The Husky and His White Cat Shizun

Hearing someone calling him, Ye Wangxi turned around.Although she looks haggard, her spirit is not as bad as Mo Ran imagined.

Seeing Mo Ran, Ye Wangxi lowered his eyes and bowed to him, which is still a man's courtesy - she couldn't get rid of this habit, and said: "Mr. Mo."

Mo Ran looked at her, and then at Nangong Si beside her.

He couldn't help asking: "You...where did you come from? Why is your body covered in blood..."

Ye Wangxi said: "We set out from Linyi, and we encountered ghosts and evil spirits on the way. It is inevitable that we are disheveled, sorry."

Mo Ran was about to ask again, Xue Zhengyong said: "Is Ran'er coming? It's okay, let's all come in and say it."

Since Chu Wanning entered the room, he stopped looking at Mo Ran, but sat straight in his seat, straightened his clothes, and looked at Nangong Si.

Although he and Nangong Si do not have the name of master and apprentice, they also have the grace of enlightenment. He looked at Nangong Si for a moment, and his heart was inevitably sad, but he only said a simple sentence: "... are you all okay?"

This is the first time that someone has seen them since the Confucianism sect died and asked them if they are doing well.

Nangong Si's eyes were a little red in an instant, he suddenly lowered his head, squeezed his palms into fists, and closed his eyes for a long time before restraining the urge to cry in front of Chu Wanning, hoarsely said: "No, nothing, All passable."

Chu Wanning sighed softly, lowered his eyes, and said nothing more.

He didn't believe Nan Gongsi's words, Linyi is far away, how could the two young people not suffer from suffering.

Xue Zhengyi was very distressed, and helped to explain: "Yuheng, you didn't come just now, it's like this, Mr. Nangong and Miss Ye found some clues, and came here to tell us."

"I heard that it has something to do with Xu Shuanglin?"

"Ah."

Chu Wanning said: "Sit down and talk."

Mo Ran went to move the chairs, but Nangong Si and Ye Wangxi felt that they were dirty and smelly, and they didn't want to sit down.Chu Wanning didn't force them, paused for a while, and asked: "When Linyi left that day, where did you go?"

Nan Gongsi said: "Ye Wangxi and I were forced to take refuge in Weishan across the river due to the fire." After a pause, he continued, "The terrain of Weishan is remote and it is inconvenient to send messages. Ye Wangxi was injured again. So after the fire was extinguished, we rested for a while, and then returned...to the Confucianism School."

Now hearing Nangong Si mentioning this sect that he first entered the world of mortals and devoted himself to, it is already different.Chu Wanning couldn't tell what it was like. After a long while, he sighed: "There should be no grass growing there."

"The master is right. It is true that not a single blade of grass grows, but something crawled out of the ruins."

Chu Wanning raised his eyes and asked, "What?"

"These bugs."

Nangong Si opened a blood-stained sack in front of her, half opened, half covered, filled with buzzing bugs, green shells with black spots, three big, two small, a total of five spots, with scattered tails A faint smell of blood.Most of these bugs were still peacefully huddled in the bag, as if they were afraid of light, but a few had already flown out and landed on the walls and pillars of the Hall of Danxin, leaving bloodstains one after another where they crawled.

Mo Ran knows this kind of bug, Soul Eater.

This kind of worm only lives in the blood pool near Linyi Confucianism Gate. It is a kind of worm that cannot live or die. It lives by eating human flesh and souls.

Almost all the elders felt that this kind of bug was extremely disgusting. Lu Cun even covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, because he couldn't stand the smell.

"We found these soul-eating worms in the ruins." Nangong Si said, "I thought that the worms in the nearby blood pool were attracted, so I flew some here, but later I found out that it was not."

"How to say?"

"There are too many insects. Ye Wangxi and I walked through Rufengmen 72 City. In the cracks of the bricks, in the dirt, and in the ashes, there were such soul-eating insects densely packed. We felt that something was wrong. After careful inspection, we found that there were not only adult insects, but also adult insects. And larvae. . . The Grandmaster should understand what I mean."

Chu Wanning didn't understand Gu worms, and was a little hesitant at first, but after thinking about it, he figured it out.

The Blood Pond is next to Weishan Mountain, separated from Linyi by a big river. The wings of the soul-eating insects are weak. The adult insects smelled the breath of the dead and jumped over a few. This barely makes sense, but what about the larvae?

How could it be possible for the larva to grow its own legs and cross the river, cross the mountains and rivers, how could it be possible to come to the scorched earth of the Confucianism School by itself.

Chu Wanning frowned and said: "Someone put it here in advance?"

"Well, I think so."

Elder Tanlang listened to it, and suddenly realized: "This kind of soul-eating insect can store spiritual power. After the catastrophe, resentful spirits are everywhere. There are many monks in Linyi. The insects ate the souls of the monks, and they became different ones. The seeds of attribute spiritual power. With these tens of thousands of seeds, even if you don't need to use your own spells, you can also drive most formations."

So who would be the one who released the bugs?Who could have predicted the catastrophe in Linyi in advance?Who needs external spiritual power?

No one answered, but the answer speaks for itself.

Only the instigator, Xu Shuanglin, or should he be called his original name, Nangong Xu.

Xue Zhengyong said: "So during the period of going up and down the cultivation world, I have been looking for Xu Shuanglin by relying on the traces of spells, but it turned out that he didn't use his own power at all, but the bug's?"

Nangong Si said: "Well, it is true."

Xue Zhengyi pondered and said: "Well... detection spells have always been able to detect only people, and it is true that they cannot detect traces of beasts and monsters. If Xu Shuanglin uses this method, he can indeed hide his tracks for a long time."

He asked Greedy Wolf again: "Can you find Xu Shuanglin's whereabouts by tracking bugs?"

Greedy Wolf said: "Impossible, the soul-eating worms go down to the netherworld, and after eating the soul fragments, they all go underground, and there is no way to find out."

Hearing this, Xue Zhengyi suddenly thought of something, and said: "Since we are going to the Netherworld, why don't you ask the master of guilt? He should be able to know the ghost world."

Chu Wanning immediately said: "You don't have to ask him."

"why?"

"It's useless to find him." Chu Wanning said, "He doesn't want to interfere in the world of mortals, and he won't say anything."

Chu Wanning was once a personal disciple of Huai Gui. At this moment, he said this sentence so decisively. Although everyone was puzzled, it was hard to say anything more, and the hall fell into silence for a moment.

After a long while, Xue Zhengyong murmured: "Then what should we do? Since Xu Shuanglin can use the spiritual power of Gu worms to avoid being hunted, no matter how we investigate, it will be useless. Should we just let him go?"

Chu Wanning suggested: "Change the way of hunting, can you?"

"How to say?"

"My lord, when Xu Shuanglin left, he took three things with him, do you still remember which three things were?"

Xue Zhengyi counted them one by one: "Luo Fenghua's spiritual core, Nangong..." He glanced at Nangong Si, sighed in his heart, and lowered his voice, "The head of Nangong also has a martial arts."

Chu Wanning said: "Well, a person always has his purpose in doing things. When he is in a hurry to escape, he still insists on taking these three things away. He will never be idle and boring. Then according to the Lord's opinion, Xu Shuanglin, why did you take his brother away?"

"Hmm...revenge?"

"Then why did he take away Shenwu?"

Xue Zhengyi thought for a while: "Rely on five kinds of pure spiritual power to tear open the cracks in the ghost world."

"The crack in the ghost world is to get Luo Fenghua's spiritual core." Chu Wanning said, "There is no need for him to tear it open a second time."

"What's that for?"

Chu Wanning said: "I think there is a possibility that he is for the rebirth technique."

Xue Zhengyi was stunned for a moment: "But the rebirth technique...can be performed without five kinds of pure spiritual power. Hasn't the master of guilt used it before?"

Chu Wanning shook his head: "Huaizu once said that the methods of rebirth in the world are not exactly the same, so the Lord does not need to use what he used as a reference."

Greedy Wolf heard this, and sneered: "Elder Yuheng has nothing to prove, so how dare he speculate that Xu Shuanglin did this to practice the forbidden technique of rebirth?"

Chu Wanning said: "With the last thing he took away, Luo Fenghua's spiritual core."

In the hall, Chu Wanning's voice was steady and low, methodical.

"Many years ago, I interrogated a girl who died in vain in Caidie Town. When she was young, she met a lunatic covered in blood, who gave her oranges to eat, and said that her eyes looked like one of my own. Old man, that lunatic finally said a word - there is a man in Linyi, twenty hearts are dead."

At the age of 20, that was the age when Nangong Xu was framed and criticized by everyone and would never stand up again.

At the Lingshan Conference that year, he was high-spirited and proud. He felt that as long as he relied on his talents and worked hard all his life, he would be able to have fairness and justice, and have all the things he deserved.

But he tried his best, but all he got was a lifetime of infamy.

With a sharp knife in his hand and an ambition in his heart, he is no match for his elder brother who is full of tongue and flirtatiously flatters him.

He hates.

The hatred is so deep that there is nowhere to redress his grievances. Everyone is laughing at him, accusing him, and spurning him.

In the end, the living became the dead, and the dead became ghosts.

The fierce ghost climbed out of the blood-hate of the remnant mountain, and wanted to seek the justice he deserved from all the honest and gentlemen in the world.

"This lunatic is Xu Shuanglin, needless to say now, so who is the old man? Who does Luo Xianxian's eyes look like?"

"They look similar and both are surnamed Luo..." Xue Zhengyi said in amazement, "Could it be Luo Fenghua?"

Chu Wanning said: "I think it should be Luo Fenghua. At the bottom of Jincheng Lake, Xu Shuanglin tried Zhenlong chess game and rebirth. Zhenlong chess game is for manipulating others. Who is rebirth for? He only took away two bodies. The head of Nangong, Luo Fenghua, is definitely not for the head of Nangong."

Xue Zhengyi murmured: "But what did he do to revive Luo Fenghua? Isn't Luo Fenghua the one who framed him before?"

"People's hearts are unpredictable, so don't speak nonsense." Chu Wanning said, "But he took away Luo Fenghua's body, and I can't think of other uses other than resurrecting it."

Everyone was silent, thinking carefully, they all felt that Chu Wanning's analysis was really good, but it was still unfounded.In the final analysis, these are just their inferences. The answer to this question may only be answered by Xu Shuanglin, who is hiding somewhere at the moment.

After the meeting, Mo Ran thought for a long time, and that night, he went to the Nuan Pavilion to find Xue Zhengyi.

Xue Zhengyi was looking through the classics, looking through some content related to "Soul Eater", hoping to get some clues to trace Xu Shuanglin's whereabouts.

"uncle."

"Ran'er? It's so late, why don't you go to bed?"

"I can't sleep, I have something to ask my uncle."

Xue Zhengyi raised his chin, signaling him to sit down.Mo Ran didn't talk too much, and asked straight to the point: "Uncle, do you know, Luo Fenghua...that is, Xu Shuanglin's master, what kind of person is he?"

"Luo Fenghua." Xue Zhengyi frowned, thought hard for a long time, and shook his head, "I have very little contact with him, so I can't tell you the specifics. It's probably... upright, resolute, fair, reticent but with a real temper." Very good, he has courage in doing things, and he will not drag his feet. During the time when he was the head of the Confucianism Sect, he even sent his disciples to the world of cultivation to subdue demons and eliminate demons."

Mo Ran said: "So all in all, except for his attempt to usurp the head of the Nangong family, there is no criticism in other places, right?"

Xue Zhengyi sighed: "Yes, not only is he not criticized, he is a good person at all. I don't even understand how a person like him can curse his apprentice so severely."

The ink burned for a moment, and suddenly said: "Uncle, do you think that the description you just made of Luo Fenghua is a bit like a person?"

Xue Zhengyi was stunned for a moment: "You want to talk about Yuheng?...Come on, Yuheng has a bad temper."

"No, it's someone else."

"Who?"

Mo Ran said: "Ye Wangxi."

"Ah..." Xue Zhengyi slowly opened his tiger's eyes, chewed the three words silently between his lips and tongue, and then said slowly, "Ye Wangxi..."

This person is tolerant and resolute, tenacious and unyielding, and he is indeed very similar to the Luo Fenghua in memory who has only been the head of the sect for about a year.

"looks like?"

"...Like." Xue Zhengyi gradually became a little surprised, because Ye Wangxi and Luo Fenghua had different genders, ages, and status in the Confucian school, so he didn't put these two people in the same position at all. After comparing them together, at this moment when Mo Ran mentioned this, I realized that these two people were carved out of the same mold, exactly the same.

The more Xue Zhengyi thought about it, the more surprised he became, and the long-lost memories emerged one by one. He could even vaguely remember that when Luo Fenghua was just a Confucian scholar, the clothes he wore were very similar to the one Ye Wang used to wear.

There are also two people's speech and manners, the tone of speech.

Even the way the bow is drawn—

When he was young, he also saw Luo Fenghua holding a bow. That time it was to celebrate Nangong Liu's birthday. The Confucian School also invited the Xue family brothers. As soon as he got up, the arrowhead flew out through the air, piercing through the vast white catkins, and a Snow Demon Rabbit a hundred steps away fell to the ground.

People around were praising him for his excellent bow skills, Luo Fenghua just smiled softly, casually pulled the bow and arrow back, put it on his left arm, and rubbed the string with his fingertips subconsciously.

It was a set of flowing movements, free and easy, and the final ending was different from other people's majestic and grandiose movements.

Xue Zhengyi looked at it from the side, feeling amazed, and remembered it in his heart.

At this moment, I suddenly remembered that Ye Wangxi and Nangong Si used bows and arrows together during the Battle of Sky Crack. I always habitually hold the bow to the crook of my left arm, pull it back, and subconsciously rub the bowstring with my fingertips.

At that time, I couldn't help but take a second look, as if I felt that the gentle and smooth, unrestrained and composed posture was very much like someone.

He slapped his forehead suddenly and said, "Oh, really... really really really really! It's exactly the same!"

Mo Ran raised his eyebrows and said: "What is exactly the same?"

"The appearance of archery, Luo Fenghua is so similar to Ye Wangxi, exactly the same, exactly the same!"

Mo Ran looked at Xue Zhengyi's amazed appearance, and couldn't help laughing, but he said: "Uncle's words are wrong."

"Ah? What's wrong?"

The ink burned: "The cause and effect are wrong."

"cause and effect?"

"Well, it's not that Luo Fenghua is like Ye Wangxi." Mo Ran sighed, "It's Ye Wangxi, who looks like Luo Fenghua."

When he said this, the light in his eyes was very bright. He felt that he could finally be sure this time, and he must have guessed correctly: Xu Shuanglin's rebirth technique was to revive Luo Fenghua.

Although he doesn't know how many secrets are still hidden in the old affairs of the Confucianism School, but in two lifetimes, Xu Shuanglin could die for Ye Wangxi in the last life, and in this life, the Confucianism School can only live up to her. Why?

He didn't think that Xu Shuanglin just couldn't bear to do it simply because Ye Wangxi was his adopted daughter.

Xu Shuanglin, who looks very free and easy, said something like "There are men in Linyi, twenty hearts are dead", and he named his place "Sansheng Bieyuan", as if he wanted to forget the past in his mind The later virtues, even naming the adopted daughter, are all so naked.

forget the past.

Forget about the old self, the old person, the hatred and kindness in the past.

But Xu Shuanglin unknowingly cultivated Ye Wangxi into the reflection that he would never forget, and raised this abandoned orphan into another person.

This person who earnestly hoped that he would forget all the past may have lived in the mire of memories from beginning to end.

So far, Mo Ran has vaguely guessed in his heart, probably because he has also been crazy in the dark, and he feels that his prediction of Xu Shuanglin's behavior should be more accurate than others.However, it's not convenient for him to share these ideas with others, so he can only make estimates and wait and see what happens.

On the second day, Xue Zhengyi, who had searched through the classics to no avail, summoned the people again and said: "Poisonous insects and strange beasts are Gu Yueye's strengths. We found soul-eating insects at the former site of Confucianism, so it is better to inform Jiang Xi first."

Xuanji agreed: "The world's number one pharmacist, Hanlin Sage Hand, is under Jiang Xi's command. Let him find a way to investigate, there should be nothing wrong."

But Chu Wanning frowned and asked Ye Wangxi: "Miss Ye, since you were young, have you ever seen your adoptive father raise any poisonous insects and beasts?"

"Never."

"What about medicine and animal taming? Have you ever dabbled in it?"

"He... only raised one parrot. The others are not only strange beasts, but ordinary puppies. He has no intention of taking them in, and his medical skills are even weaker."

After listening to Chu Wanning, he said to Xue Zhengyi: "Don't tell Gu Yueye about the Soul Eater."

"Why?"

"Since Xu Shuanglin is not good at medicine or animal taming, it might not be him who feeds and drives the Gu worms, but probably the hand sticking out from the last crack."

"You suspect Gu Yueye..."

"Conclusions should not be made rashly." Chu Wanning said, "But it is always right to be cautious."

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Small theater "Who is the No. 2 boss?" "

Xu Shuanglin: Hello everyone, let me introduce myself. I am the No. 2 boss in your decisive battle. Next, I want to conduct a quiz with no prizes. May I ask who is the No. [-] boss and how to fight it?

Mo Ran: I bet the second boss is your master, he has such a good temper, I think I can defeat him with mouth ninjutsu.

Chu Wanning: I bet that the number two boss is 0.5. He has such a bad temper. I think he can be defeated by hitting him on the ground.

Xue Meng: I... I bet the second boss is... Jiang Xi?He values ​​money so much that I think stealing his bank card can defeat him.

Teacher Mei: Then I bet that the second boss is myself, alas, how can life be so difficult, even handing out a box lunch in the corner can't be peaceful qaq.

Mei Hanxue: Comrade, give me a break, I contracted your lunch trolley.