Chapter 35: The plot is decoded
Even with the aesthetic point of view of aliens that are different from those of the Central Plains, I have to say that Xie Qingyan's appearance is not ugly. It can even be said that this is a just right and very handsome face. Although it has nothing to do with what is beautiful like a woman, or masculine and rich with a man's atmosphere, it is Xiao Xiao and solemn, with the style of the forest.
Of course, this is not just talking, but whether this person laughs or not, he can give people a sense of detachment from the world and not being in the same stream as the world.
Such a feeling is undoubtedly extremely deceptive. Especially when Xie Qingyan didn't play the function of his mouth cannon.
It's just that for our Xuanwu Protector, or Johnny the Little Fat Man, what impressed him the most about this face was that in the tribe that was destroyed three years ago, there was a figure like a demon from hell under the fire and blood in the sky.
Even though Johnny didn't know it at that time, the look on his face at that time was actually very obvious indifference. Ignorance and indifference to life.
That is something that Johnny, the little fat man who once lived in a peaceful world, cannot understand, and it is also what the current Xuanwu Dharma Protector of the Tianli Sect pursues.
Human life has no value.
What happened in that dark night three years ago, in that perished tribe, is a nightmare that many people will not get rid of. This is true for Johnny and for Hull and Rochd, who are already dead. Even if Johnny is now, he is no longer the powerless middle school boy he was three years ago, but the Xuanwu Protector of the Heavenly Doctrine who holds great power.
Three years is enough time for a lot of changes, such as Johnny becoming the Xuanwu Protector of the Tenri Sect, and the seemingly inseparable protagonist team of the day is heading towards the unknown path in the dark.
But three years is not enough time to change too much, such as the shadow that Xie Linfeng left in the hearts of Johnny and others still exists. Whether it is Xie Linfeng or Xie Qingyan, who has lost his memory, there have not been too many changes in his appearance and habits.
Therefore, Xie Qingyan, who was actually Xie Linfeng and Xie Daochang, only bowed his head slightly, and seemed to be extremely polite:
"I see, I just don't know where the other Blue Dragon Protector and the Holy Son and Holy Daughter of your sect are?"
The four protectors of the Tianli Sect, Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu, among which Vermilion Bird and White Tiger have died at the hands of Xie Qingyan in Yangzhou. Xuanwu was close at hand, and the rest that hadn't appeared yet was the Green Dragon Protector and the Holy Son and Holy Maiden who was said to have killed the previous sect leader.
"Who knows, perhaps, after Your Excellency kills me, the answer will come naturally. Even if you don't want to see them, you're afraid. ”
A strange smile appeared on the fat and honest face, and the complexity and hatred on his face were quickly restrained. Johnny, our Xuanwu Protector, just spread his hands and smiled in an extremely strange way.
"I can give it a try. ”
Nodding very seriously, Xie Qingyan held the long sword on his back in his hand, the long sword was raised diagonally upward, and a huge true power poured out along the tip of the sword, and the roof of the car was fiercely lifted. Even the walls of the car made of unknown materials were scattered and turned into pieces of wood.
The originally lively caravan had lost the slightest trace unconsciously, and the horses that had been abandoned by their masters were roaring uneasily, and there was not half a figure in the caravan of forty or fifty people.
The feeling of uneasiness pulsed little by little, followed by a faint irrepressible excitement.
Very secretive, Xie Qingyan was eager to kill. Although in comparison, it is more convenient to use the kind of wine provided by Bai Xiaosheng that is named Bright Sun, and when you drink it, you will be drunk and burn when you encounter fire.
Not everything has the opportunity to have the best of both worlds, at least compared to the secret killing* in the heart, it is more important to solve the troubles of the Tenrikyo Sect quickly and ruthlessly and find a place to rest.
Therefore, while he was just picking up the roof of the car with a sword and breaking the wall of the car, his body retreated sharply, and he threw a wine jug filled with a dazzling sun at the fat Xuanwu Protector one after another, carrying torches and other things that flickered brightly. It is really a two-hearted and ingenious one, which greatly demonstrates Xie Qingyan's outstanding skills, hand speed, adaptability, flexibility, etc.
Not to mention other aspects, this hand alone is not something that ordinary martial arts people can use.
From the mouth of the Xuanwu Dharma Protector, it was obvious that he could not know more information, and he had lost his memory, and Xie Qingyan, who only lived in the real world, had no choice but to adopt the simple and crude method that he had discussed with Bai Xiaosheng before. That day, the Church of Science couldn't, and it was indifferent to swallowing its anger all the time. What's more, Xie Qingyan had an indescribable intuition, and that day the Doctrine seemed to be silently paying attention to himself.
Otherwise, how could there be one Heavenly Doctrine protector after another, one after another, appearing in front of him. Although his purpose was to go to the Heavenly Doctrine.
"What is the joy of life, what is the pain of death? My heart is sad, and I don't know how to mourn. ”
The faint chant sounded, but it was the fat Xuanwu Dharma Protector sitting on the tattered carriage, not dodging or dodging, letting the flames sweep around him. It can be vaguely seen that the chubby face maintains a strange and strange look.
There were even silver reptiles, crawling out of the burning body, making a chilling shaking sound.
For a moment, Xie Qingyan understood that death may not be a relief for these people.
My heart is sad, and I don't know how I mourn.
He thanked Qingyan's sadness and sorrow, but he didn't know where it was.
Then the next thing to appear should be the green dragon protector among the four elephant protectors.
The specious thought was fleeting, and the wound on the waist naturally would not fade little by little because of the death of the Xuanwu Protector. His face was pale, and his upper and lower eyelids couldn't stop trying to glue together. All kinds of thoughts flashed in a daze, and Xie Qingyan couldn't help it after all, and fell to the ground.
So it's inconvenient to get hurt or something. Because of this, he missed the figure walking out of the fire that surrounded the corpse of the Xuanwu Protector.
A cold smile appeared on his cold lips, and the members of the caravan who had disappeared appeared around the clearing at some point. He prostrated himself at the figure that came out of the firelight, wrapped in a pitch-black cloak with only one chin exposed.
I don't know when the bright moon rises, like the sound of small insects gnawing on mulberries, and it keeps making noise, and it is getting louder and louder. Followed by countless silver reptiles, crawling out from the feet of the black figures who came out of the firelight.
It's weird and weird, and it's chilling.
Only this time, Xie Qingyan didn't wake up in time to witness such a situation. And the direction in which the reptile crawled forward was the place where Xie Qingyan fell.
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Just as every story needs a true or false, happy or sad ending, when the gray-haired Bai Xiaosheng leans on crutches and tells the juniors in his family about the great achievements of his youth, he will always attract inexplicable ridicule.
It's not that Bai Xiaosheng's story is not vivid enough, or that his expression skills are too poor. At least as a martial arts senior who can eat such a bowl of rice in the martial arts of the rivers and lakes and live to be very old, Bai Xiaosheng does not have much problem in terms of language expression.
It's just that no matter how wild and colorful a child's imagination is, it can't see all the people who exist in reality as unreal and unreal.
Children's imagination is rich and colorful, but they are also full of curiosity about all the qiē. At least most of the children who do not suffer from life have fantasized about the heavens and gods or some kind of existence that seems absurd and inconceivable in the adult world.
But such fantasies are nothing compared to denying the world as a whole.
Like every enthusiastic heroic story, the story in Bai Xiaosheng's mouth about Xie Qingyan walking thousands of miles and riding alone all the way to kill the Four Elephants Protector of the Tianli Sect is so colorful and wonderful, but it will not be inferior to Guan Gong passing five levels and killing six generals.
Whether it's true or not, it's still romantic and exaggerated with romance. Bai Xiaosheng said that he and Xie Qingyan had set a plan to strangle the Tianli Sect together, and when Xie Qingyan killed the Tianli Sect Protector all the way with a sword in white clothes, the battle between Xie Qingyan and the Four Elephant Protectors of the Heavenly Reason Sect was so that the dragon fought the tiger, the wind and clouds would meet the opponent, and the opponent would meet the good talent, and the sky was dark, the sun and the moon were dark, the sun and the moon were lightless, and the stones were flying and the ghosts were crying. It makes people's blood surging and intoxicated, it is really a conspiracy and a conspiracy, and the beauties are all famous. Even the storyteller in the teahouse may not be able to tell such a wonderful story.
Of course, if this is all the case, then Bai Xiaosheng may not be Bai Xiaosheng, but a storyteller who walked out of a teahouse.
The story came to an abrupt end after the Suzaku, the White Tiger, and the Xuanwu Protector died one after another at the hands of Xie Qingyan, and the mysterious figure in black appeared, suspected of being the protector of the Green Dragon. The plain words spit out from the mouth of Bai Xiaosheng, who was no longer young, but it was a strange story about another world.
After the deaths of Hull, Rochd, and Johnny, who have become the Sons of the Tenri Sect, and Tina, the little girl and female schoolgirl who has become a saint, there are too few people in this world who can understand this story. It is probably only a few years later, when modern people who have also traveled to this world, can get a little truth from the words that have disappeared.
In the original world development trajectory, the team members led by Ben found the original owner who had run out of energy in the strange mechanical world created by the original creator Zào, and easily destroyed it to save the world. Let the poor humans who were pulled into the virtual world by the original owner return to consciousness, and then become the heroes who save the world.
Compared with the boring and cookie-cutter plot of fighting with the evil Great Demon King and killing the original owner, a high-end machine who has ideals and goals and wants to rule the world with a machine, the trajectory of the story is more about the run-in and friendship of Ben, Tina, Hull, Roched, Johnny and others. And the love flower that is absent.
Xie Linfeng's arrival disrupted this qiē.
Compared with becoming a qualified villain, or following the rules of the original plot, Xie Daochang seems to have unconsciously opened up some unknown evil tastes. Or maybe 110, as a villain system, is not strict with Xie Linfeng's control, in short, whether intentionally or unintentionally, Xie Linfeng simply and rudely squeezed out the superfluous people out of the virtual world, and changed the virtual world of the original creator Zào to a new world similar to a prosperous period in the history of Z country.
And after that, Xie Linfeng used the disk that the system gave him that could be used to roll back the memories of the team members, including Ben. Make them mistakenly think that they are in some big simulation online game.
Then, this virtual world, which was created by the original owner and transformed by Xie Linfeng Xie Daochang, broke away from the control of Xie Linfeng, the pseudo-creator of Zào, and had its own direction.
Qiu Chunyu's appearance, whether it was the Heavenly Doctrine or the Heavenly Doctrine, was not within the scope of Xie Linfeng's original expectations. It was only after he personally killed the tribal residents who had been controlled by the 'chrysalis' of the Tianli Sect that Xie Linfeng realized the severity of the matter.
Xie Linfeng didn't know what the energy source that sustained the original owner was and how to replenish it. However, what can be known is that when the virtual world collapses, the existence that Xie Linfeng is attached to will disappear permanently.
Although it is unclear whether he will actually die after the mission dies, or return to the system space. However, it is obvious that Xie Linfeng is not in the habit of sitting still, even if those 'chrysalis' are constantly destroying this incomplete virtual world.
Out of a certain mentality that he is unlucky and does not let others have a good time, Xie Linfeng pointed out the direction of the protagonist team led by Ben to go to Tianli Sect.
After that, Xie Linfeng became Xie Qingyan and appeared in the Jianghu martial arts.
Old white hair, broken traps, and male god face are Xie Linfeng's usual dresses in the game of Jian San. Compared with those foot-picking men who play Lori or become girls, Xie Linfeng doesn't think that there is any mall fashion that is more suitable for Taoist leaders than sectarian school uniforms.
As for Xie Qingyan's three words, it is Xie Linfeng's ID in the game Swordsman Romance Online Version 3. After all, no matter how narcissistic he is, Xie Linfeng is not so narcissistic that he has the habit of using a real name as a game ID. Shame or something, Xie Daochang said that he was a gentle and humble person.
Although the system is produced, it must be a high-quality product. But what we need to know is that rollbacks or something are actually very unreliable. For example, in Xie Linfeng's original world, a full-level Dao Master returned to the incident of a ninety-level Dao Tong, how could he be in a trance.
Therefore, when Xie Linfeng used the disk for the second time to roll back, it is understandable that he originally wanted to do something to the memory of the protagonist Ben and others, but it turned out to be his own loss of memory or something.
Xie Linfeng lost his memory, but Ben, Tina, Hull and others did not lose their memory. And when Ben and the others took the map provided by Xie Daochang and trembled all the way through hardships and dangers to find the Tianli Sect, the situation they faced can be imagined.
Fortunately, the protagonist's aura is not just talking, at least Ben and the others did not lose their lives, but turned into the Holy Son and Holy Daughter of the Tianli Sect and the Four Elephant Protectors three years later.
No matter what kind of thing it is, as long as the protagonist is put on the table, it will become impossible or illogical, such a thing has long been known to Xie Linfeng. As one of the world's most beloved deposits, the protagonist often means endless opportunities and possibilities.
Even if the protagonist of this world is just such an ordinary teenager who can't be more ordinary. But after killing the three Tianli Sect protectors, Suzaku, White Tiger, and Xuanwu, Xie Qingyan, who had to fall into a coma because of serious injuries, fell to the ground, but what he did was worthy of a protagonist and should bear.
Xie Linfeng has been refusing the task of the system as if he was nothing, not that he did not complete it, but he was lazy and lazy, and he never used any drastic means. For the contact with the protagonist, it is also how to avoid it. This kind of method can be glimpsed from the treatment of Su Yu in the first world to the relationship with Mu Yunrui in the second world.
Zhuang Zhou dreams of butterflies, butterflies dream of Zhuang Zhou. But I don't know if he, Xie Linfeng, is playing a game called villain counterattack, or if he, as a villain who keeps counterattacking, is being played by the unknown Cunzài.
Thinking about it this way, he is not too different from those so-called protagonists.
To put it mildly, thank you for this person, he is a good person, but many times, it is not ordinary hypocrisy. Whether it's killing people or doing bad things, you always need to find a righteous and bright reason.
However, it is a pity that Ben, who became the Holy Son of the Heavenly Doctrine, did not give Xie Linfeng such a chance. Because not long after Ben, that is, Xie Qingyan's mind fell to the ground, and soon after the figure that walked out of the firelight appeared, this United Holy Maiden killed the Holy Son of the previous sect leader together, and together with Holy Maiden Tina, brought all the 'chrysalis' into the kingdom of heaven along with her own life.
My heart is sad, and I don't know how to mourn.
The few people who worshiped the Heavenly Principle Sect, from the Vermilion Bird Protector Hull and the White Tiger Protector Rokede, who first died at the hands of Xie Qingyan, and even the later Xuanwu Protector Johnny, or the Holy Son Ben and the Holy Maiden Tina, all they wanted was to return to their original world.
Unfortunately, suicide is not possible. Because in such a virtual world, neither Hull, Rochd, Johnny, nor Ben and Tina can be redeemed through death.
The body was swallowed little by little by the strange and strange 'chrysalis', but the mind became clearer and clearer in the pain. In the end, they turned their attention to Xie Linfeng, who appeared on the night on the border of the Western Regions.
Xie Linfeng needs to clear the threat of the 'chrysalis', while Ben and the others need to be redeemed by death. Even if they took all the 'chrysalis' back to themselves and then died at the hands of Xie Linfeng, it was not intentional, I have to say that they did Xie Linfeng a great favor.
And Xie Linfeng, who is the creator of this virtual world, although he can't completely kill Ben and the others, he can expel them from this virtual world.
Of course, this qiē is not understood by Bai Xiaosheng's audience.