China, Shanhai Geological Exploration Institute.

Yang Panyue is dressed in a solemn white coat and has the temperament of an intellectual beauty in the workplace.

She pushed open the door of the institute director's office and walked in.

The office is very spacious, divided into two rooms, inside and outside.

The inner room is the office area, and the outer room is the living room for guests.

The middle is blocked by a storage rack.

The decoration style of the office is very consistent with that of the institute. The shelves and walls are filled with mineral specimens, as well as animal and plant specimens from all over the country.

Looking at it, this office looks like a small nature museum.

An old man wearing a white Tang suit is sitting behind a mahogany desk.

The desk is filled with all kinds of books and materials, which is very messy.

The old man's hair is sparse and only a few hairs are left, but he still sticks to his post. That is his last persistence.

His face is covered with wrinkles, like orange peel. He also wears a very old-fashioned black reading glasses on his face, which adds a bit of antique temperament. He looks like he is seventy or eighty years old.

old.

apathy.

But it exudes a strong bookish atmosphere.

At this moment, the old man's hands like withered vines were wearing spotless white gloves, and he was carefully flipping through a very old book that was tinged with yellow.

Sometimes his brows are furrowed, sometimes he is thoughtful.

He didn't even notice when Yang Panyue walked into the office.

Yang Panyue walked to the desk and secretly glanced at the old books spread out on the table.

There is a painting on the book.

Very strange painting.

A towering tree stands between heaven and earth.

No words can describe the majesty of this tree. It reaches up to the sky and reaches down into the Nine Netherworlds, just like a pillar supporting the world!

Under the tree, countless creatures can be seen kowtowing and worshiping the sacred tree.

There are humans, as well as all kinds of monsters and monsters.

There are even many weird mythical beasts and monsters.

The scene in the tree is the strangest.

A woman with the body of a snake and the tail of a snake is coiled around the branches of a towering ancient tree. She holds her hands together and holds them up high to the sky, as if she is praying to the sky for blessings for all living beings.

Although the lines of the woman in this painting are simple and there are only a few strokes, you can barely see the prototype of the character and distinguish the male and female.

But if you look carefully, you can feel the special charm coming from women.

dignified.

Holy.

love.

She is like a goddess of compassion who cares about all living beings and is praying to the sky for blessings for all living beings in the world. She is also like a Buddha who has closed his eyes and cannot bear to see the suffering that all living beings will experience.

There are also some broken ancient texts on the pictures.

It's not traditional Chinese or seal script, it's more like oracle bone script.

Yang Panyue is not a scholar who specializes in studying history, so she cannot understand what is recorded above.

However, she was not interested in learning about these strange things.

Yang Panyue glanced at the strange illustrations in the ancient books, withdrew her gaze from the ancient paintings, and turned to look at the old man who was immersed in his own world and didn't notice that there was an extra person in the office.

She couldn't help but sigh.

This old man is none other than Guan Shanhe, the director of the institute.

He changed this name himself.

No one knows what his real name is.

I only know that the old director was stimulated by some unknown source when he was young, and inexplicably changed his name to Guan Shanhe.

Guan, same view.

Guanshanhe means to watch mountains and rivers.

In the words of the old director, he had already made up his mind and determined his future life goals as early as sixty years ago.

One day, he will see the magnificence of the mountains and rivers in the world and see through the secrets hidden in the vast land!

Of course, most members of the institute didn't take this sentence seriously, and their ears had already become numb after hearing it.

Because the old director has to give a speech at the institute's orientation party every year, just like the principal's speech at the orientation party every year, it will remain unchanged for thousands of years.

Oh, even if the year is changed, there is actually a slight difference.

Yang Panyue coughed lightly and signaled that there were others in the office, interrupting the old director's train of thought.

Although she had not been in the institute for a long time, she knew the character of the old director.

Crazy!

Once he finds something he is interested in, he may even stay up for two days and two nights until he faints from hunger or from exhaustion.

Now the old director has obviously found something that he is very interested in, so he didn't notice that there is an extra person in the office. If they don't interrupt, the two of them will have an awkward stalemate here for a day, maybe the old director will notice her.

exist.

Or, she sent the old director to the hospital.

"Xiaoyue, when did you come?"

"What's up?"

The old director heard the coughing and looked up, only to find that there was an extra person in the office.

He looked at Yang Panyue, his old face full of doubts, as if he was asking where you came from.

Yang Panyue was speechless at the old director's roughness. She rolled her eyes secretly and explained helplessly: "Director, you informed me this morning and asked me to come to the office to find you at this time?"

Guan Shanhe was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized.

He patted his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, showing no airs of superiority.

"I'm old, I'm old, I almost forgot about business."

"Xiaoyue, this is your appointment letter."

"From today on, you are the overseas correspondent of our Shanhai Institute of Geological Exploration."

The old man rummaged around on the table for a moment before finding the appointment letter that he had randomly stuffed under a pile of books.

Yang Panyue was stunned for a moment, and then understood immediately.

Overseas correspondent!

Could it be the incident in the Pacific Ocean?

Thinking of the so-called Poseidon Kingdom, Yang Panyue suddenly lost interest.

Go overseas.

Still so remote.

It's almost a place where birds don't poop.

Once you go to a deserted island in the Pacific, you may not be able to come back even once a year.

Yang Panyue frowned secretly.

Only a fool would go there.

She decisively refused.

"Director, you know the situation in my family."

"My eldest brother disappeared mysteriously five years ago, and my younger brother is in college. Because of my eldest brother's disappearance, my mother was stimulated and her health has not been good."

"I~~~"

When Yang Panyue said this, she covered her face with her hands.

It sounded like the voice was swallowing harder, and it seemed like the head was hanging down and tears were shed.

His true face is like pear blossoms and rain, which makes people feel pity.

However, the fair-skinned subordinate showed no sadness at all, and his eyes were secretly observing the old director.

It has been five years, and no amount of sadness has dissipated.
To be continued...