Long before today, Duan Qingni had imagined countless times about the connection between Qi Zhou and Yu Su.

For example, there was a grievance 14 years ago involving a deceased person, which caused the two to turn against each other;

For another example, the two of them were originally a pair, one in the open and the other in the dark, loving and killing each other, inseparable from life to life... Duan Qingni who gave birth to a child can only be regarded as a bullshit outsider.

But Duan Qingni still finds it hard to believe the truth that is in front of her eyes at this moment... Or, she dare not believe it.

From the beginning to the end, the contrast between these two people was too great, which made it impossible for him to think in the same direction.

Duan Qingni opened her eyes wide with difficulty.

At the moment when the word "Qi Zhou" was mentioned, he saw that the person beside him shook his head, his expression was almost calm, and there was no obvious change.

"... What pray for Zhou?" Yu Su asked lightly.

"Stop pretending!"

Duan Qingni grabbed his wrist, and with the thin callused palm, pressed it hard twice, as if looking for a familiar feeling.

Yusu retreated subconsciously, but Duan Qingni stopped him, pressing the inside of his fingers tightly, rubbing and rubbing, and then said firmly: "...that's it, I'm not mistaken!"

——After speaking, he pulled up the palm, pressed it a little closer, and then rubbed it against his cheek.

Yu Su's pupils shrank, and he curled up his fingers immediately, and asked stiffly, "What are you doing?"

"You still pretend! It's endless, isn't it?"

Duan Qingni stretched out her hand, pinched Yu Su's face instead, and said to show me how many layers of masks you are wearing - but when you pinch it, that handsome face looks sharp, but in fact it is soft and gentle , as smooth as white jade, and it feels surprisingly good to the touch.

Duan Qingni didn't stop when she got started, and grabbed it several times.Yu Su also remained motionless, and his expression gradually became more and more confused, as if he didn't understand the meaning of his actions at all.

This isn't right, it shouldn't be like this...At least give me some reaction?

Duan Qingni suddenly lost his mind.

He stared at Yu Su's dark eyes, and the two stood in a stalemate for a long time, Duan Qingni asked again: "You really don't know Qi Zhou?"

Yu Su pressed his red face, frowned slightly, and remained unshakeable silence.

"Damn, I'm sick of it!"

Duan Qingni was immediately annoyed, kicked the chair next to her, and said in a hurry: "...Why is this?!"

After saying that, he stopped looking at Yu Su, and ignored the pile of "love needles" on the ground, turned around and rushed out of the yard.

A disciple saw him at the door and couldn't help shouting: "Master, where are you going...the medicine is not ready yet!"

Duan Qingni went to the doctor in a hurry, grabbed the disciple and asked, "You, do you know Qi Zhou from Fu Yang Palace?"

"What week?!"

The disciple was confused by the question, before he had time to answer, Duan Qingni had hurried away.Seeing his angry face, Ou Huang couldn't help asking, "...how long has it been, who made him angry again?"

Looking back, I saw Yu Su holding a wooden box, picking up those shiny silver needles on the ground.Ouhuang walked over and said, "Hey! Wooden man, look at what you've done!"

Yu Su stood up abruptly, and Ouhuang immediately took a step back in fright—the tragedy of the destruction of the tavern that day was vivid in his memory, although they were always shouting at Wang Bai and the wooden man, but they were just pretending, No one dared to jump on his head.

Yu Su put away the wooden box, put it aside, and stared unconsciously for a long time.

Just when Ouhuang thought that the wooden man couldn't speak, Yu Su suddenly spoke.

"Who is Qi Zhou?" he asked.

"Riding a boat?" Ouhuang asked suspiciously, "What kind of boat?"

Yu Su: "..."

Long before Duan Qingni took over Ouhuang's malignant tumor, he was an old fritter rolling around in the court of romance.With a radius of hundreds of miles outside Tianshu Mountain, the kilns on several long streets made him walk too high.

Hearing the first reaction of "Qi Zhou", Ou Huang was taken aback for a moment, then made a very understanding expression, and laughed mischievously: "Hey, I got it! Recently, in Shuangyun Town at the foot of the mountain, there is The leading young lady with a slender waist and a handsome face...is called Qizhou. It is said that he is wild and delicate, and he is used to serving people, so he has to wait in a long line."

Yu Su: "...?"

what wild?What Jiao?

"Wang Bai, you have fallen out of favor."

Ou Huang patted him on the shoulder and said sympathetically, "Our head, there are probably people outside..."

At the same time, a certain sect head surnamed Duan who was "someone outside" turned around and left his courtyard, striding into the main entrance of Fuyang Hall, which he hadn't seen for many days, walking fast and hurriedly.

Fu Yang Palace is the residence of all high-level figures in Changling. Most of them are dissatisfied with the new head and superiors, and some of them have more or less been in trouble with the Duan family back then. Xuan, the dominant force at the head, contributed to the flames.

Duan Qingni walked in swaggeringly, no doubt the rabbit had entered the jackal's den.However, this group of wolves hadn't prepared for anything, and now they caught a glimpse of the master coming, and didn't know what the other party's intentions were, so they knelt down guilty one by one, just like a group of rats meeting a big tiger--as everyone knows, there is a small wolf under their skin. sick cat.

It's just that Duan Qingni ran over specially, and didn't have time to fight with them.

There is a dark building in the Hall of Fu Yang, which is the archives for storing all Changling documents, from the heads and elders of the past century, down to the introductory disciples who have just apprenticed to the master, and everyone's background is recorded in detail.

The elder in charge of guarding the gate is about the same age as the centenarian who was almost frightened and had a stroke in the last assassination incident.It is rare for the old man to have idle errands, and he was lying on a soft chair with his eyes closed at that time, thinking it was another day of doing nothing.

In the blink of an eye, there was a loud bang.

Duan Qingni rushed into the door in a hurry, followed by a long line of people, all chasing after them in horror: "Master, what are you doing! Why didn't you notify the inside when you came?"

"Take it easy, don't be shy..."

"Hurry up... who, who is going to notify Immortal Master Mu Xuan, that person has come here to mess things up again..."

This group of wolves had their own agendas, fearing that Duan Qingni would wander around and find something that shouldn't be found, they stopped and dragged him one by one to prevent him from leaving.

Duan Qingni saw that he couldn't walk any longer, so he flipped over the nearest wooden frame with a flick of his sleeves. Those scroll envelopes were scattered all over the sky with dust, and even the wooden cabinets on the wall next to them were shaken. Three shakes.

"Are you going crazy again?!" The old gatekeeper slapped the table and tremblingly said, "These are all precious documents from Tianshu Mountain, not even a single page will be missing... You, the gatekeeper, want to Are you taking the lead in rebelling against your ancestors?"

Before finishing speaking, Duan Qingni took a step forward and said condescendingly: "Old man, I have something to ask you."

The old man pouted, his eyes widened, and he seemed unwilling to say a word.

Duan Qingni raised her foot and kicked down the tall stack of books, and picked up a teapot casually, as if to pour boiling water on it.

"The head! The head doesn't want it!!"

A group of people immediately stopped him and tried to persuade him with kind words.The old man froze for a long time, but in the end he couldn't help it, so he had no choice but to say: "...you ask, you just ask!"

Duan Qingni put away the teapot, and asked straight to the point: "In Fuyang Palace, is there any ancestor head or elder disciple whose name is Qi Zhou?"

"Pray for...?"

"Pray for the week."

Duan Qingni found paper and ink, bent over to the table, and carefully wrote down the person's name stroke by stroke.

That same day in Fu Yang Hall, he had seen the jade plaque that Qi Zhou carried with him, it was by no means something that ordinary disciples should have, his status was at least equal to that of the senior figures of the older generation.

However, when the word "Qi Zhou" was written on the paper, there was a lot of discussion among the people around, all of them looked blank and unfamiliar... Half a day later, no one came out to identify it.

"It's praying for the week!"

Duan Qingni said anxiously: "That day, a bunch of people surrounded him, calling 'Brother Qi' over and over again... No one would recognize such a number one person?"

Everyone present looked at each other for a long time, and finally someone said: "Master, there is no such person as Qi Zhou."

"You...are you remembering wrongly?"

"Let's not talk about the big brother, among the new disciples who have just started, there is no one whose surname is Qi."

Duan Qingni's whole body froze, and her complexion instantly turned pale.He turned to look at the old man, who waved his hands again and again and said, "I've stayed here for decades, and I've never heard of this name..."

How is it possible, is it still an illusion?

Or, is it because I'm crazy?

Duan Qingni froze in place, her whole body wandering, suddenly felt an unspeakable sense of tearing.It was as if what he had said and what he had experienced were all nothingness in the end, and now he couldn't tell what was true and what was false.

He tried to take two steps forward, but staggered again, knocking down the bookcase next to him, and piles of scrolls poured out, quickly submerged up to his ankles.

"..."

Duan Qingni paused, picked up a scroll, and was about to open a corner of a page.

At this time, there was a creaking sound, and the door of the dark building was suddenly pushed open.A figure like snow suddenly stood in front of him, accompanied by his extremely cold voice——

"Duan Qingni. Why are you here in broad daylight?"

Mu Xuan led a group of disciples to come, all of them were dressed in strong clothes and looked profusely sweating. It seems that they practiced sword together outside the hall not long ago, and they didn't even have time to change their clothes.

Duan Qingni turned his eyes slightly, seeing the few sharp sword lights, it made the back of his neck feel cold.

——But at this moment, a terrible idea came to my mind.

"Master."

Duan Qingni suddenly smiled and said: "Can I learn how to sword?"

Mu Xuan was obviously taken aback when he heard this.He lowered his head to look at Jian, then at him again, and said with a smile: "You?"

Duan Qingni nodded.

Mu Xuan mocked: "I'm afraid you are seriously ill." Even so, he turned around, called Liu Ruxing and said: "... Ruxing, since it is the wish of the head, why don't you go to battle in person and fight with him? Let's practice."

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately started discussing again, and there was a lot of excitement in all directions.

We all know that Changling, the new head, has a strong temper, a incurable madness, and is a weirdo who is idiotic and arrogant.

Crazy came to Fuyang Hall today, made a fuss, and suddenly said that he wanted to practice swords - this time, no one could guess what Duan Qingni was thinking, let alone what he was going through all this trouble with.

Especially for Muxuan, he had suffered a lot from the previous confrontations, and he didn't want to confront him head-on again, but unexpectedly, someone surnamed Duan came to his door, begging to be taught a lesson... How could such a great opportunity be easily let go? ?

So he made a decisive decision and led a group of people to turn the battlefield to the courtyard. Mu Xuan threw a wooden sword to Duan Qingni, and winked at Liu Ruxing, and the two stood in an open place at the same time.

Under the eyes of everyone, Liu Ruxing held the sword in both hands, sweating from nervousness: "Senior brother Qingni, this sword has no eyes... it's not a joke."

Duan Qingni said: "Stop talking nonsense, chop if you have the seed."

Liu Ruxing tilted his head, glanced at Mu Xuan in fear, as if he was confirming something repeatedly.After getting the master's affirmation, there was a sharp clang, and the sharp sword was just unsheathed, and a slender shadow was drawn by the cold light.

Duan Qingni was holding a wooden sword, because his hands were weak, and he couldn't hold ordinary weapons at all; while Liu Ruxing was a real sword, no matter how he made moves afterwards, he would inevitably bump into bumps and bumps.

Mu Xuan's original intention was not to hurt others. With so many eyes staring at him, it was impossible to do big things. At most, it would only frustrate someone's spirit.

Unexpectedly, Liu Ruxing swept out with a sword, and Duan Qingni opened his posture on the surface, but when the sword edge approached, his expression turned cold, and he opened his arms suddenly, and went straight to meet it!

"Senior brother?!"

"Master!"

——In an instant, everyone inside and outside changed their expressions.Liu Ruxing's eyes were reddened, it was too late to withdraw his sword at this moment.

At the critical moment, the distance between the tip of the sword and the heart is no more than half a finger away.

Suddenly there was a loud bang, and a gust of wind suddenly came from his ears, rushing towards Liu Ruxing's long sword from top to bottom.At that moment, I hardly saw what happened, but I saw that the sharp sword body was bent down, and it was crushed into an extremely strange arc——then there was a light click sound, and the long sword was broken from the middle. Open, crack, instantly shattered into dust, drifting away with the wind...

Duan Qingni raised her face slightly, and looked at the familiar figure that descended from the sky not far away.

At the same time, from his sleeve, the pointer of the fate axis began to swing wildly——

After struggling for a while, it finally moved from 3 to 4 and stopped firmly.

At that moment, Duan Qingni couldn't help laughing out loud.

Crazy or crazy.He just used his own life to make a bet that he spared no effort.

Bet that whenever he is in danger, someone will appear out of thin air, even if it is in front of the mountain of swords and fire, or in front of the palace of Yama, this person will definitely come to give him a hand.

And now, he has won.

The man was dressed in plain clothes, with a jade plaque hanging from his waist, holding his mask steady with one hand.

At that time, with his back to Duan Qingni, he said in a low voice: "...to lie to me, is it worth it?"

"It's worth it."

After Duan Qingni said coldly, she raised her hand and swung the wooden sword, hitting the blank mask right in the middle—with a little force, she picked it off.

There was a soft sound when it landed.

The facial features behind the mask are decisive and fierce, yet also cruel and soft.That is the mysterious corner of the melted ice and snow that Duan Qingni saw unintentionally.

"..."

When Qi Zhou turned around, the eyes of the two met, and it was indeed Yu Su's face that met his eyes.

"Why?" Duan Qingni asked calmly.

He took a step closer, failed to touch the opponent's body, and stopped abruptly.

At this moment, there was a huge buzzing in his head, accompanied by some unknown strong fluctuations, like overwhelming waves, his vision became blurred, and his entire body also lost strength, and he moved towards the sky uncontrollably. fall back...

At this time, Qi Zhou still rushed forward and supported Duan Qingni's waist in time.It's just that they couldn't stand still, they struggled for a moment in mid-air, and then all lost strength and fell to the ground.

There was no sound and no pain.

Duan Qingni fell into Qi Zhou's arms, and when she opened her eyes again, an even weirder scene happened.

The world around them became a completely static picture.

——Everyone, objects, scenery...including the blowing wind, all stopped at the second before Qi Zhou took off his mask, without moving.

Even Liu Ruxing who was not far away still retained the movement when he drew his sword, and the other staring onlookers also became a bunch of natural sculptures, as if they lost their souls in an instant.

"This is how the same thing?"

Duan Qingni opened her mouth with difficulty, and was about to stand up with force, but felt her shoulders sink, and was gently pressed down by Qi Zhou.

"You shouldn't have taken off my mask, Ah Qing." Qi Zhou sighed and said, "If this goes on, it will be even more difficult for me to come out again."

"What do you mean? Isn't Yu Su always here?" Duan Qingni asked.

"I'm different from Yusu."

"What's the difference?" Duan Qingni stared at his face, her teeth itching with hatred, "Isn't this fucking you yourself? Why, you two are still sharing accounts?"

"Listen, I don't have much time, and the information I can offer is limited."

Qi Zhou pressed his shoulder and said word by word: "First of all, you have seen it. I am a person who does not exist... As long as I take off the mask and show myself with my true face, time here will stop."

Duan Qingni's eyes trembled slightly, and when he looked at him, he couldn't say a word.

"The so-called Qizhou is also a false identity that does not exist. When they see me, they will react subconsciously, but they will not retain any memory afterwards." Qizhou said seriously, "Among all...the ones who can remember me ,only you."

Duan Qingni took a deep breath and remembered everything in an instant.

When Fu Yangdian reunited that day, he almost scratched his head, reviewing "The Tired Immortal" from beginning to end, but he didn't think of such a character named "Qi Zhou".

At that time, he thought it was a bad memory... Only now did he realize that he hadn't forgotten, but that there was no such person at all!

"Where did you... come from?" Duan Qingni pressed her forehead, already confused, "Are you Yusu? Or something else?"

Qi Zhou: "I am Yusu, not Yusu."

Duan Qingni: "Please, speak humanly."

"Yu Su, like everyone else, has no memory of my existence."

Qi Zhou looked into his eyes and said slowly: "Ah Qing, I think you should understand. The world we live in is just a messy chess game... You and I are deeply involved in it, but we are just pawns manipulated by the mainstream , It’s just used to fill the vacancy at any time.”

Hearing this, Duan Qingni's expression changed again.

He asked hoarsely: "...how much do you know about these things?"

Qi Zhou leaned over slightly, and whispered in his ear: "I know more than you." Duan Qingni froze when she heard this, but heard Qi Zhou say: "But I... We can’t say it. Once we say it, we will all become ‘abandoned children’.”

Abandoned son.

Duan Qingni thought of the sentence 404 said to him at the very beginning - one wrong step, and you will die.

It seems that this is not fake.He doesn't have the aura of a protagonist, and he has come here by feeling all the way. If he does one wrong thing or says one wrong sentence in the future, he may end up dead without a whole body.

"Tell me, Qi Zhou. What should I do?" Duan Qingni forced herself to calm down, "I don't want to die here, and I don't want to be played chess for the rest of my life."

Qi Zhou moved his eyes down, looked at the fate axis in his hand, and sighed helplessly.

"I originally wanted to help you reach the 12th position on my own. But now that I have taken off the mask, it has already affected the main line, and I can no longer appear so frequently."

Duan Qingni looked at the mask, feeling suddenly indescribable.

I took my life to take off his vest, this thing is still wrong...

"Ah Qing, we have to change our plan. You can't kill Yu Su now. During this time, you must rely on him first..." Qi Zhou said, "When the time is right, I will have my own way to replace him."

"What do you rely on?" Duan Qingni thought she was deaf, "What do you want me to do?"

"I'm sorry, just bear with it. He's just a tool man without a heart, and he should be used reasonably." Qizhou said, as if suddenly remembering something, he grabbed his hand again, "But I said it before, don't be right. He has any feelings...that's just killing yourself."

"What do you mean by that?" Duan Qingni asked back, "What kind of affection can I have for that wood?"

"This sentence, give it to yourself in the past."

Qi Zhou glanced at him, then picked up the mask on the ground, and covered the eye-catching face again.Before Duan Qingni could understand the deep meaning of those words, Qi Zhou had already stood up, apparently ready to leave.

"Wait..." Duan Qingni stopped him and said, "Ask one last question."

Qi Zhou turned around and looked back intently.

"You... too, are you someone outside? Same as me?" Duan Qingni asked softly.

"No, I'm just a part of Yusu's consciousness." Qi Zhou looked a little lonely, "I'm just an idiot who lost his love... and started all over again."

Duan Qingni wanted to say something else, but Qi Zhou had already taken a step forward, his body drifted into a wisp of white smoke, and quickly dissipated into the air without a trace.

——At the same time, the surrounding static images began to move frame by frame, the repeated buzzing sound in my head just now disappeared, and the noisy voices of people and the sound of the wind from all sides re-infused into the body like a soul that had gone away and lost. A dull and heavy muffled sound.

Duan Qingni opened her eyes again, only to find that the courtyard where she practiced sword just now, the sweaty Liu Ruxing, the winking Mu Xuan... and the crowd watching, the entire scene of Fu Yang Hall had disappeared completely.

At this time, he was squatting in the small courtyard of Han Ting Hall.At the foot is an open wooden box, and slender silver needles scattered all over the ground; in front of him is Yusu who is bent over, his black eyes are pressed deep and heavy, and it is still the familiar face, but his every move is indistinct. Are not the same.

And Duan Qingni squatted aside, holding his big hand, fingertips were desperately moving forward, touching the soft callus inside the palm.

Then I heard Yu Su ask, "What's wrong?"

"……what!"

Duan Qingni bounced all over, cold sweat broke out instantly, almost staggered and fell backwards.

The ground was full of scattered silver needles, Yu Su immediately reached out to help, and Duan Qingni immediately threw himself into his arms, like catching the last piece of driftwood in a deep pool, tightly encircling Yu Su with both hands , the heart was beating like it was going to pop out of the chest.

It's actually...reverted.

Back to before he discovered the thin cocoon and asked Yusu if he knew about Qi Zhou.

"..."

Duan Qingni hugged Yusu's neck, feeling weak all over for a moment, draining her flesh and soul.

Yu Su moved with difficulty, being strangled so hard that he almost suffocated.He raised one hand, intending to push someone away, but just as he turned his head, he was shocked by the sudden scene in front of him.

Duan Qingni was motionless, her expression was in a trance, at that moment there were two lines of clear tears, which slowly rolled down from the corners of her eyes.

Yu Su: "..."

One drop, two drops, three drops.

Duan Qingni realized later that her eyes were wet, and she stretched out her hand to touch it, but her face was full of tears.

"Haha." He laughed and said, "Why are you crying?"

As he spoke, he rubbed the corners of his eyes, but he didn't want to rub more and more, and the flow would flow faster... At the end of the day, he realized that he had buried his face in Yusu's shoulder, trembling all over, and couldn't hold back a tear.

The author has something to say: there is another update during the day, so let’s stop here~

Duan Qingni shed tears, not because of sadness, nor because of fear

He is very stubborn, he doesn't want to be a pawn, and he doesn't want to be bound by fate, so at the moment of retracement, his whole body is very painful.

But you can rest assured that Yusu is not real wood, and my wife is crying, so why don't you rush to the duck! !

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