[Bottle Evil] Snowy Illusion

The fat man patted Wu Xie on the back, and said, "Didn't you shed tears, naive?"

"Go away." Wu Xie said, "I got sand in my eyes." After speaking, he sighed and wiped his eyes exaggeratedly.

Zhang Qiling also turned to Wu Xie when he heard the words, and said, "If my inference is correct, the chance of our success is not small."

The tone was as flat as ever, but the consolation could still be heard, and Wu Xie was taken aback.

The fat man laughed loudly, and said, "You don't have to worry, little brother, your family's innocence is different from before, and now you're better at fooling people."

Wu Xie interrupted: "What are you talking about? Don't ruin my reputation. Even if I have fooled others, my sincerity to you two can be proved by the sun and the moon."

The fat man snorted and said, "Don't, don't count me in, you'd better go worship the heavens, the earth, the sun and the moon with my little brother."

Wu Xie didn't know that the fat man had already been seen by the bystanders, so she winked at the fat man and said, "Don't always make such jokes."

The fat man didn't bother to pay attention to him, but Zhang Qiling took a look at him.

Wu Xie clicked his tongue, ready to change the subject, and said to the fat man, "Speaking of which, you both happen to be here now, do you have to confess something to me?"

"You are absolutely paranoid about being persecuted right now. You always fucking think that someone is plotting against you, and now you suspect me and my little brother." The fat man looked at Zhang Qiling and said, "Little brother, what do you think?"

Zhang Qiling said, "What do you mean?"

This is equivalent to tacitly acquiescing that he and Fatty did hide something from Wu Xie. Wu Xie didn't expect Zhang Qiling to be so frank, so he was taken aback, and said, "It's not like you just silence it after you finish talking."

Zhang Qiling glanced at Wu Xie and said, "No, I planned to tell you."

Wu Xie cleared his throat, and said that I am not so curious about what you and Fatty saw in the ancient building, can you ask something else, such as something related to my happiness in the second half of my life.

"Brother, before you came to Hangzhou to look for me, you went to find the fat man." Wu Xie asked this anyway, because he was not interested, and his tone was lazy, "Actually, I got a snake later, and I knew the process pretty much. Yes, but in the end you entered that secret room and what you saw, I don’t know yet.”

Zhang Qiling said indifferently: "I didn't go in, and I don't know."

Wu Xie was startled, never expecting Zhang Qiling to say that.This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, Wu Xie watched Zhang Qiling say this in surprise, and it didn't look like he was joking with him at all.But the fat man was not surprised, and even added: "I testify."

For a long time, Wu Xie was convinced that Zhang Qiling had obtained some secret in the ancient building, or the key to solve all these mysteries, so he dared to wait behind the bronze gate for ten years alone.Zhang Qiling has always done things properly, he never thought that for this almost the most important thing in his life, Zhang Qiling did not grasp everything in advance, but put the hope of success on a mere possibility.

Wu Xie stopped, grabbed Zhang Qiling, and said, "You mean, even you don't know how to close the bronze door? Then what should we do when we arrive later?"

Zhang Qiling, you also have times when you are unreliable, Wu Xie is confused by Zhang Qiling's indifferent eyes.

Zhang Qiling didn't answer, but the fat man waved his hand, put it on Wu Xie's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Whoever said that brother doesn't know, no one will know."

Wu Xie turned to look at the fat man. There was a smug smile on the fat man's face. The fat man seldom hides his emotions. When he said that, he must have the bottom line in his heart.

Wu Xie suddenly realized what the problem was. He had never doubted it before, but it was precisely this point of his belief that unexpectedly turned to another direction.

In fact, since ten years ago, the person who has always known the core of the puzzle is not Zhang Qiling, let alone him, but Fatty.

Wu Xie suddenly wanted to laugh, he could think of how the fat man persuaded Zhang Qiling not to go into that room.Because once Zhang Qiling walks in, then he is equivalent to entering the abyss of eternal doom, not only will he be firmly bound by the cycle of fate, but he will also lose himself in the end because of it.

But Wu Xie still didn't expect it, it should be said that maybe even Zhang Qiling himself didn't expect it.He still obeyed the fat man's words, and only activated the device in the ancient building to make the copper bell array play a new round of effectiveness, but he didn't go into that room, didn't continue to persistently uncover everything, but put this trouble, this any The secret that people will feel uneasy if they get involved with it is isolated from their own lives, truly leaving a chance for themselves.

But the fact is that although Fatty read the content of that secret for insurance, this secret has no effect on Fatty.

Probably only Fatty can do it, if it is another person, whether it is the Wang family, Zhang Qiling or Wu Xie, they may not be able to do it.

Wu Xie looked at the two people in front of him, with some different emotions surging in his heart.

To a certain extent, Fatty and Zhang Qiling are the same kind of people who will still choose to protect even knowing the possible sacrifices.Wu Xie has also been doing his best to protect his friends and family, but Wu Xie didn't know about those fists in the fog at the beginning, he was brave, and he persisted, mostly because of his simplicity.This point was already seen clearly by the fat man when he patted him on the shoulder for the first time and called him "innocent".

However, Fatty and Zhang Qiling are different from Wu Xie. The two men have a tacit understanding because they know the blankness in each other's heart, and trust is derived from it, which is another valuable maintenance.

It's not that Wu Xie hasn't thought about these thoughts, but he always feels that they are unnecessary. As long as the two of them are safe, he is relieved.

Zhang Qiling held Wu Xie's wrist, and it was rare for him to explain, "I didn't deliberately hide it from you. If you had known it a long time ago, I would have let him bring you to the Bronze Gate. But the timing was not ripe before, and now is just right."

The fat man also smiled and said, "My little brother has already seen through your little thoughts. If we hadn't kept it from you, you would have come here to poach my brother ten years ago with your stubborn temper. You said Little brother didn't sleep well at that time, and you must have disturbed things."

Wu Xie shook off Zhang Qiling's hand, and said with a snort, "Don't be so fucking affectionate, I can bear it."

The fat man waved his hand, pushed Wu Xie jokingly, and said, "Don't talk, you obviously think something."

Wu Xie blushed, and the fat man walked to the middle, hugged one of them, and said, "Follow me, brother, the fat man will take you to the old nest with the bronze door."

Wu Xie laughed, and even Zhang Qiling pursed his lips and shook his head.Who knows how important it is? The most important thing is that the three are still a whole, which is the most stable structure.

Life is always wonderful. There are many people who you thought were your dearest and dearest in this life, but in the end they may be strangers, but the fate is full of twists and turns and unpredictable. When you walk to the end with some regrets or relief, you will find your fate The other person in the middle is actually that person.

Wu Xie also read a passage from his grandma in his grandfather's notes: Those who stand by your side in times of crisis may not necessarily be able to share wealth with you.People who betray you in times of crisis are not necessarily inseparable, and things are impermanent.

Perhaps the wonder of life lies in the constant ups and downs and unexpected reversals, which somewhat add fun and stories to life, but it is a greater surprise from the beginning to the end.

This is exactly what the three of them are to each other.

It's just that time didn't give the three of them many chances to make jokes like they did ten years ago. Within the aperture of the flashlight, the familiar luster and texture soon appeared in front of the three of them again.

Bronze gate.

In the past ten years, the outside world has been turned upside down, and people related to it have also experienced a turning point in fate.But this bronze door still looks like a giant warrior, standing quietly in the depths of the snow-capped mountains, blocking the infinitely imaginative world behind the door, and also blocking the imagination of people who try to spy on it. Unshakable.

In Wu Xie's memory, the first time he saw the bronze gate, the blue mist, the line of Yin soldiers, and Zhang Qiling who mixed in, everything at that time was terrible, a fear that could not be recalled.

The second time was in Medog. Although it was not exactly the same bronze door, the cold metal texture, from the palm of the hand to the heart, still made Wu Xie feel helpless.

The third time, this time.The oppressive feeling of the giant bronze gate remains undiminished. After all, it is an existence beyond the common understanding of mankind. It is connected with countless secrets and spans thousands of years of time and space. Its existence itself is already a legend.

Wu Xie took a deep breath, and took out the hexagonal copper bell that he kept.

There are two ways to open the door, one is the method used by the Zhang family, through the hexagonal copper bell, whether it is a female bell or an ordinary copper bell.The copper bell and the opening switch of the bronze door can achieve some kind of wonderful resonance. Although the method is not simple, the Zhang family can use the copper bell to enter the bronze door at any time to protect the ultimate.

The other is to rely on the ghost jade seal, which Wu Xie also has, but opening the door through the ghost seal needs to meet a certain cycle, that is, ten years.Ten years ago, when Zhang Qiling handed the Ghost Seal to Wu Xie, he already knew that Wu Xie would not catch up with that cycle, because the time when using the mother bell to seal the ultimate need to be stuck was before the Ghost Seal functioned.If Zhang Qiling successfully sealed the ultimate ten years later, then when Wu Xie came to the Bronze Gate, everything would be over. If Zhang Qiling failed, Wu Xie would not see him even when he opened the door.

At this point in time, it is the period when the mother bell can be used, that is, it is not yet the time when the ghost seal can be used, so Wu Xie took out the copper bell.

This hexagonal copper bell was found by Wu Xie in the basement of Golmud. He knew that there was one there early in the morning, and it was lost in the previous struggle there.So Wu Xie set the place where Zhang Qiling was brought back to meet Suwan with Li Cuo.

It's just that no one knew Wu Xie's plan at that time, everyone thought that Wu Xie chose Golmud to avoid people's eyes and ears.In fact, there are some places that have had a special meaning since they got involved in everyone's sight, and they have become the key to Wu Xie's plan.

Wu Xie carefully melted the rosin sealed in the copper bell, lifted the copper bell high, and shook it gently according to the method he mastered, and the copper bell made an extremely subtle sound.Although the sound was very weak, it seemed to contain infinite power.

The three of them waited with bated breath, knowing that the moment the door opened, it would be the end.

But the bronze door has not opened yet.

Wu Xie frowned, and looked carefully at the copper bell again. He was sure that the method was correct, but it could only mean that there might be some problems with the operation, after all, it was his first time using it.

"Hey, I told you to let my little brother try it." The fat man said, "Isn't this thing said that only the Zhang family can use it? Maybe this bell recognizes life. After all, you haven't passed the door yet, you have no status, and the door has no door. recognize you."

Wu Xie cursed, but no matter how she thought about it, she felt that what the fat man said made sense. At least Zhang Qiling should have used a copper bell to open the door, so he was more experienced.Then he handed it over and said, "Brother, come here."

Zhang Qiling didn't answer, but stared at the bronze door in a daze.

It seems that since arriving in front of the bronze gate, Zhang Qiling's expression has turned cold again. Wu Xie thought that he paid more attention to him because he was about to enter the ultimate, but Zhang Qiling's appearance at this time is no stranger, usually when there is potential danger. .

Wu Xie also raised her breath, and looked at Zhang Qiling intently, waiting for his answer.

After a while, Zhang Qiling suddenly opened his mouth, but said: "I have already passed the door."

"What did you say?" Wu Xie only felt his face get hot again, "Who the hell just passed by!"

The fat man laughed out loud, but Zhang Qiling frowned, turned to look at the changes in the expressions of the two, and said, "I'm not sure, but we may have already passed the bronze gate, and we are now inside the gate."

Both Wu Xie and Fatty were shocked, and Fatty asked, "Brother, what do you say?"

Zhang Qiling waved his hands, walked to the front of the bronze door, took a deep breath, and began to climb up using hands and feet on the ground by taking advantage of the lines on it.

Wu Xie and Fatty didn't know what Zhang Qiling was planning to do, they only said that the lines on the inside and outside of the door were probably different, maybe Zhang Qiling could tell the difference, but there was no need to climb up.

The lines on the bronze door are extremely fine and dense. Although there are many lines, it is very strenuous to climb on it.Every step of Zhang Qiling needs to calculate the distance, and the coordination of hands and feet is required, and the completely vertical angle is a test of strength and skill, probably only Zhang Qiling can do it.

And the two could see that even for Zhang Qiling, the higher the climb, the more difficult it was, and there was always the danger of falling, so they couldn't help but sweat for him.

Fortunately, Zhang Qiling was fast and stable, and he reached a very high position in a short while. He stayed on the top for a while, then stepped on the pattern and started to go down. At a position of two or three meters from the ground, he jumped , and landed firmly on the ground, Wu Xie and Fatty breathed a sigh of relief.

But what Zhang Qiling said next shocked the two of them again.

Zhang Qiling squeezed the center of his eyebrows, thought for a moment, then suddenly looked at Wu Xie again, and said: "This is indeed the door. I put the mother bell on it before, but it is gone now. The mother bell was taken away, and the one just now There might be something wrong with the bell too."

The mother bell is the key to ending all this, something that many forces are looking for.Wu Xie guessed that Zhang Qiling had been hiding it in the bronze door all along, and only wanted to come in with Zhang Qiling and take the mother bell to seal the ultimate, but if the mother bell had already been taken away, wouldn't it be a waste of effort.After being reminded by Zhang Qiling, Wu Xie suddenly remembered that the bell that Zhang Qiling said was faulty was handed to him by Zhang Haike again.

If it is Zhang Haike, it is indeed possible to tamper with him during his time in the illusion.When he took the bell, he only thought that Zhang Haike had given up, but he actually believed him easily, without any precautions, and even brought the things he had passed on with him!

"It's Zhang Haike." Wu Xie said in a deep voice, suddenly feeling blurred.

Zhang Haike and the Zhang family must have taken the mother bell and tampered with his bell.He shouldn't take it lightly, and shouldn't trust the person who lied to him again.For a moment, Wu Xie only felt that the blood all over his body was congealed.

The basic ability of the copper bell is to create illusions. It is hard to tell whether what they are in is real or illusory.At this time, they don't have the copper bell that can release the illusion, nor the mother bell. If they are really in the illusion, they can only be at the mercy of others.No matter what the purpose of Zhang Haike or the Zhang family is, if this conjecture is true, then they will face only one result-failure.

Wu Xie took a deep breath and tried to calm down.He can only try to control his thoughts and not let it be confused by anyone or anything.However, all this seems to be developing out of control.

Self-suggestion began to fail, some blurred things in my mind gradually became clear, and things that were originally clear began to blur again.Wu Xie felt countless voices ringing in his mind at the same time, and countless pictures emerged one after another.

Those voices include men, women, old people, and children.Those pictures include what he has personally experienced and witnessed, and also what he has seen from the illusion of snake venom.True and false, one after another, Wu Xie felt that all these were hitting his nerves, he yelled to tell them to stop, but his voice was drowned out and swallowed.

Everything was too sudden, his vision began to blur, and the faces of Zhang Qiling and Fatty became distorted in front of him.Then his nose, he felt pain, a sudden burning in his nasal cavity, and then he saw blood dripping on the back of his hand.

Then Wu Xie suddenly heard a cry, it was his own cry, he squatted in front of his grandfather's tombstone, the cry of despair when he knew the meaning of his name for the first time.

His life was a closed circle, and he was trapped in it, and he could have enjoyed himself, until one day something broke into the circle and let him know that there was a world outside the circle that was trying to smash him.He is angry, he hates, he is also anxious, he wants to see everything outside this circle, he feels that he is blocked from the truth by the stones and dirt piled up to form this circle, and as long as he gets a breakthrough, he can See the clear truth.

So he kept hitting, his head was bleeding, and when he finally broke the closed ring and made a gap, and strode out, he finally saw the "truth" he was after.

There are no demons in the outside world, and there are no swords or swords.

The scariest thing wasn't that he fell into a hellish situation unprepared, nor was it that he saw that the outside of the circle was still stone and dirt.

But there is nothing, the outside is still a gray fog, there is no truth he wants, no one he can rely on, and there are endless possibilities in the gray fog.

Since then, Wu Xie has become a different person. He has to become the kind of person he hates the most, and he will be for a long time.

These are Wu Xie's past, and they will inevitably be integrated into his life and accompany him throughout his life.He was looking forward to how brilliant the light would be after the current matter was resolved, how gloomy was the gloom in the previous nightmares, and they together constituted his life, which could no longer be changed.

Fortunately, shadows can always be hidden behind lights.

Finally, finally, by enduring the things that have been embedded in the fate of several generations, he finally saw a little light in the gray fog. He held on to this light and magnified it.

Finally, finally, his plan was powerfully advanced and powerfully realized, and he personally destroyed the enemy's fortress.

Finally, at last, all the relatives and friends around him stood by his side again, and he, Zhang Qiling and Fatty came to this end.

But without warning, the light in front of him suddenly disappeared.

If you want to destroy a person, it is not to give him endless pain, because in the pain, he will gradually learn to struggle and resist, and when he can endure more suffering, even if he becomes a walking dead, he will not will be destroyed.

The real destruction is to give him a glimmer of hope in the midst of endless pain, and fill him with confidence until, at the moment when he can no longer doubt, tell him it's all a lie.

The gate that had been pressing on Wu Xie's heart for ten years was broken in an instant. He hugged his head in pain, and his body almost fell forward uncontrollably.

"Wu Xie!"

Zhang Qiling yelled, and quickly supported him. Seeing the strange look in Wu Xie's eyes, he was startled, and hugged Wu Xie tightly to him, calling his name over and over again.

But Wu Xie was struggling unconsciously, waving his hands indiscriminately.

The fat man was also at a loss for what to do, so he had to hold Wu Xie's hand to prevent him from scratching himself.

The three of them were almost torn together.

The three faced the same situation, but only Wu Xie had the biggest reaction.Because he is not like Zhang Qiling, who has been used to this kind of destruction in the past hundred years.He is not like a fat man, who can resolve the pain and continue to be free and easy.He couldn't even let go of half-knowledge like Li Cu and Su Wan.

No matter how he changes, he still can't change those natures that are deeply rooted in his bones.He has fear, but also courage.He has despair, but also hope.He had prepared for the worst, but he still believed that fate should always be on his side.

The emotions on the verge of collapse reached a saturation point. Unexpectedly, the body's reaction gradually calmed down, and those turbulent emotions also eased a little. This is a seemingly good omen, but it may also be the calm before destruction.

Wu Xie heard someone calling him, but he couldn't tell who the voice was.

In a void and chaos, he felt that he was becoming a part of this void, becoming one with the chaos.

"Wu Xie!"

It was the same voice, this time Wu Xie heard it clearly, it was Zhang Qiling.

Zhang Qi Ling.

Wu Xie can often think of this name in the past ten years, not only because he has been guarding a promise, but also because everything related to this name and this person has long been engraved in his soul and cannot be removed.

Occasionally mentioning it involves all nerves and emotions.

For a long time, Wu Xie couldn't define his emotion for this person, he could only think of his own feelings in some fragments of the past to mark this emotion.And the reality always didn't give him enough time to distinguish and analyze. He fell into the trap of conspiracy and could only struggle and resist desperately. It is closed in the heart.

Until they got together again, he found that because of this person, he could do something that was hard to dream of—return to his original appearance, or at least get closer to that time.

Light came into the dark corner again, and everything that had been frozen began to revive.He could finally define it.

It was an emotion that was unique to him.

So when he learned that they may never meet again in the illusion that happened in Banai, he felt the pain of being divided; so when he clearly saw him lying in front of him, And when you can touch it with your hands, the satisfaction born from the heart is enough to dispel all the previous haze.

I don't know when it started, this uniqueness has already surpassed all other emotions, he accepts it frankly, and is happy to see it come true.

Because he knew that it happened to be the same with Zhang Qiling.

Zhang Qiling once passively avoided his questioning, once secretly protected him from the whole puzzle, and was also willing to walk behind the endless dark bronze door for a possibility between them.

This man is silent and forbearing, strong and lonely, burdened with a heavy fate that ordinary people can't imagine, walking alone in the long and endless years.

It's like the wind that was traveling through the wilderness, but encountered a jungle full of thorns and barbs, cut his flesh and blood, and hindered his steps, but still couldn't stop him from moving forward, until he passed through it again and again. Get out and cut through the sky.

And it was just such a man, in the vortex full of conspiracy and mud, stretched out his hands to him.

They finally meet again, they finally walk side by side again, they finally walk into that light.

and so--

What is there to be afraid of?

In just one thought, Wu Xie felt his body tremble from inside to outside, and then the five senses returned, and those cold and desperate emotions rose to a high level like a tide and then slowly receded.

The noise in his ears began to disappear, leaving only the voice of that one person; his eyes began to regain clarity, and his sight was a pair of eyes full of worry and love; blood was no longer gushing from his nasal cavity, and he could breathe Another person's breath.

"Wu Xie."

Zhang Qiling called him again, as if he was calling, but also as if he was sighing.

Everything that I experienced just now dissipated in an instant.

Wu Xie raised his hand and held Zhang Qiling's arm on his shoulder, then smiled at him and said, "I was distracted just now, I'm fine."

Zhang Qiling's breath was stagnant, and the lips that were pressed against Wu Xie's temples moved to his forehead, and kissed him earnestly.

They are finally no longer afraid of anything because of each other.