Chapter 81: The Secret of the Town
"Before we entered the town, we met an old man who was looking for someone named Light Painting. The old man showed us the portrait of the shallow painting, so we recognized her. Mo Xiaotong replied.
"Do you know where he is? I've been looking for him for a long time. The old woman asked.
Seeing the old woman's expectant eyes, Mo Xiaotong suddenly not only did not know whether to talk about it or not, Meng Shijiu They didn't meet the old man, maybe he was dead.
It feels too cruel to say it directly.
"He's at the entrance of the town, we saw him before we entered the town, he should be dead." Bai Mu looked at the old woman in front of him with a smile and said indifferently.
"Impossible!" The old woman's face suddenly became hideous, she covered her ears, and shouted in a twisted voice: "Impossible, he can't come out alone, only two people can come out together!" ”
Mo Xiaotong glanced at Bai Mu reproachfully, and wanted to step forward to comfort the old woman, but after a few steps, a hand pressed on her shoulder.
Seeing that the owner of the hand was Bai Mu, she shook her arm angrily.
"What's wrong? Don't go there! Bai Mu said anxiously.
"You see the old woman is crying, of course you have to comfort her!" Mo Xiaotong walked forward angrily.
Bai Mu said that it didn't matter if the old man was at the entrance of the town, why did he remind her that the old man was dead!
He hadn't witnessed the old man's death, and his words were too irresponsible, and coupled with that always mocking expression, he was too cold and had no sympathy at all.
Mo Xiaotong rolled his eyes, Bai Mu can't do this, even if he is handsome, he can't speak without taking into account the feelings of others.
"Don't go!" Bai Mu became even more nervous, he stepped forward a few steps forward and directly grabbed Mo Xiaotong's hand and said, "You take a look at the appearance of the shallow painting first, she is very dangerous!" ”
"Her expression now is also stimulated by you!" Mo Xiaotong said slightly indignantly.
"Little Sister Mo, that old woman is really dangerous." Tang Shibai on the side kindly prompted: "Look at her face, it's starting to change." ”
Mo Xiaotong just looked at the old woman, but Bai Mu pulled her back a lot, her eyes flickered, but her face was full of surprise.
She could see clearly, the old woman's face was changing, it was becoming very strange, it was gradually turning white, it was gradually becoming stiffer, the wrinkles were fewer, although the face looked much smoother, but it looked so gloomy, especially the eyes, the previous cloudiness had disappeared, leaving only black and white, emotionless eyes.
Mo Xiaotong swallowed her saliva, she had seen similar eyes before, that is, when she first went to the Tianchi Mountain Range, Xiao You and Wang Xianren sent her to a very strange place, which was full of paper people and red flowers.
But what I saw at that time was a little different from what I see now, those little paper figures looked very kind at that time, and the old woman in front of her, she exuded a gloomy feeling everywhere.
"Granny?" Mo Xiaotong looked at the Tao blankly.
The old woman didn't respond, but just said to herself: "He's dead? He's dead! He's dead, he's dead, so what should I do?! ”
Her voice gradually distorted, her face was completely unrecognizable, and she kept clutching her face with both hands, leaving a lot of white confetti between her fingers.
The old woman looked at the confetti in her hand for a moment, and suddenly hugged her head and screamed, but her screams became softer and softer, and when her entire head turned into paper, the sound stopped completely.
"Hitomi-chan, take out the sword!" With a wave of Bai Mu's long sword, Mo Xiaotong only felt that the sword light flashed in front of him, and then layers of confetti floated down.
"What's going on?" Mo Xiaotong watched in disbelief as the crazy old woman rushed towards them with her teeth and claws.
"How did she become like this?!" She pulled out the sword of worry in horror, trembling and holding it in her hand, everything changed too fast, she was a little panicked.
"Probably the reason for this town." Bai Mu replied unhurriedly, pulling Mo Xiaotong over and over again, barely resisting the paper knives that appeared around him from time to time.
The speed of the paper knife became faster and faster, and it appeared out of thin air, and gradually Bai Mu couldn't resist it, and a knife stabbed directly into his wrist.
The blood flowed rapidly, Mo Xiaotong's eyes turned red, the long sword in his hand turned up, and several swords fell, and confetti was floating all over the ground.
"Bai Mu, are you okay?" She looked eagerly at the scar in Bai Mu's hand, carefully pulled out the blood-red paper knife that had been dyed, and pressed it on his wound with one hand.
"I'm fine, it doesn't affect my sword." Bai Muman replied nonchalantly.
"Don't talk yet!" Mo Xiaotong roared angrily, her face was full of anxiety, she slowly entered her spiritual power into Bai Mu's knife edge, she didn't know if she could heal if she did this, but she did it subconsciously.
"Watch your back!" Bai Mu shouted nervously, Mo Xiaotong turned his head suddenly, staring angrily at the rows of hidden weapons, those were not paper knives but real knives.
She slashed forward with a sword, a seemingly simple sword, but there was a overlapping shadow, and there was thunder in the air, and she roared angrily: "Get out! ”
The next moment, the hidden weapon fell to the ground, Bai Mu looked at Mo Xiaotong in shock, he didn't expect that Mo Xiaotong, who was usually soft and weak and a little eccentric, would have such great power when he started a fire.
Tang Eighteen and Meng Nineteen also wielded their swords to resist the paper hidden weapon, their faces were terrifyingly blue.
"You two, can you cooperate with us?" Tang Eighteen-faced God asked in a complicated manner.
"Please." Bai Mu turned his arm, which had stopped the bleeding, and held his sword.
"The exercises used by this person are our Su Youmen's, but she is stronger than me and Nineteen, she has lost her mind, and please cooperate with us to subdue her together." Tang Eighteen said sincerely.
"Okay, so how should we cooperate?" Bai Mu asked.
Tang Eighteen was overjoyed in his eyes, and immediately said, "As long as you and Nineteen drag her, leave her back to me, and insist on half a pillar of incense for a while!" ”
Bai Mu nodded, Mo Xiaotong glanced at the injury on his hand, and when he saw that the bleeding had stopped, he also stepped forward to cooperate with Nineteen.
Mo Xiaotong's trick is very simple, that is, she keeps repeating a few movements of the thundercloud swordsmanship, where the old woman runs, her thunder will slash there, Bai Mu is responsible for sweeping away the hidden weapons that pop up around them from time to time, Meng Shijiu constantly attracts the attention of the old woman.
Although it was the first time for several people to cooperate, they were full of tacit understanding, and after a while, the old woman's back was completely displayed in front of Tang Shiba.
"Eighteen!" Meng Shijiu frowned at him and shouted urgently, Tang Shijiu nodded his head calmly, drew a circle in the air with both hands, and the small knives in the circle were densely covered, shooting towards the old woman's back.
The knife slashed across the sky, seemingly chaotic in tracks, and the last row of neat rows of stabs on the old woman's back, enclosing a simple pattern.
Mo Xiaotong frowned slightly, this pattern was a little familiar, this feeling was only for a moment, and then she didn't pay attention, concentrating on resisting the attack of the old woman who seemed to be in pain.
"Get out of the way!" Tang Eighteen shouted, and the three of them hurriedly jumped back, only to see a little white light emerging from countless corners beside the old woman, and the knife flashed, stabbing straight at her.
In the blink of an eye, the old woman's paper-tied human head fell to the ground, and several skeletons were poked out of her body, and her legs fell directly to the ground with weak legs, lifeless.
"She's dead?" Mo Xiaotong asked.
"Dead." Bai Mu replied with certainty, he and Tang Eighteen stepped forward, lifted the paper and pierced his head, and a fishy smell came out of it, light yellow and a small amount of black liquid flowed out of it.
Tang Eighteen squatted down to take a closer look, he wrinkled the tip of his nose and said, "Pulp and ink? ”
"How can the smell of pulp and ink be so big?" Meng Shijiu covered his nose and asked rhetorically.
"It's pulp and ink!" Tang Eighteen looked at it for a long time, and said firmly: "You can come and smell it." ”
Meng Shijiu stepped forward, picked up a branch from the side and poked the slimy liquid, the liquid dispersed at once, and the stench became stronger, she hurriedly threw away the branch, took a few steps back, and said dissatisfiedly: "Forget it, I won't smell it." ”
"You see, there are small particles in the air, as if they are coming out of a liquid!" Mo Xiaotong was stunned in the air, and suddenly his eyes darkened.
"Have you heard? There is a small town called Tie Town, legend has it that this town was originally a treasure left by an immortal in the sky, it is a marriage resort, and the lovers who enter the town make a wish to stay together in any place in this town, and the two will grow old together. ”
The boy stood in front of the girl and excitedly took her hand and said, "Light painting, let's go find this town!" Then let's go and pray! ”
The light painting's eyes flashed slightly, but she still nodded, and she asked hesitantly, "But aren't we going to the Purple Cloud Secret Realm soon?" ”
"After the secret realm is gone, let's go to the town of fate!" Fuyun said again.
Seeing that his eyes were shining, he said softly: "Okay." ”
Purple clouds filled the sky, the two stood in front of the stone cracks, hand in hand into the thick fog, when they came out, a small town stood in front of them, the big stone in front of the town was engraved with three clear big characters 'Tie Yuan Town'.
"We're so lucky, the town of Fate is in this secret realm, hey, we haven't even stepped on the iron shoes yet, we found it!" Fuyun smiled happily.
The light painting looked at the town in a daze, and her mind flashed the satisfied expressions of her parents looking at Fuyun, as well as the care that Fuyun in the sect took care of her, and the face of another man, and finally pursed her lips and stepped into the town with him.
In the Yuelao Temple, a kind nun looked at them and asked kindly, "Are you here to get married?" There is a rule here that only those who truly love each other can pray, and after praying, the two of them must step out of the town together before they can really leave. If you are not sincere, or you are fooling the immortals, you will not be able to leave here, and if you go out, you will not be able to come in again. ”
For some reason, the nun's eyes were fixed on her, and she was stunned to see it, she wanted to escape from here, but Fuyun nodded and said, "We are sincere!" ”
The nun no longer looked at her, but lowered her eyebrows and led them to the backyard, where in a sea of flowers, the two held hands and took down their wishes.
"Life and life, use and do not separate."
When she said this, she was very confused, she knew that she was only grateful to him, not good.
But she still took off the oath with him, she was a little flustered, the nun's words should just be scaring people, it shouldn't be true.
Just when the two of them interlocked their fingers and walked around the town leisurely, they stood in front of the town gate, and the two smiled at each other, and at the same time opened their legs and rowed forward.
The next moment, the nightmare came, and the people around her were gone, leaving her alone outside the town.
She looked at the town incredulously, she didn't believe it, she didn't believe that she walked out of the town and the people around her were gone.
Fuyun is true love for her, this can't be true, it must be that the two of them didn't step out together, and she rushed back to the town, not knowing that what she saw in front of her was just a fantasy.
At first she was anxiously looking for him inside, but then she became angry and scolded Fuyun, scolding Fuyun for deceiving her feelings, and finally she was numb and just looking for him alone in the town.
Day after day, year after year, she grew old and gradually became what she is now.
But Fuyun has been standing at the entrance of the town, staring, he wants to enter the town again, but the town has sealed him off, and he is not allowed to enter again.
The scene in front of them changed again, and the four of them stood in place, silent.
"I think I should like the shallow painting of floating clouds......" Meng Shijiu broke the calm, she frowned and looked at the figure on the ground, and said: "But it's not love, I can't tell you about her situation, I feel a little pitiful to be trapped here." ”
"It's not pitiful, the nun had already reminded her at that time, but she didn't take the opportunity herself." Tang Eighteen said silently.
"But the shallow painting didn't deceive Fuyun's feelings, she knew that Fuyun liked him, and she didn't take advantage of him, so she chose to be with him in the end." Meng 19 said again: "I have to blame the rules of this town, they are unsatisfactory, and I don't know how to change them!" ”
"The nun has already reminded her." Tang Eighteen repeated.
Meng Jiujiu couldn't answer for a while, and he stomped on the ground in annoyance.
At this time, Mo Xiaotong looked at Bai Mu and asked in a low voice, "Do you think she is pitiful for the shallow painting?" ”