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"Puppet, it's better than this. Let's make a deal... that is fair to both parties."

"Deal...? W-what deal?"

"This island, known as Yongcun, has been around for more than ten years since its appearance - but so far, my remnant soul is still trapped on this island, and has never been away for a moment... ...do you know why?"

"Why else? You can only be imprisoned to such an extent if you have committed some mistakes—so, you must be a heinous sinner."

"According to what you said, all the ordinary villagers who died violently on this island are heinous and should be punished for their crimes?"

"You... what are you talking about? It's not because you are behind the scenes that they will become like this!"

There was the sound of water in the ears, and suddenly, a strange, fragmented and fuzzy face appeared from the bottom of the pool.

That was a face that had never appeared in Xie Hengyan's memory.

"The barrier that surrounds the island for several weeks and controls the change of time can only be temporarily broken through the touch of my living soul."

It said to Xie Hengyan: "It's just my living soul, which has formed an indispensable symbiotic relationship with the life and death of the island... Once I leave this sea area, the entire island will surely be destroyed, and my soul will be scattered, and I will fall forever forever." The abyss, and there will be no chance of resurrection in the future."

"Why?" Xie Hengyan asked stiffly, "Didn't you personally set up this barrier? Could it be that you couldn't untie it?"

However, it didn't give him any definite explanation, and in the end, there was only that decisive sentence.

"I need a soulless person to replace my inevitable existence on the island, so as to form a new symbiotic relationship with it. Yin Zhen can only do this, without excessive influence, and I can also break away from the barrier logically , can also lead that big ship in a limited time, break through this sea area, and return to the outside world where ordinary people are."

"Why me?" Xie Hengyan frowned and asked, "Why can't it be someone else? I also want to go to sea with Yin Chun, why should I be the last one left?"

"Where is such a cheap thing in the world? You want to go to sea, I want to go to sea, and he wants to go to sea too!... All of you are selfish and greedy in your vain attempts to survive, and you will live longer than anyone else." It stretched out its hand, Twist the puppet's chin, and then said harshly, "You want to know why, you, will be the one who stays on the island - you have to ask Xie Cong for these words! He personally embedded them in your heart The bone needle, who should belong to it!"

Xie Hengyan was shocked all over, and then lowered her head, hesitantly looking at her own chest, which was facing exhaustion and decay at any time——but when "it" reached out again, as if wanting to touch it with its knuckles, Xie Hengyan He tightened his skirt vigilantly, and took a few steps back calmly. When he was about to say something, "it" took the lead and said:

"I don't have much to say to you as a piece of wood. To make a long story short, if you still want to survive, see Xie Cong, and ask all the ins and outs clearly - you can stay here honestly. The rest, I will do it myself Those who should go out will be taken out of the sea by boat."

Xie Hengyan insisted: "What if I want to leave?"

"You can try to see if they die faster—or you walk faster alone."

"... Yin Pour!"

It was the umpteenth time that I woke up from the repeated nightmare that night.

Xie Hengyan struggled to sit up, Yin Chun was half asleep beside him, when he heard the puppet's call, he opened his eyes reflexively, and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong?"

When she tilted her head, Xie Hengyan was lowering her eyes, her eyes fixed on her cuff wrist, the large piece of festering and bruised wooden skin.

"Why, does the wound hurt?" Yin Zhu woke up immediately, hurriedly jumped out of bed, and found medicinal oil for him through rummaging through boxes and cabinets.

But at this time Xie Hengyan said: "Don't look for it, it's useless to apply medicine... It's my old wood that is dying, and the Yesheng Seal can't repair it."

"Then what should we do? You can't stay like this all the time, can you?" Yin Chun held his hands, feeling so distressed that he didn't know what to say, "You said you were not feeling well, and I wouldn't take you on board that day."

Xie Hengyan only looked down at him, but didn't speak for a long time.

He didn't dare to tell Yin Chun that when he got off the big boat that day, he himself soaked his hands in salt water for two or three hours. He waited until his wrists began to show signs of rot, and then he endured the pain, and slowly let himself go. Then stop from the salt water.

It's not that he can't go to sea.The previous lie about rotting in close proximity to water was all fabricated to deceive people—he told Yin Zhu these things only in the hope that he could leave as soon as possible.

The date of outlying islands is determined in the early morning of tomorrow.

That is the fifth day.

At that time, Qixi Festival was only two days away, and even though Yin Chun said with a stern face that he really wanted to stay and finish the festival, all proposals like this were rejected by Xie Hengyan on the spot.

What Xie Hengyan meant was that if you can leave early, you should leave as soon as possible. If you delay for a day or two, there may be infinite troubles.Yin Zhen really couldn't hold him back, so in the end, he had no choice but to take the initiative to prepare two big boxes of winter clothes for him, cotton quilts for autumn and winter, and a lot of daily necessities.

At the same time, those who will set off together with Yin Chuan include Rong Shilian, Wu Qian, and some relatively active young villagers in the village. The total number is less than ten. The scene is very different when working together to build a ship.

But some people are always unwilling to be content with the status quo, and there are always some people who are born to be comfortable.Yin Zhu expressed his understanding to them, so after counting the number of people that day, all the villagers gathered together again, drank some wine, chatted with each other, and talked about what was in their hearts, which was also practiced for Yin Zhen and them.

In the middle of the night, Una got a little drunk, and even hid alone, crying secretly in a corner.They didn't know, not even Rong Shilian, the couple didn't talk much that night, they just looked at each other speechlessly.

Only Yin Chun knew that Una felt really uncomfortable.

And of course he does too.

"You don't know how to take care of yourself at all." Yin Chun squatted by the bed, applying medicated oil to Xie Hengyan, sighed, and said very sadly, "I said I wanted to stay, but you refused. Wait until tomorrow morning I have to go now, looking at you now, you can't wear clothes, you can't eat, and you can't walk with a limp... Yan Yan, tell me, after a few more years, when I come back, you really still Are you waiting for me here?"

Xie Hengyan originally wanted to say, I don't know.

But after thinking about it, he felt that this was not very good, so he smiled lightly, nodded and replied, "Of course."

Yin Chun raised his eyes, staring at the puppet's pale face.At that moment, it seemed that he wanted to say a lot, but in the end, he just moved his lips, deliberately turned his face away, and said in a hoarse voice, "Yanyan, I don't want to..."

"Don't say you don't want to leave." Xie Hengyan said, "Just think it's for me, you have to go too... Don't forget, you promised me that you would find the best carpenter in the world to repair my injured leg .”

Yin Chun helplessly shook his head.In fact, on this island, there are still too many mysteries that cannot be solved. He only knows that he will take Wu Nian to the sea in the future, and bring some dangerous "things" out of this barrier-surrounded island in the future. sea ​​area.

And they haven't found out the reason why Xie Hengyan was injured that day. This is what Yin Chun has been worrying about and is also afraid of—now Xie Hengyan is not like before, who can guarantee the most basic safety of himself.

This puppet is already too weak to be vulnerable, and needs stronger people to give him proper protection.

"I'm still... very worried." Yin Zhu said in a deep voice, "Xie Hengyan, I always feel..."

"The most terrifying thing on this island has been taken out by you." Xie Hengyan patted his head and gave him a completely reassuring look, "Don't worry, Yinzhu... the ordinary monster is not mine. opponents, not to mention those weak humans. Even if I become a cripple, I am still hundreds of times stronger than them."

Yin Chun sighed, raised his hand, and gently placed it on the puppet's throbbing heart.

Afterwards, the word "pour" that glowed with a faint white light and reflected on his palm through the skirt of his clothes, under the call of the original owner of the talisman, slowly revealed one or two clearly visible corners.

"Remember, as long as the talisman is not broken, it will always be by your side to ensure your safety." Yin Zhu said, "Seeing it is the same as seeing me. Once you are in danger, don't be reluctant to use it, you know? "

Xie Hengyan pursed her lips, suppressed tears, nodded and said, "I know."

Yin Chun closed his clothes again, and continued to instruct: "Winter is coming soon, if you are afraid of the cold, you should wear more clothes, don't hang around outside all the time, you know?"

Xie Hengyan murmured: "It's only summer...why are you panicking?"

Yin Chun said: "Time flies, year after year, and it's gone in a blink of an eye."

"Well... I know, stop nagging, my father is not as good as you." Xie Hengyan held Yin Chun's face, kissed it, touched it again, and slowly pressed his fingers into him along his forehead. The black hair on the top of the head, strand after strand... When touching the inadvertent whiteness, Xie Hengyan's fingers stopped, and then hid the strand of white hair again, and pressed it thinly to an invisible place behind the temples.

"Tomorrow morning, I won't send you off." Xie Hengyan said in a low voice while helping Yin Chu straighten his hair, "You should pay more attention to yourself. You are such a big person. Every time you know how to control me, you don't know how to control me." You yourself... are a complete idiot."

"Ah."

Yin Chun stretched out his hand and held Xie Hengyan's soft knuckles.

The puppet's little hand was very soft, Yin Chun held it in the palm of his hand, touched it back and forth many times, and finally lowered his head, and kissed his warm fingertips lightly.

"I'll be back." Yin Chun promised, "You must wait for me, you understand?"

Xie Hengyan didn't speak, he just looked into his eyes silently, seemed to be nodding, but didn't seem to make any movement.

Because at this moment, both sides know that after the farewell tomorrow morning, they will live or die, and maybe they will never see each other again.

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I'm so smart. In just one chapter, I said everything I wanted to say, hahahahahahaha, my mother no longer worries that I won't be able to write Volume 200 after [-] chapters.

In fact, I am quite reluctant. The content that could have been written in a day was 6000. The two said that they separated and talked about several chapters. Of course, it is also necessary for the plot. After all, it is too difficult for the wife to separate

Let's see if I can write out the most important plot tomorrow, I can't hold it in any longer, I must spit it out, I'm about to suffocate - come out! ! !More than 100 chapters of foreshadowing are buried!

Ahhh, I just posted this and thought of a question. I forgot to mention it. Xie Cong x Xie Hengyan x Fang Yan is a very special relationship. In a sense, Xie Cong is very similar to Yan Yan’s mother, and Fang Yan is about equal to Yan Yan. His stepfather, anyway, the relationship between blablabla is very messy, please explain again in Volume [-]!

Anyway, as far as I have written in my outline, Fang Yan has at least three CPs!