Chiwuxing

Chapter [-] - Feeling sleepy and playing the game at the foot of the mountain, satirizing the truth in the middle of the cave

The mountains are quiet and monotonous, only the birds and insects are free from worries.

Fu Chen looked lightly at the twilight, leaning on the stone and smiling wryly.Eight years passed by in the blink of an eye, but now I can't bear it after only a few months. What is the reason?

He braced himself and waited for the night to fall so that he could sleep peacefully in the dark.Once he is in the dark, he will feel that everything is more frank. Let him carve beams and painted buildings, Yuyu Qionglou, and fall into a silent darkness in the middle of the night. What's the difference?

Thoughts were wandering, Fu Chen reckoned that his calf could barely support him to go farther. Maybe he could go outside the forest tomorrow morning to explore the road, and return to the army as soon as possible, so that he could continue to complete his mission.

The young man's expression became a little gloomy. He regarded this place as the dream of Taoyuan that could hide the world and reality when he was a child. Now, it's time to smash his delusions and inertia with his own hands.Eight years of natural life, in exchange for a family's hatred and heavy responsibility, but the few months here are wasted, what is the exchange?

There was an itching feeling from his fingertips, Fu Chen raised his hand, and it turned out that there was a small black cricket crouching on the knuckle of his index finger.

He slowly curled up the corners of his mouth, feeling amused, raised his hand in front of his face, moved his eyes towards it, and teased its tentacles, the cricket immediately uttered a clear and crisp cry, which Fu Chen hadn't heard for a long time, was also instantly attracted by this The voice was startled, then smiled a few times, and poked its legs and feet again.

After playing for a while, the cricket seemed to have gotten used to this man's movements, and there was no longer any deliberate resistance.The young man also lost his interest, so he put it in the depths of the grass.

He turned from being interested just now to feeling sad, and laying on the rock with his elbows on, he slowly closed his eyes, feeling a bit of relief in the long-lost sense of security.

"If it can be like this all the time...why not?"

"Why do I... no, it's because everyone has to passively accept... it's fate..."

The young man babbled like asking and answering himself.

Tormented by the unreasonable impatience, he allowed himself to say what he wanted at this moment.He knew that more than ever, at least someone would listen.But he was also afraid, not only afraid that others would not understand, but also afraid that others would understand.

A faint voice came: "Since you believe that you are destined, you don't have to worry about other things."

Fu Chen continued: "... Is there any other way to say it?"

"No," Zong Zhengxi replied, "Not giving this answer is the best answer."

"Don't everything need an answer? If there is no answer for one thing, why should I do it..." Fu Chen thought of something and asked forcefully.

Before the man could speak again, Fu Chen said again: "Didn't your Highness say that you came here to take risks alone just to test an answer? Since you said that, you must have a definite answer in your heart, so why can't your Highness let it go? No Wouldn't it be like this now?"

Zong Zhengxi raised his eyebrows and sneered, "I never pursue the best answer."

"So His Highness is also a person who says one thing and does another." Fu Chen sneered.

Seeing that he blocked the man again, he hid the perverted joy in his heart, and said again: "I don't pursue the best answer, or my standards are fundamentally different from His Highness's, so the so-called not giving answers by His Highness is on my side." That's the worst answer."

Zong Zhengxi's sneer did not fade, as if he was mocking his childishness.

Fu Chen didn't mind it, and still found the conversation between you and me very interesting, and continued: "So I think it's destiny, there are good and bad, there are all kinds of adventures and coincidences."

Zong Zhengxi lowered his eyes and said, "You really think so?"

Fu Chen was originally talking to his heart's content, but when he heard this faint questioning, for some reason, he felt as if he was suddenly splashed with cold water. After a moment of silence, he answered "seriously" as if in a daze.

If Fu Chen turned his head, he would definitely see the smile flickering across the corner of the man's lips at this time, and it disappeared after a shallow swing.

Fu Chen said, "Isn't such an answer good?"

The man sarcastically said: "Such an answer is of course good, it meets the expectations of many people... But if it really meets your expectations, why do you ask this question here?"

Fu Chen stopped talking, at this moment he felt the childishness of many of his words in front of this man.But with a sigh of relief in his heart, he turned his head and asked, "Then what good answer does Your Highness have?"

The man also stared into his eyes, his expression was calm, and he said firmly: "...you want to know?"

Fu Chen felt that there was something flickering in the man's pupils, which made him have to give up.Subconsciously said: "It's still... Forget it, I am also willing to accept the current result."

Zong Zhengxi turned his head and remained silent, Fu Chen felt in silence that his question just now might touch the root of all his doubts about him, but the answer might be something he shouldn't and couldn't know, because he still held onto his The thought of being able to go out soon.

In other words, even if a man is unwilling to admit it in his heart, the arrogance flowing in his bones will not make him succumb to the ending of being trapped in a barren mountain.

The conversation between the two of them always unfolded without any reason, tacitly avoiding mutual concealment and bottom line, but unconsciously revealing some long-buried sincerity.

Young people like to play hide-and-seek in talking like this, without having to think about what actually happened.He recognized in his heart what the man had said to him, it had nothing to do with morality, but it was a rare reveal of his unwillingness and longing.

"Clap!"

A drop of rain fell on Fu Chen's eyelashes.

He was slightly stunned, and raised his eyes to look at the sky. The raindrops were buried in the dark night, and he couldn't see the changes clearly.

"Your Highness," he said to the man next to him, "it's going to rain."

"……Um."

Usually when it rains, it is difficult for the two of them to avoid it, so they can only stay where they are and get drenched.Previously, he had contracted a low-grade fever due to a rainstorm, but the conditions did not allow it, and he survived for a few days by relying on his daily martial arts physique.

Fu Chen hesitated for a moment, stood up, stretched his legs a little and said, "Your Highness, I feel that most of the bone injuries on my legs have healed, why don't we find a cave to shelter from the rain today."

A little bit of rain.

The man's black eyelashes also had drops of dew, and he looked at him.

There seemed to be a lot of emotions rolling in this glance. Fu Chenling understood and sensed something unspeakable. He tried his best to keep his pace steady, walked up to the man, turned around and squatted down again, without saying a word.

Fu Chen just waited like this. He didn't speak, but he also knew that there was nothing to say.

A moment later, there was a sound from behind.

He squatted motionless.

Feeling the heavy pressure on his back, he still couldn't help being stunned when the incident came to an end.

Originally thought that this man had a noble status and was always self-confident. He had satirized his intentions when he said that he carried him out of the mountain earlier.

The man's hand pinched his shoulder and arm, maybe he also felt that it was a bit weird to be around.

The slightly thin but still strong muscles on the back were filled with heat through the fabric, and subconsciously moved by the warm touch.Ever since we met on the battlefield that day, he knew that although this man suffered from incurable leg disease, his half-disability did not disturb his skills, and he was still a master with deep inner strength.Now it seems that this degree of internal strength is still beyond the reach of ordinary martial arts.

Fu Chen struggled to get up slowly, and with all his strength, the person on his back was about to slide to the ground.He bent his hands back subconsciously, trying to wrap his legs around him, but he felt something was wrong the moment he touched it, it was empty, it turned out that he just touched the corner of the robe, paused, then continued to stretch back, only then did he stop it his legs.

No, they are no longer legs. The two dead logs he touched looked like flesh-picked bones, thin and cold.

At least in his cognition, from the legless beggars in the streets, to the full limbs of all kinds of warriors when the soldiers are bathing together... Now this kind of situation can only be regarded as his ignorance.

Thousands of thoughts are frightened, and it is only a moment of pause in its appearance.

Fu Chen broke away from his thoughts in an instant, and in an instant, he walked forward as if he had nothing to remember.

But he was sure that the man must have noticed the momentary pause just now, so he suddenly said: "The fracture of the villain is almost healed now, if the rain stops in the daytime tomorrow, I will go to find out the mountain." route."

The man on the back said nothing.

This silence made him break out in a cold sweat.

Fu Chen blamed himself and thought, maybe his timing of speaking was too deliberate... That's right, in front of this man, his thoughts are rarely well hidden, and sometimes it's just that the man doesn't bother to expose it.

After being terrified for a long time, he simply turned his eyes away, focused on the road ahead, and ignored everything else.

It's clearly autumn, but the rain in the mountains and forests is still wrapped in the temper of midsummer.

The young man couldn't help thinking back to those days in the mountains, he had inexplicably talked to this person who was so different from him, and his situation was always so bizarre and unexpected.

He only hoped that after leaving the mountain, he would stay far away from this man, lest he really get interested one day and block his way.He didn't want to have any direct conflict with this person at all. If he really wanted to cut grass, he would definitely not give this person a chance to stand up.But he didn't want to either, firstly because he didn't have that ability for the time being, and secondly because Cong Beast knew kindness, since he had saved his life in adversity, no matter what the purpose was, and kindness came first, he would not do such a treacherous thing.

Thinking of the tasks to be completed after leaving the mountain, Fu Chen could not help but sigh slightly.

"Why are you sighing?"

The man's voice came from the back of the neck, perhaps because the rainwater swept into the back of the neck, at this moment, the man's breath made him feel cold.

Fu Chen only felt that the tone of the person behind him was rarely cold these days in the mountains.

He was startled, guessing that the man must have misunderstood him, so he looked around and pretended: "I came here a few times before, and I remember that there is a cave here, why is it gone now?"

Zongzheng Xi said: "...The terrain here is similar, mostly landscapes eroded by flowing water, and there are many caves."

"……I see."

The cool rain that hit the back of his neck just now gradually dissipated, and the hot air from the man's words swelled behind his ears one by one, making it itchy naturally.Especially compared with the rain falling on the front, it made him tremble slightly because of the occasional warmth.

The rain also gradually intensified, and he felt some difficulty in his right calf, and his steps gradually became fine and messy.I stumbled a few times inadvertently on the way, and my shoulder was caught by the man's sharp jaw, which made me feel uncomfortable.

Through the rain curtain, he squinted and searched for nearby shelter.

Just now it was only for prevarication that he had assumed that he could not find the cave, and the sky was dark in the rain. As he walked, he really couldn't find the route he had written down earlier.

Turning his head to search, he saw a strand of curly hair dangling from the rain on his cheek, and the tail was longer, but it was not his own.He suddenly remembered that this man's hair was also curly, and he didn't care about it before, and he didn't pay attention to it in the past few months. So the man also has Nanban blood?

While thinking about it, Fu Chen saw a cave dozens of steps away, and was overjoyed, so he hurriedly walked away.

There is no light leaking out of the cave, nothing can be seen in the darkness, only the sound of water flowing in the cave can be faintly heard.

Fu Chen didn't dare to go deep, he was just going to find a corner to shelter from the rain, his feet were about to go, but he tripped over something, his legs and feet couldn't reach him, and he instantly leaned forward.

"Bam—"

A muffled sound startled the bats that had been dormant in the cave for a long time, and they started to scurry, but their black ink-like color melted into the black tunnel, which was not enough to distinguish them in the cave.

Fu Chen put his hands on the ground subconsciously, so that he didn't let his face fall directly to the ground. Zong Zhengxi behind him also supported his body with his arms when he fell to the ground, twisted his lower limbs, and sat beside the valley.

Fu Chen endured the stinging pain of turning his foot just now, turned over and sat up, leaning against the rock wall, panting lightly.

In the darkness, Fu Chen saw an untouchable emptiness, only the sound of the two's heavy breathing could be heard beside his ears, even if it was mixed with the sound of rain outside, it was very clear.

Fu Chen touched his chest, and found that the few remaining flints were also wet by the rain, and there was no way to light a fire here at this time.

Hearing became more sensitive in the darkness, and he suddenly heard a short "嗤" sound coming from beside him, faintly visible, like a shallow sigh, and also like a self-deprecating laugh.

"Didn't you always wonder what answer I was verifying?"

A man's voice suddenly sounded in the pitch-dark environment. Fu Chen straightened up a little, but he didn't dare to respond.

"There is an inner ghost in the red armor."

These words exploded in Fu Chen's mind like a firecracker, and the coldness on the limestone behind him spread along his back, wrapping around his body that had just been warmed by the man's body.

Fu Chen felt goose bumps on his back, and his palms began to sweat, but he didn't dare to speak out.

He waited for the man's next words, and was also wary of the man's movements. As soon as he said these words just now, he subconsciously pressed the dark dart on his waist.

He realized that even though he had imagined thousands of times before that he couldn't confront this man head-on, once the bottom line was reached, the rest became empty talk, and he would not allow any mistakes on the way until he successfully accomplished the task.

The sound of rain is still there.

Fu Chen immediately thought inexplicably that even the small weapon in his hand was given by this man. Although he was limping, he could survive the siege of the chaos.

It really is more of a lifesaver than the scorching heat of a hot potato.

The rain curtain blocked the light in the cave, and Fu Chen saw an impenetrable darkness.

Since the man said that sentence, there has been no further movement, and Fu Chen's original nervousness has turned into unbearable anxiety because of his silence.

Sweat and rain slid down his cheeks, licking the narrow red scar.

Fu Chen finally couldn't bear it any longer, calmed down, his voice was still uncoordinatedly tense, and he clenched the only dark dart on his body: "...Who is it?"

He waited for a while before he heard a man's voice: "You can't dodge an open spear, but you can't dodge a hidden arrow."

Seeing that the man hadn't moved yet, Fu Chen heaved a sigh of relief, but he was still uneasy, and his heart was clamoring, so he cautiously asked, "Is it someone close to His Highness?"

The man didn't speak, Fu Chen took it as acquiescence, and turned the faces of several generals in the army before his eyes.

"Middle between Liao Hui and Jiao Shiling, maybe both."

Fu Chen immediately relaxed his heartstrings, the faces that had just been screened flashed before his eyes, and Jia Yun's face suddenly appeared, and a coldness burst into his heart.

The two fell silent at the same time.

Fu Chen couldn't help asking again: "In this battle, Admiral Jia, as the commander of the main army, is firmly in the rear. Why doesn't His Highness doubt him?"

"It's not this battle." The man seemed to realize something, and turned his head towards him in the dark, "I warned you, you are no match for him, don't move those thoughts that shouldn't be moved."

Fu Chen saw that his mind had been pierced a little bit, and at the same time he was terrified, but at the same time he felt more grievances from being trapped in the mountains these days, so he insisted on asking: "Why does Your Highness trust him so much?"

"Because he deserves it."

Fu Chen sneered in his heart, but he didn't want to say any more.

"I would like to ask you, where did such a big prejudice come from?"

Hearing the man's question, Fu Chen suppressed the confusion in his heart, and said: "The eunuchs mess with the government and harm the country, everyone must be punished."

"Oh," Zong Zhengxi sneered again, and said, "You're all just chanting this slogan and banishing the word 'eunuch' in your heart. Who cares whether a specific person is good or bad?"

Fu Chen asked rhetorically: "Does it mean that a good person has never done anything bad? A good person in the eyes of His Highness is really a good person in the eyes of everyone else?"

"I have my own criteria for judging."

Fu Chen ignored it, he didn't want to continue this topic, and he was afraid that he would miss something in haste, so he asked again: "How can Your Highness be sure that it is General Liao and General Jiao?"

The man didn't answer directly, only said:

"This battle was originally planned by me."

This battle?Wasn't the Nanban the first to provoke this battle?If the intention is to tempt...

Fu Chen was astonished, and casually uttered the unbelievable guess in his heart: "Your Highness... is it barbaric?"

Fu Chen didn't feel right after he finished speaking, but the words had already been spoken and could not be taken back.

Zong Zhengxi let out a sneer, the smile was more intense than just now, and he rarely showed obvious emotions, but unfortunately Fu Chen couldn't see clearly in the dark, the man just said: "So what?"

"Your Highness, as the heir of the Yan Kingdom, how can you put aside the righteousness of your family and country?" Fu Chen recalled a strand of curly hair that he saw while walking in the dark, and asked in a dark voice, "It's because His Highness has a responsibility Is it because of the Southern barbarian blood?"

"It has nothing to do with this." The man's voice cooled down and became calm again.

Fu Chen only felt that he knew the big secret that a participant would be beheaded. He was so shocked that he couldn't respond for a while.

In the heavy rain, a bright lightning flashed across the sky, and then there was a loud rumbling sound from outside the cave, as if the earth was shaking.

"The difference between the nation and the nation is false, but the difference between good and evil in people's hearts is true."

Accompanied by the rain outside the cave and the water flowing inside the cave, Fu Chen heard the man's solemn voice echoing in the empty cave.

Fu Chen didn't take it seriously in his heart, and now he sighed slightly: "Your Highness... There are times when you are so irrational."

"You think this is irrational?"

Fu Chen sternly said, "For this answer, you are betting the lives of your fellow camp brothers who have been with you all year round!"

"Do you think that if I don't find this answer, no one will sacrifice?" Zong Zhengxi asked back, "It's ridiculous... Maybe I would have sacrificed more at that time. From the beginning, I put my own life on this price , after all... Heh, 'he' has already attacked me."

What Fu Chen subconsciously thought of was Zong Zhengxi's leg problem. Could it be... He didn't dare to think about it, but felt his body getting colder and colder.

I don't know whether it is the insidiousness of the barbarians or the treachery of the cronies. He has long heard that King Yu is prestige in the army. He has been in the army for 15 years. By mistake, the lieutenant was drawn from his own battalion.He recalled that when he first entered the Chijia, all the soldiers raised their arms and shouted when they first entered the Chijia.

Fu Chen has somewhat experienced the mentality of a man who does not hesitate to take the risk of collaborating with the enemy and treason to find out the thieves around him. He is not an ordinary gambler, but a man who dares to use himself as a bargaining chip. Tighten your fist.

At this time, Zong Zhengxi still maintained the drooping hair on his temples when he just fell, and his clothes were completely stained with dust after being soaked in the rain. The bacteria and dust swaying in the dark eroded his broken body, and the darkness covered him. The depression at this time and the hatred that flashed in the eyes.Seeing that the young man was silent, he sneered again: "You put 'God's will' above all the answers, heh, but you dare not investigate the facts. Since your definite answer is the best in your heart, naturally Think I'm irrational."

"It's not like this..." Fu Chen was powerless to argue, but wanted to say something, "I am like this, naturally it is to establish an obsession, a path, and a heart."

Zongzhengxi didn't want to pay attention to it, and after a while, Fang asked: "Does everyone need to have this obsession like you?"

Fu Chen asked back: "If you don't have obsession, how can you survive in this world?"

The man paused for a moment, then lowered his voice: "If there is no obsession, there will be no pain."

"But that kind of person is probably either a fairy or a puppet," Fu Chen didn't care. "Isn't His Highness able to stay with me in the mountains for such a long time because of his obsession in his heart?"

"Your Highness said earlier that I was duplicity and deceiving myself. It's true. Many times, I often can't hear the voice deep in my heart." Fu Chen lowered his eyes, hiding the pain and entanglement, "Sometimes obsessions are deeply rooted in The heart has long been difficult to detect. The human heart is dominated by obsessions. In his own view, it may be just an instinct, like a birthmark rotten on the skin. Eliminate the obsessions of the human heart, and do not hesitate to shave the bones and skin. There are always some stupid people, Obviously there is an obsession in my heart, but I pretend not to know it and run counter to it."

The two remained silent for a long time, each having their own concerns.

The man broke the silence first: "If the obsession is broken, what should I do?"

"As far as I am concerned, if I wish in this life, I can happily die from the world." Fu Chen raised his eyes to look at the boundless darkness opposite, smiled bleakly, and said again, "Your Highness just said, 'If you have no obsession, There will be no pain', among ordinary people, only the dead can truly get rid of all obsessions, and only the dead have no pain at all."

Zong Zhengxi remained silent, and Fu Chen also asked a question: "Why did Your Highness tell me this today? Could it be that His Highness already thinks I'm a burden, so please allow me some truths before he dies..."

Without evidence, he knew that the man was not afraid of him going out to sue, so he was a little confused.

It took a long time for Zong Zhengxi to speak, not sure if he was answering Fu Chen's question: "If you choose to go out of the mountain alone, you can tell Jia Yun the news."

Fu Chen was stunned for a moment, and then joked: "Although a villain is not a gentleman, it's hard to catch up with four horses. The villain will keep his promise after he said that he will carry His Highness back to the mountain. What His Highness said, the villain will die In my stomach, it’s like I didn’t hear anything.”

The atmosphere did not relax because of his slightly joking words, and in the silent response, Fu Chen also suppressed the grin on his face.

The night wind from the valley sent a gust of coolness from the entrance of the cave, and Fu Chen tightened his tattered clothes.

His eyelids were heavy, and the messages he received that night were too much for him to digest.

There was continuous thunder outside, dispelling the drowsiness that Fu Chen had accumulated with great difficulty.

In the dark, he inexplicably thought of the two bones he held backwards when Zong Zhengxi was on his back just now, and bursts of cold air chilled through the top of his head and soles of his feet, freezing his whole body to the bone marrow. hard.

Another flash of lightning flashed across the dark night. With that momentary light, Fu Chen caught a glimpse of the stalactites and stalagmites protruding up and down at the entrance of the cave. They were sharp and blue and white, like the fangs of a wild beast after opening its mouth. The two unpacked and ate in his belly.