Chapter 35: The Mystery of Life

The remnant sun was like blood, and Luo Feng followed Gu Xiaodong to the ancient border town.

In the evening, the ancient town had fallen silent, and a few camels slowly returned from the sea of sand. The people on their backs were masked, and their faces could not be seen clearly, but each of them had tiredness in their eyes. Grains of sand remained on their clothes, in their eyebrows......

Gu Xiaodong continued to move forward. They walked into the vast sea of sand.

Luo Feng found that Gu Xiaodong walked very hard, his footprints were very deep, and every foot seemed to be so heavy.

It stands to reason that he is going home, and he should be happy. But with Luo Feng's sensitivity and intuition, Gu Xiaodong's mood was obviously low.

A piece of ruins appeared in Luo Feng's sight. A half-collapsed building left over from the ancient city has appeared. It proudly shows its tenacity.

"Xiaodong! You're back! A gentle voice came from the mouth of a woman carrying a basin.

"Hmm!" Gu Xiaodong walked straight towards the woman. A dagger was inserted into the woman's left chest with unmistakable accuracy. Blood slowly spilled down the woman's body. She slowly collapsed with her big beautiful eyes. At the moment when she fell to the ground, Gu Xiaodong tore off the human skin mask on her face.

"You know everything?" It was the woman's last words before she died.

Luo Feng looked at Gu Xiaodong's series of actions in astonishment. When he saw the two red crescents on the beautiful face under the human skin mask, the scene that happened in the coffin in the back room of the ancestral hall of the Li couple presented in Luo Feng's mind. A sense of guilt that I had never felt before. How did Xiaodong survive this way.

Gu Xiaodong turned around and walked towards a man in his forties. He still walked slowly and heavily. The man sat on a rock. He was pressing the hides with one hand and hammering with the other. When Gu Xiaodong killed the female charm, his movements seemed to be still. The wind from nowhere ruffled his bun. Luo Feng saw the white hair in the fluttering green silk.

When Gu Xiaodong was about to walk in front of the man, Luo Feng grabbed his left arm.

Gu Xiaodong suddenly fell to one knee on the ground. The dagger in his right hand was deep in the sand. His right hand gripped the handle of the dagger, his finger bones white. His eyes were like those of a hungry wolf looking at his prey. No! A ferocious, mad lion, to be exact. Luo Feng let go of his hand. He knew there were some things he couldn't manage.

"Tell me the truth!" Gu Xiaodong's voice was a little hoarse, and his chapped lips were already oozing blood. His forehead was bruised, and his fierce eyes were terrifying.

The man's right hand lowered the hammer. He abruptly tore off the human skin mask from his face. On a face that is so beautiful that people can't breathe, a pair of red crescents are imprinted under the eyes.

Gu Xiaodong's pupils dilated the moment he tore off the human skin mask, and then contracted. His right hand, which held the dagger, began to tremble slightly. He felt like he was about to lose his weight and pressed his left hand to the ground.

I'm Meizu! At least half of Meizu's blood is bled in the body! This fact crushed Gu Xiaodong's spiritual pillar. He didn't want to believe it, but he had to believe it.

"You've grown up. The right to know the truth. However, it all started more than 20 years ago. Gu Xiaodong's father told him and Luo Feng a little-known secret more than 20 years ago.

At that time, there was a team of Datang guards escorting a princess to make peace. On the way back, they saw Qi Ya, the eldest sister of the Meizu leader. Qi Ya's beautiful appearance deeply attracted everyone in the guard. Maybe they've never seen such a strange woman. So, they actually came up with the idea of catching her. Unexpectedly, their chief guard was captured by Qi Ya.

The deputy captain of the escort team led them to follow the footprints left by Qi Ya and found the territory of Meizu. They fought Meizu in order to save the captain of the guard. The result was two defeats and injuries. Since then, the two clans have formed a bond.

The deputy captain of the escort team escaped from the Meizu territory with the only five remaining people, but got lost in the sea of sand. As a result, they were also buried in the desert and never returned.

The captain of the guard was forced to marry Qi Ya. In fact, Qi Ya already had two daughters at that time. It's just that her husband died in this battle. In order to save his remaining five people and leave alive, the captain of the guard had to marry Qi Ya. Later, I heard that Qi Ya also gave birth to a daughter for him.

Later, Datang sent two masters of the brocade guards to investigate the case. In order not to let Meizu face the danger of being exterminated. The leader of the Meizu made all the Meizu people hide underground. Therefore, the two Jinyi guards did not find the territory of Meizu. However, only one of them went back. Another died in the desert.

The second year, Jin Yiwei came to the desert to look for clues. When the Meizu leader saw him coming alone, he decided not to let him leave alive. Who knew that the martial arts of that brocade guard were beyond his imagination. He killed many of the people sent by the Meizu leaders to kill him.

The leader of the Meizu personally led his cronies to chase and intercept the Jinyi guard. At the critical moment, the chief of the guard, who was married to Qi Ya, saved his life. He himself died under the sword of the Meizu leader.

The brocade guard had lost his memory due to the poison. Although he returned to Datang, he was already like a wasted person. But the leader of the Meizu knows that cutting grass must be eradicated. So he sent people into the Tang Dynasty for the first time to kill people.

And I was young. I stole the face of the captain of the Datang guard and went to Datang as well. Although I am also a Meizu, I am a collateral lineage and am not under the jurisdiction of the Meizu chief. My people live a life of infighting. But curiosity prevailed, so I ran to Datang.

When I arrived in the capital of Datang, I was stunned by the bustling scene there. It just so happened that the Meizu assassination failed, and they also killed other people and were hunted down instead. Although we are not all the way, our exercises are the same. Therefore, I was also implicated by them and became the target of arrest. At that time, Xiaodong's mother was with me by chance. He wanted to prove to me that I wasn't responsible for the murders. On the contrary, even she was affected. I had no choice but to flee back to the desert with her.

We gradually developed feelings along the way. Later, we got married in the desert and gave birth to Xiaodong. But the second sister of the Meizu leader secretly liked me. She pestered me several times. Completely ignoring the fact that I have a family.

When Xiaodong was five years old, I found out that his mother had changed. Later, I gradually learned the truth. But Xiaodong didn't know, he always thought his mother was still alive.

In order to give Xiaodong a complete home, I didn't expose her. I had planned to keep it a secret from Xiaodong and not let him get hurt, but this day finally came.

Gu Xiaodong's father was already in tears at this time. Beneath his beautiful exterior lies a soft, beautiful heart.

Gu Xiaodong was immersed in grief and couldn't extricate himself. He lay on his stomach in the sand and buried his face in the sand.

The sky gradually darkened, and only a glimmer of light remained on the horizon.

Luo Feng felt that he had stood for too long. It doesn't seem like the leg is my own. He sat down. Gu Xiaodong's father put on the human skin mask of the chief of the guard again. He handed Luo Feng a bowl of water. Luo Feng hesitated for a moment and drank.

"You take Xiaodong away! Don't let him come back! Gu Xiaodong's father is gone.

Luo Feng was a little sad. He couldn't fulfill Gu Xiaodong's father's entrustment. They came this time to find out the territory of the Meizu clan, but now Luo Feng has understood the ins and outs of the matter. Where does he go from here?