Fifteen minutes later, on the high-speed train from Asakawa to Weishan.

Business Seat.

Lu Jing sat in her seat, looking at Lu Yuan's back who was helping her with her luggage with a somewhat complicated expression.

She hadn't seen her for more than four months, and she didn't seem to know the younger brother in front of her at all.

In addition to the huge changes in appearance, Lu Yuan's personality has also become unfamiliar.

Obviously, he still calls himself "sister" as before.

The strength and unquestionable in the words made her confused, and she obediently followed Lu Yuan on the train without even saying goodbye to a few friends.

Yes.

She didn't find out until she got in the car.

What Lu Yuan was going to take her to was not Jiaoyan, but Weishan.

"Sister, drink water."

A bottle of mineral water was handed to Lu Jing.

Lu Jing came back to her senses from her trance, followed the hand holding the water bottle, and moved her gaze upward.

The eyes that looked calm on the road were far away.

Just like the first time she saw a grave dug underground. It's dark, it's deep, and there's so much unknown and mystery hidden.

"Oh, thank you."

Lu Jing took the water bottle and quickly lowered her head.

Lu Yuan sat down next to Lu Jing and watched her slowly twist the cap absentmindedly.

After thinking about it, he handed over the water bottle that had been unscrewed in his hand.

"You drink this bottle."

Lu Jing silently complied.

Lu Yuan pressed the button on the armrest.

A partition rose on the ground next to his and Lu Jing's seats, quickly forming a small temporary space.

"This train will arrive at Weishan in an hour and 32 minutes."

Lu Yuan turned to the side, calmly stared at Lu Jing's eyes, and said, "I have already bought all the eight seats nearby, so I don't have to worry about being heard."

Whatever you want to ask in the rest of the time, you can ask whatever you want."

After speaking, Lu Yuan paused and added, "When you finish asking, I will ask you again." ”

Facing Lu Yuan's straightforwardness, Lu Jing seemed a little caught off guard and stayed in place in a daze.

Looking at Lu Jing's appearance, Lu Yuan shook his head and said, "Forget it, I'll tell you myself."

Where you haven't spoken, you have curiosity to ask again. ”

Immediately after, Lu Yuan spoke:

"Three months ago, I signed up for a martial arts class. Well, sister, you should know, you asked me in the previous video, it's the one that my dad paid me for. ”

"I'm very talented, very good.

The progress in martial arts was very fast, and it didn't take long to attract the attention of the instructors in the martial arts hall.

He recommended me to the sect of the martial arts hall

Yes, it's the kind you understand, similar to the kind in martial arts, the ancient martial arts school.

I think your friend's boyfriend should be from a similar sect, and you can learn about this from them privately and verify."

"I am in Weishan this time to participate in an assessment in the sect.

Fortunately, I passed, so the sect leader decided to accept me as a disciple.

Tomorrow night is my official apprenticeship feast.

Don't worry, old lady, it's a martial arts sect. It's not the kind you think, the underworld, the cult or something."

"Oh yes, you're the only one in the family who knows about these things.

Mom and Dad, and Grandpa, I didn't tell anyone."

"Alright, I'm done."

Lu Yuan closed his mouth and watched Lu Jing's reaction.

Obviously, the amount of information and impact of his words were a bit big for Lu Jing.

After Lu Jing listened, her mouth opened slightly, and her dark and thin face was full of shocked and bewildered looks.

Lu Yuan was not in a hurry, so he casually opened the small table in front of the seat, took out the pen and paper that he had asked the flight attendant for a long time, and began to write and draw on the paper.

When he was almost done here, he heard Lu Jing muttering quietly.

"Xiaoyuan, is this sect you joined very rich?"

"Hah"

Lu Yuan couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Looking sideways, he found that Lu Jing seemed to have almost digested things.

So he half-jokingly replied: "It's rich, but it's not my money."

But eighty percent of it will become my money in the future.

In a word, your brother is out of breath now.

In the future, even if you and your parents don't work and lie at home every day, I can take good care of you, wear gold and silver, eat and drink spicy food, and there is no problem at all."

"Net bragging, I see that the mobile phone you use now is not the same as the one I bought you before.

The screen is scratched and reluctant to be replaced.

The clothes I also bought for you last year. He also said that he had money and could manage the whole family's food."

Lu Jing said, and the estrangement and strangeness between the two seemed to be dissolving rapidly.

Lu Yuan took the opportunity to re-mention the matter of being the first in the final exam with her, and also took out the photo of the transcript from his mobile phone to show her.

For a moment, the two seemed to have completely returned to the intimate relationship between ordinary siblings in the past.

And then

Lu Yuan coldly handed over the paper in his hand.

"Sister, look at this."

"What the hell, it's so ugly?"

Lu Jing habitually complained, and halfway through her words, her expression suddenly froze.

stared at the white paper in his hand for a few seconds, then looked up at him suddenly, and asked with a shocked and surprised face: "Where did you see this thing?" ”

"And you see it on the blackboard behind you when you video.

I remembered. ”

Lu Yuan looked at Lu Jing calmly and said, "Sister, now it's my turn to ask you." ”

On the white paper that Lu Yuan showed Lu Jing, it was the symbol of the Elephant God Cult that was recorded, as well as the words "Magic Mountain".

"Buzz—"

The train was moving at high speed, and the scenery outside the window was rapidly reversing, and there was a very slight vibration sound from the window.

In the carriage, Lu Yuan and Lu Jing sat opposite each other, and the atmosphere was exceptionally quiet.

"Xiaoyuan, there are some things"

Lu Jing suddenly spoke, but was quickly cut off by Lu Yuan.

"Sister, just tell me about all the things you experienced in Xisu.

I'll decide for myself the rest. ”

Lu Yuan's words carried a certain kind of involuntary strength.

Lu Jing was silent for a while, and finally nodded.

Next, she carefully told Lu Yuan about the experience of accompanying the archaeological team for more than four months.

There are a lot of things mixed in there, and they don't matter.

But Lu Yuan didn't interrupt and listened patiently.

At first everything went exceptionally.

The temple was buried in sand and we tried to dig and managed to find the entrance to the temple without a few attempts.

A large number of antiquities are excavated every day.

Everyone was so excited, several professors were so excited that they couldn't sleep at night, and everything was going on all night.

Until that day."

When Lu Jing said this, she seemed to think of something, and her eyes showed a thick color of horror and fear.

“.. Monsters, bugs."

Lu Jing's narration began to get a little confused.

First of all, a lot of insects came out from under the sand, biting people everywhere.

At first, everyone didn't pay attention to it, after all, similar things are not uncommon in the archaeological industry.

When the box that has been buried deep in the ground for thousands of years is opened, something strange will always come out.

But then things get horrible! ”

We killed a lot of insects, collected a large number of dead and living specimens, and even contacted several well-known entomologists in China, ready to get them to rush over to cooperate with the work.

But by the evening of the third day, there were no more bugs running out of the temple.

Some monsters are starting to pop up, man-eating monsters! ”

The fear on Lu Jing's face also reached its peak.

Lu Yuan pressed her shoulders with both hands, gently stroked and comforted.

While handing her the water, he encouraged: "Sister, can you draw that kind of monster and show it to me." ”

Lu Jing picked up the water bottle, took a few sips, stabilized her mood a little, and nodded.

Pick up the pen and draw on the paper as you continue to tell.

At first hired, the man in charge of the vigil kept disappearing.

We contacted the local police in Saisu and searched for a long time.

Then one day, the monsters came out of the ground in broad daylight and began to attack the members of the archaeological team with impunity.

It was a nightmare."

Lu Jing's voice and the hand holding the pen were trembling.

Lu Yuan patted her on the back, watching her gradually emerge as a strange creature that looked like a ladybug, but with a head and limbs similar to an elephant, and a mouth that was cracked on all sides like an octopus's tentacles.

Lu Jing studied sketching in high school and was very good at drawing.

The smallest of these monsters is the size of a goat, and the largest is like a tank.

It's not fast, but it's very powerful, and it's not afraid of even ordinary bullets and explosives. ”

Lu Jing handed Lu Yuan a picture after drawing, but the pen in his hand did not stop.

“.. The archaeological team suffered heavy casualties, probably losing a third of its members.

The excavation was urgently halted and everyone was evacuated a few kilometers away."

"Later, the professors called people from the military.

I've seen several shuttles, huge mechs coming up and down, and people with fire and lightning on their hands."

"They are very powerful, they have killed a lot of monsters"

What Lu Jing is painting now is the shuttle, the mecha and the people who can spew fire and generate electricity.

Lu Yuan glanced at it a few times.

He recognized the shuttle, the appearance was very similar, and the type of mecha was similar to that seen on the international news.

As for the last one, it should be a reformed person like Zhou Ling in the Yellow Bear Organization.

They have a lot of high-tech offensive weapons installed in their bodies, and they can easily do it whether they are firing or discharging.

The only thing that surprised Lu Yuan was a "normal person" painted by Lu Jing who had a spider shelf on his back.

His transformation is revealed.

When Lu Yuan saw this person's appearance, the word "exoskeleton" popped out of his mind.

Then we were repatriated.

We were lucky that only one of our graduate interns was injured. ”

Lu Jing's mood finally stabilized.

Lu Yuan looked at the few pictures she drew repeatedly, thought about it, and asked, "Sister, do you still remember?"

After you dug something out of the temple... Bugs and monsters are just starting to appear? ”

Lu Jing nodded, "We also discussed this afterwards, and we started after digging up those glowing stone balls." ”

"Glowing stone balls?"

"Yes."

Lu Jing roughly described, "It's about the size of a fist, and there is the kind of pattern you drew on it."

The information you see in the video should have been written down during our speculation and discussion at the time.

There are eight stone balls in total, which glow at night.

I've seen it through the tent, and I'm not the only one."

"What about the stone balls now?"

"All of them were brought back by a few professors."

Lu Yuan nodded.

Then, looking into Lu Jing's eyes, he asked Lu Jing word by word: "The most important question."

Sister.

Tell me if you've ever touched it. These glowing stone balls you are talking about? ”

"Bang!"

The heavy trunk slammed into the board in the trunk.

"Can you put it well!"

Wu Xinlei angrily reprimanded the man with glasses.

The glasses man's face was a little red, and he didn't know how to answer.

"You're embarrassed to blame people, it's not because you have too many things in your box, it's too heavy."

Sun Zhihua walked over and greeted the glasses man with a smile, "Okay brother, I've worked hard for you."

I'll do it.

This journey has bothered you. ”

"It's okay, we've been good buddies for years"

The man with glasses pushed his glasses, suddenly reacted, and hurriedly changed his words: "Good friend!" Not buddy."

Sun Zhihua smiled and neatly packed all the luggage.

Three people got into the car.

The man with glasses sat alone in the back seat, and Wu Xinlei sat in the co-pilot.

Lu Jing's younger brother was also right, and without saying a word, he took people away.

Lu Jing used to always say how well-behaved her brother was, and how polite he was to people, but she didn't see it at all. ”

As soon as she got in the car, Wu Xinlei couldn't help but mutter.

Sun Zhihua, who was in charge of driving, casually comforted: "People who practice martial arts are like this.

The stronger the strength, the more I do my own thing.

Be decisive and never consider what others think. ”

"Don't you also practice martial arts, your strength is still stronger than him, why do I think you are very good."

"That's a special case for you."

Sun Zhihua said.

A trace of sweetness flashed on Wu Xinlei's face, gently grabbed Sun Zhihua's palm, and raised her eyes to see that the man with glasses in the back seat was looking curiously, with a flash of "murderous" in his eyes, and the latter immediately obediently lowered his head and went to play with his mobile phone alone.

Sun Zhihua grabbed Wu Xinlei's hand with one hand, started the car with the other, and asked casually: "I heard that your archaeology is thrilling this time?" ”

"yes."

Wu Xinlei had just comforted Lu Jing at the airport, but at this time, she was making a scared look.

"Worms that bite people, monsters that eat people, and a lot of people have died, and even the military's mecha and reformers have been dispatched.

It's just like the plot of a sci-fi horror movie. ”

Sun Zhihua groaned as he drove: "Listening to your description, it seems that you have encountered an ancient evil beast."

"Ancient Evil Beasts? What is that? ”

Wu Xinlei blinked and asked curiously.

Sun Zhihua replied: "I also heard someone talk about it by chance.

It is probably the monster that the evil power of the ancient cult has corroded and alienated, and we also have help madmen in the martial arts world to study these.

There should be more official rectification, and it is very likely that ordinary people will encounter it.

You're lucky, nothing happened."

Wu Xinlei didn't understand what Sun Zhihua said, but she didn't ask much, just pouted: "It's called luck, I almost can't come back."

"Alright, I'll make it up to you.

What do you want to eat, where do you want to play, even though I'm a professional driver with a bag."

Sun Zhihua smiled and comforted.

Wu Xinlei's face was sweet, and she was about to speak.

At this time, the voice of the man with glasses suddenly sounded in the back seat.

Lu Jing said that she went to Weishan with her brother.

Her brother seems to have some kind of apprenticeship banquet tomorrow, so he is in a hurry to get there."

The man with glasses looked at his phone and said the news he had just gotten.

The transition and foreshadowing chapters are squeezed together, and there will be more similar situations in the future. Ask for a monthly pass (bang bang bang) kowtow!

(End of chapter)