Xingyun Liushui

"Zhanlian, Zhanlian! Is that you..."

Chu Xingyun squatted down and touched the face in front of him in disbelief. The facial features were familiar, but the skin on his body had been whitened by the sea water, and there was a smooth feeling similar to loach, and he was no longer human.Seeing his former friend being tortured like this, Chu Xingyun felt extremely uncomfortable, he held onto Zhan Lian's shoulder tightly:

"Tell me, who harmed you? The Xue family! This... What the hell is going on!"

Zhan Lian bowed his head and said nothing, he swung the snake's tail down, submerged it in the water so that no one could see it, after a while, he said:

"It's meaningless to say these things now, it doesn't matter whoever hurts me, I've become like this..."

"There will be a way, there is a way to heal! I heard that the secret place is very weird, there may be hope..."

After Zhan Lian listened, he shook his head and smiled: "Sometimes you are very smart, and sometimes you are very naive. Who told you that there might be hope in the secret realm?"

Chu Xingyun froze all of a sudden, Xie Liushui said that the secret realm is a collection of objects in the game, and there are many secrets buried in it. His blood worms are sick again and they hope to come here to save them, and Chu Yan’s palm eyes also hope to come here to save them, so Chu Xingyun took it for granted that Zhanlian's transformation into a snake could also be cured in the secret realm...

But he suddenly trembled, what if, what if Xiao Xie was lying to him?

In fact, no one can be saved in the secret realm, my sister's eyes can't be understood, Xiao Xie's illness can't be cured, and Zhanlian's human snake can't turn back, so what should I do?

He looked at his friend, Zhanlian may not have smiled for a long time, his whole face was stiff, the corners of his mouth were pulled up, his expression was distorted, it looked extremely scary, Zhanlian seemed to be aware of this problem, he pursed his lips, He stopped laughing, looked down at the black scale tail underwater, and said:

"Some things are irreversible once they happen. I can't be cured. I don't want to think about it anymore. Xingyun, can you do me a favor?"

"Okay...Okay! Tell me!"

Zhan Lian glanced at Wang Xuanshi on the shore: "Don't tell the young master about me."

"Then... the fake Zhanlian, let him do whatever he wants? Zhanlian! What happened back then?"

Zhan Lian didn't seem to want to say more to him, but said: "When Yan'e was sent away, I was ambushed, and it was my carelessness. I thought it was just an ordinary brothel, but I didn't expect..."

Halfway through his speech, he seemed to have lost all hope, but kept shaking his head: "It's useless to bring up these old things now. The fake Zhanlian is Xue Jia'an's nail in the Wang family. I can't turn the situation around by myself... But Wang Xuanshi, you know that the young master doesn't understand anything, and he is very innocent, so he shouldn't be implicated."

Chu Xingyun could hear what he meant, the Xue family might really intend to annex the Wang family: "Is the Xue family responsible for the change of the Wang family in the secret realm this time?"

"I don't know, but I don't think so." Zhan Lian said, "If it's Lord Xue, it doesn't make sense to do that. They already have a fake Zhan Lian. Many affairs of the Wang family are handled by that Zhan Lian, and he is The young master's personal bodyguard is equivalent to controlling Wang Xuanshi, completely controlling the Wang family, and he has gained a good wing. Now he cuts this wing and pushes it to the secret place..." Zhan Lian shook his head, "The gain outweighs the loss .”

"Then what do you do?" Chu Xingyun looked at Zhan Lian, "Aren't there any books on human snake transformation in the secret realm? It can't be transformed back? Even if it can't be transformed back, then when I leave the secret realm, I will dig a pool on the mountain... ..."

Zhanlian heard it amused, and there was a dull voice in his chest: "Are you raising fish?"

Chu Xingyun pinched his shoulder, he really wanted to help Zhan Lian, but he didn't know what to do... Zhan Lian became like this...

Zhan Lian pushed him away, and shook his head resolutely: "I know what I have become like this. I am already very grateful that you can trust me and listen to me. I was ready to fight with you at the beginning. The preparations for the frame, the fake show was flawless, and sometimes I felt... maybe that was the real show."

"The real can't be fake, the fake can't be real." Chu Xingyun comforted him, but he felt very strange in his heart. The owner of the Wang family has been immersed in the game for many years. Could it be that he doesn't know the disguise and voice change technique, and has no guard against his confidantes?And Wang Xuanshi, he and Zhan Lian grew up together, didn't they notice something was wrong?

"I know what you're thinking." Zhan Lian said, "That's not changing your appearance or changing your voice. These clever tricks can deceive you for a while, but it's impossible to keep your tricks in check all the time. It is impossible to behave exactly the same, even the memory is the same..."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean..." Zhan Lian stretched out his hand and pointed to himself: "I am Zhan Lian, but that person is also Zhan Lian."

Chu Xingyun was confused when he heard it: "There is only one Zhanlian in this world... what is called..."

"The name is just a code name." Zhan Lian interrupted him, "For Wang Xuanshi, Zhan Lian is a good bodyguard, for Wang Patriarch, Zhan Lian is a good subordinate, for you, Zhan Lian is a Good friend. Then, if there is such a person who has the same appearance, voice, and memory as Zhan Lian, and can play the role of guard, subordinate, and friend well, then he is a good friend to those around him. Zhanlian?"

Zhan Lian's voice was very cold, as if he had been iced, like the cold winter in the mountains, covered with white snow, and all traces of people disappeared. Chu Xingyun felt cold when he heard it, and he remembered that he was trapped in the fox-faced man-snake in the Elephant Trunk Cave. There are countless little Xies there... He faintly feels that this kind of logic is very wrong:

"Zhanlian, what did you find out!"

Zhan Lian floated in the water with a gloomy expression. He seemed exhausted. He sighed and said, "I can't tell. I was filled with hatred at first, and I kept trying to remind the Wang family and expose the fake. That Zhanlian is like my shadow, there is no difference between him and me, his behavior habits, attitude towards things, including memory, are all exactly the same as mine, this is not something that can be achieved simply by disguise."

"It's not the same, it's not the same." Chu Xingyun said firmly, "Wang Xuanshi was brought into this crack by you. I came in to save him, but he didn't follow."

Zhan Lian denied him: "He didn't want to come in not because he didn't want to save Wang Xuanshi, but because he saw me.

"There is only one existence recognized in the world. He knows that I will not hurt Wang Xuanshi, so there is no need for him to come in again. Instead, he can let you come in to kill me and rescue Wang Xuanshi. All he has to do is to return to Wang's house as soon as possible. Stabilize the position of existence and let everyone continue to firmly believe that he is the real Zhanlian."

"Why did he do this? For the Xue family?"

Zhan Lian: "I thought so at first, and wondered how the Xue family found such a loyal dead man. Later, I found out that he was very strange, he did things very safely, and many things were done for the benefit of the Wang family. It seemed that he was desperately trying to replace me. not for the Xue family, nor for the Wang family, but only for himself, for existence, and for living."

Chu Xingyun seems to understand: "Simply put, you suspect...that fake Zhanlian is a kind of...something that shouldn't exist. In short, it's...not a person?"

"I'm not sure. But he always wanted to replace me and become the real Zhan Lian. He thought I was dead and could sit back and relax, but he didn't expect me to become a snake. Now that I was seen by him, he would try to kill me again .

"To put it simply, he is living by imitating me, and... it seems to be living on the belief of the people around him. Once someone starts to question his authenticity, or someone threatens his existence, he will become... very uncomfortable. Normal, aggressive, and when it's normal, it's just like me."

Chu Xingyun felt like he was listening to the Arabian Nights, but when he saw Zhan Lian's appearance, it was hard to say that he didn't believe it. Zhan Lian could see it a little bit, and he said:

"I know what I'm telling you now, you may not believe me, it's okay, it's not that important whether you believe it or not, you can recognize me as the real Zhan Lian, it's already very powerful, it's really smart..."

"Where is it... I can't figure it out just by relying on you leading me out of Human Head Hollow. You scared me to death at that time..."

Chu Xingyun tried his best to relax himself, and talked to Zhan Lian in a normal conversation posture, hoping that he could forget his snake tail at least for a moment, be a normal person, and communicate with others easily.

"It's because... I found Yan'e."

Zhan Lian was startled, then raised his eyebrows again: "You won't really treat Yan'e..."

"No, she is my lost sister when I was young, Chu Yan. There are actually two people behind Yan'e, one is a real prostitute, and the other is a killer Chu Yan. When I found her, she lost her memory and was controlled by Xue's family drugs. Moreover, an eye grew out of the palm of the left hand."

Zhanlian fell silent for a while.

Chu Xingyun hesitated to speak, and finally opened his mouth to ask: "Zhan Lian, what happened...in the past? Which one caused you..."

Zhan Lian smiled bitterly: "Chu Xingyun, if you want to explore something, your mind will turn very fast, but if it is something you don't want to think about, you will deliberately become very stupid."

This time it was Chu Xingyun's turn to bow his head and remain silent, he understood what Zhanlian meant.Chu Yan was a killer at that time. Gu Xuetang said that he found Chu Yan from the Xue family. The Wang family is a businessman, so who harmed Zhanlian?

It's clear at a glance.

The brothel, business people, and the so-called Yan'e are all hunting Zhanlian, plotting against him, and ambush him.And Chu Yan was controlled by the Xue family's drugs, killing people like hemp and looking like a machine, so naturally she also participated in it...

The word "sorry" is stuck in the throat, and Chu Xingyun can't say it out. Turning a living person into this way, can it be revealed by saying a light and fluffy sorry?

Chu Xingyun looked up at the inhuman Zhanlian, and said, "Is there anything I can help you with? I was stupid for a while, but... I didn't expect..."

"Actually, it's okay to be stupid." Zhan Lian looked at Wang Xuanshi lying there, "Sometimes the truth is hard to accept."

Silence spread, Zhanlian thought for a while, and finally said:

"I can't last long, and I will soon become like those crazy people and snakes, and I will no longer have self-awareness. Please help me take care of Wang Xuanshi, he... is suitable to be a rich young master, don't stay here The bureau is messing around, and I don’t know if I will be rich or not in the future, as long as I can save my life, it will be fine.”

"Okay, I will keep him safe."

Zhan Lian nodded, and he looked at Chu Xingyun's left hand: "That Yan'e...your sister, grew palm eyes, your hand...I didn't know it at the time. I just wanted to drag you out of the cave of human heads, didn't you?" Thinking that if you touch a human snake, it will make your palm grow eyes, if you don't treat it in time..."

"Don't worry." Chu Xingyun showed his blank left palm, "I asked Gu's family for some golden body holy Gu, and it has been cured. But... my sister's palm eye has not been cured."

"I don't know where your sister got the palm eye. I can't remember the situation at that time. I always thought that Yan'e was just an ordinary woman, and I had no defense against her. I didn't expect that she would stand behind her at a critical moment. Hit me and I'm dizzy...

"When I woke up again, I was locked in a cage covered with black cloth. I don't know where they sent me. It felt like a cave. After a night, I was taken out again. After that Just...began to transform into a snake..."

Zhan Lian was in a trance, a little unable to remember, Chu Xingyun stretched out his hand and shook in front of his eyes: "Stop talking...it's okay, I can think of a way..."

"If it really can't be cured." Zhan Lian ignored him, and said to himself, "Actually, there is another way, to transfer the eyes of the palm."

"what?"

"Transfer. After I became... like this, I was driven around. The Xue family has something special to treat us, so we can only listen to them. There are several human head caves in the world, and I don't know when they were built. , there are stone murals in it, most of which are seven pieces carved on a circular waterway. A person with a heart in his hand fell to the ground, then rowed to the island, and pressed his palm on the body of the snake. The last one was blank, but There is another situation."

Chu Xingyun heard from Zhanlian that he saw another kind of mural in a cave of human heads, and it was not a cycle, but eight paintings lined up in a row. It was transferred to another person, and then this person went to the island, pressed his palm on the snake, and finally returned to nothing.

The painting on the mural is very abstract, only two people can be seen shaking hands as a sign of diversion, but Zhan Lian is not clear about how to actually operate it.

Thank you Chu Xingyun, he carried Wang Xuanshi on his back: "It's not safe in this crack, let's go, let's go out..."

But Zhanlian held him back: "I'll tell you this, can you...can you help me again."

Chu Xingyun squatted down and said seriously: "Just say it, as long as I can do it, I will do it."

Zhanlian looked up at him, and said seriously:

"Kill me."

Chu Xingyun stood up all of a sudden, he looked at Zhan Lian in amazement, and he was about to blurt out some words. He remembered that there was also a person who was looking for death in front of him. When he was a child, the red nails encountered misery and climbed into the well. Hold him, tell him to live, it is better to live than to die...

But these great truths rushed to the throat, choked up, and swallowed again.

He looked at Zhanlian's black-scaled snake tail, but couldn't say anything.

Some people really don't want to live anymore. No matter how good and beautiful the future is, he doesn't want to see it.

Chu Xingyun wanted to say something to comfort him, but Zhan Lian saw through his thoughts;

"Give me a little self-awareness, kill me now." Zhan Lian looked at the dark sea, "When I really become a monster... then it will be boring.

"Give me a little bit of human dignity."

Chu Xingyun was silent for a long time, and finally said:

"it is good."

Zhan Lian nodded: "Human snakes can't die, no matter what you do, they won't die, especially those human snakes outside, who have been cultivated by the Xue family to have poisonous fangs, and also get blood worms to regenerate diseases, immortality plus regeneration, it is extremely difficult to kill , can’t even be burned.”

Chu Xingyun: "What should I do then?"

"There is a medicine in the secret realm that can free people from snakes. It's called white soul scales. It can burn us to death, but I don't know where it is. If it's by the sea, I can get it by myself. If it's in the mountains, I need your help." .”

"Okay, I will help you, don't worry! Will you always follow us?"

Zhan Lian shook his head: "You are both Xue's family and Gu's family. There are so many people in the game. It is unlucky for me to follow you. I will go in through this crack, and we will meet in the center of the secret realm. I will be safe in the sea, Xiao Please, young master, thank you, goodbye."

"Hey! Zhanlian, wait...Zhan..."

Human Snake Zhanlian has long been ashamed, and he no longer listens to Chu Xingyun's call. After he explained everything, he got into the water, swung the snake's tail, and disappeared.

Chu Xingyun watched his friend leave, thinking of his wholehearted desire to die, his heart was suffering like a torment, and he couldn't open his mouth to tell. He put aside these thoughts, and the most urgent thing to do was to protect Wang Xuanshi first.

The soul-leading thread was floating in the water, he was frightened by Zhan Lian just now, and then he realized, where is Xie Liushui?

Why are you so silent?

He walked out of the cave along the soul thread, and saw Xie Liushui standing outside the cave, squatting beside the water.

Chu Xingyun was about to ask him, what are you doing, but Xiao Xie said first in his heart:

"I heard it all."

Xie Liushui stood up slowly: "Look at you...we reunited after a long absence, and I didn't go in to disturb you."

"I also know what you want to ask." Xie Liushui turned around and shook his head, "Zhanlian has become like that... I'm afraid there is no hope."

Chu Xingyun looked at him and wanted to ask him, can you be saved?You live in symbiosis with the blood worm Gu, and you are suffering from injuries and pains, can you still be saved?

Before the words were spoken, suddenly, there was a flame outside the crack:

"Is Chu Xiake here?"

Chu Xingyun looked back and saw Gu Yanting standing on the bow of the boat, thinking in his heart: How did these three young masters become so kind?

Xie Liushui smiled: "The kindness is not for you, but for the embroidered mountains and rivers paintings in your hands. That is the export. Half of the exports of the four jades are in the gluttonous jade of the Song family. The Gu and Song families have feuds. I want to count on you, and naturally I don’t want you to die.”

Gu Yanting let the boat berth at the gap, and did not go in. When Chu Xingyun and the others came out, they went back together by boat.

Chu Xingyun was thinking in his heart, when he met with that "Zhanlian", how to explain, Wang Xuanshi must be taken away, and the fake Wang Xuanshi... Chu Xingyun felt that his mind was confused and he had a headache.

Halfway through the boat, Chu Xingyun and Gu Yanting gradually felt that something was wrong. Why is there no one at the Wang family?

On the dark sea, there are only dilapidated and broken royal ships.

Chu Xingyun: "What's going on?"

"Stop the boat!" Gu Yanting ordered.Chu Xingyun carried Wang Xuanshi on his back, and jumped ashore with Xie Liushui.

The crowd of people and snakes went to nowhere, came and went in a hurry, and disappeared into the sea.The night returned to dead silence, and the huge ship floated on the sea like a dead float.

Chu Xingyun lightly mentioned, stepped on the hull:

"Is there anyone? Someone..."

He turned a corner and suddenly trembled all over...

Blood, blood all over the floor, many corpses, men, guards, sailors, all fell on the broken deck...

There were no marks of human snake bites on their bodies, but knife wounds, and they were killed by people.

Chu Xingyun had a very bad premonition in his heart. He walked up, and then up, and jumped onto the crooked mast like a swallow, overlooking the entire Wang family ship.

The boat was attacked by humans and snakes, and broke in half from the middle, floating on the water like a cut melon.

There are four corpses in each half, and there are eight corpses in total, located in the eight directions of Qian, Zhen, Kan, Gen, Kun, Xun, Li, and Dui.

gossip.

Chu Xingyun was shocked all over, he jumped down and opened the only remaining cabin...

Inside were six corpses, several of which had been chopped up in half.

Six lines.

The scene in front of him was too familiar, Chu Xingyun thought of the case of the Li family extermination in Linshui City, he didn't care about the crack of the ship's plank, and ran to all floors to check, when he ran to the general cargo hold, he saw two miserable corpses.

Wang Huai, the head of the Wang family, saw that his belly had been ripped open, his eyes were not closed, and his face was full of horror.

Mrs. Wang's head was pinched, and she was hit hard on the ship's plank. I don't know how many times she knocked, her entire skull was broken, and her brains flowed all over the floor...

And "Zhan Lian", standing among them, was covered in blood, and the tip of the silver knife was bright red.

"Zhan Lian" turned around and saw the menacing Chu Xingyun, the whole person panicked!

"It's not me...it's really not me!"

A burst of anger rushed to the heart, Chu Xingyun couldn't control it, and flew up, shaking the ten suns, the broken ship couldn't stand it, and made a terrible sound, as if it was about to sink...

"Zhanlian" was very strange, as if he had been stimulated by something, Chu Xingyun handed over his weapon regardless of the three sevens and 21s, because he saw the human snake Zhanlian, he had a feeling for this "Zhanlian" for no reason Hostility, pin him to the ground severely!

"It wasn't me, I really didn't do it, those people killed it, it wasn't me, I really wasn't... Do you trust me, Xingyun, I'm Zhanlian, I'm really Zhanlian..."

I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but Chu Xingyun feels that this Zhanlian in front of him looks more and more fake, and the whole facial expression has an inhuman strange feeling, he clasps his throat tightly, and his hands are getting stronger and stronger...

"Chu Xingyun, calm down!" Xie Liushui shouted, "Look at these corpses!"

Chu Xingyun took a breath and retracted his ultimate move. He took a closer look and found that the corpses around him were all injured on the right side of the body...

It shows that the murderer is holding a knife in his left hand.

And Zhan Lian held the knife in his right hand.

Chu Xingyun tied up "Zhanlian" and threw it on the ground, turned around and ran around the ship, refusing to let go of any corner...

Dead... Dead, all dead, the whole ship, except for Zhan Lian, no one survived.

"Well……"

Wang Xuanshi on his back gradually woke up, and Chu Xingyun immediately reached out to cover his eyes.

"...Brother Xingyun?"

Chu Xingyun didn't speak, raised his hand slightly, gave him a knife, and let him continue to sleep.

Eight trigrams, six lines, left hand holding a knife...

It is exactly the same as the tragedy of the Li family in March and the tragedy of the Mu family seven years ago.

In the dark, Chu Xingyun hugged Wang Xuanshi who knew nothing...

The Wang family is extinct.

The author has something to say: I'm sorry, I decided to change a plot point temporarily in this chapter, and the revision is slow, so the cuties have been waiting for a long time!Hug you, Meme Chirp!

Memory guidepost: The case of the Li family extermination in March, the seventh bloody mud corpse