Fist of Imagination

In the Xiangbei branch of Yingxuetang, the person who rushed into the store and rushed to the book area with all her strength failed to stabilize her body. She knelt on the ground in embarrassment, breaking her high heels, messing up her hair, and rubbing her knees.

She clenched her right fist and slammed it through the floor, stopping her inertia of rushing. Her left hand, which was wearing a celibacy ring on her little finger, grabbed the flickering pure white silk thread.

Her chest rose and fell violently, and the flowing emerald magic took over the music that was about to end. The magic vibrated and synchronized successfully. The gentle and resolute emerald climbed up the silk thread left by Li Zhixian and passed to the inside of the world along the traces she left.

Li Zhixian hugged Zhao Yuhan, who fainted due to the runaway magic, and looked at a familiar emerald coming from the other side of the world and entangled her little finger tied with silk thread.

A tear fell in the dark.

She wrapped the emerald silk thread around her palm several times, and the familiar magic rhythmically moved in the palm of her hand, as if holding that person's hand again.

The magic girl in the dark pulled the thread between the two of them, hugged Zhao Yuhan in her arms, and flew along the stable passage to the anchor point in the present world.

…

When Liang De ran out of the cross-world gate and rushed to the Xiangbei branch of Yingxuetang, Yu Peihuan had already walked out of the bookstore and was ready to leave.

Her messy hair and worn clothes looked very embarrassed, but she still looked gentle and indifferent.

"They are fine, they will be back in ten minutes."

Liang De glanced at his mobile phone, which was playing the real-time video of the Thunder Demon Sect Cat and Ape Gamble. Li Zhixian was holding Zhao Yuhan and flying in the air. Both of them looked fine.

The high-speed waterway back to the 415 world was actually congested. Fortunately, he contacted Brother Huang Chuanchao in advance...

He breathed a sigh of relief and said to Yu Peihuan:

"Aren't you waiting for her to come back?"

Yu Peihuan smiled and said:

"The wine has been finished. Thank you, Lao Liang."

The light of the magic girl's transformation illuminated the narrow alley, and Yu Peihuan's flying figure disappeared in the sky.

Liang De walked into the bookstore and sat back on the light blue swivel chair.

There were still many traces of golden light wine on the floor next to Li Zhixian's lazy sofa.

A simple high-level ritual consumed so much light wine. It turned out that the second generation of believers had zero ability except for their origin.

Shameful.

Liang De dipped his index finger in some of the remaining light wine, downloaded a book "Evil Sect Sacrifice" from the intranet, and carefully drew the formation diagram on the ground.

…

The air twisted, and the emerald magic broke the barrier between the two ends of the world. Li Zhixian hugged Zhao Yuhan and gently placed her on the lazy sofa.

She turned around and saw Liang De sitting on a swivel chair, smoking with his head down, looking serious. On the chest of his brand new light blue T-shirt were four cursive characters:

"Dead wood comes back to life."

Li Zhixian touched the top of his head and smiled:

"The hair taken away by the four friends of Thunder can never grow back even if you change your head. You told me this.

Old Liang, you want to collect my IQ tax?

You are ten thousand years too early."

"If you don't pay anything, of course you can't have dead wood come back to life."

Liang De shook his head deeply and said:

"If people don't sacrifice, they will get nothing.

In order to get something, you must pay the same price.

This is the principle of equal exchange, and this is the reality of the world!"

Before he finished speaking, a circle of lightning sacrifice array lit up under Liang De's feet, and his hair disappeared instantly as if it had been erased, leaving only a shiny big bald head.

In Li Zhixian's surprised eyes, a strand of smooth black hair fell into her eyes. With her strong natural control over her body, she knew that her hair had grown back without reaching out to touch it.

"Your brother Liang is the top general of the Thunderbolt Evil Sect in the 415 world. He can't help you grow hair directly. Isn't it simple to ask for a one-for-one exchange? You are ignorant!"

I originally wanted to do the work of the Fist of Imagination casually, and gave up my hair and ignored Brother Xian's transformation punishment. I didn't expect that I would be bald for this reason in the end. Maybe there is really such a thing as justice in the dark...

"Lao Liang, you..."

Liang De bit the cigarette, released a natural divine power to cover Zhao Yuhan to help her recover her spirit, and said to Li Zhixian:

"You look too ugly without hair. As brothers, I will be bald for you for half a year, and wait until the end of the year when I get the A-level evaluation and apply for growth. Well, you will treat me to supper for the next six months, and work harder, don't slack off every day and drag me down."

"Lao Liang..."

"Hmm?"

"If you just want to eat Lao Huang alive tonight, I will tie him up for you myself."

"No need!" What mistake did Lao Huang make again!

Li Zhixian stretched her hands behind her head and tried to use the ropeless braiding method to tie her long hair into a ponytail, but failed several times because the new black hair was too smooth.

"Let go, you are so clumsy, let me do it."

Liang De felt like watching a rookie playing a game with his feet, so he simply walked behind her and tied a loose and casual petal bun for her in two or three strokes.

Without a hair tie, he took off the ice blue bracelet on Li Zhixian's wrist, used the magical sea of ​​​​mystery to transform the gorgeous bracelet into a hair band, and tied the root of the bun.

"Okay."

"Can you also braid hair?"

"I only know how to do a bun."

"You learned it from your childhood sweetheart ex-girlfriend, but unfortunately she has changed to a long black straight hairstyle now, so you don't have a chance to show it."

"What nonsense, it was He He, who you have been thinking about day and night, who cried and begged to teach me."

"I don't believe you."

Li Zhixian touched his hair tie and then his belly.

"hungry."

She glanced at Zhao Yuhan on the couch. The little girl was sleeping soundly, and it was not easy to wake people up to make food.

She glanced at Liang De, who sighed and said:

"I'm asking Qin Xiao for permission to the refrigerator in the bookstore to see what's in it."

The two people walked towards the coffee and snack area. When the bird painting spirit on the screen saw the two resident evil guests, they hid behind the leaves in fear.

"Has your martial arts soul's injury been healed?"

"I still have to make another trip. I saw you and Xiaohan in the Thunder Demon Sect arcade and ran back in a hurry. I missed seven courses of treatment."

"Then you don't have to pay for an extra round trip?"

"Not always."

Liang De took a look at the Mao Yuan Gambling APP. Before he left, he put all his spare money on Zhao Yuhan and won more than three thousand crystal clusters. After deducting the extra travel expenses, he also made more than a thousand.

Haha, the life of Jieyuan God of Gamblers is so simple and boring.

"By the way, when Xiaohan wakes up, tell her about the "Inner Demons Diligence Method"."

"How to improve inner demons?"

Liang De gave her a brief explanation about Zhu Yuanzhi and the Thunder Demon Tribulation, and said:

"I'll tell you the details during dinner. It's not a big deal within the company. There are so many people who want to pursue their dreams, and Executive Zhu doesn't care about just one or two.

As long as she is willing to give up this shortcut forever, she can get it back.

My good-for-nothing uncle who just came back from another world doesn't have this charm. It's up to you, hero. "

Hero, me?

Can I be considered a hero?

"Let me give it a try."

Ten minutes later, Liang De and Li Zhixian sat across from each other and ate two large plates of golden curry fried rice. Mr. Liang’s cooking skills were very average, but because he used a variety of high-quality ingredients, the fried rice tasted pretty good, fragrant and delicious. Appetizing, but a bit dry.

When Liang De saw Li Zhixian coughing twice, he gave her a cup of Mortal Cultivation Coffee from Haina Huanzang.

Li Zhixian picked up the paper cup and took two sips, then coughed even harder.

“Ahem, cough, cough, why does it taste bitter?

Ahem...Old Liang, you are so despicable, you actually poisoned the water...Ahem..."

…

Xiangbei City Evil Disaster Bureau Building, lobby on the first floor.

Big-headed Yeager, who was ranked fifth among the top ten outstanding youths, walked into the elevator. He was carrying dozens of high-grade flue-cured tobacco produced by Zhongli, thinking fiercely in his heart:

"Zhongli is tired of smoking cigarettes, right? I'll give you two months' salary and I won't get tired of you!"

Just as the elevator door was about to close, a left hand wearing a Rolex Date-Just series Ref. 116233 black dial gold model suddenly came in from the outside and steadily opened the elevator door.

"Yellow Bureau."

Yege subconsciously put the large bag of Zhongli flue-cured tobacco behind him, but because the target was too large, this tactical move had no effect.

"Datou, you bought so many cigarettes."

"Hmm, um." Da Tou lowered his head and did not dare to say more.

Huang Chuanchao clasped his hands behind his back and glanced down at the dozens of cigarettes Ye Ge was carrying. Zhongli's flue-cured tobacco tasted just so so, but he hadn't smoked it for a long time.

He raised his head, frowned and said:

"Butou, I heard Commissioner Liang said that you have sworn to quit smoking. What's going on today? Our senior officer of the Evil Disaster Bureau, one of the top ten outstanding young people, just treated his promise as a joke?"

"Huang Bureau, I..."

"You've recently been dating Xiaoliu from the Chengnan training base."

"How do you know..."

"I don't know what's going on in the Xiangbei Bureau.

Datou, Xiaoliu is a doctor, and the most important thing is health. Since you sincerely want to have a relationship with this person, don’t be a fool and quit smoking while you are young. When you reach my age, you won’t be able to quit even if you want to. .

Look, you are the only one among the top ten outstanding young people who smokes. Have you bought a house? Did you buy a car? How much money can you save in a month?

You are still smoking such expensive cigarettes, you are such an adult, and you are not sensible at all, you..."

Huang Chuanchao clicked on Genliqun Fuchunshan Residence in the elevator, and while puffing away his breath, he had an in-depth exchange and heart-to-heart talk with Big Tou Yege.

Ye Ge felt dizzy after hearing this. He had no idea what Huang Chuanchao was talking about. He only knew that when he walked out of the elevator, there was only a solitary piece of flue-cured cigarette left in his hand.

The heavy feeling in my hands not long ago was like a dream, disappearing without a trace.

…

Huang Chuanchao returned to the 3201 office with a large bag of flue-cured cigarettes. He just sat down and looked at stocks on his mobile phone for a while. He only sighed for five or six times when he heard a rhythmic knock on the door.

"Come in... Xiaoyu, why don't you run over? Xiaoli must be fine."

"Both Zhixian and Zhao Yuhan are fine. There is nothing serious. Bureau Huang, the candidates for the National May Day Labor Medal have been announced. All the active magical girls voted for Commissioner Liang. Look..."

"Then let him go. You can just report it to the police. I can't tell that Lao Liang is quite popular with the little girls. It has only been a long time since he was transferred here and he was unanimously supported. Last time I saw several little girls giving snacks to him. He is amazing."

"Commissioner Liang is indeed excellent and very popular."

Yu Peihuan smiled and said, "You're busy, I'll go back first."

"Okay, you go about your business."

After a while, Huang Chuanchao received a very excited call. The person on the other side talked about the "general environment" and "fundamentals", saying that there would be a super invincible Yang line that was rare in ten thousand years, and that there was a high probability that it could rise to unlimited levels. Crazy, we should work hand in hand with him to buy the bottom and achieve financial freedom together.

Huang Chuanchao finally waited for him to finish speaking before he said:

"Old Liang, all 9 stocks owned by our Zhenzong have been suspended from trading. Let's talk about joining forces to buy the bottom later."

"Suspension?!"

"Yes, it has been continuously lowering the limit for so long. The impact of General Pu's incident is getting bigger and bigger, so it is normal for the trading suspension to be suspended.

But don't worry, short-term trading suspension is the principle, long-term trading suspension is the exception. General Manager is already making efforts, and this time it will definitely be short-term. "

"How long is the short term?"

"Three to five hundred years, not a long time, just a blink of an eye... Hello, Lao Liang, hello?"

…

Yu Peihuan returned to office 3202. The light in the room was a bit dim, but she did not turn on the light.

Sitting behind her desk and approving a few documents, she shook off the pen in her hand, opened the drawer and replaced it with an ink cartridge.

She threw the used replacement ink cartridge into the trash can. The empty plastic tube fell on the empty tequila bottle in the trash can, making an unexpected sound in the quiet office.

Yu Peihuan looked at the empty wine bottles in the trash can and was lost for a while. She opened the bottom drawer on the left. The drawer was padded with a layer of soft black velvet. On top of the velvet were two half-empty bottles of spirits. , a bottle of gin and a bottle of vodka.

The two bottles of wine were arranged on the left and right, with an empty space in the middle, which was the place where the bottle of Golden Happy Tequila originally stood.

She walked to the bookshelf against the wall, lit up the miniature secret key magic circle in her palm, and pressed it gently on the bookshelf.

Two bookshelves about 2.5 meters wide were sunk into the magic circle on the ground, revealing a wine cabinet hidden on an entire wall behind the bookshelves.

The wine cabinets with more than ten floors were filled with only half bottles of various spirits left.

Yu Peihuan picked a bottle of Grand Marnier liqueur and stroked the round wax seal embedded in the center of the bottle's shoulder with a nostalgic smile on his face.

She put the half bottle of Grand Marnier liqueur into the middle of the desk drawer, closed the drawer, pushed it with both hands, and sat on the office chair with her eyes closed, spinning around.

In the quiet office, the singing voice of jasmine tea sounded softly.

…

In the coffee and snack area of ​​Yingxuetang Xiangbei Branch, Li Zhixian and Zhao Yuhan chatted for a long time.

Li Zhixian adjusted his retro-style round glasses, took a sip of water and continued:

"You have learned two methods of diligence, which means you have given up two things.

The condition for learning to 'focus' is to abandon the people and things that annoy you the most. The prerequisite for learning to "enjoy yourself" is to give up those so-called low-level interests that you consider to be entertainment.

The further you go on the path of advancement, the more things you will abandon and forget, and in the end you will just dream.

You are just getting started and can give up at any time. Those things that you have abandoned and forgotten before can be remembered again after giving up.

But if you choose to give up, you will never be able to learn the inner demon improvement method again. The author of this book always only gives people one chance.

In short, if you choose the path of improving your inner demons, you will give up a lot of things, but you may also become very powerful.

I have already told you the advantages and disadvantages of this technique in the middle and later stages. What you choose in the end is up to you. "

Zhao Yuhan held a silver spatula and carefully spread cream on the Italian dome strawberry semi-frozen cake, doing the final decoration work. She lowered her head and asked:

"If you choose this path, will you become more powerful than Sister Zhixian?"

"It's possible, I'm not very good."

"Then I won't practice."

"Um?"

"There are many, many things that I don't want to forget, just like the memories I remembered this time. The reason why I have been working hard is in these memories.

Dreams are born from the things I own. I realize my dreams for the people and things I already own.

If you forget all these things, your efforts will be meaningless.

Anyway, I just need to be as powerful as Sister Zhixian from now on. "

Zhao Yuhan handed the finished cake to Li Zhixian, raising the corners of her mouth, revealing two small pear dimples.

The dark red blazing light in her sea of ​​consciousness gradually receded, and in the corner of the Yingxue Hall library area, a black-covered volume of "Inner Demons Diligence Method" reappeared.

…

As night falls, thousands of houses are lit with lights.

Zhao Yuhan stood in front of the door for a long time with her schoolbag on her back, and finally reached out and pressed the fingerprint reader to open the door.

"Mom, I'm back."

[End of the second volume of "Fist and the Shore and the Magical Girl\