When they returned to the hotel, it was almost dark.

The little mage didn't go to Cheng Qiuya's company today, he sat at the front desk for a day, and now he is holding a box of garlic sprouts fried pork rice bowl.

"We're back!" Tang Qingying shouted first.

"Hehe, we're back!" Yin Nuxia also shouted.

The little mage didn't say a word, just picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth, and stared at them with a look of resentment on his face as he chewed it.

Lady Yin didn't seem to notice his expression at all, and shared with him with great interest: "Let me tell you that we went to a mountain today and ate cake in the peach forest, and the peach blossoms on the mountain are blooming well!"

The little mage tugged at the corners of his mouth.

Peach blossom......

Cake......

Yin Nuxia continued: "We also flew kites! My kite is the longest, longer than all of them! This is my kite, you see, I brought it back!"

Tang Qingying said on the side: "What's the length, it's not that I don't fly as high!"

"And what about your kite?"

“…… Fly too high and haven't landed yet. ”

"Obviously, I just ran away!" Yin Nuxia said.

The little mage's expression became more and more resentful: "I also put a paper kite ......"

Seeing that everyone except Tang Qingying almost had a kite, he let out a long sigh and lowered his head to concentrate on eating his garlic sprout fried meat rice bowl. Although the garlic sprouts are so old and the meat is salty, he also eats them with relish.

Cheng Yan was surprised: "Have you eaten dinner?"

The little mage snorted, raised his hand and pointed to the clock behind him with his thumb: "It's already six fifty-eight, I'm so hungry, and I don't know when you'll come back......"

"How do you know it's six fifty-eight?" Cheng Yan looked at his watch and said, "Do you have eyes behind your back?"

“……”

"You can give us a phone call and ask us, or ask in the group. ”

"I didn't think about these means of communication for a moment. The little mage said expressionlessly, and continued to plan.

Cheng Yan no longer paid attention to him, but turned his head and asked Cheng Yun, "Then what are we going to eat tonight?"

Cheng Yun said without thinking: "Order a takeout, you can order it, and report to me after ordering." ”

"No problem!" Cheng Yan happily agreed.

She began to ask the others what they wanted to eat.

The little mage listened to them report the names of the dishes one by one, and even the little girl Yu Dian, who used to only say 'I'm casual', hesitated to report a strange dry fried bitter gourd, and he couldn't help but look down at the garlic sprouts fried pork rice bowl in the foam box in his hand. The stir-fried pork with garlic sprouts has almost been eaten, and there is only half a box of rice soaked in red oil with bean paste. He couldn't help but feel another grumble.

At this time, Cheng Yun suddenly said: "You guys light it first, I'll go up and have something to do." ”

And everybody said yes.

Yin Nuxia also nodded again and again.

After a pause, Cheng Yun said again: "If the dishes come later, I haven't finished them, you don't have to come up and call me, I will come down myself." ”

Cheng Yan frowned when he heard this: "What's the matter?"

Yin Nuxia also noticed that something was wrong, and looked at Cheng Yun suspiciously.

"Private matter!" Cheng Yun said.

"Huh?" Cheng Yan raised his eyebrows.

"I went up first. After speaking, Cheng Yun walked upstairs.

Little Lori followed him with a fart.

Yin Nuxia hesitated suspiciously, looked at Cheng Yun's back, and suddenly said to Cheng Yan: "I'll spy on him for you!"

After saying that, she immediately ran upstairs.

Sure enough, she saw the stationmaster parked at the door of the storage room on the second to third floors—every time the stationmaster came here in a hurry, it meant that someone new was coming.

Yin Nuxia immediately chased after her: "The stationmaster is waiting for me!"

Cheng Yun paused, looked back at her, looked behind her again, and then opened the door: "Hurry up!"

He walked in first, followed by little Lori.

When Yin Nuxia also got in, the door closed automatically.

In front of them was an infinite void space, in which only an oval ball of dark blue light emitted light. But because there was nothing in the space, not even anything to refract light, the whole space still seemed very dark.

"Is there a newcomer here?" asked Yin Nuxia.

"Hmm!" Cheng Yun looked ahead.

Yin Nuxia immediately followed his gaze.

I saw a figure lying behind the ball of light, wearing a strange cloth robe, lying motionless.

Look at the figure...... It's a man!

Cheng Yun couldn't help but be stunned-

According to the time, this person should have been in the node space for almost two hours. Coming to such a strange, illusory, and empty place, and being so quiet that people want to collapse, a normal person's reaction may be to explore this space, it may be panicked, it may even fall into a state of panic or madness, or whatever...... But there's no way you're going to lie down here and get a good night's sleep, right?

What a heart, what self-control it takes to be able to sleep in this place!

Yin Nuxia looked at Cheng Yun, as if waiting for instructions.

Cheng Yun first waved his hand to separate the node space, and then walked to that side and said, "Go over and take a look!"

Yin Nuxia walked a little in front of him, kept looking at the figure, and said, "There is no movement, should it be death...... I smell a smell of wine!"

The two of them walked over to the figure.

This is a middle-aged man in a tattered cloth robe, who can only be said to be not ugly, but not very good-looking. He lay on his side in the nodal space, his eyes closed, his hair disheveled, and his face covered in cyan stubble.

There was a yellow wine gourd poured beside him, the stopper was not plugged, and a lot of wine had been spilled inside. There was a pool of wine floating in the air beside him, and there were drops of crystal water scattered next to it—these were the main sources of the smell of alcohol that Yin Nuxia smelled.

Cheng Yun frowned, waved his hand, controlled the condensation of these drinks, and poured them into the gourd again.

"Hey!"

"Hello?"

"Wake up, can you hear me?"

He shouted as he stared at the middle-aged man.

Yin Nuxia also shouted: "Hey, this person, can you hear us!"

No matter how much they shouted, the man lay motionless.

Yin Nuxia couldn't help but look at Cheng Yun: "Why don't I go over and see if I can wake him up?"

"No, I don't. ”

Cheng Yun waved his hand, controlled the space again, and pushed the middle-aged man with invisible force.

At this moment, the man finally let out a mum from his mouth and opened his eyes a slit.

Cheng Yun continued to greet lightly: "Hello!"

The middle-aged man paused, opened his eyes a little, and sat up. He looked at Cheng Yun and Yin Nuxia, and said as if talking to himself: "Is there actually a creature in this place?" or ...... It's just a dream of mine?"

"It's not a dream, you've come to a new world. Cheng Yun explained to him, "I was supposed to pick you up as soon as possible, but because I was a little delayed, I was a little late." ”

"Another world......" the middle-aged man muttered.

"Yes, this is the node space, the transit point between worlds. Cheng Yun took the trouble to explain to these traversers, "You came here from another world. ”

"That's right......"

The middle-aged man muttered, he didn't seem to know about the node space, but he wasn't surprised.

Then he fell back down.

This time he was lying flat, staring blankly at the top. But above the node space was darkness and nothing.

Cheng Yun felt that this person was a bit novel.

Probably other people from other worlds, whether they came actively or passively, would have some 'surprise' reactions after coming to the node space, but this person didn't.

Not only did he not, but he also looked depressed and indifferent to everything, and he didn't even ask 'where is this'.

After a pause, Cheng Yun asked, "Are you lying like this?"

The middle-aged man simply didn't say anything,

Cheng Yun frowned and said in a deep voice, "I'm talking to you!"

"Or else?" finally replied the middle-aged man, still lying down, and even took another sip of wine from the gourd, which spread all over his body.

"You don't want to leave this place?"

"Heh......"

"What does it mean to laugh?"

"Hehe!" The middle-aged man smiled a little self-deprecatingly, and continued to pour his own wine with his gourd mouth, without answering Cheng Yun's words.

Seeing this, Yin Nuxia couldn't help it, and stood up and said: "The stationmaster is asking you, you just answer honestly, otherwise you will be cleaned up, and I will tell you!"

Little Lori also stared at the middle-aged man: "Woo!"

Cheng Yun hurriedly stopped one man and one beast, and asked, "Didn't you come here on your own initiative?"

The middle-aged man burped, his eyes were still unfocused, but he still muttered to him: "What does it matter......

"Of course! I want to know this!"

"I know what, I don't know how. The middle-aged man said depressed, like a person who had been wandering for a long time and had no interest in the world.

"Then how did you get here?" asked Cheng Yun.

"I don't know. He replied directly.

"Don't you know?" Cheng Yun frowned and looked at him, "Then where are you from?"

"This question...... Scold...... It doesn't make sense!"

"Why doesn't it make sense?"

"It's gone...... Gone...... Everything, whether it is a prosperous age, a troubled world, a fairyland, or a mortal dust, it is gone, hahahaha...... "The middle-aged man held his wine gourd, looking like crazy.

“……”

Cheng Yun frowned deeply, very helpless.

This man looks like he's been stimulated by something! And he looks like he's drunk a lot!

After a moment, he asked again, "And what is your name?"

"Name?"

The middle-aged man asked rhetorically, laughed at himself again, and kept repeating the word, as if his brain had been emptied: "Name...... Name...... Name......"

"No one will remember me. ”

"No one will know me. ”

"There is no past, no past. ”

"Name...... What's the point......"

"It seems that you are not lightly drunk!" Cheng Yun shook his head, waved his hand and snatched his wine gourd, and specially separated a small sealed compartment in this space for the wine gourd, and then opened the door and prepared to go out.

"I'll go out for dinner, you calm down, I'll come back to you later. ”

The middle-aged man didn't answer at all, and he didn't have any reaction to Cheng Yun snatching his wine gourd, only staring ahead with unfocused eyes, and singing something like a ballad, like an opera, but it seemed to be pure emotion in his mouth-

"What do you say about the golden branches, jade leaves, dragons and phoenixes......"

"What kind of rich and romantic emperor's family ......"

"And the ethereal immortal cultivation path......"

"In the end, the clouds of the red dust dream will dissipate, and the road will be ...... It's all empty!"

"It's all empty ......"