After being pulled up by the master

That night, Xue Wendi sat by the well in the courtyard, wiping the blade of Hengyan.The cold iron made no sound, and it was even more chilly after soaking in water, but it was midsummer, so Xue Wendi felt refreshed a lot this time.He sighed: "Good Hengyan, I will rely on you a lot from now on."

The sword glowed slightly, Heng Yan seemed to understand what he said, and responded wordlessly.Xue Wendi raised his eyes and looked at the silent man in the dark. His face without facial features was even more absurd under the faint moonlight.Xue Wendi looked at him, and saw an iron chain extending from somewhere on his body, crawling on the ground like a twisted black snake, crawling all the way into a certain room in the hut.

Xue Wendi's eyes sank, he put away his sword, stood up, and walked towards the man.

The moon in the sky seemed to have cracked, and crows flew out of it, wailing and hovering over the roof.

Xue Wendi stopped.

He stood on the ridge again.

The night turned into day, and several crooked scarecrows stood in the golden waves of wheat.Their faces are covered with yellow paper, with simple facial features drawn. Farmers wielding hoes are working hard. On the other side of the field, two children are catching sparrows.

Xue Wendi walked over there, and recognized one of them as Xiaoyu. He had grown up a little more than before, and his childish features had begun to recede, revealing his future appearance.

Xue Wendi held his sword in his arms, ready to go up and talk to him.The person next to Xiaoyu spotted him first, and raised his head—it was also a face without facial features.

But even so, Xue Wendi still sensed hostility from that face, the undisguised eyes full of disgust were more scorching than the noon sun.

He suddenly grabbed Xiaoyu and said, "Brother, we're going home."

Xue Wendi paused, is this Zhong Youqi?

Xiaoyu also raised his face and found the strange Xue Wendi who was walking towards them at this time, without hesitation: "Okay."

They walked away without looking back.

Xue Wendi followed unhurriedly until he reached the hut.

From a mother and son at the beginning, it became a family of three, and now a family of four.

There are more and more people, and the black threads on Xiaoyu's body are becoming more and more obvious. They are twisted one by one to form a heavy shackle, and they are stubbornly attached to Xiaoyu's neck, wrists, ankles and waist, like The car cracking torture, with a little force, he can be divided into five horses.

Xue Wendi looked solemn, looking at the little fish sitting by the well through the fence.He is choosing vegetables, the green leaves are piled in the bamboo basket, stained with some fresh mud.

Xue Wendi didn't wait until dark.He just looked at it for a while, and then returned to the field ridge again.He saw more and more people, saw the faceless woman whose body and posture were very similar to Lian Feng, saw the black cat that was getting more and more arrogant, circling around Xiao Yu's feet, and many others. He had never seen men and women who did not match their identities.They all have no facial features, wear ordinary clothes, and live like ordinary people.

Xue Wendi walked the road from the ridge to the hut five times, and Xiaoyu has grown to a 13-year-old.

On the sixth time, Xue Wendi decided to give it a try no matter what.But when he walked towards that door, exactly the same thing happened as the first time.It was Xiaoyu's mother who came out, and Xiaoyu stood behind him and asked him, "Who are you?"

It seems to start all over again in an instant.

Xue Wendi looked at the little carrot head who was not as tall as his waist, and fell into deep thought.He found that among all the people, only Xiaoyu's mother had a clear image, with agile facial features and a gentle personality.Xue Wendi originally thought that the answer to all this lay in this senior, but now it seems that there is something else hidden.

Xue Wendi still sat on the same stool as Xiaoyu eating watermelon.

This time he didn't move, and said to the children beside him, "I'll give you this too."

Xiaoyu was naturally happy, and still ate the watermelon with his hands.Xue Wendi looked at the back of this man's head, thinking, why did everything go back to the starting point when Xiaoyu was 13 years old?Is there any special reason?

13 years old, 13 years old...

Xue Wendi was chanting silently, and suddenly his heart trembled. Xiaoyu met himself when he was 13 years old.In Linyuan's dungeon, in Qingjiang under the moon, they met.

If he develops like this, he will never meet himself in the magic gathering pool, that is to say, no one will come to rescue him when he was 13 years old, and he will always be trapped here.

Xue Wendi gave a slight pause to the hand holding the watermelon, Xiaoyu raised his face to look at him, his mouth was still surrounded by red juice.Xue Wendi smiled: "You're always bored here? Do you want to go outside with me?"

Xiaoyu shook his head, and immediately refused: "No, I want to stay by my mother's side, so that no one will bully her."

"Bully her? Who will bully her?"

Xue Wendi pressed, but the other party couldn't speak. After a long silence, she muttered: "Anyway, someone will bully her, so I can't leave."

Xue Wendi remembered that Xiaoyu's mother was swallowed by his father. Xiaoyu just witnessed this incident, which may be reflected in the net, which is the so-called "someone will bully her".

Just as he was thinking, Xiaoyu's mother walked over.Xue Wendi withdrew his hand abruptly, lowering his eyes to avoid her gaze.

"Look at you, you look like a little tabby cat." The young woman hugged her son and scolded, "Go and wash your face."

"Okay." Xiaoyu nodded obediently, jumped off the bench and ran into the house.

The woman looked at Xue Wendi with a smile again: "My name is Ji Xuan, what's your name?"

"Xue Wendi."

Ji Xuan smiled: "I heard Zheliu in the song tonight, who can't afford the love of hometown? It's a good name."

Xue Wendi blinked, Wen Ke also quoted this poem about his name.Although the possibility of a coincidence is very high, it feels a little subtle that two people came out of Linyuan together.

He didn't know how to answer for a moment, so he smiled lightly.

Ji Xuan said: "You can sleep in Xiaoyu's room tonight, I'll make you a new bedding."

"Thank you." Xue Wendi couldn't help feeling melancholy, from the lotus quilt, he could feel what a kind mother this is, what a pity, what a pity.

Ji Xuan lowered her head slightly to look at him, and said in a warm voice: "My son is afraid of the dark, and will not be able to fall asleep if there is any noise at night. Can you tolerate him?"

"It's natural, don't worry." Xue Wendi was looked at by her like this, without the panic at the beginning, those eyes were always full of warmth, which made it easy for people to relax their guard.When Xue Wendi talked to her, he always felt that all this was too real, as if he was not in the magic pool, but was really getting along with Xiaoyu's mother.

Ji Xuan still smiled unabated: "My son is introverted and doesn't like to express some words, but he seems to really like you."

Xue Wendi didn't think too much, and subconsciously answered, "I like him very much, too."

After finishing speaking, he was inexplicably embarrassed to be seen through by others, and pursed his lips in embarrassment, but Ji Xuan's expression was as usual, but she stopped talking, but looked at him for a while, and said: "If my son grows up, It's good to have you so healthy."

"He," Xue Wendi paused, "he's fine, don't worry."

I will take good care of him.

Xue Wendi read silently.

Ji Xuan smiled without saying a word, bowed slightly, turned and left.

The courtyard was silent, and the low fence was covered with pink petunias, swaying in the scorching wind.Xue Wendi saw one of them fall from the flower wall and fall into the green grass.A burst of inexplicable tiredness hit him, he blinked, as if he was about to fall asleep, but was suddenly pushed down by someone again, Xue Wendi was startled, just in time to see Xiaoyu standing in front of him.

"Ok?"

Xue Wendi stared in confusion, still drowsy, Xiaoyu shook him again: "Don't sleep."

"Hmm." Xue Wendi tried to open his eyes, held his hand instead, and murmured, "I won't sleep."

Xiaoyu still shook him. Although he was young, but if he really had to use brute force, Xue Wendi was still pushed back and forth, and he couldn't help laughing: "I know, I know."

He finally woke up a lot, opened his beautiful peach eyes, and asked with a smile: "Are you afraid that I will fall asleep?"

"Aniang said you can't sleep." Xiaoyu hurriedly explained to him, "Besides, it's getting dark, and Aniang said you should come in with me."

Xue Wendi's heart tightened suddenly: "Yes."

The sky darkened almost instantly, and I couldn't see my fingers.At this moment, Hengyan emitted a sword light, illuminating this square inch of land.Under the four fields, there are tall black puppets standing upright in this small courtyard like unbroken silkworm chrysalis.The face was covered with a piece of yellow rice paper, the thick ink outlined the terrifying facial features, the corners of the mouth were slightly raised, and the smiling eyes were lifeless.

Xiaoyu didn't seem to see them, so he just pushed open the door and said, "Come in."

Dense black threads connect the puppet's feet to his wrists and ankles, and the fragile neck is no exception.Xue Wendi's breath became stagnant, and he quietly placed his right hand on the hilt of Hengyan's sword.

With his current cultivation, one sword can cut off one of them, but it is not realistic for Xiaoyu to stand without him swinging the sword.

Xue Wendi smiled, and walked towards the house. Unexpectedly, every time he took a step, the puppets were one step closer.Xue Wendi stopped, and the other party also stopped.They were conscious, they could even see his intentions, Xue Wendi's hand holding the sword was tight and tight.

Seeing that he didn't move for a long time, Xiaoyu had no choice but to run towards him: "Why don't you come in?"

Xue Wendi embraced him with his left hand, and squatted down gently: "Xiaoyu, can you close your eyes first?"

Xiaoyu's lips parted slightly, as if he wanted to say something, he presumably wanted to ask him why, but for some reason, he didn't say these questions out of his mouth.

"it is good."

Xiaoyu obediently closed his eyes.

Xue Wendi patted his head: "It may hurt a little, don't cry, I will make it up to you later."

After saying that, Xue Wendi threw out his sword brazenly, and cut off the lock on Xiaoyu's neck with one sword.Hearing a crisp sound, the soaring demonic energy gushed out like a blowout, and the puppet struck from all directions. Xue Wendi cut off the lock on Xiaoyu's left wrist with another sword strike. Then, he picked up Xiaoyu with one hand and held the sword With a swing of the flower, he cut down the puppet that attacked first with his backhand.The black head rolled several times on the ground, suddenly "giggled" and laughed, and quickly turned into a wisp of black smoke, hovering over the roof.

Xue Wendi was originally very good at melee combat, but the string on the puppet's body was constantly shrinking, so he could only change positions while fighting, lest the string be too tight and hurt Xiaoyu.

Hengyan's sword was cold and clanging, Xue Wendi cut off two more locks with his strong sword energy.The puppets fell down one after another, laughing and laughing, the black air on the roof gradually gathered into a huge black cloud, and thunder and lightning were faint.Xue Wendi saw that the situation was not good, so he took a few steps back, and slashed at the last lock on Xiaoyu's right ankle with his sword.The cold iron burst into fierce flames, but the last lock remained motionless.A thunderbolt fell from the cloud, hitting Xue Wendi's back, and the piercing pain hit his heart directly from the wound, as if piercing through his entire heart.

This feeling is exactly the same as the knife he suffered ten years ago.

Xue Wendi gritted his teeth, swallowed the blood that was about to spurt, wiped it with the back of his hand, and there was a sharp look in his eyes.He poured his spiritual energy into Hengyan's sword: "The way is nameless, punish!"

A streak of purple air pierced through the void, heading straight for the black cloud.In an instant, thunder broke out everywhere, and the flames soaring into the sky pierced the rocks and clouds, and the last chain wrapped around Xiao Yu's body suddenly broke out, dragging him to the depths of the darkness.Xiaoyu, who had kept his eyes tightly closed, clung to Xue Wendi's front because of fear, but he never opened his eyes.

The puppet merged into a large swamp, engulfing the two of them and falling, Xue Wendi wanted to recall Hengyan, but his hands were tightly held.Xiaoyu finally opened his eyes to look at him, with tears in his eyes, and after a while he said vaguely: "It hurts."

He was in so much pain, it seemed as if countless hands were tearing at him in the depths of the swamp. His muscles, bones, skin, and even bones and internal organs were being ripped apart inch by inch.

Xue Wendi knew that he was in pain, and followed him, but how could he let go now?As long as you relax a little bit, there will be no way out in the future.

"Heng Yan!"

Xue Wendi roared, bit the tip of his tongue, and used the blood to draw out his sword.Hengyan escaped from the cloud and broke through the mud that bound Xue Wendi's right hand.With the long sword in hand, Xue Wendi's eyes were reddish, bursting out with astonishing power, the mighty purple air broke through layers of obstacles, the roaring sound was like a landslide, and the two confronted each other, the night was like a mirror shattered, and the pieces were like knives. Pounce on the two of them.

Xue Wendi protected the little fish with his body, avoiding the sharp fragments, and cut off the last chain.

"I'll take you away, okay?"

Xue Wendi asked softly, with Xiaoyu's head buried on the side of his neck: "Where is my aunt?"

"She's dead."

Xue Wendi was ruthless, but he still said that he couldn't let Xiaoyu live in this empty world forever.

As soon as he finished speaking, another lock suddenly appeared on Xiaoyu's back, dragging him out of Xue Wendi's arms.Xue Wendi didn't have time to think about it, he threw Hengyan heavily, drew a straight line with his long sword, and went straight to the other end of the chain.

"Give him back to me!"

Xue Wendi crazily hugged Xiaoyu tightly again. Panting heavily, he pressed the head of the man in his arms, telling him over and over again not to look up and not to look.

The lock that suddenly appeared had a puppet tied to the other end.A hole was pierced in the black shell by Hengyan, Xue Wendi put two fingers together, exerted force instantly, Hengyan pierced a little more.The puppet's shell was completely broken, revealing its true face.

Is the mother of the little fish.

Xue Wendi's eyes were red, and he froze in place.

Ji Xuan just smiled lightly: "Thank you."

At this moment, she was finally free, finally freed from the endless bondage.

She was completely turned into powder, and disappeared along with the sky that broke through the night.

Xue Wendi only felt that the sockets of his eyes were hot, not only that, he couldn't even see anything.He could only hug the person in his arms, desperately using his body to circle a safe place.

In the depths of Night City, a hoarse scream erupted from the restless Demon Gathering Pool, and two people spit out from the mouth of the pool.

Xue Wendi rolled several times and bumped his head against the wall of the secret room.The rust-colored flowing gold blurred his eyes, and he couldn't see anything clearly, but with his last breath, he crawled slowly to grope.When he finally touched the familiar palm, he breathed a sigh of relief and passed out.

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It is always difficult for me to close the line. I guess it will be finished in four 10,000+ words