Lin Zhongxiang wanted to continue asking, but at this time, several reporters had already come back after taking photos, and they came over with great interest.

The crowd gathered together to discuss their next move. Several Taiwan reporters said that they had taken a lot of photos, that the materials for the interviews had been collected, and that it was not too early for everyone to go down the mountain and go home.

Lin Zhongxiang, as a guide, also agreed with this proposal.

Although it is not explicitly stated, everyone has a faint fear of this strange and eerie forest. Subconsciously, everyone doesn't want to stay here, especially after the sun goes down, and God knows what strange things will happen in the woods - the woods are gloomy and cold, and it is a typical prelude to ghost movies.

Everyone was faintly frightened, and they all wanted to go down before the sun went down.

Xu Yan and Zhu Youxiang glanced at each other, and he said, "Miss Ye, Mr. Lin, you can go back first, Xiao Zhu and I still want to continue to take a look here." ”

Hearing Xu Yan say this, Lin Zhongxiang and the others were very surprised, and everyone persuaded Xu Yan not to stay any longer, if he stayed any longer, it would be dark.

Ye Huilan said bluntly: "Mr. Xu, I think this forest is really a bit evil, which makes people panic. Now the sky is still bright and the yang energy is still sufficient, but when it gets dark, what will happen here, no one really knows. After we're gone, you two are left alone, and that's too dangerous.

Mr. Xu, Miss Zhu, if you really have something of interest in the mountains. Why don't you go back to the city with us tonight, and we'll go up the mountain with you tomorrow after dawn. Isn't this good? There are more people, and we can take care of each other!"

It should be said. Ye Huilan's proposal is very reasonable, but the problem is that Xu Yan and Zhu Youxiang are thinking about how to get rid of these companions, so Xu Yan can only politely refuse her kindness.

The overseas Chinese Lin Zhongxiang hesitated and took the initiative to say, "In that case, Mr. Xu, Miss Zhu, I will stay with you." I'm a local. Familiarize yourself with the terrain. You are outsiders, and I am afraid that you will get lost on this mountain road. ”

Regarding Lin Zhongxiang's enthusiasm, Xu Yan still declined: "Thank you, Mr. Lin." Don't worry, we can recognize the way. ”

Seeing that Xu Yan and Zhu Youxiang were resolute and insisted on staying, everyone had no choice but to tell them to be careful in everything. Lin Zhongxiang said seriously: "Mr. Xu." Miss Zhu, please be careful, I will be waiting for you at home at the bottom of the mountain - no matter what, you must come down the mountain tomorrow to tell everyone that you are safe. If you don't come down tomorrow. We're going to call the police for help. ”

Xu Yan didn't know what the outcome of his line would be, but he knew one thing very well - if Zhu Youxiang and himself couldn't cope with it, then even if the Japanese police came to the rescue. That won't be of much use either.

So, for Lin Zhongxiang's kindness. Xu Yan could only smile with gratitude.

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The two of them stood on the mountain road, watching the group of companions disappear into the path down the mountain. There are a lot fewer voices.

Xu Yan felt that after everyone left, the quiet mountain forest seemed more and more gloomy, and the trees with teeth and claws seemed to have become old demons in the mountains.

At this time, Zhu Youxiang turned his head to look at him and said solemnly: "Young Master Xu, now that the matter has come to this, I have to make it clear: what will happen next is really unpredictable-there may be powerful monsters that are difficult to match even me, and there may also be terrible space-time turbulence, my cultivation is shallow, I'm afraid I can't protect Gongzi, you are thoughtful-"

Zhu Youxiang paused, looked at Xu Yan and nodded silently, indicating that she understood what she meant, and then she continued: "So, the next journey may be very dangerous. Childe, do you want to keep going?"

Xu Yan pursed his lips tightly, his gaze did not meet Zhu Youxiang's gaze, but wandered in all directions.

Although he has the rank of lieutenant colonel and the security expert of the Ministry of Intelligence, in fact, Xu Yan is only a sophomore and a young man of 20. You can't be considered brave, and you're not the kind of person who likes challenges and adventures. Now, Zhu Youxiang has made it clear that if she continues to walk, she can't guarantee Xu Yan's safety, and this warning can't help but make Xu Yan hesitate.

It's just that now, at this point, thinking of the heavy responsibility on his shoulders, Xu Yan can't stop - you know, this gap in the time and space of the demon world has appeared on the earth!

This is a crisis for all the human beings on the earth, even Zhu Youxiang, a person from another world, is so brave to go to investigate, as a member of the human race on the earth, as a dignified man, if he cowers, what face do he have to face Zhu Youxiang?

In an instant, Xu Yan mustered up his courage, he gritted his teeth and said: "Xuan Yun, even you are not afraid of this girl, what else do I have to be afraid of? If it is really as you said, it is really that kind of terrifying natural disaster that has come, then our world may be destroyed, and I am just going to take the first step...... Xuan Yun, if you don't dislike my low ability, I am willing to accompany you to visit!"

Zhu Youxiang looked at Xu Yan with interest, looking at Xu Yan gritting her teeth, she didn't laugh at him, but showed a faint smile - since she met this Xu Gongzi, this may be the time when he showed the most courage.

Hearing Xu Yan say that he was willing to go with him, Zhu Youxiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart - although she was a powerful cultivator, although her strength was a hundred times stronger than Xu Yan, but, in essence, she was just a seventeen-year-old girl after all.

In the face of the unpredictable unknown danger, Zhu Youxiang will also have the weakness and timidity of women in her heart, and at this time, a man is willing to accompany her on an adventure, which makes her feel as if she has a dependent, and her mood suddenly relaxes a lot-although she also understands that this is purely a psychological comfort. Because compared to her, Xu Yan's meager strength can't be relied on at all, at a critical time. It's okay if the other party doesn't drag himself back.

Zhu Youxiang stared at Xu Yan, the sparse sunlight shining on her face through the branches and leaves. Her gaze was soft, and there was a rare warmth in her eyes. But her tone was still flat: "Gongzi Xu, don't worry-before I fall, no matter how powerful the monster is, it won't hurt you at all." ”

Listening to Zhu Youxiang's promise, Xu Yan's chest was hot, and he said loudly: "Xuan Yun, it's a big deal, let's die together!"

"Childe, don't say nothing...... Such an inauspicious word. Say no more. ”

Zhu Youxiang looked up at the sky above his head, and said in a deep voice: "Since the son has made up his mind, our fate will be decided by the will of heaven." Childe, take advantage of the darkness and move on. ”

The two of them continued along the mountain trail and continued to walk upward.

Along the way, there was silence, and there was a deathly silence in the woods, and only the footsteps of the two of them could be heard. Walking in the increasingly gloomy and gloomy woods, Xu Yanxin was worried, he was cautious, for fear that a few monsters with teeth and claws would suddenly pop out from behind a tree.

In the mountains and forests. The two walked for more than an hour, and the mountain road in front of them gradually became narrower, and finally the path was obliterated by wild grass. All that remains is a tangle of dense grass and woods. The two had to trek between the footless grass and trees, and Zhu Youxiang even had to use his sword to split the trees. Cut a path.

After walking like this for a while, Xu Yan suddenly felt that something was wrong: "It's not right." Xuan Yun, Lin Zhongxiang also told us just now that he had gone to the top of the mountain just half a year ago. But looking at the trees and grass growing so crazy now, it doesn't look like people passing by! It's only half a year, it's impossible for the grass and trees to grow like this, and even the roads are completely gone?"

Zhu Youxiang frowned slightly, she looked at the trees and the footless grass, and said, "Childe, the concentration of demonic qi here is too high, and the grass and trees have been eroded, so it grows so wildly." ”

Xu Yan looked at it and felt that Zhu Youxiang was really good, whether it was the trees or the weeds here, they all looked a little crooked and evil - the trees were crooked, coiled around, and the trunks were still full of ugly bumps, like tumors, Xu Yan felt disgusting when he looked at them.

"Xuan Yun, what's going on? On the other side of the Demon Realm, there doesn't seem to be anything good, and whoever encounters them will either lose their vitality or be weakened, and even the grass and trees will become strange if they are stained with demonic energy-what kind of world is that? In that kind of world, there can still be living creatures, which is also a miracle.

But what's even more miraculous is that those monsters can survive in our world, which is even more incredible. ”

"Childe, isn't it normal for monsters to invade the human world?"

"No, no, no, Xuan Yun, this matter is really not normal at all!"

Xu Yan recalled Situ Xiao's lecture, and he explained: "According to the theory of biology, every species evolves in a certain biosphere environment, and it can only adapt to the environment of that biosphere, and it is difficult to adapt to other biospheric environments - just like the atmosphere of our earth contains exactly 21% oxygen, and we are accustomed to inhaling oxygen and living when we evolve and grow up on the earth." And if humans go to those alien planets that don't have oxygen, we can't adapt to the environment there, and in the same way, if an alien doesn't have oxygen on their planet, then they can't adapt to our air when they come to our earth.

Xuan Yun, do you think, monsters in the demon world, although they are strange and murderous, but after all, they are also a kind of creatures, right? Since they are creatures, how can they escape this law? Monsters come to our earth, and they can immediately survive, and they can fight and fight, doesn't this mean that their biosphere is very similar to our earth?

However, the demonic energy leaked from the Demon Realm can cause so much damage to our people and plants, which shows that we humans cannot adapt to the environment of the Demon Realm plane, but the monsters can easily adapt to our biosphere, which is inexplicable. Xuan Yun, you say, are monsters still carbon-based creatures?"

Zhu Youxiang frowned slightly, revealing a contemplative expression - in the Ming Dynasty, there were also many monks and scholars who studied the demon world, but no one considered the problem from this perspective - no, or should it be said, there was no such way of thinking in the Ming world at all. On the side of the Ming Empire, natural disasters have been regarded as natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons, and regarded them as natural things, but they have not considered why such disasters occur at all.

In the thinking system of the Ming Dynasty. The emphasis is on "practical" research, focusing on natural disasters, space-time gaps, demon world and other issues. The research ideas of the Ming Dynasty are more practical - for example, the Ming Dynasty mainly studies how to predict natural disasters, what methods can be used to kill monsters faster and easier, and how to block the gap between time and space - according to the words of the earth. The Ming Dynasty paid more attention to "applied research".

For the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, thinking about the biosphere of the Demon Realm - they couldn't think of that depth at all! Because it was meaningless - even if the environment of the Demon Realm was suitable, it was impossible for any human to go there to live, right?

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the thinking of modern earth is obviously more comprehensive, and it prefers to study some principled questions, such as the basic questions such as what is the environment of the demon plane proposed by Xu Yan and whether the creatures of the demon world are still carbon-based creatures.

Zhu Youxiang thought for a while, and she asked with interest: "Xu Gongzi, what is the study of 'biology'?"

"Biology. Nature is the study of all kinds of living things...... For example, animals, plants, birds, animals, flowers and trees are all objects of biological research. ”

"So, those monsters from the demon world, are they also part of biological research?

"Well, of course, it's counted. ”

"So, what kind of creatures are monsters? animals or plants?"

Xu Yan hesitated: "Those monsters can go." If you can fight, you have to eat people...... Naturally, they are animals. ”

"But what about the possessed monster spirits? Can they be considered animals if they have no physical and physical bodies?"

Zhu Youxiang's question stumped Xu Yan all of a sudden-yes. If monsters are animals, then what are those demons that have no physical form? Are there any animals in the world that do not have a physical body?

Xu smiled bitterly and said, "This." I don't know...... A monster spirit is not so much a living thing. It's a ghost, right? It's not a creature at all, it shouldn't exist. But the problem exists - Xuanyun, our science is still too shallow to explain the problem of monsters. ”

Zhu Youxiang nodded, and she said clearly: "I deeply agree with what the son said. With all due respect, when I first arrived in your land, I was amazed by the technology and livelihood of the earth, and you built huge cities, manned planes that can fly in the air, missiles that can fly thousands of miles in an instant, and even spaceships and satellites that enter space.

For the manufacture of all kinds of foreign objects, your 'science' can be said to be exquisite to the extreme, and all kinds of mechanisms are exquisitely manufactured, and the ingenious and ingenious are amazing.

However, if you specialize in external things, you do not cultivate your own body – with all due respect, you are going astray.

The sage once said: The human body is a treasure house, and all classes of supernatural powers can be self-sufficient, and there is no need to ask for it!

Childe, your tools are delicate and powerful, but after all, they are only external things. In the final analysis, the development of humanity must be based on self-enhancement, and all external things can only be relied on, but they cannot be relied on.

Childe, you claim to be technologically advanced, civilized and prosperous, and the power of all kinds of weapons is huge, and it seems that you can fly to the sky and do everything, but your body is so fragile and insignificant - if you are hit by a sword, you will be hacked to death, you will be hit to death by a car, you will drown when you encounter rivers and lakes, you will fall to death if you fall from a height, you will freeze to death if you are cold, you will die of heat if you are hot, and you will die if you have nothing to eat for a few days - compared to those ingenious foreign objects that you have created, your own flesh is too fragile. There are so many things in this world that can hurt and kill you, and your lives are too fragile and dangerous. ”

Zhu Youxiang didn't know if she was stimulated by anything today, she went against her usual gentle and tactful performance, and her speech seemed particularly frank and straightforward, without mercy.

Seeing that Zhu Youxiang had depreciated the earth's technology and civilization to worthless, Xu Yan stood in the position of the earthlings, and couldn't help but distinguish a few words, he said: "Xuan Yun, what you said is just an accident, and this kind of thing is not common when encountering an accident. ”

"Childe, even if you don't encounter an accident, people themselves are fragile...... Birth, old age, sickness and death are suffering, and no one can escape. Even if you are lucky, you will not encounter any disasters in the army, you will not suffer any accidents or diseases, and you will be safe and smooth in your life, and at most you will be able to live to the age of eighty or ninety, right? The life of human beings on the earth is so fragile and so short, it can be seen that no matter how brilliant the achievements are made without cultivating oneself and only borrowing foreign things, they are just a flash in the pan and fleeting. ”

Regarding Zhu Youxiang's statement, Xu Yan actually disagreed: the Ming Dynasty is obviously based on the cultivation of the true civilization, and the pursuit of a strong human body itself, compared with the scientific and technological civilization on this side of the earth, which of the two civilizations is more superior, this is really unclear. But Zhu Youxiang insisted that the cultivation civilization of the Ming Dynasty was superior to the scientific and technological civilization of the earth, which really made Xu Yan a little unconvinced, and he argued: "Xuan Yun, our scientific and technological civilization may not be worse than your cultivation civilization. Perhaps, we are not as strong as you in terms of physical fitness, but we have other strengths in technology, which are stronger than yours, and can make up for our physical defects!"

Zhu Youxiang asked calmly, "For example?"

"For example...... Although the human body on the earth is a little weaker, we have invented very powerful weapons, and when faced with natural disasters, we have powerful weapons such as airplanes, tanks, artillery, and missiles, which are better than your officers and soldiers with big swords and spears, right?"

Zhu Youxiang said lightly: "The powerful weapon that Gongzi said...... But what I saw in Tokyo that night?"

Hearing Zhu Youxiang say this, Xu Yan was immediately deflated -- that night, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces dispatched so many troops, helicopters, rocket artillery, and tanks, and in the end, they were not beaten by vampires. If it weren't for Zhu Youxiang's final attack to kill the monster, I don't know what Tokyo would be destroyed in the end. (To be continued......)