Follow the shadow

When he walked to the door of the building on the right and held the doorknob, the door did not open.Looking in through the window, it was pitch black and nothing could be seen clearly.Just as Su Yun was about to turn around, a gust of wind came from his ears. He turned sideways to avoid the stabbing knife point, and was still sweating coldly from fright.

Su Yun turned around quickly, but was not surprised to see the person behind him.Due to his physical condition, Ning Sheng could only suspect that Zhuang Cheng was not a human being, but he clearly felt the aura of a dead person in him.

Su Yun formed a long sickle in his hand to protect him, and said lightly, "Aren't you going to go around in circles with me? Zhuang Cheng."

Zhuang Cheng was playing with a long knife in his hand, half of his half-smiling face was intact, while the other half was completely rotten.Even so, Su Yun still found that half of the face was not Zhuang Cheng's at all.

Su Yun dodged an attack and asked in confusion, "Xiansheng... who are you?" He frowned and looked at the person who was a few steps away from him, and suddenly understood the person's motive.Although I don't know how he persuaded Zhuang Cheng to share the same body with him, but one of the rules of using symbiosis is that the living will die, and then the two will live together for a period of time. After the perpetrator dies, the ghost can freely dominate dead body.

But this is the case when the deceased fulfills his wish. If the wish of the deceased is not fulfilled and the deadline is reached, the corpse will rot by itself.Obviously, this ghost was unlucky enough not to fulfill Zhuang Cheng's wish.

This also indirectly explained why this person wanted to bring him into the battle because he had taken a fancy to his extremely yin body.

Su Yun knew that the current situation was unfavorable, so she was eager to end the war.Unexpectedly, there were bursts of piano sound outside the courtyard at this time.Su Yun staggered a few steps, covered her head and almost knelt down.

Zhuang Cheng raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, obviously he did not expect this unexpected situation, but he also thanked him for this hard-won opportunity, which helped him suppress Su Yun.

Zhuang Cheng held the knife and forced people to the empty ground in the courtyard. The scarlet magic circle became brighter after Su Yun stepped in.Su Yun only felt that his feet were empty, and his body fell down uncontrollably.

Su Yun seemed to have been preparing for a long time, but she didn't even make the slightest struggle.Unexpectedly, this action completely angered someone who had been lurking in the illusion.

Suddenly, something icy and cold suddenly sprang out and wrapped around his waist, the falling body paused, and a sound of xun came through the air, but it was as sharp as the cold wind of the twelfth lunar month. Su Yun only heard a wailing outside the courtyard, and said goodbye piano sound.

Su Yun was dazed for a while, and vaguely felt that the sound of the xun was somewhat familiar, but after thinking about it deeply, there was a tingling pain in his head.But he is stubborn by nature, the more he can't think of it, the more he will hold on to it.

The stinging pain became more and more intense, and he actually saw a glimmer of light in the boundless darkness...

"Xu Qingke, what are you doing here?" Emperor Jingning looked at the unexpected visitor with a gloomy face.It stands to reason that idlers and others are not allowed to enter the emperor's imperial garden, but Xu Yang's hands and feet are nimble and no one can stop him.

"Come and see you blowing the xun." Xu Yang put down the stunned attendant and stepped into the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

With a plop, Emperor Jingning threw the things in his hand into the water and raised his eyebrows to look at him.

"Isn't it a pity to lose the bone xun made from Concubine Ruan's bones?" Xu Yang said and jumped into the lake to look for it.

Emperor Jingning stood alone in the pavilion and looked up at the moon, his indifferent expression added a bit of imperceptible loneliness.His eyes drooped slightly, but he couldn't remember how Xu Yang entangled him.

How could anyone like him?

Suddenly Xu Yang emerged from the water, he seemed to have been waiting in the water for a long time, just to see the other party caught off guard for a moment.Obviously he succeeded, this time Emperor Jingning didn't have time to hide the expression on his face, so he had to look away in embarrassment.

When Xu Yang landed on the shore, water dripped from his wet clothes. He took the xun and tried to blow it, but it didn't hurt.

"Give it to you."

"No."

Emperor Jingning turned around and looked at him with a bit of anger in his eyes.Xu Yang turned a blind eye, brought the Xun to his mouth, and unexpectedly blew out the same tune as before.

Others may not know that song, but Xu Yang definitely knows it.It's a tune his mother composed.

"You bastard!" Emperor Jingning's face turned black with anger, he went out of the booth to beat someone but his head was covered by something, his body was lightly hugged in his arms, his clothes were damp with water.

In fact, he could have yelled indiscriminately to attract the servants, but Emperor Jingning didn't think in this direction at all.He just made a symbolic earning, and let Xu Yang play around.

In the blind corners among countless pavilions, someone watched them go away.In the future, there will be rumors that Emperor Jingning and the Minister of Rites have insulted the gentlemen and committed serious crimes, so this actually suits his wishes.

"Your Majesty, I dare not ask for valuables, and I hope Your Majesty will not act childishly." Xu Yang put him down, and forced the Xun back into his hand.It was pitch black before Emperor Jingning's eyes, he tore off the clothes on his head indiscriminately, only to realize that he had returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and there was no one around him.

...

Su Yun was awakened by the cold wind after not being unconscious for too long. When he opened his eyes, he found a giant snow-white snake wrapped around him, standing behind Xu Yang.He earned and earned, without success.

"Are you awake?" Xu Yang didn't have the usual peaceful smile on his face, and he directly ignored Zhuang Cheng who was beaten to the ground at some point and said to him.

This appearance of Xu Yang made Su Yun's body tremble subconsciously.Those deep eyes looked at him, but there was no emotion.

"..." Before Su Yun could speak, Xu Yang pinched his chin, forcing him to look up at him. "I want to die if I fall from the second floor, but you look up to the buildings here."

"Let go...it hurts!" Su Yun couldn't move, bit her lips tightly to suppress the pain wrapped around her body.

Xu Yang manipulated the snake to reduce its strength, and asked, "When did you realize that you had joined the battle? Don't tell me no, your body can't bear my torment now."

Su Yun looked at him in disbelief, presumably Xu Yang had been pretending to be a gentleman for so long that even he had almost forgotten his true nature.

Su Yun struggled again, and after making sure that she couldn't escape, she looked at him sincerely and said, "When you disappeared, I didn't expect him to take my life."

People like Su Yun don't harm people when they are stubborn, but they are afraid that they will definitely kill people if they look at someone sincerely.Xu Yang was a little helpless, but his tone was much calmer, "Lying again."

"Well!"

Su Yun never expected that Xu Yang would kiss him at this time, blood oozes from the corners of his lips that were broken by his teeth during the struggle.He felt like a clam that had been forcibly pried open, exposing his most tender parts to predators.

The air was almost completely plundered, and Su Yun was in a trance for a long time before waking up, and his hands and feet were weakly entangled by the snake.

Xu Yang saw that his eyes were distracted, his cheeks were slightly red, and he looked like he had been raped, so he took him from the snake.

Su Yun watched the giant snow-white snake dissipate like fine sand, and approached Xu Yang's arms a little tiredly, exhausting all his energy for tossing around all night.

He closed his eyes and rested while figuring out the current situation.Zhuang Cheng was beaten by Xu Yang, and now he fell to the ground, with a deep bone wound on his leg, the wound was very tricky, it really didn't look like an ordinary weapon cut.But Su Yun had never seen Xu Yang use a weapon, so he couldn't guess the type of weapon for a while.

Standing not far behind Xu Yang were Ning Sheng and Zhuang Qin. Zhuang Qin's soul had been forcibly pieced together, and it had faded like a layer of tulle.

This kind of frivolity is different from the previous gentleness, this is a kind of nothingness that will completely dissipate between heaven and earth.

Xu Yang let Su Yun go temporarily, and said to Zhuang Cheng, "Would you mind introducing yourself again?" He spoke slowly, his tone much more polite, and he couldn't find the anger caused by Su Yun's death at all.Of course, if Zhuang Cheng didn't have a big gash in his leg, they could even have a supper in peace.

"Lin Cheng." Zhuang Cheng's condition is not very good now, he said weakly, covering the wound with one hand, as if trying to stop the bleeding by himself, but he failed.

"The reason why we visited Zhuang's mansion was to find Zhuang Qin's younger brother. We didn't intend to strangle you. If possible, I hope to get your help."

Lin Cheng set his eyes on Xu Yang, but he didn't intend to hide anything, "To be honest, my deal with Zhuang Cheng has already ended, and after that, Zhuang Cheng's life or death has nothing to do with me."

"Zhuang Cheng's body is rotting..." Su Yun said softly, "The words you said can only fool those who know nothing. Anyone who has heard of symbiosis should know that the perpetrator and the ghost will have a period of coexistence. Time, and now, isn't it just a sign that you haven't helped him fulfill his wish?"

Xu Yang looked down at someone who was still dying, and smiled softly, "Ah Jun, one night is not enough, we can continue until the next morning."

"..." Ning Sheng's face turned dark as hell, but he still couldn't speak to stop it.

Naturally, Lin Cheng could see that Xu Yang was dominant, and said, "So what? This corpse has just started to rot. I have enough time to wait for the second one, so I have nothing to say."

"Really..." Xu Yang looked at him with a half-smile, "What about the Taoist priest who was killed by you and turned into a ghost? It's very tricky that he hasn't been eliminated after living with you for so many years."

Lin Cheng's face was not very good-looking.

Knowing that he had achieved his goal, Xu Yang asked, "Although I can't forcefully enter the illusion, I can perceive everything that happens in the illusion, including your activities...Why can't you enter that locked building?"

Su Yun froze for a moment, but no one noticed.

"Who are you?" Lin Cheng looked at him in disbelief.

Xu Yang didn't answer, and said to himself, "There's nothing inside, it's blank. If the three buildings in the illusion represent the periods in which the three children lived, that means there is a child whose story you don't know. .

"When Zhuang Cheng was born, Zhuang Qin was still young. The Zhuang family loved their children and declared that Zhuang Cheng died young, and even found a scapegoat. So the first building represents Zhuang Cheng, and the second building is known to be Zhuang Cheng without further explanation. Qin, as for the third building... because you saw the hospital certificate behind the photo, you don't know whether the child was really born, and your knowledge of the child is blank."

Lin Cheng bit his lips and remained silent.

Xu Yang observed his expression and said, "Or is it that the child was born, but no one in the Zhuang family knows whether he belongs to the same family?"

"Because Mrs. Zhuang had mental problems after Zhuang Qin's death, Mr. Zhuang often couldn't find her, and then she came back with a big belly." Lin Cheng glanced at Zhuang Qin and continued, "Zhuang Cheng always felt that It was I who killed Zhuang Qin, so I used the heresy to summon the soul, and wanted to exchange my life for my sister. God's tricks are that he succeeded, but he died early because of the loopholes in the formation. In the end, he only had time to confess The task left to me. And I, as the lucky one who hit the right spot, need to help him find out one thing, that is, whether the third child who appeared inexplicably and died unexpectedly later is from the dealer. It is worth mentioning that here I didn’t create this illusion, and soon after I came here, I discovered that there would be some changes every day, and after the couple left, it became even more uncontrollable, and finally three identical houses appeared inexplicably.”

"Even so, you've been here for so many years and still haven't got any clues?" Ning Sheng couldn't believe it.

"Yes. The things I know now are all seen in the illusion, and I couldn't connect to my identity because of Zhuang Cheng's accidental death, and I didn't know much about their family, so I quickly exposed my identity. The couple disappeared after knowing that they had lost all their flesh and blood, but I was here all the time out of a contract. Unexpectedly, by accident, I recruited a dead Taoist priest to come in. Originally, it would not be a problem for me to kill him, but I just didn’t want to add money to myself. He was wronged, and as a result, he was assimilated due to the heavy yin here, and I was blamed for bringing people in and killing them."

Lin Cheng said, looking at Zhuang Qin who was weeping silently, "So apart from those in the illusion, I don't know anything else."

Before he finished speaking, Zhuang Qin's body became more and more hazy.

Lin Cheng watched Zhuang Qin's figure gradually disappear before his eyes, feeling an inexplicable pain in his heart.Even if Zhuang Cheng is dead, this body is still Zhuang Cheng's, and the love between siblings is deep, and this relationship cannot be controlled by him alone.

Lin Cheng sighed helplessly.

Su Yun didn't speak for a long time, at this time she slowly opened her eyes that had been lightly closed, and said, "Because of the third child, Zhuang Qin died, and Zhuang Cheng's missing sister summoned you by accident, but then the third child... How did the first child die? If Xu Yang thinks that the third child was born, then I might as well share my opinion. The third child was not born, and the third building was not empty, but Zhuang Cheng’s. As for why it was so difficult... maybe it was because it was the saddest period for the Zhuang family."

"So the first building belongs to the third child?" Ning Sheng didn't understand what they were talking about.Su Yun signaled Xu Yang to put him down, and said calmly, "The place where Zhuang Cheng signed the contract was in the third room on the second floor, which was the study room, right? Lin Cheng, in fact, not only did you not notice that Xu Yang entered Illusion, I haven’t found it yet, he was locked outside the study. In other words, I was the only one who went in. The reason for this is unknown, even I always thought it was just a room without any important clues, until I found out Only after you couldn’t get in did you realize that the answer to the last question is hidden there.”

The place where the contract was signed can only be re-entered after the contract is completed, and Xu Yang is restricted because he did not enter the illusion in person.In his perception, it is just the movement of people in the illusion.

"I received the last empathy in it. It was a mentally disturbed woman holding a child in her arms, refusing her husband to name the child, and calling Zhuang Qin repeatedly. The man put down his wallet to coax her. The paternity test came out from the inside, and it confirmed that the child is indeed the dealer's." But he didn't say that later, the child was doused with sulfuric acid by his mother, and his body was corroded and died of pain.

And what he really resonated with was the woman's bitter cry all night, without cursing, and unable to resent the appearance of any life.Even if she killed someone, she would leave with the child.

Su Yun sighed and continued. "The reason why you haven't seen the third child is probably because the child was already dead at that time. But Zhuang Cheng must know that he just doesn't want to accept this fact, and finally drags others to deceive himself and others."

The wind was a bit cold, so Su Yun put his hands in his pockets, "Speaking of which, you were the first to introduce that Taoist priest to open the door, right? Unfortunately, if this building is alive, it probably just wants to strangle the intruders. Erase the truth forever."

Lin Cheng looked thoughtfully at the house behind him where he lived for several years, "It's a pity that you didn't complete the purpose of this trip."

"Really..." Su Yun smiled indifferently, "Not every goal of a person can be achieved, and a life full of success and failure will not cause trouble. The same is true for you. Sometimes it is not a good thing to be free, but it may be a good thing. The end of the second life, and the only thing I regret is that so many innocent lives were killed because of people's stupidity."

After all, he snapped his fingers, and the old house behind him was instantly engulfed in flames, and the old Taoist spirit could still be seen struggling in the flames.

Su Yun, however, stopped looking at her for a long time and pushed the door open.If he was willing to look back at this time, he would definitely see Zhuang Qin hugging his younger brother when he was a child in the room where several children lived...

As long as you are willing, thousands of rivers and mountains will meet you in the end.

The author has something to say:

Xu Yang (angry): "Die again!"

Su Yun: Huh?What?I can not hear?Look at my sincere eyes.I love you so much, how could I go first?

Xu Yang had no choice but to compromise on the surface, (in his heart): "You will be a ghost if you believe it."

Su Yun died after N days×10086

Xu Yang: ┴┴︵╰(‵ ′)╯︵┴┴

A certain bird: I finally rested... for a long time (crying)