"Cen Jinlin! You're jumping up and down by yourself, and you're just stubborn! Why are you still messing around with the young master! If he makes a mistake! You can't afford it!"

The elders of the clan yelled at the boy, his gray beard trembled because of his anger, his face was wrinkled like old bark, and his tone of voice was like the evening drum and morning bell in a temple, calm and heavy.

The young man in a purple shirt stood in the center of the hall with his hands behind his back, his high bun swaying as he shook his head, his expression was too lively, and he didn't take the elder's words to heart at all.His eyes are shining, even though his face is covered with mud at this moment, he looks like a little cat.

Faced with his attitude, the elder became even angrier. He couldn't help but knocked on the floor with his cane, and said in a deep voice, "Kneel down!"

"Elder Cangyan!" Cen Zelin rushed ahead of his younger brother. Cen Zelin, who was wearing a light blue robe, came out from the side and stood beside Cen Jinlin. He looked at the elder sitting in the main hall and said, "I asked him to take me Yes, don't blame him, let alone we came back safely. If you want to punish, please punish me too."

Cang Yan snorted coldly: "I can't punish you! Songxi, take Cen Jinlin to me, and send him to the back mountain to face the wall for three days! It's good to reflect on yourself!"

"Elder—" Cen Zelin still wanted to plead, but was stopped by his father sitting on that chair with his eyes. The latter sat on the chair and shook his head slightly at him, his expression full of helplessness.

Cen Jinlin was escorted away, and Cen Zelin turned his head to look, only to catch a glimpse of the young man's thin and straight back, like a green bamboo growing against the wind, tenacious and unyielding.After crossing the hurdle in the front hall, Cen Zelin caught the other party's eyes at him the moment he turned out, clearly saying - "I want to eat steamed fish".

In the empty and quiet back mountain, Cen Zelin approached with a food box, only to find that the person who was supposed to be here facing the wall and thinking about it had already been lying on his back under the maple tree by the waterfall, sleeping on his back, and the sound of even breathing came out, which set off the It was very quiet here.

Cen Zelin lightly put down the food box, opened the lid, brought out the fish that his mother had prepared, and handed it to Cen Jinlin's nose for a while.

Cen Jinlin, who was sleeping soundly, moved his nose and opened his eyes instantly. He sat up along the direction of the plate, staring at the plump and tender steamed fish with shining eyes, almost drooling: " Come on, come on, I'm starving!"

"Tell you to face the wall, and you fell asleep. If the elder finds out, he will definitely punish you." Cen Zelin handed him the plate, and bowed his head to find chopsticks for someone.However, the hungry cat doesn't need chopsticks at all, and has already picked up the fish with his hands.

The fish just out of the pot was hot, and Cen Jinlin screamed and stuffed it into his mouth hungrily, saying vaguely: "Punish it, he's only good at this, and I'm not afraid of him."

"In the end, I'm the one who got you in trouble this time." Cen Zelin looked at him wolfing down, sighed softly, his eyes full of sadness: "If I didn't insist on you taking me for a walk around the town, the elder would It won't be such a big fire."

"What does it have to do with you?" Cen Jinlin curled his lips indifferently, and continued after swallowing the fish: "I have to trap you here and won't let you leave even a single step. Why? Why can they do this?" ? Just because you were born different? You must live according to their wishes, not free, forever bound?"

"Jinlin, stop talking." Cen Zelin interrupted him: "Everyone is born with a different mission. This is my destiny. Forcibly breaking free will only make it difficult for my father. I don't want to make it difficult for him."

"It shouldn't be like this." Cen Jinlin murmured, he put down the half-eaten fish in his hand, his eyes dimmed for a moment, he looked at the burning clouds in the distant sky, and said slowly: "It's because you have been a beast for a hundred years. A rare physique, every word and deed, must follow their rules, what is the difference between that and a puppet?"

"I don't know, but I..."

boom--

A loud noise broke out not far away, interrupting Cen Zelin's words, and the two brothers turned their heads in response, only to see a gust of wind blowing up wind and sand towards this end, threatening, and toppled the roofs of several houses along the way.

"What's wrong?" Cen Zelin stood up and looked over there.

Cen Jinlin threw down the unfinished fish and stood up with him: "I don't know."

"Go, go back and have a look!" Cen Zelin pulled him to quickly evacuate from here, and the two brothers turned into prototypes and quickly ran in the dense jungle, heading towards home.

However, when they arrived, they found that the whole village had collapsed into ruins, and there was a strong smell of blood under the crimson sky.The elderly grandmother was dying under the collapsed house, Cen Jinlin stepped forward to prop up the thick wall, and they dragged the person out from inside.

"Run, don't stay here..." Grandma's face was covered with blood, her eyes were filled with horror, she kept murmuring: "He's here, he's really here, run, don't be found by him."

he?who is he?

Cen Zelin raised his head and exchanged glances with his younger brother, and after a while he came to his senses.It was him, the monster recorded in the family files that needed to be guarded at all times, the protagonist in every story that frightened children since Cen Zelin was born—Zouwu.

But shouldn't that be a legend?The dossier records that the Zouwu cholera outbreak in the world was severely injured by the great god Pangu, sealed in Ruoshui, suppressed with divine power, and remained unchanged for thousands of years.

When Cen Zelin came to his senses again, the surroundings had turned into a sea of ​​blood, and the corpses of his clansmen were piled up into mountains, each of them blocked in front of him.The closest to him was their mother. The gentle and kind mother in the past turned into the most solid barrier to block Zou Wu's steps and protect her two children behind her.

"Go, don't look back." The mother fell into a pool of blood, but still did not give up struggling. She used her last bit of strength to wrap around Zou Wu's arm, trying to buy them some more time.

However, it was in vain; with Zouwu's light shock, she was bounced off like a leaf falling and hit the mountain wall hard.

"No—!!" Cen Zelin yelled uncontrollably.

Cen Jinlin, who was one step faster than him, showed his weapon and swung at Zou Wu vigorously: "Go to hell!"

"Jinlin!!" Cen Zelin also rushed over, but was restrained by an invisible force. Following the source of the force, it was the dying Cangyan.

The old man's white hair was scattered all over the place, his face was pale, and the corner of his mouth was still stained with blood. He said, "Don't go, go!"

"That's my younger brother!" Cen Zelin struggled vigorously. At this time, Cangyan was at the end of his strength and could not stand such a toss at all, and Cen Zelin broke free after a while.

Cen Zelin quickly flew towards Zouwu, throwing two hidden weapons in the air.A hidden weapon that usually has quite good lethality is thrown at Zouwu like two balls of fluffy cotton, and it falls to the ground after being tapped on him, completely non-aggressive at all.

On the contrary, Zou Wu was attracted by him, and his eyes shifted from Cen Jinlin to him. He smiled with satisfaction after only one glance at him. The monster nodded, and quickly stretched out his hand to grab Cen Zelin's neck: " It turns out that the Pangu Ax is with you. The legendary body, the most precious physique among beasts."

"Let go! You beast!!" Cang Yan let out a roar, and used his last strength to attack Zouwu, cutting his hand holding Cen Zelin. After this blow, he quickly fell on the ground. On the ground, spit out the last mouthful of blood.

Because of this, the strength in Zou Wu's hands loosened, and Cen Zelin found an opportunity to slip out of the hands.

Zou Wu sneered, watched the wound on his arm heal quickly with a blank face, and said, "Do you think you can escape?"

The rain was pouring down, and the two brothers fell to the ground with blood on their faces, looking up at Zou Wu who was getting closer.Their clothes were stained red with blood, and when the wind blew, the air was filled with the smell of the blood of the clansmen, which was so pungent and disgusting.

All the veins in Cen Zelin's body were shattered, and he no longer had the strength to stand up.He tried his best to touch the corner of Cen Jinlin's clothes with his fingertips, tugged lightly, and said in a voice mixed with blood, "Hurry... hurry, Jinlin..."

"What are you talking about? You should go." Cen Jinlin gritted his teeth and stood up, his thin body blocked Cen Zelin, facing up to Zou Wu, who was half a body taller than him, and said to Cen Zelin: " Brother, live on, you are our only hope..."

"No, it's not." Cen Zelin struggled desperately. He tried hard to stand up, but no matter how hard he tried, it was in vain. He watched all this as if he was nailed to the spot.

That was his younger brother who was born hundreds of years earlier than him, but like a resolute and fearless warrior, he opened a bloody path to life for him.Cen Zelin had no idea how he accepted all of this, and how he managed to survive until now with this life that was saved by all the efforts of the whole family.

This is a sea of ​​blood, an unforgettable pain; every clansman died one after another, just for him to escape alone, he desperately wanted to stop himself from fleeing, but found that his body was not affected at all. control.He is like a coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death, fleeing separately from this hell full of bloody smell and the wailing of his clansmen.

"Do you regret it?"

A voice came into Cen Zelin's heart, making his head buzz.When he came back to his senses, he found that the surroundings had become pitch black, only a beam of light fell from where he was.

"Who?!" Cen Zelin looked around, but couldn't see anything.

"Can't you even hear my voice?" The voice was mixed with indescribable obscurity, he paused, and called out with a sneer: "Brother."

"Jinlin... Jinlin..." Cen Zelin's voice was full of indescribable urgency, and he kept groping in the dark, trying to find the source of the voice: "Jinlin, you are still alive, You're really alive, that's great."

"Stop pretending, you don't think so in your heart at all." Cen Jinlin said coldly, his tone was quite different from that of the sunny and cheerful boy in the past, with a serious chill, he said: "My life will never be as good as my life." You are precious, this is a doomed fact from birth."

"No!" Cen Zelin interrupted him, explaining: "You are my younger brother, and we are the closest people in this world."

"Brother? Cen Zelin, do you really think we are brothers?" Cen Jinlin sneered, his voice hovering above Cen Zelin's head, slowly revealing a corner of the truth: "I'm just a tool, ready to ask for help anytime, anywhere The kind to die for you. Otherwise, why do you think that we are brothers with the same father and the same mother but treated very differently from childhood to adulthood?"

"What are you talking about!..." Cen Zelin's face was pale, he looked up at the darkness above his head, and retorted loudly: "Jinlin! Don't be fooled by Zouwu, if he tells you Nothing is true, it was him, he killed our clansmen and parents! Do you still want to listen to his orders?"

"But you are the one who really brought the matter to this point!" Cen Jinlin's voice also raised a lot. This sentence completely disrupted Cen Zelin's train of thought. Said: "How do you think Zouwu found it there? The beast-like clan left the Western Regions and settled down for hundreds of years without incident. It was you, it was you who insisted on me taking you to the market that day!"

"No, no!" Cen Zelin desperately denied it.

"It's you! Not long after I came back with you, Zou Wu came to the door because..."

"No! You're talking nonsense! No!"

"Because the Pangu ax is inside your body! Once you leave the barrier set by your father and the elders, Zouwu will be able to track you down! If it wasn't for you, nothing would have happened!"

"No! No! You are talking nonsense! You are not Jinlin, you are not! You are not——!!!!"

Cen Zelin had a severe headache, and he struggled desperately, trying to break free from the current predicament.Until he grabbed something in the darkness, he pulled it desperately, and finally got out of the dark scene along with that force.

It was bright daylight, and he was lying on the hotel bed, tightly clutching someone's wrist, and when he looked up, he saw the worried little peacock Yuanzhi.

The latter's cold and handsome eyebrows and eyes were faintly worried. Seeing someone wake up, he asked, "Are you alright?"

"How long have I been asleep?" Cen Zelin asked, he wanted to sit up, but felt dizzy for a while.

"It's been three full days since you were picked up by Yao Peizhou." Yuan Zhi replied.

Cen Zelin muttered to himself: "Three days?" During these three days, he had such a long dream, revisiting the past, and recalling some details that were ignored in the past.

For example, how on earth did Zou Wu find their hiding place.

"They have almost finished the investigation of this case, and it is estimated that they will close the net in a few days...Where are you going? Don't move." Yuan Zhi said while holding Cen Zelin who was about to get out of bed, and rushed to him Shaking his head: "Your team leader has explained that you are not allowed to go out of this door, so you can't go anywhere."

"He doesn't count on what he says!" Cen Zelin realized later, he gritted his teeth and said, "He promised me that he would let me participate in this case, and then catch the murderer with his own hands."

"I don't know about it, but I have to do it when someone told me so." Yuan Zhi had no intention of entangled with him on these issues, but he didn't intend to give in either.

"...Who do you have a good relationship with now?!" Cen Zelin angrily began to dig up old scores.

"With Li Yunxu." Yuan Zhi replied without hesitation.

"You! You are a person who values ​​sex and despises friends!" Cen Zelin said angrily: "I don't even think about how good I was to you back then! Now I turn my face and deny it!"

"Back then?" Yuan Zhi raised his eyelids, and said casually, "You mean you were afraid that I would get entangled with Ling Tingke and pick my nose and eyes at me every day?"

Cen Zelin: "..." How come these idiots always turn into clever ghosts overnight!

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