The Other Side of Deep Space

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Qingmu leaned against the car door, smoking one cigarette after another, waiting for Wang Xuan to get off work at the gate of the design institute.

He was a little worried. His master fled to Xinxing in a hurry. It had been many years since such a thing happened. What happened? He wanted to know clearly.

Wang Xuan was in a good mood. A big stone in his heart fell. He walked out with his colleagues, talking and laughing.

"Xiao Wang, this way." Qingmu called him.

"Someone is looking for me. See you tomorrow." Wang Xuan greeted several people around him and walked quickly forward.

In the sunset, a group of migratory birds flew away, and the autumn became more and more deep and the sky was high.

Qingmu took Wang Xuan to dinner and started asking questions on the way. When he heard that Lao Chen had an appointment with Yuhua Zhenxian recently, he stepped on the accelerator and almost hit the car in front.

"Watch the road, be steady!" Wang Xuan reminded quickly.

There were a lot of cars on the street. It was time to get off work, so the traffic was a bit congested. Qingmu was also a bit upset. What was going on? Was Lao Chen scared away by the female Taoist priest?

He knew very well that Lao Chen's old skills were quite remarkable. He was a rare super-powerful person. In addition, he was always smart and capable, and almost never suffered losses. Recently, he was... caught.

Wang Xuan was very relaxed and had the mood to look at the red maple trees on both sides of the road. The maple leaves looked particularly warm in the sunset. Thinking that the female Taoist priest would no longer appear, he thought that this time she might really run away with Lao Chen to become a new star.

"What do you think will happen to my master?" Qingmu roughly understood the situation. He felt it was a bit outrageous. How could a person who had died for three thousand years still send a dream?

"Lao Chen is a good person. I guarantee that he will be fine." Wang Xuan comforted him.

Qingmu never lacked money. He chose a high-end restaurant with a large private room and was very quiet. After ordering the dishes, he began to ask in a low voice about the details.

"You mean, Lao Chen protected you from the disaster?" Qingmu was choked by his own cigarette, feeling quite speechless.

"Don't make up your mind, it's none of my business. The reason why the female Taoist priest came to me in a dream is that no one who has participated in the underground test site in Daxing'anling is innocent. Lao Qing, you have to be careful recently!"

Wang Xuan was refreshed and had a good appetite. While enjoying the delicious food, he kindly reminded Qingmu that it would be better for him to prepare some talisman paper recently. Lao Chen was more experienced in this regard. After the incident, he took out a bunch of talismans and pasted them all over his body.

At the same time, he also complained that Lao Chen was really stingy. When he asked him for help on the weekend, he only sent him one, but when he got into trouble, he pasted it all over his body without caring about his life.

Qingmu listened to his unreasonable complaints and warnings, grinned, with mixed feelings, and blew a smoke ring without saying anything.

"The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility," Wang Xuan commented.

Qingmu glared at him. What nonsense is this? This kid is still ungrateful.

"Tell me, how can we help him?" Qingmu frowned. He was indeed a little worried about Lao Chen. After all, he was his master.

Wang Xuan said, "I don't think it's a big deal. Lao Chen went to Xinxing. The female Taoist priest must be unfamiliar with the place and probably not used to it. Sooner or later, she will bring Lao Chen back."

Listen, what is this? Qingmu glared at him, and then discussed with him about sending him to Xinxing to pick up and take care of Lao Chen.

Wang Xuan immediately refused. Who would jump into the fire pit again after jumping out of it?

He glanced at Qingmu and said, "Don't worry about Lao Chen first. I think you really need to worry about yourself."

"What do you mean?" Qingmu put out the cigarette.

Wang Xuan glanced at him and said, "What else can it mean? Old Chen is a coward and has gone to Xinxing. He will definitely not be able to help the female Taoist priest solve the problem. If she comes back, I guess it will be your turn."

"You have a poisonous mouth, shut up!" Qingmu was really a little unsure in his heart, and he felt that Old Chen was probably found in this way.

He seriously suspected that the female Taoist priest might have gone to Old Chen because of Wang Xuan's nonsense.

The more he thought about it, the more he thought it was the case. He warned him seriously, "Eat, and leave quickly after eating! You are not allowed to look for me recently, and you should not waste time when you are alone. Anyway, don't mention my name in the near future!"

"Old Qing, you are not kind, as if my mouth is blessed." Wang Xuan was dissatisfied and argued there. This matter had nothing to do with him at all, and he was also a victim.

"Don't say anything. Let's draw a line between us for now. You are not allowed to contact me recently!" Qingmu was about to pay the bill and leave. He didn't want to stay any longer and barely touched his chopsticks.

Wang Xuan said, "Don't be in a hurry to leave. When will my five million arrive? That's the compensation I earned after risking my life in Qingcheng Mountain."

"It will arrive tomorrow!" Qingmu stood up after saying that. He was happy to give the money. Although the silver animal skin scroll had not been deciphered yet, the expert group unanimously felt that it was of astonishing value. Otherwise, a Taoist priest would not have stared at it until his death.

"Okay!" Wang Xuan was satisfied. For a newly graduated student, such a huge sum of money was really an incredible surprise.

"You should eat at least a little." Wang Xuan persuaded Qingmu, and then said, "Are you really leaving? You won't take me home?"

Qingmu ignored him and sped up. He disappeared in a blink of an eye and decided not to go near Wang Xuan's residence recently.

The next day, Wang Xuan received a text message from the bank, and the bank reminded him that a large amount of money had been deposited. He counted and found that there were six zeros, which was indeed five million. He was immediately in a good mood.

Soon, he remembered another thing. Have you paid taxes? He hurried to ask Qingmu, but Qingmu hung up on him five times and ignored him!

In the end, perhaps he couldn't stand him anymore, Qingmu sent him a text message to tell him that he had paid on his behalf and gave him five million after tax.

"Old Qing, you are great!" Wang Xuan quickly typed a few words back.

Qingmu saw it and blocked him directly. He always felt that if he was too involved with him recently, something would happen. The more he thought about it, the more he thought that this was the reason. He shouldn't have gone to him and invited him to dinner. Lao Chen was a lesson for him.

In the evening, Wang Xuan called his parents and told them that he would go back this weekend. He also gave them a heads-up in advance, saying, "I won the lottery!"

In the next two days, Wang Xuan studied the Taoist scriptures, practiced the root method, and pondered the feather fossils. This time, he must go to the mountain to see if there is anything left.

After get off work on Friday, Wang Xuan rushed to the station quickly. His home is in a neighboring small town, which is only more than 100 kilometers away, which is not far away relatively speaking.

When he returned home in the evening, his parents were very happy at first, but later they were much calmer than he had imagined. In Lao Wang's words, what's the use of having so much money? It's enough to spend. This mentality may also be the reason why Wang Xuan is a little careless on weekdays.

"Keep it for yourself, buy a wedding house, and marry a wife as soon as possible." Lao Wang said happily, not forgetting to urge him to get married.

Wang Xuan came back once a week or two, so when the couple saw him, although they were in a good mood, they were relatively peaceful.

"I just graduated, it's too early, wait two years, I'll transfer the money to you first." Then, Wang Xuan didn't care and completed the transfer directly.

After dinner in the evening, he asked his parents about the big black mountain dozens of miles away from the town. There has always been a legend about a fairy in that place.

He remembered that when he was a child, there was a Taoist temple on the mountain, but later it fell into disrepair and there was no Taoist priest. It collapsed completely. I don't know what it is like now.

Old Wang recalled and sighed: "There are indeed some legends there. When I was a child, the incense was still very popular. Later, the villages and towns at the foot of the mountain were demolished, and people moved away. Most of them moved to the city, and the incense gradually stopped. Finally, even the Taoist priests were gone. Now there are weeds everywhere there, and I heard that the foundation of the Taoist temple can't be found."

Wang Xuan said: "Tomorrow I plan to invite two childhood friends to go around. I haven't been to Dahei Mountain for a long time. In autumn, it's a good time to see if there are any hazelnuts, walnuts, etc."

In the evening, he started to make appointments. The two childhood friends were very happy when they knew he was back, and they were busy agreeing. One would prepare a car tomorrow, and the other said he would borrow a few dogs to take into the mountains to chase rabbits.

Unfortunately, the weather was not good. It was predicted that it would be sunny and cloudy on Saturday, but it started to rain directly, and it was getting heavier and heavier. The two childhood friends regretted it and changed their appointment to go to Dahei Mountain on Sunday.

Wang Xuan couldn't sit still. Even though it was raining heavily, it didn't affect him as a practitioner of the old art. He took action directly.

He put on his rain gear, walked out of the house, and then out of the town. Then he started running all the way to the Big Black Mountain.

The main reason was that the legend about the fairy lady seemed to be related to rain. He took advantage of this environment to go into the mountain to take a look.

After practicing the Golden Body Art to the fourth level, even if it was dozens of miles, it was nothing to Wang Xuan.

Finally, he entered the mountain. The rocks on this mountain range were black. If there were no grass and trees, it would look like light ink from a distance, so it was called Black Mountain, or Big Black Mountain.

Wang Xuan rushed straight to one of the peaks according to his memory and climbed the mountain quickly. However, when he reached the top of the mountain, he was suspicious. The Taoist temple was gone. Even if it collapsed, there should be foundations and rubble. Why was it bare?

He felt that this foundation seemed to have been dug away.

Did he remember it wrong? It's not this mountain?

Wang Xuan went to other mountains to look for it, and climbed several hills in succession, but he did not find the collapsed Taoist temple.

Boom!

Thunder roared between heaven and earth, and dazzling lightning flashed through the rain curtain, illuminating the dark sky, making the entire Dahei Mountain briefly bright.

Inadvertently, Wang Xuan looked up, what did he see?

At first, he thought that the main peak where the Taoist temple collapsed had a creature appear, and it was not small in size. It was a...hou, carrying a person down the mountain.

Moreover, as the hou ran down, the mountain was actually shaking slightly, rushing towards him!