Song of Less Danger

At midnight, the outskirts of Qinggang City are completely silent.

With a clatter, Shaowei threw the sword and lay down on the grass.Topless and sweating profusely.

He practiced the sword for three days and three nights, and he didn't feel tired at all. He only felt that the more he used the sword technique Zheng Tingxue taught him to operate his internal energy, the clearer his brain would be, and the more relaxed his body would feel. The internal force finally found the correct position.

It also makes it more boring.

He didn't understand why his master led him on the wrong path, and why his elder brother sent people to chase and kill him. Many things that seemed to be taken for granted in the past can no longer convince himself to believe.

Shaowei sat up and sweated himself with the water in the river.These days, the grown-ups in the shop took turns picking on him for the slightest bit of impoliteness, and he gritted his teeth in pain when he moved his muscles and bones.

He wiped off the water casually, and as soon as he stood up, his ears were keenly aware of the subtle sounds in the distance.

The night is deep and dark, only the distant moon hides behind the dark clouds.There should be no one outside the city in the middle of the night, Shaowei frowned, and hid behind a tree sideways, followed the sound and looked towards the pier by the river.

A tall and thin figure walked onto the pier, holding something in his arms, covered by a black cloth.Shaowei was a little puzzled, the man was wrapped in a black robe, walked to the river, and boarded a small boat.The boat shook suddenly, and a hand slipped from the black cloth in the man's arms.

The dim moonlight fell on that hand, reflecting the snow-white skin and thin bones.

Across the distant and blurred distance, Shaowei's pupils shrank suddenly.

Zheng Tingxue asked Bailong and Suzaku to send Meng Ran for treatment, and then he and Shen Zhan returned to the porcelain shop first.

When he returned to Qinggang, he learned that Zheng Liaoge had been taken away.The news was brought back by Nie Shaowei, and Xuanwu and Huajing had tracked away overnight.

Zheng Tingxue was silent for a moment after listening to the narration.

"Meng Ran took him?"

"Yes. Meng Ran came to the bunk, and the young master took care of him. When we found out, the young master and Meng Ran had disappeared, and there was only a table of food left."

Zheng Tingxue looked at Shen Zhan.Shen Zhan said, "The one we saw is real."

"How do you know?"

Shen Zhan smiled, "Because what he said to you is true."

It turned out that when Shen Zhan was outside the door, he heard everything.

Another person handed a small letter left by Taozhu to Shen Zhan. Shen Zhan opened it and read it briefly, folded up his sleeves casually, still looked at Zheng Tingxue, and said with a smile, "What are you going to do next?"

Zheng Tingxue stood there quietly.He lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking about, his long eyelashes fell down, beautiful and cold.

He suddenly looked up at Shen Zhan, and said, "You are tired."

Shen Zhan and him looked at each other quietly, and smiled after a while.

"I'm tired." His voice was gentle, but it was full of erratic, like a taut filament hanging in the air, "I can't hide anything from you."

He casually put the black knife beside his hand, and leaned against the door with his body relaxed.Zheng Tingxue asked, "How long will your medicine last you?"

Others left quietly at some unknown time.The bright moon hung high, and the cold light fell on Shen Zhan's face, which was shockingly beautiful but pale.Hearing this question, he smiled with his eyes slightly bent.He raised his hand to hold Zheng Tingxue, brought her to him, put his arms around his waist and hugged him gently.

"Although I am terminally ill, I still want to live. I don't know what Xiaoxue will do?"

Shen Zhan tilted his head slightly, looked at Zheng Tingxue, "If Xiaoxue doesn't want to spend the rest of my life with me, I don't have much desire to live."

He hugged Zheng Tingxue into his arms.The two were very close, and their breaths were connected.Shen Zhan fondled Zheng Tingxue's forehead and closed his eyes.

"Tao Zhu was sent by Meng Ran to my side." Shen Zhan said in a low voice, "Their medicine has kept me alive until today, so that I can see you again."

Zheng Tingxue said, "You have a strong physique, if the Gu is planted on someone else, you may not be able to survive."

Shen Zhan laughed, his glass-like pupils looked at Zheng Tingxue gently, and the haze accumulated over the years had gradually dissipated.

"Xiaoxue, let's live a new life, okay?" Shen Zhan turned his head away and coughed a few times, then turned back as if nothing had happened, with a hoarse voice, "You wanted to exchange your heart for me 13 years ago, that time... Even if we all died once. From now on, I will find a way to live, you...cough, don't leave me again..."

Shen Zhan looked a little tired, he just tried to cheer up in front of Zheng Tingxue.Although the Gu in the body has been forcibly suppressed by the medicine for many years, it always tortured him in pain. This kind of dysmenorrhea has made him numb for many years.

Shen Zhan hugged Zheng Tingxue, bowed his head and kissed his lips.Zheng Tingxue's lips were soft and warm, and the instant touch made Shen Zhan's heart almost twitch and ache.He frowned in pain, but persistently kissed Zheng Tingxue.

Zheng Tingxue closed her eyes.The distant and familiar breath poured into his nose and nose, and the memory fragments wandering in his mind gradually pieced together every time he approached and touched Shen Zhan.

Shen Zhan is the most vivid and weirdest existence in his memory.He thought of the innocent and happy childhood they had known each other since they were young; he remembered that one year in the middle of winter, Shen Zhan took him to the street to watch the New Year's lantern, and kissed him in the pavilion by the river; He said he wanted to take him home; he almost killed all of Shen Zhan's relatives, and finally took Shen Zhan away, wanting to exchange his heart for him, so that he could live.

In the bloody memory, Zheng Tingxue couldn't sort out her relationship with Shen Zhan.Only the emotion that he didn't know caused him to habitually move away from the empty seat beside him, so that Shen Zhan could come closer and stay by his side.

It's like he's supposed to do it, and they're a natural fit.

Zheng Tingxue raised her hand and hugged Shen Zhan back.

Shen Zhan kissed aggressively, pinching Zheng Tingxue's chin so that he was panting, and his fair face was also slightly red.He bit Zheng Tingxue's tongue hard, stepped back, and looked at him.

"I don't have the strength to keep up with you, Xiaoxue." Shen Zhan stroked Zheng Tingxue's face, "You have only recovered [-]% of your martial arts, so don't fight it alone. Nie Yin must have made a recipe for Nie Tagu's poison. Something similar to Gu in my body. Let Nie Shaowei follow you, don't take it lightly."

Zheng Tingxue asked, "Where are you going?"

Shen Zhan smiled lightly and stroked Zheng Tingxue's face.

"I'm not going anywhere, I'll just wait here for your return." He said, "Xiaoxue, you have to come back to me as soon as possible."

Zheng Laoge woke up with a violent nausea. He felt his internal organs throbbing, but his limbs were numb.He subconsciously struggled to get up, and then fell from the couch to the ground.

Zheng Laoge woke up from the fall and found himself in a moving carriage.

People outside heard the movement, and the carriage stopped.Then the carriage door opened, and a man dressed as a farmer poked his head in to see, "You're awake."

The man has an ordinary face, but his eyes are inexplicably sinister.Zheng Liaoge had never seen this person before, and his heart was full of surprises, but he tried to pretend to be calm: "Who are you?"

The man smiled and didn't answer his question, but turned his body to the outside: "After driving for so long, it's time to rest. Come down and have something to eat."

The man naturally came to hug Zheng Liaoge, Zheng Liaoge was so startled that he wanted to escape, but he had no strength and was carried out of the car by the man.

He was drugged - Zheng Laoge quickly realized.The surroundings are very strange, and the mountains are still mountains.There is no shop in front of the village or behind, only a dilapidated small teahouse by the roadside.

Zheng Liaoge was carried into the teahouse. The teahouse was desolate and dark, apparently no one had visited for a long time.A person came in from the backyard, dressed in coarse cloth, with a sweat towel on his arm, and stood beside the man in an orderly manner.

The man said, "Get something to eat and drink."

The person should go down and leave.

Zheng Laoge was put on the bench, and he supported the table with limp hands. Seeing this scene, he was very puzzled.

The man sat at the side casually, seeing his expression, asked with a smile, "What are you looking at?"

Zheng Liaoge asked, "What did you do to Mr. Meng?"

The man shrugged and said lazily, "I am Mr. Meng."

Zheng Liaoge was stunned, then quickly realized, and said seriously: "You are not."

"Oh?"

"If you are really Mr. Meng, since I entered Zhongnan Mountain, you have too many opportunities to take me away, instead of waiting until now."

The man is smiling.Soon the food was served, and the man picked up the chopsticks. Seeing that Zheng Laoge was not moving, he said, "Eat it, there is no poison. The poison that should be poisoned has already been given to you."

He smiled, "Maybe this is your last meal."

Zheng Laoge's face was pale.The man picked up a piece of meat and fed it to his mouth, "Are your hands too soft to move? Come, let me feed you."

Zheng Laoge mustered all his strength, raised his hand and knocked the chopsticks off the man's hand.The man's hand paused in the air for a while, and took his bowl and chopsticks as usual for a while, "Forget it, it doesn't matter if you miss a meal."

Zheng Laoge restrained the fear in his heart, and tried to focus his energy on thinking about the cause and effect.He lost consciousness after having dinner with Mr. Meng. Was the meal drugged?

——No, it’s the bowl of medicine.Zheng Laoge reacted.Mr. Meng would offer to boil medicine for him. Thinking about it now, this behavior is somewhat abrupt. "Mr. Meng"...

Zheng Liaoge's voice was trembling, "What did you do to Mr. Meng?"

After eating, the man said with a smile, "Still worried about others? It's strange."

"What purpose do you have... um!"

Zheng Liaoge was caught off guard by the man who hugged him by the waist. He wanted to struggle, but he felt limp and weak. As time passed, even speaking became difficult.Zheng Liaoge's back was soaked in cold sweat, and he kept searching in his mind what kind of poison would cause people to paralyze their limbs first, then gradually lose their five senses, and finally die?

Who wants to kill him?What's the point of taking this sick young man who doesn't know a little bit of martial arts to the wilderness to kill him silently?

Zheng Laoge was carried back into the carriage, and the man even covered him with a thin blanket. This move made Zheng Laoge feel uncomfortable all over.The carriage continued to drive, and Zheng Laoge was lying on the couch. He was so dizzy that his hands and feet almost didn't look like his own. Other than that, he didn't have any pain or nausea that should be caused by poisoning.

This tranquility startled him.

night.

Zheng Laoge was awakened again.He didn't know whether it was exhaustion or the poison that made him fall asleep, and he woke up again at the sound of the man getting into the car.The man carried him out of the carriage, put him against a boulder, and then sat cross-legged next to him. Seeing Zheng Laoge watching him vigilantly, he smiled and pointed to the moon above his head.

"It's time."

The man said slowly, "I fed you a Gu. The Gu will stay in your body for three days and three nights, and your limbs will gradually fall into paralysis, and you will wake up from time to time, and then slowly lose your five senses. After three days, the Gu Start to grow, and after midnight, either you can withstand the poison of the Gu insect and become my puppet; or the Gu insect kills you, and you become an incorruptible corpse."

The moon is in the middle of the sky, and the cold silver light shines on the mountains.

Zheng Laoge felt cold all over and almost stayed where he was.The man showed a regretful expression, "But your body is too weak. Ruo'an, you must not be able to withstand the poison of the Gu insect."

Zheng Liaoge opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound for a long time. After a long time, he weakly squeezed out a sentence, "Why...you know...the name..."

The man looked at his face carefully, and then put his hands behind his ears.He groped for something, hooked his fingers, and slowly pulled it down.Zheng Laoge watched helplessly as he tore off his own face, the man's face turned out to be a human skin mask, and under that mask revealed a completely different face full of scars.

"Practicing inner skills has changed my appearance and voice. I think Ruo'an won't recognize me anymore." The man stroked Zheng Liaoge's drooping hair, his smile was so cold that it made people tremble.Then a ghost mask appeared in his hand, and the eerie ghost mask made Zheng Laoge think of the name in an instant: Alzhen.

"I'm Liu Zhen."