When the night falls, the earth is silent again.

Under Chang'an, in the deep transmission layer, there was a distant low roar, and the mighty echo spread. Ghostly whales sing in the dark.

Like the snort of this city of organs.

In the darkness of the rare human track, only red-eyed puppets and homeless souls staggered and wandered.

Between the cracks of countless huge mechanisms, a ray of heavenly light fell from the sky, and the dim moonlight illuminated the low bed in front of Lu Daoxuan's eyes, and also illuminated the outline covered by the white cloth.

Under the embrace of the ice, the sleeping boy still maintained his last appearance, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, as if smiling.

So quiet.

In the long silence, Lu Daoxuan quietly stared at Li Xiang's face.

He stretched out his hand to touch something, but his palm stiffened in mid-air, and he didn't have the strength to move forward.

Hovering in mid-air.

It was as if he wanted to hold on to the moonlight, but he couldn't recover the afterglow.

For a long time, slowly retracted.

"Have you found a good place?" Ji Xianke asked, "I still have a piece of land in my hometown, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, I don't have to worry about being disturbed, and it is suitable for a long sleep." ”

"You decide."

Lu Daoxuan lowered his eyes and said softly: "Homeless people have no place to go back, so it's not bad to have a better place to go." ”

Ji Xianke bowed his head, thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Xun Qing is probably not dead, well, someone saw him in the ghost market, and I don't know what he is doing." ”

"It's just a lost dog, don't pay attention to it." Lu Daoxuan said coldly, "There is no difference between living and dead. ”

Ji Xianke asked, "Not worried that he will do bad things?" ”

"He is like his teacher, he is protected, he doesn't know how terrible the wind and rain outside is, and he is naïve from childhood to adulthood. But I don't know that with such a naïve idea, I will only freeze to death in winter. ”

Lu Daoxuan shook his head indifferently, "If he still wants to kill himself, let him be." ”

In the silence, Ji Xianke suddenly laughed.

didn't care about Lu Daoxuan's cold gaze, lowered his head and sipped the liquor in the pot, and sighed lightly: "Actually, you didn't want to kill him, right?"

You think he's still the same as he used to be, like a child, beaten up, scared, and obedient.

But when the child grows up, it is difficult for parents to do it. With their own ideas and plans, they began to be tough, making people unable to start. ”

He paused and whispered, "By the time you notice that his wings are stiff, it'll be too late." ”

"Have you ever had a baby?" Lu Daoxuan asked.

"There was one, before I met you, boss."

Ji Xianke shook his head: "I also had a wife, who had a good relationship, occasionally quarreled, and when she got angry, she would go back to her parents' house, but as long as she coaxed her, she wouldn't care anymore."

Now that I think about it, she was really the best woman in the world, except when I had to teach my child how to learn swords, she cried once, and then after I sent my child to a private school, she never cried.

Until she and the child were killed by me, I didn't shed a tear......"

He paused, remembering the room that had been lit by fire in the snowstorm and the voices that had passed, and sighed to himself, "I regret it." ”

"That's you because you're not strong enough." Lu Daoxuan said: "If you are strong enough, you will not lose anything. ”

"Perhaps, no matter how strong a person is, he will occasionally think about the peaceful life of holding the child home for dinner."

Ji Xianke thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "Do you regret it, boss?" ”

As if he was already drunk, the prodigal swordsman came over and made an abrupt proposal, but he didn't know whether it was a joke or a drunken remark: "Why don't we run away?"

It's quite easy to buy a house in my hometown, green mountains and green waters, suitable for the elderly, you can fish and fish when you are idle, and when you die of old age in the future, I can bury you and Li Xiang together. ”

"If you give up now, it's still too late."

He said, "With me, no one can touch you." ”

"Sounds good."

Lu Daoxuan thought for a while, and seemed to be fascinated: "It's just that it's not like a life that people like me can adapt to."

After doing it for so long, washing your hands, forgetting everything, pretending that nothing happened, and living such a peaceful and peaceful life, you will have nightmares. ”

"So many people are already dead," he said. ”

Because of yourself, or because of something else.

For revenge, for liberation, or for money, for more......

After walking in the dark quagmire for too long, I have long forgotten those lives under the sun.

"I'm not leaving, cyclamen."

Lu Daoxuan whispered: "If there is retribution, let retribution come to me." It doesn't matter if it fails, it doesn't matter if you create a better world or hell.

I won't regret it, and I won't stop. Otherwise, their sacrifice would be meaningless. ”

He lowered his eyes, took one last look at the sleeping boy in the ice, and said softly goodbye.

Then, turn and leave.

Under the fading light of the sky, Ji Xianke raised his head and drank the remnants of the wine in the pot.

"Let's go, boss."

He closed his eyes and sighed calmly: "Let's go to hell together." ”

In the deepest depths of darkness, the mechanism roars.

Countless red puppets and villains slowly moved forward, as if pulling a rope, with fourteen years of pain and despair, to set this world on fire completely!

It wasn't until dusk that Li Bai woke up from his long dream.

Raising his eyes, he saw Yuan Fang behind the cell door, and the young man glanced at him helplessly: "How can you sleep so much?" Ate and slept every day, slept and ate......"

"So what should I do? The six gods have no owner, and they are at a loss? ”

Li Bai shook his head: "I have already said everything that should be said." But even if the evidence is in front of you, I'm afraid some people don't want to believe it, let alone a few words from me?

Why do you ask about the clouds in the world, it is better to lie down and eat. ”

"Sounds good, you wrote it?"

"No, listen to what others do." Li Bai shook his head, "If it were me, I should say drinking." ”

"I brought you wine."

Yuan Fang raised the pot in his hand, "Lord Di invites you." Tomorrow, you're leaving. ”

"Where to go?"

"The prison? Or go somewhere in the dark. The young man sighed: "The Criminal Department will not give up, you have to be prepared." ”

"Hmm."

Li Bai bowed his head, but he didn't seem to care, just looked at the sky outside the iron window, and under the brilliant sunset, the sky lit up with brilliant light.

"It's so lively out there."

"yes, the flower boat is up."

Yuan Fang replied: "Tomorrow the new Fang Market will be completed, and everyone is celebrating. The streets are full of children, and the younger brothers and sisters at home are also clamoring to go out to play, but unfortunately, Dali Temple has never had a holiday. ”

"I just had a dream."

Li Bai said, "I dreamed that many people were crying. When I was flying in the sky, I couldn't hear it, but when I came to the earth, I felt that I had nowhere to stay.

I wanted to talk to them, but I couldn't catch up with them. ”

When I close my eyes, I can still hear their wails, the cries and cries for help that have fallen silent in the darkness.

But it was too late. Fourteen years ago, Li Bai was still a real child, he didn't know swordsmanship, and he wasn't a heavenly person. But the evil deeds and tragedies in the world never change in any way because of whether the hero is born or not.

Yuan Fang didn't speak, just sat cross-legged on the ground.

For some reason, he suddenly remembered the scene when he first met Li Bai - the swordsman who was full of energy at that time was completely different from now.

He no longer treats himself as a child, he no longer treats others with such harsh words, and he does not complain even if he has no alcohol. Even if there is no oil and water in Dali Temple, it can be as sweet as food......

Only with such a bright eye, there has never been any change.

Li Bai stretched out his wine glass, "Take a sip?" Yuan Fang was about to refuse, but Li Bai smiled: "I forgot, with your age, you are not qualified enough." ”

Sloppy, this guy is still as annoying as ever. Yuan Fang shook his ears and sobered up.

Li Bai did not speak.

As if he was in a trance, he stared at the sky outside the iron window and drank quietly.

Such a quiet expression, I can't tell whether it is sad or happy, just like a bird looking at its own realm, but the sky is empty.

Only loneliness.

"I hate eating sour things."

Li Bai suddenly said, "I don't like others to be arrogant in front of me, and I never allow others to pay, it feels like accepting other people's alms."

I can't stand it when someone lies to me, tells lies, and does hypocritical things. There is also an unreal life and a fake smile, which is especially annoying.

But later, I realized that none of this was a big deal. ”

He recalled the experience in a short period of time and smiled: "Sour things can also be made delicious, and when you are hungry, anything you eat will be very sweet."

When you don't have money, you can drink more refreshed wine with friends paying for it. It has nothing to do with charity, it's just about sharing happiness.

Life is bumpy, there will always be lies that you can't help yourself, and after shedding tears, you must always have a smile and courage to face the suffering......

Yuan Fang, you taught me this truth. ”

Xun Qing, Li Xiang, Di Renjie, Yuan Fang, Cheng Yanjin, Great Elder, and many more people, after they came to Chang'an, what they have witnessed and witnessed.

All of them.

"Everyone in this world may be different from me, but there must be something the same among us." ”

Smile when you encounter good things, cry when you encounter bad things, feel compassion when you see someone else suffer misfortune, and anger when unrighteous things happen in front of your eyes.

Everyone lives under the same sky, on the same earth.

There is also hatred and love.

"We're the same."

Li Bai lowered his head, looked down at the reflection in the wine glass, and smiled: "The person named Li Bai is just one of thousands of people, what I can do, you will definitely be able to do."

Even if one day, my poems are over, more people will definitely stand up and write their own poems like me. ”

In the starlight shining outside the iron window, Li Bai raised his glass and toasted to the young man in front of him, telling him: "The poems that belong to this world have just begun. ”

In the long silence, Yuan Fang looked at him in a daze, and laughed softly for a long time.

Raise the white water in your hand:

"Cheers."

Outside the bars, brilliant fireworks rise.

Under the same night sky, a flickering glow sprinkled down Chang'an.

It seems to envelop everything in the tenderness and splendor of this moment.

In the noisy bazaar, the crowds are surging; Outside the gate of Yu Hengsi, Di Renjie boarded the carriage; In the lonely and silent court, Shangguan lowered his eyes and looked into the distance; In the empty courtyard, Cheng Yanjin sat under the osmanthus tree, picked up the chopsticks, looked at the empty position on the other end of the table, was stunned for a moment, and shook his head helplessly.

On the wide streets, young children excitedly hold toys and windmills, and play and chase under the lights and fireworks of the floats.

In the deepest darkness, under the leadership of Lu Daoxuan, the undead and the living corpses from fourteen years ago marched towards hell.

The world is still functioning normally, towards tomorrow.

Towards the future.

And in the narrow workshop, Xun Qing's pupils were illuminated by flickering electric light.

In the darkness, the silent mechanism giant raised his head, a solemn light appeared in his empty eyes, and along with Xun Qing's movements, he raised his hands.

It's like lifting the whole world!

"Please save me once again, Celestial Master."

Xun Qing clenched his fists:

"—Let's go and get it back!"