The night is like water, it is good to drink and sing. In the small courtyard of the Jiangnan-style hotel, an outdoor table has been set up, and there are several Jiangnan side dishes on it, which are exquisite and sweet.

Li Ran's heart is not here, it has been a whole day since he discovered the abnormality, and he has not been able to leave Jiangnan, during this period, the high-speed horror, the art of Ren Tianji, the time and strange things of Zhang Fugui, all kinds of entanglements, is it providence, or is it a man-made disaster?

Although the clouds are light and breezy on the surface, about every once in a while, he will take Lu Xiaoshu's mobile phone and make another call to his daughter-in-law.

No one answered.

The otaku only remembers a limited number of two numbers, one is his own, one is his daughter-in-law's, and the rest rely on the address book, and now his mobile phone is scrapped, and there is no other phone to call.

Only the heart is anxious, and then the egg.

"Or ...... Don't live in the store, let's go on a night trip? Li Ran asked tentatively.

Old God Lu Xiaoshu sat down at the small table and said, "Now you know that you are in a hurry?" It's very hypocritical to see you when you stop the car during the day! Seeing that Li Ran's face had changed, he didn't want to irritate him too much, so he smiled slightly, "Don't worry, let's run and stop all the way, but it took an hour or two, more than fifty miles, and I was exhausted before I arrived here." This is not a long-term solution. We will rest in peace tonight, and when we wait for tomorrow morning, the hospital will arrange someone to pick us up! ”

Li Ran sat down anxiously, Lu Xiaoshu said well, the reason why he agreed to live here was because he could feel that his body was extremely tired.

However, the daughter-in-law's mobile phone has been missing, and it has been a day and a night!

Picking up the rice bowl, Li Ran secretly made up his mind, and after the meal, he went out for a walk to see if there was any transportation in the town that he could borrow.

As long as there is transportation and mobile phone navigation, why not rush to the night road.

As for the means of transportation, well, it's just to borrow it, and it's not difficult to borrow it again.

When Lu Xiaoshu saw Li Ran sitting down, he thought that he had figured it out, so he first raised a glass of rice wine and comforted, "Sharpen the knife and don't cut the wood, and drink." ”

In this regard, Li Ran didn't say anything, just pushed his hand and said lightly, "Let's eat!" ”

Lu Xiaoshu also saw that he was absent-minded, so he smiled, "Do you know what is the purpose of my special trip to you?" ”

"Huh?" , Li Ran raised his head and stared at the other party. It's finally here, to the point.

"Along the way, you should be able to perceive the changes in heaven and earth, if the situation is gradually becoming clear today, cultivators like us should give it a go! Uncle Li asked me to come over, hoping that you can join the hospital and work together to find a chance to survive. ”

Li Ran was silent, now he just wanted to go back to his own courtyard in Rongcheng as soon as possible to see how his wife He Youyou and the child's little light bulb were doing.

But since I had an adventure, in both worlds, I am like a marionette, and I don't have a moment to rest, this time it is rare for someone to have a master on the side, but it is also a good opportunity to learn about the world's intelligence.

Thinking like this, he didn't immediately refuse, so he asked, "Lu ...... Xiao Shu, can you tell me first, what is the situation of the cage in your mouth? What kind of role are you in the Thirteen Courtyards? ”

"Didn't your teacher tell you?" , Lu Xiaoshu was a little strange, but at the same time, seeing that Li Ran did not refuse, he was also happy, and continued, "Okay, then I'll talk about our understanding of this world." What I'm talking about is public information, and if you want to know more top secrets, you'll have to join the House of Representatives first. ”

In this way, a story of the present continent was opened.

"Many cultivators know that the real history of this world, seven hundred years ago, seems to have been deliberately covered up, and it has been replaced with those in the textbooks, the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, but no one knows what the real situation is.

And in the past 700 years, some practitioners have found that, at least in this world, it is very different from what is said in the textbooks.

There is no global village, seven continents and five oceans, and the truth is that the limited human race is interned within the confines of China and cannot be free.

Over the years, countless powers have tried to break through the boundaries and want to understand what is going on beyond the borders.

However, above the border, there are powerful barriers, and there are some strange people. They have lost their sense of self and don't know where they came from, but they are born with amazing cultivation. Their only duty is to guard the border and kill anyone who tries to break through, so this kind of person is called a boundary guard by us. ”

Li Ran nodded, this is a programmer, there is nothing wrong.

"We and other cultivators have broken through several times, but they have failed, but we don't know that there is even greater misfortune to come. About 400 years ago, another creature first broke through the boundaries of an unknown place and took pleasure in slaughtering us.

These people have no cultivation, but they have powerful abilities and make good use of the strange things in the world, which we call xenomorphs. ”

Well, this should be the teenagers I met in the community, and the souls are all wolf-headed people and bear-headed people, and from their words, they are especially like players who log in to the game, but to say that these teenagers have powerful abilities, but it's really a joke.

"From four hundred years ago to the present, there have been four xeno-invasions. In these few battles with the xenomorphs, the cultivators suffered heavy losses, almost to the brink of extinction of the Dao system.

Whenever this happens, the Boundary Keeper will arrive in time to protect the remaining cultivators, so to speak, there is still a Dao system circulating, and it has nothing to do with the mercy of the Boundary Keeper! ”

Li Ran interrupted in surprise, "Huh? Why do the gatekeepers do this? ”

Lu Xiaoshu said gloomily, "The predecessors also have the same questions about this, and after several analyses, a cruel fact is in front of them. We estimate that this behavior of the gatekeepers is not salvation, but the need for captivity.

That's right, it's breeding, and the guards are like raising animals, raising us in China for the fun of different species. Every time we are about to exterminate the Dao system, it is called the end of the game.

And the last xenomorph invasion, you should have heard of it, was in the name of the world war and the Sun Country! ”

Li Ran was shocked, this is how this history is interpreted? !

"Therefore, today, it should be ordinary people, cultivators, boundary keepers, and xenomorphs, and the first three call themselves human races."

Li Ran suddenly asked, "The boundary keepers you are talking about, I call them programmers." Did you know that programmers are transformed from ordinary people and have a sense of awakening? ”

"Programmers? That's a fitting title! You said that the guardians of the realm are transformed by ordinary people, we know a little bit about it, and as for the degree of awakening, this is the first time I have heard of it. ”

"The transformation of the programmer is related to the will of the world, the degree of transformation is different, there is a degree, that is, the degree of awakening, the higher the degree of awakening, the stronger the free will, the lower the degree of awakening, the more self-consciousness!" , Li Ran did not deliberately conceal this paragraph, in the face of a strong enemy, exchanging intelligence, and communicating with each other, it is really necessary.

After thinking about it for a while, Lu Xiaoshu felt that this matter was extremely scary, and said in shock, "In this way, the realm keepers are highly hierarchical, and what they are trying to do is not necessarily this killing game!" …… Alas, this is also the reason why we cultivators, no matter what, have to fight with this thief, that is, with the origin of the world. Many people firmly believe that the abnormality of these 700 years is because the origin of the world has abandoned us, taking heaven and earth as a chessboard and sentient beings as playthings, in the next big game of chess! We don't know why he did it, but we can't let anyone slaughter them. The only way out is to find a way to grasp the origin of the world!

In this matter, the practitioners are divided into two factions, one is the main faction, hoping to communicate well with the origin of the world and achieve a win-win situation. Your masters are from this faction.

There is also a faction that wants to destroy the origin of the world, or even replace it. Tiantongyuan and Wutai Mountain are all representatives of this faction. Even the sword saint Jiang Xun was also eyeing him, and he had this intention. ”

"Then what kind of faction are you in the Three Heavenly Courtyards?"

"We...... We're not the same, and neither are we! Lu Xiaoshu smiled mysteriously, but didn't say much about it, but diverted the topic, "But no matter which faction, including our Tiansan Academy, they all have the same ambition, all in order to one day, to be able to break out of the cage!"

Therefore, even if the 13 courtyards of Huaguo are not in harmony with each other, they can only echo each other and tide over the difficulties together. Therefore, we solemnly invite you. Li Ran, a person with the name of the world's darling, a closed disciple of the Nine Elders, are you willing to join our courtyard and become a guest secretary? ”

"I'm just an ordinary little engineer, I can't manage so many major things in the world, I just want to rush to my wife and children as soon as possible and protect my wife and children." , The information is almost set, and Li Ran refused without hesitation to ask again, and he didn't even ask about the benefits of the guest secretary of the human court.

Lu Xiaoshu was a little furious, co-authored with you just asked me this and that, let me talk about it for a long time, I just want to listen to books!

"Under the nest, how can there be eggs? Protecting your wife and children is just a palliative treatment, and if you want to cure the root cause, you can only work with us to break out a way out! Rubbing his eyebrows, Lu Xiaoshu made the last effort.

Li Ran smiled, looked at the meal he ate while talking, it was not early, and said, "Well, thank you for telling me this, I'll go out for a walk, you can rest early." ”

Taking advantage of the fact that Lu Xiaoshu was about to explode, Li Ran quickly escaped, and before leaving, he did not forget to turn his mind, and secretly sent the mobile phone in his hand into the space.

Perhaps, this is the right time to part!

As soon as he was discharged from the hospital, a fat figure squatted at the door and said with a smile, "Guest, it's so late, if you don't go back to the guest room, where are you going?" ”

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I'm thinking about life, thinking about this book that no one reads, and the need to update it, and then I have a subscription, hurry up and celebrate the festival.

The follow-up is thinking about whether to write a little white invincible essay to try, but unfortunately there is not as much time as before, or double refresh.

It's just not enough for 3,000 words, and the extra bit is not much money.