"No!"
"I have never plotted against you, brother Xiao Yan!"
Xiao Xun'er hurriedly replied.
However, Xiao Yan suddenly slapped himself.
Yes.
It was a slap in the face.
Lu Yuan's eyes flashed slightly and he moved to the side.
To be honest, he has also experienced this stage. Although his experience is not the same as Xiao Yan's experience, the feelings he experienced are actually similar, so the actions he made are also similar.
If the emotions are intense to a certain extent, they may self-harm.
Just like he used to be.
No matter how many injuries you have suffered, you can only deal with them forcefully.
At that time, he didn't dare to anesthetize himself. Let's not talk about the dangerous environment around him. Let's talk about the problems after anesthesia. Who would suture his wounds?
So, it was just a matter of sewing it on.
Under the pain, he couldn't remember how many times he pinched his thigh. It seemed that only that kind of pain could wake him up and continue to suture the wound.
Therefore, Xiao Yan suddenly slapped himself. Although it did not hurt much, it actually meant that Xiao Yan's emotions were about to reach the point where he could not control himself. However, due to his psychological defense, he did not shout hysterically. , nothing more.
The reason why Xiao Yan was angry was because of betrayal.
To be precise, he was betrayed by others.
Although he didn't know what was going on between Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan obviously believed that Xiao Xun'er had deceived him.
And this kind of deception nourished Xiao Yan silently during the three years when Xiao Yan was neglected. It would be okay if Xiao Yan did not discover it. Once Xiao Yan discovered it, with the vigilance that modern people should have, they would naturally think of a very familiar person. The noun is also commonly known as "pua".
So it doesn't matter now what the truth is.
As a modern person, although he has traveled through several worlds, he can understand Xiao Yan's bottom line and thoughts very well, because he is the same.
In other words, as a partner, you can have your own little secrets, and you can have your own little hobbies, including having your own little treasury. In terms of personality, as long as I am tolerant, you can tolerate it. However, the only thing you cannot do is to Betray me in any way or even change me and ask me to become your puppet.
Maybe, someone is willing.
However, Lu Yuan was definitely unwilling.
I can choose to change for you.
Rather than changing according to your will.
In the same way, his partner can also use this kind of request to him. Although he is quite carefree, so far he has never cheated any partner, even someone like Xiao Wu.
Therefore, if Xiao Xun'er really didn't do it, the best way is not to defend or deny, but to present evidence or ask questions to make Xiao Yan believe it.
In this way, the thorn in the hearts of the two people will be pulled out.
But Xiao Xun'er obviously chose a wrong method.
This caused Xiao Yan to slap himself angrily.
After slapping himself, Xiao Yan's mood visibly stabilized. Although he was still as aggressive as a volcano erupting, there seemed to be some indifference mixed with it.
"I should have thought of it earlier."
"I also said that my body feels much better after being warmed up..."
"Lu Yuan is a fighting emperor."
"And your strength, if I read it correctly, should have reached the standard of a fighting master, and the fighting power you just showed even made Lu Yuan, the fighting emperor, feel a little overwhelmed. Although the result is the same, you were also defeated. I caught you, but the power level of the golden flame on your body is obviously very high, even higher than Lu Yuan's level."
"Don't rush to deny it."
"It's just a very simple analogy."
"If I guessed correctly, it was this kind of flame that was causing trouble in your body back then. But this kind of flame can support you to compete with the Dou Emperor in the realm of Dou Master. You are not even a simple Dou Emperor. You were not a Dou Emperor at the beginning. How did the thin fighting spirit I instilled into your body have any effect on you?"
"It shouldn't have any effect at all!"
Xiao Yan became calmer and calmer as he spoke.
To be precise, the more he spoke, the calmer his expression became.
The anger in his words became even higher.
After saying that, Xiao Yan let out a long breath.
Looking at Xiao Xun'er, his eyes showed nostalgia, and then he said word by word:
"I'll give you a chance to explain."
"As long as you can explain the questions I raised, even if you risk your life, I will ask Lu Yuan to let you go. If you look down on me by then and think I am too suspicious and don't trust you, then I won't tell you. What."
"The affection you have shown me these past few years, I, Xiao Yan, will one day pay you back with my life, but I want to know now, what are the answers to these questions I asked?"
Xiao Yan stared into Xiao Xun'er's eyes.
He has never studied psychology.
Not a psychiatrist either.
I'm not even an expert on micro-expressions.
However, if you have never tasted pork, then you have never seen a pig running, right?
In many spy war dramas, only the top agents can remain indifferent under such interrogation, while ordinary intelligence workers will react to varying degrees, so Xiao Yan gave this method a try.
only……
Out of fear, he used another way of thinking...
However, the result disappointed him!
There was really no emotion in Xiao Xun'er's eyes!
Some are just peaceful.
The same calm as before.
Xiao Xun'er's faint rhetorical question also sounded at the same time.
"Brother Xiao Yan, no matter what Xun'er says right now, you won't actually believe it, because brother Xiao Yan you are very uncool now. No matter whether this stranger is bewitching you, brother Xiao Yan, I hope that brother Xiao Yan You can keep a calm mind and think carefully."
"I won't give any answers until then."
"Because what I said was nonsense."
"Brother Xiao Yan, I won't believe your nonsense."
As he said this, Xiao Xun'er actually looked at Lu Yuan.
The conversation changed and the target was directed at Lu Yuan: "However, I am very curious, what method did you use to make brother Xiao Yan not believe in our friendship, but turn around and believe in you?"
Lu Yuan didn't answer.
I just spread my hands.
Then, he looked at Xiao Yan who was also looking at him.
After a moment of silence, he asked:
"Xiao Yan, you are the person involved."
"I think you have the right to speak."
"Instead of talking about how I made you believe in me, I would rather ask, how did you determine my identity?"
Xiao Yan smiled mysteriously.
However, it doesn’t matter.
After a pause, he explained:
"To be honest, I'm just testing."
"I didn't expect you to be my fellow countryman."
"The reason why I became suspicious is because you mentioned the term "life values" when you intervened in the dispute between me and Nalan Yanran."
"I have lived for fifteen years in my life, and I have never heard this familiar word. So, with the attitude of giving it a try, I told you a password, and then you responded with a suitable password. "
"If I weren't afraid that you and I are of different ages, I would actually like to ask you about palace jade liquor..."
Lu Yuan touched his chin: "One hundred and eighty cups."
Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow: "How about this wine?"
"Listen to me blowing for you."
Lu Yuan's eyes twitched.
Seeing Xiao Yan who was about to continue speaking, he quickly stopped.
He signaled that Xiao Xun'er was still present, and then lightly reminded: "It can be seen that it is not my problem, but your observation is too keen. Our status is like mice in a hole, not invincible. No one in the world dares to say it out loud, so in short, you should just deal with the issues between you!"
Xiao Yan immediately put away his errant focus.
He coughed awkwardly, and then looked at Xiao Xun'er, who looked confused in front of him:
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand."
"The important thing is that it's time for you to answer my questions."
"I'm calm now."
"So, I hope you will cooperate."
"When we get along with each other, even if you come with a purpose, I do give my sincerity. Therefore, even if I want to respect my sincerity, I hope you will not force me to use those bad methods."
"The county magistrate is better off taking charge now."
"You are the daughter of the patriarch of the ancient tribe, you are very noble."
"But no one can save you right now."
"To use a saying that often appears during torture in spy dramas: You have the final say if you want to die, but I have the final say how you die!"
Xiao Yan's tone was unusually indifferent.
It seems that I have found a feeling.
However, he soon laughed out loud.
Because after listening, Lu Yuan suddenly interjected: "You also looked up something. It should be said that there is an old saying in China that those who know the current affairs are heroes. I believe that these torture instruments present will be able to pry your mouth open."
"Feel sorry."
"Can't imitate that accent."
"It feels like I have no soul when I say it."
Xiao Yan tried hard to restrain his smile: "And Lu Yuan, you'd better not disturb me. You made me laugh as soon as I entered the state. If this trend continues, I won't be able to tell whether we are interrogating her or she is interrogating us. Well, I’ve never seen a judge laugh first.”
Lu Yuan spread his hands helplessly.
Momo took a step back and said perfunctorily: "Then you can ask, I won't speak for now. Anyway, my intuition tells me that you can't ask anything."
"But, she has already done it."
Speaking of this, Xiao Yan felt a little depressed.
Sighing, looking at the familiar face in front of him and the eyes full of doubts and confusion, he asked:
"How would a normal person react?"
"In other words, when questioned by friends."
"Whether it is anger or excitement, disgust, sadness, or the decision to cut off one's robe, it will never be without any ripples. Even if you look at a clown, you can't help but reveal a sarcastic look, or... Show disdain."
"You're so calm."
"Calm to the extreme, just calm."
"As for you just now, asking me to stay calm did not ruin your performance. However, as a friend who has been with you for a long time, I think my understanding of you is still profound."
"There is no flaw, that's the biggest flaw!"
While speaking, Xiao Yan saw Xiao Xun'er's pupils shrinking slightly, and couldn't help but feel even more disappointed. He sighed and slowly reminded: "Don't show your emotions too much, just like your pupils shrinking just now. What I said must have touched your heart, and the look in your eyes just now should contain a lot of ridiculousness or absurdity, and a small amount of disbelief and sarcasm. This is the reaction of a normal person."
Xiao Xun'er remained silent.
However, Xiao Yan's imagination far exceeded Xiao Xun'er's expectations.
After a moment of silence, Xiao Yan asked calmly: "Illusion?"
"There are no illusion-type fighting skills."
Lu Yuan shook his head: "At most it's mental hypnosis. To me, it's not an advanced method. If I want to change a person's cognition, it's actually very easy."
Xiao Yan nodded and glanced at Ling Ying.
Then, he asked meaningfully: "So, it would be more difficult for this old gentleman to hypnotize me then than to hypnotize me now, right?"
Ling Ying had no intention of answering.
Lu Yuan had no choice but to add:
"This thing is about mental strength."
"Below the Dou Emperor, everyone is basically treated equally."
"Anyway, creating an environment for you should be easy for him."
With that said, Lu Yuan snapped his fingers slowly.
In an instant, everything was turned upside down.
Then, Lu Yuan snapped his fingers again, everything that had just appeared disappeared, and the surrounding environment changed back to what it looked like on the hillside.
"Understood."
Xiao Yan nodded calmly.
He looked at Xiao Xun'er in front of him.
"Do you have anything else to say?"
"For the sake of you and I having known each other for many years?"
Xiao Xun'er solidified Xiao Yan for a long time.
After a full two or three minutes, he slowly spoke.
"Maybe you are right."
"But I'm not wrong either."
"It's like I've put in some emotions, and some things can never be explained clearly. It's like you still don't know whether you should continue to believe me."
Having said that, it is actually very clear.
Xiao Xun'er admitted what she had done.
It's just that I didn't say it clearly.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to say “I’m not wrong either”.
However, Xiao Yan didn't want to hear Xiao Xun'er talk about those so-called difficulties. If it were put in daily life, even if Xiao Xun'er was complaining to him, he would understand and even feel sorry for Xiao Xun'er.
However, at the moment, Xiao Xun'er revealed this truth after Lu Yuan and him teamed up to expose her identity, so the meaning is naturally different.
but……
The human heart is made of flesh after all...
Now that things have come to this, how can we be so ruthless?
"Let it go!"
Xiao Yan looked up at the sky.
After a moment of silence, he pulled his sleeve hard.
The incomplete sleeve was held in his hand.
Then, he threw it towards the river in the distance.
"From now on, you and I are cut off from each other."
"I'm not interested in knowing your Gu Xun'er's preferences, nor am I interested in knowing why you, Gu Xun'er, are here. Since the patriarch of your Gu family and the patriarch of our Xiao family had this rule a long, long time ago, then you also You don’t have to think about getting this thing anymore.”
"As the young patriarch of the Xiao family, I, Xiao Yan, think I still have this right. If there are no problems, you should go home as soon as possible!"
After saying that, Xiao Yan nodded to Lu Yuan.
In this regard, Lu Yuan did not hesitate.
After letting go of their hands, Xiao Xun'er and Ling Ying immediately regained their mobility, glanced at Xiao Yan complicatedly, and then said calmly: "Brother Xiao Yan..."
"Please call my name!"
"Thanks!"
Xiao Yan looked over expressionlessly.
One sentence immediately choked Gu Xun'er.
Gu Xun'er was silent for a moment.
Finally, he said in a calm tone:
"I do have some secrets I'm keeping from you."
"But please forgive me."
"I had a last resort reason."
"And, I don't mean to hurt you in any way during this process."
Xiao Yan smiled contemptuously.
Raising his arms, the missing sleeve was extremely conspicuous.
"But you don't consider me a friend at all!"
"While you are doing this, without affecting your plan, ask a few alchemists to come over and give me a look. Isn't this difficult?"
"But you didn't do that."
"Because in your heart, the plan is more important than me."
"Maybe I really can't live up to the plan."
"Some of the plans have huge stakes."
"But you don't even have the most basic trust. If I hadn't had an idea before, I wouldn't have even realized that I had fallen into this gentle trap you set step by step."
"Do you know how humiliating it is for me to do this?"
"I exchange sincerity for sincerity."
“I trade siblings for siblings.”
"But I didn't expect that I would get these things back."
"So, I'm not moved because you didn't hurt me. On the contrary, I cut off my robe because you deceived me."
"I want to thank you for making me see my stupidity and arrogance, and for making me realize that even I am naive in the face of true genius."
"That's all."
After saying that, Xiao Yan calmly put down his hand.
The tattered sleeves on his arms also hung down.
At first glance, it looks extremely desolate.
Xiao Xun'er stopped talking.
However, Lu Yuan waved his hand and sent him back to his original place.
Only then did Xiao Yan turn around calmly.
A face full of tears.
"Feel sorry."
"It made you laugh."
As he spoke, Xiao Yan wiped his tears expressionlessly.
When a man sheds tears, he doesn't shed them easily, but they are not sad yet.
After learning that all the efforts he had made over the years were fake, that the other person's care for me was all fake, and even the other person's feelings for me were fake, it would definitely be fake if it didn't hurt my heart.
certainly.
More of a blessing.
Glad it was discovered so early.
Otherwise, if PUA succeeds in the future...
Just thinking about it made Xiao Yan shudder.
However, Xiao Yan controlled his emotions in time. Although he shed a few tears, no one saw it except Lu Yuan and Yao Chen.
Ling Ying can actually see it.
It's a pity that since Lu Yuan has captured him, it is definitely impossible not to block the perception. Once the perception is blocked, Ling Ying is no different from ordinary people.
After wiping the tears on his face, Xiao Yan's mood became more or less calm. He looked at the sunset in the distance and was inevitably entangled:
"Continue to deal with the problem?"
"Should we go eat first?"
Lu Yuan smiled slightly: "Let's eat!"
After that, he slowly added: "There are just some things and problems that I need to talk to you about. It can also be regarded as giving you a popular science about how big the world is. Although at this moment, there are still ears between walls, but no matter what, it is still okay to have a meal. of."
"That's okay."
"What do you want to eat?"
"Say it in advance, it's commonplace."
Although Xiao Yan's mentality was still not stable, a lot of his melancholy was dissipated while talking and laughing with Lu Yuan. While leading Lu Yuan towards his house, he asked Lu Yuan curiously:
"What exactly is that golden flame?"
"You actually have to use all your strength?"
"By the way, are you the Dou Huang now?"
"What level of power can Dou Huang achieve when he takes action?"
"missile?"
"Or mushroom bombs?"
"Or is it something further up?"
"For example, a Star Destroyer Cannon."
Hearing the still weak Xiao Yan ask this question, Lu Yuan laughed dumbly, but considering that Xiao Yan really didn't understand this aspect, he still patiently explained:
"Let's talk about Jin Yan first!"
"There are twenty three kinds of strange fires under the sky."
"Each exotic fire has unique abilities."
"For example, the second-ranked Void Swallowing Flame can not only purify a family's bloodline problems and make the children born in this family more and more talented, but it can also swallow some other types of attacks."
"Another example is Three Thousand Yan Yan Fire."
"This fire is not produced by the earth, but is similar to the flames in the starry sky. The effect is extremely special, because all the cultivators who have mastered this strange fire have all cultivated into a special physique in the end. This physique is also known as In many practices, this is called the immortal body."
"All in all, strange fire is a good thing."
"However, according to common sense, each cultivator can only master one kind of strange fire. How rare are twenty-three different fires in the world?"
"Of course, the alien fire is considered the mother fire."
"Below the mother fire, there is also a child fire."
"It's like the queen ant and the colony."
"The mother fire has absolute suppression over its own child fire."
"And what Gu Xun'er showed just now should be the legendary domineering strange fire that can burn everything, even the fighting spirit itself. Ranked fourth on the list of strange fires, the Golden Emperor's Burning Sky Flame."
"Anyway, it's better not to be too ambitious."
"It doesn't matter if there is something like strange fire or not."
"It's like a golden finger for many protagonists."
"This thing is one of the sources of cheating. If you can get it, get it. If it doesn't work, it's not like we can't live without this cheat..."
After laughing at himself, Lu Yuan slowly added:
"As for the fighting power of Dou Huang..."
"This is really hard to describe."
"There are powerful Dou Huangs, and there are Dou Huangs who have just broken through to Dou Huang, and their aura is not yet stable, so in this realm, there are many factors involved in fighting, not just the realm of cultivation and fighting skills."
"However, I have met Douzong."
"I know Douzong's strength, so it doesn't hurt to tell you about it."
"Douzong can temporarily block space."
"Douzun can enter the space tunnel."
"As for Dou Sheng, you can open up a small space that can accommodate people. Today's eight ancient tribes basically have this kind of void station."
"So, I'm really not sure how far the Dou Huang can reach. Anyway, I've told you the division of combat power. You can just calculate it yourself."
As he spoke, Lu Yuan picked up the cold dishes that had just been served from the Xiao family's back kitchen, then put down the chopsticks in his hand and reminded him lightly:
"The water in this world is deeper than you think."
"Be careful in everything you do in the future."
"I don't want to collect your body in the future."
