The last hundred breaths.
Lu Ran carried Ke Zhizi on his back, jumped down from the last hilltop that was twenty or thirty feet high, and finally ran out of Wanshan Mountain and reached the plains.
The violent shock caused Kezhizi to wake up and whisper in Lu Ran's ear: "Brother Ran, where are we?"
Lu Ran straightened Ke Zhizi and kept walking: "It's not there yet, but it's coming soon."
Nothing could stop him from moving forward.
However, Kochiko's words made him stop.
"Brother Ran...I'm in some pain. I can't run anymore."
"But if we don't run over there, we'll all die."
"Brother Ran, put me down and run away by yourself. You... have to survive."
"Don't be stupid. I decided to bring you here, so I will definitely not let you die."
Ke Zhizi suddenly smiled sadly: "Who on earth is talking nonsense?"
Lu Ran suddenly felt that his heart was broken just like the wound on Ke Zhizi's heart.
"I'll go slower, hold on!"
Lu Ran threw his head away, cautiously, and took a few steps forward.
But Ke Zhizi said again: "Brother Ran, it's okay. You can run quickly, there's still time."
Lu Ran understood that Ke Zhizi no longer cared about his life or death, and just wanted Lu Ran to go to the living area as soon as possible.
Lu Ran immediately changed his mind and direction.
"Hey, Brother Ran, where are you going?"
"Damn it, let's not run away. Let's go to the Yifang Pond and enjoy the flowers while waiting..."
Ke Zhizi asked in fear: "Are you waiting for... to die?"
"No, wait and see how this [Futu] will kill us!"
Lu Ran walked very slowly. In fact, he didn't know what time it was now, but because of Ke Zhizi's words, he wanted to understand a truth.
That means I won't die here.
Will not die in [Futu].
Because someone doesn't allow it.
This person might be Qingwu, maybe Xie Qiao, or maybe some big boss behind the scenes whom he has not yet masked.
All the things that happened in the past made him at least 50% confident that he would not die in [Fu Tu]. This was why he chose to participate in [Fu Tu] with Hui Huan in the first place.
Destined person.
There are always adventures.
Or maybe it was already destined.
If he will not die, then Ke Zhizi will also live.
He walked slowly and finally came to the Yifan Pond. At this time, there were less than thirty breaths before Youshi.
He found a big stone suitable for resting, helped Kezhizi to lie down, and sat down beside him. At the same time, he pressed the tip of his tongue against Qingwu's blood. As long as there was a change, he planned to resist the force with all his strength.
The sun had set, and Lu Ran stared blankly at Ke Zhizi, recalling the past.
At that time, he was rescued from a desperate situation. He was picked up from the cabin in the darkness. Facing a table of fragrant food, he shed tears of excitement.
But his eyes were covered with black cloth, and he couldn't see anything in front of him. He could only vaguely see a ball of light and shadow that looked like a poached egg in his pupils. That should be the sun.
At that moment, he suddenly felt that he was a "person" again, not a pile of rotten meat in the cabin, not a refining consumable for the immortals, nor a "destined person".
That's why he said a big saying that he liked to say when he was young.
"I want to eat a sun."
Lu Ran murmured and said this sentence again.
"Want to eat, Taiyang?"
Ke Zhizi didn't know why, but he just went to watch the sunset. He only felt that the round orange-red sun in the flaming sunset looked really delicious, much like an omelette.
A few pear blossoms floated past my eyes.
It's like sprinkling green onion on this "omelette".
Ke Zhizi blinked and said, "If I go to Paradise, I want to be a pear blossom."
Hearing Ke Zhizi's words, Lu Ran came back to his senses from the turbid sea and immediately said: "No, you can't."
Ke Zhizi wondered: "Hey, why not?"
Lu Ran also looked up to see the pear blossoms on the tree: "A pear blossom has a short life. You can make a pear tree and bloom every year."
"Ah, I don't want it. I just want to be a pear blossom. The life of a pear blossom is just falling from the branches to the soil. It is short but beautiful."
Lu Ran was a little surprised. This was the first time he heard the word "no" from Ke Zhizi since he met her.
Lu Ran originally wanted to be glib and say something like "If you were a tree, then I would pass by you sooner or later", but after thinking about it, he didn't say it out loud.
Whatever you want to do, do it.
When Ke Zhizi talked about going to paradise, Lu Ran suddenly remembered her injury, so he asked with concern: "How is your wound? Is it still hurting badly?"
"Want to take a look?" Ke Zhizi seemed to have suddenly changed her mind, reaching out and starting to unbutton the buttons on her clothes.
Lu Ran was a little timid and waved his hand, "It's not necessary to watch."
But Ke Zhizi had already opened his obscene clothes.
The wound was indeed still getting worse.
What was originally just dozens of cracks has now been shattered into hundreds of fragments. A slight touch may literally shatter it into pieces, with no possibility of recovery.
"how could this be?"
Lu Ran looked at this body that was crystal clear and jade-like. There was no evil thought at all, only confusion and distress, helplessness and helplessness.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in Lu Ran's mind, and he said to Ke Zhizi: "Do you remember Xu Fang? Didn't he always say that you should come to him if something happened? Didn't he give you a jade plaque that can call him?"
Ke Zhizi didn't react much, just shook his head.
Of course, Lu Ran couldn't let go of this possibility, and said with a straight face, "Bring it quickly! Don't let me do it myself."
Ke Zhizi then smiled, groped around on his body for a while, and handed the jade token to Lu Ran's hand with difficulty.
Lu Ran still remembered Xu Fang's words. Xu Fang said, if you face south and shout Xu Fang three times, he will definitely come.
But he shouted to Xu Fang three times, but Xu Fang did not come.
Lu Ran forced Ke Zhizi to shout three more times, but Xu Fang still didn't come.
Lu Ran frowned: "I just said he is not a good person, this big liar."
Ke Zhizi covered her heart tightly and laughed.
"Huh?" Lu Ran turned his head and looked at Ke Zhizi, with straight silver hair, light blue eyes, and a face as pale as jade.
"Have you been imitating my frown?" Ke Zhizi asked with a smile.
"Ah." Lu Ran admitted it.
"Congratulations, you learned very well." Ke Zhizi was still smiling.
Lu Ran still had a serious face: "Now is not the time to laugh, Ke Zhizi, haven't you known about your strange body since you were a child? It's the 'Jade Clan' you have been talking about. What kind of race is it?" Tell me quickly and let me find a solution."
Ke Zhizi finally stopped laughing and nodded. This was the first time she talked about her most secretive past with others.
As the two chatted, they had already forgotten the passage of time and did not notice that it was now the Youshi hour.
Ke Zhizi's story made Lu Ran completely forget about this.
Ke Zhizi said that in fact, he had only been vaguely aware of his identity as a member of the Jade Clan.
I was too young at that time, and although some memories were very clear, others had long been blurred and forgotten.
I only remember that I have been living in a cage for as long as I can remember. There are many people of the same clan imprisoned in the cage at the same time. There are some immortals holding leather whips who are responsible for guarding them. The immortals take them around, sometimes in the sky full of silver light. In the snow country, in a blink of an eye, we came to the south where flowers are blooming. There are also some dark and terrifying caves, and some are splendid palaces.
She vaguely knew that they were locked in a cage because they were commodities, commodities to be auctioned.
And these people who sell them move around to show and auction them to those glamorous people, or to avoid being hunted by someone.
They are often auctioned at a secret gathering. The auction process is long and tedious, but in fact it is very cruel, because they are not selling their entire kin to be slaves or servants.
They separated the jade clans one by one and sold them.
Because every jade clan is born with "meat jade", "meat jade" is a natural material for cultivation. People eat it to delay aging, and practitioners eat it to increase their cultivation.
The method of eating jade is not to cook the "meat jade", but to grind it into fine powder and put it into a specific wine called "Yuye".
Therefore, "meat jade" can be sold separately. If you take it apart and sell it, it will be more valuable.
The reason why Ke Zhizi survived was because she was too young at the time, three or four years old, and could not be sold for much money.
The immortals who sell them are very patient and will raise them, package them, and finally sell them at a good price.
An outstanding "meat sprout" like Ke Zhizi was kept in a cage. Ke Zhizi vaguely remembered that there were about a dozen children like her.
Their fate turned around one time when they were on their way to an auction, which must have been in the North Country. It was a rugged and difficult-to-travel windy and snowy road. The horse pulling the cart suddenly got frightened and hit a rock.
The carriage pulled a large wooden cage containing Koshiko and his party and fell into the cliff.
The cage was shaken open, but at the same time, many of the same race were thrown to death and shattered on the spot.
When Ke Zhizi was panicking, a boy of the same race who was a few years older than him came over, smashed the "cage within a cage" where she was, and then said to her: "Don't move here for now, I will run away later, those People will chase me, but you see we are far away, and you run in the opposite direction."
Ke Zhizi seemed to understand and nodded, until she saw the boy running fast in the snow. She was extremely nervous, and she kept expecting him to escape and disappear into the vast white snow.
However, a javelin penetrated his chest ruthlessly and accurately from behind.
A tall immortal dressed in white, the same color as Xue, chased after him and picked up the small body.
After all, corpses can be sold for money.
Only then did Ke Zhizi remember the instructions of this boy from the same race, and ran in the opposite direction desperately.
Her feet were bare, and she still remembered that the snowflakes were like knives, and it hurt so much when they cut her feet.
She still remembered the wind blowing on her face, like a knife, and it hurt so much.
Her whole body was shaking, making a tinkling sound like ice cubes colliding. It was so painful.
But the immortal found her anyway.
He roared in the snow: "You bastard, stop it!"
He pulled out his javelin, but didn't know why he didn't throw it. Maybe he was afraid of hurting his flawless body.
The young Ke Zhizi finally ran to another cliff. Without thinking much, she closed her eyes and jumped down.
Ke Zhizi said this in one breath, feeling a little short of breath and paused.
Only then did Lu Ran realize that there was a reason why Ke Zhizi was so introverted, shy and timid.
Although he really wanted to know what was going on, he also wanted Kochiko to rest for a while, so he turned around and looked back.
But they found that there was a huge creature in the abandoned pond, silently, hiding in the water, and also listening intoxicatedly.
It turned out to be the real black dragon in the water.
Lu Ran poked Ke Zhizi, who looked at it and said with a smile: "Okay, it seems he also wants to hear the whole story, okay, then I will continue, the rest of the story is very short."
Lu Ran and Ke Zhizi still haven't discovered that the Youshi period has passed for a long time, but they are not dead yet.
The second half of Kochiko’s story is much simpler.
Kochiko jumped off the cliff and happened to meet an immortal who came here to visit a friend. The immortal thought that it was auspiciousness from heaven and saved her. Although the man in white saw that Kochiko was saved, he did not dare to say anything. After all, , selling the Jade Tribe is an illegal activity and is strictly prohibited by both religions.
The immortal who saved Kezhizi was He Rouyu's good friend named Qiani Erzhu. He later adopted Kezhizi, but because his wife objected, he had to send Kezhizi to Yangjian Mountain to be reborn. Sword Attendant.
Then, Ke Zhizi followed him all the way back to Huan, and the two grew up together until they went down the mountain and came to Fenli Town in Lishan.
The story is over.
Ke Zhizi's eyes were filled with infinite joy and gratitude.
Lu Ran let out a long sigh.
The dark dragon whimpered a few times, and if he hadn't been in the water, you would have seen him shed a few tears.
Lu Ran gritted his teeth and said: "These human traffickers really don't deserve to die! Ke Zhizi, haven't you ever thought about seeking revenge against them?"
Ke Zhizi shook his head: "No, I can survive. I feel satisfied. I have never thought about revenge."
Lu Ran stepped forward and held Ke Zhizi's hand: "No! We must take revenge! When we get this [Fu Tu], I promise you, take Yang Ya back to Huan, we must find the gang of human traffickers and let them They paid with blood!"
Ke Zhizi's eyes were filled with tears.
The real dragon behind him fluttered a few times and splashed some water, seeming to be echoing.
A few drops of cold pool water slapped Lu Ran's face, and he suddenly woke up: "Ke Zhizi, it shouldn't be Shen Shi now, right?"
Ke Zhizi went to see the sunset, which was much lower than before.
"I don't know, but it should...it must have been a long time, right?"
Ke Zhizi said so.
Lu Ran became excited. "We're not dead?"
"We are indeed not dead."
"We didn't die?"
"We should be, not dead?"
Faced with Lu Ran's repeated questions, even Ke Zhizi was not sure now.
Then, the real dragon behind him suddenly dived into the bottom of the pool, splashing more water.
In the distance, there was a Taoist priest in black clothes and a sword, coming in a fierce and hurried manner.
Some people died, but not completely...
