Chapter 287

When Yu Tu received the message from Di Xiu, he knew that the clan leader must not have taken the medicine honestly, so he was very considerate and sent a detailed prescription to Elder Di Xiu, accurately specifying the daily quantity.

After all, the patriarch opposite is a thousand-year-old sapling (smile).

After dealing with the disobedient clan leader, Yu Tu closed the door of the teahouse, walked through the long narrow corridor, and went to the backyard which he had not been to for a long time. The "background wall" in the backyard had long been reduced to ashes, and the wall surface was also mottled. The white stone bricks were covered with dead branches and leaves. The tables and chairs that were once engraved with intricate patterns were buried in the pile of fallen leaves and had decayed beyond recognition.

Yu Tu bent down and picked up a chair, but he couldn't lift the rotten chair at all. It became tangled crumbs in Yu Tu's hands, fluttering down and merging with the dead branches and leaves.

Yu Tu stood in the middle of the yard, all he saw was a desolate scene. He didn't know why, but he suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of loneliness.

This feeling came and went quickly. Yu Tu walked around the wall and used his energy to clear away the dead branches and leaves, revealing the mottled bricks underneath - he was preparing to deduce the strange sacrificial formation in the backyard.

Yu Tu had seen this sacrificial formation twice, once in the underground cave and once at a comic convention not long ago. The one in the underground cave was more sophisticated, but Yu Tu only destroyed the core at that time and did not get a glimpse of the whole picture. The one in the Starry Pavilion was simpler, and Yu Tu took note of the general idea when he dismantled it.

Formations have always been very delicate, and a slight mistake can lead to a huge loss. Even if he remembered 70% of it, the remaining 30% would still be a huge project.

Yu Tu stood there for a while with his eyes closed. Everything in the Starry Pavilion slowly emerged in his mind—the terrified crowd in the darkness, the crisscrossing array patterns hidden under the blue light, the patterns formed by the overflowing blood...

Following the guidance of Yu Tu's consciousness, the energy restored the state at that time one by one in this empty courtyard. The strange red lines gradually moved around with him as the center. When they were about fifty meters away from Yu Tu, the formation began to close, forming a circle, and then rushed towards him again with the circle as the boundary.

If you ignore the strange, cold and negative aura of those red lines, it looks like a stunning work of art created by a painter, natural, smooth, complex and beautiful.

The red lines seemed to have their own consciousness. They entangled and rolled, growing steadily inward with a circle as the boundary. After growing for twenty meters, their speed gradually slowed down, as if they encountered invisible resistance. After overcoming the resistance and extending forward again, the color of the lines began to fade. At a distance of forty meters, they had already faded to white.

The light red line became a testing wave on the coast when it was still nine meters away from Yu Tu, constantly repeating the action of “rushing up and retreating”, but it was never able to break through the invisible shackles.

———The deduction has reached its limit.

Yu Tu slowly opened his eyes.

He didn't know the secret when it was destroyed, but when he was restoring it, he was shocked to find that the energy consumed by this sacrificial formation was incredibly terrifying. In addition to the energy consumption, there was another thing that made him extremely concerned - according to his ability, under normal circumstances, this formation should have been stuck when it was still 27 meters away from him, but he deduced according to his own ideas and habits, and actually extended the formation forward another 18 meters.

A distance of eighteen meters may not sound like a big deal, but if we make an analogy, it is like him participating in a global competition. In the preliminary round, there was an internal national selection. He should have been eliminated in the internal selection, but he unexpectedly made it to the global competition and was also included in the final ranking.

This is beyond description.

Yu Tu looked at his palm. After treating the patriarch that day, he peeled off a mark from the patriarch's body. The mark was a black rune. He didn't quite understand the rune, but it unexpectedly fit his thinking. Yu Tu didn't understand all of its effects, but he knew how to peel it off. After peeling off the black rune, a burn mark was left on his palm.

Now, the scars have healed, but the doubts they brought have not dissipated, but have become more serious over time.

Whether it was the black runes or the sacrificial formation, why did they fit in so well with his thinking? Could it be that he had also participated in such a sinister research?

Yu Tu's heart was in turmoil for a moment, and the formation he had managed to maintain collapsed in an instant. The sacrificial formation was already fierce, and the backlash of the failed formation was also terrifying. The output energy attacked his body. Yu Tu's face turned pale and he could hardly stand. He knelt on one knee, lowered his head and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The energy that had been rising recently suddenly lost a lot of space.

Yu Tu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and waited until the pain of backlash passed before he slowly stood up. No matter what the reason was, since it fit with his thinking, he would definitely be able to understand it. It just took time and trial and error.

Yu Tu had a vague feeling that this formation, which he had seen twice in total, might exist in more than two places in the inner world, and it might even... be related to ten thousand years ago.

*

In late November, Yu Tu's life became very regular. His vest was studying the sacrificial array, while his main body went to school as usual.

The fact that the comics were revealed to be true did not have as much impact on the subject as he had imagined, because his classmates were either non-human themselves, or had a family tradition of inheriting the knowledge, or at least had their worldviews reshaped by the admission letters they received when they were eighteen years old.

All in all, although their classmates were also surprised, they were able to withstand it much better than people in the outer world.

The commercial street where the vests were located was so blocked that the alien bureau had to take emergency measures. The Chang'an Academy where the original entities were located was only teased by classmates on the first day of school, and then everyone went about their own business - Chang'an Academy had the highest average score per capita, and it was not a false reputation.

This made the four people who couldn't see the comics at all feel relieved, and Yu Tu, who could see the comics, also felt relieved.

The comic was updated again in the past half month. Two-thirds of the story is about the daily life of Chang'an Academy and the competition missions they accepted. Of the remaining one-third, half is about drawing more and more weird things in the outside world, reminding people which places they should not go and what to avoid in daily life. Comic readers jokingly call it a "real-life rule-based ghost story."

The other half is the vest's part, depicting him cleaning up the desolate backyard and deducing strange formations there. The scene where he vomited blood because of his absent-mindedness was also drawn in the comics. Yu Tu himself didn't think there was anything wrong, but the readers' reactions were like a cat whose tail was stepped on. Not only did they react, but they also seemed to have some strange thoughts in their minds.

[Wuwuwuwu, please don’t hurt my wife. I feel even more sorry for her now that I know the comic is true!]

[Just call me wife, just call me wife. TAT wife, if you have any opinions, come find me and tell me in person, okay?]

[Who can not love Buyehou? No one can not love him! [Screaming at the top of one's lungs.JPG]]

[Wife, you can’t take advantage of your own abilities and ignore your body. Think about it, you still have Tutu. If Tutu finds out that you don’t take care of yourself, he’ll cry. QAQ]

[Wife! My beautiful and strong wife!]

The readers in the comment section burst into tears. In that ocean of infectious and brainwashing comments, Yu Tu vaguely felt that Vest was the most pitiful beauty and tragedy in the world. He woke up in a completely unfamiliar world and watched his old friends leave one by one. Even though he no longer remembered them, he was still sad and heartbroken.

Yu Tu: “……?”

He almost believed it!

Because the vest was secluded and the main body was studying in the inner world, this comic update had no other impact except the energy surge. But the day after the comic was updated, Wen Qing, an old senior, came and invited the five of them to [Yu Yao Chun Chen].

Wen Qingjiu and his team are very strong. In addition to the tasks of Wen Daotang, they have also developed other channels to earn credits, so their team generously booked an entire floor of the laboratory building with credits. After Yu Tu and his team accepted the invitation, Wen Qingjiu took them to the exclusive laboratory floor, and then gave them a detailed introduction to the "great plan to change the world" that she had mentioned to Yu Tu before.

When asked why they were suddenly invited to learn about the detailed plan, Wen Qingjiu said frankly: "Because Yingying, you are the protagonist of the comic, and the comic will be updated around you. I hope our project can be included in the comic."

Gu Hongying: “……?”

Wen Qingjiu pushed up the special glasses on his nose and said, "Our research project is complex, expensive, and long-lasting. I want to get some investment from the outside world."

Gu Hongying: “…Ah?”

An alternative, novel but reasonable way of attracting investment seems to have emerged.

After this interesting episode in life, everything went on in an orderly manner. On the last day of November, Gu Hongying suddenly sent a message in their small group of five people, saying that he would go to special training for a month and would not be in school in December, and they wanted to have a meal together before leaving.

The message he sent seemed to be a farewell signal, and several other people also spoke one after another—

Eric: [I received a message from my family that I have to go back. My [Talent] needs to be further consolidated, which may take at least half a month or at most a month.]

After surviving teacher Olivia's summer camp, Eric showed signs of awakening his talent. In the past six months, his talent has officially awakened, but it is still not very stable.

Yin Li: [My teacher also sent me a message. I will be back to Kunlun in the next few days.]

Hao Zhizhi: [If you all leave, I might go back to Millerkel. I can sense my [talent]. The principal said that if I show signs of awakening my [talent], I must contact her immediately.]

It seems that the friends all have important things to do next month. Yu Tu was just about to say that he would stay in Chang'an Academy to continue his studies and take on tasks from Wen Daotang to earn credits in his spare time, but he found that Elder Di Xiu had sent him a message late last night.

The gist of the message was that the time for the barrier to be broken was getting closer, and the inner world was not as safe as before. They planned to give Yu Tu a month-long vacation and let him come back for "many-to-one" counseling.

Given the love the Grass and Wood Clan elders had for him, Yu Tu felt that this decision was not unusual, but it was a bit too much of a coincidence that all five members of their team happened to have plans next month.

Yu Tu replied "OK" to Elder Di Xiu, and then told other friends in the small group that he would return to the Grass and Wood Tribe next month.

Everyone had their own plans for December, so the dinner in the evening was quickly decided. Due to heavy study workload and going to the outer world was too time-consuming, the dinner was set at Ju Ming Yue in the experimental area. Gu Hongying used his credits to grab a private room.

The cafeteria at Chang'an Academy was first-rate, and the dishes ordered in advance were all their favorites. Gu Hongying even ordered a dozen beers—since they were all adults, it was no big deal to drink some alcohol, except that it would cost some credits.

The private room they chose was on the sixth floor. Outside the window was a high moon. The college with the highest combined score this week was still the College of Arts, so "Lang Tao Sha" was playing in the artificial moon. The seventh floor above their heads was bustling with activity, as if a young couple were confessing their love to each other, so the students on the seventh floor were all cheering.

"Lang Tao Sha" didn't seem to be so appropriate for the occasion, so before long, it became "Feng Qiu Huang". Laughter and cheers floated from upstairs to downstairs, and only after the confession was over did they switch back to "Lang Tao Sha".

Except for Eric, no one had ever drunk alcohol before they became adults. After a few bottles of beer, almost everyone was wiped out. Yu Tu leaned against the railing in a daze, feeling the moon hanging in the sky singing.

Yu Tu wondered in a daze, the moon can also sing?

It sings "Meeting and parting are so hasty, this regret is endless, this year's flowers are more beautiful than last year's..."

Gu Hongying came over and brought him into the house. Yu Tu didn’t hear what happened next, he only heard the loud clinking of cups and—

"Cheers! See you on New Year's Day!"