Demolition

"How can we find the Tzu Chi Hall?"

Lu Chen and Ji Chuan finally found a usable horse in a small village. After improving the situation of the two sharing a mount, they arrived at Yunzhong City, the southernmost point of the Northern Kingdom, within four days.Yunzhong City used to be a capital city, but after it was abandoned, many people moved away, and the city was a little depressed. In addition, it was already the beginning of November, and people were willing to stay at home to keep warm, and no one wanted to mess around on the street. visit.After crossing the Huaihe River, the temperature dropped sharply. This is the first time for Lu Chen to come to the north in winter. He didn't do a good job in mental preparation. The cold air bit into the collar and ran into the collar. His teeth were chattering with cold, and he entered the city shivering. Afterwards, Ji Chuan took the lead and took the people to find an inn to settle down.

Wrapped in a quilt, Lu Chen held the ginger tea brought by the store. The heat covered his face with a layer of mist, but his face was still pale from the cold. At first glance, he looks like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy.Ji Chuan was taken aback for a moment, then lowered his head and arranged the things in his hands, saying

"I have someone I know who will take us in."

"Someone you know?" Lu Chen immediately raised his ears, "Who is it? How did you know each other?"

Ji Chuan gave him a funny look

"Yes, 'people', not birds."

Hearing that Ji Chuan changed the subject to tease him, Lu Chen pursed his lips and continued to ask,

"What are we going to do when we go in?"

"You can look for opportunities to see if you can find information about that pattern, and there may be information about your father left in the Tzu Chi Hall. You can look for it if you want."

"Speaking of which, don't you want to find out about your father? Don't get me wrong, I just thought, thought, well, didn't you say you didn't meet him a few times, so I thought you might Curiosity or something." Lu Chen stammered to explain, but Ji Chuan didn't mind

"It's not that I'm curious, it's just that my father didn't officially worship in the hall back then, and his special status, there should be no record of him in the Tzu Chi hall."

"That's it." Lu Chen lowered his head a little disappointed.He didn't ask, if he really found out who was his enemy who killed his father and mother in the Tzu Chi Hall, what would he do next?What he has been pursuing all along is revenge, but there are only some illusory clues for so many years, which makes him a little doubtful whether this revenge can be avenged.The so-called exhaustion and exhaustion, one idea persists for too long, but has no direction, and now this opportunity is so caught off guard, the first reaction is of course to revenge, kill the enemy without leaving a piece of armor.

But what if the enemy is very powerful?A person who wants to find the Three-legged Crow and rule the world will definitely not be killed by him casually, so will he fight with his life?Lose both?perish together?Or even hit a stone with a pebble?Lu Chen felt that he was not a person with firm convictions. Most of the time, he had no choice but to move forward after breaking his own retreat. However, in his long life, almost all his time and energy were spent on this I don't know if I haven't seen someone who killed my whole family and made me fall from the heaven to the underworld overnight, I feel a little unwilling no matter how I think about it.

Or if he really got his wish, then what?Leaving Yinxiao Tower or continuing to be his own Zhijinwu, his life seems to be focused on this matter, but it doesn't seem to be the case. He is like a beast that has been bound by ropes for many years. Without that rope, how would I survive.

In fact, he had never thought about this before, and revenge was a matter of course in his heart, but now, this matter is in front of him, it is not a nightmare that he thinks about day and night, nor is it a tool that he uses to blame himself, it has become I have done an imminent and tangible thing, waiting for myself to complete it.He even discovered that killing that enemy was just the tip of the iceberg, just the first step he could take. There was a long road ahead, and intricate mysteries were entangled with his hatred, in a gesture he had never seen before. Appearing, let him be confused about what he did, and let him feel a sense of powerlessness and insignificance. What's the point of those things that he doesn't know?

Will my father want me to focus on revenge or to investigate all the mysteries he knows he wants to know?And myself, what do I want myself to do?

"What are you thinking, young master?" When Lu Chen came back to his senses, Ji Chuan was already sitting beside him, looking at him curiously, rubbing the center of his brows with his fingers, "If you frown together, you will Not nice."

Ji Chuan's fingertips are cold, he always seems to be like this, his body temperature is lower than ordinary people, maybe because he is still a crow, but birds are not cold-blooded animals?Maybe it's because he's a mixed race.His body temperature is obviously so low, but when he gets close to him, his body temperature always rises unconsciously, and the warmth spreads from his toes, so sore that he wants to cry.Lu Chen quickly sniffled, and replied:

"I was thinking, what kind of person is my enemy?"

"Does the young master hate him?"

"Of course it is."

"But is it hatred that makes you want to kill him, or is it because he ruined your family?"

"Is there a difference? He killed my parents, so I hate him, so I want to kill him."

"Yes, there is probably no difference." Ji Chuan smiled, and the two huddled together. Lu Chen felt relaxed and asked.

"Where would you go if this were all over?"

"Where does the young master want me to go?"

"I, of course I hope, I mean, if you don't have anywhere else to go, nothing to do, we can actually walk around together. I haven't been anywhere anyway, and you travel Sifang, just in time to explain something to me."

Ji Chuan looked at him with such gentle eyes that dripping water made Lu Chen a little overwhelmed, and seemed to have received some encouragement, "I'm very curious about the place where you grew up, and the winter in the north is said to be very spectacular. I want to see it too."

"Aren't you going back? Back to Guangdong City?"

"En...not anymore." Lu Chen nodded as if making up his mind, "I have stayed there for so many years, and I also want to go out and have a look, and take a road that I haven't traveled before."

"Okay, listen to the young master. You can go wherever you want, play whatever you want, eat whatever you want. Sleep for a while, I will call you when someone comes." Ji Chuan twisted the corner of the quilt , Lu Chen closed his eyes contentedly.

Yes, I still have Ji Chuan, no matter who he meets, he can still be with Ji Chuan, and when the matter is over, the two of them can travel all over the country together, and at that time I don’t have any burdens on me, What does the three-legged crow have to do with them? Whoever wants to fight, let them fight. What does it have to do with me.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen rarely fell into a deep sleep.

But Ji Chuan stared at the ceiling with his eyes open, and the expression of neither joy nor sadness on his face made people startled.Is there no difference?Yes, hatred is the most tormenting emotion in the world. Hatred can blind people's eyes, deprive them of happiness, and eat away at their minds.Hate dehumanizes people, it forces you to give up every inch of your life that is not occupied by it, until your eyes are full of these two words, it is so cunning that you think you are accomplishing some great ambition, but in reality you are not. It uses your mediocrity as food, and gradually becomes powerful enough to control everything about you. You don't understand what you have done, and you can't tell right from wrong. In the end, one day, you will be forced to collapse first.

When Ji Chuan called him again, it was already dark outside the house, Lu Chen got up with a grunt, but it was still Ji Chuan holding him down and saying

"Don't worry, winter in the north is like this. It gets dark early, and it's just past Shen time. I'm not hungry, I asked the store to bring some vegetables and rice."

Lu Chen had a comfortable sleep. After many days of fatigue and tension, he sat down at the table without hesitation and was still curious when he was hungry.

"It's really strange. The sun went down so early. No wonder I saw that there were no people on the street. They must be able to keep their doors open at night in winter. It's cold and dark, and even thieves have to hide at home."

Ji Chuan laughed at his naivety and handed him a cup of hot tea

"If they don't close their doors at night, they themselves will be frozen to death."

"Is the winter in the north always this cold? Will it snow? I heard that the snow falls on the ground softly, like cotton, and it's a vast expanse of white, which is very beautiful."

"Young master, I have never seen anything colder than this. Snow is nothing, and some places even drip into ice. It's too cold for humans and animals to live."

Lu Chen was still about to speak, but suddenly he heard knocking sound coming from the window, he suddenly turned his head to look at Ji Chuan, Ji Chuan pressed his finger, motioned him to be calm, and nodded to him after listening for a while

"he came."

It's a pity that the table of delicious food just served, Lu Chen thought to himself, but he had to pull himself together, but Ji Chuan calmly stuffed two steamed buns into his arms

"Eat on the road."

Lu Chen thought it was not very good at first, but after walking for a while, he realized that there was nothing wrong.I don't know the origin of the person who connected with Ji Chuan, but I have only heard his voice, but there seems to be some secret signal between them.Lu Chen was surrounded by him, and he didn't know anything for a long time. When he stopped, he found that he was actually standing in the backyard of a family, and there was a black shadow in front of him, who seemed to have been waiting there for a long time.

The two walked over, and only then did Lu Chen realize that the man was wearing a veil, only his eyes were exposed, and he looked him up and down carefully. Lu Chen felt uncomfortable under his gaze, and felt that this gaze was a little familiar to him, and he couldn't tell where he was. Where have you seen it.Fortunately, Ji Chuan didn't let the man look at him for too long, and half blocked him. The two confronted each other for a while, the man snorted coldly, finally looked away, and pushed away the only room in the yard. Door.

This house seems to be a ancestral hall, there are no tables and chairs inside, and there is a strong smell of incense. There are several rows of tables above the main room. It stands to reason that the ancestors' ranks should be enshrined on them, but there is nothing in this room. , Lu Chen didn't know why, he looked around, but was stopped by the masked man

"Don't look around."

Lu Chen was stunned, Ji Chuan came over and took his hand, squeezed it firmly, Lu Chen swallowed the words on his lips, and focused on watching the man's movements.

It's strange to say, I don't know if it's too dark or the man moved too fast, Lu Chen felt that he just stood at the place where he usually bowed down, and there was a dark hole under the rows of tables, and a staircase stretched out. Going underground, there is a whistling wind in the cave, which seems to lead somewhere.The masked man took out a fire stick from his sleeve, lit the fire stick hanging on the wall, and took the lead into the cave. The three of them entered in a single file, with Ji Chuan at the end. With a sound, the hole was covered.

This mysterious tunnel was built very flat and wide, and the three of them didn't feel aggrieved at all walking in it. Lu Chen noticed that the ground was paved with bluestone slabs and had been touched very smooth. Presumably this tunnel must be used frequently.Unexpectedly, Tzu Chi Tang, a miraculous doctor who claims to cure all diseases, is hidden behind such a small tunnel. I don't know what happened, which made Tzu Chi Tang decide to stay away from the world and live in this remote place.

The tunnel was very long, and the three of them walked in silence for nearly half an hour before Lu Chen finally saw some changes. Hanging lights appeared on the walls on both sides. After a while, he saw two people guarding a door at the end, and the door It is the pattern that makes Lu Chen think about it day and night!