Ten thousand snakes hung a white gardenia wreath around their necks, and in their right hands held a spirit tablet carved from black spirit stone, on which the word Dunhuang was written vigorously and freely. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He walked through the winding passageway, his look of respect and guilt becoming more and more reverent and heartfelt in the dim light.

With each step, his tremor intensified, and the wrinkle on his brow increased.

It was as if the Loyal Soul Hall in front of him was a place he missed very much, but he was very afraid of.

The stone gate was spotlessly cleaned, and Wan Snake was a little relieved, during the time he left, Ye Luo must have come to clean here often.

He pushed open the stone door and looked at the fresh melons, fruits and flowers placed in front of the spirit tablets on both sides, and suddenly felt that there was much less decay and darkness inside, and there was a faint warmth.

Although he had been here many times, the more he came, the more respectful he became, and he knelt down meticulously and saluted, his fingers lightly brushing the handwriting on the spirit cards, feeling the residual warmth of those old friends who had died.

"Ye Gu, I'm sorry for you!" his eyes trembled, and his wriggling lips trembled like a young beast exposed to the cold wind.

"Because I was busy looking for a life-saving sword talisman for Ye Luo, I haven't been able to come to see you for so long, old friends, don't blame. Ten Thousand Serpents bowed and explained to themselves, as if everyone here was still alive and could hear his words.

This is a respect for the deceased and a remembrance of the deceased.

"Thanks to your blessings, now that I have found the sword talisman, the glue of heavenly oak, Ye Luo's illness has been saved. When he said this, the cloudy eyes of the ten thousand snakes bloomed with brilliant brilliance, and it seemed that the entire secret chamber dark tomb was bright and vivid.

After kneeling, he looked at the empty position in front of him, and remembered the moment when Ye Luo cut off the Dunhuang spirit card with a sword, shook his head helplessly and regretfully, and put the spirit card in his right hand respectfully in the middle, and then slowly put a gardenia wreath symbolizing heroes and glory for it.

"You kid, are you hungry again?" Wan Snake smiled to himself, and drank the wine he had taken out of the ring - he took a sip of it, and then spilled a handful in front of the mourning hall.

One person, one card, raise a glass to drink.

How bleak, how warm.

He hummed the words shouted by the boy in Dunhuang into a song, the voice was high and long, like an eagle flying freely between heaven and earth, galloping the sky, overlooking Shenzhou, so happy.

If there is an afterlife

I'm going to drink and walk freely

Fly freely in the sky like an eagle

Regardless of the clansmen

Regardless of the big picture

I will live for myself seriously

"If there is an afterlife...... the snake drank happily, wept bitterly, and slurred his mouth and howled in pain: "But where is the afterlife?"

......

Someone broke this harmony, and Ye Luo, who was carrying the sacrifice, pushed the door in, and what was imprinted in front of him was his brother who he hadn't seen for months, Ten Thousand Snakes.

Ten thousand snakes are much older, their already gray hair is now completely white, and their rickety bodies sit on the ground, crying like a child, and talking nonsense like nerves.

Under his weeping, the spirit card in the dark room became gloomy again, and Ye Luo felt a little inexplicably cold, and his heart was even more empty.

He walked up to the Ten Thousand Snakes and prepared to put on the robe he had just taken off, but after he saw the brand-new black spirit stone tablet in the middle, the remaining pity and weakness in his heart disappeared without a trace in an instant.

He stood quietly aside, watching the serpents weep coldly, inwardly screaming that the wasteful, useless, filthy tears had soiled this sacred place.

Outside, Wan Snake restrained his emotions, wiped the tears off his face, and looked at Ye Luo with an old smile: "Are you doing well lately?"

Ye Luo didn't respond, but poured a glass of sacrificial wine and handed it to Wan Snake: "It's cold, warm up." ”

Wan Snake was stunned, and then flattered with a smile on his face, and most of the wine in his excited hands was spilled.

Ye Luo himself poured a glass, and gently touched it with ten thousand snakes, his voice was a little bleak and cold: "This is the final wine, for you, or for me." ”

Wan Snake was stunned, and the smile that had just stayed on his face instantly froze in embarrassment, and then melted away painfully.

"Have you decided to kill me?"

He looked at Ye Luo and drank the glass of wine, lowered his eyebrows, and drank all the wine in the cup.

"Ning Xiyu's life and death are unknown, most of them are dead, and the conditions are much more ripe. Ye Luo opened his mouth coldly, a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, looking forward to the expression of ten thousand snakes.

"I've heard about it, but it's life and death. Ten thousand snakes wept and smiled bitterly, snatched Ye Luo's wine jug, put his mouth to the spout, and drank wildly.

"Regret it? She didn't know her father was alive until she died. Ye Luo laughed happily, his white teeth looking very strange in the gloomy room.

That white was like a wound that fell on the tattered heart of ten thousand snakes.

Ten Thousand Snakes stared at Ye Luo tightly, their lips twitched, but they didn't open their mouths in the end.

"We are brothers, why am I so vicious, right?" Ye Luo read the lips of the ten thousand snakes, saw through the words he wanted to say in his heart, and then mocked mercilessly and exposed mercilessly.

"Brother, when you instructed Dunhuang to slaughter the whole village, did you ever think that we were brothers? When my relatives and friends died at the hands of that little cub, did you ever think that we were brothers?

You're long overdue, please, hurry up, okay?"

The more Ye Luo spoke, the more he spoke, the more he spoke, the more he spoke, the more heartache he spoke, and there was a faint hint of crying in his tone.

"A hundred years ago, I gambled everything to follow you, but I lost everything, and now you want to carry out some kind of ant stationing plan, and believe in the foreigners, do you want to cause the artifact clan to be doomed?"

"Can you retire in peace? Can you die happily?"

"You shouldn't have lived a long time ago, you live, how can we live?"

Wan Snake looked at his own brother, listening to every fact he said, he was not angry, but smiled with relief: "It's better to live like this every day than to die." ”

"Then what are you waiting for, it's been a hundred years since you died!" Ye Luo's words were fierce, his eyes were like knives, pressing the gaze of ten thousand snakes.

Ten thousand snakes were stabbed by Ye Luo's gaze, dodged, don't look over, and responded resignedly: "I can't die yet, I want to take a look at Xin Wu and see him free." ”

"You must die, brother. Ye Luo was heartbroken, and a trace of clarity flashed in his eyes: "If you are afraid of death, then I will die with you." ”

"You know I can't let you go the most. Wan Snake shook his head, looked at Ye Luo's firmness, and said sadly: "If one of the two of us must die, then I should die." ”

"That's right!" Ye Luo laughed heartily, pouring wine for the ten thousand snakes again, and they sat on the ground like brothers, facing each other and chatting, as if the pleas, persecution, and death just now did not exist.

Plates of delicacies slowly occupy the ground, which are the favorite dishes of the two when they were children.

Several heart-shaped fruits are placed on a white porcelain jade plate, giving off an enticing aroma.

Wan Snake was a little moved, this was the snack he used to make - lucky fruit, made of lemon honey and four-leaf clover, and it was Ye Luo and Ning Xiyu's favorite snack.

"Very thoughtful. ”

"It's your last meal, after all. Ye Luo's tone trembled a little, not knowing whether it was the excitement of getting what he wanted, or the sadness of losing his brother.

Wan Snake picked up a heart-shaped fruit and put it in his mouth, then closed his eyes slightly, savoring the previous warmth, with a satisfied look on his face.

"I didn't think you'd agree to die so easily. Ye Luo drank by himself, looked at the spirit cards placed around him, and smiled softly and bitterly: "Actually, I know that you are back, and you have poisoned the wine you just drank, and I am ready to kill you with the determination to die." ”

"I know. Ten Thousand Snakes still chewed on the lucky fruit slowly, and joked half-truthfully: "You said last time that the next time you see me here, you will kill me." ”

"I thought there was going to be a big fight. ”

"I thought there would really be a glass of clear warm wine. ”

After Ye Luo listened, there was silence for a while.

"Why are you suddenly willing to die?"

"Even a dog, a pimpy dog, wants to survive. Wan Snake smiled and pointed to his white hair: "But if you can already feel the approach of death, you can see many things that you were originally obsessed with." ”

Ye Luo could indeed feel his weak vitality, his cloudy eyes were full of decay, and his pale hair meant overdraft, even if he didn't persecute Ten Thousand Snakes, the latter would only be alive for three years and two years.

"Could it be that the Seven Turns of the Golden Monster can't save you?" Ye Luo raised his gaze and licked his dry lips with his outstretched tongue.

Wan Snake smiled, not annoyed and wondered why Ye Luo knew what he was thinking, but nodded after verifying a certain conjecture: "It seems that Xiao is indeed the person you arranged by my side." ”

Ye Luo was stunned: "Do you know that I arranged the owl by your side?"

Then he asked incomprehensibly one after another: "Since you know, why don't you embankment him?"

Wan Snake wiped away the remnants of the lucky fruit at the corner of his mouth with his hand, and his eyes looking at Ye Luo revealed a hint of brightness.

It is the unique look of thinking of Dunhuang, and it is also the favorite of watching Ye Luo seriously.

"Why should I hide it from someone I trust and who is closest to me?"

He said it as naturally as he could, without the slightest artificiality.

"Even if this person wants to kill you?"

"I wanted to die at the hands of that man, but I was looking forward to this day being a little late, and I greedily wanted to watch that boy grow up. ”

Ye Luo was a little surprised, but he still thought that this was an emotional trick that Wan Snake was good at, and snorted coldly: "After that incident, I never regarded you as a brother again." ”

Wan Snake didn't make an excuse, but instead said to himself: "After all, the Seven Turns of the Golden Monster is a legend, and I can't verify whether there is one or not, you say so much to me, just want to get the Seven Turns of the Golden Monster." ”

He smiled self-deprecatingly, and there was a deep helplessness hidden in the folded wrinkles: "The life that is pinched in the hands of the Boundary Flow Heart, and only a divine object like the Seven Turns of the Golden Monster can change its life against the sky." ”

He stared at Ye Luo, and a trace of relief appeared in his eyes, revealing the joy of an ordinary old man seeing his relatives.

"Ye Luo, don't fight the idea of seven turns of golden monsters anymore. "Ten thousand snakes took out the sword talisman he had obtained from the desert frontier through the hardships of life and death - the glue of heavenly oak, the pitch-black glue of heavenly oak was like a section of brown sugar cane, reflecting a metallic luster, and the surface was flowing with pale golden runes, like nerves.

It stood erect on the palm of the ten thousand snakes, and suddenly grew and lengthened like mushrooms after a rain, and then withered and shortened like melting ice and snow, and returned to its original state.

Ye Luo looked at the glue of heavenly oak, and his eyes lit up suddenly.

Maybe many people don't know about sword runes, but he and Wan Snake are familiar with most of them, so he can recognize at a glance the sword rune with the attribute of telescopic source power - Heavenly Oak Glue!

He suddenly understood why the snakes had disappeared for months, why they were lifeless, why their hair was all white.

He exchanged his little remaining Shouyuan for this sword talisman.

(Recently, I have been writing about feelings and ethical thinking, so don't get bored.) This is a foreshadowing for the upcoming **, and it will not be long before there will be thoughts about human nature and about the choices made by Xin Wu. ）