Jiwu Temple is a temple at the foot of the Himalayas. It stands on a small hill next to Mabang Yongcuo. It is an excellent location to overlook the "holy lake" of Mabang Yongcuo.

In addition to the "Holy Lake", there is another strange spring called "Luquan", located on a wide depression southeast of Jiwu Temple.

According to legend, the son of God Glenn, who cleansed all kinds of demons on the snow field, smashed the ground with his own magical scepter, and the spring began to emerge here. It nourished the dry earth and even attracted the divine deer in the sky. The divine deer fell to the ground to drink water, and took away Glenn and his wife Mam who were trapped here. When they left the ground, they splashed in the spring's eyes and reached the sky. The shadow of the giant deer covered the heaven and earth, and the demons on earth avoided it. The spring was named after this. The deer spring always poured out from time to time. When it was abundant, the depression became a wide and peaceful lake, and the water surface reflected the snow-capped mountains and blue sky on the plateau.

The legend is moving, but the time when the spring water gushed out of the spring is actually not fixed, and the last time that water gushed out of the Luquan was recorded in September 1786.

All geological exploration results show that there are no circulating water veins under Luquan. Crust movement has brought about changes in mountains, rivers and the earth. The frequent human activities have caused changes in the atmosphere and groundwater reserves. Luquan is already a dry spring, leaving only distant legends.

Because of this, when the Eagle Falcon Detachment was performing a mission nearby, it chose to station around Luquan.

In the eyes of the people of Xueyuan, even if the Luquan has dried up, the surrounding depressions should not be approached at will. This large area of ​​smooth depression is like a huge god holding a spoon, which dug away a piece from the earth, leaving a mark of scooping that is neither deep nor shallow.

The Eagle Falcon Detachment was going to perform a top-secret mission. When they left the mission location, it was already very late. Because the mission location could not turn back and the temperature was too low at night, it was very dangerous to rush to the road overnight. Bai Fan, the captain of the Eagle Falcon Detachment, decided that the whole group would camp in the sheltered Luquan Detachment, and continue to rush the road the next day.

Bai Fan is an experienced sentryman. He led his team members to patrol the Luquan depression. After confirming that there was no abnormality, he arranged a night watch and urged everyone to rest. Bai Fan was the first group of night watchers. He and the deputy captain Tang Yiran and Yang Chuan left a record of the night in the captain's notes that day.

[…The night sky in Luquan is very beautiful. We agreed to take the children back here to see the most open and vast starry sky when they grow up.]

The recorder is Yang Chuan. Or because he could set off to return to Lhasa the next day and fly back to Beijing. This note was written in a relaxed and happy way without any abnormality.

Bai Fan also added another sentence: [Tang Yiran's son's spiritual body is actually a panda!]

This sentence is crossed out in one stroke and is the last record left by the Eagle Detachment.

Three days later, the Western Office, which had not received any information from the Eagle Falcon Detachment, sent a team to find their traces. At 3:06 p.m. that day, the search team found six tents and the bodies of everyone in the Eagle Falcon Detachment in the Luquan depression.

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When the news of his father Yang Chuan and his mother Wen Xian's death arrived in Qin Ge's ears, he was picking up cakes in the cake shop. That day was his 15th birthday. According to the original agreement, his parents took the flight from Lhasa and returned to Beijing at about 3 pm.

Although he couldn't contact his parents for the time being, Qin Ge knew that his parents' work was special. He did not care about this abnormality and only thought it was an ordinary loss of contact on duty.

At that time, Qin Ge was still using his real name "Yang Ge". When he ran out of the cake shop, he forgot to take away his birthday gift. Qin Ge couldn't remember how to deal with the cake in the end. He only remembered that at 3:00 pm, the entire road was covered with dazzling sunshine, the top of all cars was shining, and the whole city was dry and hot.

It was just an unusual, unusual afternoon in August. Everyone who passed by did not know that the 15-year-old boy had just lost his entire world.

When Qin Ge was in great grief, another thing related to him was being discussed on the surface. This was what Qin Ge only learned from Qin Shuangshuang later.

According to the guardian system of Sentinel Guide, each Sentinel Guide must have a guardian, either family or partner. In extremely special circumstances, the guardian can also be registered as the direct boss of the department. This is to ensure that the whereabouts of each sentry and guide are traceable and will not become an invisible bomb because of being out of supervision.

Qin Ge's parents died, and according to convention, his custody would be transferred to relatives. But during this period, something strange happened: Qin Ge's grandparents and grandparents were not alive, and his uncle and aunt also expressed their refusal to accept Qin Ge.

The emergence of a special application from the Special Management Committee’s No. 3 warehouse: No. 3 warehouse proposed that because Qin Ge’s own ability is extremely special, he should be responsible for supervision and education, with the purpose of allowing Qin Ge’s ability to be applied most appropriately after adulthood.

Qin Shuangshuang, who was also the director of the Crisis Office at the time, directly rejected the No. 3 Warehouse request at the meeting.

The No. 3 warehouse of the Special Management Committee is an extremely special place. It is more like a prison warehouse that specifically detains important people. Qin Shuangshuang speculates that although the No. 3 warehouse is in the name of "regulation", it is actually intended to study Qin Ge's ability and expand and popularize it.

The meeting ended unhappily. The head of the Special Management Committee pointed at Qin Shuangshuang and cursed. The field office teamed up to lose the most elite detachment. The most serious punishment facing Qin Shuangshuang may be the resignation. But even so, Qin Shuangshuang still did not give in to Qin Ge's issue. She spoke fiercely and ridiculed the Special Management Committee to put pressure on Qin Ge's relatives, so that they did not dare to accept an orphan.

What made the situation turn around was a private conversation after the meeting. Zhang Xiao, who was still studying sea area science at that time, had not yet obtained the qualification of the first sea area adjuster, also attended the meeting. He was an important technical staff member of the No. 3 Warehouse. After the meeting, Zhang Xiao quietly found Qin Shuangshuang and gave her a suggestion: In order not to let Qin Ge fall into the No. 3 Warehouse and become a research sample that may lose freedom forever, he believed that the best way was to have Qin Shuangshuang and Jiang Leyang come forward and adopt Qin Ge directly.

At the second meeting, Qin Shuangshuang made this proposal. Before the proposal, she had privately contacted Qin Ge first. Qin Ge had met Qin Shuangshuang several times when he was a child, and she always came and walked in a hurry. That long conversation was the first time Qin Ge sat face to face with Qin Shuangshuang. Qin Shuangshuang held his hand and did not treat him as a 15-year-old child, but directly cut all the pros and cons and told him.

Qin Ge agreed to Qin Shuangshuang's request, which became the most important reason why Qin Shuangshuang finally obtained custody of Qin Ge.

Then he moved and changed his name. Qin Ge transferred to a new school and began to try to make new friends. Qin Shuangshuang and Jiang Leyang were very kind to him. He also had a younger brother Jiang Xiaochuan who admired him very much. Under the protection of Qin Shuangshuang, his special ability to patrol the "sea" was constantly improved, and he eventually became the fifth spiritual adjuster in the country.

Everything is fine. Just like the follow-up report in newspapers and magazines: XXX has lived a peaceful and happy life through his own efforts.

But Qin Ge knew that this was not true.

He was grateful to Qin Shuangshuang and knew that Jiang Xiaochuan's admiration for himself always implied a cautious worry. They never dared to celebrate his birthday, and Qin Ge did not mention the need to celebrate even once. He was a majestic and excellent brother, a calm and reliable son at home, and there was nothing to worry about.

Everyone recognizes his excellence. He tries his best to meet everyone's expectations and do what they ask themselves to do: this is gratitude and also reward. Even if Qin Shuangshuang never asks him to repay him, Qin Ge will keep reminding himself.

But Qin Ge always had a hole in his heart. He often saw countless burning stars falling from the sky in his nightmare. They landed on the top of the mountain, ignited a raging fire, and more often they fell directly at his feet, smashing through the rock layers, allowing Qin Ge to fall into a deep abyss.

He would hear his crying in the long abyss. More than ten years have passed, and the boy running wildly on the streets in the afternoon has not stopped his crying. The sun is always strong, and the roof of the car always flashes the light that burns the eye mask. He has no choice but to run forever.

This is also the reason why Qin Ge insisted on entering the archives after he was admitted to the Crisis Office.

But unfortunately, in the few years after joining the company, he searched almost all the documents submitted by the Western Office that year, and the content related to the Luquan incident was memorized. In the archives, the Luquan incident was a complete accident: a large amount of groundwater suddenly gushed out from Luquan's eyes late at night, and quickly flooded the tent of the Eagle Falcon Detachment camping in the depression. Although the captain and deputy captain and others worked hard to rescue, they could not resist the rapid rise in water levels and all died unfortunately.

No one dereliction of duty is an objectively inevitable accident. No one needs to be responsible, except for Qin Shuangshuang who has to take the blame.

Qin Ge once asked Gao Tianyue with the archives of the Luquan incident: "Since the water level has risen rapidly and everyone has unfortunately died, why are the paper notes at that time still well preserved, and there is not even a trace of water-soaked trace?"

He pointed to the photos in the archives. The photos were a complete notebook. Although only the cover was taken, there were no water marks on the cover.

"Why are there only the cover and no photos of the inner page?" Qin Ge actually had thousands of questions in his mind. All the records of the Luquan incident were full of loopholes in his eyes.

However, Gao Tianyue just shrugged and spread her hands: "The Luquan incident was an accident in a top-secret mission, and I don't know it either."

Qin Ge was deeply interested in the top secret frame that was strictly sealed in the archives room. However, very few people were qualified to open the top secret frame to query information. Just when Qin Ge was still racking his brains to find a solution, Gao Tianyue promoted him to an inexplicable position and became the chief of the spiritual adjustment department.

The hollow became bigger and bigger. He was still afraid of the darkness, which reminded him of the Changyuan and crying in the nightmare. He was also afraid of himself who had never found the answer, because he was too cowardly to find out the truth for his deceased parents.

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After saying this, Qin Ge was sweating all over.

He sat on the ground against the cabinet, while Xie Zijing squatted in front of him, listening carefully to him after he finished all the words he was saying.

"...I'm sorry." Qin Ge covered his face and sighed, "These things are so annoying."

Xie Zijing was still silent and reached out to touch his hair. Qin Ge suddenly felt sore: He was familiar with this gesture, this was Xie Zijing's gesture of touching the long-haired rabbit.

Barbary lion squatted beside him and straightened his waist so that Qin Ge could lean on him. Qin Ge couldn't help but reach out and hug it, burying his head in its thick golden mane. Xie Zijing's pheromones poured into his nose and every pore. They did not stir up Qin Ge's desire, but made him feel warm and calm.

When he was stunned, he saw Xie Zijing suddenly approaching him.

The kiss fell on his forehead. Xie Zijing tweaked his hair and kissed his eyebrows again.

Qin Ge was stunned by his gentle comfort.

"We need to work hard." Xie Zijing said strange words.

He pulled Qin Ge up.

"I'll take you home after I finish writing." Xie Zijing said, "I'll sleep with you, and I won't have nightmares."

...By the way, this is Xie Zijing. Qin Ge was pressed on the stool by him, looking at the paper in front of him. He recovered a lot, and his emotional venting calmed him down, at least his hands would not tremble.

After hearing these stories of Xie Zijing, he didn't say a single comment, just sat opposite Qin Ge with his face, watching him write line by line.

Qin Ge wrote for an hour and described in detail all the scenes he saw in Bi Fan's "water area", but he mentioned the secret that Bi Fan hid deep in it.

"Are you finished writing?" Xie Zijing asked.

Qin Ge nodded.

Xie Zijing took away his pen and paper and walked out of the office.

Qin Ge sat in place, and after a moment he turned to look at the Barbary lion beside him. The lion's golden pupils were also staring at him. Qin Ge felt strange in an instant, and he wanted to surrender to the lion.

The feeling in this moment was too strange, Qin Ge shivered - but he quickly felt relaxed because he didn't need to make a decision or stay tense all the time.

Xie Zijing came back, and Yan Hong followed him. "Is it okay?" Yan Hong asked worriedly, "You have sneaked too deep, Qin Ge."

"I'm fine, he's there." Qin Ge looked at Xie Zijing and said to Yan Hong, "You guys can sort out the rest yourself. I'll go back and take a break first. If Bi Fan's situation changes, you can contact me at any time."

When he left the hospital, Xie Zijing held his hand, and he didn't let go even when he was sitting in the back seat of the taxi. Xie Zijing's hand was very big and very hot. He put Qin Ge's right hand in his palms, crossing and holding it, as if he was firmly grasping a treasure.

Xie Zijing's pheromones were too clear and too strong. After the trance and dizziness gradually disappeared, Qin Ge's face became hot. Xie Zijing sent him home, opened the door with a password, opened the switches of all the lights in the room, urging him to take a shower, and then turned to the kitchen to boil water. Qin Ge accepted Xie Zijing's arrangement in a daze. He put his backpack and coat, saw the inhibitor in the side pocket, and after hesitating for a while, he zipped up and did not eat.

Reason warned him that he should be more alert, after all, he is too weak now.

But the irrational part is ready to move in the blood: What's the point of indulging in a little bit? You don't hate him.

Qin Ge took a shower and saw two cups of hot water on the head of his bed.

His face became hot again, and he stared at Xie Zijing who was walking towards him with a towel.

Xie Zijing dried his hair, blew it briefly with a hairdryer, and then picked up a glass of water at the head of the bed for him to drink. The water temperature was right, and there was the fragrance of lemon inside.

"...that lemon in the refrigerator?" Qin Ge couldn't help asking.

Xie Zijing: "Yes."

Qin Ge: "It's all broken...that was bought when you lived here."

Xie Zijing smiled: "You can't bear to throw it away?"

"Just forget." Qin Ge replied.

He lay on the bed, covered his quilt, and heard his heartbeat sound as if it rang throughout the bedroom. Xie Zijing closed the sliding door of the bedroom, and indeed walked to the edge of the bed, and soon lay behind Qin Ge.

Qin Ge watched him dim the bedside lamp, and then reached out and touched his head.

The complex emotions that could not be said were hope or nervous were chaotic in Qin Ge's head, as if he stuffed everything into the "water area", and all kinds of thoughts kept jumping. If everything happened at Xie Zijing's house that day repeated again... Qin Ge didn't know whether he could continue to refuse. Maybe he didn't want to refuse, Qin Ge thought to be dominated and led, and he was curious about such an experience.

"Go to bed quickly." Xie Zijing hugged him from behind, resting his head on his shoulder and whispered.

Qin Ge: "…sleep?"

It doesn't seem to be the "sleep" he understands.

"Have a good dream." Xie Zijing's voice was very low and soft. The tip of his nose touched Qin Ge's earlobe, which made him feel a little sore and itchy. "There is a big lion in his dream, so you don't have to be afraid."

Qin Ge: "..."

When he wanted to say something, his tiredness drowned him. He lost consciousness in an instant.
To be continued...