Shen Mingde sat in his study. The surrounding walls were illuminated by fluorescent lamps on the roof, reflecting a miserable white color. The nights in May are still cool. A breeze blew into the room from the dark void outside the window, curling the milky curtains, caressing his bare right arm. The "ghost handprint" on his right wrist left by Takayama Apricot seems to be fading. But on his wrist presented an even more bizarre picture. The picture resembles an ancient tree that twists and stretches, and the four small, but still clearly visible black-purple fingerprints are the branches of the tree. The purple-red color surrounding the black-purple "branches" has spread and joined together. But the colors are not as vivid and intimidating as they were in the afternoon. Instead, it gradually metamorphoses into lilac, or pink. It looks like a giant canopy. The whole picture looks like a tattoo of a cherry blossom tree tattooed on his wrist.

His right rib was no longer painful. Through the doctor's examination, he was diagnosed with "mild chest contusion". After a simple treatment, it can be cured very quickly. At present, as long as you ignore it or press on the injured area, you will not feel pain. Shen Mingde, in fact, didn't care too much about these injuries. His interest was almost entirely occupied by this adventure. "Why is Zhou Tengfei missing? Why can't I see the lake and the people in the village? What has Takayama apricot experienced? What is the matter with Gao Zhongchen's sacrifice? What is the conspiracy of the sixth uncle and the troupe? This kind of questioning about what business, career, self-discipline, and realism in his brain are all expelled from him. Shen Mingde feels that he has finally returned to reality after bidding farewell to his childhood for more than 20 years.

Nini was running and frolicking in the dark hallway outside her study, plopping around with a small ball toy with a bell. Nini's noise drowned out the sound of Shen Mingde's "crackling" on the keyboard of his laptop, the chirping of insects in the darkness outside the window, and the wailing of wild cats in the shadows of the community. However, Shen Mingde turned a deaf ear to all these voices, and he quickly turned his experiences and thoughts in the past few days into text messages and posted them on a forum website called "Circle of Mysteries".

"Circle of Mysteries" is a Chinese forum website that gathers a large number of netizens who are interested in supernatural, supernatural, and strange phenomena and events, or have unique opinions. It is also a forum that Shen Mingde often browses. Although he laughed at most of the posts on the forum, he was still impressed by the imagination and knowledge of some of the "weirdos" on the forum. One of the good things about this forum is that no matter how crazy or bizarre the content you post, you won't be ridiculed as crazy by other netizens in the forum. There will even be people who are "enthusiastic" with you in crazy fantasies, analyzing the content that is posted. As a result, this forum is often ridiculed as a "freak party".

Just a few minutes after Shen Mingde posted the post with a photo of the wood carving, he received a reply from some netizens. One of the netizens with the screen name "My Fair Lady, Gentleman and Good Wine" replied: "I suspect that the statue in the photo is one of the four fierce beasts of antiquity, alongside gluttony, Qiqi, and Hanqi. Many historical sources describe Chaos as an ugly, evil monster, but there are many opinions about its appearance. For example, in the book "Zhuangzi", the chaotic theory recorded in the book has a god, the base is like a yellow sac, red like Danshui, six legs and four wings, and Hun Dun has no eyes and ....... There is also a record of "Divine Strange Scripture Southwest Wilderness Sutra,...... Its shape is like a dog, with long hair, four-legged, like a dog without claws, with eyes but not seen, unable to walk, with ears but not hearing, some people are intellectual, there is a belly without five treasures, there is a straight intestine but not spinning, and the food path is over. No matter how people describe the monster Chaos, I think it's just a peek at the leopard. Because this monster is extremely large and does not show people very often. At the same time, this monster does not necessarily have a single appearance, but is made up of a variety of animals. The people in the village you describe have some understanding. That's why such a statue was enshrined in the temple in the village. ”

Below, a netizen named "Fang Yuan Scattered Immortal" replied: "I don't think so. While agreeing with the inference that the statue was located upstairs, it disagrees with the idea that the villagers had seen the full extent of Chaos. I guess there's no form. Maybe like clouds, maybe like a gelatinous creature like a slime. Different forms can be described according to the environment, or according to the imagination of different people after seeing the chaos. For example, some people see it and think it looks like a dog, while others think it looks like a deer. Therefore, the villagers used the roots of the tree as the base and spliced together the appearance they thought it looked like with nails. In the end, it became what it is now. The locals call it 'Wonton Mountain' is also one of the things that I really care about. There are at least two theories about the origin of the food ravioli. One of them is the Taoist saying, which says that eating wontons is to celebrate the birthday of the first Tianzun. It is precisely because 'wonton' has the same sound as 'chaos', so it is extended to break the chaos and open up the world. The so-called 'chaos' in Taoism has the same sound as 'chaos', and they disagree. But there are also inextricable links. I wonder if there is a legend about Chaos in the area, so I call the mountain 'Chaos Mountain'. Later, when it was called smoothly, it became a kind of folk custom, and this mountain was called Wonton Mountain. ”

After the bricks and bricks of several netizens, the replies began to bloom. The content of the replies is also becoming more and more divergent, some people talk about the origin of folk beliefs, some people analyze the divinity of their beliefs, and some people even argue about the geographical location of the legendary "ancient Kunlun" and so ......on. Another group of netizens was very interested in Shen Mingde's experience, they discussed and analyzed it enthusiastically, and finally quoted the clichéd "crossing theory" to explain this series of adventures without exception. Between the long replies, Shen Mingde was attracted by two inconspicuous short pieces of content. A netizen named "7878@@246" left a message: "I seem to have seen the things in the photo. There was once a college classmate who might have been to the village you mentioned. Later, from memory, he also painted a picture. Because he was an art student, the painting was vivid. Very similar to the photo, perhaps because of the angle, but also slightly different. He didn't say much about the painting. I just mentioned that when I was a child, there was a ghost named Uncle Six in my hometown who told ghost stories. After that, he often had nightmares. I don't know if it was in a dream or reality, he came to an uninhabited ancient village. In the village, he saw the statue. When Shen Mingde saw this reply, a hot current suddenly surged into his heart. He hurriedly asked the contact information and other information of the netizen named "7878@@246" in the forum, and asked about the current situation of the classmate and whether he could still contact the classmate. After that, I waited for this netizen's reply.

While waiting, Shen Mingde saw the reply of a netizen named "Long Words Huayu": "Isn't this my novel?" This reply is just one sentence, but a link to a website appears below the sentence. Shen Mingde was quite interested. He clicked on the link, and what appeared in front of him was a rudimentary fiction website. A web novel called "Nine Spirits Yu Miluo" appeared on the computer screen. Shen Mingde skimmed the introduction of the novel: a fantasy, suspense, time-traveling, immortal cultivation, love, friendship, and brotherhood. A collection of history, legends, myths, folklore, and a masterpiece of imagination. This book mainly tells the legendary story of nine young heroes with Wu Tian and others as the protagonists, known as the "Nine Spirits of the World", who subdued demons and eliminated demons and supported justice.

Shen Mingde glanced at the word count information of the novel. The 560,000 words are displayed on it, and the words "serialized" are also marked at the back. He couldn't help but be stunned. Shen Mingde, who had no interest in this kind of novel, was really dizzy when he saw the dense selection of chapters. However, the word "Miro" in the title of the novel and the novel's author's reply made him think that perhaps he could find some kind of unexpected clue from the book, although he did not know what information he was looking for. Fortunately, every chapter of this novel will have a subtitle every time. Through this subtitle, Shen Mingde can probably guess the content of this chapter. He simply clicked on the first chapter. The name of this chapter is "Gods and Demons Conquer the World, Heaven and Earth First Open to See the World", and the content is not difficult to guess. It mainly introduces the fictional world stage in the novel, and defines the concepts of gods, immortals, humans, demons, and demons. In the novel, gods and demons are "things in themselves" in the universe. Its name was given by later humans to represent their "divinity" or "demonic nature". However, "divinity" and "demonic nature" are not the nature of gods and demons, but the transcendental definition of these "things in themselves" according to human beings' own beliefs. Therefore, God does not represent absolute "justice", but human beings believe that this God represents "justice". When the god of "justice" slaughters mankind and destroys cities, those who believe in the "god of justice" will condemn the slaughtered humans and the destroyed cities as "unrighteous people" and "evil cities". In the same way, when a "thing in itself" is branded as a "demon", humans define it as absolutely evil. For example, a great god called "Dead Yu Tianzun" that appears in the novel is portrayed as the ancestor of all demons. However, the great god in charge of the Yin Division only led the souls of the dead to the underworld, but did not do anything harmful. These immortals and demons are cultivated by humans or elves, tending to gods and demons respectively, and are higher than human abilities.

"The story begins with a devastating battle between gods and demons. Countless fragments of divinity and demonic nature were scattered in a space called "Aurora". Combining divinity and demons, in the land of Aurora, humans, animals, and spirits were born. Thus the gods, demons, and spiritual beings born in the land of Aurora were divided, and they lived together for millions of years. I know that there is a tribal leader called "Waifeng Emperor Sifang Yuan Long", who sacrificed the lives of 100,000 humans, animals and elves in his territory "Sifang Plateau". Thus attaining the power of the spirit, the soul. With the blessing of the spirit and soul power, Emperor Long quickly unified the six kingdoms and forty-eight tribes in the far north. Then, all the way south, through the "Stacked Bone Wilderness", and established the "Horror Fortress" in the south of the "Stacked Bone Wilderness", from the northern plateau to the "Central Plains Fertile Land" ...... to the south of the "Stacked Bone Wilderness"

Shen Mingde really didn't have much interest in these alternate histories, so he skipped dozens of pages casually until a monster called "Nightmare Miro" appeared. It's only because this monster and Shan Miluo also have the word "Miro" that he feels like he has finally found the right topic. It is said that this monster is the embodiment of the remnants of the demon that has been destroyed in the ancient wars. This monster is capable of spreading the "Nightmare Plague" to the living beings of the world, causing them to suffer and finally distort their souls. This monster can't be killed, it can only be sealed. Because once the "Nightmare" dies, the "plague spores" it spreads will explode at the same time. At that time, the most terrifying nightmares of the living beings will turn into entities and wander through the world, turning into even more terrifying disasters. At the same time, the news of the existence of the "Nightmare Mira" in the world cannot be publicized. Because the monster is so easy to summon, even if it is only read a few times, it is likely to manifest in the dreams of the person whose name it is pronounced. Therefore, an ancient esoteric religion known as the "Jishi Xuanzhen Sect" by later generations began an unknown but thrilling journey of sealing demons. Esoteric Buddhism was victorious in the end, and countless enlightened masters found the "plague spores" that had been spread in the human world, and sealed the body of "Nightmare Mira" in the etheric void. The soul of "Mishiro" was beaten back to the state of "spores", and finally sealed in the body of the human hero "Tianxuan Shangren".

In order to be able to seal the "Nightmare Mira" forever, the Heavenly Xuan Shangren went to the Far North under the escort of the elven warrior "Yuyu Single Rider". It has been a thousand years since the battle of the Waifeng Emperor Long was defeated by the sixty-two tribes of the Central Plains. Even the heroic epic of how the king of "Qingmu Lianhua" led nine dead soldiers to assassinate the "Emperor of Wailing Peak" is rarely sung again. On the Sifang Plateau, at the foot of the Lamentation Peak, the ruins of the capital city of Long have spent countless barren autumns staring at the black frozen soil outside the city in the north wind. It's an ice field and it's also a cemetery. There was no life, no living creatures, no flowing water, only mountains, stones, and endless cold. The people of Tianxuan believe that this is the most ideal place to seal the "Nightmare Mira". So he fell into an eternal nightmare deep in a cavern at the foot of the Peak of Lamentation. Tianxuan Shangren understands that because of the existence of the soul of the "Nightmare Mira", his own consciousness will never die. Because of the bitter cold of the Far North, his flesh will never decay. As long as the physical body is immortal and the consciousness is immortal, he can seal the last "plague spores" in his body. The price was that he would have to endure the horror and torment of this demon's soul forever, and yet he resolutely fell asleep in the cavern of Wailing Peak. The Elven Warrior Yuha's single rider sealed the entrance to the cave with boulders and ice. Then he broke off his wings and plucked the feathers off his wings. He built a small tomb according to the rules of his ancestors and buried his most cherished feathers. Since then, he has faithfully guarded the cave sealed by the boulder for the rest of his limited life.

Shen Mingde unconsciously finished reading this chapter about an old Taoist and a "birdman". A hint of praise or mockery appeared at the corner of his mouth. He manipulated the mouse and flipped the novel to the next chapter.

Millions of years later, time has passed. The plateau has turned into a plain, the ice fields have also become fertile soil, and even the once unclimbable Tianzhu Peak has been cut into a small mountain bag. The majestic "Lamentation Peak" is now known as the "Crescent Slope" by the local people. The snow melts and converges into rivers that flow into the sea. Abundant groundwater gushes out of the surface, creating a tranquil lake at the foot of the Crescent Slope, surrounded by the surrounding trees and stars. Suddenly, a series of ripples rippled in the middle of the quiet lake, followed by a few bubbles breaking the mirror-like surface of the lake. With a splash of water, a human head emerges from the lake. This head has long hair and a shawl. Looking at the face again, in the words of an old commentator, it can really be described as "eyebrows are colorful, eyes are like stars, nose is like hanging gall, mouth is like a single bead, and face is like a crown of jade ......". However, on such a thoughtful face, the huge horror could not cover the unique "ruffian" of this person. This is the "book gall" of this book, surnamed Wu, named Tian, nicknamed Tian'er, alias Wu Tian'er. Some friends will say, "Aren't these names all the same?" "Pretty much! Northerners often speak with a "childish sound". Don't separate "heaven" from "son". It must be pronounced as "Wu Tian'er". Walking on the street, Jiao Erlang shouted locally, "Wu Tian'er, what are you doing?" "Hey, what I want is this kind of hooliganism, what I want is this kind of indifference, and what I want is this kind of friendship with buddies who are never polite.

Do you think Wu Tian'er is a hooligan? Well, just a few months ago he was a student. Don't look at the age of twenty, he's not a college student. Nine years of compulsory education, our Wu Tian'er has been studying for 14 years. Among them, he studied in primary school for eight years and repeated a grade for two years. I studied in junior high school for six years and studied for two years. I studied high school for three years. You say this kid is enlightened in high school? In the three years of high school, he has been in his first year of high school. In his "Runiang" words: "This child is enough to occupy the country's educational resources for so many years." Wu Tian'er's "Runiang" is not his mother, but his stepmother. As the old saying goes: a child has no mother, and it's a long story. We'll save that story for later.

Do you think Wu Tian'er is too stupid? Well, I'm telling you, he's very clever. The teachers persuaded Wu Tian'er to retire from junior high school. His "Ru Niang" sent him to a vocational and technical high school to learn carpentry. Wouldn't it be good to learn a little bit of technology? In today's society, it is not possible to find a job after graduating from college. Wu Tian'er has studied for three years, but he hasn't learned tables, chairs, benches, or anything, but he has made a lot of secret weapons. Wu Tian'er, this kid can just ponder. His first invention was a small device hidden behind a corner door. Whether you are a big girl or a little daughter-in-law, whether you are wearing a long skirt, a short skirt, or a dress, as long as you touch this device, it will lift your skirt properly. The device is called "Xianchunzi", and its name is derived from the legendary "blood droplet". This invention directly led to a change in the school rules: school girls could go to class without wearing school uniforms and skirts. So, the school girls wore their favorite jeans and slacks to school, but none of them dared to wear skirts. After that, what kind of "thrower", "trapped people", and so on, ....... It was precisely because of these gadgets that Wu Tianer was invited to the police station for a free tour for two months. "Ru Niang" later commented: "This child is out again." This time, I ate the country's public grain. ”

Shen Mingde read two chapters cursoryly, and secretly laughed at the fact that the author's pen name is called "Long Words Huayu", and his novels are really "Long Words and Words". The two chapters are basically the portrayal of the protagonist, and the knitting is meticulous to the smallest detail, even the mole on the protagonist's back and the scar on the back of the head must be explained in detail. Shen Mingde directly skipped a few chapters, picked the chapter titles he was more interested in, and continued to scan a few pages. Even if he misses a few chapters, it won't cause any obstacles to his understanding of the content of the story, and it seems that this author is really "suspicious of making up words".

So far, the main content of this story is to say: This little ruffian named Wu Tian'er has traveled to the land of Aurora. Emerge from the lake he crossed and find the ancient umbrella with runes printed on it in the ancient village. After that, he was chased by a group of humanoid monsters. After being rescued by the ascetic Xuan Lingzi, the two escaped. During the journey, he got acquainted with the viper demon Shaga Rita, and learned the story of sealing the "Nightmare Mira" thousands of years ago.

Shen Mingde found that the first 100 chapters of the entire novel are basically about the adventures of the protagonist and other nine people in various corners of the novel world. At the same time, there is an introduction to the geography, history, environment, and culture of the "Land of Aurora". For example: the elven species, the birdman clan returns to the first name with the surname, then the profession, and finally the first name. The "Yoha Single Rider" mentioned in the story is a typical birdman name. It shows that he is a member of the "Youyu" family, and his profession is the "lone cavalry" of the birdman clan, and he is a warrior called "the army of one man" by the clan. "Seat" is his own name. Later, the "Youyu Yufeng Shuo" that appeared in the novel should be the direct descendant of "Za", and "Yufeng" should be a profession, but Shen Mingde didn't understand what kind of profession it was. And in "Jishi Esoteric Buddhism", the names of the characters are also very interesting. Generally, it is a combination of character road numbers, cultivation and job levels. From high to low, personal cultivation can be divided into saints (people), virtuous (people), wise (people), Shang (people), and benevolent (people). The professional level is divided into Zong, Zun, Shi, Chang, and Shi. The "Tianxuan Shangren" who appears in the book is the second-class figure in Esoteric Buddhism. It doesn't seem like a great person, but at least it shows that Tianxuan is a noble person. Because he did not hold a position in Esoteric Buddhism, he had no rank of position, only called "Shangren". Later, the style of guiding Wu Tian'er and others to "Kuixing and Virtuous" seemed to be much "tall".

Although Shen Mingde felt that some parts of this novel were too "bloated", some of the content was still quite appetizing to him. He rubbed his parched eyes and casually flipped between the last few chapters of the novel. The title called "Wuyuan Lake Stumped Wu Tianzhong, and the Hanging Skull Array Trapped the Fei Moon" made him refreshed again.

Wu Tian'er and his entourage learned a legend from the mouths of local hunters. It is said that the tranquil lake at the foot of the crescent slope is the eye of Yamamira. This eye is usually closed, and only those who are destined can see the lake. After getting ready, the group of four went to explore the lake. After some struggle with the Mountain Maitreya Order, they successfully entered the ancient village temple. One of them, a female goblin named "Broken Jade Soul Snatcher Jade Moon", invaded the temple alone and performed a sacrificial ritual called "Imperial Reincarnation". The other three guarded the temple perimeter. Half of the "Pure Stream" (the time unit of the Land of Aurora) has passed, but the three of them have not seen the Fei Jingyue come out. Wu Tian'er rushed into the temple and found that the altar was empty. I saw the terrifying statue made of various animals suspended above the altar. Under the reflection of the surrounding candlelight, the statue looks very eerie. Wu Tian'er seemed to have been sucked out of her soul, and involuntarily moved towards the statue. Suddenly, a palm came from behind Wu Tian'er, knocking him to the ground. An inexplicable sense of coldness and fear made Wu Tian'er unable to move. When he regained consciousness, Hoxiang himself had been taken back to the inn by the Ascetic and the Viper Demon. Wu Tian'er didn't know who attacked him, and he didn't know where Fei Jingyue went. A blue-black palm mark appeared on Wu Tian'er's back.

The moon walked out of the water onto the shore of the lake. Aside from being a little dizzy, she felt like she was a freshman alive. However, what she saw was even more terrifying. The sky turned blood-red, and the trees in the forest turned into pitch-black silhouettes. Groups of Yamamira cultists rushed in the direction of the temple, their faces hidden behind the masks of the puppets looking even more distorted. There was an irregularly shaped black shadow wriggling in each of them, like a fetus about to give birth. Suddenly, a departing cultist rushed towards her. Fei Yue casts a soul drain spell to knock him down. But the shadow inside the cultist burst out again, and the thing was like a disgusting beetle. Although it is not large, it also pounces on it with its teeth and claws. After a few rounds of entanglement with the little beast, and finding that the spell had no effect on it, she resorted to her physical skills. Grabbing an opening, Fei Jingyue kicked the little monster into the air, and then used a trick to "hang the moon and pick the stars". She leaped into the air, dangled in the air, and slammed the monster from the air to the ground with a single volley. But the monster did not suffer any fatal wounds. Fei Jingyue felt that this monster was very difficult, so she used the escape technique, and then rushed straight back to the temple. The two outside the temple were struggling to fight, and even as Fei Yue passed them, they didn't notice her presence. So, she entered the temple again, only to see Wu Tian'er as if she had lost her soul, walking towards the statue of Shan Miluo step by step. Fei Jingyue patted Wu Tian'er on the back in a hurry, but Wu Tian'er suddenly fell to the ground, with an extremely painful expression on her face. Fei Jingyue tried all kinds of ways to get the attention of the two people in the temple, but the two of them still didn't respond. Eventually, she used "Guiding Dust" to lead them to the temple, and wrote the word "Escape" on the ground using "Guiding Dust". After coming, Fei Jingyue shook off her pursuers and tried to escape from the ancient village several times. But to her despair, she found that every time she turned into the woods and came out of the woods, it was always the old village in front of her. She was trapped in the ancient village and couldn't get out.

The next few chapters are about the experience of Wu Tian'er and several people who joined famous teachers and visited high friends, and there was no update until chapter 110. Shen Mingde rubbed his eyes. He felt that some of the plots and settings in this novel were exactly what he had experienced in the past few days. In particular, the name of the lake at the foot of the mountain, the ancient village, and the mountain Mira. The woods with high hanging heads that I just read about and the woods full of "grasshopper cages" that Shen Mingde had seen were simply carved out of a template. No wonder the author replied, "Isn't this the novel I wrote?" ”

Shen Mingde browsed the Circle of Mysteries forum again, but couldn't find more useful information again. left a message for the author of the novel "Long Words Huayu" in the forum and then went offline.