The sky is dark, the mountains are covered with snow, and a winding official road passes through the mountains and snowfields.
Thin hailstones were carried in the wind and snow, and the snow and wind were like knives, scraping the muscles and bones, and the chill was overwhelming.
On the official road to the south, three horses galloped southward.
The rushing horse's hooves stirred up snow dust upwards. When it collided with the falling wind and snow in mid-air, it formed a straight thin line, following the horse's movement.
Feng Bei and his party of four abandoned their carriage on the roadside, put on the cloaks they had prepared in advance, and headed on their way in the wind and snow.
"call……"
Breathing out a puff of white mist, Feng Bei rode behind Zheng Shan, speechless all the way.
Zheng Xiu felt complicated.
I never imagined that the nightmare would come true.
In the dream he had on the night of January 1, he and Feng Bei were galloping, one was full and the other was overflowing. I hope that the ending of the nightmare will not come true, and that Feng Bei will not slap him into ashes.
"Your son looks like you. He looks like you from the left, looks like you from the right, he looks like you."
Behind him, Feng Bei suddenly said in a strange tone.
"Uh, that's normal."
Zheng Xiu answered loudly and was suddenly given a mouthful of Fengxue.
"But, it's so similar."
Zheng Xiu was silent.
Feng Bei asked again: "Where have you been these years?"
"Retreat, live in seclusion, and have children." Zheng Xiu answered bravely.
"Twenty years ago, senior, why did you save me?"
Feng Bei grasped Zheng Xiu's clothes tightly with both hands.
"The wind is too strong, I can't hear you! Get on your way first!"
"..."
It's a long way to Shuzhou.
Even if they traveled day and night, the journey was expected to take ten and a half days.
In the past, books always said that a horse with blood can travel a thousand miles in a day. That was nonsense.
Ancient roads were not like modern ones. They were paved with cement or asphalt and were smooth and easy to walk. Even the official road for commercial and military use is full of mud and potholes in the wind and rain. In some places, there are gravel, snow slides, and rivers. The road is complicated, and it is considered good to be able to travel hundreds of miles a day.
A night of silence.
It's dawn.
The four of them stayed overnight in a small village to rest.
Expect to get back on the road after two hours of rest.
While storing the horse, Dou Xie secretly said that this powerful man was a legendary reclusive master who could enter and exit the darkness seven times and secretly came over to ask for tips on how to get promoted.
Zheng Xiu glanced at Dou Xie and saw that the injury on his face was much better.
In fact, this kid Douxie is very motivated and has no shortcomings except his tough talk.
After several attempts to shirk the situation without success, Zheng Xiu gave a compromise suggestion in the hope that he would not spoil the child even if he gave it a try.
"Since you are a 'literary', you can't always think about copying other people's things. After all, what you copy is not your own. You can try to integrate your own understanding into the text, and then transform it into thaumaturgy and mix it into your own Emotions may lead to different thaumaturgy.”
"What the senior said is true! What about, for example?" When Dou Xie heard this, he understood, but he didn't seem to understand either. Listened, but not completely.
Zheng Shan smiled slightly: "I heard that you are one of the twenty-eight constellations?"
Dou Xie didn't know why Zheng Shan suddenly changed the topic, but he still puffed up his chest and said proudly: "Yes!"
"I also heard that your strength is unsatisfactory among the twenty-eight stars?"
Dou Xie was stunned.
"I heard that you suffered a complete defeat in the Fairy Aunt Temple?"
Dou Xie blushed: "Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense!"
Zheng Shan: "Garbage."
Dou Xie was extremely angry, but remembering the identity of the other party, he could only try to defend himself, saying how dangerous the situation was at that time, and that he accidentally fell into the opponent's magic spell.
After listening patiently, Zheng Shan still smiled and shook his head, raised his index finger and shook it left and right: "Tsk, garbage."
Dou Xie bala bala.
"Rubbish."
"Rubbish."
"Rubbish."
Dou Xie's words were already incoherent, and his excuses were getting weaker and weaker.
In the end, Zheng Xiu threw the final blow: "Apart from the facts, don't you, as the hottest star, have no self-awareness at all?"
With a bang, Dou Xie's vision went dark and he fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth.
"Tsk, 'literati'."
Zheng Xiu sneered.
"Look, words contain mysterious power. Do you feel angry? It's okay to be angry. Try integrating this emotion into your words and then throw it out."
…
Canceling [Wandering] near [Inn Fengbei], Zheng Xiu patted Pingping. She opened her eyes and woke up as if she was sleepwalking.
The soaked Princess Yueshi of the ancient Persian kingdom had a strange dream. She loosened her restraints with a blushing face and her feet went weak.
"Is it useful?"
Zheng Xiu was curious about Pingping’s practice progress.
Pingping nodded and blinked: "Master, do you want to listen to some music? Other music~"
"Well, another day."
Zheng Xiu nodded in agreement and walked out of the dungeon.
Zheng Erniang knew that the master had been working hard all night, so she ordered people to boil hot water and prepare aphrodisiac soup early in the morning.
Zheng Xiu silently endured all the criticism and rumors without any explanation. At breakfast, Zheng Xiu was keenly aware of the worry hidden in the eyebrows of Zheng Erniang and others. After asking a few more questions, Zheng Xiu remembered that today was the end of his amnesty and he needed to return to visit. Days of hell.
"Three days, is it over?"
No wonder there was a faint feeling of sadness in the Zheng family's house today. Others didn't know why. They only knew that the master was going to jail again and couldn't be happy.
Zheng Xiu didn't think it was anything.
And it’s worth mentioning.
He was in the Zheng family's dungeon, although there was nothing unusual about the [Prisoner] panel. But he once tried traveling in a fugue, and found that the coverage area of [the fugue] was only slightly larger than the Zheng family's residence. Without the help of a post station, he could not travel around the whole city in his avatar.
The reasons for this result are clear.
Only a few people know about the Zheng family dungeon, and among the people who know about it, currently only four people, Bobo Pingping, Lili Zhizhi, have been implanted with the cognition of "prison". Only the four of them, from a cognitive level Accept that this is a "dungeon".
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If there are three, six or nine levels of cells, the Zheng Family Dungeon can only be regarded as the lowest level dungeon at present. It can barely trigger the [Prisoner] door, but in terms of the level of the cells, it cannot compare with the four major dungeons that are taboo in the hearts of ordinary people. One of the heavenly prisons - Wangtian Prison.
Since discovering this matter, Zheng Xiu has been thinking of ways.
How to continuously improve the level of the cell without exposing the Zheng family's dungeon?
Zheng Xiu suddenly felt that he was very busy. He was busy going out to meet with Feng Nao. He also had to work on other aspects of his career. The new vest [Zheng Baimei] was about to go online. Multi-line operations, without certain time management skills, It is difficult to allocate his precious time reasonably.
"It's difficult to handle."
But actually when this idea came up, Zheng Xiu thought of a very appropriate idea.
However, it is too difficult to realize this idea, and it may have to wander a little outside the laws of Daqian... No, it can only be said to be on the sidelines.
While silently reciting the Daqian Law, Zheng Xiu came to Qing Shisan for discussion.
After some secret discussions.
Qing Shisan smoked a dry cigarette with a strange look on his face. He stretched out his five fingers and broke them off one by one: "Committing adultery, committing murder and arson, being unkind to be rich, being unjust to be an official, being unfaithful to your wife, being unfaithful to your husband..." ...Master, are you planning to secretly put people who meet the above requirements into the dungeon of the Zheng family, whip them up, and educate them... to be a new person?"
At the end of the count, Qing Shisan’s ten fingers were not enough.
"With all due respect, sir, if you really follow the 'businessman' path, don't add too many weird rules. Doing so will only mess up your own rules, and ultimately you will be in a difficult position and achieve nothing." fate."
"Or maybe you, sir, are tired of being a businessman? Are you planning to steal the job of Guo Zifei, the best catcher in the capital, and become an 'official servant'? But the pomp of an 'official servant' is far inferior to that of you, sir!" "
"Master, do you really want to do justice for heaven? Eliminate harm for the people?"
Qing Shisan didn’t believe that Zheng Xiu was this kind of person.
Zheng Xiu smiled: "It seems like your 'Brotherhood' hasn't had any work for a long time."
Qing Shisan nodded: "That's true."
"Then you have to find some work to stretch your hands and feet."
"But you can't be so picky about food."
Qing Shisan seemed to sincerely regard Zheng Xiu as his master. He did not agree blindly, but was seriously discussing with Zheng Xiu: "If you can do this job, it should be helpful for us to deepen our knowledge. But we can't do it all. , at the very least, you have to change people in the final 'teaching' step. Otherwise, the rules are too complicated! I don't care, other brothers will be ruined."
"Substitution?"
Zheng Xiu held his chin and thought.
Qing Shisan said leisurely: "Ahem, actually, I have a good candidate."
Before Qing Shisan revealed his answer, Zheng Xiu's eyes lit up. He looked at Qing Shisan and felt that they were thinking of the same thing, so they said in unison: "Scar Lao Liu!"
Scar Laoliu made an appointment to pick up Mr. Zheng and return him to prison this morning. Zheng Xiu was going to wash up, tidy up his clothes, and wait carefully for the people from the prison to pick him up. At this time, Qing Shisan asked from afar: "By the way. Master, are you trying to fool people with your name?"
Qing Shisan was actually vaguely aware that Zheng Xiu's thoughts contained deep meaning, but for a while, Qing Shisan couldn't tell what was hidden. He always felt that Zheng Xiu wanted to create a... real prison.
Zheng Xiu paused, then smiled and said four words.
"Eternal Purgatory!"
