Chapter 35: Illusions

Xiao Xia stood there, not knowing whether to go to the basin or not.

She felt that the other party must have bad intentions, because they were meant to harm people, but the excuse that could save thousands of miles was too tempting. I know that I may be deceived, but I also want to give it a try, at least multiple options, multiple opportunities!

She slowly walked back to the bed, and saw that the bamboo bed was crooked by the white hands, and half of the gauze tent was torn off, and Wan Li still did not react, lying there like a wooden man, although she was mentally prepared, she still couldn't help but feel sad.

What a warm and gentle person he is, he loves to talk to people, is curious about new things, likes to try, is enthusiastic about helping others, has chivalry, and is a public lover in the eyes of many women, but now he is like a vegetative person, staying here and not knowing who is going to work, if he can realize this, he should feel that life is better than death, and he feels tormented, right?!

He's done so much for her and never asked for anything in return, and now it's her turn to pay him back, so she can pay anything!

With this decision, she climbed into bed first, laboriously helped Wanli to lie more comfortably, tidied up the gauze tent, then clenched the bloodwood sword, slowly walked to the basin, and looked into the basin with a little caution in confusion.

The water in the basin was still shaking slightly, and it shook even more violently because someone was approaching, as if it was about to spill out. Xiao Xia subconsciously wanted to dodge, but she knew that she had to see it, so she forced herself to stand there and not move.

She remembered that the water in the basin was clear, it was a sweet mountain spring that Ruan Zhan had called from not far from the Octagonal Tower, and she had only changed the basin with new water after washing her face. But at this moment, the water turned black for some reason, so muddy that it smelled like mud, and it also gave off a slightly fishy smell of grass blades.

Goo-dong -

A bubble suddenly appeared in the center of the water, causing Natsu to instinctively take a step back, watching in surprise as the second, third, and fourth bubbles popped up one after another, until the entire surface of the water rolled up as if it were boiling.

This lasted about two minutes before the water calmed down, but instead of being black, it became a mirror-like silvery white.

Xiao Xia couldn't help but lean forward, and saw that in this water mirror, there was a round thing gradually floating up from the bottom up, just embedded in the middle of this wooden basin with a diameter of about two feet, and when you looked closely, it was a woman's face!

Probably because of the immersion in the water, this face is pale and puffy, the mouth and eyes are closed, and the long black hair on the head floats in the water like aquatic plants, dancing softly, as if beckoning to the viewer.

Xiao Xia didn't know what the hell was going on behind the scenes, but she felt that the face looked so familiar, so she clenched the bloodwood sword and took another step closer, almost standing on the edge of the basin and looking down.

It was a standard goose egg face, with a full forehead, a pair of faint thin eyebrows, a small and lovely upturned nose, delicate and seductive red lips, and a red mole the size of a sesame seed that was almost invisible at the corner of the left eye.

Xiao Xia stood there, cold sweat dripping from her forehead, sliding down her neck and into the collar, she had never seen such a terrifying scene, she had never had a more terrifying experience, just because the face in the basin was so familiar, so familiar that she didn't need her brain to react to know who it was, so familiar that she had to see it many times a day!

The face in the basin is her face!

If it weren't for the fact that his face was pale and swollen, it seemed to have been drowned; If it weren't for the fact that it was just a severed head, and the broken wound under the neck was still blurred with flesh and blood, Xiao Xia would even think that he was looking at a mirror in the potential water!

It's so similar! It's so similar, even the red mole in the corner of the eye is exactly the same! This must be an illusion, it is used to attack her psychological defenses, but what is the person hiding behind the scenes? Was it a prophecy that she was about to drown, or was it just to scare her?

As if to answer her doubts, the face in the water suddenly opened his eyes without warning, staring at the stunned Xiao Xia!

"Yue Xiaoxia!" She opened her mouth to call for someone, and a string of bubbles appeared on the surface of the water, and her voice made a 'gurgling' sound, as if there was a real human head talking in the water, not just a hallucination.

Xiao Xia shrank back and didn't answer.

The woman in the water gloated, "Yue Xiaoxia, Wanli is dying!" He's going to die! ”

Natsu still didn't answer, but she felt a thorn pierce into the depths of her soul.

"He's going to die! He will die a painful and miserable death, his five organs will be torn apart by an invisible hand, and the skin on his body will be corroded by the oozing black water, but he can't say it, he will die of pain like this! ”

"Shut up!"

"He's going to die, it's painful - it's painful - it's painful - " The man in the water repeated the sentence in a strange tone like a broken tape recorder, as if it would not stop, and every word was nailed to Xiao Xia's heart like a nail, making her hurt all over her body, and she couldn't bear to listen to it anymore, but she couldn't help listening to it.

She wanted to overturn the basin, it would be very pleasant, and she didn't have to listen to those harsh words anymore, but at the same time, she lost the possibility of finding out the other party's purpose.

"What the hell do you want?" She asked aloud in the tiny pause of her jagged voice.

"I want you to be a bride!"

Bride?!

This answer made Xiao Xia stand on the ground, not expecting that this answer would surprise and disbelieve her, and all the words she wanted to say were blocked in her throat. What does that mean? Let her be the bride? Whose bride? Why?

"Do you want to save him?" The man in the water asked, his voice suddenly softening, full of seduction.

"Yes."

"Really?"

"Really."

"Are you willing to pay any price?"

"Yes." Xiao Xia couldn't help but say her inner voice.

"Then be the bride!" The man in the water laughed gloomily, "Be his bride!" He's been waiting for forty years! ”

"Who is he?"

"All you have to do is get dressed by midnight tomorrow, and the black cat will come and pick you up." The man in the water replied, muttered, and then, as the waves swayed, another pale hand came out from the side of its ear.

For a moment, the feeling of that hand was like the pair of white hands just now, which frightened Xiao Xia.

Wasn't the white hand transformed by the evil spirit absorbed by the broken banner? What is it? Didn't Nguyen Chan's safety net work?

In the midst of her hesitation, the hand that stretched out from the basin of water had already touched her neck, and she shivered with wet and cold ice. She wanted to break free, but she didn't, so she had to try her best to restrain her teeth and tremble and said, "What is in the middle of thousands of miles is a dead Gu, and if the person who goes down to the Gu doesn't die, he won't be able to live." Besides, I promised your master, what if he doesn't keep his promise, are you a fool to me? ”

"It's up to you. He's a devil. Therefore, he only talks about conditions, and does not force them. ”

"I don't—I don't believe it!"

"Don't believe me?" The man in the water laughed again, "Unfortunately, this is the only thing you can do for your friend, and the only chance you have to be." I know you're trying to find my master, but you can't find it. He's not him, he's not him! ”

"Let go of me!" Xiao Xia couldn't stand the clammy feeling on her neck anymore, and struggled again, but she still didn't break free. Instead, she found herself bent down and face to face with the basin, as if she were about to be pulled into the water.

"The only chance, Bo Yibo! For the sake of friends, Bo Yibo! It induced, and at the same time the hand holding Xiao Xia's neck pressed again, making her face almost touch the water.

"Don't tell the man surnamed Nguyen about this! He's going to do bad things! Remember, remember! It lowered its voice as if it were whispering, all the more eerie. And because of the closer, seeing a face exactly like himself smiling grimly, as if it was the situation after his death, the fear kept surging up from the deepest part of his heart.

And the man in the water mentioned Ruan Zhan's name, which made her suddenly remember that she was still holding the bloodwood sword in her hand, seeing that the water surface was getting closer and closer to her, she felt that the person in the water wanted to drown herself's sinister intention, so she hurriedly swung out the sword, and was swept down horizontally with the basin frame and basin! The water splashed to the ground at once, and the basin gurgled and rolled far away before stopping.

Xiao Xia stood there and gasped for breath for a while, feeling that her breathing was smooth in this way, and unconsciously touched her neck, and her hand was wet, understanding that the hand was transformed by water.

"The wedding dress is under the altar!" A voice came from the ground.

Xiao Xia jumped and looked at the ground according to the sound. I watched the water spilled on the ground faintly reflect the same face as my own, which was deforming and distorting with the flow of water, and then slowly disappearing. The voice is also slowly distorted until the prolonged tail also stops.

"Follow the black cat! The wedding dress is in—"

This reminded her of the night when Wanli Zhong Gu, the strange black liquid in the magnetic altar also flowed slowly like this, and then it burrowed into the soles of Wanli's feet, and then there was a knife hanging over his head that seemed to take his life at any time.

And she, no matter what, can't let that knife fall, if it has to fall, she is willing to block it for him!

But what now? Is it according to Ruan Zhan's plan, firmly believing that he will succeed, and just quietly waiting for him to save Wanli and wake up? Or do you follow the advice of the man behind the scenes and accept the devil's conditions?

The man in the water had warned her not to tell Ruan Zhan, which meant that she had no one to consult and had to make her own decisions. But it was too embarrassing for her to make a choice. In order to save Wanli and let her fight for her life, she will not hesitate, but if she wants to marry someone who doesn't know what it is, just thinking about it will give her goosebumps all over her body, and she will be so uncomfortable that she wants to die!

He's not him!

The man in the water used to say so. So who is he? Why would you be interested in yourself. Assuming that he is really Huang Boheng, does he have such a good impression of himself? Big enough to hurt Wanli's life, just because Wanli is her 'boyfriend'? So, if he knew that she lived in Ruan Zhan's house and knew that what she was thinking about was Ruan Zhan, would he still kill him?

Even if she makes a sacrifice, will the other party keep her word?

However, the words of the people in the water are good: she is not qualified to talk about conditions, she can only be a Bo! They are in the light, the other party is in the dark, if Ruan Zhan really can't find the person behind the scenes and kill him in a limited time, Wanli will be dead.

She can't let him die, let alone Ruan Zhan! If there was really no other way, she should have Bo Yibo, but when she thought of Huang Boheng's perverted thing, she was so disgusted that she wanted to vomit.

She was in a dilemma, struggling, feeling that any decision she made would be regretted, and after standing for an unknown amount of time, she finally made up her mind - wait and see, if Ruan Zhan can't find a way to save Wanli before midnight tomorrow, then she has to fight once. As for whether the pervert kept his promise - there is a good saying: but do your best, and let each one be in peace!

It's amazing that she gave that perverted bastard a death together!

Xiao Xia is a hearty and stubborn person, and since he has made a decision, he simply doesn't think about it anymore. So, first limped to the side of the bed to check if there was anything wrong with Wanli. Seeing that although he was still unconscious, fortunately it did not get worse. Thinking that the other party's goal might have been achieved, he shouldn't play any more tricks, so he decided to go to the altar on the second floor to see if everything that happened just now was a ghost playing tricks on people, or if they were hallucinating, or if they had already fallen into the trap of the opponent!

With the help of the light of the lighter, she found the candlestick that had rolled to the side, lit it again, and was silent for a while, seeing that although the fire moved slightly, it burned normally, and then she was relieved to go to the second floor.

The second floor was empty, with a magnetic altar piled up on one side and an empty altar on the other. Ruan Zhan had inspected this place before bringing them here, and with his calm and cautious personality, if there was anything strange, he wouldn't fail to find it.

But when Xiao Xia lifted the bamboo curtain under the altar, he found that there was a big red cloth package inside!

She stretched out her hand, tried for a moment, and finally pulled the package out, then slowly sat on the ground, opened it gently, and under the reflection of the candle flame, the wedding dress in the package was completely presented in front of her.

On top is a set of silver jewelry, Xiao Xia doesn't know anything about ethnic minority costumes, and he can't tell what nationality it is, he just thinks that the silver jewelry is quite complicated but the handiwork is extremely exquisite. Below the silver ornament is a set of wedding dresses of ethnic minorities, which are embroidered with colorful silk threads, which are so gorgeous that the original color of the cloth can no longer be seen. There are many embroidered things, flowers, birds, fish and insects, but everything is lifelike.

Xiao Xia reached out and touched it, it felt quite good, and the natural and innocent feeling was conveyed from her hand to her heart, making her almost love this wedding dress. If it weren't for the fact that these were sent by that pervert, and he was extremely disgusted with his purpose, if this was given by Ruan Zhan, she would have wanted to try them on immediately.

Lift the wedding dress, and the shoes are underneath. Holding it in her hand, Natsu found that she had seen the shoe twice, once from the foot of the ghost in the coat, and once from the foot of the strange woman - it turned out that this was really the shoe that only a bride would wear!

These shoes are so beautiful that Xiao Xia can't help but hold them in her hands. As soon as the shoe reached her hand, she felt a wave of dizziness, and put one of the shoes on her own as if her hands were uncontrollable.

In fact, she wasn't wearing it yet, but she just gestured to her foot, and the shoe automatically covered her foot as if it were consciously - just the right size!

And as soon as the shoes were put on, a picture immediately appeared in her mind.

A slender young woman stood on the edge of the altar with her back to her, holding a magic weapon in her hand, doing a dance she had never seen before, then knelt down in front of the altar and said, "Great God, I don't want the medicine ghost to be my man, he will have to eat a baby every other season, I can't bear it." I thought of something else, Anan! She cried out, and her voice was delicate and brittle, and it was extremely beautiful and gentle.

A man's voice answered, and a dark figure appeared in front of the altar.

"He took the initiative to consume my Gu, and from now on, he will be my ghost husband!" The woman said.

Xiao Xia tried her best to see the man's face, but he was always a shadow!

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