Chapter 19: Life and Death
Yun Xi suddenly felt that the atmosphere was wrong, and his eyebrows frowned. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info gets up and lifts the front curtain of the carriage and finds that the driver is gone. He jumped out of the carriage vigilantly and observed his surroundings. The carriage came to a path beside a dense forest, deserted. Less than a mile out of the dense forest, there are cliffs. The bottom of the cliff is obscured by clouds and mist, and there is no bottom in sight.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Qing followed and prepared to get out of the car.
"Qingqing, don't get out of the car." Yun Xi stopped Zhao Qing and didn't act rashly. The groom was gone, and the two Dharma Protectors who accompanied him did not appear. It's not safe here, we have to turn around and get out of here. ”
Suddenly, a hidden weapon was shot from the southwest of the forest and flew straight to the horse. Frightened, the horse jumped forward, kicked in the air, and after a few long neighs, galloped in the direction of the cliff.
"Ahh Zhao Qing was thrown into the innermost part of the carriage, and as the horses galloped, the carriage was very upside down.
"Qingqing!" Yun Xi shouted in surprise and ran after the carriage, only thinking about catching up with the carriage and saving Qingqing.
"Yunxi! Yunxi! Zhao Qing clutched the carriage tightly, and tried to poke her head out of the window of the carriage and shouted, her heart was frightened, and her brain was blank.
"Qingqing, don't be afraid, you hurry up, don't let go." Yun Xi followed closely behind, ready to jump into the carriage to control the reins.
Unexpectedly, when the carriage was going mad, it tripped over a large boulder raised in the middle of the road. One side of the carriage was disconnected, the carriage pulled inconsistently, and the carriage fell to the ground in its entirety, dragged by the horses for a long distance.
"Qingqing!" Yun Xi shouted, there was a cliff ahead, and this sudden overturn caught him off guard, and his heart tightened.
Just within a hundred meters of the cliff, the other side of the carriage was worn and broken, and the horses that broke free from the carriage jumped into the cliff. The carriage slid a long way with the pull and came to a halt near the edge of the cliff. Half of the carriage was already suspended in mid-air, and as long as Zhao Qing moved, the carriage was very likely to fall.
"Qingqing, don't move!" Yun Xi ran over, observed the surroundings of the carriage, quickly made a decision, and stretched out a hand. "Qingqing, you give me your hand first."
"Good ......"
Zhao Qing didn't even dare to gasp for breath at this time, and he carefully raised his right hand slowly, and Yun Xi grasped it.
"Qingqing, listen to me, later, I'll count one, two, three, and you will jump and jump towards me. Remember, be quick! Yun Xi's nerves were tense, his palms were already sweating, and he warned himself in his heart that he couldn't make a little mistake.
"En......" Zhao Qing nodded firmly, she believed that Yun Xi would definitely save her.
"Okay, one...... Two...... Three!! ”
Yun Xi shouted three, and pulled Zhao Qing up with all his strength. When Zhao Qing also stepped on the carriage and was about to take advantage of the strength, the stones stuck in the carriage suddenly loosened, and the entire carriage suddenly fell. Fortunately, Yun Xi grabbed her and didn't let her be taken down by the carriage.
The wind on the edge of the cliff was very strong, and the sound of the wind was whistling in my ears. With the sound of the wind, Zhao Qing clearly heard the sound of the carriage crashing into the cliff wall when it fell, and he felt a little more frightened in his heart.
"Qingqing, hold on, I'll pull you up." Yun Xi lay on the cliff, his two hands tightly grasped Zhao Qing's hand, using all his strength, his face was flushed.
Zhao Qing didn't answer, just nodded. Stepping on the raised stone under his feet and climbing up, when he was about to be pulled up the cliff, Zhao Qing saw a figure behind Yun Xi, the scorching sun was in the sky, the sun was dazzling, Zhao Qing had not seen the person's appearance clearly, but found that the man raised the sword in his hand and stabbed Yun Xi in the back.
"Watch your back!" Zhao Qing shouted.
Yun Xi frowned between his eyebrows and turned over to dodge. I saw the sword stabbing from behind on the ground, in order to avoid the sudden sword, Yun Xi accidentally let go of a hand, Zhao Qing's whole person slid down again, Yun Xi's eyes were quick, and he stretched out his let go of the hand again, and hurriedly grabbed her arm.
"Your kid's life is really big, I killed you three or four times, and I let you escape!" The man who assassinated Yunxi spoke.
Yun Xi looked at his assassin and felt a shock in his heart. That person was the ghost envoy who sat down to protect the Dharma Spirit, and it was the person who was ordered to escort them this time. Why did he suddenly turn against him and come to kill him?
"Why ...... You?"
"Why did you come to kill you?" The Charm sneered and continued. "You escaped by luck in Cloud Lake, if it weren't for the action of the Stygian Lan Tower, you wouldn't have survived until now."
"You're the one lurking in the Stygian Tower!" Yun Xi was keenly aware.
"Isn't that stupid! Dying man, it doesn't hurt to tell you, I was ordered to lurk in the Stygian Tower for seven years, and I finally managed to get to the position where the ghost envoy sat down to protect the Dharma, if it wasn't for the failure of this assassination, the above would not have let me take such a big risk to kill you. If something happens to you, I'll be exposed. So, you must die today! The Charm pulled out the ghost knife that stabbed deep in the ground and aimed it at the clouds.
"So, the disappearance of the groom and the dragon protector, as well as the secret weapon that caused the horse to be frightened and rushed off the cliff, were all done by you." Yun Xi said with difficulty, at present, the ghost envoy is sitting down and only the ghost is alone, and the ghost is dead, it seems that he doesn't know.
"That's right, I did it, if it wasn't for the landlord asking us to escort you back to Beijing, I wouldn't have gotten such a good opportunity to start."
"Hmph, I didn't expect you to pay such a big price in order to kill me, and you didn't hesitate to expose the only detail of the Stygian Tower." Yun Xi took the opportunity to extract important information from Wei Mei.
"You don't have to worry about this, we can lurk in such a mysterious organization as the Stygian Tower, of course, there will be internal responses and other details. Even without me, there will still be other forces in our department. The charm looked at the prey in front of her proudly.
"I didn't expect you to be able to buy off the people inside the Stygian Tower."
"Everyone in the world has desires, some are greedy for power, some are greedy for profit, and some are greedy for money and lust. As long as it is used, there is nothing that can not be sold. ”
"The person who can buy the Stygian Mansion will not be as simple as money or women. If you talk about money, the Stygian Pavilion is rich enough to rival the country, if you talk about women, with the power of the Stygian Pavilion, what kind of woman can't get it. Then there are only rights left, and only rights will make people become unscrupulous, and even betray anyone. Yun Xi's analysis made the originally rampant ghost become vigilant.
"I didn't expect the Yan family and grandchildren to have such insight." The handle of the knife in the charm of the charm tightened a little.
"Since it is for power, it must be someone who covets the power of the Stygian Lan Building. Except for the envoy who disappeared three years ago, I have seen all the three envoys sitting down in the Stygian Tower, and the envoy has always been indifferent and not interested in power. Although the demon envoy is silent, it can be seen that he is a loyal man. will not betray the landlord, and the youngest charm envoy only has her senior brother Xuan Ming in her eyes, and her temperament is also straightforward, there is no city, and it is not her. Therefore, the internal response you are looking for should be the sitting elder who followed the previous landlord. Yan Yunxi's meticulous analysis made Wei Mei's face change drastically.
"The mentally imperfect fool of the past has not only regained his memory, but he is also such a thoughtful person." At this time, Wei Mei already had a sense of threat, and Yan Yunxi must not be allowed to leave alive today, otherwise it will be a big disaster.
"I once heard the landlord mention that there were three elders sitting down in the previous landlord, one of whom has passed away, and the other two elders' forces are in Xijin and Beiyan, and their power should not be underestimated. Soon after the owner of the new building first ascended to the throne, the lord was suspicious. It is inevitable that no one will covet the main position, and the current Stygian Tower has been divided into two factions: the old forces and the new forces. And you should have a deal with someone from the old power's lineage, and the price of the transaction should be that you help him get rid of the new landlord and help him ascend to the position of landlord. And there are only two kinds of purpose for you, either to uproot the eyeline and forces scattered all over Nanling, or to annex the Stygian Tower, make them work for you, and collect important information from various countries! ”
Yan Yunxi hit the nail on the head and gradually analyzed the current situation. He just wanted to use this to distract Wei Mei's attention, and he could find an opportunity to take Zhao Qing away. And Zhao Qing also had insight that Yun Xi was delaying time, and she also worked hard to climb up.
Listening to Yan Yunxi's analysis sentence by sentence, her face sank like water. Basically, it's right. Obviously, he didn't have much patience to listen to him anymore, because the more this person lived, the more danger they would have, and he couldn't wait to do it.
"Which of the elders is your inner body? I stayed in the Stygian Tower for a few days, and I happened to meet two elders as well. Elder Li is warm, sleek, and always greets people with a smile. But in my opinion, he is a smiling tiger. No matter how friendly he is, he can't hide his city and ambitions. And Elder Ouyang was mean, treating his subordinates harshly and unsympatheticly. But he was extremely conceited and high-minded, so that he surrendered to a new landlord in his twenties, and he must have been dissatisfied. Yan Yunxi observed this ghostly expression, so as to find the answer in his heart, it seems that he guessed correctly, their Nei Ying is indeed one of the two elders.
Wei Mei and Yan Yunxi looked at each other, although he was now in an advantage, Yan Yunxi's eyes seemed to be able to see through what he was thinking, and he couldn't help but tremble.
"It's Elder Li, right!" Yan Yunxi decisively said the guess in his heart. And the surprise that flashed in the eyes of the charm was also captured by him.
"How do you know?" Wei Mei was clearly irritated by Yan Yunxi's calmness and wisdom.
"Hmph, sure enough. Although Elder Ouyang is rigid, he is not good at communicating. He was extremely conceited, but he was loyal to his old master, who entrusted his son to him. He will surely fulfill the old master's last wish and support the new one. And that Elder Li, although he is amiable and easy to get along with, can be regarded as buying people's hearts in disguise. Presumably, when he followed the old master, he coveted the Stygian Tower, but because of the old master's strength, he didn't dare to act rashly. Disguised so far, waiting for the old master to pass away, the new master is at the helm. I must have been eager to kill the lord and take the throne. ”
Yan Yunxi's words made Wei Mei feel a strong sense of danger, and the joints of his fingertips only rattled.
"No matter how much you know, it's useless, no one will save you today!" With that, the ghost ghost raised the ghost knife in his hand and slashed at Yun Xi's back.
"Uhh Yun Xi screamed.
The blood on his back gushed out, ran down his arm, and dripped onto Zhao Qinghui's fair cheeks. Zhao Qing felt the warmth of the blood, and clearly smelled the blood, looking at Yan Yunxi's face that endured severe pain, it was instantly covered with beads of sweat the size of beans, and the blood fell on her, Zhao Qing's heart was like a knife, but Yan Yunxi still held her tightly. At this moment, she had a strong sense of self-blame in her heart, if it weren't for her, maybe Yan Yunxi would not have been dragged down, and maybe she would have returned to the capital a long time ago. On the contrary, now that he was injured, and even gave the killer a chance to kill him, other thoughts suddenly occurred in his heart.
"Yunxi, let it go......" There was a hint of hope in the despair and heartache in Zhao Qing's eyes, maybe in this way, he could have a chance to escape.
"Zhao Qing! What nonsense are you talking about! I won't let you go. If you dare to let go, I will not forgive you! Yan Yunxi roared angrily, he never thought that this woman was risking her life to attack him again.
"If this gives you a chance to escape, I'd rather you hate me!"
Yan Yunxi knew that Zhao Qing was different from ordinary women, and she would not hesitate to do what she decided, and she was a very assertive woman. He pondered for a long time, quickly judging the terrain under the cliff and the surrounding area. He finally made up his mind and looked at Zhao Qing.
"Qingqing, do you believe me?" Yan Yunxi looked at Zhao Qing's beautiful eyes firmly.
"I believe it!"
"Okay, listen to me carefully." Yan Yunxi suddenly lowered his voice. "I've observed, the perennial clouds and mist in this cliff are condensed all year round, because there is a water source below, do you dare to bet with me."
Zhao Qing understood the meaning of Yan Yunxi's words, she did not hesitate at all, and nodded firmly. And Yan Yunxi also responded to her with firm eyes, this was their only hope.
"A pair of infatuated men and women, dying to the end, and still falling in love. In that case, I will fulfill you! The ghost ghost raised the ghost knife in his hand again, and in the sun, the cold light of the blade was reflected out, and the ghost was ready to give Yan Yunxi the last fatal knife.
Before the knife arrived, I saw the boy leap for life and fly into the cliff. sigh that the love of children is long, and life and death depend on each other. Yan Yunxi pulled Zhao Qing into his arms, protected her tightly under him, and buried her head in his arms.
Zhao Qing clinged to Yan Yunxi's chest, even if she fell into the abyss and fell into hell, she had no regrets. Listening to his heartbeat, she was extremely reassured. No matter how loud the wind is when she falls, no matter how deep the fear is, she is not afraid. Gradually, her consciousness also fell into the black vortex, and she lost any consciousness. There was a moment of out-of-body separation that made her feel clearer. In the darkness of her unconscious, falling, falling......