"How are you?" Chu Zihang supported Gu Bei.
Gu Bei shook his head: "I'm fine."
As he spoke, he mobilized Yuan Qi and used both hands to wipe his face, and the shocking wound healed in an instant.
There is no other power attached to this wound, and it will not be as difficult to heal as the damage caused by the power of heaven and earth.
Speaking of which, the sword wasn't actually that strong. Gu Bei failed to dodge it because he was careless and didn't dodge.
After all, he was almost dragged in by Chu Tianjiao just now, and his energy was consumed too much, so he didn't react.
And that knife has a strange ability to erase cause and effect.
The line of text that was crossed out was a kind of "non-existence" as a result, so even if Gu Bei just glanced at it, he was affected.
But fortunately, the observation method was powerful enough. Even if the cause and effect were wiped out, Gu Bei could still see the words.
Odin.
Odin.
The king of the gods in Norse mythology.
The murderer who "killed" Chu Tianjiao.
Gu Beiwei really didn't expect to see this name here, but after thinking about it, he felt that it made sense.
After all, this is a fixed entrance and exit of Odin's Nibelungen. It is normal for members of the executive department who come here to have tasks related to Odin.
It's just that Chu Tianjiao is working hard, investigating Odin and Nidhogg at the same time.
The question is, which of these is his mission? Which one was done subjectively by himself?
According to the style of the Kassel Execution Department, the possibility of arranging these two tasks at the same time can basically be ruled out. After all, both Odin and Nidhogg have surpassed the level of the Dragon King and reached the realm of gods.
Investigating the two of them at the same time is not called a mission, it is called death.
So only one of these two things is Chu Tianjiao's mission - or neither.
Gu Bei couldn't deduce much about the specific situation.
And he has decided to use contemplation as little as possible in the future.
This thing was so disgusting that Gu Bei used it three times in total. The first time he was blinded, the second time he almost burped, and the third time his eye was scratched and his face was almost disfigured.
Gu Bei felt that this thing was poisonous.
He decided that as long as he didn't unlock Daluo Cave for a day, he wouldn't have to meditate for a day - by the way, this situation won't get worse after Daluo Cave is unlocked, right?
Gu Bei thought about it and couldn't help but shudder.
Forget it, play it safe.
However, although the experience is not very good, the effect of observing the Dharma cannot be questioned.
Several uses helped Gu Bei obtain key information.
Especially this last time, not only did they get an important clue that Chu Tianjiao had investigated Odin, but they also discovered a special character - the man whose appearance he couldn't see clearly.
The ability to destroy cause and effect.
To put it bluntly, this range is not large, but it is not small either.
At a high level, Gubei Odin Road and Mingze Black King all have this ability. At a low level, in fact, some special word spirits also have similar effects.
And if you want to destroy cause and effect, you may not have to rely on yourself.
Just like Kungunir in Odin's hand, even if an ordinary person holds Kungunir, he can still change his destiny - at most, it will make the user a human.
If the dagger in the man's hand is also a similar top-level alchemical weapon, then the scope will be even greater.
Finding it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The only clue Gu Bei currently has is that he doesn't know this person.
At least not familiar.
Although he couldn't see the other person's face clearly, Gu Bei was sure that the other person was not any high-level blood descendant that he was familiar with.
Not Odin, not Lu Mingze, not Chu Tianjiao, not even Anger and the vice principal.
But Gu Bei felt a certain sense of familiarity from the other person - as if he had seen him somewhere before and had a chance encounter.
.
These two feelings are quite contradictory, but they also point the way for Gu Bei: a person whom he has met before but has not had close contact with. His bloodline is not low, but he disguises himself very well.
Although I have a target, it would be extremely troublesome to find it.
Gu Bei has hundreds of similar targets, and he can't confirm them one by one.
It seems that we can only let it happen.
Gu Bei thought for a while, and finally gave up the idea of finding the other party out.
"There shouldn't be any valuable clues here." Gu Bei took out a tissue and wiped the blood from his eyes. "There are things my uncle left for you in the sink and workbench over there. Take your time and look, I'll Let’s go out first.”
Gu Bei said, stretched out his hand to grab the steel pipe, and climbed up in two or three times.
Chu Zihang watched Gu Bei's figure leave from the secret door above, and then came to the workbench as Gu Bei said.
The light of the flashlight flashed on the workbench, and the things on it were clearly visible. The moment Chu Zihang saw those things clearly, he was stunned.
The pool was not water at all, but a developer specially used to develop photos. Next to the pool was a workbench. There was a cork board in front of the workbench, and the board was covered with photos pinned with thumbtacks.
If you look carefully, you will find that all those photos were stolen.
In amusement parks, shopping malls, restaurants, across the grass, across the glass, across the rain curtain...
The characters in the photos are without exception women and children - the young Su Xiaoyan and the baby-faced Chu Zihang.
Su Xiaojiao shows many looks in the photos.
Laughing, gazing, lonely, like a mother, a little girl, a wife...
Gu Bei always likes to complain, saying that Sister Xiaoyan is like a yellow-haired girl who won't grow up.
What is a yellow-haired girl?
Just like a heartless boy, he sleeps after eating and drinking, he wants to be beautiful and have no worries.
But under Chu Tianjiao's lens, Su Xiaoyan is so changeable, no matter what kind of changes, she is so beautiful.
This is really the man who loves Su Xiaoyan the most in the world. Only when you love someone so much can you pay attention to every moment of her and take pictures of her in every possible way.
As for Chu Zihang... Chu Zihang in the photo has a cold face from beginning to end.
But I don’t blame Chu Tianjiao’s photography skills for this matter.
This man also has the same love for his son, but it's a pity that Master Chu is a naturally cool guy. Even if he rides a roller coaster, he can sit through it with a blank expression, and then he will comment: "Just average."
There is no way, the young master is so cold.
There is also a certain entrepreneur named Lu.
Occasionally, he would accidentally get caught in the mirror. I don’t know what trick Chu Tianjiao used to make that guy blurry, just a ball of light and shadow.
Chu Zihang could even picture the man mumbling and cursing while developing photos.
It's actually a little cute.
It turns out that even such a free and easy man doesn't mind at all... He also hopes that the man opposite his wife and children is himself, right?
Chu Zihang was silent for a moment, and his eyes fell on the words marked with red pen in the corner of the photo.
"This is the first year since you left me. You look good."
"This is the second year, please don't be so haggard."
"In the third year, you gained weight."
"In the fourth year, I have less time to think of you."
"In the fifth year, it will continue to decrease."
"Sixth year, but I still miss you..."
"..."
The man's face appeared in front of Chu Zihang's eyes again. He introduced the song he chose to Chu Zihang in a cheesy manner, completely unaware that the song actually told the story of a father warning his daughter to be careful of men.
Hell, who would tell his son to be careful about men through a song?
He was afraid that he would do such a thing if he was drunk.
And these, these photos.
Chu Zihang pinched the photo, and his joints turned white from the force, but he didn't leave a single wrinkle on the photo.
This is what the man wants.
That man smoked the most expensive cigar in the world, listened to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of vinyl, got himself drunk with island whiskey, and then wrote and drew in the corner while developing photos, as if he was looking at the photos. The woman inside is talking...
But when he faced Chu Zihang, he always looked like he was laughing and joking, as if he didn't care about anything.
How could it not be taken to heart?
It's just not written on his face.
Chu Zihang stretched out his hand, wanting to take the photo off the board and take it away, but he stopped halfway.
Take it away?
Where to take?
Show it to whom?
Chu Zihang retracted his hand.
Forget it.
Let these things stay here.
Take everything about that man, along with his love.
Chu Zihang sat in front of the workbench, looking at each photo, and fell into a long silence.
Outside, Gu Bei strolled out of the basement.
He stood in front of the small gray-white building and lit a cigarette.
White mist curled up, blocking his obscure gaze.
Gu Bei rarely smokes and drinks only lightly. His life is very regular. Doctors say he is very healthy - he is a practitioner after all. With the Immortal Thief Liuku around, tar and nicotine are just energy and will not cause any harm to the body. harm.
It's true that Gu Bei rarely smokes, but...
Chu Tianjiao, this man deserves Gu Bei to make an exception.
Gu Bei knew that those photos existed.
He even witnessed Chu Tianjiao developing the photos one by one and then drying them, and watched him write his thoughts on the edges of the photos one by one.
The concept of Dharma was so impressive that Gu Bei was able to be there and understand everything.
It also made Gu Bei get to know Chu Tianjiao again.
To be honest, at the beginning, Gu Bei didn't have a good impression of this man who abandoned his wife and son, even if he was Chu Zihang's biological father.
But now...he admitted that Chu Tianjiao was a man.
If before this, Gu Bei was looking for Chu Tianjiao to help Chu Zihang, then from now on, he sincerely wants to meet this man.
For no other reason than to toast him.
Gu Bei was puffing away his breath when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw that it was the middle-aged man who had worked with Chu Tianjiao.
He didn't know when he left, but he just came back with two bags in his hands.
Gu Bei's nose moved and he smelled the smell of cooked food.
Grilled chicken wings and... braised large intestine?
Gu Bei gave the man a strange look.
This man really likes braised large intestines and grilled chicken wings. No wonder he can hang out with Chu Tianjiao.
At this time, the man also saw Gu Bei standing in front of the building. The man was stunned for a moment, then looked around: "Brother, why are you yourself? Where is that little brother?"
"Hey, little brother, my surname is Gu." Gu Bei glanced at him, compared his figure with the man he saw in the observation, and came to the conclusion that they didn't match, "He's still there under."
"Oh, it turns out to be Brother Gu." The middle-aged man nodded with a smile, "I just went out and bought grilled chicken wings. Can we eat some together?"
Gu Bei waved his hand.
Gu Bei didn't want to eat, and the middle-aged man didn't force it, but he seemed to have something on his mind. He didn't leave after speaking, but lingered in place, hesitating.
After a while, he finally made up his mind and said after careful consideration: "I would like to ask the other guy, is his surname Chu?"
Gu Bei glanced at him and said nothing.
The middle-aged man scratched the back of his head and understood.
He also just realized that Chu Zihang and Chu Tianjiao are so tall
He has an eight-point resemblance, and considering his age, he is almost the same. He should have guessed that the other person is Chu Tianjiao's precious son.
"I didn't expect that Lao Chu's son would be so old." The middle-aged man said cheerfully, "Back then, what Lao Chu talked about most often was his precious son. Every time he talked about his son, he felt like he had won the lottery. It’s like five million, with a proud look on his face. At that time, he said that when his son got married, he would take us to a banquet together, and we would all sit at the uncle’s table, and let each of us give his son a big red envelope..."
The middle-aged man seemed to have opened up his chatterbox and kept talking.
Gu Bei stood aside and listened silently, while perfecting the image of Chu Tianjiao in his mind.
"Alas, Lao Chu left without any warning. My close friends couldn't believe it when they heard the news. Such a big man was gone just as soon as he said goodbye. He even invited me to have barbecue that day. I advised him not to get out of the car because it was raining too much, but he didn't listen and insisted on going. After he went there, something happened... Later, my brothers had no choice but to accept it. Lao Chu didn't have many friends, and he was the only one who had been there for so many years. This son came to see him this time... Oh, no, there was another person who also came to see him. At that time..."
"Wait!" Gu Bei stopped the middle-aged man, "Did you just say that someone has been here before?"
"Yes." The middle-aged man nodded, "Just a few years ago."
Gu Bei frowned: "Didn't you say before that no one has ever been here?"
"I didn't think of it all at once." The middle-aged man was suppressed by Gu Bei's momentum, and his whole body slumped. "Mainly because that person only came once and stayed inside for a few minutes. He never came again after that, so I didn’t pay much attention to it. If you hadn’t come here this time, I would have almost forgotten about it.”
"Then do you still remember what that person looks like?" Gu Bei asked eagerly.
The middle-aged man thought for a while: "What he looked like... I can't remember clearly. The main reason is that the man looked too ordinary. There was nothing special about him. He just looked like an ordinary person and had no characteristics."
"What's your age? What's your clothing? Do you have any characteristics?"
"Age...about the same age as Lao Chu. It is said that he and Lao Chu were classmates who studied abroad. He was wearing a black suit. Oh, I remembered. The suit that man was wearing was a brand-name product. There is only a discount store in the west of the city in Huicheng. It is sold, and the clothes are made by that store itself, and there is no other store in the country."
Gu Bei's eyes lit up.
There's a clue.
