Chapter 81: Night Talk
The night had just filled the sky, and Yao Shen and the three of them gathered in the main hall, their faces solemn.
"That's probably the way it is, I need your help to stop him. Yao Shen briefly told Gan Sheng and the others what happened, of course, some details were omitted, "This time is different from the time in Shaoyang City, he doesn't have wilting grass seeds to use to set up the formation in advance, and the formation and spread of the poison array will be very slow." And last time he only needed to kill people, this time he also needed to refine his vitality, which was more troublesome. So, we still have time. ”
"What's stopping him? Isn't it just going to kill people, to put it nicely? Li'er pouted.
"I've tried something else, but it doesn't work. Yao Shen spread his hands helplessly, "He's a complete madman." ”
"It is said that the immortal body is said to be immortal in the soul and immortal in the body, but its spirit is extremely fragile, it is easy to lose control of emotions, and its resistance to some spiritual attacks is also very poor. I think that he will go crazy like this this time, and it has something to do with the side effects of the undead. Li'er thought for a while and said.
"It is said, according to whom?" said Yao Shen was skeptical.
Li'er pointed to his temple: "An old man said it in a dream." ”
"You ······" Yao Shen froze for a while, "I don't have time to joke." ”
"You'd better believe what she says. Gan Sheng suddenly spoke, "Although I don't know why, her dream is indeed very mysterious. She hadn't read "Ancient Demon Chronicles", but when she told me about the demon beasts she dreamed of, what she said was exactly the same as the record, some were even more detailed, and they were all ancient goods, like the semi-finished products that only appeared after the new era of poor Ying, she didn't know anything. ”
"What kind of road is this?" Yao Shen was a little confused.
"I don't know why, she said it herself. Gan Sheng put on a "don't look at me" expression.
"Well, leave that alone. Yao Shen shook his head vigorously and forcibly threw out those messy thoughts, a lot of things have happened over the years, one is stranger than the other, and the relationship is getting more and more chaotic, "Hypothesis, hypothetical that the spirit of the ······ is really fragile"
"No need to assume, I'm sure. Gan Sheng interrupted Yao Shen's words, "Do you remember the battle in Shaoyang City? Four years ago, I found Xuan for revenge, and I wanted to ······ To ······ I don't want to mention this paragraph. ”
As he spoke, Gan Sheng glanced at Li'er on the side, and his heart was empty for a while. Li'er snorted disdainfully.
"In short, the condition of the eye is that I want my natal blood. Gan Sheng coughed twice in embarrassment and continued, "I didn't understand what he was going to do at the time, and I later learned that he cursed me on it. I can only interpret it as him being wary of me. He knew that I was a rebel, and he guessed that I might take revenge on the day of the Jingchuan National Festival, and he was worried that my presence would ruin his plans, so he did something in advance. But what is he wary of me? If he is really invincible, he doesn't have to worry about me. I guess it may be because of his mental weakness that he is afraid of me, and he is afraid of my Nine Sins. I asked him afterwards, and he confessed. ”
"Then you mean to destroy his brain directly with the sound of the piano?" Yao Shen asked tentatively.
"Not necessarily. In the battle of Shaoyang City, I first performed the nine-string harmony before I appeared. If the sound of the piano could destroy his brain, he would have been doomed by then. I think that a powerful mental attack can make him very painful, but it can't kill him, and his brain will heal itself infinitely while it is damaged. Gan Sheng shook his head.
"The brain is damaged, but what about his memory? Can the memory be repaired?"
"I don't know, I don't know the ancient way of medicine. However, legend has it that there is a strange needle in the rivers and lakes, and he often the back of his neck with a needle, which is said to stimulate memory recovery. In this way, his brain is not very good. ”
"But if the sound can't be fatal, why should he be wary of you?"
"This ······ I remember that after the massacre, my skin was much whiter, grayish and white like a dead man, and there were two small black spots like pupils in my eyes. And do you remember, after that, the eyes left early. You say, is it that he will fall into weakness after overconsumption. Perhaps, this is when the undead will fail, and it will be the time for us to kill him. ”
"Last time he just wanted to kill someone, this time he was refining life. He can replenish himself at any time, how can he fall into the dilemma of overconsumption?"
"Hehe, it's up to the two of you to contain him. Gan Sheng smiled and looked at Li'er and Yan Yu, "As I said just now, his resistance to spiritual attacks is very weak, do you think that the Nine Sins Qin can only be used to destroy?"
"What do you mean?" asked Li'er, who hadn't spoken for a long time.
"Nine sins, thirty-seven rhymes, nine strings, three tones, destroy, protect, create. Gan Sheng smiled, with an unconcealed pride on his face, "Since he's crazy, then I'll make him crazy a little harder." ”
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After the negotiation, Li'er left the main hall first and went back to the room to rest. Gan Sheng and Yao Shen casually talked about some old things, and then prepared to leave. Yao Shen said that he could sleep in the main hall.
And at the moment when Gan Sheng's hand touched the door, Yao Shen suddenly called out to him.
"Gan Sheng. ”
"What's wrong?" Gan Sheng looked back differently.
"Are you······ I also think I'm an indifferent person. Yao Shen said hesitantly, "I····· Isn't it······ The ······ It's so ruthless. ”
"No, no. Yao Shen, don't think so. Seeing this, Gan Sheng immediately understood what was going on, "Calmness does not mean indifference, and rationality does not mean ruthlessness." Don't listen to that madman, you're right. ”
"Me?" Yao Shen looked at his right hand, which only had three fingers left, and suddenly pulled an ugly smile, "I'm right." I was right. ”
"What's your tone? You're right!" Gan Sheng shook the wheelchair back helplessly, "I don't have as strong a sense of mission as you, but I can tell what is righteousness and what is private feelings." Brother, you have sacrificed enough, stop blaming yourself. It's not your fault that the rain is shining. ”
Hearing this, Yao Shen's smile softened a little, looked at Gan Sheng and said, "It's okay, you go back first." ”
Gan Sheng glanced at Yao Shen one last time, sighed, shook his wheelchair and left, and suddenly remembered something before going out, and turned around and asked, "By the way, where is your dragon gun?"
"It's gone. ”
"What?
"No more dragon guns. Yao Shen replied lightly.
“······” Gan Sheng shook his head helplessly and turned to leave.
When Gan Sheng came to the courtyard, another person called him back. He turned around, it was Uncle Chen.
"Dad, why are you here?"
The old man came to Gan Sheng and stopped talking. Seeing this, Gan Sheng already understood seven or eight points in his heart.
"Dad, I know ······" Gan Sheng had just spoken, but the old man stretched out his hand to interrupt him, motioning for him to listen to him.
After being silent for a long time, Chen Bo said slowly: "Sheng'er, I took you in at that time, first, I saw that you were pitiful, and secondly, I pointed to you to give me this old bachelor to provide for the elderly." Later, I understood that you are not a character who can provide for me with peace of mind. My son is a thing in the pool, hahaha. ”
"You're a hero, and you're supposed to do what a hero should do. Uncle Chen's laughter stopped abruptly, and his expression was very contradictory, "I'm proud of you." But I still have to tell you, the ······"
Uncle Chen opened his mouth and didn't say anything for a long time, and finally only spit out three words: "Be careful." ”
The old man turned to leave, and before entering the door, he looked back at Gan Sheng, who was still in the courtyard, and then closed the door.
Gan Sheng looked at the old man's back and smiled bitterly: "Hero? I don't want to be a hero, it's good to provide for you in old age." ”
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the main hall that was still lit, and said to himself, "Heroes, it's not so easy to be. ”
The night is deep, the moon is bright, and the starry sky is clear. Gan Sheng stayed alone in his room, his fingertips tapping on the armrest of his wheelchair, and his face was no longer relaxed. He deliberately did not light the lamp, but was silent alone in the dark. It took a long time for him to come to his senses, and looking around, he swung his wheelchair toward a tall cabinet in the corner, raised his head, and looked at a long cloth wrap at the top of the cabinet. He looked at it for a moment, then raised his arms and propped himself up on the armrests of his wheelchair, his body slowly hanging in the air, his legs that had shrunk a little like two burlap bags.
Gan Sheng froze in the air for a while, his arm suddenly exerted force, and his body pulled upward, parallel to the top of the cabinet. His right hand reached out in an instant, lifting the long cloth wrap, and the huge cloth wrap was as light as nothing, and with a twist of his fingertips, it was already caught under his armpit. At the same time, his left hand was on the edge of the top of the cabinet, his fingers were like nails, and his wrists were like axes, and he actually supported the whole person together with the weight of the long strip of cloth wrapped under his armpits.
Gan Sheng breathed a long sigh of relief, his face turned slightly red, patted his thigh, and shook his head helplessly. Then, he carefully dusted off the cloth and untied it, revealing a dark brown violin. There are nine strings, three bridges, a simple body, and some simple patterns carved on the surface.
If you look closely, you can see the hair-thin, dark red lines on the strings. After looking at it for a long time, you will find that these lines are actually moving slowly, and sometimes disappearing, revealing a quaint bloody atmosphere between the ethereals.
Gan Sheng slowly stroked the strings. The world only knows that the strings are the source of all the power of the Nine Sins Piano, and it is extremely difficult to refine the strings. Only he knows the secrets behind these strings.
The so-called nine sins: anger, pride, deception, mourning, selfishness, fear, curiosity, desire, and laziness. Each of them represents an emotion, or rather a personality. The practice of strings is to find children of the nine personalities, isolate them from the age of three and domesticate, induce them, or deter them, with the aim of constantly strengthening their personalities until they become insane. Four years later, refining the living as a string.
The muscles and flesh are mixed with the marrow and blood to be refined into gelatin, and the human skin is refined into filaments and entwined in it. At this point, the strings are just a carrier. It doesn't have any power, it can't even be played. The most important step is that the child's soul will be extracted alive, and then tortured repeatedly through the arcane desire, completely destroying their consciousness, and then infusing it into the strings before dissipating.
This is the truth of the Nine Sins Piano's "Nine Souls".
In fact, the Nine Sins Piano can never be played, and all people hear is the wailing of the remnant soul.
Sadly, their wails are very beautiful to others.
Gan Sheng stroked the strings, feeling complicated. This is a murder weapon, but this murder weapon has saved his life countless times, helped him grow, and helped him take revenge. He needed the murder weapon. At the end of the day, he's a user, not a maker. He sympathized with what was going on with the children, but the past had nothing to do with him.
He is the only person in the world who knows the dark side of the Nine Sins. He will play the Nine Sins in front of his enemies, choosing to please them with his own sound, or to kill them. But he had never played the Nine Sins in front of his friends, because he knew that the sound was soaked in blood and sin.
"Don't come unharmed, old friend. Gan Sheng smiled, "I thought I would never have to see you again, but I didn't expect that we would meet again in just a few months." ”
"What are you doing without sleeping in the middle of the night? Don't you understand how miserable you climb high and fall?" Li'er pushed the door in and smiled at Gan Sheng on the top of the cabinet.
"Why do you break into my room without sleeping in the middle of the night? Don't you understand whether men and women are intimate or not?" Gan Sheng also responded with a smile.
Li'er rolled her eyes, tiptoed a little, jumped lightly into the air, flipped to the top of the cabinet, and sat next to Gan Sheng. looked at the Nine Sins Qin in Gan Sheng's arms, and stretched out his hand to touch it, but was grabbed by Gan Sheng.
"What are you doing? ”
"It's not that I'm stingy. Gan Sheng shook his head and said gently, "Nine Sins Qin, it's best to touch it less." ”
"Speaking of which, you don't seem to have ever played for me. ”
"When I get back, I'll remake a nine-stringed instrument for you and play it for you. But I won't play the Nine Sins in front of you, never. ”
"You're so precious to this piano. Li'er said dissatisfied.
Gan Sheng smiled: "Okay, I'll tell you a story." But promise me that no matter how much you hate this story, you will listen to it to the end. ”
"Compared to other ancient spirit clans, the history of the Hindbard is not very long. At the end of antiquity, there was an evil old man who made strings from nine children with different personalities and made a powerful piano, which was named the 'Nine Sins'. Later, in the shemale battle, the righteous human army killed the old man, and the qin fell into the hands of the ancestors of the Hind Yin. In order to make a stronger instrument, they constantly improved the refining method of the strings, and they were frenzied······"
Gan Sheng told Li'er about the origin of the Nine Sins Piano, during which Li'er changed color several times.
“······ Later, the Hindbard declined, and they no longer had the ability to make the Nine Sins Piano, and even those who could control it rarely appeared. The Nine Sins Piano was destroyed one after another, and only mine remained, but the evil method of making the violin has been passed down almost in its entirety, ironically. Gan Sheng shook his head, looked into Li'er's eyes, and said, "Li'er, I promise you." This Nine Sins Piano has been handed down, and although I have used it, I have never done such a brute thing as refining strings with people. ”
Li'er also looked at him, his eyes blinked twice, and suddenly smiled and said, "Fool, what do you promise to do with me? Who are you?"
After speaking, Li'er leaned over his head, kissed Gan Sheng's face lightly, and leaned on his shoulder.
Gan Sheng smiled, moved the Nine Sins Qin behind him, and let Li'er fall into his arms.
"Gan Sheng, do you know? The old man you just mentioned, I dreamed of it. Li'er said suddenly, with a dazed and fearful look in her eyes, "Why do I have such a dream? Who do you say I am?"
"Leave your dreams alone. Gan Sheng bowed down and whispered in Li'er's ear, "I only know that it is enough for you to be my Li'er now." I don't care about the things that were before, but I'll walk with you on the way to come. ”
Even if the battle to the death is imminent, with you by your side, what is there to fear?