Zheng Xiu was slapped by the orange cat and entered the "entrance".
At the same time, this is the place that Zheng Xiu considers to be the "exit".
But when Zheng Xiu stepped here and a familiar feeling like going home came to his heart, he suddenly understood that it was not the case.
It's not "constantly dark" here.
Perhaps it was originally true. In the original time and space, the back of this mirror should have led to constant darkness, but the mirror that appeared in the red dot world was different from the previous "mirror".
One after another, illusory black streams of light flowed from top to bottom, washing rapidly at a place infinitely far away from Zheng Xiu, forming a deep black light curtain.
Zheng Xiu is surrounded by the same "scenery", with bunches of black light flowing downwards like waterfalls. There has been no change since Zheng Xiu entered this place, as if it is conveying "a certain scene" forever. kind of information".
Zheng Xiu has been here for a while.
He is surprised, confused, thinking, shocked, and digesting.
The orange cat slapped him here.
Zheng Haoran's response made the woman burst into tears, and she knelt down and pulled Zheng Haoran's boots.
Chuntao broke in crying and had a fierce quarrel with Zheng Haoran.
Flashing image on the fourth "knot".
When Zheng Xiu realized that he was worried about the safety of an orange cat, he couldn't help but laugh to himself and walked deeper.
When Zheng Xiu came to the fourth knot, he realized that the root cause of these "knots" seemed to be his confusion, his decisions, and the mistakes he made.
Lady Anne always said that she was so awesome that even the mere gods did not look down upon her. But Zheng Xiu actually didn't have the nerve to point it out. Her tattered "authority" was clearly at the end of her power.
The ninth knot.
"The doorway?"
Too much, too much, too much.
It was snowing heavily all night, and a woman with a beautiful face and a graceful temperament led a girl in simple clothes, a thin face, and sallow skin, and slammed the door of Zheng's house.
What is wrong is this world.
The road under Zheng Xiu's feet continued to extend deeper.
Zheng Xiu couldn't help but imagine the tragedy and tragedy of "Jade Foot vs. Tentacle".
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Zheng Xiu wouldn't have known how big the "consequences" his seemingly natural decision had caused.
A huge "knot".
After taking a few steps, it was still a familiar thing. The intertwined illusory chains solidified the black flowing light, and the flowing light roughly twisted in the void, forming a third knot.
Climb and crawl.
Zheng Xiu silently came to the fourth "knot".
Zheng Xiu looked up blankly. He didn't know what was on the "mountain", but he was eager to know what was on it.
Zheng Haoran and his wife opened the door, and the woman knelt down.
No one rescued them, Wang Cangyun did not meet a strong man named Zheng Shan, and Wei Chen was not saved because of Wang Cangyun's bravery.
The girl held her chubby little hand and blew a breath.
Zheng Haoran's health is getting worse and worse, and he is getting thinner and thinner.
Where there was no road before, Zheng Xiu found a path under his feet.
This is a "phenomenon".
…
The baby giggled, eyes shining.
Zheng Xiu vaguely realized that those two "knots" were not something that could be touched at will.
For wealthy families, their courtyards are filled with festive gifts. Outside the house were the extremely flattering smiling faces of a pair of parents. Inside the house, Jing Xuemei looked desperate and ended the rest of her life with a bunch of white silk.
Surrounded by barren mountains and rivers, bandits are rampant.
If he didn't think of Feng Bei, he didn't think of everything. He has both parents, his new wife has a sweet voice and a soft body, and the family is harmonious and happy.
Zheng Xiu stepped forward.
Confusion, annoyance, pain, helplessness, sadness, all kinds of negative emotions couldn't stop intertwining in his chest. Zheng Xiu continued to walk forward along the road under his feet like a zombie. He gradually couldn't remember why he came here. He seems to simply want to go to the depths, to the end, and take a look at what is in the deepest part, what is entrenched there, what is the "answer" to everything.
Er Niang was once fostered in the Zheng family.
The fog parted in that direction.
Kill the princess in front, and she will naturally become the eldest princess, step by step until today.
The seventh knot.
Anne's words lingered in his ears inexplicably. If the road he was taking at this moment was actually a "doorway", and if the twisted "knots" were "doors", did this mean that he could actually take a new road?
There was obviously no trace of light here, but as Zheng Xiu walked deeper and deeper, he did feel the sense of "a road getting darker and darker as he went."
Zheng Xiu understood.
The black cocoon has an irregular appearance. The surface of the cocoon is filled with ugly and ferocious bulges, and there are faint lights and shadows inside that flicker on and off.
Wang Cangyun was covered in blood, heavy rain poured down, the human-faced carps were rampant in Baili Village, and the villagers went crazy. Wang Cangyun was eaten by countless human-faced carp, and the bright red flowers grew wildly, dragging the wailing Wei Chen into the abyss.
a mountain.
The twisted black light was bound by chains and twisted into a cocoon-like "thing".
She even... hates Zheng Haoran.
Every story is closely related to Zheng Xiu.
Zheng Xiu pondered for a moment and stepped forward.
A series of light black translucent chains intertwined in the void, running from top to bottom, from the infinitely high "sky" downwards, freezing the "black streamer" that should be flowing not far away.
"Is that the knot Annie was talking about?"
Yes, wrong.
…
The scenery in the first "knot" made Zheng Xiu change his expression; the appearance of the second "knot" made Zheng Xiu surprised and suspicious; when Zheng Xiu stood in front of the third "knot", he had already vaguely noticed this Where is it, and what is the flickering image in "The Knot".
Yan Jiji, who was responsible for building the imperial mausoleum, looked desperately at the Broken Dragon Stone tightly closed in front of him, and knelt on the ground little by little.
Nails dug into the knot, and Zheng Xiu felt like he was grabbing a cold piece of flesh.
After returning, Zheng Haoran's face could not see any joy of winning the battle, and it was terrifyingly gloomy.
…
Zheng Haoran returned from the northern barbarian battlefield wearing broken armor.
The crying baby not long ago stretched out its chubby little hand towards the girl.
The scene changed, bandits entered the village, and flames engulfed everything.
Zheng Haoran began to drink heavily, getting drunk day and night, and beat the furniture to pieces.
bass.
Zheng Xiu walked in the flowing light, walking on the vast void.
He started climbing the mountain.
In the yard, he waved his fists up and down and yelled at the girl and Chuntao like crazy.
Zheng Xiu closed his eyes and recalled the past of fighting side by side with Wang Cangyun in Baili Village as if it was yesterday.
Every time Zheng Xiu took a step, ripples appeared under his feet. It was like he was stepping on the water. Zheng Xiu looked down and observed. The ripples were made up of black halos. The halos seemed to be tiny words, numbers, or twisted symbols in terms of microstructure. , can’t see clearly.
Zheng Haoran sighed softly and nodded towards the woman kneeling on the snow.
Zheng Xiu pushed through the fog and walked forward. He couldn't help but murmur to himself, asking the cold void and flowing light: "Is it wrong?"
The baby is laughing.
Another road stretched out silently under Zheng Xiu's feet.
Baili Village was swallowed up by Chang An.
The last scene that was frozen before Zheng Xiu entered this place was the rampaging [Flower] bringing tentacle hell to the cute little orange cat.
The second knot was equally hideous and ugly, with lights and shadows flickering inside.
Zheng Xiu remembered that in the Wei royal family at that time, there were several princesses who ranked higher than Wei Ruyi. Now that Wei Ruyi has become the eldest princess with a cruel temper, it is not difficult to imagine what kind of cruel transformation she has experienced after returning to the palace.
It’s not who is wrong, but the very existence of the “red spot” is “wrong”.
The girl's eyes were dull, cold and empty.
…
After a long, long, long time.
In Chuntao's arms, the infant was crying in the heavy snow. Chuntao was a new mother and looked anxious. Zheng Haoran ignored the kneeling woman and frantically comforted the baby with his wife.
The sixth knot.
Countless twists are twisted into a huge "knot" here. The "knot" is surrounded by scarlet and ferocious tentacles, radiating in all directions.
Zheng Xiu stood in front of a "towering mountain".
He looked up.
Under his feet, there was a road at first, and then branches appeared, each branch having a different "knot".
The poor Yuezhi princess from the Western Regions disguised herself as a man, with horrific scars on her face. She stole buns from a black shop in the wild, and had one of her legs and hands broken, and she rolled down a cliff. When she opened her mouth, her white teeth and red blood were clearly visible, and she took the last bite of the steamed bun in her life with a smile.
He did not touch those two "knots" rashly.
The eleventh knot.
…
"I am dead?"
He was getting closer.
A ridiculous idea came to Zheng Xiu's mind.
But the mouth shape seemed to be: They are destined.
When he learned that the woman had hanged herself in the palace, he looked neither happy nor sad.
The fog was lifted bit by bit.
An ordinary occurrence.
The girl hid in the pile of corpses. After a few days, she climbed up from the corpses and staggered into the night.
The surface named "Knot", where light and shadow flow. After Zheng Xiu got closer, he gradually saw clearly the "content" flashing in the light and shadow.
The child gradually grew up.
Getting closer and closer to Zheng Xiu's vision from the "scorching sun".
The thirteenth knot.
To Zheng Haoran and Zheng Xiu, she is just a "princess" hiding in the Zheng family incognito.
He didn't think that Orange Cat wanted to harm him, not because of Orange Cat's behavior, but because of the relief in Orange Cat's eyes before leaving. She seemed to understand something, but she couldn't explain it, so Zheng Xiu could only witness it with his own eyes and understand it.
He didn't feel any discomfort here. Rather, he felt like a fish returning to the sea at the moment. The scenery here was unfamiliar, but it gave him a sense of "this is how it should be".
But the trajectories of those who were once involved with him have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Thousands of chains imprisoned the knotted black beard, as if there was a huge hand, a hand more terrifying than the orange cat's jade feet, forcibly twisting everything in Zheng Xiu's field of vision into a "bundle."
"That's not true, is it?"
The dark space, the rushing light, the boundless void, the deep fog, the winding roads, and the ugly knots.
Each "knot" sparkles with the lives and stories belonging to different people.
He started climbing.
Zheng Xiu didn't understand why a "knot" was formed here.
Zheng Xiu was stunned. He turned his head and glanced at the "knot" of "Wang Cangyun", and then looked at the other side of the "road". There was also a faint "knot" there.
wrong.
"Everything" is "wrong".
"I……"
Zheng Xiu was still wondering where this place was. Looking at the "road" that appeared under his feet, his mind was attracted to it.
"Error needs to be...[corrected]."
The snow stopped.
unkempt.
Zheng Xiu was stunned.
The twelfth knot.
He couldn't remember how long he had been gone, nor how far he had gone. There are no sun, moon, stars, or the alternation of sun and moon here. The eternal and illusory scenery seems to smooth out people's sense of the passage of time.
Zheng Xiu couldn't hear it.
A ragged figure staggered across the desert. At sunset and sunrise, "he" gets closer and closer from a small point in the "scorching sun".
The girl pursed her lips tightly, clenched her fists, her pitted nails dug into her palms, and the bright red blood bloomed into a flower on the pure white snow.
His expression changed.
Sure enough, as we walked deeper along the winding and twisting road, the fog parted, and the surrounding area became even darker.
Stepping on the ripples and walking in this strange space, Zheng Xiu seemed to be walking his own "path" in a trance.
A guard covered in blood placed a baby girl and a bag of silver in front of a house.
No one answered Zheng Xiu's question.
He didn't know how many "knots" were twisted "here", and he didn't know what was at the end of the road, deep in the mist.
The road continues forward.
Zheng Xiu saw Baili Village.
One day someone from the palace came to ask, and the girl was dragged away crying and brought back to the palace.
"Annie is dead?"
"We exist to see through the outside and look directly at the essence and core."
But because their father survived, Zheng Xiu and Wei Ruyi did not become "siblings."
I don’t know how long or how long. "He" climbed to the top of the mountain and was as close as a mirror to Zheng Xiu.
He grabbed his ignorant son and asked with a stern look. The young boy shook his head. Zheng Haoran looked up to the sky and smiled. He smiled and pushed the boy to the ground and beat him.
"besides?"
He thought of the orange cat's carefree wave before leaving, and the words "You'll understand once you die."
The eighth knot.
Jiang Gaoyi was severely beaten in prison.
"Appearance and essence?"
The fifth knot was coldly bound in the air by illusory chains. Looking at the "knot" from a distance, Zheng Xiu suddenly stopped and looked back.
It looks like a black "sun".
He is like a bystander at the moment, watching other people's life trajectories - "trajectories" that should not have happened, but are now deeply entangled here. These should not have happened in the original world line, but all the mistakes caused by him, Monk, and Feng Bei broke into the [Ancient Battlefield] and rescued Zheng Haoran.
Under her long, disheveled hair, a pair of eyes as pure and flawless as a newborn baby's were revealed.
The third "knot".
A fast horse gallops in the dark night.
In the "scorching sun", in the distance is a piece of desert yellow sand, a mirage, distorted light and shadow, and an endless horizon.
This scene made Zheng Xiu feel as if he had seen a new doorway, and the "knots" that could not be loosened were like "doors" that were tightly closed in the doorway.
The tenth knot.
The girl with a stern face curled her lips, stepped forward silently, and stretched out her hand towards the couple.
As Zheng Xiu walked forward, the ripples gradually formed a... "road".
Zheng Xiu felt cramps in his chest. Before Annie patted him in, Zheng Xiu heard Wei Ruyi say "Zheng Haoran's son." She clearly knew who her surname was. She even hugged her when she was a child. During Zheng Haoran's Northern Expedition, they felt like siblings. But when they met again after so many years, when Wei Ruyi faced him, she had only unclear words. Indifference and rawness, even hiding a hint of...hate.
…
There was a glimmer of light in the girl's empty eyes, and she gently pressed her face against the baby's forehead.
Countless chains penetrated the void, locking the rushing black light.
Zheng Haoran practiced boxing on the dummy and ran out to the mountains to practice boxing until he was exhausted and dripping with blood.
Qing Shisan entered the palace with one blow and cut the second prince to pieces with a thousand cuts. He was surrounded by the guards and lay laughing in a pool of blood.
until.
In the heavy rain, on a barren mountain, Qing Shisan was crying bitterly while holding Hong Lotus's body.
Zheng Haoran shook his head with a look of embarrassment on his face.
Zheng Xiu came to the "top of the mountain".
The "knot" itself is a mountain.
The origin of it all.
The girl took the swaddle with jerky movements, and a faint smile appeared on her stern face.
The winding and twisting road continues deep into the depths, and there seems to be a fog in front of Zheng Xiu's eyes. When Zheng Xiu walks over, the fog will disperse, revealing the deeper scenery.
Zheng Xiu walked faster and faster, the anger and confusion in his heart gradually extinguished and became numb as the road went deeper, like a basin of ice water poured down on a snowy day.
Zheng Haoran smiled and said something.
In the second "knot", a piece of the past that Zheng Xiu has never seen appears.
…
…
"It is said that in ancient times there was a man named Zhu who worshiped the scorching sun. He ran towards the scorching sun. He crossed thousands of mountains and rivers. He climbed a very, very, very high mountain."
"There he is, chasing the sun."
(End of chapter)
