[Bottle Evil] Snowy Illusion

It was very quiet at night, after the strong wind stopped, only the occasional breeze could barely move Zhang Qiling's bangs.

Being quiet made Wu Xie a little uncomfortable.

It was a full moon at night, the clouds opened and the moon was bright, and the whiteness of the snow-capped mountains just reflected the moonlight perfectly, and there was infinite softness in the vastness. If I wanted to say a few words about such a scene, it would indeed destroy the atmosphere.

Bah, Wu Xie cursed secretly, what kind of atmosphere was created.

Looking at a ridge not far away, Wu Xie suddenly laughed.

"Do you remember that section of the cliff? If I remember correctly, that's where I fell." Wu Xie pointed in one direction, then thought of something else, and continued, "Didn't you break your wrist at that time? Good morning, right?"

Zhang Qiling looked in the direction Wu Xie pointed, thought for a while and said, "It should be further east, the hot spring is in that direction."

Avoiding the wrist injury, Wu Xie's heart was agitated: No way, it's still not healed?That old man has committed a great crime.

Thinking about it, he stretched out his hand and wanted to pull Zhang Qiling's wrist to have a look, but Zhang Qiling's hand resting on his knee quickly inserted it into his pocket.

Seeing this action, Wu Xie couldn't hold back, smiled unkindly, and said while laughing: "Haha...you, why are you shy?"

Zhang Qiling seemed to be "quite critical" of this word, frowned slightly, and said in a low voice, "It's been done a long time ago."

Wu Xie got excited, and asked: "Okay, let me see what's wrong?" His voice was resonant, as if what he was going to do was so natural.

Zhang Qiling looked at Wu Xie for a while, but still didn't take out his hand.A hint of cunning flashed in Wu Xie's eyes, and he asked with a smile: "There is no hospital behind the door, your bones are not crooked, are you, embarrassing to see people?" Gloves, the hands exposed to the air quickly felt the severe cold, Wu Xie directly put his hand into Zhang Qiling's pocket.

Zhang Qiling said very lightly, he didn't know whether he snorted or laughed, and his hand was pulled out, this time he didn't hide from him again.Wu Xie also took off the glove on the hand that he had broken his wrist, and pushed back his sleeves. There was no abnormality in the skin on the wrist.

Zhang Qiling twisted his wrist cooperatively, as if to show that he was fully recovered.

Wu Xie stared at Zhang Qiling's wrist for a while, and then his eyes drifted up the back of his hand. What he actually wanted to see was his fingers.

Some of the information about the Zhang family comes from Zhang Haike and Zhang Haixing. Although it is the Zhang family's own direct information, it cannot be ruled out that Zhang Haike intentionally forged it.There are also some pheromone illusions from the cockscomb snake, which are relatively restored, and a lot of information is related to the fingers of the Zhang family.

There used to be many sects in the tomb robbery line, among which the four schools with a long history are: Mojin, Faqiu, Qianshan and Xiling.Among them, General Faqiu Zhonglang possessed the excellent kung fu of two-finger cave exploration. With only one pair of fingers, he is powerful and stable as Mount Tai. He can crack the extremely small mechanisms in the ancient tomb.

The Zhang family is obviously not the Faqiu sect, the Zhang family should be regarded as an existence independent of these sects, and strictly speaking, the purpose of the Zhang family is not to rob the tomb, but to guard the tomb.Stealing is just a means, and what the real thing to do is to protect the ultimate, but the Zhang family obviously "borrowed" the skill of two-finger caving.But in terms of the Zhang family's history, it might be Faqiumen's inspiration from the Zhang family.

Wu Xie learned that the fingers of the Zhang family have been trained since childhood, and the process can be called abuse and miserable.Many children were excluded from the ranks of combatants all their lives because of poor finger training.

And once the fingers are well trained and the skills are outstanding, you can get a high status in the family.Wu Xie once guessed that Zhang Qiling's ability to become the head of the Zhang family must be due to the credit of these two fingers.

Zhang Qiling's fingers are very straight, not to mention the length, they are obviously longer than ordinary people.Zhang Haike also told Wu Xie that the length is one aspect, and the ratio between the joints is also critical, because it is also important for the joints to respond flexibly in order to practice two-finger caving.

For a while, the black glasses trained Wu Xie to look at the data of objects with his eyes. To put it bluntly, he could tell how long it was by taking out a knife, and how heavy a flying stone could be.The place where Wu Xie is going must have a lot of organs, and the general size and quality can be seen with the naked eye, and it is also easy to disassemble and destroy.

The proportion of Zhang Qiling's knuckles, at first glance, is a master of masters, and the data is absolutely qualified.

Maybe he realized that he had been watching for a long time, and when he raised his eyes, he found some doubts in Zhang Qiling's eyes. Wu Xie laughed dryly, and then withdrew his hands.

Putting on the gloves again, Wu Xie took a deep breath of the cold air, his mind cleared up a lot in an instant, the lower half of his face was wrapped in his collar, and then he spoke in a muffled voice: "Stop making trouble, little brother, let's talk. "

The content to be discussed has been in Wu Xie's mind for a long time.

Ten years ago, before Zhang Qiling walked into the bronze gate, he gave Wu Xie a ghost jade seal, saying that ten years later, he could open the bronze gate through the ghost seal and take over from him to guard the secrets in the ultimate.

For a long time, Wu Xie was confident that Guixi could open the bronze door, until the trip to Medog a few years ago.

In the snow-capped mountains of Medog, there is a replica of the bronze door. Wu Xie saw it, walked towards it step by step, and then put his hand on it.

The giant door is cold, and the patterns on it are exquisite lines. Even if it is a replica, it still retains the shocking and original shock.

Thinking about it, Wu Xie pushed the giant door hard, which was a subconscious move.He imagined that the door would be slowly pushed open with his movements, but it was obviously impossible, the door remained motionless.

At that moment, Wu Xie had a vague thought that Guixi might not be able to open the bronze door at all.

Later, the dynamite showed its simple and crude effect. Behind the bronze door of Medog, Wu Xie obtained a lot of precious information about Kangbaluo.Part of it is about the bronze gate and ghost jade seal.

Before Zhang Qiling entered the Bronze Gate, he had two ghost jade seals in his hand. Due to the tight time at that time, Wu Xie didn't see any difference between the two seals, but a movement of Zhang Qiling still made Wu Xie feel strange.

Zhang Qiling once weighed two ghost seals before giving one of them to Wu Xie.

According to Wu Xie's understanding, Zhang Qiling wouldn't do too many unnecessary movements, so this weighing must have his own purpose.

Wu Xie had an intuition that these two ghost seals must be different, so if Zhang Qiling successfully entered the bronze door at that time, it meant that the one in his hand was only for opening the door, so what was the one for Wu Xie doing? use?

Wu Xie did a very detailed study on the ghost seal left to him by Zhang Qiling. The whole ghost seal is in the shape of a unicorn stepping on a ghost. On the paw of the unicorn.However, if you take a closer look, you will find that the unicorn is also made of many little ghosts, and the carving is extremely ingenious.There are three grooves on the ghost seal, and it was found out afterwards that it should be equipped with three rings.

This ghost seal is exactly the same as the one that was snatched by the three of them when they made a fuss at the New Moon Hotel. When they lived in the Huo family's old house, Wu Xie also studied it carefully, so he couldn't make a mistake.

Wu Xie once asked Zhang Qiling where the other ghost seal came from, and Zhang Qiling said that Mrs. Huo gave it to him when they didn't know.At that time, Wu Xie acquiesced that what Zhang Qiling was referring to should be the one in his own hand. Later, thinking about it, Zhang Qiling actually said that the one that Mrs. Huo gave him was the one auctioned at the Crescent Hotel.

As for why the ghost seal came into Mrs. Huo's hands later, or whether the ghost seal was actually controlled by the Huo family from the beginning, it is impossible to find out, but it is not the key.

The key point is that the ghost seal that Zhang Qiling took away at the end never appeared in the sight of everyone from the beginning to the end.It was obtained by Zhang Qiling himself from somewhere, and it was different from the one left to Wu Xie.

In addition to the ghost jade seal, there is another thing that Wu Xie focuses on, and that is the hexagonal copper bell.

This kind of bell was found in almost all the wonderlands of ancient tombs that Wu Xie went to with Zhang Qiling.According to the accounts of Zhang Haike and Zhang Haixing, this kind of bell was first invented by the Zhang family and used.But in fact, there are many scattered copper bells, which may have existed before the origin of the Zhang family. The Zhang family is not so much the inventor as the successor.

It is still unknown who invented this bell before the Zhang family.

What is certain is that the Zhang family has indeed used this bell to the extreme.They used hexagonal copper bells to form an indestructible mechanism.So far, Wu Xie has discovered two formations of the hexagonal copper bells. One is in the ancient building of the Zhang family, which is the barrier leading to the mysterious room; the other is in Medog, a glacier lake. below the surface of the lake.

This kind of bell can create illusions for people through different combinations. The scary thing about it is that the illusion is very, very real.If no one points it out, people who experience it will not be able to distinguish between hallucinations and reality, and they will not even know whether they have hallucinations or not.In hallucinations, even the pain is real.

Wu Xie once experienced it personally. Fortunately, Zhang Haixing, who was fake at that time, just wanted to distinguish Wu Xie's blood, and didn't want to silence him, otherwise Wu Xie might really have died in the hallucination.

This kind of copper bell has another use, even many Zhang family members don't know it, Wu Xie also pieced it together from a lot of intermittent materials, and that is to open the bronze door.

When Zhang Qiling entered the bronze gate for the first time, he was holding the ghost seal in his hand. Wu Xie took it for granted that the bronze gate was opened by the ghost seal, but many later discoveries showed that perhaps Zhang Qiling did not open the door with the ghost seal, but It's a bronze bell.The bronze bell can achieve some kind of wonderful resonance with the switch of the bronze door, and the door opens immediately.

This idea was also confirmed by Zhang Haike. Zhang Haike did not have a ghost seal, but he managed to open the bronze door a few months ago and picked up Zhang Qiling.

All in all, this bell is quite mysterious and extremely dangerous.

Such a dangerous but infinitely lethal setting can be imagined, either for destruction or to resist destruction for preservation.

If it was for destruction, then the creator of this kind of bell probably would have dominated for a while.But the use of the bell has always been hidden, and it was later handed over to the Zhang family. It can be inferred that whether it is the creator of the bell or the Zhang family, the use of the hexagonal copper bell is for another purpose-to preserve something.

All the clues point to that the secret guarded by the Zhang family and the Hexagonal Copper Bell is the Bronze Gate and the Ultimate.

In order to protect this ultimate, the Zhang family has done countless things for thousands of years. They forged historical documents and tampered with historical clues, making those clues point to the ancient tombs they had set up.And the ancient tomb is full of traps of the Zhang family. Once any force wants to obtain this secret and use this secret, it will be weakened by the traps, or even destroyed.

The biggest trap is the other bronze gate in Medog Snow Mountain, which is almost exactly the same as the real bronze gate in Changbai Mountain.All false clues will eventually lead forces with bad intentions there, and the hexagonal copper bell array is also arranged there.

It took such a huge amount of effort, even at the expense of the power of a family for thousands of years, one can imagine how special and powerful this secret is.

Wu Xie has been guessing how the Zhang family's system works. In such a highly purposeful and closed system, has there never been a single flaw?What kind of power can isolate the Zhang family from the world, but stay firmly and persistently to guard an ultimate secret.

The only possibility is that the Zhang family has also obtained considerable rewards from the ultimate and this secret, or a kind of promise and recognition, as long as they can keep guarding this secret, they may be able to use it one day.

But obviously this is contrary to the Zhang family's ancestral precepts. The Zhang family has always aimed at preservation, and in the end they can only watch but not touch.It can be guessed that perhaps many, many years ago, a certain leader of the Zhang family had thought of using this secret, but he was punished destructively, so he left a legacy, and the Zhang family had to guard it and not spy on it. The secret itself.

Facts have proved that Wu Xie's conjecture was correct. There were indeed flaws in the operation of the Zhang family, but the gap that broke the powerful core of the entire family did not come from within the Zhang family, but from a geologist named Wang Zanghai. .

When Wang Zanghai was arrested to build Yunding Tiangong, due to some coincidence, he was able to enter the Bronze Gate and knew the existence of that secret.Then Wang Zanghai discovered the deeply hidden Zhang family, and determined that the key to obtaining the secret lies in the Zhang family. In order to obtain the secret, Wang Zanghai wove a huge net and started a millennium-long battle with the Zhang family.

Affected by many factors, the Zhang family gradually disintegrated, while the Wang family waited for the critical period when they thought they could finally obtain the secret.But unexpectedly, another force intervened in this peerless battle, that is the old nine gates.

For the Wang family, the Old Nine Sect is an unexpected force that must be eliminated, while for the Old Nine Sect, the Wang Family is an irresistible destiny.Wu Xie is well aware of this, many people have not shaken off the shadow of the three generations until their death.

However, there is an obvious way to get rid of all this, and that is to destroy the ultimate, the secret that may be used by others and cause endless troubles.

Wu Xie believed that someone in the Zhang family must have tried, but failed, so this person wanted to change the method, that is, first, to permanently seal the room in the Zhang family's ancient building, the key is to create a method so that those who take care of it The hexagonal copper bell array is permanently effective.Second, the bronze door is also permanently closed, so that even if someone learns the secrets in the ancient building, they will no longer be able to use it.And it can be inferred that there is some kind of connection between these two things. For example, the use of the mother bell may be done at the same time.

This should be an open secret among the high-level members of the Zhang family, but no one has done it. The reason is very simple. If the ancient building and the bronze gate are closed, not only the enemy will not be able to obtain the secret, but even the Zhang family will not be able to obtain this secret. .

The meaning of the Zhang family's existence for thousands of years will also be lost and collapsed.This is a sensitive and obscure proposition. Every head of the Zhang family knows it well, but they are unable to act.

Finally, the time has entered a period of earth-shaking changes in China. Even without outside inquiries and interference, the Zhang family's internal system is gradually collapsing.At this time, one of the head of the Zhang family stood up and tried to take the female bell that could control the hexagonal copper bell array to the bronze gate to find a way to seal the bronze gate forever.Unfortunately, he died at the hands of another force in the family, and the mother bell was also lost.

Until the Zhang Qiling that Wu Xie knew appeared.

Zhang Qiling's life experience was told by Li Cu to Wu Xie. Combined with Zhang Haike's youthful past, Wu Xie roughly inferred the purpose of Zhang Qiling he knew - to accomplish what the dead Zhang family head wanted to do.

Zhang Qiling also wants to close the bronze door, bury the ultimate forever, isolate it from the world, and isolate it from the reach of any person or force.

So he looked around for the mother bell, looking for clues about the bronze door.However, since the operation of the entire mechanism is cyclical, it is not possible to open or destroy the mechanism by entering the door at any time.He also suffers from occasional bouts of amnesia, and whenever he gets something done, it seems like fate turns it all into a joke.

Zhang Qiling, who had lost his memory and woke up again, only knew that he shouldered a heavy mission, but he could not escape, so he had to embark on the road of searching again.

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During the season of flying snow in Medog, Wu Xie once sat next to the stone statue of Zhang Qiling all night, as if entering a completely different illusion from the one created by pheromones.

He saw Zhang Qiling slowly carving his own stone statue with a blank face, but his eyes were empty, and his arms trembled slightly with the vibration of hitting the stones again and again.

It was a Zhang Qiling that he had never seen with his own eyes, and it seemed that he would dissipate with the stone chips when he touched it.

He had never imagined Zhang Qiling like this, he was completely different from what he knew.He is strong and lonely, but at this moment, it seems that a piece of his heart has collapsed.

"This is where I started to lose touch with the world."

"I am a person without past and future. All I do is to find my connection with this world..."

"It's all over. I thought about my relationship with this world. It seems that the only thing I can find now is you."

In the illusion, Wu Xie wanted to reach out to touch the phantom, and then he saw that the face of the stone statue turned into a crying expression.

The snow beside his feet suddenly melted into several small holes, and Wu Xie realized that the corners of his own eyes were wet and his eyes were blurred.

The heavy snow almost buried him and the stone statue together. In the empty courtyard, his figure side by side with the stone statue was covered with a layer of white snow, and it became one with the clean land.

He had to do something, say something, otherwise that person would wake up ten years later, take the mother bell and go to a more unknown place, and close the bronze door.The idea itself is insane, and there is bound to be a huge price to pay.

However, with that person's determination, he will definitely be willing to pay this price, and it is very likely that he and the ultimate will be sealed behind the bronze door that can no longer be opened...

After Wu Xie said "Let's talk", he didn't make a sound for a long time. Too many past memories flooded up all of a sudden, making him a little overwhelmed.And Zhang Qiling didn't seem to intend to speak, and kept silent.

The position of the full moon has obviously shifted, and the silver glow above the continuous snow-capped mountains remains the same, only the shadows on the hillsides have changed.

The two sat side by side for a long time, Wu Xie finally spoke, he wanted to ask Zhang Qiling what is the difference between the two ghost seals, the whereabouts of the mother bell and the method of closing the bronze door.But all thoughts have a knot, that is, we can no longer let Zhang Qiling disappear alone and bear it alone.

Wu Xie's tone was gentle yet persistent: "Brother, can you promise me..."

He didn't finish his sentence, because he turned his face and found Zhang Qiling staring at him.And Wu Xie looked into Zhang Qiling's eyes, where there was a bright light.

Wu Xie was stunned.

Zhang Qiling's ungloved hand covered one side of his face.

The palm of his hand was ice, but Wu Xie couldn't feel it at all, he only felt that the cluster of lights shook his soul.

The surroundings are still quiet, with only the slight sound of the friction between the folds of the clothes in the ear, followed by the warm breath in the nose that moves closer.

Everything turned in another direction in silence...