Chapter 251

This long-distance car ride didn't feel hard. After all, it was their own small pickup truck, and everyone could take turns lying flat in the back of the truck to sleep. They were all people who had experienced big storms and waves, and this little bumpiness of the car body wouldn't affect their sleep quality at all.

Plus, Tan Wenbin was also in the car. The scorching heat of the day and the dust on the provincial road were all covered by the cold air on his body, and the car was always moving, so it wouldn't form long-term accumulation of yin qi like in a closed room, which also made the "cold air temperature" just right.

There was a section in the middle where they took a detour, mainly because they didn't want to get too close to Fengdu and deliberately kept a safe distance from the Great Emperor of Fengdu.

Li Zhuiyuan promised the Great Emperor that he would "return to the sect and pay respects to the master" as soon as possible.

But this time they came out in a hurry and didn't prepare the apprenticeship gift. Coming to the door empty-handed like this didn't conform to etiquette and was even more disrespectful to the Great Emperor.

Therefore, they could only wait for the next time.

After arriving in Rongcheng, there was no time to experience the flavor of "young people don't enter Shu" on the spot, but instead, they added another kick to the accelerator and arrived directly at Dujiangyan.

Compared with the scale and population of Rongcheng, Dujiangyan is more like a county town.

After leaving the Rongcheng Plain and arriving here, looking around, one can see the mountain clouds like ink, possessing both the majestic boldness of Sichuan and Chongqing and the gentle tenderness of the south of the Yangtze River.

It can even be said that this city itself is a scroll unfolding in all directions. People passing through the city are like traveling in a painting.

Lin Shu You: "I discovered that it seems no matter where the scenery is, it's better than Nantong."

Yin Meng echoed: "Congratulations, you finally discovered it."

The car stopped at the entrance of the hostel.

"Open the rooms first, go in, take a shower, and change clothes." Li Zhuiyuan pointed to a hot pot restaurant with a sense of age next to the hostel, "Then come down to eat."

Tan Wenbin: "I'll go order the food first."

Everyone else was covered in dust, but Tan Wenbin didn't even sweat a drop the whole way.

Yin Meng reminded: "No mandarin duck pot!"

Tan Wenbin: "Okay."

Lin Shu You pushed Tan Wenbin to the hot pot restaurant and then ran back to the hostel to take a shower.

It was afternoon, and it was still early for dinner. There were no guests in the shop, only the boss and a few waitresses sitting there playing mahjong.

Suddenly seeing a disabled person in a wheelchair coming to their shop to eat hot pot, the boss was moved to tears. He immediately left the mahjong table, picked up the menu, and entertained them personally.

Tan Wenbin leaned on the wheelchair, took the menu and pen, and started checking off items.

"Handsome, choose the pot base first."

"Mandarin duck pot."

"We don't have a mandarin duck pot here. Do you want a nine-grid pot?"

"Okay."

"What kind of spicy do you want?"

"Heavy spicy."

"Medium spicy or heavy spicy?"

"Extra spicy."

"Got it, let's do it."

Everyone else came out of the hostel one after another. The hot pot was already boiling, and the boss thoughtfully helped the disabled person put in the vegetables.

The spiciness was a bit high. The others could eat it, and Yin Meng was even happily twisting her waist on the bench while chewing.

"Hiss... ha..."

Lin Shu You was sweating profusely from eating, pouring bottle after bottle of soy milk down his throat.

Clearly his eyes were red and tears were flowing, but he was still saying non-stop: "Not spicy, I can do it, no problem."

After eating, Li Zhuiyuan arranged the tasks.

Runsheng and Yin Meng would take Tan Wenbin to stroll around the outskirts of Mount Qingcheng first, relying on the induction of the curse to preliminarily determine the location of that Daoist temple; Li Zhuiyuan and Lin Shu You would go to the internship unit to report.

The pickup truck was driven away by Yin Meng and the others, while Li Zhuiyuan and A You hailed a rickshaw.

When they arrived at the entrance of the unit, the sky was already getting dark. However, they had contacted them in advance, and the other party meant they could come at any time, and someone was on duty.

Li Zhuiyuan led Lin Shu You to the office to submit their identity materials. A young man named Xiao Liu received them. While reviewing the materials, a middle-aged man walked into the office.

The man's hair was a bit long and very greasy, naturally carrying waves.

This image seemed more suitable for doing art than doing engineering.

After the man looked them up and down, he said suspiciously: "They sent you?"

Xiao Liu stood up to help introduce. The man was named Wu Xin, a middle-level cadre here, the kind with a lot of say.

Wu Xin scratched his hair and made a dissatisfied sound. He originally thought the higher-ups would send someone capable and experienced to sit in and check, who knew they sent two who hadn't even grown their hair out.

Li Zhuiyuan asked directly: "Where are the people who had the accident?"

Wu Xin: "In the hospital."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Take me to see them now."

Wu Xin: "Okay."

After agreeing, Wu Xin was stunned. Why did he agree so readily?

Xiao Liu: "Director Wu, the materials and procedures are all done. You can take them away now to familiarize them with our working environment."

Wu Xin nodded, waved at Li Zhuiyuan and Lin Shu You, took them outside, and got on a three-seater motorcycle.

The motorcycle engine was very loud, and Wu Xin drove very fast. Several times when turning, Li Zhuiyuan had the feeling that the wheels were off the ground and about to roll over, because he was sitting in the machine gun seat.

After entering the hospital gate, the car didn't stop, but bypassed the outpatient and inpatient buildings to the back, where there was a foreign-style building surrounded by a yard.

Wu Xin: "It used to be a sanatorium for the troops, but later it was withdrawn, and now it is also part of the hospital."

It should be an area used by the hospital to house special patients.

The guard knew Wu Xin. Before the car arrived, the railing was raised in advance. Wu Xin greeted the guard and continued to ride the motorcycle inside until he stopped at the entrance of the foreign-style building.

Pushing the door in, there was a small office desk inside with a visitor registration form on it, but no one was sitting there watching. Wu Xin was too lazy to fill it out, led the two to the third floor.

Wu Xin: "Zhao Jie, Zhou Hao, Xu Qingsong, they are the three hospital rooms at the stair entrance respectively."

These three people were the ones who had the accident during the last construction.

Wu Xin led Li Zhuiyuan and Lin Shu You into the first hospital room, where a young man was sitting on the hospital bed.

"Director Wu, you're here."

"Zhao Jie, how have you been feeling lately?"

"Quite good."

Simple communication and questioning, except for the bewilderment and worry in Zhao Jie's eyes, no other abnormalities could be seen.

Then it was the second hospital room, the same process as before, only this time Wu Xin's address changed to "Zhou Hao," followed by going to the third hospital room to communicate with Xu Qingsong.

After coming out of Xu Qingsong's hospital room, Wu Xin signaled the two to come to the balcony. He lit a cigarette himself, exhaled toward Lin Shu You, and asked:

"Well, did you see any problems?"

Lin Shu You couldn't see any problems and didn't perceive any evil spirit aura either, but he wasn't in a hurry to shake his head. Anyway, it didn't matter if he couldn't see the problem; Brother Xiaoyuan was there to back him up.

Li Zhuiyuan: "The problem is huge."

Wu Xin pulled his back away from the railing and asked: "Tell me about it."

"Zhao Jie thinks he is Xu Qingsong, Zhou Hao thinks he is Zhao Jie, and Xu Qingsong thinks he is Zhou Hao."

Wu Xin showed some expectation on his face: "How did you see it?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "There are medical records in front of the hospital beds, with names written on them, and your address to them doesn't match."

This might be that the nurse filled it out wrong, or the three of them changed hospital rooms according to their own preferences, but apart from this, Li Zhuiyuan couldn't see other specific problems from these three people. Therefore, the problem that could be explained earlier became more and more important, no matter how bizarre it was.

Hearing that it was guessed by distinguishing details, Wu Xin shook the ash somewhat disappointedly: "Is there a solution?"

"Yes."

Wu Xin was stunned for a moment and said in disbelief: "Really?"

"Mm, but it takes some time, and at the same time, it needs your assistance."

"As long as you have a way, you can let me do anything. Their parents don't know about this yet, and I'm also worried about how to explain it to their family members."

"First, I need the detailed file information of these three people; then, I need the first-hand report of this accident."

"I have already submitted the report to the higher-ups."

"I have also written similar reports, but as long as they are words on paper, they are often easy to lose truth. I hope you can write another copy yourself. I promise you, it won't be passed on."

"No problem, anything else?"

"That's all."

"Fine, as soon as I'm ready, I will... have you arranged the dormitory?"

"We are staying in the hostel now."

"The unit dormitory conditions are better, and there is a canteen."

"It's not troublesome to move again."

"Then remember to give me the invoice for reimbursement."

"Okay."

"Shall I take you back?"

"No need, the hospital is very close to the hostel, we'll just walk back, just in time to perfect the plan."

"Fine, this is my business card. There is my office number and pager number on it. Contact me anytime if you have anything."

Wu Xin rode the motorcycle away. After Li Zhuiyuan and Lin Shu You walked out of the hospital, they walked along the street.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, what do you think is going on? Is it soul swapping?"

"The difficulty of soul swapping is much higher than borrowing a corpse to return the soul, and the side effects are greater.

If those three people were soul swapping, we should have been able to see the obvious characteristics of the soul and body not matching from them just now."

"Then it is... hypnosis. Mental control or puppets?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "There are no signs of this."

"Then how can one person become another 'person'?"

Li Zhuiyuan stopped, stretched out a finger, and gently poked his temple.

"A You, is there a possibility... that their memories were swapped?"

"Memories?"

"If you died, but all your memories from the time you could remember to the moment of your death were perfectly implanted into another person's brain, does that mean you were reborn?"

"I... I... I don't know, it seems very reasonable, but it's like something is wrong."

Lin Shu You slowed his pace and began to think about this philosophical question.

Li Zhuiyuan stopped in front of a snack stall in front and said to the stall owner Auntie:

"Auntie, I want five egg cakes."

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll make them for you right away."

Soon, five egg cakes were made.

Li Zhuiyuan picked one up, broke off a piece with his hand and put it into his mouth. Hmm, very sweet.

Because Yin Meng often mentioned how delicious egg cakes were, Li Zhuiyuan intended to buy one to taste. After tasting it, he discovered that Yin Meng might be recalling herself bouncing to buy egg cakes after receiving money from her grandfather when she was a child.

"A You, you eat more."

"Oh, okay." Lin Shu You ate the one in the boy's hand first. It was very sweet, but the taste was not bad. Then he stuffed all the rest in the bag into his mouth and ate them in one go.

After eating, he realized that he had eaten the ones brought for his partners together, so he hurriedly turned back and bought three more from the aunt.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, if memories were swapped, then how should it be treated?"

If it were soul swapping and puppets, there would be clear solutions, but swapping memories, Lin Shu You didn't know what to do, even Tongzi didn't know.

"If it can't be swapped back... then erase the memories that don't belong to the body and re-implant the memories that should belong to him."

"So, this is the reason why you want their file information, Brother Xiaoyuan?"

"Can you take the record in the file bag and use it to cover a person's memory? Do you think this is writing an essay with keywords?"

"Then what should be done..."

"The memories of each person are all in the other person's brain. The ready-made answers are just copied. It's not difficult, it just takes some energy and time.

Therefore, in order to ensure the state, I plan to solve the matter of that Daoist temple first. I hope Brother Bin and the others can successfully determine the location."

The construction site line is also a ripple clue. If you want to continue to push it forward, you have to take action to help those three people with treatment. If it were the boy from before, he would definitely not be able to complete this kind of thing overloaded. The current Li Zhuiyuan can do it. All this must thank the gift from the Bodhisattva.

Returning to the hostel, Li Zhuiyuan sat on the bed, thinking about the possible changes in this wave next.

If it is really memory swapping, it means that the existence deep in this wave possesses special abilities in this regard.

Therefore, it is necessary to design the points of attention in advance.

For example, it will be very difficult to find its body. It should constantly hide. Only after you kill the one that looks most like the body after all your hard work will the real body appear.

It is also possible that it doesn't have a body at all, but exists by memory, constantly crushing its own memory into other people's memories, and in this way obtains "long life."

In that case, it will be very difficult to solve it. Heaven knows how many bodies it has prepared for itself for memory retention.

In the room, Lin Shu You on the other bed didn't know that Brother Xiaoyuan was already thinking about the evolution of the deep ripple. His attention was on the egg cake, and he gently poked it. It was cold and not delicious anymore.

Li Zhuiyuan said without raising his head: "If you are hungry, go out and buy a midnight snack."

Lin Shu You licked his lips: "If Brother Bin knew that I left your side, Brother Xiaoyuan, because I was hungry, he would slap my face hard."

"It's okay, he is in a wheelchair now, he can't jump up, he can only slap your knees."

"Hehe."

Lin Shu You enjoyed this feeling very much. Brother Xiaoyuan took the initiative to stop and buy snacks today, and would also joke with him about Brother Bin. Brother Xiaoyuan's changes are really getting bigger and bigger.

Li Zhuiyuan: "They are back."

Lin Shu You got off the bed and walked to the window, pushed the window open, and saw the car lights appearing far away on the road ahead.

Tan Wenbin and the others are back.

Runsheng carried Tan Wenbin's wheelchair up the stairs. Yin Meng pushed the door into the room first and handed the bag of egg cakes in her hand to Lin Shu You: "Here, for you to eat. Brother Xiaoyuan, do you want to taste one?"

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head.

Tan Wenbin came in, and as soon as the door closed, he said:

"Brother Xiaoyuan, very smooth. I have basically located the location of that Daoist temple.

If it weren't for the induction of the curse, there would be no way to find it. There are many Daoist temples there, and many are hidden from the world. When the three of us were searching for the location, we almost accidentally entered a mountain gate."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Worship the water in Dujiangyan, ask about the Dao on Mount Qingcheng. Zhang Daoling once established the Daoist lineage here."

Yin Meng: "What era was Zhang Daoling from?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "The same era as your ancestor."

Yin Meng: "Oh, no wonder it sounds familiar."

Tan Wenbin: "Brother Xiaoyuan, should I make a call home and ask sideways if anything happened at home?"

Logically speaking, they were originally "setting off in three days." After setting off, they spent time on the road. If that Daoist temple wanted to take revenge, their people should have arrived in Nantong long ago.

Li Zhuiyuan: "No need to ask, we are walking the river, and the karma is too heavy."

Tan Wenbin nodded: "Okay."

Actually, Tan Wenbin not only wanted to ask if anyone from Mount Qingcheng went to Nantong to seek revenge, but also wanted to know how many experts went, so that he could estimate how much power that Daoist temple could still have.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Rest, work tomorrow."

"Understood!"

"Understood."

The next morning, everyone had breakfast first, then got into the car, not going directly to the destination, but first heading to the Dujiangyan water conservancy project.

On the basis of knowing its principle, coming to its side in person, one can see an invisible magnificence flowing out of the long river of time.

This method of water conservancy creates blessings for thousands of years. This is the true great hand and great spirit of wind and water.

Furthermore, Li Zhuiyuan, Tan Wenbin, and Lin Shu You are all students of Haihe University. As water conservancy people coming to this vicinity, they must definitely come to take a look.

After finishing the homage, the group headed to Mount Qingcheng.

After driving in the mountains for a while, the car had to be left on the side of the road, and they had to enter on foot.

Lin Shu You carried Tan Wenbin on his back. For this, he even specially made a back basket, and the basket was also pasted with a new version of the sealing talisman, otherwise, after long-term close contact with Brother Bin, he would also be frostbitten.

Tan Wenbin said he almost accidentally entered another Daoist temple last night. After Li Zhuiyuan's field investigation, he discovered that this was not an accidental entry. Along the way, he had already perceived the shelter formations of several hidden Daoist temples, which had undergone major changes internally recently.

As the name implies, it is to move the gate archway backward, shrink the scope, and hide themselves more deeply, like a group of little rabbits collectively frightened, and then madly digging holes after returning.

Finally, the "entrance" of that temple arrived. Although it couldn't be seen for the time being, Tan Wenbin was certain that the Wen Chenzi he had cursed was in this area ahead.

Li Zhuiyuan signaled his partners to set up the formation flags according to the incantation he recited. Breaking the formation is more time-consuming, and Li Zhuiyuan didn't intend to do so. He only needed to lower the difficulty and secretly open a crack in the door, allowing the five of them to enter, which could be more unexpected.

After the formation was set up, the boy's right palm spread out, and a blood-colored formation flag appeared.

Runsheng picked up the Yellow River shovel. The new quality wooden handle had been installed, emitting a faint peach blossom fragrance.

Lin Shu You raised his double maces, his center of gravity pressed down. After Runsheng rushed in, he had to be the second one.

Yin Meng held a string of poison jars in her left hand, and the Gu insects in her right palm were eager to try, just waiting for the latest corpse to appear to sacrifice to the ancestors.

Tan Wenbin's gray light halo constantly flowed in his eyes, and streaks of curse power were already ready to go.

Everyone had adjusted to the best state, just waiting for Brother Xiaoyuan's order to open the formation and rush in in the most fierce way!

Tan Wenbin, as the shouter in the team, didn't forget to add a word at this time to save Brother Xiaoyuan a sentence:

"Don't float, just treat it as a fierce battle!"

(End of chapter)