Tick, tick......

With Akai Yoshitaka's wail, the blood flowing from his body fell to the ground, and in the pool of blood that gradually formed, I could see his painful reflection, I stood motionless in front of him, feeling the sound pleasant to the ear, watching Akai Yoshitaka's life pass in front of me, there was a great satisfaction, as if such a feeling could fill the emptiness in my heart.

I hovered between reality and illusion, and gradually I couldn't tell what was real and what was unreal, this shouldn't be me, at least I wouldn't be cruel to this extent, but the moment I put on the gold mask, it was as if all the evil that had been hidden in my body was released.

"Morning Song, Morning Song ......"

The people behind me were shouting a name, which sounded familiar, but now it was so strange that I didn't know who they were shouting, as if it wasn't supposed to be my name.

I turned around and looked at them through the mask, the person in the Flying Fish suit was familiar, maybe it was the costume that reminded me of something, the three of them......

I tried to remember, but I couldn't remember their names, even their appearance was unfamiliar, they were staring at me with a look of astonishment and confusion.

"Morning Song, Morning Song ......"

They were still shouting that name, but I was indifferent, who am I? What's my name? Suddenly, I realized that I couldn't remember any of these simple questions.

One of them walked up to me, his expression worried and dazed, he shouted at me the name of Chaoge, as if to call me, the closer he got to me, the more hostile I became towards him, and suddenly raised his hand and grabbed his neck.

The evil in my heart was summoned again, and this time it was even stronger, prompting me to wait to kill the person opposite, I contracted my fingers until I lifted him up, his face was red and he couldn't breathe, his hand waved and struggled, and his fingertips slowly reached for my face.

Bang dang!

The golden mask on his face was lifted to the ground by him.

I took a deep breath, felt like my body was being emptied, gasped for breath and staggered back a few steps, and saw Gong Jue half-kneeling on the ground with his neck covered, Tian Ji and Ling Zhihan rushed up and hugged Gong Jue, they all looked at me with strange and shocked eyes.

There was a feeling of suffocation, my mind was blank, the gold silk mask on the ground was still shaking, I remember that my arm was injured by Akai Yoshitaka, and when I fell to the ground, the gold silk mask fell from my hand, and that thing seemed to have a kind of magic that made my whole body easily lost in it.

By the way, Yoshitaka Akai attacked me at that time.

I was shocked, I turned around suddenly, and I was stunned in place, Akai Yoshitaka who was nailed to the rock wall was already dying, I think every second was a painful torment for him, death has now become a kind of relief and mercy, I don't know why he who was slashing at me a moment ago, has become such a miserable end in an instant.

"Who? Who did this to you? ”

……

There was a dead silence in the stone room, and the palace lord gasped for breath, and he, Tian Ji, and Ling Zhihan looked at me in panic.

"You don't remember what just happened?" Tian Ji's voice was surprised.

I shook my head blankly, walked over quickly, and saw a circle of bruises on the palace jue's neck, with clearly visible finger prints, I wanted to check, the palace jue retreated a little panickedly, they seemed to be afraid of me.

"What the hell is going on?" I asked, rubbing my head.

"You killed Akai Yoshitaka, and then you still want to, and you still want to kill the palace lord......" Ling Zhihan replied timidly.

I was dumbfounded, looking at Akai Yoshitaka who was moaning constantly on the rock wall, I didn't believe that I could do it, let alone hurt the palace lord, but my eyes fell on my hands, and they were all shocking blood stains.

"I, I don't remember anything......"

"You seem to have completely changed a person, a person we don't know at all, that, that's not the Gu Chaoge we know." Ling Zhihan's voice trembled.

"When you put on a gold silk mask, it's as if you've fallen into an evil spirit, and you're ......," Tian Ji said as he squirmed his Adam's apple. And you look like another person in a mask. ”

"Who?"

"Do you remember that Akai Yoshitaka showed us a portrait of Akai Nobunari who asked people to bring back Toei." Gong Jue's breathing gradually calmed down.

I nodded.

"You look exactly like the person in the portrait when you wear a gold silk mask!" Gong Jue said.

"Same?" Once again, I was speechless in shock.

Gong Jue looked at the golden silk mask on the ground, hesitated for a moment and picked it up, hesitated for a moment and slowly put it on his face, and after standing for a long time, he took it off again, and said in confusion: "You were normal before, but after wearing this mask, it seems to be a demon, you tortured and killed Akai Yoshitaka, not only bloody but also brutal, that is not you I know at all, there must be a problem with this face, but why, I don't have any unusual feeling when I wear it." ”

The palace lord handed me the golden silk mask and asked me to try it again, and I was eager to know the answer, so I slowly put it back on my face, and in an instant, through the mask I saw the surprise on their faces again, but until I took off the mask, nothing strange happened.

But the gold silk mask in my hand is also full of some kind of magic, as long as I look at it, it is easy to fall into it, and I throw away the gold silk mask in a bit of a panic.

"I'm afraid things are not as simple as we thought, Du Yi took Ye Jiuqing and coerced us to find the Vientiane Divine Palace, his real purpose was to let us know the existence of the 117th Bureau, but Du also provided Ji Yijie's files, obviously wanting us to peel off the cocoon and find the Jieshi Palace at the bottom of the sea." The palace lord took a few steps back and forth and said thoughtfully.

"In this way, Du Yi knew about the existence of the Jieshi Palace from the beginning." Tian Ji suddenly realized.

"That's not the point, the point is what is the purpose of Du Yi's this?" Gong Jue said.

"There doesn't seem to be an obvious connection between the Jieshi Palace and the Moon Palace Nine Dragon Boat, Du Yi's purpose should not be to come to the Moon Palace Nine Dragon Boat, if the whole thing is connected together, I have one purpose in mind." Gong Jue said.

"For what purpose?" I asked eagerly.

Gong Jue was silent and thought for a moment and said, the whole thing must start with Lu Qiao's tomb first, that was when Du Yi first appeared, and our biggest discovery in Lu Qiao's tomb was not the Ling family's secret about the Vientiane Divine Palace.

It's the mysterious lord, who is also the one who opened the Vientiane Shrine before us, and this lord looks exactly like me, Du Yi asked us to go to Lu Qiao's tomb, in fact, so that we can see the portrait.

In the Jieshi Palace, we deduced that the man wearing the gold silk mask was probably the same person as the lord, and now this hypothesis has been verified by me, and I do look the same as the person in Akai Nobunari's portrait when I wear the gold silk mask.

"No matter what secrets are hidden in the Jieshi Palace, Du Yi asked us to come here, a large part of it may have something to do with this golden silk mask, he wants you to discover the existence of the golden silk mask, and he also wants you to wear a mask, so that you can understand for yourself that the person wearing the golden silk mask is actually the same person as the mysterious lord, and at the same time ...... "The palace lord paused and looked up at me." At the same time, Du is also reminding you in this way that you have been here before! ”

"How many times do you want me to explain, whether it's the lord or the man wearing the gold silk mask, why he looks the same as me, I don't know, but it definitely has nothing to do with me."

"Do you think it's all just a coincidence?" Gong Jue asked coldly.

"Okay, as you guessed, I'm that person, it's been hundreds of years, why am I still alive and haven't changed in the slightest?"

"Is this still a strange question for us?"

Gong Jue looked at me with a calm face and said, From the very beginning of Ji Qu, the person who has lived for more than 700 years and still firmly believes that he can come back from the dead, to Ling Ran in the Vientiane Divine Palace, and then Zhuo Mingfeng, these people are all people who have lived for hundreds of years, and immortality is not an uncommon thing for us.

The man with the golden silk mask who appeared in the Jieshi Palace, and the lord who appeared in the Vientiane Divine Palace, then the thirteenth person who went to Kunlun Jinque forty years ago, and then the mysterious person who appeared in Dunhuang twenty years ago and shocked Lingxiao Pavilion......

"Regardless of whether they are the same person or not, and regardless of the reason and purpose of their appearance, these people all have the same appearance, and they have not changed for hundreds of years, and you, like these people, look exactly the same." The palace lord looked at me intently and said. "Haven't you noticed that the place where these people have appeared is also the place we have been looking for, if these people are the same person, have you ever thought that everything you are doing now is just tracing your footprints."

"There is no such possibility!" I replied in a nutshell.

I haven't thought about what Gong Jue said, and his assumptions are not completely unreasonable, but on a common basis, all these people who look like me, no matter how long they have passed, their appearance has not changed from beginning to end.

But I'm not, since I can remember, the bits and pieces of my childhood are vivid, from my father being killed, to meeting Ye Jiuqing in exile, and then living in a pawnshop in Sifang for more than ten years, I remember everything that happened in the middle very clearly.

I am a person with a past, not a person who appeared out of thin air, and I have no idea that these places existed in my memory.

"I've been in a pawnshop since I was seven years old, and the people on the street of the ghost market have watched me grow up, if it weren't for knowing you, maybe I'd still be an apprentice in the pawnshop now." I said to the palace lord. "Just like the current Jieshi Palace, if I really have been here, what kind of mechanism is set up, and how to dodge it should be ......"

I stopped abruptly and looked at Xie Tianhui behind the palace lords, who picked up the golden silk mask that I had discarded, and slowly walked to the steps, looking at his back, I suddenly realized something.

Only those who have really been here and remember everything in the Jieshi Palace will come here safe and sound, and now only we are left to reconcile Tianhui.

If......

If it weren't for Xie Tianhui, would we still be alive to get here?