Chapter 4: A Glimpse of Madness
After Meixi ended her bathing career like purgatory every day, Cheng Xiezi threw her a delicate scimitar dagger, which was no different from other daggers except for gorgeousness, and looked more like a girl's ornament. said that this dagger is called "Full Moon", she should be more suitable for holding a sword, but now there is no more suitable sword for her, first use this dagger to make do with self-defense, and then say that she wants to become an assassin in the future, not a swordsman, so this dagger is more suitable.
Meixi looked at the dagger in her hand and sighed helplessly, and secretly complained in her heart: "Is there a more irresponsible master in the world than you?" β
But then I think about it, I will kill people in the future, it's better than nothing, even if the sparrow is small, it is meat!
She pretended to be perverse and said to Cheng Xizi: "You can do it without a sword, but you have to learn light skills like your master." "Affirmatively and resolutely.
Cheng Xizi was stunned at first, and then laughed mysteriously and said, "Okay, depending on you." β
She felt that Cheng Xizi's smile was very exaggerated, and she suddenly had a bad premonition. But I think that as long as I can learn light skills like Cheng Xiezi, it is a guarantee for my life. In her impression, those martial arts in the world of martial arts, only fast and unbreakable, the so-called thirty-six strategies, go as the best policy, can't beat, just run over.
Cheng Xizi threw her two books, one was "Wind Walk" and the other was "Wind Walk". Explain that the wind step is that the human body can swing with the wind like catkins, and the wind step is that the human body can move instantaneously like a hurricane. These two footwork methods are the foundation of light work, no matter how they evolve and change, they will be used for a lifetime.
She blinked her bright eyes and observed the cave that Cheng Xizi had taken her to, a hundred meters long, and at the end was a towering stone wall, and there was a waterfall on the stone wall that flowed down the cave and converged into a lake. She was standing right in front of the lake, and the waterfall had been flowing down like this all day, and she had not flooded the place, and she could not figure out how deep the lake was formed by the cave. Stone piles of different shapes are exposed on the surface of the lake, which are scattered to form a bridge to the stone wall ahead. Candles were lit on these stone piles, which meander to the waterfall in front of them. It looks like a huge fishing net hangs above the lake, and some copper bells hang from the fishing net in an orderly manner.
Cheng Xizi pointed to the lake with a solemn expression and said to her: "You will practice here in the future, the candle flame can't be extinguished, the copper bell can't ring, and the lake water is even more ......" and then looked at Meixi playfully.
Meixi understood what he meant, stared at her big eyes, and said suspiciously, "No one can do this, right?" β
Cheng Xizi didn't answer when he heard it, as soon as he jumped up, he swung his tail like a dragon, and crossed a long red afterimage on the surface of the lake, and in the blink of an eye, he had reached the stone wall at the source of the lake, where he passed, the candle flame only swayed slightly, and the copper bell shook slightly, but there was no sound.
Meixi's mouth opened into an O-shape, and she remembered that her teacher used to say that if you like to talk nonsense, then he won't be a big deal. Although she didn't want to achieve anything great, she had to make sure she could survive here first. So she chose to talk less nonsense about slapping her face in the future.
Cheng Xizi floated like a ghost when he passed by her, and said with a deliberate spring breeze on his mouth: "It will take three hours to come out." β
Before Meixi could fully understand his words, she saw him waving his clothes lightly, and Meixi was blocked by a tangible barrier. At this point, there is no need to understand what the three hours he is talking about.
Meixi walked on the stone pile cautiously according to the wind and steps, and could not let the candle flame go out, and could not let the copper bell make a sound, let alone let herself fall into the lake on the small stone pile, so the practice was very embarrassing, and she could not take care of the top of her head when she could take care of her feet, and the crisp sound of the copper bell rang out one after another. There was a burning sensation when the brass bell touched her skin, and as she endured the pain and focused her attention on the top of her head, the candle flame under her feet was extinguished in a moment, and the cave grew darker and darker.
Her face gradually became puffy with the burning pain, and she felt that her whole face was swelling. She hated and cursed Cheng Xizi, only told her one thing, not the other, and smeared things on these copper bells. Now she can't let herself fall into the lake, who knows what kind of poison he will put in the lake. The more I thought about it, the more I panicked at the seepage of this lake, and I could only force myself to master and use this set of footwork faster.
After three hours, Cheng Xiezi looked at Meixi, who had turned into a pig's head due to insect powder, looked at the extinguished candle behind him, and shook his head with a sigh: "Hey, it's no different from what I imagined!" That expression showed that he had known that this was the result.
At this moment, the beautiful facial features have long been distorted and deformed, like an inflated and expanded version. The mouth is like Ouyang Feng's sausage mouth in the movie, and there is only a small slit left in the eyes, and the vision that can be seen is limited, she wanted to open her mouth to complain, but found that it was extremely difficult to even shake the skin and flesh at the corners of her mouth, and she could only stare at Cheng Xiezi fiercely with the eyes that only had one gap left, and she had come here to express her anger and grievances.
Cheng Xuezi ignored the anger in her eyes, but in fact, her eyes were too small to have any deterrent lethality. He took her to the pod and said, "After soaking for half an hour, apply the ointment on the table to the puffy area." Then he looked at the beautiful pig-like face, and left with a smile.
Meixi was resentful in her heart, a little sad, she leaned her head against the medicine tripod, endured the resentment and closed her eyes and comforted herself in her heart: "Therefore, the heavens will descend on people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, cut down their bodies, and do what they do, so they are motivated to endure and benefit what they can't ......."
She already understands that there are some things, whether you want it or not, whether you want it or not, if it has to happen, then you can only accept it. There is no choice but to accept you. While receiving, you must also learn to be strong.
Although Cheng Xiezi is moody, sometimes ruthless and sometimes perverted, he also understands that everything he does to her is for her good, and in this lonely other world, he is already a relative in his heart. I have to admit that his potion is really effective, and when I get asleep, my whole body is not only swollen but even painless.
Half a year has passed, and Meixi has been able to use the wind and wind steps in a smooth manner, and she has also innovated a new footwork she named "Crazy Glimpse".
In half a year of practice, her five senses have become unusually sharp. Cheng Xizi covered her eyes with a black cloth towel and let her pass through the stone stake to the end. Meixi galloped, skillfully dodging the candle flame under her feet and the copper bell above her head, like a meteor crossing, flying and sprinkling, coming and going freely, and no longer saw the original embarrassment.
Cheng Xizi waved his sleeves and turned into three wind blades, blowing the copper bell and swaying around, disrupting Meixi's usual practice habits.
She was stunned for a moment, and then a light blue circular totem appeared under her feet, on which a water dragon seemed to spin back and forth. She walked in the wind, as fast as lightning, and instantly drifted to Cheng Xiezi's side. took off the cloth towel and touched his face with a sly smile to show Cheng Xiezi.
Cheng Xizi glanced at it lightly and said lightly: "Well, that's good." β
Meixi saw that he reacted so coldly, and there was a trace of loss in her heart, but every time she made progress, she never got praise, just like a child tried her best to score 100 points, but her parents said lightly that they knew, this kind of loss made her heart feel cold.
After a while, Meixi adjusted, she shouldn't be greedy too much, they came to the other world and they didn't know what to do, not Cheng Xizi himself died early. She raised her eyebrows proudly, pointed to the surface of the lake, and deliberately lengthened her voice and asked, "Master, is there a ...... in this lake?" What the? What she meant was that even though she had become a pig's head countless times before, she had never fallen into the water of this lake, and she knew that Cheng Xizi must have put more powerful poison in the lake.
Cheng Xizi looked at Meixi's expression, and knew her thoughts at a glance, and half-drooped his eyelids glanced at Meixi and said lightly: "What can this lake have, isn't it lake water." β
Meixi frowned, looking completely unconvinced.
Cheng Xiezi bent down slightly, gently fiddling with the lake with his right hand, he raised his head and looked at Meixi, the corners of his mouth rose, his eyes were full of gloating and schadenfreude, and said to her: "This lake water is formed by the melting of the snow of the Thousand Snow Lonely Peak and the spring water of this Yin Mountain, the entrance is sweet, and external use can also reduce inflammation and relieve pain." The teacher thought that when the apprentice encountered the pain of insect powder, he would wash it with this lake water, but the teacher never expected that the apprentice was so hard that he had never washed it with this lake water once, which made the teacher quite surprised and admired. β
After hearing this, Meixi was petrified on the spot, and cursed silently in her heart: Oh my God, let's kill him with lightning.
The next day, Cheng Xizi threw Meixi a golden rune stone and took a drop of her heart into the rune stone. She covered the trembling pain in her heart, and the moment the blood dripped into the runestone, a golden light flashed in front of her eyes, and the rune stone disappeared, and at the same time, there was a red mark like Sanskrit on her forehead.
She touched her forehead and asked Cheng Xizi suspiciously: "Master, is this ...... What is it? β
Cheng Xizi smiled and squinted his eyes, and said, "Congratulations, apprentice, you have reached the realm of regents, and you can participate in the "Hunting and Killing". That rune stone was the invitation. β
"Hunting and killing?" Mei Xi was stunned.
"Yes, good boy, you must come out alive, otherwise you will ......" Cheng Xizi glanced at Meixi, and the desperation in his eyes was hidden in the smiling face.
Every time I see Cheng Xiezi smile like this. Her heart would tremble, and a chill would spread from her heart to her whole body. She thought that they were relatives, but every time she read the obvious ruthlessness in his eyes, she laughed at herself for being naΓ―ve again.
She knew that hunting and killing, and the result of going in could be nine deaths, she knelt on her knees, respectfully kowtowed to Cheng Xiezi three times, with a trace of salty and light bitterness in her heart, and said: "The apprentice understands, the apprentice will go all out to live up to the master's expectations, if, in case, the apprentice is unlucky, and the skill is not as good as the person to die in the killing, and ask the master to make the apprentice's bones into the medicinal materials you need." β
Cheng Xiezi's eyes were dim when he heard it, and he turned around with his sleeves and hands on his back, turned his back to her, and let out a cold "hum" with no emotion.
"Farewell master." After Meixi finished speaking, she got up and turned around and left in the opposite direction. She thought that this farewell might never have a chance to meet again, in this strange other world, she had no relatives and no obstacles, even if she died, no one would know about her, let alone remember her. If Cheng Xizi used her bones as medicinal herbs, he could occasionally remember that he still had a stupid apprentice, and he could also prove his existence a little bit.
She walked absolutely, firmly, and sadly.
Just as she turned to leave, Cheng Xiezi turned around and looked at the short back who was getting farther and farther away, his eyes getting darker and darker.