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"This is CCTV. Just now, Chinese athlete XXX broke the world record with a time of 8.99 seconds at the World Track and Field Championships, becoming the first person in the world to break the nine-second mark in the 100-meter run!"

"Good evening, audience friends. Today is Friday, November 10, 2023. Welcome to watch today's news broadcast. According to our reporter, at 15:27 this afternoon, American athlete XX broke the world record for long jump..."

"Family members, who understands? Recently, the Earth's magnetic field has had problems, and a group of people have quietly evolved. Every day when I turn on the TV or my phone, it's either xx breaking a world record or xx breaking the human body's limit. I wonder if this thing is so easy to break through?"

...

"Things have been a bit strange lately. It's only been a few days this month, and already how many world records have been broken?" Rui Jianmin grabbed a handful of melon seeds and started to crunch them while chatting with his wife Dong Xiufen about the latest world developments.

But his wife obviously did not have the character of "caring about everything, family affairs, national affairs and world affairs" like him. She simply ignored Rui Jianmin's words, put the phone to her lips and sent a message to her old sister.

"Hey, I feel pretty good about this girl. Give me her contact information. I'll ask Xiaohang to add her when he gets off work."

"That girl last week? Oh, you mean your neighbor's niece, right? I think she likes her, but my brat is too stubborn. Asking him to have dinner with that girl on the weekend is like asking him to die!"

"Don't worry, I'm going to drag this brat over this time no matter what! He's 24 years old and he's not dating or in a relationship, is he dreaming?"

Rui Jianmin's heart that cares about the world did not get a response from his wife, and he looked at Dong Xiufen's phone with some dissatisfaction. In order to increase his sense of presence, he took the opportunity to comment on his wife: "Our son is already 24 years old, he knows what he is doing, you don't have to worry about his marriage all day long."

Dong Xiufen threw a sharp look at him: "If he knew what was going on, he wouldn't have encouraged others not to get married at the matchmaking agency's event. It's not easy to find a reliable matchmaking agency these days!"

After saying that, Dong Xiufen still felt unsatisfied. She glanced at the TV and sneered, "All you do is watch TV and browse your phone. Are you the president of the United Nations? You're just worrying about nothing all day. Forget about the world record. Even if he's an alien attacking the earth, my son must get married first!"

Rui Yang, the youngest daughter of the Rui family, walked in at the right moment. Rui Jianmin seemed to have found a savior, and he quickly started a conversation with his daughter to change the subject: "Yangyang, have you read the news these days? Do you think humans are going to evolve?"

Rui Yang didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Dad, please stop reading marketing accounts. It's 2023 now, we still need to talk about science."

Rui Jianmin grumbled, feeling a little aggrieved: "But the world is indeed a little strange recently..."

If only my son were here.

Rui Jianmin thought: My son is very knowledgeable in this area. He told me a few days ago that the world is about to end. I was so scared that he searched for news about "end of the world" on QQ for several days. He was not completely relieved until he was sure that it was just a nonsense joke.

Dong Xiufen said to her daughter, "Don't bother with your dad. I don't know what he's thinking about all day. He's so old but still acts like a child. Come and help mom take a look at this restaurant."

"Mom, are you going to treat us?" Rui Yang sat down next to Dong Xiufen curiously.

Dong Xiufen handed her the phone and said, "Isn't he your brother? He's just like his father, worrying people all the time."

"...Blind date?" Rui Yang was stunned for a moment: "When?"

"This Sunday." Dong Xiufen thought her daughter's reaction was a little strange.

"...Didn't my brother tell you? He's on a business trip today and won't be back until next week."

"Business trip? What business trip? He didn't say anything. The suitcases are at home." Rui Jianmin and Dong Xiufen were equally confused.

"My brother said it seemed like some kind of teaching research or something. I heard that several high schools in our city were invited. I'm not sure what it is specifically about. Wait for my brother to come back and let him tell you in detail, haha."

Under Dong Xiufen's suspicious gaze, Rui Yang rubbed the sweat from his palms nervously and cursed in his heart: I was wondering why it was so strange. He suddenly sent me a message saying that he was on a business trip, but there was no movement at all in the past two days.

——My brother had guessed that my mother was going to arrange a blind date for him on the weekend, so he deliberately used this excuse to avoid it! I was wondering who was so unfair in teaching research that they invited my brother and his whole class to travel to South Island for a week for free!

This bastard brother only knows how to throw the trouble to me and go to the South Island for vacation! When he comes back, if he doesn't treat me to three meals, I will never forgive him!

...

"Teacher Rui, I didn't expect that our school would be chosen to participate in such an important event in South Island." The principal stood by the window of the banquet hall with a glass of wine in his hand. He raised the glass in his hand towards Rui Hang and said sincerely: "For such a national event, if it weren't for you, Teacher Rui, who brought up such excellent students, our school wouldn't even be qualified to be nominated."

——The event that No. 2 Middle School was invited to participate in was called the "First Huaxia National College Autumn and Winter Training Camp", which was organized by the state. A total of 71 colleges and universities from all provinces across the country were invited to participate, with an average of two places allocated to each province, and only a very small number of provinces had three places.

With so few places, the schools that can participate naturally have a good status in their respective provinces. The principal just flipped through the list of participants and broke out in a cold sweat. Every one of them was recognized as a key high school ranked in the top three in the province in terms of teaching quality.

As a well-known educational province in China, S Province is one of the few provinces with three places. In addition to the two famous top universities in the province, the third school invited is their No. 2 Middle School.

If we only consider qualifications and grades, let alone their Y City No. 2 Senior High School, even Y Middle School, which is ranked first in the city, is only around 40th in the province and has no qualifications to be invited to participate.

Even without looking at the invitation list, the scale of the event alone - held in the South Island where it is summer all year round, and on a private island. The students' residences are all resort-level villas, and even the banquet hall for entertaining the principals of each school and accompanying teachers is magnificent, as if they were not participating in a university event, but a dinner attended by national leaders.

The only not-so-good thing was that the overall arrangement of the event was a bit too hasty. No. 9 suddenly sent him the event invitation and plane tickets without any prior notice, and they arrived at South Island on the 10th, and even had to squeeze out time to pack their luggage.

Although the principal was conceited, he had a clear understanding of the overall level of his school. He knew that his school could not be compared with other universities in terms of teaching resources and education quality. The only possibility of being invited was Su Mu and Lin Lang, two popular young people who were now famous all over the country.

Even though training two artists did not have much to do with the teacher's teaching quality, it was only two months before the second grade of high school was divided into classes. However, Su Mu and Lin Lang respected Rui Hang, and the principal was happy to give this young head teacher some face.

not to mention...

The principal quietly looked at the young man in front of him, unable to conceal the amazement in his eyes.

Although he had known that Rui Hang was good-looking, he was still amazed when he saw Rui Hang in formal attire. The young man in front of him was wearing a well-cut suit and his short black hair was obviously carefully trimmed. His excellent facial features were full of the student spirit of a 24-year-old, but Rui Hang suppressed this immaturity with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. With Rui Hang's more mature aura than ordinary people, he looked gentle and elegant, very eye-catching.

Not to mention Teacher Rui, the twenty-four students in Class 9 are probably the most good-looking among all the schools participating in the event.

In response to the compliment from the principal, Rui Hang smiled softly. With a gasp in his ear, Rui Hang glanced at the people in the hall and answered appropriately: "Principal, you are too kind. In the end, we are able to participate in this event because of the students."

Rui Hang's answer was vague, and the principal just thought that Rui Hang thought the same as himself. He nodded slightly to show his agreement, and then couldn't help but said with concern: "There may be some rumors these days, Mr. Rui, just forget them and don't take them to heart."

As a shrewd person, how could the principal not know that the No. 2 Middle School, which had the weakest overall strength but was invited temporarily, would be subject to rumors. Even now, people in the banquet hall often looked at them with disdain and ridicule, as if they were not officially invited, but that he, the principal, had currying favor with the leaders and had won the opportunity to attend.

No matter how the principal explained, most of the schools would not believe him. In that case, the principal was too lazy to waste his time. After all, he had been a seasoned man for so many years, and he was no longer surprised by cold words.

Rui Hang, on the other hand, was young and had never seen any big scenes. After being slightly ridiculed by teachers from other schools, he completely lost his confidence as a teacher - more importantly, even his beloved students were bullied.

Compared to adults who at least put on a show, the problem of students flattering and bullying each other is even worse. Even though most of the invited students are "good students" who are only interested in studying, it is precisely because of this that they disdain to have too much contact with "relatives with poor grades". Deliberate bullying is not the case, but direct ignoring is very likely to happen - the more likely this is to happen, the more teachers must stand firmly on the side of students, be their backing and support, and give them strength.

Even if the principal didn't say these thoughts, Rui Hang could read the general idea from his eyes.

But being excluded...

Rui Hang's ears moved slightly, and every word of the conversation in the audience floated into his ears without missing a word with the air flow.

"This teacher is so handsome!"

"Tsk, he's just a pretty boy."

"Y City No. 2 Middle School? Have you heard of this school?"

"I heard that the third school originally selected by S Province was not Y City No. 2 Middle School at all. I don't know where the principal got the connections to squeeze out that school and get in."

Obviously, No. 2 Middle School had become the focus of discussion. The principal must have noticed this a long time ago, so he deliberately stood in the corner of the hall to minimize his presence.

It’s a pity that even so, it cannot stop human nature’s curiosity and desire for gossip, as well as the ability to make up stories and add fuel to the fire.

The rumor started out as a power-for-money transaction and became increasingly outrageous with each spread. There were even rumors such as "a certain leader has a crush on the principal of No. 2 Middle School" that were full of the beauty of brainstem deficiency. Fortunately, the principal and teachers present were not stupid people and just took it as a joke.

But apart from Rui Hang and the students of Class 9, as well as the leaders who organized the event, no one knew that this little-known school was the core of this event.

Rui Hang took a sip of champagne and looked into the distance through the huge French window. A red sun was half-sunken in the sea, rendering the border between the sea and the sky a gorgeous red.

The magnificent scenery, as colorful as an oil painting, attracted everyone's attention so much that no one noticed that there was a tiny black spot left at the junction of the sea and the sky.

It’s about time now.

Rui Hang's mind moved, and a water mirror appeared beside him, along with it, a small barrier that wrapped him up.

Soon, the profiles of Lin Yuan, Lin Lang and Su Mu appeared on the water mirror.

...

South China Sea·Aircraft Carrier·Hua Xia

In the principal's imagination, Lin Yuan and the other two, who should have been sitting in the student cafeteria enjoying a feast, were now standing on the deck, leaning on the railing, looking around curiously and talking in low voices.

"This is the legendary aircraft carrier." Lin Yuan whispered, "This is my first time on a place like this. I've learned a lot!"

“It would be great if I could take a selfie here and post it on Weibo.” Su Mu also sighed: “Sister Zhou (the agent) will definitely go crazy.”

"Do you want to destroy my brother's studio?" Lin Yuan said.

"Be serious." Lin Lang glanced at the two of them: "Don't show such an ignorant expression, it's embarrassing, okay? Don't forget who we are now."

"I'm used to being a student. It takes me a while to adjust." Su Mu smiled awkwardly, sniffing the wet and salty sea breeze, trying to regain the feeling of being the Mermaid King.

——Class 9 is very proactive. Less than two classes after the class meeting, the students wrote a detailed action plan and a plan for building a "foundation", which Lin Lang and the other two sent to An Xueyi and Major Zhang, who then handed it over to their superiors.

Since the matter of revealing their identities was a foregone conclusion, Lin Lang lifted some of the restrictions on An Xueyi and the other four, allowing them to reveal some intelligence and combat effectiveness about themselves to their superiors.

The superiors had already paid great attention to the fact that Lin Lang and his two companions suddenly appeared in J Province thousands of miles away from L City. After learning the intelligence and true strength of the three people, the joy of cooperating with the dragon was completely forgotten by this thunder-like news - there were actually three "travelers" who had lived in Parnaki for hundreds of years in their China? One of them even contracted a dragon?

That afternoon, information about Lin Lang and the other two, as well as all the students of No. 2 Middle School, appeared on the desks of the leaders of City B's "Special Events Management Bureau."

With An Xueyi and the Dragon Clan as witnesses, the leaders did not dare to treat this as a joke. It happened that the South Island was about to hold the "First National Chinese College Autumn and Winter Training Camp", so they stuffed Class 9 in overnight, just to allow these three students to come to the South Sea without attracting the attention of other countries. This was the location of the "mutant shelter", the so-called "foundation", which was determined by the leaders after a night of discussion.

Whether the plan was hasty or whether there were loopholes was not what they needed to focus on now. Since these three "time travelers" were determined to stand on the side of China, the authorities would try their best to meet any requests they put forward.

How to handle, contain, and study mutants has been a headache for the Chinese authorities for some time. With the current official technology and strength, it is still impossible to guarantee that researchers can come into contact with mutants in a safe enough manner.

But I didn't expect that this hot potato would eventually be taken over by three "students".

Lin Yuan glanced around inconspicuously - on the wide deck, soldiers were holding weapons and ready for battle. The new fighter jets that he had seen on the news just two days ago were parked on the deck, and countless weapons were deployed around them, both openly and secretly.

This is not only to prevent any accidents from happening, but also a direct deterrent for the three travelers who possess powerful magic powers. If the three of them dare to take the opportunity to do something harmful to humanity, they will keep them in this sea area even if they are willing to perish together with their loved ones.

The slow and steady steps interrupted the three people's thoughts. They turned around and saw a middle-aged man in military uniform walking towards them. The man looked amiable, with a pair of slightly curved eyes that occasionally revealed a sharp light. On his right shoulder was a golden branch and three golden stars. Major Zhang, an old acquaintance of Lin Yuan and the other two, followed behind the man with a solemn and serious expression, and from time to time cast a complicated look at Lin Yuan and the other two.

"Hello." The man nodded to the three people and smiled warmly: "I am the commander-in-chief of the N City Military Region. You can just call me 'Old Zhao'. I wonder if the three of you..."

"Comrade." Lin Yuan said with great tact: "The commander asked us to call him 'comrade' or Xiao Lin or Xiao Su."

The word "comrade" made Chief Zhao's face happy. The smile on his face faded a little bit, and became more sincere. "Comrade Xiao Lin, and this comrade Xiao Su, it's better to meet them than to hear about them. It is really a blessing for China to have three geniuses."

Although he is in a high position, Chief Zhao speaks very humbly. This is not just to elevate the status of Lin Yuan and the other two, but also to take the opportunity to explore their character. If the three people become proud after a few words of flattery, it means that they regard their status as very high, even above the country. Such people are actually the easiest to control. As long as the benefits are enough, they can be firmly tied to the earth. Once they choose Parnaki, such people with eyes on the top of their heads will easily lower their guard against these earthlings without magic and reveal their true thoughts, which will be relatively easier to deal with at that time.

If Lin Yuan and the other two answered perfectly, neither accepting their flattery nor appearing to be close, and always maintaining an ambiguous attitude, this would be the most difficult result for the official to deal with. This shows that the three of them are extremely vigilant and do not completely put themselves in the identity of Chinese people. The reason why they took the initiative to contact the country is actually to hide a bigger secret behind it. Compared with reaching a cooperation with Lin Yuan and the other two, how to get the secret behind it is what they need to worry about most.

If Lin Yuan and the other two were cold and hostile in their words, then after repeated probing to determine their true attitudes, the authorities would not hesitate to choose a life-and-death approach to keep the three here, even if it meant sacrificing an aircraft carrier, a military district commander-in-chief, and the lives of nearly a thousand soldiers.

The attitude of Lin Yuan and the other two at this moment was the "perfect" response attitude as envisioned by the official: not high-profile, not proud, putting themselves in the right position and respecting them, while showing great goodwill to them.

No matter whether there are other secrets behind them, at least their hearts are towards China - as long as this is the case, everything is enough.

After a few more simple greetings, Chief Zhao, who had confirmed the attitudes of Lin Yuan and the other two, finally stopped talking to them in an overly humble manner. Instead, he positioned himself as an ordinary elder and looked kindly at Lin Yuan, who was the most friendly to them.

"I heard that Mr. Lin is a guardian knight in Parnaki?" Chief Zhao asked, "I wonder which god you serve?"

The legend of the "Twenty-Four Gods" had long been told to the authorities through "time travelers". Although they were not very interested in a group of disappeared gods, they might as well do Lin Yuan a favor through them, such as building a temple for Lin Yuan on Earth.

Hearing Chief Zhao's question, Lin Yuan's expression suddenly became solemn and sacred: "It's the 'Goddess of Disaster'."

"'Goddess of Disaster'?" Commander Zhao was stunned, and frantically searched for information about Parnaki in his mind, but still found nothing.

"This... Zhao is really ignorant."

"It's normal that Commander Zhao has never heard of the name of the 'Goddess of Disaster'." Lin Yuan smiled: "The goddess is not one of the 'Twenty-Four Gods', but an angel under the command of the 'Goddess of Four Seasons', the princess of San Carlos, and of course, a Chinese."

——Informing the authorities of the existence of the "Goddess of Disaster" is also part of the plan. Rui Hang had hoped to test whether "faith" could work on Earth through Yu Zhi. Now that he has chosen to reveal his identity, he can promote the "Goddess of Disaster". Of course, Yu Zhi's identity still needs to be kept secret for the time being.

Once the goddess reveals her identity and becomes established, the mysterious aura around her will no longer be so strong.

At the same time, the "Goddess of Disaster" will also become one of the "nuclear bombs" used by Class 9 to deter external forces. The status of a god is not like that of a magician, so it is natural for people to be in awe of her.

Chief Zhao obviously didn't expect to suddenly hear such a shocking secret, and he just stood there in a daze.

Goddess? The god of Parnaki is Chinese? Could it be that she is also in China now?

I heard that gods can bless believers. If the belief in the "Goddess of Disaster" can be promoted in China, wouldn't it be like cooperating with the dragon clan, adding another layer of protection for China to resist the end of the world? !

"I wonder, Mr. Lin, am I qualified to meet the goddess T?" Chief Zhao asked anxiously.

Lin Yuan gave him a charlatan smile in return: "Don't worry, Chief. When the time comes, the goddess will show up."

Chief Zhao naturally didn't believe that Lin Yuan was really just talking about "fate". The so-called "fate" can also be created by humans - this was obviously negotiating conditions with them.

Chief Zhao was clear-headed and smiled, "I understand," and said, "Then I'll wait for good news."

As the sun was setting and the sky was gradually getting darker, Chief Zhao changed the subject and asked curiously, "It's getting late today, and I haven't asked you three yet, since you want to build a base at sea, how do you do it?"

Originally, their plan was to choose an uninhabited island in the South China Sea and give it to Lin Yuan and his friends as a base. However, Lin Yuan and his friends declined the island and said they would just find an uninhabited sea area.

This is strange, are they planning to build a base underwater?

In response to Chief Zhao's question, Lin Yuan and the other two exchanged a tacit smile, and three magic circles emerged from under their feet.

The soldiers in charge of guarding were startled and reflexively raised their guns, pointing them at Lin Yuan and the other two.

"Don't make a fuss." Commander Zhao quickly gestured for them to relax, and then said calmly: "Our guns are always pointed at the enemy, not our own people."

Since Lin Yuan and the other two are willing to show the greatest goodwill to them, then as the official representative, Chief Zhao is naturally also willing to show the greatest goodwill to the three of them, as well as the strength that may be hidden behind them.

"Don't worry, we are just preparing to build a base." Lin Lang said with a smile.

Before he finished speaking, the three of them flew into the air and landed on the sea amid the shocked and envious gazes of the crowd.

——If they want the authorities to trust them but also be wary of them, it is not enough to just drop the bombshell of the "Goddess of Disaster".

"Everyone." Lin Lang said softly, "Let's get started."