The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

"It doesn't cost anything to fill out a questionnaire anyway..."

Lu Mingfei muttered to himself and watched the page jump to an extremely detailed questionnaire:

▌Kunlun Group's Different World Exploration Plan Pre-screening Questionnaire

▌Version: 1.0.4 | Confidentiality level: Public
Part 1: Basic Information
1. Name: _________
2. Age: _________
3. Current career/study stage: _________
4. Do you have special skills (such as fighting, medical care, ancient languages, etc.): _________
Lu Mingfei stared at the "Special Skills" column, hesitated for a long time, and finally filled in "None" honestly and continued to scroll down.

Part II: Cognitive Test

5. If you were suddenly teleported to a strange world, what would be your first reaction?
□Find a safe spot
□Try to contact your companions

□Explore the environment

□Other (please specify): _________
6. Do you believe in the existence of supernatural phenomena?

□Totally unconvinced

□ Doubtful

□ Confirmed existence

□ Personally experienced
Lu Mingfei subconsciously ticked "personally experienced it", then paused for a moment and changed to the second option. This mysterious organization seemed to have amazing means. If he attracted their attention, he should be careful not to be dissected or something like that, otherwise he would regret it.

By the way, this mysterious organization wouldn't have a lie detector, right? But a lie detector is a lie detector, not a mind reader. With thousands or tens of thousands of people filling out questionnaires, there must be a lot of fabricated information that is difficult to verify. How could they possibly find me?
Part III: Psychological Assessment

29. Are you willing to risk your life for unknown opportunities?
□Absolutely willing

□Depends on the situation
□ Unwilling
30. If the laws of another world are completely different from those on Earth, how would you adapt?

□ Comply with local rules

□Try to change the environment

□Maintain neutral observation

Lu Mingfei's finger hovered over the mouse for a few seconds, and finally selected "Depends on the situation" and "Remain neutral and observe".

The next questions become increasingly weird:

52. Do you enter the same world multiple times in your dreams?
□Yes □No
53. Have you ever felt an unusual sense of familiarity with certain symbols, patterns or words?
□Yes □No
54. Do you believe that there has been supernatural civilization in human history?
□Yes □No
“What kind of a weird question is this… By the way, the boy who called me ‘brother’ last time, was he using an illusion or time stop?” Lu Mingfei muttered, and with the principle of being cautious but pretending to be authentic, he checked “No”, “No”, and “Yes”.

Further down, the problem becomes more abstract:

75. If you saw a pair of glowing eyes in the dark, what would be your first reaction?
□Run away □Observe □Try to communicate □Shine yourself

76. If one day you find that you can practice a certain "kung fu", which direction do you hope it will go in?

□ Combat enhancement □ Mental perception □ Life recovery □ Others (please describe briefly)
Lu Mingfei thought about it and checked “Life Recovery”. The last time he was bitten by a mosquito, it took three days to heal. If it could really heal with just a touch of the finger, at least he could save money on buying wind oil.

84. How do you view the relationship between “unknown civilization” and “modern science”?

□Opposition □Complementarity □Transcendence □Cannot be evaluated
He chose "complementarity", isn't this an easy question?

94. If there was a price to pay for gaining extraordinary powers, what price would you be willing to accept?
□ Shortened lifespan □ Emotional indifference □ Physical changes □ All of the above
Lu Mingfei stared at the three options and his throat tightened slightly.

"The price..." He thought of his ordinary life, the moments when he was laughed at and ignored, and the time when he ran home alone on a rainy night: "If it's just losing weight for a few days and there's no apparent aging, it should be acceptable, right?"

He gritted his teeth and checked "life expectancy reduced".

98. If you could change one choice in the past, what would you change?
Countless images flashed through Lu's mind - the old Khrushchev Building, the purple bellflowers blooming on the windowsills, and the lush wheat fields outside the institute's wall.

"Tsk, who would answer this kind of question seriously?"

He laughed at himself and finally typed three words in the input box: "Nothing."

Part IV: Potential Qualification Assessment

121. Have you ever felt that the speed of time was abnormal in a critical moment?
□Yes □No
145. Do you occasionally have the ability to “foresee” what will happen a few seconds into the future?
□ Frequently

□Occasionally

□Never

He recalled that when he played StarCraft, his fingers were sometimes faster than his brain, as if he "knew" the opponent's moves in advance. But this kind of thing... should be just game experience, right?

255. How would you respond if you discovered you were not purely human?
□Accept and explore the truth
□Hide it and move on
□Seek similar

□Destroy evidence

Lu Mingfei stared at this question and his heartbeat suddenly quickened.

"What kind of a fucking question is that?!"

He couldn't help cursing out loud, but his finger somehow stopped at "accept and explore the truth."

"Shit, am I crazy?" He shook his head violently and changed it to "hide it and move on."

289. If one day you were involved in a supernatural war, what would you choose?

□Escape
□ Neutral observation

□Join one party

□Create your own power
Lu Mingfei sneered: "For a loser like me, it's good enough that I can survive."

He chose "escape".

The questionnaire was very long, with more than 300 questions covering cognitive tendencies, psychological endurance, logical reasoning, and even a dozen inexplicable graphic multiple-choice questions, asking people to choose which one they like better, like some kind of subconscious test.

The mouse pointer hovered over the [Submit] button, he took a deep breath, and clicked it.

The screen flashed, and a prompt popped up, with bold text:

"Note: This questionnaire is only for preliminary screening. Formal application requires detailed information to be submitted after 24 hours. The review results will be sent to your email within 24 hours."

Lu Mingfei stared at the words, feeling a little disappointed. He had expected some cooler feedback, like "Congratulations on being selected" or something like that.

"Is this true or a prank..."

He closed the webpage, rubbed his sore eyes, took a long breath, leaned back in his chair, his mind in a mess.

Outside the window, the night is deep, and the neon lights in the distance are blurred into blurry balls of light in the rain and fog.

……

Lu Mingfei lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

The cicadas outside the window stopped chirping at some point, leaving only the humming sound of the air conditioner. His mind was filled with those strange questions and the web page with the starry sky background.

"Does the other world... really exist?"

He rolled over and stared at the ceiling, counting goats.

There are so many questions, even more abnormal than the final exam papers. Could it be a new type of telecommunications fraud? If it is a scammer, it is too dedicated. What is the purpose? Is he going to sell me the "Nine Yang Magic Skill" quick-learning textbook next?

If there really were cultivators, magicians, or aliens, what would they look like? Would they fly with swords and cause mountains to collapse and the earth to crack with a wave of their hands, as described in novels?
In a daze, he had a dream.

In the dream, I was standing in front of a huge tower that reached the sky, gazing up into the clouds. The devil’s blood turned into long red streams that flowed through the black iron tower. The sound of bells echoed, as if coming from a church far away.

A crowd of people holding torches ran across the wasteland. The firelight could not illuminate their faces, their faces were hidden in the shadows. They ran towards the full moon, which was so large that it was half below the horizon.

Those people jumped from the top of the mountain towards the moon.

"Ding--"

Alert rings.

Lu Mingfei suddenly opened his eyes. It was just dawn outside the window. He looked at the alarm clock - 5:31.

"Damn, so early?" He rubbed his eyes and suddenly remembered something. He sat up with a somersault, rushed to the desk barefoot and opened his laptop.

The "beeping" sound of the dial-up Internet connection was particularly piercing in the quiet morning. Lu Mingfei looked back nervously and made sure that no one was woken up before he breathed a sigh of relief. Sure enough, there was a new email in his QQ mailbox:

Sender: Kunlun Group ([email protected]）

Subject: Your application has been approved (special quota)
Dear Mr. Lu Mingfei:

Congratulations! Your application has passed the preliminary screening and is eligible for the "Cross-border Chat Room" experience.

This test is a small-scale communication activity where you will have real-time conversations with participants from different backgrounds (including some visitors from another world).

Chat room entrance: [Click to enter] (valid for 24 hours)
notice

Do not disclose sensitive real-world information
Malicious provocation or offensive speech is prohibited

The chat content will be recorded for research and analysis
Looking forward to your participation!

——Kunlun Group Cross-border Exploration Project Team
Lu Mingfei's eyes widened, his fingers trembling slightly, and he pinched his thigh reflexively. "It hurts, it hurts... It seems that this is not an illusion created by the hacking Trojan. But how can the excuse of 'special quota' be as suspicious as the banner of 'Last three days of clearance sale' in the vegetable market?"

"Really passed?!"

He immediately clicked on the link, and the screen jumped to a brand new interface——

On the pure black background, a line of silver text appeared:
【Cross-border chat room·Test version】 (Xuanzi No. 7)

Currently online: 98/100
Lu Mingfei's ID was automatically assigned by the system as (CN-040827-114514), and his nickname was defaulted to "Earth-Lu Mingfei (junior high school student)", which seemed to be easily modifiable. However, below his name, there were a variety of unfamiliar IDs densely arranged:

"Sword Dynasty - Fan Wugui (General of the Chu State)"

"Sword Dynasty-Lin Qingshuang (Talisman Research Institute)"

"Sword Dynasty-Chen Laodao (Self-cultivator)"

「Earth-Anderson (NASA researcher)」

「Earth-Colonel Wang (Air Force)」

……

The chat history is being updated at an alarming rate.

Lu Mingfei stared at the screen blankly, his fingers hovering over the keyboard, not knowing what to post.

Just then, a message suddenly popped up:
"Sword Dynasty - Fan Wugui": @Earth - Colonel Wang, you said your "fighter plane" can travel 10,000 miles a day? This is very useful in war! Can you tell me the specific parameters?

「Earth-Colonel Wang」: To be precise, the maximum speed of the F-22 is Mach 2.25. Converted into your units... well, it can fly about four thousand miles in an hour.

"Sword Dynasty - Fan Wu Gou": This is faster than most exotic birds... What are their sizes?
"Earth-Colonel Wang": Of course there are big and small ones, usually about 10 to 20 meters, 60 to 70 feet. General Fan, how fast do you practitioners fly in the air?

[Sword Dynasty - Fan Wu Gou]: Haha! A cultivator of the seventh realm, flying at full speed, can fly at about... well, according to your standards, around Mach 20? However, different skills have different deviations. It is said that Tan Tai Guan Jian, who has mastered the Wuxi Sword Sutra, can fly nearly ten times faster than this, and his speed can exceed that of a meteorite.

"Earth-Colonel Wang": ...? Is it in the atmosphere or in space?

Before the former could answer, a guy named "Earth-Zhang Yuan (science fiction enthusiast)" asked directly:
Does aerial combat in your world really rely on individual flight? What energy is consumed? What is the composition of the atmosphere? Is it 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen? Is there any way to detect it?
"Sword Dynasty-Lin Qingshuang": What are nitrogen and oxygen? I clicked on the automatic annotation, but I didn't quite understand it.

"Earth-Zhang Yuan": What is the gravitational acceleration in your world?
"Sword Dynasty - Taoist Chen": This Taoist friend asked a very strange question... The laws of nature are constant, and all things are pulled by the power of heaven and earth, so where does the concept of "gravitational acceleration" come from?
"Earth-Zhang Yuan": ...You don't even know about gravity, do you?
"Sword Dynasty - Chen Laodao": Gravity? It sounds like some kind of law... Could it be the theory of cultivation in your world? The energy consumed by flying is of course the vitality of heaven and earth.
「Earth-Zhang Yuan」: Aura?

"Earth-Zhang Yuan": Can you describe the physical properties of Reiki? For example, molecular weight, spectral characteristics? Do you absorb Reiki through the respiratory system or through the skin?
[Earth-Zhang Yuan]: Forget it. Do you know the size of your planet? Are there other satellites or planets?
[Earth - Zhang Yuan]: Do you know the concept of a planet? It is a huge sphere suspended in the void.

"Sword Dynasty-Lin Qingshuang": There is a Moon

"Sword Dynasty-Lin Qingshuang": The latest version of the textbook says that we are actually a sphere with a radius of more than 13,000 miles.

Lu Mingfei was stunned and couldn't help but interject.

"Earth - Lu Mingfei": "Wait, your world... does it also have China? Qin and Han, Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, are there any that match?

"Sword Dynasty - Chen Laodao": China? What does the Central Plains mean? We are in the territory of the Great Chu Dynasty. To the north are the Great Qin, the Great Yan, and the Great Qi...

「Earth-Lu Mingfei」: Uh... Could it be the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period? Are you really from another world? Or another Earth?
As soon as the message was sent, the chat room suddenly became quiet for a second.

"Sword Dynasty - Chu Qifeng (Tiangong Pavilion)": Earth? This name is unfamiliar. This is the Great Chu Dynasty Talisman Research Institute. Lord Zhao Qing gave us the Spirit Net Talisman, which can communicate with the outside world.

"Earth - Jiang Ziheng (Elite Returnees)": The entire multiverse speaks Chinese, right? Are they really not actors arranged by Kunlun Group? With such a poor imagination, can they be more fake?

"Earth-Colonel Wang": Do you understand that this is a translation? Doesn't Hollywood speak English no matter what weird species it is? Can you understand when someone sends you oracle bone script?
"Sword Dynasty - Chu Qifeng": Stop arguing, harmony brings peace. This world and your world seem to have the same origin but different appearances, similar mountains and rivers and geography, but different historical trends.

……

At the same time, in the world of Sword Dynasty, Qingzhu Peak of Damang Mountain.

The top of the peak is shrouded in clouds and mist, and the bamboo sea sways in the wind, making a rustling sound.

Qingzhu Peak got its name from the Qingzhu water spring at the bottom of the peak. This water is one of the essential ingredients for refining talismans and elixirs, and is considered an important resource in the entire Great Chu Dynasty. Therefore, the dynasty was quite wealthy and purchased many treasures.

Peak master Liu Xuanji was sitting cross-legged in a quiet room, with a three-foot square "jade plate" suspended in front of him. Fine runes flowed on its surface, and in the center was a crystal surface as smooth as a mirror. It was the latest "Spirit Net Talisman Instrument" developed by the research institute under Zhao Qing, also known as the "Spiritual Mind Communication Instrument".

It is said that one can cross the wall between worlds and talk with people from other worlds.

Liu Xuanji didn't believe it at first.

——Communication through divine thoughts, across the world?

Even the legendary "Nine Realms of Immortality" might not be able to achieve this!

But when he followed the instructions in the "instructions" and injected a wisp of true energy into the talisman, the crystal screen suddenly lit up. When he saw the strings of words flowing and countless unfamiliar terms popping up, Liu Xuanji's fingers trembled slightly: "It's actually true..."

He had practiced for more than eighty years and considered himself to be knowledgeable, but what he saw before him completely overturned his perception.

The talisman is powered by vital energy, and the outer frame is inlaid with seven spiritual jades, corresponding to the seven functions of "seeing, hearing, speaking, thinking, feeling, connecting, and storing". As his mind fluctuates and his true energy is adjusted, the words will automatically emerge and arrange.

"You have entered the chat room: [Xuan Zi No. 7]"

「Currently online: 99/100」

"Earth·Director Wang (National Immortal Seeking Project Team)": General Fan, may I ask, what is the approximate lifespan of a seventh-level cultivator? What level of destructive power can it reach?
Seeing the master staring at the crystal screen with an expression of shock, the disciple standing beside him asked carefully, "Is there something wrong with the talisman?"

Liu Xuanji shook his head and said with emotion: "Using vital energy as a guide and runes as a bridge to transmit information across the endless void... This is almost like 'heavenly sound transmission'!"

"...This method is truly omnipotent!"

He took a deep breath and tried to type a line of words:

"Sword Dynasty - Liu Xuanji (Da Mangshan)" **: Fellow Taoists, this thing is really mysterious. Can it communicate across the world?
After the message was sent, someone responded quickly:

Earth-Anderson: Are you new here?
"Sword Dynasty - Liu Xuanji": Exactly. I am the master of Qingzhu Peak in Damang Mountain. I just got this talisman today and am not familiar with its use.

「Earth-Zhang Yuan」: Do you have electricity there?
"Sword Dynasty - Liu Xuanji": Electricity? The power of thunder?

「Earth-Zhang Yuan」:...Forget it, just pretend I didn’t ask.

……

Outside the window, the morning light faded into the sky until the sun was high in the sky.

Lu Mingfei rubbed his sore eyes. He had already scrolled through thousands of chat records.

The Air Force colonel was asking Fan Wujiu whether his body could withstand a nuclear bomb, a science fiction enthusiast was calculating the laws of physics in another world, and the people in the national project team were carefully exploring the details of the cultivation system...

And I actually sat there typing for four hours.

"This is really not a dream..."

He pinched his face and it hurt.

My aunt's footsteps came from the corridor.

"Lu Mingfei! Get up! You're still staying up late in the last few days before school starts?!"

...(End of chapter)