withered prosperity

When everything revealed its true appearance, even Yan Hai was taken aback.

He imagined many possibilities, but he didn't expect to see such a... child?

The little girl had a round face and big eyes, a little cinnabar between her brows, and a timid look. She looked only six or seven years old.

She quickly ran behind the rock and hid, staggering and almost falling.

"Brother, don't cut my hair." A whimpering sound came from behind the stone, mixed with an indistinct voice: "Without hair, Ah Ying will become ugly!"

Yun Ji looked at Yan Hai with some doubts.

"The powder of Gu Die has a hallucinogenic effect. If it is mixed with some other drugs and inhaled, it can create false illusions in front of people's eyes. The illusions in "The Secret of Thousand Lotuses" are basically supplemented by drugs. Show." Yan Hai looked at the stone and frowned slightly. "But no matter how ever-changing and lifelike, a fake is a fake, and there will always be some small flaws. Just now she was clearly cut off by you, but the hair on the back of her neck was not damaged. Isn't it strange? "

Thinking back at this moment, Yun Ji felt that it was indeed as Yan Hai said, that he had clearly cut off her neck just now, but the long hair that fell down was intact, and it was not broken off. With the head rolling around, this should be impossible, but the atmosphere was too weird at that time, and this detail was easily missed.

"Brother..." The little girl poked her head out from behind the stone, "I'm just kidding you, don't be angry with me!"

"What's your name?" Yan Hai asked her.

"Aying."

"Last name?"

Ah Ying shook her head.

"Aying, come here." Yan Hai waved to her.

She looked at Yun Ji and the sword in Yun Ji's hand, hesitated for a while, and then moved out from behind the stone slowly.

"Brother, I'm sorry." She was lying on the window, tiptoeing to reveal her eyes, looking very pitiful. "I just like you, just playing with you! Don't be angry!"

"Who told you to come here?" Yan Hai leaned comfortably in Yun Ji's arms, looking at this strange child thoughtfully.

"No one!" Ah Ying rolled her eyes in a circle: "I was playing outside, and I accidentally got lost and came here!"

Yan Hai suddenly turned cold.

"Lie, Yun Ji, cut off her hair."

Yun Ji shook his head, Ah Ying showed joy.

"It's too troublesome." Yun Ji asked him: "If I cut it off again now, will it be the real head?"

"Scared!" Ah Ying quickly covered her neck with her hands.

"If she's really a lost kid, it's definitely okay."

Ah Ying turned around and wanted to escape.

A sword qi flew past her cheek, cutting off a strand of her hair.

Ah Ying stood where she was, not daring to take a step, crying in fright.

But after crying for a long time, the tears almost dried up, and the two of them still looked at him leisurely, showing no sign of softening their hearts.

She was also very clever, seeing that it was useless to cry and pretend to be pitiful, she stopped sobbing.

"Brother." She called Yan Hai this time, and she could tell that among the two, Yun Ji was good-looking and good at martial arts, but he was hard-hearted. He didn't care about whether it was the child or not. It's easier to talk alone. "I know I'm wrong, I don't dare anymore, just let me go home, okay?"

"Where is your home, why don't we take you back?" Yan Hai raised his eyebrows, imitating her way of talking: "We will give you a certificate, saying that you got lost and came to our house, so that you will not be arrested. The family said that a child running around at night might save you from a beating! You don’t have to thank us, we had a good time.”

Ah Ying was stunned, not knowing how to answer the conversation for a while.

Yun Ji lowered her head, looking at Yan Hai's sly face, she couldn't help being a little lost in thought.

"No... no need..." Ah Ying pinched the corner of her clothes, and said in a condescending way: "I, my house...is far away."

"It's a lie if you don't let me go." Yan Hai's face darkened again: "You can leave if you want to, just keep your head."

How to leave the head, Ah Ying finally understood that today fell into the hands of these two people, and it seemed that there was no way to get better.

She turned her head and showed a very weird smile, then opened her mouth and made a strange sound from her throat.

Yun Ji grabbed the hilt of the sword, but Yan Hai pressed his hand first.

"Let her try." He whispered in Yun Ji's ear. "Leave two for me."

Before he finished speaking, suddenly, countless blue Gu butterflies flew from all directions, blocking the entire window tightly.

Yun Ji slapped it with a palm, and the open lattice window was slammed shut, shaking the Gu butterflies to death one after another.

Open the window again, but in the blink of an eye, the weird child outside the window has disappeared.

Yun Ji flew up and jumped out of the window.

He didn't chase people, but according to Yan Hai's request, he caught three or four Gu butterflies that were too late to fly away.

Those Gu butterflies fluttered in his palm, but were controlled by internal force within a certain range and could not escape.

"Put it away first." Yan Hai said to him, "I'm useful."

He didn't ask much, he found a hollowed-out wooden box from the side, put the butterfly in it, and handed it over.

Yan Hai took the wooden box and smiled at him.

The mirage was actually colorless, and it was pasted on hastily without any modification, and it failed to cover the scar on Yan Hai's face.When he smiled like this, the blue and black scars were also affected, half of his face was handsome like a fairy, and half of his face was like a ghost, and he looked particularly oozing.

After Yan Hai laughed, he immediately realized this, his expression was a little stagnant, and he hurriedly lowered his head pretending to be inadvertent.

But Yun Ji reached out and hooked his chin, half-forced him to raise his head, and took a closer look at the scar on his cheek.

"The bleeding has stopped." He asked, "What's going on here?"

"The child used illusion on the two of us." Yan Hai broke free from his fingers, and turned his head sideways: "Although it is not very clever, it is indeed the technique in Qianlian's secret."

"Yue Liuyi?" Yun Ji remembered what he said before that Yue Liuyi was very good at this.

"No, it shouldn't have anything to do with her. There are many types of illusion recorded in Qianlian Secret Meaning, and each of us prefers a different method." Yan Hai shook his head: "She hates these butterflies very much and never wants to use them. Gu Die's powder is used as a guide."

"You said Gu Die, didn't we just..."

"The hallucinogenic effect of Gu butterflies is very slight. Just inhaling some powder is not very useful. It depends on when we were exposed to the second drug. That is the real reason for us to fall into hallucinations."

"The blood butterflies I saw just now, and the strange fish in the lake? Are they all illusions?"

"Not all." Yan Hai took his hand and unfolded his sleeves: "At least, the blood butterfly is real."

There is a bright red mark on the sleeve, which is the mark left by Yun Ji strangling the blood butterfly in the lake before.

Yan Hai emphasized: "So what we saw and heard was true at that time."

So, that strange fish is also...

The two of them looked out the window together.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and the surface of the lake was calm and calm, and it was impossible to see what was hidden below...