Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms

Probably because of Li Hu's suggestion, Zhou Hui had a lot of messy dreams that night.

When a person lives to his level, he knows his dreams, and he also wonders how he can recall so many distant and secret past events, and these events, after thousands of years of vicissitudes, are still as clear as yesterday.

It was the time when Phoenix gave birth to the first son, the sky was weird, the universe was unstable, and the pill in the mother's body was absorbed by the embryo rapidly. Many people said that Phoenix could not survive this time.

The phoenix survives in Nirvana, but it doesn't mean it can live forever.Once the soul returns to the infinite return 33 days away, it is said to become eternal, but in fact it is no different from death.

Zhou Hui knelt for seven days and seven nights in front of the Golden Buddha, holding a string of cyan beads in his hand, and turned them thousands of times.

"Are you taking refuge?" Buddha asked for the first time.

Zhou Hui was silent for a long time and said, "No."

Thunder and lightning flashed outside the Buddhist hall, and there was a torrential rain. Countless lightning bolts descended from the sky like a winding dragon, whipping the earth into scorched earth for thousands of miles.

Holding an oil-paper umbrella, Hu Qing came from the winding bluestone path at the foot of the mountain and stood at the entrance of the Buddhist hall.He was like a lonely ghost in a rainy night, his wet face was very pale, and he said faintly: "I can't hold it anymore."

"..."

"Fenghuang said that if it comes to the end, the inner alchemy can be sacrificed to preserve the embryo."

"..."

The lights in the Buddhist hall were like beans, and half of Zhou Hui's side face was hidden in the darkness, making it blurry.

The Buddha asked again: "Are you taking refuge?"

It took a long, long time this time, so long that Hu Qing thought that he had already maintained this position and fell asleep, or simply turned into a stone and took root in the ground, only then did he suddenly open his mouth and say in a hoarse voice: "No. "

On the tenth day, the sky and the earth turned upside down, the black wind blew, and the torrential rain continued, like the legendary ice hell.Demons and ghosts dance wildly in the vast world, glaciers collapse, sea water pours in, and the earth trembles and cracks in the scorching of blood and fire.

Zhou Hui's whole body trembled, and his fingernails dug into the Buddhist beads hard, pinching a few pieces of blue colored glass until they were covered with cracks.

The Buddha asked for the third time: "Are you taking refuge?"

The sharp slivers fell deeply into the palm of his hand, and the blood thread entered the heart of the beads along the fine cracks, reflecting a faint and strange light under the candlelight.

"I……"

He wanted to say that I am willing to take refuge, but the weight of a few words was like a sky-shattering earth-shattering, which made his back bend, and almost every inch of his bones would be broken from it.

"I……"

He closed his eyes tightly and opened his mouth tremblingly, but at this moment he suddenly heard a voice from the front of the Buddhist hall: "It's born! The Phoenix chick has been born!"

"The peacock came to the world, with bright wisdom, perfect merit and virtue, and enlightened Buddhism!"

"Mahamayuli Raja, who was born and fell to the ground, is like a snow-capped mountain and a golden sun, and he is the King of Peacock King!"

……

Zhou Hui's whole body suddenly relaxed, as if he had suddenly lifted a heavy burden, and let out a long, thorough breath.

However, this breath could never be taken back——

"Evil obstacle! It's too late!" The Buddha's voice sounded like thunder in the distant 33 heavens.

"If you don't realize your obsession, you can't teach, and you have lost your last chance!"

"With the sword and ax on your body, you will be reduced to hell, and you will suffer from irreversible atonement forever and ever!"

Zhou Hui looked up and saw Vajra glaring, the Buddha's face was solemn, as if he was about to collapse anytime and anywhere and choose someone to eat.He suddenly stepped back a few steps and gasped for breath, only feeling that his whole body was drenched in cold sweat as if soaked in ice water.

At this moment, Hu Qing came rushing from outside the Buddhist hall, her voice was so sharp that she almost changed her tune: "Zhou, Zhou Hui! Go and see, the newborn's eyes—"

Zhou Hui turned around abruptly, only to see the Nine-Tailed Fox's face was ashen, full of indescribable fear and horror, he couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"The newborn opened its eyes," Hu Qing said tremblingly, "the pupils reflected...the dead face of the phoenix."

The beads fell to the ground with a clatter, the silk thread broke, and the blue colored glaze beads scattered all over the ground.

·

Zhou Hui suddenly opened his eyes.

At some point outside the window, it began to rain heavily, crackling on the glass windows of the hotel, and an imperceptible damp and salty smell floated in the air.

Chu He was passing him, reaching for the mobile phone on his bedside table, and turned back without saying a word.

Zhou Hui laughed, turned over and pressed heavily on him, and groped down with one hand: "I don't believe you haven't been taught to be good... huh? How many times have you suffered to learn to be smart?"

The smell of lust that had just calmed down in the dark and warm room began to steam again, making people feel drowsy in the hazy rainy night.Chu He groaned indistinctly, and subconsciously grasped the bed sheet, but Zhou Hui grabbed his fingers in the gap between shaking, and clasped them in his palm.

"I just wanted to... make a call..."

"No signal," Zhou Hui gasped heavily while kissing him vigorously, "You and I are the same in the enchantment, or do you think you can get out?...It's not that simple, I tell you..."

The rubbing of the naked body creates a scorching heat, which makes people very greedy and addicted.For a moment, Chuhe felt that the night was like bottomless water, enough to drown a person alive in it; he tried his best to raise his head, breathing heavily, but felt that the hand stuck on his throat was getting tighter and tighter.

In the end, when he was about to suffocate, a blurred light suddenly flashed in his mind, as if colorful blocks exploded, his whole body trembled like an electric shock, his hands and feet were weak, and even his internal organs were convulsed.

He let out a painful and blood-pulling gasp that he didn't hear.

Zhou Hui also took a deep breath, and after a while he gradually calmed down. He lowered his head and the two kissed briefly.

Chuhe was so exhausted that he lay down and didn't want to move.Zhou Hui was lying on his side beside him. In the darkness, sweat could be seen glistening on his strong, naked upper body. His voice was lazily hoarse after satisfaction: "Who do you want to call?"

"Zhang Shun."

"Is your brother a child who can't grow up? My brother is so anxious to die after sleeping out for one night?"

Chu He lay quietly without moving, and suddenly asked after a while, "Did you have a dream just now?"

"No." Zhou Hui immediately denied it, paused and said, "Hu Qing has already told your brother that you will go back tomorrow. Why, you can't wait just this night? Your brotherhood is really touching Tut tut."

"..." Chuhe was speechless for a moment, and said, "I'm just wondering, if there is no special reason, why did you bring me into this enchantment for a night? For fun?"

"Can't I do things for no reason?"

"You're not that kind of person. You don't say 90.00%, at least [-]% of what you do is for a reason."

Zhou Hui changed to a more comfortable position and lay beside him, casually said: "It seems that you really don't understand me."

"..." Chu He frowned, then rubbed his brows with his middle knuckles, looking a little confused.

His appearance reminded Zhou Hui of some old, small and warm fragments from a long time ago, and he couldn't help smiling slightly. Just when he was about to tease and tease him, some obscure and gray shadows in the dream just now appeared. It came suddenly again, like a devil full of malice, hiding behind Jingmei's beautiful face, and suddenly showed him a ferocious smile.

Zhou Hui suddenly fell silent.

"You know there is a reason for me to trap you all night, but I can't think of what the reason is for. No matter how you say it, we have different ways of thinking." After a long while, he suddenly smiled jokingly, and stretched out his hand dishonestly on Chu He's chin Checked it.This action is actually very frivolous and even frivolous, but with his handsome and invincible face, there is a kind of masculine charm that makes people's heart beat.

"—Don't worry my dear, it's just for one night. Your husband always wants to have fun, don't you know?"

Chu He looked at him expressionlessly.Zhou Hui blinked and revealed a sly smile.

·

At the same time, suburban development zones, construction sites.

Zhang Shun parked the Ferrari on the side of the road and got out of the car holding an umbrella.I saw that the wilderness was washed away by the heavy rain, and the plains in the distance were undulating, without even a little light, as if some kind of monster was showing huge, endless, dark-black fangs on the horizon.

It was found that the cordon at the scene of the corpse was still wrapped around the barbed wire, but it had been washed away by the heavy rain.

Zhang Shun took a deep breath, silently encouraged himself, lifted the cordon and slipped in.

I didn’t feel scary during the day, but when I stood in front of the construction building at night and looked at the big pit where six coffins had just been dug a few hours ago, all the creepy fear came back.For a moment, Zhang Shun almost wanted to turn around and leave, but thinking about Zhou Hui's seemingly careless but ruthless style, and Li Hu's specious reminders and hints, Zhang Ershao gritted his teeth and stood still.

"How do you use this?" He muttered in a low voice, looking down at the golden Buddha seal on his palm.It seems that during the day, the woman surnamed Li pressed down on the ground and said two spells. It was like watching an IMAX 3D blockbuster with a few reflections on the ground. By the way, what are those two spells?

"Even if you can't get in, it should be ok to say a few words and hand over water, if it doesn't work, call the police..." Zhang Shun said to himself, just about to press his palm into the extremely wet soil in the big pit Suddenly, a bright light flashed on the road in the distance, followed by the bright lights of the car from far to near.

somebody is coming?Startled, Zhang Shun immediately looked around, hesitated for half a second, ran into the construction building, and quickly hid in a pile of scaffolding.

However, he guessed wrong, it was not a police car, but a Grand Cherokee.When approaching the construction site, the big car turned off its headlights and stopped right in front of the construction building. Then the door opened, and several people came down one after another, talking in low voices: "￥%#&%￥..."

"#￥W%(*&..."

Zhang Shun's heart skipped a beat - he's Japanese!

It was the Japanese investor who Mayor Huang said during the day that he bought the construction site!

What are they doing here so late?Did the murder really have anything to do with them?Zhang Shun's heart was beating like a drum, and he couldn't help but peeked out—a few Japanese were working together to remove a long cloth bag from the car, throw it on the ground, and then moved out a huge long wooden box.

Zhang Shun recognized what it was, and his legs went limp at once.

—It was a coffin.

Another boy in a white robe got out of the car, his steps and expression were very stiff, he got out of the car step by step, and stood in front of the cloth bag and the coffin.When Zhang Shun saw it clearly, he almost didn't pee in fright, only to see that the boy was holding a gun on the back of his head. The gunman was a middle-aged man in a gray suit, and all the others stood in a circle and watched.

Is this a murder scene?Did I crash into a murder scene? !

Zhang Shun was trembling like a sieve, and was considering which would be more maneuverable, sneaking away while others were not paying attention, or plopping down to the ground to pretend to be unconscious, so he only heard the gray suit speak, and what he said was in Chinese: "Do it now, Don't make me do it!"

The boy trembled all over, and after a long time he said hoarsely: "But I don't want to kill any more, you can kill me."

After saying the last word, he suddenly became calm and stood there with his eyes closed.

·

The gray suit probably didn't expect the boy to say that. After being stunned for a moment, he was furious. He knocked him down with the butt of his gun, and kicked him a few times.

The boy curled up all over in pain, but he bit him to death and didn't let go. He only let out a short cry of pain when he was in a hurry.The gray suit kicked a few more times. There was nothing he could do, so he said angrily: "Do you think you are the only one who can do it, Yan Lanyu? You guys! Untie this bag!"

The two subordinates at the side immediately untied the cloth bag and took it off, only then did Zhang Shun see that there was a person inside.

The man must have fainted, and he didn't respond to such a big movement.The gray suit snorted, and walked up to the man with a gun in hand.

The young man named Yan Lanyu fell on the ground, probably knowing what was going to happen next, shaking her head and panting in pain.

Zhang Shun didn't react, or this well-protected rich second generation didn't realize that there was such a cruel side in the world.He subconsciously opened his eyes wide, only to see the gray suit raise the gun, and the gun with a suppressor rang out.

The person in the cloth bag shot out a bloody arrow from the top of his head, and then he tilted his head.

Kill, kill!

Zhang Shun trembled as if he had been hit by electricity, he took a half step back in panic, bang!It hit the steel scaffolding with a bang.

At that moment, Zhang Shun felt that the blood in his whole body was frozen into ice. Immediately afterwards, several people not far away turned their heads at the same time and shouted, "Who is there?"

Zhang Shun froze for half a second, turned around and ran!

Facts have proved that the rich second generation can’t run as fast as a well-trained wolf even if the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry. He was caught in the head just a few steps away, and he was thrown to the ground hard, followed by several punches. Head screaming.Soon the severe pain made him lose the strength to scream, and he could only beg for mercy intermittently between fists hitting his face and body.

For a few seconds, he even thought that he would be beaten to death—he never thought that being pushed down and pumped by someone was such a horrible and hopeless thing. From this, he was not even as good as that young boy named Yan Lanyu, at least He just gritted his teeth and didn't beg for mercy...

"Okay!" Someone suddenly shouted.

The fists gradually stopped, and Zhang Shun gasped for a while in embarrassment, before the severe pain penetrated the numbness and slowly returned to the reflex nerves.I saw the gray suit standing in front of him with a gun in his hand, his face full of gloom, the boy not far away shouted sharply: "Don't kill him, I'll make you the seventh laughing corpse for you!"

Zhang Shun stared at the gun, feeling his mind go blank.It's really stiff and blank, not even the thoughts of "my life is over", "I will be a good man again in 18 years" and "my brother, I'm going to die, will we meet in the underground soon?" remember.

"...Tie him up." Zhang Shun felt that it took a whole century, but in fact it only took a few seconds before he heard the voice of the gray suit: "Bring him here. If the body fails to be made, use him." top number."

Those subordinates immediately pulled out the rope from the Cherokee, tied Zhang Shun in front of the gray suit and the boy.The boy had already got up, half-knelt beside the man's body, stared at Zhang Shun and asked, "Who are you and why are you here?"

Zhang Shun trembled uncontrollably. He knew it was too embarrassing, but he really couldn't stop it.He desperately thought that he was still too inexperienced, not as mature and calm as his brother at critical moments, and was useless at all.

"I... I'm passing by, I'm passing by to make soy sauce, please don't kill me..."

Yan Lanyu smiled briefly, her expression was very sad: "You'd better close your eyes."

close your eyes?Why?Are you really going to kill me for the eighth body?Damn, I will also lie in the coffin and laugh like a ghost? ... Zhang Shun had 1 thoughts in his mind in an instant, only to hear the young man say: "The next process will be a bit disgusting, I will take out all the internal organs of this person, and then do some measures to make his face... you still Better close your eyes."

Zhang Shun stared at him dumbfounded, realized that the boy was not joking, immediately closed his eyes tightly and turned around.

There was a rustling sound from behind him, followed by heavy blood, and the wet thing fell to the ground with a crackling sound. After realizing what it was, Zhang Shun immediately got goosebumps all over his body.

He didn't realize it himself, but he was already shaking so much that he couldn't even stand upright, and several Japanese laughed obviously.

"Okay," Yan Lanyu said hoarsely after an unknown amount of time, "put him in."

Several people came forward, lifted the corpse, and put it in the coffin.

Zhang Shun exhausted all his courage to open his eyes a little - he thought that if he didn't die tonight, he must remember what this person looked like, so that he could burn some miss for this unlucky old man during the holidays iPhone or something.Unexpectedly, he was frightened as soon as he opened his eyes. He saw that the corpse was stripped naked, the corners of the mouth were grinning to the ear, and it was placed in a strange posture of sitting cross-legged. One hand stabbed a knife into his chest, and the other One hand is raised flat, with the index finger stretched out and pointing straight ahead.

Zhang Shun was so frightened that he saw a few Japanese who were not shy. They put the corpses in the coffin, closed the coffin lid, and began to dig the soil in the big pit where six coffins were dug out during the day with a special tool. .

They dug very fast and worked very hard. Fortunately, Zhang Shun was not allowed to dig along with him—Zhang Ershao thought that they should think they were troublesome, rather than having learned the provisions of the Geneva Convention that prisoners of war are not allowed to do coolies.The soil at the bottom of the pit was loose, and soon they dug a large pit seven feet square, lifted the coffin and buried it in it.

Yan Lanyu sighed and sat on the ground, and said to Zhang Shun, "Stay back."

Zhang Shun hurriedly took a few steps back, only to see that he took out something from his neck, which seemed to be a sharp off-white pendant.He pricked his middle finger with the pointed end of the pendant, and began to draw symbols on the ground with blood, muttering something while drawing.

All the Japanese backed away, but the gray suit stepped forward and put the muzzle of a gun on his head.

"Is this necessary, Uncle Aida?" Yan Lanyu asked mockingly without looking back.

The gray suit said coldly: "Your cunning character like a fox, who knows if you will deliberately make something wrong, so that all of us will be buried here?"

Yan Lanyu didn't seem to bother to answer at all, but from Zhang Shun's perspective, he could see out of the corner of his eye that he erased a section of the rune imperceptibly and redrawn it with a few strokes.

As the runes became more and more dense, the surrounding wilderness gradually became darker and darker.Zhang Shun is particularly sensitive in a tense environment, and soon he found that the rain that had already thinned had stopped, and then the wind blew harder, and layers of dark clouds covered the miserable white hairy moon like a thick swamp , the entire wilderness became as pure as ink, and even the light of the flashlight more than ten steps away became blurred.

Yan Lanyu was still painting without raising her head.Both his and Aida's faces seemed to glow blue, looking extremely terrifying.

Zhang Shun shivered, and then, he heard long and shrill screams coming from the depths of the wilderness, coming from far and near in all directions.

The Japanese also made a slight restlessness, looked up and looked around, but couldn't see anything.In the darkness, there seemed to be countless ghosts flying from afar with long wails, floating above their heads, and even lying on people's ears, making tragic and sharp wailing.

This eerie and frightening atmosphere is like a live-action Hollywood ghost movie. Several Japanese people are holding flashlights that have completely turned into green light, and their legs are shaking—only Zhang Shun standing on the side is terrified. Instead, he broke out into a self-defeating calmness, thinking that there is nothing to be afraid of ghosts. Grandpa has seen ghosts in his bedside, and has violently attacked demons. You Japanese devils are much scarier than ghosts, okay?

"How could this be?" Aida asked Yan Lanyu loudly, ignoring the stinky cold wind that was lying on his shoulder and blowing towards his ears, "What did you do?!"

"This is normal," Yan Lanyu said calmly while painting, "The Seven Laughing Corpse attracts countless lonely souls and wild ghosts from all directions, and too many ghosts will cause the earthborn fetus to convulse due to the extreme pain, which will shake the earth's veins... ..."

Before the words finished, there was a sudden muffled bang, and everyone felt the ground under their feet tremble.

"It's the earth's fetus!" Aida exclaimed in surprise, and then exulted: "The earth's fetus is moving!"

Yan Lanyu didn't bother to respond to him, the spell had consumed too much of his energy, he pricked his finger with that strange off-white pendant again, painted the last few strokes stained with blood, and suddenly got up and took a few steps back.

Immediately afterwards, the earth trembled, and there was a roar of cracking!

Everyone fell down amidst the exclamation, Zhang Shun was caught off guard and fell like a dog eating shit, and instantly spit out half of his bloody front tooth.Before he got up and scolded his mother, he saw the big pit under his feet being cracked, and the cracks spread rapidly to the ground with terrible creaking sounds, forming a bottomless black gap in a few seconds, and at the same time, countless cracks quickly spread to the ground. Crawl in all directions.

The corner of the coffin that was just buried in the ground was exposed through the opening, and there was a sudden bang, followed by a force coming from the opening in the ground—Zhang Shun subconsciously knew that something was pulling it—the coffin was stuck in the soil and shook. A few times, followed by a whoosh, it was pulled in forcefully by the thing underground!

Zhang Shun was terrified, took the opportunity to turn around and ran, and then Aida roared: "Catch him, let him go down first!"

A few Japanese rushed forward and pressed him tightly in an instant.Zhang Shun tried his best to resist and struggle to no avail. He was tied behind his back and escorted to the entrance of the cave. He couldn't help but panic and said, "Don't go down! There is something below! The coffin, the coffin was taken away!"

Aida showed a mocking smile and ordered his subordinates: "Look at how deep it is inside."

Several Japanese tied the bricks to the rope and threw them into the hole. Because the tremors of the ground had not completely subsided, and the opening of the crack in the ground was very steep, they pulled one by one. After a while, the bricks touched the ground, and they pulled out the rope to measure. It was measured that there were more than [-] meters inside.

Aida pointed to Zhang Shun and said, "You, go down first."

More than 20 meters!Sliding down the rope may fall to your death!Not to mention there are such weird things inside!Zhang Shun desperately shook his head and yelled: "Don't! Don't let me go down! If I die, my family will definitely not let you go! I have the money, and you can tell me how much you want!"

"Money," Aida sneered, "For people like us, money is the least valuable thing. Send him down!"

Several subordinates immediately pushed Zhang Shun into the cracks in the ground, Zhang Ershao struggled and screamed, and was beaten several times on the face and body in confusion.Although the Japanese are all well-trained security personnel, Zhang Ershao was really desperate at the moment, and he was not pushed down immediately for a while. As a result, Aida became more and more annoyed after waiting for a few minutes, and pulled out suddenly. Gun shouted: "You can't go down, don't force me to throw your body down to explore the way!"

Zhang Shun screamed in fright, his legs and feet were weak, and he was pushed violently by his subordinates and almost fell into the crack of the ground.

"Let go of him," at this moment, Yan Lanyu got up and walked forward, held down the men who were pulling Zhang Shun, and said in a calm and unquestionable tone, "I'll be the first to go down."

The subordinates stopped hesitantly, and looked at Aida with consulting eyes.Aida's expression was rather strange, he looked Yan Lanyu up and down, and then slowly hummed: "You are still such a woman... Anyway, you have to go down anyway, it doesn't matter if you go down early to explore the way."

Yan Lanyu sneered and did not answer.He took off his outer hunting clothes, and he turned out to be wearing a bunt underneath. The young man was thin and vigorous.After his subordinates tied a climbing rope around his waist, he walked down the steep dirt slope step by step. When he came to the cave, he looked back at Zhang Shun and said, "Follow me, don't be afraid."

He looked very young, seventeen or eighteen at most, maybe fifteen or sixteen.A child of this age is usually still in middle school, and his eyes already have vicissitudes and hardships that many adults do not have.

At that moment, an inexplicable feeling hit Zhang Shun's heart hard. He suddenly thought that it has always been like this. Whenever there is danger, he is always blocked behind others—Chu He, Zhou Hui , even that woman named Li Hu, and now this teenager again...

He was always the one to be protected, and he always watched others get hurt and bleed in front of him.

Zhang Shun opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound, and nodded heavily after a while.

Yan Lanyu jumped down without looking back, Zhang Shun was pushed hard by the Japanese, followed by him staggeringly fell into the crack of the ground.When he went down, he wiped his forehead hard against the wall of the pit. Before he felt the pain, he suddenly lost weight, and with a gasp, he fell at least two or three meters vertically.

With a plop, he fell heavily and sat down on a raised stone, grinning his teeth in pain, only to hear Aida ask from above: "How is it down there?"

Yan Lanyu was in front of him, without turning her head, she said, "Put another piece of rope on!"

Immediately afterwards, he turned around and made a "shh" gesture, took out a dagger from his waist, and stuffed it into Zhang Shun's arms.

"you……"

Yan Lanyu interrupted Zhang Shun, speaking quickly and softly, her fluent Chinese was not at all Japanese: "Listen, I will lead these people to a dead end later, if you get the chance, run away Bar."

"What about you?"

A very light smile appeared on the boy's face, "I'm going to kill all of them."

Zhang Shun didn't know what to say at that moment, but the few seconds were extremely heavy for him.After a while, he swallowed and said firmly, "I'll stay and help you!"

Yan Lanyu smiled and shook her head, pointing to him the off-white flaky pendant on her chest: "If you have a chance, after I die, take this pendant, it can protect you from this cave. , please tell the news of my death to Zhou Hui who was with you during the day, and ask him to tell someone surnamed Yu in Guoan that this fragment is what Guoan has been looking for."

The cave was very dark, but Zhang Shun felt tears welling up from the corners of the boy's eyes, even though he couldn't hear any sound.

"I can't run alone," Zhang Shun gasped and vetoed with difficulty: "You are still so young, I can't be so... Who is that Yu? Can he come to save you? Either you come with me, we... ..."

Yan Lanyu said: "He was the one I rescued two years ago. I gave up the chance of freedom to save his life. He promised to come back to save me two years later, but he missed the appointment."

The boy paused sadly, and said in a low voice: "Please tell him that Yan Lanyu is dead, this is the last thing I can give him."