Chapter 12: The World in the Mirror (1)
In the next three days, Chu Nanxing did not reappear.
Although Qin Gang was exempted from whipping, she was locked up in her own lounge for reflection. Bai Zhi was released from the confinement cell, and would come to see her from time to time to tell her some recent news about Xianmen.
After Lu Zhu woke up, he also came to see Qin Gang for the first time to express his gratitude. When I was training in the back mountain, I would also pick some delicious fruits and give them to Qin Gang to eat.
Qin Geng, who was in the lounge, also had plenty of time to recite the Inner Disciple's Handbook, and he had memorized almost the entire book.
When Qin Gang was released from the lounge, the third plot was finally ushered in.
The inner disciples all gathered at Xuanyue Peak to convene an emergency meeting, and the content was about a place in the mortal world called Wanfeng Village that was slaughtered by evil spirits. After the evil spirit wiped out the entire village, instead of leaving, it set up an illusion, as if it was provoking the fairy world.
As far as Xuan Yuefeng, who manages the discipline of the Three Realms, is concerned, the responsibility for this matter falls on Zhou Zexi's head.
It will be the Four Immortal Gate Exchange Tournament soon, and this time it will be the turn of Xuanyue Peak to be held, and the inner disciples will cooperate with the core disciples to complete the arrangement. This kind of thing happened suddenly at this moment, and he couldn't find anyone to solve it for a while.
Many inner disciples didn't want to get involved in this matter, after all, almost no one was willing to take on this kind of thankless thing.
Qin Gang was the first to come out and said loudly: "Immortal Venerable, the disciple is willing to ask for his life!" ”
The other disciples had two words in their eyes: "hero".
Zhou Zexi glanced at her, thinking that she hadn't done anything out of the ordinary in the past few days, and her strength was acceptable, so she agreed.
He symbolically admonished a few words, and also made this killing of evil spirits one of the tests.
After Qin Gang responded one by one, he made a trick and went.
The mortal village of Wanfeng is located in the west of Kyushu, and because it is surrounded by mountain peaks, the people in the village are relatively isolated. There is a cave at the entrance of their village, and the statue of Zhou Zexi is enshrined in it.
If there is a problem in the village, they will ask for help from the fairy world in the form of prayers.
When he landed, Qin Geng's face couldn't help but turn a little pale. There were almost no living people left in the entire village, and everywhere mortals who had been mutilated by evil spirits fell to the ground, and some even turned to white bones.
These mortals had no blood on them, and their expressions were very hideous.
The evil spirits in the novels are usually cruel, and the competition between them is fierce. Generally, evil spirits with low strength will be devoured by evil spirits with strong strength if they are not careful.
In order to be able to live in a world where the weak eat the strong, many evil spirits will cultivate through various evil spells. No matter how weak the evil spirit, it is easy to deal with mortals.
And the more mortal spirits you eat, the stronger the power of this evil spirit will be.
Sometimes, the evil spirits will compare who has the most cruel methods against mortals, in order to gain the admiration of other evil spirits.
Qin Gang walked around the village and found that under the hidden houses of the houses, there were actually mirrors one after another. Chu Nanxing had told her before that as long as she saw the mirror, she would not be far from meeting evil spirits.
She was about to walk forward, but a little girl appeared in the mirror.
It was when she was a child.
The young Qin Gang seemed to be running, and several little boys were chasing after her. At that time, she was still a little beggar wandering on the street, and she often had to go to the street to pick up steamed buns or rotten fruits on the ground to eat.
But the other little beggars also wanted to eat, so they would rob her. Many times, in order to avoid other little beggars, she can only run desperately.
The influence in the mirror disappeared, and in the end, only Qin Geng's puzzled face remained.
It seems that this illusion created by this evil spirit is taking advantage of the saddest things in people's hearts.
Qin Gang left the mirror, and the mirror behind him suddenly turned into water droplets, falling to the ground to form a thin layer of water. And in the water, it still reflects her past.
She could only pretend not to see and keep walking.
A mirror appeared in front of her again, and the picture in this mirror became her who had just entered the fairy gate. She was sweeping the snow, and her fingers were frozen and she couldn't stop.
At that time, Kong Qing gave an order to clean all the stairs before dark.
However, the stairs of Xuanyue Peak are full of three thousand steps, and it is very troublesome to sweep. Besides, it was freezing cold, and a lot of the snow on the stairs was frozen.
Seeing that it was getting dark, she didn't even sweep half of it. Knowing that she would be punished, she slipped under her feet in fear and fell down the stairs.
The picture disappeared again, and Qin Geng's fingers couldn't help but clench.
A trace of evil appeared in the mirror, surrounding her feet. She reacted at this time, she was completely led by the mirror by the nose, took a deep breath, kept calm and continued to walk forward.
The mirror behind her turned into water again, overflowing the surface of her feet.
After walking a few steps, he was blocked by a mirror in front of him. This time, the inner disciples were surrounding her, accusing her of not making mistakes.
Zhou Zexi looked at her coldly, not listening to his explanation at all. He has always looked only at evidence.
In the end, he ordered Qin Gang to be expelled from the Immortal Gate.
Qin Gang was pushed out of the main hall of Xuanyue Peak by a group of disciples, and she actually fell down because of her too big movements. Three thousand steps, she kept rolling.
The pain in her body was not as good as the pain in her heart, she refused to cry with tears in her eyes, and always felt that as long as she cried, she would lose.
Qin Gang finally couldn't help it, and he picked up his fist and was about to smash it down.
The moment her fist fell, several manju sawa opened, enveloping her hand completely. She was stunned for a moment, then she was dragged around.
The fragrance of peach blossoms comes from the skin, and what catches your eye is a handsome face.
She was stunned for a while before she recognized from his slightly narrowed peach blossom eyes and the tears flickering at the corners of his eyes, this person was Chu Nanxing.
Having lost the charm of the Western Regions, he chuckled and said, "Since it's not the past you want to face, wouldn't it be good to forget it?" ”
"Why do you look like this?" Qin Gang frowned and couldn't help but ask.
Chu Nanxing patiently explained: "In this illusion, everyone will show their original faces. This is what I look like outside the book, isn't it shocking? ”
Although this appearance is not as charming as the Demon Venerable, it is also extremely handsome. The facial features are tall and well-defined, and most of them are unruly.
Qin Gang frowned and asked casually, "How can the evil spirit appear?" ”
"We have to overcome the most painful memories in our hearts and break through the illusions of this place in order to find him." Chu Nanxing said, taking Qin Gang around the mirror in front of him.
The mirror turned into a drop of water, and the surface of the water reached their ankles.
Qin Geng lowered his head, but saw the reflection at Chu Nanxing's feet, which turned out to be a face full of scars, staring stubbornly ahead with tears in his eyes.
This is Chu Nanxing's memory outside the book?
Still pondering, Chu Nanxing said helplessly: "This is my secret, can you not look at it so openly?" ”
"What a strange outfit you wear over the book." Qin Gang said with a cold face.
Chu Nanxing smiled and did not answer. If he guessed correctly, it should have been the scene when he wore his high school uniform and ran to the hospital.
He was an orphan since he was a child, and he grew up with his grandmother.
What he hates most is that others look at him with sympathy, so from time to time he fights with those who laugh at or sympathize with him.
Every time he came home covered in injuries, his grandmother always smiled tolerantly, sewed clothes and smeared medicine for her.
But he had just had a fight that day, but he received a call from the hospital saying that his grandmother was dying of a heart attack.
He hurried to the hospital, only to see his grandmother being pushed out of the operating room. He rushed forward with tears in his eyes, but it was his grandmother's cold hand that he was holding.
Chu Nanxing refused to cry, and stubbornly asked his grandmother over and over again, who would sew his clothes after they were torn.
It's a pity that no one will smile at him with a tolerant smile anymore.
"What's your expression?" As soon as Qin Gang turned his head, he saw Chu Nanxing's expression of almost crying. She tugged at his arm helplessly before calling him out of the memory.
Chu Nanxing sniffed, raised his head, and saw another mirror appear in front of the two.
The person in the mirror is Chu Nanxing before he crossed over, and he is still wearing a high school uniform. After his grandmother died, he lived with his cousin.
His cousin seems to have always treated him as a burden, and never gave him a good face at home.
The school uniform on his body was tattered and no one sewed it, so he had to go to school like this. Many classmates avoided him, and some gangsters didn't like him and would find fault from time to time.
On the day he came in the book, he was taken to the rooftop of the school by a group of thugs. The thugs provoked him and beat him hard.
He was outnumbered and beaten to the ground unable to move.
The thugs didn't seem to have enough of it, and they found a wooden stick full of nails.
Chu Nanxing didn't want to die here, he struggled to get up. But his head was beaten to the point of dizziness, and he ran for a while to the railing of the rooftop.
Seeing the thugs approaching with a wooden stick, he rolled over and jumped out of the railing. I wanted to jump to the windowsill on the fifth floor, but then my head was dizzy again, and his hand was released.
His body fell heavily, and his unwillingness filled his whole heart.
"I'm not reconciled!"
Chu Nanxing suddenly shouted, and his fist slammed into the mirror.
The mirror cracked in the middle and spread like a spider's web in all directions. A large amount of water gushed out and directly submerged two people!
Qin Gang used the spirit rune to avoid the water around him, but he saw Chu Nanxing not far away being dragged by a pair of hands formed by a pair of water. He screamed desperately, struggling in pain.
His eyes were red, and he pinched the trick out of the way.
Demon Venerable's spell was very powerful, and the power in the water grazed Qin Gang's side, and she was almost overturned several times.
Qin Gang really had no choice, so he swam twice in the water and reached Chu Nanxing's side. She reached out and hugged his trembling body at once, and whispered in his ear in a secret voice: "It's all over. ”
Chu Nanxing raised his head, and a tear floated out of his eyes.
He hugged Qin Gang with all his might, and warm tears fell on her shoulders.