The sword let go of his hand and fell to the ground, Situ Yao stared at the person in front of him, his mouth was open, but he couldn't speak, he slowly approached a few steps, lowered his body, half knelt in front of him, a pair of trembling hands held his face, raised his head that had been hanging low, and the rain washed down, revealing a childish and delicate face, which was cut by the blade of the sword, and half of his face was covered with blood.

"Are you ......" Situ Yao's voice trembled, still unable to believe it, and called him with a questioning tone: "Xiao Heng? ”

The black-robed man looked at him, Situ Yao seemed to finally recognize him in his memories, put his hand on his shoulder, and said incoherently: "How could you ...... Ten years ago, my eldest brother told me that you were injured by evil ways and threw yourself into the fire and lost your life, and I always wanted to catch that person to avenge you and your father, but you ...... Why are you doing this? ”

Situ Heng's eyes drooped, looking at the humanoid cocoon on one side, still silent.

The puppet under his feet clicked twice, and the child's voice was bitterly choked, repeating exactly what Fang had said to me in the ruins.

Situ Yao didn't seem to understand, I don't know if he couldn't hear the story inside, or he didn't want to guess and accept it, his brows frowned, "Xiao Heng, tell me, what do you want to say?" ”

Xie Chang next to him stepped forward on his knees, and said in a cry: "Second young master, little young master, he can't speak anymore, and all his sufferings and grievances can only be relayed through this puppet." ”

Situ Yao didn't understand, turned his head to look at him, and asked, "Why?" ”

Xie Chang had something to say, and Situ Yao asked, "What have you been through?" Bai Lao, did you already know about this? I've been tracking down that evil path with my eldest brother for so many years, and only now do I find out that this person is my dead brother, what the hell is going on? ”

Xie Chang looked sad and said to Bai Zhong behind him: "It's been more than ten years, Bai Ye, it's time for you to talk about this matter." ”

Bai Zhong's eyes were closed in the wrinkles of old age, and with repentance, after a long silence, he slowly spoke: "Xiao Yao, do you remember that many years ago, your father and I went on a long trip to find a precious wood, and stayed outside for more than four months before returning with half a life. You were eight years old and a kid. ”

Situ Yao said: "Father said that you encountered a storm at sea, were swept to the bottom of the sea, and only survived by luck by entering a wreck wrapped in magic. ”

Bai Zhong nodded and said, "When we came back at that time, we brought back a box from that ship, in addition to those historical books, there was also another bag, did your eldest brother tell you what was in it?" ”

Situ Yao was silent for a moment and replied: "It is rumored that there is a secret technique of the pill that can make people grow into immortals, but the eldest brother only told me that it was an extremely precious red pearl, and I was not allowed to see it with my own eyes. ”

Bai Zhong smiled bitterly and said, "True or false, it's not easy for your eldest brother to keep this secret all these years." ”

Situ Yu also told us about this at the beginning, which is consistent with what Situ Yao knew, but listen to Bai Zhong's meaning, Situ Yu deceived us, the real truth is the rumor in his mouth?

I was taken aback by this speculation, and heard Bai Zhong continue: "When we entered that wreck, it was not empty. ”

Everyone stared at him closely, Bai Zhong still recalled that the whole person was still in a state of fear, and said in a dumb voice: "There are seventy-one people on that sunken ship, all of them died of old age, and when we went in, we saw a withered corpse in the cabin, and guarding those corpses was a young woman who was still alive. ”

"No, that's not supposed to be called alive." Bai Zhong was halfway through his words, then denied himself and corrected: "To be precise, she is just a puppet made by a craftsman in the past, but she has bones and blood, and her appearance is strange and abnormal, especially those eyes that hook the soul, I can't forget it until now, but I don't dare to recall." ”

Bai Zhong's face became more and more pale, and the blood all over his body was disappearing with the rain, and he continued: "That woman also has a yin and evil spell that can pull people into the illusion in a coma, find the most vulnerable point in your heart, and kill people inside. Your father and I planted a problem with her, but when I realized that something was wrong, I set up a mechanism in the cabin in advance, and finally triggered the hidden weapon due to the change in the aura of the illusion, killing the woman and cracking his illusion. ”

"After her death, we found a treasure bag from her, which contained a huge crystal clear pearl with a letter attached to it, which recorded the refining method of these dolls and the effect of the pill hidden in the pearl." He said: "Ordinary people can cultivate the immortal path if they take it, and those who die and have not been reincarnated can return their souls, and those who take it will increase several times in a short period of time, and no one can beat it." ”

This is...... The rumored words in Situ Yao's mouth.

"The woman's body had been placed in the bow compartment with the seventy-one men, but as we had rested in the stern for a while, and were about to leave, we saw a line of blood on the hull of the stern compartment, 'As punishment for killing and greed, you will witness or endure the most cruel punishment in the world—'"

When Bai Zhong said this, his guttural voice was choked, and he said slowly: "When we return to that place, there is no trace of the woman's body in the bow warehouse, and the seventy-one dried corpses have rapidly decomposed in a short period of time, and the limbs and torso have all been divided into the same size, and two words have been formed with corpse pieces: immortality." ”

A thunderclap sounded in the sky, Bai Zhong sighed, and under the cover of the lightning and thunder, he continued: "Later, when I returned to Dongchuan, your father didn't know what kind of psychology it was, he must open the pearl, take out the pill inside to see what it is, and after trying all kinds of tools and weapons, all of them were ineffective, so he found me and hoped that I could come up with a way to help him." I knew that this thing was an evil thing, and I had seen many things that had happened at that time in those historical books, and I had persuaded him more than once, but he had served in my meal*, and he himself went into the refining room and opened the furnace with a magic rune, and put the pearl in it to burn, and when I woke up, everything was irreparable. ”

"My father opened the pearl?" Situ Yao was full of doubts and did not understand his intentions.

Bai Zhong muttered and said: "It's not just that it's so simple to open, at that time, the furnace was not operated properly, and the flame of the main body collided with the evil qi covered on the bead, causing the entire refining furnace to explode directly, burning your father to a serious injury, and he did this to hide from everyone, so when his life was dying, there was no one around him who could help him, it was he who climbed into the fragments of the furnace by himself, found the broken pill from the remains of the fragments that were still burning, and swallowed half a pill on the spot to save his life, and all the injuries on his body, It was all healed overnight, and there was no trace of it, and the things of the evil sect in Dongchuan also started at that time. ”

"Anyone who has been exposed to puppet control knows that this technique is especially a test of people's minds, and they often fall into the devil's path at the slightest thought, so it was firmly regarded as an evil art a long time ago, and the practitioners are all evil spirits. The ancestors of the Situ family paid for several generations of their lives in order to clear this unreasonable charge, so the recognition of the Situ family's puppet control technique in the eyes of other inhuman warlocks was not easy to come by, and for future generations, reputation was more precious than anything else. In the past, although your father also had many minor problems, they were all harmless, with the family rules of the Situ family's ancestors, and his heart was also pure, but since he ate that half of the pill, he has changed everything. ”

Bai Zhong's hands on both sides of the wheelchair tightened, and the aged skin on his neck couldn't wrap around the protruding muscles, and they expressed his emotions openly.

"At that time, the round building was still the center of Dongchuan, responsible for the operation of the life turnover of the entire Dongchuan people, but from the beginning of the time soon after you left home, he handed over all the affairs of the family, and stayed in the practice room all day by himself, not allowing anyone to approach, until one day, he was extremely haggard and came to me again, his body was dirty, his hair was long, his beard also came out, he was completely unkempt, his face was blue, his eyes were red, and he grabbed me madly and asked me what is the closest thing to human muscles and bones in the world. I didn't understand what he meant, so he took me to the round building and told me to go to his practice room, and as soon as the door opened, I first smelled a pungent smell of blood and rancidity, and then I saw that it was full of dolls, and some of them were very close to real people. He said that he tried everything he could to get the skin and bones of animals, but he couldn't make a real 'human'. ”

"I only thought it was ridiculous at the time, but he said that the woman on the sunken ship is the ultimate pursuit of all the puppet makers in their lives, and the puppet control technique starts from controlling things, and then changes the surrounding breath, mastering their changes, and gradually being able to control people, and finally reach the spirit control, which is already the limit they can reach, but it is still vain after all, it is short-lived, he said that he wants to change this restriction that only exists in a temporary connection, and create a life form that is more eternal than the white cloud, truly belongs to him, and is completely subject to him."

"I couldn't understand what he was thinking, I just thought it was ridiculous, but he was crazy and didn't listen to anything, he just wanted to create a real thing." At that time, most of the affairs of the round building had fallen on your eldest brother, he only showed up occasionally, and it seemed as if it was the same as before, and for a long time later, he stopped mentioning this matter, I thought that after his magic barrier was over, he would recognize the reality and return to the past to cultivate his own way in a down-to-earth manner, but after a few years from that incident, the peace of Dongchuan was completely broken, and people began to disappear, and there were more and more of them, and when finally someone found the bodies of those people, they were all completely stripped of the skin of their bodies without exception, and even most of the hard bones on their bodies were sucked away, leaving only piles of rotten flesh, unable to distinguish their names。 ”