Chapter 104 Extreme Cold
The mission is indeed not difficult, but to be honest, it is not really a mission.
The actual statement is that the destination of this tour also includes students from another school.
It is considered a better public school in the country. High school students of the same grade will also participate in this five-day trip, but they also need to participate in a large-scale mathematics league finals at the same time.
During this period, students from both schools will stay in the same hotel.
Lao Cui said: "As long as conditions permit, I hope that during these five days, students from both schools can have a better atmosphere to get along with each other."
"At least for now, spiritualists and spirits have been placed before ordinary people, whether they are willing to accept them or not. So all we can do is to prevent them from having their lives affected by the existence of spirits."
"So that we can give them a clearer understanding, rather than a one-sided popular science. After all, there is a saying that practice is the only criterion for testing truth. In other words, actual experience is the best way to verify the facts."
"That's about it." Cui Tong indicated to the students that if they had anything to discuss, they could talk about it slowly in private.
He said, "Stop talking nonsense and get to class first." This brought the group of students, who were almost getting excited, back to reality.
However, the explanation of the so-called mission was still much easier to understand than they imagined.
Many students thought that the travel plan of an entire class was actually hiding a super-powerful spirit that an entire class could fight against.
Fortunately not!
A school that doesn't exploit minors is awesome, right?!
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With this idea in mind, the students were much more motivated during class today.
Travel destinations were often discussed during breaks.
Tan Dong distributed a travel guide to each person, which clearly marked the resort's tourist facilities.
After all, it is an aristocratic school. Although most of the students have never experienced it, when the school pays for the students to go out and play, it does have some characteristics of an aristocratic school.
"A water park, a super-long roller coaster, a camping ground, the country's top cinema equipment, an artificial diving area, an adventure forest, hot springs, band performances... the school must have spent a lot of money." Qi Xueyi said as he turned the pages, but found that he could not reach the bottom of the travel book in his hand.
It was already noon, and the three of them were sitting in the school cafeteria. They had all gotten their meals and were chatting while eating.
"I don't know whether there was heavy bleeding or not. What I care more about is, is the mission really that simple? Since the first year of high school, I always felt that any event is to allow us to see more clearly the cruelty of this world." A rare bowl of rice was placed in front of Jian Zirui. Steam was wafting from the snow-white rice grains. A side dish further away was a plate of fried lettuce.
The food placed in front of He Jingtong was like a copy and paste of Jian Zirui's. Hearing her words, the young man raised his head and said thoughtfully: "I didn't see the scene of the resort in my previous prophecy."
"Wait, prophecy is a passive skill for you. When you are preparing to go out to play, do you want to figure out the future in advance? If so, won't it greatly reduce your expectations?" Qi Xueyi closed the travel manual decisively and looked at He Jingtong with a sharp gaze.
“Stop worrying so much about the future.”
"Seeing the future too clearly will only make the future an inevitable development. Not only will you lose the anticipation for the future, but you will also lose the ability to anticipate the future."
Qi Xueyi picked up the soup bowl beside him and gulped down the already warm soup in one gulp. He then took out a tissue, wiped his mouth, and said, "Anyway, we'll talk about what fun things there are in the resort when we get there. For now, let's think about how to make you not care so much about the prophecy."
"Come to think of it, we've never discussed this topic with you before."
He Jingtong was stunned for a moment when he heard this, with a hint of confusion in his eyes, as if he didn't understand what was going on and didn't know why there was any point in discussing this.
Jian Zirui nodded and said, "To be honest, we really don't know much about each other."
During the half month of solving supernatural problems, the three of them kept coming into contact with information related to supernatural things. To some extent, they were indeed together all the time, but their understanding of each other had never been in-depth.
"Besides the initial self-introduction, He Jingtong doesn't know much about us, and we don't know much about you either."
Qi Xueyi raised his eyebrows: "What should I do? Introduce myself again?"
"No need to introduce myself. Let me talk about my abilities." Jian Zirui put down his chopsticks. "I am good at using Taoism and swordsmanship. The former comes from my master's teachings, and the latter is mostly self-realization. The characteristics of ability tendencies are also a relatively vague concept. I usually call it a small spiritual platform."
"That is, the mental self, which is another self that appears deep in the heart, used to reflect the real self, but does not participate in reality."
"It can enhance my understanding of swordsmanship. Whether it's the unity of man and sword, or the sword in the heart, turning everything into a blade... I can understand all of these. It can be regarded as a more metaphysical ability."
Jian Zirui described her situation in an extremely calm tone: "Besides that, I grew up in a Taoist temple and entered the Elite Academy at the age of fifteen. I am sixteen this year, born on November 7. My life goal is to be like my master. When I am not grown enough, I will work hard to grow into a human being; when I am grown enough, I will travel the world."
"I'm telling you about my situation not in exchange for you telling me about your situation. Rather, I want to tell you that I have a deep enough understanding of myself. What about you? Do you understand yourself? Do you know what you want? After you have the prophecy, what do you want the future to be like?"
“Someone has to ask these questions.”
"Prophecy can help you avoid future disasters, but prophecy can also become the source of your entanglement." Jian Zirui looked at He Jingtong seriously.
The main purpose of her Taoist temple is to cultivate purity, loyalty, and sincerity. From the beginning to the end, Jian Zirui has a clear mind about what she wants and what she wants to achieve.
She could also see Qi Xueyi clearly. Unfortunately, Baimao was not the kind of person who would set clear goals for the future. He only lived in the present.
But only Congratulations to Jingtong.
What does He Jingtong want? He wants everyone to be well, that's obvious. But when everyone is well, doesn't he want to be well too and live with everyone?
Jian Zirui cannot see this kind of "greed", which is part of human nature and should exist without negative connotations.
All she could see was He Jingtong's mortality, which was like flowing clouds, a kite, or a river that flowed toward the sea and never looked back.
"It seems to me that you know you will die, and you want to use the remaining days of your future to help others..."
"Tool." Jian Zirui nodded after a brief thought, "Yes, a tool. In my opinion, you live as if you regard yourself as a tool."
"The prophecy is no longer just something that you saved Teacher Tan Dong and saved us from danger. It has also become something that if you don't read it, you will be confused about the future."
"If you think what I said is too complicated, then I just want to ask you one question - can you still accept that your ability to predict suddenly disappears?"
He Jingtong smiled bitterly and said, "...I guess that's not possible."
"Look, you've completely forgotten that we also have the ability to seal and the choice to return to ordinary life."
Jian Zirui wanted to hold He Jingtong back.
He just looks like a kite, but he is not a real kite.
No matter you pull the kite string tight or reinforce it, you can't stop a person who has already determined that he is going to die.
Talking is very important. If you think you will never have the chance to say something, you will never be able to say it due to emergencies again and again.
Rather than leaving any regrets, Jian Zirui would rather bring out some bloody facts now.
"If you can't give up prophecy, then you must treat ability as a tool, rather than treating yourself who has ability as a tool."
He Jingtong lowered his head.
"...Let's eat first." Jian Zirui sighed, but didn't continue to force him.
After lunch, the afternoon classes ended and night arrived.
Since the total number of students in the psychic department was not that large, after the dormitory building cracked and collapsed, the school decided to rebuild all the dormitories and allocated the previously vacant teacher's houses to the students.
At this time, He Jingtong and the other two no longer had to face the situation of separate dormitory buildings, but instead moved into the same small western-style building.
Liu Shuyu, who was slightly familiar with He Jingtong before and even gave He Jingtong a life-saving soul jade bead in exchange for confirming the authenticity of the list of people related to Taohuayuan, sent him a message when He Jingtong was packing his luggage to take away tomorrow.
【I don’t know if this is good news.】
【All those involved in the Peach Blossom Spring have been arrested, and the laws and regulations related to spiritual masters are sufficient to sentence them to life imprisonment. Those who have committed serious acts have been sentenced to death, and the execution date is probably on the 16th - there will be no live broadcast on the entire network, but there will be people tracking the incident to explain it online. If conditions permit, you can also watch it. 】
He Jingtong: [I’ve made a note of it.]
Liu Shuyu replied with an OK emoticon and then disappeared spontaneously.
On the morning of the first day, He Jing and the other two, together with other classmates and the teacher leading the trip, the third-grade teacher, Xijun, boarded a plane to Taipei City.
When we were actually on the plane, some students suddenly realized, “This trip only includes first graders?”
"That's not the case." Xijun was sitting in front of many students. When he heard this question, he did not hesitate to explain.
"The three grades have their own destinations. Grades 1 and 3 will each be led by two other teachers from the third grade. The teachers of the first and second grades are going to Sheng City and surrounding cities in the next five days to discuss cooperation and see if they can jointly hold a joint competition that is exclusive to spiritualists but can also be revealed to ordinary people."
"Huh?" Chi Qian, who was closer to Xijun, seemed to have a question mark in his mind, "Does this mean that after we come back from our trip, we have something else to do?"
"Seriously speaking - yes." Lu Xijun nodded, "Now is a good time. Since ordinary people can already accept the existence of spirits, they should start trying to consolidate this understanding."
"Conducting a large-scale joint event that can be revealed to ordinary people, firstly, it allows ordinary people to see the power of the spiritual master. Even if you want to go crazy and become a supernatural spirit, you have to weigh it. If you die here, only an afterimage will be left. The fact that even the afterimage will be crushed to pieces in the next second..."
"As for the other point..." Xijun deliberately prolonged the question to keep the reader in suspense.
Chi Qian was hooked: "Teacher Rui, stop keeping me in suspense and tell me now!"
The relaxed look on Jun Xi's face disappeared, and he took on a serious and solemn attitude: "You must be aware of one fact. Even if the country can mobilize all the forces in all walks of life to try to appease the people, it cannot change the fact that the existence of spiritualists and supernatural beings that broke out in the country will spread all over the world."
"A lot of things happened in November. As students, most of you were put into work related to supernatural beings, so you didn't really see the dark side of the relevant society..."
"Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they don't exist."
Qi Xueyi came forward and asked, "What do you mean?"
"You should know that even in this modern era, there are still quite extreme people who believe that the earth is square."
"Similarly, no matter how much the authorities try to comfort and explain, there are still extremists who believe that the existence of spirits is all the fault of the spiritualists."
Xijun took a deep breath and glanced at He Jingtong who was resting with an eye mask on. He breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his voice a little, saying, "Those people believe that if there are no spiritual masters in the world, there will be no spirits in the world."
"They are unable to hate the invisible spirits, and do not accept the promotion of spirit-seeing glasses. They are unwilling to see the truth of the matter, but only cling to the prejudice and hatred deep in their hearts, and attribute the mistakes to the spiritualists."
"Although I don't want to admit it..." Jun Xi exhaled the breath he had taken deeply.
But in fact, the purpose of this trip is also to let the talented students in the ordinary education system realize from their own perspective that psychics are no different from ordinary people except for their ability to deal with supernatural beings.
In the view of sociologists, in order to truly achieve a good situation, the scientific education and cognitive guidance related to spiritual masters and supernatural beings often requires the efforts of the entire country.
And even so, it will take more than half a year to achieve a relatively good result.
The current trip is not because things are completely over, but because things have come to an end, and students do not have to stay in an oppressive working state for a long time.
But just as Jing Yunsong said, the so-called travel also has other missions.
They still need to show themselves to ordinary people, like a bird in a cage, and transmit their own harmless cognition to others, so that those non-spiritual teachers who have received higher education can gradually transmit what they have seen with their own eyes to the outside world.
Being official does not necessarily mean being correct. It is not that the official has lost its authority, but that some people simply pretend not to see it.
Mr. Xi didn't really want to talk about this. He also wanted the students to be more pure, accept the task of dealing with the spirits, solve the spirits, and return to their daily lives...
This three-point-one-line method can obviously make students feel more relaxed. But there is no other way. The world has already seen the side hidden in the dark, so it is impossible to continue hiding everything in the dark.
Especially other countries, unless they are closed countries, we can always receive news information from other countries.
Except for a very small number of countries that are also popularizing science to the public, the response of most countries is to turn a blind eye and allow all negative things to ferment on the Internet.
After all, as long as things don't come to your face, this world is materialism.
This kind of "free" indulgence will only indirectly squeeze the living space of spiritualists.
They are the ones who are being scolded because they were the first to expose the incident.
When the people of other countries can no longer curse, they will naturally have no choice but to accept that there are strange spirits in their country too.
But before that, the spiritualists in this country must face the seasonal cold in winter...
Forced to accept that they need to be in the pre-dawn period for a long time.
Or maybe you won't even last long enough to see the sun.
"...That's the situation. To sum it up, we need to deepen our awareness internally and demonstrate our strength externally." Ruo Xijun glanced at many classmates, and finally his gaze fell on He Jingtong, his eyes were solemn.
Deepen your understanding by traveling with ordinary people.
To reveal the power to the outside world, a large number of spiritualists are required to perform at the same time.
"Just like a little clown." Song Yu curled his lips.
She is pessimistic, but she has no intention of changing.
But fortunately, few people heard these words.
After Xixi finished explaining the relevant matters, most of the students turned their attention to him.
Chi Qian and others who had never been to the north almost pressed their faces against the window.
They looked out of the plane window curiously.
The temperature was so low that the snow under the sunlight showed no signs of melting, turning it into a blanket of silver, and even the pine trees were covered with icicles.
The lakes that had already frozen solid by the end of November reflected beautiful light under the sunlight.
This is one of the best places for psychic students and ordinary students to interact.
The cold slows down everyone's emotions and perceptions.
The plane landed quickly, and a group of people looked at this snowy city, sincerely admiring its beauty.
That is to say...
"I was wondering why this year Mr. Cui even added quilted lining that can be secretly snapped on in the winter clothes he distributed!"
“Is this extremely cold area that doesn’t care about human life and death really suitable for tourism?!”
"Help! How can it be so cold!"
"Your brains are all frozen." Xijun looked at these silly kids with a headache and said helplessly, "You are all spiritual masters. Did the soul-eating monsters in your brain eat up all the soul-releasing lessons that Lao Cui taught you?
"Wrap yourself with soul power to resist the cold. If you need extra clothes, wait until you get to the hotel.
Xijun rushed a group of students onto the bus and complained to the teacher group from the bottom of his heart: [I sincerely feel that there is no need for me to tell them in advance what this trip privately includes.]
[As for these kids whose noses are about to be frozen off, even if students from ordinary schools knew about them, they are considered special personnel who maintain social stability, and I'm afraid they wouldn't feel any distance from them.]
Jing Yunsong laughed at him in the group: "Why do you think that there are so many cities in our country, but three grades chose Weimo, Beicheng, and Yangzhou?"
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Among the coldest cities, North City has the most developed tourism industry.
Microwave is the most humid place in the country, with more water activities, but also has the highest rate of acclimatization.
As for Yangzhou... the temperature difference between day and night is the biggest, you can wear shorts during the day and a military coat at night, but it has more delicious food. Overall, after comprehensive consideration, these three cities are indeed the most suitable.
——It is the most suitable for students to experience the dangers of the world. 】
Ruoxi Jun: […Are you serious? ]
He turned off the phone with a twitching mouth.
Fortunately, the hotel is not too far from the airport. After arriving at the hotel, the warmth brought by the floor heating made the group of students feel that they could survive. Although they had already learned how to use the power of their souls to keep warm on the bus.
but……
"How should I put it? When I think about this power that should be used to protect people being used to keep warm, I feel like it's a waste of resources, so even if I can do it, I don't want to use it.
Qi Xueyi said: "It doesn't matter if you wear more clothes and look bloated and ugly. But if you run out of soul power and something unexpected happens, that would be a big problem.
So even if students can do it, wearing southern winter school uniforms, looking particularly cool on cold days, acting no different from the male protagonists in idol dramas, and are really not afraid of the cold, most of them are reluctant to use their strength.
Besides, wouldn't it be better if we just went indoors?
That's roughly the attitude.
Xijun had no choice but to ask the hotel kitchen to cook two large pots of ginger soup.
It was this action that made Qi Xueyi and Jian Zirui discover another He Jingtong.
——He Jingtong doesn’t drink ginger soup.
"Why?
"……It's too spicy.
In the restaurant, Qi Xueyi held the bowl to absorb the warmth and said, "Finally, someone feels the same way as I do that ginger soup is spicy. It won't taste sweet even if you add sugar. To be honest, adding sugar will make the taste even weirder."
Jian Zirui: "You two...
"Do you want to drink?" He Jingtong looked at Jian Zirui.
Jian Zirui's body stiffened visibly.
"...Watch TV, watch TV." Jian Zirui changed the subject stiffly.
Coincidentally, the TV was reporting information about Peach Blossom Spring.
[A total of 172 people were involved...]
Eighteen prisoners were sentenced to death, 101 to life imprisonment, and the rest to fixed-term imprisonment of more than ten years.
All the relevant participants were arrested, and no one escaped.
But the TV show did not explain in detail why these people were planning the Peach Blossom Spring project.
It was only roughly explained that the practice of teaching spirits and spiritualists in the same academy resulted in the deaths of 36 underage spiritualists... a total of more than 200 people were left with serious psychological trauma, and some students had already been in mental hospitals for a long time.
A total of 300 students were forced to participate in the Peach Blossom Spring experiment. If these people become spiritual masters normally, they can at least guarantee the safety of 6 million people. !