Although it is said that Cheng Mo only needs to take off the shielding ring when he returns to Huaxia, in order to have a complete entry and exit record for Lin Zhinuo's identity, Cheng Mo still chose to fly back honestly, anyway, it was not bad for a few hours. Li Shixian's plane back to Hanguo was in the afternoon, so he didn't come to the airport with Cheng Mo.

When Cheng Mo came, he didn't have any luggage, but when he went back, he bought a lot of gifts, the most important of which was Malaysia's specialty handmade pewter, Cheng Mo bought a lot and was ready to give it away. He didn't know why he had such a habit, and whenever he went to a place, he always remembered to buy gifts for people he had a good relationship with, and recalled it carefully, maybe it was because of his father.

Because every time Cheng Yongze goes to a meeting in other places, he will bring him some gifts that are not "gifts" at all, such as souvenirs sent during meetings, books bought at airports and train stations, and facial cleansers sold by roadside salesmen who don't know what brand.....

All in all, none of them are serious "gifts", but every time I always bring something inexplicable home. The most exaggerated time Cheng Yongze went to a foreign coastal city to conduct historical research, and he didn't buy anything delicious and fun, but brought home a sack of shells.

Cheng Mo opened it and thought it was seafood, but it didn't look like it was delicious, but who bought a souvenir shell and bought a sack back? Cheng Mo asked Cheng Yongze, "Can this thing be eaten?"

Cheng Yongze "haha" smiled and said, "This is not for eating." ”

Cheng Mo asked again: "What can I do with that?"

Cheng Yongze thought for a long time and said: "It doesn't seem to be useful, it's good-looking......" Then he smiled and said: "If you want to build a wall at home, it should work well on cement."

Cheng Mo was speechless, other people's parents came back from abroad, not to mention what luxuries they brought, they would always bring something delicious, caviar, chocolate, cookies, or something, only his father brought a sack of shells to decorate the wall, Cheng Mo felt a little big, "You won't spend money to buy it, right?"

Mentioning Qian Cheng Yongze, he coughed and said: "As a senior shellfish lover, I want to tell you that shells are very interesting, you must know that shells first existed as currency, why did shells become currency in ancient times, and not other things?"

Cheng Yongze took out a few shells with beautiful patterns from the sack and showed them to Cheng Mo, "You look at the differences in morphology between species and always make you admire the magic of nature, you have to understand it first before you are interested in the story about it, such as why the snail family living on the upper coast has a spiral help, How do shells that are not symmetrical and deviate from a strict logarithmic spiral grow in paroxysmal patterns, and how do the differences between shells of the same species or of different species distributed throughout the world form in the course of biological evolution?"

Over time, you discover that this is not just a simple biological question, but the geometry and mechanics of shells, and the historical geography of shells...... Sometimes, even the lessons learned from the life history of the shells can be found in us as human beings....."

Cheng Mo glanced at those beautiful jade-like shells and said, "So.... How much did it cost?"

Cheng Yongze touched his head a little embarrassed and said, "Ten thousand pieces.... You know that foreign things are expensive!"

Cheng Mo didn't speak, and Cheng Yongze didn't do it, walked back to the room, slammed the door slammed, and covered his head in the quilt and was angry, at that time he felt that he wouldn't expect this unreliable old man to give him the money for surgery in his life. Unexpectedly, because of his father's relationship, he can easily earn tens of millions of dollars......

Cheng Mo remembered the fate of those shells again, and was finally put up for auction by Cheng Yongze on the Internet, and actually sold for a total of more than 30,000 yuan, and earned more than 10,000 yuan, but Cheng Yongze still said regretfully: "Actually, I think it makes more sense to build a wall with these shells!"

Cheng Mo sat in the seat and felt the plane break free from gravity, he looked sideways at the plane and broke through the churning sea of clouds, a little regretful that he didn't leave those shells back then, but it's a pity that no matter how rich he is now, he can't buy back those things that have been lost.

While pondering, the sweet-looking stewardess came over and asked softly, "Mr. Lin, do you need anything to drink?"

Cheng Mo glanced up at the flight attendant, since he got on the plane just now, the flight attendants were talking about him, and thought he was a star, Cheng Mo was used to this, and said lightly: "Milk, a glass of milk." ”

"Okay, Mr. Lin. ”

After a while, the stewardess brought Cheng Mo a glass of milk, and a WeChat account was written on the paper cup, Cheng Mo looked at this string of WeChat accounts composed of English, and inexplicably felt a trace of loneliness, and he couldn't help but think of a small poem in Baudelaire's "The Flower of Evil": Maybe you and I will eventually be missing

But you should know that I was emotionally moved by you

Don't fantasize about a stage well

And to fantasize about the results after waiting

That kind of life will only be full of dependency

My mind does not stop at anyone

And for whom the heart must beat.

"Life is so lonely that everyone's heart needs a sustenance, so each of us is desperately looking for something in other people, but no matter how hard we try, we will eventually return to loneliness, what is this for?"

"It seems that this lonely planet is also lonely and spinning in the universe!"

Cheng Mo thought of Xie Minyun, he felt that the two of them were meteors that fell into the atmosphere at the same time, met by chance, and then passed by by accident, and the flames swept over each other's bodies like this, leaving an indelible mark.

But can love really relieve people's loneliness?

Cheng Mo didn't believe it, he felt that no matter how intense the love was, it would return to silence and eventually go to annihilation.

Cheng Mo closed his eyes, but the scene after the rain came to his mind, and what he remembered most was not Xie Minyun's domineering letting Yu Junshan drop out of school, nor was it her leading him away under the rainbow, nor was it that she ate KFC with him at the foot of Yuelu Mountain.....

Instead, Xie Minyun gently pinned the photo of her kissing him to the wall of the bubble tea shop with a thumbtack.

The photo was nailed by Xie Minyun to the wall of the milk tea spot, but Cheng Mo nailed the whole picture to the wall of memory.

Cheng Mo rotated the cup with a WeChat sign to make himself unable to see those English letters, "Maybe love is like those beautiful shells, it doesn't need to be of any practical use, it's just beautiful enough to make people feel happy." ”

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Out of the customs, Cheng Mo did not hesitate to find a no-man's corner, took off the shielding ring, and the words "system abnormality" popped up in front of his eyes in an instant, and his body fell into stiffness, the DNA aperture rotated for a long time, and Cheng Mo's consciousness returned to his body, and when he woke up, Cheng Mo's arm was still with a hanging needle, a glass bottle hanging next to the bed, and the transparent nutrient solution was flowing into his body from the catheter drop by drop.

A huge hunger pang radiated from Cheng Mo's stomach to his whole body, Cheng Mo pulled out the hanging needle, sat up from the bed, and suddenly felt weak all over his body, as if it would be difficult to get out of bed.

Cheng Mo turned his head and found biscuits, yogurt, chocolate, and mineral water on the bedside table, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and immediately began to gobble up without hesitation, eating a piece of chocolate and a few biscuits, and drinking several sips of cold mineral water, Cheng Mo felt that his body seemed to be filled, not as empty as it was at the beginning, as if it could be blown away by the wind.

Cheng Mo opened Uroboros and saw that the fat man Floran transferred him eight skills, experience points and contribution points, but unfortunately although Floran is the fourth heir to the throne in Spain, he is far inferior to Napoleon, who has no throne, and the strongest skill is just an AA-level gravity wave cannon, but this is already worthy of Cheng Mo's joy.

Cheng Mo glanced at the task of the "Seven Sins Sect" again, and the experience of Penglai Island made him gain a lot, and the overall progress was almost a quarter completed. Coupled with the 40 million US dollars that have been recorded and the planned 50 billion and 6 Ulopolos, Cheng Mo couldn't be more satisfied with this trip to Penglai Mountain. Cheng Mo got off the bed, went to take a shower, and when he came out, he saw Feng Luwan sitting on the sofa next to the bed.

"Are you back, why is it two days later than planned?" Feng Luwan asked.

Cheng Mo wiped his wet hair with a bath towel and said, "There was an accident, there is no way." ”

"What accident?"

Cheng Mo hesitated for a moment and said, "What about Sister Bai?"

Feng Luwan naturally understood what Cheng Mo meant and wanted to say directly to Bai Xiuxiu, "Bai Dong waited until yesterday, and saw that you hadn't come back yet, so you went to Europe, and now you are not in Huaxia, and it is estimated that it is not convenient to contact you now." ”

"And when will she be back?"

Feng Luwan shook her head and said, "I don't know." After a pause, Feng Luwan continued: "If there is no important discovery this time, you can wait until you come back and tell Bai Dong! If so, tell me, and I'll see if I can tell her through a special channel." ”

Cheng Mo said the answer that he had already thought of: "Penglai Mountain was destroyed, and it seems that it was an organization called the 'Home and Freedom Front of the Chosen One' that destroyed Penglai Mountain, and Jing Quan was also killed, and now only Jing Xing ran out of Penglai Mountain, I don't know where he went." ”

Feng Lu stood up from the sofa and said in surprise, "What? Penglai Mountain was destroyed?"

Cheng Mo nodded, "On New Year's Day, the group of people who claimed to be the 'Home of the Chosen and the Freedom Front' used the fireworks of Penglai Mountain to set fire to most of the mountain, and most of the buildings in Penglai Mountain were wooden structures, so it can be said that the entire Penglai Mountain was burned clean. ”

Feng Luwan frowned and said, "Jing Quan is also dead, how did he die?"

"I don't know the specifics, Jing Xing said that he died at the hands of those who set the fire. ”

"Jing Xing didn't stay in Penglai Mountain?"

Cheng Mo pretended to smile bitterly and said, "Jing Xing felt that his brother had made such a big mistake, and he must have no place in Penglai Mountain, so he ran away..... I guess he might not even dare to go back to Huaxia now....."

Feng Luwan said with a disappointed face: "Could it be that the clues we have followed for more than ten years have been broken like this?"

"Anyway, that's all I have so far, and for more details, you can find out through other channels. However, it seems unlikely that they would be exposed to the Black Death through the Jing brothers. ”

"Sister Bai doesn't know how much it will be if she knows..... Feng Luwan said with regret.

Seeing a very abstract expression on Feng Luwan's face, but it could accurately convey the pain in his heart, Cheng Mo's heart was also a little shaken, he didn't want to become a pawn of Taiji Dragon, and he didn't want to take the risk of going undercover to the Black Death, but Bai Xiuxiu was really good to him, Cheng Mo still wanted to help Bai Xiuxiu achieve his wish, although after going to Penglai Mountain, he felt that this hope was very slim.

Cheng Mo was silent and did not speak.

"Anyway, I've worked hard for you, you have a good rest first, and I'll report the situation to the above. Feng Luwan said hurriedly.

"Secretary Feng, thank you for taking care of me these days!" Cheng Mo hurriedly said sincerely.

"No thanks, it's my job. After saying that, Feng Luwan walked towards the door of the bedroom, and when she arrived at the door, Feng Luwan stopped again, looked back at Cheng Mo and said, "Don't run around first, wait for Bai Dong to come back." ”

Cheng Mo replied "Okay", and Feng Luwan closed the bedroom door and left the room.

Cheng Mo looked at the tightly closed door, and then looked at the easel and blank canvas next to the floor-to-ceiling bed, and Bai Xiuxiu's beautiful face naturally appeared in his mind, he sighed in his heart, thinking: Anyway, there is still a chance to regret it, and when I see her, I will decide whether to tell her that I am now the person in charge of Penglai Mountain!

A month has passed, the New Year is getting closer and closer, Cheng Mo still hasn't been able to see Bai Xiuxiu, Cheng Mo is not in a hurry, he reads books and learns to paint at home during the day, and wonders whether he should learn a musical instrument. At night, he used the carrier to deal with the affairs of Penglai Mountain through his mobile phone, as well as practice various skills, and wandered around the city to find any opportunities for righteousness and bravery.

Because my cousin was on duty for the New Year, my uncle planned to go back to Wuling for the New Year, so he called Cheng Mo to go back to Wuling together, Cheng Mo thought about it for a long time, and finally agreed, but he didn't expect that on the day when he was going back to Wuling on the 28th of the lunar month, Bai Xiuxiu also returned to Star City, saying that he would meet Cheng Mo in the evening.

Cheng Mo could only let his uncle's family go back first, when he saw Bai Xiuxiu on the balcony of Bai Xiuxiu's house at night, Cheng Mo did not find too much disappointment on Bai Xiuxiu's face, the winter in Star City is cold, and those flowers that can still bloom in autumn can't survive the cold winter, and at this moment the balcony is depressed, only deep green and withered yellow.

Bai Xiuxiu put a pot of charcoal fire in front of the sofa, and the red fire was printed on her fair face, adding a bit of glamour to the wet and cold winter night.

Cheng Mo didn't sit down immediately, and said to Bai Xiuxiu, who was wrapped in a blanket, "Do you want a cup of gin and tonic?"

Bai Xiuxiu nodded and said lightly, "Okay." ”

Cheng Mo returned to the bar in the room, but saw Bai Xiuxiu frame his burnt oil painting and hang it on top of the gramophone, Cheng Mo stared at the painting for a moment, until the refrigerator door sounded the alarm, and then came back to his senses. He took the old ice out of the bottom of the refrigerator, carefully filed the ice cubes into a circle, and then mixed a perfect gin and tonic for her according to Bai Xiuxiu's taste, and returned to the balcony with the cup.

Bai Xiuxiu saw Cheng Mo put the wine glass on the shop and pushed it in front of her, and said with a smile: "Why is it so long this time?

Cheng Mo opened his mouth and said: "No, when I saw that painting, I thought of something. ”

Bai Xiuxiu picked up the cup, took a sip of crystal clear gin and tonic, and said casually: "I don't have the habit of throwing away other people's gifts, so I re-framed it and put it there." ”

Cheng Mo also shrugged his shoulders and pretended to be disapproving: "An ugly and broken painting and an old gramophone go well together.....

Bai Xiuxiu didn't speak, but she couldn't help but drink the wine in the cup in one gulp, was in a trance, and said to Cheng Mo: "I'm sorry, let's have another drink!"

That old gramophone is Gao Xu's relic.