In the Wuling Mountain Great Rift Valley Scenic Area, four middle-aged men and women took the "Wuling Taidou" cableway, which is known as the "steepest in Asia". Looking at the misty scenery outside, which was like a fairyland, different emotions arose in their hearts.

"Every year I come here, I feel like this place has changed a lot." A beautifully dressed lady sighed softly.

"Is it getting better or worse?" asked the bald man with a beer belly next to him.

"Of course it has gotten better." A calm-looking middle-aged man wearing glasses said, "When we came here before, there was no such a good cable car. We had to cross Qingtian Gorge step by step..."

The lady said: "Some have become worse. Every time I come here, the animals have become smaller. In the past, I could see deer and rabbits..."

"The mountains have changed, and so have we. The only thing that remains unchanged is what is buried in the soil." The long-haired lady wearing glasses, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said.

The four of them fell silent. They no longer had the mood to discuss and just stared at the clouds outside.

When they reached the top of the mountain and got off the cable car, they found that all the seats in the store on the top of the mountain were full of people. They looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

Two middle-aged men went to the store to buy a case of beer. Before the pretty lady could speak, the bald man said, "I bought RIO. Is this drinkable?"

The pretty lady nodded, and the long-haired lady took a can of beer directly from the box, opened it and poured it into her mouth.

"Where are we going to sit?"

The man with glasses pointed to a fence not far away. The other three had no objection. They went over and leaned against the fence, looking at the steep and beautiful mountains in the distance, feeling the cold beer with a bitter aroma sliding between their teeth, and many memories flooded into their hearts like a tide.

"We have witnessed this place transform from a deserted mountain with few people to a bustling 5A-level scenic spot." The beautiful lady started the topic: "But it is still so beautiful. Bodao Ridge, Qingtian Gorge, Wanzhang Pit, Tathagata Palm, General Stone..."

"Do you still want to visit?" the bald man asked with a smile.

The pretty lady shook her head: "I'm old now. I can't walk as far up the mountain as I used to."

"I've been here once before, and it's enough to stand here and reminisce."

Everyone fell silent.

"A giant python is coiled in a thousand-foot pit, and a monster is hidden in the bottomless cave. A white monkey has come down the mountain to act like a rogue, and a domestic pig and a wild boar are in love." The man with glasses suddenly laughed and said, "I heard a few years ago that a monster really appeared in the bottomless cave. Have you heard about it?"

"No, it's just some made-up news." The long-haired lady said calmly.

The pretty lady's eyes lit up: "Isn't it said that now that spiritual energy is revived, demons and monsters may appear everywhere? Even the country has established a cultivator academy, so it's not surprising that monsters appear here."

"Yes, yes, yes," the bald man said, "Have you seen 'The Ghost'? I didn't expect there were so many monsters in the Sea of ​​Gods. I don't dare to go out at night now. I try to postpone social events at night. I heard that a driver saw a ghost on the road of Panlongzhu. It's so weird."

"If there really is a ghost, maybe we can see him." The long-haired lady said faintly.

Everyone fell silent again.

"It's been fifteen years, and you still can't get over it?" The man with glasses looked at the long-haired lady and sighed, "We come here every year to pay our respects. Are we coming here in the wrong place? Why haven't you gotten over it yet?"

"You seem to be still single, right?" The man with glasses advised, "Isn't time enough to make you forget him?"

"I just don't believe it." The long-haired lady said, "I don't believe that the man who is proud, confident, never admits defeat, and always holds out hope... would die just like that."

"I won't believe it until I see his body."

Although 15 years have passed, and although time has beautified that person's image a lot, the other three people still cannot understand why such an arrogant and annoying person can be described as so positive?

But it was not a good idea to criticize a dead person now, so they didn't say much about it. However, the man with glasses still advised: "It's normal that we can't find it. When we went there, there was a landslide there, and the whole camp was covered..."

The long-haired lady said sadly: "If we hadn't called the police at that time, but had just dug it up..."

“It’s even more dangerous.” The bald man said, “Don’t you remember that when the police search team arrived, they found that the terrain had changed, so they couldn’t dig up his body?… This means that continuous landslides occurred after we left. If we hadn’t left, we would have gone with him.”

The bald man suddenly turned over his beer, letting the yellow liquid fall to the ground: "I won't come again next year."

"It's been fifteen years. If he has a spirit, he should have been reincarnated." The bald man suddenly laughed and said, "Maybe he has become my son. My naughty child is just as arrogant as him."

“If there really are gods and ghosts outside the world, I also hope that he will enter reincarnation as soon as possible and be reborn as a human being.” The man with glasses also turned his beer upside down, and the beer fell down the cliff like urine. “Although I didn’t like him at that time, I have to admit that I admired him: he was not afraid of anything and didn’t care about anything. In our mountaineering club, at that time, he earned money by working part-time, went to the most places, and walked the longest distance.”

"I haven't forgotten him either, so I won't come next year." The man with glasses said firmly: "That incident was not our fault, he was just unlucky. It's time for us to abandon this burden and move on with our lives."

The pretty lady suddenly put down Rio, picked up a can of beer and took a few big gulps, then imitated the other two and turned the beer over, shouting, "Goodbye!"

"Goodbye!" the man with glasses and the bald man also shouted. The strange behavior of the four of them immediately attracted the attention of the passengers next to them.

The long-haired lady watched all this in a daze. The other three looked at her with expectant eyes. Finally, she also silently turned the beer can upside down.

But there was no more wine in it.

"I'm waiting for you."

"The Peach Blossom Spring, New Curriculum Standard for Grade 8, Vol. 1..."

Sitting in the back seat of Zhao Huo's car, Ren Suo looked at the text in front of him and felt his mind was a little cloudy.

"After reading the translated version of the original text, quickly check your own character settings to avoid revealing the truth," Zhao Huo, who was driving, warned.

"No problem. I know a thing or two about osplay."

Ren Suo lowered his head and read the original text of Peach Blossom Spring. He always had a strange sense of déjà vu.

He felt that he had learned this text before, but he also felt that he had not learned it... This is a text for the second grade of junior high school, and all primary and secondary school students in the country have to learn it. Although they do not need to memorize the whole text, they will always have some impression of it after learning it.

Zhao Huo just asked him to play a cameo villain, that is, to play a member of the supernatural force "Taoyuan", to participate in the ceremony of stealing the secrets of heaven to scare the freshmen.

Ren Suo was naturally quite interested in this kind of prank of beating up a kid. Don't tell him about the code of conduct in the martial arts world, or the big bullying the small. If Ren Suo really liked challenges, he wouldn't have let Ren Han help the explorers beat up the village chief's phantom.

What's wrong with using your own strength to cheat and beat up kids?

And because it was an emergency performance, Ren Suo didn't even need to rehearse. He could just go over and pretend to watch the show. It was fun at best.

However, in the plan drawn up by the academy, they have to play the role of members of the villain organization "Taoyuan" and plunder new students in the name of "recruiting new students".

In the setting of the academy, Taoyuan is a supernatural force at the same level as the Fairy Palace and the World Tree, but they are different from the Fairy Palace and the World Tree. They not only need new students, but also will directly plunder them. Therefore, they will attack the freshman team of Tianlian Academy and engage in fierce battles with the teachers of the academy, thus putting the students in danger and causing them to react to steal the secrets of heaven.

But what if a student surrenders and joins Taoyuan? So the academy added a setting to Taoyuan: Taoyuan is a force of dead people, and all freshmen must be killed and turned into ghosts before they can join. But if the freshmen cannot turn into ghosts after death, then they are really dead.

This not only gave Taoyuan a reason to attack Tianlian College, but also allowed Taoyuan to confront all living students, forcing them to escape or resist.

However, the academy attaches great importance to this project, so the existence of Taoyuan and the setting that Taoyuan is a force of the dead are all reasonable and well-founded.

First of all, Taoyuan comes from the article "Peach Blossom Spring". In the article, Taoyuan is an unknown place in the world, which is very consistent with the influence of supernatural forces.

And because this article is a text that will be learned in the second year of junior high school, when the time comes, as long as the actor who plays the villain says that he is from the supernatural force Taoyuan, the freshmen will be able to understand it quickly.

As for why Taoyuan is a force of the dead, that is a brainwave that has been circulating on the Internet for a long time. There is no need to delve into it. Anyway, it is enough to scare the freshmen.

Zhao Huo saw Ren Suo frowning in the rearview mirror and said, "Don't worry, you are now a second-level transformation. The quality of your spiritual energy has been improved to a higher level. As long as you use the "clothes", those new students will probably not be able to hurt you. If you really get into trouble, come to me and I will protect you."

Ren Suo was speechless. Did Zhao Huo think he was afraid of being beaten by the freshmen?

"By the way, when did you decide on the setting of this paradise of the dead?"

"When? It was decided a month ago. Everyone thought this setting was the most cultural, and they even asked other colleges to see if there were any that had the same name." Zhao Huo said, "Do you also think this background setting is good?"

"Yes..."

Ren Suo narrowed his eyes and held his hat tightly.

He was very sure that he had never studied this article and had never heard of it before. The vague impression in his mind was more like a hint.

If he had learned it, he should have immediately had a sense of déjà vu when playing "High Energy Ahead".

Just as he was reading this article, he immediately thought of the game he had just completed.

"Suddenly I came across a forest of peach blossoms", "I prepared wine and killed chickens for food", "I walked a few dozen steps and suddenly felt enlightened"...

Ren Suo recalled the information he had investigated: the ancient Yellow River spirit Dou, the Ren family, the master of billions of brilliance, the king of wind, rain and snow, the eternal burning heart...

Ren Suo could not find any flaws in this sudden information.

But "Peach Blossom Spring" is different. Perhaps it was just a coincidence that Tianlian Academy chose "Peach Blossom Spring" as the origin of the mysterious force, which led to Ren Suo discovering so quickly that there was some vague content in his mind.

"The past, present, and future... are all changing." Ren Suo closed his eyes.

“It’s a lot of fun.”