"Did you send him any money?"

Xia Ran seemed to be quite interested and asked.

"It's all a joke......" the girl waved her hand, "Do you think I look like such a stupid person?" ”

"Also, although I know that you are not me, and you are not like me at all, but if I am really so stupid, I have to think about how to hide this black history......" Xia Ran thought about it and nodded thoughtfully, but what he said was a little alarmist.

"Huh? What are you talking about, what am I not you, I am not like you......" Xia Ran was not too able to understand the meaning of this passage, but she felt a chill for no reason.

What kind of psychological discourse is this?

Want to arouse your curiosity through tricky words to regain the initiative? No, no, I can't be fooled so easily, and between her thoughts, this girl feels that she understands the key.

"Nothing." The young monk shook his head at the girl, smiled kindly, and then said as if he was changing the subject, "Do you really not think about it anymore?" The future of this world can be ...... in your thoughts."

"Hmm...... Master, you are really thick-skinned, you have already been recognized by me, can you continue to deceive as if nothing happened? The girl showed a subtle expression, and her eyes instantly switched to contempt mode, but in addition to contempt, there was more or less a trace of admiration.

And sure enough, it was!

This funny liar hasn't given up yet, and he's still ready to continue to fool her, and he doesn't even plan to change that funny trick, and he plans to continue to use it even if it's exposed...... Is this a little too confident in his own IQ, or is he underestimating her IQ too much?

"What you see, that's just what you think, I didn't admit it."

Xia Ran shook his head again, with a tone of "I don't want you to think, I want me to feel".

The girl almost laughed out loud, what is this? Justified bandit logic? As long as you don't admit that you are cheating, then it is not cheating?

However, she did not change her mind because of this, after all, this kind of deception is really too old-fashioned, and if she can be deceived like this, she will feel sorry for her IQ...... Raising her fair and slender wrist to take a look, Xia Ran pretended to suddenly realize that the time was not early:

"Oh, it's already this point, and I'm going to go back...... So that's it for this time, Master, bye first. ”

“……”

“……”

The young monk silently glanced at the girl's white wrist, smooth as jade, smooth as fat, but the point was not this, but there was no watch on the wrist at all.

Retracting the preface, in a sense, she is still very much like her own in some ways......

As if he smiled helplessly, he didn't say anything more, just put his hands together lightly and nodded lightly: "Since that's the case, then you can go, but I said in advance, I have already given a choice, but you took the initiative to give up, so I will arrange this world next, no problem......"

"Okay, whatever, master."

Sure enough, you still don't want to give up, or do you feel that you can't get off the stage, so you can only hold on and pretend to be stupid? Xia Ran didn't know what was going on, but she didn't care, she just waved her hand politely and was about to slip away.

If it weren't for the fact that most of the students had already left the school and the teaching building was empty, it would have been watched by the crowd by now...... If not, there will be some strange rumors.

"Xiaoran, why haven't you left yet? What are you doing here? ”

At this time, a familiar crisp voice came from behind him.

Xia Ran was slightly stunned, looked back, and found a girl with a single ponytail, wearing an old-fashioned school uniform like the blue and white uniform on her body, holding a thick workbook, and walked downstairs.

Although she is wearing an old-fashioned style, it seems that she has an inexplicable national uniform uniform, but it is still the same sentence, good-looking people look good in anything, and they look good in a sack, and this girl is naturally no exception, the clear eyes behind her glasses just right to express a trace of doubt, and look at her friend strangely.

Is Xiaoran waiting for herself?

Probably not, after all, she is not such a conscientious person.

"Of course I'm not waiting for you, but I just saw this funny deception...... It's a very interesting master, so I talked to him for a while...... "Xia Ran really didn't care about his friend's mood at all, and explained casually, saying that he was indeed not waiting for the other party.

The girl didn't care, after all, she had already known Xia Ran's temperament, she just looked at the air beside her in confusion, and frowned: "What master?" ”

"That's it...... Hey? What about people? ”

The girl turned her head to look, but found that the young monk who was still beside her just now had already disappeared, and her brain suddenly couldn't react, and the whole person was stunned all of a sudden.

"Wait, he was still talking to me just now! Standing here next to me, Sissi, you must have seen it just now, why did it disappear all of a sudden? ”

She couldn't figure it out at all, she was still watching the trickster monk just now, and Sissi only saw her after walking down the corner of the stairs, and greeted herself, and she only noticed it at that time, and then turned to look in the direction of the stairs......

There's no reason why Sissi can't see the person right next to her!

And in such a short period of time, where can he hide?

It's just that the girl who is a high school student looks at the long empty corridor in a daze, feeling that she can't figure it out anyway, and her mind is blank.

"What this, how can anyone, when I came down, I only saw you alone......" The girl known as Sissi frowned again, but then she seemed to understand something, and a trace of annoyance immediately appeared on her pretty face, "Xiaoran, don't make trouble, you know that what I'm most afraid of is ghost stories, why do you always scare me like this......"

"Ghost stories?"

Xia Ran was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, she opened her mouth, but she couldn't explain, not only because she didn't know how to explain, but also because she herself felt a chill inexplicably.

She subconsciously turned her head to look outside the building, and always felt that the whole city, or the whole world, under the dusk sky, suddenly had a sense of unreality......

Even the afterglow of the sunset, at this moment......

It all seemed to get weird.

……

……

"There's no way, let the little monk and I adjust the energy balance of this planet, and save people's lives is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter...... There are seven billion people on this planet, and my merits must be able to build a Tower of Babel......"

At the same time, the black-clothed Demon Buddha clone had already left the city, and his steps seemed to be leisurely, with a sense of slowness, but it was as if the earth was supporting him forward, and one step was a distance of thousands of miles-

Even if someone passed by him, he didn't know it at all, just like it was difficult for ordinary people to feel the flow of air around him, and he simply left the second-tier coastal city in a few steps and came to the roof of the world, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The blue sky stretches as far as the eye can see, and the snow-covered mountains are like jade dragons coiling over the earth, and the white snow on the peaks reflects the pure light under the oblique sunlight.

With an altitude of more than 4,000 meters above sea level and the highest mountain range in the world, this is the last place of hope for humanity on this planet. In Xia Ran's future vision, in about half a year, this place will be selected to start a series of top-secret projects.

That's the Ark Project.

China led the construction and production, while other governments provided the necessary raw materials and manpower to ensure that the Ark Project was on track. During this period, various countries will continue to stage various conflicts, today you provoke me, tomorrow I will fight back against you......

The main purpose is to maintain the normal operation of human society, attract the attention of the masses of the people, and ensure that the vast majority of people are kept in the dark, believing that the world is still that world, so that production and social order can be maintained without being affected.

And secretly, the governments of various countries have already reached a consensus, while cooperating with the performance, while tacitly promoting the Ark project to be carried out secretly, and by the way, using the last time to transfer various resources and the like.

Frankly, this is not a wrong choice, because if it is not concealed, then humanity will first complete the process of self-destruction before the end of the world really comes. For when the most desperate calamity comes, no one can be sure how much evil will erupt in people's hearts.

But as far as the final result is concerned, it is also difficult to say that the vast majority of people who maintain social stability and production and create various productive forces and values can be said to have supported the Ark Project from beginning to end, but until the disaster came, they still did not know anything, but were abandoned like this......

But that's something that will happen in the future, and even the countries of the world don't really know the end of the world yet.

Because this process is a process of boiling frogs in warm water, the closer to the end of the time, the more frequent and violent the various disasters become, and finally show a blowout of the slenderness, completely exceeding the upper limit of the earth's own balance system, making the entire natural ecosystem completely collapse.

Until then, however, some precursor phenomena have been relatively mild, and it is difficult to tell how they differ from normal disaster phenomena, which happen every year.

"The Ark plan is meaningless and meaningless, and it really has to be done by the little monk to help all sentient beings......

Under the blue sky, the black-clothed monk walked calmly on the quiet snowy plateau, this time slowing down, and the distance of one step was only a thousand meters, not like before, a few steps almost out of the earth.

Not far away, on the top of the mountain, with his eyesight, he could easily see a solitary temple standing on it.

"That's it."

Xia Ran is not a picky person, and he doesn't plan to continue looking for other temples, anyway, there seems to be a big bell in this temple.

It is hard to imagine how in such a bitterly cold place, in the ice and snow world at an extremely high altitude, those ascetic monks built a simple temple on the top of the snow-capped mountain, and by the way, they cast such a big bell...... But it's just right for Xia Ran's use.

His original idea was to find a more famous temple in the country and send a signal to the people of this world...... However, after thinking about it seriously, he rejected such an idea, after all, he is a kind-hearted person who is very willing to be considerate of others, and he is not willing to cause trouble to others rashly because of his own reasons.

A few steps to the top of the snowy mountain, Xia Ran's figure was not seen by the people in the temple, although he did not deliberately hide his arrival, mainly those ascetics at this time, they were doing their morning and evening homework in the temple, and the sound of chanting was coming out.

The voices were not loud or neat, as if everyone was reading their own scriptures.

But there is an indescribable charm, it is a hoarse voice that is really devoted to pious faith, and the chaotic chanting sound seems to carry a hint of Zen at this moment.

If you are a real cultivator, at this time, you will probably stop, listen quietly, and feel the beauty of this moment from the heart, after all, this is Buddhism, this is faith!

It's a pity that the Demon Buddha clone is not the kind of Buddha that ordinary people recognize, and he is not practicing Buddhism, but himself, so he didn't stop at all, but walked straight to the back of the simple temple, where there stood an equally simple pavilion with a large bell hanging in it.

When ——!!

After the last rays of afterglow are about to sink into the horizon, the moment the night falls on the snow area, there is a sudden and majestic bell ringing!

The incomparably solemn sound of the bell, echoing in the quiet mountains, has broken the silence in an instant, as if the whole world that has just fallen into a deep sleep has directly awakened.

The chanting in the temple in front of him stopped abruptly, and many of them were dressed in red, with thin figures, I don't know if they were really old and frail, or because they had been destroyed in the world of wind and snow for many years, and the monks subconsciously opened their eyes and looked around in amazement.

They looked at each other, but found that there were no people in the temple...... So who exactly ran out to ring the bell at this time?

When ——!!

When—when——!!

The bell did not stop, ringing one after another, and it became louder and louder, and the authorities were fascinated, it did not just ripple among the mountains, but spread and spread out to the outer expanse of the world, and finally resounded on the entire surface of the planet at the same time.

It is as if the atmosphere of the whole world is shaking synchronously, like a sacred symphony.

It's just that human perception can't cover the scope of the entire planet, and their hearing and hearing are too limited, so they can't detect this phenomenon at the first time, so whether it's in any country, any city, or any corner in the world, everyone is stunned and looks around blankly.

They didn't know where the bell came from suddenly, and subconsciously thought it should be somewhere nearby.

Even the state agencies were not able to react immediately, because the incident was too sudden and too hasty, and most people were still at a loss, thinking that it was their own place, and where someone suddenly rang the bell nearby, how could they be the first to realize that "something happened", "this is a world-class phenomenon" and so on.

It will probably take different regions and even countries to confirm each other's information before they realize that this phenomenon is unusual.

The bells rang one after another, ringing in the atmosphere, some people felt bored and annoyed, and couldn't stand such harassment, but some people felt the kind of quiet and far-reaching artistic conception, and unconsciously, the mood seemed to become calm.

But in any case, it is an unmistakable fact that all mankind in the world, all of us heard the bell at the same time.

It is also true that the bell seems to have turned into an invisible medium at this moment, penetrating deep into the souls of seven billion people through a specific and common sound frequency, and inserting an anomalous band into their brainwaves.

At this moment, a monster from outside the universe, the Demon Buddha clone himself came on the field to perform a minor operation.

The target of the surgery is...... human brainwaves;

The number of objects is ...... Seven billion.

Start at the same time, do it at the same time, end it at the same time, and succeed completely.

I don't know how long it took for the bell to finally disappear, but the aftermath still seemed to linger in everyone's ears. The demonic bodhisattva located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has already put down the bell and pestle, raised his head and looked at the boundless sky.

In his field of vision, he could see that the invisible light quietly overflowed like stars, and countless people rose up on the surface of the planet one after another, first converging into streams, then converging into rivers, and finally turning into a vast ocean.

It is the sublimation of the will of the ant colony, the sea of the collective unconscious of all mankind.

Alayah ...... The prototype of the project.