Chapter 74
In the Monster Bureau of City B.
A full five hours had passed since the group entered the time tunnel.
The morning light was dim outside. Some people were dozing off, some were playing with their phones, and some were getting impatient. No one knew how long they would have to wait. They were all wondering how the group's mission was going.
At half past five, Qi Hanyu and Xia Yan, who had been playing games by Zong Ning's bedside all night, were the first to look up and say, "Here they are."
The wind started to blow in the room.
All the sleepy people were awakened. Bifang, Yan Yue, Yuan Que and others stood up. Qi Hanyu and Xia Yan quickly ran two steps away to hide. A vortex of air appeared beside Zong Ning. The vortex spun violently and spun, and at a certain moment, it "spitted" out the five people!
Su Xuan and the other four appeared in the room in the form of Jenga!
Qi Hanyu and Xia Yan ran over: "Brother Su, Dad!"
Bifang and Yuanque followed immediately.
"Where's Ah Shuo?!" As soon as Su Xuan landed on the ground, he shook his head and looked for Lao Gong. Seeing Lao Gong right beside him, he breathed a sigh of relief and rushed over to hug him. "Luckily, fortunately, I successfully brought my physical body back with me in the tunnel!"
"So fast," Yan Yue thought thoughtfully, "Could it be that the speed of space and time flowing over there is not equal to that over here?"
Behind Su Xuan and the others, the man who had been lying on the bed unconscious for a long time trembled his eyelashes and slowly opened his eyes.
*
Zong Ning woke up.
His memory and strength were fully restored.
The words belonging to Phoenix also flashed across his body. He probably needed to transform into a demon form before he could fully reappear.
Zong Ning was confused when he just woke up, until Su Xuan talked about their battle with Ran Yi in the brothel, everyone said "Oh shit", and Qi Hanyu regretfully shouted "Oh, if I had known, I would have gone there too", then Zong Ning came to his senses, moved, and looked at Ye Yun, who had been sitting by the bed, listening to Su Xuan's story with a smile.
Ye Yun felt his hand being held and quickly turned around. Zong Ning looked at him for a moment and said in a hoarse voice, "Little beggar?"
Ye Yun felt a little embarrassed.
"Lover from the previous life?" Zong Ning joked again.
Speaking of this, Ye Yun became unconvinced again: "Didn't you also think that I was the reincarnation of your lover at the beginning?!"
Su Xuan heard the two talking and interrupted dryly, "I'm sorry, this is also my fault. I was the one who first guessed it was her lover from her past life."
At this point, several employees of the Monster Bureau of City B also started to tease.
"Xiao Ye almost planned to break off all ties with you after completing this mission!"
"That's right, I was planning to break up with you when I got back!"
Ye Yun's face flushed red. Zong Ning, who was originally still smiling, froze when he heard this. Perhaps it was at this moment that he finally remembered the filthy things he had done that night at Master Wang's house. He quickly composed himself, sat up straight, and said cautiously, "I will treat you well in the future."
A group of people: "Ohhhhhhhhh!"
Ye Yun's face turned red.
Zong Ning: "...If you're still angry about, uh, what happened in the woodshed, then you can hit me and I won't fight back."
A group of people: "Ohhhhhhhhh!"
Zong Ning cautiously looked at Ye Yun's face, and Ye Yun raised his lips and snorted, "Hmph, you still dare to fight back? Have you forgotten my bloodline suppression?"
Zong Ning immediately narrowed his eyes and smiled: "How dare I forget?"
Seeing that he was finally in good spirits, the group had the opportunity to ask him what happened later.
Zong Ning recalled what happened more than a thousand years ago, still a little dazed, and spoke calmly while recalling.
More than a thousand years ago, when he woke up again, he was already on the road with Xian Mo and the others.
He found that his spiritual power had greatly weakened, the words on his body suddenly disappeared, and he also lost his memory of the entire night. He had no idea who Xian Mo and the others were, and almost used his spiritual power to blow up Xian Mo and the others' carriage.
——Until Xian Mo told him that Ran Yi was dead.
During the five years that he wandered alone, Zong Ning only thought about two things.
One thing is about the little beggar in the dilapidated temple and his four dogs.
One thing was to kill Ran Yi.
However, on a night he didn't remember, Ran Yi died.
"You killed him," the sorcerer named Xianmo said with a smile, "Brother Zong Ning, your wish has been fulfilled, right?"
……wrong.
Zong Ning frowned deeply, he felt that he had forgotten something very important.
"Of course you have forgotten a lot, but what we can tell you is very limited." Xian Mo's voice was a little weak, probably because he was really exhausted. He waved his hand and called his apprentice over, asking the apprentice to tell Zong Ning, while he leaned lazily in the carriage and closed his eyes.
What Xian Mo's apprentice told Zong Ning was nothing more than the black energy and punishment spells.
But what he said was also very vague, like "When the punishment spell reaches its end, you will encounter some troubles. Once you solve them, your strength and memory will return!" "You forgot something very important, but we can't tell you, otherwise everything will go wrong!!" "Oh, and you'd better sleep for a few hundred years in the meantime. Aren't you curious about the future world?"
Zong Ning really wanted Xian Mo to find a disciple who could explain things clearly, but the disciple insisted that it would be the same if someone else did, so there was no need to change! Then he kept nagging.
Finally, Zong Ning was helpless and asked, "...Have you ever seen a little beggar and four dogs?"
The disciple holding the ink in his mouth said categorically, "No."
Thinking back at this moment, Zong Ning narrowed his eyes: "It's a good thing that guy could say it so decisively."
Su Xuan glanced at him: "What they said is not wrong. They have never seen beggars and dogs."
Zong Ning: “…………”
It's really impossible to refute.
"What happened next? Brother Zong, have you been living in a daze for so many years?" Qi Hanyu exclaimed in amazement.
"What else can we do?" Zong Ning put on his clothes and got out of bed. "I don't believe anyone can pry open the mouths of Xian Mo and his disciples."
In the following decades, Zong Ning was actually always surprised that he had actually believed Xian Mo and the others and accepted the inexplicable witchcraft circle on him and the unpredictable future.
——But perhaps somewhere down the line, he knew that all he had to do was keep moving forward.
His strength was gradually weakening. Not only did he forget that night in the capital, but even the figure of the little beggar gradually faded away.
He only vaguely remembered the little beggar holding his hand tightly, and remembered the little beggar muttering, "Your hands are so cold."
But he didn't remember what he answered, nor did he remember how he and the little beggar got to the dilapidated temple, and he didn't remember how he discovered Ran Yi's true face.
Everything seemed to happen so vaguely.
——He didn't realize that he had forgotten both nights silently.
Gradually, he only vaguely knew that he was looking for someone, certain people, but he didn't even know who he was looking for.
——But just keep moving forward, his instinct told him.
Keep moving forward, through the mountains and rivers, through the changing stars, and one day he will get the answer.
He will find that person and he will find those people.
"Xian Mo left me a lucky bag, telling me to take it out and read it whenever I was bored. I almost threw it away," Zong Ning thought, finding it funny. "Then one night I couldn't sleep, so I took it out and read it. There were only three words written on it: 'Get some sleep.'"
Zong Ning was speechless at the time. He almost immediately realized that the exhortation to "get some sleep" didn't mean he should sleep right there for the night. Instead, it was something the Xianmo disciple had repeated several times: "Sleep for a few hundred years. In the future, there will be very interesting things waiting for you."
Zong Ning felt that this kind of inducement was too deliberate and too suspicious, and only a fool would actually do it.
But perhaps it was because he was too bored that night, he lay by the stream for half the night, and suddenly made a decision. He destroyed his body, hid his soul core in the invisible world, and fell into eternal sleep.
When I woke up again, the world had changed.
Then, he walked out of the mountains and forests and into the city. In the park, he met Lu Tao, who was sitting on a chair and eating a hamburger with a happy look on his face, and stopped inexplicably.
It was amazing, at that moment, Zong Ning could almost feel——
His future seemed to have officially begun.
…
"I didn't tell you about the witchcraft circle on my body because it involves the days when I was stupid and stayed with Ran Yi more than a thousand years ago." Zong Ning scratched his hair and said "tsk".
Not only had he been doing stupid things for so many years, but in the end, he was even stuffed with black energy by that guy, which took decades to purify. How could Zong Ning have the nerve to say such a stupid thing out loud.
Of course, the purification process of the black energy was also accompanied by the liberation and reincarnation of countless wronged souls. Zong Ning did not say it on the surface, but secretly he always used this matter to remind himself.
——You must open your eyes wide and see the world. You can’t let others treat you as a fool anymore.
Seeing Zong Ning's discomfort, Su Xuan chuckled and said, "You finally feel stupid too?"
Lu Tao consoled him, "Now that the black energy has been completely purified, your memory and strength are back, that's all."
"I didn't expect that the final key is actually the step where you travel through time and space." Yan Yue touched his chin and savored the whole process. He felt that the connection between people and destiny was really mysterious.
Everyone started a heated discussion. The whole process was a bit bizarre, and it would take them some time to study and savor it carefully.
Amidst the clamor, Zong Ning suddenly looked at Ye Yun, Su Xuan, and the others and said, "Thank you."
Thank them for coming to his side, and thank them for appearing in his originally boring and narrow world and changing his life.
Several people didn't expect that Zong Ning would have such a formal thank you one day, and they were all stunned.
They looked at each other and then burst out laughing.
Zong Ning: “…” What are you laughing at!
Su Xuan sarcastically said, "Hey, I didn't expect you to be so immature before!"
Ye Yun nodded: "You always say you want to kill people. You're really good at scaring people."
Lu Tao: "Aning, I didn't expect you to be deceived for three whole years..."
Su Xuan: "You don't look that stupid, but how come you're so easy to fool? Hahahaha!"
"..." Zong Ning, "That's enough, stop laughing!"
Everyone: “Ahahahahahaha!”
It was not until noon that they came out of the room one after another.
The speed of space-time flow on both sides is indeed not equal, but fortunately it is not equal, so it did not delay everyone too much time.
Zong Ning had a physical examination and after confirming that there were no other problems, Yan Yue and Yan Ning'an planned to return to City A to make a report.
The monkey that caused trouble on the set and the actress Lin Jiajia were left in the Monster Bureau of City B. Lin Jiajia probably couldn't go back to the set, but fortunately, his filming was almost finished, and there were only a few scenes left. Director Xie planned to let Ye Yun take the role directly, which scared Ye Yun.
In addition, since Director Xie's memory has not been erased, he is now extremely enthusiastic about Zong Ning - the most important thing is that Zong Ning did not drag down the progress of the crew. He originally asked Su Xuan and others to handle the problem without worry, and let Zong Ning come back when they were done. As a result, the crew stopped working for a day today, and Zong Ning had already called him to report that he was safe.
Director Xie said cheerfully, "Let's have a meal together when we have time. Oh, and bring your company's CEO, Su, along too. Oh wait, your entire company isn't full of monsters, are they? I'll treat you all to a meal later. If there's a chance, we might even be able to collaborate on something big..."
Su Xuan eavesdropped on the phone call and was so excited that he almost rolled on the spot!
The next day, the crew resumed work. Lu Tao, Qi Hanyu, Xia Yan and Bi Fang were all there, so they simply went to visit after get off work. After satisfying themselves, the group had a meal in City B, then ruthlessly left Zong Ning on the set and returned to City A.
*
A City Monster Bureau.
Yan Ning'an worked overtime until the next afternoon without closing his eyes.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, there was a knock on the door. Yan Yue opened the door and came in and asked, "Is it not over yet?"
Yan Ningan rubbed his eyes and yawned: "Almost there."
"Turn in the report and go home to rest. You haven't stopped working."
Comrade Yan Yue seemed quite concerned about his colleagues. Yan Ning'an smiled and agreed. Before leaving, Yan Yue said, "By the way, I heard there's a new person joining your team. What's his name? I've been busy these past two days and haven't paid much attention. He's been going through the process all day today. I'll have him come to you later to report."
"OK."
When the door closed, Yan Ning'an's smile faded.
He lay on the desk, in a daze, recalling the conversation he had with Zong Ning before leaving the Monster Bureau of City B yesterday.
Most people left the room, and he was the last one left. He hesitated and asked, "...What happened to Xianmo?"
Zong Ning paused and said, "...He left on the carriage that day."
Yan Ningan was stunned: "What?"
Zong Ning was silent for a moment and said, that time when he woke up in the carriage, didn't Xian Mo get tired after talking for just a few words and closed his eyes?
Later, Xianmo's disciple complained to Zong Ning, which made Zong Ning feel overwhelmed. After thinking about it, he decided to ask Xianmo in person.
As a result, he called out to Xianmo, but Xianmo didn't respond.
The silver-haired man leaned against the wall of the carriage and slept quietly.
His disciple was stunned for a moment, then suddenly opened his eyes wide, rushed over, and shouted, "...Master?"
No response.
The man fell asleep forever with a smile on his lips and a hint of tiredness between his eyebrows.
The so-called lucky bag was later handed to Zong Ning by his disciple Xian Mo with red eyes before he left.
"Master gave me this sachet the night before you woke up. I was wondering why he didn't give it to you himself but instead handed it to me. It turns out that..." The disciple choked with tears.
It turns out that he already knew that he was no longer capable.
Zong Ning didn't understand the meaning of ink.
But when he followed this group back to their master's sect, saw the many humans and monsters who came to greet them, and saw them crying for holding ink, Zong Ning realized again that no matter whether they are humans, monsters, half-monsters or wizards, they can live as small as ants, or as vast as the world.
He probably has to start from a tiny ant and grow again.
At this moment, Yan Ning'an lay on the desk, closed his eyes and clenched his hands.
...Did he die the day Zong Ning woke up?
...It's too fast. It's not even the so-called ten days or half a month.
What, after all, was that supposed future meeting? He'd originally thought the guy meant to go back to the future with them, but that wasn't the case. The "future" had already progressed to this point, and he'd never seen him at all.
Is it really a lie?
Just to coax him?
No, no, no, why does he need that man to coax him? He doesn't need it at all!
But even though he thought so, Yan Ning'an bit his lip and felt unhappy.
At a certain moment, he suddenly stood up and began to redraw the time and space shuttle spell with great momentum.
It's amazing that they still don't know how this space-time shuttle spell was born in this entire closed loop.
Yan Ning'an learned about this spell from Zong Ning, and Xian Mo saw this spell from him. This spell appeared in this world like a bug.
However, since they have discovered this bug, there is no reason for them not to study and utilize it.
The time-space shuttle spell on Zong Ning's body is a directional shuttle spell, which can only connect the present and fixed time points in the past. However, as long as he can study it thoroughly and modify this time-space shuttle spell, he can travel from the present to other time points in the past.
Let's see if he doesn't go back and grab that frivolous old man by the collar——
"Knock knock knock", there was a knock on the door.
Yan Ningan drew the spell seriously and said casually, "Come in."
The door opened, and Yan Ningan asked without even looking up, "What's going on?"
He was about to finish the time-travel spell he was drawing when a figure walked up to his desk and stood still. A familiar voice, chuckling, sounded above his head.
"Team Leader Yan is so serious that he's working overtime until now and still plans to continue his academic research on witchcraft formations?"
——My heart almost stopped beating.
Yan Ning'an froze, almost thinking he was hallucinating.
Why did he seem to hear that guy's voice...
In an instant, he looked up and met a pair of smiling eyes.
Yan Ning'an opened his eyes wide.
The man standing in front of his desk was wearing a white shirt and suit pants, the formal attire of a newcomer on his first day at work. His black hair was well-groomed and he had a handsome face, but he smiled like an old fox.
He handed a copy of the registration form to Yan Ning'an and said with a smile, "My name is Xu Xianmo, and I'm joining the wizard department from today. Team Leader Yan, I appreciate your guidance from now on."
At this moment, Yan Ning'an was so shocked that his mind went blank.
After a few seconds of freezing, he pressed down on the desk, stood up suddenly, and said in astonishment: "Reincarnation? No, but you, you have memories?!"
Xian Mo said slowly, "The fifth time—spiritual power and witchcraft are very mysterious things. Brother Ning An, have you ever heard of the reincarnation positioning spell and the memory revival spell?"
Yan Ning'an looked at the man stupidly as he pressed his hand against the desk. He leaned forward, extended a finger, raised his chin with a smile, and said with a curled lip, "Why don't we start this class today?"
***Another time and space***
More than a thousand years ago in the capital, the morning after that night at Chunyue Pavilion.
When Gu Shuo woke up, he was standing in the ruins of Chunyue Pavilion.
There was a mess all around him, and the Night Guards were busy. Gu Shuo moved, looked down at his hands, and was stunned for a moment.
Suddenly, he raised his head and locked his gaze on a person who happened to run past him: "A Qi."
Ah Qi was carrying an unconscious servant on his shoulders, intending to take him to a resettlement area. Hearing the noise, he quickly stopped and asked, "What's wrong, Boss?"
"...How is everything going?" Gu Shuo asked.
Ah Qi said, "Ah, we've almost finished cleaning up, almost done! Oh, it's all that group's fault. Who knew they'd just vanish like that, saying they were going back to 'their old place'? And you, Boss, actually let them go? Wasn't there that young lady you particularly liked among them? No, that was a young man dressed as a woman. Hahahaha, I didn't expect you to like that!"
Gu Shuo narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Ahem!" Ah Qi quickly stopped talking and said awkwardly, "Those wizards just left like that. Anyway, they can make trouble, but we have to deal with it. I was completely confused the whole time!"
Another subordinate said, "It's not just you, Qi, I'm confused too!"
"I think the most sober one among us is only the boss. What's going on, boss?"
Facing Ah Qi's complaining face, Gu Shuo thought for a moment and said, "...the secret cannot be revealed."
Ah Qi: "...Yes, that's what you told me just now."
Ah Qi wiped his face and walked away bitterly.
Gu Shuo thought for a moment, then turned and walked to the back of Chunyue Pavilion.
At a certain moment just now, an intuition struck his heart.
At this moment, Gu Shuo reached into his sleeve and took out a piece of...paper?
The craftsmanship of that paper seemed to be even better than the paper used in the palace. Gu Shuo turned the paper over, looked at it for a moment, and then looked at the two words written on the paper with ink of an unfamiliar material.
The two characters were written in a sharp font, the font he was most familiar with.
"Su Xuan?" he muttered softly.
A strange feeling flashed through my mind.
After a moment, Gu Shuo put the piece of paper back into his sleeve.
His body seemed to have been occupied by a strange spirit for a night.
No, the person who could write that familiar handwriting might not be some strange soul, but...
Gu Shuo put his hands behind his back, slightly bent his right index finger, and tapped the palm of his left hand.
He lowered his eyes in thought.
How many things happened this night?
Who is Su Xuan?
At the same time, under the same sky, in the same morning mist, in the mountains and forests outside the capital—
A woman smiled and said to a handsome young man, "My last name is Su. Meeting a child like you here is a mysterious fate. You don't have a name yet, so I will give you the single character Xuan, okay?"
The handsome young man's eyes lit up, and the woman raised her hand and gently tucked his hair behind his ear: "From now on, Ah Xuan, you are my son."
"Just follow me and go to the capital together."
***Back to the Present***
In the real world.
The next day after returning to City A, Su Xuan and the others heard that Xian Mo had awakened his past life memories after reincarnation and joined the Monster Bureau.
In fact, Su Xuan had known this for a long time - before he traveled back in time, when he was chatting privately with Xian Mo, Xian Mo had already mentioned this matter, but he hoped that Su Xuan could keep it secret from Yan Ning'an, saying that if Yan Ning'an was racking his brains over how he planned to appear in the future, he could suddenly appear, wouldn't that be a surprise for Yan Ning'an?
...is also quite funny.
Su Xuan and the others all had very complicated feelings towards Xian Mo.
They were grateful, but also a little uneasy and guilty. They were worried that Xian Mo's death was really related to the spell. However, Xian Mo also told Su Xuan clearly that his body had been failing for a long time, and it was normal for him to die in his sleep one day.
He has been "saving" people all his life, so there is no reason for him to shrink back because of fear of death at the end.
Even if he hadn't met Zong Ning, he would have met Lin Ning, Wang Ning and Zhao Ning.
However, his death had nothing to do with anyone.
Instead of dwelling on these meaningless things that even he himself doesn't care about, it would be better to look to the future - maybe he will have a better body in his next life.
Fortunately, Xian Mo accurately located his reincarnation in their time and successfully awakened his memories of his past life.
Now that his memory has been awakened, it has nothing to do with whether it was his lover in the previous life or not. He is Xianmo himself.
I'm afraid that Yan Ning'an's future days will be particularly "interesting".
The matter between Zong Ning and Xian Mo came to an end.
Of course, there are still many other matters waiting for Su Xuan to deal with.
He originally wanted to find time to study the spiritual core in Gu Shuo's body, but not only did he have no clue, Gu Shuo also advised him to deal with the company's affairs first before worrying about their past of amnesia.
"There's still plenty of time, don't rush, Xuan." The man said gently.
Su Xuan sighed and accepted his fate.
Xia Yan's competition entered the next round. There were two local companies that asked Qi Hanyu to shoot commercials. Zong Ning... Zong Ning was still in the crew, and they would talk about it after the filming was done. Oh, and there was also Wen Yu. Their group of trainees was about to have their group formed, and Wen Yu was still leading by a huge margin, with a clear advantage.
In this thriving...
Su Xuan actually received an invitation to collaborate on a variety show!
It is a celebrity experience program. In each episode, the program team will place several MCs in different companies and different positions to let them experience various kinds of life.
There are both funny and sad moments in the show. The show is broadcast live throughout, with edited versions uploaded online afterwards. It has no script, many unexpected situations, and real reactions, and has attracted many viewers, making it a golden variety show.
This time, the program team hopes that Su Xuan can accept the most special little MC they have and let him accept the beatings of life.
Su Xuan asked tentatively, "You want him to come and sell skewers with us..."
The production crew member on the other end twitched his lips and said, "...Mr. Su, you're an entertainment company, right?"
Su Xuan twitched his lips and said, "Yes, yes."
"Then let him do whatever he wants, not just selling skewers. Just keep him by your side for a day and order him around however you want," a production crew member said proudly. "Our production team's motto is to give him a good beating and that's it!"
Su Xuan: Does the MC of your program know that you are so crazy outside?
Of course, no matter how much he complained in his heart, it would be a waste not to make money. Su Xuan immediately agreed and set a recording date with the other party.
On the other end, the program staff hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief.
...They would never tell Mr. Su that the most important reason they approached Shanhai Entertainment was that many netizens were very curious about how Shanhai Entertainment actually operates.
Why on earth would an entertainment company frequently appear in the news for such a stupid thing?
The public especially wants to go inside Shanhai Entertainment to find out what’s going on.
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