Zha Gong's evolutionary path

Xin Wu hugged him tightly in his arms, without making a sound, she just stretched out her arms and wrapped them around the man's waist.His body trembled a little, but he didn't say a word.

Lin Gongru thanked Xiao Gou'er beside him: "Thanks to you, I was able to successfully bring Xin Wu out this time. Are you really not going with us?"

The young man stood alone behind the two of them, looking alone, with a particularly lonely expression.He smiled, showing his white teeth: "As long as Senior Brother Xin Wu leaves with you safely, my wish will be fulfilled."

Lin Gongru stopped insisting, and asked Xin Wu in a low voice: "Are you still able to move? Before that guy finds out, the sooner we leave, the better."

Xin Wu suddenly pushed him away and said, "We don't take the suspension bridge. I know another way."

Lin Gongru was stunned, "Another way...you mean the Gu Cave where your disciples of the Huichun Sect went out to practice?"

Little Gou'er immediately showed worry and uneasiness.

He took a step forward, with a look of kind persuasion: "Senior brother Xinwu, the danger is unknown, and there are very few disciples who have graduated from Huichunmen, because everyone is afraid of the trial of the Gu Dao. You entered the school earlier than me, you should It is even more clear that the poison inside is so fierce that even the master can hardly get in and out without being injured. Don't risk your life..."

Lin Gongru was very close to Xin Wu, and through the faint moonlight, he could clearly see the ugly complexion and slight trembling of his figure. This person was clearly in a state of exhaustion at this time.If Xin Wu had the ability before, maybe the two of them could make a breakthrough together; but with his current physical condition, Xiaogou'er was right, the two of them would probably die if they entered that Gu cave.

"We spent several days and nights repairing this suspension bridge. It is much safer than it looks. Xin Wu, don't be afraid, we will walk across safely..."

But the doctor insisted.

"I said go that way. If you don't want to be with me, then send me back to the bamboo forest."

He showed an unexpected stubbornness.Having known him for a long time, Lin Gongru knew that Xin Wu was definitely not an unreasonable person, even if he didn't know the basics.

The man was slightly taken aback.He looked at Xin Wu, who was weak but persistent, and Xiao Gou'er, who was disapproving, and couldn't make a decision.

Xiao Gou'er shook his head at Lin Gongru.Tears began to appear in the young man's eyes again, and he pleaded softly: "Senior brother, I know you have always been proud of your skills, but this is different from the past, you are master...you are not fit to go down the mountain by that road, you It won't last long."

Xin Wu ignored him, and looked at Lin Gongru eagerly.

Seeing that the man was still hesitating, Xin Wu held up his fingers, and the cold fingertips touched his warm palm.Lin Gongru noticed that he had lightly drawn an "X" on her palm, raised her head, and saw the other party's beautiful eyes fixed on her, with undisguised warmth in her eyes.

Lin Gongru's mind fluttered slightly, and she was almost overwhelmed by the warm affection in the man's eyes.

He hoarsely said: "Are you sure...?"

Xin Wu nodded slightly.

"Don't worry." He looked at Xiao Gou'er, the young man also had an anxious expression, but he couldn't hide a trace of cunning and doubt in his eyes.

Xin Wu said: "Back then, I escaped down the mountain from that Gu cave, and no one in the master knew about it." He held Lin Gongru's hand heavily, and smiled at him, "Little Gou'er didn't know about it, thinking that I never went in. However, in fact, I have seen all the poison and Gu worms inside. Now that I am prepared, I am confident enough to ensure that the two of us will pass through safely."

Lin Gongru was still thinking about the credibility of his words, the young man on the side seemed relieved, and smiled with crooked eyebrows.

He said: "It turns out that senior brother has hidden this trick. I thought that only master has gone through all kinds of dangers and passed through that place over the years." He leaned closer and hugged Xin Wu's shoulders with great enthusiasm.

When Xin Wu pressed against him, her body froze, as if she wanted to retreat instinctively.But after glancing at Lin Gongru, he restrained himself.

The boy hugged him logically, but let go after a while, and stood aside with downcast eyes.He said softly: "Then little Gou'er can only stay here, and bid farewell to Senior Brother Xin Wu. I hope that there will be no date in the future."

Xin Wu tightly clenched her fists, trying to resist the nausea in her chest when he touched her, and a smile slowly formed on the corner of her pale mouth.

"Yes, there will be no future, I hope we will never meet again in this life or the next."

The boy's figure was hidden in the night beside the hanging bridge, and the increasingly thick shadows engulfed him.

Lin Gongru held hands with Xin Wu, and walked along the steep cliff to the depths of the ridge.He is not familiar with the road at all, the mountain here is steep, and he bumps into bumps when he walks, either bumping into a rock protruding from a corner, or stepping on the gravel under his feet.

The figure of the doctor in front appeared and disappeared, and remained silent all the time, like a ghost hiding under the moonlight.If it wasn't for his slightly cold fingers tightly gripping himself, Lin Gongru almost thought that this was just another deep dream of his own.

He couldn't sleep peacefully for several days, and when he dreamed back at midnight, he always thought of the person who was going to save him from the tiger's mouth, and now he was really in front of him.

They were running for their lives, and rightfully felt uneasy and overwhelmed.

But Lin Gongru sniffed the faint fragrance from the night wind, and the soft touch brought by Xin Wu's long black hair brushed against his cheeks, everything was so unreal and nostalgic.The man was dazed, a sense of familiarity appeared in his heart, and he even had the illusion of wishing that this moment would last forever.

The figure in front of him suddenly stopped and let out a light breath.

"It's here, it's here."

In the night, the entrance of the Gu Cave was dimly lit, and the wind blowing from the passage carried a stench that made people want to vomit.

Lin Gongru's heart tightened, and he quickly walked two steps past Xin Wu, blocking him behind.He whispered, "I'll go ahead."

Xin Wu seemed to have caught a cold in the night wind, and coughed softly.Hearing that Lin Gongru said that he was going forward, he was unable to make a sound, and only wrapped his arms around, and the two held hands.

Stepping into the Gu cave, the atmosphere around him changed instantly.

The chilly but cool night wind outside the cave could no longer be smelled in the nostrils, replaced by heavy blood, corpse odor and other strange smells whose origins could not be identified.

My ears are filled with the sound of scratching and scratching, and the sound of claws scratching and tearing on the cave wall. The volume is not loud, but I can guess the number of them from the dense sound.Lin Gongru stepped on a soft living thing, and the thing jumped away as if startled, but at the moment of bouncing, a large amount of stinky liquid splashed out, falling into the smell range of the two of them, almost making Lin Gongru gag on the spot.

Xin Wu was very close to him, Lin Gongru changed the arm he was holding to his waist to protect his other side, lest some unknown Gu worms would come out and bite him.

You couldn't see your fingers in the cave. After getting used to the darkness in the cave, Lin Gongru barely saw countless wriggling things lying on the road in front of him, and his back was covered in white sweat.

Xin Wu clung to his ear, and said in a breathy voice, "You pick me up... let's walk over here."

Without thinking, the man immediately bent down and hugged his waist with one hand, and his hip with the other, and hugged the doctor by his waist easily.

Xin Wu clasped his neck tightly, buried her head in his chest, and coughed silently.There was a faint shock coming from his chest, Lin Gongru hugged him, striding over those wriggling creatures, worried whether he had caught a cold again.

He was wearing extremely ordinary cloth boots, and when he stepped on them, he could clearly feel that he had stepped into a pile of Gu worms that were either hard or soft and sticky.Almost immediately, the feet fell into those Gu worms, and before they had time to lift them up again, the swarming poisons crawled up the insteps all the way to the knees.

Lin Gongru felt that he had been bitten several times on the back of his foot, and it was excruciatingly painful.There was a slight rustling and scratching sensation on his calf, and more unknown poisonous insects tried to climb onto his body.

He held Xin Wu with both hands, unable to separate his hands to slap the poison on his body, so he could only raise his arms as high as possible to prevent those Gu insects from getting on Xin Wu.

The strange thing is that as soon as those Gu worms climbed to the outside of his thighs, they loosened their claws and fell down; those who did not fall, seemed to have found another more attractive and delicious food, and followed the same path in a dull manner. Crawled back to the ground again.

In an instant, Lin Gongru, who was almost drowned by thousands of poisonous insects just now, stood on the spot in a daze, with him as the center of a circle around him, leaving an area one foot square without poisonous insects.

Xin Wu tugged at the hem of his clothes, coughing and wheezing more and more, he said intermittently: "Go on... let's go."

Lin Gongru followed the direction he indicated and tried to move forward as fast as possible, but bumped into a cold stone wall after half an hour.

Xin Wu turned up sideways in his arms, held back his cough, and raised his hand to touch the extremely hard stone.

"Dead end. Let's go to the other side." He said weakly, "There are no poisonous insects in this area, please let me down first."

Lin Gongru hugged him tightly and refused to let go.

"You have such an ugly face, you can't walk fast, it doesn't matter if I hold you." He was actually worried that he would be bitten by poisonous insects, anyway, he himself had been bitten several times just now, and there seemed to be no problem.

Xin Wu hummed slightly.

The two of them turned around in the Gu hole a few more times, but encountered several dead ends one after another.Either it was sealed by falling boulders, or it was entangled with a huge poisonous python or a thick and sticky spider web. Lin Gongru was forced to retreat after several times, so he had to continue to look for a way out.

In the darkness, Xin Wu's complexion became more and more ugly, and a thin layer of cold sweat appeared on the doctor's forehead.

He didn't say a word, just secretly raised his hand and pricked a few acupuncture points in his key points, pursed his lips, and continued to guide Lin Gongru to walk blindly in the cave.

Lin Gongru, who had been holding him in his arms for more than two hours, finally realized something was wrong.He found a smooth stone wall, checked that there was no poison nearby, put Xin Wu down, and let him lean against the stone wall.He reached out to touch his forehead.

The man turned his head away.

"Don't waste time on me, let's continue to find the way..." He barely spoke.

Lin Gongru suppressed his anxiety and tried to make his voice not sound so blunt: "You are not familiar with the way here at all. You have never been here before, have you?"

Xin Wu said: "Don't be afraid...you have the medicine that is invulnerable to all poisons, you will be fine..."

"Who said I am! You look miserable! I'm going to take you back the way you came—"

"Shhh." Xin Wu held on to the man's sleeve tightly, and a bloody smell rose from his chest.

He pursed his lips and suppressed it forcefully, "Before... I took poison myself in order to avoid Master... This is a symptom of the poison. I will undo it by myself after I go out, it doesn't matter."

Lin Gongru didn't believe it, he turned his head and looked around, trying to find the way into the Gu cave.

The doctor's cold palm pressed against his cheek, and with a little force, he straightened the man's face.

His forehead and body were drenched in cold sweat, and he tried his best to smile: "Lin Gongru, you trust me. 'Zhuanmeng'...'Zhuanmeng' is the antidote used to restrain rebirth. If you take it, all common poisons in the world will not be able to get close to you. body. If you hug me tightly, you will be able to...ahem...you will be able to protect me. They smell the medicine on your body and won't come over. We can leave safely."

He leaned his head into the man's arms and begged in a low voice: "Let's go, don't hurry up, Master knows the correct way to get out of the hole, and he will catch up soon."

The east is showing fish belly white.

The young man sat quietly on the big carved bed, his feet dangling slightly by the bed, looking leisurely and content.

Hearing the gentle breeze in the bamboo forest and the gradually hurried footsteps, a slight smile appeared on his lips.

The door was pushed open vigorously, and a white-haired man appeared at the door with an expression of disbelief.

"Gu'er!" There was uncontrollable anger in the voice, and the man saw the young man sitting on the bed, and immediately knew that he had been tricked into turning the tiger away from the mountain.

He walked towards the bed angrily, and raised his palm. Before the person arrived, the wind of the palm swept over fiercely, and there was a clear and crisp slap. "How dare you deceive yourself as a teacher!! Xinwu people!!!"

Five bright red finger prints appeared on the youth's delicate cheeks, and he was beaten to the side.

Even when the master picked up his clothes, he still had a smile on his lips.

He turned his face around, and said softly to the white-haired man, "Let's go. He's gone with his beloved, Master, you can never chase him back."

The white-haired man threw him onto the bed forcefully, and spat: "I can't chase him back? Gu cave, hanging bridge, no matter which way he chooses to leave, even with wings, he can't fly to my Wuzhi Mountain! I can catch him back!" Once, you can catch him twice or three times!"

He turned to leave, but the boy held him tightly under the hem of his clothes.A soft and smooth body came up from behind him, and the white-haired man heard the rustle of his clothes falling to the ground.

Putting her arms around the man's waist, Little Gou'er said softly like a dream, "Master, Little Gou'er didn't lie to you. Brother Xin Wu won't survive tomorrow's sunrise."

"Varied--"

"I put poison on him when I said goodbye to him... Walking through the Gu hole will induce the poison to attack faster, and the brother knows it in his heart. In order to protect that Lin Gongru, he would rather choose to change his life..."

The young man's quiet sigh sounded particularly thrilling and cruel in the silence of the morning, "I wanted to cut off the bridge rope when they were crossing the bridge, and solve Master's pain in one fell swoop, but Senior Brother took his beloved to the Gu Cave He is such a fool, just as I love you desperately, isn't he, Master?"

"..."

"Master, look at me. From now on, there will be nothing wrong with you. If you catch up with him, you will only catch up with a dead body." When he came, he smiled happily.

He said affectionately and sweetly: "From now on, Master, there will be only me."

The man pressed him to the ground, and tore off the boy's only remaining clothes without saying a word.With red eyes, like a giant widowed beast, he stood up and buried himself viciously like venting.