Chapter 193: Demagogy
"Arcore!"
The flames flew up the deck where everyone was standing, and the crowd dispersed to dodge. The madwoman named Yin Yan had already mingled with the siren leader in the sea of fire, and Qiu Xuan rushed to the front against the flow of people and threw a dagger at the siren who was kneeling on the side.
"If you've decided, do it now." She paused to let out a cloudy breath from her chest, and looked at Arkeel earnestly, nodding Gary who was unconscious next to her. "I'm still the same thing, don't care about your heads, and don't care about what that crazy woman says. Once you have thought it through yourself, decide for yourself, and the decision is always in your own hands. ”
"You don't understand, human."
Glancing at the two figures entangled in the sea of fire again, Arkel smiled to himself. "Who is the person who secretly hid in my heart when I was still the king, it turned out to be such a person."
"But forget it, I won't follow the king's old path. Death or survival, my fate must be in my own hands. ”
As she spoke, Arke stood up and picked up the unconscious Gary.
"So what do I mean, Aph, you still don't know anything about the sirens."
It was the last thing Qiu Xuan had ever heard in her life, and she stood almost stunned, looking at the siren's face that was almost burned at a glance, and singing about the dreams woven by the unknown language.
It was the first and last time she heard the sirens singing.
The wooden platform collapsed, and in the ash and fire of countless corpses, she was forcibly taken away from the collapsed sea of fire by someone. But she still watched intently, at the two obsessives who had burned all their love and hatred in a single fire, at Arcoll singing with Gary on his back in his arms, and at the rolling waves sweeping away the corpses of countless sirens. They came from the sea and eventually returned to the sea.
After all, return to the sea.
In a trance, she suddenly remembered the young man in the name of returning to the sea, who was full of ambition and youthful spirit, and finally merged with the devourer of the sea.
In the golden waves, which could not be explored by the human eye, the waves dissipated, the flames melted, and in the end all that remained was a mad woman in a white robe.
Yin Yan looked at the empty platform, all her Shaohua, all her love and hate, all her downfall, in the end, it was just a blank space without even the ashes.
Maybe the sirens never belonged to anyone. Countless people know the danger but are willing to risk becoming the Kraken's rations, and they are eager for the love of the Krakens by wiping their love as if they were the most precious treasure in this life. But I don't know that that's fundamentally wrong, it can be show-off possessiveness, but it's not love.
At least not, the sirens want love.
From then on, they floated and fell with the god of the sea, sometimes going ashore and singing to lure sailors into the urn. Henceforth, until the eternal freedom is reached.
"Ha, hahaha, haha...... Asking but not believing, love and hate are confused, people are terrible, asking but not ......"
As if she had woken up, it seemed that in an instant, a woman who had aged for decades stood up with the blank space. The carefully combed bun was already spread out and draped over the shoulders, and it looked like a girl who first encountered the breathtaking fairy in the sea when she was a teenager.
"Asking but not believing, love and hate......"
Yin Yan repeated these words over and over again in her mouth until she stepped onto the pedal.
Pour.
Collapse.
Azure.
The girl fell into the wave in the posture of embracing the ocean, and she hugged a blank space in her arms, but it seemed to hold the most precious treasure of this life.
She disappeared into the depths of the sea like a fleeting bubble.
“…… You will cut off my flowers. ”
“……”
It seems that Qiu Xuan's expression is not quite right, I am afraid that she will not be able to think of jumping into the sea after her, and the arm behind her that is strangling her refuses to relax a trace of strength. Qiu Xuan turned around and glanced at the man, and patted him helplessly, "I'm really fine, let it go." ”
Qin Jiuyuan took advantage of the situation to relax some of his strength, and without looking at it, he knew that the person in front of him must be covered with large and small wounds, his mouth opened, but he didn't say anything after all.
"It's over." In the end, he only said that, Qiu Xuan looked down at the score just added on his wrist, and muttered, "Yes, it's over." ”
- The curtain fell on the play, and it was finally presented with a score of 5,000 points.
"Yo, Afu, we're back, we've scored a total of 900 points this time, which is not bad. By the way, the part where you cursed on deck was so relieving, and we were all ...... Afu?! ”
As soon as she entered the lounge, and saw Zhao Yigui's smiling face sitting on the sofa, Qiu Xuan instantly felt a wave of anger surging down her abdomen to her cranial cavity. She even calmed down and thought carefully about the retreat and development of the three steps after a few seconds, and then no longer hesitated to slam her fist into the side of his face.
The matter between Arcole and Eliza is over, but Ruru's is not.
All these developments added up to less than three seconds, and Zhao Yigui was knocked to the ground by rubbing his cheekbones in complete shock. Jiao Guancheng and the others around him reacted, and they all stepped forward and pulled Qiu Xuan back, as if they were afraid that she would kill someone in a hurry.
Qiu Xuan stared coldly at the person who was lying on the ground wiping the blood between his nose, Zhao Yigui eased up and smiled, and just kept the posture of falling to the ground and looked up at her.
"You killed Li Lei, didn't you?" Zhao Yigui said this, as if he had expected it a long time ago, and he couldn't hear any surprise between his words. "You got the knife too, I specially prepared it for you."
"I'll kill you."
"Hahahahaha." As if hearing something funny, Zhao Yigui laughed arrogantly for a while, until he laughed until the broken side facial muscles began to pull and hurt, and he suddenly stood up from the ground.
The other members of the group rushed up to him and grabbed him. On one side people pulled Qiu Xuan, and on the other side people pulled Zhao Yigui, the two of them were like two dogs restrained in the Colosseum. Zhao Yigui suddenly stepped forward and said in a voice that only she could hear: "Kill me, how can you go home?" ”
"Be honest with me! Have you forgotten what I told you when you first joined the group! ”
Lao Liang squeezed his arms behind him and roared angrily. Zhao Yigui laughed wantonly in everyone's vigilant expressions, Huang Sheng wiped his sweat and beat the round, Qiu Xuan hung his head and was pulled aside by Jiao Guancheng to "calm down". She opened her eyes to look at a small black dot on the floor, and was a little reluctant or even afraid to recall Zhao Yigui's words.
Go home...... ?
The two were forced to separate, Jiao Guancheng and Hephaestus pulled Zhao Yigui aside for "quality education", leaving Lao Liang and Qiu Xuan and the fat man named Huang Sheng in the living room.
"Don't think much about that newcomer, alas...... It can only be counted. You can do whatever you want when you get off the boat at the end of the trial, no one will stop you, but bear with it now, it's fast, okay? Lao Liang patted Qiu Xuan, who still looked bad, on the shoulder, and he was relieved to see the latter nod slightly. By the way, how did you get this injury, I'll call Heffei to show you later, and then you can rest today. ”
"Okay."
"I'll do a little healing too, so let me take a look if you're at ease." Seeing that he finally had a chance to show his strength, Huang Sheng hurriedly seized the opportunity to come up. Anyway, no one is bad, Qiu Xuan nodded and said "Thank you", and stretched out one wrist as he asked.
"Hmm...... It's not a big deal, it's just excessive blood loss and a slight rib misalignment, if you have already drunk the medicine, you will be fine if you go to the next level of healing...... Well? What is it? ”
Huang Sheng tried his detection light to control his detection light at a distance that could check the whole body without being offended, and suddenly he was stunned for a moment, raised his eyes to look at Qiu Xuan, and said, "I'm sorry I offended, can you ...... Show me the specifics of your abdominal wound? ”
"Any questions?" Qiu Xuan didn't say good or bad, just lowered her eyelashes and looked at the man. Huang Sheng blinked and said, "It's because this wound feels very strange, as if it's ...... What's the extra piece on the ribs? However, I couldn't find anything wrong, so I wanted to check the situation. ”
"No need, it's bloody, and it's unappetizing to watch." Qiu Xuan withdrew her arm and glanced at him lightly. "Thank you for healing me, so be it, I'll go back to sleep first."
“…… You're welcome. ”
Qiu Xuan walked back to the room and lay on his bed under the gaze of the two, and after a while, he straightened the quilt and stood up, climbed out of the narrow window, and disappeared into the compartment of the cabin in the corridor with a few ups and downs.
"I knew you were going to come to me...... Aph. ”
"How do you know my name?" Qiu Xuan squatted on the window frame of the room and faced Zhao Yigui, without a trace of superfluous expression on her face.
"Huh? Isn't your name Afu, everyone knows it. Zhao Yigui sat cross-legged on the bed, and there was still a slight redness and swelling on the side of his cheek, which was the punch Qiu Xuan had made when he first came back. But he smiled as usual as no one else, "After the castration of the god Ouranos, the blood dripped into the sea, and from the bubbles of the waves was born Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. This is your name, Afu, what a wonderful symbol, you are the mighty waves of the sea, you are the endless love and hatred, you are the ......"
"Zhao Yigui."
Qiu Xuan interrupted him with words, and his tone was surprisingly calm. "You know what I'm talking about. I asked, do you know my name, why? ”
Zhao Yigui paused for a second, "As long as I want to know, there is nothing in this world that I can't know." ”
"Okay, then I'll leave that question out for now." She was surprisingly talkative at this time, "Then what did you mean by what you said before, let me go home?" ”
"Literally, of course, my dear!" Speaking of this, Zhao Yigui suddenly got up from the bed with an excited expression, and came to the windowsill where she was in a few steps. He leaned down and looked at the person in front of him with rare affection, and said, "Tell me, you want to go home, right?" Really end it all, go back to where it didn't begin, and get back on with your interrupted life. Tell me what you want, huh? ”
Qiu Xuan didn't speak.
"Of course I know what you're thinking right now - 'That madman is full of lies and I believe him is a ghost', 'Don't be fooled, he's best at this kind of demagogic tricks.'" Zhao Yigui looked at her face and raised his voice to imitate her voice. "But you also have to know that whoever I lie, I won't lie to you."
"I won't lie to your baby, because I admire you so much, I like you so much, so I can't bear to see you fighting with them in such a slaughterhouse, I can't bear to see you...... And so it fell. Have you forgotten about our cooperation? You hate those Dominators, so I promise you will kill one for you anyway. Do you want to go home...... So no matter how reluctant I am, I will grant your wish, this is my idea, and it has never changed. ”
"You know what," Qiu Xuan took a deep breath, "you look like your mother from the Demon Sect. ”
"Listen to Zhao Yigui," she jumped down from the window frame, staring at him as indifferently and detachedly as she had seen him for the first time. "I'm here to ask you about the conditions and reasons, not to listen to your nonsense. I don't know that emotion may be just as useful for someone like you, but let's not insult the word 'like' here, okay? You don't deserve to talk about liking at all, do you like me? ”
She rolled her eyes upwards in shock.
"So let's all be cheerful, if you really have a way to get me home, prove it to me, and tell me what to pay. If you're just trying to trick me for fun, I'm going to beat you up and wait until the trial is over to find a chance to kill you. It's just two simple things, there's no need to engage in all these bells and whistles. ”
“…… Ha, hahahaha. Okay, okay, it turns out that you eat this set more, I remember. Zhao Yigui chuckled and nodded, and took out something similar to a pendant box from his arms. In that case, you see, this is a good thing that I brought out from the previous world, and I can jump out of the spatial plane in a short time and reach another parallel small world. As long as you find the right landing point, you can go back to before the start of your timeline and get away with it all. ”
"It's just a half-finished product. So my condition is that you fix it for me and you end this trial with the number one score. ”
I didn't ask why, because Zhao Yigui wouldn't answer if he wanted to do this kind of thing. Qiu Xuan frowned and looked at the pendant in his hand and said, "Why should I believe you?" ”
"You have to try it, you say? After all, the word 'home' means so much, do you keep shuttling through the boundless world like this? ”
"Oh yes, there's one more thing."
"As I said before, I've never lied to you until now, it's true, Qiu Xuan."
()