Occasionally, a few people greeted Wangchuan's parents. No matter who they talked to, Wangchuan's mother always responded. Mu Ziyun carefully observed Wangchuan's mother's movements during the conversation, and only once saw her profile. , she was smiling, and her smile was very sweet, not artificial. If it was a forced smile, then Wangchuan's mother's disguise was too impeccable.
Mu Ziyun asked Wangchuan: "Is your memory absolutely the same as reality?"
"Yes," Wangchuan said with a smile, "This lantern festival is one of the most important festivals of the human race, and my father had to accompany my mother there. My mother often said that this was her happiest moment, even after her father injured his brain. She also always looks forward to this day. After her father and mother got married, he never came back for a long time, and often only came back for an hour or two. Only on this day, he could stay until late at night. "
After a moment, the scene changed again. The horrifying scene happened too quickly. Everyone entered a dark room. There was no furniture in the room, the walls and floors were all dark wood, and his mother was lying on the floor. Her limbs were spread out, her legs were bent to the right, her head was tilted to one side, and there was a pool of blood under her head. Her eyes were wide open, and she was wearing the simplest white gauze.
The person who was alive just now turned into a cold corpse in the blink of an eye. Wangchuan lowered his head. Even after countless years, he still couldn't bear to see this scene. He said sadly: "This is when my mother was killed." There were no traces left at the scene.”
"Where is your father? Where was he at that time?" Huzi asked.
"He..." Wangchuan paused for a while and said, "I don't know. He came back seven days later. He also brought a Bianhua flower and placed it in front of his mother's soul."
"Flower of the other shore!" Lingdang suddenly exclaimed. After everyone looked at her, Lingdang said awkwardly, "Have you never heard of this kind of flower? Can you take a look at that scene?"
"I was not in front of my mother's body at that time, so I did not retain that scene in my memory. My father left after sending the flowers and never appeared again." Wangchuan said sadly, "I am not a qualified head of the family. My mother passed away and my father was far away. After I left, due to my poor management, my family fell into ruin. Not long after, the courtyard was sold, and I began a wandering life. After leaving human beings, while traveling, the animal nature in my body gradually awakened. Three or four years later, , I can become a giant beast like my father, but because I am the crystallization of beast and man, I am lucky enough to become a monster, and my strength is much stronger than that of my father at his peak."
"Your father is very famous, right? Such a big beast." Ge Yuan asked.
"Yes, he is called the Wolf of the Wind, and there will be storms wherever he passes."
"Wind?" Mu Ziyun rolled his eyes and said, "You are his heir, so you should have inherited its power to control the wind."
"Unfortunately, not" Wangchuan said, "My father and I are incompatible with each other in some aspects. I can't control the wind. I was born with a supernatural power. When it is exerted, it is a bit like thunder and lightning, but it is more powerful." ."
Huzi hesitated for a while and then said: "Although it is rude to say this, but you said you want to find the murderer of your mother, have you really not considered your biological father? Although he loves you Mother, but his brain is broken after all.”
Wangchuan sighed and said: "I don't want to doubt it. This is too cruel. I can't bear it. I can feel that the murderer of my mother must be one of the characters in the scene just now. I also judged it myself. Who, but I figured it out but couldn't get it confirmed, so I always have regrets. If you can find the same murderer as I guessed in the scene just now, it will prove that I am right, and I will have no regrets. ."
"Not your father?" Everyone felt that they might have missed some details, so they asked Wangchuan to repeat the scene just now.
They looked at each scene one by one. In the end, everyone was even divided into different scenes, each looking for doubts. The different scenes were connected together, like two rooms, but without walls and doors. They only needed to walk Just go over there.
The first thing Mu Ziyun came to was the lantern festival. He tried to walk in front of Wangchuan's parents, but because Wangchuan only remembered looking at the two people from behind, he couldn't turn around. He watched this scene alone for ten times. I saw half of Wangchuan's mother's face turned back many times and ten times. That smile was very real, and it really didn't look like a fake.
Then, Mu Ziyun came to the last scene. After observing all the details, he walked out and walked back more than ten times. Then he returned to the second scene, watching the beautiful boy playing in the river, and his mother walked out of the path ten times. Many times, he watched it more than ten times, and then came to the third scene. Wangchuan's father fell from the sky, accompanied by lightning and thunder. After landing, Mu Ziyun watched Wangchuan's father suddenly turned his head and looked again more than ten times. He had forgotten Chuan's father's bad attitude towards his wife more than ten times, but he kept it in mind. When he turned around and walked out, he would suddenly turn around from time to time to look at the scene behind him.
Finally, he came to the first scene, night, moonlight, and the small bridge in the courtyard. He had many questions in his mind, until the beautiful little Wangchuan ran away from the bridge without looking back. He breathed a sigh of relief with a smile on his face. He smiled evilly, but then he sighed again.
Half an hour later, everyone gathered with Wangchuan. Wangchuan did not speak and asked everyone to talk about the murderer they discovered. Seeing that it was different from what he thought, Huzi and Du Xiaoyue pointed out one of the murderers in all the scenes. The man who had appeared once in all of them was a servant. He was also the only man who appeared strangely in all the scenes, always on the side of Wangchuan's mother. The two of them concluded that this man was the biggest suspect.
Wangchuan did not speak, but Ge Yuan said: "It must be your father, Zhen. In fact, there was no need to look at it. You already knew it was him. After his mother was killed, he rushed back in the first seven days. The human soul can only It was kept intact in the corpse for seven days, and your father came back just at the right time. What a coincidence, and... Hey, actually you just wanted others to point it out."
Wangchuan still didn't speak. After Kite and Wangxiang whispered, he then said: "Although this may hurt you,... could it be that the murderer was your mother herself? She committed suicide, yes. .Is it right?"
There was a sudden silence, and Kite noticed Lingdang's strange look. After asking carefully, Lingdang smiled bitterly, and suddenly spoke, "Actually...it's your father, you are too soft-hearted, like you It is impossible that such an ancient and powerful monster has not heard of the Flower of the Other Side. It grows in the underworld. It is not easy for living beings to come out after entering it. It is even more difficult to bring back the Flower of the Other Side. So it is impossible for your father to just learn about his wife. He died, so he casually picked one. He must have put in a lot of effort during those seven days. He had thoughts of killing when he was not clear-headed. When he woke up, he regretted it so much that he disappeared from the world, never to be seen again. I’ve found it, that’s right.”
"The flower of the other shore..." Du Xiaoyue said casually, "You can't bring it out easily. One soul brings one flower..."
Fang Tianmu and Mu Ziyun secretly glanced at Du Xiaoyue. The two of them looked at each other, and then they separated. The kites and others urged Wangchuan to tell the answer in his heart. Wangchuan seemed to hesitate for a long time before he spoke. : "Thank you everyone, I have no regrets. The murderer is indeed my father..."
"Is this okay?" Mu Ziyun suddenly interrupted when he was about to tell the answer. He grinned and continued, "If you really say this, your regret will not disappear. Even if you give up the world of the world, go to Even if you go to hell, your heart won’t be able to survive the reincarnation.”
"Hey, what do you mean?" Huzi asked in confusion. Everyone focused their attention on Muziyun. Wangchuan raised his head and looked at Muziyun. His eyes suddenly had a bitter look, as if he was worried, but also as if he was looking forward to it. Hope.
"What do you mean? He is the real murderer. Haha, he is not a father, a servant, or a bandit or a beast, but... the handsome man in front of us." Mu Ziyun pointed at Wangchuan and said.
"What!" Everyone was shocked, but Wangchuan's fur tensed up for a moment, and Mu Ziyun could clearly see that he was shaking all over. His expression was ferocious for a moment, but immediately relaxed, and he breathed out softly, as if he was relieved.
At this moment, Wangchuan no longer had the usual smile, but had many more expressions, and he looked more like a person.
Everyone was waiting for Mu Ziyun's explanation, and Mu Ziyun said: "After all these years, what has troubled you is not your father's murder of your mother, but your own crime of matricide. You have resisted in every possible way and are unwilling to admit this fact, so ..Hmph, you changed your memory. Those pictures are not all real. Although you have made them perfect, you have never brought others into your memory, so the first time an outsider enters, It has brought about many changes that were immeasurable before. Whether you were forced to prove yourself or to remind us of certain information, you were too impatient, so many changes went wrong."
"What about?" Wangchuan lowered his arms and felt much more relaxed.
"In the first scene, the child suddenly ran towards me. I think the reason why he ran towards me was not because of the ancient times, but because I was standing there. It was the first time you brought someone in, but still... I retained my habit of tampering with the scenes at will, so I inadvertently asked the child to run towards the bridge so that we could see clearly. I just watched each scene more than ten times, and finally watched the first scene. If That is really your memory, so the scenes will not change in different times. But in the first scene, the child did not run towards me again, so I knew that what we saw was what you wanted us to see. Arrived."
"No matter which scene, I believe everyone has a weird feeling, as if everything there, all the characters, seem to be rotating and changing around a few specific characters, especially the Lantern Festival, In fact, the real picture is much different from what we saw. From the half of your mother's face shown at the end and the expressions of the humans talking to her, I can tell that the people at the lantern festival have a different relationship with your mother. It's good, but it's not too bad, so will she really go on with your father in such a dull way on such a festival? Obviously, that's all the result of you forcibly changing the details."
"You may not have noticed that in the lantern festival scene, there were at least three characters, but they appeared in different places at the same time. Haha, you probably cut out part of the scene and pasted it somewhere else. Although it was very secret, But I found them all. What are you hiding? What bullshit Ironwood Beast? There is nothing wrong with your father's brain. They are very loving. There is no way the third scene will appear. It is just a twisted fabrication by you. The purpose Just to draw the blame onto your father, you...probably resent your father for being a beast and failing to fulfill his responsibilities as a father, leaving you mother and son alone in the world."
"Then how can you be sure that he killed his mother and was not covering up for others?" Lingdang asked.
There was a hint of pity in Mu Ziyun's eyes. He pointed at Wangchuan and said, "Actually, he told us a long time ago that the answer lies in these pictures. In the second scene, the young man's body is reflected in the river with his blood spread. The beast shadow was about to eat people, and his mother happened to come from the path in front of the beast shadow's mouth. In the third scene, the conversation between his parents, I still remember him talking, how often does his beast father come back? He would not stay for more than two hours, with the exception of the day of the Lantern Festival. So how could his father ask his mother for purple jade beads in the morning? And how could his mother know that his father had bad teeth recently. Moreover, again You see, that tone of voice is more like a mother coaxing her child."
Mu Ziyun looked at Wangchuan meaningfully. Kite wanted to understand something, so he covered his mouth and looked at Wangchuan. Wangchuan's eyes narrowed, his relaxation disappeared, and instead he looked tired. Mu Ziyun added: "You have been able to make the layout flawless for so many years. The reason why there are so many loopholes and you gave me hints is that your father is good at wind and you are good at superpowers like thunder and lightning. But in the end, your father accompanied you Appeared with lightning and thunder, the hint you gave was too obvious, it was nothing more than wanting others to expose you so that you could plead guilty in the world of death. Are you the one who was really hurt in the brain?"
Wangchuan smiled and squinted his eyes, and the scene around everyone suddenly changed. In the first scene, the little boy was rolling on the ground mischievously, jumping up and down, throwing things everywhere, and the servants and maids behind him all had painted faces. With pen and ink, they followed tiredly, shouting one after another, and the boy ran towards the bridge. Standing on the bridge was his mother. She was generous and lovingly protected him behind her. Next to her mother, a A man who was completely different from everyone's impressions but very familiar stood smiling. He was Wangchuan's father, but his expression at this moment was exactly the same as Wangchuan in front of everyone.
In the second scene, Wangchuan was not playing alone. He was grabbing several teenagers by their necks and pushing them into the water. His evil and animalistic nature was constantly leaking out of his body. On the path, Wangchuan's parents watched All this, the father said sadly, it was his own existence that gradually awakened the child's animal nature. Only by leaving could he maintain his humanity. Therefore, after his father left, it would be a long time before he could come back. In the third act, it was Wangchuan who kicked over the table, it was Wangchuan who broke the purple jade beads, and it was Wangchuan who called the woman a human stupid pig. In the fourth act, the lantern party was extremely lively, and only Wangchuan's was seen. The mother held her husband's arm, and they chatted, laughed, and mingled with the people passing by. Their faces were filled with countless happiness, while Wangchuan walked behind with a very disdainful look on his face. Even if someone said hello, he would not say hello. Pay attention.
In the last scene, it was not a dark room, but a cliff. Wangchuan's mother begged Wangchuan at the top of her lungs to stop practicing beast powers. His humanity would disappear and he would become a monster in the world, and he would be attacked by all the creatures in the world. , but Wangchuan, who had already grown a beast's tail, was full of evil. During the riot, he pushed his mother off the cliff, so there was that corpse. And that dark room also represented the hope that Wangchuan would never see the sun in his heart. The secret also symbolizes his regret and guilt that cannot be redeemed.
It turns out that the battle was not between Wangchuan's father and the Ironwood Beast, but between Wangchuan and his father. They fought for seven days and seven nights. The father won and brought Wangchuan to the realm of the beasts. If he continued to ignore him, Wangchuan would continue to fight. After longing for animal nature and power, and truly coming to the purgatory-like ruthless beast realm, it felt the coldness of murderous intent everywhere. After nine reincarnations of life and death, he finally understood what the warmth of human nature was, and he remembered the past scene by scene. After losing his mother's embrace and pampering, he regretted it so much that he fled back to the human race many years later. His homeland was gone, his father was no longer found, and his mother's body was no longer found. He felt even more regretful and could not integrate into the human race. Then he began to wander, and he gradually became like his father. He always appeared in the world as a human being unless he had to, and he never did a bad thing. His myth even spread in the world, and he was regarded as a guardian spirit. The great guardian demon was praised by countless humans, but such a "good man" could never forgive the sins he committed when he was young. Even when he died, his soul could not be redeemed, and the matter of patricide was not reported during his lifetime. Come clean to the world.
Wangchuan breathed a long sigh of relief, opened his eyes, and said: "My mother's name is Nai Xiaohe, she is a mortal, and my father's name is Ye Chuan, he is a big beast who likes to mingle with humans. They fell in love and gave birth to a child. Son, my name is Nian Chuan. I am a monster. I have been fighting between human nature and animal nature all my life. Unfortunately, during the period when I should maintain my humanity the most, I lost to my desire for power. If possible, I would rather be the most ordinary person. A human being, or the most common domestic beast." Nianchuan shed tears, but they were tears of happiness. He cried: "Criticize me, spit on me, I am not a good person, I killed my mother, I I'm just an uncivilized beast, please go to the underworld and tell the living beings what kind of thing I am, please, please!"
He knelt down and begged over and over again. Ge Yuan clenched his fists, grabbed his shoulders, and sighed: "I understand, I will help you."
"Thank you..." Nianchuan kowtowed gratefully before standing up.
"Have you found your father?" Kite asked, and everyone understood that he felt guilty for living like his father.
"No, it must have been reincarnated a long time ago." Nianchuan said sadly, "It entered the underworld with hatred."
"Your father has forgiven you a long time ago." Mu Ziyun said suddenly.
Nianchuan was startled and nodded gratefully. Mu Ziyun smiled and said, "I'm not comforting you. I really forgive you. Moreover, he has never left. He is accompanying you."
"Ah?" Not only Nianchuan was stunned, but everyone was stunned.
Mu Ziyun shouted towards the scene around him: "Old man, come out, it's been so many years!"
"Wha...what?" Nianchuan said in disbelief, "It's impossible, this is my memory, no one else can be here except me..." Before he could finish speaking, everyone held their breath. , in the fourth scene of the lantern festival, all the characters suddenly stopped. Nianchuan’s father suddenly turned around and walked out of the crowd. With a vicissitudes of life and exhaustion on his face, he came to the crowd and asked Mu Ziyun. : "How did you discover me."
"Hey," Mu Ziyun said, "Because Nianchuan himself didn't realize that he couldn't control all the details of the picture. It was also his own guilt and self-blame that made him ignore these. In the picture with you, I watched ten Several times, every scene will change. You and your son have a habit of changing things according to your mood. Every change he makes is to lead the direction of the murderer to you, and then to lead the hint to yourself, and you every time Every change is for his mother, your wife, so I discovered that you have been hidden in his memory all this time."
"Father...Father." Nianchuan couldn't accept it for a while. He was so excited that he couldn't speak, "What...what's going on..."
"After I fought with you, my body and soul were damaged and I couldn't survive more than half a year, so I sealed my soul in your mind and finally entered your memory. Over the years, I have been watching you. I understand...I understand..."
"Why, why don't you tell me..."
"The one who can save you is not me, but yourself. As for me... I just want to see your mother, even if it's just for one scene, I'm willing."
"Sure enough," Mu Ziyun said, "in the scene where she turned around at the lantern festival, not only Nianchuan's mother turned around, but you also turned around. That was the result of you tampering with the scene..."
"What I'm looking at is her face. Even if she becomes a wooden figure or a villain in the child's memory, as long as I can see Xiao He's little face again, I will have no regrets..." Ye Chuan said happily. .
"How many thousands of years...I'm sorry...I'm sorry!" Nianchuan collapsed in an instant. He knelt down in front of his father, "I'm sorry, father!"
"Don't say that...child, your mother and I have forgiven you a long time ago. It's my fault. I shouldn't have left. If I could stay with you all the time, you might not become so bad. Forgive your father, child. ..."
Ye Chuan held Nian Chuan in his arms, and the father and son hugged each other and cried bitterly. Their bodies began to glow, and the bell said: "The souls they want are leaving, what should we do!"
As soon as they finished speaking, the pictures around them began to distort. They returned to the present world, and it was still the same valley. Countless yellow star points were scattered in the valley into the sky. The valley finally became a real valley, and the wind disappeared.
"Oh..." Huzi said, "It turns out that Nianchuan's father did that wind, just to pull down the living beings and redeem his son. It's not easy. How many years has it been?"
"Hey..." Mu Ziyun said, "Oh, I'm working in vain. I thought I would get some opportunities. It's really..."
Ge Yuan tapped Mu Ziyun's shoulder, pointed to one side, and said, "Hey, you've been exposed to the light, look at that..."
Everyone saw that there was a star hitting one place. It was a long object, like the handle of something. Mu Ziyun walked over, held it, and pushed outwards, and the whole object appeared. It turned out to be a slender and thin knife, very similar to Fang Tianmu's black knife "Great Death", but the blade was more curved.
"This is this?" Mu Ziyun slowly pulled out the knife, and there was an electric current on it. The knife was filled with yellow-green energy like thunder and lightning. After pulling it out, there was a thunderous sound, "Oh! This is Nianchuan's strange power. Can it be right?”
"I'll choke you!" Huzi laughed, "This is really a treasure, a weapon of a great monster in ancient times!"
"It's said to be a weapon, could it be transformed by Nianchuan's own superpower?" Ge Yuan deduced.
Mu Ziyun laughed and slashed around with his sword. As a result, thunder broke out and yellow-green electricity flashed around the valley.
Fang Tianmu had a special affection for the sword. He stretched out his hand and said coldly to Mu Ziyun: "Give it to me. Let me see."
Mu Ziyun paused for a while and said: "No." Then he waved it again and shouted: "It's decided, let's call it the Demon Sword - Flash Thunder!"
"What an unpleasant name! If you don't know how to pronounce it, don't use it!" the girls shouted.
