Chapter 239: Re-entering Chifeng Mountain
The sun and the moon are stacked, and there is no longer any expectation for things that cannot be touched, and the noise of living in the present moment or wandering on the edge of tranquility is only dependent on the desire of the moment.
The noisy roar didn't end until the early hours of the morning, Wu Jia and Tong Fei stayed up all night on the grass bunk, both of them guessing where the roar came from, Tong Fei even guessed that it was some kind of monster in the deep sea, and the reason why it made that strange sound was because it was suffering some kind of torture. Wu Jia flicked on her little head and said.
"If it's really a sea beast, how many teeth do you think it has?"
Tong Fei thought about it seriously and said.
"I guess there must be at least a few hundred?"
"That's not right."
"How much do you say?"
"It must be full of teeth."
Tong Fei slapped Wu Jia and said.
"Annoying."
Wu Jia stretched his muscles and sat up and said.
"Lay down all night and go out for activities."
"Where are you going?"
"I'll just walk outside, you can sleep."
With that, Wu Jia walked towards the elder's grass house, and the elder was pacing back and forth outside, looking like he was in a hurry, Wu Jia asked.
"Are you in a hurry?"
Hearing this, the elder looked up and saw Wu Jia and said.
"It's the net. I can't find my net. ”
"What kind of net?"
"If I can't find the fishing nets, I won't be able to live today."
Wu Jia looked at the Requiem in his hand and said.
"It's okay, I'll go to sea with you, and it's not too late to find a net when we return with a full load."
The elder looked at Wu Jia suspiciously, and said after a moment.
"Okay."
Wu Jia got on the elder's raft, and the two sailed towards the shallow sea. After a while, the raft stopped, swaying up and down with the waves. The elder looked at Wu Jia with expectant eyes, not knowing what kind of method he had to turn the fish in the sea onto the raft. Requiem turned into a bow, Wu Jia tied a thin rope to the tail of the ice arrow, and then aimed the fish in the sea with his eyes and the arrow stabbed straight into the belly of the fish, and then pulled the rope back with force, and a lively fish appeared on the raft. The elder looked at Wu Jia in surprise, surprised by the revenant requiem in his hand, and asked.
"What is this?"
Wu Jia pondered for a moment and said.
"It's a curse."
Hearing this, the elder stopped speaking, and then looked into the open sea and said.
"The storm is coming, and it is not destined to be a good day for fishing."
Having said that, Wu Jia still pulled the fish to the raft one by one, and after a while, the raft was pressed to the point that the draft became a lot deeper, and the requiem turned into a bracelet again, Wu Jia said.
"Elder, these should be about the same, right?"
The elder looked at the fish on the raft and said.
"Enough is enough, you can take some back."
When the two returned to the village, Wu Jia piled up the full harvest at the door of his thatched hut, and then walked towards the elder's house. At this time, he saw that the elder was talking to a large group of villagers, and immediately stopped after seeing Wu Jia, and the eyes of those villagers looked at Wu Jia somewhat changed, and there seemed to be a trace of admiration in their indifference. Wu Jia called the elder aside alone and asked.
"Did you hear last night's roar?"
The elder said with a blank expression.
"No, I don't. What roar? ”
Wu Jia couldn't catch any useful information from his eyes, and then said with a smile.
"It's nothing, maybe I misheard."
Wu Jia happened to bump into Ali when he went out.
"Ali."
Ali turned around and saw Wu Jia, and suddenly said with a little excitement.
"I was just about to look for you."
"What's wrong? Can I help you? ”
"Just now, the elder told us that you are very good at fishing, so I want you to teach me."
"Did the elder tell you?"
Ali nodded, and Wu Jia said with a smile.
"The storm is coming soon, I'm afraid it won't work today, tomorrow."
Ali looked at the sky in the distance and said.
"What a storm. I'm going to prepare the boat, and I'll look for you later." ”
With that, Ali ran away like a gust of wind. Wu Jia walked towards the thatched hut, Tong Fei had already gotten up, she looked at the fish piled up next to her like a hill, and asked.
"Wu Jia, what is this?"
"This is our ration. You don't want to eat anything other than fish here. ”
Tong Fei looked sad, but she didn't say anything and walked straight into the room. After a while, Ali shouted Wu Jia loudly, and the two of them sailed to the open sea again in the boat.
"Ali, where are your parents?"
Ali was stunned for a moment and said.
"Parents? I don't know. I've never heard an elder talk about it. ”
"You don't need to be told about this kind of thing, right?"
"Everything here is told to us by the elders, from birth to death."
"Is that true of everyone?"
"yes. Look, there's a fish. ”
Wu Jia looked into the sea when he heard the sound and found a fish that had surfaced, he immediately raised his hand and shot it, and the fish immediately turned its belly.
"You're a god, so we don't need fishing nets anymore."
Wu Jiahu looked at Ali suspiciously, thinking that these were the most basic fishing skills, and the people who lived on the sea would not know. But thinking about these things would only make Wu Jia feel like he was wasting his time, he asked.
"And will you guys here get married?"
"What is marriage?"
Wu Jia thought for a while and said.
"It's two independent individuals, and then they come together under the catalysis of some kind of emotion, and they become an independent duo."
Ali shook his head blankly, Wu Jia also felt that what he said was not clear enough, and when he wanted to explain it, he gave up after pondering for a while.
Sure enough, as Ali said, the storm did not come. The two rowed the raft towards the village, and when the village appeared in front of Wu Jia's eyes, he felt that this village and even this town were not as peaceful and peaceful as it seemed on the surface, but Wu Jia couldn't say what made him feel like this.
Ali and Wu Jia made an appointment to go fishing tomorrow, and Wu Jia smiled and nodded in agreement. When he returned to his thatched hut and smelled the fresh aroma of fish soup, Tong Fei said with the fish in his hand.
"Come and eat."
"Did you do it?"
"That's right. It's the first time I've tried it. ”
Wu Jia drank some fish soup and said.
"Good, very good, 10,000 times more than the outside."
Tong Fei scolded with a smile.
"I'm just finding out now that you're also a man who likes to flamboy."
Wu Jia took another sip of fish soup and said.
"But it's really delicious. If you don't believe it, taste it yourself. ”
Tong Fei smiled but said nothing, and Wu Jia asked after a while.
"Are we going to stay here for a long time?"
Tong Fei was stunned for a moment and said.
"Don't you like it here?"
Wu Jia's heart twitched and said.
"I like it, as long as it's with you, I like it."
As night fell, the village became unusually quiet again. Tong Fei fell asleep, she seemed to be used to life here, although it was only one day, she seemed to have lived here for a long time. Wu Jia still had insomnia like last night, and he walked out of the grass hut gently. The air at night is mixed with the smell of seawater, and there is a hint of fishiness less than the air during the day. He seemed to see a boy on a distant island standing under the starry night sky looking out at the village, his eyes leaping over the dolphins chasing the waves, through the churning waves, and finally hitting Wu Jia's heart. Wu Jia felt calm, this was a feeling he had never felt, and it was also an expectation that he had never grasped.
Early the next morning, Wu Jia walked out of the grass hut and saw that there were many people waiting at the door, Ali Mei danced and said something to them, Wu Jia shouted with some confusion.
"Ali."
Ali turned his head to see Wu Jia, and said excitedly.
"You're finally awake, we've all been waiting for a long time."
Wu Jia asked Ali in a low voice.
"What's going on?"
"Everybody wanted to see how good you were at fishing, so they came together."
Wu Jia's face sank and said.
"Did you say that?"
Ali said with an embarrassed look for the first time.
"Yesterday I was so excited that I couldn't hold back and told them for a while."
Wu Jia looked at the expectant gazes of those people, then touched the revenant song on his wrist and said.
"I can take everybody fishing, but only this once."
After that, Wu Jia took a group of people out to sea to fish. At this time, the elder looked at their distant backs, and then looked at the sky in the open sea, and said lightly.
"The storm is coming."
Wu Jia was exhausted from a day's fishing work, and when he returned to his grass hut, he lay motionless on the grass bunk, Tong Fei looked at him like this and said.
"I'm so tired, don't go tomorrow."
Wu Jia didn't say anything, just nodded silently. The days in the town are frighteningly dull, and an hour represents everything that happens in a day. Night fell again, and Wu Jia, who hadn't slept for two days, was about to collapse, but he still had trouble sleeping as before. I haven't heard any more noise from the distant sea lately, and he muttered to himself faintly.
"Is the sea beast resting too?"
At the same time, at the Spring Taste Bar, Fang Fan was studying the list of personnel who would join the Dark Shadow Force. The people who can be identified are Zhang Ze, Guo Jianyue, and Han Shuo. Jinqiu and Lin Yu's identities are relatively special, so they are not included in the Black Shadow Force for the time being.
Mishima and Wu Binlong chatted very closely, and the two were like old friends who hadn't seen each other for a long time. Fang Fan walked over to them with the list from the rest area and said.
"Wu Bureau, this is the person who can join."
Wu Binlong glanced at the list and asked.
"Let these people clean up and report with me to the headquarters. Also, the people above want to meet you. ”
"See me? Is there any task? ”
"Not really, you don't have to be nervous. Giving you such a big right, they always want to get to know you, it's just a formality, don't worry. ”
After that, Wu Binlong chatted with Mishima again. The night at the bar is bustling, where there is no superior hypocrisy or inferiority, just the sound of clinking glasses and Yu Toyoya's faintly glowing acoustic guitar.
The archbishop saw Nagiling's defeat in the eyes of the archbishop, but he did not punish him in any way, but only said a word of not to make an example of this. The resentment in Nagi Ling's heart never showed on his face, and no matter how angry he was, he would only get angry at those souls trapped in the spiritual source. The spirit source flickered in the pitch-black room, reflecting half of Nagi Ling's face eeriely. The mud-sealed ceramic jar had not yet been opened, and Nagi Ling had kept it in the coldest place, only Nagi Ling himself knew what kind of terrifying things were locked inside, but as time went on, he gradually forgot the appearance of the things inside, just like he forgot the last smile that Yuluo left him.
Nagi Ling sighed, got up and sat on the bed, raised his hand and gently stroked the pillow next to him. This place has been empty for many years, and every night he always feels that the emptiness around him is like a black hole that drags him inside, I don't know whether it is the retribution of manipulating those innocent souls for many years, or the call of his long-lost lover to himself, in short, this black hole will suck some of his soul every night, and then break it into pieces.
The sun is the most competent guardian of the earth, standing at the very top of the sky every morning. Su Zude opened his eyes and saw Su Kang standing by the bedside, first startled, and then boundless warmth. In the past, he stayed by Margaret's bedside like this, hoping that Margaret would hug him the next day and tell him the good news that he had recovered, but in the end it was only wishful thinking on the part of Suzude, and it was not until Margaret died that Suzude removed the chair that had been done for a long time. At that time, he remembered the scene of participating in the white ceremony in his hometown when he was a child, the funeral was very pompous, and there was a custom of turning the knife in the basin after returning home, and when the knife was turned to the other side, it foreshadowed that he and the deceased were cut in two. But those who have a heart know that it is just a custom, and cutting it in two is just an idiom that has been handed down to this day.
Margaret's shadow has never been erased from Suzud's heart, whenever he sees Sukon he always thinks of Margaret, and his heart always becomes soft and abnormally soft at this time. But in the face of the difficulties and treachery of the Secret Crossing, he had to harden his soft heart. To become hard, he can only cut off the past, he is unwilling but helpless, and the last way is to stop meeting Su Kang. This self-deception made him settle down for many years, until after this meeting with Su Kang, his heart became soft again, and at this time, looking at Su Kang falling asleep, Su Zude asked himself in his heart whether Su Kang would also look forward to his recovery as he expected Margaret. When he thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh.
"Dad, are you awake? Dad..."
Su Kang saw Su Zude wake up and shouted excitedly. The voice beckoned the assistant over, and the assistant was also full of tears when he saw Su Zude who was safe and sound.
"Sir, you're finally awake."
Suzud sat up and looked at the two of them and said.
"What's wrong with me?"
"Don't you remember?"
Suzud shook his head and said.
"I just remember that I was knocked unconscious by Nagi Ling."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. As long as you're awake. ”
After a few pleasantries, the assistant went out. Su Kang said.
"I know all about the Secret Crossing, in fact, you can also discuss it with me."
Su Zude looked at Su Kang and said after muttering for a long time.
"You look too much like your mother, and you have two dimples like hers."
"Dad, I'm talking to you about the Secret Crossing Society, what..."
Su Zude suddenly waved his hand and said.
"You don't care about those things, as long as I'm alive, I won't let them hurt you."
"I understand. But now is not the time to say that. The other party has already come to the door, and if this continues, we can only be beaten passively. ”
"What they want is the technology of Zhuosi Group and phosphorus flint, as long as they can't get any of them, they won't do anything to me, don't worry, I have my own measure."
Su Kang didn't know what to say, his father's stubborn temper was a mountain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it was also a shield to help him resist all dangers. Su Kang got up and said.
"I'll get you something to eat."
Su Zude suddenly stopped Su Kang and said.
"The girl I saw at Fang Fan's house last time was yours?"
Hearing this, Su Kang stopped, and then turned to look at his father in a daze, waiting for him to say the rest of the words. Su Zude didn't speak for a long time, it seemed that he was waiting for Su Kang to take the initiative to speak. Su Kang hesitated for a moment and said.
"The most important person in my life."
Su Zude frowned slightly and asked.
"Can you bring her to meet me?"
Su Kang was like a prey forced into a corner by a fierce beast at this time, and he couldn't escape the other party's prediction with every move, but he still planned to make a last fight. Su Kang pondered for a moment and said.
"Forget it. She still has to go to school, which is a little inconvenient. ”
Suzud nodded and said.
"I want porridge."
A few days later, Suzud didn't have the same weirdness as before, as if everything before was like a nightmare. Su Kang also returned to his original life, he still did not give up looking for the crow team, although he knew that the crow team was not the murderer of his mother, but he vaguely felt that there was something he wanted to know about this mysterious team.
Su Kang came to the Spring Bar, and the one-armed image was shocking, but after watching it for a long time, he got used to it. The bar was not open yet, and Hu Lai sat in the hall boredly watching the lace news on his mobile phone, fantasizing that he was the hero in the news from time to time, and occasionally showing a lewd smile.
"Is Fang Fan here?"
Hu Lai was stunned for a moment when he saw the one-armed Su Kang, and then said.
"You are?"
"I'm his friend, have you forgotten? We've seen it. ”
Hu Lai thought about it, but he didn't have any impression and said.
"Wait a minute, I'll call him."
Hu Lai ran into the laboratory and called Fang Fan out and said.
"Brother, there's a man with one arm outside who wants to see you."
"I see."
The first thing Fang Fan said when he saw Su Kang was to ask about Su Zude's current situation, and he was also relieved to learn that he was safe and sound.
"Fang Fan, I came this time to ask you to help me find out the people from the Crow Squad."
"Haven't you put it down yet?"
"No, I just want to meet them."
"Let's not talk about this yet, are you willing to follow me?"
This question stunned Fang Fan, Su Kang didn't react for a moment, Fang Fan asked again.
"Will you follow me?"
"What do you mean?"
Then Fang Fan told Su Kang about the Black Shadow Force, and Su Kang immediately agreed to join after hearing this, Fang Fan nodded and said.
"The day after tomorrow, we will go to the Black Shadow Headquarters together, and you can come with us."
"What about the Raven Squad?"
Fang Fan sighed and said.
"We'll see you sooner or later."
After sorting out the driving force behind the incident, the crow team began to investigate the whereabouts of Xu Ziming, but the ghost-like whereabouts of this person made their investigation difficult. In the end, Hua Yi decided to investigate the place where Xuziming was last seen, and he felt that Xuziming was likely to hide there.
The crow team returned to Chifeng Mountain several times, this is the last place where Xu Ziming appeared, that is, shortly before the outbreak of the catastrophe, no one knew what the purpose of his return was, and no one noticed the existence of Xu Ziming, he was like a gust of wind drifting from the top of Chifeng Mountain.
Chifeng Mountain is no longer as lively as it used to be, and the leaderless Sanyun Gang is dead and walking. The former courtyard is in ruins, and the places that have been destroyed by the corpses can no longer be restored to their original appearance.
"Hanaichi, is it really useful for us to come here?"
"I don't know, but if I don't check it out, I always feel a little uneasy."
"We came once after the catastrophe, and we didn't find any clues at that time."
"At that time, we were looking for Duan Sanniang's corpse, and the purpose was different, so the results of the discovery were also different."
"Forget it, whatever you say is what you say."
Hua Si's violent temper finally succumbed to Hua Yi's powerful aura, and several people didn't find a living person after a day of walking around Chifeng Mountain. In the evening, just as they were about to leave, Hua San suddenly noticed the light of the back mountain Chifeng Mountain and said.
"Look what it is."
Several people heard the sound and looked, and they all saw the light of the back mountain, Hua Yi said.
"It seems that there are still places we haven't been to, go and have a look."
The seven of them crossed the mountains for a long time before they arrived at the place where the back mountain was shining, and said after a while.
"I remember that this is the ancestral hall of the Sanyun Gang, and it enshrines the stewards of the Sanyun Gang for generations."
"Looks like this place escaped the catastrophe."
Hua San looked at the structure of the surrounding stone walls, and then looked at the location of the ancestral hall, and said.
"It's not a catastrophe, it's an ingenious design. The ancestral hall is built in the stone wall, and this stone wall will not be damaged even if it experiences strong turbulence, in fact, the stone wall protects the ancestral hall. ”
Hua Si nodded as if he didn't understand, and Hua Yi said.
"You wait here, I'll go in and have a look."
As soon as the words fell, the door of the ancestral hall suddenly opened. The seven people were all shocked, and Hua Yi looked inside, and the tablets enshrined inside were still there, and the candles around them were also lit. Hua Yi stretched out his hand and touched the offering table, but there was no dust in sight, which showed that people had been coming here, and they came very often. At this moment, Hua Yi suddenly felt a surge of true qi, he looked around vigilantly, and said softly.
"We didn't mean to disturb, friends might as well show up."
With that, a short figure fell from the roof and said faintly.
"You can feel my presence, it's kind of two times."
Hua must have looked at it, and the nerves in his whole body immediately tensed, and he only felt a moment of fear at this time, if this person made a move, then the seven of them would not be his opponent even if they joined forces. The man lit a stick of incense and put it in the incense burner in front of the offering table, and said lightly.
"After experiencing strong winds and waves, it is only after the past that it is ordinary and precious. Now I don't see these dead ghosts for a day, I miss them, you say that people are so sentimental when they are old. ”
Hua Yi felt that this person's strength was getting stronger and stronger, and involuntarily took a few steps back, and finally shouted the person's name tremblingly.
"Xuzi Dao."