Chapter Twenty-Three: Two Vipers
While I was talking to Baocai, the little Taoist priest was already carrying the peachwood sword down the sand dunes, and I shouted, "What are you going to do?
The little Taoist priest walked down without looking back, and said, "Don't you feel thirsty?"
I listened to his words, and my heart "chuckled", this is to find water for us? But looking at the way he looked back at me, as if he wanted to express something, I secretly thought in my heart: "He has something to say to me, and he doesn't want the treasurer on the side to notice, so he is going to find water?" I'm thirsty!. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
As he spoke, he cautiously glanced at the Kushi, who was staring at us silently, looking at his bottomless eyes, I shuddered, and was about to speak, when the little Taoist priest lowered his voice and said, "Don't say anything, continue to ......"
When he said this, I suddenly remembered the Kushi's ability to secretly make trouble, and the old ancestor and the little Taoist priest did not immediately expose him, because I don't know how deep this person is. And I found that his auricles are the same as Wang Bajian, very peculiar, it should be the ear power, and now I want the little Taoist priest and I to go down from the sand mountain, and the wind is blowing upward, and it is estimated that a few words will float into his ears.
Sometimes I am in a hurry to do things, I don't know the timing, I secretly scolded myself for not having a long brain, and when I got to the lower position, the little Taoist priest was caught off guard and said: "Do you think it is a coincidence that we are here?"
I didn't expect him to suddenly ask such a sentence, and I couldn't react, so I instinctively replied: "Do you think it's destined in the dark?"
The little Taoist priest said: "I didn't mean that, I mean, do you think it's a coincidence that we were brought here?"
I could hear the words, my scalp tightened, and I said, "What do you mean? Why are we brought here?"
The little Taoist priest said: "The Tower of Silence was brought into by the Kushi, we rested there for a night, and encountered strange things, in fact, someone used a spell. ā
I nodded, thinking, "As expected......"
The little Taoist priest continued: "The Gobi Desert was the first to be discovered by You Chi and brought us, and after the man-eating ants appeared, he fled for his life. ā
Listening to the meaning of the little Taoist priest's words, my heart sank, and I almost couldn't believe it: "Do you think he has a problem with both?"
The little Taoist nodded, I remembered the resentful eyes that You Chi looked at me last night, and said to himself slightly: "You Chi is usually honest and rarely speaks, but last night he looked at us with a strange look, as if there was some hatred or resentment......" I pondered for a long time, I really couldn't figure it out, and comforted myself: "No, we didn't know him, we just met him to find a guide, and gave him a lot of money at his request, he shouldn't have left us in cold blood." ā
The little Taoist priest said: "Don't forget, it was Brother Wang who he found on his own, and the appearance of him and the treasurer is actually the same, they were all killed halfway, and our details of it are only in the poor family we have seen......
I was speechless for a while, and after calming down for a while, I wondered, "But I can't figure it out, what is their purpose? We have no grudge against them, as for the way to do this to us?"
The little Taoist priest thought for a while and said, "I don't know this either...... But do you remember what Yuchi told us to pay homage to his ancestors?"
I nodded and said, "Remember...... What's wrong?"
The little Taoist priest said: "Although it is not uncommon for people from the Central Plains to trade in the Western Regions, it can be said that it is not uncommon and very normal, but the Loulan people in Yanze have already moved, and there is basically only a ruin left, but don't you think it's strange? You Chi never asked us what we were doing in Yanze?"
I couldn't help but feel cold, and I didn't even notice that I had arrived on the Gobi Desert, and when I realized it, my whole body stiffened, obviously reluctantly from what happened last night. I made up my mind and tried not to think about the man-eating ants, but my attention was still unconsciously alert to the movements around me, I swallowed my saliva, forcibly controlled my nervousness, and said: "I thought You Chi was for money at first, but now I didn't expect ......" To be honest, a journey, no one would want to meet two people with ill intentions, but the various disasters of these days, as Baocai said before: "Why are we so unlucky all the way, before we reach Yanzawa, there are dangers everywhere ......" It turns out that some of the dangers are not something we want to wade into, but someone has already designed them for us, and we are blindfolded, so we can only jump into the fire pit blindly.
The little Taoist priest didn't expect this trip to fulfill the master's last wish, and a few wolves in human skins appeared in the middle of the journey, he sighed, and said: "So I agree with what Feng Zhangshi said, and figure out their intentions......" As he spoke, he inserted the small shovel into the thin sand, then excavated, and said indifferently: "As expected, You Chi will come back to us......"
I was squatting down, ready to shovel away the sand, but when I heard the little Taoist priest say, my brain "buzzed", a kind of cold that penetrated through the bones went straight to the heart, I sat on the ground, took a breath, and after a little relief, I was surprised: "Why? The people who are all gone, and he is not afraid that we will look at him differently and sneer at him when he comes back? How big is that heart? And if he really comes back, we will be equal to two poisonous snakes, and no one knows when they will bite us." ā
I was nervous in my heart, thinking that You Chi should know very well that for the fact that he left us last night, he undoubtedly deducted a basin of feces and urine on himself, and it stinks, and we definitely don't want to get close to him again, but if he wants to come back, it will be interesting......
The little Taoist priest raised his eyes to look at me and said solemnly: "So you have to be extra careful, you can't be deceived by appearances, in case we are not there, you must pay attention to what you say when you are alone with them to protect yourself." ā
I never expected the little Taoist priest to say such a thing to me, so I hurriedly said, "What do you mean by that? What do you mean in case you are not there?"
The little Taoist priest stopped his movements, looked up at me seriously, and admonished: "No one knows what will happen next, including touching the seal of the Golden Gate, in case we are separated in the sea of sand like last time, or whoever stays in this fateful place, you will always face to face with them......" He saw me sitting on the ground in a daze, and added: "I mean that without a safe barrier, you have to learn to survive on your own...... Also......" His voice was a little deep: "I'm really sorry...... ...... brought you to such a dangerous situation."
I listened to the little Taoist priest say this, my heart sank, this guy rarely talks on weekdays, I didn't expect to say so much to me today, I sat in place, watching him turn around, continue to work hard, my heart is indescribable. I'm afraid that he thinks too much, and thinks that we are suffering here because of him, so he hurriedly pulled out a smile and said: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, although we will carry it, but at least the life is big, and sometimes you don't have to have a burden when you ride the wind and waves, if you were in the Chu Tomb at that time, without you saving us, I don't know how many times I would have died......"
When the little Taoist priest heard this, his body paused for a moment, and he silently said: "There will be a time to ride the wind and waves...... Heh......" He smiled bitterly: "That's a good point......"
I saw that his brow was slightly stretched, and suddenly he felt that when he was short of words, it was quite good to use some poems of the ancients, it could relieve his nervousness. And Li Bai's "Difficult to Walk" really expresses my heart at this moment.
It's just that now too many questions are swirling in my mind, and things are starting to burn all of a sudden, I'm not good at dealing with scheming people, one is nervous, and the other is that I really didn't think that people's hearts would be so complicated, but this kind of person is around us, the little Taoist priest's words have been obvious, he said that we came here, it was You Chi who guided, that means he knows that there is a "grass head sacrifice" here, there are "man-eating ants", he wants us to die here! I bit my lip, for You Chi's deep meaning of that expression last night, it can be regarded as an afterthought. If it wasn't Bao Cai and Wang Bajian who met in the sandstorm last time, but the two of them, then I might have died silently a long time ago......
I really can't figure out what they want? Killing people shouldn't be human nature, but any killing, even if it's mentally problematic, has an ultimate reason, or a thrill. Why on earth did they put us in danger, and why did they want us strangers to stay here?
Thinking that the Kushi and we were in danger at the same time, I wondered in my heart, "Isn't You Chi and him an accomplice?" The more I thought about it, the more creepy I felt, if we were walking with two strangers, and they wanted to kill us for different reasons, it would be too unbelievable. What are the qualities in us that deserve them to go into the desert of danger and persecute us?
I squatted down and glanced sideways at the Kushi who was sitting in the yellow sand, like a desert eagle, with sharp eyes looking ahead, and the old ancestor sitting beside him. When a heavy white cloud was blown by the wind and shadows hung over him, I saw a sense of the vicissitudes of the times. This reminds me of Wong Kar-wai's "East Evil and West Poison", in which Tony Leung plays a blind warrior sitting on rammed earth, cold and lonely, revealing a killing intent. Although the two of them were looking at the vast land by themselves, as I felt last time in the Tower of Silence, although they were calm on the surface, they actually had their own precautions and plans. I have a hunch that sooner or later they will explode under this atmosphere and fight it out!
I don't know how long I looked at it, but when the white clouds left their heads and the light shone on them again, I suddenly felt that the eyes of the master were like those of a person, but for a while I couldn't remember where I had seen them. Just as I was thinking about this, the ancestors and they all turned around to see something, as if there was movement.
The little Taoist priest was unmoved, still bowing his head and saying, "He's back......" (to be continued.) )