Chapter 75: A Thousand Feet High 3
readx;? The three of them each took a big sip, and Chu Chu suddenly chanted softly: "The dangerous building is a hundred feet high, raise your hand to pick the stars." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info dare not speak loudly, for fear of frightening the heavens. β
This is a sentence from the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's "Staying in the Mountain Temple at Night", which is very appropriate here.
Looking up from the floor-to-ceiling windows, the neon lights of the city can shine at the end of the canopy, and the dark gray canopy is indeed covered with thousands of bright stars. We are on the 50th floor, which is about 200 feet. Moreover, the hall was empty, and only the three of us were left, and if we really wanted to make a loud noise, we could only alarm the "heavenly people".
"Good poetry, good poetry, my sister is so literary!" Tang Wan blurted out.
She called out "sister", and there was a flash of water in Chu Chu's eyes, and two lines of tears slipped down.
I can vaguely understand Chu Chu's mood, in fact, the heart of each of us modern people is lonely and lonely, and at some point it is easy to be pierced by a sentence in the softest part of the heart, resulting in tears that cannot control emotions.
In this sense, Chu Chu's heart is more immature than Tang Wan, and he has been compared to Tang Wan.
"Thank you, sister, for the compliment. Chu Chu raised the bottle and took a big sip of himself.
"We sit here and drink and are natural snipers. Tang Wan pointed out the window.
Now, our position has been rotated to the direction of Thousand Buddha Mountain, and there are many tall buildings outside, and there are at least ten or more buildings on the roofs that can form excellent sniper combat positions.
I remembered the plan to "kill Chu", and sweat suddenly broke out on my forehead.
Some of Yan Gexing's subordinates are sniper masters, and he is currently being blackmailed by Chu Chu's Gu worms, once he sets up an ambush there, Chu Chu's life is in danger at any time.
"yes, life is fragile. Chu Chu didn't seem to care.
"Don't you worry about becoming the target of the public? In the Nanshan cemetery, Yan Gexing is only afraid that he already hates you to the bone. Tang Wan asked.
Chu Chu took another big sip and shook his head gently: "There are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests." β
This sentence is a famous saying in the rivers and lakes, and any master who mixes well in the rivers and lakes is well versed in the three flavors.
"Big brother, I have hidden some things from you, such as my past. I guess even if I don't say it now, my sister will tell you later, so it's better for me to say it myself, which seems more sincere. Chu Chu said.
"If it's sad, don't mention it again. I whispered in response.
Chu Chu's appearance was a little depressed, and what she wanted to say was naturally something unhappy. Besides, everyone has a past that they don't want to talk about, just like a scabbed scar, which will only add to the troubles.
Chu Chu shook his head: "No, those things are not only my past, but also my future. I still have the courage to repeat it tonight, and maybe tomorrow I won't dare to face it again. Thank you sister for giving me a start, so that I can say all my worries and longings in front of my eldest brother. β
"Okay, listen up. Tang Wan raised the bottle and took a sip of himself.
Chu Chu held the wine bottle in both hands, tilted his head sideways and pondered for a while, and slowly spoke: "Sister is right, Blood Gall Gu Po is indeed my biological mother, but I never knew who my biological father was. Her original identity was the favorite dancing girl of the King of Chu, with the thinnest waist and the most gorgeous appearance in the entire Miao Jiang, as well as the most beautiful singing voice, the most slender figure, and the most breathtaking dancing skills. The king of Chu loved nothing more than to let four sturdy servants hold a fine crystal mirror, and then let her dance on the mirror. The king of Chu loved her so much that he hated to fill her house with all the pearls and white jade from all over the world, because he thought that she would be the happiest and happiest woman in the world. If everything in the world were that simple, there would be no me in this world, and it would only add to the troubles of many people. Later, one day, a man from the Central Plains changed her world - that man went to the palace of the king of Chu to steal treasures, not only stole some extremely precious Gu seedlings, but even more terrifyingly, he stole the bronze gluttonous ring that represented the power of Miao Jiang. You must know that the ring, also known as the 'Chu King Order', is a symbol of all power, and all tribal leaders and barbarian lords are only subordinate to the ring. The loss of the ring is equivalent to the life of the king of Chu. So, the king of Chu ordered to search all over the mountain, not even an ant nest and a squirrel hole. The search lasted for a month, but the man from the Central Plains was lost in the sea and was nowhere to be found. The king of Chu had no choice but to prepare to summon all the leaders and lords to come to discuss and tell him about the loss of the gluttonous ring. According to Miao Jiang's rules, whoever loses the ring in his hands will have to suffer the most cruel Gu magic punishment, and then everything he has will be dispersed to others, including his property, women, territory, and even all kinds of Gu seedlings that have been raised for a lifetime. The most reluctant thing for the King of Chu was this dancing girl, at that time, there was no such person as a blood gall Gu woman in the rivers and lakes, and her name was Xue Dan. On the eve of the Miaojiang Conference, Xue Dan suddenly came to see the King of Chu and told him that he knew the whereabouts of the 'King of Chu's Order'-"
What Chu Chu said was a story that was extremely sad but old-fashioned.
To put it simply, the injured thief strayed into Xuedan's dormitory, and it was not an ordinary thief, but a descendant of a great master in the rivers and lakes in the past. The reason why he came to Miao Jiang to steal treasures was to use the power of Gu Miao to return to the Central Plains to avenge the killing of his father. Xue Dan has never left Miao Jiang since he was a child, and all he sees in his eyes are Miao men with dark skin, grinding his teeth and sucking blood, and he never imagined that there is another fascinating Central Plains man in the world. So, she hid the thief and healed him with the best Miao Jiang elixir. She had done something wrong, but she didn't realize it, and what was even more terrible was that she was so enamored by love that she had an affair with the thief on a full moon night. In just one night, she found out that her ovules were dark, and she had the thief's child. In order to escape from Miaojiang, the man weaved layer after layer of wonderful lies, and vowed to take Xuedan to escape from Miaojiang, and then go back to the Central Plains to live a life of singing and dancing and happy rivers and lakes. He described the world outside Miao Jiang so beautifully, and completely bewitched Xue Dan. It's a pity, although Xue Dan is in Miao Jiang, which is famous for his Gu arts, the man's sweet words are more terrifying than the "Gu" that the Gu refiner has spent his whole life cultivating. She told the thief that as long as the king of Chu was willing to let go, she and the thief would slide down the rope from the cliff in the back mountain and take a shortcut to leave Miaojiang. So, Xue Dan came to see the king of Chu and asked for the missing gluttonous ring in exchange for his freedom. The king of Chu was furious, imprisoned Xuedan, and personally led people to Xuedan's dormitory to search for the thief. Unexpectedly, the thief's scheming was really deep, and at the same time that Xue Dan rushed to the palace of the King of Chu, he had already escaped from the cliff of the back mountain. At this moment, the king of Chu not only lost the ring that commanded the heroes of Miao Jiang, but also lost the heart of the dancing girl Xuedan. In desperation, he sent Xue Dan into the cold palace and left him to fend for himself.
Conceived in October and delivered in one day. Xue Dan gave birth to a girl in the cold palace, which is Chu Chu who is sitting in front of us today. In that case, the girl had no status to speak of, and was not even as good as the lowly and inferior maids in the palace of the King of Chu. In the future, she may be sold far away from Miao Jiang, just like the slaves she bought and resold at random in the former border trade market. It is conceivable that her fate is bleak, and she can only be the most ordinary stone and grass in the valley, and live her life in peace and silence.
The turning point of the matter happened when Chu Chu was three years old, the door of the cold palace fell into disrepair, and a craftsman came to repair it and dismantle the old door. The ignorant Chu Chu sneaked out to play, and happened to meet the horse team of the king of Chu returning from hunting, and almost died under the horse's hooves. King Chu rescued Chu Chu, although it was the first time they met, he still saw the shadow of Xue Dan from Chu Chu's facial features at a glance. He remembered how good Xue Dan was, opened the cold palace, and released both of them.
Human emotions are always elusive, and the enthusiasm of the king of Chu did not keep Xue Dan's heart, she actually took Chu Chu to the back mountain in the second month after leaving the cold palace, and slid down the cliff by iron cable. She was going to find the thief, and she didn't believe what the king of Chu said at all, and regarded the negative man and Bo Qinglang as treasures who valued love and righteousness and were stronger than gold.
Xue Dan was captured by the guards, and the King of Chu couldn't deal with it, so he persuaded him with good words, hoping that Xue Dan could stay for Chu Chu and live well. Xue Dan was resolute, and would rather bear the pain of ten thousand Gu gnawing, but also leave Miao Jiang and go to find the thief.
In this story, the most innocent person is the little girl who always follows Xuedan, she doesn't understand the adult world at all, and she doesn't understand that the king of Chu has a deep affection for Xuedan, but Xuedan insists on going to the world outside Miaojiang. Her young heart is gradually filled with pain that only adults can bear, longing to be loved, but she will never get the love from her father and mother that ordinary people have.
In a helpless situation, the King of Chu could only let go and let Xue Dan go to the Ten Thousand Gu Cave to be tortured. At his behest, Xue Dan survived after being devoured by Gu worms, left Miao Jiang, and embarked on the difficult road to find the thief.
The reason I say this is a clichΓ© is because all listeners to this story can think of the ending, which is the most common repetition between the amorous woman and the negative man.
By the time they met, the thief had already taken revenge with the help of the stolen Gu Miao, and married the only daughter of a northern officialdom tycoon, who was rich enough to rival the country, and had everything. Even if Xue Dan was not disfigured, it would be absolutely impossible for him to recognize her, not to mention that not an inch of skin on Xue Dantong's body at this moment was intact, and there were countless new wounds and old scars.
The thief drove Xue Dan out, and that's not all, in order to cover up what he had done in Miao Jiang, he actually led people to chase and kill Xue Dan at night, to cause a car accident, so that Xue Dan was buried in a reservoir on the outskirts of the city. At the critical moment, the king of Chu rescued Xuedan and captured alive the thief who had been abandoned from the beginning.
Like all the faithless and unrighteous, the thief knelt down for Xue Dan and swore to heaven that he would go back and kill his wife and then return to Miao Jiang with Xue Dan, and from then on he would be a slave under Xue Dan's knees and never leave.
Xue Dan agreed to all the thieves' words, first put Gu on him, and then let him go back to the city. Afraid of the threat of Xuedan's Gu worms, the thieves killed the tycoon's daughter that night, and then drove back to the reservoir, only to find that Miao Jiang's people had disappeared without a trace. The Gu in him attacked on time, and the Gu worms began to eat away from his body. By the time dawn was found, the thief was left with only one skin.
After returning to Miaojiang, Xue Dan devoted himself to studying Gu arts, vowing to be his daughter's protector and not let her repeat her mistakes. The king of Chu was extremely fond of Chu Chu, and he had no heirs, so he made her the lord of the new generation of Miao Jiang, and this "Chu King Order" also went to Chu Chu's hands.
After this long, sad, and sentimental story was told, Chu Chu's eyes were already full of tears.
Now, she is the person in charge and leader of the Miao Jiang Gu Technique, and her own father died under the Gu worm's teeth. This is a trick of fate, and it is the most fearful place for human beings to thaumaturgy.
"The 'Divine Mirror' can predict people's fate, and as long as there are ambitious and dreamy people in the world, they want to get it, and I am no exception. Chu Chu wiped away his tears and said with red eyes.
"It is not a treasure to only see it, but it cannot be changed, because this kind of 'foresight power' is no longer surprising in many thaumaturgical sects. Several wise men over 150 years old in the Tang Sect in Shuzhong unanimously pointed out that the true supreme master should be able to use the power of the 'Divine Aspect Water Mirror' to glimpse the future, change the future, eliminate disasters, and move forward quickly. Tang Wan had a different opinion.
"You are more ambitious than mine, and the Tang Sect in Shuzhong is more ambitious than our Miao Jiang. Chu Chu said.
Tang Wan's words gave me new enlightenment, the power of the "Divine Water Mirror" is so huge, as long as it is born, it can change the fate of some people. Because as Tang Wan said, it brings the owner a divine power that is almost "cheating", making the owner's wisdom and strength hundreds of times higher than that of his contemporaries, easily defeating the challenger, and becoming an irrefutable and unparalleled king of the era.
I could casually cite a series of examples to prove this argument.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the seven kingdoms of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin were originally comparable in strength, and the strongest of them should be Qi and Chu. However, in the melee of the Seven Heroes, the weapons, art of war, and combat effectiveness of the Qin State suddenly improved greatly overnight, as if he had suddenly mastered a super weapon, and the lethality of the long sword, bronze ge, bow and crossbow, and arrow was all surpassed that of anyone else.
This kind of mutation was unthinkable in the era of low production efficiency, and among the Qin tomb relics unearthed to this day, it is common to see the Great Qin Sword that has been stored for thousands of years and is still extremely sharp, and its forging process has approached the most advanced sword-casting technology in modern Japan.
Many scientists have said that Qin Shi Huang received technical support from aliens at that time, so he improved smelting and forging, making Great Qin sweep through the six countries, like a bamboo.
If there is a "Divine Water Mirror", perhaps we can clearly know the truth about the prosperity of the Qin State, instead of standing on the ruins and relying on personal imagination to describe the past.
"Foresight, understanding, flexibility, avoiding disasters, and success" -- this is probably the greatest gift that the "Divine Water Mirror" can bring to this world.
"After talking for a long time, where is the artifact, do you know it in your heart?" Tang Wan pulled the topic back again.
I listened intently, and Chu Chu said word by word: "I don't know, but I think someone must know." β
"Who?" Tang Wan's voice tensed.
"A man who is best at robbing tombs in the water. Chu Chu muttered and replied, "Now, I hope he has taken advantage of the chaos to sneak attack." β