Time paused, stopped in Zhang Huaiyi's memories.
He was in a daze, because he was quite familiar with this patterned corridor. Qiao Yuan's drinking capacity was not good. One time he drank too much, and it was Zhang Huaiyi who carried Qiao Yuan home.
Zhang Huaiyi was very angry and wanted Qiao Yuan to drink less, but Qiao Yuan always waved his hand, belched wine, and said with a confused look:
“A thousand cups of wine is too little when you meet a close friend.”
When you meet a close friend, a thousand cups of wine are too few.
Zhang Huaiyi squinted his eyes. There was wind at the end of the corridor, which hurt his eyes.
Qiao Yuan often said to Zhang Huaiyi:
"Huaiyi, you are just too upright."
"You always feel that everything must have a truth, but there are so many unreasonable things in this world. You always feel that you need an explanation for doing things, but there are thousands of explanations. Which one do you want?"
"But I also envy you. You have to find a reason for things that don't make sense. You only need that one explanation out of thousands of explanations."
"You will suffer, but you will always be you."
"The political field is like a battlefield. If one day I don't know that I was wrong, then the only person I can judge is you, because even if you don't do it, you have to do the right thing."
"I just hope you won't be afraid of not starting in time, and don't regret doing the right thing late."
“It’s not too late to make up for the situation before it is too late.”
...
...
The wind blew, and Zhang Huaiyi raised his phone. His thin and craggy face was reflected on the screen. He straightened his collar, stood upright, and said in as straight a voice as possible:
"Hello people of Xia Kingdom, my name is Zhang Huaiyi, and I am the secretary to the mayor of Shangcheng City."
"It is now 8:37 pm on August 3, 418, the fourteenth day since Taoist immortals invaded the upper city."
"First of all, I want to confirm Xia Cheng's conclusion about Taoist Immortals. Taoist Immortals are evil and weird. The so-called evolution is like arsenic's honey and the sugar coating of cannonballs."
"In order to tear away the Taoist Immortal's disguise as soon as possible, my best friend 'Qiao Yuan' and I conducted a human experiment not long ago."
"The experimental results will now be announced."
"Taoist immortals are good at imitating human beings and beguiling people's hearts. During the cultivation process, they not only have to suffer extremely horrific pain, but when they are about to succeed, they become the food of Taoist immortals and their real bodies are replaced by fake ones."
"Judging from the current information, after the replacement, the fake body will perfectly inherit all the information of the real body, from behavior to personality, exactly the same. This has also been confirmed in the incident. It is precisely for this reason that we have not dared to The Taoist Immortal makes a final conclusion, and the Taoist Immortal spreads. There are always people who believe in the Taoist Immortal with a sense of luck."
"Today, this situation was finally overturned by my experiment with Qiao Yuan."
"I will take everyone to see the truth."
"boom!"
Zhang Huaiyi raised the hammer and hit the door lock with all his strength, causing the door lock to crack.
The hearts of the people across the country suddenly froze. Zhang Huaiyi was shocked to the point that his arms were numb. He calmed down and said expressionlessly:
"Based on the experimental conditions, the previous theory will now be modified——"
"The Taoist Immortal can perfectly imitate all the behaviors of his real body before he became an immortal, but... he doesn't know what humans will be like after they become immortals."
"boom!"
Another hammer hit, and the door lock was smashed crooked. Zhang Huaiyi's voice was much louder, with urgency, sadness, madness, and calmness in his voice.
"Even if they can imitate humans perfectly, the reason why their behavior is still doubted by countless people is that their thinking is wrong."
"They believe that human beings are always selfish and profit-seeking. If human beings can really cultivate, they will despise uncultivated humans; if they can really cultivate as immortals, they will be desired by countless people; if they have power, , humans will fight.”
"At the beginning, when I asked Taoist believers why they were fighting, the believers looked puzzled. He could not give an explanation and did not understand why I asked."
"Because they feel that when people have power, they will naturally fight without a reason."
"Similarly, no practitioner has ever said that cultivation is not good because they believe that people are eager for good things and are irrational."
"Practitioners always look at people with contempt because they believe that if people have power, they will be committed to distinguishing classes and distinguishing between high and low."
"They use this as a benchmark to imitate human beings who have become immortals."
"But they are wrong, humans are not like this."
Zhang Huaiyi laughed, at Daoxian's naivety and at his own hindsight.
"They took human beings' selfishness into consideration, but they did not consider human beings' righteousness."
"boom!"
The hammer in Zhang Huaiyi's hand hit the door lock so hard that his voice trembled.
"There are always people who gain power to eliminate class and to achieve equality."
"boom."
"There are always people who gain strength for the sake of peace, for the sake of not fighting."
"boom."
"There are always people who gain strength in order to prevent others from suffering and to retreat despite difficulties."
"boom."
The hammer fell to the ground, and the door lock was finally broken open. Zhang Huaiyi staggered two steps due to inertia. He leaned back and looked at the scene in the room dreamily, breathing heavily.
On the windowsill, a familiar Buddha statue stood, facing outside.
"So, even if they don't reveal any flaws, there are still countless people questioning the authenticity of Taoist cultivation."
"Because they will never learn human righteousness."
"Are you right, Qiao Yuan?"
Zhang Huaiyi's throat surged as he saw the scene in front of him clearly.
The fake person placed the statue on the windowsill, forcing Qiao Yuan to watch humans fall into the abyss step by step.
This was his greatest torture.
The statue was trembling, and his body couldn't make much movement, but he knew, he had always been clear.
He can trust Zhang Huaiyi.
Zhang Huaiyi walked into the room and approached the statue.
"Taoist immortals are very cunning. They will also put their biggest flaws in the most obvious places. The most dangerous places are the safest."
"They even knew that I installed a hidden camera in Qiao Yuan's house, so they placed the statue where the camera couldn't capture it to avoid my discovery."
"It was precisely this attempt to conceal the truth that allowed me to discover the answer."
Zhang Huaiyi woke up his nose and spoke with a strong nasal voice. His eyes were red and every word he spoke was hysterical.
"People of Xia Kingdom, look at where the real people have been replaced!!!"
Zhang Huaiyi suddenly jumped up, took three steps and two steps at a time, raised the statue on the window sill high, and then threw it hard.
"boom!"
This is a signal for breakup, a clarion call for sobriety.
The fragments were scattered everywhere, and the real Qiao Yuan was revealed in front of everyone——
This is a piece of flesh that has been squeezed and infinitely deformed, with all the organs kneaded together. His body is trembling slightly, and he is breathing weakly. His body stretches as the porcelain statue cracks, but he can never return to it. The way it was before.
"me......"
Zhang Huaiyi choked on his breath. He felt that his chest was tight. He knelt down at a loss. Tears fell one after another. He put his mobile phone on the edge of the stool and wanted to lift Qiao Yuan, but when he waved, he couldn't. No way to start.
He wanted to say something, but after a while, he could only say:
"Qiao Yuan, I'm late."
"Um!"
Hearing Zhang Huaiyi's voice, the indistinguishable pieces of flesh suddenly began to vibrate violently. He tried his best, at the expense of accelerating his own death. He tried hard, and the flesh cracked and was about to fall apart. Death chased his reason. He used his last strength to say the last words.
The bloody piece of flesh uttered four vague words, and then there was no movement. No one heard clearly what he said.
But Zhang Huaiyi knew what he was going to say.
That was the goal they fought for, and that was the answer they exchanged for countless lives.
Resist Taoist immortals.
Zhang Huaiyi raised his cell phone and wiped away the tears that he couldn't stop. He raised his arms and shouted in grief:
"Resist Taoist Immortals."
The people in the south raised their hands, shouting with anger and sadness:
"Resist Taoist Immortals."
The people in the north roared with clarity, desolation and despair:
"Resist Taoist Immortals."
The people of Xia State raised their hands, with tears in their eyes, and they were happy and no longer confused. They shouted angrily:
"Resist the Taoist Immortal!"
"Resist the Taoist Immortal!"
"Resist the Taoist Immortal!"
"Resist Taoist Immortals!!!"
