The whole world knows that I crossed

Qiao Wen is certainly not slow.

The change in Bawei was not only manifested in the two unprecedented thank yous in the morning, but during the whole day of the journey, Qiao Wen could clearly feel that the fox's attitude towards him...had changed.

It's no longer the kind of interesting and cold-eyed judgment that it used to treat some interesting "things", but more equal...

In short, he seems to really regard Qiao Wen as an "individual of equal status to himself" (it doesn't matter whether it is a human or a monster), rather than an insignificant existence that is dispensable and life-or-death.

Qiao Wen's original judgment of "this is probably a bad idea of ​​a certain demon fox" gradually began to waver.

But why?

It can't be that Ba Wei's cognition has undergone earth-shaking changes just overnight, right?

Compared with Bawei's change of concept, Qiao Wen is more inclined to believe that this is the follow-up reaction to the "red lotus sword" he used last night——

Everyone in the world has an admiration mentality, human beings are like this, and so are monsters.

And comparatively speaking, the latter regards the saying that the weak eat the strong as the truth more than the former, so in Mu Qiang's psychology, it is natural that monsters are stronger than humans.

Otherwise, how could there be a phenomenon that a big monster would often gather a large number of little monsters around it, forming a certain kind of force, and even building a city or even a country like a human being?

It's just that the weak admire the strong and are more willing to cling to the strong.

Of course Ba Wei would not want to cling to Qiao Wen.

It's just that Qiao Wen didn't show much at first, and although the methods he used were novel, they couldn't be called "strong".

Even if he snatched the jade fragments of the four souls from Naluo's hands with the card of exorcism, but thinking about it, that time gave people the feeling that "skillful" was more than "pretentious", and "smart" was better than "strong". ".

However, the shocking red lotus sword last night was absolutely powerful without any imaginary numbers at all.

It is not impossible that Bavat would completely change his opinion of him because of this.

After all, for a big monster like him, if such a powerful and interesting existence would be recognized as a friend by his future self, it would not be incomprehensible—it would always be stronger than the original "ordinary human" who had no special power .

But Qiao Wen still felt that something was wrong.

Because taking a step back, even if Bawei really accepted Qiao Wen's status as "his future friend", he shouldn't act so... er, attentive... right?

Qiao Wen didn't know if there was something wrong with his statement, but compared with Ba Wei's previously indifferent attitude, it seemed that his performance this day could indeed be described in this way.

And one thing Qiao Wen has to admit is that although Bawei in this period seems to have only one friend, King Eluo, his ability to make friends is really excellent without bragging about it!

At least after this day of getting along, Qiao Wen was almost overwhelmed—you know, my friends!When a certain demon fox really wants to befriend someone, he can really almost successfully attack the other party in a short period of time!

No wonder since ancient times, compared with other monster clans, stories about the fox clan's charms are common, and they are all based on reality...

Qiao Wen held the cup of hot tea that Ba Wei had just silently handed over, thinking in a daze.

—Oh, by the way, now he and Bawei are alone together.

As for the reason...

Hi!What else could it be but being asked to stay and guard the camp again and again...

Even though Qiao Wen can be regarded as the man who defeated Naraku's conspiracy and snatched the jade fragments of the four souls from his hands (?), Inuyasha and Maitreya still have other reasons to continue to prevent him from participating in frontal battles-for example, Ba Wei's injury is still not healed, and the wound burst open again just yesterday, and he may not have time to take care of him during the too fierce fight, so Qiao Wen should stay and take good care of Ba Wei, don't worry about the battle for now...

Qiao Wen: ……………

OK.

To be honest, he is not really keen on fighting and killing people, but it is still very uncomfortable to be deliberately excluded from combatants again and again.

In particular, a certain fox is still adding oil and vinegar to the side:

"Heh...you said I don't trust you? So where did the half-demon and his human companion trust you again?"

Qiao Wen concentrated on drinking tea and didn't speak.

Seeing this, the demon fox narrowed his eyes in displeasure:

"What? Is this considered to be different treatment? The distrust of monsters is unforgivable, and the distrust of humans is justifiable?"

Qiao Wen: →_→

No... What's the matter with your tone?Is it my illusion that the resentment is soaring?

Qiao Wen put down the teacup.

"Don't change the concept secretly." He looked serious, "Your so-called 'distrust', and Inuyasha's 'distrust' towards me, when it comes to words and deeds, how big is the difference? Do you need me to remind you? ?”

"... Tsk." Bawei pouted, but didn't say anything more.

The two of them were sitting on the edge of a not too wide river bank.

The cause of the incident was that near noon that day, a group of people on the way back to Maple Village finally passed a human village. When they were about to enter the village to replenish some supplies and solve the lunch problem, they heard the passing villagers discussing Recently, there seems to be a very difficult monster near the village. The village head and several prestigious families in the village came forward together, and spent money to invite several monster exorcists, monks, mages and other figures who specialize in dealing with monsters. Not only did they fail to solve the problem, but in the end there were rumors that all of them were killed by monsters.

With the help of Master Maitreya's identity and the seemingly reliable good looks (?), he and others are the excuse that he and the others are the exorcising demon masters on the trip. Inuyasha and others asked the villagers a lot about the monster. After some analysis, everyone felt that this incident was very suspicious, and it was most likely related to the jade fragments of the four souls, so they left the village after lunch, and based on the information provided by the villagers, they searched all the way to the The edge of the river where monsters often haunt.

When they got near the river, they happened to see the monster attacking some travelers on the bamboo raft floating in the river.

Inuyasha and the others took advantage of the situation and handed over the monster. During this time, Kagome saw the jade fragments of the four souls on the opponent's body, and the monster also noticed the jade fragments of the four souls hanging around Kagome's neck.

Both sides wanted to snatch the Jade of Four Souls from the other side, so naturally they were merciless in their attacks.

Then Qiao Wen was thrown by the river with Ba Wei on the grounds that "Ba Wei still needs someone to take care of him".

Before leaving, the half-demon hurriedly shouted to him:

"Stay here and wait for us to come back!"

After shouting, he carried Kagome on his back, together with Maitreya, Shan Shan, and Qibao who were riding mica, and chased the monster away—yes, even Qibao’s little fox can join this "devil extermination team", but Joe Wen can't!

Thinking back, he felt angry and funny, so Qiao Wen simply stopped thinking about it.

He waved to Bawei:

"It's almost time... Come here, change the medicine."

Ba Wei said "Oh", and slowly moved his back to Qiao Wen.

Qiao Wen knew that he could lift his arms to the position slightly below his shoulders at most. It would be no problem to pour tea and drink tea, but it would be very difficult to take off the clothes on his body, so listen Qiao Wen said "Change the dressing", and Bawei came over and let Qiao Wen do his thing.

In order to facilitate the dressing change, Qiao Wen wore his own shirt for Bawei—although it was a few laps too big, it was much easier to put on and take off than the T-shirt that required a pullover.

Taking off his shirt and removing the original old bandage, Qiao Wen took a closer look at the wound on Bawei's back. The torn place was still bleeding slightly, but it was much better than when it just broke apart. Under the curative effect, apart from affecting some of Ba Wei's movements, there are no other major sequelae.

Qiao Wen threw the old bandage with some blood stains into the fire and let the flames burn it to ashes, and then replaced Bawei with a new bandage.

"The injury is recovering faster than expected..." Putting on Bawei's shirt again, Qiao Wen told him about the healing of the wound, "I think even if there is another rupture, it will be almost healed in a few days It's..."

And by that time...

Presumably, it was time for Ba Wei to leave, right?

Even if getting along with this Bawei from 500 years ago was not pleasant and smooth sailing, Qiao Wen even thought that if he didn't want to meet the future Bawei, he might leave him alone. But inconceivably, at the thought of parting with the other party soon, Qiao Wen's heart was still filled with loss and a little bit of reluctance...

Perhaps after all, this face is too familiar, and the days of being together almost day and night have also made him used to having Bawei by his side.

So I don't want the other party to leave...

— After all, he is a bit hypocritical.

Qiao Wen smiled, and found that Ba Wei didn't pick up the quarrel, and didn't continue to say anything. Instead, he was going to go to the space of "Yuka" to find some snacks and so on to fill his stomach--I don't know when Inuyasha and the others They will come back, and if it is later, maybe the sun will be setting, and they will sleep in the wild again...

Qiao Wen was rummaging, when he felt that Bawei suddenly approached, and he didn't even just approach Qiao Wen, but simply sat down next to Qiao Wen.

"Baby?"

"...Shh."

The demon fox was speaking almost in a breathy voice.

"Shut up, listen to me."

His voice was inaudible.

"There are people in the forest behind us."

"——!" Qiao Wen was startled, but his expression quickly tensed, and he didn't turn his head to check the situation immediately.

He lowered his head and glanced at Bawei, seeing that although Yaohu looked serious, he was not very nervous, so he couldn't help but move:

"In your opinion... the other party is not a threat?"

Ba Wei was startled, then laughed.

"I can only say that I don't think so." Yaohu said frankly, "Although I am not as keen as that puppy's sense of smell, I can still smell something at such a close distance."

"That is……"

The smell of death and decay.

But strangely, it also seemed to contain the smell of huge spiritual power at the same time.

And that spiritual power is so clear, so pure, and so powerful, full of bright aura...

In short, "...it's a very weird smell."

The fox wrinkled its nose, a little thankful that its sense of smell was not as sensitive as Inuyasha and Sesshomaru.

"But the other party doesn't seem to have any killing intent towards you and me."

It can even be said that even the hostility is not too great.

That's why Bawei's sense of smell detected the trace when the distance was so close.

The demon fox looked up at Qiao Wen:

"What should I do? I need to make a move..."

Before the word "what" came out, Qiao Wen's eyes were wide open, with an expression of disbelief and...surprise? ? ?

What the hell? !

Bawei was startled.

What are you surprised about, my friend!

What kind of weird reaction is this?

Humans are really hard to understand!

The demon fox expressed confusion.

However, Qiao Wen couldn't care less.

The description of Bawei-death and decay, holiness and purity.

Who does this point to?

Of course, Qiao Wen is also the childhood goddess of countless people——

Qiao Wen stood up abruptly.

Ba Wei didn't know why, but he also stood up, and then he saw the person beside him turned around completely, his expression was unprecedentedly soft and... pious? ? ?

Bawei:? ? ? ? ?

No... What's going on?

The demon fox was even more confused.

And at this moment, following the movement of Qiao Wen's turning around, a beautiful black-haired witch in white clothes and crimson hakama slowly walked out from behind the bushes where the two of them turned their backs...

"... Kikyo..."

Even if she has already guessed the identity of the person coming, but when she sees this person with her own eyes, when she is like pushing away an ancient and beautiful scroll, she slowly steps down from the scroll, as if she has changed from the person in the painting to the person in front of her at once. Qiao Wen was still instantly moved by this indescribable scene.

So much so that he couldn't help but read the name of the person who came.

A head of straight, waist-length black hair was simply tied behind her back with a clean white headband. The witch goddess with a clear face and light lips looked calm. She didn't show the slightest surprise or surprise just because Qiao Wen called out her name. It was an accident.

She nodded: "It seems that you know me..."

Qiao Wen couldn't explain how he came to know Kikyo, in the blink of an eye, he could only choose without hesitation... to sell teammates:

"Yes! Inuyasha told me!"

Kikyo didn't doubt that.

"I see." She simply accepted what Qiao Wen said.

The miko's expression was very calm from beginning to end, so calm that it was unbelievable. She would use such an expression to say the following lines:

"Since Inuyasha reminded you...then you should know what I'm here for?"

"Hand over the fragments of the Jade of the Four Souls."

Qiao Wen: ...

Qiao Wen was silent.

Half of his silence is because the purpose of Kikyo's arrival is to snatch the jade fragments of the four souls collected by Inuyasha and his party, and the other half is because...

"How do you know that the fragment of the jade of the four souls is on me?"

Qiao Wen narrowed his eyes.

This is the important reason why even though Inuyasha and Maitreya still refused to let him join the battle, Ba Wei did not know whether it was out of pure malice or some kind of unconvinced and malicious "provocation" that did not work—— Before leaving, Inuyasha put a small piece of crystallization of the four soul jade fragments collected by Qiao Wen.

In other words, the small fragment of the Jade of the Four Souls that Qiao Wen "snatched" from Naraku before and purified by Kagome did not fuse with the fragment of the Jade of the Four Souls that was almost half the size on Kagome's neck , but under the secret operation of Inuyasha and Kagome, the "return to the original owner" was sent to Qiao Wen again.

Qiao Wen still remembered that night, they stayed in a rich family's house, and they had a guest room and a normal bed to sleep in. In the middle of the night, Inuyasha called him outside the guest room door, and handed over the jade fragments of the four souls to him with a displeased face. gave him:

"Kagome asked me to give you this."

Qiao Wen took it subconsciously, and when he found out what it was, his expression became a little weird:

"...why give it to me?"

Inuyasha continued to be unhappy:

"Gawei said that she was afraid that something would go wrong before arriving at Maple Village—if someone came to snatch the pieces of the jade of the four souls, she carried such a large piece with her, so conspicuous, she would definitely become the target of the robbery. A few times... the pieces of the Four Soul Jade were lost for various reasons, and Kagome doesn't want to have such an accident again."

But things like accidents are independent of human will. It doesn't mean that if you can't think of it, it will definitely not happen.

So Kagome and Inuyasha debated for a long time, and finally decided to "deposit" this fragment that Qiao Wen got in Qiao Wen's hands for the time being——

"Don't you have a way to make others not feel the breath of the jade fragments of the four souls on you?"

The half-demon said so at the time.

"Then hide it again—remember, it must be well hidden."

Qiao Wen agreed.

And he did.

The ingot card is still responsible for locking first and then the dream card is responsible for saving. Qiao Wen can almost guarantee 500% that even in the Warring States Period [-] years ago when demons, ghosts and even gods were popular, he could win the dream card in the dream world. There are very few people who find the Jade Fragment of the Four Souls guarded by her power.

So here comes the question, Kikyo... how did he know that Qiao Wen had the Jade Fragment of the Four Souls on him?

However, Miko had no intention of answering Qiao Wen's question.

"You don't have to know how I know."

The witch's tone was calm.

"Hand over the fragments...I don't want to make things difficult for people like you..."

...someone like me?what kind of person?

Qiao Wen was puzzled for a moment.

But he quickly figured it out—what kind of person can he be? Naturally, he is an "ordinary person"!

Qiao Wen: ...

Qiao Wen felt very complicated at this time.

If Inuyasha's sense of smell only works on monsters, Qiao Wen, whose body is indeed an ordinary human, can't smell anything special at all.

Kagome's eyes, which could see the jade fragments of the four souls and the miasma of spiritual energy, couldn't tell whether Qiao Wen's "spiritual power" was strong or not, even when he used power, without the slightest fluctuation of special power.

But Kikyo...

Qiao Wen thinks that the Warring States Period is the most transparent, with a pair of eyes that can almost see through everyone, and he also said that he is an ordinary person...

Fine:)

Ordinary people are hammered now!

Qiao Wen even felt flattered.

but--

"I will not give you the pieces of the jade of the four souls."

he said softly.

"You know this very well, don't you?"

Otherwise, I wouldn't try to persuade him.

Miko's expression gradually became cold and hard.

"I always thought..."

She took off the longbow behind her back, and slowly drew the bowstring:

"Unnecessary disputes can be avoided."

There was even a hint of a sigh in Kikyo's tone.

"Me and Inuyasha... there is no way, without this method, he will not let me leave with the jade fragments of the four souls..."

And she herself, even if she has understood the truth of the year, the resentment accumulated in her chest for a long time, and the strong anger that arose because of it, still cannot be easily calmed down.

She is no longer a witch with a clean mind 50 years ago, but a false body driven by beliefs, obsessions and even delusion, dragging clay and ashes, which should have dissipated, and does not belong to this world... dead.

It's not that she has a better way, it's not that she can't sit down and calmly explain to Inuyasha the reason why she keeps snatching the four soul jade fragments from him and Kagome, and then gives them to Naraku.

But she didn't want to.

Being misunderstood... so what?

It's...it doesn't matter anymore.

The witch smiled.

"Since you refuse, then..."

—Just try my arrows!

The witch's spiritual power instantly opened up, and the bowstring was covered in an instant. The moment the arrow shot out, the huge spiritual power suddenly exploded, and the arrow shot straight at Qiao Wen with an indomitable sharpness!

Qiao Wen didn't try to move—whether dodging or avoiding.

He sighed silently, and in the next second, a black, strange cloth-like thing like the dark night sky suddenly extended from his body, blocking him like a layer of copper and iron walls.

Hearing a sound of "Ding!", the arrow shot by the witch hit the black "wall", and after splashing a cluster of golden sparks, it fell powerlessly...

Kikyo's eyes flickered slightly.

Naraku only said that this is a somewhat special ordinary human being, but did not say that his "specialness" is actually so special...

But Kikyo is not so easily shaken.

Her eyes sank slightly, and she drew another sharp arrow from the arrow basket behind her back—this time, she drew the bow fully.

Seeing the determination in her eyes, Qiao Wen couldn't help sighing again.

Ba Wei, who was subconsciously blocked by him, looked at the man in front of him with an unfathomable expression—since the woman appeared, this man's behavior...was a bit strange.

During this journey, Ba Wei always heard the half-demon named Inuyasha and his companions mention the "Jade of the Four Souls". After the monster got it, it could greatly increase its strength, but Ba Wei was already strong enough. At that time, he teamed up with the King of Evil Luo to do evil everywhere. The two even laughed and said, if that thing is really so useful, it is better to grab it back and use it as a gift. Play with toys?If the rumors are true or if you are tired of playing...

"Wouldn't it be fun to just destroy it?"

Eluo Wang laughed and said so.

It's a pity that they hadn't had time to take time out from the pleasure-seeking and really put this plan into practice, when they heard the news that the Jade of the Four Souls disappeared together with the witch who guarded it.

Eluo Wang also said at the time: "It's really boring... It will disappear so easily, it doesn't seem to be a very powerful thing."

So the two simply forgot about the Jade of the Four Souls, and continued to do evil everywhere together.

So even now that I heard that Inuyasha and the others have such a thing in their hands, I just don’t know why the original intact piece of jade shattered into countless pieces, and Inuyasha and others seem to be collecting fragments of the four-soul jade everywhere and preparing to complete it Ba Wei didn't show the slightest interest in the unity - he had no sense of trust in the power brought by external objects, and believed that only the power he could control was the real power.

But that thing seems to be very important to Qiao Wen, and it is a key prop to send him back to modern times...

Bawei understood the reason why Qiao Wen would not hand over the pieces of jade of the four souls to the witch, but how to explain Qiao Wen's various behaviors since seeing the witch?

The demon fox frowned unconsciously.

At this moment, he heard Qiao Wen speak, with some inexplicable determination (?) in his tone:

"Stop it, Kikyo."

Human youth said so.

"I know the reason why you snatched the jade fragments of the four souls from Inuyasha and the others, and I also know why you gave them to Naraku."

Under the sudden cold gaze of the witch on the opposite side, the young man smiled helplessly:

"But... your goal may not be achieved."

He said, raising his hand and touching his nose:

"Because the jade of the four souls... can never be complete."

Kikyo's eyes widened upon hearing this.

"What did you say……?!"

The author has something to say: Don’t say I broke the chapter. In fact, I originally wrote this chapter as two chapters. The breakpoint of Chapter 1 was just when Kikyo appeared on the stage, before Qiao Xiaowen’s “Kokyo” yelled out... I originally wanted to It was updated in two chapters, but after thinking about it, it would definitely be said to be broken, so I combined it into one chapter... How considerate, isn't it? [crazy hint

Qiao Xiaowen: To be honest, the Jade of the Four Souls can no longer be restored to its original state...

Campanulaceae:? ? ?

Feeling sorry for Naraku for a second, hahahahahahahahaha! (You call this distressed...?