Wang Liefeng said: "Thank you for saving me." ”

Saying that, he wanted to stand up, but Ye Langxing hurriedly held him down, frowned, and said: "Senior brother, don't stand up, look at you being bullied like that from a distance, you really don't have any strength left, if you move again, I'm afraid that you will die." The border post is gone, I don't want to lose another friend, I'm already pitiful enough. ”

"No, it won't. I'm not going to die for a while, so just take a break. ...... I just couldn't recover all of a sudden. Wang Liefeng smiled reluctantly, coughed twice, and lowered his head and said, "I was too late just now and couldn't save him." I'm sorry. ”

Ye Langxing sighed: "Don't take it too seriously, Bian Yi himself doesn't know how long he can live, and you have only met him twice." If I really want to talk about it, it was my sin, I just let him go alone, who knew that he would not be heard from after that, so I knew that this matter was not so simple, and it was too late to find it all the way back. ......" He was silent for a moment, then looked up and asked, "By the way, can I know what happened to Bian Yi?"

Wang Liefeng said: "It's a symptom of the attack of Gu poison. It was only about half an hour later, and the poison quickly spread all over his body. And there is a little girl who knows how to heal by his side, even if this is the case, he can't control it at all, and can only watch him die. ”

Ye Langxing said: "That girl is the daughter of 'Mr. Mu' Lin Jingjing." ”

"I know. She rescued me not long ago and allowed me to recover my strength temporarily. Wang Liefeng said with a solemn expression, "So, this shows that when the 'decay' begins, even the immortals in the world can't be saved." However, it should be possible to 'delay' for a while, so that people do not become a puddle of carrion very quickly, isn't that ?......?"

Ye Langxing was stunned when he heard this, and then replied to him after a moment: "That's probably the case." I said, brother, how do you know so much? I was forced to accept such a child to stay with me for a year, he is a very big secret, and if something happens, I will be punished. ”

Wang Liefeng got up with a smile, Ye Langxing didn't have time to block it, and let go of his hand, making him stand up. Ye Langxing said: "Senior brother, you want to ......"

Wang Liefeng said as he walked forward, "I'm going to the palace." I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with Hua Yanjin, I have to stop him before he arrives, I can't let this matter go off track. Senior Brother Ye, guarding secrets is a hard job, why don't you want to continue, why do you give up on yourself?"

Ye Langxing hurriedly caught up a few steps and said, "No, senior brother." I didn't want to give up. Don't be angry. Because, senior brother, you just said the word 'decay'. People who don't know about 'contract' have no reason to say such a word, so I'm wondering if you're a part of it. No matter how many times you are knocked down, you can recover, this is not normal, haven't you noticed, senior brother, this is not something that ordinary people can do. He chased forward in a cold sweat, the more he talked, the more nervous he became, he looked at Wang Liefeng and reluctantly walked forward, "Senior brother, don't tell me, you also signed such a contract!"

Wang Liefeng stopped and looked back at him.

In the moonlight, the sad look in his eyes was unmistakable.

"Otherwise, how will the emperor contain my father, and how will the emperor contain me?"

"What......" Ye Langxing was dumbfounded, "Your Majesty?"

Wang Liefeng turned his head and did not continue to move forward, and said sadly: "If you don't fight to the death, you will die of the 'contract'." Once you start fighting, if you have the idea of 'running away', you will be repulsed. ”

Ye Langxing said: "How can there be such a curse, who imposed it on you?"

"Yes, the curse itself doesn't exist in such a human way. Wang Liefeng condensed, "But whether I am loyal or not, the decision is in the hands of the 'imposer'." Whether it is 'loyal' or 'evasive' or not, it is up to the emperor to decide. If I were to be told by him that I was a disfaithlful, then immediately the signs of corruption would begin to appear in me. But if not, as a benefit of the 'contract' - no matter what kind of injuries I have, I can recover, I am a humanoid fighting machine, as long as I am given time, I can recover. ”

"If you use too much physical strength like you are now, you will ...... I'm sorry, I mean......" Ye Langxing said, "If your request goes beyond what it gives you, what will become of you?"

He heard Wang Liefeng's wry smile. Wang Liefeng first laughed, then sighed, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and said, "You guessed correctly. If that's the case, I'll be like my father. ”

"But Senior Brother," Ye Langxing frowned, his lips turned slightly white, and said, "At that time, everyone said that you were dead, you had been missing for three days and three nights at that time, and finally came back intact. ”

"Do you suspect that I've died once? No. Wang Liefeng said with a smile, "The power of the 'contract' is far stronger than you can imagine, like me, I have injured my limbs and crippled, and I have not reached the critical point of the contract, it can be recovered, but it is more dangerous to seek recovery in such a short period of time now." ”

Ye Langxing frowned and said, "Ah, that's it." ”

Wang Liefeng said: "As for my father...... He was harmed like that by Zhangdun. When he was seriously injured and poisoned, and when he didn't have any good meat on his body, he only needed the 'trust' of the emperor to slowly recover. But at that time, Zhang Dian whispered in the ear of the first emperor, which made the first emperor suspicious of his father, and after a word, his father's physical condition immediately deteriorated sharply, and he immediately entered 'decay'. ”

"Decay cannot end once it has begun. Ye Langxing said, "But your father is still alive." ”

If Mr. Mu hadn't come to the rescue, my father might have gone like this. He's alive, but not very well. He lived a miserable life, rotting every day. I know he has consciousness and feelings, but he can't express it. He's miserable, and he probably doesn't want to live—if I become like him, I don't want to live. But as his heir, I must not do such a rebellious thing as 'ending my life.'" I even doubt that Mr. Mu has the possibility of cooperating with Zhangdun - but I can't think so. ”

"I'm about to go to Mr. Mu's. Ye Langxing said, "Maybe I can help you find the truth." But will you ever come back?"

Wang Liefeng said: "It's good for you to tell His Royal Highness King Duan, it just so happens that his situation is also precarious." I'm in a hurry, can you lend me the horse you parked half a mile away?"

Ye Langxing hurriedly said: "Of course." ”

"Thank you. Wang Liefeng walked to the horse, and the horse was snow-white, like an iron feather. It swung its head and squirted at Wang Liefeng. Wang Liefeng touched its head, turned over, and said to Ye Langxing, who came over, "I'm leaving." ”

"Senior brother, that ......" After a moment of silence, Ye Langxing asked, "Then Senior brother, how is your current situation?"

"What's the situation?"

"Don't pretend not to know," Ye Langxing said angrily, "I'm seriously asking about your physical condition, senior brother. ”

"......" Wang Liefeng grabbed the corner of his clothes and pulled it up, revealing his tight abdomen. The muscles of his abdomen were beautifully formed, neatly arranged in eight pieces, with clear and well-defined lines, and yet—

His ribs are clearly visible. It is not because the shape is erect that the shape is highlighted, but because the flesh is lost and the color is visible. It was Sen Sen's white bones, pierced through the rotten muscles, like a broken part, an irretrievable virus, a death against time, above his healthy, sturdy, beautiful drive.

Ye Langxing opened his mouth and couldn't speak. He was speechless.

Wang Liefeng covered his clothes back onto his body and said, "'decay' has eroded my body, and this happened a few hours ago. But the one who can exercise such power over me, the Holy One today, should have been unconscious, and could not do anything to me, but I really began to rot, and I became like that child. ”

Ye Langxing exclaimed: "How come?"

"yes, how could it be. I'm also wondering how it will. If you think about it carefully, the emperor's decision-making has never made my body change in the slightest, I made a decision on the battlefield without authorization, and I was so angry that the emperor said that he would arrest me and punish me, but my body has never been affected by half of it; he rewarded me, but I did not become stronger; he punished me, and I did not feel any discomfort. I thought for a while that my father's account of fate that I had accepted was a joke, that it was just a joke. Wang Liefeng said, "And at this moment, the thoughts of unconscious people will not intersect with the thoughts of sober people, just like the clear boundary between life and death, how can it suddenly affect me." So, who could it be that people suddenly changed from 'trusting me' to 'distrusting me', and just now, from 'distrusting me' to 'trusting me' again, thus preventing me from continuing my 'decay'......"

Ye Langxing had an epiphany: "Ah, King Duan, could it be said that King Duan is the emperor?" He lowered his head and groaned for a while, then raised his head and said, "No...... Duan Wang He has the soul of the emperor?"

"His Royal Highness King Duan is always His Royal Highness King Duan. Wang Liefeng said, "From the very beginning, their identities have been misplaced. His Royal Highness King Duan may be the center of the entire 'vortex'. ”

"No......" Ye Langxing said, "My dear senior brother, what terrible things you have experienced. ”

"I really thank myself. Wang Liefeng smiled bitterly, "The friendship I thought was only used by the grasp in the end, maybe it is." I have to go, junior brother, please, please let His Royal Highness King Duan spend tonight safely, I am still worried about what will happen to him. ”

With that, he pulled the reins, and the horse neighed, and his hooves stepped through the snow and galloped away toward the road from which he had come.

Ye Langxing watched him go away, and sighed lightly: "I know, senior brother." I decided to help you, not because it was my responsibility, I didn't want to be involved in this, but I really pity you, your good intentions, and your tragic fate...... For the first time, I felt that I was much luckier than anyone else. Senior brother, forgive me for my rebellious words, I sympathize with you. ”

Lin Jingzhen changed places to boil medicine. He was boiling medicine for several people who had been injured. Boiling medicine has become something he has to do every day, a habit for him to make sure that he is still alive, and turning the wild grass that grows wantonly into something that can save people's lives can greatly enhance his sense of accomplishment, making him feel that he is still a good doctor, doing his old job.

Wang Chuli also understands this point of his, and it also happens that he has been sick for a long time, which makes him happy in treatment and sinks in lust - this young girl is not an ignorant girl who doesn't know anything, she understands too much, and even swore sovereignty before him, thinking about it carefully, it seems to be himself who has been played with all the time, and it is he who has been given up, and it is he who is wrong, not her.

The medicine stove gurgled and boiled. Lin was stunned to hear this voice, and his mood was temporarily calm. For him, this voice is the gentle breath of time, the reflection of the repetition of memories, and the ever-changing fate. When fate came to the door, I really couldn't escape.

The moonlight shone down, and the white satin-like light covered his hands, and he held the moonlight: the moon today was exceptionally cold and unforgiving, cold as frost, and a little strange.

Lin was shocked to hear someone knocking on the door. He wondered that the place he had chosen was so high that even the brewing of medicine would not let the smell spread at will, and it was unlikely that anyone would be awakened by the unpleasant smell and come to him to settle the score, and even if the smell was unpleasant, he knew that it was for healing, and it was impossible to have any opinion—but here in the middle of the night, could there be any stranger?

Thinking like this in his heart, Lin Jingyu vaguely smelled a deep orchid fragrance in the air—it was the fragrance of a woman in the moonlight, but it was not the Wang Chuli he was familiar with.

He felt puzzled, but he thought that he didn't have any sin against anyone, so there shouldn't be trouble finding him, not to mention that the token given by the queen was on his body, and Su Can, who was also waiting here with imperial equipment, should be harmless.

So he went to the door and asked, "What man?

He heard Zhao Ji's voice with an apologetic smile: "Mr. Mu, it's me, I'm Zhao Ji." I'm sorry to disturb you in the middle of the night, but I can't sleep, can I talk to you a few words?"

- It turned out to be His Royal Highness King Duan, so he was relieved. Lin Jingzhen also completely confirmed that this was Zhao Ji's voice, so he opened the door boldly and said with a smile: "I thought someone knocked on my door in the middle of the night, since it is His Royal Highness King Duan, then you can just come in." ”

Zhao Ji stood outside the door and said, "Can I come in? Are you busy, Mr. Mu?"

Lin walked back to the cooking pot with a smile, and said unhurriedly: "I'm not busy, it's just that I can't sleep either, after such a battle today, everyone urgently needs to recover some physical strength, and I will enter the palace again tomorrow, I'm afraid that the medicine at home is not enough, so I just make some medicine and keep it, it should have a good effect on your injuries." Oh, yes, Your Highness King Duan, would you like to try it? I remember that you had a bruise on the back of your hand, which was caused a few days ago, and it hasn't been treated, right? Come. He turned his head and looked at Zhao Ji with a smile, and said, "What's the matter, His Royal Highness King Duan? ”

"Ah," Zhao Ji shook his head with a reluctant smile, "No need, Mr. Mu, I'm not here to see you." Ah, the smell of medicine here is so strong, I have a stuffy nose......" He laughed, his eyes flashing with a strange light, like a sharp reflection of the ice prism hanging upside down.

"Medicine doesn't make people nasally congested, they do. Lin was bored, and he also felt very strange, but he also felt that Zhao Ji's strange behavior was excusable. He turned his head back and continued to observe the boiling medicine. Grunt, grunt, a small bubble burst on the surface of the black-green pool, like a small heartbeat that exploded one by one.

"I'm just here to heal people, so if you don't like the smell, you don't have to come in. If His Royal Highness King Duan is fine, please go back. I remember everything you told me, and I won't break my promise, so don't worry. Lin stirred the jar of medicine, and said half-homely and half-self-talking, "When people sleep at night, it is when all kinds of organs in the body rest, if you sleep late, the damage will gradually become irreversible, and you will have a problem when you are old." As for me, I was ready to live the rest of my life by taking medicine, so I gave up on myself. Ah, didn't you say that you were so sleepy that you just wanted to get a good night's sleep, why couldn't you get up instead? ”

"No, I like the taste, it's good, it's great, Mr. Mu......" Zhao Ji's target seemed to be focused on what he said at the beginning, and a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he asked, "What did I explain to you, Mr. Mu?"

"Huh?" Lin looked back at Zhao Ji and said, "Your Royal Highness Duanwang, are you sleepwalking?" ”

Zhao Ji smiled and said, "How can there be such a thing! I'm just worried that Mr. Mu has forgotten about this matter again." ”

Lin shook his head and said: "Even if I refuse anyone, I don't dare to refuse the instructions given to me by the queen, His Royal Highness Duanwang, no matter what, the queen is still the queen, and she is the mother of the world, a person under one person, how can I disobey this god-like order! What are you worried about, are you worried that I will slip away while the sky is not clear and avoid entering the palace? I won't do this, because the person I want to save is even more irresistible, and it is the emperor who I want to save." ”

Zhao Ji nodded and said, "You used to ...... Done such a thing, didn't you?"

"Do you want to ask me if I am really the one who saved the queen's life more than ten years ago?" Lin was a little angry, and said, "The queen said so, do you still not believe it?" You have no way not to believe me, His Royal Highness Duanwang, the queen's tokens are all in my hands...... Do you want to test my loyalty, or do you want to joke with me for some other reason, Your Highness King Duan?ah, I see, you're making fun of me......"

"Don't dare. Zhao Ji said, "I finally found you, so I didn't have the heart to joke with you."