seven relics

What is even more surprising is that in the reflection of Lian Jiangyue, his arms are intact, and when he moves, his right hand also moves naturally.

Lian Jiangyue stared at the reflection and shook her head. Suddenly, he saw the reflection of Monk Que next to his own reflection, and he raised his head. Monk Que Que came to him at some point.The two were so close, Lian Jiangyue could see everywhere but the soft light emanating from the monk's body, so that the outline of the monk was a little blurred - he looked so unreal, as if he came from his dream.Lian Jiangyue couldn't help reaching out her hand to touch his face, it felt hard and moist.He seemed to be stroking a delicate suet jade.

Lian Jiangyue lowered her hand and said: "There was a time in the past, I really wanted to see you again, I thought about it day by day, dreamed about it at night, I even dreamed about you often, but for some reason, there was another feeling in my heart at that time. This kind of escaping emotion, and I don’t want to see you that much, I always feel that nothing good will happen when I see you again, so I get scared, and now I see you again, I don’t feel like my dreams come true, I’m not afraid, I almost I don't feel anything anymore."

Liao Quhe has not yet commented, but quietly lowered his eyes, and stood in front of Lian Jiangyue with the Shi Wuwei seal in his hand.Lian Jiangyue said again: "In the past, I wanted to ask you a lot of questions, about Lian Wu Hate, Wu Zang Tong, and the seven relics of Wu Youshi. At this moment, these questions are still in my heart. I can Say them one by one, but I don't care about their answers."

Lian Jiangyue pressed her left hand to her heart, and said: "Nothing seems to be able to touch me anymore, I am like an empty shell, my heart is empty, my heartbeat seems to be just all the shocks from the outside world shaking my body It's just an echo."

Xing Shan was listening, and thought to himself: So the senior brother is in such a state like a walking corpse, could this be the reason why he is so cold to me?

Lian Jiangyue looked at the reflection on the ground again, suddenly realized, and said: "Could it be because of this that I have a reflection here?" He looked around, "This is the weapon tomb, here are all those who don't bear any burden. The mission, no longer bear any murder, no longer have any weapons with killing intent, the weapons here are just superficial, just like me, a person with only a flesh..."

Lian Jiangyue sat down cross-legged, calmly said: "Perhaps, I should stay here, and I should also be buried here."

After hearing this, Xingshan became anxious, squatted down and said to Lian Jiangyue: "Brother, what nonsense are you talking about, why are you buried here, you live well, and this place..." He also looked around, Wondering: "Is this a real place?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "You can see it, you can feel it, it exists."

Xingshan scratched his hair, sat down with Lian Jiangyue, and looked at the monk with Lian Jiangyue, he said: "Master, is it because my brother suddenly separated from Wuzangtong and fell down?" What are the sequelae? It's like having an operation and having a postoperative reaction?"

Monk Liao Que also sat down cross-legged, and his handprint was changed to Jiangmoyin. He slightly raised his head and cast a look at Xingshan. The look was so deep and soft, as if from a loving mother, as if from a compassionate mother. The saint, as if from a god who can forgive all sins in the world.

Xingshan felt dizzy for a while again, he didn't dare to look at the monk anymore, he lowered his head, and blinked at the reflection of Lian Jiangyue on the ground.His mind was completely confused, and he was completely thinking about other things: Could it be that the monk Lie Que already knew that he killed Qing Yeshuang?His compassion and understanding are all because of this incident?What does the demon handprint mean?Was it done to him?Will he tell his brother?Can this monk know martial arts?What will senior brother think of Qing Yeshuang after he knows about him?He'd have to think of some more excuses to get away...

After Xingshan, Wuxia will listen to what the monk Lianjiang Yuehe said.At this time, Lian Jiangyue talked about Lian Wu's hatred to the monk Lian Que:

"In the room of Lian Wu Hate, there is everything about him that I have been ignoring that has always been in front of me, and maybe it is also the answer to everything about me.

"Pity me and hate it like you did it.

"Did he settle in Stone Village because of you? He found you here, and if you didn't leave, he stayed? Why did you stay here? You traveled around before, right? Gurbantunggut Desert Is this where you first met?"

Lian Jiangyue shook her head: "These are matters that you and Lianwu hate after all." He touched his neck and said, "I think he gave you this scar too, he made you unhappy. I can talk."

Hearing this sentence vaguely, Xing Shan suddenly raised his head to look at the monk, but seeing that there was indeed a scar on the monk's neck, he was overjoyed, tried his best to control his emotions, and said, "He can't speak?"

Lian Jiangyue nodded, but the monk Que smiled, parted his lips slightly, and spoke.He said: "He once asked me if I had him in my heart, but before I could answer, he stabbed me with a sword, and he said, don't say it, I don't want to hear your answer, and you don't want to say another word from now on." The word is over, and he is leaving."

Monk Liao Que spoke clearly, his voice was as gentle as his appearance, like spring rain, as if it could soothe and calm all restlessness.

Xingshan swallowed his saliva. Knowing that the monk could speak, he couldn't feel at ease. He clasped his hands in a panic, and asked Lian Jiangyue in a low voice: "Brother, he probably doesn't have the ability to read minds, does he?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "As far as I know, not." He smiled, "However, I always thought he couldn't talk."

Xing Shan didn't speak anymore, he thought to himself: "Qing Yeshuang was accidentally released by me, when people are always beyond their power, brother will not blame me."

He looked at the monk seriously, stopped thinking about Qing Yeshuang, and concentrated on listening to the monk.

The monk Liaoke said: "I don't have the ability to read minds. I don't even know what a mind is. I am a scabbard, the home of a sword. I am often mistaken for my home by many swords that have lost their scabbards. They Gathered to me, and over time, I began to attract other weapons. Where I am is where the weapons belong.

"Lian Wuyou is an apprentice of Wu Youshi. He practiced Wu Youshi's ability. Wu Youshi was originally a sword. Lian Wuyou learned the skill of a sword because of this. In addition, Wu Youshi later gave his seven relics, that is, His sword soul origin was given to him, so Lianwuha became a sword, I thought at first that he came to me because he was attracted by the temptation of returning home."

Lian Jiangyue thought of her own dreams, and said, "Wu Zang Tong is Wu Youshi's little finger and also a sword. I am his child, no wonder I am also attracted to you..."

He added: "And Wuzangtong hates the scabbard so much, no wonder I'm afraid of you again."

The monk Liaoke then said: "I hate that sword that stabbed me, but it just cut me, but his killing ended because of that sword. He left, but his reflection remained. I am for him. Build a pagoda here to save the souls of the dead. The pagoda should be no different from other pagodas, but when I came back to my senses, the pagoda had already made his appearance. How could such a pagoda be placed here? I wanted to return the pagoda to him. I searched many places for him. When I found Minshi, I couldn’t carry this pagoda anymore. It was so out of place with the other pagodas in the Weapon Tomb. Seeing that it was draining my energy, I knew I had to let it go. So I left the stupa in Minshi and left."

"At that time, my energy was slack, so I found Stone Village, because this is my root, I recuperate here, and I made up my mind never to leave here."

Lian Jiangyue said: "I saw a deep pit underground in Shitou Village, filled with all kinds of weapons. The pit is emitting heat and a strange smell like a volcano."

The monk Liao Que nodded, and said: "That is here. Just like people have shadows, the roots also have shadows. You may be used to calling such shadows illusions." He glanced at Jiang Yue's reflection: "Weapons in the world are nothing more than containers, containing killing intentions and blood debts. After the killing is over, they turn back into containers and have a residence here. What is stored in the pagoda is their life's grievances, and the reflection is theirs. real body."

Lian Jiangyue suddenly remembered the reflection of the Jiuqu beads she saw on the ground when she came to Que Temple for the first time. At that time, the Jiuqu beads envoy Qu Jiuchuan had been destroyed, but left an intact reflection on the ground.Lian Jiangyue said again: "Wuzangtong seems to have taken over Qu Jiuchuan's body."

The monk Liao Que said: "I should have left here long ago to find my sword. It is my long-awaited responsibility to return the evil sword to its sheath."

He seemed to sigh softly, and there was regret and regret in that voice.Lian Jiangyue thought she heard it wrong, what kind of regrets would this Buddha-like figure have?Does this scabbard have any regrets?This scabbard also has a heart, does it have a heart?

The monk Liao Que raised his eyes to look at Lian Jiangyue, and said: "I tried to find Wuzangtong, but my feet couldn't move as soon as I left here, so I wanted to see Lian Wuchen. Scattered, this weapon mound might not be possible. Besides, Wuzangtong didn’t commit any crimes outside, so I chose to stay here.”

"You know Lian Wu Hate is in Stone Village, right?"

"He once found the front of the temple gate, took a look and left."

Xing Shan asked, "Does the blindfold grow here naturally?"

Monk Liao Que said: "There is this grass where the root is." He added: "I didn't expect Wuzangtong to look for other roots in order to get rid of the shackles of the scabbard. As far as I know, there are three roots in the world. My place is one place, the Gurbantunggut Desert is one place, and the East China Sea is one place.”

Lian Jiangyue said: "Wu Zang Tong has found the Gurban Tungut Desert. How should I put it, I think he should have absorbed the root of that place."

Xingshan was at a loss again, and guessed: "The root cause you mentioned is the crater?"

At this moment, the monk Liao Que stretched out his hand and pulled out a scabbard from his own reflection. His reflection disappeared immediately, and the reflections of the surrounding pagodas, as well as the reflection of Lian Jiangyue, trembled. Handed the scabbard to Lian Jiangyue: "If this is the case, Wuzangtong will no longer be a sword, and the scabbard of the sword will no longer be able to hold him. Only one sword can fight another sword. You forged me into a Sword, maybe you can fight Wuzangtong."

Lian Jiangyue did not go to pick up the scabbard, staring at the monk and said: "On the one hand, I think I should solve this matter for Qu Jiuchuan, who was innocent and implicated. After all, he has become less human, ghosts and ghosts It's all because of me. On the other hand, I feel that it is his own choice, and I have no right to interfere. He knows what kind of influence Wuzangtong will have on a person, and he knows what Wuzangtong is. Is this... is it all because I have no shadow? I never knew that people would become like this without a shadow. I don’t want to think about anything, and I don’t care about any changes. I seem to live very No ego, but it seems too ego." He clenched his left hand into a fist and released it, saying, "As I said just now, I don't have anything in my heart," he looked at his reflection I asked myself: "I see the clouds rising and falling, the sunrise and sunset, the lonely smoke in the desert, and the luxuriant grass. I just see the clouds, but I can't see the clouds. My eyes are brighter and darker. There are some colors in front of my eyes. Nothing.

"The moon in the water, the wind blowing on my face... all the scenery in this world has nothing to do with me, but what is joy, what is bitterness, what is love, what is hate, the desire for life, the fear of death I can’t feel it, I can’t feel it.”

The monk Liao Qu also looked at Lian Jiangyue, and said frankly: "Lian Jiangyue, I can't answer your question, and I can't help you. I'm just a scabbard. I only know how to save the souls of those dead weapons."

Lian Jiangyue said: "No, I don't need your help, and you have already answered me, because I am a container, love and hatred should have nothing to do with me."

Hearing this, Xingshan excitedly held Lian Jiangyue's hand: "Brother, don't talk nonsense, how can you be a container? You are a human, a living person, look, your hands are warm, Your heart..." He touched Lian Jiangyue's veins, "Your heart is still beating!"

Lian Jiangyue smiled, and said to Xingshan: "Indeed, and I can still laugh and sigh, but these are like conditioned reflexes, like the ability trained, to smile at funny things, I sigh with regret, but in fact neither happiness nor regret has any effect on me, and I seem to live numbly."

Xing Shan frowned and advised, "How can you say that about yourself?"

"What's the matter? Is there anything wrong with living numbly? Happiness will eventually disappear, and things that are brooding will create demons. People are like grass, and all experiences are like a gust of wind. What's wrong with it? "

Xing Shan said: "Then what's the point of living like this?"

"Then you mean, can I die?"

Xing Shan hurriedly said: "Of course I don't mean that! Of course you can't die! Alas," he sighed, "You can always find some meaning in your life!" He racked his brains, "There are so many fine wines in the world. Have you ever drunk it? Have you seen all the beauties in the world? Are you really sure that no one and nothing can touch your heartstrings?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "Perhaps what you said makes sense, but at this moment, I don't think there is anything special about being alive."

Lian Jiangyue looked at the scabbard in Monk Que's hand, and said, "I only have one hand, so I'm afraid I can't make a sword for you."

Monk Liao Que smiled: "You are a container, that couldn't be easier."

He dug in the shadow of Lian Jiangyue, pulled out a right arm, and patted Lian Jiangyue's right shoulder, and the arm fell there naturally.Xingshan stared dumbfounded, and asked Lian Jiangyue: "Can you move?"

Lian Jiangyue moved her right hand, flexibly and freely.

The monk Liao Que said: "Repair the container when it is broken, fill it when it is empty, and live according to your heart, pity for Jiangyue, this is also the wish of pity for my hatred."

He put the scabbard on Lian Jiangyue's lap, and there was a strong wind all of a sudden, Lian Jiangyue and Xing Shan couldn't open their eyes, and they couldn't even sit still.

Xingshan shouted in the wind: "Brother!" He tried to catch Lian Jiangyue, but he couldn't catch anything. When the sound of the wind disappeared, he fell heavily on the ground. He opened his eyes and saw that there was no monk left. , what stupa, what blue sky, Lian Jiangyue was still there, and he fell beside him, holding a scabbard in his hand, coughing.Xing Shan hurriedly helped him up, when someone behind them scolded: "I'm so stupid, why are you guys again?"

Xingshan turned his head and found the person who asked the question. This person was wearing a white coat and a gas mask, standing next to a person dressed as a mechanic.The man dressed as a mechanic, also wearing a gas mask, was changing the lock on a door.Xingshan saw the ID card hanging around the man's neck, it was Yuan Junfan.

He also asked, "Why are you again?"

Lian Jiangyue looked around: "Are we back in the lab?"

Xing Shan nodded, and they did return to the underground laboratory where a large pit was dug.

Yuan Junfan had already walked up to the two of them, turned around them, looked at the ceiling, and then at the big pit. Monk Zhanger couldn't figure it out: "Where did you come from?"

Lian Jiangyue looked into Yuan Junfan's eyes, and then at the ID on his neck: "Doctor Chen? Your... surname is Yuan?"

He won't admit his mistakes in the eyes of "Yuan Junfan". Isn't this the attending doctor, Dr. Chen who I hate?

"Isn't his surname Yuan?" Xingshan was puzzled.

Doctor Chen, or Yuan Junfan smiled, glanced at the scabbard in Lian Jiangyue's hand, then glanced at Xingshan, rolled his eyes, stretched out his hand, pulled Lian Jiangyue up from the ground, and said : "Let me introduce myself formally. My surname is Yuan. I'm not a bad person. Can the two of you take a moment to talk?"

At this time, the young man in the second bed ran in from the door. He looked around the door and asked, "Director, what's the sound?"

As soon as he saw Lian Jiangyue and Xing Shan, and saw the scabbard in Lian Jiangyue's hand, he quickly stretched his hand to his waist, and Xing Shan had already touched the dagger secretly.Yuan Junfan waved his arms to smooth things over, and said, "It's okay, it's okay, you two are distinguished guests, come, this way."

He took Lian Jiangyue and Xing Shan out of the laboratory.The young man in the second bed shouted behind them: "Why did his hands grow out??"

The three of them entered an office. Yuan Junfan took off his gas mask and looked at Lian Jiangyue's right hand. Lian Jiangyue said, "If the container is broken, it can be repaired."

Xing Shan said sweatingly: "No one will believe what we have just said..."

Yuan Junfan motioned for them to sit down, and he sat down on a leather chair behind the desk, and said kindly: "I am very open to everything, can you tell me?"

There are many cardboard boxes on the desk, and the office is also full of large and small cardboard boxes, which looks like Lian Wuchen's old house full of old books.Lian Jiangyue said: "You are the one who approved the 'recommended diagnosis' of lung cancer that I hate, right?"

When Qing Yeshuang gave him the household registration information of Lianwuchen, he glanced at it, and clearly remembered that the signature approving the diagnosis was indeed "Yuanjunfan".

Yuan Junfan said: "It's me, Lao Lian has inhaled too much strange energy from here."

Lian Jiangyue said again: "The dart that hit me was made by you yourself?"

"You two are experts in making hidden weapons." Yuan Junfan lit a cigarette and spoke with a smile.

Xing Shan became alert and said, "Do you know our origin?"

"Hey, why don't you sit down?" Yuan Junfan looked at the scabbard in Lian Jiangyue's hand, and raised his chin, "Is the scabbard engraved with the characters of birds and insects?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "Do you know what is engraved?"

Yuan Junfan said: "If I'm not mistaken, it should be the word 'Liu Que'."

Lian Jiangyue pulled out the chair and sat down, put the scabbard on the desk, and said, "That's right."

Xing Shan tugged him, and reminded in a low voice: "I still don't know the origin of this person, such an important thing..."

Yuan Junfan smiled at Xingshan, and emphasized: "I'm not a bad person." He took out a magnifying glass from the drawer, and exclaimed according to the engraving of the bird and insect: "It's really 'resolve', good , the whole body is black, and there is a faint feeling of warmth when you touch it, and the texture is hard." He raised his head and said, "Ten miles to the north of Shitou Village, there is a temple with the name of Que, and a monk with the name of Que, the black star reincarnated. The Liaoque Temple is hidden in the world. To enter this temple, you need to prepare the Black Star Stone and the open fire. The Black Star Stone guides the maze, and it is based on the principle that the same substance wants to be sucked. The open fire burns away the afterimages of the eyes. People who enter the temple should remember the following three points First, if you don’t enter the sea of ​​fire, you won’t see true knowledge; second, when you see people and gods, you should treat them in the same way as things; third, don’t have killing thoughts, and don’t disturb gods and Buddhas.

Xing Shan said: "Which ancient book is this recorded?"

Yuan Junfan got up, took out a newspaper clipping from a cardboard box, turned to one of the pages, and on that page was a column from "Old Nonsense", which contained exactly what he just said that paragraph.The title of this article is: 31 of [-] Rare Illusions.

Lian Jiangyue said: "You found this from Lian Wu's home?"

Xing Shan pointed to the rest of the cartons: "Aren't these all?"

Yuan Junfan took a puff of cigarette, sat on the desk, put his legs together one high and one low, looked at Lian Jiangyue and said: "We have found the tunnel where you came in, what about your father's research direction? Probably figured it out."

Lian Jiangyue said: "He is not a scientist."

Yuan Junfan shook the soot and said: "If such a place is discovered by some bad people, such as people like Wuzangtong..."

Xingshan was even more vigilant: "You also know about Wuzangtong?"

Yuan Junfan smiled and rubbed his fingers: "This matter has caused a lot of trouble in the world."

Lian Jiangyue smiled: "Jianghu? This word is really retro."

Yuan Junfan still smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, we came to Stone Village at first to investigate the changes in the ecological environment here. It is said that there used to be a mountain here called Black Rain Mountain, but I don't know why it suddenly Disappeared. As for me, I had a tutor in college, surnamed Xu, maybe you have some impression of him." He got down from the table, found a folder in the side cabinet, opened it and put it on the table.

Lian Jiangyue took a look, and there was a photo of a serious middle-aged man in the folder, and under the photo was a personal profile of a person named "Xu Wentian".

Lian Jiangyue recognized the man in the photo at a glance, and said: "The knight is your mentor."

This Xu Wentian is exactly the cowboy-dressed "knight-errant" he met in the "Forgotten Land".

Lian Jiangyue said again: "Then you must already know that he was found in the desert after many years of disappearance?"

Yuan Junfan nodded: "To tell you the truth, I have already talked to him, and I know, you have gone to him."

Xingshan glanced at Lian Jiangyue, Lian Jiangyue nodded, and said: "Before I came to Stone Village, I saw in the news that many people who had been missing for several years or even decades suddenly appeared in the Gurbantunggut Desert. People, I went there, but Professor Xu doesn’t remember anything.”

Yuan Junfan said: "It's not accurate to say that. He doesn't remember what happened during the ten years he disappeared, but he remembers that he went there to find the meteorite's landing point."

When talking about where the meteorite landed, he smiled again, and Lian Jiangyue said: "Since you have found the tunnel, you are not talking to us because you want to find out how we got in, right?"

Yuan Junfan nodded: "I'm not interested in how you got in the first time, but what happened just now?"

"I don't know what happened." Lian Jiangyue added, "To tell you the truth."

Xing Shan said: "I think you are not interested in why we suddenly appeared just now, are you looking for us?"

Yuan Junfan smiled and nodded: "Both of you are smart people, so I'll just cut to the chase. Can you lend me this scabbard?"

He looked at Xingshan and said: "I have suffered a lot from this little brother Xingshan, I know that if I try to snatch it, I will never be able to snatch it."

Xing Shan said: "What do you want the scabbard for? Do experimental research. What are you researching here?"

Yuan Junfan said: "In short, we are not bad people." He said, "I heard that only this scabbard can hold Wuzangtong, so I want to try it."

He smiled and said: "Besides, if Wuzangtong is not removed for a day, it will be a big threat to you people in Jianghu."

Lian Jiangyue said: "Isn't it a threat to other people in the society?"

Yuan Junfan clapped his palms and laughed: "I was wrong. He is a threat to the whole society. People in the world are obliged to eliminate harm for the people. Moreover, to tell you the truth, we really don't have the ability, but you do." Ah, I will also help you." He shook his eyebrows and said, "And you don't want to rescue Qu Jiuchuan? If this continues, he may completely lose himself, and I suspect that Gurban A meteorite under the Tungut Desert has been snatched away by Wuzangtong. He may no longer be the sword of the past. I don’t know what kind of outrageous things I will do in the future.”

Lian Jiangyue did not answer.Xing Shan asked, "How do you want to help us?"

Yuan Junfan said boldly: "If you have any needs, just ask, and I will find a way to meet them!"

Xing Shan didn't quite believe the person in front of him whose surname was Chen for a while and Yuan for a while, so he looked at Lian Jiangyue, the scabbard was entrusted to him by the monk after all, and everything had to be decided by him, he just turned his head and whispered He said: "Brother, I don't think this person is telling the truth, be careful of deceit, give me a look, and we will immediately take the scabbard and leave."

Lian Jiangyue thought for a moment, then asked Yuan Junfan, "Do you have a place where you can make swords?"