Under the night.

“A nice bunch of little guys.”

On a distant hilltop, Li Kengqiang sat on top of a huge rock, supporting his upper body with his hands behind his back, and the evening breeze blew his flowered shirt fluttering.

A pair of pitch-black sunglasses were worn on his nose, so his expression could not be seen clearly, except for the slight upward curve of the corners of his mouth.

Nie Jinshan, dressed in a Zhongshan suit, stood on the top of the mountain as tall as a pine tree, staring at the direction of the burning bonfire, and spoke calmly,

"Do you miss it?"

"What?"

"Your brothers." Nie Jinshan glanced at him. "You back then, and Lin Qiye now, are exactly the same..."

Li Kengqiang, who was always frivolous and cunning, fell into silence for a rare moment. He sighed, and lay on his back on the boulder, his eyes behind his sunglasses gazing at the bright stars in the sky.

After an unknown amount of time, he slowly spoke:

"Old Nie, do you know what the most difficult thing for me after becoming a Heroic Spirit is?"

"Lonely?"

"No, it's because I can't drink!" Li Kengqiang couldn't help but swear, "With this heroic body, I won't get drunk no matter how much I drink!

I also want to be able to get drunk freely like these little guys...at least once."

Li Kengqiang took a deep breath and murmured to himself in a voice that only he could hear:

"This way, I can dream about them again..."

Nie Jinshan did not speak. He looked deeply at Li Kengqiang on the stone, then turned around and walked away.

After a long time, a voice slowly floated into Li Kengqiang's ears.

"…Take good care of them."

The cold wind blew across the silent mountains. Li Kengqiang lay motionless on the boulder, like a drunken corpse.

…

the next day.

Lin Qiye carried the washbasin and toothbrush and walked to the clear stream. Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan were already squatting there, having finished washing up.

As soon as Lin Qiye squatted down, he heard Baili Pangpang's puzzled voice coming from the side:

"Lao Cao, did you hear any strange noises last night?"

"Strange noise?"

"It's... it's really creepy. It feels like someone is singing in my ear..."

At the side, Lin Qiye's mouth twitched slightly.

Cao Yuan thought about it carefully and said, "No, I didn't hear it."

Baili Pangpang scratched his head and asked Lin Qiye beside him in disbelief, "Qiye, did you hear that?"

"What did you say? Speak louder!"

"……never mind."

After washing up, they returned to the underground air-raid shelter and saw Li Kengqiang, wearing frog-eye glasses, standing at the door, looking at the brand new equipment inside with curiosity.

"Gun brother."

"Hiss... you guys are doing pretty good. Is technology so advanced now?" Li Kengqiang patted the automatic massage chair in the corner and sat on it tentatively. Then he was startled by the sudden lump on the back of the chair. He jumped up from the chair. "It's really advanced!"

Lin Qiye said with a smile, "Brother Gun, we are all ready. What is the content of today's training?"

Li Kengqiang glanced at everyone and said, "Follow me."

…

Half an hour later,

Li Kengqiang led them through a rugged mountain road and finally stopped in front of an extremely wide valley.

Rather than a valley, it is more like a small basin surrounded by mountains. The flat land in the center is at least half the size of a prefecture-level city. The wide view and the backdrop of the surrounding mountains make humans seem as small as ants.

"What is such a spacious venue used for?" Baili Pangpang looked around and asked the others around him in a low voice.

"It should be some kind of chase battle? Or physical training?" Lin Qiye thought for a while, "However, at our level, we should not need to train our physical abilities anymore..."

For people below the "Chuan" realm, their mental strength is relatively weak, and even if they use the Forbidden Ruins, the effect is very limited. Therefore, in daily combat, physical fitness will play an important role, and the lower the realm, the more obvious the effect.

But for Lin Qiye, let alone just a valley, even if it was from the easternmost to the westernmost part of this island, it would only take ten seconds at most to activate the [Somersault Cloud].

Under the puzzled gazes of the crowd, Li Kengqiang slowly stopped.

"Everyone, are you ready?" He turned around and looked at everyone, a smile on his lips.

"Ready for...what?"

Bang!

Without waiting for Lin Qiye and others to ask more questions, Li Kengqiang snapped his fingers lightly, and the scene around them changed rapidly!

The weed-covered flat ground under their feet suddenly turned into bumpy stone brick roads. On the desolate flat ground on both sides, buildings rose from the ground. The sky changed, the mountains disappeared, and everything around them became stranger than ever before.

But in the blink of an eye, they arrived from the island to the center of a city.

Ding-ling-ling——!!

The dense ringing of car bells brought Lin Qiye and others back to consciousness.

A large number of bicycles were shuttling on the road. Everywhere you looked, you could see young people wearing light blue clothes and pushing bicycles. They walked out of the factory in the distance, talking and laughing, and moved forward slowly under the shade of trees.

The broadcasting sound of the old radio, the shouting of the street vendors, the buzzing sound of the distant whistle...all came into the ears of the crowd from all over the street.

Lin Qiye and the others stood by the road, looking at the bare and retro buildings around them, and fell into a deep confusion...

“Ahem.”

A light cough was heard from the side, and Li Kengqiang, wearing a floral shirt and bell-bottom pants, perfectly blended into the surrounding environment, looking at them with a smile.

"Gun brother...what's going on?"

"Don't be nervous. I'm using my Forbidden Ruins to reconstruct the memories in your conscious world." Li Kengqiang took out eighty cents from his pocket, bought a pack of cigarettes from a peddler, and lit it with the corner of his mouth.

He took a deep breath, exhaled the hazy smoke, and continued to speak slowly,

"My Forbidden Ruins is Sequence 048's [Virtual Reconstruction], which can reproduce the scenes I have experienced in a specific target environment."

An Qingyu thought for a moment, "Reenacting the scene...similar to watching a movie?"

"No, it's not that simple." Li Kengqiang chuckled, "Any scene I reconstruct will be 'corrected' according to my cognition and memory... In short, everything here has thoughts."

Li Kengqiang held a cigarette between his legs and pointed at the vendor who had just left.

"For example, the cigarette seller just now. In my original experience, I didn't buy cigarettes from him, but in the reconstructed scene, I made the change of 'buying cigarettes', so he would sell cigarettes to me according to my subconscious ideas...Everyone you meet here and everything you encounter will change according to your behavior. Do you understand what I mean?"

"...It's not watching a movie, but more like an open game?" An Qingyu pondered.