"Qiu Zang once came across a lone butterfly king, captured it and made it into a specimen. Then I was surprised by the longevity of the butterfly king, but I didn't know where to start researching. Just when he was thinking and meditating, this embroidery appeared in front of his eyes. ”

"Wait, wait!" Yan Fei raised his hand, "This embroidery just appeared in front of him?"

Hua Xi shook his head, "Judging from the subsequent signs, it is very likely that Qiu Zang has a mentor who is well versed in the method of immortality, but it is not like that. For if he really had a teacher who solved his doubts, why would he go astray? It can be seen that the origin of this embroidery cannot be determined, or it was not given by this teacher who did not sincerely want to help him. ”

"Huh?" Yan Fei was confused.

Hua Xi skipped this question and continued, "Qiu Zang was ecstatic when he got this embroidery, but who knew that his spiritual roots were too shallow to understand the mystery at all. Unrelieved of his sleepiness, he added to his annoyance, and his great joy and sorrow changed suddenly, causing him to become confused, and he came to the villa by coincidence. ”

"Oh! It turns out that Qiu Zang came to the villa for such a reason, he wants to live forever and wants to go crazy. After Yan Fei clarified this reason, he suddenly felt crying and laughing.

Hua Xi glanced at Yan Fei lightly and did not speak. Yu Satin took a puff of smoke, a pair of slender willow leaf eyes narrowed slightly at the gold-plated chandelier that was misty by the smoke, and a narrow smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and teased: "Even if he is crazy, he has more tendons than you." ”

"What do you mean?" Yan Fei was not happy, what is Qiu Zang more tendons than her! No, what is a madman who has more tendons than her!

"Qiu Zang has been using you since he entered the villa, and you are still being used stupidly, don't you say that you have more tendons than you?" said Yu Satin and took the cigarette holder in his mouth, and began to sip again.

Yan Fei frowned and looked at Hua Xi puzzled.

"Yan Fei. Hua Xi called lightly, "You already know that Qiu Zang is the customer hidden behind that embroidery, so what do you think is the purpose of this qiē behavior when he asked you to paint this painting and kept increasing the price while you were practicing?"

When Yan Fei heard this, he suddenly felt that the water box that had been blocked in his heart opened the plug, and the spring water filled with answers gushed out. All of this was just to arouse her curiosity, or rather, to get Hua Xi's attention.

"Qiu Zang is such a good person, he entered the villa by mistake, and naturally understands the magic of this place. Hua Xi said lightly.

Yu Satin continued: "And in this place, Hua Xi holds the most secrets, and the best use is you~ He uses your enthusiasm and curiosity." And he also found out that you have the closest relationship with Hua Xi through guò observation. ”

When Yu Satin said that Yan Fei and Hua Xi had the closest relationship, the two of them couldn't help but react for a while, and quickly covered up their slight gaffe.

Yu Satin's eyes squinted to enjoy the aroma of tobacco, completely unaware of the situation of the two of them, and continued: "First let you show sympathy for the encounter he made up, and let you arouse enough curiosity about that material map, so that Hua Xi will have to participate in it and solve the mystery of the butterfly embroidery with you." ”

"Oh my God...... This person ......" Yan Fei was speechless, such a person who is so good at calculating feelings is really disgusting.

"Actually, he's been using you all along. Hua Xi's cold words made Yan Fei's heart sink to the bottom, "You escaped from danger, not because you were lucky, but because he deliberately let you go." ”

"Huh?" Yan Fei was shocked.

"The reason why he did that was to convince you, to convince everyone, that he was a madman who was trapped by love. The beautiful myths and the embarrassing mental problems of reality are just to hide his truest and worst purpose. Hua Xi said this, and his tone unconsciously carried a bit of contempt.

"So he killed people so that he could gain immortality for himself?"

"Exactly. ”

Yan Fei was surprised, Qiu Zang seemed to use tricks and mysteries as a cover to cover up his murder crimes, but in fact, he was using serial psychedelic murder techniques to cover up his evil magic. The purpose of the triple obstacle is to make people think they have seen everything when they see the second layer. At this time, people are immersed in the relief of complete relaxation and the pride of breaking the obstacle, and a few people will pay attention to the fact that under the obstacle of mixing fiction and reality, there is actually a layer of fog on top of Zhang Lie's truth.

Yan Fei straightened his sore back, looked left and right for a while, and chose to lean on the back of the soft sofa, "Then I don't understand, what does this method of immortality have to do with killing?"

Hua Xi smiled and said, "This is for the teacher, I don't know how he was clever and misled, causing Qiu Zang to think that he had an epiphany." ”

The phantom light butterflies are still entangled with each other, and all the spells in the world seem to be chaotic and confusing, but in fact they are the purest. And the seemingly pure human heart is indeed the most chaotic and confused desire/desire hidden.

"Oh, oh, what the hell is this method?" Yan Fei couldn't wait to know what Qiu Zang had realized.

Hua Xi stared at the butterfly and said slowly: "The petals are the array, and the life liquid is the eye." ”

"I had been suspicious of the Shutter Hotel earlier, but since there was no such record in the books I had read, I found nothing at once. Later, I sent Yaoli, who was familiar with Qimen Dunjia, to check, and Yaoli was proficient in all kinds of spells, and at a glance he recognized that the entire hotel was a formation of petals. ”

And the so-called life fluid is actually the body fluid of the butterfly. When it is put on a human being, it is human blood. But this life fluid is not simply blood, but the blood of the human soul is mixed with spells, and how many lifespans the deceased has left, and the person who receives the life fluid will have these lifespans. In the petal array under Qiu Zangbu, the woman's body is made into a butterfly shape, which naturally becomes the so-called "butterfly". The body of a woman who has ingested butterfly life fluid has not completely transformed into life fluid, so it is like a butterfly collecting honey, and it is the best time to take it directly from her body. ”

"I once said when you recited Buddhist scriptures for the first female corpse that there was no soul lingering around this female corpse, and this is the reason. Her soul had already been mixed into her blood to form a life fluid, which was taken by another butterfly king tamed by Qiu Zang. ”

"Another butterfly king?" Yan Fei said in surprise: "This butterfly king can still be tamed?"

"How can the Butterfly King really surrender to people, it's just a disguise. Hua Xi sneered.

Yan Fei was shocked, this butterfly Nima is really a sperm! She still knows how to disguise!

However, Qiu Zang already knew this method, and the bottlenecks of his card were not these. ”

"Huh, where is the card?"

"After delivering enough life fluid to the Butterfly King, how to turn it back into one's body. Hua Xi's eyes darkened, reflecting the red light of the fireplace.

"I see!!That's what happened!" Yan Fei understood, this method is simply to use spells to first let people absorb the life fluid of the butterfly, melt the human soul into its blood before digesting it, and then use the butterfly king to extract it. After extracting it, I can find a way to put all this life fluid into my body, so that I can have a longer life? "Alas, pity those girls. ”

"Pathetic?" Hua Xi said faintly.

"That's right. I feel very pitiful. Yan Fei nodded, "It's pitiful to become someone else's immortal tool for no reason." ”

Hua Xi shook his head, "Did you know that this life-sucking spell only works on two types of creatures. One is the butterfly, but the lifespan of a butterfly is too short, and if you want to live forever, you have to collect hundreds or thousands of them to be useful, and the other is the human beings who believe in this method. ”

Yan Fei naturally understood what Hua Xi meant, and his heart was full of emotion. Where there is a cause, there is an effect, and if there is an effect, there is no cause. If it weren't for the greed of those women themselves, how could they be used by Qiu Zang and lose their lives in vain...... Yan Fei thought about it and lowered his head. In this way, Sister Qiqi ......

"Eh, Huaxi. Yan Fei shook his head, stopped the sourness that began to rise in his eyes again, tilted his head, and looked puzzled, "Then Qiu Zang should have a long life, why is he still dead?" Even Hua Xi said that he was dead, so Qiu Zang must be dead.

Hua Xi's thin lips lifted slightly meaningfully, "Who made him too smart." ”

"Huh?" Yan Fei became more and more confused.

"Zhuang Sheng dreams of butterflies, butterflies dream of Zhuang Sheng. Hua Xi stroked the embroidery, her eyes slightly sunken, "The red face and dry bones are instantaneous, but I don't know if this butterfly has eaten up the flesh and blood of the beauty, or whether the beauty has sucked up the life fluid of the butterfly." ”

"You mean...... Between the two...... Yan Fei wanted to speak and stopped.

Hua Xi directly confirmed her guess, "Yes, Qiu Zang's understanding is that by cultivating this method, you can get a butterfly body." I don't know where he got the spell to protect the soul from being fused, he thought that the person and the butterfly could be converted into each other, which was one of the reasons why he could make up a butterfly to turn into a woman and fall in love with him. So when the case got bigger, he let you go and ran back to the hotel through the secret passage connected to Guò, driving the Butterfly King to suck his life fluid. thinks that he has no last resort, and he wants to calculate his life. ”

"What do you say?!"

Hua Xi sneered and said, "Qiu Zang is a mortal, even if he has a spell that can protect his soul from being fused, how can he defeat the Butterfly King's century-old Taoism." Moreover, as far as I know, this method of immortality does not require a spell to protect the soul at all. ”

Yan Fei said unconsciously again: "Do you know this kind of spell?"

"I had the privilege of seeing this embroidery at a tenant a hundred years ago. Hua Xi closed his eyes and placed the embroidery on the "Flower Collection", "That tenant once told me about this technique completely. At that time, when you were copying, I was already wary of Qiu Zang, so I didn't say a word. ”

"This technique of using butterflies as a medium to obtain immortality has a very beautiful name, called 'butterfly inducing immortality', which focuses on 'symbiosis', not death. ”

"Symbiosis?" Yan Fei's eyes widened slightly, and a strong fire of curiosity ignited.

Hua Xi nodded, "The cultivator needs to consume essence and blood, set up the formation technique, and hatch a pair of butterfly kings who will coexist with them, and this pair of butterfly kings will cultivate and coexist with them." The cultivator needs to use a spell to make the Butterfly King absorb part of the life fluid of the other butterflies, and then use Guò Butterfly King to transfer a small part of the absorbed life fluid into his own body. The lifespan of most butterflies is only a few weeks, and part of the life fluid absorbed has to be given to the butterfly king, so that the final lifespan of the cultivator may only be as short as three days. In this way, the practitioner needs to repeat this step on thousands of butterflies, and the whole process is complex and lengthy, requiring great perseverance and control of the degree. Because for this kind of magic, it is too much. ”

"Wow...... It's so complicated......" Yan Fei sighed: "Most of the lives are used to increase their lifespan, so what's the point of continuing such an immortality?"

"Not exactly, once in a while one or two damn bumps into me. Hua Xi did not have the slightest sympathy for Qiu Zang and the women who were used by Qiu Zang to die.

After listening to Hua Xi, Yan Fei let out a long breath, as if he had been suffocated for several days, and finally at this moment, he suddenly opened up. After the relaxation, it was embarrassing.

Qiu Zang is so smart, he takes every step of the way, spends countless mental and material resources, sets up the triple obstacle of true and false, and finally calculates his own fate. Yan Fei thought of this, and somehow thought of Qi Qi again, his nose began to pantothenic, and his eyes staring at the butterfly beauty embroidery suddenly watered.

Hua Xi got up, handed the embroidery to Yan Fei's hand, hesitated, but gently stroked the top of Yan Fei's hair, "Your Sister Qiqi's matter, don't be too sad." ”

"Hmm......" Yan Fei hugged the embroidery, and the warm liquid fell down in large pieces.

The bracelet night reading by the fireplace has long since disappeared, and Yusatin picked up the sleeping Xiaoli and stood up, and walked to Hua Xi's side, "Let her be alone for a while." ”

Hua Xi nodded and left with Yousatin.

The sound of burning firewood, it's crisp. With the sound of pouring rain outside the window, there is a hint of pity. The soft golden phantom butterfly gradually dissipated with Hua Xi's departure, leaving behind a touch of light and shadow to record its staggering here.

Yan Fei wiped away her tears, her lips opened and closed gently, and recited Buddhist scriptures for her first friend in her life, wishing her the elimination of the five aggregates and not falling into the three evil paths.

In the next life, please come to my side again and stay for a moment.

On the balcony on the third floor, Yu Satin was lazily draped in a silk pajamas, squinting at Hua Xi with slanted eyes.

"Is there something wrong with your eyes?" Hua Xi was not polite at all.

"Huh. Yu Satin bowed her head, charming and suddenly, "You know it, why don't you sue Yan Fei." ”

Hua Xi naturally knew what Yu Satin was talking about, and his long and narrow eyes shaped by ice and snow dodged slightly, and finally landed on a purple banyan tree under the night moon. "There are some good memories that are worth cherishing for a lifetime. It has long been detached from the brutal truth itself and has come into its own. Why should I tear it up mercilessly?"

When the words fell, Hua Xi slowly closed his eyes and said no more. She will always remember that day, Yan Fei's eyes were full of tears, her fists were clenched tightly, and her small mouth was stubbornly pursed into a line. Tell her loudly, that person is the first person in his life who can be called a friend.

You are such a stubborn guardian thing, how can I bear to let you see the blood behind it?

Butterfly Valley was very lonely due to the temporary total lockdown, and it was a rare time for her. The four-palm-wide butterfly fluttered and stopped beside the woman's embroidery frame, and suddenly a heavy rose color suddenly bloomed on the transparent and pure butterfly wings.

The woman understood, put down the needle and thread, stretched out her white wrist and handed it over, and the huge butterfly stopped on the woman's wrist, pierced a meat needle into it, and the fat body slowly became swollen. It was almost time, and the woman lightly touched the butterfly's wings, and the butterfly seemed to feel something, and flapped its wings and flew away, and the roses on the wings faded a lot, and it was not as shocking as before.

"Have you eaten enough this time?" the woman smiled slyly, "I'm really sorry, there is no way to bring your wife back to life." Even if this meal is hard-won, it doesn't mean much to you, does it?"

The butterfly listened to the woman's words and lay motionless on the embroidered cloth. The woman looked at it and saw that the butterfly had stopped on a butterfly that was slightly smaller than it in the embroidered picture, and sighed.

"In a little while, when there are more people here, we will have to leave again. The woman gently cupped her cheeks, looking at the bright sky, her beautiful face showed a faint worry, "What do you say I will do next time? It seems that it is not interesting to change so much, it is really boring to live." ”

"But when you die, there's really nothing. ”

The woman shook her head with a smile, picked up the teacup and took a sip of coffee, then stretched out her hand and gently knocked on the glass jar next to the embroidery frame. The woman looked at it for a while and felt a little bored, and pricked the needle again. A bright peony blooms on the black silk satin, the beauty next to the peony is slightly tulled, and the hair bun is reflected in the pearl emerald. The flying needle walked under the line, and the word "through" in the corner gradually became clear.

Butterflies dream, dreams of butterflies.

In the past, Zhuang Zhou dreamed of butterflies, lifelike butterflies. I don't know what to do. Oh Ran Jue, then Yu Ran Zhou also. I don't know if Zhou's dream is a butterfly or a butterfly's dream?

――Butterfly Dream End〜