile,

"...Forget it, stop teasing you, let's get down to business first, and I can't find anyone for Ye Kuo yet."

When it comes to this matter, the expressions of both of them are a bit complicated. After tonight, there are indeed many things that need to be worried about. Fortunately, the two of them have completely cleared the fog in front of them this time, and they can see the cause and effect of the matter. Some people continued to lead me by the nose and ran away.

But perhaps it was also because of what happened tonight that Jiang Shanglu realized in a daze that Wen Ying had really transitioned from a young man who was always immature to a man who was independent and mature in his thoughts and actions. A child who is wronged and does not know how to cry, let alone think about everything for him rashly.

Thinking like this, Jiang Shanglu felt inexplicably emotional in his heart, only looked down at the remaining hyphae on the ground and Xie Qin and Zong Mingyuan who had already fainted by the side, and said thoughtfully,

"Tai Sui will definitely come to look for Xie Qin again in the future, and I heard what he said just now, he seems to be unable to control the disease on his body well, oh, yes, there is also that Hutuktu..."

Before the words fell, they heard a burst of slow footsteps coming from the corridor. Wen Ying and Jiang Shanglu, who quickly fell silent, didn't speak. They looked at Hutuktu with a benevolent face at the door together, and then saw this salsify-like man whose position was unclear at the moment, bent down and smiled at them with his hands clasped together, and said,

"The short-term fight has stopped, and the true face of the son of Lord Shiva has finally become clear. Now, are you two in the mood to come and have a cup of tea with me?"

……

When Xie Qin and Zong Mingyuan woke up again, they were invited together with Wen Ying and Jiang Shanglu to a room in Hutuktu where ten ever-burning lamps were lit.

The light of the ever-burning lamp strangely illuminated every corner of the room. The old lama sitting under the red prayer flags was pouring tea patiently for everyone. It seemed that Jiang Shanglu, who had been frowning and coughing softly, had a very weak throat. Uncomfortable, he got up and took out some maltose from the cabinet behind him, put it on the bronze saucer on the table, and gently placed it in front of Jiang Shanglu.

"Oh... thank you, Master."

Seeing this, he clasped his hands together and thanked him politely. In fact, Jiang Shanglu would not eat too sweet things at night. First, his personal living habits have been maintained very well, and he is afraid that eating blindly will be harmful to his teeth and body in the future. Well, the second reason is that sprout sugar is too sweet, even if Jiang Shanglu usually likes sweets, he can't accept it.

Seeing that he thanked him but looked like he didn't intend to touch him, Hutuktu, who squinted his eyes and kept watching him, just shook his head and laughed, and insisted on pushing the saucer before using the unskilled replied in Chinese,

"After taking too much medicine, the tongue will become bitter. Drink some with your tea. Sugar will make many people who are unfortunate in life happy. In the past, it was something that the rich could afford. Of course, This is the only thing I can entertain you now."

"Hey... Is there another way to say this? Can only the rich afford sugar?"

Although he clearly felt the differential treatment from this strange old lama, Zong Mingyuan, who was drinking tea honestly with his head down, still couldn't help muttering.

When he heard him ask this question, Xie Qin, who was sitting on the side obviously not recovered, was silent for a moment, and just when he was about to speak, he heard Jiang Shanglu's slow voice from the other end.

"To some extent, this is true. It is said that in the last century, the poorer the region, the saltier the taste of food. Salty food can be eaten with rice to fill the stomach, which is convenient for the young and middle-aged people at home. They went to work in the fields, so there was a saying in the old society that only those who lived well could afford sugar, because sugar was not a necessity, and it could basically be used to speculate on the specific economic conditions of various places in the past.”

After explaining a sentence casually like this, he subconsciously glanced at Wen Ying who was helping him throw all the candies from the plate into the hot tea. Jiang Shanglu, who had a slightly helpless expression, took the cup casually and then slowly He took a sip slowly, and after feeling that his sore throat did feel better, Jiang Shanglu, who was so sweet that he frowned, listened to Hutuktu beside him and said with a smile,

"Sui once said the same thing to you. When he was young, he always came to me for candy. He could hold a candy in his mouth seriously for a long time, and he would become happy after eating it."

Hearing that he hastily mentioned the age, the other four people present all had different expressions. Wen Ying's expression at the moment is not easy to describe, but he is indeed very wary of Hutuktu in front of him now, and he doesn't really believe this and Wang Zhimo obviously had a good relationship with the old lama, but he didn't seem to care what other people think of him. Hutuktu, who is 120 years old this year, only turned his gaze to Wenying and asked a question tentatively ,

"You feel very angry now, don't you?"

"Shouldn't I be angry?" Wen Ying frowned at him.

"No, of course you should be angry. Lies are destined to bring bad results. He betrayed your trust in him and dragged you and innocent people into this quagmire. Then he has committed a crime that deserves to go to hell." It's a felony, in fact, I've told Sui a long time ago... It's a pity that he always said that he has told too many lies out of hatred in his life, and now he can't turn back."

"People should be responsible for their own actions. There are many people in this world who have experienced setbacks without losing their principles. Hatred is not an excuse for him to do evil, let alone a reason for a person to throw out after making a mistake. Maybe he once It’s really unfortunate, so may I ask what I did wrong? To be forced to this point by him? Is it because of his despicable means that I can’t think of at all? Or is it because I once regarded him as a My own friend, and he can use this to hurt me and deceive me in such a way that he is ignoring my lover's life?"

The cold-faced Wen Ying always sounded very scary when he questioned people personally. If he really got angry, this young man who looked silent could say a thousand or ten thousand sentences to make people completely unable to get off the stage. if.

And listening to the meaning of his words, it can be seen that even if Wen Ying paid more attention to Wang Zhimo's friend before, he would not have the slightest soft-heartedness when he met this person in the future. Tu also just sighed, and after a while of silence, he slowly nodded and said,

"I understand, please let me... sincerely apologize to everyone for my previous concealment behavior."

Saying this, Hutuktu's expression was a bit ashamed, and Xie Qin, who was silent, looked puzzled, but he obviously didn't know how to insert into this conversation that made people dare not interrupt. .

And Jiang Shanglu, who gently pulled Wenying, was not in a hurry to express his opinion when he saw this. He only squinted at the ancient murals behind the red prayer flags, and only after the atmosphere eased up a little, did he appear to be in a hurry. Thoughtfully, Hutuktu, who was sitting upright, asked casually,

"The one behind that is actually the painting of the ten Shuras in the legend, right?"

Hearing Jiang Shanglu's question, Xie Qin and Zong Mingyuan were taken aback for a moment, and then looked at the murals of the Venerable Jiang Mo on the wall holding up the magic pestle and glaring at the devil, knowing that Hutuktu, who must not be able to hide it from him, bent down first Nodding deeply, Jiang Shanglu looked at the murals in a creepy tone as Jiang Shanglu, whose face was almost completely pale, twitched his lips and said,

"I heard that the word Shura refers to those who voluntarily make a deal with the devil in Tantric Buddhism. I haven't figured it out before, but when we connect all the clues together, Wen Ying and I can probably guess all of it. What happened to the beginning of it?"

"Tai Sui is actually a kind of microbial life that reproduces with spores, so its life span is endless. It has almost evolved to the highest level in the biological chain. There are rumors that eating Tai Sui can lead to immortality.”

"Every time he is eaten by greedy people, a new Shura will be born. Countless conidia hide in Shura's body, and then the new Tai Sui will grow up again from a small spore. When ten When the two Shuras gather together in this way, Sui, who is at the cost of constant death, can truly awaken."

"Then why... only plant-like humans can become parasites? Is it impossible for animals to be transformed? Your conjecture does not sound rigorous."

Xie Qin frowned and subconsciously questioned Jiang Shanglu's statement, but after he said it, he realized that his tone seemed a little bad, so he raised his head nervously and glanced at Jiang Shanglu, and Jiang Shanglu only heard him say that. He put his finger on the table and tapped it, then smiled and said without paying attention,

"Of course it's possible, but considering the special nature of microorganisms' parasitism, animals that cannot pass on their spores from generation to generation through their mothers are obviously inferior to plants with strong heredity that are almost indistinguishable from their mothers. This is how he evolves, and of course he will choose a method that is more beneficial to him..."

"Actually, I have doubted whether the smell or hormones of the young Tai Sui can involuntarily induce some kind of neurological induction on animals and plants, otherwise I can't imagine that there will be so many people greedy enough to eat one... It seems A child who is almost indistinguishable from a human being, and even one of my ancestors also committed this kind of evil, so there are so many hidden dangers in the future..."

After saying this, it was obvious that Jiang Shanglu felt a little nauseous because he thought of something. After he finished speaking, Jiang Shanglu's face became even worse. It was just that he had a high fever, but his whole body was still indescribably sore. With a worried face, Jiang Shanglu just smiled back and said that I am fine, and then looked at Xie Qin whose expression was obviously brightened because of his explanation, and asked casually,

"But by the way, haven't you been researching projects in this area? Would you mind sharing your research results with us?"

"……certainly."

Knowing that Wen Ying and Jiang Shanglu insisted on rescuing him from Sui's hands, this might be the reason why Xie Qin didn't continue to act as uncooperative as before. After all, he really didn't want Jiang Shanglu to hate him even more. It didn't help him at all. Busy, only added a lot of messy unlucky relatives to him.

And thinking like this, he frowned and organized his thoughts for a while. Xie Qin first poured some tea from the cup on the table, and then used his fingers to slowly draw a tree branch and trunk. something to come.

"What do you think this looks like?"

"Eh? A tree?" Zong Mingyuan guessed blankly.

"Maybe it's a luxuriant sand wattle?" Hutuktu looked at it carefully and replied suspiciously.

"No, these are actually the dendrites of neurons in the human brain. From the outside, it does look similar to the growth of a tree. A neuron in the brain can radiate hundreds of dendrites, and each dendrite can branch out into many Fine feathery fibers, do you think this is similar to the relationship between leaves, trunks and trees?"

As Xie Qin said this, he raised his head and looked at Jiang Shanglu. His eyes also showed a little enthusiasm for academics that is unique to intellectuals. Jiang Shanglu, who was originally in a bad state of mind, obviously became interested when he heard what he said. He nodded politely and signaled him to continue.

Seeing this, Xie Qin only turned his complicated eyes to one side, Wen Ying, who was also listening to him, brewed up his slightly excited emotions before opening his mouth again,

"I have been interested in human evolution since I was still studying. From the perspective of changes in the natural environment and genetics, these years have indeed made me, who has been groping in the dark, come to the conclusion A little bit of my own, so three years ago, when I was still teaching abroad, I once put forward such a false proposition to myself—"

"If the long evolutionary history of the earth is regarded as one day, when will plants, animals and microorganisms appear?"

"In the middle of the night, the earth was formed suddenly. After twelve hours, at the bottom of the ocean, the ancient cellular organisms began to squirm, and the earliest microorganisms began to appear."

"They are the earliest inhabitants of the earth. From about one o'clock in the morning to three o'clock in the afternoon, the whole earth belongs to them, so they must have the most secrets about evolution in their hands."

"48 million years ago, invertebrates and vertebrates were born, that is about 36:40 pm on this day, and amphibians appeared [-] million years ago, this is [-]:[-] pm. At this time, the Paleozoic Era basically ended, The age of the dinosaurs came, [-] minutes before the end of the day, squama were almost gone, and the land was teeming with mammals."

"At 59:[-], the higher animals finally appeared."

"One minute later, the old day finally passed, and the new day came completely. Another brand-new intelligent life...higher plants finally appeared."