Strange Records of Xijing

"So, what we encountered was an illusion, and everything in the illusion is our inner demon." In the carriage, Gao Zekai, as the leader of the team, summed up the encounter succinctly.

At this time, more than three hours had passed since their carriage got stuck in the crevices of the rocks, and it was hopeless to get out of the customs before dark and rush to the camp led by Zhang Feiran.

"If you hadn't arrived in time, Huang Shi and I would still be trapped in the illusion, thank you very much." Although Pei Jingxing didn't like Gao Zekai's behavior, if Gao Zekai hadn't woke them up in time, he and Huang Shi would have been trapped in the illusion by now Here, even a lifetime can not wake up.He has always acted according to one yardstick. When others saved him, he thanked Gao Zekai without any burden.

Gao Zekai smiled and waved his hands and said: "Actually, thanks to Daoist Su, if it wasn't for Fellow Daoist Su hitting me with a mahogany sword in time, allowing me to see the gap between the illusion and reality, I'm afraid I'm still in the illusion now. Pei Jie Shi, if you want to thank, you have to thank our fellow Daoist Su."

Pei Jingxing was a little embarrassed, touched his nose, but did not dare to look at Su Yan, and said softly, "Thank you."

Gao Zekai's eyes widened, as if he had seen something he had never seen before, and he was amazed: "Oh, our street envoy Pei is actually shy?"

"Who is shy?" Pei Jingxing glared at Gao Zekai, then quickly went to look at Su Yan, seeing that there was nothing unusual on the latter's face, he quickly looked away.

Gao Zekai was still fanning the flames: "Tsk tsk, what did you look like when you thanked me, and what did you look like when you thanked Fellow Daoist Su. If you were not both men, I thought you liked Fellow Daoist Su."

Gao Zekai's unintentional words just hit Pei Jingxing's weakness. He looked at Gao Zekai fiercely with a pair of tiger eyes, and said through gritted teeth: "Shut up!"

Gao Zekai only thought that Pei Jingxing wanted to save face, but never thought that his words just expressed Pei Jingxing's most secret thoughts, so he spread his hands helplessly, and turned to talk to Zhao Shimin.

"Zhao Shimin, what did you see in the illusion?"

Zhao Shimin, who was called suddenly, jumped up from his seat, shaking his head like a rattle: "It's nothing, I didn't see anything."

"According to Su Daoyou, what we can see in this illusion are all our own inner demons. Your obsession, your fear, your remorse, your regrets, all these will appear in the illusion." Gao Zekai's voice It sounds good. Now when he speaks, his voice fluctuates up and down, as if he is singing. Even Su Yan who is at the side can't help but listen.

Unexpectedly, Gao Zekai suddenly changed the subject, and asked Zhao Shimin coldly, "Tell me, what did you see!"

Zhao Shimin hadn't completely escaped from the fear of the illusion that he had experienced before, and was startled by Gao Zekai's contrasting shout and question, his legs softened, and he slid off the seat.

"I...I..." Zhao Shimin was so frightened that his breath became short of breath, and he stammered, "I saw Niu Chunhui...also, and Zhu Zhiwen, and...and other...other princes Wei's people. They...the flesh on both sides of their cheeks...is gone...I...I..."

At the end, Zhao Shimin was sobbing and speechless.

His gaffe was naturally not because he remembered the deceased Prince Wei, but because he was afraid that he would follow in the footsteps of Niu Chunhui and Zhu Zhiwen.During this period of time, Zhao Shimin was in fear all day long, and his father, who had always loved him, was not as good as usual because he was forced to resign from office.He was like a mouse, with no skills or courage, he just wanted to lean against a big tree to enjoy the shade, and followed Zhu Zhiwen all day long.But now Zhu Zhiwen and Niu Chunhui, who were in trouble with him, are both dead, and the prince also suffers from a strange disease, and is in a coma and unbelief, and his last protective umbrella—his father—has a sharp change in his attitude towards him, and he intends to cultivate his younger brother. It is to completely abandon his son!

He no longer had anything to rely on, and he had the same eye pattern as the prince's on his back, so he could only be forced to embark on the road back to the ancient city with Pei Jingxing and others, and he had to worry about Pei Jingxing's actions along the way.

Now, his fear had exceeded the limit he could bear, he was like a child, crying loudly in front of Pei Jingxing and the other three.

Gao Zekai didn't intend to scare Zhao Shimin into tears. He thought that since what he saw in the illusion was all the deepest fear in their hearts, what Zhao Shimin, who had the same eye pattern as the prince, saw was likely to be the weird one. In the ancient city of Northwest China, if some clues were collected in advance, it might be helpful for their actions this time.

It's just that Zhao Shimin didn't expect that Zhao Shimin would cry without saying a few words.And it seems that what he saw was that the people who died in Prince Wei demanded their lives from him, not some ancient city in the northwest.

"Okay, with us here, you can't die." Gao Zekai pulled out a handkerchief in disgust, and threw it in front of Zhao Shimin, "Wipe your face, you are a son of an aristocratic family, crying worse than a child, and you will be ashamed if you say it out .”

Zhao Shimin picked up the handkerchief, rubbed it on his face in embarrassment, and then said flatteringly to Gao Zekai: "Master Gao, I... I can only rely on you."

Immediately afterwards, he turned his head to look at Pei Jingxing: "Mr. Pei, I...I regret what I did back then. I...I really know that I was wrong."

In Pei Jingxing's eyes, his posture was indescribably disgusting.

Can the sentence "I really know I was wrong" bring back what I did back then?

For those comrades who were still eaten by them after they cut off two pieces of cheeks, do they have a chance to speak and resist?

When they were eating and picking on the tenderness of the meat, did they ever think about whether their actions were right or wrong?

When Zhao Shimin and others returned to Xijing and began to eat human flesh again, did they ever think about their companions in the ancient city of buried bones?

These questions filled Pei Jingxing's chest, making him feel pain in his heart, as if being pricked with countless needles.

But he didn't intend to say it out loud. Zhao Shimin had already told him the answers to these questions with his actions.

Gao Zekai observed Pei Jingxing's expression from the side, and came out to smooth things over: "Okay, this time we came to the northwest according to His Majesty's order, and we have to take care of each other. Before leaving the customs, let me say it again, let's put aside personal grievances for now. Let us fail this operation because of your selfishness, no matter who you are, who your parents are, or who your ancestors are, neither I nor my master will forgive you lightly."

In fact, Gao Zekai didn't need to say it, both Pei Jingxing and Zhao Shimin knew that this trip was of great significance to the emperor and the crown prince, and no mistakes were allowed.If things go wrong, the emperor will be the first to let them go without waiting for the national teacher and Gao Zekai to take action.

Zhao Shimin had regained some sense at this time, sat back on his seat, wiped away the tears on his face, lowered his head, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Pei Jingxing glanced at Su Yan, and found that Su Yan was looking at him all the time. Although there was no ripple in his eyes, the concern on his face was enough to make Pei Jingxing's heart warm and his face blush.

"It's fine." Pei Jingxing said to Su Yan.

When they arrived at Shengyongguan, the people in the inn had already prepared a room for Pei Jingxing and his party to rest.

Huang Shi waited for the four of them to get out of the carriage, and drove the carriage to the back. He also confessed that he had to check the carriage again, so as not to encounter any accidents after leaving the customs, so he didn't have to wait for him for dinner.

Zhao Shimin followed Gao Zekai closely, their room was next door, but Zhao Shimin was terrified by the illusion, no matter what he said, he dared not sleep alone, and wanted to sleep on the floor next to Gao Zekai's bed.

It's winter, the severe cold in the northwest is worse than Xijing, and the post station is not my home, there is no ground dragon smoke cage, and even the brazier may not be enough. It's okay to make a living all night. If you really want to lay the floor, you will be woken up in the middle of the night .

Gao Zekai didn't want to have another sick number before leaving the customs, so he persuaded him with good words and repeatedly assured that the post station was safe, but Zhao Shimin refused to listen to what he said, and almost cried while hugging Gao Zekai's thigh.

Gao Zekai had no choice but to ask the people in the post station to move a simple sleeping couch, put it beside his bed, spread a thick blanket, and cover it with a thick quilt for Zhao Shimin to sleep on.

It didn't matter to Pei Jingxing and Su Yan, since they got off the carriage, the two groups of people acted separately.Just when Zhao Shimin begged Gao Zekai bitterly, Pei Jingxing had already led Su Yan to Su Yan's room.

"I live next door to you. Call me if you have anything." Pei Jingxing said, knocked on the wall beside the bed, and leaned against the wall to listen for a while, then said with a smile, "Well, this wall is not Hou, if you knock this way, I can hear it next door."

Su Yan just raised the corner of his mouth, as a response.

Pei Jingxing sensed that something was wrong with Su Yan, so he simply sat across from Su Yan and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Su Yan shook his head.

His concealed appearance was too obvious, Pei Jingxing asked again: "Still thinking about the illusion?"

Su Yan hesitated for a while this time, nodded, and said softly: "In the illusion, when I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was the cliff..."

"Wait," Pei Jingxing interrupted Su Yan once in a while, and asked eagerly and happily, "Can you see it?"

Su Yan nodded first, then shook his head: "It's just in the illusion, and only the left eye can see it. After leaving the illusion, I can't see anything."

Pei Jingxing opened his mouth as if seeing a bubble of hope burst in his eyes, but he didn't know what to say to comfort Su Yan.

Su Yan continued: "I saw the cliff because I was afraid. My eyes can't see anything, and I can only rely on my memory to barely survive. Once in a strange place, I am no different from ordinary blind people. So The first thing I saw was the cliff."

Although Su Yan didn't seem to care much about the injuries to his eyes, he relied on his extraordinary memory to remember the furnishings of his room and the locations of the flowers, plants and trees in Pei Jingxing's yard.But if you are alone, once you are blind, it is impossible to really not care.It was precisely because Su Yan cared that he followed Pei Jingxing to the northwest, and went to the ancient city to find the Zhu Baotoad that could heal his eyes.

"And then?" Pei Jingxing looked at Su Yan's gloomy appearance, and regardless of the entanglement in his heart these days, he grabbed Su Yan's hand, trying to convey his courage along with the warmth of his palm.

"Then...then I saw you," Su Yan said, his hands trembling in Pei Jingxing's palm, "I saw you were injured and fell to the ground."

Pei Jingxing's heart seemed to have been hit hard, he seemed to have noticed something, and he couldn't believe it.

He almost forgot to breathe, and asked again: "And then?"

"Then I saw that you were in pain, very painful," Su Yan said again, "You will talk to me at this time."

Su Yan's inadvertent complaint fell into Pei Jingxing's ears, as if he had taken a medicine with honey, it was bitter and sweet: "I'm sorry, I..."

Speaking of this, Pei Jingxing didn't know what to say anymore.He was afraid that his idea was wrong, he was afraid that Su Yancun had different thoughts from his, and he was afraid that after he said the next words, he and Su Yan would become strangers.

Su Yan didn't notice it, and continued: "Then I don't think so, if it were you, you would definitely not cry out for pain, you would definitely make me be careful, and even try to protect me. I guess that you are pretending, So I pretended to protect that you, and showed him my back. I guessed it, that you suddenly stood up and wanted to kill me, because I was prepared, so I blocked his blow. That you... …He turned into a rat demon, I didn’t realize it at first, but when he showed his real body later, I found out that he was the first demon my master took me to catch, and he was already refined by my master. My master It is absolutely impossible for a little demon to escape and appear in front of me after many years. I found that whatever I think in my head, what scene will appear in front of me. I suspect that this is an illusion. What we saw Everything is based on the fear in our hearts. As a result, as soon as my idea appeared, the illusion was shattered."

Pei Jingxing stared blankly at Su Yan, not knowing how much he had listened to.It was already dark at this time, and the candlelight in the room reflected Su Yan's face extraordinarily warmly, so that Pei Jingxing couldn't help leaning closer, wanting to touch Su Yan's face with his lips to see if it was true. Generally warm as imagined.

After Su Yan finished speaking, he asked again: "What about you, what did you see?"

This question was like a heavy hammer, hitting Pei Jingxing's heart hard.He stood up abruptly, and said stiffly, "It's nothing, just, just like Zhao Shimin, seeing his dead companion."

He was eager to cover up his secret, so naturally he didn't notice the disappointment that flashed across Su Yan's face.

"I will leave the customs early tomorrow morning. Everyone is tired today, especially you. Go to bed early and call me if you need anything." Pei Jingxing quickly finished his words, turned around and left.

He must leave, and leave immediately.He knew that if he stayed in this room for a while longer, the secrets in his heart would no longer be secrets.

The author has something to say: the second update, something was interrupted before, this time I will make up a little bit