Chapter Twenty-Seven: Pain
Baiyun Sect, inside the Heart Refining Tower.
Bai Lin, like Bai Fan, also fell into an illusion in an instant when he stepped into the Heart Refining Tower.
Here, in the blink of an eye, in a trance, Bai Lin found herself sitting on a bed, looked at the furnishings of the room, and felt a little familiar, the soft moonlight fell into the room from the window, and she was alone in the whole room, Bai Lin looked a little confused.
"I, where is this? Where is my brother, and there are others. ”
Bai Lin jumped off the bed, moved his body, and habitually called the spiritual power in his body, but found that his body was empty, which made Bai Lin a little flustered, but he had no clue.
"It seems that the investigation can only start from this room, is this the second round of assessment?"
Bai Lin walked around the room, and the more she looked at the room, the more familiar she felt.
"Where must I have seen it, but where?"
Because she was thinking too much, Bai Lin accidentally knocked her calf on a chair while walking.
"Hey, it hurts!"
Bai Lin hurriedly squatted down and rubbed and stumbled, but with the help of the stimulation of pain, she remembered when she had been here.
"Here, isn't this an inn in Kyoto, I, how could I come back here?" Bai Lin looked at everything around him in shock.
"This must be an illusion. Bai Lin swayed a little, but the pain in her calf seemed to remind her of the truth of all this.
But if it is confirmed that all this is true, then the memory of Bai Fan who almost died, and then went to Qiyun Mountain later, and finally worshiped the Baiyun Sect to practice the immortal method are all fake.
Confirming the present is tantamount to denying everything he has experienced before, and Bai Lin is unwilling to admit that his memory is fake.
After sorting out her thoughts, Bai Lin began to seriously think about her past memories.
Let's say this is a fantasy for the second round of the test. ’
At this time, I only stayed at an inn in Kyoto for two nights, and I can't say for sure which night it was. ’
'Let's say it's the first night, that's fine, but if it's the second night......
Bai Lin sighed a little, her fate was actually completely changed that night, and after a while, she put away her sentimentality and continued to analyze.
But if it was the second night, my brother would have fallen through the window by this time. ’
Thinking of this, Bai Lin couldn't help but look out the window, there was no one on the street outside, it was very empty, and there was a very regular croaking of frogs and crickets in his ears, which made people feel more silent.
Everything here seems so real that it doesn't make people want to doubt it at all.
So this should be the first night. ’
Bai Lin came to a conclusion, but if all this is an assessment, the second night may be more reasonable than the first night.
'Unless......' Bai Lin bit her lip, 'unless this is the second night, but the situation has changed...'
Of course, this is all based on the premise that all this is false, and the result is reached, but the current Bai Lin can't tell whether this is true or false.
The more you tidy up, the more messy your thoughts become. Bai Lin shook his head, put aside all the assumptions in his mind, and came to the bed again and fell asleep.
Anyway, it's just me right now, and I don't have enough information, so I'd better wait until daytime to take a look. ’
Nothing to say all night......
The next day, early in the morning, Bai Lin got up and went out and came to the street, only to find that many people were rushing in one direction, and she followed with a hint of curiosity.
Bai Lin followed the flow of people to the square in Kyoto, there were already a lot of people standing here, Bai Lin was very small, even if she stood on tiptoe, she couldn't see too far, so she had to try her best to squeeze forward, because Bai Lin was petite, she really let him squeeze into the front row, but the picture in front of her was definitely not what she wanted to see.
In the center of the square stood a pillar with a bloody corpse tied to it, with a pile of wood underneath the corpse. And the identity of the corpse is Bai Fan, who has not returned overnight.
'Bai Fan is dead. ’
Bai Lin looked at the corpse that was tied to the pillar and did not move, his eyes were a little dull, and he smiled stupidly: "This is definitely a dream, this is by no means real, wake up quickly!"
The soldiers on the stage had already begun to read Bai Fan's indictment.
"This person's name is Bai Fan, is the son of Bai Xiao, a former general of the imperial court, for Bai Xiao's rebellion, although the emperor ordered to punish the nine clans, but also read that General Bai in the early years for Zhao Guonan's northern war, laid thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and made great contributions, so he only killed the adult people in his family, and also let the adult children go. ”
But this person, but he didn't know how to be grateful to Dade, not only did he bow to the emperor's grace of not killing, but he also tried to sneak into the palace and assassinate the emperor last night, but fortunately, he was immediately discovered by the national teacher and killed immediately. ”
Bai Lin in the audience slapped her cheeks over and over again, slapping her with all her might, until her face was red and purple, and the corners of her mouth overflowed with blood, and she didn't mean to stop, she still kept slapping herself.
But the burning pain on her face didn't seem to help her break the illusion.
Bai Lin saw that the world in front of her had not changed, and she broke down in tears.
"Why, why haven't you woken up yet, you woke me up from this dream!"
Bai Lin kept roaring in his heart, and the strength in his hand increased by a point, at this time Bai Lin's face had lost the sense of pain, but the world in front of him was just like the real world, and the spectators behind pushed and shouted, and all of a sudden, knocked Bai Lin to the ground.
These spectators actually don't care who the dead man on the stage is, and they don't care what he has done, they just watch a lively scene. Some good deeds even added fuel to the fire, and made a big statement about Bai Fan's behavior, attracting other passers-by who had no clue about this matter to understand the situation.
As for whether Bai Fan traveled to the palace at night and assassinated the emperor, it was not so important.
Bai Lin was paralyzed on the ground, and her body was inadvertently kicked a few times by bustling passers-by from time to time, and after a while, the simple and clean cloth clothes were full of gray footprints.
The pain from all over her body didn't help Bai Lin wake up from the illusion, it only made her body more uncomfortable.
She subconsciously called her brother, but Bai Fan's body was tied not far from the front.
The sound of discussion in her ears was like a sharp sword piercing her heart, and the petite figure covered with dust seemed to have been abandoned by the world.
Physically and mentally exhausted......
"Because this person's actions touched Long Yan, the emperor ordered that he be burned in public, and ordered that all those involved in it be arrested, whether men, women, or children, and if they provided information, they could also receive a tael of silver as a reward. The non-commissioned officer said.
As soon as he said this, the emotions of the spectators were aroused, and they all expressed their support and approval, and some even insulted Bai Fan's family in public. There are those who say that they are not grateful, there are those who say that they are treacherous, there are those who say that the offspring of rats are also rats, and the voices of cursing and crusade are incessant, and emotions are high.
In fact, it is not the first sentence that is important, but the last sentence: 'Whoever provides information will be rewarded.' That's what the spectators actually heard.
Bai Lin could only curl up on the ground at this time, hugging his head tightly, and the sound of kicking and piercing his ears around him was a kind of torture and torment for Bai Lin.
At this point, she realized that she had been a coward and a crybaby all along, even if she was fortunate enough to obtain the cultivation of the Immortal Law later, but when she lost everything that the White Cloud Sect gave her, the Five Spirits Dao Body, the cultivation genius, and the cultivation of the Enlightened Light Realm, when these all left her, she was once again beaten back to the prototype.
However, what made her even more desperate was that the words around her were like thousands of swords, cutting her petite body again and again.
They don't understand the truth at all, and they don't care if what the officers and soldiers say is the truth, even if Bai Lin himself personally runs forward to explain that this is not the case, my brother did not want to assassinate the emperor. I'm afraid the effect is minimal, and she will even be scolded and thrown into the peel, after all, she only has one mouth, and there are hundreds of mouths on the other side, which can't be said by others.
It was the first time she had really opened her eyes and seen the world as it was, even if it was painful, so painful that she wanted to die.
But at this moment, Bai Lin felt a ray of warmth coming from his back. A sound that wasn't too loud was very clear in this unusually noisy environment.
"Xiao Lin, why are you here? You can't stay here for long, leave with me quickly!"
The voice was a little hurried, it was a female voice, and it was still a little familiar, but Bai Lin couldn't remember it for a while.
Bai Lin opened her eyes, wiped her eyes blurred by tears, and finally saw the figure in front of her clearly.
It was Hong Yin, who was wearing a sackcloth and a hood at this time, looking at her with a concerned face.
"Hurry up, give me your hand, and leave with me before people react, this place is too dangerous for you and me right now. ”
At this time, Bai Lin, who was already devastated physically and mentally, subconsciously stretched out his hand and held Hong Yin's hand.