It's September and autumn in the blink of an eye.

The bleak autumn wind swirls in the sky with withered yellow leaves, and the lazy sunlight casts behind the thin clouds, and the veins reflect a colorful golden light.

In the Red King's Mansion, the lotus flowers in the lotus pond bloomed for a season, and now the lotus flowers withered, and the lotus leaves were listlessly glowing with yellow.

In the back garden, Qing Shisan was wrapped in a turban, biting the cigarette stick, humming a small song, spewing out smoke rings from time to time, and moistening the yellow chrysanthemums in the garden of the Queen of Red with a lotus shower, enjoying the happiness of pension.

The Disaster Prevention Bureau has now entered into normalcy, and a number of strange cases that had accumulated after the paralysis of the central government day and night earlier were finally cleared up under the overtime operation of the Disaster Prevention Bureau's Xiaobu to the north and south of the river.

In the study.

Zheng Xiu sighed and hammered his waist, looking at the files accumulated in the past few months after the operation of the Disaster Prevention Bureau.

Originally, he didn't need to do these things, but Jiang Gaoyijiang, the secretary of the Criminal Department and secretary of the Disaster Prevention Bureau, was always able to take care of the internal affairs of the Disaster Prevention Bureau in an orderly manner. It's just that since the incident in Lu Zhen, the ubiquitous candles have made Zheng Xiu feel faintly uneasy in his heart, and he tried to see if he could catch clues related to candles from these closed files.

That night in Luzhen.

Later, Zheng Xiu still explained the past.

Zheng Xiu thought about it, and confessed to Fengbei that night: The four girls have become strangers, and the orchids are strangers. After they became aliens, there was a bottleneck in the doorway, and Zheng Xiu spent one night practicing with them, and finally broke through the bottleneck.

At that time, Feng Bei's smiling expression made Zheng Xiu not sure if she smelled something else, but then Feng Bei didn't ask anything.

The battle of Luzhen was seriously damaged, and hundreds of local people said that they saw monsters at night. This matter can't be hidden, so not long after returning from Luzhen, King Red was summoned into the deep palace by a holy decree, and the emperor and King Red talked at night.

The Emperor was initially complaining about the casualties in Lu Town, but when Zheng Xiu said that he would be responsible for all expenses for Lu Zhen's post-disaster reconstruction, the Emperor smiled happily.

That's not, this is a large amount of financial expenditure, Zheng Xiu is willing to take the initiative to bear it, that is the best.

"It's always you Zheng who will help me solve the disaster."

Before parting, the emperor sighed inexplicably.

At this point, although the Lu Zhen incident left a lot of questions, it was finally revealed.

The "Wutong Divine Statue" hidden in Yin Qingqing's "Time Demon Space", not long after it was brought back, became drier and drier, and the cracks grew longer, and it cracked into countless pieces in one night, completely useless.

When Zheng Xiu calmed down afterwards, he carefully sorted out the causes and consequences of this case, combined with what the orange cat said, and thought about it carefully.

The first is the "Five Links God".

The statue of Wutong is indeed strange, it is like a blind "medicine induction", so that "ninety-nine" young women conceive fetuses. But this fetus was born solitary and did not grow long, and it was destined to not survive.

The "resentment" accumulated by the fetus that cannot be born is used as a seed to give birth to "wishes" with "resentment", so that the "yuan baby" is born.

"Resentment" generates "wish", from the resentment of ninety-nine solitary yin fetuses, the elixir "Yuan Baby" is born in the world, in this equation, what makes this equation stand is the layout of the candle, a certain ritual.

It almost led to the ritual of Changyan's creatures.

"What the hell is he trying to do?"

Zheng Xiu frowned and thought: "Could it be that as the cat said, because he has crossed the Bund many times, his body has decayed, and he urgently needs the medicine of the infant to rejuvenate his body?" ”

Zheng Xiu was suddenly stunned: "Wait, in other words, the candle is not really 'immortal', but uses a lot of thaumaturgy to maintain its lifespan and live...... A thousand years? ”

"He's risking other people's lives...... Extend your life! ”

"If he's hiding in the Bund, it's even harder to find. I can't just run into the Bund to find him when I have nothing to do. Besides, there are so many strangers in the world, how do I know where he is hiding? ”

After Lu Zhen, Zheng Xiu spent a month and practiced repeatedly, and finally mastered the skills of opening the "Bund Passage".

Not only can he walk in the Bund as an avatar, but anyone can enter it after opening the passage.

The question is, whether they will be able to come out alive.

The two most critical elements to maintain the channel are:

"Entrance" and "Exit".

The entrance is himself, and without an "exit", he can only enter the [prisoner's] Bund. However, if you take the "post station" as the exit, open the Bund passage to the post station.

It may sound similar to [iQue], but Zheng Xiu, who has walked a few times, knows that this seems to be similar, but in fact it is very different.

"Strange, how do I look more and more like the candle I used to be?"

Zheng Xiu's thoughts drifted, and he had no intention of flipping through the case file, closing the volume in front of him, and bowing his head in contemplation.

Silently, a pair of white and skillful hands gently kneaded Zheng Xiu's shoulders.

Zheng Xiu didn't look back, and knew that the person standing behind him was Fengbei.

"You're here?"

Zheng Xiu looked back, Fengbei's long hair was half-hidden, and he smiled at him. Zheng Xiu gently patted the back of Feng Bei's hand, signaled her to stop pinching, got up and brushed Feng Bei's hair, and looked at the familiar face.

Feng Bei's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he closed his eyes.

Zheng Xiu approached.

Feng Bei pursed his lips without a trace.

After a while.

Zheng Xiu pinched Fengbei's face in surprise: "It's worthy of you, you actually grew up." ”

When Fengbei came back from Luzhen, there were many burn marks all over his body, but now his skin is as smooth as jade and has recovered as before. Not to mention, it's quite comfortable to touch.

Feng Bei was stunned when she heard this, opened her eyes, and the next moment she turned her head and snorted coldly: "I want you to take care of it." ”

“Mua！”

Zheng Xiu took a bite on Feng Bei's face coldly at this time.

Feng Bei covered his face, looking dazed.

Zheng Xiu said proudly: "High-end hunters will always choose to shoot when their prey is defenseless. ”

Feng Bei looked at the "old man" in front of her, who had actually lived for more than a hundred years, but at this moment, she was teasing her emotions like a spiritual guy, and she couldn't cry or laugh, but there was a trace of sweetness and excitement in her heart, she took a step back lightly, pulled her hair behind her ears, and asked with a smile: "Don't make trouble, what are you thinking?" ”

Zheng Xiu said to the table: "The Red King is working, and the idle people must not be disturbed." ”

Feng Bei asked rhetorically: "Am I an idle person?" ”

Zheng Xiu smiled: "Of course you are not. Should I put a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door of the study? ”

In the cannibal painting, Zheng Xiu told stories to Fengbei when he had nothing to do, from "On a night without Ah Zhen, the orangutan fell in love with Ah Qiang" to "On the ice and fire island, Ah Zhen held a dragon slayer knife and hacked the orangutan to death against Zhang Wuji", Zheng Xiu's nonsense in the heavens and the south, the earth and the north of the heavens and the ten thousand worlds made Fengbei have a great increase in knowledge and understand many stalks. The four words "do not disturb" made Feng Bei understand in an instant, and he spat with a red face: "Don't disturb who is with you." ”

Zheng Xiu nodded, it was Fengbei.

Returning from Luzhen, Zheng Xiu vaguely noticed that Fengbei seemed to be suffering from the same disease as the monk.

Scientifically speaking, it is "multiple personalities", and metaphysical speaking, it is "Hengsheng Inner Demon".

She lives the "Shelo River" in her body.

Zheng Xiu had already figured out that it was not the real Xie Luohe who lived with him for ten years in the cannibal painting, but the "Fengluo River" who took dreams as reality and inadvertently split into another personality.

Fengbei himself knew what was going on, but he couldn't control it.

The one who came to the rescue of Lu Zhen that night was Fengluohe's personality.

After getting along for a period of time, Zheng Xiu can distinguish the difference between the two personalities in just a few words.

It was Fengbei who wanted to refuse and welcome, and it was Fengluo River who took the initiative to attack.

One is attacked, one is cold and one is hot, one shakes and one abuses.

Two very different kinds of pleasure.

At first, Zheng Xiu was a little worried.

But then Zheng Xiu realized that this was not entirely a bad thing. First of all, Fengbei himself also knows his own situation, and secondly, in the state of "Fengluo River", Fengbei can cast the "Luohe Divine Arrow" that has been lost two hundred years ago, and can combine the thaumaturgy of the [Executioner] with the bow technique to derive a new thaumaturgy, which is both near and far, and is even more invincible.

Fengbei's [Executioner] path has made Zheng Xiu puzzled. It was like there was a passage on her body that couldn't be closed, and her thaumaturgy was in a state of passive opening and couldn't be closed, causing Fengbei to have to wear gloves under normal conditions, otherwise whoever touched would kill whom.

Even when wearing gloves, it can be out of control when emotionally agitated.

If Fengbei can completely master the "Luohe Divine Arrow", it may be able to completely solve the "ominous" that has been entangled in Fengbei, which has already become Fengbei's heart disease.

Fengbei, who wanted to refuse and welcome, was uncomfortable stared at by Zheng Xiu's strange gaze, and she took the initiative to go to a corner of the study to light sandalwood for Zheng Xiu. When he walked back to Zheng Xiu, Feng Bei noticed that under the thick pile of files, there was a drawing.

This is the "Doorway Diagram" that Zheng Xiu casually drew a few months ago.

Pushing open the file, Feng Bei looked at the "Door Path Map", and she noticed that Zheng Xiu had added a few more strokes in the blank space, which were full of question marks. Obviously, Zheng Xiu has a lot of uncertainties about the deduction of the "doorway" in the blank space.

"Huh?"

Feng Bei noticed that Zheng Xiu had written the name of "Candle" in the blank space, and then put a big question mark.

"You're speculating...... The way the man took? ”

Feng Bei guessed Zheng Xiu's worries.

"It's just speculation."

Zheng Xiu was about to put away the doorway diagram.

Feng Bei nodded: "There are no clues, it is useless to think too much, and it will only increase the troubles." Perhaps, that person is going through the same path as you. ”

Zheng Xiu was stunned: "What did you say?" ”

Feng Bei didn't know what this sentence meant, and replied indifferently: "He can incarnate thousands of people, which is similar to your 'fugue', and he can also walk freely in the Bund." ”

Feng Bei remembered the events of that night.

Later, I learned from Shekou that Xianggu suddenly vomited this scene from Bai Qiuyue's mouth, which made her have nightmares for more than ten days.

Feng Bei's voice paused for a moment, shook his head and smiled: "Although his thaumaturgy is similar to yours, in fact, your fugue and incarnation are ten times more and a hundred times better than him, and you don't need to worry too much." ”

"No!" Zheng Xiu lowered his head and muttered: "Madam, you reminded me, it makes sense!" The same way, the difference between aliens and non-aliens, lies in the 'strange things'. 'Tricks' are amplifiers of the Doorway, allowing Inhumans to perform thaumaturgy in defiance of rules and restrictions to a certain extent. I was born a 'prisoner' alien and unique...... If Candle is not, all his abilities are my 'degraded version'! ”

"I was still ridiculous to think that the 'scorching sun' he saw a thousand years ago was me, but of course it was impossible, I was not born a thousand years ago. But from another perspective, is it possible that the 'scorching sun' he saw thousands of years ago was something related to the 'prisoner'? ”

So he obeyed the prisoner's rules, imprisoned himself, and gradually stepped into the prisoner's door.

Feng Bei was slightly stunned when he heard this: "But he is a stranger......

"No conflict!" Zheng Xiu waved his hand: "My previous thinking was too narrow, since the 'Orchid Trick' can be divided into four, what else is impossible?" I now have two strange things: 'prisoner' and 'painter', Candle used to have two strange things, 'painter' and 'orchid', and a monk is an 'ascetic stranger' but uses different personalities to derive different ways of strange people......"

"And you," Zheng Xiu looked at Fengbei with a smile, and his thoughts gradually became clearer: "On the cannibal painting, you have a ...... printed on your buttocks"

Feng Bei suddenly became angry: "Shut up." ”

When Zheng Xiu saw Fengbei raise his slap, he immediately shut up, didn't dare to say more, and changed his words: "Ahem, in short, now that you are an 'executioner', you have also entered the fork in the road of 'chivalry'. ”

Feng Bei silently put down his palm.

Zheng Xiu sighed: "In the world, there are no surprises!" Anything is possible! ”

Fengbei was silent, did not deny Zheng Xiu's inference, and responded after a long time: "Chaos." ”

"It's messy, I think it's messy, if it weren't for that broken cat......"

"Meow?"

A cat's meow came from the rooftop.

"That invincible well-behaved fried chicken, cute and cute little cat who blows bombs is tight-lipped in order not to worry me, I have to use a big pot of fried fish cakes to ask the truth about the way out."

Feng Bei covered his mouth and smiled.

After Lu Zhen saw the orange cat's popping, the unscrupulous Red King also had something to fear.

The cat.

"Do you know where the man is hiding?"

Zheng Xiu nodded, but shook his head again: "If he is really playing the role of a 'prisoner' and trying to take the path of a 'prisoner', he can only be in one place now." With that, Zheng Xiu re-opened the door diagram and wrote the name of the candle above the [prisoner], putting a small question mark.

"He's in one place...... In the cell. ”

……

When Zheng Xiu and Fengbei were enjoying a rare peace in the Red King's Mansion, kissing me and me.

The northern country borders Daqian.

Border.

The bare cliffs stretch endlessly, as far as the eye can see.

The steep mountains act as a natural barrier separating the two countries.

Between the cliffs, although there are winding mountain paths that can pass through the two places, the terrain is rugged, and the mud and sand are slippery, which is not conducive to the running of the army.

This is "Haoran Pass".

It is said that twenty years ago, General Zheng Haoran, separated from the emperor, set foot on the road of no return.

In later generations, this Tianguan was named after General Zheng Haoran, and he guarded the great dry luck for 20 years.

On the upper floor of Haoran Pass, several teams of border soldiers in armor patrolled back and forth, and in recent days, there have been barbarians riding horses outside the plug from time to time, although they have not broken into the border pass, but this is always a worrying signal, Shen Shizong, the general of the city, was still an ignorant and ignorant teenager twenty years ago, but he was fortunate to be a gang leader under Zheng Haoran, and now twenty years have passed, and he is full of beard He is no longer Zheng Haoran's expectations twenty years ago, and has become a general who is in charge.

"Whew-"

As the sun sets, the golden glow spreads a layer of wheat-like color among the mountains.

In the distance, white snow and yellow sand whizzed on the horizon, crumpling into a gray cyclone under the color of heaven and earth.

A group of fur-clad barbarians appeared on the horizon in shadows, and the sound of horses' hooves was rapid, approaching Haoran Pass.

As soon as the young soldier saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately blew the horn, and in Haoran Pass, more than a hundred soldiers immediately put on their bows and ignited their arrows, pointing at the approaching barbarians from afar.

Shen Shizong's steps were steady, with a spear in hand, and he walked up to the city wall, squinting into the distance.

The young soldier on the side was half-drawn with his bowstring, and his palms were covered with sweat.

"Don't be nervous." After Shen Shizong saw the opposite side clearly, he laughed and said, "All the armies listen to the order and defend the border pass!" ”

"Yes!"

"General Shen, they are holding things in their hands!"

"It's a scroll!"

More than 20 tall northerners stopped dozens of feet away from Haoran Pass, and a big man nearly two meters tall babbled and shouted towards Haoran Pass.

The Shen Shi Sect sent the soldiers out of the customs to hand over to see what the other party wanted to do.

Soon, the soldiers returned, and the moment the city gate was closed, he breathed a long sigh of relief, apparently making him very nervous when he came into close contact with the legendary barbarian who drank blood.

Shen Shizong also learned of the other party's intention at this point, and said in shock:

"What? He said that they were the envoys of the 'wolf king', and they were sent to talk about peace? ”

Shen Shizong has been guarding here for twenty years, and he has never heard of such a ridiculous thing, his first reaction is that there is fraud, the second reaction is still fraud, and the third reaction is that his general's hat may not be guaranteed.

(End of chapter)