In 1999, a lot of things happened, as far as the world is concerned, the euro was officially launched, the United States promoted the missile defense system, NATO bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Turkish earthquake, the Russian army cleared Chechnya, China and the United States reached an agreement on China's accession to the WTO, scientists completed the translation of the 22nd pair of chromosomal genetic code, and the Chinese government resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Macao......

These are all reported in the newspapers and on television every day, and everyone knows it.

And in corners that people don't know, there are also many secret things happening.

In this year, I have completed an extremely gorgeous turn from a small role that has just stepped into the world of cultivators, whether it is obtaining the inheritance of the candle flame, or winning the second place in the first advanced training for cultivators, or making a big fuss about the engagement banquet of the second son of the Huo family on Hong Kong Island, and robbing the fiancée of the future speaker of the Huo family, leaving calmly, etc., all of which announced to the entire rivers and lakes at that time that there was such a person who had risen.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the news about me is also constantly passed on by word of mouth from news dealers, intelligence brokers, and people in the rivers and lakes.

However, the size of the rivers and lakes is supported by a huge land area and a huge population.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

More often, people are concerned about the present and the present, and for other things, they should just listen to the news, so there are not too many people who care about it except for the relevant parties.

These things are like a pebble thrown into a rushing river, although there is some movement, but in the end it still falls into nothingness.

No one cares too much about idle things.

For me, in addition to the accumulation of fame, it is more about gain.

The mystery of the Nine Xuanlu, the acquisition of Yuehualu, the flame of the candle yin, the golden armor incarnated by the Rokko gods, and the Nine Path Cloud Turning Stick Method, these are the foundations of my establishment in this river and lake.

In contrast to this is the enemy I have befriended.

From Huangquan Yin, to the Huo family on Hong Kong Island, to Bao Zhilin in Chancheng, to the beggars of the five provinces with a flower face, and a mysterious research organization with unknown origins......

The existence of these people makes me vigilant all the time against the sinister rivers and lakes, and I also practice more diligently, all I do is to struggle and survive on this seemingly calm but actually treacherous rivers and lakes.

Of course, in addition to enemies, I also made many friends.

I even got a piece of love.

and a family affection.

If you say, the "brother" that Suzaku calls is me.

At the turn of the century, Ma Yiao and I, as well as Suzaku, were always looking for the whereabouts of Feihua.

Despite the mysterious disappearance of the Institute's archives and records, some clues remain, and from the transcript of a surviving researcher, we learn that Fatty Flower spent almost two weeks at the Institute, and then she was transferred to another secret base along with eleven research subjects due to her special blood type.

In order to find that base, we traveled to the three provinces of northern Hubei, Jiangnan and northern Fujian, more than ten cities, and finally destroyed two small dens, but in the end we did not find the whereabouts of Feihua.

During that period of time, we didn't have any gains, and judging from all indications, the blood in Fat Flower's body was far more than just a pig nightcrawler.

According to the confessions of the relevant personnel, if it was just an ordinary, sparse Nightkin bloodline, it would basically only be imprisoned in the underground laboratory of the research institute, and it would be impossible to be transferred.

In fact, the main reason for that transfer was the fat flower.

During that period of time, we interacted frequently with Li Hongjun.

As an outstanding student from the first advanced training course for practitioners, although he was not able to get the rank he wanted, because he had a good family background, he also directly joined the 419 office, which is what we call the Heavenly Machine Department, and became an official investigator.

Along with him, there is also Tang Dao, who won the first place, that is, the young man who has to drink a bottle of AD calcium milk every day.

It's just that we have more dealings with Li Hongjun.

Although the contact was not very close when we were in school, after I left, the contact increased, and Li Hongjun replaced Su Lie as our liaison with the official.

Of course, the main reason for this is that I contradicted the Empress of Heavenly Machines because of Suzaku's relationship before, which made the relationship between the two sides suddenly become cold.

Sometimes I talked to Ma Yiao about this matter, and I thought that maybe when I was in school, everyone's sense of competition was too strong.

And out of society, the two months of time together have become evocative again.

So everyone cherishes each other's relationship more and more.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, Li Hongjun has also begun to gradually pay attention to the energy of me and Ma Yiao.

On the night of the millennium, Suzaku and Ma Yiao spent time in a people's square on Ludao Island in northern Fujian, and the crowd was crowded, as if the whole city had crowded into the street, listening to the passage of time, and when the hands of the square clock pointed to the early hours of the morning, there was a huge cheer from the crowd.

Young, old, young, men and women, all cheered and celebrated the arrival of the new century.

There were brilliant fireworks in the sky, people who didn't know each other hugged each other, and several good-looking young female college students had been surrounding Ma Yiao, and the moment the bell rang, all of them pounced.

I held Suzaku's hand tightly and begged her to release Qin Liluo's consciousness, but Suzaku flatly refused.

In fact, in the past so long, I have seen Qin Liluo a few times, and the time spent together is only a few minutes.

Qin Liluo told me that her cultivation of "Heavenly Demon Thoughtlessness" had reached a critical moment.

If she can pass this pass, her consciousness realm will undergo a qualitative change, and her strength will increase exponentially, just like a phoenix transforming.

And if she doesn't succeed, there's a good chance she'll fall.

So she can't appear at any time, and this matter is not to blame Suzaku, but her own choice.

I understand Qin Liluo's explanation.

It's just that the long-term rustiness makes me always feel very awkward, and the emotional interaction with Qin Liluo is always ungraspable, and this matter is like a long-distance relationship.

What makes me even more sad is that the time we spent together was too short, and the strangeness had not been eliminated, and the person had already left.

This thing makes me very painful.,Fortunately, Suzaku is a relatively easy person to get along with most of the time, except for the occasional petty temperament.。

Sometimes she was like a girl who lacked love, coquettishly to me and Ma Yiao, sometimes she taught us in an old-fashioned manner, instructed us to practice, and sometimes she was so sleepy that it was difficult to wake her up.

And with the accumulation of time, her cultivation began to become more and more powerful, and there was a tendency to go up in a straight line.

New Year's Day in 2000 came to a roar of cheers, and five days later, we raided a remote island on Heron Island, only to find out that the information we got was false, it was just a desert island, with a few abandoned and dilapidated houses, thick guano and nests of sea snakes.

We searched the island to the bottom of the island, but in the end we found nothing.

As the sun set, I sat on the top of the hillside of the island, turning over the contents of the gossip bag and sorting it out.

There were some supplies, food and water, as well as tents for camping in the wilderness, and sets of clothes, Ma Yiao's, mine's, and Suzaku's, all stuffed here, as well as bits and pieces of tools, etc.

Basically, everybody's belongings were thrown away at me and turned into a little grocery store.

Fortunately, there is enough space for this thing, otherwise it really wouldn't hold so many things.

When there are too many things, it will naturally be messy, and I have to take things out and organize them in different categories, so as not to have difficulty in checking them when I get them.

Suzaku played the flute not far from me.

This hobby was picked up not long ago, and according to her own words, she has studied this kind of musical instrument such as silk and bamboo, and it is this that has accompanied her through the long and lonely years.

I didn't believe it at first, but when I spent 20 yuan on the stall to buy her a flute, and when I listened to her play, I found that although she couldn't play a complete tune, she could inexplicably feel a kind of ancient and distant artistic conception when she thought about it with the gentle and melodious sound of the flute, and whether it was high-pitched, low-pitched, melodious and passionate, she could control it.

It's not a specially trained, but a voice that comes from the heart, and it's all the more moving.

However, when I turned over a piece of tortoise shell, the sound of the flute suddenly stopped.

In the next second, the tortoise shell fell into Suzaku's hands.

She looked at the vague runes on it with a serious face, and after a while, she looked at me and asked, "Where did this thing come from?" ”

This thing is the reward I got after I won the second place in the advanced research class.

It is said that there are some clues to the secret realm of Yujiang on it.

And the rest of the soil is in the secret realm of Yujiang.

However, I couldn't find anything out of the mess of runes, so I ended up stuffing it in a corner.

I talked to Suzaku about the origin of this thing, and she was very excited and said to me, "Do you have the current map?" ”

What map am I talking about?

Suzaku said, "What a map, a map of the world, stupid! ”

I saw her so excited, and hurriedly asked, but Suzaku didn't want to say, I hurriedly joined Ma Yiao, and then left the island, returned to the city of Ludao, found a bookstore, bought a map, and spread it out for Suzaku.

She looked at the map while facing the tortoiseshell, and after looking at it for a long time, her finger fell to a place and she said, "Here." ”

I looked down and saw that the place where her finger was pointing was Yazhou.

Yazhou on Hainan Island.