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"December 2029, 9.

"I found a space-time portal in my bedroom."

Xia Jiong wrote this line on the paper, hesitated for a moment, crumpled the paper up and threw it away, pulled out a new sheet, and laid it out.

He was doing this in the attic of a lakeside townhouse in a high-end community in Lin'an City, and the time was one o'clock in the morning.

All is quiet, a good time for night owls to be inspired.

But Xia Jiong is not a sci-fi writer or an online writer. To be honest, he is just a jobless vagrant with a little money.

This townhouse belongs to Xia Jiong. He rented the first and second floors to the game studio he invested in, and the third floor attic is his secret base... Well, it's just a bedroom with a study.

It was in this room, on his bed in the center of the room, that there was an unscientific space-time door floating.

It is a round, smooth, mercury-like lenticular lens, translucent, and one can vaguely see what is surging on the opposite side.As long as Xia Jiong touches it lightly, four lines of characters will appear on the surface——

[Two-way space-time gate-opened]

【Certification-Xia Jiong-20020811】

【You have a new main mission to choose from】

[Mission goal: Travel through the time and space gate once (0/1); Mission reward: Multilateral intelligent translator × 1]

Xia Jiong took a few glances at the space-time gate, and wrote again on the paper:

"December 2029, 9.

"Three days ago, I found a space-time portal in my bedroom.

"After measurement, the time-space gate hangs vertically at a height of [-] centimeters from the floor of my room, and [-] centimeters from the height of my bed sheet. It is in the shape of a round biconvex lens, silver-gray, and translucent.

"The diameter is 210 centimeters, which is 35 meters, and the center thickness is [-] centimeters... As for the others, I won't measure them. After all, I'm just an art (strike out) liberal arts student with a score of [-] in mathematics in the college entrance examination.

"I tried to take pictures, and found that neither film cameras nor digital cameras can record the images, so I can only reluctantly give you a non-standard hand-painted.

"[picture]

"I also tried to learn from the protagonists who obtained the time-space gate in the web novels, and wanted to get some mice to throw in to complete the early exploration, but I found that this time-space gate does not seem to allow living creatures other than me to enter alone.

"In this way, the idea of ​​​​tying a camera to the hen and letting it go in to explore the road is fundamentally impossible. There is no online article that describes what to do at this time, so...

"So I gave the live hen I bought to everyone in the studio as a snack.

"Auntie Li's skill in stewing chicken soup is very good, she should be paid more.

"Well, all in all, to sum up, even if the time-space gate is handed over to the country, if I want to explore the world behind the gate as soon as possible, I have to enter it myself.

"I don't know if I will be able to return, so this is a suicide note."

Xia Jiong wrote here, pondering for a moment.

He then went on to write:

"If I disappear and die, the copyright of all my works will be left to my father, Mr. Xia Xing, and I wish him an early nomination for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

"Except for No. [-] Shabin Road, Greenland Mansion Community, which has become the office building of Xingjing Studio, my other properties, including interior decoration furniture, etc., are left to Ms. Hua Ningshu.

"My most important thing is the computer I am currently using. There are three in total, plus three game consoles, six handhelds, and two VR glasses. These are reserved for everyone in Star Whale Studio.

"My fat house happy chair is given to the chief producer of the studio, Mr. Fan Yichun, and I hope he can live a younger life.

"These veterans accompanied me to conquer Yanan, Ashina, Hyrule, Fordland, Azeroth, Valoran...save the princess or destroy the world, until they retire, please treat them well.

"Well, there are also bank cards and money in the payment pass. I don't know how much. One third is reserved for the studio, one third is donated to the Ninth Art Game Promotion Fund, and one third is donated to "

The pen paused here, then crossed out the last half of the sentence, and changed the first two thirds into one half.

"Do you want to copy it again?" Xia Jiong said to himself, "It's so troublesome, forget it."

He went on to write:

"Actually, it doesn't necessarily mean that you will die. Don't be too serious. Since this time-space gate claims to be two-way, then I should still be able to come back.

"Unless I step out and go straight to outer space?"

"What is this writing about..." Xia Jiong complained about himself.

Feeling that he had already written a lot of words, he became impatient and ended in a hurry.

"Don't bother me, I'm leaving, wish me well."

"Mom, it's finally finished."

Xia Jiong dropped the pen, stretched, and stood up.

Just now he was not visible when he was nestled in a chair, but now when he stands up, people will find that this young man is actually quite tall, exceeding 1.8 meters, but his figure is so thin that he looks taller than his real height.

His long hair was messy, and his hair was over his shoulders. He wore huge black-rimmed glasses, which covered most of his face, except for a little pale chin. He had a good shape, but the color was very unhealthy.

Therefore, even though he is wearing a field uniform and combat boots, he still has a "house" smell all over his body.

Xia Jiong, who was ready for the adventure, walked to the bed enthusiastically, and picked up the bulging hiking bag.

"Good weight!"

He let out a low cry.

However, Xia Jiong didn't fall down because he was a big man weighing more than a hundred catties.

He put on his backpack and picked up the weapon he had prepared—a metal baseball bat.

The metal baseball bat has the right weight, is suitable for all ages, and has a huge amount of damage. He thinks it is very suitable as the equipment for players to leave Novice Village.

After finishing these preparations, Xia Jiong is ready to step through the gate of time and space with high spirits.

"Wait, no, it seems that I forgot to wear the headgear."

Xia Jiong suddenly remembered and hurried back.

"Should I choose this gas mask or this bulletproof helmet... The bulletproof helmet and the field suit have a set effect, but in case there is poisonous gas in the place to go... Well, choose this one with a carbon dioxide filter, which can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen The mask is ready."

Mumbling about the "equipment suit effect" that doesn't exist in reality, only in video games, Xia Jiong, who seems to be suffering from secondary illness to the point of treating the game as reality, put on the bulletproof helmet and mask, and put the windshield on the helmet Pull down the mirror and cover it in front of you.

He felt that the temples of his glasses were pressed by the helmet, which was so uncomfortable that he wanted to take them off.But a person with six hundred degrees of myopia explores another world without wearing glasses... What is the difference between that and courting death?

"There are contact lenses in the refrigerator, but it seems that I bought them ten years ago and haven't used them up...Forget it."

Xia Jiong picked up the baseball bat again, lifted the chicken cage, and tied the cage to his chest with a rope.

A new hen bought yesterday was in the coop, still sleeping, not knowing what was going to happen soon.

Xia Jiong, who was fully armed, took a deep breath.

half an hour.

"Let's go."

Gathering the courage to walk through the crystalline portal, he said to himself, felt like walking through a surface of water.

Through the helmet, there seemed to be chanting murmurs in his ears, but when Xia Jiong listened intently, these voices disappeared again.

Xia Jiong, who had been dazzled by excitement for the past three days, suddenly felt a little scared.

The game has already started, and we have come to this point, we can't go back on our word, he quickly said to himself.

Then, Xia Jiong, who hadn't seen anything clearly, kicked in the air.

? ? ?no?

The young man couldn't believe it when he fell.

Does this space door really lead directly to outer space? ? ?

***

Midnight.

In the world of Kunyuan, at the foot of Qinghua Mountain, only the howling of ghosts and wolves can be heard.

A sudden wave of demon disasters swept across the entire Kunyuan world, turning the mortal world into a blood prison.Ordinary people struggle to survive in this blood prison, pinning their hopes on Qinghua Dao, the largest fairy gate in this world, but they don't know that Qinghua Dao suddenly closed the mountain gate before the arrival of the demon disaster.

A few days later, people who came to ask for help, as well as monsters attracted by human flesh, piled up a mountain of bloody corpses at the foot of Qinghua Mountain.

The black and green miasma emitted by the rotting corpse attracted a large group of poisonous insects and slowly flowed in this cemetery. If the few surviving people did not escape, they might have died in the miasma again.But the miasma did not turn the foot of Qinghua Mountain into a barren land with no grass growing. If you look carefully, you can see some strange black shadows rustling and moving in it, making terrifying sounds.

Suddenly, a ray of clear light fell from the sky, splitting the miasma hundreds of feet apart like a sea.

The demons gnawing at the corpses in the miasma uttered screams, but before they could see what happened, countless flexible white grasses suddenly drilled out of the ground, tied them together with the fragments of the corpses, and dragged them into the ground.

The bulging ground quickly returned to level, green grass grew, and the spiritual veins that were no longer obscured by the miasma fell. Clusters of small white flowers bloomed from the top of the grass, with fluorescent stamens piercing the surrounding miasma.

Then another ray of blue light came galloping from the west, first circled the whole Qinghua Mountain three times, but couldn't get in through the door, paused for a moment, then turned suddenly.

After stopping for a moment, the blue light turned into a Taoist above the miasma.

This young Taoist had a soft face and extremely handsome features, but for some reason, his brows were slightly frowned and his eyes were closed tightly.

On his head was a crown of red jade lotuses, and he was wearing a flower-blue Taoist robe and a large and thick white crane cloak.

Even in the night, this double-breasted crane cloak is shiny white, spotless, and under the glow of the spirit vein, you can still see the fine lines of the feathers on it.

The chest of the crane cloak is tied with a red string, and the neckline and hem are lined with black feathers. From a distance, this Taoist is really elegant like a crane in the clouds.

He stood facing the night wind, holding a black iron flagpole that was taller than a person, and a green flag on the flagpole fluttered with the wind.

I don't know what this green flag is made of. The auspicious clouds on it are densely patterned like scales, and flow and rotate like real clouds.

As soon as the Crane Cloak Taoist appeared, all the deliberate laughter of the surrounding Baili monsters disappeared.Taoist Crane Cloak tilted his head slightly, and found the voice that caught his attention in the silence.

He let go of his hand, and the flagpole fell like a arrow, with its tail piercing the ground.

The surrounding miasma retreated backwards, and grass quickly bloomed on the ground where the flagpole was submerged.Taoist Crane Cloak appeared under the flag, stepped on the recovered land, and looked to the right.

On his right, three teenagers and girls who were hiding in the miasma using the concealment technique also noticed the changes in their surroundings. They were shocked at first, and then they saw who was coming, and then they were delighted.

"Elder?"

"It's Elder Qu!"

"Elder Qu? This...could it be Lord Zhuoqing?"

Taoist Crane Cloak, Elder of Qinghua Daoist Zhuofeng, known as Lord Zhuoqing, Qu Wangsheng hummed in a low voice as a recognition of his status, and then opened his eyes.

"and many more!"

"No!"

Two of the boys and girls reacted suddenly and exclaimed, but it was too late.

Qu Wangsheng, who opened his eyes, glanced at them, suddenly felt dizzy, and quickly closed his eyes again.And the two young girls who reacted over there hurriedly made formulas, threw out more than a dozen dust-dispelling techniques, and cleaned up the messy blood around them, then bowed their heads respectfully: "Elder, it's done."

Qu Wangsheng, who is well known in Qinghua Dao to suffer from blood-sickness, opened his eyes again.

When he opened his eyes, he frowned.The surrounding area has been cleaned up, yes, but the teenagers and girls hiding here have not yet established their foundations, so they need to open an altar to invite saints to use spells.

They did put down the dharma altar, but this dharma altar was made temporarily, there was no vase for the offering, and there was only one candle lamp as a tribute, there were three missing and four missing, which made Qu Wangsheng feel annoyed.

The Taoist Crane Cloak, who was still obsessive-compulsive, immediately recited a line from the "Qingjing Sutra" and suppressed his irritability before asking, "What is this for?"

Among the three young girls, two were disciples of the outer sect of Qinghua Dao. They looked at each other and hesitated: "Well, the disciples failed to return to the gate before it was closed, and now they are not allowed to enter, so...so I want to invite someone The immortal soldier sent a letter to the gate, asking some senior brother to open the mountain gate and let us in."

Hearing this, Qu Wangsheng frowned even tighter.

"The gate of the mountain has been closed, and the gate forms a world of its own, isolated from the inside and outside," he explained to these outer disciples who didn't understand much, "Even if you invite immortal soldiers, you can't get in. It's useless."

The boys and girls who thought they could hide in the door: "..."

"In the final analysis," the young man in brocade clothes, who was not from the Qinghua Taoist sect, said angrily except for Qu Wangsheng who yelled when he appeared, "Why did your Qinghua Taoist close the gate?!"

Qu Wangsheng, who was more bewildered than the boys and girls, was silent for a moment and said:

"...I don't know."

The boy in brocade clothes wanted to scold something, but Qu Wangsheng swept the flagpole, and a gust of wind pushed the three boys and girls away from the altar.

He stepped forward, pulled out the three incense sticks on the altar from the incense burner, looked at them, and explained casually: "The gate of the mountain is closed, and if you want to open the gate from the outside, unless you have the seal of the head, but the seal of the head is naturally inside the door. So the mountain gate can no longer be opened from the outside.”

Hearing what he said, the boys and girls suddenly showed a look of horror.

"Can't open it? What should the disciples do now?"

"I'll send you to a safe place first," Qu Wangsheng said, inserting the incense sticks casually, "Pack up your things immediately, and then... hmm?"

The three sticks of incense sticks inserted back into the incense burner were originally two inches long, but they burned out in an instant and turned into incense ash.

This is a sign of a successful approach.

however……

Where is the invited fairy soldier and general?

In a daze, the startled Qu Wangsheng and the boys and girls suddenly heard screams.

They looked up and saw a strange big bird flying across the sky.

the same moment.

Not knowing that someone on the ground saw him, Xia Jiong shouted loudly with the hen in the coop on his chest:

"Clack cluck cluck cluck!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa whoa!"