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"Where is this key?" Yin Chun asked.

Xie Hengyan pinched the key chain and tried to recall for a while, Fang said: "It should be...the basement?"

"Your house still has a basement?!" Kang asked in horror.

Xie Hengyan said: "Aren't they all used to store sundries, who doesn't have a basement?"

Yin Chun said again: "Can I go down and have a look?"

Xie Hengyan thought for a while, finally nodded and said: "...Yes."

In Xie Cong's wooden house, the outer circle of flower gardens is connected to the backyard, and the basement is at the outer end of the corridor just now. Has been covered with a thin layer of dust.

"In the past, I wouldn't go in." Xie Hengyan bent down, moved the wine jar aside, and finally lifted the outer layer of half-finger-thick wooden boards, causing dust to fly all over the sky. Put it here, and rarely go down to the bottom to clean it up... only occasionally when I have time, I will go down and do some cleaning."

Yin Chun turned his head, glanced into the deep opening, and asked again: "Then where is the key?"

Xie Hengyan said: "The key should be another door further inside."

Kang asked in surprise, "Return the inner door? How many doors are hidden in your house?"

"Of course the basement must be locked." Xie Hengyan said, "Otherwise...go down and have a look?"

After speaking, he stretched out a foot towards the escalator under the passage, but Yin Chun grabbed Xie Hengyan's wrist, and said in a low voice: "Wait a minute."

Xie Hengyan: "What?"

Yin Chun: "If you go down rashly, there won't be any danger?"

"Also..." Xie Hengyan hesitated, "Then let me go first, you just wait here."

"What did you say? If you want to play together, if you want to die together, you will die together."

After saying that, Yin Chun pulled Xie Hengyan with one hand, and the two of them jumped down towards the dark and bottomless opening without even thinking about it. Only Kang Wen was left lying on the escalator, and asked hesitantly: "You guys?" What are you two doing, just run away... Hey!"

In the underground where the opening goes down, there are almost no lights.Yin Chun summoned a paper spell for lighting, and Xie Hengyan followed closely behind him. When the two of them landed on the ground, they were startled by dead dust all over the ground—the bottom space connected to this basement cannot be regarded as spacious, or even accommodate The two are already a bit crowded.

The two surrounding aisles, as Xie Hengyan said, are piled with various types of discarded wood.There are also organs and human figures. From a distance, it looks like a dead body, which is really creepy.

The basement doesn't feel very big in general, there are countless sundries and wooden boxes piled up all around, there is an unpleasant smell of fishy tide in the air, and there is very little room for people to move around, they can't walk in general At a distance of tens of feet, there is a further turn in the depths, which is the door corresponding to the key just now.

Before opening the door, Yin Chun asked Xie Hengyan: "What's inside?"

Xie Hengyan shook his head, and said blankly: "I don't know... I haven't been here before, and Xie Cong doesn't often mention it to me."

Kang Wen finally couldn't help being annoyed: "Why don't you know anything?"

Xie Hengyan said: "Then you know everything, why don't you go in and have a look?"

"...If you want to go in, go in fast, you're a man, aren't you?" Kang asked without saying a word, snatched the key, ignored the objections of the other two, and gave it directly to the keyhole. stuffed in.

Xie Hengyan was about to say something, when there was a creaking sound, the old wooden door at the end of the corridor, because no one had come and gone all year round, made a piercing sound when it was pushed open, as if something had been forcibly torn apart Just like that, the three people in front of them backed up again and again.

——Fang wanted to react in time, but at the same time, he suddenly heard the clear sound of water in his ears.

Xie Hengyan thought, why is there water in the basement?

However, the next moment, he came back to his senses, looked at Yin Zhu for the first time, and shouted: "Hurry up, Yin Chu! This place is connected to the underground water source, we..."

Before I could finish half a sentence, as the wooden door suddenly opened a half-finger-wide gap, the last line of defense was completely destroyed and collapsed under the scouring of the turbulent water.Xie Hengyan struggled to raise his eyes, only to feel a strong sense of suffocation rushing towards his face, and subconsciously turned his head to look for Yinzhu. At this time, the cold and salty sea water poured in from behind the door, engulfing the three of them in an instant— —

Before the last residual consciousness disappeared, Xie Hengyan seemed to see a faint light and shadow.

——followed by a huge darkness that covered the sky and the sun like a tide.

In the dark, Xie Hengyan felt that someone was holding his hand, as if to lead him to an unknown direction.Originally thought it should be Yin Chun, but when Xie Hengyan turned his head, in the darkness, it was the person in the painting just now who was joking and indifferent, with a beautiful face with a smile on his face.

"Why is it you?" Xie Hengyan said in surprise, "You are You Qing...the god? Where is Yin Chu?...And where did Kang Wen go?"

You Qing didn't say a word, just narrowed his eyes, put his index finger on his lips, and showed a complex and mysterious smile.

Then he let go of his hand, reached behind Xie Hengyan, and gently pushed him forward—after that, the darkness gathered in front of him gradually dissipated, replaced by a sudden warm yellow shimmer, Xie Hengyan felt a little He struggled to turn his face away, and finally, in the middle of the flickering light, he vaguely saw a familiar figure.

The blue-gray thin shirt, the thin paper-like shoulders as before, and the almost black-and-white long hair, are also gradually stained with a layer of vicissitudes and cold frost in the midst of countless griefs and losses.

That's... Xie Cong.

"Father!" Xie Hengyan stepped forward almost uncontrollably, trying to hold the man's back in the palm of his hand, "Where are you going, Dad?!"

When the words fell, the figures of You Qing and Xie Cong disappeared at the same time, and an illusory white light suddenly flashed in front of them, and then what appeared within Xie Hengyan's sight was still the familiar wooden house on Tongjing Island—but this Once, the ring-shaped flower garden outside the steps was full of snow-white gardenias, and the rich fragrance spread from the wooden door all the way to the outside of the flower garden, almost as far as the sound of the waves could be heard.

"This is...another time barrier?" Xie Hengyan thought, is the door in the basement the entrance to another time node?

The "it" they have realized so far has no small power over the time and space enchantment.Especially in the backyard of Li's house in Fuze Mountain at that time, just a small area with a limited range can almost make the broken and static memory fragments overlap infinitely.

That is to say, maybe now Yin Zhu and Kang Wen are in the same area as him, but in a broken barrier that is completely different, and they have doubts that are almost the same as him.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a creak, and the door on the steps of the wooden house rang softly, and slowly opened from the inside to the outside.

——Xie Hengyan saw Xie Cong again, but it was not the real "Xie Cong".

That pale, sickly and thin man stood alone by the handrail of the steps of the wooden house. At that time, the hair on his temples had not yet dyed the color of snow, and the long black hair rested lightly on his light gray shoulders all the way. On the thin shirt, his back seemed indescribably gentle and gentle.

"Father?" Xie Hengyan couldn't restrain himself, knowing that he was in the barrier at the moment, and the people in front of him were mostly phantoms, but he stepped forward without hesitation, and called out like a cat, "Xie Cong...Xie Cong, Can you hear me?"

This time, Xie Cong finally turned his head, but the person looking at him was not him, but another uninvited guest who suddenly appeared not far from the flower garden.

Xie Hengyan guessed that the time when this enchantment was displayed was probably more than twenty years ago, before he came to Xie Cong's side.

Since Xie Cong's wife passed away, his sensitive, suspicious and irritable temperament has been accumulated year by year, and it has gradually formed bit by bit.

At that time, Xie Cong in the enchantment was still young, and his eyes were not as deep and vicissitudes. Instead, there was an indelible wound, like an invisible burden deeply embedded in his heart.

——And outside the flower garden under the steps in front of his house, there was another completely unfamiliar figure from the back.From a distance, it should be a man who is not outstanding. At the moment, his clothes are ragged and tattered. There are obvious scars on his shoulders, arms and neck. Now he is dying and passed out outside Xie Cong's house. Gardenia field.

Xie Hengyan originally wanted to go closer to see what was going on, but due to the restrictions and constraints of the enchantment, he could only stand at a fixed angle of view, looking at Xie Cong who was not far from the door with a surprised expression——and lying on the bed. Between the steps and the flowerbed, the motionless strange man.

Xie Hengyan saw Xie Cong walking up, bent down, carefully helped the injured man up, and asked him in a low voice how his injury was.It was through such a subtle angle that Xie Hengyan could vaguely see clearly that the man's torn clothes corners, including the scabbed and bleeding wounds on his body, were covered with a few grains of gray-white gravel. He had fled at sea, and his injuries were somewhat serious.

——Xie Cong has never been such a kind person, at least in Xie Hengyan's inherent impression, he has always been like this.

However, this time, Xie Cong not only stepped forward to help the injured man, but also meticulously led him into the house, bandaged his wound, and offered to give up the room and bed so that the man could recuperate and rest for a long time .

"When did this happen?" Xie Hengyan couldn't help asking questions—during the days when she lived with Xie Cong, she rarely met strangers visiting her. He made friends, so there was no need to mention the dirty man in front of him with unknown origin.

However, at this time, on the bed in the house, the man covered in bruises finally opened his eyes.

Xie Cong handed over hot water and a towel, sat on the edge of the bed, and wiped the man's gravel-stained and blood-stained cheeks clean.

What then appeared in front of Xie Hengyan's eyes was a feminine yet masculine face, as if the tip of a knife merged with spray, soft and sharp facial features.

"What's your name?" Xie Cong asked.

The man on the bed shifted his eyes and looked out of the window at the beach where the sound of waves and sails intersected.

After a long time, Fang Fang turned around and said to Xie Cong, "I don't have a name."

Xie Cong: "..."

"The original ancient book once said that Huang Feng called it Yan. The person who brought me into the world once said that I am a bird, and I will eventually fly to the ends of the world, where I am free." The man said with a smile, "In that case , you call me Fangyan."

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This chapter should be regarded as an alternative memory killing. In order to prevent time confusion, I will sort out the general plot line a little

Fang Yan was seriously injured and fled after the battle—Fang Yan met Xie Cong for the first time and was rescued by Xie Cong—in return, Fang Yan gave Xie Hengyan to Xie Cong

Then more than 20 years ago, Xie Cong was a poor handsome man who had just lost his wife and son. After suffering a heavy blow, he couldn't restrain himself from bending (no!)

As I said before, there is a long line in Fang Yan's harem. Xie Cong, who has a complicated relationship with him, ranks first, followed by You Qing who has an affair, then Xie Hengyan, and finally Cheng Miling... probably tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, or There will be new discoveries.

The relationship between Xie Cong and Fang Yan is of course not an aboveboard love-hate entanglement, they are just a consolation for each other in a desperate period, and there is no substantive sexual relationship.