Chapter 140: A Lonely Shadow in the Snow
"I was a little too drunk at the time, confused, and I didn't keep my mouth on it, so I just said what I saw on the note that night, and who knew that the next day the matter was spread." Qiu Xinhai said this, pulling his hair and regretting not falling.
Thinking that it was because of his words that the tragedy that happened afterwards, everyone was silent for a while.
"And what happened after that?" Sun Muyu asked.
There are many versions of that incident in Jiangning City, but most of them say that after the rumors came out, the Qiu brothers suddenly disappeared, and the seven families who were mentioned were furious and sent people to look for them, but there was no news.
It wasn't until more than ten days later that Qiu Shenji's body suddenly floated in the Fuchun River west of Jiangning City.
"I don't know what's going on!" Qiu Xinhai suddenly slapped the table and said loudly, startling Sun Muyu a lot.
It turned out that after the news came out, Qiu Shenji returned home and immediately left Jiangning with Qiu Xinhai overnight.
Qiu Xinhai knew that he had caused a big disaster, but for the specific reason, his brother kept silent, just urging him to leave quickly.
When the brothers came out of their home, they headed east and settled in a nondescript hotel the next night.
But that night, Qiu Xin suddenly felt panicked, got up to find his brother, but knocked on the door for a long time and no one answered. When I opened the door, my brother was not in the room at all.
Qiu Xinhai waited in the hotel for three days, but he didn't see Qiu Shenji come back, and no one answered his mobile phone, as if the world had suddenly evaporated.
Qiu Xinhai was frightened and scared, but he had no clue, so he could only stay there and wait. waited until the seventh day, and he couldn't help but go back to Jiangning City and secretly investigate.
only heard that the seven families in Jiangning were looking for their brothers at this time, so he had to find a place to hide temporarily. Originally, he wanted to wait for the parting to pass before going out to find his brother, but he didn't expect that in the middle of the night a day later, he suddenly woke up from his sleep and only felt that his scalp was very itchy.
After a few scratches, he realized that something was wrong, because he pulled a handful of hair straight down.
Qiu Xinhai was startled, quickly rolled off the bed, turned on the light and looked in the mirror. This photo scared me.
I saw that the face of the person in the mirror was blue, his lips were as pale as paper, and he was staring at two dark circles under his eyes, like a demon.
Especially the hair, the sideburns are dotted, and there are traces of graying.
Qiu Xinhai panicked, thinking that he was overly worried, which caused his body to be abnormal, so he hurriedly ran to bed and fell asleep, forcing himself to calm down and not think about anything.
I finally fell asleep, and when he woke up the next day, he found that the pillow was full of hair, and when he got up and looked in the mirror, he saw that his sideburns were white, and the skin on his face was all wrinkled, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes also came out, as if he had aged dozens of years overnight.
But this was just the beginning of the nightmare, and in the next few nights, Qiu Xinhai grew older day by day, a young man in his twenties, and in a few days, he grew into a little old man.
Just when he was on the verge of despair, another news came that made him collapse, and his brother's body was fished out in the Fuchun River in the west of Jiangning City.
Qiu Xinhai couldn't believe that this was true, and ran out to find his brother desperately. He was completely out of shape at this time, and even if his brother was still alive, he probably wouldn't be able to recognize him, so he didn't have to worry about being recognized when he walked down the street.
Afterwards, he spent a lot of effort, and he did see his brother's body, which was sealed in a coffin and sealed his limbs. This method is called Zhen Jiuyin, and even in the mage industry, it is a relatively taboo method, because it is too fierce and vicious.
This town of Jiuyin is usually when people are still alive, and they are nailed into the nine joints with sealed coffins, and they are beaten alive to the point that they are scattered, which is cruel and abnormal.
Although Qiu Xinhai does not belong to the people in the sect, his brother is a generation of god operators, and under his ears and eyes, he still has a wide range of knowledge, and he immediately understands the way when he sees it.
He was remorseful and resentful, and he had nowhere to vent his resentment, and he didn't even dare to collect his brother's corpse.
Since the day of the fight, he has been hiding in Jiangning City. He was already a little old man over half a hundred years old at this time, so naturally he would not attract anyone's attention.
Qiu Xinhai lived in the old city here, and found some spell scrolls left by his brother one after another.
Although he has limited talent in Shenmath, after more than ten years of hard work, he has also learned a lot of strange spells.
"Do you think it was the seven families who killed your two brothers?" Hearing this, Sun Muyu also understood.
"Who else but them?" Qiu Xinhai said sharply, "These people are afraid of my brother's hexagram, so they are ruthless to get rid of him!" ”
"Your brother just truthfully took the hexagram, what's the use of them killing your brother?" Gao Xiang couldn't help but interject.
"Then you'll have to ask those eight lambs who killed a thousand knives!" Qiu Xinhai glared at him fiercely.
Gao Xiang was robbed by him, and he didn't know how to say it for a while.
That Qiu Xinhai picked up the bowl and took another sip of water, and said with a long breath: "I have also thought carefully over the years, these seven families may have nothing to do with the seven thieves, but because of me, the two were mixed together." But these eight lambs are so ruthless that they actually kill our brothers like this! ”
Sun Muyu couldn't help but shake his head: "Are you too careful?" According to his thoughts, why did the seven families disregard people's lives because of a rumor.
That Qiu Xinhai slapped the table and said, "I've thought about it for so many years, but I can't think of anyone else who will attack our brothers." Hehe, even if it's not the seven of them joining forces, it's definitely one of them! ”
"I don't know which one it is, anyway, all seven families will bury our brothers together!" Qiu Xinhai's eyes turned red, like a fierce beast that chose people to devour.
Sun Muyu sat opposite him and couldn't help but be frightened. But it's really pitiful to think that this person has become a little old man overnight at a young age, and has lived in the shadows for so many years.
"And who is he?" Sun Muyu pointed to the briquettes that were faint on the ground.
"It's none of his business." Qiu Xinhai interrupted.
Sun Muyu settled down and said, "I'm afraid it's still related, right?" ”
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the strange cats that attacked each house are inseparable from this thin black boy called briquettes.
"It's all at my behest, he's a little kid, he doesn't understand anything at all!" Qiu Xinhai said sharply.
More than half a year ago, at that time, it was also the end of the year, and it snowed heavily that night, and Jiangning City was even more snowy. That night, Qiu Xinhai went to the Fuchun River to worship his brother, and when he was about to go back, he found a frozen young man in the snow by the river.
On a cold day, he only wore a tattered single shirt and pants, and even only one shoe, and the whole person was skinny.
Thanks to Qiu Xinhai, who has been studying spells for more than ten years, he is no longer the young man who didn't know anything at the beginning, and he finally rescued the young man and brought him back home.
He originally thought that this was a runaway child, starving and fainting in the snow in the winter, but when he went home and checked carefully, he found that the young man was full of all kinds of scars, dense, new and old, and he couldn't count how many there were for a while.
Qiu Xinhai was furious, knowing that this child probably did not run away from home, but where he escaped.
He himself had suffered all these years, and when he saw the child suffering in this way, he immediately felt pity.
After he had tried his best to get the boy awake, he was going to find out who had tortured the boy, so he could get rid of him.
But who knew that when the young man woke up, he was ignorant, he couldn't even speak, and the whole person shrank into a ball, just hiding in the corner.
Qiu Xinhai thought that the child was too frightened and stupid, so he didn't force it, bought him a few clothes, and took care of him carefully for a few days.
But the boy seemed to be very afraid of him, and still did not say a word, nor wore any clothes which he had given him, except for food, and shrank there all day with his head in his hands, and remained motionless.
Qiu Xinhai didn't care either, he took care of his food as usual every day, and vacated a room for him. The boy was also very strange, and did not sleep in bed, but squatted there with his feet together, like an owl, and slept straight with his eyes open.
Once Qiu Xinhai didn't pay attention, but was startled by him.
In this way, the boy who didn't know his origin lived here. More than two months have passed.
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