[Bottle Evil] Snowy Illusion

said. "Zhang Haike laughed and said, "You will know when we go up, this place is very close to the bronze gate, and this is also a reflection of the world behind the gate. "

Zhang Haike kept saying "go up", but Li Cu didn't know how to "go up". They fell from the ice, so should they climb up from the ice again?The few people walked not far, and after passing through another Hades, Li Cu looked at the things in front of him, and finally knew how to go up.

The openness and spaciousness of the Underworld Palace is collected here. There is no longer an empty palace courtyard in front of you, let alone a solemn palace. As far as the eye can see, there are black mountains.

Embedded in the mountain is a plank road that winds upwards with no end in sight.The plank road is also paved with stone slabs. Although there are traces of artificial carving and grinding, it is integrated with the mountain, as if it grew out of the mountain naturally.

"Can people leave?" Li Cu raised his head and looked at the direction of the plank road, "How long is this road?"

Zhang Haike was wearing black glasses, and he was tall and alive anyway, but he didn't seem too tired. He took the lead on the plank road and said, "That's right, the scenery on this road is good. If you don't want to miss it, just follow it." .”

The stone plank road is not wide enough to allow two people to walk side by side.Moreover, there is no place to hold on to the handle, and people can only rely on their own balance and caution when walking on it, which can be said to be difficult.

Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling walked behind side by side, one talking and the other listening.

At this time, all the mysteries have been gradually unfolded, or there are answers, or they are no longer important. The only thing that is still blank is the appearance behind the bronze door.

However, Wu Xie was no longer anxious and worried at this moment.In the past ten years, there have been many long nights, many dangers and desperate situations, and the only thing that supported him was an unguaranteed agreement, until he started to fight back, until he was scarred, until he finally realized this agreement with his own hands.

Wu Xie turned her head and looked at Zhang Qiling's profile. This person's heart will always express more than his face, and his face will always express more than his mouth.It's such a person, and I promised him personally that we will be together on the road.So puzzles and ultimates don't matter anymore.

Inspired by Wu Xie's gaze, Zhang Qi also turned his head to look at him, and just stepped onto a stone slab that was squeezed close to the mountains on both sides, then put a belt around Wu Xie's waist, and whispered: "Look at the road .”

Wu Xie smiled a few times with a complacent look.

Li Cu, who was walking behind the two, could already automatically block some of the "scenery" in front of his eyes, but he was still restless for a while.

Only Li Cu was thinking about another very practical meaning represented by this road—separation.

What Zhang Haike said was very clear, when they got to the top, Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling would definitely be going to the Bronze Gate, while Hei Glasses and Su Wan were injured, so naturally they followed Zhang Haike to the Zhang family for treatment.Fatty probably also wants to follow Wu Xie and the others, only he has no injuries that need to be healed, and he doesn't have much ability to continue walking with Wu Xie.

But there must be a choice, Li Cu knew.If he continued to follow Wu Xie, he might really die on the road ahead, and he didn't want to die so soon.If he followed Zhang Haike, it might be the last time with Wu Xie and others. It's not that he doesn't trust them, but the experience of more than a year has let him know that some things must be prepared in advance, especially psychologically.

Maybe there is really no way, Li Cuo thought, facing accidents or even death of some people without any psychological preparation.

The plank road has been extending upwards, and it is indeed connected to the ice layer in the middle, but this side seems to be the boundary of the ice layer. One side of the plank road is just an ice layer, and the other side is still a mountain.

And not long after continuing, Li Cuo saw what Zhang Haike called "beautiful scenery".

Through the hard and cold ice, one can see countless black shadows inside, all of them are dead people wearing strange costumes. The ice layer here is like a tomb.

The nearest deceased was more than ten meters away, and he could only vaguely see the withered, yellow and shriveled face. There was a hole where the eyes were, and the teeth were exposed.But this is already in a well-preserved state. After all, it has been frozen under the snow-capped mountains and in the ice for thousands of years.

Being surrounded by corpses that kept appearing all the way, it was still hard to calm down, Li Cu couldn't help asking: "Who are these people?"

Wu Xie said: "Don't ask so many why, I used to always want to know this and that, but later I realized that not all questions have answers, and not all answers can be revealed. This is to satisfy the curiosity of a small boss. Just like now, I am not at all curious about what is behind the bronze door and what is the ultimate. We just need to keep them all inside. It may not be a good thing to know, you Do you understand?"

"Understood." Li Cu dismissed, "Even you don't know."

Wu Xie patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Young children can be taught."

Li Cu snorted, and said, "You are deceiving yourself."

"I just believe that if it's something I should know, I will know it one day. Now I'm not curious, and it doesn't involve my thinking." Wu Xie said and looked at Li Cu, with a very calm tone, and with A little worried, "But you are different. You still want to explore and dig, which is very dangerous. After all, I brought you into a world with deep water, and I am worried about your future..."

"Stop talking." Li Cu suddenly interrupted him, raised his eyes to look at Wu Xie, frowned, gritted his teeth, and said with sullen air, "What you're saying now is like a last word! "

Wu Xie was stunned for a moment, he looked at Li Cu's expression, and suddenly smiled: "Are you worried about me?"

Li Cu immediately turned his face away, "cut" and said, "Don't be too sentimental."

Wu Xie became interested, he did see worry, nervousness, and even fear from Li Cu's face, which made him a little guilty, but also a little relieved.Wu Xie tentatively asked, "Why don't you continue to follow us?"

There was a flash of light in Li Cuo's eyes as he looked at him again, and he almost asked eagerly, "Are you joking?"

"It's a joke." Wu Xie replied bluntly, "I still have a little conscience for you."

The irritability in my heart suddenly calmed down, as I had expected it, Li Cu didn't ask any more questions, didn't ask any more.

After all, Wu Xie's path was not his path, and they all had an end point on the path they chose, and the end points were different. He had no reason to insist on reaching Wu Xie's end point.But even if the ending point is different, he also believes that one day, they will meet again at another same starting point.

He felt that he understood what Wu Xie meant.

Perhaps this is also the biggest difference between him and Wu Xie.

Zhang Qiling, who had been silent all this time, summed up to Wu Xie in a timely manner: "Smarter than you."

Wu Xie gritted her teeth: "Turn your elbows outward."

Li Cu smiled and looked up, they had come to the end of the plank road.

A few people sat on the ground and repaired. This place was no longer familiar to Wu Xie and others. It turned out to be the location of the Nine Dragons Carrying Sarcophagus leading to Yunding Tiangong.When I first came here that year, giant centipedes and strange birds haunted the place, so no one could discover the plank road that was so hidden.

From this point of view, under this snowy area, there are at least two superimposed layered spaces. The lower layer is the palace of the underworld, which is probably a ruin of some kind of civilization in the Yin and Shang Dynasties.The people of Dongxia, thousands of years later, explored the secrets of this layer of space, and perhaps out of admiration and following, they also believed in the underworld represented by the palace of the underworld. A plank road is dug in the upper floor, so that the two spaces can be closely connected.

The Bronze Gate is another level of existence. Its history may be earlier than the Hades Palace. It can even be boldly speculated that the people who built the Hades Palace, the civilization of that era, was the same as the Dongxia people. According to the secrets of ancient times, and with his own speculation and speculation, he established a belief system and built the Hades Palace.

Human beings believed in nature at first, but the pure natural phenomenon is not the object of people's direct worship, but the concretized thing, that is, God.People from generation to generation have natural respect and belief in the gods created by their ancestors or concretized from the nature of heaven and earth by their ancestors, and they have integrated their understanding of them into their own civilization. As a result, people's entire god belief system has been continuously enriched, differentiated, and developed.

Li Cu didn't understand these things, but he at least knew one thing, which happened to be something that many people couldn't figure out.

As Wu Xie said, these secrets handed down through the ages have such a profound and complicated background, perhaps they cannot be explored by the wisdom of a few people.He couldn't help but wonder, there was no clear answer to what he was facing, why would anyone still try to use it and get it?

It seemed that he was with the right person, Li Cu thought, at least Wu Xie was more self-aware compared to the Wang family.

Zhang Haike handed a backpack to Wu Xie, and said, "There are still some supplies here, and I will leave you all that can be used. Our people are not far ahead, and you could have gone to say hello together first, but I'm afraid that time is running out, the man in the black jacket and that kid, Hai Xing and I will deliver them safely, you don't have to worry about that."

After speaking, Zhang Haike walked up to Zhang Qiling again, and said, "Patriarch, even though we are here, I still want to ask you one last time."

Zhang Haike looked at Zhang Qiling's eyes, which he once thought belonged to the Zhang family.But when he saw these eyes, when Zhang Qiling was with other people whose surname was not Zhang, there was a different content.

Wu Xie also walked to Zhang Qiling's side, put his hand on Zhang Qiling's shoulder provocatively, and raised his eyebrows at Zhang Haike.

It can be said to be quite naive, Zhang Haike couldn't help but want to laugh at him.

And in Zhang Qiling's eyes that turned his head to Wu Xie unintentionally, it was the kind of difference that was difficult to catch but very obvious.

Zhang Haike didn't intend to ask again.This was the choice of Zhang Qiling and Wu Xie, there was no room for the Zhang family to intervene.But there is one more thing that needs to be "instructed".

Zhang Haike finally turned to Wu Xie, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "The patriarch believes in you, and you should also believe in him. Don't waver."

Wu Xie heard something "meaningful" from Zhang Haike's tone, he frowned slightly, but smiled at him: "I know this well, I don't need you to remind me."

"Oh?" Zhang Haike still said in the same tone, "How clear?"

Wu Xie glanced at Zhang Qiling, then turned to Zhang Haike and said, "In this world, apart from myself, he is the only one who knows better than me."

Zhang Haike smiled and said to Zhang Qiling: "Patriarch, you have been trapped."

Zhang Qiling's eyes were more sensitive, and he said, "What do you want to say?"

Zhang Haike turned around, waved his hands, and finally turned around and said, "On behalf of myself, I wish you all good luck."

Zhang Haixing always jumped out to make the atmosphere smell of gunpowder. She said to Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling: "If you want to go, go, no one will keep you, but who else wants to go with my old lady, hurry up and sign up. waiting."

Wu Xie pointed to Li Cu, and said, "Help me take that kid with me."

Zhang Haixing seemed to have expected it too, rolled her eyes at Li Cu, but said to Wu Xie: "I made a mop bottle myself, you'd better save your life and take it back early, we're not nanny."

Li Cu also accepted this arrangement, didn't say anything, just stared at the ground in a daze.

Wu Xie finally looked at the fat man. The fat man was rubbing antifreeze oil on a gun. He looked up at Wu Xie and said, "What's the matter?"

Wu Xie looked at Fatty, and was very surprised that the first thought that popped into his mind at this moment was not whether Fatty would continue to follow him into the Bronze Gate.It's not whether he will listen if you persuade him not to go.These thoughts are all queued behind another thought.

The thought was: the fat man is getting old.

Everyone is going to get old, even the Zhang family, this unusually long-lived family, will get old and die.The fat man was already much older than him, and in ten years, Zhang Qiling's face may not have seen any changes, and even Wu Xie himself had no obvious marks on his face.

But Fatty was different, his sideburns were a little gray, and he inevitably jumped into sight from time to time.

However, Wu Xie knew that his brother still had the vigor and anger that a 20-year-old could not match. He would not feel that he was getting old, and in fact, he didn't need to.

It's just that in the long and tormented time before, Wu Xie could occasionally think of a little expectation, among which there were fat children and grandchildren around their knees, and they looked like they were still joking and boasting freely at their age.

Fatty is different from him and Zhang Qiling.Fatty has nothing to do with this heinous puzzle from beginning to end. In the beginning, Fatty got acquainted with them for the sake of weapons or money.But people with a discerning eye will put their lives first. If the fat man is only for money, then the subsequent adventures will go against the original intention. It can be seen that the original intention of the fat man is something else.

Over the years, Wu Xie has seen many people, and has gradually learned how to see through people, but he still can't see through fat people.It's not that there are still doubts and distrust towards Fatty, but that this person is so simple that you will think it is another kind of complexity, and it is so complicated that it is extremely simple.Fatty was the one who endured the most pain among the three. This kind of suffering was not a simple experience, but a painful injury.Ten years ago, Wu Xie often avoided the pain before it started to spread. Ten years later, Wu Xie no longer feels the pain, just like Zhang Qiling, who can nod in endless pain.The fat man is a person who both understands pain and bears it, and can resolve it one by one.

Wu Xie often feels that the fat man is like a real Buddha, a Buddha who sees through everything.

Such a person, a friend, a brother, Wu Xie really didn't want to see something happen to him.

But I don't want it or I don't want it. Since Wu Xie started his plan, all his friends and all his enemies have been in the plan.He can't be responsible for everyone, this is a contradictory and painful cognition, he has no choice.Fortunately, he knew that some people would stand by his side from beginning to end.

Wu Xie walked over, helped the fat man hold the gun, and said, "You have applied so much, your hands will feel slippery later."

The fat man raised his hand and patted Wu Xie on the back of the head, and said, "Don't think that I don't know what your kid was thinking just now, fat man. If you dare to say it, believe it or not, I will be in a hurry with you."

This sentence brought two people together, Wu Xie could only smile.The fat man once said that no one can be responsible for the fate of others, and no one is God.Once again, he felt that Fatty's words were actually reserved until this moment.

Zhang Qiling walked up to the two of them, and said lightly: "Let's go, the time is almost up."

The black glasses climbed onto Zhang Haike's back again, and smiled to the others: "Don't be so sad, come on, do you want me to sing you a song to see you off?"

There was nothing to be sad about at first, but as soon as the words of the black glasses came out, Su Wan's eyes really turned red, and he said to Wu Xie, "Boss, you must come out alive." Then he turned to Zhang Qiling, "Brother Zhang, you must protect Boss Wu well." , he is actually very weak, much worse than my master." Finally, he looked at the fat man, "Uncle Fatty, I can't bear you either."

Wu Xie laughed, and said, "You're still interesting, let's worry about yourself, your buddies and master first. I really don't have anyone in Zhang's house. You can depend on each other to take care of yourself. Go home and study hard. Knowledge can change your destiny. "

Su Wan was excited, raised his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes, and then whispered, "I can help you go to Zhang's house as an undercover agent."

Zhang Haike laughed dryly, Wu Xie patted Su Wan's shoulder, and turned to leave.But as soon as he turned around, his arm was grabbed. Wu Xie turned around, thinking that Su Wan was up to something, but found out that it was Li Cu.

If it is said that during the brief conversation on the plank road just now, Li Cu had released most of the emotions in his chest, Wu Xie stuffed those emotions back when he turned around.He finally figured out why he still chose to believe in Wu Xie in the false illusion created by the snake.

Because before he knew it, he had already regarded Wu Xie as a friend, or something closer, a relative?In short, he is the kind of person who will trust unconditionally.

But this cognition is too nasty, Li Cu thought, he must not say it himself.

Li Cu only thought that his tongue was so painful that he couldn't speak anymore, and stared at Wu Xie, and didn't speak for a long time.

Wu Xie looked at him. It's not that he didn't know the fluctuation in the young man's heart, which moved him.There are not many things that can touch him now.

Wu Xie smiled and said: "The eyes are so scary, I owe you money? Oh, it seems that I really owe you money, how about calling you when I come back?"

Li Cu did not speak, nor did he let go, the muscles on both sides of his face tensed up, and he was gritting his teeth.

Wu Xie raised his hand and put it on his head. This was the first time he touched his head. Wu Xie sighed and said, "If you don't believe me, you can be my son in the future. I always bend my elbows. crooked."

Speaking of which, Wu Xie reached out and took out a cigarette from his pocket, and handed it to Li Cuo: "I've kept the last one for a long time, so I will deposit it with you first, and you are not allowed to smoke it."

Li Cu's Adam's apple rolled up and down, he suppressed those emotions, and finally let go of Wu Xie's arm, and took the cigarette.Then he opened his mouth jerky, as if he had just learned to speak: "I'll wait for you."

Wu Xie nodded, turned around and walked away side by side with Zhang Qiling and the fat man. Li Cu stood there for a long time holding the cigarette.