"Sure enough, there is a bug?"
"Does the same 'ferryman' thing exist in this world?"
Looking at the translucent and illusory black heart, Zheng Xiu gradually understood.
"In the same way, the painter and the walking skills in me may also exist... a second stranger with the same skills?"
"What would happen if the same monsters met?"
Zheng Xiu's face was solemn. Only when you encounter this kind of thing can you know the answer.
The black tentacles on the black heart stretch in the same direction.
Give Zheng Xiu a feeling like a "compass".
If Zheng Xiu guessed correctly, this should be the echo between two identical "black hearts", and the direction pointed by the tentacles should be the direction of the other black heart.
This world brings Zheng Xiu more and more sense of disobedience.
Now, he can't understand what happened to him.
No one could tell him the answer.
Holding the heart in his hand, Zheng Xiu walked out of the prison and returned to the street as if he was in a deserted place.
There were only a few people walking on the street, so in the middle of the night, he sneaked into the Ba Liufu Medical Center.
Scar Lao Liu's thunderous snoring sound came from the next door.
in the dark.
The house was filled with a stench like a decaying corpse. It was extremely unpleasant and came from Qing Shisan. No wonder Scar Laoliu would rather sleep in the woodshed than here.
bass.
As soon as Zheng Xiu sat down next to Qing Shisan, Qing Shisan suddenly opened his eyes.
"It's you."
Qing Shisan was lying on his back, and when he opened his eyes, he looked straight at the beams.
"Well, it's me."
Zheng Xiu replied calmly and bit his finger. He dipped his finger in blood and drew a lantern on the floor.
The ground was hazy with blood, and the lantern on the surface "surfaced" strangely from the floor, floating like a balloon, floating in the room, emitting a hazy light, casting the room into a gloomy blood color.
Zheng Xiu showed "this hand", and a strange color flashed in Ling Qingshisan's eyes, but the next moment, the strange color in his eyes faded away quietly.
"kill me."
Qing Shisan said indifferently.
Zheng Xiu shook his head.
"Save people until the end."
Qing Shisan said again.
Obviously at this moment, he believed that letting him die would be a kind of "salvation" for him.
"Ji Hongou...is really dead? Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Zheng Xiu asked.
Ji Hongou and Qing Shisan have known each other for many years, and Zheng Xiu knows this. But what he didn't know was that Ji Hongou's death would bring such a fatal blow to Qing Shisan, making him so depressed that he had no interest in life.
What is the relationship between them?
Zheng Xiu was puzzled.
In the past, when Ji Hongou was someone else's wife, she didn't see how Qing Shisan was doing.
Zheng Xiu suddenly discovered that he did not understand Qing Shisan as well as he thought.
Hearing this, Qing Shisan nodded slightly.
Zheng Xiu asked again: "Aren't you surprised why I know Ji Hongou?"
"Ha," Qing Shisan's attitude towards Zheng Xiu was much better at this moment, and he grinned. This smile made several cuts on his dry lips, and blood oozed out. He laughed with a weird laugh. Said: "Many people know...all know that we are repeat offenders of the imperial court."
"Don't want revenge?"
"Already reported."
"Tell me?"
Qing Shisan was silent for a while.
"The second prince."
"Ah?" Zheng Xiu was stunned: "The second prince with a mean mouth?"
When Qing Shisan heard this, he couldn't help but laugh: "It was him. I sneaked into the palace, dug out one of his eyes, stuffed it into his buttocks, pulled out his tongue, and put it into his eye socket. While he was still awake, I opened his chest, dug out his heart, and put it in front of his other eye, letting him watch with his own eyes as his heart lost its temperature little by little."
He spoke about the most brutal murder in the calmest tone.
It turns out that Qing Shisan killed the second prince.
The second prince is dead?
Well……
No wonder Qing Shisan had his legs broken by Shi Wentong.
Once such a key criminal escapes, things will really be a big deal.
He finally understood that Uncle Huo was really good to him and his father.
Scar Laoliu didn't even know what he had gotten into, and was sleeping soundly next door.
Zheng Xiu probably made up the "here" story in his head.
Qing Shisan and Ji Hongou failed to meet him or join the Zheng family. They had no legitimate occupations. In order to make a living, they still lived a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife, working as assassins and taking on small jobs.
Ji Hongou was killed by the second prince.
In order to take revenge, Qing Shisan sneaked into the palace alone. While killing the second prince, he was caught and thrown into the sky jail because of the long delay due to the torture.
It happened that Old Wei died, and perhaps many people would like to hear about the death of the second prince, so he threw Qing Shisan into a prison, broke his legs, and raised him like this. Until now, life is worse than death.
Zheng Xiu nodded: "I heard that the knife cuts quickly and the heart is dug out. How many seconds can a person live to see his own heart? Is it true?"
Qing Shisan was not sure: "Really? Maybe my knife was not fast enough, and he died as soon as he saw his heart."
In the bloody room, the two former masters and servants were silent for a while, and then suddenly each chuckled.
"For some reason, I feel like I've known you for a long time."
Qing Shisan said sadly.
When Zheng Xiu heard this, his pupils shrank.
He thought again of what Scar Lao Liu said, "Swen Tong died again."
Zheng Xiu took a deep breath.
"Are you interested... in hearing me tell a story?"
"……oh?"
He wanted to say he wasn't interested.
But I don’t know why I couldn’t say this.
Qing Shisan wanted to die, so he looked uninterested at the moment, but he still said "oh" softly, giving Zheng Xiu some face.
Zheng Xiu's voice suddenly became deep and magnetic.
It’s a great story-telling voice.
"A story about... the Red King and Qing Shisan."
…
"There was a handsome, precocious young man whose parents died when he was young."
"Living with my sister, I suffered all the bullying and contempt."
"one day……"
Zheng Xiu recounted his time with Qing Shisan in those years, bit by bit.
From the first encounter.
On the thirteenth day of Qing Dynasty, he settled in the imperial city.
Later, Ji Hongou and Pei Gaoya also came, and they secretly protected the Zheng family.
Ji Hongou got married, and Qing Shisan was a little disappointed and a little happy.
Qing Shisan worked as a coachman during the day and stayed on the roof of Zheng's house from time to time at night.
The story between him and the Red King is plain and simple, far less exciting than the ups and downs of "Sikong Chai Ming".
Zheng Xiu finished talking about Qing Shisan's secluded life as a retired assassin on the "other side" in a calm tone.
Qing Shisan, who was lying on the straw mat, had already burst into tears.
He choked and asked, "What you said...is it true?"
Qing Shisan's reaction surprised Zheng Xiu: "Do you believe it?"
"I believe..." Qing Shisan closed his eyes: "Except for her, no other person knows the name 'Qing Shisan'."
"When we were wandering around the world, we once had a good time. She smiled and asked me, if one day I had the opportunity to wash my hands in a golden basin and remain anonymous, what identity would I use."
"I said, I will change my name to 'Sikong Ming'."
"She laughed at me and said that the name sounded like a bad person."
"She said to be incognito you have to use a low-key name."
"Qing Shisan... was a name she chose casually."
"I thought that in this life, I would never be a 'Qing Thirteen'."
"..."
Qing Shisan's choked voice gradually returned to calm.
After he told the origin of the name "Qing Shi San", he turned his head for the first time all night and looked at Zheng Xiu's face.
"You want me to work hard for you?"
Zheng Xiu shook his head: "No. If you believe what I said is true, you should believe that I will not blackmail you with anything. Maybe I did something wrong. Coming here has changed many things. I I just want to get some things back on track. I dare not say that I can bring Ji Hongou back to life at the moment, but as long as you are alive, everything is possible, isn't it?"
Zheng Xiu's original intention was just to give Qing Shisan a reason to "live".
If Qing Shisan wanted to die, even if Zheng Xiu wanted to save him, he couldn't save a person who didn't want to live.
Apparently, his goal seemed to be achieved.
Zheng Xiu pointed to the bloody lantern hanging in the room and smiled: "Want to learn?"
Qing Shisan nodded.
For a moment, he longed to live and to see what Zheng Xiu said...another possibility.
Zheng Xiu pressed the translucent heart into Qing Shisan's body.
In an instant, Qing Shisan was trembling all over and twitching uncontrollably. He gritted his teeth hard, cracks appeared on his lips, and a lot of blood oozed out.
The process of merging with a monster is painful, and not everyone succeeds.
By mistake, Zheng Xiu wanted Qing Shisan to become a stranger in the [walking] world, but Qing Shisan refused. So Zheng Xiu used the [Big Crucible] to cook the [Abyss Walker].
Now, in order to save Qing Shisan and make up for his guilt, Zheng Xiu handed over the "Ferryman" artifact to Qing Shisan.
A drink and a peck have their own destiny. Zheng Xiu can't explain how it is better.
He has mastered the technique of entering the Bund. To be honest, the [Ferryman] trick is a bit useless to him. He can freely enter and exit the Bund without [The Ferryman]. Furthermore, now that his [Prisoner] is inexplicably down, the panel is garbled, and he cannot create a new clone. Instead of keeping the [Ferryman] trick, he might as well use it here to save Qing Shisan's life.
Perhaps Qing Shisan will take a different trajectory from the "previously". He will not become the Red King, and Sikong Zhuiming will not become "Qing Shisan". But as my father said: You deserve to live with no regrets, and you will have no regrets in death. Zheng Xiu believes that Qing Shisan has fallen to this point because of his selfishness. He selfishly wanted his father to survive regardless of the consequences, which led to this series of changes.
Zheng Xiu waited until Qing Shisan's breathing became stable before leaving Ba Liufu Medical Center.
Just as Huo Huo said, no one cares about the life or death of an assassin who killed a prince with a broken leg.
After the death of Old Wei, an undercurrent surged in the court. On the contrary, some people liked the death of the second prince, and it was a wasted death.
The matter of him rescuing Qing Shisan from the prison and hiding a wanted criminal was not as big a deal as the matter of killing Shi Wentong.
According to Huo Huo, Shi Wentong is from another faction. If his murder of Shi Wentong is revealed, it will put the Zheng family into the "royalist" camp. This is what Zheng Xiu is most worried about.
But do they have evidence?
Zheng Xiu thought it was unlikely.
Now there is no Ye Weiyang in the city.
"Should I create a Ye Weiyang?"
Zheng Xiu touched his chin and thought.
Soon he shook his head and denied it.
Wouldn't this make him the "Night Lord"?
There is another thing that Zheng Xiu doesn't understand: why this shift of the world line will make the "candle" disappear.
"Did he accidentally slip out of it, turn into a human pillar, and then... go in?"
If that were the case, everyone would be happy.
A few days passed without incident.
When he went to Ba Liufu Medical Center again, Qing Shisan's broken kneecap had healed, and granulation had grown from the wound.
Even if [The Ferryman] is not a strange person like the [Ascetic] who has specialized in the recovery of the physical body, his vitality is far beyond that of ordinary people.
When Scar Laoliu was changing the dressing on Qing Shisan's legs, he watched Qing Shisan stand up with a calm expression on his face, completely dumbfounded.
After being stunned for a long time, Scar Laoliu ran happily in the yard.
"Dad! I have a future!"
"I'm a miracle doctor!"
"The living dead, flesh and bones! I have become a miracle doctor!"
"Hahaha! Hehehe! I have become a miracle doctor!"
Qing Shisan was cured, but another one went crazy here.
Zheng Xiu brought clean clothes, a bamboo hat and a pair of straw sandals.
Qing Shisan put on the clothes Zheng Xiu brought and threw the dirty prison uniform into a brazier and burned it to ashes.
He was wearing straw sandals and his hat was pulled down. When he smiled, a row of yellowish teeth was exposed under the hat.
"Here."
Zheng Xiu threw a cigarette rod over and brought a pack of expensive tobacco leaves with him.
Qing Shisan didn't want it at first, but he touched the cigarette rod. Under his bamboo hat, his eyes suddenly lit up, and the hand holding the cigarette rod trembled slightly.
He lit the cigarette, took a puff, and coughed violently.
After a while, Qing Shisan seemed to get used to it, with smoke lingering around him. Zheng Xiu looked at the figure lingering in the smoke, and suddenly felt that the "former" Qingpi was back.
"Sikong Zhui Ming, what are your plans next?"
Zheng Xiu asked Qing Shisan.
Qing Shisan was smoking a cigarette. He narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "Sikong Zhui Ming died that night."
"Oh?" Zheng Xiu smiled.
Qing Shisan pressed his bamboo hat and raised his head. Wisps of sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the bamboo hat, casting mottled shadows on his face.
"The stories you tell are more interesting than the storytellers in the teahouse. So, if General Zheng doesn't mind it, Qing would like to stay with you for a while to hear the... ending of the story."
"Okay, the Zheng family welcomes you."
"The Ferryman,"
"Celebrating the Thirteenth."
…
…
What exactly is a monster?
The existence of strange objects seems to be "only".
If it is not unique, bugs will occur.
Qing Shisan temporarily lived in Zheng's house.
As a major general, it is reasonable for him to recruit a "housekeeper".
Although Zheng Haoran and Chuntao felt strange about Zheng Xiu recruiting a servant, they didn't think much about it.
Even if Huo Huo comes, as long as Qing Shisan doesn't show his face, he will not associate this person with Sikong Zhuiming, who has broken both legs.
Just as Qing Shisan said himself, Sikong Zhui Ming is dead.
Not long after he became the [Ferryman], he told Zheng Xiu that he could vaguely feel something attracting him on the other side of the mountain, far, far away.
Zheng Xiu told Qing Shisan that it was "another strange ferryman" that existed in this world.
Qing Shisan understood the words clearly and remained silent.
Shi Wentong's death caused tremors in the city. A total of more than ten widowers came and went to the place where Shi Wentong's body was parked for autopsy.
In these two lifetimes, Swinton's autopsies may have been performed more times than others.
Zheng Xiu even wondered curiously, if "being autopsied" was also a "rule" and there was a way, would Shi Wentong find a way to "transform into a corpse"?
This is of course a joke, and Swen Tong cannot survive—at least not in the current world line.
All the witnesses went over and over to do the autopsy. After several days of autopsy, they still came to the conclusion that Shi Wentong died of "horse wind".
He was destined to die from "the wind on horseback".
On the tenth day after Shi Wentong's death, Zheng Xiu drew a horse in his diary, and immediately drew a picture of Shi Wentong.
When Huo Huo came, he didn't say much. He only said three words, "It's okay." Everything was said without saying a word.
Zheng Xiu thanked him and secretly gave Huo Huo the "heart mirror" that Zheng Haoran used twenty years ago.
Huo Huo was indeed a "Haoran fan". He had a calm expression on his face, but secretly he felt like he had found a treasure. He swung "Zheng Haoran's used breast mirror" into his arms in front of Zheng Xiu.
"Uncle Huo will keep it for General Zheng first, keep it."
The corners of his mouth twitched and he stepped out of Zheng's house.
Zheng Xiu looked at Huo Huo's leaving figure and felt calmer this time.
He and Yue Linglong spent a few days peacefully.
Until the end of April.
One clear night.
A mysterious female thief was captured on the spot by Qing Shisan on the eaves of Zheng's house, breaking Zheng Xiu's peace.
(End of chapter)
