Three months later, someone saw a strange guest dressed in black walking into the "Xiling Seal Society" on the edge of the West Lake.

After the strange man left, no one entered or left the door of the "Xiling Seal Society" for three days.

The dark glasses handed over a long package.

Wu Xie Muran took it.

The things are very weighty, but Wu Xie's heart sank inexplicably.

"The dumb didn't come out this time. Before he left, he asked me to bring this to you. ”

Open the heavily wrapped strip of cloth, revealing a black gold ancient knife that looks like a fake.

"You confirmed it with your own eyes?"

"All the guys in this operation are in the middle of the fight. If it weren't for the dumb man desperately saving him, I'm afraid I would have to admit it this time. In order to save people, he bleed all the way along the way. ”

"Why don't you bring people out?"

"It wasn't allowed at the time. I was badly wounded, and I only had half a breath left, and if I delayed any longer, I would die in vain. ”

"Death must see the corpse, or I will not believe it."

Dark Glasses sighed, "Believe it or not." That's all I can do. Good bye. ”

The dark glasses went away.

The world has never been quieter.

Wu Xie held the black knife and sat down silently.

He didn't know what to think, he just felt that his brain had lost its ability to function. Only the body is reacting uncontrollably, and the chest cavity seems to be filled with cement little by little, and the space to breathe is getting smaller and smaller.

Wu Xie allowed this strong feeling of suffocation to spread, not wanting to stop it.

Now let's die like this, maybe we can catch up with that stuffy oil bottle on the way.

This time, he wants to ask him, why can you be born and die for a group of irrelevant people, but hesitate to give me an explanation and a farewell?

Let the blind man bring this to me, what is this, give me an explanation at the end?

Since then, the two have been cleared, and they are not indebted to each other?

Wu Xie remembered that boring evening more than ten years ago, when he rushed to the third uncle to see the dragon's back, he rushed to the third uncle to see the dragon's back, and saw a young man walking out of the main gate, carrying a long thing on his back, wrapped in cloth sturdy, and knew at a glance that it should be an ancient weapon.

Seeing that he missed such a good thing, Wu Xie was very annoyed. Xin said that if this thing sells well, the price can increase more than ten times, and his small shop will immediately develop.

Now that this dragon's back is lying quietly in his arms, Wu Xie realized that what he had rubbed shoulders with him several times in his life but finally missed was the person at that time.

Everything seems to return to the beginning of the story, back to the beginning.

Stuffy oil bottle, do you want to give me a chance to choose my life again?

In the ten years since you disappeared, I have also wondered if my attachment to you is just due to my curiosity about the unknown beyond ordinary people.

And if one day I find out that the ultimate is not as mysterious as I thought at the beginning, and there is no big deal in you, will I be disappointed and regret at that time, and feel that my tossing for so many years is simply an adolescent offense?

In order to test this hypothesis, I became a snake whisperer, almost frantically searching for snake mines hidden everywhere, and became addicted to the information in snake venom. I have to rely on my own strength to get close to the truth and unravel the mystery!

Countless fragmented messages gradually revealed in front of me a puzzle of huge secrets that had lasted for thousands of years. I hatched a huge plan for this shepherd hunt.

Now, "it" has been wiped out, and the "Old Nine Gates" have also suffered a great loss of vitality and existed in name only. This millennium-long battle has finally come to an end. Everything is like the earth after a snowfall, white and clean.

But when it was all over, I was surprised to find that I didn't find the peace and satisfaction of my soul. Whether it's the relief of being manipulated by "it", or the dullness of knowing all the secrets.

Instead, I felt more anxious than ever, and continued to search for snake mines endlessly, dripping pheromones with the pain of my heart being torn, no longer for secrets, no longer for the truth, all this was done just to follow the back of your past in the illusion, to see the traces of your existence.

Everything can disappear, but what I can't let go of is that even your appearance is just an illusion!

I said that the two things I regret the least in my life are that I followed the third uncle to fight, and the other is that I met you and the fat man.

The third uncle opened up an unbelievable world to me, and you and the fat man are the reasons why I insist on staying in this world!

I can't leave this world. I am afraid that once I leave this world, that man named Zhang Qiling will completely disappear from my life.

If I could do it all over again, I would still not hesitate to choose to follow you up the mountain and down to the sea again, from birth to death. I will not regret that I did not have a peaceful and comfortable life like ordinary people, and I will not regret that my life has only passed for 30 years.

I finally understood a crucial secret: you are the "ultimate" I am looking for.

It's a pity that when I woke up, I realized that I had missed out on my "ultimate" for a whole decade.

There aren't more decades in my life to splurge, so this time, whether you're dead or alive, there's no reason for me to let go!

Dark Glasses finds herself being followed.

He wandered through the dirty and dilapidated alleys to a secluded and uninhabited corner, and slowly turned around.

"Come out, it's clean and easy to talk about."

Several men who apparently had the guy on their body surrounded him and blocked his retreat in all directions.

The last one to come out was Wu Xie.

I haven't seen him for a few days, and this guy seems to be a lot haggard.

Wu Xie casually flicked the dust on the shoulder of his clothes.

"Zhang Qiling didn't fold in the bucket, you are lying."

"Don't tell me you have time to bring knives out, but you don't have time to bring people out."

Concern is chaos, such an obvious problem, Wu Xie actually reacted after three days of fake death.

The black blind man did not speak, but said for a while, "Can I smoke a cigarette?" ”

Wu Xie didn't urge him, and raised his hand to signal: "Feel free." ”

The black blind man lit a cigarette, and the pale and slender fingers between the thin body of the cigarette turned out to be very tasteful.

"It's weird underground. In the end, the dumb man said that the rest of the way was his own business, and that it had nothing to do with the others, so he triggered the mechanism and locked us out of a stone door. ”

"Where's that bucket?"

"Little Third Master, you should think about the dumb man's intention of leaving the knife for you."

"Or that fight is unguarded for him, or maybe he went in and didn't want to come out again."

"Whatever the reason, his purpose is to make you die and stop interfering in his affairs."

Wu Xie smiled and said leisurely: "It's a pity that I found that I have nothing to do in my life except for things related to him." ”

Northern.

Turpan.

"Damn, this is the Flaming Mountain in Journey to the West?" The fat man wiped a handful of sticky sweat from his face, stood on the open-top off-road and tore his throat and shouted: "Master! I'm coming—"

A dark red mountain range gradually emerged from the desolate Gobi.

The young man with the appearance of Sven on the passenger seat pushed the goggles and read the information aloud to the handset: "The ancient city of Gaochang, located along the north road of Tianshan South Road, has been the key point of east-west traffic on the Silk Road since ancient times. In the 1st century B.C., Li Guangli, a general of the Western Han Dynasty, led his troops to Tuntian here and set up Gaochangbi; In 327 A.D., Gaochang County was established. In 460, it became the capital of Gaochang State. Xuanzang, a high monk in the Tang Dynasty, once held a lecture here for King Gaochang. After the 9th century, it became the capital of the Uighur state of Gaochang. In 1275 AD, the Mongol nomadic nobles led 120,000 cavalry to besiege Huozhou, which lasted for half a year, and the Uighur king Gaochang was killed in battle, and the city of Gaochang was destroyed. ”

Wu Xie lowered the telescope in his hand and said silently: "Stuffy oil bottle, I'm here." ”

You live, I'll pick you up.

You're dead, and I'm here for you.

The convoy stopped on a high slope, and Wu Xie overlooked a magnificent ancient city in the sunset.

More than twenty people were eerily silent. This relic, which carries the memory of 2,000 years of history, has a power that makes people awe-inspiring.

The dark glasses lit a cigarette, "The building complex to the southwest is the ruins of the Great Buddha Temple, there is a well, which has dried up. To the north of the inner city centre is the Khan's Fort, where the former royal palace was located. The above-ground site covers an area of 3.4 hectares and is divided into three parts: the palace area in the west, the residential area in the south and the religious sacrifice area in the east. ”

After flicking the cigarette ash, the black glasses said: "The entrance to the underground ruins is just below the palace area." ”

This is the homeland of Gaochang thousands of years ago.

It is also a legend in the inverted fighting world - "Qilin smiled, and the king of Hades detoured" The last place where the dumb Zhang disappeared.

Wu Xie decided to spend the night in the ancient city to repair and go to the ground the next day.

The campsite is located in a Buddhist temple area with a relatively complete architectural structure, which can avoid the wind and sand on the Gobi Desert.

At night, far from the campfire, Wu Xie and Black Glasses leaned against the ruins and smoked.

Overhead, there were bright stars in the sky, and two red lights flickered in the darkness.

"What's next?" Wu Xie asked.

"The area of the underground building is much larger than the area of the royal palace above ground," the unpleasant memory made the dark glasses squint unconsciously, "It's a labyrinth." ”

"Labyrinth?" Wu Xie frowned.

Wasn't the basement of the palace supposed to be used to store food and weapons? Could it be that there are too few entertainment items in the Gobi, and King Gaochang has the ingenuity to create a labyrinth for the concubines and attendants to exercise their bodies and develop their intelligence?

"Is there a mechanism?"

"Mostly quicksand."

Here, the sand can be sourced locally and there is no problem of ageing. Since there is a mechanism, it is obviously not an entertainment facility.

Or, what do they want to protect from being approached?

The ancient kingdom of Eastern Xia between the white mountains and black waters was once forced into a desperate way by the Mongol army. The court of Gaochang in the desert Gobi was also destroyed by the iron hooves of the Mongolian cavalry.

The Mengyuan Empire had already occupied the entire vast and rich Central Plains, so why did it still exterminate these two remote and small countries?

What is the connection between the ancient kingdom of Eastern Xia and the royal court of Gaochang?

Could it be that the secret hidden in this is the reason why the stuffy oil bottle had to come?

"If you don't have a dumb cracker, I'm afraid this trip won't be easy." Dark Glasses said, "What are your plans?" ”

"Nope." Wu Xie snuffed out the cigarette butt and crushed it into the sand with his foot: "If you come, you will be safe." Take one step at a time, go as far as you can. ”

Even if you die, you have to die in the place closest to you.

The black glasses looked at Wu Xie and giggled.

Then the two of them stopped talking, and looked up at the starry sky together, which at first glance looked like two bottles of stuffy oil.

For a long time –

"Blind."

"Huh?"

Wu Xie said: "Tell me about Qi Yu." ”

"Don't say you've been in this game for so long, it's just a soy sauce man who happens to be surnamed Qi."