Chapter 45: Pain

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After that period of powerful nonsense, I don't know if Zhang Xiaofan's body was originally strong, or Baguio's persuasion had an effect, the high fever that had been going on gradually subsided, Zhang Xiaofan slowly regained consciousness, and he was awake, but the illness was still not light, and most of the time he was still lying down and resting.

On this day, Baguio wandered around the cave with nothing to do, and finally walked to the four sentences left by Mrs. Jinling, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but sigh. Zhang Xiaofan sat next to him and couldn't help asking, "What are you sighing for?"

Baguio snorted and said, "I'm sighing for my wife, she is so talented and beautiful, but she was let down by you stinky men, and she has suffered a lifetime, how worthwhile it is!"

Zhang Xiaofan was dumbfounded.

Baguio read these words carefully, and suddenly "huh", but found a strange thing, the last word of the last sentence of the four sentences "bitter", the word "mouth" below is deeply trapped, very different from other words, she rolled her eyes, almost immediately reacted, reached out to pick up the acacia bell on her waist and compared, sure enough, the size was just right, and she couldn't help cheering.

Zhang Xiaofan said behind his back: "What's wrong?"

Baguio turned back to him and smiled, "It's saved!"

Zhang Xiaofan was taken aback, and immediately came to his senses, and said happily: "Really?"

Baguio inserted the bell, saw that there was no response, and tried to turn left and right, after a while, suddenly the stone cave "click" sounded, the stone wall shook, Baguio was shocked, took the golden bell and hurriedly retreated, only to hear the "boom", the original smooth stone wall actually collapsed a layer down, revealing a layer inside, and the upper side was also engraved with words like the inner room Tianshu.

Zhang Xiaofan was happy at first, but then he looked left and right on this stone wall, but his face gradually became ugly, it seems that this mechanism is just for Mrs. Jin Ling to cover up the words on this stone wall, and there is no way out, this time he is extremely frustrated.

Baguio was staring at the words on the stone wall, and the things left by Mrs. Jin Ling were so tightly hidden, they must not be ordinary things. After a long time, the expression on her face was cloudy, but her sigh was particularly serious, and she said in a low voice: "It turns out that this is the 'infatuation spell'." ”

Zhang Xiaofan was impatient next to him, and came over to take a few looks, but saw that the first few words in front of him were:

Nine ghosts, gods and demons of the heavens,

With my blood, I will sacrifice it.

Three lives and seven lives, forever fallen into Yama,

It's just for love, although I don't regret it.

......

At first glance, he knew that this was a vicious spell in the evil way, but looking at Baguio's expression, he was mostly happy, and couldn't help but snort and said, "Is there any way out?"

Baguio was stunned for a moment and said, "No." ”

Zhang Xiaofan said lightly: "Then what's the use of you learning?"

Baguio was silent, and only after a while did he say: "You don't know the origin of this infatuation spell, this spell has been passed down from ancient times in our holy sect, but legend has it that no one has ever wanted to use it?"

When Zhang Xiaofan heard this, he became curious and said, "What?"

Baguio sighed and said: "The legend of this spell was comprehended by a wise female ancestor from the Book of Heaven, but it can only be cultivated by women, I heard that this is a woman's essence and blood, turned into a powerful spell, and the power is overwhelming......"

Before she finished speaking, Zhang Xiaofan had already interrupted her, with a lot of contempt in his eyes, and said: "Then it's called the 'Powerful Blood Curse', what else do you want to say about the infatuation curse, the evil demon is outside, and the vassal is elegant!"

Baguio's face changed, but then he was stunned again, and said in a low voice: "You are right, even if you are like Mrs. Jinling, she is an old man, isn't it useless in the end." ”

Zhang Xiaofan ignored her.

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The two spent a few more days here, and Zhang Xiaofan went to see "Book from Heaven" in his spare time, but Baguio was often stunned by the words she called "Infatuation Mantra" on the stone wall.

In the first volume of the Book of Heaven, there is actually no actual cultivation method, and the entire text is difficult and in-depth, which can be regarded as a general outline. But Zhang Xiaofan has learned the true methods of Buddhism and Taoism, and he can still understand this text, but he can only understand it. Zhang Xiaofan is still puzzled by the realm of the integration of Buddha and Tao in the "Book of Heaven", does it mean that the two true methods of "Taiji Xuanqing Dao" and "Great Brahma Prajna" should be integrated and displayed at the same time?

Although he knew that there was little hope of survival, there was always some temptation in his heart, Zhang Xiaofan quickly tried to cultivate in the direction stated in the "Book of Heaven", but it was not easy to use these two true methods at the same time, and in a few moments, he was already surging with qi and blood, and he had to stop suddenly. For several days, there was no progress at all.

But then came an even bigger problem in front of the two of them - there was no food.

People who cultivate the true Tao, although they can go to the sky and enter the sea, but after all, they are also mortal fetuses in the flesh, and the legendary predecessors who are advanced in the Tao practice the art of opening the valley, do not drink or eat, but no one has ever seen it. Since entering this cave, Zhang Xiaofan's dry food has been lost, although fortunately there is still water to drink in this cave, but the dry food is only brought by Baguio alone, where is there enough to eat? Even if the two of them saved again and again, they quickly ran out.

I don't know how long I stayed in the cave, but I was afraid that it would only take two days, so Zhang Xiaofan and Baguio looked at the empty food bags in a daze.

"Alas!" Baguio sat on the platform, next to the pile of dry bones, but there was no discomfort at all, it seems that the demon woman is really not the same as ordinary people. But now, she has a sad face.

Zhang Xiaofan's condition improved quickly, the fever almost subsided, except for the fact that his body was still a little weak, there was nothing else serious. At this time, he heard Baguio sigh and turned his head to look at the demon woman. What caught his eyes was that the woman in the water green dress was sitting on the edge of the platform, with a pair of feet in the air, shaking for a while, and even the acacia bell around her waist was "jingling", if it weren't for this environment and knowing her identity, Zhang Xiaofan would almost think that this was still an innocent and flawless girl.

It's just that looking like this, Baguio is much haggard than when they first met. Her daughter's house still goes to the small water curtain every day to wash and comb, so she still looks beautiful and doesn't feel dirty, but these days, she has obviously lost weight. Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaofan's heart moved, since he was a child, he had listened to the teachings of his master and brothers, and everyone in the Demon Dao was selfish and hateful. But now in this cave Jedi, why would this demon cult woman give half of the only food she had for herself?

Zhang Xiaofan was thinking in his heart, but he didn't notice that Baguio looked over, and saw that Zhang Xiaofan didn't know when he started to look at him blankly, his face suddenly turned red, and he said angrily: "What are you looking at?"

Zhang Xiaofan was startled, quickly turned his head, and said, "No, nothing." ”

Baguio was behind him, but he didn't scold him as loudly as he imagined, for a long time, but instead a sigh came, saying: "We are trapped in this cave and die, we are not far from death, and you don't have to be so restrained." ”

Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, slowly turned around, looked at Baguio, and saw that she had a faint helpless smile on her somewhat thin but still beautiful face, and couldn't help but rush out: "Actually, when I was seriously ill, you didn't have to give me most of the dry food, so you could live a few more days, maybe you would ......."

"Maybe what?" Baguio interrupted him suddenly.

Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and said in a low voice: "Maybe you may be saved." ”

Baguio shook his head slightly, a little smile appeared on his face, and said: "I don't want to die, but I don't want to wait slowly in the silence of this cave, facing a skeleton and another corpse that is gradually decomposing, in that case, before anyone comes to save me, I am afraid that I will go crazy first." ”

Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help but shudder when he heard what she described, this is indeed not a human life.

Baguio glanced at him and said lightly, "What, are you scared too?"

Zhang Xiaofan immediately straightened his back and said loudly: "How can there be!"

A smile appeared on the corner of Baguio's mouth, and there was gradually a trace of tenderness in his eyes when he looked at him, and said softly: "You promise me one thing, okay?"

Zhang Xiaofan frowned and said, "What?"

Baguio smiled faintly and said, "We have now eaten all the dry food, and there is nothing to eat except some water, I am afraid that we will starve to death in less than seven days." ”

Zhang Xiaofan was silent.

Baguio's face was calm, but what he said next made Zhang Xiaofan feel like a ghost and was shocked: "In a few days, if you see that I can't do it, kill me first." ”

Zhang Xiaofan opened his mouth wide, pointing at her and was speechless for a while, but he didn't expect that Baguio still said unbelievable and earth-shattering words with a calm face: "After I die, my body is still there, if you are bent on survival, you will eat my flesh, and you will probably be able to live for a longer time." ”

Zhang Xiaofan almost fell to the ground.

After a long time, he recovered from this huge shock, and immediately said to himself in his heart: "The people in this demon sect are really demons, and they can even do such things!" But looking at Baguio's expression, he was actually calm, and his heart was even more chilling, and he couldn't help but take a step back, and his fingers pointing at her were almost trembling, and said, "You, what did you say?"

Baguio looked at her, and the tenderness in her eyes seemed to be stronger, but in Zhang Xiaofan's eyes, it seemed to be more poisonous than all the poisons in this world combined.

"Don't you want to go back to the Great Bamboo Peak of Qingyun Mountain to meet your Senior Sister Ling'er, you still have a few fellow disciples in this Ten Thousand Bat Ancient Cave, they will definitely come to you, the longer you live, the greater their hope of finding you?" Baguio lowered his head slightly, but his tone of voice was still so flat.

But Zhang Xiaofan didn't care about her tone at this time, and he didn't even notice how she knew about Senior Sister Ling'er, he just pointed at her and said angrily: "You, you actually told me to eat, eat, eat...... You demons are simply unreasonable! shameless, disgusting, I, I ...... You, you ......"

The more he talked, the more angry he became, but there was not much light between his tongues, "I, me, me", "you, you, you" said for a long time, but he didn't say anything. However, his reaction seemed to be in Baguio's expectation, she was not angry, nor sarcastic, she just looked at him in a daze for a long time, and waited until Zhang Xiaofan's panting breath gradually subsided, and then said slowly: "Eat me or not, that's up to you, but you must kill me first!"

"Here we go again. Zhang Xiaofan said angrily: "Don't think that I will be in the same stream as you demons, you give me some dry food, and I will use this body to pay you back, if you want to pull me into the water, you can't do it!"

Baguio shook his head slowly and said, "No, I'm afraid." ”

Zhang Xiaofan said habitually: "Nonsense, I will never fall for you...... Hey, what did you say?"

It seems that at this life-and-death juncture, Baguio's mood has changed unprecedentedly, I saw that she seemed to have fallen into some kind of memory, and a fear that Zhang Xiaofan had never seen in her appeared on her face, and then, she shook her head heavily, as if she wanted to shake off some thoughts.

"Do you know what it's like to be alone and wait to die?" she whispered.

Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, and faintly noticed that she seemed to have something else hidden, and her curiosity rose, and she said, "What?"

The muscles in the corners of Baguio's eyes seemed to twitch, at this time of death, facing this young man who was the only one who accompanied her in the face of death, she was difficult to control her feelings, and even her voice was hazy and empty: "When I was six years old, my mother took me back to the 'Six Fox Caves of Huqi Mountain' to see my grandmother, but at that time, your righteous path attacked, among them, the Pufang evil monk of the 'Tianyin Temple' used the magic weapon 'Futu Golden Bowl' to collapse the entire Six Fox Caves, and buried me, my mother and my grandmother alive in the ground. ”

Zhang Xiaofan's body suddenly trembled, and a trace of bad premonition, even a kind of cold, rose from his heart, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.

Baguio seemed to have completely fallen into painful memories at this moment, her eyes were looking straight ahead, empty, just like the tone of her speech, flat and empty, with the deepest pain: "At that time, I was so frightened that I cried, I was very scared. It was a small cave, and we were able to survive because of a few large rocks, but my grandmother was too injured and died soon after. My mother took me to cry bitterly in the darkness, and then buried my grandmother. ”

"We were buried deep underground, surrounded by a hard, cold rock, except for a few drops of water between the rocks. I was scared, but my mother kept telling me: Xiao Yao is not afraid, my father will definitely come to save us. ”

Zhang Xiaofan held his breath at the moment and listened carefully, with a trace of indescribable weirdness and faint fear, as if he felt that something was about to happen.

"But it was always dark here, and my father never came, and I was in that dark hole, very scared, hungry, and crying. I still remember that my mother sighed beside me, held me tightly in her arms, and kept saying to me: Xiao Yao is not afraid, Xiao Yao is not afraid, my mother will not let you have anything to do, your father will definitely come to save us!"

Baguio's face gradually turned pale, but he still continued: "However, my father still hasn't come, but I'm already hungry, and I've been crying to my mother for something to eat." My mother searched the cave again and again, but she never found anything. By the end of the day, I was so hungry that I didn't even have the strength to cry, so I just lay on my mother's arms and moaned. Suddenly, one day, my mother found a piece of meat......"

Zhang Xiaofan saw her body tremble almost at the same time as Baguio spoke.

"I was so hungry that I couldn't care about anything, so I ate it, and then I seemed to sleep comfortably, as if my mother was laughing in the dark at that time. In this way, my mother found me a piece of meat every once in a while, and I survived like this, but my mother's voice became weaker and weaker. Finally, one day, I called her, but she did not answer, and from then on, I waited for death in the dark, alone. ”

Baguio slowly turned her head and looked at Zhang Xiaofan, Zhang Xiaofan was looked at by her eyes, and couldn't help but feel a chill, "Do you know what it's like to be a person waiting there to die? Do you know the smell of your mother's corpse slowly decomposing next to you? Do you know what it's like for a person to never see clearly and live in fear forever?"

Every time she asked, Zhang Xiaofan's body trembled.

Baguio was silent, but Zhang Xiaofan didn't even dare to breathe, finally, she seemed to wake up from a dream, but she didn't seem to wake up, and said again in a trance: "Finally one day, suddenly, a light shot from above my head, I screamed in fright, and hid in the deepest corner, and then, the light became brighter and brighter, and the hole above became bigger and bigger, I heard my father calling my name and my mother's name, and then, I saw my father jump down and block in front of me." ”

"He didn't look at me first, but he saw my mother first, and when it was bright just now, I was so focused on looking up that I forgot to see my mother. When I remembered it, I had been blocked by my father, and I couldn't see my mother's corpse, but I clearly saw my father's body shake, and the whole person seemed to turn into a stone, and then, Uncle Qinglong, Uncle Baihu and Uncle Xuanwu, who jumped down with my father, were all stunned in place, motionless. ”

"I was suddenly afraid, even more so than I had died in the dark, and I whispered, 'Daddy.' Dad turned around slowly, and the three uncles lined up and stood behind him, blocking the body of my mother, but I still couldn't see my mother. I whispered, "Dad, where is my mother?"

Zhang Xiaofan could see it clearly, every time Baguio said a word at the moment, his body trembled, as if the girl who was asking was in front of them.

"Dad didn't say anything, but his face was so terrible, although I was young, but I knew, I knew, he really wanted to kill me, he wanted to kill my own daughter! Just before leaving, I secretly looked down from my father's shoulder, and my mother's body had been buried by the three uncles, and only one hand was exposed, but I don't know why, that hand, that hand, that hand ......"

Baguio's voice suddenly fell silent, Zhang Xiaofan was taken aback, and looked at her, but saw Baguio's face was pale, his eyes were closed, and his whole body actually fell straight down, and he actually fainted. Zhang Xiaofan almost subconsciously rushed forward immediately and held her, only to feel that the tentacles were cold, almost not like a living person.

He recovered from his illness for the first time, his body was weak, and it took a lot of effort to put Baguio lying flat on the platform, looking at her pale face, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly realized that his whole body was completely soaked with cold sweat.

That night (in fact, I don't know if it's night, but Zhang Xiaofan intuitively thought it was night), Baguio has been in a coma, but from time to time in his dreams he shouted "mother" and "father" and other words, and the position of the two people suddenly reversed, and Zhang Xiaofan came to take care of her.

But this seems to be a very painful past in Baguio's heart, in a coma, several screams, cold sweat, Zhang Xiaofan was at a loss, until the end, Baguio inadvertently waved his arm, grabbed his shoulder, snuggled in his arms, as if he got something to rely on, only then gradually calmed down and fell asleep quietly. But those hands were tightly grasping Zhang Xiaofan's clothes, and even his nails were stuck in the flesh, which hurt Zhang Xiaofan to grin his teeth, but somehow, looking at Baguio's pale face, he couldn't bear to leave, forced himself to endure, and let her snuggle in his arms and fall asleep.