On July 9th, Tang Muzhi came out of the examination room of Guan County Middle School alone, the warm sun passed through the mottled shadows of the trees, and he was greeted by Tang Ming and Ye Kexin - this is the first time Ye Kexin has been out of the Tangmen Martial Arts School since returning from Chuang Pinggou, the scorching Sichuan Basin, the scorching sun has always been something she doesn't like, even after her physical condition has completely improved.

In later words, Ye Kexin is a complete housegirl, and in the past year, she lived in the sparsely populated Chuangpinggou, weeding, farming, practicing medicine, collecting firewood for cooking, and maintaining flowers and plants with Qiu Laodao. The simple wooden house that Tang Muzhi had built was no longer able to smell the musty smell of the wood that had not dried up under her careful care, and the smell of jasmine and the shocking smell of medicinal herbs were mixed together, and Tang Muzhi meditated, fell asleep, and read in this smell every day and night in the first half of the year.

After practicing the Liuku Immortal Thief, Ye Kexin's appetite increased instead of decreasing, according to her, the taste of the vitality of heaven and earth was hidden in the carefully crafted ingredients - this surprised Tang Muzhi, after all, Barron, who was also the inheritor of the Liuku Immortal Thief, even Barron, who had never eaten anyone, gradually became tired of ordinary food. The effect brought by the Liuku Immortal Thief is passive, and the irritating behaviors such as drinking spirits and injecting anesthetics are supposed to have no effect on them, let alone ordinary food.

Ye Kexin said that good food is the beginning of a good day. Her cooking skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and her taste is no longer as extreme as before, and she also likes to study dishes, so she often goes to Lixian County, which is far away, to buy ingredients and left-hand ingredients. Qiu Laodao doesn't eat meat, and these delicacies are often cheaper than Tang Muzhi.

While Tang Muzhi enjoyed this treatment, he had to take the medicinal materials and utensils for refining foreign medicine to other places, such as Dorjee helping him find a transparent cave in the nearby snow mountain, because the foreign medicine used to take could not be stored for a long time after refining, Tang Muzhi would wake up very early when he practiced poison gong every Wednesday and Friday, ate the breakfast prepared by Ye Kexin, and walked more than ten kilometers over the snow mountain to stay in the cave for a whole day.

Once a woman has strong energy, it is sometimes a terrible thing, but sometimes it is also a pleasing thing to the eye. Ye Kexin learned to dress herself - perhaps she knew how to dress up from the beginning, when she was sick, she used a coat or loose robe to hide her tall but slender figure, after the Liuku Immortal Thief adjusted her system, at the gate of Rongcheng No. 18 Middle School on this day, she tied a low ponytail and tied a bow, the upper body was a red and white baseball shirt, a shallow V-shaped neck exposed the charming collarbone, and the lower body was slim jeans and small white shoes.

Tang Muzhi remembered that Tang Ming and his wife also had a garment factory with excellent operating conditions, thinking that she was not short of dress-up clothes, no longer quiet and melancholy, today's Ye Kexin is chic and neat, full of girlish vitality.

She gently leaned on Tang Ming's Audi car, slim and elegant, attracting countless candidates who had finished the college entrance examination.

Fortunately, Tang Muzhi left school relatively early, so as not to attract frivolous teasing, this year, the college entrance examination candidates are a little older, coupled with the end of the depressed and heavy school, it is the time when hormones explode, Tang Muzhi walked into the Audi car and obviously felt several jealous eyes behind him.

"Hey, Brother Ming, you also made a special trip to be a driver, you said no, you will be there soon after walking."

"Hehe, Xiangche beauty, doesn't this make you beautiful in front of people...... How's it going? Watching the World Cup together last night doesn't affect you, does it? Tang Ming lit the fire and asked with a smile.

The World Cup in France on the 10th of last month was hailed as the most classic World Cup by later generations. Tang Muzhi has been running Pinggou without watching, taking advantage of the college entrance examination in Huiguan County in the past few days, Tang Muzhi has watched Tang Ming's house happily, and Croatia has been a dark horse to reach the semifinals two days ago, which is really exciting.

"The first choice should be able to get in." Tang Muzhi said casually.

"It's okay, anyway, you're going to enlist in the army soon, and it doesn't matter if your student status is in Jiangcheng or Rongcheng."

Ye Kexin said: "It's hard to come out, brother-in-law, can you send us to Rongcheng?" ”

Tang Ming smiled and said, "Okay, but I won't go, Mu Zhi, you can drive by yourself - by the way, remember to come back in the evening, everyone is going to celebrate your success." ”

Tang Ming Dynasty rearview mirror squeezed his eyebrows and got out of the car near the Tang Gate.

"......" Tang Muzhi winked at Ye Kexin, who was sitting in the co-pilot, Ye Kexin smiled: "Actually, it was Ruan Feng's seniors who contacted me, and I don't know how he is doing now in the past few times." ”

"I see...... Will he use the phone now? ”

"Well, it was given to me last time when he came to Chuangpinggou to find me, and Ruan Feng's seniors have a very fast ability to adapt. By the way, it's the mouth of the cave last time. Ye Kexin's eyes were a little playful, "It's the one you pushed me down." ”

"Yes, yes, hehe." Tang Muzhi smiled.

"By the way, this is your call." Ye Kexin handed him the Nokia 8110 of the same model as the Matrix, "As soon as you left from Chuangpinggou on your front foot, Lu Yi's call came in, and he wanted to ask you which school to apply for." ”

"That's when I remembered...... I guess Mr. Lu wants to ask me. Tang Muzhi took the phone and dialed Lu Jin directly, a few months ago Lu Yi asked him if he wanted to come to Hebei to go to school, Tang Muzhi told him about joining the army, and Lu Jin must have known.

"Hello?" Lu Jin's voice came from the other end of the phone, and it sounded a little distorted.

"Master Lu, it's me, Tang Muzhi. You're not busy after taking office as 'old', are you? ”

"Hmph...... It turned out to be you kid! Don't mention anything else. Finished the exam? I just have something to ask you. ”

"Well, it's over, everything is going well, I volunteered to fill in Jiangcheng University."

"Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't come to Hebei, anyway, the university here is not very good. I'm asking you about enlisting in the army, my Lu family doesn't say anything else, I have never been left behind in serving the country, and half of the children of your generation have gone to the army, and there are all over the country, although it is tepid, but it can still help you. After the training camp, you take care of each other, and the people in the circle have different ways of living there, and there are many rules, so you still have to pay more attention. ”

"That's for sure." Tang Muzhi nodded, and Lu Jin continued: "By the way, there are many floods this year, and the situation is getting more and more intense, you may soon go to the front line of flood control when you enlist in the army, this is a natural disaster, and it is also a man-made disaster." In the face of the flood, we are no different from ordinary people! ”

Tang Muzhi agreed, waited for Lu Jin to hang up the phone, and then said to Ye Kexin: "It's quite taboo to say everything, but listening to Master Lu's meaning, he knows where I was assigned, and the relationship is quite hard." ”

"Oh...... Master Lu is not a person who hides his words and doesn't say anything, and he hasn't said it yet, why did you hear it? Ye Kexin wondered.

"Like our doorman, many older generations don't like to talk about business on the phone, and they are very fast."

Speaking of the flood, Tang Muzhi's mood is a little heavy, the 98 year flood is a major flood including the Yangtze River, Nenjiang River, Songhua River and other river basin areas, the third basin-wide flood that occurred in the 20 th century, he also remembers this vividly, during which countless heroic deeds emerged, but also exposed a large number of tofu scum projects and ...... Don't mention it, he'll have to face it himself soon anyway.

Tang Muzhi drove for more than two hours, and got off the car near a forest twenty kilometers away from Rongcheng.

This place is very remote, and the sound of cars is probably heard, and Ruan Feng's slightly bloated figure appears in the forest.

Compared with the last time I saw him, Ruan Feng's figure was a little fatter and a lot taller. But his clothes are quite neat, his spirit is fine, he still doesn't have the slightest smell on his body, but when Tang Muzhi looked over, he already faintly felt some dangerous aura - this is an early warning issued by his keen five senses, even if Tang Muzhi has a lot of experience in fighting with people, but strictly speaking, this situation is the second time he has encountered it after Lu Gu.

"Hah! Just came, tell me to wait. ”

Ruan Feng seems to have lived here for a while, and there are some obvious traces of life behind him. Even after cannibalism, he rarely lives very close to the crowd's settlement, and of course he sometimes gets hungry.

Fallen, but not completely fallen, this is the situation of Ruan Feng now.

However, Ruan Feng's personality Tang Muzhi still believed that if he really couldn't restrain himself from attacking innocent people, he would have run to the ends of the earth by himself.

"Senior Ruan Feng......" Tang Muzhi's expression was a little solemn. Ye Kexin has been in charge of the Liuku Immortal Thief for half a year, during which Ruan Feng came to Pinggou and met her a few times.

According to Ruan Feng, Ye Kexin has been in contact with Qiu Laodao and him for a long time, and now she should almost realize her innermost desires, but she should still be in a state of self-doubt.

"Don't get too close to me, just sit there and talk." Ruan Feng waved his hand and said self-deprecatingly: "I'm afraid that I'm suddenly tired of being alive, and I can't help but seek death and attack you two directly." ”

Seeing that Tang Muzhi and Ye Kexin didn't speak, Ruan Feng snorted lightly, "Old man, I'm not having a good time, I'm here to chat with you two, don't be so lifeless, bring the chessboard!" By the way, Tang Muzhi, I heard that you went to take the college entrance examination? ”

"Yes." Tang Muzhi moved the tree stump for Ye Kexin to sit down, and explained to Ruan Feng what the college entrance examination was.

"Hey, I remember, I know this, didn't you say it was canceled back then...... I have also seen a similar system abroad, which is similar to the level of those who take the certificate examination, and there is still a university after the examination. ”

Tang Mu's heart is not so easy, if I remember correctly, there were more than 3 million people in the college entrance examination this year, and in the end, only 1.08 million were admitted, and the average admission rate was only 34 percent.

"By the way, Xiao Kexin, you are a little older than Tang Muzhi, why don't you go to school?" Ruan Feng brought a stone slab and laid a plastic chessboard on it.

Ye Kexin opened the Go box and said, "I didn't have this plan before, but now thanks to the Liuku Immortal Thief, I still have so many days to live, so let's take my time, don't be in a hurry." ”

"Also, Tang Muzhi has never forgotten it, he can memorize those textbooks by looking at them, I can't compare, I still have to do farm work and cook vegetables in Chuangpinggou, so I may not be able to pass the exam in the next year." Ye Kexin fell the first one.

"......" Ruan Feng pursed his lips, fell down, and said with some hesitation: "Girl, you know that this is not harming you, the place in Chuang Pinggou is very good, and you will always live there in the future." ”

This is to make it clear, Ye Kexin was silent for a moment, and said, "Is it because of the cultivation of the Six Libraries Immortal Thief?" ”

Ruan Feng nodded, "You can also tell me, your true feelings for more than half a year, this is a problem you will have to face sooner or later." ”

Ye Kexin frowned and looked at Tang Muzhi.

"I can't remember the time very clearly, that day Mu Zhi went to practice poison exercises, when Grandpa Qiu and I went to treat a Tibetan girl with an acupuncture, there was a sudden wave of seasonal movement in my heart, and the fluid couldn't stop flowing down." Ye Kexin stretched out her index finger and circled her right cheek, and her throat moved slightly, "That feeling is very clear, it's appetite." I didn't feel right, so I made an excuse and went back first. ”

Ruan Feng waited for the next article, but Ye Kexin didn't speak for a long time, he was stunned and said, "It's gone?" ”

Ye Kexin said inexplicably: "Hmm...... Is there something wrong? ”

Ruan Feng stroked his chin, stared at Ye Kexin directly, and said with some hesitation: "If it is only to this extent, it will be surprising." ”

Ye Kexin said: "The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more than is lost. After the Liuku Immortal Thief automatically cured my impotence, the most intuitive feeling was the unprecedented vigorous energy in my body, and I thought that my life would be very long - it turned out that this was the Eight Wonder Skills, the Eight Wonder Skills that once made everyone in the world crazy. But it's impossible for immortality not to pay a price, right? When you and Tang Muzhi set that test, I had some vague guesses. ”

"Later, the little girl's incident also confirmed this: the Liuku Immortal Thief will make people physiologically have the urge to devour their own kind."

"No, it's not." Ruan Feng frowned and interrupted Ye Kexin's speech, "It's not the impulse to devour the same kind, have you ever seen an elf?" ”

Ye Kexin was stunned and replied that she hadn't seen it.

"Although I understood this truth when I felt tasteless when I ate before, but the elf is a good example, if you will have an appetite for people, then it should be the same for the elves, this is because the Liuku Immortal Thief will help us instantly decompose the matter and absorb the nutrients in it, which causes the energy level we usually absorb to become higher, so we will gradually lose the desire for ordinary nutrients, and instead have the idea of leaping to a higher level - that is, humans or creatures with Qi."