The sun shines through the gap on the top of the mountain, covering the caves and forests below. The light dust falls into people's field of vision and dances. The wind blows, and the pine forest rustles and sways slightly. The remaining sound echoes for a moment and then disappears.
"Just gone?" "...disappeared out of thin air, is there any energy reaction?"
"No, the energy alarm was not triggered."
"That's very odd."
"Director, what should we do next..."
Someone asked where they were going. Tang Liren stared in a daze at the place where the two figures had just disappeared. When he heard the words calling him, his expression suddenly restrained. He raised his hand calmly and waved it. He opened his mouth, but found that he didn't know what to say. After hesitating for a moment, he still waved his hand.
"Everyone, go down and ask the logistics department to repair the damaged plank road. Um... the same goes for the cracked mountain over there. See if it can be repaired."
After saying that, he rubbed his brows and left the exhibition room with a headache. Unlike the sealed room, there were mostly dead objects here, but they had extremely important commemorative significance. However, when he thought about the dragon bones on display, they were raised by the young man who broke in before, and from what he said, they were from the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Doesn't that mean they have survived to the modern times
It's really... fucking... divine.
In the past, after the shock, the two bureaus might have teamed up to invite the other party, or brought them here to do some experiments, to study the secrets of longevity and magic, but one is an old man in the mountains who has been passed down from generation to generation in the bureau, and the other is more likely to be the ancestor of Z6 and Z9. Who would dare to do it? Wouldn't it be a slap in their own face
Thinking of this, Tang Liren's head hurt even more. The communicator inside his shirt rang at this moment. He pressed the earphone to answer it, and Gao Tianqiu's voice came from the other side.
"Director Tang, is everything okay in the laboratory?"
Tang Liren covered his face for a long time before letting go and taking a breath: "Did you tell that person?"
"That old man in the mountains told me to tell you something, and there is a connection between the murals in the caves at Qixia Mountain and how can I, as a scholar, not see it with my own eyes?"
"Okay, okay, you don't have to come back for now. I heard from those two just now that they want to move to a bigger house. You can go with them to do some cleanup work. Learn about modern times and don't cause any chaos. Try to meet any requests you have."
"What if that's excessive?"
"How much more can it be? Even if you want my position as director, please don't tell Z9 what happened here..."
Tang Liren walked through the cave and stood in front of an iron fence. Looking at the researchers busy adjusting data in the hall, he frowned and lowered his voice, "... I always feel that there is a traitor over there."
"I have cleared the memories of the three people involved in this incident in Z9."
"good."
After saying the last word and hanging up the communicator, Tang Liren turned around and saw a man standing in front of him. He was startled. Seeing the old man smiling at him, Tang Liren exhaled and pushed him away. "Lao Cao, you came here quietly. You want to scare me to death so that you can get the position of director, right? Have you started to repair the cracks in the mountain?"
The smiling old man was called Cao Zhen, an old man from the logistics department, in charge of some confidential things. He was considered one of Tang Liren's confidants. He was not annoyed when being pushed away, and still followed behind with a smile.
"As soon as the two gods left, the crack closed on its own. Wow... It's really magical."
The two men walked through the hall one after the other and looked at the position of the mountain. The original cracks had indeed closed up as the old man said. Tang Liren walked closer to take a closer look and touched it with his hand. There was not even a fine line left. He could not help but shout out.
“It’s really magical.”
This attracted a group of figures who were busy researching over there to gather around, and they looked in surprise at how the mountain wall had been restored to its original state, and even the powder that had fallen on the ground was collected one by one.
"Everyone, go back to your respective posts."
Cao Zhen yelled at them, waved his hand to send them away, and also said something to the director. He was told not to leak the matter. Just as he was about to leave, Tang Liren suddenly called him from behind, turned around, walked closer and whispered: "Lao Cao, remember to destroy the purified redstone. It has too much influence, so don't take it out."
"yes."
The old man still had a smiling expression on his face. He responded and left. He returned to the logistics department and walked into his office. He waved away the people around him, opened the lattice door under the bookcase, looked at the special safe inside, checked the iris recognition, and it popped open with a "click". A faint light peeked out from the gap like a tentacle, and the old man waved it twice with a small fluorescent stick, and it quickly retracted.
The safe door slowly opened, revealing a sparkling, crystal red stone quietly lying in a gilded box, wrapped in yellow silk.
"It's such a shame to destroy it... It's the truth to make the best use of things."
With his eyes full of red light, Cao Zhen smiled and murmured with his lips.
…
Soft words were whispered from people's mouths. The sunlight outside the mountain rose into the clouds and gradually became hotter. It went far to the south, across the south side of the Yangtze River, and the streets were bustling with voices.
On the dirty streets, the music played in the shops mixed with the noise of hawking and bargaining. In a row of rental buildings, the Toad Taoist sat on the sofa cushion with his short legs crossed, listening to the cicadas chirping outside the window attached to the tree cages on the street. He opened his mouth slightly, put a straw into his mouth, took a sip of iced cola, and waved his flippers comfortably.
"Uncle, wait a minute, I'm going to clean up the room."
On the side, Lu Jun put down the glass with a straw in it, ran diligently to the door, took the broom and started to clean the messy floor. When he woke up, he didn't know why his cousin came here, and the house was in a mess.
"Uncle... that... when will my cousin come back?"
On the sofa over there, Toad Taoist tilted his gaze, then turned back, tapped the remote control with his flippers, and as the TV screen turned, he casually replied, "I went out to do something, I guess I should be back now."
He paused, his cold eyes swept across the corner of his eyes, looking at the middle-aged man wearing glasses and a white coat in the corner, "You said so?"
Gao Tianqiu took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat beads rolling down his cheeks, forced a smile and nodded repeatedly.
"Yes, yes. I guess he will be back soon."
When he said this, he slapped his hand. He was really irritated. Before he left the rental house, he asked his men to erase the memories of the people in Z9 and Lu Jun. As a result, three of them resisted, so he went back and managed the situation. Suddenly, he saw a huge toad wearing clothes on the coffee table. He thought it was Lu Jun's pet. After all, there are many people who keep lizards, spiders and scorpions these days. Seeing it looking over, he reached out and touched the toad's chin, and then... a group of people were dealt with by a big toad.
He tilted his head to look to the side and saw the four subordinates he brought with him. They had red webbed marks on their faces and were lined up in an orderly manner, with their hands on their heads, their faces buried and not daring to breathe.
"Good to know." The lying toad turned his eyes back, took the potato chips, put them in his mouth and took a bite, and handed over the donkey head next to him, "I think you are ignorant, so I punished you a little. If it were my temper back then, I would eat you all in one bite without blinking an eye."
Gao Tianqiu's eyes lit up when he heard the word "eat people". As a researcher, he was immediately interested.
"Are you... a monster?"
"It's a monster, and a big one!!"
Suddenly a voice was heard outside the door. Gao Tianqiu, Lu Jun, and Toad Taoist turned their heads to look. Even Old Donkey turned his head away while chewing potato chips. The door slammed open, and a figure stood on one leg at the door. He had a pointed face, a mustache on his upper lip, a tuft of short beard on his chin, and under his dusty robe, he was putting down the foot that was about to kick the door.
The Toad Taoist's eyes shrank, he threw away the potato chips in his webbed feet, stood up excitedly, and said, "That mother... you are not dead yet."
"Old Toad!!"
The Taoist at the door rushed in without caring about the 'fragrance' coming out, excitedly picked up the toad, and held it in his hand. In an instant, the tongue shot out and hung at the side of his mouth, and the toad's eyes bulged out of its sockets.
“Hahaha… Old Toad, I miss you so much!!”