"Today is your first lesson in the village, and also your first lesson in cultivation. What I am going to teach you now is the ancestral cultivation manual of our Xiao Village, 'Dao Yi'. This book will lay the foundation for you. I will distribute the book to everyone next."
The village chief waved his hand back, and Uncle Daqing walked up to the podium holding a large cardboard box and placed the box on the podium.
Since the first meeting, the village chief has redecorated the ancestral hall. When Xiao Bai and his friends entered the ancestral hall this morning, they suddenly felt like they had traveled back to their elementary school days. The mottled blackboard at the front, the yellowed podium with peeling paint in front of the blackboard, and the rows of red desks and chairs with peeling paint in front of the podium, weren't these the desks they used when they were in elementary school!
Damn! The village chief must have moved all the desks and chairs from the village primary school here!
In recent years, there are fewer and fewer children in the village, so few that there is only one child in the first grade this year, and there is no way to open a class. The child's parents have no choice but to send the child to school in town. As a result, the primary school in the village that has been open for more than 20 years has been completely abandoned.
Xiao Bai went to primary school in the village when he was a child. He saw the scratches on the desk, the bumpy surface, and the small hole in the desk. When Xiao Bai got closer to take a look, he could see into the drawer under the desk through the small hole.
Xiao Bai was delighted. This was the table she used when she was a child! She even secretly put comics in the drawer during her naps and read through the small hole on the table!
To be honest, the table that looked so big when I was a kid, now seems a bit crowded and small for two people to sit at.
Everyone sat at the familiar desks, waiting for the village chief to hand out books.
Xiao Bai nudged his deskmate, Xiao Yao, and asked curiously, "Do you think the village chief's secret manual he passed down from generation to generation is true or false? Why does it feel a bit strange to me?"
Xiao Yao rolled her eyes. "You have a remarkable figure, and you're a good candidate for cultivation. I have a secret manual passed down from my ancestors here, would you like some? Isn't this just a scene from TV? Tell me, has the village chief watched this TV show, or not?"
"But, the village chief shouldn't lie to us, right? I've seen a lot of weird things on the Internet. The plants grew wildly overnight, and it really looks like something from the world of cultivation. Maybe our ancestors are really those powerful beings in the novels about cultivation, and they left us the ancestral secrets of cultivation!" Zhang Kai, who was sitting at the back, came over and said.
"But, there are too many ancestral secret books, right? Aren't they usually single copies?" Xiao Bai pointed at a pile of books that the village chief had taken out of the box. There were more than twenty of them, and the paper looked quite new.
"The newly printed ancestral secret book?" Zhang Kai said.
"Go, go, the village chief is distributing books."
Xiao Bai looked at the book that was handed to her. It was indeed brand new and had a smell of ink. It looked quite like the black and white books she had copied when she was in college. The cover of the book was very simple, just a large piece of white paper with the words "Dao Yi" written in capital letters on it, in simplified Chinese.
Xiao Bai was silent, took a deep breath, and opened the book. It was indeed a photocopy, but fortunately, the words in the photocopy were written in vertical calligraphy. Looking at it this way, it really did seem believable.
Yes, Xiao Bai believed what the village chief had said before. First, she herself encountered many strange things after she came back, such as the mysterious man surrounded by red spider lilies and the ancient temple. Second, the animals in her home seemed to have mutated and developed some kind of abilities. Otherwise, there was no way to explain why a small bee could pull a big man away, a dog could suddenly run very fast, and a little squirrel was as smart as a spirit. Third, she herself could clearly feel that she had mutated as well. Her strength became stronger and stronger, and her body felt more and more agile. At first, she thought that the asteroid hitting the blue planet brought some kind of virus, just like in apocalyptic novels, people either gained superpowers or turned into zombies.
Yes, she had encountered the kind of "zombies" with red eyes, black skin, and aggressive attitude towards people.
That was when she was still in the city. She had just broken up with her boyfriend and had been drinking outside all night. She was so drunk that she was crying and laughing as she walked home. In a park not far from her home, she took a shortcut through the park to go home. Just as she reached the side of the path, she saw a person squatting in the bushes beside the path, rustling around, and she didn't know what he was doing.
Under normal circumstances, Xiao Bai would never bother with such trivial matters. But that day, Xiao Bai had been drinking, and her mind was still not very clear. Alcohol makes people brave, so she stepped forward and patted the man's shoulder. The man turned around, and Xiao Bai was instantly sobered up.
The man who turned around had blood all over his face and mouth, his eyes bulging outwards. Under the streetlight, they looked bloodshot, and his exposed skin was a dark purple. It was a monster that could not be called a human.
The monster roared and pounced towards Xiao Bai. Xiao Bai ran away, shouting for help as she ran. However, it was the middle of the night and there were few people in the park. Xiao Bai almost died while running. Halfway through her run, she saw an iron tripod stool by the river and a fishing rod next to it. It seemed that it was left by an old man who went fishing at night.
Seeing that the monster behind was about to catch up, Xiao Bai didn't know where he got the courage from, he picked up the triangular stool and smashed it at the monster behind. There was a river next to him, and the monster was suddenly hit and lost its balance and fell into the river.
Later, Xiao Bai decided to go home.
She had always thought they were "zombies." Now that she thought about it, it was more like what the village chief had said: people who had come into contact with dark matter would have their soul cores contaminated, becoming manic, bloodthirsty, irrational, and bloodthirsty.
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