Sheep Heart Hall.
In the old residence of Huaihuang.
After the cockcrow, the Great Immortal Huaihuang, who had been sitting quietly in the house for half the night, stretched and slowly opened his eyes.
The first thing that caught his eye was Xu Fu's two red eyes that were as wide as copper bells in another corner of the room.
"Fairy Yufu, you stayed up all night, just staring at me like this?"
"..."
"Fairy Yufu, I advise you to return to Nanlanghai as soon as possible. It's still not too late."
"..."
"Okay then, Fairy Yufu, I will take you to have some breakfast. The beef liver porridge in Beef Liver Lane is good. After eating, you can follow me to Wanhuan Building."
"..."
"The fish has been caught in the net. If you want to see Lu Ran, I'm afraid you can only do it in that place."
Huaihuang looked at the sky through the window. The weather was not good today. The clouds had lowered and were gathering more and more toward the south.
In the courtyard, Director of the Intelligence Bureau Zhou Quan has been waiting outside the door for a long time. There are important situations that he needs to report personally.
Xu Fu waited until they finished their discussion before walking out of the room.
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Madoka Manshima peeked at the timer again.
Halfway through Mao time.
In less than an hour, the finals of this round of Tiantian Dajiao will officially begin.
Only three of the four contestants are left, and the final selection will soon be completed.
As long as he messes around a little longer, he will have completed the task assigned by the Great Immortal.
As for the "big event" that both he and Zheng Zhi suspected, or the "doomsday", let it be whether it would come or not.
She raised her chin and listened to Lu Ran's words with interest.
Lu Ran still held up his little finger like a child, and continued the topic innocently like a child: "You just said that if the doomsday comes, you should just let nature take its course. If you want to work, continue to work, and if you want to play, continue to play. Play, and the one thing I want to do is actually the same as you."
Man Dao Yuan nodded.
"I also want to go with the flow, so I want to go to the Huantian Dajiao to complete this finals."
Mandao Yuan groaned in her heart, wondering why this guy brought the topic back again, and asked calmly: "In order to have a beginning and an end?"
Lu Ran pinched his chin, "Isn't it just a beginning and an end?"
"Is that because you can't let go of the temptation of fame and fortune?"
Lu Ran frowned, "Actually, it's dispensable."
"Can't we just do it for our dreams?"
Lu Ran chuckled, "My dream is definitely not to become an immortal."
"It's not this, it's not that, then what is it for?"
Madoka Manshima asked with her round face close to her, as if she wanted to have a careful discussion with someone in an extremely serious manner.
Lu Ran also became serious in an instant, sat up straight, and pondered for a while before finally speaking out the ultimate answer: "In order to control myself."
The little finger was finally lowered.
Madoka Mandao turned her gaze from Lu Ran's hand to his face in surprise, expressing confusion: "What does it mean to control yourself?"
"It literally means taking control of myself. I can do the things I like, go to the places I like, and like the people or things I like."
Lu Ran couldn't help but patted his chest.
Mandao sat up straight and said, "I still don't understand. Can't you control yourself now?"
"No." Lu Ran replied categorically: "Of course not. Let's not talk about the tragedy on the Zhuohai two years ago. Let's just say that I was forced to participate when I went to Fenli Town. Although Qingwu left, Xu Fang and Xu Fu came again. I originally wanted to go to Nanlanghai, but was taken to Kulingdong. Just when I wanted to stay in Kulingdong, they arranged for me to come here to participate in the environmental protection program. Tiandajiao, I finally made it to the finals, but you kidnapped me here... Ever since I came to the so-called immortal world, I have been like a rudderless sailboat. Wherever the wind blows, I will follow it. , but the wind has never asked me how I feel, and the wind does not care about my feelings."
"But isn't this how everyone, even immortals, live their lives?"
Madoka Mandao, who started living in the world at the age of twenty-two, tried her best to imagine the calmness of Lu Ran's words, but she still couldn't fully empathize with her.
Lu Ran shook his head, still smiling calmly on his face: "It's different. At least you still have a family and an organization called Immortal. But I have no family, no organization, and no roots."
"No home, no roots?" Mandaomao didn't know why, but suddenly thought of the young man who came by boat among himself.
The young man is wandering alone in the sea, with no end and lost starting point. It is indeed an unimaginable and sad life.
"I have no home and no roots, so I don't know where to go, and I can't decide where to go. The final outcome is just to disappear with the wind."
The boy's ending is nothing more than being swallowed by the sea.
"But I want to stop, find my destination, and find my roots."
Madoka Mandao saw that the eyes of the young man in front of him were on fire in an instant. The fire was so fierce that his originally black pupils turned into gold.
"In the cabin of the Char ship, I secretly swore that I, Lu Ran, would never be imprisoned in such a prison again. However, I managed to survive from the cabin, only to find myself again within a few days. I entered another prison, so I chose to die with everything that happened at that time, but what happened later was even more bizarre and absurd. I found that I was not even under my control when I died. I entered another prison, and I went through thousands of experiences. After all the hard work, I returned to this place, and soon I discovered that the world turned out to be the biggest prison. I didn’t want to be bound, imprisoned, or trapped by ropes anymore, so I picked up the Qingwu alms to give to My sword, I walk in the world, I endure, I fight, I actively pursue... all of this is nothing more than finding an exit for myself, I want to escape from this prison and control myself."
"But the Immortal Sect, isn't it just another kind of prison?"
Man Daoyuan stared at the two flames and saw Lu Ran gradually turning into the appearance of Zhong.
"The Immortal Cult is just the railings of this prison. This is why I changed from passive to active and must participate in this great festival." In the fantasy sea, the golden-eyed boy continued: "I was in Xia's capital. I once met a person who inspired me a lot. It turns out that the Immortal Sect is not indestructible. They still have many things to fear, such as Qingwu and the Wu Sect behind her, such as the person who swallowed the food while talking and laughing. After the sun and the moon, for example, there is a more mysterious and powerful Xie Qiao... I gradually came up with the idea that I want to pursue this power and find the source of this power. This idea is even more powerful today than I want revenge even more urgently, and participating in the Ring of Heaven Festival and winning the final election are just a means to dismantle the two railings. This world is more than just what is in front of me, more than two religions, and more than just the north and the south. .”
"I want to go to the outside world and see it."
The young man stretched out a hand, and the golden color in his pupils was mind-blowing. Unknowingly, Madoka Mandao felt that he had transformed into a small boat, rippling, rippling, and rippling in this boundless gold... …
"What about you? Have you ever thought about going to the outside world to see it?"
A word to wake her up.
Man Daoyuan was in his heart, and suddenly found that there had been an invisible wall in front of him for a long time, and now because of the boy's words and the boy's fire, a corner of this wall suddenly collapsed, revealing the world behind the wall.
A new world that I had never imagined seeing.
