Outside the tavern, there is a lot of traffic, and inside the tavern, it is deserted. It seems to be specially opened for Jiuhan and Zhu Yan, since Zhu Yan entered the door, this tavern has not entered other guests, and the shopkeeper and the hall are also lazy one by one, as if it doesn't matter if you can't make money if you don't open.

Nine and a half leaned against the table and hung half of his body on the table, watching the people coming and going outside the door, without saying a word. Nearly half of the sauced beef on the table was eaten by Zhu Yan, and no one seemed to notice that Jiuhan, a fugitive who had been taken to the ninth floor of the Heavenly Prison, was drinking with a top general of the Mocking Wind Country who had just been deprived of his military powers. He picked up the wine bowl and took another sip of wine, then turned to Zhu Yan and said:

"Qiao He is in the inn behind this tavern, go to the room, you can take her back. ”

When he said this, Jiuhan's face was calm, as if he was stating a fact, but it didn't seem to be like that. A person may be very quiet on the outside, and he may behave according to the rules of the rest of his life, but in reality only he knows what kind of riots or revolutions he has experienced in his heart, and how the land has been turned over and filled in, and outsiders cannot see it.

That sentence, word by word, came out of the mouth of the nine-and-a-half. And with the appearance of each word, Zhu Yan seemed to be a bamboo gradually growing and gradually straightening up, he slowly straightened his sitting posture and corrected his attitude, and even his eyes became so serious little by little.

"Are you sure?" he asked, a look of disbelief in his eyes, as if he couldn't believe it.

"Determine what. He replied, but his eyes were full of determination.

"Just return Qiao He to me?

"Why are there conditions?" Nine and a half smiled, but the smile seemed to be relieved, "Is it wrong to return a woman to the man she loves and loves deeply?"

“......”

"I just did the right thing, and there's nothing wrong with that. Man grows in an instant, just as a pillar can lie dormant in the ground for years and grow several times taller in a day, and I'm afraid I am too. Like and love are different, like can be one-sided, but love must be two-way in order to be permanent, and it is possible to be happy. What's the use if I don't get Qiao He, a 'person', but just a numb body that doesn't love me?" he turned his eyes to the noisy crowd at the door of the tavern, then picked up the wine bowl in his hand, drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp, and said these words.

He turned his head to look at Zhu Yan, then at his hand, and said, "You are better than me, I admit it, and I have to admit it." Chasing women is not chasing cultivation, the latter can rely on their own efforts, but the former depends on a lot of luck and fortune. You're luckier than me, meeting the right person in the right place at the right time, and I can only keep losing and then keep accepting. ”

Zhu Yan listened to the calm Jiuhan finish saying these words with a shocked face, wiped his face as if he was alive, and then said, "Are you a monk?

"No," Nine and a Half smiled, like a child admitting his mistakes, "It's just that you're facing the real me." ”

Nine and a half, is it the real nine and a half? In fact, I'm afraid even he doesn't know. After recovering Lin Ze's memory, he often fell into a state similar to cognitive confusion, he couldn't be sure who he was, and he didn't know whether he should think with Lin Ze or nine and a half views. After all, although he was crossed by Lin Ze, he had lived as a simple nine-and-a-half for so long and so long, how could he choose?

Or rather, there is no choice.

In desperation, he could only define himself as a nine-and-a-half with another knowledge and another mode of thinking, and the two modes of thought were always at war in his mind, and despite his torment, he also occasionally gained a lot.

Such as letting go of Qiao He, such as his own relief. You must know that a cowardly person will choose to give up, and letting go is the best choice he can give to himself to Qiao He or even to Zhu Yan.

Zhu Yan thought for a long time and didn't speak. He stood up, clenched his fists, bowed deeply to the nine halves, and saluted.

And nine-and-a-half, laughed.

In prison, it was already dark, and it seemed that night was coming. A long time passed, and Z's voice disappeared for a long time, but Hachiyu still couldn't calm down. She sat there cross-legged alone with her eyes closed, not feeling the changes in the outside world.

In fact, it is not so much to close your eyes and recuperate as to refuse to accept information from the outside world. She has never been able to digest the huge information brought by Z's reappearance, so she can't dissolve it in her heart, and she has been entangled. Himself and the nine halves, will there really be one person who will die? Although there are mixed feelings in his heart, in fact, Bayu can figure out such a thing: the operation of the world is not irregular, just like the replacement of the old and new officials in the court, the useful leave the useless expelled, isn't this the case in this world? If not, then why have many ancient creatures not survived to the present, or even just left a little elusive ruin?

Even a powerful creature like a dragon, an incomparably powerful race that is said to feed on monsters and ghosts, why has it only become a legend by now? You must know that a common perception among people in the Nine Kingdoms today is that although the sea is dominated by whales, in ancient times, and even in ancient times, in the heyday of the dragon race, dragons were food on whales! The strength of the whale clan in the sea can be seen from its attack on the country of Pulao, it has the combat power of the holy realm that is definitely comparable to the number of the entire human race, if there is no sudden appearance of a similar sea barrier to stop it, I am afraid that it will only be a matter of minutes for the entire whale clan to launch a war to exterminate the country of Pulao.

Such a powerful race was once a slave or even a ration of another race, and the race that once used them for food will also be extinct, I have to say how strong the power of natural selection is in this world.

What about himself and Jiuhan? Extending this concept to himself and Jiuhan, Hachiyu seems to be able to see his own death. You must know that he is just an ordinary person who can use illusions, and Jiu Ban is a master of the Holy Realm who once retreated from the army of a country alone, and his existence is not one-sided at all, and he is infinitely close to Master Shaohong. Hypothetical, just hypothetical, if everyone in the world were to vote between her and the nine halves, and elect one person to survive and the other to die, I'm afraid that the nine halves would win with an absolute majority of votes, right?

Besides, even she didn't want to die at nine-and-a-half.

In the quiet space, the sound of small footsteps sounded. Wei Xicheng's ears moved and he quickly noticed this voice, but the eight feathers on the side seemed to be still immersed in his own thinking, so Wei Xicheng's voice immediately sounded, and he said: "Someone is coming, you listen." ”

Someone is coming? After getting the news, Bayu immediately opened her eyes, and then a familiar face appeared in front of her, and the person who came turned out to be Shi Jia, the prince of the country of mocking winds!

Shi Jia's expression was a little nervous. As the prince of the Land of the Mocking Winds, he didn't even follow any of the guards when he arrived. On the contrary, it seems that all the guards in this level of prison have been evacuated and have been dispatched to other locations. So, in this way, the child Shijia walked alone through the corridor full of prisoners on both sides, and walked to the end of this level of prison in the midst of noise and noise, that is, where Bayu and Wei Xicheng were.

"Yo, whose child is this so smart?"

"It can't be an adult's ration, otherwise it would be so fine-skinned and tender. ”

"That's not right, if you want me to say, maybe it's someone's son-in-law, looking for excitement at this time. You say, "Oh, don't you?"

In the midst of the noise and commotion, Shi Jia walked to the door of the cell where Bayu and Wei Xicheng were located, and then he trembled and untied a bunch of keys from his waist and began to unlock the lock. It was obvious that Shi Jia had never done such a thing, and Wei Xicheng didn't know how he dismissed the guards, let alone how he managed to resist the pressure of a group of stinky prisoners to walk to the door of this cell and open the door. Why did he let himself and Hachiyu go? didn't he know that this was a prison, and that he and Hachiyu were guilty in the eyes of the people of the Mocking Wind Country?

Ba Yu didn't think much about it, and after seeing Shi Jia's actions, she almost immediately rushed to the door of the cell. Seeing that such a child was struggling to untie the huge iron cable, Ba Yu grabbed the iron rope at once, and then said to Shi Jia with some urgency: "Shi Jia, what are you doing? You shouldn't have come!"

Fine beads of sweat oozed from Shi Jia's head, and his hands trembled slightly. He didn't stop with his hands, nor did he glance at Yayu, but with Hachiyu's help, he didn't have to effortlessly lift the huge iron chain, which was indeed a good thing for his thin shoulders. With a "bang", he finally poked the key into the hole. As he twisted the key to try to open the lock, he said, "I'm going to save you and take you away." Only you can resurrect my father, we agreed. ”

Shi Jia's words reached Bayu's ears, and then every word was like a sledgehammer slammed into her heart. Many things are powerless to change, and she lied to the other party that she could draw a living creature with a real person, but in fact it was just a delay, just to get the help of Shi Jia. I didn't think that childlike innocence will always be the purest thing in the world, Shi Jia actually believed what she said, which made Bayu's heart extremely heavy for a while.

Wei Xicheng stepped forward, and instead of looking at the eight feathers, he looked at the iron lock in Shijia and his hand. In fact, the iron lock was very fragile, at least in the eyes of a cultivator of the semi-saint realm like him, it was just a matter of a punch. But why didn't a cultivator like him escape from prison under this seemingly very weak protection? The reason is very simple, they can escape from prison, but they may not really be able to escape from ascension. Although he had already achieved semi-saint cultivation and was already able to reach the level of being a general among thousands of troops, Wei Xicheng was still not sure that he would escape with eight feathers under the cultivators of the Holy Realm. This is the same as the reason why he was respectful to Wei Xicheng even though Nine Half had just stepped into the Holy Realm, and he didn't fight back after being captured in the Mocking Wind Palace, the two were the same. Wei Xicheng was a martial artist, he could be said to be a big man but he was definitely not a fool, he was not sure that he could truly escape and ascend to heaven under the attack of the Holy Realm cultivators.

But at this time, he looked at Shi Jia and was ashamed. Despite his different circumstances and different years and cultivation differences, he suddenly discovered a quality in Shi Jia that seemed to have disappeared from themselves: adventure. How many years had it been since he had taken a risk for what he wanted and pursued? Although Shi Jia has no cultivation and is still a child, he even said that he risked his identity as an important anomaly as the Prince of the Mocking Wind to save an enemy like the Eight Feathers Wei Xicheng, just to resurrect his father. The thoughts in his mind turned back and forth, and Wei Xicheng seemed to feel that Shi Jia seemed to have taught himself a lesson.

Outside the prison, several guards carried knives and weighed the money in their hands, and walked out gracefully.

"Going for a drink?"

"Let's go to the kiln, what's the point of drinking?

After that, these people looked at each other and smiled, and their faces showed a kind of lewdness that they had not seen for a long time. But among these people, there was a young warden who looked at the young warden and seemed to be a little timid and said, "Senior...... We're all right?"

"What could it be?" one of Scarface glared at the young man, and then lectured in the tone of an old-timer boss, "You young people just can't read the face. The entire country of the Mocking Wind will belong to the prince in the future, and although the people are small now, do they need our permission to do something? Aren't you afraid that Lord Prince, who will be upset by you today, will find someone to cut off your dog's head tomorrow?"

The young man shrank his head and did not dare to speak.

In prison, Bayu and Wei Xicheng didn't help Shijia unlock the lock, and they worked hard for a while holding the huge lock, but it seemed that they were doing useless work, so he put down the lock slightly, wiped the sweat beads on his head with his sleeve, and then said: "Sister Bayu, you can't talk and don't count, right?"

Shi Jia's eyes full of sincerity broke through all the defenses in Bayu's heart in an instant, and the guilt and self-blame in her heart reached its peak at this moment. The girl lowered her head in those clear eyes, and then quickly raised her head and said to Shi Jia, "I'm sorry...... I lied to you. ”

"Huh?" Shi Jia, who heard this, was immediately stunned, in fact, it was not only him, but even Wei Xicheng on the side was shocked for a moment. You lied to him, what did you lie to him? Don't ......

Without waiting for Shi Jia to speak, Ba Yu continued: "I can't resurrect your father. I can only bring my paintings to life, but these things that are transformed from paintings must be lifeless and like the walking dead. Even if I draw a tiger and come out alone, they are just puppets for my thought control, so ......"

The scene fell silent for a while, and Shi Jia seemed to be unable to accept such a result for a while, and sat on the ground with a shocked face. Wei Xicheng stood at the door of the cell, standing beside Ba Yu, he looked at Ba Yu for a while, and Shi Jia for a while, in addition to shock, there was hesitation and some other emotions in his eyes. In fact, he is the most overwhelmed person at the moment.

The silence is terrible, and this silence lasts for a long time. After a while, Shi Jia took the lead in breaking the silence: "Sister Bayu, can't you really help me resurrect my father?"

Hachiyu nodded slowly, then lowered his head, basically losing the courage to look up.

With a long breath, Shi Jia slowly stood up, and then the sound of unlocking reached Hachiyu's ears.

Hearing this voice, Ya Yu raised her head as if she had seen a ghost, and the latter scene that she would never forget, or shock, entered the girl's field of vision: Shi Jia was still sweating profusely and trying to open the lock, and just like before, there was a momentum of "if you can't open the door, you won't stop".

All this seems to be like a dream, what Ba Yu can't imagine is why he still wants to help himself even though he has clearly deceived him? Privately releasing a prisoner in the Land of Mocking Wind is a big crime, and what Shi Jia has done at this time can easily make him lose everything he has now.

Is it really worth it?

Eight Feathers stood up from the ground, and the prisoners in the other cells around him continued to be noisy, but the master armor in front of him had already succeeded in unlocking the heavy lock, and he succeeded.

The child opened the door to his cell, and then stood in front of her, straightening his back and looking into her eyes, as bright as stars in the night sky. He opened his mouth and said:

"Actually, I knew that Dad might never come back, but I still have to help you. Because you are good people. ”