Red dust kills beauty

The Hanged Man IV

The Hanged Man IV

14 years ago, East Second District, a small town on the edge of the Sahara Desert.

The woman is sitting on the wooden bed in the hotel. This is an important supply station for desert caravans and free mercenaries. Even if the outside world is full of wars, it will always be noisy and lively.The room they rented was facing the street. There was a gun battle downstairs yesterday. After a day and night of high temperature and fermentation, the unattended corpses have deteriorated. Cheap hotels can't stop the high temperature and stench.

But the woman didn't seem to smell this at all. After reviewing her email indifferently, she pressed "send" firmly.

The anonymous email adopts the method of "burning after reading". After zero reading, it will be destroyed together with the attachment. As for whether the other party will doubt whether it is true or not?

of course.Doesn't she know herself?In the past, I always procrastinated, Ning Hongchen was like this, and Ling was like this—they were always addicted to the warmth in front of them, like a miser, even if the fire was imminent, they still held on to the treasure and refused to let go, and then did something bad.

Zero will resist, doubt, be angry, and curse all gods or something, but in the end, he can only follow the path planned by her.Because he—they—had no choice.

Zhaoyao is stunted, this is probably the funniest joke heard by all forces in Yanbei.

But it's true, whether it's his overly late blooming personality, his sluggish pheromones, or his abilities that are far from developed, it can prove it.

The ability to be able to manifest the spirit—how could it be limited to the realization of a silly dog! ?Of course it's because of his congenital inadequacy!

Every psychic will communicate with the spiritual sea when he splits. This level can be overcome by zero, Fu Baixue and even the witch merchant can do it, but Ah Zhao can't.The spiritual sea has been calling for those with abilities because it needs their power and fusion.So if Zero doesn't give himself to it, it will eat A Zhao.

And Fu Baixue and Wu Shang, they can't get hurt, can't have emotional ups and downs, otherwise the sea of ​​spirits will wait for the opportunity to devour them.Over the years, they have both developed the ability to fight against the spiritual sea, but their methods run counter to each other. Fu Baixue turned himself into a Bodhisattva, while the witch merchant simply became a cold-hearted Shura.

The sea of ​​spirits, the sea of ​​spirits... The woman who had died twice finally realized that their greatest enemy was not the forces of Yanbei, nor the southerners who were dormant in the dark, nor Ivan who dared not show his face, but The spiritual sea that kills them.

'I must destroy this thing. '

The woman folded her hands into a tower against her chin, meditating quietly.

A soft sound from the door interrupted her train of thought. The woman turned her head and saw the boyish Fu Baixue standing at the door, signing to her in sign language.

"Fresh water has been bought."

Her brows softened like spring breeze and rain in an instant, and she changed from a female devil who calculated life and death to a gentle big sister in an instant.

"Are you ready, Xiaobai?" She twisted her fluffy single-strand braid, raised her eyebrows and smiled, "We're going."

14 years later, Ling Guo fell into incompetent rage just as the other party expected, especially when he waited eight days anxiously and discovered that Zhao Yao really began to show signs of differentiation.

With a cold face, he directly injected a shot of the most powerful inhibitor into the back of Zhaoyao's neck.

"Hold it!" he ordered.

Zhaoyao was aggrieved and at a loss. He held his neck that had been stabbed many times, and said angrily: "There will be side effects from so many injections!"

The witch merchant was watching the play with his hands in his hands, but when he saw that the two were about to quarrel, he slowly came over and said something fair: "You injected him with too many inhibitors, and it's not long before he is sixteen. Come early, let’s go early, you won’t die anyway.”

As a big Alpha who split in advance, Wu Shang didn't like to see Ling's careful care of Zhaoyao. If I had to make an analogy, it might be that Red Hood returned to Gotham and found that Batman not only didn't kill the clown , and raised him as a failure case to raise a third Robin.

So his tone is inevitably sour.

Zero irritatedly pressed his forehead: "What do you know?"

The witch merchant took a deep breath and told himself to endure.

In the past few months—especially in the past few days, Zero has set firecrackers everywhere like taking the wrong medicine, and even stepped on his minefield. suicide.

Zero didn't feel it at all.He thought he was covering it up very well, but he didn't know that everyone noticed what was wrong with him.

Zhaoyao once asked Wu Shang and Fu Baixue about the situation in private, but both adults said they had no clue.But the witch merchant really didn't know what was going on, and Fu Baixue thought about it, thinking of Ling's vague words.

"Zero—" in fear of death.Before he finished speaking, his eyes swept over the witch merchant.

Fu Baixue knew that this was a bomb more terrifying than Zero, plus a hopeless control freak and coward. If he said it, the witch merchants would dare to use this trick to lock up Zero tonight—if the Buddha is like Fu Baixue, I also have to say that the relationship between these two people is deformed and perverted.

So he temporarily changed his words, and only tactfully said: "He has a bad feeling recently, so the stress reaction is stronger."

Until a long time later, Fu Baixue regretted changing his words at this moment.He has made so many mistakes in his life, but this mistake probably ranks in the top three among all the heart-wrenching ones.

After retiring to the second line, Fu Baixue became more and more careless, drinking tea and playing the piano all day long, so happy. Recently, he was even thinking about quitting the Self-Defense Force completely. Where he used to be a writer.

A place without zero is not home.

It's just that he hasn't retired yet, so he still has to work - Fu Baixue casually opened the documents sent to him by the Self-Defense Forces, and now he only needs to deal with some important matters and the work that he specifically assigned.

For example, Ivan once again smuggled into District [-] and entered Yanbei.Exactly what Zero expected.

Fu Baixue rubbed his forehead with a headache, he didn't understand why this bearded man was so able to hide and provoke so much.So many times, but still haven't been caught.

Thinking of Ling's previous instructions, he was planning to contact the other party, but immediately remembered that the other party was probably worrying about Zhaoyao.

The night before yesterday, Zhaoyao's pheromones began to leak uncontrollably, and the glands at the back of her neck showed fully mature features.When all kinds of inhibitors are ineffective, Zhaoyao is ready to differentiate, but the pheromone of the gland keeps leaking, which is not a normal phenomenon.

The next day was yesterday, Zhaoyao's pheromones were still leaking out, and she started to have a fever, covering her ears and talking nonsense.Anyone with experience knows that this is his consciousness connecting with the spiritual sea, but even a witch merchant has never seen such a dangerous scene.

Today is the third day, Zhaoyao's high fever has not subsided, and Ling has been taking care of him in his clothes.I'm afraid I haven't closed my eyes for a long time.

Fu Baixue only hesitated for a moment, then dialed the number of the witch merchant instead.

Let Zero rest, Xiaoshang's fighting power is enough to deal with those people.

This is the second thing in one day, which makes him regret his life-long choice.

According to the information obtained by the Self-Defense Forces, Ivan and the others entered Shuilongpo and then disappeared.

As I said before, Shuilongpo is a stretch of rolling hills, and the places close to the city and the battlefield were transformed into shantytowns by refugees and soldiers, and later became slums, but in the shade and more places, no one has developed it. shrubbery.

Many years ago, several pairs of people and horses happened to discover the mother liquid of the spiritual sea, which is here.

No one knows where this evil thing came from. The "mother liquor" was first discovered when a United Nations scientific expedition team conducted a survey about 200 years ago.At that time, after discussions among various countries, they decided to block the sea area, and each country divided up the mother liquor and brought it back for research.

Later, after many experiments, people found that it could resonate with a small group of people, and it would leave a slough after resonating-the vicinity of the spiritual power will definitely produce new mother liquor.

This is also the reason why Ivan and the others clung to Yanbei—the mother liquor with such a high purity and such a large amount shows that Yanbei must have produced an extremely powerful person with spiritual power, and even a person who can reach a percentage of the spirit sea. Resonance, more even, more than one.

This top-secret information was blocked layer by layer. Both Fu Baixue and Ling came from grassroots backgrounds and had no contact background at all, so they knew nothing about these inside stories.The witch merchant has this possibility, but it is a pity that when he and the witch family are not dead, this door will always be closed like him.

Yiwan used this to seduce Qin Zhaojin, so that he could sneak into Yanbei again.

Zero has done some things in these years, for example, he filled the natural mother liquor pool in this cave, and filled up the cave entrance.If it had been three or four days earlier, Ivan was doomed to return without success, but now Zhaoyao is lying on the bed and resonating with the spiritual sea in the distance. At the bottom of the dry pool, the clear spring that has been accumulated through groundwater over the years has once again condensed. It became a light red viscous liquid.

But now everyone doesn't know.

Just as Fu Baixue picked up the phone, Wu Shang was sulking, Ling was taking care of Zhaoyao while waiting for Fu Baixue's news, Yiwan, who got rid of the watcher, was clinking glasses with Qin Zhaojin ahead of time—everything hadn't started yet.

Before receiving Fu Baixue's call, the witch merchant and Ling were conducting an undercurrent of exploration.

Today is the tenth day since I received the email, and Zero has been restless since he woke up.Now that he has no power and power, he can only be a thug, so he can only entrust this matter to Fu Baixue and wait for his news.

The witch merchant pushed the door open, and first glanced at Zhaoyao who was in a coma: "How is he?"

Zero didn't want to speak at all, just shook his head.The witch merchant was unaware of the real worry in his heart, he just thought that the other party was upset for Zhaoyao, and he patiently said a few words of relief despite being sad.It's just missing the point.

"I think I'm pretty good too." He laughed. "Does the disabled big A have no human rights?"

Not at all.Zero stared at the ignorant smiling face of the witch merchant, and suddenly had the idea of ​​telling everything.

What worries him is not Zhaoyao's problem at all—it's their life and his life, which is more important.

In the future, he firmly believes that the past cannot be changed, but he believes that everything can be changed.So the future self sent a postcard and then an email to tell him about it.

Now everything is going according to the prophecy. At this time, it doesn't matter whether Zhaoyao will divide in advance. What matters is the meaning behind this matter-this proves that the opponent has won.

Therefore, if he does not die, Zhao Yao will die.

Therefore, if he does not die, he will not be able to go back to the past, and will not be able to meet the witch merchant abused by his family and lead him away from the sea of ​​suffering.

Therefore, if he does not die, he will not be able to reach an agreement with Fu Baixue, nor will he be able to guide him in exchange. Fu Baixue may still be an autistic mute.

And in this troubled world, if the witch merchants hadn't escaped from the witch family, if Fu Baixue hadn't learned the skills to be close to him, would they have survived?

This is an unsolvable endless loop.Even if Zero has tyrannical power, no solution is no solution.

...It turns out that this is the "fate" that cannot be changed.

He had never thought everything so ridiculous.He almost laughed out loud.

Of course Zero can avoid this "killing round" and continue to survive, but should he just watch the other three die! ?

What kind of shit fate is this... Could it be that he—could it be that the only reason they were born in this world was to raise themselves up and fatten them up, and then feed them to the spiritual sea?

And the most fucking crazy thing is that his soul will be consumed after one more death, and he has no future!

The three of them will continue to move forward, meet him who is immature, push him into the abyss, bring him back to the past, and make him die in the memory-this is too funny and too cruel, when they understand all this, Zero didn't dare to think deeply about the reaction.

The witch merchant suddenly felt a little chilly, he touched the goose bumps on his arm, and looked at Ling suspiciously: "Are you scolding me in your heart?"

"Xiaoshang..." Zero hesitated to speak, "That..."

"what happened?"

He smiled and grabbed the man's fingertips, and gently pressed a kiss on it like a joke.

Probably due to the relationship between people becoming more and more mature, his hostility has subsided a lot, and he has begun to use some soft methods. It is rare to see him like the life harvester when he was young.Occasionally, when I lift my ears and hair and look over with a smile, I can even say "gentle".

Zero knows why he is like this.

The witch merchant is a chaotic person, he has no position of his own, and he has no preference for good and evil. He used to be cruel just because it was convenient to do so.Now he is willing to be softer because he has concerns-Zero likes "good guys".

Suddenly, Zero couldn't say anything.

If you tell him all the guesses, what will the witch merchants do?Will he cry?Will it crash?

Will do.He knew that it belonged to the Witch Chamber of Commerce.

Concealment is like blowing up a balloon in water. The balloon gets bigger and bigger, and sooner or later it will explode.But before the explosion, at any rate, there was still a vain dream to support it.And if he didn't blow up the balloon... how would he take the child who was about to drown and swim across the torrential river in front of him?

If the ending is doomed, then weave a net of lies and catch the witch merchants who are constantly falling into the abyss.

Because if there is no zero, Zhaoyao will still be the patron saint of Yanbei, Fu Baixue can still live his own life, only the witch merchant, he is worried that he will not be able to survive.

So the man swallowed those words, and shifted his gaze to Zhaoyao's sleeping face: "No, it's nothing."

"..." The witch merchant stared at him quietly, without saying a word.

Ling was flustered by the eyes of the witch merchant, and forced a smile: "What's wrong."

"...It's nothing." The witch merchant looked away and smiled strangely.

'He always does. 'The witch merchant thought lightly. 'Conceal me, beware of me, fear me, just like fearing that I will ruin his layout. '

'But yes, I'm a lunatic monster, and he's a saint who cuts flesh and feeds eagles. '

At this moment, the witch merchant's communicator rang, breaking the weird atmosphere in the room.

Zero was puzzled, but still heaved a sigh of relief.

The young man looked down at the phone, then smiled slightly: "I'll answer the phone."

The noise when he closed the door was a little loud, which woke Zhaoyao who was in a coma.

The young man let out an uncomfortable "huh", sat up covering his ears, and looked around: "... What time is it?"

Zero handed him a glass of warm water: "It's already the second day."

Zhaoyao has been suffering from a fever, coupled with the sea of ​​spirits that cannot be shaken off even in dreams, she is very sluggish at this time.He frowned and kept covering his ears, as if this would make him feel better.

Alpha's pheromones continued to leak and affected Zero, but he took the inhibitor in advance, and Zhaoyao didn't have that kind of meaning at the moment, so it was bearable.

But it's not a problem to continue emitting pheromones like this, Zhaoyao will die——when Ling was still called Ning Hongchen, there was a time when the pheromones leaked continuously, which made him suffer a lot.

"How are you?" he asked.

Zhao Yao pursed her lips: "It's okay, it's just a small burn."

If Zero hadn't seen the email in advance, it would be absolutely impossible to know what kind of pain the child was enduring.

--it's time.

zero thought.He has to choose between their three lives and his life.

many years