Chapter 22: A Time Journey
After the light dissipated, Shenhuan opened his eyes, and in front of him, it was the most unforgettable scene of Shenhuan!
Gongliang Mansion!
As usual, the servants of the palace were busy and orderly moving from hall to corridor. Occasionally, there were two maids who stopped to chat, and after a short while, the housekeeper Lu Lao suddenly appeared behind them as if he had fallen from the sky.
Lu Lao coughed lightly, and after the two maids were surprised, they were like children who had made a mistake, burying their heads and leaving quickly.
In the distance, there was the sound of children and children playing, and the occasional sound of swords clashing, but it quickly subsided. Shen Huan knew that this was a frustration between the big children, and the sword fight, but was stopped in time by the guards who protected him.
All of this is so familiar to Shen Huan, so familiar that it seems that he has never left, and it is so familiar that it seems that it has not changed all these years.
At this moment, Shenhuan's brain was blank, and his feet were like lead, unable to move a bit.
It's not that Shenhuan didn't want to go back to Gongliang's house, but he never thought that he would return to Gongliang's house in such a way, and it was so sudden.
How to face it, Shenhuan doesn't know. Over the years, Shen Huan, who has gradually become accustomed to using the sword to solve problems by force, as Zhuo Qing said, his brain is full of muscles. This sudden change made Shen Huan really at a loss.
As the saying goes, the hometown is timid, and Shenhuan at this time is like this. Moreover, in the face of the family that expelled him, his mood was even more complicated.
"Alas!" a sigh, Shen Huan finally made up his mind. What should be faced, must be faced in the end. The past can no longer be changed, the future must be created by himself, even if fate is destined for him to be expelled, he must take this step against fate without hesitation!
As soon as one step was taken, the color of the heavens and the earth changed! The majestic Gongliang Mansion shattered like glass...... The surroundings were plunged into darkness where you couldn't see your fingers.
"This ......" Shen Huan was stunned, "it turned out to be a mirage......"
At this moment, Shenhuan's mood can't tell whether it is loss or relief......
Just as Shenhuan lost his mind, the surrounding environment changed, and the blue-white "Time Belt" began to appear gradually. Just as Shenhuan observed the changes in the "Time Star Belt", the dazzling brilliance once again illuminated the entire space.
"Where will it be this time......" Shen Huan, who had been temporarily blind in the bright light, muttered to himself.
His vision returned, and Shen Huan looked around, it was a white snow. Fresh snow blankets the world in white, outlines the silhouette of distant mountains in a soft, undulating dazzling curve, and transforms all trees as far as can be seen into gigantic or delicate silver corals.
The white world in front of the "Snow ......" made Shenhuan feel strange and familiar, and this impression seemed a little distant, and Shenhuan couldn't recall it for a while.
In the distance of the avenue came the sound of horses' hooves and the rattling of cars, and a simple carriage approached from far and near.
Seeing this carriage, Shenhuan finally remembered where this was.
The carriage stopped a few meters in front of Shen Huan. The coachman lifted the curtain and dragged out a sleeping child and threw him down in the snow.
The child woke up and cried out in pain: "Ouch!"
The coachman ignored him, rummaged through the carriage, took out a small package, and eagerly opened the package: "There is so much silver, hahaha, enough for my salary for several years." And two pieces of clothing......"
Looking back at the child who was shivering in the wind and snow, the coachman spat at and scolded: "Damn, it's useless to leave it to this little cub, take it back and give it to the children of the third family." ”
The winter in Xuanzhou was extremely cold, and the child had frozen his lips blue, and he said tremblingly: "That...... Those...... It's all ...... It's all mine...... It was Grandpa Lu who gave it to ...... Give me ......"
"Your?" the coachman spat viciously on the child's face, "Do you still think that you are the little master of the Gongliang family? ”
The child, who had never been insulted in this way, was stunned, and could only hold himself tightly with both hands, trying to retain a little warmth.
"Huh?" the sharp-eyed coachman found the red rope around the child's neck, pulled the child to him, and pulled the red rope out of the child's clothes, and at one end of the red rope was a small jade statue of blessing.
The child didn't know where the strength came from, and his hands clutched the jade statue tightly, and he didn't even tremble to speak: "This is what my mother left me." You can't take it!"
The coachman wanted to forcibly open the child's hand, but found that the small hands had incredible strength at this time.
After several failed attempts, the coachman angrily punched the child: "Rabbit, let go!"
"No!" the voice was so stubborn.
Shen Huan, who was watching all this on the side, clenched his hands desperately, his nails pierced the skin of his palms, and even his finger bones were about to shatter.
How not to hate? "Let go!", "Don't give!" and the sound of fists smashing on the child's weak body still echoed in my ears. How to call Shenhuan not hate!
Should you kill him? It's a vision, what's the use of killing him?
What's more, these insults, these pains, and these tortures were really caused by this groom? No, Shenhuan knew very well in his heart that all of this was because he was expelled by the Gongliang family.
Revenge! Only by doubling revenge can we wash away our pain and humiliation! A trace of fierceness flashed in Shenhuan's eyes.
But then he recalled the intimacy of the eighty-one swords in the passage of the ruins, the lighting runes that suddenly lit up in the passage, and the white bones that were suppressed by his kneeling, and Shen Huan was confused...... For his relatives and for the family, what should he do, Shenhuan doesn't know, and he doesn't want to think about it anymore.
The scene shattered again.
Shen Huan was prepared this time, closed his eyes first, and waited for the illusion to change again.
When Shenhuan opened his eyes again, he found that he was still in complete darkness.
"Isn't there a mirage?"
Just when Shenhuan was wondering, somewhere in the darkness, there was a creepy hoarse howl. After a moment, there was no sound at all.
This voice, Shen Huan is all too familiar, this is the last voice left in this world by the strangled person.
After a while, a green voice came from the other direction: "Someone is so lucky that he strangled tomorrow's opponent to death tonight." ”
"Do you want to too?" another childish voice sounded.
There was silence all around. No one spoke anymore.
The night is very long.
After a long time, a glimmer of light finally appeared in the darkness, and the door was pushed open, and the sunlight outside cast into the dark crypt.
"203, 204, come out!" said the man who opened the door with a thick smell of blood.
Through the sunlight, you can see two children who are about the same height slowly coming out of different corners.
Obviously they are still childish age, but the pace of the two is as vigilant and cautious as a beast about to prey.
Just as the two of them passed through the door, one of the children conjured a short dagger out of there and plunged it into the waist of the other person who was caught off guard!
Without waiting for the man's reaction, the child who struck first grabbed the dagger with both hands and stabbed it into the man's body with one slam. The fragile body of the seven or eight-year-old child was pierced with more than a dozen bloody holes!
The child holding the dagger was covered in blood from the victim's wounds, but his expression did not change in the slightest, and even his breathing was as steady as usual.
"Not bad. The person who opened the door said with a little more appreciation in his tone, "203, you are entitled to have your own name." Say your name!"
"Leave!" the child put away his dagger and walked silently back to his corner.
"Well, from now on, you will be called 'Blood Separation'. The man casually kicked the corpse on the ground out of the crypt, "Next, 205, 206!
There was only one person who walked out.
"What about 205?"
"I was strangled last night. 206 replied lightly.
"Well done, fight his corpse out, you're also entitled to your name, what's your name?"
"Gong ...... My name is Shenhuan......"
"From now on, you will be called 'Blood Radiance'!"
Xiao Shenhuan dragged the body of the child number 205 from the corner and threw it into the open space outside the crypt, where several scavenging dogs swarmed up and tore the corpse to pieces.
Xiao Shenhuan, who returned to the corner, whispered in a voice that he could only hear: "205, I didn't kill ......"
As the day passed, half of the children in the crypt were gone. As it darkened, the children breathed a sigh of relief that they would have another month to live.
At night, a small figure walked towards Xiao Shenhuan.
The man sat down side by side with Xiao Shenhuan, poked Xiao Shenhuan in a daze with his fingers, lowered his voice and asked, "Hey, your name is 'Xuehuan', right?"
"Shen Huan. Xiao Shenhuan corrected.
"Good, Shenhuan. I said Shenhuan, you have to thank me. ”
"You killed 205?"
"Of course. The man's tone was full of smugness, "I'll kill him to keep you alive next month, so that you can guide me next month." ”
Before Xiao Shenhuan could speak, the man said to himself again: "I found out that every time you learn something, you are the fastest among everyone. For example, the 'Gangqi Body Forging Technique' that you learned last month only took three days to learn. As for me, I'm not slow, but I'm far worse than you. This month, it seems that I am going to learn assassination techniques, and when the time comes, if I can't learn it, you will learn to teach me, and it can be regarded as repaying me. I can't learn things, and you can't kill people. ”
Xiao Shenhuan was stunned and noncommittal.
As the night deepened, seeing that the person was still not giving up, Xiao Shenhuan finally asked, "What's your name?"
"Bloody!"
"I'll teach you, will you kill me?"
"Why, we're friends! My dagger will never kill my friend. ”
......
Blood ...... My only friend in those dark times...... Shenhuan remembered the dagger that stabbed him mercilessly that day, and was silent.
"If you put away the dagger, then we ...... It's going to be a friend......" Shen Huan muttered to himself after a long time.
When the words fell, a soft light lit up in the dark space, illuminating the entire space, and the "Time Star Belt" began to appear, restoring the original appearance of the traces of time.
The difference is that here, there is wind!