Red dust kills beauty

43. The Red Line of Fate ④ (Take a look below)

"...Well, that's about it."

It was hard for Ruan Xian'an to believe the woman's explanation, because it was really unbelievable.He stared at the chains wrapped around the other party's soul—they were so faint, as if they had been diluted countless times by water, so faint that there was only a trace of illusory shadow.That's why he hadn't noticed it before.

If what the other party said was true, it would also explain why her soul would be wrapped with chains that should not exist, even if they were just a phantom.

"So what I have to do now is to "fix" their effectiveness and turn the oath into reality?"

"Well... Actually, this is the first time you and I met. Time has formed a loop between you and me, so your ability can anchor my future and past—in short, let's make a contract."

They called Xiaobai again and asked him to help with a "life-threatening event".Although Xiaobai is a mouthless boy, he is very gentle. When he heard that the woman seemed to be dying and he could help, he immediately nodded without hesitation.

In order to ensure the strength of the oath, several people also discussed.

The woman waved at the boy: "Xiaobai, do you still remember the verbal agreement we made when we met? I'm in charge of teaching you, and you're going to use your ability on me."

The tall and thin boy stood there quietly, like a silent poplar.He nodded when he heard the words, and signed to the woman: "I remember."

The woman rolled up her sideburns, she looked really unaccustomed to her appearance: "Now I have a little problem with my body, I need to turn this verbal promise into an effective 'promise' to anchor My soul. The content is still the same as before, is that okay? ①"

Xiaobai nodded and shook his head again, using sign language to indicate that the price of this violation is too high, and it is unreasonable for the other party to bear all of it.

"It's not unreasonable." The woman explained, "Your ability will form a mark on others. As long as you don't take the initiative to remove it, the mark will continue to exist, but even so, it is still a very long time to maintain it for 15 years." Time. Mr. Ruan's abilities need to be exchanged with each other at equal value, and my teaching to you is not enough to pay for this part of the price. Moreover, I now need a very strong oath to bind, so as not to become a broken form, the more effective it is The stronger I am, the more stable my condition will be.”

Ruan Xian'an didn't make a sound.In fact, the other party lied. His ability does not have so many harsh restrictions, and there is no condition that it must be exchanged at equal value to realize it.As long as the two parties agree, set the oath and the result, even if it's just a one-sided "if I lie, let me die suddenly on the spot" is also possible.

Otherwise, how could he have been offered rewards in private for his arrest as a tool to test the loyalty of his subordinates?

But he did not debunk, only discreetly kept silent.

On the other side, after the woman had finished explaining, she seemed to have suddenly realized something, and laughed suddenly: "...So that's the case."

Her eyes moved lightly, like a tear on her eyelashes.

Xiaobai didn't understand, and tilted his head to look at her suspiciously.At this time, he still had a pair of clean, pure eyes similar to Zhaoyao's.

"So that's it. So... that's it."

She repeated it twice, and suddenly embraced the boy who was half a head taller than her.

The young man was stunned.

The woman stood on her tiptoes, held his face in her hands, and confirmed with a frown: "Are you really going to do this? Maybe you will suffer, suffer, and face countless dilemmas..."

The teenager shook his head and gestured that he was okay.

After getting an affirmative answer, the woman became even more unhappy for some reason. She raised her voice slightly: "You don't even know what you're going to lose!"

Ruan watched this scene quietly. He didn't know what entanglements this young man would have with women in the future, but he was just a witness.

The boy froze for a moment, then showed a very shallow smile.

He gestured earnestly: "But don't you really need it? So I'm not afraid."

“…………”

A crimson thread connects the two.Ruan Xian'an noticed that the color of this one was much darker than the previous one, which shows that this method is really effective.

So far, this 15-year vow that spans life and death and space has finally been established.

Ruan Xian'an's narration was intermittent, and there were some things he couldn't say—if he said the limitation of this ability on himself, he probably couldn't disclose the specific content—some things he couldn't remember very clearly, so the more important the place was, the more fragmented it was, but this It's enough for me to infer a lot of truth.All that remains is to test Fu Baixue to prove it.

If this incident is true, then me and Fu Baixue - it's just too ridiculous.

Fuck, is there really a damned fate in this world!Is there really a big hand that controls everything! ?

Then I am resurrected from the dead again and again, Fu Baixue's struggle and endurance, the witch merchant's depravity and depravity, Zhaoyao's dedication and protection——

In the end...what is it?

"..." I took a deep breath, trying to suppress the irritability in my heart, there is still a business right now.I said to Ruan Xian'an: "If it can really ignore the past and the future and act stubbornly on me, then I would like to make a few more vows."

Ruan Xian'an chuckled: "It's a big breath, I have to set up several at once. Although there are indeed several marks on your soul, I still want to remind you that although it can stabilize your soul, it is a kind of scarring after all. Negative abilities will consume you."

"It's all trivial." I didn't care.

I also have some guesses in my heart about what will happen to me in the future, and it is nothing more than something to do with the spiritual sea.

There is no good thing in this world that you can get for nothing without paying a price, let alone such a thing as resurrection from death.The me in this life is much stronger than the me in the previous life, and the resonance with the spiritual sea is also much higher.This is probably like the setting in the game, the more blood the boss has, the stronger it is, and at the same time gain the ability to resurrect after death, but the blood bar is halved.I had guessed it before, but now it's just confirmed.

I took Ruan Xian'an and went to find Zhaoyao first.Zhao Zhao is a little fool, and now he still can't figure out what's going on with AO. I didn't hide it at all, and just passed by.

He has now entered Yu Jingchun's armed forces department, and already has a group of younger brothers of his own.I took a rough look, and many of them were familiar faces from the future.He is leading his younger brother to inspect the site. Qin Zhaojin is not in good health recently, and the older he gets, the more greedy he is for power. He has made the whole Yujingchun bloody, and it is difficult for Zhaoyao to come back to eat Hot meal.

Every time he came back to eat something in a hurry, before he could sit down and say a few words, he was called out by another call.

So Zhaoyao was very happy to see me suddenly today.He saw it when I was still across the street, and then he waved his hands excitedly, dropped his hands and trotted over to find me.

"Brother!" His voice was lively, like an enthusiastic dog.

I couldn't help laughing and patted his head.The future Zhaoyao is very tall, the tallest of the three of them, and is almost as tall as me now, but she is still very obedient. When she sees me wanting to touch her head, she will hang her head down, like a dog showing its its belly.

I casually introduced Ruan Xian'an to him, and after dismissing him as "friend", we chatted with him for a while, from snacks to travel, and how many people there were.Then I asked casually: "If one day we get separated, will you come to me?"

Zhaoyao said without hesitation: "Of course!"

I touched his fluffy head again: "Well. I will, even if it's "death". "

Zhaoyao poked me with her elbow and said angrily, "What are you talking about?"

I stuck out my tongue at him.

——The first oath is established.

After Zhaoyao was dealt with, Fu Baixue had a little difficulty.From Ruan Xian'an's hints, we can know that I made an oath with Fu Baixue before, and he is an insider, so it will be very difficult not to let this matter be discovered.

I thought hard for a long time, and finally thought of a way.

I went directly to Fu Baixue's house, stood at his door, and called him. Ruan Xian'an was right next to me.

"What?" Fu Baixue's voice sounded from the other end of the phone, "Why don't you come in? Forgot the key? I'll come and open the door for you."

After retiring from the second line of the Self-Defense Forces, he entered the state of retirement, and moved out of the house of the Self-Defense Forces. The place where he lives now is the small yard where I met him in Yujingchun later.

I heard his steps through the far door, and came to the gate, where he stood just across from me.

Ruan Xian'an nodded at me, meaning that his ability could be activated at this distance.

"Don't open the door." I said, "We know each other too well, I don't know what to say when I see you."

Fu Baixue on the other end of the phone paused, the voice came through the door panel and the receiver, and I had the illusion of being embraced by him: "Speak."

"Old Bai, do you know that you are a very important person to me, very important..." All the manuscripts that had been typed in advance ran away from home, and I couldn't face him as easily as I faced Zhaoyao.When I thought that I also got along with the young Fu Baixue, an inexplicable emotion fermented in my chest.

Probably guilt.

I don't understand at all why the future me gave up Fu Baixue when I was a boy, and chose to go to the witch merchant when I was a child.It's like I don't understand why Fu Baixue and I are so compatible now, but I missed it.

Fu Baixue seemed to smile: "Well, I know."

"No, you don't know." I retorted him.I could give him everything and do anything for him but myself.The emotion is hard to describe, and our relationship is definitely not as simple as "best friends" or "not enough lovers".

In the future, I seem to be Fu Baixue's teacher, but for me now, he is an indelible lighthouse on my long journey.

When I was most confused, ignorant, and overwhelmed, as long as I looked at him, I had a direction to move forward again.

I can give him anything - except what he wants most, because that already belongs to the witch merchant.

Fu Baixue can live well without me, he is the kind of person who is used to losing; but Wu Shang is like a child, if no one is watching, he will never be able to break free from the fear of losing.

Just like the dodder must cling to something to survive, without me, the witch merchant will die.

"Well, I don't know." Fu Baixue said in a nice voice as if coaxing an awkward child, "And then? What exactly do you want to say?"

I want to say too much.

In the end, I just choked out a sentence: "I had a nightmare yesterday. I dreamed that you were dead, and I couldn't find you. Don't die."

Fu Baixue laughed all of a sudden: "You suddenly came here and said such a thing, I thought you were going to break up with me because of Xiaoshang... I was so scared that I couldn't do it, so that's it?"

I raised the volume: "I'm serious, don't interrupt me!"

"Okay, you continue." He seemed to have relaxed a lot, his voice was less tense than it was at the beginning, and a long shadow was reflected through the crack of the door, standing in a very leisurely posture.

"I'm not in the mood now." I wiped my face, "Anyway, as long as you understand that if you lose it, even if you die, I will look for you. "

"..." There was a long silence.

Then I felt the door panel I was leaning on shake slightly, and there was a slight force behind me. Fu Baixue and I leaned back to back on both sides of the same door.

Without any embellishment of intense emotions, he said flatly and firmly: "Well. Me too."

——The second oath is established.

There is only one witch merchant left, so I am not in a hurry.He's tough when he's tough, and sometimes he's surprisingly easy to fool.

I took Ruan Xianan home directly, and then dragged him to him who skipped work and came back to fish, and then took out a piece of red thread from my pocket.

The Shaman is playing games on the big soft chair in the lounge, his long, thin and straight legs resting casually on the armrest of the sofa chair.He deliberately moved the chair to the window, so that the bright winter sun could fall on him unscrupulously, looking like a cat basking in the sun.

After my disagreement took away the game console, the witch merchant raised his head in doubt, his eyes flicked past Ruan Xian'an like a floating light, his long eyelashes drooped and lifted to cover up his thoughts, and he only dragged his voice coquettishly: "What are you doing, what are you talking about?" We're only halfway through the game—"

I knew at a glance that he had a bad idea just now, so I slapped him directly on the forehead: "No matter what was in your mind just now, you are not allowed to do it. Come and make a hand with me."

He tilted his head: "?"

I put the red thread in his palm, and said casually, "Didn't you always want a promise, I'll give it to you."

As I said that, I touched my nose and took out a ring from my trouser pocket a little embarrassedly.

"..." The witch merchant opened his eyes slightly. He looked at the red line blankly, then at me, and then at the ring. His expression was a little helpless. He probably understood what I meant, but he couldn't believe it.

"Tsk." I said harshly to him, "Come here soon."

"..."

The reaction of the witch merchant was beyond my expectation. Not only was he not surprised, but he subconsciously shrank back a bit, and directly threw the red thread onto the chair.Just now I was still lamenting that he had long hands and long legs, and he couldn’t fit in an extended sofa chair, but now I feel that he is pitifully small, only a pitiful ball huddled in the corner.

"...No." He murmured, "You can't do this to me."

I didn't understand what he was afraid of, so I raised my eyebrows and said back: "Of course I can."

His reaction was not at all what I was vaguely expecting in my heart. I was a little angry, and I didn't feel embarrassed at all.Thread the ring directly onto the red thread, then re-tuck one end of the red thread onto his finger, stretch out his finger, and said angrily, "Tie it on for me."

"..."

The witch merchant seemed to be completely stupid. He ordered and moved one by one, and tied the red thread on my finger dumbly. He hesitated for a moment while fastening it, but finally pinched my ring finger and carefully slapped it on the root of the finger. Knot.

... Isn't this a typical mouth and body integrity.

But his hands were shaking all the time, and the executioner who could completely create fish scale patterns on a person's back couldn't even tie a bow tie well.

I can't bear to mock him anymore, I doubt he will cry directly.

Holding the ring, the witch merchant smiled and cried: "Is it meaningful for you to do this? You called Mr. Ruan to make a contract, isn't it? I am willing to make any oath, so please...don't use such tricks Me. I can't take it."

Witch merchants are really smart.

He has always been very understanding and sober, and he was not deceived by my tricks at all, so he was not happy at all, so he said "don't do this to me".As soon as he saw Ruan Xian'an, he knew that everything I did had a purpose.

"I'm not playing tricks on you." I scratched my hair irritably, "I have to swear that it's true, and I'm serious about preparing this."

He seemed to have been hit by a pie from the sky, not only unhappy, but also dazed and scared.He didn't dare to look at me, and stared at the plain ring silently, probably trying to carve flowers on it with his eyes: "Stop talking...I will take it seriously."

That demeanor was so pitiful that it made one feel uneasy.

"That's true. I didn't lie to you."

I smiled, and then wrapped the other end of the red thread around his fingertips, and the ring on the red thread slid down along with the strength, and it was lightly put on his ring finger.

Squeezing his fingers, I promised him word by word.

"You're not afraid of me