Among the thirteen states of China, Fenning City belongs to Linzhou, and the entire city is divided into two halves by the river. The northern boundary is Heming District, and the southern boundary is called Bailu District. Because the river water has carried sediment for a long time and accumulated it in the middle of the river, the small island is called the Oriole District.
It is said that a long time ago, an immortal flew up to the sky on a white crane here. When he ascended to the sky, birds surrounded him for a long time, hence the name of this place.
Ye Yu's hometown is in Bailu District in the south, which is also a slum area among the local people. Bailu District is divided into east and west cities, and the west city is poorer than the east city. Therefore, Ye Yu, who lived in the west city when he was young, has seen everything about the world since he was a child.
Only the presence of his mother gave Ye Yu the only remaining ray of light, which made Ye Yu never stop pursuing hope even in the darkness.
Ye Yu held the back of his head with both hands. His mother was a very gentle person. Her voice was soft and soft, as if she was afraid of waking someone up.
My mother often took the wooden basin to the riverside to wash clothes before dawn. At that time, Ye Yu's family could not afford high-end goods like washing machines, and the constant sound of clothes being pounded startled the flying birds. It also woke up Ye Yu in the morning.
Neighbors spoke surprisingly well of my mother. This woman, who was seen as soft and frail by others, raised a son and two daughters in a dim old house in Zhizhu Lane.
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A raindrop fell on the windshield, and soon the rain started pouring down.
The closer we get to our destination, the surrounding houses become smaller and smaller compared to the tall buildings before.
Cao Tianzhi watched the heavy rain cover his sight. Even though the wipers were turned on to the maximum, he still could not see the road in front of him clearly.
The car continued to move forward at a high speed, and no matter how hard Cao Tianzhi stepped on the brakes, it would not help.
"Don't worry, drive slowly."
Ye Yu straightened up, gently pressed Cao Tianzhi's right hand that he didn't know how to place with his left hand, and spoke slowly.
Ye Yu closed his eyes.
I have walked this road countless times.
Mother, please show me the way home.
The car was still speeding, but there was no heavy rain in front of him, only endless darkness, and the surroundings were dead silent. Even the roar of the engine disappeared.
"Xiao Yu, your aunt made braised pork today. Come to my house for dinner."
"Brother Ayu, don't run so fast. My mother brought me several buns. If I can't finish them, please help me eat some."
"Xiao Yu, does the soy milk taste good? Really? I'll make some for you next time. You have to come and play with me more often. Oh, our Xiao Yu is really good at talking. I don't know which girl I can marry in the future. We Xiaoyu enjoy the blessing."
"Don't worry, leave this child to me. I don't dare to vouch for the delicacies, but I can still afford three simple meals a day."
"Taoist, my Xiao Yu is here to trouble you. Xiao Yu, when you go to the Taoist's house, you have to listen to what the Taoist has to say, and you can't cause trouble to others. Okay, promise mom."
Countless voices came from around him, Ye Yu closed his eyes, and two lines of clear tears fell silently.
This is an extremely cruel reality. After the Sword Immortal suppressed the demons, the original magic circle was built by the Sword Immortal. The core of the array consists of every plant, tree, road and house in the city as part of the array. The guardians serve as the eyes of the array to suppress demons and protect the common people in the world.
In the following hundreds of years, wars continued, and the tragic scenes of cannibalism were staged again and again. The monks discovered that every time the formation was destroyed, the demons would appear again to cause harm to the world. In order to suppress the demons again, humans have made sacrifices. A terrible price.
In order to solve this problem, after a heated discussion among the monks, they finally decided to use a method to solve this thorny problem.
That is to rub the city on rice paper like words on jade. The real city is still a city, and the "fake" that has been rubbed is turned into a magic circle.
This move suppressed the demons for two hundred years.
Two hundred years later, people suddenly discovered that when the ancient people were rubbing, due to various factors, part of the city was eventually rubbed into the fake.
In other words, the formation still operates according to the formation on the fake, but there are several boundaries in the fake city that are real cities!
So what should these people do? No one knew, no one dared to dismantle the magic circle and re-imprint it. In the end, the person who was in the fake product was sucked clean by the demon and lost his life in the human world.
From the perspective of the outside world, the city is still the same city, and there is no gap between the people in the fake and the real city. It is just that most of the people in the fake are short-lived, but this is also a fact.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the five major sects joined forces with strangers to rescue the people trapped in the fake goods, but in the end they failed.
These people are destined to die from birth.
Fenning City, Bailu District, and Zhizhu Lane are the birthplaces of Ye Yu, but they are also the only places in the city that are among the fakes.
That year, Ye Yu was serving as a four-star cultivator among strangers in Kyoto. He only heard rumors from the outside world that more than 300 people died suddenly in Fengning City overnight.
When Ye Yu rushed home day and night, his mother's body had been covered with white cloth.
Looking at the more than three hundred corpses in the morgue, Ye Yu stood up shakily, took a few steps back but fell to the ground again.
From a fit of anger, to soft sobbing, and finally looking at the vast graves, Ye Yu knelt down one by one and kowtowed heavily three times.
Ye Yu found out that day and learned the truth from Liu Cong. Liu Cong looked at the haggard young man in front of him and wanted to comfort him and remind him not to act out of emotion, but Ye Yu looked at the dark night and said that he wanted to see the outside world.
Looking at the resolute young man in front of him, Liu Cong found it difficult to connect him with the child he had been many years ago.
"Forget it, I won't get involved in the affairs of you young people." Liu Cong turned around and lit a cigarette: "I will report it to the organization. Ye Yu defected. Our department has tried its best to arrest him, but to no avail."
After saying that, Liu Cong took a deep breath of cigarette and said without giving up: "Are you really going to do this? You are betraying the country by doing this. There is no place for you in the vastness of China."
"I don't know." Ye Yu looked tired and numbly raised his head to look at Liu Cong, "Mr. Liu, I'm too tired. I'll rest here for one night and then I'll leave."
Liu Cong looked at the young man in front of him with no more sparkle in his eyes. Recalling the young man's high spirits when they first met, his nose felt sour and his heart felt ripples.
"Go to sleep, sleep more."
"Thank you, Mr. Liu."
Ye Yu leaned against the sofa, lowered his head and fell asleep.
Liu Cong looked complicated. After a while, he put out the remaining half of the cigarette in his hand and went upstairs to bring a quilt for Ye Yu.
Go to sleep, child. After this night, you will never have a good night's sleep again.
Liu Cong put the quilt on Ye Yu, turned around and gently closed the door. There were crowds of people under the moonlight, and the weapons in their hands shone brightly in the moonlight. Liu Cong lit up his cigarette again. For the first time in his life, this old man, who had been in the Jiangnan Military Region for thirty years, felt sad.
China is so big that there is no room for a child to avenge his mother.
Xiao Yeyu has lost his mother, but this does not mean that he has no elders in his family!
Liu Cong took out the cigarette, looked at the shining sword and flicked the cigarette ashes, grinned and said: "I, Liu Cong, a fire attribute cultivator, please enlighten me."
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What children who travel far away miss most is the three meals a day and simple meals under their mother's hands. The clang of firewood, rice, oil and salt echoes in every child's heart, and it also involves the bond between himself and his family.
Li Xiuzhen stood in the darkness and looked at the two young men quietly.
"Ye Yu, studied under Lu Yu, Lord Lang, the leader of the six kings of the Six-pointed Star, the holder of the Sword Immortal Fire Sword, a four-star alien cultivator, the only son of the third son of the Ye family, every title is resounding. It exists.”
A middle-aged man in a green shirt with a sword on his back walked out from behind Li Xiuzhen. He looked at Ye Yu and the two men who were in deep trouble and said a few words.
"This is a matter between him and me. You don't need to interfere." Li Xiuzhen said without looking back.
The middle-aged man chuckled, "Then what do you want to do? You don't want to sacrifice your life for your life. You are an old man who is still living in the past. He is a six-star cultivator of the Stranger Organization and a descendant of Fengming Sect. The decision made by the leader is disappointing."
"You don't need to remind me of my identity." Li Xiuzhen turned his back and looked directly at the visitor. This old cultivator, who was highly respected among the strangers and was recognized as having the best temper, was a little angry for the first time, "Six-star cultivators are also Well, is the head of Fengming Sect worth a human life? Or, from the perspective of you scholars, human life has a price. As long as the value is higher, other people can be discarded at will. "
The middle-aged man also had a sullen look on his face: "Li Xiuzhen! What you represent is not yourself, what you represent is the lives of the 6.3 million civilians in Fenning City! Being pointed at the nose by a young boy under thirty years old Just a few words of curse and you’re going to die? Then wouldn’t all the guardians in the world have to commit suicide to apologize?”
The middle-aged man drew his sword in his hand, looked past Li Xiuzhen and landed on Ye Yu's face. He said calmly: "You can't do it. Let me see if he is qualified to come and ask you."
Li Xiuzhen looked at the man's determined gaze, sighed quietly, and stepped aside to get out of the way.
The middle-aged man held a three-foot green blade in his hand and swung his sword through it.
The thick and heavy sword energy flew towards Ye Yu, but was suddenly scattered ten steps away from Ye Yu.
The man frowned and murmured: "This is impossible."
Next to the car body in the heavy rain, more than 300 dead souls crowded tightly around the car, pushing the car forward slowly.
Ye Yu leaned against the car window and whispered, "Mom, I miss you so much."
The heavy rain receded, and a ray of light enveloped the car from top to bottom.
"Xiao Yu, be good, mom is always here."
In front of Ye Yu, a woman radiating golden light fell from the air.
"How could...how could..." The middle-aged man looked at Li Xiuzhen aside in disbelief, only to find that Li Xiuzhen was also looking at the scene in front of him in astonishment.
Since ancient times, those who were devoured by demons in the city were not allowed to reincarnate, and had to wander around the world in a state of confusion. In the end, nothing was left after being burned by the yang energy of the world.
This is why people often encounter ghosts.
"They... they died voluntarily?!" the middle-aged man almost shouted, "How is it possible? How could anyone be willing to give up their chance to live? What are they doing for..."
"For Ye Yu."
Suddenly a child appeared on the roof of Ye Yu's car. He looked at Li Xiuzhen and Li Xiuzhen in a joking manner, with disdain evident in his expression.
"You are the suppressed demon in this city, the regret among the seventy-two demons."
The veins on the middle-aged man's hands popped out, and something that didn't know life or death actually dared to show up.
Li Xiuzhen gently pressed the middle-aged man's shoulder. At this moment, he could no longer conceal his decline, because the appearance of regret meant that he had broken through the last line of defense.
After several years of hard work, suppressing the development of Xicheng, and weakening the power of demons by operating the yin and yang formations in Oriole District and Heming District, they finally lost to an inconspicuous little person.
Hui sat on the roof of the car and said with a playful smile: "What a good idea, Old Master Niubi. As soon as you came here, you wanted to use a mouthful of heart-hardening fire passed down by your Fengming Sect since the days of Sword Immortal to burn me completely to death. It's so small in Oriole District." Why has the ground remained so solid for decades, and why are there so many rich people in it? Isn’t it because you poured all the earth essence and water essence that belonged to the Bailu District into the Oriole District?"
"The worst plan you think about is to blow up the entire East and West City into the sky, burn me to death with the core-quenching fire, and let the Oriole District take over the position of the Egret District in the Yin-Yang Formation so that the formation can continue to be maintained. People in the Bailu District? Hehe, if you are kinder, you might move them out in advance, but if you are more unpleasant, you will need scented bait for fishing."
The middle-aged man looked at Li Xiuzhen in disbelief, "Is everything he said true?"
Li Xiuzhen closed his eyes, raised his head and nodded heavily.
"This is not over yet. Ye Yu's family was implicated by Ye's family. When his sister died tragically, you, as the guardian, didn't even dare to fart. You also blurred Ye Yu's memory afterwards. If you hadn't known about Ye Yu's death later, With Lu Yu's support, I don't believe you won't let Ye Yu disappear completely."
"If you feel you owe someone something and you can't make it up to them, what should you do? Why don't you let this person disappear forever? Isn't this what you humans do?" Xiang held his chin and said with a smile: "So, Wang Wan, too It was Ye Yu's mother who voluntarily came to me and asked me to take her life to ensure that her children would not be encroached on by me."
Speaking of this, Xiang shook his head and said with emotion: "A woman is weak by nature, but a mother is strong. I never thought that someone would be willing to give up the hope of living for others, but she is a mother, and she feels that what she did It's natural. More than a hundred families in Zhizhu Lane also think it's natural. They all came to me and said they wanted to live in the next life, hoping that their children would be safe."
When that delicate and frail woman finally saw herself after trying hundreds of times on the ghost drawing talisman in the book, she was not so frightened by her true form that she couldn't stand up. Instead, she trembled and begged herself to be let go. own children.
Of course Hui would not be willing to do so. The food reserves were only so small. One less was better. He asked the woman to prove her determination, then pointed to the oil pan on the side and asked her to jump in.
Wang Wan stayed there for a long time without making any move. She regretted that she was tired of waiting and was about to leave, but she only heard a popping sound coming from behind.
He regretted staying where he was and gritted his teeth, then suddenly looked back and said: "Smelly woman! I don't want to die!"
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Wang Wan died quietly in her sleep that day, with a smile on her lips when she left. When the sun rose again, the sound of clothes pounding by the river disappeared, and Ye Yu lost her mother at that time.
