My hexagram is perfect

"It's not a puppet." Xuan Ge observed the fragments that fell off the opponent's face, and took a step closer, "The flesh and skin on this fake is real, but it is different from human beings. It is very stiff and lifeless."

"So... is this puppetry?" Lu Yao's voice was a little soft.

He looked at the "person" on the ground. The other person's face was like a dilapidated wall, full of cracks, and several pieces of it had peeled off, but there was no blood, more like broken pieces of white porcelain.The posture of falling on the ground is also very distorted, like a doll that has been discarded.

"I heard from Senior Zhong that if a person has been made into a puppet, there will be a bloodstain on the back of his neck."

Xuan Ge clenched his hand, then let it go quickly, "Good boy, I'll go take a look."

Shaking his head, Lu Yao stretched out his hand and pulled the opponent's wrist.

There was nothing he could do about it, Xuan Ge led him by the hand, "Then let's go together."

Going over and squatting down, Xuan Ge turned over the puppet-like figure, the touch under his palm was cold and hard.Reach out and pull down the collar on the back of the opponent's neck, revealing a smooth surface of skin.

Looking at the cracks on the opponent's face, Xuan Ge gathered a little air on his fingers, and when he touched them lightly, the surface of the skin cracked like porcelain, and the pieces fell to the ground.

As the fragments fell and turned into powder, a finger-wide bloodstain also appeared in front of the two of them, running across the back of their necks, very hideous.

"It's a puppet." Xuan Ge stood up and twirled the pads of his fingers, "It's similar to touching a puppet or a plastic doll."

After speaking, the air pressure around him was obviously decreasing.After holding back for two seconds, he didn't hold back, worried that his hand would hurt Lu Yao, so he let go.He took out a cigarette and bit his mouth, then went to his bag to find the lighter.

"Didn't you break the lighter and throw it away?"

With a pause of his hands, Xuan Ge lowered his eyes, facing Shang Lu Yao's clear eyes, he suddenly stretched out his hand and directly pressed the person into his arms, with a lot of strength.

The tip of Lu Yao's nose hit it directly, and there was a pain. Just as he was about to reach out and rub his nose, he felt Xuan Ge's lips touching his ears. His voice was very low and a little astringent, "Why are you so stupid? This is puppetry. If . . . and you, too."

Speaking of the next few words, her voice trembled slightly.

His chin rested on Xuan Ge's shoulder, Lu Yao thought for a while, stretched out his hand to wrap around Xuan Ge's back, and patted Xuan Ge lightly. He didn't know what to say, and he said after a while, "I'm fine now, with you."

After hearing this answer, Xuan Ge's arms tightened even more.He knew that Lu Yao was not blindly kind, but was constantly reminding himself to look forward and not to get stuck in the quagmire of the past.

He couldn't be so open-minded as Lu Yao.

Taking a breath, biting the tip of Lu Yao's ear, Xuan Ge said in a helpless tone, "Silly kitten, I love you so much."

"Itchy—" Feeling his ears itching, Lu Yao hid to the side, but was still hugged by Xuan Ge, without success.

He kissed the mole on his left eyelid again, Xuan Ge said softly, "My kitten is really brave."

A few minutes later, remembering what he said to Xue Feiyi when he left Yi Shu's restaurant, Lu Yao was about to make a call when the other party's call came.

"Where are you? Are you all right? No, are you all right? How is that counterfeit?" As soon as the connection was made, a series of crackling words came out from Xue Feiyi's side, "Grandma Long has arrived and is talking to Yi Shu Speaking, hey, it took me a long time to realize, am I a pig teammate?"

The tone is very upset.

Lu Yao answered one question after another, "I'm in the alley not far from the restaurant, I'm fine, the counterfeit's situation is a bit complicated, but it's no longer a threat. Xuan Ge is here, and he's with me." Finally he laughed, "You are not a pig teammate."

They made an appointment to meet at Yishu's restaurant, but when Lu Yao hung up the phone, he saw that Xuan Ge had "supported" the puppet lying on the ground.

"Are you controlling 'Qi' to lift him up?" Lu Yao was a little surprised when he saw such an operation for the first time.

"Well," Xuan Ge and the puppet took a step away, "otherwise I would carry him with my own hands? Impossible."

Seeing his disgusted expression, Lu Yao laughed.

They were not far from Yi Shu's restaurant, but the alleys were intricate, so Lu Yao simply used hexagrams to find the direction.

Walking around in the alley, turning a corner, Lu Yao saw Xue Feiyi standing at the door, holding an astrolabe in his hand, looking around from time to time.

Seeing Lu Yao approaching, Xue Feiyi's eyes lit up, and after walking a few steps, he suddenly saw clearly that the floating thing was "Xuan Ge", and almost jumped up in fright, "What the hell is this?"

"Fake." Xuan Ge walked out from behind Lu Yao, and put the puppet directly in the restaurant, so as not to scare passers-by.

Seeing this scene, Xue Feiyi hugged Qinghe tightly, "I'm getting goosebumps, it's so supernatural."

Qinghe didn't dislike him this time, and even comforted him, "Don't be afraid."

"Are Grandma Long and Senior Yi in there?"

"Yes," Xue Feiyi quickly explained the situation after hearing Lu Yao's question, "After I called Grandma Long, I rushed back and found an excuse to stay. I guess Senior Yi may have discovered something too, Very cooperative. After Grandma Long came, I told her the matter, and now the two of them are talking inside."

While talking, several people walked inside.

As soon as they stepped into the yard, Long Mutang and Yi Shu just came out, and saw the puppet lying in the yard and Xuan Ge standing beside them at a glance.

Grandma Long pursed her lips, "Is this what Xiao Zhuang said, the fake Xuange?" She was a little surprised at first, but she has calmed down now.

"Yes." Lu Yao went over, exposed the back of the puppet's neck, and pointed to the bloodstain, "Here is the mark of a successfully refined puppet."

Grandma Long looked carefully, with a serious expression, "It is indeed."

At this time, Yi Shu, who had been silent by the side, suddenly changed his face, "Wait!" His voice was tense, and he walked a few steps in a panic, and stopped in front of the puppet.As if afraid of something, his body froze, but his eyes were fixed on the bloodstain.

Lu Yao glanced at Grandma Long, saw Grandma Long shaking her head at him, and then said, "Senior Yi?"

Yi Shu didn't respond at all, and he seemed to have lost his soul.

On the way, he had already heard Lu Yao talk about how he and Xue Feiyi were trapped by the magic circle at Yi Shu's restaurant. Xuan Ge moved and stood at a place where Yi Shu could be restrained at any time.

——Except for Lu Yao, he didn't believe anyone present.

Long Mutang sensed something was wrong, "Yi Shu, what happened?"

After a long while, Yi Shu raised his head, looked at Long Mutang in a daze, with a half-crying and half-smiling expression, "Bai Yan...he's Bai Yan!"

"Bai Yan?" Long Mutang came to his senses, "Didn't you personally kill him more than [-] years ago—?" She swallowed the rest of the words.

But Lu Yao and the others standing next to him have already realized that Zhong Huainan once mentioned that more than [-] years ago, Yi Shu's friend was addicted to magic and lost his mind, and he personally ended the other's life.

After that, Yi Shu left the Xuanshu world and never came back.

Looking at the puppet on the ground, Xue Feiyi felt that he could not keep up with the development of the topic.Moreover, even his grandfather didn't like to mention the turmoil in the mysterious art world more than twenty years ago.

After walking two steps forward, Yi Shu squatted down, his outstretched fingers trembling uncontrollably, he pointed to a light-colored birthmark next to the bloodstain, and said with difficulty, "Bai Yan has this birthmark." His voice was hoarse up.

Long Mutang stood next to Yi Shu, "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure."

After thinking about it, Long Mutang didn't say much, but asked, "Are there any other characteristics?"

"Ankle, there are three moles on Bai Yan's left outer ankle, which just form a triangle."

Grandma Long squatted down herself, stretched out her hand and opened the puppet's trousers, exposing her ankles.The surface of the skin on the legs is also incomplete, and as the cracks continue to increase, the surface skin used as camouflage has fallen off a lot.

And under the ankle, there were indeed three moles exposed, exactly as Yi Shu described.

For a while, all fell silent.

Staring at the person lying on the ground, Yi Shu closed his eyes, trembling uncontrollably.After a while, he suddenly stood up, swayed, and then turned his back directly.

Xue Feiyi and Lu Yao looked at each other, but neither spoke.

Long Mutang went to close the store door, turned around and came back, sighed, "Go in and talk." After speaking, he looked at Yi Shu's back.

Before making her wait long, Yi Shu turned around and walked in front of Bai Yan silently, kneeling on the ground on one knee.He stretched out his hand subconsciously, but in the end he didn't land on the other person's face, and instead hugged him horizontally, his movements were cautious.

After entering the room, Yi Shu took out the pipe and tobacco, his hands were shaking, and it took him a while to light the tobacco.He took a few puffs of his cigarette, and spoke slowly behind the dense smoke, breaking the silence in the room.

"22 years ago, I was almost 30 years old, and Bai Yan was a little younger than me." He stared at the shredded tobacco burning in his pipe, unable to see his expression clearly, "At that time, the whole mysterious art world and the mysterious committee were in chaos. People seem to be addicted to magic all of a sudden, lose their minds, and become lunatics who can only kill people."

Hearing this, Grandma Long sat aside and slowly closed her eyes.

"Bai Yan and I have known each other since we were young. At that time, he was joking that if someone really loses his mind and becomes a lunatic, then it is better to die at the hands of the other party than at the hands of others." Yi Shu didn't dare to look at that puppet. , went on to say, "But the situation is getting worse, and people are dying every day."

He glanced at Lu Yao, "Your grandpa and grandma died because of this incident. And Zhong Huainan, also because of the collapse of the mountain, was buried under the rock and almost died. After he came out, he was also depressed for a long time."

"At that time, I was with Bai Yan to investigate the authenticity of a clue. I didn't expect that Bai Yan was also infected with sorcery. Even I couldn't recognize him. He kept clamoring to kill people and make people angry. I controlled it. He wanted to bring him back to the Xuan Committee, but he was sober once in the middle."

The scene at that time seemed to reappear in front of my eyes, "He... grabbed my hand and told me to kill him quickly, saying that he could not control himself at all, and he didn't want to become a monster." At this point, Yi Shu finally insisted He shifted his gaze to the puppet, "Later, I did it myself, and ended his life."

The ending sound is very light, but it is like a mournful cry.