Can't speak

The stone room was completely quiet, only the sound of breathing lingered in his ears, Su Yangui also fixed his eyes on the nine stone piles, but after a while, he turned his eyes away as if giving up, and turned to Ning Jian.

It was a very delicate face, even if it was frowning and focused now, it still had a bit of feminine charm.Ning Jian once said that it was because he looked like his mother.

Su Yangui thought, Ning Jian's mother must be a peerless beauty, because Ning Jian is the prettiest in his eyes.

It's just that this face rarely expresses any expression, neither crying nor laughing nor sad nor angry, Su Yangui often feels that this is a waste.

He still remembers the Lantern Festival when he was 15 years old. It was the first time Ning Jian left Crescent Moon Town and came back since they met.With nostalgia and joy in his heart, he found the most beautiful lantern in the town, ran across the whole street, and held it in front of Ning Jian excitedly.The two butterflies playing with the moon on the lamp were bright and delicate, but he felt that it was far inferior to Ning Jian's smile.

That was the first time he saw Ning Jian smile, and since that day, he never called Ning Jian "Master" again.But he also knew that Ning Jian would not care, let alone understand the meaning behind this change.

Ning Jian never turned back to look at him, as if he was completely unaware of his gaze, Su Yangui was disappointed, and was about to say something, but saw Ning Jian slowly closed her eyes.

"Ning Jian?"

"It's okay." Ning Jian's voice was very low.

Su Yangui was a little scared, but also a little inexplicably excited.He hesitated for a while, then secretly stretched out his hand from Ning Jian's back, put his arm around his shoulder and shook it.

"Ning Jian, are you okay?"

"Don't move, brat."

I'm not a kid anymore.

Su Yangui muttered in her heart, while carefully putting her arms around Ning Jian's shoulders, letting him lean on her shoulders: "It's more comfortable to lean against me."

Ning Jian didn't struggle or speak.

Su Yangui laughed contentedly, and the trace of fear in her heart seemed to have disappeared.

It has been about a day since Ning Jian returned to the town. No one would feel uncomfortable if he didn't touch a drop of water. Besides, no one knew how long he hadn't eaten before he returned to the town.Moreover, Ning Jian was still wounded and bleeding, and she had been throwing copper coins to try the mechanism before, so it was normal for her to be exhausted.

I also feel thirsty and hungry, and after about a day and a half, I won't be able to hold on anymore.

"Ning Jian, it would be nice to die here with me, why go out."

"Third brother..." What responded to him was a murmur in his arms, with a touch of pain.

Su Yangui felt as if something had stabbed her heart hard.

"What the hell third brother..." spat, but he couldn't help but look up at the stone pile in the center of the stone room.

There were some shattered copper coins scattered on the side of the stone pile, but the stone pile was the same as when they came in, without any change.Neat and unified, under the light of the four luminous pearls, it seems to be covered with a layer of veil, with indescribable mystery and sacredness.

As time passed, the feeling of emptiness in the stomach became more and more obvious. After staring at something for a long time, graying gradually appeared in front of his eyes. Su Yangui blinked and swallowed reluctantly: "Ning Jian."

Ning Jian did not answer.

Su Yangui's arms around his shoulders tightened, and she called again: "Ning Jian."

The person leaning on him moved slightly and opened his eyes, but the light in his eyes was dim. After a while, Ning Jian struggled to sit up and asked hoarsely, "How long have I been asleep?"

Su Yangui smiled: "I don't know."

Ning Jian frowned habitually, but she didn't draw her sword as usual, but gritted her teeth and looked at those stone posts.

Su Yangui smiled and said: "Just cut it all off, maybe it can be opened..."

Before she finished speaking, Ning Jian suddenly held down the sword.

"rather……"

Ning Jian raised her hand to signal him to shut up, listened for a while, and said, "Someone is here."

Su Yangui's heart tightened, he got up and walked to the edge of the corridor, took a look inside, but saw only darkness.

Ning Jian struggled to stand up, walked to his side, and gave him a gentle tug.

Su Yangui knew that he wanted to retreat by himself, but stubbornly refused to move: "I'll block it first, maybe it's just some small characters, and I can take care of them. If not, you hide and sneak attack them when you see the opportunity."

Ning Jian didn't talk nonsense, and twisted his wrist with one hand and pulled it back.The wrist was twisted outward, Su Yangui couldn't bear the pain, subconsciously took two steps back, Ning Jian had already stepped forward to block him.

Su Yangui wanted to say more, but the footsteps in the corridor could already be heard, and there was fire coming out of the corridor, the two of them didn't speak any more, they just held their breath and waited motionlessly.

"There seems to be a light in front. It seems that this is really where the treasure is." After a while, a voice came, with a hint of joy, "I said that there must be something weird about those officers and soldiers always wandering outside."

Su Yangui listened, not daring to move at all, looking at Ning Jian, Ning Jian's gaze had become sharp, not at all like the dimness when leaning on him just now, with a terrifying beauty.

However, when Su Yangui was in a daze, Ning Jian had already moved, and the dagger came out of its sheath without making a sound, slashing across his eyes, until he saw a blood red, before he caught the light and shadow of the blade, it was amazingly fast .

It seemed that someone fell to the ground with a muffled grunt. Almost at the same time, someone shouted, "Who!"

Ning Jian didn't answer, and strode forward, another sword thrust out, before the sword was finished, she suddenly turned around, and her left hand pointed into a palm and slashed straight at the opponent's wrist.

The man couldn't dodge in time, the weapon in his hand fell to the ground, and he turned around with him, the sword was already in front of his throat.

"Don't move!" Su Yan Guiji yelled cooperatively, looked forward from behind Ning Jian, only to find that there were only three people coming, one had been killed by Ning Jian and fell to the ground, the other was held hostage by Ning Jian, What was left was an old man over half a century old, holding a faucet stick in his hand, standing there defensively without moving.

Ning Jian glanced at the corpse on the ground, then looked at the old man, and finally said slowly: "Master Tenglong Stick Long and Mr. Long, I didn't expect you to be interested in treasures."

The old man named Long Jian looked at Ning Jian, and smiled after a long time: "So it's Ning Shaoxia from Yi Lianshan. It seems that what Qin Yueshu said about Ning Shaoxia wanting to swallow the treasure alone is true? Or is it , Tianjianmen wants to occupy the sword manual and peerless sword in this treasure, so as to dominate the martial arts?"

"Everyone knows that the treasure is the treasure of the former royal family. Where are the secrets of martial arts and the peerless sword? Did Master Long misunderstand something?"

Long Jian didn't give in at all, and sneered, "The person who spread the news that Jun Wuya's sword manual and saber are buried in treasures a hundred years ago, isn't it you Ning Shaoxia?"

"Stop talking nonsense, anyway, the treasure is not your turn, turn around quickly, and spare your life." Hearing the words of the two go further and further away, Su Yangui rushed to speak before Ning Jian could speak.

"Where is the wild boy, it's not your turn to speak!" Long Jian shouted, "Ning Jian, you not only plotted to hurt people, but also took hostages as threats, and spread it to the Jianghu, aren't you afraid of being laughed at? ?”

Ning Jian said indifferently: "I have never been a hero, no matter what the morals are. What's more, you all died here, who will spread the word?"

Before he finished speaking, he already pushed the person in his hand towards Long Jian with one palm, followed by the dagger, stabbing Long Jian's throat quickly.

Long Jian reacted very quickly, regardless of whether it was one of his own who rushed at him, he swept across with a stick, and the whole person fell to the wall, and the dragon's head stick hit Ning Jian's sword.

Ning Jian moved his hand forward, met the dragon-head stick with the hilt of his sword, the blades intersected, and the short sword cut straight upwards, unexpectedly cutting off half of the dragon head on the stick.

"Hello, Ning Jian!" Long Jian shouted, and the dragon's head stick swept back Ning Jian's plate.

Ning Jian retreated, and the dragon-headed stick followed him like a shadow, stumbling over his feet, Ning Jian had no way to retreat, turned over and jumped up, before he fell, the dragon-headed stick had already hit the front door.

"Ning Jian!" Su Yangui was shocked, without thinking, he stepped forward to attack Long Jian.

Long Jianhui's stick blocked it, and the dragon's head stick swept across Su Yangui's neck from above. Su Yangui lowered his head fiercely, and the stick passed over his head. He rushed towards Long Jian again.

Long Jian dodged sideways, hit Su Yangui on the shoulder with his palm back, and sneered: "How dare you fight this old man?"

Su Yangui received a slap on his shoulder, and fell out. Ning Jian supported him from behind, and barely stopped the fall. He had just stood still, and before he could speak, Ning Jian had already pushed him away. The faucet stick brushed past Su Yangui's arm, and hit Ning Jian's chest.

Ning Jian had no way to dodge, gritted his teeth and stabbed the dagger in his hand towards Long Jian. As soon as the tip of the sword was sent to Long Jian's chest, he was immediately knocked straight out, fell to the wall and then slid to the ground. Then he didn't move anymore.

Su Yangui was so frightened that she crawled and rolled over, "Ning Jian!"

I saw that Ning Jian closed her eyes tightly, and blood slowly flowed from her lips, dripping on Su Yangui's hand, with warmth, but made Su Yangui feel cold to the bottom of her heart.

He didn't even dare to test Ning Jian's breathing, but kept wiping the blood from his lips with his hands, and shouted, "Ning Jian, Ning..."

At this moment, the wind blew up in his ear, Su Yangui turned sideways almost subconsciously, and was still severely hit by a club on his shoulder, while Long Jian over there was covering his chest wound with one hand, holding the dragon head stick in the other, and raised his hand to strike again. call.

Su Yangui gritted her teeth and kicked Ning Jian's calf, jumped up and grabbed the handle of Ning Jian's short sword and drew it out. Long Jian let out a loud cry, and crazily raised the dragon head stick to hit him on the top of the head.Ning Jian was behind him, Su Yangui didn't dare to dodge, but tilted his head slightly, and pierced Long Jian's abdomen with his sword again, taking advantage of the momentum and slashing all the way down.

Long Jian screamed unceasingly, the dragon head stick in his hand had already been released, but it still hit Su Yangui's neck.Su Yangui snorted and fell to the ground.

The scene in front of her eyes gradually blurred, Su Yangui struggled to get up, put her hands on her neck, and shook her head vigorously.His vision gradually regained clarity, and he stumbled to Long Jian's side again, pulled out Ning Jian's dagger, and stabbed Long Jian's chest, then walked to the other two people and similarly stabbed the dagger, and then moved the dagger Put it away and put it in Ning Jian's arms.

He still didn't dare to test Ning Jian's breathing, but only searched the three people, took out the dry food, wound medicine and water, wrapped them together and returned to Ning Jian, then carefully picked them up, Fill his mouth with water.

When Ning Jian drank the water, Su Yangui heaved a sigh of relief, laughed silently, lowered her head and kissed Ning Jian gently on the lips.

After feeding him with water, he tore up the dry food again, stuffed it into Ning Jian's mouth little by little after soaking it in water, and then gave him medicine, then he hugged him tightly and leaned against the wall to breathe out.

"Ning Jian, you won't be able to find the treasure after I die, won't you be sad?"

Naturally, no one answered him, the huge stone room was dead silent, three dead bodies were lying on the ground, and the air seemed to be tainted with a bloody smell.

Only the night pearl above the head still emits a faint light, covering everything.

Su Yangui's consciousness gradually became a little blurred. He looked at the stone pillar in the center and felt that he seemed to see something, but when he looked carefully, there was nothing.

In the summer, I actually felt a little cold, as if there was a wind blowing in from nowhere.Su Yangui trembled, her eyes lit up again, she struggled to get up, but was powerless, so she could only hold Ning Jian's hand tightly:

"Ning Jian, wake up... Ning Jian, don't sleep, I know how to pass this trap..."

The person in his arms didn't move at all, and Su Yangui's voice became smaller and smaller, until finally he stopped as if giving up.

It doesn't matter, it's good to die together.

When Ning Jian woke up again, she only vaguely felt that something was different around her.The stone room was still in front of him, but the surroundings were so quiet that it was as if time had stopped.

He stared blankly at the corpses and bloodstains on the ground, and it took him a long time to realize that he was still being hugged tightly.

"Bitch, it's hot."

The person holding him didn't let go as usual. Ning Jian was stunned for a while, then as if remembering something, she stretched out her hand and pulled Su Yangui's arm around her waist, but she didn't expect Su Yangui to Gui fell down so softly.

Ning Jian opened her eyes wide in fright, and after a while, she gently poked Su Yangui's back: "Little brat..."

Su Yangui remained motionless.

Ning Jian slowly frowned, looking at Su Yangui, a faint daze appeared on her face, as if she didn't know what to do at all.

"Little devil..." He yelled again and pulled Su Yangui up, only to realize that Su Yangui was already unconscious, his face was blue, his lips were chapped, and there were several bruises on his body. Even in this dark stone room, it is very clear.

It's not just like being seriously injured, it's like someone who hasn't touched a drop of water for many days.

Ning Jian frowned even tighter.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of a big bundle beside him, and he hesitated for a moment before opening the package, which contained three water bags and some dry food.It was obvious that he was able to recover because of these things, and it was even more obvious that Su Yangui did not touch these things.

Ning Jian looked at the person holding her hand, then looked at those things, finally put down the sword, picked up a piece of dry and hard pancake, tore off a large piece and stuffed it into Su Yangui's mouth, and then took He picked up a water bag, and regardless of whether Su Yangui still had something stuffed in his mouth, he filled the water bag with the mouth aligned.

At first, the water flowed down the corner of his mouth, but after a while, he heard a faint coughing sound.He stopped, took away the water bag, and looked at Su Yangui struggling and coughing expressionlessly.

"Water..." After a while, Su Yangui stretched out his hand tremblingly, and called out a word in a hoarse voice.

Only then did Ning Jian soften his movements and bring the water bag to his mouth.

After taking two sips of water, Su Yangui slightly turned his head away, panting with his mouth half-opened.

Ning Jian didn't speak, and silently put away the water bag.

"Ning Jian, you are such a waste..."

Ning Jian said nothing.

"Ning Jian, how can you treat a seriously injured person like this!" Su Yangui's voice added a bit of strength.

Ning Jian turned a deaf ear to it.

"Ning Jian, how can you treat a person who saved you like this!" Su Yangui trembled a little more in his words.

Ning Jian kept her eyes down.

"Ning Jian..." Su Yangui choked up and yelled two words, then couldn't speak anymore, like a wronged big dog, he wrapped his arms around Ning Jian's neck and hugged him.

Ning Jian felt like he was relieved, but he couldn't say why he was relieved.So he could only sit like that and let Su Yangui hug him.

"We are all alive." Su Yangui whispered authentically.

Ning Jian blinked, but still didn't move.

Su Yangui hugged him tightly again, and smiled silently.

"But Ning Jian, my body hurts like hell. Look, the place where I was hit has turned black."

After a pause, seeing that Ning Jian still didn't respond, Su Yangui added, "I think my bones are about to fall apart."

Ning Jian finally moved, stretched out his hand, and patted his head clumsily: "So you need to know from now on, when I fight with others, don't just run out to be a hero."

Su Yangui was stunned, and suddenly felt that he couldn't get out of his breath.

The hand that patted on the head was quickly withdrawn, he had no choice but to hold Ning Jian tightly as if asking for compensation, and then he let it go reluctantly, still saying "ouch, ouch". It hurts.

Ning Jian also applied medicine for him, but when he rubbed the bruises, he didn't feel gentle because of his injury. Su Yangui screamed more and more terribly, and he just said: "How can the bruises happen if you don't use force?" What about going away?"

Su Yangui sat with an aggrieved face, and finally vomited blood quite appropriately.

Ning Jian grabbed his wrist and said after a long while, "The internal injury is not serious, you can just meditate and adjust your breathing."

Su Yangui touched the place on his wrist where he had been grabbed, and happily sat down next to Ning Jian, cross-legged, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath.

Ning Jian looked at him without moving.

Su Yangui's luck turned around in his body, and he noticed something strange. He opened his eyes and met Ning Jian's. Are you in love with me?"

"..."

"That's right, how can I say that I'm also your savior, do you want to promise me with your body?"

"Shut up." Ning Jian dropped two words coldly, stopped looking at him, crossed her legs and closed her eyes.

Su Yangui looked disappointed, but couldn't help staring at Ning Jian in a daze.

"Concentrate on it, adjust your breath and luck, and don't stay there in a daze."

"I'm afraid that someone will come in while we are closing our eyes and adjusting our breath. It will be dangerous. Ning Jian, you should concentrate on it, otherwise you will get distracted, and it will not be fun to go crazy!" Su Yangui smiled Mimi Responding, when he finished speaking, as if realizing something, his smile deepened.

He thought, he knew why Ning Jian had been looking at him just now.

It is dangerous for two people to be practicing kung fu. If this person rushes in and slashes at them, he will not be able to survive no matter what.

But it would be different if one person practiced kung fu to heal the wound while the other was guarding it.

Thinking of this, Su Yangui moved towards Ning Jian more intimately.Ning Jian was still exercising and adjusting his breath, so he didn't dare to be too presumptuous. He just looked at Ning Jian, and after turning his eyes from the slightly too long eyelashes to the light-colored lips, he couldn't help but feel distracted.

It wasn't until Ning Jian opened his eyes again that he suddenly remembered something and shouted: "Ah!"

Ning Jian frowned and looked at him, but there was a trace of bewilderment in her eyes.

Su Yan smiled and said, "Ning Jian, I know how to pass this mechanism!"

Ning Jian blinked, and it took a long while to realize what happened, and said two words: "What?"

Su Yangui looked at him with a smile, with a gentle face: "I know how to pass here."

"……explain."

Su Yangui looked up at the four luminous pearls on the roof of the room: "We must cover these four pearls first."

Ning Jian looked at him suspiciously.

Su Yangui pointed to the roof directly above the stone pile: "Can you see those small holes?"

Ning Jian looked along what he pointed, and saw scattered small holes, each about a finger thick, which seemed to lead to the outside of the mountain. If you look carefully, you can find a very faint light shining down.

He seemed to understand Su Yangui's meaning, he took a breath and slowly stood up, pondered for a moment, finally jumped up and took down the night pearl on the southeast corner of the stone room.

One night pearl was missing, and the stone room was suddenly dark. The two of them looked at the stone piles at the same time, only to find that there were faint and tiny light spots on some of the stone piles.

"Sure enough!" Su Yangui called out, "The light from the Ye Mingzhu covered up the light from above, as long as you remove the Ye Ming Pearl, you should be able to know the order of these stone piles according to the light spots from above. .”

Ning Jian didn't speak, but simply took off the other three Ye Mingzhu and wrapped them in clothes.The stone chamber fell into darkness, but groups of light spots of different shapes slowly emerged on the nine stone pillars.

"The number of light points is different, it's the order. I'll do it." Before Ning Jian could move again, Su Yangui had already jumped onto the stone pile first.

Jumping over one by one, the explosion did not appear again, until Su Yangui got off the last stone pile, and the door opposite to the corridor slowly opened.

"Ning Jian!" Su Yangui turned her head in surprise.

Ning Jian's eyes also softened, hesitating for a moment, but then put the Ye Mingzhu back again.

"Ning Jian, what are you doing?"

"Even if someone finds it, as long as there is the Ye Mingzhu, they may not be able to pass through here." While talking, Ning Jian inserted the last Ye Ming Pearl into the roof of the room. After all, when it landed, he couldn't support it and shook slightly.

Su Yangui hurriedly put an arm around his waist: "Ning Jian!"

Ning Jian shook her head and grabbed her sword: "Go in."

Su Yangui looked at him carefully for a while, finally nodded hesitantly, and helped him to walk in.