"Who do you think this mountain man is? Do I know each other? Why do you always have a plan? Hao Jian asked with a constipated expression.

I slapped him and scolded, "Can you pay attention to what you say?" Cheng Tianya, Ya, I haven't even been to the Forbidden City to pretend to be any people in the capital? ”

"And the face to say about me? It's like you've been to the Forbidden City! Hao Jianman rolled his eyes nonchalantly, and after a few more words, he got up and left.

Sending Hao Jian away, I lay on the bed looking at the ceiling in a daze, still thinking about what to do after rescuing Liu Yunsheng, when I came back to my senses, I suddenly found that there was another person in the room, and I hurriedly turned over and sat up, and I was relieved after seeing that it was the boss, patted my chest and palpitated: "Do you know how to be polite?" Don't you knock when you come in? ”

"I knocked, you didn't hear," the boss said lightly with an expressionless face, "What do you think?" So fascinating? ”

"I'm thinking about how to save Liu Yunsheng," I said casually: "Fog Village is not an easy place to enter, not to mention the complex terrain, the perennial fog is easy to disorient, and there are those gladiolus like pitcher plants, not to mention underground......"

"We've already figured out what you're talking about, so we don't need you to worry about it," the boss interrupted me with a wave of his hand, and then pointed to the bookshelf next to the door and asked, "How is the information memorized?" ”

When I heard the word "information", I suddenly chuckled in my heart, because I didn't read it much at all, although I remember the synopsis of the story in those books, but the boss asked me to memorize the full text!

The boss saw that I didn't speak for a long time, and probably understood what it meant, sighed a little disappointed, and then said with a straight face as usual: "Time is too tight, it's normal that you can't remember with your IQ, but what I'm going to tell you now is all about the key points, and you must keep it in your mind." ”

Seeing the boss's unsmiling expression, I was unconsciously infected by his serious attitude, and nodded heavily: "Don't worry, I will definitely remember!" ”

"Very good," the boss's face softened, and he casually pulled the book from the bookshelf and threw it to me, "Simplify the story and give you five minutes." ”

I picked up the book and read it and was happy, because this is one of the few books I read, the book is called "Penglai Ji", about a young fisherman who went out to sea to fish, encountered a storm and fell on a desert island, and met an immortal, who heard about his experience and welcomed him very warmly, and heard that he wanted to go home and used great magic to help him build a treasure ship.

The fisherman drove the treasure boat, sailed on the sea for more than a month and finally returned home, only to find that his neighbors were dozens of years old, and even his newlywed wife had become a gray-haired old woman.

The boss didn't comment after listening to me, and took back "Penglai Ji" and handed me another book, this one is called "Yingzhou Travel", I haven't read it before, but I know that Yingzhou, like Penglai, is one of the three legendary immortal mountains, and it is estimated that it is a story of encountering immortals after getting lost.

Turning it over, the protagonist of the story is the son of a rich gentry, who likes to travel in the mountains and rivers since he was a child, but fortunately, the elders in the family are also quite supportive.

In ancient times, the transportation was inconvenient, it was difficult for ordinary people to know what the outside world was like, he smelled business opportunities from it, and after each trip returned, he would write a book of what he had seen and heard during the trip and then hand it over to the bookstore for sale.

When he was forty years old, this blogger had already traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, and he couldn't toss it on the land, so he set his sights on the rippling sea, bought a big ship and sailed into the East China Sea, wanting to find the legendary Yingzhou Immortal Island, and when he returned from the sea, he was still forty years old, but found that he had actually changed the dynasty.

The story ends here, after reading it, I was stunned, I thought that "Yingzhou Travel" was written about the author's experience in Yingzhou, but the whole article did not mention the situation in Yingzhou at all, and the dare to love the title party had it in ancient times?

I asked questions, but the boss didn't answer, took away the "Yingzhou Travels" and handed me a copy of "The Secret Story of the Square Pot", I saw the word "Secret", and suddenly felt a strong atmosphere of the title party coming to my face, and directly put the book aside and looked at the boss: "It's very tiring to toss all night, let's not go around the bend, what do you want to say directly?" ”

"Okay, then get straight to the point," the boss seemed to be used to playing tricks, and paused before continuing: "Do you think the content of these books has anything in common?" ”

"What do you have in common?" I'm a little confused, not because I don't know, but because I think the question is too simple.

As far as the books I have read are concerned, although the time, place, characters, and backgrounds in the books are not the same, they are basically the routines of meeting immortals in the wilderness, and then a day in the mountains, and the world has been a thousand years, but this common point is too obvious, with my understanding of the boss, I don't think he should ask such a simple question.

But I pondered for a long time and didn't find the second commonality, and after hesitating for a while, I finally asked, "Is the common denominator that the protagonist met an immortal in the wilderness?" ”

"That's right," the boss nodded in satisfaction, then smacked his lips again, "But you're only half right." ”

"It's just a brainless problem, it's good to be able to say half right!" I thought to myself, but there was a sensitive and studious expression on my face: "Then tell me what the rest of the half is?" ”

The boss didn't speak, but out of nowhere he took out a marker pen and wrote two big words on the wall opposite me: time.

I was stunned at first, but it only took half a second to react, when the protagonists in these stories are with the immortals, they all seem to be immune to the passage of time, the outside world has passed dozens or even hundreds of years, but in the protagonist's perception there are only a few hours or days, and the longest is only a few months.

This kind of setting is very common in modern cultivation, in order to explain the protagonist's cultivation speed, in addition to the blunt explanation of "talented", many authors will design a thing for the protagonist to know the sea.

One day of cultivation inside is worth ten years or more of cultivation outside, from a certain level, this knowledge of the sea is also a manifestation of the time difference, although the knowledge of the sea does not exist, but it is not uncommon to have this setting in ancient times, but more than a thousand people from different dynasties and different regions use this setting, which is a bit strange.

"Looks like you've got the key."

The boss suddenly opened his mouth to pull my thoughts back, and without waiting for me to speak, he continued: "In almost all stories, the protagonist is warmly entertained by the immortals, so can it be assumed that the protagonist ignores the secrets of time and hides in the food that the immortals give to the protagonist? ”

"You mean...... The elixir of life? I asked tentatively with a complicated expression, seeing the boss nodding solemnly, and suddenly I felt like my world view had collapsed!