Lin Xixue opened her eyes, holding a soft, slippery and sticky thing in her arms.
The foul-smelling, mold-laden air made her cough violently.
The cold and hard rocky ground beneath her body made her whole body's joints ache.
From time to time, painful moans could be heard in my ears.
Where is this?
Let me think about it, I had a heart attack on the plane to school and...
She compressed the carotid artery.
There is body temperature and pulse. Am I still alive?
She forced herself to calm down and survey her surroundings.
This is a huge cave, and you can't tell how many people are locked up at a glance. There are a few white fluorites embedded in the surrounding rock walls.
With the faint white light of fluorite, Lin Xixue finally saw clearly what the thing in her hand was - a half-full of blood.
The moment she saw the bloody bun, memories flashed back in her mind.
Her predecessor was the daughter of a merchant in Suyue City, Yunzhou. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden mutiny in the city, and her family fled, but they were met by thieves on the road. As a result, she was separated from her family and had to beg for food to survive.
Not long ago, my predecessor thought that he would meet a kind person offering steamed buns, but he passed out after just two bites.
When he opened his eyes again, he was already locked in this cave.
Although people bring food every day, no one in this cave will give food to others. Only those with big fists have something to eat.
The former was just a twelve-year-old girl, and she had been severely malnourished after months of begging. How could she possibly win over a young and strong man? After two days in this cave, there was still not even a little bit of water or rice.
Finally, the predecessor was so hungry that his eyes turned red and he wanted to take advantage of the situation to touch two nests. However, he was discovered and beaten to death.
Before he died, he held the half-eaten steamed bun tightly in his arms and refused to let go until it was soaked in blood.
As memories flooded into her mind, Lin Xixue understood that she had traveled through time.
But although Lin Xixue had seen the memories of her predecessor, she still didn't know where this was.
My predecessor's memory of the cave was very limited. I only knew that people often came to the cave to catch people, and they looked picky when they caught them. Their eyes were like picking fish in a basin at the market.
And those who were captured naturally never came back.
Could it be that human traffickers are buying and selling slaves?
Lin Xixue has a big head.
In the last life, I died inexplicably due to congenital heart disease. Now that I can live another life because of time travel, I should be happy.
But the start after time travel was too miserable.
Even so, she finally had a second life, and she would never lie down and die.
Gotta find a way to escape.
Just as Lin Xixue was secretly making up her mind, the crowd in the cave started to move and formed a circle to watch the excitement.
"Sister, you haven't eaten for two or three days. Are you hungry?"
"How about playing with me? We have enough wotou and water pipes."
Some obscene male voices reached Lin Xixue's ears from not far away.
Lin Xixue stood on tiptoes, looking across the crowd, and saw a muscular man standing in front of a beautiful girl of sixteen or seventeen years old, making teasing remarks.
This man's name was Luo Si, and he was a bully known to everyone in the cave. Everyone would avoid him when they saw him.
But the girl was sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed at this time, her face expressionless, as if she had not heard Luo Si's words.
What makes Lin Xixue even more strange is that the cave is dark and humid, and everyone is dirty, but this girl's egg-green shirt and skirt are spotless.
Seeing that the girl didn't respond, Luo Silang laughed and stretched his hand towards the girl's collar.
Lin Xixue swept across the crowd around them. There were numbness, sneer, and intolerance on their faces.
But everyone stood still and had no intention of stopping him.
Lin Xixue frowned and clenched her fist slightly.
Although she had seen a lot of similar things in her predecessor's memories, it was still hard for her to accept it now when she saw it with her own eyes.
Calm down, the top priority is to think about how to survive.
Besides, how can I care about my own strength?
Besides giving away people's heads, what else can you do?
Hold it in.
Two buttons on the girl's front had been undone, but she still closed her eyes tightly and remained motionless.
Lin Xixue closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
"Chi la", the sound of clothes being torn was heard.
Bear it, bear it!
Lin Xixue picked up a few stones, rounded her arms and threw them at Luo Si.
After all, she is a modern person. If she really allows this girl to be humiliated in front of her eyes, she may feel guilty for the rest of her life.
She does not feel that she is the Virgin, this is her basic moral code as a modern person.
After Luo Si received this blow, he was stunned for a moment, then touched his forehead, and blood dripped down.
"Straight bitch, who threw the stone!" Luo Si was furious, his eyes scanning the crowd.
When the bully got angry, the crowd immediately dispersed, just in time to cover up Lin Xixue's figure.
Seeing this scene, Luo Si became even more angry. He grabbed the girl's neck and picked her up. He took out a sharp stone from his waist and pressed it against her white neck.
"You want to save this little hoof, right? Come and save it! I only count to three!"
"three--"
Black lines appeared on Lin Xixue's forehead. Luo Si looked tall and thick, but he could even think of using such a trick to force himself to show up.
"two--"
She picked up a handful of gravel from the ground and hid it in her sleeve, pushed aside the crowd, and appeared in front of Luo Si.
"Stop screaming, I smashed it."
Luo Si casually threw the girl to the ground, but the girl still didn't make any reaction.
Lin Xixue wondered, could this girl be dead? Why was there no reaction at all from the beginning?
Before he could think about it carefully, Luo Si was already approaching.
"Ha", Luo Si tilted his head and smiled contemptuously, playing with the sharp stone in his hand, "You want to be the best, right?"
Lin Xixue lowered her head, pretending to be frightened, but in fact the right hand holding the gravel in her sleeve was ready to go.
She bent down and stretched her hands forward as if to lie on the ground. Halfway through, the gravel in her hand suddenly rose and flew towards Luo Si's eyes.
Luo Si was shocked. The distance was too close and it was too late for him to dodge.
"Ah!!! My eyes!"
When the gravel got into his eyes, Luo Si immediately covered his eyes and fell to the ground, wiping them with his sleeves. However, the rubbing of the gravel cut his eyes, and dark red tears flowed all over his hands.
Lin Xixue picked up the sharp stone pieces dropped by Luo Si and approached slowly.
She doesn't want to kill anyone.
But she understood that the matter had come to this, if she didn't kill Luo Si, Luo Si would kill her.
Besides, such a bully would not regret his death!
right! Death is not a pity!
She gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, held the stone piece with trembling hands and stabbed it fiercely.
However, the stone fragments were blocked in the air.
She held her breath and continued to exert force. The huge reaction force caused the stone fragments to scratch the palm of her hand, and blood dripped down her wrist.
But, it just can’t penetrate!
It was as if there was an invisible barrier blocking Luo Si.
"You can't kill it. What a fine piece of gold! You can't kill it!"
An old voice came from very far away, and then a figure flew down from the top of the cave, standing in front of Lin Xixue and Luo Si.
Lin Xixue saw clearly the appearance of the person who came, a Taoist with white beard and hair, green robe and jade crown, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, half holding a fly whisk in his hand.
The Taoist leaned down, inspected Luo Si's injuries, and sighed repeatedly.
"Oh, what a pity, what a pity, what two wonderful night pearls..."
He shook his head and pointed a finger between Luo Si's eyebrows. Luo Si immediately fainted and became silent.
He picked up Luo Si's collar, and held Lin Xixue under his arm. With a shake of the whisk, the whole person rose into the air and flew towards the top of the cave.
too fast!
Lin Xixue didn't see his movements clearly at all, and as soon as she regained consciousness, she was already flying into the air.
So there really is magic in this world?
Although there are many stories about evil mountain spirits and strange powers in the memory of the predecessor, most of these are story-telling legends, and the predecessor has never seen them with his own eyes.
Therefore, Lin Xixue had been doubtful before.
She felt bitter in her heart, the world seemed more chaotic than she imagined...
The Taoist carried her around the cave and finally came to a stone room.
The stone room is filled with wooden shelves, and various bottles and jars are displayed in an orderly manner on the wooden shelves. There are also stone mortars, clay stoves and other things placed in the corners of the stone room.
The Taoist gently put Lin Xixue down, patted her shoulder with a smile, and said, "Watch carefully."
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Xixue felt as if her body was firmly fixed to the space, unable to move at all.
There was a deep uneasiness in her heart. Death was only a matter of a moment. Now, this person stopped her where she was and didn't say what he was going to do. He just let her think wildly. This was the most tormenting thing.
On the other side, she saw the Taoist placing Luo Si in the center of the stone room, taking out some bottles and cans from the wooden shelf, and getting busy on the stone table in the corner.
Like concocting some kind of drug? Is he going to treat Luo Si's injuries?
As if to confirm Lin Xixue's conjecture, the Taoist quickly picked up a pot of bubbling black medicinal soup from the clay stove.
He opened Luo Si's mouth, and the boiling medicinal soup poured into his esophagus.
Luo Si woke up suddenly, his whole body struggling and trembling violently, the veins on his forehead seemed to burst the skin, and he kept making "wuwu" sounds in his mouth.
But he just couldn't move.
After pouring a pot of medicine, Luo Si became silent again, his head tilted to one side, his blood-red eyes wide open, staring at Lin Xixue.
Lin Xixue's heart was beating fast, and cold sweat broke out on her palms unconsciously. She swallowed her saliva.
Is it going to be your turn next?
When I was a kid, I was so scalded by half a cup of boiling water that I peeled off a layer of skin. This big pot of boiling soup...
Her back molars were chattering a little, and she was really scared.
What on earth is this old madman going to do?
After the Taoist poured the medicine, he put away the bottles and jars in an orderly manner, and then adjusted Luo Si's posture.
He began to chant the incantation.
"Xuanzong of Heaven and Earth, the root of all Qi. I have cultivated extensively for hundreds of millions of kalpas to prove my magical power. The three burners of the spleen and stomach, Qi can connect earth and stone, the five Qi can transform into life, and turn stone into gold!"
Luo Si suddenly pinched his neck, opened his mouth wide, and looked like he was trying to breathe hard, and a "click" sound came out of his throat.
But after struggling for a moment, he finally stopped moving.
The Taoist tore open Luo Si's stomach and took out the golden spleen and stomach.
Drops of bright red blood slipped from the gold nugget.
The smell of blood filled her nose, and Lin Xixue's mind went blank. She felt fear turn into a cold chill that penetrated her bones.
She finally understood what "what a piece of gold" meant.
She wanted to scream, but her throat seemed to be blocked by something.
"It's a pity. It would be nice if I could grow up a little longer." The Taoist's tone sounded quite regretful.
The Taoist put down the gold nugget, turned around, and resumed his kind smile.
"As for you..."
"He has a good character and his reactions are smart."
"The most important thing is that he dared to kill people at a young age and was merciless. He was very much like me back then."
He stroked his beard and walked around Lin Xixue a few times, looking up and down as he went.
"Hee, you are too much for my liking, so I'll accept you as my apprentice!"
Madman, absolutely madman!
Lin Xixue resisted in her heart, but her body moved uncontrollably.
She knelt down and kowtowed three times.
"Meet the Master."
"Haha", the old Taoist smiled horribly, "My name is Hong Yan. You are the first disciple I have accepted, so I will give you a meeting gift."
He took down a glazed pot from the wooden stand. The yellow-brown mucus in the pot seemed to be alive, crawling upwards along the wall of the pot, as if trying to break open the lid and escape.
Hong Yanzi pulled out the stopper and poured the mucus on Lin Xixue's head.
Lin Xixue only felt that the scenery in front of her was quickly squeezed and twisted into a ball. She suddenly remembered a famous painting "The Scream" that she had seen in her previous life.
The scene in this painting is similar to her current vision.
Then there was severe nausea and vomiting, and her internal organs seemed to be mixed together. She opened her mouth and vomited out yellow-green bile.
"From today on, I will give you the Taoist title Tongying, and your past will disappear like clouds and smoke."
The memory and cognition in the brain are rapidly torn and deformed.
My name is Tong Yingzi, I am master Hong Yanzi’s disciple...
Why am I here...can't remember...plane...heart attack...what is this?
The vision began to darken, and the intense tinnitus was mixed with faint shouts.
"Defibrillator...voltage..."
Finally, her five senses were completely lost, and her eyes turned into a chaotic void.
In the void, only dazzling blue light appeared.
A green light suddenly appeared, splitting the void into two, and a blue-white jade bottle was revealed from the green light...
