Tomb Raiders

According to Chu Zhong, losing memory or even becoming a person who can do nothing may be just the beginning for them, and maybe they will die due to the mysterious influence of the undead tree soon after.Chu Yuyang decided to go to Penglai Island to find something that could heal Chu Zhong and Shen Yingqing. Judging by the speed at which Shen Yingqing's memory gradually faded, their time was already very limited.

No valuable clues could be found in the Nanyue king's tomb. Time was running out, and because they had to prepare some necessary things, the group bid farewell to old man Wu and returned to Chang'an along the waterway.

Shen Yingqing just stared blankly at the top of the boat in a daze. If no one disturbed him, he could sit in this position for a whole day without communicating with anyone. No one knew what he was thinking, or his current state could not make him think about other things at all. It's just a matter of simply letting go.

Shen Liaobai sat on his couch, sighed inaudibly, and called: "Yingqing."

Shen Yingqing seemed to have noticed Shen Liaobai's arrival just now, he withdrew his gaze from the pattern on the roof of the boat, slowly turned his eyes to look at Shen Liaobai, and remained silent.

The blankness and alienation in his eyes made Shen Liaobai's heart tighten, his cold fingers trembled, he held Shen Yingqing's hand, and said softly: "I am your brother, Liaobai." Said the words that were repeated every day, even though these words were almost forgotten by Shen Yingqing.

Shen Yingqing's familiarity with Shen Liaobai at the beginning was gone now, he looked at Shen Liaobai blankly, and asked, "Where is this?"

"On the boat back to Chang'an." Shen Liaobai held Shen Yingqing's hand tightly and said, "There are many strange people there, maybe they can cure your illness."

Shen Yingqing frowned slightly and said, "I feel a little uncomfortable, what's wrong with me?"

It was the first time for Shen Liaobai to hear him talk about his feelings, so he hurriedly asked, "What kind of uncomfortable method is it?"

Shen Yingqing touched her shoulder blade with the other hand, and said with a distressed expression: "Here."

That was the location of Shen Yingqing's tattoo, Shen Liaobai's expression changed, and he leaned forward to untie the tie of his clothes, making him turn around.Different from Shen Liaobai, Shen Yingqing's tattoo is a peach blossom. As a shelter for the two brothers, the tattoo will grow bigger with the growth of their bodies, but now the tattoo on Shen Yingqing's body is only half the size of a palm, basically back to the When I first got the tattoo when I was a child, the original bright cinnabar color has also turned into dark black, and it is clumped together, and I can no longer see the original appearance.

Shen Liaobai closed his clothes, his trembling hands couldn't tie the laces well, but Shen Yingqing did it slowly by himself, and asked with a puzzled look: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing." Shen Liaobai shook his head and said, he had already calmed down. Although his face was pale, there was an indescribable determination in his eyes, "I won't let anything happen to you."

"I believe in you," Shen Yingqing said with a faint smile, "But from your look, it seems that what you want to accomplish is a very difficult thing, if you really can't accomplish it, don't force yourself."

Shen Liaobai felt a little tired. He sat side by side with Shen Yingqing, leaning on the hidden pouch behind him to feel better, "When I was young, I played with you in the courtyard, and you accidentally fell into the pool. I stood blankly on the corridor and watched you struggle in the water. Later, the servant rescued you, and you burned for several days, almost losing your life. I can't miss you, but I just hate myself for being powerless, that feeling seems to be engraved in my bones, even in the past ten years, I can't forget it." He slowed down and said firmly: "So I won't let that kind of thing happen again. "

"I don't quite understand what you mean," Shen Yingqing's tone was a little confused, "I don't quite understand what you said, but thank you for telling me something that I have forgotten."

When Shen Liaobai came out of Shen Yingqing's room, Chu Yuyang was already standing outside the door, Shen Liaobai smiled and said: "How long have you been here, why don't you come in."

Chu Yuyang took his hand and said with a smile: "Hearing that you are so absorbed in chatting, I can't bear to disturb you."

That hand had the warmth of Shen Liaobai's usual greed, and Shen Liaobai's melancholy dissipated somewhat, and he asked, "How is your father?"

"It's only a little better than Shen Yingqing." Chu Yuyang replied, no joy or sorrow could be seen on his expressionless face.

Shen Liaobai knew that he was also sad, but now that the two of them had the same experience, he couldn't say anything to comfort others, so he just tapped lightly on the palm of Chu Yuyang's hand with his fingers, and said, "There must be a solution." way."

Chu Yuyang responded, lowered his head and placed a light kiss on Shen Liaobai's cheek, then saw Shen Liaobai blushing and looked around, and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no one around, Chu Yuyang frowned Eyebrows, dissatisfied: "You seem to be very nervous about the relationship between us. Every time you mention it positively, you deliberately avoid it. Do you think this kind of relationship is shameful?"

Shen Liaobai was taken aback by what he said, and hurriedly explained: "No, I... I just..."

"There's no need to explain," Chu Yuyang sighed helplessly, and then smiled helplessly: "I know you're just thin-skinned."

Shen Liaobai's room is on the other side of the cabin, and to get there, one must pass the bow of the ship. Chu Yuyang walked outside to shield Shen Liaobai from the cold wind. Shen Liaobai suddenly stopped in his tracks. The wind brought thick moisture to meet his face, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and said: "I have never understood why you like me, obviously at the beginning, you didn't have a good impression of me, and I dragged you behind several times Legs, you should hate me, or throw me, an overreaching person, into the grave and let me fend for myself, why do you still like me?"

Chu Yuyang thought about it seriously, and said: "If it is an ordinary person, maybe you really don't care about life and death, but at the beginning, I thought it would be too inhumane to throw you, a stubborn fool, into the tomb, but later, I was overwhelmed by your tenderness and tenacity. Attracted by his temper, I think it is amazing that these two seemingly refuted personalities exist in the same person, how about you?" He asked back, staring at Shen Liaobai with amber eyes motionless and asked: "What is it again? Why do you like me?"

"Probably the same as you." Shen Liaobai smiled shyly, "He is obviously cold as ice, but his heart is very soft. He promised to live and die, but he saved me again and again, and he is still clumsy. Comforting me, I don't know when I felt dependent on you."

Both of them are pure-hearted and ascetic people, and the most beautiful love words they can say are nothing more than that. Chu Yuyang held Shen Liaobai's hand, and the two stood side by side on the bow of the boat. On one side, the golden sunlight is very dazzling.

"I used to think that the painting on the coffin of the Nanyue King was very familiar, but unfortunately I couldn't remember it," Shen Liaobai said, "I remembered it today. I saw a similar description in a miscellaneous book. On Penglai Xiandao Surrounding Liquan, there is a green undead tree growing. After a ceremony, the undead tree can make people live forever, but the ritual process is not described in the book.

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"Jomo is what my father said, donate human blood to the immortal tree," Chu Yuyang said, his eyes were golden in his eyes, so beautiful that people couldn't move their eyes, "Just as we enter the two Judging from the situation in the tomb, the undead tree may not make people live forever, but it will turn people into monsters like Zhang Jiao, and be reborn into the world in the form of monsters."

Speaking of Zhang Jiao's appearance, Shen Liaobai also felt a burst of emotion, after all, he was a hero of the first generation, and he ended up like this in the end, "He is the same as Ao Yin, he only retains a little bit of the basic consciousness of being a human being when he was alive, and this is not even considered alive. .”

"In this way, Hanzhang should have become weird since he came back from Zhangjiao's tomb, and it can't be said to be weird," Chu Yuyang overturned his statement, saying: "It's just a little weird, I just think it's because After being seriously injured and going through life and death, people's temperament will inevitably change, not to mention his memory has never been wrong, and he is very familiar with the things in the house, so I dispelled my worries."

Shen Liaobai couldn't help frowning, and said: "This is strange. According to Wenhao, Hanzhang is only Hanzhang on the outside, but not on the inside. You said that Hanzhang has his own memory."

After all, Shen Liaobai was careful, Chu Yuyang didn't realize this at all before, "Could it be that the influence of branches on people is different?" Chu Yuyang said: "Look at my father and Shen Yingqing, Shen Yingqing has lost all his memories, but When we found our father, he still remembered what happened before, and they didn't turn into monsters like Zhang Jiao and Ao Yin."

"Could it be that the process of the ceremony is different?" Shen Liaobai said slowly: "Maybe they missed some necessary link or made a mistake? So Hanzhang took the tree away, perhaps to study the cause and effect. What Hanzhang said, he once told us who he is still a little bit concerned, we should be together with me, I have known him not long ago, and I have seldom talked with him, I thought about it later, and there is nothing worth caring about Content."

"If you can't think of it, then don't think about it, what should happen will still happen," Chu Yuyang said while holding Shen Liaobai's hand and walking towards the room, saying: "It's windy here, let's go back to the room."

Shen Liaobai responded in a low voice, and when Fang took the first step, he felt that his body's strength seemed to be emptied, and then the sky was spinning, his eyes were dark, and the last consciousness he heard was Chu Yuyang's nervous cry.