【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

Yuan Zhongxin glanced coldly, watching the black and red figure walking unhurriedly in his direction, he suddenly pulled out the saber on Yuan Bofin's body, and swept it away with a soaring arrogance.

The black and red figure didn't dodge or dodge, and stopped slowly, looking at Yuan Zhongxin who was rushing towards him calmly. He had long expected that Yuan Zhongxin would draw his sword at him.

Yuan Zhongxin put the sword across the neck of the black and red figure, his cold and clear eyes were burning with anger, and he gritted his teeth: "Where is Wang Kuan?"

The black and red figure raised his hand and took off his hat hat. The pale-haired old man with a white beard that reached his neck opened a pair of eyes that were as light as ancient wells, facing Shang Yuan Zhongxin's murderous ink pupils without fear, The corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he said calmly: "He is going through the test."

Yuan Zhongxin's eyes gradually became bloodshot, and he wished he could kill the person in front of him immediately: "You fart! Give him back to me!"

The black and red figure shook his head helplessly: "I can't do this. What Wang Kuan has to suffer is his fate, and the fate of others. How can I stop it?"

Yuan Zhongxin's tyranny broke out in an instant. He was about to swing his sword when the black and red figure spoke again: "But don't worry, he will come back when the time is up."

Zhao Jiansheng was afraid that Yuan Zhongxin's impulsiveness would end up with this person, so he rushed up and asked, "How long did you say?"

The old man stroked his white beard leisurely: "This is uncertain, it may be an hour, it may be a day, or it may be ten days - how long it will take depends on Wang Kuan's choice."

Wei Yanei shouted in disbelief: "Then what if Wang Kuan never comes back?"

Xue Ying slapped Wei Yanei hard on the back of the head.

The old man shook his head casually: "I said, Wang Kuan will definitely come back."

Hearing that Wang Kuan would come back, everyone was relieved.

Zhao Jian frowned tightly: "It's not fair, if it takes Wang Kuan more than ten days or even longer, we have to wait so long?"

The old man answered irrelevantly: "You talk about fairness with fate, this matter is too outrageous."

Yuan Zhongxin's eyes were cold, and he believed the old man's words for the time being. In fact, he also had to believe: "What test are you talking about?"

Just as the old man was about to answer, he stopped and asked rather rascally: "Can you sit down and say it? This matter is a long story, I'm afraid it will take some time."

Yuan Zhongxin raised his eyebrows coolly, the sword in his hand never moved away, and his tone could not hide his warning: "Swords have no eyes, don't talk about sitting down then, you can sleep if you want."

Old man: "..."

All right, all right, he compromised, he surrendered, after staying in the dungeon for a long time, the boy with still dry breasts dared to bully him directly.

The old man sighed: "Before explaining the whole thing, I need to introduce myself. My name is Gu Ya."

Yuan Zhongxin's pupils suddenly dilated, unbelievable.

Xiaojing blinked puzzledly: "Why does this name seem to have been heard before?"

Zhao Jian racked his brains and suddenly exclaimed: "Gu Ya?!"

Wei Yanei's memory was not good, and he was even more confused: "Gu Ya? So what?"

Yuan Zhongxin frowned slightly, staring at Gu Ya with unclear meaning: "Are you the founder of Wumuzhai?"

Yuan Zhongxin's words made the rest of them suddenly understand, they stared at Gu Ya dumbfounded, too shocked to say a word.

Gu Ya replied with a smile: "Yes, I really want to thank you for the matter between Gu Shi and Gu Xi."

Wei Yanei was so excited that he could speak incoherently: "You you you you you you! You are a human or a ghost!"

Gu Ya's brows twitched slightly: "This old man is not talented, and his characters are excellent. The Palace of the Underworld doesn't want to accept me yet."

Yuan Zhongxin narrowed his eyes, and the blade in his hand shook slightly: "Don't be slick, talk about business."

Gu Ya cursed secretly in his heart, but kept his expression on the surface: "Wang Kuan was tested by the guardian of the mountain."

The owner of the dungeon was during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period. A small feudal prince of Beiguo was named as a lord by the word sequence and king by the word uncle. Judging from the current territory map of the Song Dynasty, Beiguoxu sits in the hinterland of the northeast. A small town.

Although wars continued in the Spring and Autumn Period, Beiguo was a rare paradise in that period. Because of the small population and small army, Beiguo's ten-year harvest was less than a year's money and food for a big vassal state. Due to the environment, Beiguo's materials are extremely scarce. For the ambitious and profit-seeking princes, Beiguo can't get in at all. Sending troops to attack will be a waste of time and effort.

Therefore, in the precarious era when duckweed had no roots, Beiguo has been stable and stable for many years. Although Beiguo lives in poverty, everyone lives in peace and happiness. Not many, one wife, one concubine, a son in the year of destiny, and a daughter five years later, but at that time, the daughter was still in the womb of his concubine Wu Shi, and had not yet been born.

Guo Xu originally thought that people have infinite years, he only lived for a few decades, and the rest of the days would be like this, happy and peaceful.

However, once the catastrophe of doom is fixed, there is no way to avoid it.

The northern Guo State is safe and peaceful, and has nothing to do with the world. The other vassal states are in the same situation. Under the greed of profit, the mercenary plan was proposed for the first time, but because of the lack of feasibility, no one dared to take this risk. The target of public criticism.

Several princes teamed up to threaten Guoxu with the lives of everyone in the country, but Guoxu was sad but unable to do so. The Beiguo army was extremely weak and had no ability to resist. In their eyes, destroying a Beiguo was easy for them, just like Run over the ants that have been lying on the ground.

In desperation, Guo Xu became the first mercenary.

After becoming a mercenary, no one knew what Guo Xu had experienced. One year later, his face was completely disfigured and he fled back to Beiguo with many scars. Only then did he realize that Beiguo was destroyed. Chenghe, but he had nothing, no identity, no life, no family, he lost all hope, after several wanderings, his former friend who has become a counselor in another country told him that his only cronies fled to the northwest with his parents, wife, concubine and children , settled in a small town outside the Northwest Great Wall.

He had been deprived of his identity long ago, and his name was not found in the Beiguo classics. He told others that he was once a prince of a country, but he was ridiculed and ridiculed.

Guo Xu looked for his wife, children and parents with great hope, longing to recognize his family, but they didn’t recognize Guo Xu at all—the reason why, Guo Xu didn’t say, and the mountain guards who stuck to the dungeon in the past dynasties couldn’t get it either. Know.

Guo Xu was desperate. It was his family that supported him to survive, but his family didn't want him anymore, and the only pillar suddenly collapsed.

It took God a year to take away everything from him, and only one night to take away his last sanity. The former gentle and warm Guoxu became paranoid and distorted.

Guo Xu's stubbornness had reached the point of madness. He built seven wooden coffins, knocked out six of his wives, children, and parents, and forced them into them. Then he worked with his cronies to transport them to a cave in the ground.

The six of them kept the coffin of their family members by his side day and night, bringing him back to life, but at this time, Guo Xu had become insane, and not long after, the six slowly woke up, desperately finding that they were trapped In the coffin, no matter how much they begged and howled, Guo Xu turned a deaf ear to him. He was busy building a home that belonged only to him, and devoted himself crazily to the construction. He rarely rested, forgot to eat and sleep, and sank endlessly into his own world.

To Guo Xu's ears, those shrill screams were the chatter and laughter when the seven of them got together, and the desperate pleadings were the laughter and scolding of their family urging him to finish the work as soon as possible.

To him, it seemed that only a few hours had passed, but he didn't know that two years had passed, and when he lifted the lid of the coffin with great joy, his parents, wife and children had already become cold and stiff corpses.

Guo Xu, who had already gone mad, thought that they were tired and fell asleep. He neither cried nor made trouble, was neither sad nor happy, and after carving his best fantasy on the stone wall, he laid down leisurely in his own coffin. Let your cronies stare at the coffin lid to death.

The last sentence Guo Xu said: "Be quiet, don't disturb them."

His confidant witnessed the tragedy of Guoxu's family, and he was already disheartened, and lost all thoughts of the outside world. In desperation, he became the first generation of mountain guards, and he guarded the secrets here until his death.

Subsequently, the responsibility of guarding the mountain has been passed down from generation to generation.

The dungeon was originally just a small coffin cave, but it was developed into the Lianyun Tiangong, which is full of traps and full of thrills, after generations of mountain guards have been digging in their spare time.

The bone pit under the chain bridge is the bones of animal corpses that Gu Ya collected from not far outside the dungeon when he was talking about everything.

After hearing the real story of the dungeon, everyone fell into a heavy depression. Unbelievable, shocked, unacceptable, sad, all kinds of intricate emotions spread in every corner.

They originally thought that Guo Xu was such a cruel, inhuman, and conscienceless demon. Unexpectedly, everything Guo Xu experienced was no more miserable than purgatory on earth.

Until his death, he just wanted to have a home—he had one, but it was completely destroyed by the world, and he was not given even the slightest hope.

Otherwise, he would not have engraved the word "home" on the back of the coffin lid.

Fan Zaizhi murmured, "So, that's how the mercenary plan came about."

Except for Yuan Zhongxin, who knew the mercenary plan from the beginning, Zhao Jian and others were at a loss. Yuan Zhongxin lowered his eyes slightly, and briefly told them the truth about the mercenary plan.

Xiao Jing's eyes were red, she secretly wiped away her tears, puzzled: "Why is this happening?"

Why is this world so dark and terrifying?

Tomorrow and tomorrow are all the same kind, how can they fight?

Gu Ya said lightly: "There is no reason, it's human nature."

Xiao Jing heard the words, sobbing louder.

Yuan Zhongxin glanced at him lightly, and said coldly: "Did I let you talk?"

Gu Ya: "..."

Your sister's father depends on your face when he speaks, right?

Yuan Zhongxin asked: "What test did Wang Kuan accept?"

Gu Ya opened his mouth and replied: "Every generation of mountain guards has different tests, I don't know about that."

"How long will it take to come out?"

"Didn't I say, this is not sure."

"Can you stop the test?"

"I haven't tried this, so I don't know."

"Since setting fire to these corpses will save them, why don't you do it?"

"I'm guarding this dungeon, so I can still do this kind of thing like crossing rivers and demolishing bridges—besides, I don't know how to just burn it and finish it."

Yuan Zhongxin gouged him out with disgust, and said with all his disdain: "If you don't know anything, what's the use of you?"

Gu Ya: "..."

Strong man, hero, you should kill him with one knife, I can't live anymore!