The gray haze swayed gently like an aurora, filling the whole world.
Twisted gray and black.
boom!
For a moment, Zheng Xiu couldn't tell what the sound was. At first it sounded like the sound of water dripping, then it sounded like the sound of someone grinding their teeth, and sometimes it sounded like the sound of tens of thousands of children gathering together to play. But soon, the source of these sounds seemed to have discovered Zheng Xiu. In a moment of silence, the tide of whispers seemed to have a "body", squeezing Zheng Xiu's ears crazily, and making Zheng Xiu's head roar. There was a buzzing sound on the ground, his vision went dark, and he fell downwards involuntarily.
"Hehehehe! If God had not given birth to me, King Zheng Chi, I would have fought for eternity like a long night! Why can that old and immortal emperor stand on top of my head? There is no room for two tigers in a mountain, and it is difficult for a country to have two kings. I will kill him when I go out. he!"
"Second Mother, she is as beautiful as a flower. She has not been married for many years, so she must be like a wolf and a tiger. She has no blood relationship with this king. I fall in love with her. She is a talented man and a beautiful woman. Who dares to object?"
"Making money makes money, what's the point of talking about conscience? The monthly salary will be reduced by 50%, and it will be paid once a year. If you don't like it, you will deduct it all! If you don't obey, you will be killed! How can you make big money by doing business with conscience? Who is the real wealthy businessman who doesn't cover his most important things? How can a fragile conscience do the cruelest thing? I am the Red King, and sooner or later I will be the emperor above ten thousand people, who dares to disobey? Hehehehe!"
"First, we plunder and plunder the land, let the untouchables work for me, and sign a huge deed of sale. If we can't afford it, the whole family will sell it. Hehehehe! The money will make money, and the profits will make profits. Sooner or later, I will be able to hold this world's windfall in my hands! "
"Who among the four beautiful orchids in my family can't see that they are enamored of me? The four girls are proficient in playing, playing, and singing. I must let them lie on the couch and join in the battle together. Two of them will play and two of them will sing. Life is short and time is wasted, wouldn’t it be wonderful to enjoy such a life?”
"Then Feng Bei and I have been married in dreams for ten years, and we already know the basics. Now that a little separation is better than a wedding, how can there be so much emphasis on it? If you don't want the overlord to force the bow, if you can't beat him, you can't use medicine? Why are you afraid of her? ! But if she really refuses and wants to take action, hum, such a terrible girl...cough! Don't forget it! I am weak for three thousand, but I can save two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine. There is no need to be here. A person like Feng Bei is wasting his time!"
"Look at that little female cat, with its front and back curved, beautiful appearance, soft hair, and plump body. It will definitely be enchanting once it transforms into a beautiful shape. What's wrong with the female cat? Isn't it also a female? Hey! There is still a king like me in the world. A woman who can’t come?”
"It's all my king's! It's all my king's! The wealth, power, and beauty in the world all belong to me!"
Voices rang in Zheng Xiu’s ears.
All voices are his own.
It sounds like "the voice of the heart".
One was bolder than the other, and each one made Zheng Xiu blush.
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up!"
Zheng Xiu looked ferocious at this moment, these were definitely not his real thoughts. With a loud shout, Zheng Xiu bit his tongue hard, and hot blood poured into his throat in an instant. The smell of blood and pain made him regain some clarity. As the [inspiration] disappeared, those noisy "heart voices" suddenly became quiet. It seemed as if it had never sounded.
"Huh~"
The "voice" in his mind faded away like a tide, and the sense of relief made Zheng Xiu let out a long sigh of relief. At this moment, Zheng Xiu was still falling. After he regained his clarity, he flapped his wings, barely stabilized his body, and floated in the air.
After he stabilized his body, he was only half a body away from the "river" below. Looking at the strange fluid below that was as viscous as asphalt, with bubbles popping out from time to time, Zheng Xiu was obviously unwilling to risk his life to experience what it was.
"It seems that 'inspiration' has never been chaotic."
Zheng Xiu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling lingering fear. Recalling the noisy "heartbeat" just now, Zheng Xiu couldn't help but feel hot in his face, and he shook his head repeatedly. Slander, rumors, and slander are all false. How could he be so shameless? You still have to live by your conscience. How can his huge conscience be easily covered with his hands?
In an instant, Zheng Xiu understood what had just happened. At the moment when the [Inspiration] judgment was successful, Zheng Xiu had a brief contact with certain beings in Chang An, and the "pollution" they emitted evoked Zheng Xiu's non-existent "evil thoughts" out of thin air. Zheng Xiu had faced Chang An directly in Baili Village back then and was contaminated by "madness". The feeling he had just now that he couldn't help but think wildly was similar to "madness pollution".
The pollution just now was not "crazy", it was more like...
"Greed?"
Mo's secret essence is just a stew of negative emotions?
Zheng Xiu casually speculated on the secret of Chang An, but what Zheng Xiu never expected was that even in such a bold delusion, he still gave up when facing Feng Bei.
"Greed and evil thoughts" take the initiative to retreat.
Feng Bei was like a needle in Zheng Xiu's heart, and Zheng Xiu silently gave him a thumbs up.
He was flapping his wings at this time, hanging in the void, and continued to look around.
The dark and sticky "river" below was an unfamiliar sight to Zheng Xiu. Zheng Xiu once used his consciousness to walk in the two paths of "prisoner" and "painter". He knew that the "landscapes" in the paths were completely different and each had its own style.
[Prisoner] The sky and earth in the doorway are the same color, as deep as the sea, and an endless gray expanse, which makes people taste despair and helplessness in suffocation.
[Painter] The scenery in the doorway is gloomy, but full of light and shadow flowing in ink, which is both terrifying and magnificent at the same time.
Very few people in the world are lucky enough to have walked on two paths at the same time. In fact, Zheng Xiu was exploring the feasibility of practicing both paths last year. However, none of the strange people around him now have two paths. Unfortunately, he has walked on both paths by himself. .
It was precisely because of this experience that Zheng Xiu thought about it for a while and surmised the location of the "Bund" here, and murmured to himself: "This is... the Bund of the 'Ferryman'? Is that so?"
After being prompted by Orange Cat, Zheng Xiu accidentally called the "doorway" the "Bund". It's just that at this moment, Zheng Xiu still doesn't understand what the "Bund" means.
In the second half of the sentence, Zheng Xiu asked about the orange cat.
But after waiting for a while, the orange cat curled up quietly in Zheng Xiu's arms without any reaction. Zheng Xiu was stunned, remembering his random thoughts just now, and hurriedly explained: "Oh, let me go. Did I accidentally say what was in my heart just now... Bah! It's not what I said in my heart. You know me, and I'm not like that. Man, how could I think that a mere cat has a plump body? Bah, I'm not saying you're bad, I mean..."
After confusingly explaining himself between "normal people" and "weird people" for a while, the orange cat still strangely didn't respond at all and was strangely quiet. Zheng Xiu was puzzled and took out the orange cat on his body. Lift forward.
"Meow!"
The orange cat foolishly touched Zheng Xiu's face.
"What did you say?"
Zheng Xiu was dumbfounded. Since he became proficient in [foreign languages], it was rare that he could not understand Meow Meow.
"Meow meow!"
The orange cat looked around in panic, and seemed to only hear Zheng Xiu's voice, but could not see Zheng Xiu's person at all. As if blind.
"Are you kidding me? You brought me in and you died?" Although Zheng Xiu knew very well that the "abnormality" of the orange cat in the past was that it was possessed by some kind of creature from Chang Dark, now the orange cat is normal orange cat. But Zheng Xiu was still angry. How could you just give up your work in this ghost place with no village or store? So irresponsible!
Zheng Xiu whirred and slapped the orange cat's butt, trying to pull the orange cat back. The orange cat purred and retracted pitifully into Zheng Xiu's arms. There was innocence hidden in the meow, as if to say: I don't even know!
Uh...it's really pretty.
Zheng Xiu was not really ruthless. Seeing that the orange cat was still unable to turn back into a "cat pillar", Zheng Xiu could only give up and make peace with it as it came. Zheng Xiu protected the orange cat in his arms and walked along the Follow the direction of the river and fly deep into the Bund.
The feeling of flying here is different from the outside world. Rather than flying with the posture of a bird in a prison, it is better to say that he is "swimming". The space is filled with a "medium" that is not "air". With Zheng Xiu's movements , there seemed to be something pulling on Zheng Xiu's hands and feet from time to time. Although it was not difficult to move, there was a sense of suffocation that he could not move freely.
After experiencing the "greed pollution" just now, Zheng Xiu did not dare to mess with [Inspiration] even if he felt uncomfortable in his actions. It was not that he was afraid of it, but he was purely cautious and worried that something would go wrong.
Now that the mysterious orange cat from Chang An is offline, Zheng Xiu is alone exploring the Bund of [The Ferryman].
The twisted zone squeezing from all sides to the middle faintly formed a continuous curtain of light. From time to time, gaps flashed through the curtain of light, and those gaps seemed to lead to other mysterious places.
Zheng Xiu's eyes flashed, and he vaguely guessed the reason why [The Ferryman] was so elusive. Whether the candle is moving long distances through the passage of the crow keeper, or the ferryman is traveling along the river, this place is located between the eternal darkness and the eternal world, a mysterious area called "The Bund" by the orange cat. It seems that That's the key to their elusiveness.
"Wait a minute!"
Zheng Xiu suddenly remembered something. He grabbed the soft skin on the back of the orange cat's neck and held the whole little female cat in his hand. Zheng Xiu glared at the orange cat and remembered that night when he and Wei Chen had a banquet, the orange cat said something The action of paw slapping outside the map.
"What you wanted to say at that time was that he was hiding in the Bund?"
The orange cat tilted his head.
I didn’t understand what Zheng Xiu said.
It was even blind and couldn't see where Zheng Xiu was.
"I see! It makes sense now! No wonder no one has ever been able to find Candle! What a guy!"
Zheng Xiu figured something out and was in a good mood. He flew along the "river" for an unknown length of time.
Until, in the distance, on the thick, bubbling black river, Zheng Xiu saw a small boat.
There were two people standing on the boat.
One male and one female.
"Got you."
Zheng Xiu grinned, leaned down and rushed down. The ink-colored light and shadow moved at high speed, and a gorgeous afterimage was dragged out behind Zheng Xiu, as if to split the scenery of the Bund into two.
On the boat.
Surprisingly, it was Bai Qiuyue and Xianggu who escaped in Lu Town not long ago.
Bai Qiuyue is a natural stranger in [Ferryman], so she naturally has her own uniqueness. He was able to enter this mysterious place a long time ago. He didn't know where this place was at first. Before he first awakened to the supernatural power, more than twenty years ago, Bai Qiuyue was just a young boatman on the canal.
Bai Qiuyue is obviously not good at water, but she likes to ferry on the river. She is a complete weirdo in the eyes of her peers. His colleagues even laughed at him: Ayuele, you must learn to fetch water quickly, otherwise you may fall into the water one day and, wow, drown!
The young Bai Qiuyue disagreed. Although he was not good at water, his boat rowed smoothly and sailed smoothly in wind and rain. He was known locally as a "flying boat in the waves". Later, when Bai Qiuyue gave birth to a son, she became even more diligent and played every day. After a few years of marriage, he was happy to have a son and a daughter.
One day, the children came over and told their father that they wanted to ride on his boat. Bai Qiuyue agreed.
But that day, after walking on the river for a lifetime, a rock suddenly appeared on the river and shattered the boat. He and his children fell into the water. In the end, he was beaten to the shore by the prodigal son. When he found his children along the river bank, crying and shouting, they had already been turned into white men.
His wife was so depressed that she committed suicide by jumping into the river. Bai Qiuyue also thought about jumping off the boat and finishing it off. Unexpectedly, he, who had never been good at water, seemed to have become a different person after his family's change. He floated up as soon as he fell into the water, and was able to breathe inexplicably when he sank to the bottom of the water.
He saw something different "out there."
Only then did he realize that the birthmark on his back had another meaning.
He can use the "Bund" to travel north and south of the Yangtze River and travel to various places.
Gradually, Bai Qiuyue walked out from the shadow of that accident and decided to be an ordinary "ferryman" for the rest of her life. He had a rule for ferrying, not accepting any money, and only ferrying those who were destined.
Bai Qiuyue thought that he was a unique existence in the world, so she hid herself deeply. Until one day, an uninvited guest came to the door where he had always been alone.
He said he was the Lord of the Night.
Bai Qiuyue stood on the bow of the boat and rowed the boat. Xianggu sat on the stern of the boat, watching here quietly.
"I'm very curious as to why you gave up on the 'Nascent Soul'. It's obviously only one step away."
"Haha," Xiang Gu covered her mouth with a smile: "Once the 'thing' in the Chang Dark is attracted and enters the ordinary world, no one can stop it. When things over there are over, you and I will go and take back the Nascent Soul."
Bai Qiuyue looked away from Xianggu, looked ahead with bright eyes, and said calmly: "Don't forget what you promised me."
"Everything in the world has a certain number." Xianggu nodded, with a smile on her face: "You, me, him, all the 'strangers' are 'odd numbers' that should not exist, and they are also 'the absurdity of the world.' It should not appear in the ordinary world. When the evil of the ordinary world is corrected, everything will be put into order, and your family will return from the distortion and return to you. However, by then, the strange things will be peeled off from you, and you will You will lose the skills you have now and never see such wonderful sights again. Do you really not regret it?"
"Haha." Bai Qiuyue lowered the brim of her hat, smiled, and did not answer.
The answer lies in the heart.
"I believe you ghost!"
suddenly.
A voice interrupted the conversation between the two.
Bai Qiuyue turned back in shock.
Click! Click! Click!
"you!"
Xianggu's screams came from behind.
Bai Qiuyue looked back and saw a terrifying monster with white bones covering its face and fangs sticking out. One side had dreamlike wings, and the other side stretched out two terrifying arms knotted with muscles.
Those two arms actually grabbed "Xiang Gu" tightly and fixed her there.
Xianggu screamed, and transparent tentacles stretched out from under her skirt, biting the monster.
In an instant, the two of them were fighting in the sky.
That scene was clearly two monsters fighting.
"You old immortal is so evil!"
Tentacles fell on the monster one after another. Wherever they bit, the skin on the monster shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the blood was sucked away. But the monster became more and more courageous as he fought, holding on to Xianggu with two thick arms. No matter how Xianggu whipped him, he never let go.
Bai Qiuyue had no idea that in addition to the mysterious Night Lord, a third person would arrive in his "territory".
"impossible!"
in the air.
Xianggu roared in disbelief in an old voice: "Impossible! Impossible! How could you...how could you..."
"It's very simple, just come in in a flash."
Zheng Xiu laughed ferociously and opened his mouth in a terrifying way.
Dark light brewed in Zheng Xiu's mouth.
Bai Qiuyue was below, and as the black light from the monster's mouth gathered, it became more and more intense, as if it had become a dark scorching sun, burning with cold and twisted fire.
"not good!"
Bai Qiuyue's scalp was numb and her heart was alert. She jumped into the thick water resolutely and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Die!"
Zheng Xiu finally seized the opportunity and opened his mouth to shoot.
In an instant, jet-black light cannons erupted from Zheng Xiu's mouth, and the huge repulsive force sent Zheng Xiu flying backwards.
No wonder the "Devil" had to be rooted to the ground when it possessed him. The recoil of this cannon was huge, and the force was reciprocal. After Zheng Xiu killed Xiang Gu with one blow, the huge impact caused him to spit blood and he came back to his senses. At that time, he only held two bloody severed hands in his two arms, and fragments of limbs were scattered in the gradually disappearing black light and shadow in front of him.
"died?"
Zheng Xiu flew far away, panting heavily. This was the first time Zheng Xiu tried to possess two "monsters" at the same time. The weird posture made him unable to look at himself. But the temptation of the giant cannon in the air was too great, and the anti-aircraft cannon was also very practical. They quietly reached over and fired out a cannon, catching Xianggu and Bai Qiuyue off guard.
Zheng Xiu knew that Zhu's ability was more than that, or that Zhu's [Orchid] incarnation did not pose much threat to Zheng Xiu except playing with its tentacles. Looking at the tooth marks on his body, Zheng Xiu felt strange. He looked around, wary of Zhu's appearance.
At this moment, Zheng Xiu suddenly felt a stinging pain in the center of his eyebrows, and the [prisoner] strange thing was about to emerge from the center of his eyebrows.
Snapped!
In the distance, among the fragmented "pieces of meat", a "thing" that looks like a "dead branch" stretches like a living thing amidst the sound of "pop, pop, pop". From a distance, it looks like a huge... stick insect.
"What the hell?"
Zheng Xiu was stunned. After beating Xianggu to death, it seemed that... strange "equipment" exploded?
Click, click, click!
Immediately afterwards, Zheng Xiu felt severe pain in the center of his eyebrows, and the rotten chain broke open between his eyebrows and shot out towards the "dead branch".
There was a moment of shock and then.
Zheng Xiu's expression changed drastically, and he turned around and left without looking back.
"Fuck! Don't come over here!"
The chain was out of control and instantly penetrated the distance between the two. It tightly grasped the dead branch and was pulling towards Zheng Xiu.
Zheng Xiu still didn't understand what the "dead branches" were.
"Orchid monster!"
"I do not want!"
Zheng Xiu turned around and ran away in fear.
(End of chapter)
