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It was 20 years ago, a huge fire that almost burned the whole town.

Everyone screamed and screamed on the way to escape, and even shed painful tears.

Among the chaotic black shadows and flames, there was a person bent over and kneeling on the ground, holding the baby in swaddling tightly with one hand, standing still in place, motionless.

——is a cold-looking young woman.

At that time, he was covered in blood, his clothes were torn, he didn't even wear shoes, and he walked barefoot on the scorched wreckage everywhere.One step after another, even though the soles of the feet were pierced by countless tiny fragments, dragging out a series of dense bloodstains.

In the end, she knelt down slowly and mechanically, dragged the crying baby in her arms, and slowly, little by little, placed its weak body, which had no ability to resist, into the bottom of the crumbling ruins that were about to collapse.

"Ah Chun..." She stretched out her hand to cover her reddish eyes, and said suddenly, "You...you must not hate me."

It is still the sea of ​​fire in my memory.

It is still the back of the woman running away.

Then the baby's face was drenched with tears and sweat, and was completely covered by a huge black shadow that fell from the sky.

That was the most unforgettable nightmare of Yin Zhu's entire childhood.In my impression, there was such a pair of cold and stiff big hands that almost spared no effort to hold his limbs and neck, breaking him into shackles and making him unable to breathe until the world in front of him turned into darkness and chaos.

He suddenly heard someone apologizing to him.It was a woman's voice, saying over and over again: "Ah Chung, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

After a while, his face suddenly changed, his voice was cold, and he said tremblingly: "If you died in the first place, maybe the result... is better than anything else."

Immediately afterwards, there was another vague male voice, Wen Wen slowly rang in the ears, not very clear, as if he was reluctantly saying: "Don't...cry, I will buy you...candied haws."

"Yin Chun...don't cry."

The fiery nightmare suddenly shattered—

Yin Chun shuddered suddenly, and then opened his eyes, but what he saw was no longer the burning sea of ​​fire just now, but the dark beams above his head.

He was breathing hard and his throat was dry.After sitting up straight, he realized that his hands and feet had been handcuffed and shackles, and he was in a low room that was completely enclosed by walls on all sides. There was nothing around him, only a bowl of clean water and half a face Palm-sized broken window.

...Where is this?

Yin Chun propped up his arms suspiciously, originally intending to go to the window to inquire carefully.Unexpectedly, there was a sharp tearing pain in his limbs, and he habitually wanted to stand firm, but he staggered again, and fell back to sit down without moving - at that moment, he suddenly felt pain all over his body. Terrible, like countless needles inserted into the bone seam, it is the kind of fine and sharp pain.

It wasn't until here that Yin Chun remembered that he ran into the owner of the summoning puppet bird on the Fuze Mountain earlier... that is, Xie Hengyan's adoptive father, Xie Cong.

At that time, Xie Cong completely controlled his consciousness, and even used some unknown technique to almost break all the veins in his body.

I can't remember what happened afterwards, I only vaguely remember that Xie Hengyan was at the side trying to stop him.However, Yinchun's consciousness was completely shattered at that time, and his eyes were almost in darkness—he had no memory of what the father and son surnamed Xie said afterwards, and when he woke up and opened his eyes again, he was already in a strange claustrophobic place. Inside the low room.

Yin Chun lowered his head and looked sideways, and found that the clothes he was wearing seemed to have been changed not long ago, the blood stains left by the previous serious injuries had also been cleaned up, and there was still a soft and thin quilt under his body.

He suspected that Xie Hengyan probably stayed here for a while during the period when he was unconscious just now.

What about him now?

——Suddenly there were some soft and weak human voices from behind the house.

Yin Chun held his breath, only to hear someone outside whisper: "The one inside, is he awake?"

Another person replied: "I haven't woken up, I'm probably still asleep at the moment."

"...Get him up."

"Yes."

Accompanied by a sharp and piercing sound, Yin Chun suddenly backed up a few steps, and someone forcefully opened a thin crack in the room, and there was a faint light, which pierced his eyes and made them swell.Immediately afterwards, two strange monsters called "humanoid" walked slowly from the outside. They were nearly nine feet long, with wooden heads, expressionless faces, and mechanical steps. Straightforwardly, he dragged fiercely towards the door.

"...you come out."

Before Yin Chun could make any reaction, he subconsciously wanted to struggle, but at that moment, there was a stabbing pain in his shoulders, arms and wrists, and he couldn't use any strength at all, so he asked the two wooden puppets to backhand , holding the neck and dragging them out of the threshold.

A sudden gust of bitter and salty sea breeze blows on the face outside the house, Yin Chong's eyelids are puffy, his stomach has a slight spasm, and he can't help but want to retch while walking.

However, when he was forced to leave the claustrophobic interior behind him, Fang felt that the ground under his feet was a wooden deck, which creaked when he stepped on it. At this time, he was on a narrow cargo ship sailing on the sea, surrounded by It is the fence, which is slightly old and damaged. Behind it is a neat row of tightly closed dark rooms. I don't know what is inside. It is deep and dark, and almost no lights are used for lighting.

Yin Chun looked back at the two numb-looking human puppets beside him, and vaguely understood in his heart—this time, he might have plunged into the puppet's nest, which is more or less ominous.

"You follow me." One of the puppets said, "Our master wants to see you."

Yin Chun didn't speak, but another puppet grabbed his shoulders first, forcing him to bend his waist and slowly walk down several steps until he stepped into the dimly lit closed cabin inside the cargo ship.

In the middle of the journey, Yin Chun didn't say a word, he didn't ask questions, and he didn't resist any more. The two puppets on the left and one right beside him also cherished words like gold, but the shackles and chains kept touching each other and making crisp sounds.

There was no sound on and off the entire cargo ship, and everything was indescribably weird.The three figures walked through the dark corridor together, and finally arrived at a wooden door with a thick gauze curtain at the end of the corridor. coming."

Yin Chun raised his eyes slightly, and after a while of silence, a thin and thin figure walked out slowly from behind the door, holding a candle lamp, wearing a green dress, black hair loose, and a complexion as pale as paper... It was Xie Hengyan who hadn't shown up just now!

Yin Chun was terrified for a moment, but Xie Hengyan acted as if he didn't know him, with an indifferent expression, he stretched out his hand and clasped Yin Chun's wrist, and said, "...Come in."

Yin Chun's face turned blue: "You..."

"Don't talk." Xie Hengyan directly pushed him into the door, "Don't ask anything, just go in."

Yin Chu: "..."

Not long after the two of them opened the long curtain inward, they suddenly heard a series of sharp sounds of cups and bowls shattering in their ears, and the boiling hot tea was spilled all over the floor, and poured onto the face of the person kneeling on the ground in front of them. Holding a few pieces of tea dregs, dripping to the neck collar along the way.

Xie Hengyan took the seal and took a few steps back, but saw Xie Cong not far away who had just changed into an ordinary attire. At that time, his face was full of anger, his eyebrows were raised upright, and he was staring coldly at a figure crouching at his feet, and then sternly He shouted, "What did I say when I rescued you from the Rong Mansion?"

"I said, the boats at the pier at the foot of the mountain are waiting for pick-up at any time. You come from Fengfeng Town and go directly to the boat to go out to sea. Then we will take you to a safe and uninhabited place!"

"Why...you must go to the town to make trouble, do you think your life is not long enough?"

Yin Chun's pupils narrowed slightly, and then he glanced sideways at the man kneeling on the ground beside him - he was obviously wearing a bright red wedding dress, but his face was pale, like a long-dead corpse, without any vitality of a living person.

...that was one of Li Haishuang's puppet husbands, Feng Xian.

Xie Hengyan also seemed a little surprised by this, but he didn't show it, he just stood there quietly, not interfering with Xie Cong's angry behavior.

After a long while, Feng Compensation slowly said, "It was Haishuang who said...she wanted revenge."

"What revenge did she avenge?"

"Her father is from Bi Yu Mansion..."

"I think she's out of her mind!" Xie Cong said impatiently, "Where is she now?"

"When the puppet bird came to report the letter, she and I ran in a different direction." Now, as a puppet, his consciousness is paralyzed, his thinking is confused, and his emotions are no longer as clear as when he was alive, "I don't know... I don't know Where is she?"

Xie Cong asked, "Didn't she get on the boat?"

"No, she's very likely... still in town." Up to this point, Feng Zang bent down in front of Xie Cong again, and knocked his head hard, "Master Xie, please go again...to save Hai Shuang, go and save her again."

Xie Cong suddenly changed his face, and his almond eyes that were already ferocious opened even more coldly and horribly: "The boat is already at sea, how can we save her? Before you were given the opportunity, you refused to take it, but now you know how to be afraid?"

Feng Zuo's expression was numb, but he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Master Xie, please save Haishuang...quickly save Haishuang."

"Get out!" Xie Cong raised his calf and kicked his chest again, making a heavy kick.The voice was so loud that Xie Hengyan, who was on the sidelines, could hear it clearly, so that the two puppets on standby outside the door immediately lifted the curtain, rushed to Xie Cong, and asked in surprise, "What's the matter, master?"

"Take this trash down, watch out, don't let him cause trouble on the boat." Xie Cong said coldly, "... a bunch of elm lumps, just cause trouble for me."

Just as Feng Compensation raised his head, before he could add a few words of prayer, he was lifted up by the collars of the two puppets. Accompanied by the strange sound of the wooden limbs colliding with each other, the three puppets twisted when they left. And the deformed back quickly disappeared at the end of the corridor and ceased to exist.

At that time, there were only three people in the house who were in an extremely awkward situation.

Xie Hengyan let go of Yin Chu's wrist, turned around and poured a cup of tea for Xie Cong again, and said, "...Dad."

Xie Cong didn't respond, but took the teacup with one hand, turned around, walked back, and walked all the way to Xie Hengyan.

Xie Hengyan lowered her head slightly, and quickly assumed a respectful and docile appearance.

Then Xie Cong raised his hand, and poured the added cup of tea directly from the top of Xie Hengyan's head, down the hair and the bridge of the nose.

— There was a gurgling sound of running water.

Even the light blue underclothes were drenched and cold.

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Let me give you a vaccination first, the next few chapters will be a little bit abused.

There is a reason why Lao Xie treats Xiao Xie like this, and it would be boring to talk too much~

After these few chapters, it gets sweeter later.

In addition, when it comes to Xie Hengyan's karma seal, its location should be specified in Chapter [-]~

It seems that it may be possible... to be guessed, but the guess is not so accurate...but I'll keep my mouth shut for the sake of mystery.