Volume 1 The Storm of the Northern Plains Chapter 57
"Okay, okay, I surrender, don't move!" Zhou Zhe fluttered his hands to try to keep his balance.
"Well, that's pretty much it. Xin Chai stopped shaking, like a naughty child. Zhou Zhe knew that Xin Chai had been hovering between life and death between killing and being killed, from the first acquaintance to the acquaintance, he began to appreciate her
Unique character. became cold, the king of heaven and Lao Tzu didn't recognize it, and when he got serious, he had to be careful when talking to him. And her nature is actually kind, she has never killed innocents indiscriminately in front of Zhou Zhe's eyes, and she has never used force
Showing off or coercing, even when she was in the cabin, she never killed anyone, and she could do it. That night in the refugee camp, helping the distressed old woman and her little granddaughter may be the answer.
"I really don't know how your character was formed, can you tell me the story of the past? You see, I'm going to go into the water later, and it's a question of whether I have a chance to talk about it in the future. ”
"Do you really want to know?" Xin Chai just twisted his head to look at him, and Zhou Zhe had nothing to scruple about, and nodded.
"But you are not allowed to tell anyone, it will rot in your heart for the rest of your life. Xin Chai added, and Zhou Zhe shrugged
"I'm just curious to tell people what to do. ”
Xin sorted out his thoughts and spoke slowly
"When I was very young. At that time, the Blood Moon Hall was still there, and my parents and grandparents were also there, and I was in very poor health when I was a child, and my parents said that it was too damaging to the Yin Virtue, so they didn't let me practice the family and embark on the path of the killer in the future. But I was very rebellious when I was a child, and I could go in and out everywhere anyway, so I secretly memorized the direction of the spiritual veins of the Nine Flashes of the Wanyue Moon. Later, my parents were ambushed in a bounty mission, and the people they brought with them were all wiped out, and they never came back, by chance, in order to catch the hare, I inadvertently used the Nine Flashes of the Remnant Moon, and was discovered by my grandfather, but my grandfather said that it was okay to practice now, because my grandfather at that time had reached an agreement with Chen Yuanhou. He said that in the future, our Blood Moon Hall will no longer have to worry about the bullying and oppression of other sects, because there are four righteousness to maintain the right path in the world, and every time there is a source of four righteousness outside and strangled the forces of the evil party, grandpa will always tell me happily, and then get drunk. Xin Chai's eyes were misty, as if he was caught in a memory, "Do you know? It was the happiest day of grandpa's life, and even a few disciples under his door could feel that the usual strict and harsh grandpa had become amiable." Siyi became my childhood idol, and I hope that I can grow up as soon as possible, and then act chivalrous and righteous like them. But the good times didn't last long, Siyi was ambushed, and even the entire spiritual cultivation world became noisy, and grandpa closed the entrance to the mountain gate of the Blood Moon Hall and opened the formation. But it was still broken, and several top sects in the world have sent manpower, how can there be a formation that cannot be broken. After the formation was broken, several major sects sent people to negotiate with my grandfather, as long as they handed over the method of the spiritual veins of the Nine Flashes of the Remnant Moon, they could ensure the safety of all the disciples of the sect and the peerless inheritance of the Blood Moon Hall, otherwise according to the new decree issued by Emperor Dasheng, they had the right to directly attack the Blood Moon Hall. Grandpa said he thought about it, and they also gave three days. Grandpa knows that such a catastrophe can't be avoided, and if you give your heart today, you will be sold tomorrow. So he ordered to gather some of the disciples of the sect to prepare for a breakthrough, before the breakthrough, they all drank the Zhuangxing wine, burned the heart of the Nine Flashes of the Remnant Moon, and then my grandmother told me, I only knew, it was a poisonous wine that would delay the attack, in order to prevent the door from having a small apprentice selling his teacher for glory. Then the disciples in the sect broke through with my grandfather, and my grandmother led me to break through from the other direction. We only had sporadic pursuits along the way, and Grandma was a fourth-order peak cultivator, so she naturally easily avoided it. Three days later we were far away from the mountain gate, and then we settled incognito in a small county town. Speaking of this, Xin Chai blamed himself a little, "From the destruction of the mountain gate, my grandmother forced me not to use spiritual power. When you grow up, grandma will find you a good family to marry, and you will live a life in peace. Ah chai! In the future, we must live a good and stable life, and spiritual cultivation is too damaging to yin morality, so we ended up like this. At that time, I was only 12 years old, and I listened to my grandmother very much, even if I was bullied by other children, I would only cry and not fight back. My grandmother made food for me every time I cried, so I cried a lot. Our grandparents and grandchildren made a living in this small county town by washing and sewing clothes for rich families, and we thought that all this would go on in peace, but when I was sixteen years old, everything changed. Two spiritual cultivators came to the county, they were disciples sent out by a mountain sect to buy supplies, and naturally they were entertained by people with property and status in the county. They asked me to send my clothes to the room, and I was ignorant at the time, so I went into the house. They wanted to take off my clothes, but my grandmother said that she would marry someone in the future, so I naturally resisted desperately. But since we settled in the county seat, we haven't practiced spiritual power for ten years, so I can only shout for help, and then my grandmother came and directly cut the throats of the two beasts. After this incident, we could not stay in this county any longer, and we prepared to leave the country that day. But we had lived here for ten years, and there were so many people who knew us that the mountain gate where the carcasses of the two beasts had been examined soon issued a proclamation offering a reward for our capture. The actions of one mountain gate naturally can't escape the attention of other mountain gates, and the other sects don't ask the reason for tracking down, we left in a hurry, and almost didn't bring any savings. In order to make a living, Grandma killed the disciples of those sects and robbed the silver taels, but all of them were fatal injuries that attracted more attention, and our identities were revealed. Under this kind of pursuit, we have been on the run for two years, and I have started to cultivate again, and my grandmother no longer stops me, but sighs and says, "Ah, chase! When we dodge this formation, we will be safe." But there was no safety, wave after wave of pursuers emerged in an endless stream, and I finally slashed people's necks with a dagger for the first time when I was eighteen years old, and I was so scared that I cried for a long time, and my grandmother also cried. Children and grandchildren will be punished, and your grandfather and I have lost too much yin virtue. It's only come to this!" Xin Chai's eyes turned red as he spoke, but not a single tear remained.
Zhou Zhe sighed.
"I was still talking back, if we don't kill them, they will still kill us. From then on, my grandmother no longer forbade me to kill the pursuers, but often wept silently alone. My strength grew, and my murderous intent became heavier and heavier, and finally I completed the bounty task by chance, and I used the money I earned to buy a lot of beautiful clothes and food for my grandmother. I said to my grandmother, "Grandma, I can make money, but my grandmother just sighed, and that day my grandmother cried all night alone in the house, and her eyes were blinded by crying." I was terrified, for fear of losing my grandmother, but not long after, she went to her old man's house, and before leaving, she said to me, "Ah Chase, since you have already walked this path, you can't turn back." Just remember one, don't kill in vain, don't let go... Xin Chai exhaled deeply, "Since then, I have embarked on the path of a bounty killer, and my strength has increased day by day, and soon, my killing skills and body skills have revealed my identity. Since then, I have never been born in peace, and later, I got some of the whereabouts of the Akatsuki Saints, so I came to Kitahara, and the holy relics that I was going to take back home have been hidden since then, but I will still come. Zhou Zhe, do you say that if you embark on a path in life, you really can't come back? Isn't it always so unsatisfactory?"
"Someone has asked the same question, life is really always unsatisfactory. But whether you can come back after walking a road will not be known until you have walked through. Maybe, it's not your fault for embarking on this path, so why care?"
"But... ”
Xin Chai's words were interrupted by Zhou Zhe before he finished speaking
"It's the way of the world that's wrong. There is a fault and it is the fault of the world. Your grandmother loves you very much, and she doesn't want you to follow the path they have walked, as many elders do. But it doesn't mean that the path they have taken is wrong, but they have not taken this road well. "Thinking about Xin Chai's eighteen years old, the years of a high school girl, but she has spent so many years between life and death, it's really tricky.
"The fault of the whole world, Zhou Zhe, you don't have to comfort me like this. ”
"The fact is that so many people from the North Plains came from the south, and many of them just wanted to eat. The same people, some of them are just children, what is wrong with them? That must be someone who has done something wrong, Lao Chen's way is to protect these people, try to let them use their lives to fight a way out. Although you don't say it, but you kill those evil and crooked guys, you help the weak, isn't that the same? Xin Chai, you don't have to be arrogant. I'm just curious about your past, I don't want to get involved in these things, the road is to be taken step by step. ”
"Yes, you're such a strange fellow, I wonder if you're from this world. At first in the cabin, I thought you were from that little village, never thought you were really from that small village. It's not a family history, but... Xin Chai suddenly couldn't find a word to describe it, Zhou Zhe had too many uncertainties, such as the magical spirit array behind it.
"The important thing is that we're friends, aren't we? You've helped me so many times, but I don't know how to repay you. If you can't get out of the water this time, you have to live, remember the oath we made in the spider cave that day, and live well. Zhou Zhe also knows that he has experienced life and death so many times, and there is nothing worthy of his nostalgia in this world he doesn't like except for friends, just like an old man who sees through everything, life and death are not enough.
"You're a man. Xin chased people so grinding and chirping, which made her, a killer with a knife in her hand, feel that she was on the wrong set. "Let's not talk about it, let's go into the water! I'll use the aura to suppress the air bag first, I'm afraid it's going to be used underwater. ”
"Hmm!"
The two worked together, pressed the airbag and went into the water, the water was originally pitch black, only a faint light could be seen under the light of the two spirit stones, there were no fish and shrimp in the water, and there were only some smooth pebbles at the bottom of the river. The two of them have been slowly moving forward with the undercurrent, occasionally ventilating with the gas in the air bag. The entire underground section of the river was submerged in the water, and the two of them attached to the wolf's skin airbag and followed the current all the way forward, and the airbag was gradually decreasing, but there was still no exit.
Zhou Zhe's heart was a little flustered, and then he looked at Xin Chai who was also worried under the faint yellow light, Zhou Zhe still made a forward gesture, grabbed the airbag with one hand, and paddled forward with the other, and the speed of the water seemed to be getting slower and slower, the space became larger, and the way out was more difficult to find. And this dull march is always intimidating his heart, Zhou Zhe is a little anxious, he doesn't know when it's a head.
'No way!' Xin turned his head and gave him a gesture, a gesture of despair, and his eyes were undisguised with trepidation, because there was not much air in the airbag.
How can there be no road, how can it be? So much water flows into here, there must be an outlet for water. Zhou Zhe bit his fingers vigorously, he hoped to find the direction of the water flow with the help of the direction of blood diffusion, but the result disappointed him, the red color of the blood only spread to the stone wall in front of him, the stone wall formed by the accumulation of large stones.
Yes, the exit is only possible here, and only possible, maybe only like this, the big boulders only leave some gaps for water to pass through, or just gaps where water can pass but not people.
'I'll move the stones!' Xin Cha gestured, and then began to move the stones. Zhou Zhe also moved and dragged those stones. If it is a normal swim, it may require very little physical energy and air in the air bag, but in this case, it is difficult. And they only walked a few hundred meters at the bottom of the river.
"You go and fill up the airbags, I'm here. Zhou Zhe pushed the airbag to Xin Chai, he knew that he would not be able to go away if he didn't dig a road, and Xin Chai, she could survive this experience with the help of the airbag, and maybe she could dig a way. Xin Chai shook his head and wanted to push the airbag back to Zhou Zhe. Zhou Zhe refused with a fierce face, took a breath from the airbag again, and pushed it to Xin Chai again. Xin Chai also knew that he would not be able to survive if he delayed any longer, so he carried out the Nine Flashes of the Wanyue with an almost empty airbag and accelerated the retreat.
His eyes were as red as blood, and he didn't know if it was the stimulation of the water or the heartache, although Xin Chai was still slowed down by the water flow, he was still working hard. And after Zhou Zhe inhaled the gas in the valve for the last breath, he started to move his energy, frantically urging the muscles behind him, he needed strength, more strength to move a way of life. First-order, second-order, third-order, Zhou Zhe's strength is improving.
Zhou Zhe, you hold on, this is Xin Chai's heart, she felt the spiritual power fluctuations behind her from the moment she left.
Zhou Zhe, hold on, this is Zhou Zhe's heart, from the moment she left Zhou Zhe, she frantically urged her to open the seal and gain strength, the further back, the more painful the muscles became, Zhou Zhe's cheeks bulged high, and his eyes were wide open. The seal behind it opened a crack again, and it was the fourth order. At this time, not only was the hand forcefully moving away the stone, but the mind was also controlling the spiritual power to push the removed stone away from the cave entrance.
One meter, two meters, five meters, ten meters. Zhou Zhe no longer knew how far he had dug forward. Until he felt the water flow speed up, and with one palm, he retreated from the cracked stone in front of him and rushed through a path.
The pain poured wildly into the river in his chest and abdomen as his consciousness faded away, replaced by suffocation. Am I going to stay here? But the road is open, so good!
At the last moment of losing consciousness, she saw Xin Chai's figure, and then the feeling of being kissed by fragrant lips, and the air was poured into her mouth, which was Xin Chai, who did not wear a veil. But Zhou Zhe no longer had the strength to think, nor could he inhale even a little bit of air, and as soon as his eyes were dark, he fell into a coma.
Yes, it is indeed Xin Chai, who has no veil, Xin Chai, who has bright teeth and bright eyes, and Xin Chai, who is peerless. But it doesn't matter anymore, in order to speed up the journey, Xin Chai even took off the black clothes he had been wearing on his body, and only wore spider silk underwear, just to speed up and be less cumbersome. She wanted to use the method of Deshui to help Zhou Zhe be angry, but failed.
Then Xin Chai dragged Zhou Zhe and the wolf skin airbag, used all his spiritual power, and headed for the open passage. Tears and sweat soaked in the river silently, the red light kept flickering and kept advancing, she didn't know how to save at all, just crazy forward, forward and forward, even if there may be no way out ahead, there is no way back.
One breath, two breaths, she remembered hearing Yu Deshui say when chatting that as long as a person is drowning, he will definitely not be saved in dozens of breaths, and even if he is rescued, he will become an idiot, he will not move, he will not eat, drink and Lazar. So she won't save, she just wants to grasp this last light of life.
"Wow~" Xin Chai finally finished walking the dark underground river Dark River and emerged from the water. Several spirit stones were casually thrown into the blurred shore as lighting objects, causing bursts of squeaks, and coincidentally, this was really the spider cave that I had once reached. "Murder and kill!" The four big characters were still on the stone pillar in the middle, and the dragon spiders panicked from the mushroom fields to the holes above.
Xin Chai was too lazy to take care of those dragon spiders, so she laboriously dragged Zhou Zhe ashore. Her consumption is also not small, but it is not too much physical exertion and spiritual exhaustion. And Zhou Zhe had been drowning in a coma for dozens of breaths at this time, Xin didn't think much about it, and learned the way Yu Deshui saved people that day, and gave first aid to Zhou Zhe. Back and forth several times, it was to press the chest and abdomen to remove the accumulated water, and it was artificial respiration, and after being busy for a long time, Zhou Zhe was still like that, lying quietly, his face was pale and his body was cold.
"Zhou Zhe, Zhou Zhe!" Xin Chai cried and shook Zhou Zhe, but he couldn't wake up.