Chapter 178: Present and Future



When there is nothing to do at night, just light a lamp.

In the bedroom at night, there was moonlight by the window, and the candlelight illuminated the white paper. The black words on it were like a well-behaved dancer, dancing to Xia Xiao's heart's desire, sometimes moving slowly, twisting her hands, and sometimes twisting her waist, dancing in an intoxicating and intoxicating way, never stopping.

This is the note Shu Shuang made for Xia Xiao. The explanation is very clear and the sentences are fluent, so it is easy to read.

When reading Shu Shuang's calligraphy, Xia Xiao always felt comfortable and enjoyed it very much.

Seeing him smile, Tianming looked at him with contempt.

"Are you stupid? How can you laugh at something so boring?"

Because Tianming didn't attend classes a few days ago, he read it with Xia Xiao today. In fact, he didn't like the content. It was okay to say it out loud, but it was too boring with the text. More importantly, he didn't recognize some of the words. On the other hand, Xia Xiao's serious attitude was a bit scary, and his ability to read ten lines at a glance surprised Tianming.

"Books contain both a golden house and a beautiful woman."

"where?"

Tianming thought he had missed that sentence and read the paper again, but where is the golden house? Where is the beautiful woman?

"It's just a metaphor."

"Just say what you want to say. Why are you beating around the bush?"

"This makes the words more vivid and easier to understand."

“I don’t think so.”

"So do you think that my love for you is better than my love for you being like a mouse's love for rice?"

"The mouse doesn't like rice; it just eats it greedily."

Xia Xiao shrugged, as if you were right. But if we were to argue about everything, it would be meaningless. Seeing Xia Xiao's impatient look, Tian Ming was a little unconvinced and asked:

"You understand all the above principles?"

“A little bit.”

"Do you understand what the teacher said today?"

“A little bit.”

This is a humble and implicit word, but Xia Xiao feels that it has a different kind of publicity. No matter what it is, as long as you ask, you know a little bit. As for how much you know and how deep you know, it is hard to say.

Tianming doesn't like abstruseness. The language of beasts is not as complicated as that of humans. Their rough understanding of nature and their warm and easy-going personality add a wonderful misunderstanding to the words of beasts. Drawing a circle on the table with his fingers, Tianming asked Xia Xiao:

"What do you think this is?"

"Circle, circle, zero?"

Tianming shook his head, looking quite proud. After all, there was something Xia Xiao didn't understand.

"This is the sun! In the Great Wilderness, the moon waxes and wanes, and its shape often changes. But whenever the sun appears, it is round, so it is a circle in the beastman's writing."

"How do you represent the circle?"

Looking back at history, the wild beasts, which appeared earlier than humans, have many eras. In the era of the wild beasts' dominance, humans were just their prey and had no status at all. But in just ten thousand years, humans turned over and became the masters of the wilderness. The magnificent and macroscopic writing is the embodiment of humans' establishment of dominance. The wild beasts have never created a complete writing system, and in this regard, the wild beasts are at a disadvantage.

Reality will deny the advance, but history will confirm it. But destiny did not want to give in and retorted:

“It’s got its own way of expressing itself.”

Xia Xiao smiled and did not pursue the matter any further. Instead, he extended his hand to Qin Feng Mulin who pushed the door and walked into the dormitory.

"Half a cucumber."

Qin Feng and Mu Lin broke the cigarettes respectively, handed them to Xia Xiao and Tian Ming, and then sat down at the square table.

A bite of cucumber, crisp and cool, just right for the midnight breeze. In the middle of the night, reading the candlelight theory is quite pleasant. This is all due to the geographical location of the academy. If it is not in the mountains, Xia Xiao will definitely have a hard time in the summer night. He is afraid of heat and it is difficult to cure it with peace of mind.

"The way of a sage is not to contend."

Xia Xiao murmured, pondering carefully, the meaning of this sentence was not obvious on the surface.

Everything in the universe has its own trajectory, such as deer hiding in the forest, birds flying in the sky, and fish diving in the water. It is also like the sun, moon, and stars in the universe, each has its own trajectory. If you run into someone else's trajectory, you will collide. In other words, walk your own path, don't blindly imitate others, this is not to compete.

Xia Xiao thought it was interesting and continued to read. Tianming read slowly and pointed at the words Xia Xiao had already thought about and said:

"This sentence is like you. Look, you don't argue with Wang Ling. Aren't you the saint recorded here?"

Seeing Xia Xiao raised his eyebrows, Tianming smiled and said:

"What do I say?"

"Even if you understand, I am not a saint. Being a saint is too high and too tiring. If I do one bad thing, all the good things I have done will be denied by the world. And it's not that I don't like to fight, it's just that I didn't have anything to fight for before. Of course, I'm not a bad person either. A bad person can't make my family proud, so it's better to be an ordinary person."

"You are an ordinary person? Bullshit, you are just a stuffy weirdo."

"Where did you learn this word?"

Tianming raised his chin towards Qin Feng, who immediately stood up and sat on his own bed, keeping some distance from them, as if to say with his actions that this matter had nothing to do with him. It was not a good thing for Qin Feng to teach Tianming so many words, because this guy was not limited to understanding, but also liked to apply what he learned.

"Wash... wash your feet and go to bed."

When Qin Feng spoke, the candlelight illuminated half of Xia Xiao's face. Tianming and Mu Lin could see that he was smiling.

"What on earth do you mean?"

Tianming took a bite of the cucumber and it was crunchy.

"What it means is that you just need to follow your own path. You can learn from humans and understand them, thus improving your own strength. But don't become a human. You are still the king of the Wild Beast Forest!"

Wow, destiny is curious.

"You wrote the manuscript in advance, how can it be so smooth?"

After finishing the last piece of cucumber, Xia Xiao spread his hands and motioned Tianming to read it himself. How could there be such a thing as a manuscript? It was all made up on the spot. This kind of words is not difficult!

"What does this mean?"

Tianming had a lot of questions, and Xia Xiao answered them one by one, occasionally saying a few dirty jokes, which made Tianming and the other two laugh. The word "sultry" was the most appropriate to describe Xia Xiao.

Before he knew it, it was getting late, and Xia Xiao rolled up the paper and started joking.

"You are such a pig-brained person!"

"Bullshit, I just helped you during the day and you're sucking my ass at night?"

The four of them lay in bed, talking about this and that.

"Xia Xiao, how are you and Shu Shuang?"

Qin Feng and Mu Lin didn't have a female companion, but they listened to this topic most seriously. It was all about experience. If they accumulated it now, they would make fewer mistakes in the future. Compared with fate, they wanted to hear Xia Xiao's opinions and views more, because they all thought Xia Xiao did a good job. To make such an excellent girl like Shu Shuang devote herself to him, he must have done something.

"It's fine. Everything is the same as before."

Tianming asked again:

"Feng Lu recently asked me a question, can you give me some advice?"

Looking at the ceiling, Tianming recalled Feng Lu's words and her serious face.

"If one day humans and wild beasts go to war, and the academy gets involved, what choice should we make?"

This is not a distant thing, because a war between these two creatures is inevitable!

"Does this kind of thing require a choice?"

If Xia Xiao were given a choice, he would be willing to turn against the world for his family, but there are many things he would have to give up.

"The war between humans and wild beasts may be bigger than anyone imagined. The scale of the war will involve the entire wilderness. The wings of wild beasts will cover the sky, and humans will wail and lose their lives under the claws of the beasts. But the larger the scope, the more casualties there will be. You may all be in that scope."

Tianming was silent. He was not a savage monster who killed innocent people. No one wanted to participate in such a large-scale war, but they had no choice. If the forest really started a war, they would respond immediately. But in the human world, they would not even have the last foothold. This hard-earned identity of a college student would also disappear.

War brings not only choices, but also direct losses!

When Xia Xiao realized Feng Lu and Tian Ming's concerns, he didn't know whether to be happy or regretful. They finally integrated into this big family, but they encountered many problems.

"No more talking, go to sleep!"

There was a hint of laughter in Tianming's voice, covering up the matter, but the countdown in his heart was still going on.


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