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As the day dawned, the people from the three great families and the Feiguang Palace finally withdrew.

They took away the map of the ruins of King Beixiao in Wu Kun's coffin, and handed over the gold and silver treasures to the soldiers to divide up at will.

The noise gradually faded away, and the surroundings returned to silence.

Jiang Baizhou and Long Ying came out from the dark place, and seeing Wu Kun's coffin lid was wide open, with his body lying in it, and he was still dying, they couldn't bear it.

The dead is the big one, and they decided to help him rebury him.If they hadn't broken in and triggered the earthquake to attract the group of people, Wu Kun's tomb would not have been destroyed.

But after thinking about it, the reason why Wu Kun carved the map in the coffin seemed to be that someone would come to open the coffin, and at the same time he hid the "secret" in the wall of the secret room, a place that ordinary people can't find, as if it was specially designed for "visitors from afar". "Preparation—he seems to have calculated everything, and it's all on purpose.

Before burying the soil, Jiang Baizhou took out the map obtained in the secret room, and carefully compared it with the one on the coffin cover, it turned out to be exactly the same, so the guess that "the real map is hidden in the secret room, and the fake map is used to deceive people who disrespect his body" is not valid. up.

Wu Kun just tried every means to send out the map.

After burying him, the sky has become golden.

The two picked up the tombstone that was broken into several pieces in the earthquake, and the handwriting was illegible, threw it aside, found a wooden board, and re-engraved his name.

Long Ying did all this with his own hands. Jiang Baizhou watched him from the sidelines. After watching for a moment, he suddenly said, "Xiaoying, we seem to have overlooked one thing."

"what's up?"

"Wu Kun's tomb is so neatly built, who buried him before?"

"..."

Long Ying was stunned for a moment, and Jiang Baizhou said, "It's impossible for him to get into the coffin by himself, even if he did, who will help him close the coffin and fill it with soil?"

Long Ying and Jiang Baizhou looked at each other, overwhelmed by questions.

However, after a night of rest, both of them felt tired.

Longying's tiredness is normal tiredness, while Jiang Baizhou's tiredness comes from the depletion of the power of the five elements - he is like a water bottle, the water in the bottle will be used up and less, so he has to go back to take a rest and store it back.

Overnight, Uptown is still under lockdown.

When they "invisibly" pass by, they can see from a distance that there is a long queue at the edge of the ladder, and there are quite a lot of people waiting to leave the city, including businessmen and relatives, all of whom are anxious and helpless.

Closing the city is the privilege of the aristocratic family. Even if born in the upper city, people are divided into different classes, and they are not free everywhere.

"You told me before that the upper city was built to avoid the black mist?" Jiang Baizhou suddenly said to Longying, "The black mist has begun to sink, and when the lower city is engulfed, even if the ladder is opened, these people will have nowhere to go. Wouldn't it be equivalent to closing the city forever?"

"Well, but I hope that day will never come." Long Ying took Jiang Baizhou's hand and walked with him under the sun rarely.He stared down at the shadows on the ground—the most obvious weakness of the "invisibility technique" was shadows, so they walked in alleys without being noticed.

The destination is Longying's home in Shangcheng District.

Jiang Baizhou suddenly sighed: "I understand why Wu Kun wanted to carve the word '天涯' on the stone tablet outside the garden gate."

"Huh? How do you say it?"

"The earth is eroded by black mist, and the upper city is an isolated island. The end of the city is the end of the world. The name 'Tianya' is perfect. Thinking so much shows that Wu Kun is also a lonely person."

"..."

Long Ying was stunned: "'Also'?"

The invisible water mist surrounding the body suddenly showed color, and the bubbles formed by the expansion of countless water droplets in the mist floated up, and the sun shone, colorful.

Jiang Baizhou approached and kissed him in the bright broken light: "Same as you."

His kisses were moist and sweet, and the comfort was full of love.

Long Ying was hit by the happiness that could almost kill people, and her love for Jiang Baizhou was already infinite, and at this moment, it suddenly increased a little bit, so much that this mere mortal body could hardly bear it.

Long Ying was stunned for a moment, then hugged Jiang Baizhou back.

The colorful mist was in front of his eyes, and he realized in a trance that love was a kind of pain, which made him paralyzed and trembling, and could not die.

After the kiss was over, Jiang Baizhou became even more tired.Although she knew it wasn't her fault, seeing his increasingly weak look, Long Ying had the illusion that she was a vixen who had sucked his energy.

"Brother, shall I carry you back?" Long Ying volunteered to hug Jiang Baizhou.

Jiang Baizhou shook his head: "Not yet, I'm just a little tired, and it's not that I can't walk."

"Can't you just pretend you can't walk?"

"Okay." Jiang Baizhou raised his arms with a smile. Since someone wanted to carry him home without hesitation, why did he refuse?

Long Ying immediately picked him up horizontally and walked steadily forward.

Jiang Baizhou brushed his long hair aside and leaned his face on Longying's shoulder. He wanted to tease him a few words, but when he was holding him tenderly, the sun made Jiang Baizhou feel so sleepy that he couldn't keep his eyes open.

In a trance, he seemed to have returned to the familiar coast. The warm white sun was shining on his face. He sat on the shore as usual, listening to the singing of seabirds as if he could understand it, and wished that he could be like them, with no entanglement in his heart. Unrestrained, forever free.

……

Jiang Baizhou fell asleep without knowing it.

When she woke up, she was still in Longying's arms.

And Long Ying was sitting by the bed, holding him in this slightly laborious posture.

"Why don't you let me go?" Jiang Baizhou looked up at the strange room furnishings, which was Long Ying's home in Shangcheng District.

"I don't want to wake you up. My brother slept so soundly, and he was talking in his sleep."

"Well, really?"

"Really, you said—" Long Ying deliberately paused, "I don't want to tell you."

Jiang Baizhou: "..."

"Happy as you want." He left Long Ying's arms, walked a few steps down the ground, stretched slightly, and turned around, "By the way, I suddenly remembered something."

"what?"

"I forgot to ask before. Six years ago, I taught you some superficial formations. Later, when I came back to see, you know more than I taught. Did you realize it by yourself?"

"That's right." Long Ying was ashamed to play with an ax in front of him.

But Jiang Baizhou said: "You are very talented, it would be a pity if you don't learn more."

"What do you mean, brother?"

"I'll teach you." Jiang Baizhou suddenly sat down at the table and waved to him, "Xiaoying, bring a pen and paper."

……

Almost at the same moment, Feiguang Hall.

Ji Yunchan was locked up again.

Her "cage" is as big as a palace, with carved beams and painted buildings with various delicacies from mountains and seas, but there is no "door".She is like a bird with broken wings, she can only lie on the window sill and look at the outside world in a daze.

"Ugh."

Ji Yunchan sighed, and suddenly heard footsteps behind her, the maid trotted in and whispered, "Miss, the Palace Master is here."

Ji Yunchan only rolled her eyelids: "What is my father doing here?"

The maid said: "I don't know."

"Tell him that I fell asleep." Ji Yunchan quickly left the window sill and was about to hide under the quilt, as if she had come back to life after a while.

But it was too late, she only moved two steps, and the door was opened, Ji Shixiong had been in a high position for too long, and he couldn't bear the coercion in front of his daughter, so he said displeasedly: "Why do you want to be so angry when you see your father?" Want to hide?"

Ji Yunchan leaned back on the window sill again, pretending to be lazy, hiding her trembling expression, turned her back to her father, and said slowly: "I want to go out to play."

Ji Shixiong snorted coldly: "You just came back and wanted to go out? Don't you know how chaotic it is outside? If you were not rescued by Long Ying this time, you would have been captured by traffickers!"

"..."

Ji Yunchan thought to herself: Isn't the trafficker selling the poor girl into your hands?

Since recovering her memory, she has remembered everything.

There were some things that she was ashamed to say in front of Jiang Baizhou, but she remembered them clearly.Her father is not only obsessed with Chengxian, but also obsessed with half armor dolls.Most of those puppets were made of young girls. She had seen a few of them, and when she heard their screams, she was frightened out of her wits.

Her father liked it himself, and he also took these girls to make money, and sold them to noble households in the upper city.

It is said that every girl who has her arms and legs cut off and made into a half-armored doll will cry to death, her eyes will be swollen from crying, her throat will be hoarse from crying—even her voice will be broken, so most of them are dumb and can't speak.Even if they can speak, their voices are very unpleasant. The "master" doesn't like them, and they are not allowed to speak. Just be a quiet and beautiful doll.

When Ji Yunchan found out about this for the first time, her eyes were swollen from crying.

But she can't even help herself, let alone help others?

Before being discovered by her father, she tried to save people.

It was in the secret pharmacy of Feiguang Temple that she met a girl about her age.The girl has become a half-armored doll, but the wound has not yet healed. She will not be taken out for sale until all the scabs on her body fall off and her skin returns to normal.

She was also very quiet. Ji Yunchan thought she was like everyone else and couldn't speak, so she told her self-consciously: "I'll let you go, run away after you go out, and don't get caught again."

At that time, Ji Yunchan was naive, not knowing that the world was dangerous and there was nowhere to escape.The girl didn't explain, just shook her head.

She was anxious: "The pharmacy is guarded every day, I managed to sneak in, if you don't leave this time, you won't have a chance next time!"

The girl still shook her head, and even spoke.

"I don't know where to go." She pointed to her body covered with metal and gemstones, "I'm ugly and can scare people."

"..."

Ji Yunchan was stunned for a moment, then cried "Wow".She found that this girl was not dumb, and her voice was very nice. Why?Because you haven't cried all night?Why doesn't she cry, isn't she afraid of pain?

——Is she not afraid of pain?

Later, this question always appeared in Ji Yunchan's nightmares.

Just as she was remembering, a hand as hard as iron stone suddenly pressed on her shoulder, Ji Yunchan turned her head in a daze, and met her father's eyes.

Ji Shixiong looked at her for a moment, then suddenly said, "Xiao Chan, I know you have remembered everything."

Ji Yunchan was startled, and retreated shyly.

Ji Shixiong patted her head, and said kindly: "No matter what, Daddy only has you as a daughter. You are the young master of Feiguang Palace. You must not act childishly. You should grow up and accept everything calmly, understand?" ?”

"..."

Ji Yunchan shook her head instinctively, but Ji Shixiong didn't allow her to refuse: "Listen to daddy, I have something for you to do, and if you do well, you will be free."