Hou Yidun came out of the concert hall of the Department of Folk Music, and the last piece of Deng Fei'er's solo recital was only halfway through, and she was already crying and trembling on the stage. Hou Yidun didn't want to wait for the final curtain call, so he quietly got up and came out of the concert hall of the Folk Music Department, and was suddenly covered with a layer of sticky sweat on his skin by the humid and stuffy air outside, and he felt tightness in his chest when he took a breath.

He knew that the tearful Dunfeld was not infected by the sound of her own piano, but because he and she had just broken up three days ago. This is his fourth girlfriend who left crying before the summer vacation of his sophomore year. The first three were quickly forgotten by him in the process of finding a new love, but this one is different, although he mentioned the breakup, but he was unspeakably disappointed in his heart, and even regretted it a little.

Anyway, he agreed to her last request to come and listen to her solo guzheng recital. Walking on the path back to the dormitory building by the lake in the college, the sound of cicadas all over the trees made him crazy. After a while, my whole body was wet, my hair was close to my neck, and the tips of my hair were tickling my neck sockets, and I thought that I would go and cut my hair short tomorrow.

As soon as I arrived at the dormitory, my phone vibrated in my shorts pocket. Hou Yidun glanced at it, it was an unfamiliar number, "Hey?"

"Dafu, it's me, are you at school?" The male voice on the other side of the phone was cautious, and Hou Yidun fell into a distant sense of familiarity.

"Ahh......h

"I'm in the woods behind the library, you come to the other side of the lake, hurry up! We'll talk about it!" Wang Shilong immediately hung up the phone, his voice anxious and cautious, like contacting foreign aid in some dangerous environment.

Hou Yidun turned around and ran towards the library, frowning, his mind messy. He revisited the past about Wang Shilong—things that had made him uncomfortable for most of the year.

Wang Shilong has been his best friend since junior high school, and until he was admitted to the same university, his relationship is much stronger than that of the buddies he met in college. During the summer vacation of his freshman year, Wang Shilong's single father planned to take his son to climb Mount Everest together, so Wang Shilong asked Hou Yidun to go with him. Before the holiday, Hou Yidun was smashed by the gym equipment.

During the days when he was recuperating at home, Hou Yidun had to rely on Wang Shilong's phone calls, text messages, and emails along the way to comfort his regret that he couldn't go together. Along the way, Wang Shilong sent photos, which made him envious. Later, Wang Shilong went to a certain place, but the bridge to the base camp of Mount Everest was broken, and the group with the spirit of adventurers had to turn back and choose the easier route.

The last photo Wang Shilong sent to Hou Yidun was in Rongbu Temple, and he still clearly remembers the photo of the stout Wang Shilong grinning silly, behind him there is a Tibetan white pagoda full of colorful flags, and in the distance is Mount Everest, where clouds and snow meet under the blue sky. Since then, Hou Yidun has not received any phone calls, emails, short videos, or even a text message from him, Wang Shilong and his son and a group of six people have disappeared collectively - the official reply is that they have suffered an avalanche, and the whereabouts of the six people are unknown.

It's been almost a year since the disappearance of the dead friend. Although Hou Yidun still has a glimmer of hope, time has slowly made him more and more convinced that this most iron-clad friend, the sturdy and optimistic Wang Shilong, will not come back. But the phone is real, the voice can't be wrong, I damn it, even if you don't die, it's been almost a year!

Excited and curious, Hou Yidun ran to the forest behind the library, turning his fast running into a brisk walk, his eyes searching aimlessly in the direction of the lake. No one dared to come to the place near the lake on this side of the forest during the day, and since he entered the school, except for the two alumni he personally caught up, there were also N seniors who had been rumored in the mouths of the seniors, all of them were like evil spirits, and they chose this direction one after another to jump into the lake to commit suicide.

Nine o'clock was not too late, and Hou Yidun, who was sweating profusely, suddenly felt that the noisy cicadas in the gloomy forest were a little cute. Walked to the side of the woods, continued along the stone path by the lake, passed the last floor lamp, and walked more than a hundred meters, and saw a dark figure sitting facing the lake in the distance.

"Wang Shilong!" Hou Yidun shouted and ran over. The figure stood up and turned to his side, this height can't be wrong, it's Wang Shilong! Hou Yidun gradually saw that Wang Shilong was wearing a fat black raincoat on such a hot night! That's right, it was indeed a raincoat, and it was still pure black. He looked up and saw that the moon was shining silver on the surface of the lake, there were no dark clouds in the sky, and there was no rain at all for the past two days.

He took a breath and stood still in front of Wang Shilong, reached out and punched him in the chest: "You bastard don't know how to tell the master! Not even half a text message!" After this punch, Wang Shilong actually covered his chest and coughed violently, Hou Yidun was also stunned, and at the same time, the touch of the punch in his hand made him wonder, this kid hasn't seen him for a year, where are the muscles before? It seems that there is only a handful of bones left.

Hou Yidun frowned and looked at it in surprise, Wang Shilong's entire head was covered by the hat of the black raincoat, and only the lower half of his face was exposed from the shadows, not only the upper lip, chin, and cheeks were black and black beards that had not been shaved for a long time, but also the angular and resolute face had dried up into an "awl face", and the cheeks were also sunken inward, and the skin that had been tanned by the long-term sun was miserable and white.

In the past, Wang Shilong was 1.88 meters, ten centimeters taller than Hou Yidun, and only one year older than Hou Yidun, but he grew tall and strong. But the Wang Shilong in front of him has lost a disproportionate amount of weight. He stretched out his hand and put it on Hou Yidun's shoulder, and said in a slightly trembling voice: "Dafu, I escaped, there is not much time, you listen to me first." Is there any smoke?"

"What's the matter with you, where did you escape, how did you lose weight like this?" Hou Yidun reached out and touched his arm, and under the raincoat it was like a stretched little skinny child.

"Did you bring a cigarette?" Wang Shilong squatted down in an awkward position, a pair of skinny white feet were exposed, he didn't even wear shoes, and there was a smell from the chemical laboratory on his body that rushed into Hou Yidun's nose.

Hou Yidun had no choice but to sit on the spot next to him, took out half a box of white sand and lighters and handed it to him, Wang Shilong coughed and took it with the same white hands, and quickly lit it like a treasure, took a deep breath, and spit out the smoke with satisfaction.

Hou Yidun tilted his head as much as he could to look at his eyes that were covered by the raincoat hat, and when the lighter shone for two seconds, he only felt that Wang Shilong's eye sockets were black holes, as if he had been poisoned, and he couldn't see his eyes at all, and the middle finger and index finger joints holding cigarettes were surprisingly large.

"Say it quickly, Wang Shilong, what the hell is going on? In the middle of the night, if it weren't for you kid, I would have hit a ghost. Hou Yidun also lit a cigarette, and his eyes never left the upper part of Wang Shilong's face that was covered by shadows.

Wang Shilong said in a serious tone: "Dafu, I don't know when they will find me. It's too complicated to explain in a few words. I found out two weeks before I left last year that my dad and his four friends didn't go to Everest just to climb the mountain and travel. You should be glad you didn't go. ”

"Ahh ”

"It was an avalanche, but it wasn't an accidental disaster, but we found the 'entrance', and in order to cover up the place, we had to create the avalanche by man-made explosions. That entrance leads to a cave inside Mount Everest, and my dad has been to Everest five times in the past ten years to find things in the cave. The entrance is 2,400 meters down from the summit of Mount Everest, and from there, you will reach a cave full of marine paleontological fossils, and there is a dry spring in the southeast of the cave, which allows two people to pass side by side, and from the spring all the way down, you can find the cave. ”

"Really, Wang Shilong, don't be kidding, are you okay?"

Wang Shilong was a little annoyed: "I'm not kidding! Do you know what's in the cave?!"

"What's there?alien?Or is it Zhang Qiling who picks mushrooms?" Hou Yidun listened very mysteriously, and noticed that Wang Shilong looked around from time to time, and then turned his face to the other side of the lake, and the details of the unnatural movements of his whole body were overflowing with uneasy emotions.

"Pangu. I know you might not believe it, but I ran away to tell you these things and give you things. As he spoke, he took out a golden palm-sized pocket watch from his black raincoat and put it in Hou Yidun's hand.

"What?Pangu?Don't talk nonsense, that's a great god, can you see what he looks like?" Hou Yidun opened his pocket watch with a ghostly expression, and saw that the pointer inside was 9:40.

"No, listen to me. That funnel-shaped hole is very large, extending vertically into the mountain, and there is a huge axe suspended in the middle, my father has been looking for that 'heavenly axe' for half his life, it is Pangu, Pangu is the anthropomorphic heavenly axe! It itself is a spirit body in a higher dimensional space, and if it wants to function on the earth, it must rely on some kind of substance. The material of the Celestial Axe is a twelve-colored extraterrestrial soul crystal. Wang Shilong flipped up the pocket watch that Hou Yidun had opened in his hand.

Under the pocket dial, there is a layer, in which is embedded a black and smooth octagonal stone. "This is what my dad smelted with twelve-colored soul crystals, it looks like an ordinary pocket watch, but it's actually a precision instrument. As long as you speak to it the year, month, day, or place, person, or any detailed precondition of the Gregorian calendar, you will arrive at that day, that environment, and meet those people in history, whether in the past or in the future. ”

Hou Yidun's brows furrowed even tighter: "Ah, you mean it can make people ...... Crossing?"

"Yes, time is infinite, space is limited, if you want to reach the overlapping space, you must start cultivating from today, there will be practitioners of all races who will come to guide you, but it's a pity that ......" Wang Shilong threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and suddenly cried in an extremely suppressed grief voice, "It's a pity that my dad ...... They took him to refine medicine. ”

Hou Yidun looked at his hat-covered head in confusion, this optimistic and macho sworn friend, he had never seen him cry. If it's not insane, it's ...... Wang Shilong stood up suddenly and stared at the lake, as if he had been alarmed by something. Hou Yidun also looked at the past uneasily, but except for the reflection of the moon and flying insects on the lake, it was so quiet that people wanted to fall in love.

Wang Shilong turned around and put his hands on Hou Yidun's shoulders and said to him: "Dafu, I know that you will definitely find it difficult to accept what I said to you, let me show you, don't be afraid." He unbuttoned the black raincoat one by one, and finally took it off, Hou Yidun finally saw his face clearly - his whole face had almost turned into a white-skinned skeleton, but he could recognize the shadow of the "dry corpse" in front of him as the sturdy Wang Shilong's face, the miserable white skin wrapped the naked whole body, except for the beard on the face, there was no hair on the body!

Hou Yidun unconsciously took a step back, staring at the two cement-colored eyeballs in his black hole sockets, "Damn! Wang Shilong, what the hell is wrong with you! You make it clear!How did you get like this?!"

Wang Shilong's expression was sad, and when he turned around, Hou Yidun's eyes suddenly widened - the skin on his back was "transparent", like a layer of glass covered with mucus, and the organs and bones in his body were completely visible, and there were seven equal black mist from the top of the skull to the bladder connected into a line.

Hou Yidun involuntarily fell back and sat on the ground. Wang Shilong looked at the lake anxiously while quickly putting on his raincoat. "The Seven Wheels of My Consciousness were sealed by the Sages of the Soul Slayer Clan in the Clear Stream Realm. You've seen it with your own eyes, and you should be able to believe what I say, my dad hasn't had time to experiment carefully yet, and it's up to you in the future. ”

Hou Yidun opened his mouth wide and didn't know what to say, so he hurriedly got up, knowing that Wang Shilong was not crazy, but something incomprehensible had really happened!" "Wang Shilong, you suddenly ...... Hey, I don't even know what to say, what do you want me to do?"

"Daifuku, I have lived for twenty-one years, and I am most happy to have you as a brother. I will hand this over to you, you must start cultivating, and the reason for this will be told to you, if I can wait, just wait for your brother to achieve the four bodies, practice into the ancient pole, and then save me! Now that the Ten Realms are in chaos, you must remember to go to L/N......" Wang Shilong's voice was instantly stifled, and Hou Yidun clearly saw that around his neck, there was an invisible force around his neck that tightened the windbreaker around his neck like four or five tangled vines.

"Wang Shilong!" Hou Yidun quickly reached out to pull, but he didn't catch up with him just two steps away, Wang Shilong was dragged into the lake in the blink of an eye by that huge force, and suddenly a string of bubbles and an arc-shaped ripple rowed towards the center of the lake at the speed of a motorboat. Hou Yidun froze in place, only hearing the cicadas behind him and the crazy heartbeat in his chest - it seemed that the scene just now was a nightmare.