Walking on the streets of Zuoyuan Town, it is easy to find that all the buildings in this town are new, every restaurant and shop has no trace of being eroded by time, and the whole town has a sense of newness.
In fact, Zuoyuan Town, located east of the center of the Red Gravel Plain, was built in the last twenty or thirty years. Thirty years ago, this place was a red wasteland. Except for the regular sunshine of the sun and the moon, the wind and sand
When I visit occasionally, this place is as quiet as a dry well that has been abandoned for hundreds of years.
This is where Taiyin discovered the ruins of the Witchcraft Village 32 years ago.
Wu Maxi looked at this new town, filled with disappointment. He actually wanted to see the desolate appearance of this place thirty years ago. That was the scene where Taiyin had fought. These were so new that people were caught off guard.
Such changes made it impossible for him to imagine what it would have been like for Taiyin to walk here thirty years ago.
There is a huge building in the center of the town called the Chili Branch of the Daxing Artistic Conception Research Institute.
This institute is the earliest and most core building in Zuoyuan Town. It was built by the North Hall of Daxing Hall. It is one of the many artistic conception research institutes of Daxing Hall. This institute was established for the purpose of nearby excavation and research.
Documentation of the Witchcraft Village Ruins.
After arriving in Zuoyuan Town, Wu Maxi calculated based on the map for a long time, and finally reluctantly determined one thing. The point on the map of Gao Qianhu fell exactly in the center of the research institute.
Yesterday evening, Wu Ma Xi wandered outside this house for a long time. Later, she saw an advertisement for researchers at the door. Wu Ma Xi thought about it for a long time and finally made up her mind: "This is it."
When we got together this morning, we discovered that the recruitment scene was really lively. A huge number of candidates were queuing from the entrance of the institute to the end of the street. Wu Maxi, who rushed over at the right time, was unfortunately at the end of the queue.
The person in line in front of Wuma Xi was a slovenly middle-aged man in his forties. He was wearing a long gown that was extremely rare in the northwest. He stood out in the crowd. Unfortunately, the long gown seemed to have been worn for decades.
It had not been washed, was dirty and sloppy, and exuded a strange sour smell, which instantly killed the fresh morning air.
"How many times have you taken the test?" The middle-aged man looked at Wu Ma Xi with narrowed eyes, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he had a menacing bad breath.
Wu Maxi held her breath and looked at him doubtfully, not understanding what he meant.
"Let me ask you, how many times have you taken the exam?" The middle-aged man moved closer to him, and while emphasizing his tone, his tone also became heavier.
"First time." Wu Maxi leaned back slightly.
"Rookie!" The middle-aged man put his hands behind his back, raised his head slightly and closed his eyes, looking like a master from this world.
"How many times have you taken the exam, sir?" Wu Maxi couldn't help but ask.
The middle-aged man did not open his eyes and only stretched out four dark fingers.
"Four times?" Wu Maxi asked tentatively.
"Hmph!" A disdainful smile appeared on the middle-aged man's lips, "More than four hundred times."
More than four hundred times!
What is the concept of more than four hundred times?
This admissions exam is held once a week, which means that the dear friend in front of me has been taking the exam for at least seven or eight years.
What a veteran in the examination room!
"Uh, sir, is this exam really so difficult?" Looking at the tragic experience of the middle-aged man in front of her, Wu Maxi couldn't help but worry about her future.
"Want to know?" The middle-aged man was finally willing to open his eyes.
"Please sir, please give me some advice."
"Yeah!" The middle-aged man said this word and remained silent for a long time.
When Wu Maxi looked carefully, she saw two dark fingers of the middle-aged man rubbing each other in front of him.
It turned out to be a fee, so it’s no wonder that since I didn’t do anything else but take exams for seven or eight years, I was inevitably in financial straits.
Wu Maxi took out a gold coin and threw it to him.
The middle-aged man took it and looked at the sun for a long time. Finally he felt relieved, put the gold coin in his arms, and said enigmatically: "Do you know who is being recruited for this exam?"
"Aren't you a researcher of artistic conception?"
"What a joke, who am I, Lin Fu? How can I be a mere artistic conception researcher?" The middle-aged man showed disdain, and a sour smell hit his face along with his bad breath.
"Then what are you recruiting for this exam?"
"Mentor." Lin Fu showed a confident and mysterious smile on his face, "The reason why this research institute was established is to excavate the documents of the Wushu Village ruins. How long can the documents of the entire Wushu Village ruins be excavated? What happens after the excavation is completed?
What should I do with this institute?”
Wu Maxi shook her head and said she didn't know.
"I have received definite information. Within ten years, this place will be transformed into a college of artistic conception. The researchers recruited now will be the mentors of this college in the future." Lin Fu's voice became softer and softer, making Wu Ma Xi very passive.
, I don’t know whether it’s better to get closer or not.
"Are you sure?" Wu Maxi leaned back to avoid the invasion of his body odor.
Lin Fu stood proudly and said: "Look at the size of this institute. It covers an area of 7,000 acres. Is there any institute with such a large scale? This is completely built as an artistic conception institute." He said with a
A dark finger pointed at the research institute in front, with a heroic posture, as if Gu Zizang, who had just entered the northwest, was pointing at the barbarian ditch.
"No wonder so many people come to take the exam." Wu Maxi nodded, expressing understanding, "How many people does this institute recruit per week?"
"Since the beginning of this year until now, we have only recruited three people." Lin Fu's eyes were very sad, deep and hurt.
"Brother Lin, you are wrong. The people we are recruiting this year are not three, but four." A head with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks poked out from the front, standing with a hunched body like a monkey, turning a pair of mouse-like little ones.
He stared at Wu Ma Xi.
"Shen Tuli, don't try to deceive me. Lin is familiar with this year's recruitment list. Where did the fourth one come from?"
The middle-aged man named Shen Tuli smiled and squinted his eyes, pretending to be reserved.
Lin Fu snorted coldly, turned his head and stood with his hands behind his back.
Wuma Xi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized what she was doing. She looked at Shen Tuli's hands, and sure enough she saw two fingers that looked like dead branches rubbing together in front of her.
These two people are really...
Wu Maxi was speechless and took out another gold coin and threw it to Shen Tuli.
Shen Tuli took it, turned around to observe the sunshine for a moment, took it back into his arms and said: "Three days ago at dusk, I was inspecting the Feng Shui test site nearby, when I saw a green chariot coming from the street, and the driver was a man.
The man in black. The green chariot parked at the entrance of the institute, and a beautiful girl in green clothes got out of it. The girl gave the guard a piece of something. After the guard went in to report, he came out in less than ten minutes and handed the girl to him.
Please go in. About half an hour later, the girl came out again, said something to the man in black, and then the man in black left. I waited outside this door until midnight, and the girl, again
He didn't come out either." After Shen Tuli finished speaking, he looked at Lin Fu with a tacit expression on his face.
"Three days ago, that was not the day of the exam!" Lin Fu was a little confused, but then he realized, "A shady story, a shady story!"
Wu Maxi was stunned.
"It's too dark, this world is too dark." Lin Fu was so excited that he couldn't speak coherently, and his body was shaking like a rocker. "Such a sacred exam, there is such a dirty behind-the-scenes deal. It's too dark, God, it's too dark.
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"Old Lin, be patient! This kind of thing is very common." Shen Tuli was very open-minded.
"Let me tell you, with my talent and knowledge, how could I not pass the exam for eight years? Oh my god, this is too dark!" Lin Fu stood in the field and danced nervously, appreciating the lethality and coverage of the smell.
His strength directly increased by three levels, and Wu Ma Xi had to keep a few steps away from him.
"The exam is about to begin!" Following a beast-like roar from the front, the crowd began to move forward slowly.
Shen Tuli immediately followed the crowd. Seeing that Lin Fu had not moved for a long time, Wu Ma Xi was about to pass him forward, but Lin Fu suddenly turned his head, stared at Wu Ma Xi coldly, and said viciously: "What are you doing?
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Wu Ma Xi was too lazy to argue with him and took a few steps back to distance herself from him.
"You actually want to jump in line, it's too dark!" Lin Fu murmured and kept up with the team.
The team moved very quickly, and soon they saw the door of the examination room.
When it was Lin Fu's turn to go in, the guy kept glaring at the tall guard at the entrance of the examination room, as if he was trying to eat someone.
The guard was stared at inexplicably by him. When he realized what he was doing, he had already entered the examination room. The guard was filled with anger and had nowhere to vent. He turned around and saw Wu Ma Xi. He immediately found the target to vent his anger on and picked up a huge stick.
He pointed his index finger at Wu Ma Xi’s nose and yelled: “You don’t want to take the exam, do you? If you don’t want to take the exam, get out of here!”
Wu Ma Xi, who had been chasing corpses for more than ten years, had never seen any kind of scene. How could he take his words to heart, pass by like no one else, and enter the examination room as if nothing happened.
The guard had a fit and had nowhere to focus, and was so depressed that his whole body was shaking.dd