"A hero is neither a god, nor a demon, nor a human being. A hero is someone who still chooses hope in despair."
Shangguan Que looked at the words and was speechless for a long time.
Outside the window, the city's neon lights are still flashing, and the sound of traffic, people's voices, and music interweave into the hustle and bustle of modern civilization. But in his ears, these sounds were gradually fading away, replaced by some older and grander echo - it was the awakening of mountains and seas, the return of myths, the pain of an old world dying and a new world about to be born...
My name is Dongfang Chen, a second-level school boy of Jiang University. On my way to attend a class reunion, I was surrounded and kidnapped by a group of strong men.
They told me about the wonders of living things and took me through the cracks in the connected world. When I open my eyes and see the world clearly again. Who knows what I saw... The river hanging upside down from the sky, the manta rays flying freely in the night sky, the lush trees reaching into the sky, and an unknown creature with the body of a dragon and the head of a bird leaned down and stuck out its tongue to lick the side of my face.
...
I swore with them: "Even if the mountains and seas come again, we will live up to the common people! Once I make this oath, the mountains and seas will serve as a lesson; if I don't change my heart, I will rest until my death!"
