Volume 1: Conquest of the Quartet Chapter 51: The Road of Inquiry
The entrance to the cave was narrow, and only one person could pass through it, and after the three of them walked for a while, it suddenly became clear.
This is a huge cave with a length of hundreds of meters in width and height, and Ye Wu raised his feet to sweep away a piece of dust, and the ground under the dust that seemed to have been cut by a cutting machine was revealed.
Judging by the texture, the cave must not have been formed naturally, but must have been deliberately abandoned for at least decades. Thinking so, he raised his head, and saw a huge ancient stone plaque hanging not far above his head, and on the plaque were written three big characters - Asking the Heart Road.
"Ask your heart? Presumably this is the land of the immortals they say. Ye Wu looked at the plaque and said thoughtfully.
"The land of the immortal family, do they live here?" Ye Ming looked at the dark cave, the corners of his mouth twitched, obviously this young man regarded this cave as the whole of the land of the immortal family.
"No, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and the actual area is estimated to be dozens of times larger than here. Ye Wu said with a smile.
Ye Ming scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Young Master, come and take a look! There's a stone tablet here!" Ye Ling's voice came into his ears, and the voice echoed in the cave for a long time.
Seeing this, Ye Wu's two people stepped forward curiously, and as soon as they saw it, it was a stone tablet that was as tall as one person, this stone tablet looked a little old, the stele was covered with moss, and overgrown with weeds, obviously because it had been left unattended for a long time.
Ye Wu stood on tiptoe and brushed off the weeds on the stele with his cuffs, only to see that under the weeds, dense handwriting emerged, and the most envious of them was the first line of the big handwriting - this is the immortal road.
To say this line of words, at first glance it looks like a golden hook and iron stroke, sonorous and powerful, like a drunk and drowning person talking wildly in his ear, but if you taste it carefully, you can find that there is a trace of softness in the stroke of this word, just like a trace of truth that people finally murmur after being drunk.
"Hey. Ye Wu sighed and swept his gaze down.
These four lines, along with the four large characters above, were written by one person...... Xiao Zhen, I might be able to understand. Ye Wu touched his chin and looked at it carefully.
Inscription:
Asking the heart, the external conscience, in fact, asking yourself, asking, in the past, I wandered away from here, was treated by the master, enshrined in the Taishang, and served for more than 300 years, leaving today, my heart is unbearable, and I leave this way, so as to test the tenacity of the latter's Taoist heart - no Taoist
The above is the information that Ye Wu got from these four lines and thousands of words.
After these four lines, there are three hundred and eighty-two lines, and the handwriting of each line is different, obviously not written by the same person, Ye Wu estimated that this was written by other disciples after the Daoless man left.
"Is it an experience?" Ye Wu thought so, and when he looked at it, these handwriting were extremely fair and close to simplified characters, but they were even more difficult to understand than the first four lines.
"Is it true that every immortal cultivator is as pedantic as this group of people?" Ye Wuzi asked.
"Let's go, there's not much value to explore here. As he spoke, he walked forward.
Ye Ling glanced at the slender road not far ahead, his face worried.
"Young Master, ...... inside. Isn't it dangerous?" she sneered.
Ye Wu looked at the unobstructed road in front of him.
'Is it an illusion formation, then...... She...... Will it appear?' he took a deep breath and took a small step forward.
One step, the surrounding scene blurred for a while, and then it became clear, Ye Wu looked in front of him, and found himself sitting next to a hospital bed, and lying on the hospital bed was Li Bantou, who treated him like his own flesh and blood
A familiar scene reappeared, a scene he would never dare to recall
Li Bantou's full name is Li San, he is a play, he learned to sing in the opera troupe since he was a child, and when he became an adult, he was kicked out by the class owner because of his voice change, and there were four people who were driven out with him, in this troubled world, the four of them can be said to have nothing but singing, helpless, in order to survive, these people who don't know each other finally came together, they wandered around and sang, and wrote and performed many interesting plays, which were quite popular.
If Li San said his appearance back then, it was first-class, a typical humble gentleman, Ye Wu met this unremipped Li San when he was stealing food in this team, and he thought he was a woman at the time, and he kept following his ass and calling him sister, this Li San was also very cooperative and kept talking to him in a female voice, which made a lot of jokes.
Looking at Li San in his twilight years, the tip of Ye Wu's nose was sour, and his eyes opened and closed, making him a little hazy.
"Ye'er, come here, I'll ...... I have something to say to you. Li San stretched out his thin hand to beckon, his voice trembling, intermittent, as if he would be unconscious in the next second.
Ye Wu held his hands and was silent for a long time, he said the same thing again.
"Class master, you say. ”
"Ye'er, you put ...... You put under the bed...... Take out the box at the bottom. Class Master Li pointed to the bottom of the bed and said weakly.
Ye Wu willingly moved the big wooden box under the bed to the hospital bed, Li San sat up with Ye Wu's body, he looked at the wooden box in front of him, his eyes were full of reminiscence, his hand kept stroking the lock that had been broken and could not be used, and the corners of his mouth were sometimes happy and sometimes sad.
"Here, put on my makeup. After a long time, Li San opened the box and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Ye Wu nodded, picked up the comb in the box, and combed the silver hair on his head.
"I remember that you always wanted to put on my makeup once......" his eyes narrowed, reminiscing about the past.
"Do you remember? The first time you met me, you were ...... It's just that, you look at how old and handsome they are now. ”
"I still remember back then, when you had a sister every day, that voice, not to mention how cute it was. ”
“......”
Li San muttered, as if he was whispering, and as if he was telling Ye Wu to listen.
Ye Wu's hands trembled, combed and coiled for it, and took out the makeup powder, the eyebrow pencil outlined on his face, each stroke was so careful, the tip of the pen was on his drooping cheeks, and walked horizontally on the top of his years.
For a long time, the makeup was made.
Ye Wu picked up the mirror in the box and looked at Li San, who looked at himself in the mirror, as if he saw his former self and smiled slightly.
"The king, at this time, it is common for the Central Plains to rise together, and it is common for them to occasionally suffer disadvantages. After a while, wait for the arrival of Jiangdong rescuers, and then engage the enemy again, I don't know who will kill the deer. Li San sang, while his hand kept squeezing gestures, this was his favorite overlord farewell concubine.
Seeing this, Ye Wu wiped the corners of his eyes, took a deep breath, and sang in duet: "Concubine! Since I wanted to send out the army alone, I have fought more than 70 battles, attacked everything, won invincible, and never tasted defeat. Now he was ambushed by the crotch man on ten sides, trapped alone in the valley, with all the food and grass under the wall, and there was no rescue. Even if he can break out of the encirclement, he has no face to see Jiangdong's father. Oops, concubine!"
"Big ...... Ahem, ahem......" Class Master Li suddenly coughed violently.
Seeing this, Ye Wu hurriedly stepped forward to Zhang Luo.
"It's okay...... It's okay......" Li San shook his head, coughing and laughing.
"Ye'er, I have nothing in this life, I came clean, and I left simply. Li San held Ye Wu's hand, "But a few of them are different, they are young and ignorant and ran to fight before they have grown up, you are the eldest of them, promise me, it's okay to bring a few of them back?"
Ye Wu's heart trembled, and the scene of corpses strewn all over the field appeared in front of him.
"I can't do it......" he said.
Li San looked at Ye Wu in surprise.
"I can't do it!" Ye Wu cried, crying like a child, he threw himself into Li San's arms, "Huashu, Mu Yuan...... Everyone...... I can't save anyone!"
The pain that had been suppressed in Ye Wu's heart for thousands of years exploded at this moment.
"I've been wandering since the end of the war. In order to see you again, I have met many people, and the burden on my body has become heavier and heavier, and I have become neither human nor ghost, and I am on the opposite side of the whole world...... I don't dare to talk to me, I'm so scared! I'm afraid they'll leave me like you...... I'm even more afraid they'll hurt me......" he said incoherently.
Li San listened to Ye Wu's words.
"You're still the same ...... as before," he smiled, patting Ye Wu's back gently as before, comforting the timid and cowardly but unexpectedly strong child.
"Ye'er, nothing in this world can exist forever, even gods and Buddhas will pass away one day......" Li San looked at the withered evergreen trees outside the window, as the leaves blew off, his body began to disappear, and the surroundings returned to darkness.
Ye Wu stretched out his hand to grab Li San, but his hand couldn't touch the other party no matter what.
"I know! I know all this!" he wiped away his tears and ran, "the war is over, and the people of our country live happily ever after, and do you know that our play is listed as an interstellar cultural heritage......
"Wait! I still have a lot to say!" Ye Wu rushed forward, hand to hand passed through each other, he fell down, got up again, and the other party had disappeared from sight.
"That's enough. Li San's gentle voice echoed in his ears.
"Don't leave me alone......" Ye Wu's tears welled up, but no one wiped them for him anymore.
"That's enough......"
"How can that be enough......" he muttered.
"How can that be enough!" he shouted.
The woman's voice sounded in his head.
"Have you forgotten...... Our agreement?"
Ye Wu looked stunned, he raised his head, a blurred shadow came into view, he clenched his fists, and his face showed determination.
"I'm going to change everything, wait for me. He clenched his fists.
The scene changed again, Ye Wu looked at himself, at this time he was wearing a military coat and a military hat, sitting on the command platform, expressing his opinion, this was his speech on the promotion of second lieutenant.
"Here we go again......" Ye Wu looked at the rows of familiar people in front of him.
"Why don't you say it? You said it very well?" A senior officer in the audience who was many levels higher than Ye Wu suddenly stood up and said to Ye Wu.
Ye didn't know this person, but he didn't pay attention to it, only to see him take out the dagger tied to his calf and slash it on his body, and the blood gushed out along the wound.
"It should ...... Yes. He held on, enduring the very real pain while his eyes widened and looked around, and sure enough, as he expected, the scenery around him was slightly blurred.
"Captain, what are you ......" Ye Wu's subordinate in the audience also stood up and asked with a panicked expression.
"Sure enough, as long as you do something that contradicts your memory, there will be some mistakes in the formation, but it can be repaired quickly, as long as you can surpass the self-repair ability of this formation, I can break this formation. Ye Wu thought about it, he took out the gun on his waist, and the extremely familiar touch came, and he pulled the trigger.
"What the hell are you doing! You're rebelling!" one of them retorted.
Ye Wu ignored it, and watched mercilessly as familiar people fell, and in the end, the surrounding scenery shattered, and everything returned to nothingness.
"Huh, hahaha......" A burst of laughter came.
"Who!" Ye Wuwen looked over, and saw a person who looked exactly like him come out of the darkness.
"Who are you?" Ye Wu asked.
The man looked around and spread his hands.
"I'm you. He sneered.
Ye Wu's eyes were cold.
"You're not me. He denied it.
"Yes......" the man smiled absently
Ye was hopeless, looking at each other, and under the transmission of emotion, his body began to tremble.
'Huh? I ...... Why am I. He looked at his trembling body, and no matter how hard he tried to control it, it still trembled uncontrollably, and his teeth opened and closed in disobedience, making a creaking sound.
'What am I afraid of......?' His pupils shrank slightly, and at this moment, he was a little afraid to look for those lost memories, because he was afraid, afraid that the pain that he had so hard to forget would strike again, intrude on him, and even crush him and drive him crazy.
"You and I will see you again. The man waved his hand and disappeared into nothingness.