After the retired judge enters the escape game

Qi Wuguo sat by the bed the whole time, watching Duan Li's expression change.

The current Duan Li is not at all someone who has always had a turbulent expression on his face, and it is difficult to see his thoughts clearly.

Qi Wuguo could even read what the other person was thinking from the changes in his expression.

He raised his hand, but took it back.

Duan Li's five senses are very sharp, just now Qi Wuguo couldn't help but touch the other person, and he woke up.

For the current Duan Li, it is not good for him to doubt other things.

Duan Li got up, walked to the desk beside him, and began to study military affairs, just like every day before.

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Since that day, Qi Wuguo has been by Duan Li's side, watching him conquer the world, and watching him grow up step by step.

The so-called Duan Li, who is used to seeing life and death, has gradually become the taciturn Duan Li who Qi Wuguo is familiar with, and who does not show his emotions or anger.

Another battle ended, Qi Wuguo stood some distance away from the battlefield, watching the little soldiers below cleaning the battlefield.

Duan Li used his troops like a god, and won the battle.

Even so, casualties are still inevitable.

At this moment, Qi Wuguo usually stood at a place with a good view and looked at the battlefield below.

At this time, the battlefield was full of phantoms again, and the voices of pain or hatred that only Qi Wuguo could hear resounded through the sky.

With a flip of his palm, the Wuming Qin took shape in his hand.

This is what Qi Wuguo will do every time after the war is over.

A requiem to appease these wandering souls in pain, let them calm down, and wait for the arrival of ghosts.

The former self did this after every battle.

Qi Wuguo has never been able to recall the emotions in that memory, and it is not unusual for things that Tiandao has erased.It's just that during this period of time he experienced everything with Duan Li, even if he didn't think about it, he knew how he felt at that time.

On the other side, Duan Li suddenly stopped after giving some instructions to the lieutenant beside him.

He looked in a certain direction with a strange expression on his face.

The lieutenant general asked, "But what's wrong?"

Duan Li shook his head slightly and asked, "Did you hear that?"

The deputy general heard the words and listened carefully: "No, is there an ambush?"

Duan Li glanced at him, didn't continue talking, but waved his hand and said: "You go."

The lieutenant general led away, but Duan Li stood there all the time, looking in the direction of the hillside.In a trance, he seemed to see someone sitting under a tree playing the piano.

Duan Li couldn't see that person's face clearly, he closed his eyes, but he could trace a familiar face in his mind.

After every battle, he could hear this voice, the distant sound of the piano.

This piece is very special.

Duan Li knows his weakness, although he seems never to be moved by external things on the surface, nothing can affect his rock-solid heart.

On the battlefield, he will be affected by the soaring arrogance, and those killing intent and aura will always arouse the most bloodthirsty side in Duan Li's heart.

It's in his nature.

When Duan Li returned to Anbei Palace, after his uncle handed over his mother's relics to him, he found a written order in it.

When he was young, he didn't quite understand the meaning of it at the time. He just glanced at it briefly, and was taken away by his uncle who found that he was negligent and rushed over.

Later, Duan Li recalled that the meaning on the paper was that he was born with a very strong anger, but he had the appearance of breaking the army, and in the end he would become bloodthirsty and be destroyed by the way of heaven.

Every time he can hear this song, Duan Li can recover his clarity immediately, and the hostility that was colliding wantonly in his soul will be calmed down like this.

He didn't take the path above that life, and he didn't become bloodthirsty.

After the song ended, Duan Li opened his eyes and looked in that direction. Sure enough, the person under the tree had disappeared.

He smiled, mockingly: "Sir is obviously dead, you are not that weak child anymore."

Duan Li got on his horse, turned his horse's head and galloped away.

Qi Wuguo stood under the tree, looked at Duan Li's figure, but did not follow.

In a few days, the army will pass by here, and it will be the same for him to keep up.

Duan Li is not the second treasure who needs someone to take care of him all the time, so naturally Qi Wuguo will not stay by his side every step of the way.

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Another few months passed.

That night, Duan Li's army was stationed a hundred miles away from the capital.

The war is about to start.

The victory or defeat of this battle is almost a matter of deciding the army. The emperor is fatuous and the treacherous ministers are in power. The current defense of the capital is almost an empty shell.

Everyone thought that King Anbei was going for the supreme position. After all, no one in the world could withstand the temptation of the monstrous power.For King Anbei, that position was almost at his fingertips.

Qi Wuguo knew that Duan Li had no intention of proclaiming himself emperor, and his ambition was never above that court.

Duan Li knew that he was not suitable to be an emperor. He had already contacted the deposed prince who had been demoted to a commoner because of being murdered by a traitor.

The purpose of Duan Li leading the army to enter the capital is firstly to kill the courtiers, and secondly to force the emperor to abdicate the crown prince.

Before being deposed, the deposed prince had a high reputation and did many things that benefited the world.If it is beneficial to the people, it will violate the interests of some people in the court, and among them is the powerful right minister.

In the end, under the operation of the right minister who controls the government, the dragon robe was found in the prince's mansion.

The prince was abolished, and almost all the courtiers who stood by the prince had their homes ransacked.Everyone in the court thought that the imprisoned prince would end his life like this from now on.

Qi Wuguo naturally saw things from a different angle, he knew that the identity of the abandoned prince was the reincarnation of Emperor Ziwei.

Everything Duan Li is doing now is to clear the way for Emperor Ziwei.

Apart from the past that has become history, there are some things that Qi Wuguo finds more and more strange.When he just entered this small space in the ghost domain, he felt something.

Some things that happened in the small space of Huangquan are not purely Duan Li's memory, but Qi Wuguo's memory.

How could Duan Li know about these memories that even Qi Wuguo himself did not remember.

Guicha knows the soul very well, and Qi Wuguo is even more so. It can be said that no one in the world can understand the matter of the soul better than him.

It was Qi Wuguo who came up with the method for the underworld ghost messenger to seal up his memory.In addition, he also has a method that is for private use and has not been disclosed.

The memories of the ghost messengers will be like a big warehouse divided into categories, and they will be remembered when they encounter relevant people or things.

In private, Qi Wuguo also has a method of extracting memories and sharing them with others.

It's just that when he has no inspiration for research, he can look through his own memory and use it for painting later.He knew that this method was not suitable for too many people to know, so he never told others.

Judging from the situation in the small space of the ghost domain, his memories should have been shared with Duan Li at the beginning, and only then did those memories related to ghosts appear.

In this way, the construction principle of the entire ghost domain small space seems to be related to his memory sharing method. All the ghost domain small spaces are based on the re-creation of those BOSS memories.

It seems that I did teach Duan Li all these back then.

Qi Wuguo glanced at Duan Li's back in front of him, and sighed.

That's right, he is riding Duan Ruo's tailwind.

Anyway, he doesn't have any weight, so it won't cause too much burden to the warhorse. Qi Wuguo just ignores the ears of the warhorse in front, which wobble restlessly from time to time because of the keen sense of animals.

Seeing that the horse seemed a little uneasy, Duan Li raised his hand and stroked the mane of the black horse, and said, "Do you also feel the difference here? It wasn't like this before."

Qi Wuguo was originally in deep thought, but when he heard Duan Li's words, he came back to his senses.

Everything in front of me was a little strange, yet extremely familiar.

It turned out that the place Duan Li was going to was the village where they had lived together for several years.

Thinking about it, this village was originally near the capital, and the princess fled to this village with Er Bao back then.

Duan Li raised his hand and signaled the soldiers behind to stop: "You guys wait here, don't go ahead."

"But……"

The place isn't really safe, and one of the bodyguards tries to stop their commander's dangerous behavior.

Duan Li just looked back, and then heard the soldiers say in unison: "Yes, General."

Qi Wuguo was not worried about Duan Li. During this period, Pojun Xingjun could be said to be under the protection of heaven, and no one or ghost would take Duan Li's life.

As for after...

Qi Wuguo raised his head and glanced at the gray sky, silently gestured a finger in his heart.

Duan Li just rode his horse and walked slowly along the familiar path. When he was alone, he talked more than when he was in front of others.

He said: "These trees are no different from ten years ago."

Qi Wuguo said: "Ten years is not too long for these trees. For us, it is even more like a flick of a finger."

He knew that Duan Li couldn't hear his own voice, but he had gotten used to this way of getting along over the years.Even if Duan Li can't hear it now, after leaving this small space in the ghost domain, these fragments will exist in the other party's memory.

Duan Li walked forward, turned around the dense grass, and saw the tree he was looking for.

Qi Wuguo was a little curious, when Duan Li was the carefree second treasure, he liked playing in this woods the most.Of course, the children in the village like to play in it.

There are no dangerous beasts in the woods, so Qi Wuguo is not worried that Erbao will be injured.

Duan Li squatted down under the tree, pulled out a short knife from his boots, and started digging under the tree.

Under the tree was a tin box, Qi Wuguo looked familiar.

He paid for this tin box at the blacksmith in the village as Er Bao's fifth birthday present.

Of course, this was requested by Erbao. From Qi Wuguo's aesthetic point of view, he naturally felt that the box was extremely ugly, and Erbao liked it very much at that time.

But not long after, Qi Wuguo never saw the tin box again, and when he asked Erbao, Erbao refused to say where it went.

He thought it was a child who lost it, but he didn't expect it to be buried in this place.

Duan Li picked up the box, directly lifted the hem of his clothes and carefully wiped the box clean, looking extremely precious.

Qi Wuguo became a little curious, what was in the box that made Duan Li take it so seriously.

After a while, Duan Li finally wiped the box clean, and then opened it.

There is nothing special in the box, only a thousand paper cranes.

Duan Li took out the Thousand Paper Crane and opened it, and then saw the crooked handwriting of his young self.

There is only one sentence written on the paper: I hope to be a high-ranking official in the future, so that my husband can draw according to his own preferences every day.

This was a popular game among the children in the village back then, and I don't know where it came from.It always means that on your birthday, write your wish on paper and bury it under the tree, and it will come true.

Duan Li laughed softly, laughing at himself back then was really ridiculous.For the important people and important things, I actually think that I need to rely on the occasional mercy of God instead of myself.

He turned around and took out a cloth bag from the luggage hanging behind the horse.

Qi Wuguo somewhat guessed what was inside, it belonged to Erbao's past.

Duan Li opened the bag and poured all the contents into the tin box.

There are too many thousand paper cranes in the cloth bag, and the small tin box can't fit them at all.

Duan Li didn't care, he stood there looking at the pile of thousand paper cranes, he was stunned for a while, and then lit the pile of thousand paper cranes with a torch.

Duan Li didn't turn around until the last paper crane was burned to ashes and the last ray of fire went out, then he got on his horse and left.

Soon, one man, one horse and one ghost arrived outside the original village.

The peaceful and beautiful village is already in ruins and overgrown with weeds.Since the fire burned down the village, there has been no human habitation here.

Duan Li tied his horse to the entrance of the village and walked in on foot.

Qi Wuguo followed behind him, watching the once familiar place turn into scorched earth.He somewhat understood Duan Li's mood, for Duan Li, this represented his purest childhood.

When they walked to the place where the two lived, Qi Wuguo was stunned.

That courtyard is still standing in place, as if nothing happened.

But judging from everything that happened at the beginning, the yard should have been burned.

Duan Li walked over, raised his hand to caress the door for a moment, and said, "It's still different."

When Qi Wuguo heard it, he understood.

Duan Li ordered people to rebuild this courtyard.

It’s just that what was destroyed has already been destroyed, and no matter how much it is rebuilt, it’s not the original yard.

At this time, Qi Wuguo didn't understand what Duan Li came here for.

During these years of fighting in all directions, Duan Li has grown into an indestructible existence like a mountain.He shouldn't feel sad because of revisiting his old place, nor should he be shaken by it.

Why did Duan Ruo come to this place?

Duan Li pushed the door and walked in, then opened the cellar in the yard.

The cellar was well preserved, and even the fire did not destroy the contents of the cellar.

Qi Wuguo watched as Duan Li brought out a jar of wine from the cellar, which was the wine he tried to brew in his spare time.

When the wine was buried, Erbao was only five years old.At that time, Erbao was arguing for a drink, but Qi Wuguo dismissed the other party with the omnipotent saying "Wait until you grow up before drinking."

Qi Wuguo glanced at Duan Li, thinking that Duan Li was here to fulfill his original promise.

Duan Li put the wine on the stone table in the courtyard, but did not open the altar.

Qi Wuguo followed behind him, and said: "Open the altar and hear it, this wine must be delicious, but it's a pity that it's cheap, Erbao, you child."

Duan Li naturally wouldn't respond to Qi Wuguo, he went straight into the room and came out with a fishing rod.

Qi Wuguo was a little surprised at the restoration speed of the rebuilt yard, and even made the fishing rod he liked to use back then.

Duan Li went to the lake, caught a fish, and then returned to the yard and entered the kitchen.

All the condiments in the kitchen are fully equipped, and the inside is cleaned very cleanly. It seems that Duan Li has asked someone to take care of it regularly.

Duan Li started to light a fire, and then made a braised fish.

Qi Wuguo was a little surprised, he didn't expect Duan Li's cooking skills to be good.One must know that all these years, he followed Duan Li to fight the world, and he never saw Duan Li cooking.

As an army leader, he naturally wouldn't do these things.

Duan Li's proficient culinary skills can only be practiced in the Anbei Palace.Qi Wuguo sighed, and felt a little sour in his heart.

After getting everything ready, Duan Li sat down at the stone table.

On the stone table is a plate of fish, a jug of wine, two sets of bowls and chopsticks, and two wine glasses.

Qi Wuguo realized something and sat down directly opposite Duan Li.

Duan Li raised his hand, first filled the wine glass in front of Qi Wu Guo, then raised his glass and said, "Sir, I'm here to say goodbye to you."

Qi Wuguo raised his hand, but his hand passed through the cup.

Now he is a ghost messenger, he can't touch the things of the world, so he can only watch Duan Li raise his head and drink up the glass of wine.

After that, Duan Li didn't speak any more, just drank one cup after another.

He never touched the fish on the table.

The wine wasn't too strong, but it couldn't stand Duan Li's drinking method like drinking water.

Qi Wuguo could only watch helplessly as Duan Li raised his glass to the old friend who didn't know where he was in his heart, and then drank the throat-cutting wine alone.

After drinking a jar of wine, Duan Li's eyes were a little dazed, but he was still not drunk.He stood up silently, turned and walked out of the small courtyard.

Qi Wuguo did not follow, but stood in the yard, raised his hand and tapped in the air, until a black bird appeared in the air.

The black bird connects yin and yang, so it is naturally something that can touch the yang world.

People in the underground, who want to drink the wine and eat the food of the yang world, can only go through sacrifices.

It is impossible for Duan Li not to know, perhaps deep in his heart, he still subconsciously retains the last ray of hope.

The blackbird flew over the table, and the wine glass fell to the ground and shattered.

At the same time, the same cup appeared in Qi Wuguo's hand, he raised the cup in the direction Duan Li left, and then drank it in one gulp.

At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open again.

Duan Li pushed open the door with an anxious expression on his face.The moment he turned around to close the door just now, he seemed to see a familiar figure appearing in the yard, raising his wine glass towards the door.

However, the yard was still empty, no different from when he got up to leave.

Only the wine glass, which seemed to be blown over by the wind, fell to the ground and shattered.

"It seems that I'm still drunk."

Duan Li closed the door, turned and left.Behind him, there are thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains precarious. The somewhat naive and somewhat weak second treasure will only exist in this small courtyard.

When he got on his horse, he looked back again, and then turned around and left without hesitation.

After everything is settled, Duan Li decides to guard the frontier for the rest of his life and not to step into the customs again, in order to avoid suspicion and avoid disturbances.

This also means that tonight is his last farewell to this past.

The next day.

The army set off and advanced towards the capital.

Under the command of Duan Li, the army was in a state of invincibility, and the defense forces of the capital were vulnerable.

In the end, Qi Wuguo watched as Duan Li personally beheaded the right prime minister who was in trouble for the court, cleared the court, and forced the emperor to abandon the crown prince.

Then, Duan Li rejected all the rewards from the new emperor, and only wanted to stay in the frontier forever, and made an oath that King Anbei would never step into the pass again.

Of course, the emperor was suspicious.

When the birds are gone, the good bow is hidden; when the cunning rabbit dies, the lackey cooks.The word ruthless is always at the forefront of imperial power.

Even if Duan Li surrendered the throne, it was still impossible to avoid the suspicion of the new emperor.

His fate has already been determined.