Xu Chong was awakened by a peculiar fragrance, like a floral fragrance, but it was richer than the floral fragrance, which refreshed his heart and spleen, causing his already empty stomach to "gurgle" for a while, arousing his desire for food.

He opened his eyes, patiently waiting for them to adjust to the light around them, and though the light was pale orange and soft, it still stinged his eyes. He thought that he must have been in a coma for a long time, which is why he is like this.

But fortunately, he is still alive, and the man is already dead. He remembered very well that at the moment before the cliff, he pierced the man's stomach with his sword, and although he was unable to protect himself at that time, he still inserted the sword into it accurately, and he was sure of this.

The light in front of him dissipated, and Xu Chong finally saw his situation clearly.

It was a small thatched house, with little utensils except for the soft bed beneath him. Where is this? His mind went blank, but the first movement in his hand was to touch his sword. The sword does not leave his body, this has become a habit of Xu Chong for decades, but he can't remember what happened after falling off the cliff, and he doesn't know if the sword will be thrown out by himself in the process of falling.

But as soon as his fingers moved, there was a heart-rending pain, Xu Chong couldn't hold back, moaned, and when he looked down, he found that his entire right arm was wrapped in a white cloth, layer by layer, impermeable.

"Your arm is broken, and your leg doesn't seem to be much better, but don't be afraid, they'll heal you. When I first came here, I was not as good as you, not to mention that I broke my bones, and I was stabbed in the stomach and almost died, but now, I am basically healed. ”

An unfamiliar voice came from the side, Xu Chong was stunned, and then turned his head over. He saw a straw couch beside him, on which lay a slightly chubby, ruddy-faced man, with his hair draped and a relaxed expression, looking at him with interest.

In normal times, he would never be so careless, and he didn't even notice that there was someone around him. But now, he had just woken up from his slumber, and his mind was still in chaos and obscureness, so he did not find the second person in the room.

"It's ...... Where? Xu Chong asked, then frowned and narrowed his eyes. The man's straw couch was by the window, and through the window, he saw the courtyard outside and the large flower field around the courtyard. At this time, the sun is almost setting, and the surrounding scenery is all enveloped by the light of the setting sun, and it is peaceful. In this painting, painted in warm colors by the setting sun, several chickens are running from a distance, cooing in their mouths, and no one is willing to be left behind.

"If I'm not mistaken, you should be like me, you fell off a cliff." The man said as he played with the large copper key on his waist.

"So, this is the valley? And who are the 'they' in your mouth? Hearing the sound of the keys colliding, Xu Chong took his gaze back and stared at his "patient" again.

"Even if the two of us are lucky, we didn't die when we fell from such a high place, and we were rescued." The man is still playing with the keys, as if this is already a habit he has developed in his boredom," they ...... They must have been a father and daughter, and although I had never heard the girl call 'Daddy', I guess, well...... It should be, judging by age. ”

"They live in the valley? This house is theirs? This cliff is so deep, how did they get out? Do you never have contact with the outside world for the rest of your life? Xu Chong asked a few words in a row.

"Yo, look at how you look like a prisoner, people have lived here for so long, naturally there is ...... Naturally, there is a way to get out, what do you worry about for others? The man seemed offended, but it was not long before the unhappiness on his face vanished, for there was another voice outside the door, from the mouth of a woman, who seemed to be feeding the chickens that had just returned home.

"Do you hear that? This is that girl," the man lowered his voice, and a flirtatious smile appeared on his face, "Oh, I've never seen a more beautiful woman than her in all my years in Maocheng, and you'll understand when you see her in a while." ”

After that, he shook his head again and again, "It's a pity, such a beauty actually lives in this deep valley, what is this called, the beautiful jade is hidden in the deep mountains, not in the market?" ”

Xu Chong didn't take his words to heart, for he was sitting up straight with his other arm, looking around the room for his sword: he had to find it, or he wouldn't be able to seize such a good opportunity.

He didn't know whether he was lucky or unlucky, and he actually met Li Yong in this kind of place. Unfortunately, Li Yongzhen did not die as the man in the Nanshan Hall said. Fortunately, he was met by himself, and he didn't know that Hu Bing was arrested by the government because of his "death" and died of illness in prison.

Yes, this man lying on another straw couch is Li Yong, he should have "died", died in the woods outside Hu Bing's house, but now, he appeared alive in front of him. The large set of keys around his waist revealed his identity, because Xu Chong remembered very well that when the Li family went to confirm the identity of the corpse, they repeatedly asked themselves if they had seen a bunch of keys, a string of keys engraved with the surname "Li".

Li Yong is a miser, all the valuable things in the house are locked in boxes by him, and then hidden in the dark room, and the set of keys is his lifeline, and he won't even take them off when he sleeps.

With a knife wound in the stomach and wearing such a bunch of keys, who would this slightly chubby man be if he wasn't Li Yong?

Therefore, he must not let him out of the valley alive.

Xu Chong didn't think about what to do next after killing Li Yong, there were two other people in this valley besides them, and once they found Li Yong's body, they would become new witnesses. And the whole thing seems to have become an endless cycle, in order to make up for his occasional mistakes, he commits more serious mistakes again and again, is discovered, kills, is found again, and kills again.

The hole is getting bigger and bigger, and he seems to go back and forth between cause and effect, never getting out.

However, there was no other way for him, Xu Chong felt that he was drunk, and he had been drunk since that day, and his mind was filled with too many pictures of the past, which piled up and turned into a stone that was too hard to destroy, preventing him from thinking.

He just wanted to clear the obstacles in front of him, otherwise, he felt like he would blow up in the next moment.

"Where's the sword?"

He looked around, and now, the light had gone and the whole room was gray, and he couldn't really see anything.