"When you did it to me just now, you didn't think about the extent of my injuries at all." He smiled and glanced at the severed arm, "It's cracked." ”

"How could I have known it was you in that situation just now?" I hurried to his side, and sure enough, I saw the blood seeping through my coat, and I was startled, and asked, "Do you want me to call a doctor for you?" ”

He shook his head, his smile looking extremely weak, "Time is the best medicine for me, and the doctor can't help me get my broken arm back." ”

As soon as these words came out, hope ignited in my heart and I asked, "Can your arm really be connected?" What do we need to do? ”

The pot of tea was almost finished by him, and his chapped lips were stained with water, but there was no relief.

"We went back to the ravine to look for your severed limb, but there were so many pieces of corpse down there that we couldn't find it."

He snorted, "I saw it when I fell, and it's normal to find that kind of place." ”

"What then?"

He smiled again, "What can I do?" It depends on whether it has a conscience and whether it is willing to grow back on its own. ”

"You can joke about that kind of thing."

"Not a joke." Jiang Xun smiled, "Remember when I told you about my past?" ”

I nodded and panicked, and heard Jiang Xun say, "As long as the breath is still there, I will always come back." ”

"They always do," he said. ”

A child's tooth will grow new teeth, nail hair will grow new when it is cut off, muscle wounds will heal over time, leaving a scar, but who has ever seen a new arm grow after a person's arm has been severed from the shoulder?

"Shen Qing." He called me and said, "Don't tell anyone about me waking up for the time being, and don't let Tang Jiao come in during the day, he is too noisy, so he says I need to recuperate." ”

"What else do you want to do?" After asking, I said, "The Situ family has agreed to join forces with us to deal with that evil path, they are both people who practice puppet control techniques, they know each other more than us, and with their strength, we can be much easier." ”

Jiang Xun smiled: "It's a good idea, but it's a pity that I'm not used to being comfortable by nature, so I can't do it if I put my life in the hands of others in exchange for a chance to breathe." ”

I was silent.

"Moreover, I have also found some things in the round building in the past two days." Jiang Xun looked at me and said, "Shen Qing, I don't believe in the people of the Situ family, whether they have anything to do with the disaster in Dongyan Town or not, at least I can confirm now that they must have done something against the righteous path." ”

My heart skipped a beat and I asked, "What did you find?" ”

"This round building has nine floors, the first floor is for guests to live in, the second floor up to the sixth floor is a guest room, in special periods will be for the people of Dongchuan to take refuge, and Situ Yao's room is on the seventh floor, the whole floor is only him alone, at night, the candles of the round building are only lit here, because the servants of the Situ family can only stop here, the upper eight floors are the place where the head of the house Situ Yu lives, unless necessary, he hardly leaves the room, and he will not let others disturb him."

Jiang Xun said: "At first, I thought he was ill and needed to recuperate and it was inconvenient to show up, but it wasn't until one time I watched him walk into a room on the top floor, and soon after I heard a suppressed roar of pain coming from inside, that I realized that things were not as simple as I thought. ”

"Ninth Floor...... What does that do? ”

"I've been out there to inquire." Jiang Xun said: "Some people say that it is the place where the successive heads of the Situ family and the successors passed on the practice, and after the old family master Situ Jing died of a serious illness, Situ Yu took office. Although he has passed the age of establishment, he has not yet married and has no children under his knees, so in the past few years, no one has entered the ninth floor except himself, including his younger brother Situ Yao. ”

"Do you suspect that there is something wrong with Situ Yu?" I asked.

"It's not a suspicion, it's a certainty."

Jiang Xun said: "Situ Yu has a weakness, every time he leaves the room on the ninth floor, his physical strength will be violently consumed, and his defense will be reduced, so I once took advantage of the time to approach the ninth floor with him, and in the room he left, through the gap in the window lattice, I saw that it was full of chains the thickness of a child's arm, and it was full of yellow silk with mantras written in cinnabar. ”

"What's locked in the room?"

"It's a man." "It's uncertain yet, he's locked in a bed and covered with a black cloth, and I can only see a human figure, and I can tell it's a man based on his size, and I don't see his face," he said. ”

The top floor of the round building of the Situ family, just above our heads, was so close to us that a person was imprisoned in this way.

"There are too many chains in that gate, and there are people in their clan who are proficient in secret weapons, so I didn't get any closer, so I can only wait for another suitable opportunity to find out the cause and effect of this matter."

Jiang Xun finished speaking, saw that I was silent, and asked, "What?" ”

I shook my head, "I just haven't been able to accept that someone who has just felt a little trust in me is caught by the tail so quickly and shows his feet." ”

"The human heart is inherently unpredictable, let alone an alien who knows more about disguise."

I looked up at him, and the laceration on the severed arm seemed to be bleeding no more, and his coat was only wet with a small patch of dark red, which reminded memories.

"What are you looking at me for?" Jiang Xun smiled, "Do I have the answer on me, or do you have a plan for me?" ”

"I don't know if it's appropriate to say it now." I looked into his eyes, like a pool of thick ink, sinking to the bottom, "There is one thing, I want to find the answer from you." ”

"On me?" He looked confused, his smile was still there, his tone was raised, and the positive color that had lasted for just a few minutes disappeared again, replaced by the always playful look.

"You say that people's hearts are unpredictable, and that aliens know more about disguise, so are you the same?"

"That depends on what you think of me."

"What do you want me to think?"

"Maybe ......," he said, tilting his head to one side, his fingers looping around the rim of his glass, and looking at me with some sincerity, "close your eyes." ”

I walked up to him, put my hand on his collar, but he grabbed my wrist and asked in a flat voice, "Close your eyes, how can I see?" ”

Jiang Xun sat a little shorter than me, and it was the first time I looked at him from such a perspective, and the corners of my eyes were raised with bewilderment, and I had a strong sense of presence to announce to people that there was a treasure hidden here, and invited people to dig it, and then introduced a trap and disappeared.

He's a dangerous man, but I can't help myself, I want to know his secrets.

"Seeing is not necessarily believing, close your eyes and you can feel something else." Jiang Xun said softly, as if some kind of hint, and pressed my hand in the direction of his left chest, "Aren't your senses very sensitive?" ”

I was seduced by him, and subconsciously used a warlock way to feel the things around me, through his clothes, the position of his heart was bright red, and the place where his fingers touched it was warm, the breath was steady and firm, persistent and terrible, desperate, implying a kind of determination to live to die.

I felt my hair stand on end, and I pulled my hand out of his hand, calmed down, sobered myself up, and said, "You know what I'm going to ask you, you already know about your corpse spots." ”

He did not deny, "Nothing is obtained for nothing, and this is the price of my survival." ”

"I don't understand." I had a terrible thought and asked, "You...... Already dead? ”

Jiang Xun chuckled, looked at me and said, "Probably, it's just because I was unwilling to die, so I dragged such a patched body to you, I hope you can help me fulfill my wish and help me make a coffin, so that I can die peacefully." ”

I choked on him, didn't find it funny at all, and stepped aside from him, saying no more.

Jiang Xun's eyebrows were docile, and he said to me, "Shen Qing, your current appearance doesn't look like you're suspicious of me at all, confronting me. ”

"What do you want to say?"

The curvature of the smile on his face became a little more sincere, and he said, "You are asking, not questioning, so can I think that your temptation is just to know more about me, because in your heart, we are already people worthy of each other's trust on the same road." ”

I said, "I never said that." ”

Jiang Xun still smiled: "But you did it." ”

I stopped talking, he said: "Shen Qing, I said, about what happened to me, when the right opportunity arises, I will tell you everything bit by bit, so you don't have to worry, what is more important at the moment is how we should deal with the Situ family." ”

After speaking, he suddenly thought of something and said to me, "And your little apprentice." ”

I raised my eyebrows, "Ziwei?" What happened to him? ”

Jiang Xun shook his head and said: "I don't know what he has experienced, I just think he has been too abnormal these days, sneaky and absent-minded, you just came back together, when you were talking to Tang Jiao, he left through the back window alone, you can go to his room now to see, it is empty." ”

I was about to go out directly, Jiang Xun grabbed me behind my back and motioned to me the direction of the window, "From here, I'll take you over." ”

I didn't refuse, I followed him, close to the window, only to find that it was not easy to get from here to another room, and I almost stepped on the air halfway, and was pulled by Jiang Xun, so I entered Ziwei's room without danger.

The display in the room is the same as the one I live in, but as soon as I entered, I smelled a faint strange smell, thinking of the last time I saw a feather behind him, I looked down at the ground, and I didn't see anything, there was a piece of his clothes on the back of the chair in front of the table, I picked it up and looked at it, everything was normal, only Ziwei's was indeed not in the room.

The two of us have lived together in Shen Ji for so long, even if we are sometimes curious about what the other party is doing, we will respect each other's privacy, it is not good for me to sneak into his room at this time, and I don't want to rummage through his things again, I was about to tell Jiang Xun to go back first, and then ask him where he went if he didn't come back tomorrow, but before he could speak, there was a series of friction sounds in the cabinet on the side.