The man in gray sat in front of the window, recalling these past events, and the moonlight shone on him like water, making this already mysterious person even more gloomy. He turned his face away from the moonlight, placed it in the shadows, and muttered in a low voice, "I've been in the shadows for a long time, this light is really dazzling." ”

The man in black picked up the teacup with a smile and said disapprovingly: "Now I feel dazzling, so why should we believe that you will have a wish one day? You better remember our previous agreement, but don't really live like a maggot rotting in the dark!"

The fingers of the man in gray hanging on his side were slightly bent, and his head, which had been half-bowed, moved slightly, as if he was looking at the man in black, that is, at the same time, the candle flame on the table suddenly shook violently, as if it was going to be extinguished at any time, and the whole room suddenly became bright and dark, and the man in black only felt as if two cold fronts were rushing towards him, blowing up a strand of hair hanging on his shoulder.

"If I can really turn into a maggot, I was there back then, why bother until now? As for our previous agreement, you don't have to worry, I'm not like Yeche's kid who is two-faced and stabbed, and if he says he regrets it, he will regret it, as long as you help me win the position of the master of Drifting Fire Island, I guarantee that Drifting Fire Island will be the most loyal branch of the Ghost Domain in the future, and if the Ghost Domain does not fall for a day, I will not rebel on Drifting Fire Island for a day, and there will be no two hearts!"

The afterimage didn't pay attention to the two cold fronts, letting his hair be blown up and falling again, but his eyes kept staring at the tea, until the end of the tea floated, he stopped shaking the teacup, took a sip, seemed quite satisfied, and grinned: "Yeche that kid is really difficult to control, he always greets him with a smile on the surface, no matter what he asks him to do, he never says a word, how happy he is, sometimes even I think he is a very obedient dog, so obedient that the owner is very surprised." But who would have thought that people would do this just to make a false deal with us, once they leave the realm of the ghost domain, what to do and how to do it, but he has another plan in his heart, just like this temporary reversal, he must have his own plan, this kind of repetition is not once or twice, such an uncontrolled person, the ghost domain will not be used for a long time, once he finds someone who can replace him, he will be presumptuous. ”

"So you're looking for me just because you need me?"

The afterimage couldn't help but laugh: "Otherwise, do you think we have taken a fancy to your talent?" Our ghost domain does flatter the strong and respect, but it is not to the point where we are full of food and support ourselves to calculate ourselves. If he's okay, unless you kill him, his position will never be your turn! But having said that, if he hadn't been disobedient, you wouldn't have had a chance to surrender to the Lord, so he could be regarded as a fulfillment of you, and you should thank him. ”

The man in gray snorted coldly: "I will thank him, when he dies." ”

"I'm not interested in your internal grievances on Drift Fire Island, and it has nothing to do with me whether you die or not, I only care about our agreement, you just need to give me the Flame Iron Order so that I can have something to restore my life, and the rest is your business." ”

If Ye Che was here now, he would never have thought that he was actually in their plan, in this Cangshan Change, Immortal Dao, Shangguan Yu, and even Qianqiu Pavilion could all be their targets, but Ye Che was no one who thought of it, and he was here to help, who would have thought that they would count their helpers in the game from the beginning? This trick of booby-trapping, there are too many targets to cover, people can't see whether their position is the outside or the center of the killing game! So that the object of defense is often wrong! Or maybe what we think of as a cover-up is not actually a cover-up, and the subject we think is not the subject, who they are here to get rid of this time, I am afraid that it is difficult to say now, who can distinguish it?

"But I learned that he received a letter of preachers when he was in Cangshan, and it was not a good thing that someone passed it to him at this time, and since he left Cangshan, he has disappeared without a trace, I am afraid that the preacher is not simple, can I find out who gave it to him?" the man in gray suddenly remembered and asked.

Hearing this, the face of the afterimage, which had always been relaxed, stiffened suddenly, and his tone became solemn: "I haven't found it yet, the person who passed the book is not an idle person, and I haven't been able to find the slightest clue when I use the ghost domain." As long as a person has appeared in this world, he will definitely be able to find his traces, but this person seems to not exist at all, there is no trace at all, this is the first time that someone has escaped the pursuit of Yan, and we are also shocked. ”

The gray-clothed man was slightly surprised: "There is still such a person, then isn't there a threat to your ghost domain?"

The afterimage shook his head: "It's as if we didn't have a threat before, so what is Shangguan Yu? Isn't he the biggest threat? Compared with Shangguan Yu, this person who hasn't appeared yet really doesn't have much weight, but it can't be ruled out that he is Shangguan Yu's person, after all, he is the only one who can play with the ghost domain for a few rounds in the Immortal Demon Dao today, and I really can't think of anyone else who knows so much about the ghost domain besides him." ”

"But don't worry, I've already laid it out, your plan won't be affected, Yeche has already helped you keep an eye on it, as long as you kill the lives we want as planned, I will naturally give people both hands." ”

"As for the person who sent the message to Ye Che, when the matter here is settled, I will personally investigate, you don't have to worry, now let him live a little longer. ”

The man in gray silently looked at the crescent moon in the sky that was slowly being eaten away by the black clouds, and said, "Okay, it's a word. As he spoke, he turned and walked out the door.

After the cool moon had disappeared, the streets were foggy, and when you looked from the top of the building, your eyes were full of gray white, and the lights and towering buildings were all submerged in a gray white, as if they had never existed.

After a while, another palanquin appeared in the thick fog, a gray-white palanquin, like a palanquin made of paper ready to be burned to the dead, as if it had been blown by the wind.

But the sedan chair is still carried by someone, but the person who carries the sedan chair also seems to have been blown by the wind. The person and the sedan chair are both gray and white, as if they have melted into the fog and become one with the fog.

Before they reached the attic, they suddenly stopped, and stopped in mid-air.

The palanquin was surrounded by gray-white curtains, which floated layer by layer under the blowing of the night wind, but the second layer had just flown up, and the first layer had already fallen, so it was still impossible to see the people inside. The whole street was as silent as death, except for the rustling of thin cloth being blown by the wind, there was no other sound, so this rustling sound seemed to be amplified a thousand times, and listening to people's ears was like the knock on the door in the middle of the night.

The person in the sedan chair reflected a faint figure on the curtain, but surprisingly, it was actually the outline of a child!

Or to be precise, it was the shadow of a seven or eight-year-old girl, petite but not mellow and naïve as a child, but dry and thin, arms and legs like four bamboo poles, stiffly bent outside, people couldn't help but worry about whether she would have a "crunch" sound when she moved, and the dress that was not too wide was on her, it was like hanging on a hanger, fluttering.

Outside the sedan chair, in addition to the masked sedan chair bearers who carry the four corners, there are also six iron-masked people, each of them with an iron mask, and this "iron mask" is not a mask, but a real human face! Their faces not only have the color and luster of iron, but even when the night wind blows, you can hear the unique "bells" of metal In fact, their faces were indeed still like a piece of dead iron, all the muscles did not move at all, even the eyeballs did not move for half a minute, all of them looked exactly the same, their expressions were exactly the same, as if they were carved out of a mold, and if they looked closely, everyone would think that this was just a very delicate mask.

The next moment, however, you have to admit that it is indeed a living human face, because they have spoken.

"Remnant Lord, it seems that Shang An?"

One of the iron-masked men stepped forward and bowed slightly, his face as stiff as pig iron opened and closed with the opening and closing of his lips, and it was also vividly distorted, this was a normal muscle pull, normal people would move their faces when they spoke, but such ordinary facial activities appeared on this iron face It looked extremely weird.

The afterglow leaned against the window and looked down, with a rare trace of surprise and puzzlement in his eyes, his eyes stopped on the sedan chair, and he frowned slightly: "What's going on?"

The Man in the Iron Mask didn't speak, just hunched his body slightly, his head tilted back slightly, as if asking for something.

At this moment, a hoarse and piercing cough came from the sedan chair, the voice was old like an old woman, but sharp like a girl, and there were two tones in one voice, making it difficult to distinguish whether it was made by one person or not. The Man in the Iron Mask froze, turned and leaned over.

I saw a pair of miserable white hands covering the wall of the sedan car and slowly stretched out, revealing a small half of the arm, that hand was not only pale, but also slightly rolled leather corners, crawling around it full of black cracks, like dry earth cracked, in the faint moonlight reflection even more withered shocking.

The man in the iron mask listened to the door of the sedan for a while, nodded, returned to his original position, and replied with a glance: "Shangguan Yu forcibly reversed the direction of Gui Xuan Na Ling in Cangshan, making Gui Xuan Na Ling completely out of control, and his power increased several times. ”

In the sedan chair is the yellow spring!

"How's the injury?" Afterimage's brow furrowed even deeper, "But are you worried about your life?"

"It's okay, it's just that I hurt my vitality, I must go back to the ghost domain as soon as possible to heal, I'm afraid that my body will crack more seriously if it's late, and it won't be easy to do when the time comes." ”

The afterimage breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and continued to ask: "She is still injured like this, what about Shangguan Yu? It won't be unscathed, right?" Compared to Huang Quan's injury, he cared more about Shangguan Yu's life and death, he was very curious to drag Huang Quan into such a half-dead appearance, almost fighting the entire life of a temple protector, so is Shangguan Yu dead or alive?

Hearing this question, the Man in the Iron Mask finally raised his head for the first time, and there was a faint brilliance in his eyes that had always been unmoving, and he still said with a straight look: "I am seriously injured, and I must not break through." ”

Seriously injured? By the way, this is normal, not to mention that Huang Quan is already known as Shangguan Yu's half opponent, just relying on that Gui Xuan Na Ling is enough to make him jealous of three points, even if this magic is restored by him from a few volumes of fragments, but he himself has personally admitted that if the formation really starts, he himself will not be able to retreat with his whole body. Now that he is only seriously injured and can escape, he should be glad that Huang Quan's understanding is not better than him, and in a few years, he has not been able to use those fragments to reveal the deeper meaning of returning to the void, so that the lack of fire has given him a chance to tear a hole.

"Then who is he holding now? ”

"There was no one to hold him. ”

No one? The afterimage was even more puzzled: "You just said that he was not allowed to break through." ”

"Yes, he really can't break through, I'm not wrong. The Man in the Iron Mask looked up at him, "But he just didn't escape from Cangshan, and our people still didn't stop him." ”

Although he was a little disappointed, the afterimage was not surprised, it was expected that he could catch the best, and it was expected that he could not catch it, and it was already very good to be able to trap him in Cangshan now.

"As long as the person doesn't come out of Cangshan, it doesn't make much difference whether he stops it or not, let the green lantern shine on the wall and release 100,000 evil ghosts to find him. ”

The afterimage flew down, landed next to the sedan chair, and looked inside fixedly, as if trying his best to see Huang Quan's physical condition, but the curtains covering the outside of the sedan chair were really hidden layer by layer, and he couldn't see clearly. After a pause, he was no longer obsessed with snooping, took two steps forward gently, and asked: "Your little is still functioning in changing the body, you have changed too many skins over the years, but I have never seen you return to the body, I forgot that you are still a child, and I was really shocked to see you like this at first glance." If you can break your body protection technique and forcibly beat you back to your body, it seems that the backlash of Xiao Huigong has already hurt your life, right? Do you need me to help you, hold on for a while. ”

Small also function to change the appearance of the body, not only to change a piece of skin, the change of body shape can only be done by pulling the bones and flesh, forcibly stretching a person's inherent bone and skin several times, this is an irreversible method of self-injury, although you can have an ageless appearance after success, but since then you must ensure that you do not hurt the spiritual power for a lifetime, once the spiritual power in the body fluctuates, there will be a backlash, the light is to break a few wounds, the heavy is cracked skin, the flesh and blood are broken inch by inch, the cultivator will die little by little in the pain of watching the body fragmented, and finally end up with a broken body！

Looking at Huang Quan, it should have reached the level of skin cracking, if it is not controlled, the next step is to shed flesh and blood, and even if outsiders want to help, it will be too late.

Huang Quan's voice was as hoarse as sandpaper grinding on the table, and as harsh as if his throat had been torn: "No, no matter how serious my injury is, it will not be the turn of others to help." ”

The afterimage didn't matter, he shrugged his shoulders and said directly: "I think you're afraid that I'll see you now, right?"

Although the various people who wander in the ghost realm have different backgrounds, one thing is the same, that is, they are all fierce people without human nature! Just as the so-called things gather people in groups, it is impossible to attract great and compassionate people in the Shura field where evil ghosts are everywhere, and in the same way, those who can co-exist in the ghost realm must also be "people in the same way" who take pleasure in killing In that kind of place where everyone is fierce and vicious, and who is addicted to killing and perverted, a child is very deterrent, not only has no deterrent power, but it is definitely the only object of ridicule and abuse...... They will all continue to smash at that child, and these direct hits are a person's dignity!

Dignity is very important, even for a useless scholar, it is an absolutely inviolable thing, once someone touches it, even if they are as weak as they will definitely rise up to resist, then let alone in the ghost domain where people eat people? This kind of place needs dignity even more, because it directly determines whether you can live, how to live, if your dignity is trampled under your feet, it means that you have no capital to live.

Of course Huang Quan understands this truth, so she will never let anyone see her fragile side, this child's body is not only a weakness in appearance for her, but also a shame, this body will make her lose her deterrent power to her subordinates, and lose her image of a strong man who is high above everyone in the hearts of everyone, so she hates her own appearance, disgusted with her body, so she spares all her cultivation skills, even if she has to face such a tragic backlash at all times, just to let herself have a satisfactory skin, a skin that can make her stand in front of others。 And she has given so much, how can she easily let others see her true nature?

It can be said that this body is her biggest sore spot, so everyone who sees her body has been killed by her.

The afterimage looked thoughtfully at the silhouette on the curtain, and suddenly remembered what Shangguan Yu had said when she was still in the ghost domain: she was so obsessed with the danger more than the benefit of the small merit, everyone thought that she wanted to get rid of her shame, but what really made her unable to let go was perhaps not the so-called shame, but the inferiority complex that she was not even aware of.

The afterimage lowered his eyes, and began to be a little distracted, he seemed to be really thinking carefully about Shangguan Yu's words, he had heard these words a long time ago, but he didn't feel anything at that time, but now that he thought about it, he suddenly agreed with him a little, he unconsciously curled the corners of his lips, and was about to praise Shangguan Yu in his heart, when an extremely ugly voice suddenly sounded, interrupting his thoughts.

"Don't think I can't kill you right now. Although the voice was hoarse and weak, it exuded a murderous aura that could not be ignored.

The afterimage collected his thoughts, looked up at the sedan chair, and knew that he had touched her scales, so he pursed his lips helplessly, turned sideways, moved his gaze from the sedan chair to the front of the street, and sighed: "Okay, I won't say it, why are you still so angry when you are seriously injured?" If you don't want to hear my condolences about your injuries, why are you still coming to me? I won't say anything else, and I won't do anything else. He thought for a moment and said, "Don't you show off your merits? ”

This time, even the six iron-masked men next to him couldn't hold back, they looked up at the afterimage together, and then quickly lowered their heads, and they all secretly wondered in their hearts: Whoever is injured like this will not hurry up to heal, but go to his companion to show off his exploits first! How much I don't want to live anymore! This remnant lord will really pretend to be confused.

The man in the iron mask who had just delivered the message stood up and replied for Huang Quan, "We have come to borrow someone from the lord this time. ”

"Borrow?" the afterimage was puzzled.

"Yes, the injuries of the temple protector should not stay here anymore, we must return to the ghost domain immediately, and our people are all fighting in the Cangshan, now there are only a few of us left, and now this place is full of dark sentinels of Qingmiao Peak, as long as we try to get out of the city, we will definitely meet them, and I am afraid that we will be outnumbered at that time, so we have come to borrow some manpower from the lord." ”

Afterimage nodded: "It turned out to be for this, this is easy to do, I will give you the remaining twenty people under my command, there is a dark post of Qingmiao Peak in the city, but there is also a secret post of mine, but neither side wants to be the first to move, so it is still deadlocked." If they do move by then, I'll let the sentry hold them back, and there's absolutely no problem with keeping you out safely. ”

"The rest ......"

"Leave the rest to me, I'll take care of it, you can go back and heal in peace." ”

There was silence in the sedan chair for a while, and then a slightly tired voice came out: "Thank you." ”

The afterimage seemed to be a little flattered, this was the first time he had heard Huang Quan say thank you, and he said it calmly, if he hadn't heard it with his own ears, he wouldn't believe it was true! He was stunned for a moment before he said: "Don't say these two words, let me have the illusion that you and I are good people." In fact, I lent you people for nothing else, anyway, we have been friends for many years, it is absolutely impossible to expect me to do my best to help you heal, but borrowing a few people is not always refusal, whether others believe it or not, the blood of my killer has not been cold to that extent. He turned, raised his hand and blew a whistle on his lips, and at once a few dark shadows passed over the roof, but they were only fleeting, and when he opened his eyes again, there was nothing on the roof, as if he had just been dazzled.

"They're yours, whether they can return to the ghost domain alive or not, depends on your life, let's go." ”

"I'll pay you back. ”

The afterimage shook his head, didn't say anything more, and flew straight up the pavilion, slamming shut when he jumped into the room through the window. The squeaky sound of the sedan chair also came out again at this time, and it disappeared into the fog floating and floating.

But no one knew that not long after the sedan chair left, the window at the top of the drunken evening upstairs opened again, and the afterimage sat on the chair, leaning the weight of his body completely on the window frame, staring straight at the direction where Huang Quan left, I don't know how long later, he suddenly smiled: "Friend, didn't Shangguan Yu and I used to be friends?" After he finished speaking, his hand was loosened, and the half of the residual tea fell out of his hand, and the tea cup fell to the ground, shattering.

The window closed again, and the night was dead again.

A dark shadow suddenly flashed behind a willow tree on the corner of the street, and it disappeared in an instant.