After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

Countless blood-red tentacles protrude from the end as if they were alive. They are like a hand that is only asking for help on the verge of destruction. The limbs are forked, and they climb from bottom to top in an instant, climbing towards the white soul.It is also like the claws of the devil in hell, the parasitic vines, and the roots of climbing creepers.

Most of the pure white soul was swallowed up, and the huge vortex that was originally spinning rapidly also slowed down.

Five silently watched the scene below.

"Interesting, can the future that appears in the anomaly and distortion actually have such a strong attraction to his soul?" Number Two said.

"The power of his soul is running out." Number Five said, "If this continues, he will be left in that fragment forever."

He held his chin and smiled suddenly: "I'm a little curious, what exactly did he see in that red fragment."

"No matter what is prepared for him in that fragment, when his soul resonates strongly with the scene in it, he will be completely swallowed by it. It will be extremely strong emotions, whether it is sadness, happiness, or Hate. As long as his emotion exceeds a certain threshold, he will be completely swallowed by that future."

The girl looked at the huge vortex slowly turning under her body, and said softly: "But obviously, he is about to be swallowed."

……

"Clap."

Zhou Xun woke up from a nap.

He shivered and sat up straight in the chair.Just now, he seemed to hear the sound of water dripping.

"Master Zhou." His subordinate whispered.

Zhou Xun remembered what he was going to do.

These days, he was so busy that he fell asleep in the guard of the Black Clothes Envoy just now.

And next, he was going to meet someone.

Zhou Xun held a candle, which illuminated the darkness.He walked out of the long aisle without changing his expression.On both sides of the aisle were prisoners moaning in pain. Many of them were from the Liu family and people from Jile Lane.

A week ago, Zhou Xun completely broke up the Bliss Lane, the so-called "Elysium on Earth".When the officers and soldiers broke into the locked room of the Bliss Lane outside the gold and jade, they were shuddering at what they saw. Even a few of the more "informed" officers and soldiers could not hold back the wall and vomited. up.

They imprisoned and disposed of all those involved and rescued some of the victims.As for those figures who were already suffering to the extreme, they gave them a great joy.

In the final moments, an officer heard one of the dying men whisper "thank you" as they waited to die.At that time, his tears poured down like a spring.

Zhou Xun issued a heavy code, and the few important people involved were tortured to death with extremely painful means after they confessed everything.No one who participated in this matter could escape being investigated, and their regular customers, even the Liu family, which was their only existence, were also completely liquidated.

Zhou Xun walked up the stairs step by step. In the depths of the upstairs was a guest room.

And when he captured Liu Zhe of the Liu family, he also found a person in the secret room of his house.

Zhou Xun stood outside the door, and there were still constant roaring and kicking sounds from inside.The man shouted hoarsely: "I tell you, Kang Wang will come to pick me up, don't wait for me..."

"It's been like this for the past few days." His subordinate whispered.

Zhou Xun put the candlestick into the hands of his subordinates and pushed open the door.

"Kang Wang will indeed come to pick you up." He looked at the young man who was in such a mess on the bed, and smiled, "I told him."

The young man who was still rolling around suddenly stopped moving.

"You..." He opened his mutilated lips tremblingly, "Did you..."

——Did you tell him what happened to me?

Zhou Xun just looked at him and said softly, "What do you think?"

At that moment, the youth already knew the answer.

These days, although his hands and feet are still healthy, other scars can no longer be removed.He stared fixedly at Zhou Xun, and suddenly, he spat out countless obscenities!

"This is what you deserve! You deserve it!" He roared angrily, "I originally...I should..."

"As a descendant of the Zhou family, you are the one who destroyed the Zhou family!"

Zhou Xun was not interested in hearing him go crazy.

He went back to deal with his official duties, stroke by stroke, very serious, and he treated people with a gentle smile that made people feel like a spring breeze.

The subordinates all said in private that they felt that Mr. Zhou seemed to be a lot gentler now.

What they didn't say was - they originally thought that Zhou Xun would not be like this.

He looked so peaceful, as if all the sorrow and pain had never happened.Prime Minister Lu once came to talk to him carefully. The two of them were walking on the streets of the capital, and there was fine snow melting on the streets.

"Winter is going to spring soon." Prime Minister Lu said.

Zhou Xun responded softly and said, "Winter is almost over."

"Now the cabinet and Mr. Shen are here..." Prime Minister Lu looked at him, hesitating, "The matter of the emperor is still stable."

Zhou Xun let out a "huh".

He walked on the road, and the soles of his boots were stained with muddy water from melted snow.Looking at the increasingly shallow footprints, he thought, winter is almost over.

"Have you ever thought about what to do next?"

Zhou Xun paused for a long time.He said: "A country cannot be without a king. If... choose another one from the clan."

Prime Minister Lu did not expect Zhou Xun to answer so simply.

They said goodbye at the end of the road.He watched Zhou Xun walking on the street where the snow had melted, his back gradually disappeared into the twilight, and there was only one person.

He is only one person.

Zhou Xun always comes to the Hall of Mental Cultivation at Xushi.

The emperor lost consciousness, but fortunately, he can still eat some liquid food, and he can be taken good care of with Xiao Lizi and the others.

He closed his eyes, lying under the quilt, his cheeks were still rosy.

He looked like he was asleep.

He looked like he was about to wake up.Those bright eyes would look at him, and the upturned lips would smile.It seems that the next moment, he will get up, and then take him for a walk in the imperial garden that is about to melt, wearing boots with skates to skate.

The snow has almost melted.Zhou Xun thought, wake up quickly.

Zhou Xun touched his eyelashes with his hands, and in a daze, he thought the other party's eyelashes were trembling.

Then he realized that this was his hallucination.

……

Zhou Xun received a letter from Lu Xiandao.

Half a month ago, he set off from the capital.His injuries haven't fully healed yet, but he has already asked for leave, rode a horse, and left here.

He said he was looking for something.

One thing was also stolen from the Northern Wei Dynasty.That thing is the head of Qin Liang, who is full of evil.

The person who started it is said to be a grand thief.No one ever imagined that those hands that were accustomed to stealing treasures could cut off the opponent's head with such skill.It is said that when his head was cut off, Qin Liang did not resist—after he returned to the Northern Wei Dynasty, he seemed to have completely lost the desire to live.

It's just that when he died, his headless body was still facing a painting, and his hand was stretched out very long, as if he wanted to touch the painting at the last moment of his life.

The content of the painting is very simple, the small pavilion in the green hills is the place where many people meet when they first meet.On the painting, there is a line of small characters written in chic running script.

"Gift to a friend."

"Xiaoshan"

But in the end his hand just fell to the ground.His blood splashed on the wall like a fountain.Surprisingly, however, not just by fate or by chance, not even a drop of blood was stained on that painting.

It still hangs there neatly.The green hills remain unchanged, and the green waters flow forever.No desperate pleas were heard from anyone dying.

The robber's white clothes were stained with blood, half belonged to Qin Liang, and half belonged to himself.However, even when he was forced to the cliff by the pursuers of the Northern Wei Dynasty, he was not afraid at all. He laughed and said that he came to avenge a brother, and he also came to avenge the people in Jingguo who died because of Qin Liang for decades.

After saying this, he jumped off the cliff.

The thief is not dead - his lightness kung fu is always so outstanding, but it cannot be separated from the Northern Wei Dynasty.The emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty regarded him as a thorn in his side, and tried his best to catch him back.

In the middle of the Northern Wei Dynasty, there were frequent news that the thief appeared somewhere again.But his movements are always faster than those who pursued him. Those people rushed over with knives and guns, but they always rushed to nothing.

——After all, he has been so good at escaping since many years ago.

Many people applauded after hearing his legend.Some people praised him for his chicness in juggling officers and soldiers, and some people looked forward to his legend of being a family all over the world.

Only one person knows that he is in exile.

Zhou Xun knew that Lu Xiandao would be able to get him back.After all, back then, he had lifted the curtain of his sedan chair, and saw that handsome young man wearing a wedding dress in the setting sun, winking at him.

He was always so good at catching him.He had given him a prison, but now, Zhou Xun knew that what he wanted to give him was a home he could live in.

Lu Xiandao often sent letters to the capital.According to the letter, he has walked through the long yellow sand.At the end of the yellow sand is the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Where the man wandered.

His search has an end, and the prodigal son trapped in the Northern Wei Dynasty has a way back.

As long as the expectation of meeting the one you seek is always in your heart, every moment of searching is bliss.

Zhou Xun thought so.

At the beginning of spring, he went to see Zhou Cai again.This time it was because of Kang Wang's letter.Zhou Wanwan died, and he finally thought of Zhou Cai again, and wanted to take Zhou Cai to Xinyue Kingdom according to the previous agreement.

But King Kang's real purpose now is different from before.

He seemed to have listened to some wizard's rumors, and firmly believed that Xiaoxue's death was due to a collision with Zhou Cai's fate.

Zhou Cai was the one who killed Xiaoxue.

Even King Kang himself did not enter Jingguo this time, but only sent an envoy.Zhou Xun led the envoys into the small courtyard where Zhou Cai lived again, and when he was still outside, he heard Zhou Cai shouting to hang himself.

Before that, after hearing the news about King Kang, after the arrival of the envoy, he had been looking for death and life for more than two months.

He seemed to have suddenly become stronger, and he seemed to have seen his current essence clearly - like a mess of tattered garbage.In any case, he dared not see King Kang.

He didn't dare to let Kang Wang see his current appearance.

He didn't dare to meet the eyes of those people.

Or...he just wanted to prove something with this, to show that he was a rare commodity.

Zhou Cai was still crying in the room, like a wriggling mess.He quarreled with the persuading envoys, crying and shouting to prove his innocence by death.

"I don't want to live like this! I want...I want to be that Zhou Cai from the past...Kill me!! It's better to kill me than torture me like this!!"

He growled until he saw Zhou Xun coming in.

Then, he watched Zhou Xun sit down helplessly.

Put a knife on the table and give it to him.

"I'll give you this chance." Zhou Xun said.

The envoys and subordinates were frightened and wanted to stop them, but Zhou Xun stopped them.

Zhou Cai raised the knife tremblingly, and he used it against his chin, wailing loudly.

He seemed to see the first half of his life flashing in his mind. From the beginning of cheating the world and reaching the peak, he has been sinking.

Step by step, it rots into the mud, and rots more and more into the mud.

And he knew that Kang Wang was already a lunatic.In his hands, he will end up worse than Zhou Wanwan, not to mention his current mud-like body and even more mud-like heart.

He's just going to rot and stink more and more.

In the past, he was imprisoned here with nothing, and he listened to Zhou Xun's reputation every day, but he never had a chance to make a comeback.He wanted to escape time and time again, but his hope was completely shattered time and time again.Now he finally had a chance, a suicidal, heroic chance, so that he wouldn't go any worse.

This is his only chance of escape.

He was crying and crying, but in the end...

The knife still fell to the ground.

Zhou Cai was taken to the New Moon Kingdom.In his endless despair, he also had a glimmer of fantasy.But he will soon understand that the so-called fantasies are all vain.

Until the future, when the war was rekindled in the New Moon Kingdom, the vengeful prince rode on a horse and cut off the head of King Kang with a spear.He, who was inhuman and survived until now, rolled into the rift of time and space. When he left, he saw the prince of the New Moon Kingdom standing on the throne that should have belonged to him, carefully helping his sister down.

After hating his sister for betraying his mother country and obeying General Li for many years, he finally saw those hands with their nails stripped off that were once the best at playing the piano when he rescued her with indifference and abandonment.

His sister traded all her nails in exchange for him to live until the day he was bought by King Kang.

And for many years after that, she never once played music to General Li.This is her last resistance as a silent weak woman before the violent power.

Silent defiance.

And the blood-stained Prince of the New Moon, who thought he was hard-hearted to the point of violence, finally shed tears at that moment.

But that's all for later.

After sending Zhou Cai away, everything was settled. After a few days, Zhou Xun walked on the road to the capital again.

Beside him was still Prime Minister Lu.

"Spring will be over soon." Prime Minister Lu said.

When I walked here last time, Prime Minister Lu said that winter is about to pass and spring will come.

But now, even spring is coming to an end.

"When the summer solstice arrives, if the emperor hasn't... then." Prime Minister Lu said to Zhou Xun with great difficulty as if he had made up his mind, "You know... right?"

"I made the decision." Zhou Xun said softly.

In fact, it is already a miracle that the world can wait for the emperor until the summer, and everyone works together to maintain it.

"What do you want to do next?" Prime Minister Lu asked him.

"Next? Help the government well and do my best..."

"No, not this one."

Zhou Xun stopped.

He looked at the toes of his boots, where there were already scattered peach petals.

Prime Minister Lu is right, spring is really coming to an end.

He heard Prime Minister Lu say.

"What are you going to do?"

There was a wind blowing through the peach forest, Zhou Xun thought, tomorrow will be a sunny day.

"I used to want him to wake up, but now I think, if he can't wake up..."

Zhou Xun looked at the sky.

"It's good to just wait for him like this."

He smiled.

"I've been waiting for him for a winter and a spring. Then, it doesn't matter if there are a few more summers and autumns."

"You want to take him home? In case one day..."

Prime Minister Lu didn't finish.

In case one day, even his body dies, what should you do?

Zhou Xun didn't speak.

After a long time, Prime Minister Lu heard his voice.

"I will continue to wait for the day when I meet him again, but maybe, I have already waited for him. Even if, he will never come back."

Prime Minister Lu did not understand what he said.He only saw Zhou Xun reaching out his hand at that moment, as if trying to catch the peach blossom petals all over the sky.

Prime Minister Lu was stunned.

He saw that his expression was so clear, and there was no twisted and deep sadness or pain in his imagination at all.

"I like the world he left me very much. I also like my current position." He heard Zhou Xun whisper, as if speaking to the wind, "I can't do it now, but one day, I will accept that fact."

"Actually, I have already waited for him, and he is in my heart."

He doesn't understand.

Prime Minister Lu thought so.

He didn't understand what kind of relationship and bond between these two people, he only saw Zhou Xun as peaceful and peaceful.

After bidding farewell to Prime Minister Lu, Zhou Xun returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, there is a little plum with red eye circles.Seeing Zhou Xun coming, he said, "Master Zhou, you are here again."

Zhou Xun nodded.

Xiao Lizi then told him that the emperor is fine today.Once Xiao Lizi would tell him that the imperial physician pressed the emperor's leg, and if the emperor could wake up, he would be able to get out of bed and take Zhou Xun for a run around the palace immediately.

But now even Xiao Lizi didn't dare to say these things to Zhou Xun.

They seemed to be very cautious, especially when facing Zhou Xun, as if they were afraid of impaling the young man on the spur of the moment.

But Zhou Xun looked calmer than everyone else.

Zhou Xun looked towards the palace road outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation.The emperor once hung peaches all over it.

Those trees withered their branches when the emperor first fell asleep, and bloomed with flowers when the emperor fell asleep, and now...

They are almost withered.

From tomorrow, it will be early summer.

Zhou Xun watched them quietly for a long time, then turned to enter the hall.

Then, he heard Xiao Lizi's voice.

"Actually, Master Zhou, slave, I always knew..." Xiao Lizi was crying, and even forgot to say, "The emperor really likes you. Since meeting you, he has changed, and he seems to have changed." Back to the past, his best appearance..."

"I've always felt that this is like a miracle. You are the beginning of the miracle, and then it's all miracles." Xiao Lizi said, "So..."

He did it for a long time, but couldn't say the next word.

Xiao Lizi was taken down by the green medicine, and when Zhou Xun entered the bedroom, he saw that Hongling's eyes were also red.

Little Deng Zi's eyes were also red.

—They all miss him.

Sitting beside the emperor, Zhou Xun saw that he was still asleep and put his palm on his forehead.

He thought he could always be at peace, always at peace.

But at this moment...

He found himself missing him more than anyone else.

He wanted to see him so much.

Zhou Xun closed his eyes.He bent down and quietly pressed his face against the emperor's.

"Those are all lies to others." He said softly, "I...haven't learned to let you go yet."

He groped in the quilt with his hands and grabbed the emperor's hand.

"I will learn in the future, it takes so long." He closed his eyes and smiled, and after a while, he said, "But now..."

--I want to see you.

He said so in his heart.

……

The vortex of fragments is still slowly rotating, it is getting bigger and bigger, and gradually has a tendency to expand.The tree-like branches at the end swung slowly to take in another soul that was causing all the uncertainty.

It was as if the vortex had come to life.

The universe was silent, but within the colorful vortex, there seemed to be a place where strong depressions and fluctuations occurred.