Unspeakable and strange

Once the city gate was closed, the city of Yongzhou was pitch-black, like a towering tomb.

Inexplicably, Yan Ning broke out in a cold sweat.His bones trembled from the cold, as if there were ants gnawing at the joints of the bones as if they were stuck to the ice.

Qin Hongfeng led him a few miles away, the wind and rain gradually died down, and the cold moon was in the sky.

The slippery blades of grass swept across her calves, and Yan Ning stumbled, very unsteady.Qin Hongfeng stopped, touched his forehead, and then wiped off the mark left on his forehead with his sleeve.He bit his ring finger again and squeezed out the blood to feed him.

Yan Ning was in a trance, and didn't notice what Qin Hongfeng was doing. He subconsciously swallowed it, only to feel a bloody smell.

"The ring finger is the blood of the most yang, which can dissolve the ghost energy in your body."

Yan Ning closed his eyes and slowed down, the blood penetrated into the internal organs, turning into a burst of yang energy, which dispelled the chill all over his body.

He stopped and looked back, and suddenly the city of Yongzhou burst into flames, and the tongue of flames licked the sky, reflecting the night sky with a red light.

Seeing this scene, Qin Hongfeng's expression suddenly changed. "No, he found out."

As soon as the words were finished, an iron chain in mid-air was slammed towards him with a golden light, Qin Hongfeng rolled Yan Ning in his arms, the iron chain was drawn on his body, and there was a smell of burning flesh.Where the iron chain swept across, a large area of ​​vegetation was flattened. From time to time, a fleeing lonely ghost was swept by the iron chain, making a miserable cry, and instantly turned into a puff of green smoke.

Qin Hongfeng grunted in pain, and blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

The next time the iron chains came, he gritted his teeth and changed his posture, and sprinted for tens of miles before escaping from the affected area.As soon as he escaped, he was exhausted and fell to his knees in a rapeseed field.

The iron chain swept back and forth more than a dozen times before it stopped, as if a dazzling lightning illuminated the suburbs of the city and then disappeared.The wilderness was silent, and there was no breath of living things.

When the movement stopped, Yan Ning struggled out of his embrace, feeling that the person on her body was cold and motionless, looked up, and saw that his eyes were tightly closed, his face was pale, and his lips were bloodless.Touching his back, his tentacles were covered with sticky blood.

Yan Ning panicked, he grabbed Qin Hongfeng's shoulders and made him stand up straight, "What's wrong with you?"

He shook it twice, but Qin Hongfeng didn't respond, and his face showed a dead look under the bleak moonlight.

It was only then that Yanning remembered to check the injuries on Qin Hongfeng's back, it was bloody and messy.Clothes and flesh and blood were mixed together, wet and sticky, and it took a lot of care to separate the two, but there were no scabs at all, and two welts ran back and forth across the entire back, from the shoulder blades to the lower waist, crossing and overlapping.The wound was extremely deep, the bleeding could not be stopped, and the edges of the flesh were scorched black, showing signs of burning.Looking back at the journey just now, there are bloodstains all over the grass.

Due to the large area of ​​the wound, there was no way to bandage it, and I didn't know what magic weapon it was, which would cause such a serious injury.Yan Ning pressed his hand to Qin Hongfeng's face, there was no heat at all, his lips trembled, tears fell from his eyes and hit the ground.

"Don't cry." The voice was very soft.

Yan Ning raised her head again, and saw Qin Hongfeng's eyes open weakly, with a few golden rapeseed flowers sticking to his hair, glistening and shining.Qin Hongfeng tried his best to raise his hand and wiped his tears, "I thought you would be happy."

Yan Ning bit her lower lip, a tear still remained in her eye socket, "Why am I happy?"

Qin Hongfeng supported him, barely sat up, his voice was still very soft, like a gossamer, "Did Nangong Huaijin tell you?"

Yan Ning paused and nodded slowly.

Qin Hongfeng smiled wryly, "Don't you hate me? I deceived you so badly."

Yanning clenched her hands tightly.

He let Qin Hongfeng support him, helped him stand up, lowered his eyes, and deliberately avoided talking, "Let's find a place to heal your injuries first, your injuries are serious."

Qin Hongfeng leaned against him, and the two walked out of the rapeseed field little by little, towards the field path.

"Aren't you curious about what Nangong Huaijin said is true or false?" Qin Hongfeng asked suddenly.

Yan Ning still hung her head down, without any movement.

As Qin Hongfeng walked, he said intermittently, "In order to achieve success and enlightenment, I assisted the country of Di and helped them destroy the other five countries. I was there during the siege, and the idea of ​​surrendering to the city government was I went out, and Beidi's army marched unimpeded all the way, and it was also my help to pull out sixteen cities. I advocated Yin Xi's marriage, just to prevent Yin from annexing Xi, further expanding its power, and taking the opportunity to incite royal strife, which gave Di The country can take advantage of the opportunity."

Yan Ning's grip on his wrist became stronger and stronger, and her expression became more and more ugly.

Qin Hongfeng took a deep breath, did not give him time to digest and accept, and continued, "I left without saying goodbye on the day you succeeded to the throne because I finally deduced that the king of Beidi, Yu Wenli, is the man destined for heaven, and I can only assist him. It’s only natural. I didn’t tell you, because I didn’t plan to come back. Later, you let me go to Di country for peace talks, and I left because of the stalemate in the war. I had to go to the front to supervise the battle. From the beginning to the end , I didn’t tell you the truth, nor did I really do anything for you.”

"Actually, the State of Xi is too weak. You don't need to put so much thought into it, and you will kill yourself." Yanning stopped suddenly, and continued his words in a flat tone, "You don't need to do anything extra, just stay here."

Yan Ning turned her head, her eyebrows and eyes were like frost and snow. Behind him, the cold moonlight sprinkled on the boundless fields, silent and lonely, as if nothing could be grasped in the vast void. "Even if you start out just to hide somewhere, you don't need to come back later."

Qin Hongfeng sighed, "But you sent so many people out to find me, how can I not come back?"

Yan Ning's whole body stiffened for a while, and after a while, she gritted her teeth, her eyes were a little red, "I didn't want to hear it, why did you tell me these things?"

After Qin Hongfeng said so much, he couldn't stop panting, his face became weaker, and his lips turned pale, "I'm afraid that you will be even more sad if you think about it yourself. Why don't I say it frankly, if you feel angry or angry, you can directly attack me Take it easy, don't hold your breath."

Yan Ning looked at his half-dead appearance, not to mention venting his anger, even if he just let go, he couldn't do it, his heart was in a mess, his lips trembled, "You think you can lie to me again by saying these good things ?"

"Actually, I didn't intend to lie to you at the beginning. I saw you in Qingfeng Mountain, and I followed you down the mountain. Everything I said at that time was true. I really wanted to help you and please you. It's just the current events later. It is only through change that I know what the destiny is pointing to, Haoyang said, chaos in the world is a rare opportunity, since I have been cultivating hard for a hundred years, I am only short of the last bit of merit, so don’t miss it.”

Qin Hongfeng paused, "I'm really not willing to waste this opportunity, and I'm not willing to waste a hundred years of hard work. And I thought, what is the glory and wealth in the world? A hundred years in a hurry, in a flash, No matter how much gold, silver and jewels a mortal has, they cannot escape birth, old age, sickness and death. They are all belongings outside the body. If I can really attain the Tao, it is only a matter of lifting one or two people. Then you and I will have boundless time to kill, and Qionglin Wonderland is everywhere. Wouldn't it be more leisurely? I think, as long as you spend time, one day you will forget the unpleasantness of being a human being. I just want to hide it from you first. You will have some painful days, but it will take a long time It’s too insignificant compared to my happiness. I have a long time, five years if I can’t do it in one year, and ten years if I can’t do it in five years. I just didn’t expect that you didn’t give me any chance. When I entered the palace with soldiers and horses, you was buried in a sea of ​​flames..."

In the end, the pronunciation of the enunciation was no longer audible, Qin Hongfeng's throat vibrated, as if recalling the unbearable past, his expression was extremely sad, and he trembled uncontrollably against Yan Ning's body, "The first thing I did when I entered the city I was looking for you, but I was entangled by old officials like Nangong Huaijin. When I entered the palace, all I saw were slaughtered and suicide corpses. I was shocked and very disturbed, but I still held Luckily, I thought that God would not tease me like this. Until I saw the burnt palace and the countless withered and scorched corpses lying there..." At this point, he could no longer continue.His eyes were filled with the flames that soared into the sky that night, and his claws and claws dazzled in the darkness, like a ferocious monster, devouring the past and returning him a piece of coke, which has become his indelible demon day after day.

Yan Ning could feel some traces of wetness, soaking up his clothes, and when he realized what it was, the scalding temperature almost burned him.

In just a few words, Qin Hongfeng fell into the past, feeling great grief and grief, ups and downs, affecting the pulse of his heart. After he finished speaking slowly, he finally couldn't hold back and spit out blood. The blood was dripping red and dripping all over his clothes, dazzling .

Yan Ning was frightened, and raised her hand to wipe it in panic. Tears flowed down her cheeks, and she cried hoarsely, "Why is it so serious? Shouldn't you have gotten what you wanted? Since you have become a fairy, you won't be hurt. Won't you die too?"

"Actually, what you've been chasing so hard may not necessarily be what you really want." Qin Hongfeng grabbed his hand and said slowly, "I regret it in my heart, and I don't feel happy at all after getting the fairy. I just want to save you back , let’s live another life. When the time comes, I will pay you back what I owe you one by one. If you want the throne, I will give you the throne. If you want the country, I will give you the country. Violation? Even if it is unavoidable, you have to fight hard before you will have no regrets." He raised Yan Ning's hand between his eyebrows and pressed it tightly, "Look, don't I fight back now?"

"Life and death are my destiny, and I can reverse it. Don't be sad. You believe in me, and I will make it up to you." He said with difficulty, wishing he could show him his true heart.Tell him that I won't lie to him again, and what I said this time is true.

Yan Ning's vision was blurred because of tears, and his brain was hot. He listened to some of Qin Hongfeng's warm words, but he didn't. It was freezing cold.He retracted his hand, looked forward blankly, and bit his lips so hard that beads of blood came out.

He knew that he couldn't hate him, he didn't want Qin Hongfeng to die, and when he saw him injured, he wished he could replace him with his own body.But he can't say forgive, as if saying forgive betrays his memory, those people, and himself. Two emotions pull him, making him do nothing wrong.

Tears fell down like broken beads. He groped for the scar on Qin Hongfeng's back, pressed his sleeve to stop the bleeding, and finally said in a hoarse and dry voice, "I don't want you to die."

"This soul chain is the magic weapon of the ghost king. Few people in the three realms and six realms can withstand it. But don't worry, although I'm injured, I won't die right now." Qin Hongfeng replied softly.

After hearing what he said, Yan Ning calmed down a bit.He wiped his tears and asked in a low voice, "Then what should we do now?"

Qin Hongfeng leaned against him, closed his eyes, and finally smiled slowly, exhaling gently, "I know there is an inn not far from here, we can go to stay first, and make plans after dawn."

Yan Ning nodded, and helped him walk for a long time, all the way the wind blew the flowers, the moonlight followed them stop and go, and finally found this inn to stay.The three-story building is covered with red lanterns on each floor, like flower cups blooming in layers, and the wine flags flutter in the wind, shining a gentle and warm light in the cold night.

Yan Ning stepped forward to knock on the door, but no one answered the first two times, but he knocked tirelessly, and the sound became louder and louder. After waiting for a long time, someone answered the door cursing.

The man had just received a group of merchants, and just after taking a break, he was woken up as if desperately, his mind was still groggy, and he was suffocated.Pulling out the door latch, cursing dirtyly, while putting on clothes on his body, when he looked up, he saw a young man who was as delicate as a orchid and a jade tree supporting a wounded patient covered in blood. The contrast between the two was too strong, so beautiful It was so beautiful, and the one who was hurt was too terribly, and she lost sleepiness in an instant.

The innkeeper let them in.

Although the young man was good-looking, he seemed to be out of touch with the world. He seldom talked to outsiders, his words were harsh, and his face was as indifferent as ice sculptures.It was only after the injured person reminded me that I thanked the boss dully.

Holding the gold thrown into his hands, the boss was a little worried that the injured person would die here. It would be unlucky for someone to die soon after the inn opened.But when he thought of the cold look of the young man, he was too scared to knock on the door to ask again.I don't know what happened to these two people to get such serious injuries.He locked the door again, illuminated the road with a candlestick, and went back to the room while thinking.

As soon as he stepped through the door, his throat was locked by a silver thread. After someone pulled it, the flesh was cut and the bone was broken, and a human head fell to the ground with a grunt.

The copper candlestick fell to the ground, and just before it went out, it illuminated a slender figure in the darkness.The candlelight shot up, reflecting a fox with fiery fur lying on the man's shoulder and neck, with its fluffy tail hanging down his arm.

With just a beep, the flames were quickly extinguished, and the house returned to darkness.