In the blink of an eye, it’s September and the golden autumn.
The bleak autumn wind carries the withered yellow leaves spinning in the sky. The lazy sunshine behind the thin clouds casts a colorful golden light on the leaf veins.
In the Red Prince's Mansion, the lotus flowers in the lotus pond have been in full bloom for a season, but now they are withered, and the lotus leaves are listlessly glowing with yellow.
In the back garden, Qing Shisan wore a scarf on his head, chewed on a cigarette stick, hummed a tune, blew out smoke rings from time to time, and used a shower head to moisturize the yellow chrysanthemums in the Red Queen's garden, enjoying the happiness of retirement.
The Disaster Prevention Bureau is now on track. A number of the mysterious cases that had accumulated after the day and night were paralyzed were finally cleared up by the Xiaobu Department of the Disaster Prevention Bureau working overtime all over the country.
In the study.
Zheng Xiu sighed and hammered his waist, looking through the files accumulated in the past few months after the disaster prevention bureau was put into operation.
Originally, he was not required to handle these matters. Mr. Jiang Gaoyijiang, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment and the Secretary of the Disaster Prevention Bureau, was always able to take care of the internal affairs of the Disaster Prevention Bureau in an orderly manner. However, since the Lu Zhen incident, the ubiquitous Zhu made Zheng Xiu feel faintly uneasy. He tried to see if he could catch any clues related to Zhu from these closed case files.
That night in Luzhen.
Later Zheng Xiu still explained it.
Zheng Xiu thought about it and confessed to Feng Bei that night: the four girls have become strangers, and Orchid is a stranger. After they became strangers, there was a bottleneck in their path. Zheng Xiu spent one night practicing with them and finally broke through the bottleneck.
At that time, Feng Bei's half-smiling expression made Zheng Xiu not sure if she smelled something different, but Feng Bei didn't ask anything later.
During the Battle of Lu Town, the damage was serious, and hundreds of local residents said they saw monsters at night. This matter could not be concealed, so not long after returning from Lu Town, King Chi was summoned into the palace by an imperial edict, and the emperor and King Chi held a candle-lit night talk.
The emperor initially complained about the casualties in Lu Town, but when Zheng Xiu said that he would be responsible for all expenses for the post-disaster reconstruction of Lu Town, the emperor showed a happy smile on his face.
That's not true. This is a large financial expenditure. It would be great if Zheng Xiu is willing to take the initiative to bear it.
"It's always you, Mrs. Zheng, who takes care of my troubles."
Before leaving, the emperor sighed inexplicably.
So far, although the Lu Zhen incident has left many questions, it has finally been resolved.
The "Wutong Statue" hidden in Yin Qingqing's "Time Demon Space" became increasingly dry and cracked shortly after it was brought back. It cracked into countless pieces overnight and was completely useless.
When Zheng Xiu calmed down afterwards, he carefully sorted out the causes and consequences of the case, and combined with what the orange cat said, he was extremely frightened when he thought about it.
The first is the "Wutongshen".
The Wutong statue is indeed strange. It is like a "medicine" that makes "ninety-nine" young women pregnant with fetuses. But this fetus is born alone and has a short life, and is destined not to survive.
The "resentment" accumulated by the fetus that could not be born was used as a seed, and the "resentment" gave birth to "wishes", so that the "Nascent Soul" was born.
"Resentment" generates "wish". From the resentment of the ninety-nine orphans, the elixir "Nascent Soul", the most nourishing elixir in the world, was born. In this equation, what makes this equation true is the layout of the candle. , some kind of ritual.
It almost triggered the ritual of the Ever Dark creature.
"What does he want to do?"
Zheng Xiu frowned and thought: "Could it be that, as Maomao said, his body has decayed due to his many trips to the Bund, and he is in urgent need of the Nascent Soul elixir to restore his youth to his body?"
Zheng Xiu was suddenly stunned: "Wait, in other words, Zhu is not really 'immortal', but uses many miraculous techniques to maintain his lifespan and live... for a thousand years?"
"He is using other people's lives... to extend his life!"
"If he hides in the Bund, it will be even harder to find him. I can't just run into the Bund to look for him when I have nothing to do. Besides, there are so many strangers in the world, how do I know where he is hiding?"
Since Luzhen, Zheng Xiu spent a month practicing repeatedly and finally mastered the technique of opening the "Bund channel".
Not only can he walk in the Bund in his avatar, but after opening the passage, anyone can enter.
The question is whether you can make it out alive.
The two most critical elements to maintaining a channel are:
"Entrance" and "Exit".
The entrance is himself. If there is no "exit", he can only enter the "Prisoner"'s Bund. But if the "Inn" is used as the exit, the Bund channel leading to the Inn will be opened.
It sounds similar to [Wandering of the Gods], but Zheng Xiu, who has walked several times, knows that although it may seem similar, it is actually very different.
"Strange, why do I look more and more like the candle I used to be?"
Zheng Xiu's thoughts were wandering and he had no intention of flipping through the case book. He closed the volume in front of him and lowered his head in deep thought.
Silently, a pair of fair and skillful hands gently kneaded Zheng Xiu's shoulders.
Zheng Xiu didn't look back, knowing that the person standing behind him was Feng Bei.
"You came?"
Zheng Xiu looked back and saw Feng Bei's long hair half-covered, smiling at him. Zheng Xiu gently patted the back of Feng Bei's hand to signal her to stop squeezing. He stood up and lifted Feng Bei's hair away, looking at the familiar face.
Feng Bei's eyelashes trembled slightly and she closed her eyes.
Zheng Xiu approached.
Feng Bei pouted without leaving any trace.
After a while.
Zheng Xiu pinched Feng Bei's face in surprise: "As expected of you, you've actually grown up."
When Feng Bei came back from Lu Town, there were many burn marks all over his body. Now his skin is as smooth as jade and he has recovered as before. Don't tell me, it's quite comfortable to touch.
Feng Bei was stunned when she heard this and opened her eyes. The next moment she turned her head and snorted coldly: "I want you to take care of it."
"Mua!"
Zheng Xiu suddenly took a bite out of Feng Bei's face.
Feng Bei covered his face, looking confused.
Zheng Xiu said proudly: "A high-end hunter will always choose to attack when the prey is unprepared."
Feng Bei looked at the "old man" in front of her who had actually lived for more than a hundred years. At this moment, he was teasing her emotions like a spirited young man. She suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, but there was a hint of sweetness and excitement in her heart. She took a step back lightly. Twisting her hair behind her ears, she asked with a smile: "Stop making trouble, what are you thinking about?"
Zheng Xiu pursed his lips toward the table: "The Red King is working, no one else can disturb him."
Feng Bei asked back: "Am I just an idler?"
Zheng Xiu smiled and said: "Of course you are not. Should I hang the 'Do Not Disturb' sign at the door of the study?"
In the cannibal painting, Zheng Xiu told Feng Bei stories when he had nothing to do, from "The orangutan fell in love with A Qiang on a night without A Zhen" to "On the Ice and Fire Island, A Zhen slashed with a dragon-slaying knife" "Dead Orangutan Goes Upward to Zhang Wuji", Zheng Xiu's talk about all the worlds in the world, south and north, greatly increased Fengbei's knowledge and he understood many jokes. Feng Bei understood the words "Do Not Disturb" in an instant. He blushed and spat: "Don't disturb anyone."
Zheng Xiu nodded, it's Feng Bei.
After returning from Lu Town, Zheng Xiu vaguely noticed that Feng Bei seemed to be suffering from the same disease as the monk.
Scientifically speaking, it is "multiple personalities", and metaphysically speaking, it is "inner demons".
Inside her body lives the "Sierlo River".
Zheng Xiu had already figured out that the person he had been married to for ten years in the cannibal painting was not the real Xie Luohe in history, but the "Feng Luohe" who mistook the dream for reality and inadvertently split into another personality.
Feng Bei himself knew what was going on, but he couldn't control it.
The person who came to Lu Zhen's rescue that night was Feng Luohe's personality.
After getting along for a while, Zheng Xiu was able to tell the difference between the two personalities in just a few words.
It was Fengbei who resisted but welcomed him, and Fengluohe who took the initiative.
One is attacked, one is cold, one is hot, one is shaken and one is tortured.
Two completely different joys.
At first Zheng Xiu was a little worried.
But later Zheng Xiu realized that this was not entirely a bad thing. First of all, Feng Bei himself knows his situation. Secondly, in the state of "Feng Luo River", Feng Bei can use the "Luo River Divine Arrow" that was lost two hundred years ago, and can combine the thaumaturgy and archery skills of the "Executioner". The combination gives rise to new thaumaturgy, which is both far and near, and even more invincible.
Zheng Xiu has always been puzzled by Feng Bei's [Executioner] approach. It was like there was a passage in her body that could not be closed. Her thaumaturgy was passively activated and could not be closed. As a result, Feng Bei had to wear gloves under normal circumstances, otherwise whoever touched him would be destroyed.
Even when wearing gloves, it is possible to lose control under the influence of emotion.
If Feng Bei can completely master the "Luohe Divine Arrow", he may be able to completely solve the "ominous" that has been haunting Feng Bei, which has long become Feng Bei's heartache.
Feng Bei, who wanted to refuse the greeting, felt uncomfortable because of Zheng Xiu's strange gaze. She took the initiative to go to a corner of the study to light sandalwood for Zheng Xiu. When walking back to Zheng Xiu, Feng Bei noticed a drawing buried under the thick stack of files.
This is clearly the "doorway map" that Zheng Xiu drew a few months ago.
Pushing the file open, Feng Bei looked at the "Pathway Map". She noticed that Zheng Xiu added a few more strokes in the blank space, which was full of question marks. Obviously Zheng Xiu was not sure about the "doorway" deduction in the blank.
"Huh?"
Feng Bei noticed that Zheng Xiu wrote the name "Zhu" in the blank space, and then put a big question mark.
"Are you guessing...the path that person took?"
Feng Bei guessed Zheng Xiu's worries.
"It's just groundless speculation."
Zheng Xiu was ready to put away the door map.
Feng Bei nodded: "Without any clues, thinking too much is useless and will only increase worries. Maybe that person took the same path as you."
Zheng Xiu was stunned: "What did you say?"
Feng Bei had no idea what this sentence meant, and replied calmly: "He can incarnate into thousands of things, which is similar to your 'spiritual wandering'. He can also walk freely on the Bund."
Feng Bei thought of what happened that night.
Later, I learned from Shekou that Xianggu suddenly vomited from Bai Qiuyue's mouth, which caused her to have nightmares for more than ten days.
Feng Bei paused for a moment, shook his head and said with a smile, "Although his magic skills are similar to yours, in fact, your wanderings and incarnations are ten to a hundred times better than his, so you don't need to worry too much."
"No!" Zheng Xiu lowered his head and muttered: "Madam, you reminded me, it makes sense! The difference between a stranger and a non-foreign person in the same doorway lies in the 'weird object'. The 'weird object' is the amplification object of the doorway. It allows foreigners to ignore rules and restrictions to a certain extent and perform miraculous magic. I am a born 'prisoner' foreigner, unique... If Zhu wasn't, all his abilities would be my 'deteriorated version'!"
"At that time, I thought absurdly that the 'scorching sun' he saw a thousand years ago was me. Of course, it was impossible. I was not born a thousand years ago. But from another perspective, is there a possibility that the 'scorching sun' he saw a thousand years ago was me? , is it something related to the ‘Prisoner’?”
"So he followed the prisoner's rules, imprisoned himself, and gradually entered the prisoner's path."
Feng Bei looked slightly startled when he heard this: "But he is a stranger..."
"No conflict!" Zheng Xiu waved his hand: "My previous thinking was too narrow. Since the 'Orchid Monster' can be divided into four, what else is impossible? Now I am responsible for the 'Prisoner' and the 'Painter' Two kinds of strange things; the candle once had two strange things, the 'painter' and the 'orchid'; the monk, as an 'ascetic stranger', used different personalities to develop strange people with different paths..."
"And you," Zheng Xiu looked at Feng Bei with a smile, and his thoughts gradually became clearer: "In the cannibal painting, there is a mark on your butt..."
Feng Bei suddenly became angry: "Shut up."
When Zheng Xiu saw Feng Bei raise his palm, he immediately shut up. He didn't dare to say more and changed his words: "Ahem, in short, now that you are an 'executioner', you have also entered the crossroads of a 'chivalrous man'."
Feng Bei silently put down his palm.
Zheng Xiu sighed: "There are no wonders in the world! Everything is possible!"
Feng Bei was silent and did not deny Zheng Xiu's inference. After a while, he responded: "Chaos."
"It's very messy, and I think it's messy too. If it weren't for that broken cat..."
"Meow?"
A cat meowed from the roof.
"The invincible, well-behaved, cute and cute kitten kept it secret in order not to worry me. I had to use a big pot of fried fish cakes to find out the truth about the door."
Feng Bei covered his mouth and smiled.
After Lu Zhen saw the cuteness of the orange cat, the unscrupulous Red King also had something to be afraid of.
That cat.
"Do you know where that person is hiding?"
Zheng Xiu nodded, but then shook his head: "If he is really playing the role of a 'prisoner' and trying to find a way to follow the path of a 'prisoner', he can only be in one place now." With that, Zheng Xiu laid out the door path map again. , wrote Zhu’s name above [Prisoner], and put a small question mark.
"He's in a... cell."
…
When Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei were enjoying the rare peace and kissing each other in Prince Chi's Mansion.
The border between Beiguo and Daqian.
Border.
The bare cliffs stretch as far as the eye can see.
Steep mountains act as natural barriers, isolating the two countries.
Although there is a winding path between the cliffs that can pass between the two places, the terrain is rugged and the mud and sand are slippery, which is not conducive to the army's movement.
This is "Haoran Pass".
It is said that twenty years ago, General Zheng Haoran separated from the emperor and set foot on the point of no return.
In later generations, this Tianguan was named after General Zheng Haoran, who guarded Daqian Qiyun for twenty years.
On the tower of Haoran Pass, several teams of armored border officers patrolled back and forth. Recently, barbarians have been riding horses outside the fortress from time to time. Although they have not broken into the border, this is always a worrying signal. The city guard general Shen Shizong, 20 He was still an ignorant boy a few years ago, but he was fortunate enough to serve as a gang leader under Zheng Haoran. Now twenty years have passed, and the bearded man has no longer what Zheng Haoran expected twenty years ago, and has become a man of his own. General.
"Woo——"
As the sun sets, the golden light spreads a wheat-like color over the mountains.
In the distance, white snow and yellow sand are entangled, whistling on the horizon, and forming a gray cyclone under the same color of heaven and earth.
A group of barbarians wearing fur cloaks appeared on the horizon, approaching Haoran Pass with the rapid sound of horse hooves.
When the young soldier saw that the situation was not right, he immediately blew the horn. In Haoran Pass, more than a hundred soldiers immediately strapped on their bows, lit arrows on fire, and pointed at the approaching group of barbarians from a distance.
Shen Shizong walked steadily, holding a spear in his hand, and walked up the city wall, squinting and looking into the distance.
The young soldier on the side half-stretched his bowstring, his palms full of sweat.
"Don't be nervous." After Shen Shizong saw the opposite side clearly, he laughed and said: "All armies obey the order and guard the border!"
"yes!"
"General Shen, they are holding something in their hands!"
"It's a scroll!"
More than 20 tall northerners stopped dozens of feet away from Haoran Pass. A big man nearly two meters tall was babbling and shouting at Haoran Pass.
Shen Shizong sent his troops out of seclusion to see what the other party wanted to do.
Soon, the soldiers returned and the moment the city gate was closed tightly, he breathed a long sigh of relief. Apparently, he was very nervous to be in close contact with the legendary barbarian who drank raw hair and drank blood.
Shen Shizong also learned about the other party's intention and said in shock:
"What? He said they are the envoys of the 'Wolf King', sent to negotiate peace?"
Shen Shizong has been guarding here for twenty years and has never heard anything so ridiculous. His first reaction was that it was a scam. His second reaction was that it was still a scam. His third reaction was that his general's hat might not be guaranteed.
(End of chapter)
