The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 960 Two Golden Crows (Part 7)

This time, He Tao spoke without hesitation:
"Sheng Sheng, tell me about it!"

She finally came to terms with reality.

Trying to learn it on your own is impossible; you simply can't keep up with it or absorb the knowledge.

Then Liu Sheng started from the first page of the PPT and explained in detail how to write a standard paper.

Of course, the so-called norms are based on the standards of the Federal Empire.

Although there were also study articles in the Tang Kingdom, they differed greatly in terms of writing style, arithmetic level, and professional terminology. Therefore, Liu Sheng studied them again overnight and compiled them into this PPT as a way to review and organize his thoughts.

After Liu Sheng finished telling He Tao's story, it was already afternoon.

Although He Tao was still a little confused, thanks to Liu Sheng's detailed explanation and the question-and-answer session, she understood about 60-70% of it.

After listening, her biggest takeaway was:

"It doesn't seem... that difficult?"

"Yes, everything is difficult at the beginning." Liu Sheng nodded with a smile. "Next, the most crucial thing is to choose a topic."

What are you interested in?

This question stumped He Tao.

She remained silent for a long time, stammering and unable to give a coherent answer.

"It's okay," Liu Sheng reassured her. "You can read more of other people's articles first, and you'll gradually get a feel for it. Think about what major you want to study."

"Can I learn anything I want?" He Tao suddenly asked.

"Hmm, why not?"

“No… I mean, you should already have a goal, right?” He Tao said softly, “If there’s a place you want to go, I can… go with you.”

"It's alright, spend a couple of days looking at CNKI before you decide," Liu Sheng smiled. "Anyway, you probably don't want to continue learning the Federal language, right?"

He Tao shook her head decisively: "That's because I didn't get enough points, so I was assigned there! I don't like it at all!"

Liu Sheng nodded upon hearing this and then offered a few directions:
"If you want to pursue further studies in your original field, you can consider linguistics."

Linguistics? What's the use of that?

"For example... it can decipher the script of ancient ruins."

"Isn't this the one Zheng Qiran studies all day long?" He Tao's eyes lit up. "So you can do this even if you don't study archaeology!"

“Of course,” Liu Sheng said with a smile. “One day, if we really come into contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, we might even be able to decipher their language.”

"That sounds quite interesting!" He Tao's interest was piqued.

"Of course, if you are interested in the ancient ruins themselves, you can also study archaeology and participate in the excavation of ancient ruins in the future, tracing the traces of ancient immortals..."

He Tao pursed her lips, "Although I'm somewhat resistant to archaeology because of Zheng Qiran and Shen Zhiyu, the things hidden in these ruins are really making me more and more curious."

She subconsciously touched her lower abdomen, her dantian area, and murmured:
"There are such profound things that can take lives and open such strange spaces... And what we're cultivating now, it must also come from ancient times, right?"

"If we can find more ruins, will we be able to explore more of the unknown world?"

Liu Sheng nodded: "Of course."

"Alternatively, you could also explore the directions of space, energy, and particles."

"Is it possible to unlock the mechanism of this chaotic space if I learn that?" He Tao's eyes lit up again.

“Difficult.” However, Liu Sheng shook his head. “This space is formed from chaos, a threshold structure based on the original space. With current science and technology, it would be difficult to reach its boundaries.”

"But... isn't this what you wanted to research?"

【Wait, how did she know?】

“You don’t need to follow me,” Liu Sheng said.

“No, I don’t want to follow you,” He Tao said seriously. “I just want to know what you’re thinking, and then choose a different path.”

Sensing the doubt in Liu Sheng's eyes, she added:
"I want to learn it myself. Besides, we're already a team. If I learn one thing and you learn another, wouldn't we be even better together?"

Liu Sheng smiled gently: "You really are full of confidence now."

"Of course! With you here, what can't we do?" He Tao said confidently.

Liu Sheng silently said to the "world" in his heart:

With you here, what can't we achieve?

"But it's past lunchtime... why haven't they made a sound yet?"

"They" naturally refers to the parents.

At this moment, He Tao, who was taking a break, finally made up her mind to push open the door and go out.

After all, we're family. What grudge could we possibly hold overnight?

Upon hearing these thoughts, Liu Sheng sighed silently.

However, when He Tao stepped out of the room, it was empty.

My parents had left sometime earlier, disappearing without a trace along with their suitcases.

Only a note remained on the table:
The door lock code has been changed, and all the groceries have been prepared for you; you can stay home comfortably for a while.

Contact us when you're ready to apologize.

He Tao stood there, stunned, holding the note, unable to believe it.

He rushed to the door and tried to open it, but no matter how he turned the doorknob, the door wouldn't budge.

She was actually locked out!
"Is this reasonable?! Parents would actually imprison their own daughter... no, detain her!"

She never imagined that her parents would be so resolute.

She slumped to the ground like a deflated balloon, her eyes unconsciously reddening.

“They…” Liu Sheng couldn’t think of anything to comfort her.

“Sheng Sheng, you don’t need to defend them anymore.” He Tao wiped her face and sobbed, “They’re just afraid that we’ll embarrass ourselves and drag them down with us.”

"They didn't care about us at all!"

"Tell me, what's the point of preparing the ingredients?"

"How are we supposed to deal with this garbage?! Are we supposed to live in a garbage dump?!"

Finally, she couldn't hold back anymore and burst into tears, tears streaming down her face.

Liu Sheng was unable to offer any words of comfort and could only sigh silently.

After a long while, He Tao, exhausted from crying, finally calmed down.

She sat by the door, wiping away her tears, and said softly, "Oh well, it's already like this, let's just treat it as a period of seclusion for cultivation."

"This way I can focus on preparing my thesis..."

She paused, looked towards the kitchen, and then laughed self-deprecatingly: "We don't need to eat anymore. Like you said, Sheng Sheng, since we've already been spared the trouble of dealing with the cycle of food, we don't have to worry about how to dispose of the garbage after we eat."

After saying that, she got up and went back to the room, which was now empty like the living room and had lost many things, and sat down in front of the computer to continue looking at the course PPT.

This time, He Tao was even more serious.

She listed out the questions she hadn't understood and asked Liu Sheng about them one by one. After she had a basic understanding, she began to work on conceiving a research plan.

"Have you decided on a topic yet?" Liu Sheng asked. "Not yet, but I have a general direction."

He Tao logged into her student account, opened CNKI, and entered "ancient relics" to browse carefully.

"You want to go in this direction?"

Looking at these papers that she had read before, Liu Sheng was slightly surprised.

“Yes!” He Tao nodded vigorously. “Since we want to prove that if Zheng Qiran can do it, I can do it too, why not take the same route?”

"But... is it worth deciding your future path for her?"

“It’s not just that.” He Tao shook her head, looking serious. “Like you said, the field of archaeology can actually be extended to the study of written language, and it’s not entirely separate from my original major.”

"Moreover, and more importantly—spiritual practice is truly wonderful!"

Her eyes lit up.

"Looking back, I used to be unable to dodge my dad's slaps at all, but that slap this morning was like a slow-motion video playing in my mind, and I dodged it with ease!"

"Also, being able to go without eating, drinking, or sleeping is such a time-saving thing!"

Liu Sheng expressed his strong agreement with this.

He Tao became more and more excited as she spoke, almost forgetting her earlier sadness, her eyes shining with an unusual light.

"So, I'm curious about the origin of such things! Maybe I can find more in the ruins, learn more, and become stronger, just like a superhero in a comic book!"

As she spoke, she raised her biceps to demonstrate, which made Liu Sheng burst out laughing.

Hearing Liu Sheng's laughter, He Tao's smile widened even more.

Actually, she had another reason she didn't say—

She increasingly felt that Sheng Sheng's origins were probably related to that ancient civilization.

Although Sheng Sheng always said "we are inseparable", He Tao could increasingly sense that they were different from each other, based on her knowledge of cultivation techniques, her understanding of those unusual phenomena, and her innate composure.

So she was also curious about Sheng Sheng's origins, what Sheng Sheng's hometown was like, and whether one day Sheng Sheng would leave here and go home. If so, should she be happy or sad...?

These thoughts remained unspoken, only rippling in the depths of my heart.

But Liu Sheng and "the world" heard it clearly.

"Looks like they still care about you," "World" joked.

Liu Sheng casually replied, "Yeah, after all, I'm her spirit medium."

……

Two days later, He Tao finally finalized the topic selection:

Interpreting the inscriptions on ancient relics.

There's actually some merit to the reason we chose this direction.

After all, He Tao has a natural disadvantage—she cannot participate in field archaeology, cannot go to the site to collect first-hand data, and can only rely on publicly available information on the Internet.

But since the data is publicly available, how can we achieve groundbreaking results? How can we achieve a breakthrough that would allow First Imperial University to make an exception and admit us?
After reviewing a large number of documents, the two finally discovered that the section on "inscriptions on ancient relics" was still quite blank.

These inscriptions have been rarely studied due to their ambiguous information and bizarre style. They do not belong entirely to the hieroglyphic system; the patterns are strange and the arrangement is unclear. Sometimes, looking at them for a long time can even cause headaches, nausea, and unease, as if some kind of interference is coming from the shadows.

Legend has it that those who study this art will eventually go mad.

Of course, the academic community does not agree with this, considering it merely an "urban legend".

Therefore, these inscriptions carved on murals, utensils, silk fabrics and other objects can all be found in a large number of high-definition images through public channels such as archaeological reports, cultural relics bureau databases, and museum collection catalogs. They can even be viewed by rotating them 360 degrees, revealing every detail.

[I never expected to see such a large number of comprehensive and clear array patterns in a more advanced modern society...]

Liu Sheng couldn't help but sigh at that moment.

Perhaps because modern data organization is more systematic, the information she can see now is even more comprehensive than what she could see in her time.

So this turned out to be a direction that He Tao could study carefully and make a breakthrough in—more importantly, Liu Sheng said he could help.

"Although I don't know much about this, I believe we can study it together."

"Master of Array Patterns," Liu Sheng said in a pretentious manner.

He Tao's confidence immediately increased, and then she asked with concern:
"Let's not talk about me anymore. Has that thing you were worried about the other day been resolved?"

"It's resolved, and went very smoothly."

Liu Sheng curved her lips into a smile.

In the past two days, besides studying, she has been anxiously watching the news, fearing that she might see reports of major explosions in places like Zhengjia Village, Shanhaiguan City, and Qingyang City.

Fortunately, everything is calm.

In other words, Shen Zhiyu actually succeeded in suppressing the "fire seed" within her body by following the instructions in Liu Sheng's email.

However, it's also possible that Shen Zhiyu is isolating herself and cutting herself off from the abyss, so that Liu Sheng can no longer find her through the world behind that door.

But the door is still open every night.

Liu Sheng will still go in.

This day.

【03: 45】

Liu Sheng plunged headfirst into the icy blue swimming pool.

Dive to the bottom of the pool and find the red slide.

A colorful light sign that says "PARTY" is hanging on the slide, but the light flickers on and off due to long-term water immersion.

The water flows down through this pipe.

It crashed heavily onto a 100-meter-long bed covered with giant plush toys, bounced a few times, and was like a tiny flea on it.

It eventually landed on a colorful cake with a smiley face, like a tiny cherry on the cake.

Liu Sheng had just sat up when she heard several sounds:
"This way!"

"We are here!"

Looking in the direction of the sound, heads peeked out from behind a giant plush bear, their size... about the size of a tiny fingernail sticking out of a bear's paw.

Liu Sheng climbed down the edge of the cake, following the fluffy fruits that adorned it, and walked towards the teddy bear that looked like a colossal creature.

The bed sheets were covered with cherry and kitten patterns, dreamy and cute, I wonder whose dream it was.

After passing the giant bear, she saw several people sitting in a circle, surrounded by a hidden space formed by stacks of plush toys.

Judging from the fact that most of the people were still wearing white protective suits, they were basically researchers from the Zhengjia Village Ruins Fangcang shelter hospital, and there were also a few villagers from Zhengjia Village who looked bewildered.

These are the "others" in the space.

At this moment, they are all unfortunate people trapped inside.

According to He Tao, when everyone first met, it was just a matter of luck.

Over time, they formed a fixed organization and gave it a name: "The Dreamwalkers Alliance".

Gatherings are usually held regularly during the nighttime eerie activity period. To participate, you need to follow the "PARTY" sign to reach the destination.

However, the appearance of this light sign was quite accidental. Liu Sheng had only found it after searching for two days after He Tao told him about it.

(End of this chapter)