After these words were spoken, the samadhi closed their eyes.

As the number one master of the Ascension Realm and the master of the first strong faction, saying such words that was almost equivalent to direct surrender, Samadhi Zhenren felt like his internal organs were being stabbed by a sword.

As soon as this sentence is spoken, it is equivalent to the prestige accumulated by Qianyangmen for nearly a thousand years, which will be destroyed in one fell swoop. Samadhi can imagine how humiliating he would have suffered when he appeared in front of the Nine Great Parties, made these demands to them, and even persuaded them to accept them.

What's even more terrifying is that when these people go back to the various sects after talking, they will tell their words and deeds separately......

However, this is another big gamble.

The previous bet was a big bet between him and Yan Xiu, he felt that Yan Xiu was not at all successful, and the nine major factions were in his hands - he pressed everything in Qianyangmen with peace of mind, waiting for the opponent to finally be afraid and afraid.

But that time, he lost very badly, the opponent's hole cards one after another, turned out in front of his face, his cultivation, the resources of Qianyangmen, and the momentum of the nine major factions......

At the end of the gamble, he became a prisoner, and the entire sect of Qianyang Gate was almost lost, only the hundreds of people brought by Bai Feng to the Spirit Island survived, and Qianyang Island turned into ashes, and the aura of the entire Ascension Realm began to dry up.

And this time, it was a bet between him and the Nine Great Factions.

He used his reputation to bet that the nine major factions would lose this battle.

"After all, this samadhi is still a realist." The search and rescue team briefly told Yevgeny about his decision-making ideas, "The so-called Ascension Realm is actually a world of the jungle, and these flyers still have the ability to understand current affairs." It's just that they still have a lot of arrogance in their bones - just like him. ”

The search and rescue team smiled lightly, and it had to be said that the level of language mastery of the collection team exceeded that of most normal humans. With this smile, Yevgeny felt the cold sweat on his back come out: "Why does he think? Do you still have the value of being used by us? If most of the strength of Qianyangmen was still there, it might be possible to exchange some capital by surrendering - but now...... A general who has lost his army is, at best, a staff officer and an ornament. ”

"So, we're going to reject him?"

"Don't even give him an answer," said the search and rescue team, "Refusal will only stimulate his self-esteem and cause problems for our next management, so if you don't answer, let him figure it out on his own." Professor, let's talk about your son. ”

……

Two hours later, the United States.

"Hello, Professor Yevgeny, I heard that you went to China, and it should be evening."

"Hello, Dr. Clark." The son's attending doctor is a woman, probably in her forties. Yevgeny had only met her three times, but had already spent more than $20,000. So much so that when he sees her now, he subconsciously looks at the time - this doctor's fee is calculated by the minute. And it's no wonder that these doctors are so fond of greetings and small talk - just talking this nonsense can earn him dozens of dollars.

So Yevgeny was more direct this time: "How is the situation with Duff now?" ”

"It's basically stable," the doctor said, "and now I'm able to participate in social activities like a normal person." It was about his activities during the week, hiking, horseback riding, ......"

"That's not what I asked, doctor," Evgeny said in a somewhat unceremonious tone, "that's not what you promised when you put my son in the hospital. ”

"I remember what you said to me, doctor," Evgeny leaned forward, "You say that in two months, even if you put * in front of Duff, he will not hesitate to throw them in the trash." That's what I'm wondering, doctor, can Duff do what you promised now? ”

"There is a great deviation in the effect of psychological withdrawal from drug addiction depending on the patient's living environment," the enthusiasm on the doctor's face turned into professionalism, explaining to him, "I mentioned this a long time ago, if our life is every day of hiking, horseback riding, pubs, Rolls-Royce, golf...... The addiction to drugs is indeed not difficult to quit, and in a sense, the pleasure of that lifestyle almost makes up for the shortcomings of drugs......"

“…… This is also the main theoretical basis of this therapy that we are currently adopting. After saying the optimistic part, the doctor's face switched to a regretful expression at the right time: "But if after being discharged from the hospital, you still expect your son to find an ordinary job, commute to and from work, marry a wife and have children...... It will certainly not be possible in the short term. Two years, three years, maybe it can be done...... Patients need a long process of psychological adaptation. ”

Yevgeny opened his mouth, but finally there were no words. He couldn't possibly come up with any defensible rebuttal – if he had gone back and found out his son's treatment contract and hired a professional medical lawyer, he would have been able to piece together the words of the doctor in that thick contract.

Yevgeny habitually squeezed a small ball of wine in front of him, and swallowed it in one gulp. Almost at the same time, the video signal was temporarily cut off – and he realized that there was already a huge risk of leaks. After the signal was reconnected, Yevgeny said to the other party: "Let my son be discharged, right now, the handover person has arrived at the entrance of your hospital." ”

"Discharged?" The doctor frowned, "This means that all our previous efforts have been wasted!" He was back on the street and it wouldn't take him 5 minutes to find the drugs! ”

"I'm not going to give him five minutes," Yevgeny said, "and he got out of the hospital and went straight to China." ”

"Are you crazy?" The doctor screamed, "In China, drug use is punishable by death!" ”

"That's a death sentence for drug trafficking, and it has nothing to do with drug use," Yevgeny waved his hand angrily, and then hung down weakly in a lower tone, "Let's go through the formalities." ”

……

Duff woke up.

The first thing he did when he woke up was that he thought he wasn't awake yet.

It's definitely a dream.

He couldn't tell what it was, as there were no displays or facilities around, and it looked like an empty room.

The walls are the rough decoration common in the sixties and seventies, and in some places the red brick skin is exposed because of the old ones. If you look closely, Duff also found an Oriental Soviet watch on the wall closest to him. He remembered that his grandfather had left it to his father and that it had been given to him as a gift for his 10th birthday, and that Duff had spent his childhood with the ticking of the watch.

Now that the watch was in front of him, making a clear ticking, ticking sound, he stared at the watch incredulously, and after confirming that the red five-pointed star in the middle of the watch was missing a small piece, he almost wondered if he was hallucinating.

Duff tentatively reached out and gently pressed it on his head, it felt very clear, pinched, and it hurt a little.

But there is one detail that he captures, as he makes two movements, the picture of the world in front of him fluctuates slightly—the most obvious of which is the time on the clock, and the second hand keeps jumping—not a regular beat, but then a random angle on the dial. If you look closely, you can see that those times are too.

This scene caused Duff to panic, he had experienced many minor hallucinations after taking drugs - but this time was the most severe.

It was at this time that his father appeared in front of his eyes.

But not the impression of a bald and fat face, who often blushes with an over-drinking face, and speaks with the smell of vodka. He looked as young as himself, wearing the suit that Duff remembered when he was a child, and his father would only wear it on vacation, and his face was free of wrinkles and age spots, but only full of vitality.

The young father ran towards Duff little by little from a far distance in his field of vision, and could tell that he was shouting something to himself, but he could not hear a word.

At this time, something happened that surprised Duff even more, and on the top of the young father's head, words appeared directly.

"Sorry, you still have too little language information, and you don't support language information entry for the time being. You can read the subtitles, but you can speak to me, I can hear them. ”

Duff watched as his father's mouth kept open, and then from the top of his head, long Russian intermingled English kept popping up...... Judging from the tone and content of these words alone, he did not doubt that this was really his father in front of him, but ...... But it's too magically realistic.

"Dad! What the hell is going on?! Where are we? ”

"Duff, calm down, I brought you here, just to cure your addiction."

"Are we in China?" Duff remembers that he finally landed in Shanghai, China, and on the way to his father's company, he saw square-shaped street signs and advertisements on the side of the street. At this time, a scene that made Duff feel terrifying appeared, just when he was thinking of the street scene of Shanghai, the pattern of his hometown in St. Petersburg in front of him gradually faded and disappeared, replaced by those noisy cities and pictures in his memory......

Duff seems to be beginning to realize something—the space he is in is not completely real, it is his own conscious world—or rather, he is influenced by his own consciousness.

He tried to imagine what his father was like now, trying to find some psychological familiarity and comfort, but only the background changed—from his home in St. Petersburg to his new home in San Francisco, from his parents' house to his own dilapidated bachelor apartment...... As he became psychologically nervous, the frequency of these transitions began to increase, and finally became an unformed, distorted patch of color.

"Relax, Duff, there's nothing to be afraid of," the only thing that remained constant in the distorted color block was the image of his father, Yevgeny, standing in front of him like a sculpture, "Duff, start imagining the scene of your drug use—this is essential for your healing." ”