How to catch a demon god? !

Seeing Zicheng's black face, Qiao Pingyang seemed to be so angry that he couldn't express it, so he didn't hold back anymore, and took out a book from his arms: "Here is the sheepskin booklet, I can return it to you. But there is no According to me, you can't even touch the corners of the horoscope in your life. How about it, do you agree to the conditions?"

Zi Cheng asked: "Why did you do this for Ling Fengmian?"

Qiao Pingyang found it quite funny, and threw the question back to him: "Why did you do this for Wanqin? Slaying a dragon is a heinous crime. You don't want your spiritual root anymore?"

Zi Cheng was silent.

Qiao Pingyang simply threw the sheepskin booklet out, and the booklet drew a parabola in the air and landed in Zicheng's hand: "Next." He looked at Zicheng's face again, and sighed, "Are you done with the entanglement? After this There is no such store in the village, and it will be too late for you to cry after I go down."

Zicheng wondered subconsciously: Go down?It means where to go...

But this is not the point for him. He wants to know what happened to Wanqin 20 years ago. If he can know the truth, everything else doesn't matter to him.He doesn't care.Apart from Wanqin, he couldn't spare his mind to care about others.Holding the sheepskin booklet in his hand, he finally turned a corner and agreed to Qiao Pingyang's condition: "Don't step into Ling Fengmian's territory again, and don't pester him anymore. It's clear, clear, okay, no problem at all. The premise is—— I am satisfied with the answer."

"The disk was encrypted by Wanqin, and I found the password and unlocked it." Qiao Pingyang stared at Zi Cheng with bright eyes, "Zi Cheng, look carefully at my left eye."

Zi Cheng followed the sound to look at his left eye, the human pupils that should have been jet black turned out to be slightly purple.

This--

It was Wanqin's pupil color.

He resisted the urge to immediately pull Qiao Pingyang's eyeballs out, and said with a trembling voice, "...explain clearly to me."

"Sure enough, you can see it. That's right, it's Wanqin's pupil color. This matter is too long to talk about, so let's skip it for now."

"I said it, explain it clearly." Zicheng coldly pointed the dragon tail halberd at Qiao Pingyang again.

Qiao Pingyang gave an irritable "tsk".

It seems that we can only start from the beginning... He originally wanted to speak briefly, but it seems that it won't work.He is obviously in a hurry!Forget it, don't continue to waste time, just talk.So he summarized the ins and outs of the matter at twice the usual speed.

The source of this incident was Qiao Qianyu's inadvertent sentence that she seemed to have heard "snow in spring" when she was a child.The incentive was the text message from the turtledove. On the night of the winter solstice on the 22nd, Turtledove sent text messages to Qiao Pingyang three times after sending the message "I have something to tell you".It explained in great detail that Zi Cheng suddenly appeared within half a month, and that he pretended to have reached an agreement with Zi Cheng, and that he didn't want to report directly to Ling Fengmian, and after repeated entanglements, he still directly told the traded item—Qiao Pingyang himself.

Qiao Pingyang believes that this opportunity cannot be missed.

On the second day, that is, the 23rd, he ran to Qiao's courtyard and directly asked Qiao Ran, the longest-lived human being he knew.When Qiao Qianyu was young, she heard the adults in the family chatting about the snowfall in the spring in Qiao's courtyard, but Qiao Pingyang, who was already a teenager at that time, didn't know anything about it, which was unnatural.Qiao Pingyang's first speculation was that he might be the one who was "hidden up" about this incident.

In December, when the cold wind raged, Qiao Ran also moved the tea drinking place from the courtyard to the lobby.He sat on a mahogany chair that looked old, listened to Qiao Pingyang, and made a pot of good tea.

"Everything is preordained."

Qiao Pingyang was not ashamed to ask, "Grandpa, what do you mean by that?"

Qiao Ran picked up the teacup and smelled the fragrance of the tea, but he didn't drink it for a long time, and said in a genuine way: "Ping Yang, this matter shouldn't be told by me, an elder from another generation. It should be told by your parents , to tell you personally. After all, they were the ones who decided to hide it from you, or even from everyone, in order to protect you. But now that they are long gone, since you asked, maybe the time to tell you has come. "

Qiao Pingyang's heart was tensed. When he lived to be 30 years old, if he suddenly told him that he was picked up, that his father was not his father, his mother was not his mother, and his niece was not his niece. It's a little hard to accept.

"Not even half a year after you were born, your mother carried you to wash clothes by the Li River every day."

...Such a realistic development?But it's so good, it's real.

Qiao Pingyang was relieved for some reason.

"In April of that year, you were only five months old. You hadn't learned to call your mother yet, but you could already crawl all over the floor. Your mother led Ping Hao and carried you on her back. When she went to the Lijiang River, she untied you and put you aside. Let Ping Hao watch you. But Ping Hao himself is still a child, and you fell into the Li River by yourself if you didn't pay attention. I didn't have time to hold you." Qiao Ran finally took a sip of tea, and the wrinkles at the end of his eyes followed. Seeing the trembling of his eyelids deepening from time to time, "Ping Hao immediately jumped down to save you, but the deeper the river, the more chaotic you are, and you sink very quickly, and you can't touch it at all. On that day, there was a snowfall at night. .It may be that your mother's sadness even God can't stand it."

Qiao Pingyang was almost taken aback when he heard this.

Uh...so, what's up?This is - he hit the street? !At five months old? !

"Grandpa, what's the situation? You mean I fell under the Li River and sank... I couldn't be rescued?"

Qiao Ran nodded: "It's sunk. It can't be saved."

……

What an international joke?

Qiao Ran went on to say: "When I started preparing for your funeral at home, I think it was three days later. It happened to be the rainy day, and your parents went to the Li River again, where you fell and wanted to pay a final memorial service. You know, you're just lying on the ground, wrapped in a candle bag of delicate fabric."

Qiao Pingyou was confused again: "Grandpa... are you sure it will be in three days?" This is three hours is not scientific.

"I'm old, but I'm not old and foolish. It's just three days later. You're fine when I bring you back, you can breathe, your little hands and feet are still so naughty, and it hurts to kick people." Qiao Ran squinted at his precious grandson , "This matter is strange. Otherwise, there is no need to hide this matter. You are dead and alive again. Your parents are afraid that people will look at you with colored glasses, so the Qiao family is strictly forbidden to mention this matter again. .Including the year, the snow in spring, etc., as long as it is related to this matter, I will never mention it. So you said Qianyu heard it when you were a child, maybe someone in Qiao's courtyard slipped it when you were not at home. "

Qiao Pingyang tried very hard to digest this matter, but it was not that easy, after all—it was too inexplicable... It was great that he was his own, but it was too bad that he seemed to have died once.

"I can probably guess what you're going to ask next, how did you survive."

"...Grandpa, if you know it well, just tell me."

Qiao Ran put down the empty teacup, poured another cup for himself, and said, "Simple. It is rumored that there are three life-saving medicines in this world, one is the phoenix tail plume, the other is the Yushan snow lotus that has bloomed for thousands of years, and the third is the dragon's eyes."

The eye of the flood dragon.

This is really true, there is nowhere to find if you break through the iron shoes...

Qiao Pingyang understood Qiao Ran's meaning in seconds: "The most likely way for me to fall into the river is the third one. A dragon rescued me."

"Exactly. It's just that the dragon's eye in your body is not in the best condition and is not stable. Maybe your body temperature has been lower than usual in the past two years?"

"...Really. Wait, do I still hang up when it fails?"

Qiao Ran clapped his palms and smiled, "It's so fast, no matter how bad it is, it's still Jiaolong's eyes, and it won't be a problem if it lasts for another 30 years."

Qiao Pingyang didn't have time to be happy, because he found a real urgent question - Wanqin's eye was already blind but was used to save his eye by accident, so it must be taken out!What Xie Chen said was that the eye must be placed on the horoscope to unlock it, so it must first be taken out of his body.He thought for a moment and asked, "Grandpa, what if I take out the Eye of the Flood Dragon?"

Qiao Ran didn't expect him to ask such a question, so he hesitated for a while and said, "It's not impossible. It's best not to."

"Must it be?"

"The follow-up will become very complicated. It's hard to say whether I can save you again."

As long as Qiao Pingyang has [-]% hope at this moment, he is willing to take a gamble.If this is beneficial to them and can stop Zicheng, then his "complicated follow-up" will not be a problem.Afterwards, Qiao Ran talked to him about the so-called "follow-up" in detail. He held the view that children and grandchildren have their own blessings. He would not stop Qiao Pingyang from making his own decisions, but he asked Qiao Pingyang to be responsible for the decisions he made.In the end, he gave Qiao Pingyang a few important instructions before letting him go.

After that, Qiao Pingyang went to get to know the Chen family without stopping.It is not difficult to take out the Eye of the Flood Dragon. If you don't realize that there is this bead in your body, you won't feel it. But once you realize it, you can easily find the exact location by running your spiritual power for two weeks, and then use your spiritual power to force it out of your body.Afterwards, the astrology disk was successfully unlocked.

According to Qiao Ran's time point, it would take less than three days for the Eye of the Flood Dragon to take effect after it was put into his body, so correspondingly, it would take less than three days to take effect after it was taken out.Calculated from the 23rd, he will encounter "complicated follow-up" around the early morning of the 25th and 26th.But before that, he wanted to get Zicheng done.So he communicated with Turtledove and set the trading time in the second half of Christmas Eve.It is also good for Jie Chen to have enough time to interpret the horoscope, which is his biggest weight when facing Zi Cheng.

On the 24th, when Jie Chen was trying to solve the problem, he visited Qiao's Courtyard again.Show Qiao Ran the Eye of the Flood Dragon that has been taken out.Under the guidance of the experienced demon hunters of the older generation, he sensed some memories that seemed to belong to Wanqin himself through the already dim eyes of the dragon.Very vague, with a stream of consciousness, the back of a young man often appears in Wanqin's memory, and the gentle "Zicheng" every sentence seems to be the calling voice in Wanqin's heart.

Qiao Pingyang had some thoughts in his heart.

Finally, in the early morning of Christmas Day, Jie Chen finished reading the astrology chart and sent him a super long message that couldn't be a "short" message at all.He finished reading it on the terrace in the severe cold and deleted it.And when Ling Fengmian asked, he flicked past him with a few slaps.

These were the three days that Qiao Pingyang had spent every step of the way.

Xie Chen's text message was his bargaining chip for daring to appear in front of Zi Cheng and brazenly demanding Zi Cheng not to provoke Ling Fengmian again.

At this moment, he used twice the speed to highlight the key points, focusing on how Wanqin got his left eye.Zicheng's expression was always ugly, as if he was playing games with himself in his heart, wondering whether he should listen to the one-sided words of this cunning human being in front of him.

"So why do you have the same eye color as Wanqin?"

Qiao Pingyang can only explain that this is a temporary phenomenon, because he used his spiritual power to read some of the remaining memories through Wanqin's left eye, and because he relied on the eyes of the dragon for 30 years to continue his life, it can be said that his It is not an exaggeration to say that the body and Wanqin's left eye are integrated, so part of him is temporarily mixed into Wanqin's afterimage.For example the faintly visible eye color, for example the tone of voice when he called Zi Cheng.But these will fade, after all, the eyes have been taken out.

Qiao Pingyang took out a small sachet from his bosom, and tossed it lightly again, Zi Cheng quickly took it with his sharp eyes.

"This is Wanqin's left eye."

Zi Cheng didn't open it to look, but held it in his hands, not daring to squeeze it hard for fear of breaking it, and he didn't dare to look at it.That was a part of Wanqin, and he didn't have the courage to look at it now.

Qiao Pingyang trembled when he saw him showing timidity for the first time, and he had no sympathy for the Fallen Demon, and his face was not very good-looking.He couldn't laugh.Regardless of whether Wanqin deliberately wanted to hide his left eye and happened to meet the baby Qiao Pingyang who fell into the river and was hanging by a thread, maybe Wanqin just used him to hide the password, but in the end it did save his life.Is his benefactor.That's all, he has felt Wanqin's tenderness, sadness, and even some despair through that withered left eye, and he has already realized what it means to make people play tricks.

"About the horoscope, I'll start with the conclusion." Qiao Pingyang sighed inaudibly, "That horoscope is your destiny."

Zi Cheng froze in place, as if frozen by the north wind.

"That's a secret that Wanqin didn't want anyone to know, so he hid it."

"...Why? Why hide my fate."

Qiao Ping frowned with a word of Chuan between his eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "To protect you. I don't really understand the arrangement of the stars on the disk. Mingmen wrote a long list, all of which are nonsense. The point is, you have a life-and-death calamity." .”

Zicheng was dumbfounded when he heard the words: "Every dragon has life and death kalpas. If it fails to pass the seven kalpas, it will die. What's there to hide?"

"Yes, but yours is a little different." Qiao Pingyang was thinking about how to say it to minimize the impact, "There is a little shadow flickering on your Seven Killing Star, which has existed since you were born, specifically it has always been Someone can conquer you, and this person will pass the catastrophe on the same day as you. Seven catastrophes... If there is him, you will definitely die. When I say this, you should understand... Fate cannot be changed, so the only thing Wanqin can do It means dying in front of you. As long as he disappears, your Seven Killing Star will naturally see light again. If he dies, you will be able to live. I have read some memories of Wanqin, and most of his memories are the back of a young man. I guess the boy is you, because he has been calling your name. The reason why this astrolabe is hidden is because the last person he wants to be known is you..."

Zicheng listened to Qiao Pingyang's words in astonishment, and the world seemed to lose color for a while.He couldn't hear the north wind whistling, and he couldn't see the refracted light on the snow, as if everything in this world was abandoning him and leaving him at this moment.

"Wanqin's Seven Tribulations failed on purpose. He probably didn't use demon power at all. He just used his physical body and spiritual roots to resist directly, so he couldn't even keep the shape of his spiritual roots." It was very painful, Qiao Pingyang couldn't imagine Whether it is the pain in the body or the pain in the heart, he is not Wanqin, and he can't empathize with him just by imagining, "In the end, the knife that Ling Fengmian gave him was a kind of relief for him. If you don't believe it, I have already I gave you both the booklet and Wanqin's left eye, you can see after eating the beads... although I guess you won't eat them."

Zicheng still kept a motionless posture, staring at Qiao Pingyang, but his eyes were out of focus, as if he saw a farther place through Qiao Pingyang.

Qiao Pingyang waited silently for a long time, before Zi Cheng lost control and ran away.

He waited and waited, until he thought that Zi Cheng would never speak again, what he waited for were Zi Cheng's tears.

Zicheng stood in the barren snow, holding the small sachet with beads carefully in his hand, his sight was unfocused, and his expression didn't even change, but tears burst through the gate like a flood.The tall man dressed in black, who never showed weakness and even slaughtered dragons, silently let go of all his defenses at midnight.

Qiao Pingyang's left eye felt a dull pain like burning, perhaps it was the last cry of Wanqin's afterimage before it disappeared.He stood up and patted the snow on his body, approached Zicheng, raised his hand for the first time and pressed Zicheng's face into the hollow of his neck and shoulders: "You cry like this, I look like a bad person."

Zicheng let him hold his head, without moving.His tears dripped down Qiao Pingyang's blood-dried neck, and soon got wet.

Qiao Pingyang patted Jiao's shoulder again, and comforted him, "I'm also a dying person who has half-stepped into Hades, so I'm speaking from the bottom of my heart. Wanqin didn't tell anyone that he sacrificed himself so that you can live, and he definitely doesn't want to You fell into the devil. It sounds a bit chicken soup, but it is also true. If he knew that you also killed Ling Fengmian and Liuliguangyuan in order to strengthen your strength, probably tears could flow down the Yangtze River..."

"... Wanqin..."

"Huh? Wanqin what?"

"Wanqin is my elder brother." Zi Cheng buried his head in the nest of Qiao Ping's raised shoulders, but the tall man was hunched over, wandering like a young bird that had lost its support.

"On the same day, he broke his shell for 5 minutes first, so he became an older brother."

Qiao Pingyang didn't say a word, he didn't want to interrupt Zicheng's words.Wanqin had kept a secret all his life, but he broke it for Ling Fengmian.The person Wanqin was silent to the point of protecting until death, he hurt for Ling Fengmian.This is what he owes Wanqin.

Zi Cheng laughed lowly twice, and continued: "He learned fate after five calamities, but he didn't count on me for anything. He moved to Lijiang not long ago, and never saw me again. I thought he hated me. This brother is holding him back. I gave him the parchment booklet when he was a child. He keeps it."

After a pause, the two were relatively silent.Qiao Pingyang guessed that Wanqin just wanted to stay away from Zicheng at first, but later found that even if he didn't meet, no matter how far away he was, his fate would not change, so he finally made such a bad plan during the Seven Tribulations.Since two people can only live one, he sacrificed himself.

Qiao Pingyang pushed his head away: "Wanqin gave both your life and mine, so live well. I am a monster catcher, so I should catch you, but for Wanqin's sake, I let you live. The dragon slaying incident The matter is very important, and if you can hide it for a while, you will not be able to hide it for a lifetime, and soon there will be a Garuda to clean you up for me. I will tell you everything you want to know. I ask you to do it. "

Zicheng's face was stained with tears, his eyes regained some vitality, and he nodded slightly as a promise.

"Also, Bai Meng."

Without waiting for him to continue, Zicheng said with a self-mockery: "I still have nothing to argue about. Bai Meng stays if he wants to stay, and leaves if he wants to go."

Qiao Pingyang responded, and took out his phone to check the time.Before I knew it, it was past zero.

"I may die, so send my body to the turtledove."

Zicheng was too busy to take care of himself, and he didn't have the strength to ask him, so he agreed.