Dream Maker [Rebirth]

The figure stopped suddenly in the rain, but Lu Ci's heart was pounding wildly like a hare. He knew that his move was too impulsive, but after the impulsiveness, he didn't feel regret at all, only felt relieved.

Deceiving and pretending is not his forte after all.

If Song Zhong had nothing to do with Ji Wuzhou, he could probably tell himself that he temporarily borrowed his identity just to find out the truth, but now all signs prove that this is not the case. Song Zhong may not only be no stranger to Ji Wuzhou, It also has an extraordinary meaning.

Then he can no longer use this identity.

It is important to find out the truth, but it is not so important that you can use unscrupulous means or even use your feelings.

He held the umbrella handle and the purse tightly, and stared at the long robe and waist-length silver hair in the rain without blinking, but waited and waited, but it was a long time since Ji Wuzhou turned around.

Lu Ci suddenly felt a little apprehensive: Is it because he was too shocked to accept it?

He lifted his feet up to the top of the steps, and walked towards Ji Wuzhou step by step, the more he walked, the more apprehensive he felt in his heart, and even the courage that was aroused by impulsiveness just now quietly vented a little bit.

Finally, he paused behind Ji Wuzhou, walked around him as if making up his mind and walked to the front, stopped and turned around to look——

The corners of Ji Wuzhou's tightly pursed lips curled up slightly, as if he was trying to suppress a smile!

Lu Ci seemed to have seen a ghost: "...What are you laughing at?!"

In just a few dozen steps, he imagined countless expressions that he might see - astonishment, shock, suspicion, sullenness, all of which he felt were understandable, but he never expected that the one that caught his eye was a smile!

A drop of water slid down Ji Wuzhou's forehead into the thick brows, and wet the brow tails, Lu Ci realized that it was still raining, and hurriedly passed the umbrella in his hand forward.

The paper umbrella covered the rain, and at the same time covered the glimmer of light cast from above. Ji Wuzhou was immediately engulfed in the shadow, but his shallow eyes became brighter in the shadow.

He stretched out his hand to wrap Lu Cilu's back in the rain under the umbrella, staring into his eyes with burning eyes, the corner of his mouth smiled undiminished, but he still smiled silently.

In the silent stares close at hand, Lu Ci finally figured out a clue slowly, and frowned and narrowed his eyes in disbelief: "You...have you noticed it a long time ago?"

Ji Wuzhou couldn't help laughing: "After all, you are not very serious about acting."

Lu Ci was speechless immediately.

It is true that although he bears the name and surname of Song Zhong, he has never deliberately imitated Song Zhong's words and deeds from the beginning to the end. His attitude and reaction to everyone and everything are all instinctive, and his personality must be far from Song Zhong's.Mu Yannian didn't suspect him because he brought up "amnesia", but other people who are a little familiar with Song Zhong will definitely not notice the strangeness.

but……

Lu Ci's heart was still in confusion, and he couldn't make up his mind about the tangled mess of threads. After a long while, he choked out a sentence: "Then do you know who I am?"

As soon as he finished asking, he realized that the words sounded really stupid, but since he had asked all the questions, he had no choice but to admit it with his lips pursed.

Ji Wuzhou smiled even more, with a hint of teasing in his smile: "What do you think, little uncle?"

Lu Ci was stunned for a while by these three characters, and then realized that this meant that Ji Wuzhou already knew his identity when he first introduced him to his disciples at the Immortal Palace.

Lu Ci Nahan said: "You...how did you know?"

Ji Wuzhou didn't want to hide it from him, but the whole matter was quite complicated to explain, and it couldn't be clarified in a few words.He raised his hand to caress Fu Luci's already wet shoulders and back, and suggested, "Go back and talk?"

Lu Ci was reminded by him to look down at his shoulders, then at Ji Wuzhou's drenched hair and robe, remembering that this person is most afraid of the cold, so he nodded and took out the talisman paper, and passed the two of them back with ease. In Half Moon Fort.

The surrounding white light dissipated, the heavy rain suddenly disappeared, and the crackling sound of the umbrella suddenly disappeared. The sudden silence made people feel in a trance for a moment.

Ji Wuzhou took the umbrella from Luci's hand and put it aside, and pulled him around the screen-like snow-white coral to the back of Banyue Castle.

Lu Ci was a little dazed, he still remembered seeing the dense stone forest behind the ice castle when he first came, and he didn't know what Ji Wuzhou wanted to do there.

Stepping out of the ice castle, the cold air suddenly hit, and the wet clothes on his body were cold for a while, Luci couldn't help but "hiss" and took a light breath.

The towering stone forest was in front of him, Ji Wuzhou didn't stop walking, and led him through the gap between two vertical stones, and turned all the way in the stone forest along the maze-like gravel path.

As it got deeper and deeper, the surroundings gradually became warmer. Lu Ci casually brushed over a vertical stone beside him, and found that even the stone here was emitting warmth.

Not long after, the path was close to the exit, and a large area of ​​bright moonlight slanted between the last two towering vertical stones.

Following Ji Wuzhou a few steps into the light, Lu Ci raised his eyes to take a closer look, and immediately held his breath.

Misty warm pool, facing the cliff and embracing the moon.

This is the top of the glacier cliff at the edge of the Immortal Palace. The bright moon like a jade plate in the night sky is no longer covered by anything, hanging brightly in front of you, as if you can reach it with your hand.

Inside the pool is dense white mist, and outside the pool is a bottomless abyss. The mist overflows the surrounding pool walls and slowly falls down the cliff, like a gentle and lingering cloud waterfall.

The ground by the pool was covered with silver frost, and a huge flat rock lay near the water. The air above it trembled and fluctuated, which showed its unusually hot.

Ji Wuzhou took off the crane feather robe and threw it on the stone, saying goodbye to the deer: "Leave the clothes here to dry, go down to warm your body."

Lu Ci answered and came back from the scene, still sighing in his heart how beautiful this place is.

He walked to the side of the stone, quickly took off his coat and put it down, just as he took off his inner coat to his elbows, he suddenly felt a glow on his back, turned his head and saw that Ji Wuzhou was staring at him intently.

Their eyes collided, Ji Wuzhou not only did not take his eyes away, but even took two steps closer to tear off his half-faded clothes and threw a boulder on him, grabbed his arm and turned him around to look at him. Deluci panicked for a while: "What are you looking at?"

It was obvious that when changing clothes in front of Luo Hanxin before, she was also bare-chested and backless, but at that time she didn't feel anything special, but now she only felt that Ji Wuzhou's gaze had substance, making her whole body tense.

Ji Wuzhou seemed to have finally seen enough, let go of his hand, raised his eyes and saw Lu Ci's ears were red, and couldn't help but tease him: "Is there anything not to see?"

Lu Ci glanced at him and turned his back. He didn't take off the remaining pants, shoes and socks, and he hesitated, but he didn't forget to retort: ​​"You have everything I have. What's there to see?"

Ji Wuzhou smiled lightly: "That's not necessarily the case."

He raised his hand from behind, and his fingertips brushed the line on Lu Ci's back: "I don't have your scar."

The wounds caused by the previous torture had all scabbed off, and the new flesh that had grown was light pink, slightly itchy when touched by the fingertips, and even more flushed.

Ji Wuzhou didn't want to tease him any more, so he withdrew his hands and said softly: "I just want to see if your injury is fully healed. I wanted to bring you here before, but I was afraid that the wound should not be wet when it is not healed. Now it looks like it will be fine. .”

After finishing speaking, he couldn't avoid Luci's continued uneasiness, turned around and pulled out the Wanling staff from his waist and put it on the stone, took off his clothes and got out of the warm pool, wading into the chest-high water and floating into the distance.

Hearing the sound of water, Lu Ci turned his head and saw Ji Wuzhou walking far away with his back facing this direction without turning his eyes. He looked down at the scars on his body and cursed himself for being too hypocritical. into the pool.

The water temperature was just right, but it was still a bit hot for the body that had just been drenched in the rain. Luci took a deep breath and exhaled slowly like a sigh. After adapting to the water temperature, his whole body felt more comfortable.

At this time, Ji Wuzhou had already arrived at the edge of the warm pool, lying on the thick and clean pool wall rocks, looking at the night sky, with silver hair floating behind him in the water, half covered by the thick white mist.

When the empty and full moon is used as a frame, the Wenchi and the back are framed together as a mid-month painting, just like an exiled fairy hiding in the corner of the world, very quiet, quiet, and cool.

Why is it so cold when the water in the pool is clearly warm?

Lu Ci blinked, leaned forward and floated forward, and the mist pushed by the movement was pushed out layer by layer from the pool wall and overflowed to the bottom of the cliff, accompanied by the sound of gurgling water, invading the quietness and blowing away the coolness.

Arriving at Ji Wuzhou's side, Lu Ci imitated his appearance and leaned on the rock, raising his hand towards the bright moon, as if caressing its cheek from the air, or waiting for someone to reach out and pull him in the middle of the moon Enter Guanghan Qionglou.

Yue Zhong's hand didn't come, but the hand next to him came, and the warm water poured down from his fingertips, wrapping the skin that had just been enveloped by the cold air in the warm current again.

The trickle that the index finger slid down was blocked by the finger Di Fuling, Lu Ci's gaze was fixed on it, and just about to speak, Ji Wuzhou said calmly as if he knew what he was going to ask: "I gave it to him."

Lu Ci turned his head: "Why did you give it to him?"

This question is actually quite substandard-there are so many gifts between friends, there is nothing more than giving them away when they want to.

What Lu Ci really wanted to know was not the reason for the gift, but the friendship between the two.

Ji Wuzhou was silent for a while, as if he was also caught by this question, he stared at Fu Ling quietly for a while before finding the most appropriate way of saying: "He made a deal with me."

Lu Ci was taken aback, but quickly realized: "Pray for Mu Shenzhi to change his memory?"

Ji Wuzhou nodded, he was not surprised that Lu Ci could guess this - after receiving Jiang He's letter earlier, he immediately went to Qingzhou, and when he arrived at Mushengtang, he saw Mu Yannian sending Lu Ci out.

At that time, he knew that Lu Ci's trip would be fruitful. Mu Yannian didn't need to say much, he only needed to mention Mu Shenzhi's symptoms after amnesia.

Ji Wuzhou said: "Song Zhong knew that he would surely die if he succeeded in revenge, so he prayed for Mu Shenzhi to change his memory, so that Mu Shenzhi would not be sad for him."

This answer is almost the same as Lu Ci's previous speculation, but after thinking for a while, he felt wrong: "But he asked you to change the memory for Mu Shenzhi, why did you give him something instead?"

Since it is a transaction, there should be coming and going. Ji Wuzhou changed Mu Shenzhi's memory to "coming", then "going" should be paid by Song Zhong, but Ji Wuzhou gave Fu Ling to the other party. What's the point?

And speaking of this point, Lu Ci remembered another strange thing: "Also, how did you get to Mushengtang at that time?"

That night Song Zhong burned the dream-prayer talisman in the brothel room, and Ji Wuzhou was naturally in the room after the teleportation arrived, and to change Mu Shenzhi's memory, at least he had to meet him first.

The brothel at night is bustling with people, and Mushengtang is not a wilderness where no one is watching and can come and go freely. The two of them can't just go down to Mushengtang and walk back and forth under the eyes of everyone, can they?

I don't know if it was Lu Ci's illusion, Ji Wuzhou's eyelashes seemed to tremble slightly when he heard this question, and after a while he said as if nothing had happened: "Song Zhong said that he once burned a dream amulet in Mu Shen's room. After listening to his request, I went back to Banyue Castle to find the talisman paper, and sent him to Musheng Hall."

Lu Ci said: "Then you changed your memory for Mu Shenzhi, and then sent Song Zhong back to the brothel?"

Ji Wuzhou paused, and said, "Yes."

Lu Ci always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell why for a while.After a while, he suddenly remembered something that he couldn't understand when he was in Qingzhou: "But Mu Shenzhi's illness is not a heart disease, nor is it caused by Song Zhong. Why did he recover from a serious illness because of changing his memory?"

Ji Wuzhou gently pushed the rock, and turned his back against the wall of the pool with his strength: "Because changing memory is only part of the deal between Song Zhong and me, not the whole."

Lu Ci couldn't help but turned sideways following his movements, staring suspiciously at his unclear side face in the shadow of the backlight at the moment.

Ji Wuzhou looked at the dense mist on the surface of the pool, and said: "The reason why Mu Shenzhi was able to miraculously heal when the oil was exhausted and the lamp was dry was not because of changing his memory, but because——Song Zhong spent all his life and luck It was all left to him.”