If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

Lin Nian approached the door of the study. Basically, all the rooms in the courtyard were missing a lot of bricks and tiles in the destructive aftermath of the battle. The kitchen in the east wing was the most serious because the load-bearing column collapsed. Coupled with the force imbalance caused by the ground subsidence, the entire house tilted 15° and was about to collapse. Maybe some unqualified passerby who passed by would be surprised to find that the house in front of him had been washed away by his own. .

"I played well and showed my style. It deserves praise!"

As soon as Lin Nian came closer, the blond girl threw a coat over. She probably took it out of the wardrobe in Zhao Yanman's bedroom. It was an autumn and winter brown coat. Although it was a women's style, it was still more neutral in style overall. It was a coat. Because even Zhao Zianman's Lin Nian can cope with it for a while.

"Have you grown again recently? I feel like you are 1.8 meters tall." The blond girl walked around Lin Nian, who was holding up his coat, twice and pointed.

"Do you think you are a dwarf?" Lin Nian put on his clothes and walked to the study door and opened it.

"Hey, hey, hey, I care about your growth. Why are you attacking me personally? I'm 1.65 meters tall among girls, okay? If you think you're too short, I can jump up a little!"

"Genes stabilize your perfect body values, neither more nor less. There is no difference between forcibly stretching your height and heightening surgery." Lin Nian said without looking back, "If you want to lose this person, just go ahead and lose him. Don’t say you know me.”

"I apologize to everyone who has had height-increasing surgery! Everyone loves beauty! You're 1.8 meters tall, which is amazing, right! You're out of breath when you're said to be fat." The blonde girl choked out her cry. Beard glared.

"I just asked you not to do meaningless things. I didn't say you were short, nor did I say it was bad to be shorter." Lin Nian was too lazy to argue with this guy. He opened the door and walked in. At a glance, he saw two people leaning on each other. Together they formed an overturned bookshelf in the shape of a human character, and a large number of books overwhelmed Zhao Yanman, who was lying on the ground in the gap.

Lin Nian looked back at the blonde girl with a rather unhappy expression.

"I'm fine. I'm a little out of breath at most." The blonde girl walked in, kicked the two heavy bookshelves back to their original positions with her left and right kicks, and then pulled the pile of books on the ground with her bare feet to reveal the books buried inside. Zhao Yanman fainted, "As long as she doesn't go out of the circle I drew for her, nothing will happen to her."

Lin Nian pulled Zhao Yanman up from the ground, and found that there was a circle on the ground, which seemed to be painted with water. The water did not flow away very fast in autumn, and there were still vague water marks left. He was a little speechless.

"Who are you, Sun Wukong?" He raised the chair and let Zhao Yanman sit on it.

"There are so many white-bone demons out there, they all want to eat a bite of Tang Monk's meat." The blonde girl leaned her elbow on the chair and hummed, "What's going to happen next? I think the noise you made can be heard from a thousand meters away." ? As long as the 'Black Flame Prison' hangs in the sky for a moment, the orthodox might be mistaken for a dragon invasion."

"I should not have been exposed yet." Lin Nian thought for a moment and concluded, "This is indeed a trap. Orthodoxy probably calculated that I would raid here, but even if it did, there is no way to kill me without evidence. of."

"The battle outside is indeed not something that a 'Time Zero' or 'Settlement' owner can do. Then please remember to wipe up the spit you just spat on and remove the hair that fell into the yard. Everything is cleaned up (the good news of mist-like blood makes Lin Nian almost no trace of blood remain during the battle), leaving no DNA behind."

"Wouldn't it be easier to burn it with a fire?" Lin Nian opened the desk drawer and found a box of matches. There were enough flammable materials in the library. The proportion of wooden buildings in old houses like courtyard houses was basically a handful. Fire can burn it completely, ensuring that no DNA remains.

"Good idea." The blond girl gave a thumbs up, "Then has this woman's problem been solved?"

Lin Nian pressed a match with his thumb and placed it on the friction layer, then turned to look at the blonde girl and asked, "Is it too late?"

"I think it's better to solve her problem first. If she wakes up on the way, she will have to start acting like a monster again and give you the orthodox and correct theory of popular science. You don't want to go through all the trouble to rescue a white-eyed wolf, right? "The blonde girl folded her hands and leaned on the back of the chair, tilting her head to look at the traditional beauty close at hand, "After she is sent to Li Hueyue, you won't have much chance to contact her again. If you want to be a good person and good deeds, you have to Leave no name."

Lin Nian was silent for a moment, then nodded to the blond girl to move faster.

He turned his head and looked outside the open study. The courtyard was full of messes, as if a typhoon was passing by, but no one had broken in until now. The entire courtyard settlement was eerily quiet, not like an enemy's base camp at all. The way it should be.

When the four Jingguan appeared, he had already discovered that his estimate of the strength of the orthodox trump card was still a bit conservative, and he was also prepared for the worst-case scenario when orthodox reinforcements arrived in the middle of the battle, but in that case he There are also backup methods to avoid exposing one's identity, but it seems that they are not useful now.

That's a good thing, but a little too good.

Lin Nian always felt that what happened tonight was a bit strange. Although it did not go smoothly and was unbelievable, and there was an extremely dangerous battle, he still felt that something was strange.

"Uh-huh. Huh. Uh-huh."

Just when Lin Nian was thinking over it and trying to find out what the problem was, he was attracted by the strange noise made by the blond girl next to him. He turned around and took a look. The blond girl was now pressing the index finger of one hand on the temple of the unconscious Zhao Yanman, who was tilting his head. , the index finger of the other hand was pointed on his head, and he also tilted his head, closed his eyes, pouted his little mouth, nodded from time to time, and shook his head from time to time, as if he was watching a show.

"What are you doing?" Lin Nian asked.

"Watching a youth eight o'clock drama that is more suitable for young people, it feels like those little stories that girls hid in their schoolbags when you were in high school." The blonde girl clicked her tongue and said, "Do you want to watch it?"

Before Lin Nian could refuse, the blond girl raised her hand and pressed it against his temple. Lin Nian wanted to avoid it, but in terms of speed, the blond girl shared everything with him in a sense.

Lin Nian, who was pressed on his forehead by his index finger, suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness. Then he landed and found that the environment around him had changed. The light suddenly became brighter, as if the whole world was enveloped in high pitch, but a shadow fell on him. His face covered him.

He looked up and found that it was the funnel of an excavator. It was surrounded by the scenery of a courtyard and planted with many flowers and plants. However, the direction of the door had been broken. It was obviously made by the excavator that drove in in front of him. There was also a man lying next to it. Two pieces of osmanthus tree corpses were found.

"What the hell?" Lin Nian asked.

"I paused, don't worry, I'll rewind." The blonde girl's voice rang in his ears, and then everything in front of him began to retreat, as if he had entered a time tunnel, with light flowing on both sides.

When everything stopped again, Lin Nian had already appeared in a huge library. The bookshelves were towering to the ceiling. The air was filled with the fragrance of pen and ink and books. On a table not far away, a boy was sitting at the window, borrowing a He was carefully copying something under the sunshine. On the lounge chair next to the door, an old man in his old age was dozing comfortably with his eyes closed and a book in his hand.

Lin Nian took two steps inside the library when a ball jumped over the threshold and rolled in, landing at his feet. He turned around and saw a cute little girl standing timidly outside the library, looking inside with her braided head. He stared at the girl and thought she looked familiar. Before he could tell, the little boy copying something on the table next to him jumped off the table, trotted over, picked up the ball and ran outside.

[Perhaps this moment is the turning point of fate, Boy meets Girl, and the love story full of tears, complaints, resentment and admiration begins. 】

"Don't be the narrator, okay." Lin Nian expressionlessly interrupted Yelena who was reading the script in his ear passionately.

[I know but I don’t understand. This kind of short drama requires narration to stir up emotions. I also specially edited and cut the storyboard and first-person perspective. After watching it in the end, you’d better not be moved to tears. 】

Lin Nian sighed and could only act as a bystander silently, quietly watching the story unfold gradually.

Li Muyue, Li Xingchu, Zhao Yanman, Li Mu, and the great ancestors of the Sima family appeared one after another. The past stories surrounding the tall osmanthus tree in the courtyard slowly unfolded before his eyes.

I have to say that Yelena is really good at cutting short plays. Normally, the whole story takes place from Zhao Yanman's subjective perspective, but Yelena acted out this story through her power over the "dream". The male protagonist Li Xingchu is used as the first-person perspective of the sadomasochism drama.

Lin Nian watched the whole process quietly. Compared with the real time flow rate, the time spent in the "dream" is basically equivalent to time stopping. It sounds like Yelena has great powers, but in fact, this is just targeting the brain through "Time Zero" It's just a variant of consciousness acceleration.

He read the whole story patiently, with the expression on his face occasionally loosening and sometimes falling silent. The heartbreaking abuse after the heavy rain, the old man’s seemingly enlightening but more like guidance on the hospital bed, the rooftop key secretly stuffed into the pocket when hugging before going out, and the insincere exchange of feelings on the rooftop, and finally the excavator It came with a roar, happily smashing through the sweet-scented osmanthus tree blocking the door. He bowed his head slightly and turned around.

"People are old and can't bear to see the stories of young people praising love." Yelena appeared next to him, leaning on his shoulder with one hand, pretending to wipe her tears and looking at the girl with the sword running towards the excavator, "Why? So, would you like to comment on Bei'an's love story?"

"There's nothing to comment on." Lin Nian said, "It's no wonder Zhao Yanman was brainwashed."

"The orthodox old guys are quite good at fooling the young people around. Stories like this are probably no longer new in the orthodox world. What the old guys didn't expect is that Li Xingchu really has the courage to drive an excavator. He snatched their "moon" away, and their "moon" was supposed to be just an obedient dog. They never thought that they would dare to betray orthodoxy for the sake of illusory love - love, such a contemptible word, can bring no benefits. It cannot bring power, so it is naturally something that the old guys have a hard time understanding. Maybe the old guys also had true love when they were teenagers, but they are now old, so old that they have buried their past selves in the graves with their own hands and forgotten them. .”

The blond girl's voice was leisurely and hollow, "Orthodox asked Zhao Qianman to control Li Hueyue as a proton. Li Huoyue, as the child of Li Xingchu and Li Muyue, was already an uneasy factor, but she was destined to be the next 'Yue', so the role of Zhao Qianman was The importance of this is reflected, as long as Zhao Yanman is lost, Li Hueyue will dare to rebel."

"Li Xingchu and Li Muyue should be dead, otherwise the candidate for the proton would not have fallen on Zhao Yanman. She can be considered a stepmother at most." Lin Nian asked.

"How did your warm mouth come up with such a cold word like 'stepmother'!" The blond girl started crying again, "Jian Man really loves the daughter her man left for her! Although Every time I see Li Hueyue, I will think of Mu Yue, who stabbed her heart like a knife, but at the same time, Little Moon is half like her father! The scumbag who abandoned her, with another This way left her a companion! I really cried to death, 555555"

"Stop being so talkative, will your histrionic personality show up later? How is the problem solved?" Lin Nian asked calmly.

"It's done when you watch the movie. The principle is just the same 'hypnotic' brainwashing, deleting and deleting some memories, and then adding new ones. But the human brain is like a disk. You can delete files, but they can also be restored. , I won’t forget what has happened, I just can’t think of it for the moment.” The blonde girl raised her head and hummed, “I specialize in computer repair, and I’m nicknamed Jinshan Drug Tyrant! No matter how cleanly you delete it, I can dig it out and restore it, and you can restore it. You are a delicate traditional beauty."

"Let's go." Lin Nian took a step to leave. The blond girl lost her shoulder and almost fell to the ground.

Everything in Lin Nian's eyes began to distort, and then was torn apart like a canvas, showing the scenery of the real world. He was still in the study, and Zhao Jianman in front of him was sitting faintly on the chair, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and along with his fingers Trembling slightly, he opened his eyes.

When she woke up, the first thing she saw was the photo frame on the table. Inside the photo frame was the wedding photo of her and Li Xingchu when they got married.

Decades of memories were rearranged in the blonde girl's mind after careful reorganization. The absurd things in the past and the absurd words she said to her loved ones were like doing the topics in a dream, no matter how she did them. They are all wrong, regretful, painful, but helpless.

Now she finally sees the world and herself clearly. She knows who she is, where the things she loves and is obsessed with are, and she is no longer confused.

It feels like a world away.

"My skills are really good, aren't they?" The blond girl leaned next to Lin Nian and gave her a thumbs up.

"You can think about sad things later. Now I want to know if your mind has changed." Lin Nian said slowly.

Ten seconds was already the limit that he could bring Zhao Yanman back to his senses. No matter how long it took, he could not guarantee whether the current calm could continue to be maintained.

Zhao Yianman looked at the photo frame in silence for dozens of seconds, then finally stood up, turned around and bowed lightly to Lin Young in the study.

"We'll talk about gratitude later," Lin Nian said.

"Please take me to see Hueyue." Zhao Yanman requested in a low voice, "Thank you."

Her eyes were red, but she did not shed tears, because she knew that now was not the time to be weak and collapse. Even if this woman slept for more than ten years, she would still be strong and strong when she woke up.

"We should have done this a long time ago." Lin Nian stood in front of Zhao Yanman, motioned for her to come up, and took her with him on his back. He lightly touched the match in his hand, and then threw it towards the pile of books. The flame exploded in an instant, with black smoke and crackling sounds.

On the face illuminated by the firelight, the molten red golden pupils ignited, and then the domain expanded.

Yan Ling Time Zero.

Zhao Yianman was not pardoned, and Lin Nian was still worried that something might happen to him while he was on the road. Now that the matter has been perfectly resolved, the finishing process should be done with as few mistakes as possible.

Lin Nian rushed out of the inner courtyard, jumped up onto the eaves, and overlooked the entire courtyard complex.

There was still no movement in the dark night, as if no one heard the deafening battle he fought before. This abnormal phenomenon made his doubts deepen. Could it be that orthodox people think that the dispatch of Jingguan is enough to defeat foreign enemies? And if Jingguan couldn't solve it, then they were just waiting to die if they stayed there, so they escaped in advance?

It is not impossible, but Lin Nian still has a problem here. This is the "Dragon and Phoenix Garden" that Li Huanyue said. It is an important place where orthodox clan leaders often stay. It is also a place where important meetings are held. It should be heavily guarded. , Orthodoxy can’t be so arrogant that it only needs Jingguan to guard this place, so it doesn’t even have any extra troops left, right?

No, if you think about it carefully, Li Huoyue used the method of wartime mobilization to mobilize the orthodox effective force before he took action. Could it be that the fact that Longfeng Garden is unattended now is precisely because of the wartime mobilization?

"." Now was not the time to think too much. Lin Nian turned his eyes aside and reminded himself not to waste time.

He stepped on the eaves and ejected, returned the same way, and quickly ran and jumped on the eaves. He was very careful along the way. At the same time, he tried to reduce the scope of the "Time Zero" area as much as possible to avoid touching things like the Philosopher's Stone and the Dragon Binding. Suo's alchemical items were destroyed.

In the blink of an eye in reality, Lin Nian had arrived at the exit of the courtyard settlement, which was the long red wall when he came.

After leaving here, he will immediately drive into the high-performance sports car prepared outside and run as fast as possible to the meeting point discussed with Li Huanyue in advance, where he will complete the handover to Zhao Yanman. At the same time, Li Huanyue will also do what he has done. Give him the documents he wants for the transaction. In this process, no one can block his progress, and he will not stop for anything.

When he was preparing for the last jump to climb over the red wall, Lin Nian suddenly caught sight of something with his peripheral vision in mid-air. The sight he saw for just a moment made him suddenly lean forward and step on the red wall he was about to climb over. On the eaves of the wall, stop your footsteps!

Standing on the top of the red wall, Lin Nian turned his head and stared in one direction, which was the front yard of Longfeng Garden, the yard where Li Hueyue once took him to meet the Sima clan leader with maple leaves like fire.

At that moment, he could hardly believe what he saw, and his molten red pupils were full of shock and disbelief.