The warm morning light rises above the horizon, and the edge of the light quickly spreads from the sea surface, pushing the darkness through the mountains and forests, through the countryside and villages, and enveloping the city with tall buildings in the distance.
The streets and alleys were filled with the noise of cars and people, and the birds perched on the windowsills chirped non-stop.
The golden morning sun shone into the room and fell on the face of the person lying on the sofa. Lu Jun opened his eyes, blinked at the mottled and moldy ceiling, thought of something, sat up suddenly, and looked into the room. The TV stood quietly in its original position, and the dining table and coffee table were messy, no different from before.
The room was quiet for a moment. The slightly plump young man breathed a sigh of relief and pinched his face.
"Sure enough, I was dreaming last night."
He smoothed his hair, yawned, got up and went to the kitchen to make some food. When he went to open the refrigerator, he didn't notice that the map that was originally hanging on the wall was gone.
"Strange, where's the food in the fridge? I remember buying a week's worth of food, but it's gone in just two days? Am I such a big eater?!"
The young man closed the refrigerator gently and turned around muttering. On the floor in front of him, a short figure walked across the sunlight on the ground with a clacking sound. He jumped onto the coffee table holding a sausage, stepped on the remote control skillfully, sat down comfortably, and ate while watching the pictures on TV with relish.
"Huh... Toad?"
Lu Jun slapped his face hard, shook his head, and opened his eyes again. The figure in the robe was still sitting on the coffee table. Thinking of the scene last night, his face turned pale.
"Sure enough, I'm not dreaming. The toad can speak, eat snacks and watch TV... What did I bring back last night?!"
While thinking about this, the Toad Taoist priest who was eating and drinking comfortably on the coffee table turned his face slightly, half-opened his eyelids, took a bite of the ham sausage, and rubbed it slowly, "I didn't feel dizzy this time, it seems that I have adapted a lot. Don't worry, I haven't eaten people for many years, and the habit of eating people has also been cured. Come, sit over here!"
The young man swallowed his saliva, his pale face covered with cold sweat, and tried to slip towards the door, but the short figure on the coffee table raised his flippers, and the door handle twisted with a "click", locking the door.
"Don't think about leaving, come and sit with me."
"oh… "
Seeing the locked door, the young man turned back tremblingly, with a bitter face, and walked to the sofa and sat down tremblingly, with his hands placed neatly on his knees, his back straight, watching the TV screen along with the back in front of him. After a long while, he could not help but speak.
"Um... where is that brother from last night?"
The sunlight moved along the floor to the coffee table, shining on Toad's face. Toad squinted his eyes comfortably and said, "I have something to go out for."
The sunlight poured in from the side. Outside, the noise of hawking and traffic continued. Far away on the suburban highway, an old donkey with a bookshelf hanging on it and a scholar sitting across it was galloping away.
On the country road with few vehicles, the sound of cars roared and a large off-road vehicle turned its wheels frantically, speeding along the road, heading south, and speeding through the pastoral scenery.
Buzz—
The sound of cars speeding past, the wind caused the branches hanging by the roadside to flip and sway, and leaves fluttered down. In the shadow of the passing car, a young man wearing sunglasses was holding the steering wheel with one hand, looking at the increasingly dazzling sunlight in front of him, and occasionally turning his head to glance at his female companion in the passenger seat.
"Don't be so nervous. We drove through the desert last time. This kind of road is too easy. Especially the feeling of leaving others behind is so exciting!"
At the side, the woman in the passenger seat pulled up her skirt, held tightly onto the pull ring above the door frame with her other hand, and forced a smile on her face.
"Young Master is right. It's just that we were overtaken by a tractor last time..."
"Shut up, that was an accident. Didn't I tell you not to mention it?"
The young man snorted and stepped on the accelerator. The engine roared violently. The front of the car tilted up and accelerated instantly. On the dashboard, the needle trembled and moved to the right past 130... 140... 150...
The woman in the passenger seat next to him was so frightened that her face turned pale. She grabbed the armrests with both pale hands and screamed, which made the young man driving laugh. Suddenly, his eyelids under his sunglasses twitched and a familiar feeling came over him.
In an instant, he instinctively turned his head to look at the rearview mirror outside the car window, and saw a cloud of dust rising in the sunlight from behind.
"What...what?" His voice trembled.
Tap... Tap...
There were obvious hoof sounds, and the young man pulled down his sunglasses. His pupils shrank instantly. In the rearview mirror, amid the rising dust, he saw a bald old donkey carrying a bookshelf and a person, chasing after him with its hooves raised quickly, and their figures gradually grew bigger in the mirror.
The next moment.
The young man turned his head, and the woman next to him also turned her head. An old donkey carrying a person passed by the speeding car and then drove away.
"Donkey... Donkey... Was it a donkey?"
The young man lowered his head to glance at the dashboard, then looked ahead. The donkey that had just passed by on the road was no longer visible. Only the diffused smoke and dust dissipated in all directions, without even a donkey hair left.
The car slowed down slowly and then stopped at the side of the road. The young man opened the door and got out. He looked for a long time, then turned around and kicked the door loudly.
"I'm going to buy a donkey when I get home and train it like this!!"
Amid the roar, Lu Liangsheng noticed that there were more and more pedestrians and vehicles on the road where the stopped vehicles extended. With a wave of his finger, his speeding figure disappeared in the skylight. On the undulating donkey's back, he took out the map he brought from Lu Jun's home from his sleeve. The map used magic to locate the location of Tianzhi in the past. After all, it was not far from where Lu Jun lived. Perhaps he could find an old friend and inquire about the current situation.
Everything around him had changed completely, everything had become unfamiliar, even the roads from the past were no longer the same. The long mountain roads, the low and high buildings were moving backwards from his sight. As he watched the light spots marked on them getting closer and closer, Lu Liangsheng became more and more anxious.
They moved forward at full speed all the way, and soon they stopped under an old tree on a steep slope. Looking in the direction, the land was empty, and the original City God Temple was no longer there. On the renovated soil, several huge machines were making rumbling sounds and waving their long arms to dig up the ground.
"These iron monsters... They even dared to demolish the City God Temple!! How outrageous!!"
Lu Liangsheng waved his sleeves, and the roaring machinery in the distance suddenly stopped. The noise ceased abruptly, and figures came out from inside, checking the machinery in confusion.
"What's going on? I just bought this excavator, why is it silent?"
"Hurry up and call the manufacturer and ask them to send someone to repair it!"
"You guys stopped too? That's weird. My double bridge is also broken and I can't start the engine."
"Stop, stop. I remember this was originally the City God Temple, right? Could it be that the City God is here to cause trouble for us?"
"Oh, don't say that so scary."
…
As the crowd gathered over there chattered, Lu Liangsheng, who was standing under the tree, summoned his magical powers, and words that ordinary people could not hear rushed out of his lips and disappeared into the distance.
"City God Zhou Yu, come and see me soon!!"