Yu Rui sat in the corner of the cell, looking at the visitor who was already sitting in front of him. The narrowed eyes on the thin old face seemed to burst out a little bit of essence the moment they heard the name.

"You want to know something to the bone?"

"Yes. Xia Yan replied. Weak lights like beans. He was coming to this place for the first time. He could barely remember whether the last time he saw Yu Rui was like this.

The cell was a stone chamber to be exact, with a desolate floor and dark walls. Because of the heavy earth and stone separation, it looks clean and clean, but it is also more and more dull. Yu Rui's hands and feet were not shackled, and he was very free in the stone room, but for some reason, when Xia Yan asked to go in and speak, the guards didn't look nervous, and they didn't even ask much.

The light in Yu Rui's eyes faded, as if he had turned back into a wrinkled old man.

"Boneless, that's the name of a dagger. Later, the owner of the dagger called himself a soldier - hence the code name 'Thorough'. ”

He didn't ask Xia Yan why he asked, and Xia Yan didn't interrupt his memories.

Yu Rui suddenly smiled, revealing a homogeneous color that did not match his age: "Have you heard of it - many years ago, Heizhu had a saying, called 'good wine to the bones, fierce and lustful'?"

Xia Yan shook his head.

Yu Rui laughed again, "Of course you won't hear about it - how can Ling Li allow people to talk about his affairs back then." But it's nothing, 'people don't be romantic' - he's just too good-looking. You don't know, back then, he and Che Gu, that temperament was completely different - even if two people did the same task together, they immediately parted ways after they finished it, one went to find wine, and the other went to find a woman, and they refused to delay. ”

"That's all he ...... now. Where?" Xia Yan didn't want to listen to Yu Rui talk like this behind his back.

"Dead—dead, of course. Eighteen years old. Yu Rui's tone seemed to have suddenly cooled down from some eagerness. “...... I always regret it. Back then, because I favored Lingli, I was determined to leave the gold medal position to him, but his wings were stiff, and after getting acquainted with the Qinglong Sect Master, he dared to choose to betray me. I sometimes think that if the gold medal had been given to the bone, Ling Li might not have that chance - maybe to this day, the black bamboo is still as thorough as it was back then...... Maybe I'll be able to live. ”

He let out a long, silent breath in the darkness. "The things of the past, only those of us in the past will mention, these years when it comes to black bamboo, we will only say'black bamboo double kill, horse neighing phoenix' - twenty years ago, if black bamboo wants to talk about double killing, it is 'sharp long sword' and 'bone dagger'. It's a pity, it's a pity. The name 'thorough', I'm afraid that very few people know it now. ”

He changed his position. "Actually, a killer shouldn't be too famous – too famous, and it's not far from quitting. Ling Li debuted early, but after becoming a gold medal, he was still too young, he always had a bit of a young heart, he didn't know how to be restrained, and if he was not careful, it was easy to 'become famous'. Thoroughly, much more carefully than he did - whenever he struck, he never left a trace. Therefore, the code name of 'Lingli' is loud in the rivers and lakes, but the reputation of 'thorough' is only in the Black Bamboo Society. But if you want to talk about Heizhu's reputation in the rivers and lakes? Of course, it is all earned by people like Ling Li.

"Thorough and sharp are both good in terms of popularity in the Black Bamboo Society, and in terms of skill, if the two of them duel, at that time, I am afraid that it will be difficult to distinguish between the upper and lower. Only when it comes to contributions, after so many years, it is of course much more than bone. So it's not unreasonable for me to be aggressive. Although the two of them are not close friends with each other, they get along with each other without hindrance, not as incompatible as Ma Si and Shen Fengming. Knowing that Ling Li was brought up by me since I was a child, and knowing that I was bent on giving the gold medal to Ling Li, he never said a word about it, but, hehe, he may also be very annoyed that Ling Li later brought back a woman - Su Fufeng. Su Fufeng said very little, but he was ruthless, in order to gain a foothold in the meeting as soon as possible, he fought for me, and did a few sensational tasks alone. 'Sharp long sword, bone-piercing dagger', so far I have to add one more - 'Su Fufeng's hidden weapon'. Even-because Ling Li and Su Fufeng are both famous, the bone-chilling half of the sentence is sometimes omitted.

"If it was said that Che Gu could still be the second person in this black bamboo without contention, then this time, he may not even be able to keep the second position. The old man doesn't believe that there are really people in this world who don't care about status and reputation - even if he really doesn't care, there must be countless people who have said in his ears - 'Ling Li and Su Fufeng are not as good as you', or 'If there is no Ling Li, the gold medal must be yours'.

"Che Gu may not be dissatisfied with me, but--after Ling Li and I are in the same place, Che Gu still chooses to stay, because he may be unconscious, in his heart, he has long been unable to work with Ling Li. I'm glad I know that if I were on his side, it would make a big difference. At that time, I was still in a great advantage, so I promised to the bone, and when the dust settled, I would give him what he deserved.

"This is by no means empty words, you must know that at that time, in addition to the Black Bamboo Society and your master's Vermilion Bird Villa, there was also the clan bloodline Murong Gongzi and the royal seal in his hand. If it succeeds, today's world will have changed long ago - not to mention a gold medal, what does it matter if the entire Black Bamboo Club is handed over to the bones, it is just a drop in the bucket. He didn't say anything at the time, but then one day he got drunk and told me without warning that he wanted to quit. When I asked him why, he said that he thought that an organization that collected money to kill people was the most evil and dark place in the world, and that he could save some energy and indulge the 'evil' in his heart openly, without having to intrigue with others and play tricks. But then he found out that murder was only the simplest appearance of all evil, and that his little 'evil' was nothing compared to the too many ulteriors behind the murder, and even in such an 'evil' organization, he still found too many things that were more unbearable than he originally thought was 'evil'.

"I didn't realize he was questioning me, thinking he was drunk and talking nonsense. A few years later, in this dark prison, I realized that in fact, in my disagreement with Ling Li, I thought from the bottom of my heart that Ling Li had done nothing wrong - he thought that I was the one who did evil, and Ling Li was forced to leave by me. It's a pity, when I realized that it was too late—to this day, I don't dare to think deeply about whether the traitor who finally betrayed us to the Blue Dragon Sect, so that many people like Murong and the Black Bamboo Society died tragically—I knew that if I thought about it, there would be only one explanation. But I can't understand why he stayed that day if it was him—why did he die so desperately in the town of Remnant Sound, and finally die?"

"'Remnant Town'......" Xia Yan heard the name of the town for the first time, "so...... He died in that town......"

"Have you heard of this?" Yu Rui looked a little surprised, "Do you know Remnant Town?"

"I've been to that town and heard about it, but I didn't know the name of the town. ”

Yu Rui laughed strangely, "Of course you don't know - 'Remnant Town' is the name given to this nameless town by my group of boys who survived. It's a town that's hard to find, it's not on official roads, and ordinary people won't go there - whoever took you to town?—— it won't be sharp in short. ”

Xia Yan thought for a while, "The person who took me there for the first time was indeed Ling Daxia. He glanced at Yu Rui, "Ling Daxia is not the narrow-minded person you think, he has never killed anyone as you think, let alone deliberately concealed and avoided anything." There are many things that Heizhu's juniors really don't know, but that's just because the deceased will slowly fade away, and he didn't deliberately mention it again. Even he himself has been away from Heizhu for so many years—he's almost forgotten by this river, isn't he?"

"If you really think so, why did you want to know something thorough today by asking me, instead of asking him?" Yu Rui sneered, "Didn't you ask Ling Li first no matter what?"

Xia Yan stared at him for a while, not knowing whether to refute or not.

Yu Rui smiled. "These days, Shenjun often comes to me, and he sits for half a day, so although I can't go out, I know a little bit about things outside. He sighed, "Divine Monarch wouldn't have been like this before, and I know that the more he talks to me, the less likely it is to let me out again." ”

When Xia Yan now knew why he had come in, the guard at the door was not surprised. In their eyes, he probably came for Suzaku - although in reality, he came here with Suzaku on his back.

"After all, it was you, Senior Yu, who left this notebook. Xia Yan explained, "Of course I ...... I should have asked my seniors first. ”

"I haven't seen how he died in the end. Yu Rui said, "Most of the boys who escaped by luck were also frightened, and they couldn't say it clearly." I investigated for a long time before I became a little eyebrow: the situation in the town at that time was indeed very treacherous, and in the midst of the battle, the sound of the harp suddenly came out, the source was unknown, and the friend or foe were unknown. According to most people, it seems that the Blue Dragon Sect simply set a fire to the town because it couldn't find the source of the sound. The fire burned so hard that it burned down a house. Some say they've seen a lot of bones near that house. That was supposed to be the last time he was seen. After that, the next thing I saw was his charred bones. ”

"He was ...... by the fire Burned?" Xia Yan was a little incredulous.

"It's strange that the place where he was found was some distance from the place where the fire had started—not very far, but not so much that he would not have been burned. But his face and body were blackened by the smoke of the fire—though he was not burned to death, I suspect that he had been moved after he died. It's a pity that I wasn't there at the time, and a few boys couldn't protect themselves, so I didn't care about checking and scrutinizing so carefully. It had been several days since I returned to the town, and the bones had been buried, and I had forced open the coffin to be examined—I found that he still had many sword wounds—left by a different man, and I think he had fought with many others before he died. I checked it closely, and he had two fatal wounds, one in the chest, which was a sword piercing wound, and the other was in the throat, which was the use of the grappler, and it should be two different opponents. If you already knew about this—then by this point, you should be able to guess who killed him, right?"

Xia Yan moved his lips, but he didn't make a sound.

"One is Gu Shizhong, your father-in-law. There is also Cheng Fangyu, the left envoy of Qinglong. Yu Rui answered for him. "It was the two of them who took the lead in Remnant Town that day. These two shots were extremely clean and neat, and either of them was enough to kill the bones, but both of them dealt with one of him--Tho Gu is just a killer, even if he is more difficult to deal with than others, but the people of the Green Dragon Sect should not know him, in the melee, how could two people come to the same place and be ruthless to the same person? How could it be that the house caught fire, and the body of the bones was blackened? After thinking about it, I finally figured out one thing- The Blue Dragon Sect had actually discovered the source of the sound of the piano, and they had gathered here, not because it was boneless, but because the sound of the piano came from here, from the room behind him, and they set fire not because they couldn't find anyone, but because they found it but couldn't deal with it!"