Silence, absolute silence, even beyond the realm of silence and into a state of nothingness.

I can't feel anything, I lose my five senses, as if everything in the world has disappeared, and only a lonely soul is left floating in the endless nothingness, with nothing to attach to, not knowing how to come and go.

Slowly, the sensations of the body returned, and the whole world slowly remerged with the soul.

Ning Wushu opened his eyes, raised his hand with difficulty, and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead.

Since breaking through to the realm of the four seas, this is what she must feel every night when she sleeps. She didn't let anyone know about it. Although she usually maintains the way of simulating the meridians with her mind at any time in her life, her body is the same as that of ordinary people, even when she lies down and sleeps, she can basically maintain this state. But when she actually falls asleep, the simulation stops, and she enters the mental environment of despair and nothingness in her sleep. Only when you wake up can you get out of that feeling again and return to your normal state. In order to avoid encountering danger while asleep, Ning Wushu must also lay various hidden mechanisms around him before going to sleep every day.

At that time, Ning Wushu used to torture Oda Rina to deprive himself of the five senses, but in fact, he had to experience it every day.

Pushing open the door of the room, seeing the spring green shoots outside the door and hearing the birdsong in the mountains and forests in the distance, she remembered where she was and what she was doing.

Ning Wushu had a strange feeling, since she destroyed the dantian and cut off the meridians, the emotions in her heart have also become flat, as if everything is no longer important, and there are only two words left on her body: "responsibility". Saving her mother is her responsibility at the moment, and as for what she wants to do after completing this responsibility, she is in a trance every time she thinks about it, and she doesn't know what she wants. Once she wanted to take revenge, wanted to start a sect, and wanted to ask the sword world, but now she is interested, and she is like a dummy sealed in wax.

"Alas...... Don't think about that for now, just finish what you're doing. Ning Wushu rubbed his eyebrows and sighed.

Not long ago, after determining that Rina Oda had a way to contact her former subordinates and let Ning Wushu find those mysterious islands, she left the Heavenly King Sect with Rina Oda. Xiaodao was injured a lot because of the hard fight in the abyss of no return, and after coming out of the abyss, it caused an old injury after two days, and he had to recuperate in bed, unable to help, so Ji Mad sent his eldest disciple Xiao Shuang to help Ning Wushu very righteously.

This Xiao Shuang is not young, less than ten years younger than Ji Mad, it is said that he was once the head snake in the coastal area of the East China Sea, and also organized a small gang to beg for a life on the rivers and lakes, and later because of a fight, his gang was torn apart, Xiao Shuang was also chased and killed in the Taibai Mountains, and happened to meet Ji Madness who was hunting, Ji Madness rescued Xiao Shuang, and saw that his talent was particularly strong, so he accepted him as an apprentice.

said that he was an apprentice, but in fact, Xiao Shuang's strength was only a little weaker than that of the five major valley masters, and he could be regarded as one of the strongest among the second-generation disciples.

Originally, as soon as Xiao Shuang heard that Ji Mad asked him to run errands, his face was full of sadness, and he had a stomachache and a headache, until he was told that he was helping Ning Wushu, and this man who was close to middle age scratched his head and agreed.

However, Xiao Shuang did help a lot along the way, as a former head snake, Xiao Shuang has a strong network in the far north of the Central Plains, and is also very good at inquiring about news, and the three of them almost didn't have much effort, and they found the traces of Rina Oda's men.

However, at this crucial step, it has stalled. The three of them found the hiding place of Rina Oda's men, a fabric shop that had been very popular, but there was no one and nothing left here, and they searched for a while in the vicinity, but they found nothing.

The night before, Xiao Shuang claimed to know a local catcher, and said that he was going to find the catcher to drink and investigate, after all, a few big people disappeared like this, and most of the local yamen would have some clues. And Ning Wushu and Oda Rina searched around the nearby towns again, but still found nothing.

Early this morning, after Ning Wushu woke up in the inn in the small city, he came downstairs and saw Xiao Shuang stuffing a few buns in his mouth, shaking his head at himself.

"It's gone, it's gone, and someone reported to the official, but no clues can be found. Xiao Shuang stuffed a bun into his mouth again, and said: "The door of their fabric shop is just open, but there is no one in the store...... The yamen searched for two days, but found that it could not be found, so it was gone. ”

Ning Wushu shook his head when he heard this. The result of their own investigation was the same, it was as if nothing had happened in the cloth shop, and there were no people, and she thought at first that it would be better to find no one and find the so-called nautical charts, but in fact there was nothing in the cloth shop except for the goods bought and sold and a few ledgers.

Later, they also inquired with the locals and found the residence of Rina Oda and his subordinates, but they also found nothing.

For this reason, Oda Rina was very frightened, for fear that Ning Wushu would torture her if she was unhappy, and she had been very careful in speaking and acting for a few days, and had been racking her brains to help, at this time hearing Xiao Shuang's words, Oda Rina hurriedly said: "There must be something strange about this, according to the people in the city, it happened exactly two days before we arrived, as if they knew that we were coming, and then they disappeared." Although these people were my henchmen, they don't have much ability, it is impossible to know that I was rescued by Ning Nuxia from the abyss of no return, let alone know that I am coming, I am afraid that they did not disappear on their own, but by others. ”

Ning Wushu nodded, took over and said, "Generally speaking, there are only a few possibilities that can make a group of people disappear quietly and without leaving a trace. The first is that the people they are familiar with persuade them to take everything with them and leave without saying a word; the second is that the people who do this are extremely skilled and fast, and they are put down without even the slightest chance to react, so that everything can go unnoticed; third, the people who do this are thoughtful and have a strong ability to make layouts go through the sea without leaving a trace. ”

"If it's the first possibility, then the scope of our next search is not very large. There aren't many people in this world who can know that we're coming, and who can know Oda's men. But I don't think that's very likely. If it is the second possibility, the next step is not difficult, in the northeast and far north, there are very few people in the rivers and lakes, and it is not too difficult to find a few people with extremely high martial arts. With Senior Brother Xiao and me, most of the masters on the rivers and lakes are not enough. ”

"The most troublesome thing is the third possibility. If this is the case, then there is a good chance that we are now caught up in the calculations of the other side, who knows who we are coming to, what our purpose is, and most likely what we are going to do next. And we don't know anything about him, why he is targeting us, what good it is for him to stop us, we don't know any of this. ”

"But to think about it differently, I have a bit of an idea. ”

Ning Wushu analyzed in a low voice, his onion white fingers lightly tapped on the table, and Yun Feiyu's indifferent appearance appeared in his mind, and said: "Someone once told me that when you fight with someone, guess his next move, and when you fight with someone, guess his initial motive. The purpose of this secret opponent's move is to prevent me from going deep into the East China Sea, which is the superficial reason, so what is the fundamental motive?"

"First of all, through this action of the other party, I can guess two conclusions. The first conclusion is that I will definitely get something when I go to the East China Sea, and the other party stops me so that I can't find what I want. The second conclusion is that if I continue to follow the current plan, it will hinder what he wants to do. The first conclusion I think is unlikely, I went to the East China Sea to find a way to save my mother, and if the other party wants me to fail, there are completely other methods, such as finding an opportunity to attack my mother directly, etc...... At present, he has only temporarily blocked my way to the East China Sea, and the substantive effect is not good, and I always have another way to go to the East China Sea. ”

"Then the other party has only one motive, that is, if we continue like this, it will hinder him, so he doesn't want us to go to the East China Sea. And if I go to the East China Sea, what will hinder him? As long as I figure out this problem, then it will not be so difficult to find out this secret opponent. ”

Rina Oda and Xiao Shuang were dumbfounded when they heard this, they only knew that Ning Wushu was strong in martial arts, but they didn't expect her to analyze the current situation thoroughly in just a few words, and directly found the crux of the problem. Xiao Shuang clapped her hands, nodded and said, "Little old girl, I underestimated you...... So you say, what are we going to do next?"

Ning Wushu tilted his head and thought for a long time, and said, "I have a guess now, but I'm not sure. I think that the other party has chosen a palliative approach that temporarily stops us from going to the East China Sea, and there will definitely be a next move. He even deliberately made things a little mysterious, just to make me guess, otherwise wouldn't it be more convenient to just kill these people and throw them in place? It was because of the mysterious disappearance of Oda's men that we stayed here for several days looking for clues. ”

Rina Oda pursed her lips and said, "Ning Nuxia, then you mean that we just need to wait for the other party's next move?"

Ning Wushu glanced at Rina Oda, shook his head and said, "Wrong." It's not my style to wait passively, I'm going to lead him out. Oda, when the time comes, I'll need you. ”

Oda Rina was startled, quickly stood up, and bowed as soon as one of them said, "Obey the orders of Ning Nuxia!"

Xiao Shuang touched her chin on the side and asked with interest, "Little old girl, what do you want to do with this bait?"

"No hurry, wait until evening. Ning Wushu said lightly: "If the other party hasn't shown up in the evening, let's move again." Senior Brother Xiao, today and one day, we will not go anywhere, so we will stay in this inn. If someone really stares at us, and we don't move for a day, then the other party must think that we have the next step, and the bait at night will be tempting enough......"

Now Ning Wushu didn't know that a heat wave had been set off in the entire rivers and lakes, and this heat wave was coming for her. But soon, she'll find out.

Before nightfall, Xiao Shuang brought back a piece of news that made Ning Wushu puzzled.

"You say, the whole rivers and lakes are looking for me?" Ning Wushu, who had been unfazed for the past month or two, involuntarily skipped half a beat when he heard the news. As soon as she found this place, something strange happened, and now, Xiao Shuang brought back some strange rumors, which made her smell a big conspiracy.

This conspiracy is not as she thought at the beginning, just to prevent her from going to the East China Sea, there should be a further layout, in other words, maybe it is not that Ning Wushu going to the East China Sea will hinder these people, but that Ning Wushu will stay here and will help the secret opponent.

So what does this matter have to do with the rumors that have suddenly spread? Moreover, you must know that the northern border of Shenzhou is often an independent small river and lake, and it is usually difficult to have much contact with the rivers and lakes of the Central Plains. Therefore, a rumor has been circulating in the Central Plains for a long time before it can be slowly transmitted to the north through some small channels. But Xiao Shuang said that just today, the same rumors broke out in several nearby towns at the same time, and many people in the rivers and lakes fought over this matter, just because they wanted to know more about the "strange treasure in Ning Wushu's hand". Not long after the three of them arrived here, and just as Ning Wushu was about to lure out the enemy, the rumors immediately spread on a large scale, such an obvious pushing animal, this was already half a Ming chess.

However, without understanding the other party's motives, the remaining half of the secret tricks are still in the clouds and cannot be seen through.

Although Oda Rina didn't know much about the current situation, and her heart was full of awe of Ning Wushu, she was also a very smart person, and after seeing Ning Wushu's frowning brows, she roughly knew what she was thinking, and hurriedly said: "Ning Nuxia, I think that the more this matter is laid out, the more we need to take the initiative." At this time, I am most afraid of being led by the other party, even if I break the game with brute force, I can't stand still. ”

Ning Wushu nodded and said, "What you said makes a lot of sense. Plan changes, Oda, and then listen to me. ”