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Qiao Wen: ...

What's going on with this netizen?Has your vision been strengthened in any way?You can see clearly from such a distance, are you all eagle-eyed? ? ?

For a moment, compared to the astonishment of "Ah! It's Inuyasha!", the first thing that popped up in Qiao Wen's heart was the surprise (spit) sigh (groove) at the eyesight of netizens...

But it was too late and then too fast, but within a few breaths, Inuyasha had already arrived in front of Qiao Wen.

With surprise and alertness in his eyes, he looked Qiao Wen up and down.

Qiao Wen was standing next to the Bone Eater's Well, holding the sleeping Xiao Baiyu in his arms. There was nowhere to hide, and he never thought about hiding, so he just stood there without dodging or evading, and let Inuyasha look up.

Neither of the two spoke.

The atmosphere gradually became a little more subtle.

Until a call of "Inuyasha!" came from not far away, Qiao Wenwen and Inuyasha followed the prestige at the same time, and saw a black-haired girl pushing a bicycle walking out from the edge of the sea of ​​trees.

"Gorge!"

Inuyasha walked two quick steps towards her, as if he wanted to rush to her side immediately, but looking back at Qiao Wen who was standing still, his steps stopped again.

"Why did you come here by yourself?" While warning Qiao Wen from the corner of his eye, Inuyasha yelled at the girl who was pushing the cart and approaching, "Didn't you tell me to wait for me to go back before starting?"

"But it's almost time, I still want to go back to study my homework early, and have dinner at home by the way..."

As the girl's reply got closer and closer, she finally came closer and saw clearly that apart from Inuyasha, there was another strange black-haired youth standing beside the bone-eating well...

"You are..." Looking at the young man's T-shirt + jeans + sneakers, which are obviously different from the clothes of the Warring States Period, the girl's eyes were rounded at first, then she blinked incredulously, and turned her head to look at the half-demon in red :

"--who is he?"

The half-demon said honestly: "...I don't know."

The girl was speechless.

Her eyes turned back to the young man, with obvious excitement and joy in her tone:

"Hi, I'm Kagome Higurashi, and he's Inuyasha. Excuse me... Did you also come here from modern times because you fell into the Well of Bone Eaters? By the way, you don't know yet, right? This is 500 years Before the Warring States Period..."

Perhaps it was because she suddenly ran into a "companion" who might have the same experience without preparation, the girl was obviously a little over-excited, and she didn't realize her gaffe until Inuyasha interrupted her words with "Kagome!"

"Sorry, I said too much..." She smiled sheepishly and apologized.

However, calling out her name is just to stop Inuyasha who hastily leaked too much information about her own side without knowing the origin of the other party's identity: ...

The half-demon felt deeply powerless.

Qiao Wen couldn't help laughing as he looked at the helpless half-demon and the smiling human girl.

"Hello, Higurashi-san," he said, nodding at Kagome with a smile at Kagome's friendly reminder "Just call me Kagome": "Okay, Kagome, if you said 'Bone Eater' Well' refers to the ancient well next to it, yes, I did have this wonderful experience because I fell into this well..."

Seeing the distrust in Inuyasha's eyes, Qiao Wen didn't explain much, but first introduced himself politely:

"My name is Qiao Wen. I'm from the Miying Shrine. I'm currently practicing under the guidance of Master Bawei, the envoy of the Miying God. As you can see, I'm an ineffective trainee exorcist."

... Exorcist?

Kagome and Inuyasha glanced at each other, because among their companions was Coral, a monster extermination, and both of them were familiar with the term demon extermination.It's just that I didn't expect that this profession has extended from the Warring States Period to the modern age...

and--

"Mikage Shrine?" Kagome unexpectedly heard the name of Mikage Shrine, "It is said that the family who made a connection with the Mikage Shrine is very effective... But grandpa said that the Mikage Shrine has ceased operation since 20 years ago... ah ,Feel sorry!"

Consciously slipping her tongue, the girl immediately bent over to apologize.

Qiao Wen smiled and waved his hands, "No need to apologize, it's the truth."

Facing Kagome's surprised gaze, he nodded slightly: "Mikage-sama went on a trip 20 years ago, there is no shrine where the gods live, and it can no longer bring people the results of satisfying prayers, so Bawei, as an envoy of the gods, is temporarily closed. Since then, I have been concentrating on waiting for the true owner of the shrine to return.”

"So that's how it is..." Kagome opened her eyes wide, never expecting to hear such a "secret" from Qiao Wen.

Although her family also runs a shrine, before traveling to the Warring States Period, Kagome did not believe in gods and ghosts at all, so she did not accumulate much knowledge related to Shinto.

Now that she has become a half-princess, and she has to live in the Warring States Period from time to time, when the mysterious power has not faded, she naturally began to be interested in these things. Now, she can't help but hear Qiao Wen describe the real gods and angels as if she was telling a story. Some fascinated.

Inuyasha is different from her.

He kept watching Qiao Wen with vigilant eyes.

The latter didn't take it seriously.

On the contrary, seeing that Kagome never asked, Inuyasha didn't seem to know how to intervene in the conversation between him and Kagome, and he never thought of becoming enemies with the two of them, nor did he think of hiding his origin—after all, wait I also want to ask Kagome to see if she can bring herself back to modern times together. Therefore, Qiao Wen took the initiative to open the topic without waiting for the two to ask:

"So, just now, Kagome, you said that this is the Warring States Period 500 years ago?"

Kagome came back to her senses upon hearing the words, and nodded, "Yes..."

The next moment, seeing the slightly distressed look on Qiao Wen's face, the black-haired girl suddenly realized:

"You... can't go back?"

Qiao Wen nodded.

Kagome immediately looked at him with a look of sympathy:

"When I first came here, I couldn't find a way to go back..."

However, later on, she was gradually able to travel freely between the modern era and the Warring States era through the Well of Bone Eaters...

"Do you still remember how you passed through the Well of Bone Eaters?" Kagome is a kind and considerate girl with a sense of justice. Seeing Qiao Wen's distress, she enthusiastically offered to help, "Is there any opportunity..."

——Her own opportunity is naturally the jade of the four souls, I don't know why Qiao Wen is...

Qiao Wen didn't even think about hiding the "culprit" that caused him to travel back to 500 years ago.

He said honestly: "It's a few pieces of broken jade. Because when I accidentally fell into the ancient well, it seemed that the light from them triggered a certain resonance in the ancient well, allowing me to pass through something like A wonderful channel like a space-time tunnel, I came here when I regained consciousness..."

His words made Inuyasha and Kagome look at each other, and the impatient Inuyasha immediately asked:

"What about the broken pieces of jade you were talking about?"

Qiao Wen glanced at him, and answered unhurriedly:

"Because I thought it might be useful, I saved them in a safe way... What? Do you know what it is?"

Inuyasha hesitated for a moment, subconsciously went to see Kagome.

Kagome thought for a while, looked at Qiao Wen's clear black eyes without a trace of haze, and slowly laughed:

"There's nothing to hide..."

Although she is pure and kind, she is not brainless and pure and kind. She has a very keen ability to distinguish between good intentions and malicious intentions.

From Qiao Wen, she didn't feel any deceit or malice. Even, the way he looked at her was full of admiration that she couldn't understand.

Kagome didn't know why the other party, who was supposed to be meeting for the first time, would have such a "favorable impression" of her, but this did not prevent her from judging that the other party was not malicious.

She used as concise a language as possible to describe what she knew about the Jade of the Four Souls:

"The Jade of the Four Souls is a piece of precious jade with powerful spiritual power. According to legend, it can endow monsters with powerful abilities, and it can also be used by spiritual power users to subdue demons..."

"It was once guarded by a powerful priestess named Kikyo. After Kikyo passed away, it was cremated together with her body, and has since disappeared..."

Then, Kagome described her experience as the reincarnation of Kikyo with some complex emotions, and was accidentally kidnapped by monsters to the Warring States Period.

And during this process, the jade of the four souls was taken out of her body, and finally it was broken into many pieces by her arrow...

"The fragments of the jade of the four souls do seem to have the ability to connect the time and space of the two sides."

Kagome finally said so.

"If it's because of the fragments of the jade of the four souls..."

Perhaps she can try to purify the fragments to see if the purified jade fragments of the four souls can produce any new changes, thus sending Qiao Wen back to modern times.

Qiao Wen could hear the unfinished meaning in her words, and also saw that she was afraid that she was worried that she was looking for an excuse to ask for the jade fragments of the four souls, so she didn't complete the sentence.

He smiled, and summoned the Dream Card without hesitation.

The moment the Dream Card appeared, Inuyasha almost reflexively protected Kagome behind him, staring vigilantly at Qiao Wen and the sudden appearance of the Dream Card. Dream Card received the box containing the jade fragments of the four souls, and then the figure of Dream Card disappeared out of thin air again...

"What's that?" Inuyasha asked cautiously.

Qiao Wen glanced at him and replied truthfully: "My ability is also one of my partners."

Inuyasha didn't feel relieved because of his truthful confession, and was still full of guard against him.

But after Kagome patted him on the shoulder, the half-demon still reluctantly let her out of the protection range, and asked her to get close to Qiao Wen after Qiao Wen lifted the lock effect of the ingot card on the box. Received the box.

Kagome opened the lid of the box, and a sweet scent of candy that had not yet completely dissipated hit her face instantly.

And in the small box, three fragments of four soul jades were shining slightly in the shallow layer of soil on the bottom of the box.

Kagome and Inuyasha exchanged glances, seeing the latter shrugging his nose with obvious surprise on his face.

"Inuyasha?"

She looked at the half-demon suspiciously.

Hearing the sound, Inuyasha came back to his senses, and looked at the jade fragments of the four souls in the box with a face of enlightenment:

"That's it! Kagome! I still remember that I told you that there was a monster with four soul jade fragments who ran to modern times. I fought with him in the courtyard of Higurashi Shrine, but he fled back here side business?"

Kagome nodded.

Inuyasha pointed to the fragments in the box: "It smells like that guy!"

and also……

His gaze turned to the little white beast that was still sleeping soundly in Qiao Wen's arms:

"So it was this little guy who was hiding by the side that day..."

Inuyasha remembered what happened that day.

At that time, he was accompanying Kagome home to visit (visit) Jia's family for a human test, but inexplicably encountered a monster attack at night. Kagome recognized that the other party was carrying jade fragments of the four souls, and there were countless Therefore, in the follow-up battle, Inuyasha wanted to find an opportunity to snatch the jade fragments of the four souls from the opponent.

The other party sensed his intentions, and then threw out a lot of fragments of the jade of the four souls as a cover, thereby successfully escaping into the well of bones, crossing the bottom of the well and running back to the Warring States period, and the four souls thrown by him as bait Inuyasha only recovered part of the soul jade fragments, and the other part disappeared together with a burst of space fluctuations that were not obvious at the time.

He and Kagome were still worrying about how to get back the pieces of jade of the four souls that were lost in modern times, but now, some of them were sent to the door by themselves...

This made Inuyasha look at Qiao Wen with even more suspicion.

Needless to say, this was too much of a coincidence.

At this time, Qiao Wen also wanted to raise his hand and touch his nose——

He felt that he was really wronged!

And now he doesn’t need to look at the barrage in the live broadcast room, he knows that the screen must have been filled with “23333333” and “hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha”—no way, the audience loves his various car rollover scenes so much, There is no sympathy at all, it is a group of hahaha machines with no emotions.

Qiao Wen sighed silently.

"So, among the two monsters that Bai Yu met that day, one of them was you?"

He pretended to know it for the first time, looked at Inuyasha, and calmly nodded in the eyes of the latter:

"I think I can explain a little bit about this."

Qiao Wen then truthfully told Kagome and Inuyasha everything he saw from the "holographic movie" screen that Bai Yu showed him and Ba Wei before, including the fragments of the jade of the four souls, which Bai Yu gave as a thank you gift Part of it was removed, and that part of the fragment is now kept in a place where Bai Yu called the "Dream Keeper" a group of monsters who have lived in seclusion for generations, and outsiders may not be able to easily enter there...

As for the fact that he himself had obtained some fragments of the Jade of the Four Souls and completely destroyed the fragments, Qiao Wen didn't say anything——Inuyasha lived in the gap between humans and monsters since he was a child, and neither side could blend in. , Both sides are not accepted, the son of a half-demon who has seen the warmth and coldness of human feelings, even if he still has the heart of a child, he has not become an anti-social scum like Yato and his father, but he should be vigilant, he is not at all few.

For example, now, because of Qiao Wen's similar experience with her and the "companion" friendship that also came from modern times, Kagome has let go of most of her guard against Qiao Wen and regards him as half a companion.

But Inuyasha still had due vigilance to Qiao Wenbao, and did not give him any trust easily.

This is human nature, and Qiao Wen himself doesn't think there is anything wrong with Inuyasha's approach.

But if Inuyasha knows now that the Jade of the Four Souls can never be pieced together because of Qiao Wen's relationship, no matter his wish or any wish of anyone else, it will never be possible again...

Qiao Wen is really not sure. Based on the vague timeline he roughly deduced from the fragmentary conversation between Kagome and Inuyasha just now, if Inuyasha, who probably doesn't know the essence of the Four Soul Jade, knows this "cruel fact" "Will you make any radical actions that you can't control under the evaporation of reason.

So it's better to let the secret continue to be a secret.

Qiao Wen sighed silently.

"So you and your companions were just accidentally involved in the incident, and it wasn't clear what happened at the beginning?"

After listening to Qiao Wen's description, Inuyasha couldn't help looking at him with less guard and more sympathy - if this person is telling the truth, then he is too unlucky.

Obviously it has nothing to do with him, but in the end due to various accidents, he was forcibly taken back 500 years ago by the jade fragments of the four souls...

This is much worse than Kagome who was deliberately kidnapped to the Warring States Period - after all Kagome's experience has a necessary "karma", and Qiao Wen... that's just pure bad luck.

Thinking about it is really a bit miserable.

Because of Qiao Wen's "sad experience", Inuyasha's attitude towards him has improved a lot.

"Otherwise, we'll see if Kagome can take you back later."

He even started to help out with ideas.

"If Kagome adds the purified pieces of the Four Soul Jade..."

It might be useful.

However, the result disappointed all three of them.

The fragments of the Jade of the Four Souls that were originally entwined with a slight taint were indeed completely purified the moment they touched Kagome's palm.

But when Kagome carefully put away the fragments and entered the Well of Bone Eaters with Qiao Wen with the help of Inuyasha, after a familiar light flashed, she did go through the space-time tunnel again and returned to her familiar place. Another small shrine to the Well of Bone Eaters.

But there was no one around her.

——Qiao Wen failed to return to modern times with her.

And at the other end of time and space 500 years ago, Qiao Wen stood at the bottom of the well, and stared at Inuyasha who was lying on the edge of the well and looking down...

The two looked at each other silently for a while, and finally Inuyasha jumped down to the bottom of the well helplessly, and kindly brought Qiao Wen out again.

"It seems that you can't go back for the time being..."

Inuyasha looked at Qiao Wen, whose expression didn't change, and who didn't seem to be anxious about not being able to return to the era he was in. Although his tone was a bit disgusting, he still took the initiative to ask:

"Are you coming to Maple Village?"

Fearing that Qiao Wen would not know what Fengzhi Village was, he continued to explain:

"It's the place where Kagome temporarily settled down, and it's a village inhabited by humans."

Qiao Wen saw his awkward expression of kindness, smiled and nodded:

"I want to go. Can I trouble you to lead the way, Inuyasha?"

Qiao Wen felt that Inuyasha's awkwardness was actually a bit cute.

Because according to his original plan with Kagome, he obviously wanted to go to modern times through the Well of Bone Eater with Kagome.

But now why Kagome went back, but Inuyasha stayed?

I am afraid that apart from monitoring Qiao Wen, a stranger who "appeared out of nowhere and has not yet been fully trusted by him", there is another fear that he will also leave with him. Qiao Wen can't find a place to stay in this strange Warring States era Point, can not guarantee their own security considerations.

——It’s really a half-demon who is too kind.

Qiao Wen followed Inuyasha and walked towards Maple Village without saying a word.

The village was closer to the Well of Bone Eaters than Qiao Wen had imagined. After walking for a while, the two of them came to a small hill overlooking the entire village below.

It was dinner time, and the smoke from the cooking in the village was curling up. The laughter of the children and the talking and laughing of the adults were accompanied by the rising smoke, all the way to the top of the mountain.

Looking at the peaceful scenery at the bottom of the mountain, Inuyasha seemed to think of something. He leaned against a big tree and was dazed for a while. He didn't wake up until there was a light grunt in his stomach. His face was slightly flushed and he felt uncomfortable. turn away:

"Following is Maple Village, let's go, I'll take you there."

Qiao Wen stopped him from going down the mountain:

"I'll go there by myself, you don't have to send me all the way into the village."

Inuyasha didn't know why, and stared at him alertly:

"You want to run away?"

Did you say it only after you walked to the village?

Qiao Wen couldn't laugh or cry.

"No," he explained patiently, "Didn't you make an appointment with Kagome to go home with her? You have been delayed for so long to lead me the way. Now that I have seen the village, I am fine by myself. So you can go back to find Kagome—at this moment, with your speed, you might be able to arrive before dinner begins."

Inuyasha didn't expect that it was because of this reason that he asked him to go to the village, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Looking at the gentle and smiling black eyes of the human youth in front of him, his ears trembled, and he looked away——

"……it's okay!"

he said gruffly.

"I've already sent you here, and it's not too late for the last part of the journey."

With that said, he didn't greet Qiao Wen again, but took the lead to go down the mountain path:

"Besides, without me, that old lady Feng wouldn't let you, a stranger, in..."

Qiao Wen saw that he insisted on moving forward, and heard him say that it should be sister Kikyo, who is also the current witch and guardian of Maple Village, Granny Feng. He felt that what he said made sense, so he stopped insisting and followed him slowly. Walk downhill slowly.

Just when the two were about to enter Maple Village.

At the other end of time and space, in the Well of Bone Eater 500 years later.

Ba Wei held the fragments of the jade of the four souls, looked at the bottom of the well where there was no reaction, his face was so dark that ink dripped out.

Beside him, Kagome looked at his face, and then at the bottom of the deep well where no light shone, and couldn't help sighing silently——

One cannot come back, and the other cannot pass.

These two...

It's a bit miserable...