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

Lu Mingfei heard something opened in the darkness, maybe a door, a box, or a book.

Then the indescribable sound was so deep that it fainted to the depths of the limit of thought, like the ripples of a stone thrown into the center of a lake, or the aftermath of a star exploding in the dark universe.He couldn't really hear what that invisible, expanding voice was like, he could only try to imagine, how grand, sad, and blood-colored epic it was with some thorns as crowns.

What Lu Mingfei first restored was balance, so it was accompanied by a sense of weightlessness.

He was falling in the dark, his brain lost control of the familiar gravitational constant, and he received a disorderly reminder of the internal physiological signals and external sensory information, you are in danger, do something quickly.

But Lu Mingfei didn't think he was in danger, and even wanted to yawn a little.Because he knew that he was dreaming, and all the fear in the dream came from his ignorance of his own situation, and his brain guided him to make wrong judgments, leading to the spread of panic.

If you are in a panic, the amygdala rushes around to stimulate the secretion of adrenaline and other related hormones, increase heart rate and breathing, increase blood pressure and muscle tone, and make you wake up in bed full of water like fished out of water. Sweating profusely.

Lu Mingfei didn't want to make himself so wet. He remembered that he fell asleep in the guest room of the Lion Heart Club. Since he was staying temporarily, there would be room service to help him change the sheets every morning. I don't want to be rumored in the Lionheart Club the next day that I have a sweaty constitution, or that I sat on the bed and did something weird.

If he had encountered such a situation a few days ago, he might have panicked and yelled for help, but now he is used to all this.He has even guessed the next development, what he will hit after falling for a while, is not the solid ground, but a medium closer to the water surface.Then he'll slow down and sink.At some point, a ray of light would appear in the pitch-black vision, and the instinctive phototaxis of human beings would make him walk towards the light. When he came to his senses, he was already standing in front of the familiar bronze city.

old trick!Lu Mingfei thought disdainfully, completely forgetting the soft-boned appearance when he was in such a situation for the first time and almost scared the crap out of his ass and yelled "Little devil, help me".

He closed his eyes, or he didn't know whether he opened or closed his eyes now, waiting for that ray of light to appear in the darkness.

Fall, float.

It's just that the dreaming process this time took too long?What is His Majesty Norton doing?What is Old Tang doing again?Inquire about Lao Tang's status?Hey, hey, open the door, if you have the guts to pull me into a dream, don't open the door without the guts!

Lu Mingfei's thoughts were up and down, and he made up his mind that he would see Old Tang talk to him after a while, so that he wouldn't take so long to make up the extra lessons at night. The hearing would be tomorrow morning. What if he overslept and missed the hearing? It's not over, he can't afford to lose the whole person in front of the whole school.

Suddenly, Lu Mingfei heard a faint and subtle voice, it was a person talking, the voice was very soft, but it did not escape his ears.

"Strange thing." The voice said in such a low voice, with a calm tone.

In the darkness, Lu Mingfei's five senses gradually recovered, which was a sign that he hadn't seen before, and he gradually heard the wind.

wind?Why are there rumors.He doesn't understand.

Then there seemed to be tiny particles between his fingers, and the wind carried those particles through the fingers, like reaching out to hold the gravel scattered by the wind, which reminds people of yellow sand.

Yellow sand?Why is there yellow sand in the water of Baidi City?He doesn't understand.

Then there was that late ray of light, a candle with which the lonely family in Baidi City drank with it. Lu Mingfei was always guided by that candle to find the gate of Baidi City, just like a lost man in the dark sea. People are drawn to lighthouses.

He ran towards that point of light, and reached out his hand to touch it when it was about to arrive, but at this moment an accident happened.

In Lu Mingfei's eyes, there were more light spots in the darkness, at first there were one or two sporadic spots, just like the sparse starry sky covered by light pollution in a modern city.But gradually, as if a certain valve was opened, hundreds, thousands, and countless oceans of stars surged from the deep darkness, occupying Lu Mingfei's entire vision!

He suddenly lost his way in the storm of starlight, and he could no longer find the lonely lamp to guide him. He was surrounded by light and fire, and whenever he approached, he could hear the noisy voice like a radio station.

The things that the voices pouring into the ears are telling are all kinds of strange things, and the voices of the narrators are also all kinds of strange, men, women, children, old people, different genders, different characteristics, the information seems to be crazy from Lu Mingfei's seven senses Drilling into the hole, dancing happily in his brain.

The man's voice told Lu Mingfei in his right ear: Did you know?Trilobites are the most representative ancient animals that appeared in the Cambrian period 5.6 million years ago. They are a kind of arthropods. Discovered the ruins of a suspected civilization; the woman's voice slowly clung to his left ear and narrated to him: Since the Big Bang, the universe has gradually expanded, forming galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets. The existence of life is not special. They It is not a miracle born on the planet, their composition is the recombination of atoms in the stars that exploded, and the most ancient form of life is the stars; the child's voice is like he is lying on top of Lu Mingfei's head, cheerfully and seriously Noisy with him: Hey!Run, run, he's coming!He is coming!Everything will end, life will stop, time will stand still, and the air will freeze!He didn't want to reach the end of the rope, so he cut the rope frantically, and this was the end of the world; the old man's voice held Lu Mingfei's spine, preventing him from being bent over by the frenzied flow of information, he was gentle and Tell Lu Mingfei wisely: don’t be afraid, my child, I know you’ve tried your best, and when the end of the world really comes, you can sit in your house and drink the Scotch whiskey you buried in the ground , light a Cuban cigar given to you by your lover in the loess, watch it burn to the last inch, and quietly leave this sad world.

Lu Ming is going crazy, or he has forgotten what it feels like to be crazy, someone is screaming in his ear, someone is whispering behind his head, those lights, if they get close to them, they will hear something like other people. Whispering words of the world, if far away, the madness will be left behind.So he realized that he was moving forward, moving forward in the ocean of stars, just like a spaceship shuttles through the universe.He gradually left the planet, leaped over the stars, rushed out of the galaxy, and then a galaxy cluster like a bubble, and then touched the limit edge of the universe, so the stars and noisy voices behind him also began to go away, and everything returned to the universe. The eternal silence.

What lies beyond the edge of the universe?Lu Mingfei didn't know, but light began to appear in front of his eyes again, this time the light was different from the starlight of the storm, there was only one light, like a wave of light rolling in like a tsunami, golden yellow, like a burning star, The size is like a whole universe.

He was close to the light that flooded the entire universe, what kind of sound would he hear in this light?Is it the whisper in the black hole of the universe, or the whisper of God when he created the world, or the soft sound of silence when the universe collapsed into a singularity?He didn't know, at this moment, he couldn't think of shocking thoughts anymore, because he was already numb, and let himself jump into the sea of ​​golden light.

In the end, he really still heard the voice in the boundless light.

wind.

It turned out to be the wind again.

But it's not just wind.

In the sound of the wind, something is bursting, very subtle and soft, similar to the smiling and continuous bursting of tiny sparks when they are burning, and the loudness will increase as soon as the wind blows.

In addition, there are crisp and pleasant sounds, similar to the sound of silver products colliding, soothing, peaceful and mysterious.

"Lu Mingfei." Someone called him.

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The vicious sun shines directly on the golden earth.

In the barren yellow sand, the wind blows the sand rolling down the high slope, making a fine friction sound, and the sand dunes are raised and flattened by wind erosion again and again.A tumbleweed rolled with a quiet rustle, the yellow sand leaving a slight trace of his passing, running from left to right over the top of the hill like a brown whirlwind.

In front of the porch of the dilapidated wooden house, Lu Mingfei was sitting on a recliner quietly looking at the desolation. A piece of flue-cured tobacco was burning between his fingers. When the wind blew past his fingertips, the butt of the cigarette rose with green smoke. The fire will light up slightly, and a string of rusty wind chimes hanging at the door will shake and make a pleasant sound.

After a long time, Lu Mingfei woke up. He may have been awake all the time, because he hadn't closed his eyes for a long time while sitting here.But subjectively speaking, Lu Mingfei did indeed wake up. From this moment on, he remembered who he was and where he should be, just like a person in a dream looking at the collapsed and distorted world at a certain moment. Three philosophical questions were raised.

The cigarette burned to Lu Mingfei's fingers, and the scorching tingling made Lu Mingfei yank his hand violently, only the tail of the cigarette was thrown into the air.

"What the hell?" He cursed subconsciously, looking to his side.

The thrown cigarette butts parabolically fell to the ground, bounced off the three shabby ladders in the porch, and finally lay on the yellow sandy ground, rolling slowly, slightly buried by the wind-blown sand.

".?"

Lu Mingfei suddenly raised his head and looked around, and what he saw was full of yellow sand. He found himself sitting in front of the porch of a dilapidated house that seemed to be in a barren desert. face, bringing fresh grains of sand to the corners of his dry, cracked lips.

"what's going on?"

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath through his nose, the temperature of the air seemed to be on fire, inhaled into the nasal cavity along the airway and ignited the lungs all the way, the hot feeling almost made him dizzy.The countless lights and heat outside the house also made his eyes sting, and he couldn't help raising his left hand to block the hot and vicious light reflected by the yellow sand outside the porch.

But just when he raised his left hand to his eyes, Lu Mingfei, who was dazed and dazed, was subconsciously attracted by the strange thing on the back of his left hand.

Lu Mingfei never thinks how good his skin care is, because there are many people around him who take care of his skin better than him. Even if he doesn't deliberately use skin care products with high concentration of allantoin and other repairing ingredients, such as Su Xiaoqiang, zero The skin on the hands of a girl like that is as smooth and tender as egg whites. Lu Mingfei thinks that he can't compare with this kind of naturally beautiful princess, but at least his skin, whose fingers don't touch the spring water, shouldn't be like the old man in front of him now. The appearance of an old man.

What appeared in front of his eyes was a dry and wrinkled left hand. The skin on the back of the hand was full of centipede-like scars, and some of the skin tissue that was repaired after scalding could be seen irregularly raised or sunken on the original skin—— But to be honest, Lu Mingfei can no longer tell what the original skin color of this hand is, because of excessive pigmentation, this hand is no different from the skin color of a mummy in his eyes, the only biggest difference is that this hand can Move, move according to his will.

With a stiff expression, Lu Mingfei moved his "battle-tested" left hand. The five fingers swung up and down in turn. There were fresh burn marks on the inside of the index finger and middle finger.But what frightened him the most was that even the other four of the five fingers except the thumb all had the same horizontal scar at the interphalangeal joint.

Having attended the battlefield first aid department and autopsy class, he naturally knew that this was the trace left after the amputation of the finger. Judging from the severed orifice, this hand should have been cut cleanly once, severed in an instant. The four fingers were bare, and the thumb was spared because of its lower position.

The same trace was also found on Lu Mingfei's wrist, so this means that not only the fingers of this tormented left hand, but even the entire palm fell off for a while.

The wind chime was still ringing, Lu Mingfei forcibly suppressed the panic in his heart, restrained his emotions in unknown situations, he had already achieved a small success in the many tribulations, and he no longer panicked when encountering little things. The chick who jumped up and was at a loss.The first to panic is often the first to die. This point has been emphasized dozens of times by the veterans of the executive department who taught them.

What should be the first thing to do when suddenly plunged into an unknown situation?
Subconsciously in Lu Mingfei's mind, he asked himself a question about the manual of the executive department that he had scooped up before each mission.

time, place, person.

What time is it now, where is this place, what is my physical and psychological condition.

Lu Mingfei looked up at the porch where he was sitting. This is a typical porch structure of a wooden house, like a flat terrace, built outside the door of the wooden house, with a roof and support columns, which can be used for shelter Sunshine, rain and wind are also the places where the old cowboys usually sit in front of the house watching the sunset and drinking in TV dramas.

Outside the wooden house is a desert, a bit like the Gobi Desert in a small western town, with sand everywhere, and the bare surface is dry and without vegetation. Judging by the direct sunlight, the current time is about noon.

Lu Mingfei observed everything within ten seconds. From the corner of his eye, he saw the door of the wooden house on the left side of his seat. The door was full of cracks, and there was no structure of the door lock. It should be fastened from the inside with horizontal bars. Locked. What are you doing?What era is this, and the wild west of the 1860s?
On the right side, Lu Mingfei found a window. There was a hole in the lower left corner of the window, but it was sealed with a white cloth. It can be seen that the owner of the wooden house is in distress. other living conditions.But this was not Lu Mingfei's main purpose. When he saw that the window was almost complete, he immediately leaned over, wanting to see his face through the reflection of the glass.

Seeing the scene in his left hand, Lu Mingfei was sure that something was wrong with him. He leaned in front of the glass to stare at his reflection in the light and almost broke his defense.

Fortunately, the person in the glass is indeed himself, and he was not replaced by a red-necked cowboy in the west, giving him a scene of crossing the wild west and becoming a big whore.

But unfortunately, the person in the glass was still himself, but he could barely recognize it as himself.Before Lu Mingfei was about to look for a mirror, he was already worried that his face, like his hands, was a battle-damaged version, but luckily, his face was much better than his hands, and there was no such thing as sticking in. The horror of the finished product taken out of the meat grinder, the biggest overall change is maturity.

It is difficult for Lu Mingfei to describe this feeling. The self reflected in the glass is both familiar and strange. The familiar is because he knows that this is himself, and the strange is because he thinks this should be the self in 20 years. His skin is like sandpaper. It is full of rough marks, spots and sun spots are everywhere, and the face is dry and dull, with depressions.

What surprised Lu Mingfei the most was the scar that almost pierced his right eye in the reflection of the glass. It can be restored that his face should have been stabbed at a certain moment, straight down from his right brow bone, Violently and viciously, the right eye was cut across and the slightly protruding cheekbones passed by!He was just a hair away from losing the eye forever.

He took a deep breath and felt that the matter was a little big. But there was still a voice in his heart telling him, don't panic, really don't panic, the matter may not be that big.

He began to recall how he came here to sleep, yes, sleep, he was asleep, and then passed through a dark star, and then opened his eyes to arrive here, so this place should be a dream, one like Baidi City Real lucid dreams.

Lu Mingfei's left hand trembled slightly, and the fingertips that had been burned by cigarettes before were still slightly numb, and the wind in the yellow sand was like licking burrs on them.It reminded him that even if it was a nightmare, it didn't seem like a joke.

"Lu Mingze?" Lu Mingfei subconsciously called out to the glass.

No one answered him.

The imp, who was always on call, didn't answer his calls, only the whining of tumbleweeds and the hiss of fine sand flowed in his ears.

This made Lu Mingfei even more confused. Through the glass, he saw clearly that he was wearing a white shirt with an open neckline. There were shocking scars all over his body inside the neckline, and his lower body was black leather chaps with tassels. , all shabby and dusty.

What is this, the cowboy-like Lu Mingfei from the parallel world?Can you come to a reality cowboy show if you dream of yourself?Next, shouldn't there be a few cows for him to set up?Or is it a few thieves who broke into the territory and shot him a few times?

When it comes to guns, Lu Mingfei suddenly saw that there was a gun pinned to his waist, a heavy silver revolver, African ebony wood anti-slip, yellow primer can be seen in the drum drum, and there are complicated patterns on it. The lines and notches reminded him of the runes he saw in the alchemy class.Engraved on the silver barrel is a string of English: Texas Dawn.

Yellow Queen, Texas Dawn, Texas Dawn.

Any kind of literal translation is fine, Lu Mingfei’s intuition told him that this thing might have something to do with alchemy technology, maybe it’s a genuine alchemy weapon—so this cowboy-like Lu Mingfei is also a hybrid?Even so good that he has his own alchemy revolver?
Just as he was fiddling with the alchemy revolver at his waist, a woman on his left suddenly whispered to him, "Lunch is ready, or do you want to sit outside for a while?"

Lu Mingfei was so frightened by the sudden sentence in this quiet environment that his hands trembled and he almost lost his temper. He raised his head in a hurry and saw that the wooden door with his left hand was opened at some point when it was empty, and a short-haired man stood beside the door. The woman is about 1.7 meters tall, with light blonde hair, a light brown face with obvious sunburn and deep bags under the eyes, which cannot conceal her once amazing beauty.

She was leaning against the door, wearing an oily scarf in front of her, which made her less juvenile due to her height and appearance, and added a pyrotechnic and mature temperament.

Lu Mingfei just stared at the neck under the face of the other party, where he saw a scar that almost suffocated him, across the entire neck, as if it had been circumcised, he couldn't imagine what it was These wounds left by the injury.

Seemingly noticing Lu Mingfei's gaze, the woman raised her hand and lightly touched her neck to cover the scar. She lowered her eyes and asked softly, "What's wrong with you today?"

Lu Mingfei looked into the other person's eyes, looked at the familiar pupil color and his impressive face that couldn't be concealed by sunburn, he finally said hesitantly, "Zero?"

Then Lu Mingfei saw the other person's expression change, turned his head to avoid his suspicious gaze, and said in a cold voice, "Did you forget to take your medicine recently?"

Lu Mingfei thought she was scolding him, but after a while he thought otherwise, the other party really felt that he didn't take some kind of medicine.

"The meal is ready, tell the children to come back, and warn them not to go too far." The woman sighed slightly, and after saying this, she reached out and picked up a crutch from the door. At this time, Lu Ming Feicai noticed that the other party's left leg under the apron was bent abnormally, as if a kneecap was missing.

Lu Mingfei struggled inexplicably and wanted to stand up to help her, but his rationality forced him to the chair on the porch. He had 1 doubts in his heart but he didn't dare to ask them out, because his vigilance Xin told him that the situation he was encountering now was very, very wrong!