The ascetics are an autistic group. Of course, it is not that people who can become cultivators have psychological problems, but that cultivators generally follow the principle of escapism.

Unless there is a necessary contact, do not communicate with the outside world, and try to avoid crowds when slaying demons, and the tricks of sound and light effects that are too fierce are not allowed to be used in crowded places.

In ancient times, cultivators basically lived in seclusion in the deep mountains and old forests, and continued to go home after cutting monsters. For example, Wudang Shaolin is divided into two sects, inside and outside, and the inner disciples basically live a savage life and do not come into contact with ordinary people.

Thanks to the development of modern science and technology, many Taoist techniques that were previously miraculous have also been scientifically explained. Palm Thunder, Ball Lightning, Flying Swordsmanship, Tightrope Machine, Flying Heaven and Earth, Dao Chief, now Hanging Weiya can be operated by one person?

It is also because of this that the monks agree to join the Salvation Bureau and continue to fight against the aliens under the leadership of the state.

As for why they take the initiative to close themselves, the vast majority of cultivators only follow the rules of the mountain gate, and they don't know the inner mysteries. Only those who sat in the first three rows at the Taishan Conference of the Monastic Ceremony knew the inside story, and everyone consciously abided by the ancient principle of escapism, and punished the disciples who violated the rules very severely.

It is not without ignorant small sects, they can only be prosperous for one or two generations without exception, and then gradually decline. The Taoist technique that once called for wind and rain was also regarded as a deception and has since disappeared.

Cultivators live in the world like a rich man who walks at night in brocade clothes, he has mountains of gold and silver but he can't show off his wealth and grandeur, and the only thing that can form a psychological advantage over ordinary people is probably the magical Taoism.

No matter how powerful you are, you are a mortal after all. There is often a voice among the ascetics that mortals are like ants that build a nation, seemingly bustling, unaware of the impending flood and the jackals. No matter how wonderful and intense a mortal's life is, it is nothing more than a mud building in a sand city built on the protection of cultivators.

The appearance of guns and explosives made this discussion a little quieter, after all, cultivators also bleed, but the vast majority of cultivators believe that they have a higher mission than ordinary people, and they are a little superior to mortals who do not know the truth of the world.

Lao Zhong is also one of them.

"After losing the power of the Dao, everything has to be done with your hands, and every habit has to be changed. You know, I used to light cigarettes and never used a lighter. ”

Lao Zhong was holding a cigarette, and the tips of his fingers had been smoked yellow.

"Poof, a cigarette is lit, it's convenient, isn't it?"

"I don't smoke, old ......"

"But you must feel the same way!" Lao Zhong gestured with his hand and said, "Forget to turn off the light before going to bed, just click the switch on the air." I forgot to bring my mobile phone, so I recruited a slave to find it. Have you ever tried to throw out the garbage yourself before you lost your Dao power?"

No, Chen Li has always been an empty ghost who does all the housework for him.

"Without the power of the Dao, your life is like a machine missing a gear, full of inconspicuous little problems. Lao Bai smiled, not knowing whether he was laughing at himself or laughing at Chen Li: "I have tried to go to the toilet and forgot to bring toilet paper, and I have also tried to grab the red-hot charcoal directly with my hands." These things were easy to solve before. ”

"I've been practicing since I was four years old, and I've been using Dao for longer than I've ever been a waster. Although I am no different from ordinary people except that I can't use Taoism, I always feel that I am incomplete, and my life should not be like this!"

After three cups, there was still a little residual wine in the wine bottle in Liu Guanxi's hand that was not enough to fill a glass, so Lao Bai directly snatched the bottle and dried it.

"I leave all the pension every month to Lin Hui, and I also give her all the condolences you gave to the teacher, I just immersed myself in my own dissatisfaction, complaining every day, forgetting that what she wants was never my money. ”

"This barbecue restaurant, Lin Hui opened it with compensation. I was forced by her to learn to slaughter fish and learn to cook, from buying these tables, chairs, pots and pans to buying vegetables, Lin Hui took me to complete it all single-handedly. In order to help me set up the barbecue restaurant, she quit her job to accompany me, a waste person, in and out, and even Xirou was snubbed. ”

"She was bent on my good, but I was a bastard at that time, and I only thought about how to recover my Dao strength, and I wasted a piece of her hard work!" Lao Zhong said, his eyes reddening even more.

"The General Bureau, I've been there no less than ten times! What Qin family, Wang family, Sima family, I slept shamelessly at the door of people's homes, just begging them to open the door to see me, and tell me that I can still find Dao power, even if I want to go up the knife mountain and go down to the oil pot, I am willing!"

"Shaolin, Wudang, Taishan, I have been to all the famous Taoist sects! In that year, I traveled almost all over China, just to find a way to repair the Taoist veins!"

"Why don't you ask the master for help?" asked Yang Jingru.

"It's useless. The answer to her was Chen Li: "The Dao vein is like the core of a ghost, once it is damaged, there is almost no way to repair it. I still have a sense of proportion, and then I can't use the Dao Technique more because I was suppressed by the ghost qi, and I insist on holding back some small Dao Techniques that can be used. Lao Zhong was hit in the chest by the earth dragon and completely shattered the Dao veins near his heart, and it was a great luck to be able to pick up a life! Even if there was a panacea in the sect that could repair the Dao veins, a foreign disciple like Lao Zhong would not be qualified to use it!"

"Yes, I know that it is futile, who would want to save an outsider who has no relatives and no reason? Even my own teacher is too ashamed because I am looking for doctors and medicines everywhere, and I will no longer interact with each other in the future!"

"I went out to look for medicine to no avail, I came back here disappointed, Lin Hui was waiting for me at the door. Lao Zhong took a puff of cigarette, and he didn't even realize that the ash was burning his hands.

"She asked me where I was, why I didn't go home, and if I wanted to open this barbecue restaurant. I was the most disappointed and depressed at that time, and I didn't say anything to leave. Lin Hui grabbed me, and I accidentally pushed her to the ground. ”

"You say, am I a brute? She poured out her heart and lungs for me to pick up the broken life, and I did this to her!"

Lao Zhong smiled, blinking his eyelids again and again to cut off the flow of water.

"But I'm not reconciled! This is not the life I expected! I am not afraid of death, even if I die, it is better than now, at least I will not see her disappointed in me, and she will not see my impotent and angry cowardice! I really, I don't want to be an ordinary person!"

Yang Jing subconsciously touched Lianhua, imagining what it would be like one day if she couldn't hold the knife.

"I am the 'Yan Fist' of the Xinghai City Rescue Department, and the Dao of cultivation is the volcanic hide, a pair of Yan Fists protect the righteous path of the world, and the evil demons are easy to dispel!" Lao Zhong raised his head and said loudly: "Kill demons and eliminate demons, my generation is fortunate!

After venting, Lao Zhong sat back in his chair and buried his head between his legs.

Chen Li knew that he was secretly wiping his tears, and just helped him fill the wine glass.

"No matter how loud the slogan is, it can't change the fact that I'm a waste, and then I divorced Lin Hui. There were no tears in Lao Zhong's eyes, only red threads covered his eyeballs.

She refused to ask for compensation, and she didn't bring anything but took Xirou away. My pension was left for Xirou as a dowry in the future, and I haven't touched the passbook since that day. I was drunk for three days, hungry, and finally accepted the reality and started cooking. People, you have to find a way to survive, don't you?"

Lao Zhong said it plainly, but Liu Guanxi knew how much perseverance it took to hold back his salary and devote himself to a job he didn't like or even hated. Maybe Lao Zhong didn't want to work, he just wanted to prove that he was alive.

"Ah, you say. What would you do if someone told you you could go back to the way things were?"

Lao Zhong looked at Chen Li, his eyes surging with all kinds of complicated emotions.

"Even if that's the case, you can't use the director as a victim!" Yang Jingru had already reacted.

"Then you don't need to ask, of course you will do it first!" Chen Li decisively sold himself: "It's just a person and it's not about licking and pee, even if you want me to eat, I'm willing!"

"Director, you!"

"Ah, I know what you mean, can you stop talking so disgustingly?

"Hahaha!

Lao Zhong laughed loudly and touched a glass with Chen Li.

"Lao Zhong, what conditions did they give you?"

"The person who contacted me only gave me two messages, one is that Lin Hui has not remarried since she brought Xirou back to her hometown, and I have already got the address and phone number. The second is that the Qin family has a five-tael gold plant in their hands, and I can get it after I complete the task. ”

"This is really your death hole!" Chen Li said indignantly: "Why can they all offer you such good conditions, I can also negotiate! Why didn't anyone bribe me!"

"Probably because you want too much, they can't afford it!" said Lao Zhong with a smile.

As a colleague, Lao Zhong probably could also feel that what Chen Li wanted was definitely not ordinary wealth and power.

"I'm not greedy! I only received six figures last time I helped the inspiration king advertise, and it's absolutely good and cheap!" Chen Li still didn't give up, and said: "Lao Zhong, they didn't say anything about ladder rewards, such as 100,000 yuan for one knife, 200,000 yuan for two dollars, and ......double for ten dollars."

Lao Zhong glanced at Chen Li with a strange look in his eyes.

"No, they just need me to stick a knife. There is no help in dissipating the path into the body, what are you doing so much?"

"Then can you still contact them, see if there is anything to discuss? The price is negotiable, 100,000 is too expensive, we can get a 5% discount!"

"I wish I had anything to do with them now, where do I still have a phone! Even if there is such a deal, I will not be able to do anything to you again! Who do you think of me!?"

Lao Zhongyi was stern and categorically rejected Chen Li's unreasonable request.

"Alas, one or two of you stab me in the back to take advantage, and when it comes to partnering with me, you will back down, or you are not a buddy!"

Lao Zhong looked at Liu Guanxi with a little surprise.

Yang Jingru has shown a strong willingness to defend Chen Li from the beginning of the meeting, and of course it can't be her who is engaged in backstabbing. Choose one of the two to eliminate the wrong option, and then only former colleague Liu Guanxi is left.

"Hah, ah, I don't understand what you're talking about. Liu Guanxi smiled awkwardly.

"No matter, you can do whatever you want, anyway, I'm just an ordinary person with better recovery ability now, is it so difficult to prostitute the money of the underworld forces for nothing...... Jing Ru, what kind of expression do you have?"

At this time, Yang Jingru was stepping into the yellow mud pit with one foot and then desperately explaining to others that this was not, and when the yellow mud pit spoke, the expression of "I am" was spoken.

"It's impossible to make money in partnership, and it's impossible for me to leave my money to Xirou and compensate you. If you don't mind, take this barbecue restaurant!"

"Hey, aren't you going to come back?"

"I also want face, how can I have a face in front of you after doing such a thing!" Lao Zhong spat out a smoke ring and popped the cigarette butt through the smoke ring.

"Whether you want it or not, I have already decided not to come back! After looking for the Qin family to get the Yang Returning Grass, I will go to Lin Hui to make up for the mistakes I have made. ”

"There are still some fish, shrimp, meat and eggs in the refrigerator, come back and move things away when you have time!" Lao Zhong dropped a bunch of keys and stood up.

"It's much easier to say that, and I can go on the road with peace of mind! Then, I hope we won't have a chance to meet again in the future!"

Lao Zhong left after leaving a sentence, leaving Liu Guanxi and Yang Jingru looking at each other.

Chen Li raised his chopsticks and beckoned them and said, "Eat, don't eat and waste it!"

"Eat, eat, you're a pig!"

Having said that, Liu Guan also picked up his chopsticks and joined in the elimination of grilled fish.

"You also heard, now these are our property, if we don't eat them, we will lose money!" Chen Li gave a piece of meat to Yang Jingru, and said happily: "I saw it just now, most of the refrigerator is full, enough for us to eat for a long time!"

"Director, aren't you angry?"

"What?"

"Being betrayed by a familiar friend, you may lose your life at any time, aren't you angry at all and not worried at all?" Yang Jingru questioned. Regarding Chen Li's performance, Yang Jingru really couldn't understand it. How can one be so indifferent to the damage to one's own interests?

"Life is full of variables. Chen Li, who was defeated by Liu Guanciao's chopsticks and lost the fish belly, glared at the other side, fished out a piece of chicken kidney and made up for it before saying: "At the beginning, I just wanted to vent my anger for the old Taoist, but where did I think that I would meet her in the exploration mission because of this, and slowly became a public enemy of the cultivation world again, fighting and fighting, and returned to the lifesaving department as a small director?"

"When you go to climb a high mountain, and you are tired and sleepy halfway through the climb, aren't you allowed to stop and rest, or be satisfied with the scenery halfway up the mountain and go down the mountain?"

"The path I chose was inherently difficult. It should be said that it is strange that there are still people willing to follow me. It's an honor to have such great partners, and I can understand that they chose other paths. ”

"It's just that it would be nice to be able to tell me in advance!"

Integrating the alien into human society and realizing the harmonious coexistence of the alien and the ordinary is in a sense a foolish thing that violates the interests of the three parties.

For aliens, it is almost instinctive to plunder the essence of human beings and use the negative emotions of human beings to nourish themselves, and to live in peace with humans is like a cat and a mouse in a cage.

For cultivators, most cultivators have no hope of attaining enlightenment in their lifetime, and the most realistic and direct goal of cultivation is to kill demons and eliminate demons. A Taoist technique can neither be in the world nor enlighten the world, and the only use is to kill the aliens. If the alien becomes as protected as the ordinary person, the cultivator will completely become an alien among the human race, and will have no basis in society.

For the average person, heterogeneity is an uncontrolled risk factor. Foreigners were called "Kunlun slaves" and "foreign devils" at the beginning of their entry into China because of their different appearances, and the same kind were still regarded as different species because of some different appearances, and it was not easy for completely different life forms to be accepted!

It was not easy for Chen Li to forcibly pull the three parties together with his invincible brute force, and the dangers and difficulties he had to face were unimaginable to others.

From the moment Chen Li established his goal, he was mentally prepared.

In the name of the Rescue Bureau, it is inevitable that people will be placed in it. It was already an unexpected joy to be able to meet such a harmonious Erwuzai as Liu Guanci, and Chen Li did not ask for more. What's even more rare is that Liu Guanxi did not show the professionalism of a professional spy, but was full of sympathy and encouragement for Chen Li, and even used his knowledge and ability to help Chen Li as much as possible.

The cultivator sent by the cultivator was a Jianmei Daoist, a pure cultivator who loved swords as much as his life. Although Chen Li couldn't figure out what the old guy above was thinking about sending such a sword idiot to his side, in the process of getting along with Jianmei Daoren, the two gradually understood and appreciated each other, and became close friends.

It is not easy for aliens to move around in the human world, and they can have little influence on Chen Li. The Inspiration King secretly made a lot of small moves behind his back, and Chen Li didn't know how many traps it had laid and how many backhands it had left in inconspicuous places.

The only thing he could do was swim upstream, breaking the reefs in the trail until he was done.

"If one day you have doubts about what I have done, or if you have found meaning in life and are ready to leave, I will respect your choice. But, hopefully you'll be able to tell me in advance so I can say goodbye to you!"

"No, I won't leave you, Director!" Yang Jingru blurted out, and then realized that the situation was not quite right.

Chen Li's body was facing Liu Guanxi, but his head turned ninety degrees strangely to look at Yang Jingru. Liu Guanxi's situation was similar, and the atmosphere between the three of them became awkward for a while.

What the director said was obviously said to Sister Liu, how could I think it was for myself!

Yang Jing shook her head, trying to keep herself from falling behind in the eye to eye.

Be calm, Yang Jingru! Think of a way! Think about how to get the words back!

"If I fall into the hands of those people, I will become a puppet again, so I might as well follow you, the director!" Yang Jingru forced her composure and said: "The director has the grace of reinvention for me, and I will not betray the director!"

It's perfect!

Yang Jingru was quite satisfied with her eagerness, and the red tide on her face stiffly held back again.

"That's right, that's what I thought!"

"Okay!" Chen Li applauded vigorously: "It's really my loyal subordinate! It's not in vain that I have tried my best to win you the opportunity to go to the headquarters for further study! You must study hard and strive to return from your studies as soon as possible!"

"Well, I'm going to study hard...... Huh?" Yang Jingru reacted.

"I've already booked the ticket for you, so you can leave tomorrow!"