Chapter 490: Turning Love into Hatred (II) (Yangzhou Chronicle)
"Yes, that's just ......" Lan Gu lowered her head and smiled coldly...... Suddenly, her right hand carrying the sword quickly raised, and the direction of the sword blade was facing Li Ting......
Li Ting kept bowing her head to heal the wounded, not noticing the situation on her head, and suddenly felt the cold shadow above slowly approaching, Li Ting's heart tightened. Slowly glancing sideways, she saw that Lan Gu was facing her with a sword, and her eyes unconsciously showed suffocating fear......
Lan Gu was ruthless, the blade of the sword in his hand had already stabbed away, at such a close distance, Li Ting didn't know martial arts, and Li Ting herself couldn't dodge this fatal sword at all......
"Whoosh-" Under the black clouds breaking through the city, a rocket flew to the center, and a meteor in the day and night - it was the arrow of the Mengyuan army to signal the breaking of the city, and the part where the flame was burning formed a line of fire, dividing the middle land into two parts, east and west. And the position where the rocket flew was exactly the middle of Lan Gu and Li Ting......
"Bell-" With a crisp sound, a figure swept past Li Ting's side, stopped Lan Gu's sword blade with a kick, and flew to drag Li Ting's body back.
"Ahh And where the rocket flew just now, the line of fire formed just separated Li Ting and Lan Gu from each other.
Lan Gu withdrew her sword blade and slowly looked up. This kicking routine is very familiar, and she doesn't want to see that it is him who saved Li Ting before meeting...... But the facts can't be changed, there is nothing wrong, the person who saved Li Ting was Fang Zhongtian, not someone else. On the east and west sides of this line of fire, Lan Gu and Fang Zhongtian, who saved Li Ting, looked at each other.
Fang Zhongtian's side. quickly eliminated the attacking Meng Yuan troops, and rescued Li Ting from under Lan Gu's sword at the last moment. Li Ting was still a little frightened, after being taken to a safe location by Fang Zhongtian. He also gasped for breath from time to time, and looked at Lan Gu across the line of fire with strange eyes. It wasn't that she was afraid of Lan Gu, but she felt an indescribable sadness in Lan Gu's eyes. She could feel that Lan Gu's heart was crying, and the slender and sad girl in purple in front of her was telling hesitant and sad love words in her heart......
"Lan Gu, why are you?" Fang Zhongtian was just thinking about saving Li Ting just now. He didn't care who the other party was, and when he saw the figure of Lan Gu on the other side of the line of fire, he was stunned - the two most important women in his life. Now that he was looking at the fire from east to west, the same thing that worried him the most had happened.
"Okay, Fang Zhongtian. I guessed right. Hmph......" Lan Gu smiled like "crazy", but her eyes were mixed with tears, she was looking at Fang Zhongtian, her right hand clenched the hilt of the sword, and said with a little excitement, "You really have another woman, abandon me fiercely, hello." You're really nice......"
"Lan Gu, these are all ......" Fang Zhongtian wanted to explain something. After all, he was just trying to repay or save Li Ting at the beginning, between the two women Lan Gu and Li Ting, Fang Zhongtian didn't really make a choice, for the current Fang Zhongtian, these two women are very important, and they are only important as friends.
"What are these?" However, Lan Gu didn't give Fang Zhongtian an explanation, she hurriedly said, "You men are really hypocritical, and you say that you will be loyal to your beloved for a lifetime, but you can't withstand the temptation of other women outside...... You are the same, Fang Zhongtian, you beast is not as good as Tian Xu is right, what qualifications do you have to become the head of the Yixian Sect today......
Fang Zhongtian heard Lan Gu mention Tian Xu, and then he remembered that there had been no news of Tian Xu for a long time. Fang Zhongtian was also worried about Tian Xu, so he turned around and asked, "Brother Tian, by the way, what about Brother Tian, isn't he with you?"
"Are you embarrassed to ask him?" Lan Gu laughed loudly, and then said, "He is just like you, but he is also a hypocrite, he says that he will plan great things with us, but secretly colludes with the wicked......"
"What did you say?" Fang Zhongtian couldn't believe his ears and asked repeatedly.
"Tian Xu has already colluded with the wicked, why, don't you believe it?" Lan Gu smiled in horror again, and continued to say "crazy", "But these don't matter, you don't know yet, Tian Xu already wants to kill you after knowing that you empathize with me and abandon me...... You'd better be careful, it seems that today, the three of us are going to kill each other......"
"It's impossible, Brother Tian wouldn't do such a thing...... Didn't he always want to be a hero? impossible, he couldn't have colluded with the wicked, impossible!" Fang Zhongtian still didn't believe Lan Gu's words, and shook his head and retorted.
"But that's true, I saw it with my own eyes, and I talked to him-" Lan Gu continued to laugh "madly", "Tian Xu is also crazy, not only colluded with the wicked people of the Yangzhou prefect, but may already be on the way to take your life......
"But he doesn't know where I am now, if Brother Tian really becomes a wicked person and comes to me as you said, Aunt Lan......" Fang Zhongtian thought to himself while thinking about it, and suddenly woke up in his consciousness and said, "Oh no, he must think that I am still in the Yellow Mansion, if that's the case......"
Fang Zhongtian seemed to have a bad premonition, but this qiē seemed to be too late......
The ruined city of Yangzhou, covered by black clouds and firelight, looked gloomy......
From the opposite side of the Huang Mansion, a few people slowly walked in. One of them had a fierce light in his eyes, as if he had condensed the hatred in his heart, reflecting the sorrow and pain in the firelight, accompanied by an unsolvable killing intent, and came on foot. The rest of the people followed behind him, carrying terrifying weapons in their hands, and walked slowly in the direction of the Yellow Mansion......
And at the gate of the Huang Mansion, at this moment, Huang Xuanqing was standing in it. Looking at the black clouds in the sky and the ruins and broken walls of the city, Huang Xuanqing couldn't help but sigh in his heart - Yangzhou City, which was prosperous like smoke in the past, has now become a hell on earth. Huang Xuanqing, who was born a literati, did not have the slightest power to save the people. Alone in this deep alley courtyard, he sighed silently. The uneasiness of the black clouds, the suffocation and fear that there has never been before, seemed to indicate the inevitable doom of the Yellow Mansion......
"Could it be that the Huang family will not be able to escape today...... Huh?" Huang Xuanqing also sensed that something was wrong. It seems that today's fortune is revealed, and suddenly I feel that the movement in front of me is near, and Huang Xuanqing said in his last words.
The pedestrians slowly approached the Yellow Mansion, and the person who came was also the one with a fierce light in his eyes. Huang Xuanqing seemed to recognize it, although this person's clothes were a little tattered, and his face was only dirt ash and blood, but Huang Xuanqing could recognize it. They had met before, and it was that time that Huang Xuanqing also accused him of his "negligence" in public - this person was Tian Xu.
And the one who followed behind Tian Xu. Naturally, needless to say, it is the "ghost king" Bai Xie and Zhou Xingtong who obeyed his orders, and the four "four evil ugliness" Wu Tong who have no way out. The purpose of Tian Xu's trip was naturally to come to Fang Zhongtian to make a decision. As everyone knows, Fang Zhongtian is no longer in the Huang Mansion. Together with the Gregor Gang Leader and others. Today's Huangfu is no longer cared for.
"It's you again......" Huang Xuanqing seemed to sense that the person who came was not good, but he was not afraid at all, but stood in front of Tian Xu confidently and said in person.
Tian Xu didn't care so much, he remembered Huang Xuanqing, who accused himself in front of him at that time, and he couldn't wait to kill him because of his uncontrollable feelings. Tian Xu's target was only Fang Zhongtian, and he looked at Huang Xuanqing with a fierce light. In cold words, he asked, "What about Fang Zhongtian?"
"What are you looking for Master Fang?" Huang Xuanqing was unhurried and asked directly.
Behold. Tian Xu didn't seem to have patience, he lifted his long sword, aimed the blade at Huang Xuanqing, and said ruthlessly: "Don't talk nonsense, tell me where that beast is Zhongtian?" Tell him to come out, I'm going to kill him!"
However, in the face of the threat of death, Huang Xuanqing did not have a trace of fear. He looked at Bai Xie and the others behind Tian Xu, but smiled and said, "Hmph, I heard that Master Fang said that you are an upright man who thinks about the people, but now it seems that this is not the case...... You actually got together with the wicked people who killed innocents indiscriminately, Master Fang really misjudged you-"
"Don't talk nonsense, I can't take your turn to teach me a lesson!" Tian Xu couldn't get used to Huang Xuanqing's tone, he continued to say ruthlessly, "Tell me quickly, where is Fang Zhongtian, otherwise, I will kill your whole family-"
However, Huang Xuanqing still didn't have any fear in his eyes, he looked at Tian Xu head-on, and smiled calmly: "Hmph, coercion by force, you will never be able to convince people, no matter how powerful you are, no matter how many people you kill, in the eyes of others, you will always be just a villain, and you will never be a hero in this life......"
Hearing this, Tian Xu seemed to be enraged, thinking that in the past, he would always live in the shadow of Fang Zhongtian, he and Fang Zhongtian had done the same thing, and the final benefits and glory were all obtained by Fang Zhongtian, and he would always be just a supporting role. And now, Fang Zhongtian has abandoned the woman he once loved, and now he is still being preached by others as the opposite of the villain. Tian Xu couldn't bear the joke of such fate, he wanted to resist this unfair fate, and wanted to use the sword in his hand...... But now, the sword in his hand is aimed at a good man without malice......
Tian Xu had already lost his mind at this time, and in his heart, he was bent on killing Fang Zhongtian with his own hands. Ignoring nothing, Tian Xu continued to threaten Huang Xuanqing and said: "Don't preach to me here, I'll just ask one last time, where is Fang Zhongtian? If you don't say it, believe it or not, I will kill you and the whole family of the Huang Mansion ......."
However, in the face of such a threat, Huang Xuanqing still said quietly: "Hmph, the righteous people are still the same, why are you afraid of the different paths of life and death?
As soon as these words came out, it seemed to arouse the anger in Tian Xu's heart, his sword moved slightly, and the murderous intent in his eyes was revealed: "Since this is the case, then don't blame me for being ruthless......"
And behind Tian Xu, Bai Xie and the others were also ready to move......
Fang Zhongtian is still lingering between Lan Gu and Li Ting here......
"I guessed right before, you actually got mixed up with this slut......" Lan Gu looked at Fang Zhongtian and Li Ting on the other side of the line of fire, and continued to sneer.
"Shut up, you are not allowed to say that...... Miss Li ...... "Fang Zhongtian wanted to refute, but his tone didn't seem to be firm.
Li Ting was on the side, as if she had learned the beginning and end of the grievances between the two, but she didn't expect that the root cause of this qiē would be herself...... She didn't want to see such an outcome either, if it was her own fault. She was willing to step up and take it upon herself. But...... But from the bottom of her heart, Li Ting really loves Fang Zhongtian, although this idea is very selfish. But she didn't seem to have any other choice......
"Ahh
"Don't—" Li Ting couldn't bear to see the scene of the brutal slaughter, and cried out loudly.
But Lan Gu doesn't seem to want to stop, as far as human nature is concerned, Lan Gu and Li Ting are fundamentally opposite. Of course, at this time, Lan Gu had already lost her mind. She ignored Li Ting's stop on the other side, and continued to raise her sword to assassinate the surviving soldiers on the ground.
"Ahh Even Fang Zhongtian couldn't stand it anymore.
"Stop!" Fang Zhongtian couldn't help it and shouted at Lan Gu.
Lan Gu heard this, and stopped the sword in her hand slightly, she glanced at Fang Zhongtian. His eyes were full of despair: "Sure enough." You'd rather be on that slut's side than on my side...... Okay, Fang Zhongtian, I'll give you one last chance, right in the line of fire that separates this thing. If you choose me, you will come from the line of fire, and if you choose her, then you and I will be enemies from now on. Like Tian Xu, if I see you in the future. I'm going to do everything I can to kill you......"
At this time, Fang Zhongtian heard Lan Gu's desperate words. The whole person was a little confused. Originally, he had not made a choice when he saw the two women, but Lan Gu's words retreated to the cliff pass, and there was no way out......
Li Ting is the same, she didn't expect that the choice of fate would come so quickly. She looked at Fang Zhongtian with intent eyes, expecting Fang Zhongtian to say such an answer, but she didn't expect that kind of answer—her heart was even more unaware......
"How's it going, your choice?" Lan Gu continued to ask Fang Zhongtian. Lan Gu herself has also made up her mind, and at this moment of Fang Zhongtian's choice, it will be the choice of everyone's fate......
Time seemed to freeze, and Fang Zhongtian never spoke. He just stood quietly beside Li Ting, looking at Lan Gu on the other side of the line of fire, without saying a word, without making a single movement, or even passing a look. He just kept standing quietly, as if waiting and like a daze, all the people present were determined to face their fate, only Fang Zhongtian was not determined to choose the path of fate......
Lan Gu saw that Fang Zhongtian never took a step, although he didn't say the answer to his choice, Lan Gu could feel that Fang Zhongtian's choice was already obvious, and the sword in his hand also moved slightly......
The black clouds gradually rolled towards Fang Zhongtian's head, and the qiē here also became darker and darker. The shackles of fate are like black chains, imprisoning people's hearts in a prison that will never see the light of day. Fang Zhongtian was exactly like this, his own actions, his consciousness, were completely locked by the black shackles, in this dark moment of frozen time, Fang Zhongtian was stunned and couldn't open his mouth......
"The answer is already obvious, isn't it......" Lan Gu said secretly in her heart...... Suddenly, the long sword in Lan Gu's hand was raised, and all she could hear was the screams on the ground, and Lan Gu brutally killed all the surviving guards on the ground.
"Don't—" Li Ting shouted in despair again, but it was already too late. The dead soldier was lying on the ground completely, and his last eyes were still looking at the figure of Li Ting, the girl who had not given up hope and saved herself, on the other side of the line of fire......
And Fang Zhongtian was still standing in place with his eyes glazed, Lan Gu slaughtered the surviving soldiers, and he didn't step forward to stop it. At this time, he was like a wooden man, he didn't speak, he didn't act, he just looked straight at Lan Gu opposite, watched her change in demeanor, watched her murderous and ruthless, saw her desperate eyes, and watched her turn around on the other side of the fire.
Yes, turning around, Fang Zhongtian never walked in his direction, and did not cross the "line of fire" of choice. Lan Gu already knew Fang Zhongtian's choice, and simply wiped the blood on the long sword, Lan Gu turned her head and left silently, and finally disappeared from Fang Zhongtian and Li Ting's field of vision, disappearing into the boundless darkness...... (To be continued......)