But he gave himself a spider silk every time, and then cut it off mercilessly. And so on and so on, every time she was in physical pain that she was about to be unbearable, she relied on his temperature, burned herself, and wanted to engrave him in the depths of her soul.

She tried to believe that she had been forcing herself to ignore those words, but every time she heard those suffocating words, it would slash her heart.

"General, that's enough." She spoke suddenly, calmly.

A glimmer of light flashed in Ruan Jing's eyes, but when she looked at herself, she suddenly found that her eyes were so strange and cold, which made him feel inexplicably panicked.

"Have you figured it out? Then you're all set! The general smiled and lowered his sword.

She nodded, with a sadness in her eyes that she had never seen before, and the unfamiliar look in her eyes was like a blood whip, which was slammed into Ruan Jing's heart. Ruan Jing watched her walk towards the general, and for some reason suddenly wanted to stop her, he didn't know why, he always felt that she would be doomed if she went.

"General. I was going to give you one last chance to get you to completely die for it, but...... Looks like I'm being self-inflicted. She walked up to the general, regardless of his surprised expression, slowly raised his hand holding the long sword, raised it between her eyebrows, closed her eyes, and said resolutely, "General Ruan, please give the order, open the long sword." ”

"Huh?!" The general's hand trembled, almost not standing firmly, he looked at Ruan Jing who stood up at some point, and his tone trembled a little, "Ruan, General Ruan, she, she ......"

His heart ached fiercely, he had long known that she was so smart, his tricks could not be hidden from her, and sooner or later they would be exposed. But he was surprised that his heart ached.

After being silent for a long time, he walked over, looked at her and closed her eyes, as if he never wanted to see him again, and said with a wry smile, "When did you find out that I am a general?" ”

"In the beginning." She said in a deep voice.

Ruan Jing looked at her in disbelief: "You knew it from the beginning...... Then you've been ......."

"Do it, General, I'm tired." Hai Hotaru's voice was full of exhaustion and indifference, making him almost think that this was not the Jiangnan woman who was quiet and thin in his arms, with delicate eyebrows and eyes like the one who walked out of the painting.

He closed his eyes, raised his head, took a deep breath, forcibly held back the turbulence in his heart, and finally returned to the general Ruan who galloped across the field, looked at the world, and terrified the enemy.

"You once asked me why you wanted you to open the lock, then I ask you now why you asked me to order you to kill you." He asked word by word, with peerless pride.

She paused and said, "To fulfill your wishes." ”

"Don't try to deceive me, no one can deceive me!" Ruan Jing suddenly became furious, and the color of grief actually appeared on his handsome and arrogant face, "I won't let you die, I will never let you die." ”

He shook his head and walked backwards, until he reached the stone door, he pinched the lock fiercely, and roared in a low voice like a beast, "I don't believe this lock can't be opened, it's not what it used to be, it's fire now."

In the age of the instrument, I want to prove to you that I can do it without you! Guards, bring your sword, I'm going to smash it myself!! ”

He seemed to be crazy, picked up the long sword and smashed it at the chain, no one had ever seen such a crazy side of the legendary elegant and arrogant general, they all stood stunned aside, the lock was still very strong, he smashed it for a long time without moving, he threw down the long sword, picked up the giant hammer and smashed the chain wildly, but the lock was like a spell, no matter how much interference was useless.

He frantically tried to destroy it, but he didn't see it, and every time the sword in his hand landed on the chain, she twitched in pain, but she gritted her teeth to keep herself from crying. She got up from the ground trembling and used her last strength.

Suddenly, after he had almost lost his mind, the lock clicked and opened automatically.

"Open ......"

"The general opened it !!"

There was a sound of consternation behind him, he gasped blankly, and suddenly laughed and turned his head to her and shouted, "Look, Hai Firefly, it's ......"

The blinding blood of his eyes choked a brief cheer in his throat.

"General, general...... She, herself, suddenly, took away the sword ......" The impostor general collapsed to the ground, holding the long sword in his hand in a panic, looking at Ruan Jing, trembling and unable to say a word.

The large scarlet made the general, who had fought bloodily and died indifferently, discover for the first time how afraid he was of the dripping blood, so that his head buzzed and he was violently dizzy.

Hai Hotaru fell to the ground, she looked at Ruan Jing who was walking towards her step by step, and suddenly laughed very weakly, just like the smile he missed so much at the beginning.

The pain in his heart seemed to pause, and suddenly roared, engulfing him overwhelmingly.

Ruan Jing trembled even more than the impostor general, he almost felt that his legs were not his own, and when she smiled again, he could no longer bear the pain in his heart that had been paralyzed, and hugged her and cried out heartbreakingly.

"Don't die...... No, I won't let you die...... Hai Firefly ...... Hotaru !! He cried intermittently, hugging her tightly, almost rubbing her into his body.

Hai Hotaru kept that smile all the time, and said angrily, "Actually...... I am the lock spirit in the mortal world. ”

The Hai clan is not just a locksmith, their true identity is actually a spirit.

In each generation of the Hai clan, there is an heir to the lock. The lock had no key, and when they died, the lock would open. This is the original intention of the ancestors to make this lock, to protect their secrets from generation to generation.

And the reason why she knew from the beginning that this man had lied to her was because she had been looking for him for a long time, a long time ago.

She walked between heaven and earth, stepping into nothingness.

The world in front of her gradually blurred, gradually turning into chaotic gray, she couldn't smell the faint smell of earth in the air, she couldn't feel the blue jade slab under her feet, and the bell faintly sounded in her ears

Chime, holy and reverent.

She walked in the void, and even time was gradually forgotten......

How long has it been since you stepped into the red dust? I can't remember exactly.

Fragrant petals fall into the earth, dew drops from the reeds drip into the stream, crimson light rises from the sea, and azure clouds flow over the sky. She didn't know how many times she had seen such a scene. She had also tried to stop, lean on the willow branches to feel the spring breeze, dip her face in the stream to feel the cold touch, or stand on the top of the cliff and look at the blood red, time was constantly frozen, but she had to withdraw.

She kept walking, searching, not knowing where the distance was.

But she still remembered that she had a mission, and that mission was probably to keep her own secret.

In her memory, the world called her a god, a god who flew in the sky. With a long skirt tied around her waist and ribbons on her shoulders, she was full of fairy spirit, she once flew in the clouds and bounced the lute, played musical instruments for the gods and goddesses, sang and danced in front of the gods, it was in Elysium, the Elysium was engraved on the wall.

But when I met him, everything changed.

The man was lying on the stone wall in the cave, holding a paintbrush, and drawing little by little. He was dressed in a very ordinary gray robe, which was stained with color, just like his face. Hotaru floats in the clouds in the wall, looking at him.

is obviously a very ordinary person in the world, but Hai Hotaru can't forget him, can't forget the eyes focused on the god who is the only one in the whole world, and there is no Elysium that he is depicting in his pen.

She wanted to be closer to him, closer to those eyes, she wanted to be in front of him

The flowing clouds on the sleeve of the ancestor gently brushed, the lotus petals under the bodhisattva's seat covered her eyes, and her body seemed to be surrounded by countless colored ribbons, gently wrapping around her hands and feet, breaking through the void, and the solid stone touched by her toes told her the world she was in. Hai Hotaru looked at the painting wall in front of him, and the dancer who bounced the lute next to the god was gone, as if it had never existed.

She flicked the wide sleeves of her elbows, blinked, and smiled.

But the man was gone. She didn't want to miss it, so she set foot in the red dust and looked for him for life after life.

So, she saw a world different from Elysium, a world different from the gods, and a song and dance different from the fairy music. The world outside the painting wall is full of life everywhere.

But she still wanted to find that person, so she abandoned the prosperity and began to search non-stop. When she found the man, she thought, she stood in front of him, stretched out her hand, looked him in the eye and said

"Did you summon me? With your pious faith, you awakened my mind and walked through it all in recklessness. ”

She felt that this was why she was still searching, and she was obsessed with it.

But gradually those eyes loomed in front of her, and she was a little puzzled. Hai Hotaru stood under the god tower, passing by the peach blossom stream, sitting by the waterfall in the sky, always stunned for no reason. She's in the end

What are you looking for? What are you waiting for? The time of a thousand years was so long that she almost forgot that she was still a sea firefly, a sea firefly flying beside the god ancestor and bounced the pipa.

So she stopped, stood in the clear stream in the middle of the forest, forgetting the time and forgetting herself

I don't know how many years passed, but a monk came to her and asked her

"What are you doing?"

"I'm looking for something." It's like looking for something.

"Did you find it?"

"No, I didn't find it, but I seem to have forgotten." Is it the wind that can't be found, the dew drops on the lotus petals, or the veins on the green leaves? Forgot

"So what are you going to do now?"

"So I stopped" stopped somewhere I didn't know, at a time I never thought about.

The monk asked, said a word to Hai Hotaru, and left. It was the first person she had met since she stopped, and she remembered the last words of the monk and rethought it.

"Maybe I'm just dreaming." Standing barefoot in the cool stream, three thousand green silks drooping, the sun shining on her through the gaps between the leaves, and the light-colored sleeves were as ethereal as clouds.

"When I wake up, I should forget," she began, as if in her sleep.

(End of chapter)

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