Despite contacting Hachiha, Z doesn't really need her anymore.

The plan of "borrowing the sky" is not so much a plan as a conspiracy, which Z uses to create gods and legends. He has failed many times, and among so many failures, Hachiyu is also one. At this time, Z can be said to have done his best in the cultivation of nine and a half, and he can't afford to fail, so he has the idea of sacrificing eight feathers in his heart.

The emperor will be in the picture, and the so-called emperor's art is thick black science. Everyone sacrifices for one goal of one person, and the so-called cunning rabbit dead lackey cooking is such a truth. When faced with greater success, when his greater goal is close to success and close at hand, many things and many people for Z, even those who he has put a lot of effort into cultivating, can give up and sacrifice.

After all, when a person's goal is to turn the whole world upside down, how can you force him to be a good person at the same time?

The prison was damp and cold, not so cold that it did not see the light of day, but there was still only a rare light that could penetrate through the narrow windows. Places without sunlight always like to breed darkness, and this is especially true in this kind of semi-underground cell, but simply, Wei Xicheng and Hachiyu don't care.

Wei Xicheng was still like that, and after receiving the double knife, he sat alone in the corner of the cell and meditated and pranayama. There was only a layer of straw mat under his buttocks that didn't look comfortable, but at the moment Wei Xicheng didn't care about this, but quietly closed his eyes and meditated, as if he had entered a state of meditation.

Hachiyu didn't have the same concentration as Wei Xicheng, and she was bored and pulled out a slender straw pole from the messy straw mat, scribbling something on the wall beside her. Within a quarter of an hour, the image of a brush was depicted vividly.

"After all these years, you still love painting so much. An old but familiar voice echoed through the not-so-spacious cell, as if there was an echo. The moment the voice sounded, the hairs on Hachiha's body exploded from the soles of his feet, spreading straight to the back of his head, and then, cold sweat left behind his head, like a thin snake flowing over a high slope and flowing down his back to his waist.

How many years have I not heard that voice?

As if a domestic cat had seen a mouse, a scream instantly burst out of the woman's mouth: "Who! is it?"

Women's bodies are the source of all things, and their voices are the first sounds of the whole world, noisy and sharp. Awakened by this noisy and shrill voice, Wei Xicheng shivered fiercely and then opened his eyes and said, "Bayu, who's coming?"

Bayu didn't react for a while, but after listening closely, he found that the familiar voice did not continue to come, so he hurriedly lowered his head and pretended not to know, and said, "No..... No, I dreamed. ”

"Are you dreaming too?" Wei Xicheng asked, his eyes seemed to have a look of joy that he had found his peers, "I didn't expect that you could still fall asleep and dream under such harsh conditions, congratulations?"

Wei Xicheng's unusually straightforward words really made Bayu a little helpless, but at this time, there was no better solution than to fool the past, so she could only follow Wei Xicheng's words with a haha: "It's still ...... It's okay, maybe I'm a little tired these days, and I can't help it. ”

It seems that he saw the embarrassment of the eight feathers, and Wei Xicheng, as an old man, would of course observe the expressions of the eight feathers. At this point, he didn't plan to continue the topic, so he yawned and said, "Okay, then I'll go back to sleep." I don't know what this mocking wind monarch wants to do, it's been so long and no one has sent someone to find us and hasn't explained his attitude, it's strange. ”

After saying that, he closed his eyes and really fell asleep.

The silence lasted for a moment, then was interrupted by the sound of a pounding heartbeat from Hachihachi's heart. The heartbeat was clear, but it didn't seem to make sense to simply explain a situation: she was scared.

Eight feathers, indeed, are very scared. Not only was she afraid of her own real future, she didn't know what the so-called Mocking Wind Monarch would do with her and deal with them, she was even more afraid that the man had come and returned.

The man who called himself Z, the man who was almost omnipotent, almost god-like, appeared at this moment. Originally, Bayu should be excited, the person who had saved her once reappeared, shouldn't this girl who was saved be grateful to Dade for being full of excitement to meet her? But in fact, this is not the case, when you are weak, when you face the unknown strength and the unexplained kindness brought by that kind of strength, you will be terrified to the extreme, you will be afraid of all the good intentions that have no source, and you will speculate everything as malicious, just like Bayu is now.

The root of all, everything, is that Z is just too powerful.

Z's strength was something that Hachiwa couldn't appreciate when she was young, and it wasn't until years later or when she created the Tail Leaf Secret Realm that she could feel it deeply. In fact, the encounter between Bayu and Z is not very long, and Z has only done one thing from beginning to end, that is, to give Bayu a magic pen. Many years later, in the middle of a sleepless night, Hachiyu suddenly realized that this is not a pen that can turn all the things he draws into reality, but the root of all desires!

Imagine that you have a pen that can do it for you when you need food, when you need clothing and money, and even when you need companionship, it can easily do the task.

But what about when you need someone to die?

The only consequence of omnipotence is that your appetite, your desires, your ideas will grow bigger and bigger, and when you want everything, that's the first step into the abyss, and when you become a king and have everything in the world, you will have the idea of killing God or becoming a god. And when that thought arises, that's the beginning of your journey to death—if God exists, of course.

So,From then on, Hachiwa began to occasionally reduce the number of times he used this magic pen.,From the initial expectation of seeing Z again, it gradually turned into avoidance.,Then turned into fear.。 At this time, staying in the dimly lit prison and listening to the sounds of rats and insects around him, Hachiyu shivered. It's so simple: Z reappears, what does he want, what does he want with me? He gave me everything, does he want to take it now?

When I think about it deeply, it seems that I am extremely frightened: there should be no free lunch in this world, so what is he asking for when he returns now? If I can afford it, of course I will give it. But what if he wants my life?

Hachiyu couldn't give an answer.

Instantly, the sound of emptiness echoed through the narrow space, and it was as if the sound was the same sound that collided on the walls of the cell again and again, back and forth, and then reached her own ears. Then she seemed to be able to understand that just as she could only see Z's body many years ago, this time only she could hear Z's voice.

"You're back looking for me. It seemed that he had a premonition that Z would appear again, and as he spoke, Hachiyu opened his mouth first. This time she didn't do much, just found a place to sit in the corner of the cell, then closed her eyes and spoke.

Her words were not answered immediately, Z seemed to be silent for a while, and then the old voice came to Hachiyu's ears: "Yes and no." ”

She silently took on a meditative position, took out her pen and placed it on her crossed knee, and then continued: "What is that? Is it that after all these years, you are going to take it back?"

"It's yours after all, it's yours, and no one else can take it away. Z said, there seemed to be a little relief in his tone, but what he heard in Bayu's ears was more of an exhausted old mood. "This pen has a fate with you, and this fate was set when you and I met, and I can't change it. Why should I forcibly cut off a relationship? It's no different from practice. ”

"So ......"

"So I'm here to tell you I'm leaving. ”

Something seemed unexpected, and Hachiyu almost coughed out without taking a breath, but Z didn't care. He paused, then continued: "You don't know where I'm from, and you don't need to ask where I'm going." I just want to tell you one thing when I show up, if you continue what you are doing now, if you continue to stay with the man you are now clinging to, you will die. ”

"Death?" Hachiyu was shocked when she heard the word, but despite the turbulence in her heart as if she had undergone a heavenly change, she still maintained her apparent composure and did not show it in her tone and expression.

It was naturally impossible for Z not to feel the changes in her inner emotions, so she just continued to speak quietly and said, "Before leaving, I counted it. This hexagram concerns all the people who have been related to me, and I see in the section about you that if you continue to be the status quo, then at least one of you, whether you or him, will die for the other. It's just that there is one news that I don't know good or bad, that is, the dead person should remain in the heart of another person forever. ”

Is it going to die in his heart? That's probably not a bad thing...... This thought appeared in Hachiha's mind, and then spread rapidly like a germ breeding. Gradually, in her mind, it seemed that she had acquiesced to such an ending, and then silence took over.

I don't know when Z's voice disappeared. And Hachiyu didn't pay attention to Z's departure, just quietly closed his eyes, meditated, and thought, as if he was calculating something.

Then, two lines of tears slowly flowed from her swollen eyes, slid down her cheeks, dripped onto her clothes, and finally evaporated.

In the middle of the city, Zhu Yan walked through the crowded crowd and walked into a tavern.

In this tavern, it seems that someone has been waiting for a long time.

As soon as he entered the gate, a little brother who ran the hall stepped forward to greet him: "This guest officer, please, what are you doing?"

"No need, find someone. Zhu Yan didn't say much, and then shook off the little brother who ran the hall and walked straight inside. In fact, the store of this tavern is not very large, and there are six tables in the lobby that are not very spacious. It was morning, and there weren't many people stinging, and he was naturally walking towards the only person sitting in the lobby.

That man was none other than Nine-and-a-half.

At this time, it was the second day after Jiu and a half recovered his memory, and he came to see Zhu Yan alone. The shop was a little empty, and there was nothing on the table in front of him except a jar of wine, two bowls, and three catties of sauced beef.

Why is there only soy beef? Jiu Ban didn't know and didn't ask in detail, anyway, this tavern doesn't have a store name, and the signboard has three big characters written on it, so it's okay to order soy sauce beef.

Zhu Yan walked in, saw nine and a half, and then walked to the table and sat down. He didn't feel nervous but also angry, just slowly grabbed a piece of sauced beef and brought it to his mouth, didn't eat it, and then said, "I didn't expect you to come back." ”

He put the beef sauce in his mouth and began to chew, ready to swallow. The sauced beef is made of beef meat, and the piece of meat that Zhu Yan grabbed is very coincidental, which is precisely the part of the beef tendon and beef. The tendons are soft and rotten, and they are deeply embedded in the beef. In one bite, the beef tendon and beef are perfectly bitten at the same time, and then the juice seeps out and wraps the tongue, and a beautiful symphony is completed at this time. Zhu Yan was immersed in this delicacy for a moment, and he was a little surprised.

How long has it been since I've had a bite to eat, and how long has it been since I've really rested?

Jiuban was not in a hurry, he looked at Zhu Yan's expression and seemed to enjoy it a little, so he stretched out his hand to pick up the wine jar and gently filled the two wine bowls in front of him and Zhu Yan. Suddenly, the mellow aroma of rice wine filled the entire table in front of the two. The aroma of wine and meat blended together, and in an instant, a somewhat extraordinary magnetic field was formed. This magnetic field changed Zhu Yan's state of mind to a certain extent, and he sniffed sharply, fully enjoying this somewhat unusual aroma.

"Good wine!" drank the wine in the bowl in front of him in one gulp, and then grabbed a large piece of beef and stuffed it directly into his mouth to chew, and suddenly the aroma of wine and meat really merged in his mouth at the same time. In fact, it is difficult for you to imagine such a scene: a beautiful man with the word 'high-class' written on his face is like a butcher chewing sauce beef with a mouthful of wine, and it is called a fragrant person, which makes people appetite.

Simply the runner and the shopkeeper seemed to consciously turn their faces to the other side, only Jiuban smiled and picked up the wine jar again to fill the wine in front of Zhu Yan, and then picked up the wine bowl in front of him and took a sip, without saying anything.

Zhu Yan swallowed the mouthful of beef in his mouth, as if he had figured out what was going on, he didn't have the same nervous face as before, and then said, "I knew that you would definitely come back to me." ”

"How can you be so sure?" Jiu Ban stared at Zhu Yan's eyes and said.

Zhu Yan wiped his lips and then stretched out his hand, picked up the nearest piece of sauced beef in front of him, but he didn't rush to eat it in his mouth, but put the beef in front of him and shook it, and said, "Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door." I'm afraid that if you don't come back to me, you're afraid of this. ”

He put the piece of sauced beef in his mouth and chewed it, and said: "Actually, after Qiao He disappeared, I was also anxious, and I was looking for it everywhere, and I was also blind. But after I was too anxious, I thought about it and felt that Qiao He should still be taken away by you. Qiao He disappeared, and then you escaped from prison, this kind of thing is almost impossible to happen at the same time and has nothing to do with it, but once it happens, it can only mean one thing, that is, you will never hurt Qiao He, right?"

Looking at Zhu Yan, who was eating meat in front of him, Jiu Ban was a little shocked. He couldn't imagine that the Mocking Wind General could have such a side, could it be that he had been suppressed for too long on weekdays? He took another sip of wine and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will meet you, are you going to threaten you with Qiao He?"

Zhu Yan was notified an hour ago to come here to see Jiuhan, and the way to inform him was very simple, that is, a child ran over and told him when and where, someone wanted to see him. A general who has been deprived of military power is just a façade. Besides, Zhu Yan is still a young Zhuang faction in the military world of the Mocking Wind, how could anyone be so mysterious to see him? Thinking about it, it should be nine and a half. In the court and in the military, Zhu Yan has a lot of scruples, but in fact, few people in the market know him Zhu Yan, so the head of this country is also let go.

It's just that his expression of desperately eating sauced beef at this time is really cute.

"Threats, probably not needed, right?" Looking at Jiuban's face, Zhu Yan said: "You are different from two days ago and three days ago, I'm not stupid or blind." If you wanted to threaten me, would you meet me so easily?"