Twilight is like blood, Flint City.
Lingshuzi was waiting outside a small courtyard. After Mu Qing came out, he quickly said: "City Lord, I have sent the news back to Suzaku City as you ordered."
"Well, that's troublesome." Mu Qing saw Ling Shuzi looking into the courtyard, looking hesitant to speak, and said, "Don't worry, I won't let them stay here when I leave tomorrow."
"Oh, that's good, that's good." Lingshuzi smiled. Mu Qing saw through her thoughts and simply asked frankly: "City Lord, this woman's identity is a bit sensitive. I wonder how you plan to deal with it?"
Mu Qing frowned slightly and shook his head, "I haven't thought about it clearly yet."
Lingshuzi said "hmm" and backed away without asking any more questions.
Mu Qing stood at the door of the small courtyard, looking at the night sky of Flint City, standing silently.
Lingshuzi looked a little embarrassed when he left. You might think that he was perfunctory, but in fact, he really didn't think about how to deal with this matter.
Gu Yingqiu himself admitted that the Gu family and Baidi City were allies, so it would be okay for him to directly regard Gu Yingqiu as an enemy and get rid of them.
However, there is a Gu Yinghe mixed in the middle.
There were footsteps stopping not far away. Mu Qing turned his eyes slightly and saw Ye Qingyu standing by the road dressed in green clothes and walking over.
The two of them were walking on the streets of Flint City. Ye Qingyu held the white jade sword in his hand and looked at the unfamiliar street scene and said, "There are two fires in Flint City. Do you know that?"
"Huh?" Mu Qing stared blankly at Ye Qingyu's side face.
Ye Qingyu admired the twilight at this time, not caring about what happened not long ago, and continued: "First, the sunset here is like fire, and second, the stones in Flint City can produce fire. The latter... should be a kind of tempered weapon. Ore."
Mu Qing said: "This is the first time I've heard of it."
"What?" Ye Qingyu looked at him in surprise and said with a smile, "You are now considered the master of this city, but don't you know its characteristics?"
Mu Qing shook his head and let out a breath: "I always feel like I am rushing to do one thing after another, and I don't have time to look around."
Ye Qingyu shook his head: "As long as you are alive, things are waiting for you. We will always encounter things. Your current mood is not quite right. You should learn to adjust it."
Ye Qingyu looked at the night in the south and used herself as an example, "Although I no longer think about Xichuan waking up soon, I will not ignore what I am experiencing now because of this extremely important thing. Things. Sometimes, living in the present is the only way to feel comfortable."
"Are you living in the present..." Mu Qing said to himself.
"Yes." Ye Qingyu said: "Whenever you face a choice, thinking too much about what has not happened in the future will only make you more and more constrained."
Mu Qing stopped and said, "But..."
"But knowing what it will develop into, do we still need to test it?" Ye Qingyu saw the contradiction in his heart and directly spoke it out for him.
Mu Qing nodded silently, "If I test it like this, I probably won't get the results I want."
"Hey..." Ye Qingyu sighed softly: "People's hearts are always complicated. For me, intimacy is higher than justice. If you become a public enemy one day, my sister will probably save you."
After hearing Ye Qingyu's heartfelt explanation, Mu Qing was moved and suddenly became more enlightened. She said seriously: "I understand."
Ye Qingyu blinked and asked curiously: "Then are you still planning to test her?"
Mu Qing shook his head and said, "I don't intend to end up with this."
"Oh." Ye Qingyu smiled meaningfully, "No wonder you omitted a lot of the news you asked Lingshuzi to send back, but you must be on guard against others."
Ye Qingyu made a gesture with one hand, pointed at the center of Mu Qing's eyebrows, and a ray of sword intent entered Mu Qing's sea of consciousness, "I'm going back to the Great Sun Sect. If you activate this ray of sword intent, you can suppress the high priest."
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Just as Mu Qing was walking towards the Huanling Sect's territory, Gu Yingqiu faintly woke up and turned around in the small courtyard room.
It's already dark now
It got dark, the candles in the room were not lit, and it was pitch black. Gu Yingqiu concentrated his eyes and saw a slender figure sitting at the table, "Yinghe?"
Gu Yinghe at the table opened his eyes and looked at the bed, but there was no response.
"..." Gu Yingqiu silently felt the injuries on his body, raised his eyebrows slightly, and sat on the edge of the bed. The two sisters just sat and looked at each other, the atmosphere was a bit stiff.
After a long time, Gu Yinghe moved his lips slightly and said, "How do you feel now?"
Gu Yingqiu listened to the exhaustion that could not be concealed in Gu Yinghe's voice. She lowered her head and looked at her body. She was beaten by two sword qi and was unable to fight back. She was seriously injured, but the blood of the Wu clan has always been able to heal with its resilience. Famous for his vitality, Gu Yingqiu could already feel his body recovering rapidly.
Looking at the neatly tied bandages on his body, Gu Yingqiu felt warm in his heart, "Yinghe, where are we now? Suzaku City?"
Gu Yinghe shook his head: "Flint City."
With that said, Gu Yinghe turned around and took something from the table, stood up and walked towards the bed, "I have removed the mirror art in your body, and the weakened Devouring Curse has limited effect on you, you can leave. "
Gu Yingqiu stared blankly at the baggage handed to him. He paused for a moment, frowned and said, "Where are they?"
Seeing Gu Yingqiu not answering, Gu Yinghe threw the baggage on the bed, turned around and opened the door, showing her the empty yard outside the house, and said in a cold voice: "They are not here now. If you don't want to be caught again, just Stop talking so much nonsense."
Gu Yingqiu sighed inwardly, took out the clean clothes from his bag and put them on silently, walked to the door, looked at the deserted courtyard, put his feet out of the door and put them back.
Gu Yinghe frowned: "If you want to die, why don't you fight with Gu Yun, but you have to die here."
Gu Yingqiu was indifferent to such sarcasm. Although his amber eyes were dim and tired, they still had a hint of insightful wisdom. "This is just a trial. Let me go. What will you do?"
"Haha." Gu Yinghe laughed out loud and turned sideways to look at the chaotic night outside the courtyard. "Sister, you care about me now, so why do you come here?"
Gu Yingqiu pursed his lips: "I'm sorry. I don't know that Emperor Bai has any intention of inviting the Gu family to join the dynasty, but this can be explained clearly to Mu Qing. We are only talking about the Gu family, and you have not betrayed Suzaku. Not even a cent of the city."
"There is no need for this anymore." Gu Yinghe turned around and looked at Gu Yingqiu, "Actually, you are right. Everyone in Suzaku City...has not really accepted me. This is my problem, why should I let him get in the way? It’s a dilemma for both sides.”
"No!" Gu Yingqiu held Gu Yinghe's arm tightly and said, "What will you do when I leave?"
Gu Yinghe glanced down at Gu Yingqiu's hand, frowned slightly, raised his head and looked directly into Gu Yingqiu's eyes, and said slowly: "As long as there is a chance, even if you are with someone like Gu Yun, you must save him. Sister Xing, since there is such an important thing waiting for you, what do you care about?"
Gu Yingqiu's hand loosened weakly. She took a deep look at Gu Yinghe, knowing that no matter what she said at this moment, it would be effective. She nodded lightly: "Okay. You should take care of yourself in Suzaku City."
Gu Yingqiu walked out of the house and towards the entrance of the small courtyard, and soon disappeared into the dark night outside the small courtyard.
Gu Yinghe stood by the door and watched Gu Yingqiu's back go away. Seeing that Gu Yingqiu really left and no one showed up to stop her, the heavy look on her face lessened slightly, but her guilt became more intense.
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Late at night.
When Mu Qing returned to the small courtyard, the whole courtyard seemed extremely silent.
This was the result he had expected from the beginning, so he didn't have much emotion and calmly walked into the house where the two women were supposed to be staying.
As expected, there was no one in the room. There was still a faint trace of blood in the air, and a candle that was about to burn out was lit on the table nearby. When Mu Qing saw this scene, he was about to leave, but his eyes suddenly froze as he glanced over the table.
A piece of paper was left on the table, with a passage written on it:
"Master Mu Qing, I'm sorry."
"Thank you for letting my sister go."
"In addition... I also want to thank you for testing me this time, because I found that if something similar happens again in the future and my sister or Xiao Yuan is in danger, I will probably still do the same thing tonight."
"I plan to leave. If there is a conflict between the Gu family and Suzaku City in the future, if you see me, please don't treat me as a... friend anymore."
The last sentence was daubed out and then rewritten below:
"You are a very good person. You have obviously helped me a lot, but I am taking advantage of your kindness. This makes me very ashamed, and I cannot tell you this in person."
Mu Qing's eyes fell on the end of the last sentence, where there seemed to be two words that had been erased. Mu Qing sighed softly, picked up the brush with the ink on the side that was almost dry, and wrote "I know" on it. Then he put the paper away.
Looking at the brush in his hand, Mu Qing thought that this situation might be the most appropriate outcome.
Mu Qing sat at the table for a while, and when he was ready to return to Suzaku City overnight, there were sudden footsteps at the door of the courtyard.
Mu Qing's eyes brightened, and he quickly stood up and walked out of the room. He looked at the courtyard door and couldn't help but stare: "Is it you?"
"It's me." Gu Yingqiu leaned against the courtyard door, frowning and rubbing his chest. When he looked at Mu Qing, the corner of his mouth curled up slightly, revealing a sincere smile: "Who do you think the city lord is?"
But this smile was full of calculation in Mu Qing's eyes. He frowned slightly and said coldly: "Now is indeed your chance to take action. You can try it."
Gu Yingqiu's smile froze slightly, and he slowly walked up to Mu Qing and said seriously: "City Lord, I have no hostility towards you or anyone else in Suzaku City. Please rest assured."
Mu Qing stood there without taking a step back, and ignored Gu Yingqiu's words. Instead, he silently aroused the ray of sword intent in the sea of consciousness, ready to take action at any time.
Seeing this, Gu Yingqiu shook her head helplessly, "You and Ying He have quite similar personalities."
"Don't get me wrong." Gu Yingqiu reminded Mu Qing first, then turned his palm and handed something in front of him.
"What is this?" Mu Qing looked at Gu Yingqiu's palm, where a round bead with a milky white luster lay quietly.
Gu Yingqiu said: "This is the core of the Mingguang Array, the Mingguang Pearl. It contains the complete method of activating it. It can be considered a belated apology from me."
Mu Qing's expression softened slightly, but he still refused: "I don't want the things. You can go. Remember, don't hide when you go to Youyan State in the future."
Hearing this, Gu Yingqiu raised his eyebrows slightly, but brought his slender palm closer, and said with a half-smile: "Aren't you curious about the bet between Yinghe and I? I may not have made it clear. This bright pearl In fact, it also has the function of a shadow bead, and everything that happens within the Mingguang Array is recorded by it."
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When Mu Qing heard this, his eyes moved slightly and fell on the bright light pearl again. Although he was moved, he still held back and asked, "Why are you doing this?"
Gu Yingqiu looked a little guilty and sighed: "After Yinghe let me go, I never walked far, and then I saw her leaving with a lost look on her face. This was not my intention. I came to see her just because I wanted to Let her stay in Suzaku City well."
"Anyway, you will know clearly after seeing the Ming Guangzhu that the conversation between Yinghe and me did not harm any interests of Suzaku City. She came to see me quietly because she was afraid that you, especially you, would misunderstand."
"Oh." Mu Qing took the bright light bead, felt the coolness coming from the bead, and couldn't help but ask: "Since you saw her leaving, why didn't you stop her?"
Gu Yingqiu shook his head and said distressedly: "Rather than stopping her, it would probably be better to come see you."
Gu Yingqiu saw Mu Qing looking into the distance from time to time, and her heart moved, "You don't want to get her back, do you?"
Mu Qing was stunned and looked at the woman in front of him, "Isn't this what you want?"
"I really don't know how you have so many confidantes." Gu Yingqiu muttered in a low voice and seriously suggested: "She has no face to see you now. If you run to find her, she will avoid seeing you. You With the fate card in her hand, she wants to run to the Black Sea again, and you will always meet on the road."
"Give each other some time."
Mu Qing felt that what Gu Yingqiu said was reasonable and nodded silently.
Gu Yingqiu saw that Mu Qing seemed to be taking the advice, so she couldn't help but add another sentence: "City Lord, Yinghe does not have the strength to be an enemy of Gu Yun. Sometimes you may be the only one who can stop her. I, as my sister, I can only entrust her to you."
No matter what he heard, Mu Qing felt that there was something in Gu Yingqiu's words. When he looked up again, Gu Yingqiu had disappeared before his eyes.
