"Little girl, wake up."

Who's talking?

"Just open your eyes, open your eyes and wake up."

Is that person blind, I obviously have my eyes open. Qiu Xuan's pupils constricted and looked at the thin wrist stretched out in front of her in an instant, Su Su's strange eye sockets that were filled with black and did not leave a trace of the whites of her eyes were close at hand, but as if she had been cursed by something, the muscles in her whole body stiffened and she couldn't move half a step.

"Little girl, open your eyes and come see me."

I'm going to stop talking, I'm going to die. "It's all because of you!" Su Su's throat let out a terrifying hoarse gurgling sound that seemed to be squeezed out, "Because of your curse, they will become like that, and I will become such a person, not a ghost!" ”

The pitch-black nails on her slender and miserable white fingers suddenly doubled, bent like sharp hooks, and grabbed at Qiu Xuan mercilessly. Qiu Xuan was pinned to the spot, watching the sharp claws poke straight into her heart, but she stiffened and couldn't do anything.

Suddenly, the field of vision was enveloped by a pure white light.

The flames licked the pale skin, the pungent smell of burnt flesh came from the air, and Su Su covered her arms and screamed silently and rolled on the ground in pain. And the white light that gradually spread from Qiu Xuan's heart to his whole body flickered, as if it had been completely shattered as if it had been exhausted of durability.

- "Although I am not a magician, I give you my 'blessing' in the hope that you will be able to achieve what you want. ”

It's a blessing from Elmetra......

"Wake up."

The out-of-control consciousness gradually returned, and Qiu Xuan's eyes returned to the familiar darkness that had not changed for a long time.

……

"Wake up, wake up!"

"Tsk, get out of the way, get out of the way." It was a sharp female voice that she had never heard before, and immediately after, Qiu Xuan felt a cold palm touch the side of her neck and pulled something down from it.

Trying to open his eyelids, the first thing that catches his eye is the owner of the strange female voice. A delicate and ordinary face, after seeing her movements, her sharp and capable gaze swept over, and such a pair of bright eyes instantly added a lot of color to her ordinary and barely delicate facial features.

"How are you feeling now?" The woman's particularly brilliant eyes stared straight at Qiu Xuan, "Do you still feel dizzy and nauseous?" ”

"No, it's just feeling...... I can't use my strength. ”

"Normal, you've been poisoned by the hallucination potion, and generally speaking, you won't be able to get out unless you die in a hallucination. It's a miracle that you can wake up, and it's normal to have some side effects. ”

Qiu Xuan subconsciously touched the wound on his left shoulder that was pierced by Bai Hexi, which had been well bandaged, but the stab wound that was deep in the bone was still throbbing and throbbing.

“…… You mean, everything I've been through before is hallucination? ”

"I don't know." The woman shrugged her helplessly, "Everyone's illusions are different, some are completely imaginary, and some are reprocessed based on personal experience, I don't know what you have experienced." You were sent to the post station by that black young master of the Meng family, do you want to find him, he is resting on the other side now. Don't worry if the medical expenses have already been paid for. ”

“…… Thank you. Qiu Xuan lay back and closed her eyes, assuming a posture of refusing to talk anymore and wanting to rest.

What she didn't see was that the woman who looked like a doctor didn't turn away immediately, she looked at her with a sexual look for a while, and only closed the door for her and walked out of the door alone under the continuous shouts of someone outside the door.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Qiu Xuan silently opened her eyes, pulled out the thin objects like liquid catheters on her arms, and turned over and got out of bed.

With her bare/bare feet on the cold floor, she cursed and searched around the empty, cold, and unpopular small room, and finally reluctantly took out a pair of tattered slippers from the corner and barely put them on her feet.

Slippers of a badly out of size pushed the door open, and the long, dimly lit hallway was empty, and it was impossible to see inside from the closed doors in the hallway. Qiu Xuan didn't know where Mencius was, and she was at a loss as to how she fell into a coma and fell into a hallucination and was sent to the post station.

Carefully putting on her slippers and taking her steps as lightly as possible, she followed the path of the corridor all the way to the exit of the small inn. The wasteland near the Wei River outside the gate was no different from what she had seen before, a man with a haggard face was squatting in the doorway smoking a hookah, and when he saw Qiu Xuan come out and look at her vigilantly, he moved his place and went elsewhere.

"Just woke up and ran around?"

Hearing the deep voice that was already too familiar to be done again, Qiu Xuan blinked at the wilderness, and finally could be sure that something was not his hallucination.

"Why are you here?" Qiu Xuan folded her arms and raised her eyebrows as she looked at the man.

"I got your message." The man stretched out his hand to her, and the base of his knobby finger was imprinted with a circle of pure black intricate patterns, which looked like a ring tattoo.

"What is this?"

"I was ...... A little bit of a move on your ring. Qin Jiuyuan turned his head away, looking a little uncomfortable. Sorry for touching your stuff without permission, but you know, the end is coming, just, uh, it's easier to get in touch that way. ”

He didn't remember anything at all, but it was the first time he had stumbled to explain so much to someone in such a hesitant tone. For a moment, Qiu Xuan was a little angry and helpless, wanting to drag him and shake his collar to ask him what his identity was, and after saying lightly, "I pulled you into that world", she dared to play with her amnesia, she didn't remember what she sent, and she still couldn't restrain her emotions that had gone crooked from the beginning. And this mood lasted until I knew the contact information of the ring just by touching a small piece of dark lines on the outer wall, and there was no need to take it out stupidly and call out the name, and I was completely left with anger.

"......" took a few deep breaths, and Qiu Xuan forcibly shifted the topic to other things in order to avoid scolding. Are you alone, are they all separated? ”

"I'm the only one." Qin Jiuyuan didn't have the slightest sense of escaping, "After the bus fell down, everyone was scattered. By the way, why did you contact me so late, didn't you have time before? ”

Qiu Xuan: "Mencius is also here, let's go find him." ”

Qin Jiuyuan: "......"

The man paused, finally finding out what was wrong. "You...... Are you angry and why? Because I tampered with your things, then I apologize to you now, I'm sorry. ”

"I'm not angry about this, in fact, I have already figured out this problem by myself when I was in the river, but it is still a little difficult to let go of it after all." Qiu Xuan said, "I don't want to look forward to the future life at all, and I don't want to speculate about where we will go between us. But I believe you now. ”

"I'm willing to trust you now."

"Why are you up? The recovery fluid hasn't been finished yet. Behind the two of them, the first sharp female voice sounded. Qiu Xuan turned around, and sure enough, it was the woman who seemed to be a doctor again, and at this moment, her ordinary face was hidden in the shadows, and her bright eyes were even more dazzling.

The woman glanced at the two of them with interest, and suddenly walked quickly, seemingly intimately grabbed one of Qiu Xuan's arms and took her into the room, and said, "You don't know yet, Mr. Qin has been by your side when you are unconscious, and your relationship is really good." ”

Not very accustomed to the sudden closeness of strangers, Qiu Xuan frowned and wanted to pull her arm out, but found that the woman's strength was unexpectedly great. "What are you doing here?"

"Shh," she leaned over and suddenly closed the distance, the tip of her nose almost touching Qiu Xuan, "Xi Han Pavilion, remember, my name is Xi Han Pavilion." ”

In the next second, the woman's back collar was unceremoniously lifted and pulled away from Qiu Xuan's side. Qin Jiuyuan pulled her aside with a stinky face, and said in his mouth: "I'll pick up the recovery liquid for her later, if you're okay, you can leave." ”

Pulled by the strong arm strength for a few steps, Xi Hanting immediately stood up on his own, and smiled and was not angry. "Okay, okay, then I'll go first. By the way, I'll tell you one last time, according to reliable sources, the Academy of Sciences has sent someone over, and you can arrive at the post station in the early morning, so you can prepare yourself. ”

Looking at the back of Xi Hanting leaving, the two glanced at each other.

"Shall we go now?" Qiu Xuan Road.

Qin Jiuyuan sighed lightly, "I don't care, but the black man who followed the little prince is afraid that he won't be able to survive." ”

"Susu? She's not...... Isn't she awake yet? ”

"Not only did I not wake up, but the situation has worsened, I'll take you to see it."

When he arrived in the room where Mencius was and said hello to him with a haggard face, Qiu Xuan finally knew what the extent of this "deterioration of the situation" meant.

The black girl named Su Su was lying on the bed completely unconscious, and her skin, which had been burned red for unknown reasons, was now burning to an incredible degree. She was like a shrimp that had been cooked to the core, and she could feel the hot temperature burning slowly just by looking at it. And what is even more strange is that above the scorching heat, on all the exposed skin of the face and below, the knots and twisted green nerve-like filaments are densely covered under the skin, and they bulge and squirm in the skin, as if they were alive.

Looking at this scene, Qiu Xuan was silent for a while and walked in front of Mencius with a serious expression. "I want to know what happened to you after you met me, all."

The emaciated black man looked at her suspiciously, but paused and began to talk about the real reality.

"I'm ...... A man who walked along the Wei River for several days met you, and was already on the verge of arriving at the post station. And when I saw you, you were being held up by a group of infected people in an unknown way, and I was so frightened that I didn't dare to go up and check on you. ”

"I followed you from afar for the rest of my life, until one day you suddenly woke up. However, it feels very wrong to me, as if you are no longer Qiu Xuan, but someone else who wears your shell. Saying this, Mencius buried his head in his hands with some recollection, and continued to speak after brewing for a while.

"The infected people suddenly lost control in an instant, and they seemed to have been radicalized by some force and became crazy and killed each other. And I see ...... In the center of that frenzied corpse tide, you are standing there, your entire eye socket filled with black, without a trace of the whites of your eyes. Looks like ...... It's like you're letting people do it. ”

"But then I thought about it, you may have been controlled by some evil force at that time. Anyway, until the end, the dense number of infected people were almost killed, and the only remaining ones were missing. I saw you faint on the ground in the center, and Su Su next to you was there. Fortunately, it was not far from the post station by then, so I sent you both here first. It's just ...... plain."

He stopped talking, and his bloodshot eyes looked at the man lying motionless on the bed. The atmosphere fell silent again.

The one who lost his mind, the one who cursed the infected people to madness, was it always me? Qiu Xuan lowered her eyelids and also looked at Su Su, who looked terrifying, with an obscure expression and didn't know what she was thinking.

"Let's go back." The broad palm of his hand was lightly placed on her shoulder, Qin Jiuyuan turned his head to greet Mencius, and pulled her out of the door with a half-coaxing and half-pushing force. "I'll help you connect the recovery solution first, and then calculate the time and wait for us to go out to avoid it, and then come back when the people from the Academy of Sciences are gone, okay?"

“…… You go back first, and I'll take a look at that place. ”

"I'm with you."

"No, you don't." Qiu Xuan looked up into his eyes, "I can fix it myself, besides," she suddenly raised her left wrist.

Qin Jiuyuan's eyes widened with an incredible look, it was the first time he had seen such a look on his face.

Qiu Xuan waved his hand at the end, and walked with his slippers in search of the place in his memory that infected people's collective madness.

Under the white moonlight, the ring firmly attached to the heel of the finger reflected a cold light with a silver edge.

……

As the distance got closer, the air was filled with the smell of unfinished rotting corpses and flesh, emitting a disgusting stench of decay. If it is too late and no one will come to clean up the place, the severed limbs and blood are stained, and it is easy to easily think of what human tragedy has happened in this land.

Qiu Xuan circled around the clearing, and suddenly took a few steps forward and walked straight to the bloody center of the ground. She spread out her hands and raised her face like an ancestral witch sacrifice and rushed straight into the unknown sky, her untied black hair was windless, and the quiet air seemed to faintly resound a chanting whisper, silently reciting the strange and mysterious eulogy.

In the strange atmosphere, a female voice sounded.

"Yo, darkness."

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