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Late at night, Xia Fan leaned against the head of the bed and looked at a piece of metal object he found from the edge of the track.

It looks like a bronze product, almost one finger long and two fingers wide. After erasing the green copper rust, you can still vaguely see the engraved words on it - but the shape of the characters is difficult to identify, and it seems to be very different from the current text in Daqi Country.

And that track...

Wooden tracks are not a rare thing. People have come up with the idea of ​​replacing concave and convex roads with straight wood, and they can run by just rolling wood. The problem is that the pressure resistance of the wood square is always limited, and it is easy to be damaged by insects, so such a special road cannot become the mainstream. No one is willing to spend a lot of financial and material resources to build a road that needs to be repaired and rotated every few months, unless it is forced or urgently needed.

Therefore, wooden tracks usually appear on the mountains. After all, if there is no quarry nearby, it is not realistic to build a flat and durable bluestone road on the hillside.

Qingshan Town is just a remote town built halfway up the mountain?

No, these two things are enough to prove that Qingshan is not a remote place, and many people have been there.

The examiner obviously concealed the key information.

What exactly is the reason that makes Qingshan look like today?

"Squeak."

A soft sound came from the window above my head.

Xia Fan put away the bronze sheet and looked at the black shadow at the window, "I thought you wouldn't come today."

The fox demon appeared there. A faint moonlight sprinkled from behind her, illuminating her sharp ears.

"I've eaten the beef."

"I know."

"Then you should understand that I accepted your plea." She changed from squatting to sitting down, and crossed her legs. "You may be used to being insecure, but I don't."

Uh...is it actually a plea? Also, just need to brighten the moonlight a little more.

"But it's almost over now. You're trying to stay up until I fall asleep. It's such a waste of time to get a midnight snack?"

"Bai Jiao?" The fox demon frowned in confusion. Although she seemed unable to understand, she seemed to know that it was not a good thing. "When will I come, it is my freedom, and you didn't say the time in advance. Besides, I'm very busy, if it's not for the sake of the bull..." She suddenly stopped, "Anyway, if you fall asleep, you won't blame me for your promise. Anyway, I have fulfilled the agreement."

"It's reasonable." Xia Fan didn't want to care about these details anymore. After all, time is precious. As for the other party's busy talk, it's not necessarily a lie - she obviously didn't forget her original intention of coming to Qingshan Town, "You have let many people have nightmares again today? Of course, if you think this is helpful to me for the exam, you can pretend that I didn't ask."

"Less than yesterday." The fox demon said bluntly, "If people have other emotions, the infectiousness of dreams will decrease. And tonight their emotions are increasing."

"What kind of emotions?"

“Anxiety and hatred.”

Xia Fan's heart slightly jumped. Is this affected by the examination environment? The money that must be carefully calculated, the spiritual fire that is not enough for candidates to score, and the order set by the aristocratic families... It seems that dissatisfaction spreads for granted.

"By the way," he thought for a while, and took out the bronze piece he found on the back mountain, "Do you know what this is?"

The other party glanced at him without interest, "I don't know. Why do you think a fox demon understands human things better than you?"

"Probably because you live for hundreds or thousands of years?" Xia Fan organized the words, "The saying of being knowledgeable is never wrong..."

"Haha..." She first grinned, then laughed, "Hahahaha..." The laughter obviously had nothing to do with kindness, but was full of sarcasm. "If the demon could live for so long, would you still dominate the world?"

"Uh, isn't it right?"

"Although Qi can prolong life, it only brings monsters to the same level as ordinary people. Even alchemists cannot compare to them. Only ignorant people in the countryside will rumor that monsters will live longer."

This answer was far beyond Xia Fan's expectations. It means that the average life span of a monster is only fifty or sixty years old. It is probably rumored that it has been cultivated for a hundred years to develop spiritual wisdom, and practiced for a thousand years to become a human being.

"Then how did you... come from?" He asked the question he wanted to know the most.

"What's the meaning?"

"That is, when did you find yourself a monster?"

"Of course it was from the beginning." She shook her ears in dissatisfaction, "You don't think I was just an ordinary fox when I was born, right? Is it so angry first and then there is spirit, and so is human beings. Has your master not taught you?"

"Teaching is taught...but is there any connection between these two things?"

"Silly!" The fox demon showed an unspeakable expression of a child. "First with qi and then with spirit is equivalent to what kind of energy condensed, and what kind of spirit will be born? Do you understand? The reason why you can sense qi is decided as early as when you are pregnant. And the same is true for all other things. At the point of fertility, qi will be attached, some ordinary and some extraordinary. The ordinary are all living beings, while the extraordinary are like you and me. This process cannot be predicted and cannot be changed. This is "nature"!"

Xia Fan opened his mouth wide.

He suddenly realized that the braised beef with half a corner of silver was really worth it.

The cheap master also mentioned the "Qi Ling Theory", but it is far from so detailed and specific.

He now knows that demons don’t need to practice or opportunity. The reason why she is a demon is because she is born like this.

"Then... can demons give birth to offspring with people?" Xia Fan asked the second question he wanted to know.

The other party's eyes changed significantly.

"Ahem, I just want to study it in depth, and there is no other meaning," he added quickly.

The fox demon stared at him for a long time before he said unhappy, "Your folk rumors are not wrong. Although there are very few, there are still exceptions occasionally..."

It means...yes? Xia Fan asked, "Why do you rarely appear?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense? If you weren't a pervert or had psychological problems, who would be willing to marry a demon?" She was so angry. "The demon cannot completely hide his own characteristics. He either has scales or has tails. In your eyes, isn't it as ugly as a beast? Of course, don't think that people are so good, bare, and it's awkward no matter how you look at it!"

Uh...Is this the generation gap of the times?

Xia Fan subconsciously touched his chin. Will it be more pleasing to have a beard in the future?

"Enough, I said it was a chat. I think you were looking for trouble on purpose. Anyway, I have been here, so it's not considered a failure. Just say goodbye!"

After saying that, she jumped up and turned to leave.

"Wait!" Xia Fan used the same trick again.

The demon fox's body froze again, and there seemed to be anger surging in the sight he came.

"I haven't given you my reward today."

Xia Fan took out the cloth bag wrapped in beef and reached out to hand it over. "I don't know what the chat you imagined would look like, but I just learned more about you. If there is any offense, I hope you forgive me."

The other party did not answer, but stared at him, and then spoke for a while, "...Why do you want to understand the demon?"

"Didn't you often say that there are many prejudices between humans and demons? The root of prejudice is that you don't understand it. I think that as long as you continue to contact, this prejudice may not be eliminated."

"There are many kinds of demons, including human-eating demons. Do you think you can make people no longer be afraid of demons? Can the alchemist stop killing demons?"

"No, but at least they can stop being afraid of demons who do not eat humans. As for the alchemist... aren't I?"

"Hmph," the other party sneered, but the anger in his eyes was a little less, "You haven't passed the Scholar exam yet."

"So do you want to help me?"

"Dream." She refused decisively, "This is the first time I have seen someone like you."

"Even demons are divided into many kinds, and there are only more people. What's so strange about this?"

For some reason, when he heard this, the fox demon's movement suddenly slowed down, and his golden pupils seemed to have lost their focal length, as if they were trapped in some kind of memory.

After a while, she bent down and took the cloth bag away, "So you can say one or two words that make sense."

"It's not just that." Xia Fan spread his hands and said, "You want to weaken your enemies by reducing the number of alchemists, which is feasible but inefficient. And by understanding and eliminating prejudice and then popularizing it into alchemists, wouldn't it fundamentally solve this problem? In other words, we are fellows in some aspects."

"Who is a fellow disciple with you? I will not be in the same circle with the alchemist. Besides, where do you think the Privy Council is? You still want to change it by your own strength?" The fox demon showed his sharp teeth, as if he was laughing and warning, "If you have this idea, I suggest you withdraw from the exam now. The Privy Council is far more terrifying than you think. Once you have any unrealistic fantasies, it will only leave you without a burial place!"

Why did she hear her tone... seem to have a good understanding of the Privy Council? Xia Fan keenly noticed a strange thing - as a demon, this is completely unreasonable. Even Da Qiren, there are not many people who know the inside story of the Privy Council.

"By the way, who is your master? I don't think most people can teach monsters like you who are reasonable, righteous, and polite."

She suddenly fell silent, "I don't have a master."

"No? Then who taught you these?"

"It has nothing to do with you." The fox demon suddenly became impatient. She shook her tail and jumped off the windowsill. "I've accepted the reward, but it won't be next time. You should focus on the entrance exam."

"Hey, wait," Xia Fan jumped onto the table and looked out, but there was no shadow of the other person in the night.

Did he actually walk so fast? He had to lower his voice and shout, "I will prepare braised beef tomorrow. If I finish my work, remember to come and get it!"

However, Xia Fan felt a vague feeling in his heart that the other party was probably serious this time.
Chapter completed!