Chapter 107

Seeing that Senior Buyehou didn't seem to be interested in talking, Liu Jia tactfully stopped talking about this topic. He thought for a while and decided to tell him everything, such as waiting for Senior Buyehou to come back and helping to feed the dog, which were all arranged by Director Jiang.

"Our Director Jiang wants to meet with you." Liu Jia said carefully, "Is it convenient for you, senior?"

Director Jiang told the senior to notify her after he came back, but before notifying her, he had to ask the senior whether he was willing to meet her. It was not Jiang Jiang, but Director Jiang, who represented the official of the surface world.

After hearing this question, the senior looked up at Liu Jia. Liu Jia saw that the senior shook his head, and the tired look on his pale face became even more intense, as if nothing could catch his eye and arouse his slightest interest.

"I have some things to deal with recently, so I won't meet with Director Jiang. Sorry."

Liu Jia and Song Tu looked at each other, and both saw deep worry in their eyes. When Director Jiang told them, if Senior Bu Ye Hou really had no interest in meeting, they should not force it. But none of them expected that Senior's condition looked... a little bad.

After drinking tea, they quickly said goodbye. The senior was not in good condition, so let him rest early.

After walking out of this commercial street, Liu Jiacai sighed: "I don't know what happened to the senior. His face is so pale that it makes me worry..."

"We both know the strength of our senior. If he can't solve the problem, we certainly can't solve it either." Song Tu touched the stubble on his chin, put his arm on Song Tu's shoulder, and said nonchalantly, "Even if the sky falls, there will always be tall people to hold it up."

Although they are members of the Chongming City Resident Team, compared to the talented geniuses and well-mannered experts in the bureau, they are as ordinary as can be. There are many things... far beyond their level to understand, and even if they are worried, they are powerless. It is better to do the best they can within their ability.

"There is nothing to worry about in the world, only mediocre people make trouble for themselves." He patted Liu Jia's shoulder and said, "Let's go, it's time to go back and report!"

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Yu Tu was unaware of the conversation between Song Tu and Liu Jia after they walked away. In his mind, Liu Jia's words, "Our Director Jiang wants to meet with you," were still echoing, which made his brain explode.

What can he do by meeting with Director Jiang?

Should we talk about his origins, or about the Phoenix that he knows nothing about? Or about the pile of rotten stalls he left on the mountain and the installment of his big move that he has not yet paid off?

Clearly none of them is suitable!

Yu Tu sighed, feeling that his road ahead was difficult. He looked at the back of Xiao Hui, who had calmed down, eaten and drunk his fill and went to sleep in his nest, and felt a surge of genuine envy.

What a carefree and happy life!

Yu Tu slumped down in the recliner, ready to close his eyes and rest for a while, when he suddenly remembered that he hadn't read the comics yet. This time he slept for half a month, and combined with the past few days, the comics should have been updated with at least two chapters.

Maybe I can get some new information from the comics this time!

Yu Tu took the phone and found the familiar icon without hesitation. As soon as he opened the comic website X, the frequency of "Shan Hai Zhi Yu" appeared.

Yu Tu raised his eyebrows. Tian Yan’s comics…seemed to be getting more and more popular.

Yu Tu didn't rush to click in. He first looked at the unread list and found that it was just as he had guessed. There were two new chapters and an extra biography.

At the bottom of the comic is the comment section, and the one with the most likes is about Tian Yan:

[What level of cooking god is Tian Yan? He is the chief writer, screenwriter, storyboarder, and colorist. Is he a person growing on his liver? ]

Yu Tu: “……?”

He doesn't read many comics. Is this something exaggerated?

He flipped through the pages curiously—

[Isn't Tianyan's updates getting more and more exaggerated? Half a volume at a time! Even a person can't grow that much on the liver! ]

[I suspect that Tianyan is not a person at all, but a studio... otherwise this doesn't make sense at all!!]

[The main writer, storyboard writer, line writer, and colorist is all done by one person. Not to mention that we update every ten days and occasionally early, even if we update once a month, it's already too much! 】

[No matter if it’s a person or a studio, I just hope that every wife I pursue has Tianyan’s awareness, much more! ]

[That’s right! Who would complain about throwing away too much rice? ]

[That’s it! Hungry! Food!!]

The comments under the most popular posts gradually became unified, all of them were "hungry, food". It can be seen that if conditions permit, comic readers wish Tian Yan could update to the finale in one go.

Yu Tu looked at the number of pages of the two unread chapters—there were indeed a lot. Could it be that the progress of the comics and reality was directly equal?

Although he was also very curious about what was in Buyehou's solo biography, it was more important to check the updates and find out the news first. After hesitating for a few seconds, Yu Tu finally clicked on the comic update first.

This episode continues from the end of the previous episode, starting with Gu Hongying logging into the military training site.

Gu Hongying's login site was a glacier, and it was the top of the glacier. After he was teleported in, the iceberg under his feet was collapsing. So within three seconds of logging in, Gu Hongying fell into the sea and was confusedly face to face with a group of penguins in the sea water.

Then...he was chased by penguins!

I don’t know why the penguins regard him as “prey”. The black and white swimmers followed Gu Hongying, forming a cool chase. In the comic with blue and white as the main colors, Gu Hongying’s screams of “Ahhhhhhhhh” filled every space visible to the naked eye.

But humans cannot swim faster than penguins. Gu Hongying finally found a glacier to dock on. He climbed up savagely. Then, a large group of penguins behind him also followed him up as if they were injected with chicken blood.

Gu Hongying: “???”

For some reason, this group of penguins were incredibly agile. Gu Hongying slid around the glacier with them three times. In the end, the leading penguin grabbed his pants and knocked him to the ground. Afterwards, all the penguins, big and small, rushed up to cling to him.

Gu Hongying was squeezed to the point of vomiting his soul. He stretched out his Erkang hand tremblingly among the black and white penguins. He looked particularly miserable and funny.

[Hahahahahaha what’s going on? Is he the human-shaped penguin Mint?]

[Damn! Those are emperor penguins! They actually get close to humans! I’m so jealous!!]

[I understand! Yingying is the legendary runaway princess! [Cosmic Cat Sublimation.JPG]]

[Hahahahaha the runaway princess hahaha! ]

The comic readers laughed loudly, and Yu Tu turned the page with a smile on his face.

He gradually became familiar with the subsequent plot, which was nothing more than how this group of hunters hunted at night, marathoned during the day, and then opened the hidden area in the sharp roar.

When Eric said "separate actions", the number of comments reached another peak.

[The Great King has arrived, get out of the way!]

[They really split up...Six!]

[Robot: You are so arrogant and great! I will let you take my head!]

[In a sense, this division is really good! Eric leads the charge, and Yingying sets an example!]

[Hahahahahahahaha it’s Bulbasaur opening the door—that’s brilliant!]

Military training takes up most of this episode, and the rhythm is well controlled, funny when it should be funny, serious when it should be serious, and tense when it should be tense. Gu Hongying, Eric, Hao Zhizhi and him, everyone has a close-up shot in the comic.

After the military training was over and those who performed poorly were taken away, Gu Hongying returned to the dormitory. The calmness he had forced on his face completely collapsed. He took a shower and threw himself on the bed. Before he had been lying there for five minutes, the bracelet on his wrist began to vibrate.

Gu Hongying clicked on the message, and his expression instantly turned bitter. He buried his head in the soft pillow and wailed:

"Didn't we say that those who perform well will have a holiday in September? Why do I still have to do extra training? My life is too hard—"

Gu Hongying lay on the bed like a salted fish, pretending that he did not see the message and did not exist. After a while, the vibration of the bracelet on his wrist stopped—the phone rang.

It was my mother Gu Xingzhu who called.

"Mom..." Gu Hongying's face was about to show a concrete "QAQ", "Why do I need to train more? Didn't my dad say that he had trained me enough in that month?"

"Good boy, Tong!" Gu Xingzhu, who was on the other end of the bracelet, said succinctly, "The previous stage is over, so the next stage is about to begin!"

Gu Hongying: “…”

He turned over in pain, not wanting to face this desperate fact.

As Gu Hongying's mother, Gu Xingzhu naturally knew what her son was thinking. After she told him everything he needed to pay attention to in one breath, she hung up the phone without waiting for Gu Hongying to react.

Gu Hongying: “…”

Mom, you are my real mother!

Is there anyone who treats children as badly as you?

Unable to resist, Gu Hongying climbed out of bed sadly, muttering to himself as he packed a bag for himself in five minutes—he had practiced it a month before school started.

After putting the bag on his back, he sighed, took out a piece of talisman paper from the cabinet and tore it open. After a flash of white light, Gu Hongying's figure began to twist, and then his background changed to a spacious rooftop with a woman standing on the rooftop.

When Yu Tu saw the woman, his hand that was turning the page paused slightly. This woman... was the principal he had met on the playground after registering.

Gu Hongying obviously recognized him as well: "Principal? Are you waiting for me here?"

"We meet again." The principal, who had a very bright smile but looked very difficult to deal with, set his eyes on Gu Hongying, which made Gu Hongying's heart tremble. "I will be in charge of the next special training."

The comic briefly depicts Gu Hongying’s psychological activities at this time—he thinks the president’s “see you again” is very strange, because he has a good memory since he was a child, and he is sure that he has never met this president of Miller College.

Finally, it was Gu Hongying who convinced himself. Perhaps the principal's words "seeing each other again" were referring to the freshman report on the playground.

[The principal's words "see you again" always make me feel weird...]

[Me too! Based on my many years of experience in the comics industry, there must be some foreshadowing here!]

[Yingying's origins are becoming more and more mysterious!]

[The way the principal looks at Yingying always makes me feel like he is evaluating something... [Alert.JPG]

Is there something wrong with the principal?! ]

[I think there is no problem! How can there be a problem with a beautiful lady? She is not allowed to look like someone who is not easy to mess with!]

[You guys who are obsessed with looks, please don’t let your face lead you astray. Be reasonable!]

…

The comments on this page are already in a state of chaos with heated arguments over questions like "Does the principal have a problem?", "Is the principal a villain?", "Beautiful women are never innocent?", "Only people with many schemes would be suspicious of others".

Yu Tu ignored the arguments and continued watching.

The principal was obviously a tough guy who didn't talk much. After telling Gu Hongying that he was the person in charge of the next stage, he directly drew a formation in the air and took Gu Hongying to transfer for the second time. The final destination of their transfer was very familiar to Yu Tu - it was Kunlun, where he had been that day following the burning powder that did not dissolve bones.

Snow was still falling on Kunlun. After just standing quietly in front of the cliff for a while, Gu Hongying's shoulders were already covered with snowflakes.

The principal looked serious. She stepped forward and chanted a spell. After the mountain wall shook, they entered the mountain, a world that seemed to be made of ice and snow.

The dense vertical icicles above the head and the rough road surface created by the piles of ice of various sizes and randomly glued together under the feet, all of this exudes a dangerous beauty when presented in the comics.

Gu Hongying couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Where is this?"

The principal did not answer him. Her expression was somewhat complicated and difficult to read, her eyes were covered by the shadow of her hat: "Follow me."

Gu Hongying followed her through the seemingly endless ice and snow. They walked in the ice and snow for a long time and finally reached the end.

Countless ice chains thicker than a person crisscrossed and swirled in Gu Hongying's eyes, looking strong and intimidating. He saw a young man chained on an ice platform more than five meters high.

Perhaps the noise they made when they came in startled him, and Gu Hongying and the boy made eye contact.

The boy's eyes were clearly black and white, but too distinct, black was very black, white was very white, and one glance at him would be enough to make you feel terrified. Coupled with his skin that seemed more transparent than ice and snow... he didn't look like a normal person.

Gu Hongying was so frightened that he took a step back—and then a hand pressed against his back.

"Go forward," said the principal.

As Gu Hongying walked forward, the boy kept staring at him, which made Gu Hongying feel creepy.

"Eighteen years..." The boy's voice was filled with a lifeless air, "...Are you sure it's him..."

The principal's voice seemed to contain a lot of emotions, but in the end, they were suppressed as much as possible: "Yes."

In such a weird atmosphere, Gu Hongying couldn't even muster a polite smile: "What exactly do you want to teach me?"

Why does he feel so panicked?

"Sense the aura of the same nature as yours here." The principal pulled the brim of her hat, which blocked her eyes, so that only the tip of her nose and her red lips could be seen. "Then use the aura to transform into a sword and cut all the chains here."

Gu Hongying: “???”

He swallowed his saliva and said incredulously: "Are you kidding me?"

It's icy and snowy here, and it's estimated that 80% of the spiritual energy is of water attribute. Not to mention how difficult it is for him, who is of metal attribute, to sense the spiritual energy of the same attribute, he can't transform the spiritual energy into a sword in a short time!

"You are not asked to finish it in a few days," the principal said. "This is one of your graduation conditions."

Gu Hongying: "...Can you change someone?"

Hardly had he asked the question when he heard a short laugh coming from the ice-cast platform. The chained boy's shoulders trembled slightly with laughter. The red tassel on his right ear suddenly flew and pierced straight into his back. Blood oozed out and he groaned in pain.

The principal couldn't help but step forward and said, "Xiao Wan, don't move!"

After the boy's painful voice gradually died down, Gu Hongying heard the principal continue to speak:

“I can’t change anyone.”

"The inner world, only you can do it."

[“Only you can do it”——What exactly is Yingying’s identity? I’m so curious!!!]

[As expected of the protagonist of a hot-blooded youth comic, his background is indeed strange! And last time, Yingying’s dad said that Yingying would never become anything other than a human being…

【Alert.JPG】]

[Half a volume at a time is still not enough, at least one volume at a time! This is not too much to ask!]

The principal's words shocked many potential readers. Everyone expressed their opinions and no one could convince anyone else.

This page is the end of this episode.

Yu Tu did get a lot of information from the comics, but what followed was a bigger mystery.

He and Gu Hongying are indeed a pair of brothers in distress. His background is problematic, and Gu Hongying's background is obviously even more problematic.

Yu Tu let out a long sigh and turned to the next page.

The cover of the next episode also follows Tianyan's usual exquisite painting style. White water ripples divide the cover into two halves. On the left is the phantom of a tea tree that blocks out the sun, and on the right is a huge sycamore tree with red leaves all over the sky. Buye Hou stands on the center axis of the two trees, but his expression cannot be seen clearly.

The title of this episode is "Between Time".