Laughing at Chang'an

In the small courtyard shrouded in a blue light curtain, the conversation continued.

"Afterwards, you were transferred from Chang'an, and your master's identity was exposed, and I only had time to rescue Ronghu...that's it."

Wang Zhen was expressionless, and told the whole story in a flat tone. Then without warning, Li Shen grabbed his hair and slammed his face down on the dark coffin lid. The wound on his chest was held up by the corner of the coffin. , He turned pale in an instant, trembling with uncontrollable pain.

"Make it up, keep making it up."

Li Shen's indifferent voice came from the top of his head, and the hand pressed on top of his head made Wang Zhen's face tightly pressed against the cold coffin lid, almost embedded in it.He panted in pain, the corner of the coffin on his chest was forcefully thrust into the unhealed wound, the sticky blood soaked through the bandage, as if there was a hand digging at his flesh and blood.

Rong Hu, who was hiding behind the door, stared at this scene dumbfounded, and then suddenly woke up after a while, and rushed into the hall in a hurry.However, just when he stretched out his hand to pull Li Shen away, the other party suddenly turned his head and gave him a silent look.

He put his hand out, and stopped in place stiffly.

- Killing intent.

Every nerve was twitching crazily, Rong Hu's eyes were staring, he couldn't control his hands and feet, and his mind was in chaos. A voice kept echoing in the depths of his mind: run away, run away, run away... run away.

Wang Zhen suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood, choked on the trachea by the upwelling blood, and coughed with difficulty.Even if he wanted to speak, he couldn't make a sound in this situation. His body, which was on the verge of limit, was gradually numb from the severe pain, and his consciousness had already begun to blur.

Dense blood streaked up Rong Hu's eyes, he clenched his teeth and took a step forward desperately.

... can't escape, not even if it's death.

A sharp wind that was hard to distinguish with the naked eye blew past his ears, and then the gunfire sounded faintly, and a few strands of broken hair fluttered in the air and fell to the ground. Li Shen raised his hand and touched his left ear. There, there was a small The scratches were oozing blood.

"If you want to kill someone, come out, don't dirty the coffin."

Feng He, who was sitting in the courtyard, still had his back to the main hall, but his voice came into the hall clearly. Li Shen rubbed his fingers to wipe off his own blood, and let go of Wang Zhen's head with his right hand, watching him slip and fall to the ground weakly , squinted without mercy, took a step back and sat down on the chair.

"Wang Zhen!"

Rong Hu rushed over to help him up, seeing the gauze soaked in blood on his chest, he panicked for a moment at a loss, then suddenly remembered the wound medicine he brought back from the hospital yesterday, put him down hastily and carefully, got up and ran towards the bedroom.

Wang Zhen leaned on the coffin, laboriously tore off the gauze on the wound, stuck his palm on it, and mobilized the source energy to repair it.After barely being able to stop the bleeding, he lifted his head weakly and looked at Li Shen who was sitting on the chair.

"Since you know something will happen to Yang Xingxing, why didn't you tell me?"

Li Shen's expression was a bit gloomy, he put his hand on his forehead, looked at Wang Zhen seriously and asked.The coldness and madness that had just appeared at the tip of the iceberg had disappeared from that face, and he looked very calm, even too calm.

However, this kind of Li Shen made Wang Zhen's original steadfast thoughts slightly shaken unexpectedly.

"Yang Martian is an idiot."

Li Shen put down his hands, put his arms on his knees, lowered his head, bent his back, and didn't know if he was talking to himself or to Wang Zhen in front of him.

"I'm not happy that this idiot is dead."

"I'm very sad."

... Wang Zhen was stunned.

"Please." Li Shen's voice was like a heavy hammer, hitting Wang Zhenxin hard, "Tell me why and how he died."

………………

Fragranceless begonias bloom all over the courtyard. On a rainy night, a lonely lamp in the house is dim, and the lady is still embroidering brocade under the lamp. It is as quiet and beautiful as when we first met.

The door was pushed open with a creak, and the cold rain and wind from outside swept in, blowing away the tranquility of the room.

Li Shen stood at the door drenched all over.

Haitang put down the needle and thread in her hands, took a clean towel, walked over to take off his outer robe, hung it on the hanger, and wiped his face and hands with the towel.Li Shen closed the door, walked to the table and sat down, raised his hand and wrung out the wet hair, Haitang stood behind him, spread the twisted hair again, and smoothed it out with a comb.

The relationship between the two is extremely natural, it has been like this from the beginning, but it has always remained like this.

Haitang found a plain long coat from the closet and boiled hot water for Li Shen to take a shower. It was more than half an hour after everything was tidied up.

"You said before that it would help me enter the altar, what do I need to prepare?"

Sitting face to face at the table, Li Shen took a sip of the bubbled tea and got straight to the point.But Haitang, who was sitting opposite him, froze for a rare moment before answering.

"As long as you are ready to enter the altar, you can do it at any time."

Li Shen held the teacup, cast his eyes on the steaming water in the cup, and fell silent.It was a deal between him and Haitang, but after a long time, there would always be other things mixed in, so it was difficult to distinguish so clearly.

Helping him enter the altar was one of the bargaining chips proposed by Haitang at the beginning. Now that the deal between the two of them has almost been completed, there is only one last thing left.

After finishing, it is two cleansing.

"How exactly?"

Li Shen put down his cup and looked at Haitang, no matter what happens after this, he has made up his mind and will not change it.

"I will give you the 'touching eye' technique, leaving hints in your heart, so that you can break through your own limits and touch the realm of the altar... Once you feel it once, I believe that with your strength, you will be able to truly break through that layers of barriers."

Haitang's quiet voice quietly soothed the unconscious anxiety in Li Shen's heart, and made him really calm down.Although he didn't know what the 'finishing technique' the other party was talking about, his understanding of each other and getting along with them over the years made him trust her judgment.

So he said, "Can I do it now?"

The cold wind that came from nowhere blew Haitang's forehead hair, she closed her eyes slightly, and reached out to pull the blown hair back behind her ears.

A quiet voice resounded quietly in the room, like a sigh.

"can."

………………

In the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, Baiweidu.

At night, the Wei River still flows quietly to the east, and lights flickering are faintly visible at the ferry in the distance. In such a bad rainy day, the grass by the river bank has become extremely muddy.

Someone was lying there, facing the sky, with eyes slightly open.

He was an assassin, he should have been, before the age of 16, the meaning of his life was to learn how to kill, and to kill.At that time, no one told him that killing people was wrong. On the contrary, in his education, it was wrong not to kill people.

This is the way of the world where individuals cannibalize people, human life is worthless, the strong live, and the weak die... It is because there is darkness everywhere, so I yearn for the light all the more.

"Cough cough..."

The huge knife edge extended from his right shoulder to his left leg, almost cutting his whole body in half. The blood seeped from his body into the wet mud, giving off a stench, and was scattered by the rain from the sky.

There was a layer of chill in the air.

Gao Yi, holding a ghost-toothed broadsword, appeared from the darkness, and his heavy soles trampled on the muddy water, making a splashing sound.There was a strand of red hair wet in front of his eyes, and he didn't look very good. The armor on his body had many holes of different sizes. Every time he took a step, a string of blood drops fell behind him. .

He walked to the side of the person lying on the ground, bent down, and roughly tore off the helmet on the other person's head.

Below is an old and peaceful face.

"you……"

Gao Yi frowned, trying to recall where he had seen this face in his mind, but he found nothing.The dying old man didn't care about his reaction, but looked at the endless river in front of him in a daze, thinking of many, many years ago... the girl he loved.

He promised her: when the matter is over, he will take her to his hometown, find a quiet small village, buy some fields, and live a peaceful life together...

He failed and made her wait her whole life.

When I was young, I always had this kind of last resort, but now I think about it, but I just "can't let it go", "can't let go", whether it's ideals or beliefs, most of them are just my own obsessions... You have to wait until you lose it before you understand what it is It is the most cherished.

Gao Yi gave up the memory, imprinted the old man's face deeply in his mind, raised the ghost-tooth sword with his right hand, and slashed at the opponent's neck.

In a blink of an eye, the old man who was lying on the ground disappeared out of thin air. Gao Yi widened his eyes in shock, watched the other party hug his waist, and said softly in an inaudible voice——

"In the light..."

There was a huge roar in the pitch-black rain, and the surging Weishui suddenly stood upright and rushed high into the air.Countless people were awakened from their dreams by this loud noise, and the distant Baiweidu was lit up one after another, and the noisy human voices intertwined and boiled.

Another, sleepless night.

………………

Putting his hands on the armrests of the chair, Li Shen followed what Haitang said, sat on the chair as relaxed as possible, and looked into each other's eyes calmly.

"You must trust me wholeheartedly, and you must not have the slightest defense against me."

Haitang looked at him without blinking, stretched out her hand to hold his cheek, and said softly.Her voice seemed to carry some kind of reassuring power, and Li Shen also asked himself to restrain his instincts and not to defy this power.

He believed her.

Haitang held his face in both hands, and gradually moved closer. When their noses almost touched, she began to sing a song that Li Shen could not understand in a low voice.Although I can't understand the lyrics, the melody is very beautiful, lingering, and gentle.

At this moment, he only has her in his eyes, and so does she.

His own consciousness seemed to be withdrawn, and Li Shen couldn't describe this feeling. His vision gradually became blurred, leaving only Haitang's quiet and beautiful eyes.Everything became unreal, and even Haitang's singing gradually turned into a distant whisper, but it didn't feel bad, there was an unusual sense of relaxation and relief.

After an unknown amount of time, Haitang's singing disappeared.

Li Shen slowly woke up from his trance, he supported his head, and after a while, he opened his mouth and said, "Failed?"

He didn't feel that he was being hinted at, nor did he have the feeling of breaking through his own limit, so it should be a failure... The reason for the failure, I'm afraid, was that he couldn't really put down his guard against Haitang, or in other words, it was his instinct. He wasn't allowed to let his guard down on anyone.

Haitang nodded, then shook her head again.

"Someone has given you a hint before me... such a deep hint can only work for the first time."

she said so.