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Chapter 42: Metaphysics: The Chosen Son

At 49:[-] in the morning, Luo Xingyi leisurely stepped on the last stone steps and reached the top of the mountain.

Taoyuan Township on the mountainside is a small village with a small-scale peasant society in terms of external organization and internal relations. Almost all the villagers in the mountain live here to help each other and live together—except for an old man named Xia who lives in The top of Broken Mountain.Show the door to the Taoyuan base.

People in the village call him "Old Xia".

There was a light rain in the middle of the night yesterday, and the dew still hung on the mossy meadow on the mountain wall, and the air was cool and fresh.Luo Xingyi walked up all the way, his breath was not disturbed, and he could talk to Qu Lincong about the difference between wormwood and wormwood in terms of the morphological characteristics of wormwood and wormwood, "the steepness of the broken mountain is probably one or two people who are allowed to go missing every year." easy.

And Ouyang Ying, a mortal, couldn't keep up with the speed of these two people, was left behind and climbed slowly while holding on to the wooden railing, almost out of breath, "Brother Luo, remember to help, I'll take a seat...a place... Take your seat!"

"Climb quickly, if you take a few more breaths, there will be no room for you to sit on the floor!"

However, just as Luo Xingyi laughed at Ouyang Ying for walking too slowly to sit on the floor, Qu Lin patted him on the shoulder and directed him to turn his head to look—be realistic, do you still want to sit on the floor?Get out of the yard!

Even though Mr. Xia made the rule that the "fate test" for outsiders would only start at ten o'clock in the morning, there are so many people who can't stand it and want to enter the base!

Luo Xingyi thought that he had come quite early, but when he got closer, he saw that the courtyard was crowded with people, and the team even made a detour, and there was almost no room outside the courtyard gate!

It's too much to set up a reunion meeting at midnight!

I don't know when I will wait in the normal queue, so Luo Xingyi intends to join the queue in a morally corrupt manner.Unexpectedly, just as he was about to make a move, Qu Lin saw through his intention to grab it back, took him to the end of the line and stood still, waiting to enter the room where Mr. Xia lived.

Luo Xingyi was very displeased with Qu Lin's untimely rigid integrity, and wailed at the end of the line outside the courtyard: "I've been a good citizen for so many years, why don't you make me a little bit harmful to society!"

"Not good." Qu Lin raised his finger to the bulletin board on the ground, and read the sentence "There are surveillance outside, those who disrupt the order of the queue, will be deprived of entry qualification" to Luo Xingyi, and asked him: " Four days, have you never seen this bulletin board?"

Of course, Luo Xingyi, who had never seen the announcement, looked at the bulletin board, then at Qu Lin's eyes, feeling guilty, and honestly queued up and stopped talking.

After a while, Ouyang Ying climbed up panting, and just in time to line up a few seconds before ten o'clock.

Then, as the bell rang, the noisy voices in the team stopped, and in the two-story log cabin, Mr. Xia began to meet the first batch of outsiders.

In fact, the outsiders who are being interviewed don’t need to do anything. They don’t need to introduce themselves or pay for customs clearance certificates. In a group of five, just enter the house and stop in the living room, just like a talent show.Then Xia Laohui will tell you on the spot whether you have become a "destined person" and whether you can enter the Taoyuan base.

It's very subjective, very casual, don't say it depends on fate, Luo Xingyi thinks, it probably just depends on whether Xia Lao is in a good mood.

As soon as ten o'clock passed, the procession began to move fast and slow.In less than an hour, Luo Xingyi and Qu Lin had already lined up in the courtyard, and it would be their turn to enter the house after three rounds at most.

Ouyang Ying counted the number of people in the back, used his tricks to change places with the two people in front, came behind Luo Xingyi, and said to him: "Brother Luo, don't you think it's strange? It's not surprising that there's still not a lot of people today. One is chosen."

"En." Luo Xingyi nodded.I don't know what happened today, there are twice as many people than usual, but there is no "destined person" in the front row.Everyone who entered the house finally came out with a sigh and went down the mountain.

"I have a hunch that SSR will be released today!" Ouyang Ying said.

Luo Xingyi looked at him suspiciously: "You feel that way every day."

"It's different this time!" Ouyang Ying quietly pointed at Qu Lin, very confident, "Look clearly, European blood! It's impossible to be as wrong as you and me!"

Luo Xingyi yelled at him: "Be realistic, no one is as wrong as you!"

Ouyang Ying was about to retort, but Qu Lin who was standing behind Luo Xingyi glanced at her with drooping eyes. She swallowed the words sensiblely, and turned to sell health care products to the people behind her.

After finishing another round of five-person teams, it was almost noon, and the sun completely cleared the clouds and mist, and went up to the sky.

It may be because of the low latitude, it has already entered autumn, but Taoyuan Township seems to be still in midsummer, and the sun is still blazing.Especially on the top of the mountain, the sun is directly shining, and the ultraviolet rays are particularly strong.

Luo Xingyi stood in the bare yard under the scorching sun for about twenty minutes, and couldn't help raising his hands to block the glare of the sun.His skin has not been exposed to this intensity of the sun for too many years, and it is very sensitive to excessive ultraviolet rays. His face is a little stinging, and a layer of sunburn soon appeared.

Seeing that the tip of his nose was sweating a little, Qu Lin raised his hand to part the hair on his forehead, and tied the hair around his ears behind his ears.After feeling that Luo Xingyi flinched obviously restrainedly, Qu Lin withdrew his hand, turned sideways to block a little sunlight for him, and asked, "How is the situation today?"

Knowing that the other party must be asking about the sequelae of blood fusion in this situation, Luo Xingyi poked a dimple on his cheek and replied, "It's still the same."

"Afraid of light and want to bite people, you really are becoming more and more like a zombie." Qu Lin took his hand off and let him stand in his shadow, "Don't hold back, if you really feel uncomfortable... Shall I fight with you?"

"Huh?" Luo Xingyi licked his teeth, his eyes lit up, "This proposal is not bad!"

The two chatted casually for a while, and the line ahead finally finished, and it was Luo Xingyi's turn to enter.

It was lunch time, as soon as Luo Xingyi entered the door, he first felt a very comfortable shade, and then smelled the strong aroma of food.

The old Xia who held the power of life and death was sitting at the dining table in the living room with a bowl in his hand, eating very deliciously without raising his head.Hearing the movement, he pointed to the empty seat in the living room with his chopsticks, "No matter what you eat, don't stand, sit."

Luo Xingyi has been around this four times, and he already understood the rules of Xia Lao, so he pulled Qu Lin to choose a chair nearby and sat down, and waited for the old man to finish eating before speaking.

As soon as the two sat down, the other three, including Ouyang Ying, all breathed a sigh of relief, chose the farthest seat to sit down, and refused to approach Qu Lin.

Looking at the careful and cautious expressions of the three, Luo Xingyi even had reason to believe that if it weren't for the hope of being able to enter Taoyuan, the other two might have run away 800 years earlier.He didn't understand, how could Qu Lin, who was so easy-talking and never abused lynching, be so vicious in the eyes of others and be avoided?He didn't even want to come to find out in person, talk to him, and was frightened by the rumors all over the sky to have a myocardial infarction.

Incense was lit in the living room, I don't know what ingredients were added, maybe mint was added, it smelled surprisingly refreshing.

Luo Xingyi had nothing to do, saw a magazine on the table at hand, and after asking Mr. Xia if he could read it, he picked it up and flipped through it.

He has a very unique habit of reading books. He likes to read the publishers and printing information of books and magazines first.I am also grateful for this unique habit, which made him understand at the first glance that this magazine did not come from outside, but was issued in Taoyuan base.

This magazine is different from the fashion magazines many years ago. Its cover is not flashy at all, it is very fresh and refined, with only a grace flower as its symbol.If it weren't for the five big characters "September Magazine" written on it, no one would think it was a magazine.

As soon as Luo Xingyi turned the pages of the book, he looked up the table of contents on the front page, and saw this sentence printed in neat Song typeface: "May the God of Nature bless you and me."

Then he looked down and found that the titles of the above articles were all a bit gods and gods, such as "Sacred Moon Sacrifice was a complete success, the number of prayers reached a new high", "The third generation of 'Holy Land' nurturing cradle was completed", "Church After passing the second law amendment bill, the interpretation of the code will be released to the public on the 1st of next month"... In short, I know all the words, but I don't know exactly what I want to express when I put them together. The style of the title is inexplicably official.

Luo Xingyi flipped through a few more pages, pulled Qu Lin's hand, and was about to signal him to take a look at these somewhat strange contents, when Mr. Xia put down the bowl.

The bottom of the bowl was bumped against the wooden table, Xia Lao wiped his mouth with a piece of paper, shaved his teeth, lit a cigarette for himself, and said, "It's a little surprising, Qu Lin, are you also coming to Taoyuan for the winter?"

Luo Xingyi looked quietly and quickly turned back and forth between Mr. Xia and Qu Lin. When everyone's attention was on Mr. Xia, he took out his Wangshu mobile phone and snapped a few magazine photos.

A person next to him tried to curry favor with Mr. Xia, flatteringly said: "Mr. Xia is really well-informed, you even know Qu Lin, do you also surf the Internet?"

Xia Lao looked disdainful, "What do you call me? I was one of the first netizens more than 50 years ago! Back then, I made a name for myself in "Legend", but you didn't know where I was when I reported Yang Oxin with my real name. thing!"

"..." It turned out to be a senior Internet addict, sorry.

As the de facto village head of Taoyuan Township, Mr. Xia holds great power and lives in seclusion on the top of the mountain. In fact, he doesn't have the appearance of a fairy.Except that people in their 50s and [-]s look like [-] years old, and they are old people with Internet addiction, there is nothing special about them.

He took a puff of cigarette, dusted off the cigarette ash, then looked at Qu Lin and said, "There used to be an old saying, 'Don't enter Sichuan when you are too young'. It said that young people should not be greedy for a too comfortable environment, but to work hard and break through , don’t develop laziness and inertia. Why, the outside environment is so bad that you want to avoid disaster?”

"I'm here to find someone." Qu Lin said.

"Oh." Mr. Xia nodded with a cigarette between his fingers, and said lightly, "Then you go in."

As soon as these words came out, the other four people present were startled, and turned their heads to look at Qu Lin in unison. They couldn't believe that Qu Lin came here for the first time, and he could easily enter Taoyuan with just a few words!

Especially Luo Xingyi, who was almost dug into the corner of scientism, and his mind was full of Ouyang Ying's saying that Qu Lin has European blood.Shocked and thinking, could it be that Qu Lin is really the chosen one?

However, as the emperor of Europe, Qu Lin was very calm, turned his head to Luo Xingyi beside him: "What about him?"

Mr. Xia took a puff of cigarette, looked at Luo Xingyi, and glanced at the three people on the other side one by one. It was not enough to lightly drop a depth charge, and then nodded on the heads of Luo Xingyi and Ouyang Ying: "You two go in too, and the others can go."

If you don't choose it, you have to choose three in a row!

Luo Xingyi couldn't believe it now, Qu Lin's own aura of European aura was too terrifying, it attracted Ouyang Ying, an old non-chief, and his energy was astonishing!

Before Luo Xingyi was happy, Mr. Xia stood up with a cigarette in his mouth, and announced, "Welcome to knock on the door of Taoyuan. May the God of Nature bless you and me." He took out two petal-shaped transparent cards and handed them over.

Luo Xingyi and Qu Lin each took one, and when it was Ouyang Ying's turn, Mrs. Xia said "Huh?"

He touched his pocket, looked at Ouyang Ying again, and finally counted slowly with his fingers, and couldn't help muttering, "Why are there 11?"

But he didn't care too much, he turned around and went to the cabinet to get another transparent card, and handed it to Ouyang Ying, "Hold the one-time voucher, let's open the door."

He never expected that all he needed to do was swipe his card to enter the door. Luo Xingyi's three views were almost shattered.So much so that after holding the transparent card and brushing the special alloy door, and entering the Taoyuan base through a separate passage, he didn't have a little sense of reality.

Who would have thought that Mr. Xia's closely guarded and mysterious access rules would be so easy and casual?Don’t beg you to enter for a month when you enter. Once you are asked to enter, just swipe your card to enter.

——So what was the reason for him to secretly break open the door and study the mysteries of the law seriously!Xia Lao didn't even lock the cabinet, it was so easy to get it, why didn't he just come and steal a token!

Luo Xingyi repented all the way out of the pure white-wrapped passage, because he walked absent-mindedly and didn't look at the road, and bumped into Qu Lin who stopped suddenly in front, then regained his senses and asked, "What's wrong?"

Qu Lin glanced back at him, took two steps forward to make room for his vision, and then Luo Xingyi saw...

The world behind the door is a lake.

Vast, boundless.The surface of the lake is like a mirror, reflecting the sky.

On the calm water, the two rails extend far away as if floating on the water.An unmanned fully automatic train is brand new and clean, quietly parked by the lake, as if waiting for visitors.

Where does the track end?

Qu Lin and Luo Xingyi looked at each other, and they both saw interest in each other's eyes.Needless to say, the two of them raised their feet tacitly at the same time and walked towards the stopped train.

Ouyang Ying was still looking at the glinting lake in the sun and didn't come back to her senses. When she turned her head, she saw that the two long-legged men had walked tens of meters away, so she hurried to follow her: "Can you squeak before you move! Can you stop being so ignorant!"

I don't know what minerals are contained in the lake water. The blue color looks like copper sulfate pentahydrate, and it is clear and transparent. You can look directly at the sand, stones and tree roots at the bottom of the water.

After the three got on the train, the train seemed to be able to sense whether the passengers had boarded the train, closed the door softly, and sped briskly on the track on the lake.

The surface of the water reflected the clouds, and the train passed by, as if flying in the sky.

On the way, the breeze poured into the carriage, messing Luo Xingyi's hair.He turned his head and looked out of the car window, and saw the light and shadow floating, the white clouds were long, the bamboo forest on the bank was green and rustling...

Inevitably, it gave him a sense of space-time confusion.

It seems that it is still a peaceful era before the outbreak of the "sunset" virus, and people live and work in peace and contentment. He just suddenly got a small long vacation and went to the national 5A-level scenic spot for a three-day tour.

But he also clearly knew that outside of Taoyuan, a pure land that seemed to have remained unpolluted and unravaged more than 20 years ago, outside of this continuous mountain range, there were torrents of artillery fire and scorched earth.

There are exploding nuclear power plants, land polluted by heavy metals where not a single weed can grow, and starving refugees struggling in water and fire.

Maybe Luo Xingyi's eyes looking out of the window were too sad. Qu Lin, who was looking at the photos with his mobile phone, looked up, looked at him intently and asked, "You don't like this place?"

Luo Xingyi shook his head, "It's so good here, it always reminds me of the past. Compared with the situation in the mountains and outside the mountains, it's really bloody."

"If this is really the last piece of pure land in this era, then I hope that it will remain so peaceful forever."

The scorching sun hung high in the sky, a thick cloud blocked the sun, the lake no longer flickered, and calmed down in a faint blue.

After walking for a while, the outline of the land can be roughly seen.Bored, Luo Xingyi leaned his head against the car window and rubbed his belly, "Qu Lin... I'm so hungry, we'll get to the station soon, let's go eat first."

"En." Qu Lin nodded, he seemed to catch something out of the corner of his eye, and glanced out of the window reflexively, but he seemed to be attracted by something, and he didn't move away for a long time.

The train galloping on the waterway was about to arrive at the station, Luo Xingyi noticed Qu Lin's abnormality, and followed his gaze.His vision, which is different from that of ordinary people, allows him to see clearly, there is a huge pink tree not far away.

It was a real plant that grew vigorously from the water, and the branches and leaves of the small pink and purple flowers were scattered, and the pavilion was like a cover.

"Qu Lin, what are you talking about..." He pointed to the flower tree, "Is it the Grace Flower?"

The lake breeze was blowing, and the blue water splashed a large amount of water, and there were many ripples. It was the arrival of the train.

The author has something to say

【He doesn't understand, how can Qu Lin, who is so easy-talking and never abuses lynching, be so vicious in the eyes of others, so he can't avoid it? 】The biggest misunderstanding of the year

Others said to Luo Xingyi: Qu Lin is really a devil in chaos!Cruel and merciless!

Luo Xingyi: No way, Qu Lin is very obedient!

Everyone who was beaten/taunted/ignored: Hehe

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