Bottle Evil: Eternal Kirin Tribulation

Luoyang City, in the city.

At dusk, Zhang Qiling curled up one leg and half leaned against the city wall, holding a six or seven-year-old boy in his arms. The afterglow of the setting sun shone warmly on the two of them, coating each of them with a layer of shining gold.

"Ling, I like you so much, do you like me?" The little man in his arms asked in a childish voice.

"Of course I like it, my innocence is the most pleasing!" At this moment, Zhang Qiling has already removed half of the mask on his face, because he doesn't need any disguise when he is alone with innocence.

"Hehe!" Hearing this, the little man immediately laughed happily, and two shallow dimples appeared on the baby's fat little face.

Outside the city, the peak of Tianluan Peak.

In the shallow pool, which is three feet wide and narrow at a glance, a naked little man is swimming obediently under the supervision of Zhang Qiling.

It took only a short while to go down, and the clear water of the pool froze the little man so that his lips and teeth were chattering.But despite this, the little man's begging again and again can only be exchanged for Zhang Qiling's eyes that are always full of warning.

After the little man completed three-quarters of the swimming task, Zhang Qiling turned away his gaze, silently removed his outer shirt, shoes and socks, and walked into another hot spring pool next to the shallow pool.

"Ling, can I take a hot spring with you?" the little man asked aggrievedly with a trembling voice.

"Let's talk after swimming fifty rounds today!" Zhang Qiling said quietly after fully immersing his body in the hot spring, with no room for maneuver in his tone.

"Huh, huh, huh..." The little man in the shallow pool next door stopped talking, but immediately heard him stir up a rush of water splashes.

Zhang Qiling knew that the little man was angry, but he could only shake his head helplessly.

When there was no sound of water from the shallow pool next door, Zhang Qiling got up and walked over, hugged the little man who was pawing on the edge of the pool into his arms to keep him warm.

"Woo... Ling, you are so ruthless!" After being picked up, the little man put his arms around Zhang Qiling's neck and whimpered sadly.

This is not the first time that the little man has accused himself, and it is not an exaggeration to spoil him, but only for swimming, Zhang Qiling is never willing to give in, even if his heart will be accused by this sentence The stinging pain made him cry with the little man, but he still had to persevere to the end.

Time flies and it has been four years, during this period, apart from taking the little man to swim in Tianluan Peak regularly, and giving him some warming soup to relieve him, whenever the little man suffers from cold syndrome, Zhang Qiling will always He curled up and hugged the little man in his arms, and accompanied him through the sleepless night after night.

In the past four years, Zhang Qiling has been searching for traces of ancient tombs. Tomb hunting and hair mounding have become another part of his life besides taking care of Wuxie, but he still hasn't been able to find Chiwu.

Fortunately, Huangtian paid off, just this year, before Wuxie was about to go through ten years of catastrophe, Zhang Qiling finally found a red crow that hadn't yet formed, but at the same time he paid a certain price.In the ancient tomb, when he was attacked by a group of corpse slaves guarding the tomb, he was attacked by a corpse slave and scratched his left arm in order to protect the red crow that grew on the coffin lid of the tomb owner Jinsinan.

When Zhang Qiling brought Chiwu back to the prime minister's mansion with the wound, the wound on his left arm had been eroded black by the corpse poison.

It was night, and Zhang Qiling was sitting in the courtyard, washing his wounds with glutinous rice water under the moonlight (the courtyard is not large, it was specially allocated to him by Cao Cao for the convenience of him taking care of Wuxie, and it is only a wall away from Wuxie's residence) , even though the corners of his forehead and eyebrows were covered with fine cold sweat at this time, he still tried his best not to make a sound.

After a while, when Zhang Qiling had just finished cleaning the wound and was about to bandage it with gauze, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of a small black shadow moving on the wall covered by the shade of trees.After a helpless sigh, he put down the gauze in his hand, flew up to the wall, and lifted the little black shadow down.

"What are you going to do?" Zhang Qiling asked coldly, still holding the little man by the collar, until he came to the stone bench and sat down, and put the little man on his lap before letting go hand.

"Say, you're so late, what are you doing climbing the wall?" At this moment, Zhang Qiling's tone became colder, he raised his right hand and started to fight, obviously irritated by the little man's behavior.

"Wuuu... Ling, you lied, you spanked me when you said you liked me!" the little man pouted, angrily and aggrieved.

Zhang Qiling shook his head helplessly, but his hands stopped, "If you are naughty and disobedient, you should be punished, so that you can remember it next time. You dare to climb such a high wall. What if you fall?"

"Didn't Ling often climb walls too!" the little man sniffed and said unconvinced.

"I'm an adult!!!" Zhang Qiling said in an oppressive tone.

"Hmph, one day I will grow up too!" The little man turned his head to one side, not looking at Zhang Qiling, "If I hadn't been worried about Ling's injury, I wouldn't have climbed the wall in the middle of the night!"

"Have you gone to meet your father?" Zhang Qiling said softly.

"Well, I couldn't sleep just now, so I ran to my father's study to look for him. In the end, he told me that you had returned and was injured, so I hurried to find you." The little man still tilted his head and said , seems to be a little angry.

"Then why didn't you go through the door, instead you climbed over the wall?" Zhang Qiling asked.

"My heart aches for your injury, and I don't want to bother you to come out and open the door for me." The little man turned his head to look at Zhang Qiling, and said in a serious tone.

"Hey, what should I say about you?" Zhang Qiling lowered his head and rubbed the face of the little man in his arms affectionately with the tip of his nose.

"Hold me to sleep with you, tomorrow morning, we'll be even!" Seeing that Zhang Qiling's anger had subsided, the little man immediately lost his composure.

"Hiss!" His left arm was suddenly pulled by the little man, and Zhang Qiling subconsciously moaned.

"Ah... I'm sorry, Ling... let me bandage it for you!" The little man noticed that Zhang Qiling was sweating all over his body at the moment, and immediately burst into tears with distress.

"I'm fine, innocent, don't cry!" Zhang Qiling stretched out his right hand to wipe the teardrops on the little man's face, then handed him the gauze.

After bandaging the wound, the two rested at Zhang Qiling's residence.

"Ling!" The little man got into Zhang Qiling's arms, carefully avoiding his left arm, and hugged his waist and called out.

"Huh?" Zhang Qiling opened his eyes, put his chin on the top of the little man's head, and questioned.

"We haven't seen each other for seven days, do you miss me?" the little man said.

"Hmm! I think about it every day, and I want to come back to you as soon as possible to be with you." Zhang Qiling said.Perhaps for him, some things in his heart are easier to say in front of a child!

"Then why didn't you sue me when you came back today?" the little man complained.

"I'm afraid you're worried too!" Zhang Qiling said.

For a long while, the little man didn't speak again.Just when Zhang Qiling thought he was asleep, he heard him calling his name again.He was the only one who knew his own name, and the only one who was allowed to call him by his own name.

Little man: "Spirit!"

Zhang Qiling: "Huh?"

Little man: "I like you!"

Zhang Qiling: "I know!"

Zhang Qiling: "Go to sleep, you have to get up early tomorrow to see your father!"

"En!" The little man in his arms rubbed against Zhang Qiling's chest.

There was a smile on the corner of Zhang Qiling's mouth, and then he patted his back lightly with the right hand that was pillowed by the little man, and fell asleep with him.

When the autumn wind picked up this year, the innocent cold syndrome arrived as scheduled.But this time with the Chiwu brought by Zhang Qiling, his cold symptoms were quickly suppressed, and his health was much better than in previous years.Cao Cao was overjoyed, so he specially hosted a banquet to reward Zhang Qiling.

During the dinner, after some words of gratitude, Cao Cao suddenly said that he wanted to impromptuly recite a poem for Zhang Qiling:

Wine and song, life geometry? For example, if you are exposed, you will have more troubles.

Generosity should be regarded as generosity, and worry is unforgettable.How to relieve worries?Only Dukang.

Green Zijin, Youyouwoxin.But for the sake of the king, I have been pondering it so far.

Yo-yo Luming, the apple of the wild food.I have guests, harp blowing Sheng.

It's like a moon, when can I stop?Worry can't be cut off from it.

The more you pass through the mountains, the uselessness exists.Qi Kuo talks about Yan, longing for old grace.

The moon is scarce, and the black magpie flies south.Three turns around the tree, where is the branch to rely on?

The mountains never get too high, and the sea never gets too deep.Zhougong spit and feed, and the world is home to one's heart.

"What do the chivalrous men think?" Cao Cao asked calmly, as if this was just an impromptu poem.But only he himself knows that this poem, which has already been drafted, just lacked a suitable opportunity to read it out.Now, he can just take advantage of Chiwu's incident and take Zhang Qiling for his own use. This is something he has been thinking about for four years!Although there has been a deviation in usage, this person is definitely worthy of being used well by him.

"Prime Minister is so talented!" Although Zhang Qiling had heard the implication, he remained calm and planned to wait and see what happened.

Sure enough, after hearing this perfunctory remark, Cao Cao's complexion began to turn ugly.After pondering for a long while, he changed the subject and said, "In the past few years, knights have worked hard to find medicine for Chong'er. How about I send some people over for the knights to dispatch?"

"..." Under the mask, Zhang Qiling's eyes obviously hesitated for a moment.

"If we can find the thousand-year-old Chiwu and cure his cold symptoms as soon as possible, Chong'er will be able to live a peaceful life in the future." Cao Cao explained immediately.

"It's good to send more people, but I don't know what the prime minister's conditions are?" Zhang Qiling raised his cup and sipped his tea, speaking in a calm and authentic tone.

"Haha... The chivalrous man is really a transparent person, Cao really has a merciless request." Cao Cao showed his face, but it made people feel that the smile was fake.

"Prime Minister, it doesn't matter what you say!" Zhang Qiling said calmly.

"At the moment, I'm fighting that old thief Yuan Shao at Guandu, and I don't have as much supplies and troops as he does, alas!" Cao Cao sighed, "If Cao wants to defeat him, he needs to recruit more troops and expand his strength." Supplies, but..." Cao Cao deliberately paused to look at Zhang Qiling.

"But you're short of military pay, you want to get an idea of ​​the ancient tomb." Zhang Qiling said bluntly, his tone still indifferent.

"..." Cao Cao had to admit that the man in front of him did have some strategizing ability, so he secretly wondered if it was a pity to use him to explore graves and mounds.

After pondering for a long time, Cao Cao finally made up his mind, and said to Zhang Qiling proudly: "In this troubled world, who else can calm down except me, Cao Wei? If I can get the help of knights, I can give the whole world peace as soon as possible." A world of peace and prosperity!"

Since Zhang Qiling had already glimpsed the secrets from "Song of Ten Thousand Years of Heaven and Earth", he knew that this world would one day be ruled by Cao Wei, so he didn't intend to refuse, "I can help you."

"What are the conditions?" Cao Cao also immediately heard the implication in his words.

"I can't guarantee that the person who takes you will be able to find the thousand-year-old Chiwu, and I can't guarantee that Wuxie will be able to escape safely every time the cold syndrome strikes, so if one day... Wuxie dies from the cold syndrome, Please hand him over to me and let me bury him with my own hands." Zhang Qiling said.

"I can promise you, but you still need to pay more attention to the thousand-year-old Chiwu!" Cao Cao said, although he felt extremely weird about the conditions proposed by Zhang Qiling, but since he was willing to help him expand his military salary when the battle ahead was tight, then For the time being, I agreed to him first. If I want to go back on my word in the future, I will wait until the battle is over.

"It's natural, Prime Minister can rest assured!" Zhang Qiling said.

In the next three years, Zhang Qiling led the mysterious team of more than a hundred people sent to him by Cao Cao, and started tomb robbery again and again.In the team, everyone called each other by code names, and their real names were erased when they joined the team. After all, tomb robbery is not an honorable profession.

The highest leader of the team, the silver-masked man, is revered as General Wood by his brothers, which is a homonym of the character for tomb.The brothers all knew that he never touched gold when he entered the ancient tomb, and he only opened the coffin to find something called the thousand-year-old Chiwu.

Once, a few brothers encountered a ghost hitting the wall while touching gold, and after being rescued by other brothers, they immediately destroyed the ancient tomb to vent their anger.Afterwards, the wooden general formulated several rules when touching gold: when touching gold, only take what you need and do not damage others; you can only enter and exit a tomb once;

However, since the rules are made by humans, they naturally need to be followed by humans, but in reality, accidents often occur.Once, a desperate guy was reluctant to part with a valuable underworld artifact, so he went into the main tomb three times, trying to snatch a giant green jade from the owner of the thousand-year-old rice dumpling tomb, but in the end he killed several brothers. , and the general Mu who went to rescue him was also seriously injured.When something like this happened, that guy should have been executed, but General Mu said that there was no point in the matter, and that person just wanted to make more contributions to the army, so he continued to keep him in the team.

Originally, one should be satisfied with recovering one life and being able to continue to stay in the team, but who knows, when that man saw Zhang Qiling in the tomb fighting to save him in blood, a crazy black-colored beast suddenly appeared on his body. Qilin image, he insisted on worshiping him as a teacher.Zhang Qiling naturally did not agree, but he allowed him to always be by his side when entering the ancient tomb.

In the past three years, Zhang Qiling has not been able to find any traces of Chiwu except that he has increased Cao Cao's military salary sufficiently, but Wuxie's cold disease has gradually worsened.Seeing that half of this year's summer was already over, Zhang Qiling couldn't help but feel a little anxious. As soon as he got the location of an ancient tomb from his subordinates, he rode his horse to go there alone.However, what greeted him in the ancient tomb was a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​rice dumpling. After escaping from the dead, he came to Wuxie's sick bed with injuries all over his body.

"Ling, will I die?" During the day, when the sun is shining, the innocent spirit is slightly better, but it is still very weak.

"Don't talk nonsense, with me by your side, you will be fine!" Zhang Qiling knelt on one knee beside the bed, stretched out his hand to hold his hand, put it on his lips and kissed it lightly, his voice was obviously exhausted.

"Ling, I'm afraid!" Wu Xie said.

"..." Zhang Qiling looked at him quietly, not knowing how to comfort him.

"I'm afraid, what will you do if I die one day?" Wu Xie said again, her watery eyes filled with sadness.

"Wuxie..." Zhang Qiling called him with a choked voice, and then held him tightly in his arms.I thought it was his subconscious fear of death, but he didn't expect that he was actually worrying for himself.

"You are a smart and sensible boy, don't worry, God won't let a good boy die young!" Zhang Qiling comforted him by stroking his back, but he also seemed to be comforting himself.

Because there were too many injuries on his body, Zhang Qiling could no longer hold Wuxie to drive him away from the cold at night, so he stayed by his bed every night to burn a charcoal basin and tuck the quilt for him.It wasn't until five days later, when his injuries had fully recovered, and Wu Xie strongly demanded that he be hugged to sleep, that he reluctantly nodded in agreement.In fact, Zhang Qiling was not because he didn't want to hug him to sleep, but because he was worried that the corpse poison left on his body would affect him.

Half a month later, the development of the matter really conformed to the old saying: nine out of ten unsatisfactory things in the world.Because Wu Xie came into contact with the corpse poison left on Zhang Qiling's body, the yin energy in his body became more serious, and the cold syndrome aggravated a lot.

Zhang Qiling couldn't help regretting this, and every day from now on, he only dared to stand aside and watch Wuxie for a while, but he didn't dare to stay in his room for too long.

After the two of them spent some time in such a daze, Zhang Qiling got another piece of news about the ancient tomb, so he gritted his teeth and made an appointment with Wuxie for a seven-day period.

Before leaving, because his right eyelid kept twitching violently, he worriedly lit a life lamp for Wuxie.But in the end, Wuxie still couldn't wait for him to come back and went to another world.

In the 13th year of Jian'an, Cao Chong, Cao Cao's most beloved son, died of a serious illness at the age of 13.

After Wu Xie's death, before leaving, Zhang Qiling found the person who wanted to worship him as a teacher, and gave him the strange book that recorded all kinds of clever springs given to him by Mr. Iron Face during the Warring States Period, and asked him to Continue to work for Cao Cao, and finally told him his real name at his request.

Afterwards, Zhang Qiling took Wuxie's body overnight and buried him on the top of Tianluan Peak.This is a peaceful, holy place without the disturbance of the world, and it is a clean place in Zhang Qiling's heart, just like the child's bright eyes like water, which are always so clean and spotless.

Back at the Bronze Gate, Zhang Qiling was surprised to find that a large-scale mausoleum had been built outside the Bronze Gate, and there were many multi-armed humanoid monsters behind the Bronze Gate, but fortunately, there was no danger.And when he entered the ultimate gate to say goodbye to Wu Xie in this life, he had to be surprised by another new discovery of his own, that there was actually a person inside.

The person in front of him is standing in front of the reincarnation mirror with his back to him, saying goodbye to an old woman.Before the figure of the old woman disappeared into the sea of ​​red flowers, the man murmured, "Mu Lian is not filial, so I can only bid farewell to my mother here"!

When all the images in the reincarnation mirror disappeared, the man stood still for a while before turning around and leaving, but he didn't notice Zhang Qiling who was standing five meters behind him from the beginning to the end.But Zhang Qiling immediately understood that it was the out-of-body soul consciousness of a stranger, and like the undead, he couldn't see his own existence.

After a long time, when Zhang Qiling came to the world again, a kind of Buddha statue called Avalokitesvara has been popular in the market since then.Perhaps, this is probably related to the soul consciousness named Mulian who went to the Bronze Gate!

The author has something to say: PS: In order to match the plot, the time of relevant historical events is different from the historical facts, so don't correct it!