Chapter Seventy-One: Awakening
What does a cemetery look like?
Loneliness, sadness, sadness, or loneliness between life and death?
A simple little dirt bag is buried with people who once lived, and a few simple words are carved into the square rock.
After only a few days, the flesh-and-blood deceased may still be nostalgic for the world and refuse to leave, gazing at strange or familiar places with greedy and sad eyes, reminiscing about the past.
Months, years, decades. But there was only one white bone, a handful of loess, and a stone tablet that had worn out the handwriting. It may be a kind of luck that it has kept the shape of the tomb.
What is left behind when you die?
How many people can leave traces of their lives over the years?
If the dead are gone, and the living are remembered, they should die without regrets.
The killers of the Dove Wine Hall will be led here by their master to listen to a few short words before they set out for the first assassination:
This is where your predecessors are buried.
Your bones, if they can be found, will be buried here.
Remember this, and you will not be afraid of the stranger after you die.
It's like demagogy, but it's straightforward to the extreme.
Looking at the new grave in front of him, for some reason, a word appeared out of thin air in the heart of the boy in Tsing Yi: homecoming.
The wine hall is their "home". Can be buried in the cemetery of the Liquor Hall, they at least returned home after death. Beside them lie the first comer, or the latecomer, or the ...... who have lived a life very similar to theirs A companion who stood side by side before he died.
Here, it seems, even the wind is sad.
The killer is born in death, lives in death, and ends in death......
The boy in Tsing Yi hooked his lips and smiled: "What do you think?"
The shadow stood a step behind him, and when he heard this, he asked rhetorically, "What is the master asking?"
"Blood Moon...... And quicksand. The boy in Tsing Yi squinted at the tombstone engraved with the words "Blood Moon" and thought thoughtfully.
The shadow was silent for a moment: "I think the master handled it well." ”
The young man in Tsing Yi glanced at him, and then turned his gaze back: "Is that okay?" this time it's because the blood moon is dead, and the shallow scar is seriously injured, and the quicksand can't be killed in the first place...... The next time there is a problem, it will be troublesome. ”
The shadow said lightly: "Just kill it directly next time." ”
The boy in Tsing Yi smiled in a low voice: "What you said is reasonable." After a moment of silence, he asked, "How are your injuries?"
The shadow said, "It's no big deal. ”
The boy in Tsing Yi raised his hand and touched the stone tablet in front of him, and chuckled: "It's cool." ”
The shadow said: "The stone is naturally cold. ”
The boy in Tsing Yi nodded approvingly: "Yes, the stone is indeed cold." ”
A trace of doubt flashed in the shadow's eyes, and he didn't understand what the boy in Tsing Yi meant, so he didn't answer.
The young man in Tsing Yi tapped his fingers on the stone tablet, and there was still a smile on his lips: "How many people from the beggar gang survived?"
The shadow said: "Except for the deputy gang leader Jiang Suihe and those henchmen of Wen Qihua who were waiting at the foot of the mountain behind the puppet palace, the rest of the people have all died. ”
The boy in Tsing Yi asked, "Are you sure?"
The shadow nodded: "The subordinates sent a message to Zhong Liying, asking her to lead people to go in two ways, all the way to the puppet palace for emergency relief, all the way to the back mountain of the puppet palace and wait for the remnants of the beggar gang to go down the mountain." Zhong Liying intercepted all the remnants of the beggars who came down the mountain, and only Jiang Sui was alone. According to Feng Qiong's reply, she only left after watching Mo Cry open the center of the back mountain organ. ”
The boy in Tsing Yi said with satisfaction: "It's a good job." "Give the most comprehensive answer when the boy in Tsing Yi needs to be foolproof, and complete the matter quickly when the boy in Tsing Yi only needs the result, and then report according to the situation - this is the requirement of the boy in Tsing Yi to the shadow.
The shadow looked flat and continued to ask, "How is the master going to deal with Jiang Sui?"
The young man in Tsing Yi turned to face him and pondered: "The original plan was to let Jiang Sui, who was seriously injured, return to the beggar gang with Wen Qihua. But now that Shallow Scar is injured like this, it is obviously impossible to let him go. You can only let Xuanyuan Yin replace him, ......right? In this way, there are fewer shallow marks in the Styx Valley, and there is less Xuanyuan Yin, and it is even more difficult to restrain the entire Stygian Valley by relying on Gong Wei alone. There are quite a few people in the puppet palace who are good at disguise, but there is no one who can be trusted now, so they can only do it. ”
Shadow said: "There is a subordinate who recommends it. ”
The boy in Tsing Yi was stunned and asked, "Who?"
The shadow said, "Flowing kite." ”
"Flowing kite?" the boy in Tsing Yi thought for a moment, "will he change his appearance?"
Shadow said: "He is the personal disciple of the Demon Halo, and in addition to the Demon Halo in the Wine Hall, his disguise technique should be the most superb." Liuzitang itself is to assist the existence of the rest of the branches, although Liukite is the hall master, but with the deputy hall master of Quicksand, there should be no major problems in Liuzitang. ”
The boy in Tsing Yi asked, "Compared with Shallow Scar, whose disguise technique is higher?"
The shadow said: "Maybe the shallow mark is slightly better, but the flow kite's disguise technique is definitely stronger than Xuanyuan Yin." ”
The arc of the corner of the young man's lips in Tsing Yi was raised a little higher: "Yes, then you can arrange it, it will be a good show at that time." ”
The shadow bowed slightly: "Please rest assured, master, there will never be any mistakes this time." ”
The boy in Tsing Yi glanced at him, nodded, and turned back again: "I want to stay for a while, you go first." ”
The shadow whispered, "Yes, the subordinates retired." "Take two steps back and turn away.
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"How can you agree?" Quicksand pushed the door and burst in, angry as he spoke.
The kite moved his gaze from the jade box held in his palm to the face of the quicksand, and asked lightly, "What do you agree with?"
Quicksand said: "Yi Rongcheng is the deputy leader of the beggar gang! Let's not talk about what you will do if you are discovered, let's just say that if you want to disguise yourself as Jiang Sui, you will get yourself covered in bruises!"
The kite smiled, "Why are you cursing me for failure?"
Quicksand took a deep breath, still full of anger: "Why do you agree? It should be my guilt to make the merit for me, why should you be punished for me?"
The kite said: "You will be mistaken, I am not punished for you, this is not a punishment." And even if it's a punishment, I deserve to be punished, and it has nothing to do with you, don't take the blame on yourself. ”
Quicksand asked, "Why does it have nothing to do with me?" You are accompanying me, if you want to punish him, you should punish me!"
The kite chuckled a few times, with a mocking look in her eyes: "Will you be disguised?"
Quicksand couldn't help but be stunned, stared at him blankly, and didn't speak.
The kite sighed lightly and said leisurely: "Quicksand, don't forget, we are the killers of the Liquor Hall." Don't forget your skills just because we can't use martial arts to stay in Liuzitang to be responsible for these files and task assignments. Don't forget, the killer is first of all to obey the orders of his master, and then he is afraid of his own thoughts. ”
Quicksand said hoarsely: "I ......"
The kite stood up and patted him on the shoulder, and his words were not without regret: "If it continues like this, the blood moon will be disappointed, and the hall master will be even more disappointed." Childe will let you go so easily, because the hall master risked death to intercede, and even more because you are the junior brother of the palace trick and shallow marks. But no amount of reason is worth the sentence 'you are still useful'. If you're really so depressed that you forget who you are and what you should do, then you're really ruined - you should know what happens to the wasters in the wine hall. Even if it's not for yourself, you have to think about what the entire Liuzi Hall will face if the deputy hall master of the Liuzi Hall is disposed of because of this? What will I, the branch hall master, face? Your master, what will our hall master face?"
Seeing that the quicksand was thrown in a daze, the flowing kite paused for a moment, and continued, his voice extremely soft: "The hall master has raised you for nearly twenty years, and now the hall is at a critical juncture, are you ready to abandon the hall like this? You can't bear to watch the hall master care about the most devastated and still sad? I am willing to accompany you to ask Gongzi to let you see the blood moon again, because I know that you care about her." But if you still look like this after agreeing to your son, then I will hate you. "Don't talk anymore, take a step back, and turn away.
You are the junior brother of Gong Wei and Shallow Scar.
The hall master has raised you for nearly twenty years.
Devastation.
Then I will hate you.
Every word is heart-wrenching.
Eighteen years ago, Quicksand was eight years old.
Master is cold by nature and does not smile. Always black clothes, extremely pale complexion, ruthless and desireless in eyes, like a dead man.
And the two senior brothers of Quicksand, one in gray and one in white, are similar to his age.
The elder brother loves to laugh, and his smile is often a little teasing. But he did not like to play tricks, but often dug out birds' eggs, went into the water to fish, or went to catch hares and pheasants, all wrapped in mud and roasted on fire. When you're done, divide the food into three portions and eat them together. Among the people, including the disciples of the uncles, he was the only one who dared to laugh out loud, and he dared to sneak out to play around and walk around in broad daylight. Strangely, no one will stop Quicksand, let alone scold him.
The second senior brother can also laugh, but he doesn't laugh often. When he is smiling, the look in his eyes will look particularly lonely and sad, but it will also appear very gentle. He had been following behind the elder brother, looking up at the figure of digging birds' eggs under the tree, waiting for the fisher by the river, and holding his face by the fire to look at the senior brother who had no idea what to do with the overly fat rabbit......
The second senior brother has been following the senior brother, and the senior brother is also willing to bring quicksand. In the time outside of martial arts, Quicksand likes to stick to his brothers very much, because the brothers are much better than the cold master.
Quicksand never knew what his brother was like as a killer - or rather, Quicksand waited five years to find out.
The thirteen-year-old boy was among the corpses on the ground, and most of his cheeks were red with blood, so that the smile on his lips and the smile in his eyes were particularly obvious by the not bright firelight. The smile was a somewhat playful but reassuring smile, and the smile in his eyes was a somewhat doting smile when he reached out to help him wipe the greasy side of his mouth.
Another young man not far behind him crouched down, a gentle smile on his lips, listening intently to the rumbling sound of the dying man's throat at his feet, and then spit out in an extraordinarily gentle voice: "Thank you." "Nail the hook in your hand into your fragile throat.
The hook was pulled out, and the blood wet the white clothes a lot, and the young man muttered dissatisfiedly. The gray-clad boy looked back at him and said something with a smile.
The quicksand behind the bushes had no intention of paying attention to what the quicksand brother said, so he ran away, vomiting desperately under the unfamiliar tree, and then couldn't sleep all night. On the second day, the sky was pale, and Quicksand curled up in the quilt and refused to get up, and he didn't go to the two brothers of Quicksand to share breakfast happily as usual.
The quicksand didn't go, but the quicksand's senior brother came by himself. The same smile, the same voice, the same gaze...... What is the difference between himself in the eyes of his brothers and those who died?
There was a very slight fishy smell on the senior brother's body, a bloody smell.
Quicksand, who asked about the taste, pushed the senior brother away and covered his head with a quilt. But the senior brother's voice still reached the ears of the quicksand: "Look, the smell of rabbit blood on the body makes the junior brother hate it again, right?"
The voice of the elder brother evoked shivers in Quicksand's memory.
In the dark night, the young man in white looked at the blood stains on his body and muttered dissatisfiedly: "This time it smells again." ”
The gray-clothed young man looked back and smiled: "What are you afraid of? Just tell him to kill the blood splashed on the rabbit." ”
Remember...... Words that didn't notice in the shock last night......
Quicksand threw away the quilt and ran out barefoot like crazy, running as hard as he could, just wanting to escape.
He didn't look back, but he also knew that the senior brother who watched him run away already knew the reason.
They're going to be disappointed in themselves, right?
Quicksand thought his brother would catch up.
But no.
From that day on, Quicksand began to understand what a killer is.
Quicksand also began to know that if his senior brother didn't let him touch killing, it didn't mean that he could always be like a child and only know how to stick to his senior brother to climb trees and fish.
How funny is it to be a killer and vomit because you see blood and dead people?
At the same age, what qualifications does he have to let his senior brother accommodate him?
What is truly cruel is deception, not telling reality.
"Don't forget, your senior brother is still lying in the back, life and death are uncertain. And you're losing your soul for a woman who is dead. ”
"The hall master has raised you for nearly twenty years, and now the Liquor Hall is at a critical juncture, are you ready to abandon the Liquor Hall like this?
"Then I'm going to hate you. ”
......
Quicksand woke up suddenly, looking around, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.
As a killer, he is trapped by love.
claimed to have "love", but abandoned the efforts and dedication of the master and brother.
As the deputy hall master, he didn't care about the life and death of dozens of people in the hall.
What is this?
Selfishness, self-deception.
Quicksand couldn't help but sit on the ground, his shoulders trembling slightly, his face turned snow-white from the huge shock, and large drops of cold sweat couldn't help oozing.
It was only at this point that quicksand really woke up.
One wrong step can still be changed, and one wrong step can not be changed.
Fortunately, when he woke up, he would not continue to make mistakes.