Shu Guan's head peeked out of the river and cautiously looked around.
The moon and stars are sparse in the sky, the lights on the river are brilliant, the sound of singing of silk and bamboo fills the ears, and the smell of powder is floating in the wind.
The scenery on the Qinhuai River did not seem to have changed much from before he hid in the Ten-Eyed Dzi Bead, but it was already the night of the second day.
After advancing to the Nascent Soul, Shu Guan was able to extend the time he could maintain the small world of the Ten-Eyed Dzi Bead to about twenty-four hours.
To be on the safe side, Shu Guan hid in the small world for a full twenty-four hours this time. Of course, he was also recovering from his injuries there.
It wasn't until his spiritual power was almost exhausted that Shu Guan finally came out of the small world.
Thinking about what happened here last night, Shu Guan was still a little scared.
If it weren't for the Ten-Eyed Dzi Bead, I would have definitely died last night, or at least I would have been captured by them.
Two land gods!
This is not a fake land immortal like Tantai Yu who forced a breakthrough, but a real land immortal. I am afraid that among the land immortals, the snow lady and the boatman are both considered strong!
And the fight that lasted for a few seconds last night... well, no, to describe it as a battle was just to put a dent in one's face... The process of being beaten in a few seconds also made Shu Guan finally realize his current strength. , there are still many gaps between them and real land gods.
Shu Guan looked around. With his eyesight, he could see everything within ten miles upstream and downstream of the Qinhuai River.
He didn't see the Laifeng Fang.
The Lai Feng Fang was originally one of the largest painted boats on the Qinhuai River, so eye-catching that no one could ignore it.
Shu Guan frowned slightly, wondering what happened outside while he was hiding in the small world of Ten Eyes Dzi Beads.
And who are those two land gods?
Shu Guan initially thought that the practitioners on Fengfang were all controlled by GLH Company.
But the moment Xue Niang took action against him, Shu Guan knew that he had thought wrong.
It's not that a powerful person like the Land God will not be controlled by GLH Company, but there is something wrong with the fact that Xue Niang hid her cultivation from the people of GLH Company.
From the conversation between Xue Niang and Patrick at that time, it can be clearly heard that Patrick thought Xue Niang was just a practitioner in the first realm of consciousness.
Logically speaking, since a practitioner has joined GLH Company, the more powerful he is, the more he will be valued by GLH Company.
But that Snow Lady was hiding her own cultivation. What was her purpose for doing this?
Shu Guan recalled the extremely weird look that Snow Lady looked at him when he had just revealed his identity as a cultivator.
There was surprise and surprise in his eyes, but there was no fear or panic.
Now Shu Guan finally understands why he felt something was wrong at that time. How could a new practitioner face a powerful Nascent Soul without any fear or panic?
Unless she is a more powerful being than Nascent Soul.
A land fairy... no, there is also the boatman, maybe the other singer and the young man, their true realm cultivation is stronger than what they show.
Such a group of practitioners who hide their own cultivation and are willing to be ordered by GLH Company to work for GLH Company must have some purpose.
That purpose...could it be...
Shu Guan's heart suddenly jumped, and he vaguely guessed a possibility.
The next moment, he smiled bitterly. If that were the case, he would have ruined someone else's big event!
In addition, what are the identities of those practitioners?
Where are you now? Why is Laifengfang missing?
Shu Guan currently has no answers to these matters.
After poking his head out from under the water for a sneak peek, he retracted under the water again, and then swam about ten miles downstream before finally finding a place to land.
This is just for safety. Who knows if those practitioners have people guarding the area.
Shu Guan didn't even use Huan Shu, just because he was afraid that if someone was hiding in the dark, his spiritual power fluctuations would attract others' attention.
Shu Guan came to the shore, then waved his hand, and Tang Jinan's body appeared next to him.
Tang Jinan was still asleep, and Shu Guan did not wake him up while he was in the small world.
As for that Patrick, he's dead.
Shu Guan didn't ask anything from Patrick, because just when he was about to ask Patrick, the white man started vomiting blood profusely.
Black, thick, fishy blood, mixed with pieces of internal organs.
This scene seemed familiar to Shu Guan, and then he quickly remembered that Zhang Hushan, one of the three tycoons of the Shencheng Youth Gang, died in this way.
As for the reason why Zhang Hushan vomited blood and died, Shu Guan also got the answer from Wang Runling. It was because there was a poison in his body.
The source of the poison was later proven to be from GLH Company.
Because in the secret base under Xiafei Road, Shu Guan had seen the exact same room when he peered into the sky through a palm meridian and saw the poison being refined.
It seems that these people of GLH Company have this kind of poison in their bodies. Once they encounter some risk of leaking their company's secrets, this poison will take effect.
As for the mechanism and principle of the poison, those who do not understand alchemy will naturally not know it, but it is impossible for everyone to voluntarily let the poison take effect, just like the despair and pain in Patrick's eyes before he died. There is a prayer, which shows that he is never willing to die like this.
Maybe it has something to do with a person's mental state, or even what he was thinking at the time. When a person has the possibility of revealing secrets, that poison will be triggered.
Although this is very magical, the poison is not an ordinary drug, but a product of alchemy, so it is naturally extraordinary, not to mention it comes from an incredible company like GLH.
But when Shu Guan looked regretfully at Patrick dying in front of him, he suddenly remembered something.
That was the bottle of poison that Wang Runling used to extract the elixir. Shu Guan used a palm meridian to peek into the scene when the bottle of poison was refined.
That room, and the palm with the strange silver ring.
The question is, isn’t everything about GLH company impossible to calculate using hexagrams?
Anyone or anything related to GLH Company has been cut into pieces.
Then why was he able to peek into the scene when this poison was being refined?
When Shu Guan realized this matter yesterday, it couldn't get away from his mind.
The more he thought about it, the more confused he became.
Faintly he felt that this matter was very, very important.
Maybe whether he can find out the secret of GLH Company depends on whether he can figure it out.
I just thought about it for a day, but I was still confused about this matter.
Then Shukan looked at Tang Jinan beside him.
The only thing that can be said to be gained after finding Na Lai Fengfang this time is that Tang Jinan was rescued.
Shu Guan patted Tang Jinan's body.
Then Tang Jinan woke up leisurely.
When he opened his eyes, his eyes were extremely confused, as if he didn't understand why he was by the river in the wilderness.
Then Tang Jinan saw Shu Guan sitting next to him and sat up from the ground nervously.
After all, I just woke up from a coma and found myself in a strange wilderness with a stranger sitting next to me. Anyone would be a little nervous and scared.
However, Tang Jinan soon discovered that the person sitting next to him did not seem to be a "stranger".
"...Are you...Mr. Shu?"
He looked at Shu Guan who had regained his true appearance in amazement, and asked with some uncertainty.
After all, he and Shu Guan only met once. A few months had passed, and Shu Guan's appearance had changed slightly. He was not completely sure whether the young man sitting next to him had saved his life. That fortune teller from Shanghai.
"Yes, I am Shu Xingyun, Professor Tang. It's been a long time."
Shu Guan smiled and nodded at him.
Tang Jinan said "Ah", then turned around and looked around, and asked Shu Guandao in great confusion:
"Mr. Shu, why am I here? What happened?"
"Professor Tang, do you still remember what happened before you fell into coma?"
"Coma? I'm not comatose! I remember I was working in the study, and then I fell asleep for some reason. When I woke up, I was here. Mr. Shu, what on earth is going on?"
Shu Guan nodded when he heard this. It seemed that the person who kidnapped Tang Jinan was not careful, so it was probably not the monster he killed who did it.
Maybe it was done by the few practitioners who came to Fengfang, but I don't know which one.
Then, Shu Guan briefly explained the reason why Tang Jinan was here.
Anyway, Tang Jinan already knew that he was a practitioner and that there were extraordinary powers in this world. Last time, he had a brief discussion with Tang Jinan about technology and extraordinary powers.
After Shu Guan finished speaking, Tang Jinan opened his mouth and seemed more confused, but he still thanked Shu Guan immediately.
"Mr. Shu, I didn't expect you to save me again. Tang really doesn't know how to thank Mr. Shu."
"Professor Tang, don't take it too seriously. I just happened to encounter this incident, so naturally I have to help Professor Tang."
"Mr. Shu, that GLH company you mentioned, why did they kidnap me? To be honest, I didn't know there was such a company before. I had never heard the name of such a company when I was in the Western Continent. I have no interaction with them, so why would they do this?”
Then Tang Jinan asked again in confusion.
"I think it may be related to Professor Tang's research results!"
Shu Guan thought for a while and said, after he confirmed that Tang Jinan was kidnapped by GLH Company, he intuitively felt that it should be related to the new tank designed by Tang Jinan.
"My research results? Mr. Shu, are you talking about the tank I designed?"
"Yes."
Shu Guan explained the situation of the GLH company to Tang Jinan, and briefly mentioned the technologies of GLH company that were beyond this era.
The reason why he did this was because he wanted to hear his views on GLH's technologies from one of the most outstanding scientists of this era, and to see how, in the eyes of an ordinary scientist, those advanced technologies were. It is impossible to be born in advance in the technological soil of this era.
After Tang Jinan listened to a few sentences, his expression became extremely excited and he kept shaking his head.
"……impossible……"
"...absolutely impossible..."
"...It is impossible for these things to be manufactured. There is no theoretical basis at all..."
When Shu Guan was telling the story, Tang Jiquan never stopped talking and continued to question every word Shu Guan said.
Shu Guan finally finished speaking, and then looked at Tang Jinan, who was extremely emotional, with a smile.
Tang Jinan's chest heaved violently, and he stared at Shu Guan closely, his eyes even more incredulous than when Shu Guan introduced the extraordinary things to him.
Because he didn't know anything about extraordinary things, he didn't dare to question it. In addition, he had personal experience and saw it with his own eyes, so he was able to accept it.
But what Shu Guan is saying now is what he knows best.
But just because I understand it, I still don’t believe it.
"...Mr. Shu, is what you just said true?"
After a long time, Tang Jinan finally calmed down a bit, and then asked Shu Guan in a dry voice.
In fact, he also knew that Shu Guan would never lie to him, but Tang Jinan couldn't do it if he wanted him to accept what Shu Guan said just now.
Shu Guan did not directly answer whether what he said was true or false, but asked quite solemnly:
"Professor Tang, do you think those things will never be born in this era?"
"Yes, the birth of any new technology must be rooted in the corresponding theoretical soil. And for things like what Mr. Shu just said, I don't understand at all what theory they are rooted in and invented."
"Professor Tang, I didn't lie to you, those things are real."
Then Shu Guan sighed.
In fact, he also agreed with Tang Jinan's point of view. When he saw those things in the GLH company's base, his first thought was whether there was another or some time traveler in the world.
And now, he still believed that this was the greatest possibility. After getting confirmation from Tang Jinan's words, Shu Guan felt that the GLH company was probably created by time travellers.
But at this moment, Tang Jinan seemed to have thought of something, his body suddenly shook, and his expression seemed to become extremely excited and said:
"...However, it is not impossible. Perhaps an era of technological explosion is coming!"
"The era of technological explosion?"
"Yes, the first big explosion of science and technology happened in the Western Continent three hundred years ago. Before that, the Western Continent was simply a barbaric and backward wilderness. It couldn't be compared with our Dahua. Even a ship No decent ship capable of ocean voyages could be built.”
"But more than three hundred years ago, they suddenly built a steam engine, mastered the technology of refining high-strength steel, created advanced gunpowder weapons, and built giant ships and cannons."
"Originally, these things had no theoretical basis. You must know that at that time, there was no real physics system in the Western Continent. Just before the steam engine was built, no one proposed the theory that thermal energy would be converted into kinetic energy. This theory is actually It was only after the invention of the steam engine that people noticed it..."
Originally, when Tang Jinan talked about the era of technological explosion, Shu Guan was not too surprised.
Because he had long discovered that certain historical processes in this world were somewhat similar to the world he traveled to.
In the history of the world in his previous life, he also experienced several technological explosions. In just a few hundred years, the advancement of the entire world civilization was greater than the original development of tens of thousands of years.
But as Tang Jinan told it, Shu Guan gradually felt that something was wrong.
"...In just fifty years, the technological creations that were born have allowed the civilization of the Western Continent to far surpass our Great China Empire. This is also the reason why the Great China Empire's army suffered a disastrous defeat during the Gengshen Incident. .”
Fifty years?
The more Shu Guan listened, his expression became more and more strange.
"...The Great China three hundred years ago was actually a prosperous age...revised..."
"The giant ships, cannons, firearms and explosives brought by the Western Continent Army are something we have never heard of or seen before. When faced with such a powerful and unfamiliar opponent, the Great China Dynasty was unable to resist after all..."
There is something going on at home, so this chapter ends rather hastily.
I might have a day off tomorrow, it depends on the situation.
There was a paragraph in the middle that was deleted.
