In the dark underground, a middle-aged man is walking. He walked steadily, holding a bright light in his hand, but he could barely illuminate half a foot around him. When he first walked in here, there was still a slight stumbling footsteps, and slowly walked down, his feet became more and more solid, and the speed became faster and faster, and the whole dark passage was filled with the sound of crackling footsteps. Anyone familiar with him would have been surprised to see him, his eyes, numb by life, had become so bright, and the wrinkles on his forehead seemed to have stretched a little. He walked like a fly, as if he was a teenager younger, and he was very happy. He remembered the excitement of following those people down the dark path at the beginning. But now he's the only one left.

"Does it still excite you to go down this dark passage?"

At the end of the tunnel was a large room, very dark, and probably the top of the ceiling could not be seen because there was no light. But the middle-aged man clearly remembered that there were stars on the top back then, which was the star map of the entire continent. There were many tall bookshelves in the room, which seemed to be arranged in a certain pattern, and they were full of dense and heavy books. But some of them are very pitiful, as if they have been moved. A person who looks like a scholar, standing in front of the bookshelf, holding a book, is facing him.

Seeing that he restrained his expression, the middle-aged man bowed and said, "Yes, after all, it is the entire youth of his subordinates. ”

The man sighed, as if he had thought of something, motioned for him to follow, and walked into the room. Through the path between the wooden shelves, there was no wooden shelf in the middle of the room, but a long table was set up, and books were placed on it in a disorderly manner, and it was even covered with dust. The man took a chair, regardless of how many years of ash it had, sat down in a clean-looking place, pushed the rest of the books away, cleared out an open space, and put the book in his arms down. He placed the oil lamp in front of him so that he could see, and in the dim light, the middle-aged man saw that the man's sideburns were completely white.

"Haven't you stayed here all these years?"

The man stared at him angrily, as if he were looking at a mentally retarded person, and scolded, "What do you think!"

The middle-aged man is a little embarrassed, just like being scolded when he was young.

The man continued: "We were the same people back then, and now we are almost gone. There are very few people qualified to come in this small pavilion. Now it's not a big deal, the country is in good weather, what is the use of this small cabinet. This ash is also decades old.

"During the Zhongzong period, I left. I guess no one came back later. I went to this world and looked at the results of our gang. ”

The man's face was full of spring breeze and smiled, "The sun is very bright, the landscape is very green, the children are all smiling on their faces, they don't worry about tomorrow's life and death, they work towards it, and they rest at dusk, and the world is as simple as they understand." I love this world because it makes me feel useful to come to this world. So our group of people, except for me, who was in the court to support the scene, all went into seclusion. The times create talents, and our era is over, and we will not come out to stir up the wind and rain again. ”

He looked at the middle-aged man and asked, "Do you understand what I mean?"

The middle-aged man didn't speak.

The man said: "Since everyone is considered to be a person of that era, and it is fate to meet him, let's say, if there is something, I will bury that secret passage in the future, it is not used like this, it should also become history." Since it's nostalgia, then there should be no more meaning to exist. ”

The middle-aged man bowed, did not answer, just said something, and said: "The Taoist door rises again." ”

"Zhongzong has gone, and the imperial court has no reason to suppress the Daomen anymore. The man tapped his fingers on the books on the table, "What's more, Xi also gave me a big gift from the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the information of this secret realm is enough for us to suppress the non-human race for another ten years." The young people of this generation will become the mainstay of our dynasty, and the human race should be prosperous. Based on this, what does it matter if he makes a comeback, and it is not an exaggeration for me to seal his state religion. ”

The middle-aged man was a little surprised by his attitude, he didn't speak, there was too much aftertaste here. After a long time, he said slowly: "Before Xi retreated, he ordered the Daomen to walk. ”

"Who, Meng Yu or Yangziju?"

"Neither. ”

"That boss who collected Xi years ago?"

"Yes. ”

"Origin?"

The middle-aged man handed over a scroll, and the man took it and looked at it by the lamp. The man looked at it while checking his own information, when Xi accepted the eldest disciple, he was still in the court. At that time, the imperial court suppressed the Daomen very ruthlessly, and the intelligence at that time showed that Xi only convened the Taoist elders, and briefly talked about the situation of this disciple, saying that he was a natural Taoist, with the sky, and the prosperity of the Daomen, but according to the dark line present, during that time, the main master did not even have a shadow, and the disciples and elders under the door complained a lot. At that time, his group was in retreat, and they all felt that Xi was doing some means to resist the imperial court and reinvigorate the strength of the Daomen. He only paid attention to it and flipped through Xi's old bottom, but there were no clues. I didn't expect it to appear at this time.

The man looked at the scroll, and the further down he looked, the more ugly his face became. The air around him was too quiet, and the middle-aged man consciously took a step back, not daring to touch his moldy head.

"What do you mean by an unknown teenager?"

The man recoiled, threw himself into the middle-aged man's arms, and turned to look at him.

"He had just appeared in Aoyama, and it had not been more than twelve hours. ”

"What about the origin, what is the sound of a crane chirping?"

"The dark line did not react, and the intelligence gathering was carried out the next day. ”

The man smiled and asked, "How should I praise you in the dark, it seems that I should ask Your Majesty to let you all live in retirement, right?" ”

The middle-aged man felt a little embarrassed and did not answer.

The man tapped his fingers on the table dozens of times and asked him directly, "What do you want?"

The middle-aged man said, "I want a permission." It required him to think about it for a long time.

"That's not enough for a doorway walk. ”

"But I suspect he has something to do with Su Rong. ”

“······”

The man sighed and asked, "Why?"

"The Tao is natural, and it is the same as that one. ”

"Do you know what that means?"

The middle-aged man was about to answer, and a book was smashed down with his head covered in the face. He hadn't suffered in a long time, and he was a little angry, but he didn't dare to fight back. With this person's qualifications, the man hit him on the left cheek, and he had to pick it up with his right cheek. If he hurt the man's body when he beat him, he would even have to kneel down and apologize and apologize for his sin.

"Our generation has some taboos", the man lost the book, stood with his hands behind his back, and looked at the sky, and the middle-aged man noticed that there was a little starlight scattered on the top at some point.

"Is the name Su Rong you able to mention?!"

The middle-aged man hurriedly kowtowed to the ground, and blood began to flow from his forehead.

"I'm an old-fashioned person, but I never like to reminisce about the past. This world is good, it's new, I love it. Therefore I do not want the old to be buried in the new soil, for the new creatures should have a new atmosphere, and the old should perish from my generation. ”

"Permission, I can give it to you. ”

"But you have to remember one thing. ”

"Today is the world of His Majesty Ruizong. ”

"Zhongzong, that's in the past. ”