Chapter 1,279: Enlightenment (Long Chapter, Please Give Me a Monthly Vote)

Chapter 1280: Enlightenment (Long chapter, please vote for monthly ticket)

Zhongtu·Nandu

He Ao walked alone on the somewhat deserted river bank, and the slightly cold wind blew across his cheek.

Li Cheng's words still echoed in his ears.

He could understand Li Cheng's hints, and he could clearly perceive that Li Cheng was indeed explaining his affairs.

Li Cheng really wanted him to take up the burden of the institute.

And his response was also very simple, 'Isn't it a bit too early for the dean to talk about these things now? '

When everything was not decided, Li Cheng arranged his affairs for himself, which always made him feel that Li Cheng was planting a flag.

But in the end, Li Cheng did not really follow up on this topic, nor did he ask He Ao to make a promise, but smiled and sent him out of the courtyard.

Perhaps he was not really arranging his affairs, but was just testing He Ao's attitude.

But what he thought specifically, only Li Cheng himself knew.

But for He Ao, he hoped that Li Cheng would be alive.

It is a good thing for Li Cheng to be promoted to an angel alive, both for him and for the main world.

Of course, He Ao can also understand Li Cheng's mentality of anticipating defeat before anticipating victory.

But from He Ao's experience, if Li Cheng can really arrange all his affairs, then at some point in the last minute, when he needs to fight, he may choose to give up.

Sometimes, people live, especially when they are between life and death, relying on a breath to hang on. If there is no nostalgia in the world, then this breath may be leaked.

With his fingers floating on the stone railings of the riverside path, He Ao quietly looked at the wide river surface not far away.

In front of his sight, a towering bridge spanned the vast river, connecting from one side of the river bank to the other, connecting the high-rise buildings on both sides of the river.

Cars converged into a river across the sky on the bridge, constantly connecting the two sides of the river bank.

And under the bridge, ships also slowly swam forward along the quiet river.

Among these ships, there are passenger ships and cargo ships.

Nandu has been an important transportation hub in the Central Plains since ancient times. It is located near the river and has developed land and sea transportation.

He Ao had read many descriptions of Nandu in books before, but this was his first time to come to Nandu.

Strictly speaking, he had basically never left Xidu in the first eighteen years of his life. Most of his "journeys" outside Xidu were in the past few months after joining the Institute.

Originally, after saying goodbye to Li Cheng, he wanted "Hao Yi" to take him directly back to Xitu, but he thought, since he was already here, he might as well take a walk.

Strictly speaking, although he had never been to Nandu, he still had acquaintances in Nandu.

Lin Chichi's home was in Nandu. Of course, Lin Chichi was busy in Xitu now and it was impossible for him to appear in Nandu.

In addition to Lin Chichi, He Ao also had some other acquaintances.

For example, Yuan Guo, the researcher who experienced life and death with him in the Navigator incident, was the person in charge of a small city near Nandu.

Ye Yun, the head of the research institute of Nandu, also had some contact with He Ao during the Navigator incident, but he did not enter the Navigator and was impersonated by someone to deceive He Ao.

However, although there are a few "acquaintances", He Ao is basically unlikely to meet them.

Needless to say, Lin Chichi, who is still in the West.

Since the Navigator, Yuan Guo's relationship with He Ao has become a circle of friends who like each other's posts.

She did send a message to ask He Ao and invite He Ao to visit Nandu, but He Ao has been busy these days and could only send a message of "next time".

Ye Yun basically did not contact him. Judging from the information obtained by He Ao, Ye Yun is a typical workaholic who does not even post on WeChat Moments.

The last contact between the two was after the Navigator incident. He read the incident information and sent a "awesome" to He Ao.

He Ao withdrew his hand from the railing and looked forward to a certain area on the other side of the river.

According to the information he obtained, the Nandu branch of the institute should be nearby.

He retracted his gaze, rubbed his eyebrows, and walked slowly along the road by the river.

After a round of thinking, it seemed that there was no acquaintance to meet.

He resumed walking again. After walking for an unknown period of time, he seemed to have entered a prosperous area.

There were more and more people laughing around. They looked about 18 or 19 years old, talking and laughing as they walked through the streets, moving in twos and threes.

He Ao quietly watched the "young people" in front of him.

The people in Nandu are actually a little different from those in Xidu, whether in appearance, walking posture, or expression in words.

Different geographical environments have given birth to different humanities and histories in the two places, and these have worked together on the people living in the two places.

Every time at this time, He Ao will realize the meaning of the phrase "the land and water of one place nurture the people of one place".

He will also realize that this country is really big.

It is so big that people in the same country, just in different locations, may have completely different personalities and cultures, but these people in different locations can communicate in the same language and have some common concepts and thinking.

The crowd around him was getting denser and denser, with some noisy laughter.

Watching the groups of people passing by him, He Ao realized that he seemed to have walked into a prosperous area.

He rarely wandered aimlessly like this before.

Before he was eighteen, he was either making money, on the way to make money, or studying, and he rarely had time for himself.

Sometimes he would give himself a holiday to relax his tense spirit, but this kind of holiday was limited to sleeping in on weekends at most.

He rarely had such ample time to wander around so naturally. Even after he was eighteen, he was often busy without touching the ground.

Now Li Cheng's preparations for going to the ruins are not yet complete, and the connection of the life-trapping disk is not completely stable.

Other things are urgent, but not so urgent that they must be done. Whether it is the governance of the West or the affairs of the K Church, they are now on the right track and only need to be taken care of.

Of course, his "wandering" is not completely aimless.

At least in the practice of martial arts, it is not okay to be tense and reckless.

This is the feeling he gained when he broke through the B level.

Integrate into nature and experience nature.

Let your heart calm down, it will be more conducive to the practice of martial arts.

The various aspects of life, the chirping of flowers, birds and insects, are all natural.

He Ao raised his head and looked at the gradually prosperous streets around him, and his mind gradually calmed down.

Although he came with a purpose, he was not too obsessed with that purpose.

After practicing martial arts until now, he actually had some intuitive insights many times.

For example, experiencing nature for the sake of experiencing nature will only trap you in your own obsession circle, which will have the opposite effect.

Only by truly relaxing your mind to experience nature can you truly understand nature.

This thing sounds very idealistic and metaphysical, and in fact, He Ao himself thinks it is very metaphysical.

But this metaphysical thing seems to be really useful in martial arts.

He looked at the crowd in front of him and immersed his thoughts in perception.

The ability from super memory allows him to perceive the simple thoughts of the people around him. Although he still can't hear people's specific thoughts clearly without marking, he can perceive the tendency of their thoughts.

Pedestrians come and go with various different thoughts.

Some people are hungry, some are greedy, some are excited, some are sleepy, some are covetous, some are jealous, and some people have sincere praise.

Countless thoughts mixed with simple laughter and joy, tangled in He Ao's mind.

These complicated and chaotic thoughts are really disturbing. Even if He Ao is used to this perception, he naturally wants to withdraw and not "listen" to these chaotic thoughts.

He did this before, treating these thoughts as noise, and after a long time, he naturally ignored them.

However, this time, he did not throw these "noises" into the dead corner of his mind again, but tried to "listen" to the sounds around him as his body moved forward.

The wind rises and the voices of people, the birds fall and the sun shines.

Gradually, He Ao realized that he could not only hear the thoughts of "people", but also seemed to hear the "thoughts" of all the living beings around him.

The sparrows on the treetops and the wild cats in the cracks actually have their own "thoughts", but in the ocean formed by human thoughts, their thoughts seem unusually light and simple.

It was just one or two simple ‘syllables’, or a small and insignificant ‘up and down’.

But these simple thoughts, melted into the sea of ​​thoughts, played completely different syllables.

The breeze blew through the treetops, making a rustling sound.

It seemed that the wind and the trees were also whispering in a low voice.

He Ao walked slowly along the river bank.

He listened quietly to the noisy sounds and thoughts, and felt as if he had walked into a boiling sea.

The sea water boiled his thoughts and affected his thinking, but he did not resist or break away, but slowly moved forward and took the initiative to embrace this ocean.

In the end, his thoughts and soul completely melted and completely merged into this diffuse sea of ​​thoughts.

In a trance, this boiling ocean slowly changed in his ‘perception’.

The chaotic thoughts that seemed to have no rules originally revealed some invisible rhythm.

They crowded together in a tumult, mixed in nature, disturbed nature, and became nature again.

This hustle and bustle is itself a part of nature.

At this moment, He Ao felt that his body was completely integrated into the crowd around him, into the river breeze and sun, insects, fish, birds and beasts.

The originally smooth energy circuit began to operate rapidly at some point, and dense energy flowed out from the jade pendant on his chest and poured into his body layer by layer.

Then, these energy circuits began to spread out and flow along some of his "channels" that were not originally in the circuit.

He Ao naturally raised his hand, passed through the crowd, and changed his movements.

Those were some of the movements in the practice method he had just obtained. These movements could cause some of his energy circuits to be dislocated and "connected".

However, He Ao himself did not seem to realize this. He only felt that he seemed to have completely merged with the sea of ​​thoughts around him, and naturally drove his body to make some movements.

Dense energy circuits passed through his body, flowing through numerous channels that would not have flowed originally, and touched every corner of his body.

The energy seemed to speed up, but it also seemed that nothing had changed, except that its distribution was more dense, and its "flow" was more "fine".

These fine energies slowly flowed into He Ao's body along the energy circuit and soaked into his body.

The previous energy circuit soaked the body, just like stuffing cotton in the gap, which could be stuffed in, but it had to be a bit rough.

And now the energy circuit is like a stream soaking the land, along the gaps that had never been soaked before, step by step, filling all the "flesh and blood".

Time passed by, and He Ao's body wandered aimlessly in the city.

The voices around were sometimes noisy and sometimes bleak.

People came and went and passed by the young man, but few people "noticed" this young man with "weird" behavior.

He slowly moved forward, just like nature itself, and there was no difference between the willows on the riverside and the water under the bank.

I don't know how long it took before He Ao's movements slowly stopped.

The slightly cold river breeze blew across his face, causing his body to tremble slightly.

He raised his head, looked at the lights on the roadside, and looked at the sunset in the distance that was about to sink completely into the high-rise buildings.

He took a look at the surrounding environment.

The old streets were lit up with flashing neon signs, and people were coming and going on the streets. This was a place he had never been to.

He picked up his phone, turned off the low-battery alarm on his phone, and opened the map software.

The location showed that he was now near a university town on the north side of Nandu, which was close to the edge of the city.

And Li Cheng's courtyard was on the south side of Nandu.

Unknowingly, he passed through the entire city from south to north.

He put down his phone and looked at the surrounding shops again.

This seemed to be a snack street. The old streets were lined with large and small shops, and in front of the shops, there were simple stalls.

The shouts with smiles rang one after another.

Young figures shuttled between the streets, choosing among the dazzling array of delicacies.

The air is filled with the heat of roasted lamb, the spiciness of boiling hot pot, and the rich aroma of noodles mixed with sauces.

"Handsome, would you like to eat fried noodles?"

The vendor at the street corner saw He Ao standing at the same street corner. He stood under the flickering lights, guarding his tricycle with a glass cabinet and stove. He smiled and shouted to He Ao, "Exclusive fried noodles, delicious."

He Ao looked at the noodles in the glass cabinet, walked over slowly, and said with a smile, "Give me a bowl of fried noodles, add more chili."

"Okay,"

The vendor turned on the gas stove with a gas tank on his back, lit a blazing fire, put oil in the pot, added side dishes, fried to a bright flame and burnt aroma, then poured the noodles in a disposable lunch box next to him into the pot, bringing out the surging flames, "Handsome, wait two or three minutes, it will be ready soon,"

His arms were frying quickly, constantly adding various seasonings to the pot, "Let me tell you, I have been doing this skill for many years, and everyone who has eaten it says it is good. Many of the handsome men and beautiful women who come here are repeat customers."

"Yeah."

He Ao stared at the frying iron pan in front of him and nodded with a smile.

The night wind blew through his hair, brushing past the old streets and alleys, and the laughter of pedestrians.

Fine words appeared in He Ao's vision, that was his personal attribute panel.