The general went out again at night

Yang Xiyu noticed that although Cai Zhujun has supernatural powers, she doesn't like herself like this.Since she is not happy, then what made her become what she is today?

"Then why...you have spiritual power?" Blinking, Yang Xiyu asked cautiously.The palm withdrew from her butterfly bone and rested lightly on Cai Zhujun's shoulder.

"Have you ever heard of the tree coffin man?" Cai Zhujun raised his head in the dimly lit room.

"Tree coffin man?" Yang Xiyu pursed her lips and thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "I've never heard of it, what is tree coffin man?"

Cai Zhujun said slowly: "Put the corpse into the tree coffin, absorb the aura of the ancient tree, melt it into your body, and resurrect the dead body. The resurrected person is the tree coffin man."

Yang Xiyu stared wide-eyed, and boldly suspected: "Could it be that you are... the tree coffin man?"

"I am." Cai Zhujun admitted directly.

"You...you were a corpse?" The muscles on Yang Xiyu's face trembled. She wasn't afraid, but just found it incredible.Is there really a resurrection technique in this world?

Cai Zhujun shook his head: "I have never been a corpse. I am a different kind among the tree coffin people. Those people enter the coffin as dead corpses. When they come out of the coffin, they have no thoughts and are driven by others. They are just puppets. But I am a living person who enters the coffin and turns into a coffin. After becoming this half-human, half-demon thing, it still retains its own thoughts, which are completely different from them."

At first hearing, one would feel that Cai Zhujun's situation is much better than that of other tree coffin people.But the suffering of a living person in a tree coffin is much more than that of a dead body without thought and consciousness.Cai Zhujun doesn't want to mention this part of things, if Yang Xiyu asks about it in the future, she will tell her.

Unknowingly, Cai Zhujun gave Yang Xiyu all his trust.

"How long have you been in the tree coffin?"

"century."

Yang Xiyu took a deep breath: "Then don't you have an eternal face and never grow old?" She was secretly worried about the future.Her face will fade with time. After decades, one of them will be gray-haired and the other will still be beautiful. What should I do?

Guessing Yang Xiyu's worries, Cai Zhujun pulled up the corners of his lips and smiled: "It's just that he never aged in the tree coffin, and he will be the same as ordinary people after he comes out of the coffin."

That's good.Yang Xiyu breathed a sigh of relief.Then he asked, "Why did you enter the coffin?"

"I am the chosen one. I was forcibly sent into the coffin, and I am powerless to resist. The mission of the tree coffin man is to protect the forest, or to protect 'this thing'." Cai Zhujun took out from the brocade bag he carried. took a piece.The ground stem behind her bent with her movement, revealing a hollow, and a ray of sunlight leaked in, just falling on the object in her hand.

Borrowing the sunlight, Yang Xiyu could clearly see what was lying flat in her palm.The sunlight shrouded the piece of paper exactly, and a few ink lines emerged under the sunlight.

"What is this?" Yang Xiyu asked, pointing to the piece of paper.

"This is a fragment of a map. Collect all the fragments in the hands of the tree coffin people to piece together a map. The map shows the hiding places of the two treasures."

"Two treasures?" Yang Xiyu became more and more mysterious as he heard it.

"One is the elixir of immortality, and the other is a sharp weapon to unify all directions. No matter which of the two is taken away by someone with a heart, it will definitely cause chaos in the world. The tree coffin man is to protect these two treasures No matter where they are, no matter what they do, the tree coffin man will always hold a small box in his left hand, and the small box contains the fragments of the map. They will never let go of their left hand throughout their lives. their mission."

Yang Xiyu stretched out her paw and scratched her forehead, a little puzzled: "Didn't you just say that the tree coffins are puppets and are driven by others, so the person who drives them can't let them go?"

"No. Only by killing them can we take what's in their hands. I can only tell you so much now, and I'll talk about the rest after I find that person."

"That person?"

"A person named 'Xia Qingshu', the tree coffin man has been ordered to kill her."

"Xia Qingshu?!!" Yang Xiyu yelled in shock.

"What? You know her?"

"The friend I told you to go to the northern border to find is her, but when I went down the mountain to buy dry food a few days ago, I heard that she sacrificed her life for the country and died in battle."

Cai Zhujun's eyes narrowed suddenly, her eyebrows frowned and then loosened: "No, she's not dead. I can feel her presence."

"The emperor has known the world, and the whole country is mourning, how could...?" After a pause, Yang Xiyu asked again: "Is she really not dead?"

"This person named Xia Qingshu has been drugged with tracking drugs. No matter where she is, the tree coffin people can find her. I can clearly feel her existence here, so she is definitely not dead."

Cai Zhujun said with certainty, Yang Xiyu believed her more.

Yang Xiyu let out a long sigh of relief, and frowned: "That's really great, a general of the state of Wei like her should live a long life."

Thinking of something, Yang Xiyu's eyes darkened: "You said that a tree coffin man as powerful as you wanted to kill her, and you knew her whereabouts? Why did they want to kill her?"

"I don't know the specifics. I vaguely heard that it was...revenge. We are following orders, and the superiors will not tell us the detailed reasons. In their eyes, we are just seven murderous pawns. Be obedient An obedient puppet. However, they didn’t figure it out after all their calculations. Unlike the other six tree coffin people, I was unwilling to do evil. During the mission, I escaped and completely disrupted their plans. "

"Are those people also chasing and killing you?"

"Yes!"

"Then aren't you very dangerous?" Yang Xiyu suddenly became nervous.

"I'm fine here. I know myself and the enemy, and I won't be at a disadvantage in a battle. But that person named Xia Qingshu is really dangerous. She doesn't know the tree coffin man, and she doesn't know how to deal with it. We have to find her as soon as possible and help her." She's out of trouble."

"You and Xia Qingshu are also old acquaintances?"

"No, I don't know her."

Yang Xiyu was surprised: "Then why did you save her?"

"After I escaped from the control of the corpse refiner, I fell into endless confusion. A hundred years later, the era I lived in has long passed, and my relatives have also turned into loess. I don't know where I will end up. I know what I want to do. Saving loyalty is something I can do, so I will do it."

Yang Xiyu roughly understood, and felt distressed in her heart.She embraced Cai Zhujun's body, held her in her arms, stroked the hair on the back of her head with her palm, and said solemnly like a promise: "In the future, no matter what you do, I will be with you. From now on , you are no longer alone."

Cai Zhujun pressed against the warmth of Yang Xiyu's neck, with a smile in his eyes, and said softly, "Thank you."

***

After traveling on the sea for more than half a month, the big ship was moored on the coast, Xia Qingshu and Ji Qianyao disembarked from Lianzhou Mansion, and headed west all the way into Yunnan.

There are many mountains and forests in Yunnan, and the population is sparsely populated. I don't know if it was affected by the tree coffin man incident. As soon as Xia Qingshu stepped into this land, he felt a gust of wind blowing towards his spine, making his whole body chill.In the surrounding bushes, there seemed to be a few pairs of cold eyes watching their every move.

"What's wrong?" Ji Qianyao shook Xia Qingshu's hand, and found that her palm was covered with cold sweat, and asked worriedly, "Do you still feel unwell?"

A few days ago, Xia Qingshu caught the wind and cold, and Ji Qianyao was very worried.

"I don't think it's perfect, and I'm a little afraid of the cold." Xia Qingshu suppressed the most sincere thoughts in her heart, raised her hand to wipe off the cold sweat on her forehead, and smiled slightly.

"There are still two doses of medicine in the bag. We'll find a place to stay for a while and take them as soon as possible."

"it is good."

The two walked towards the small village hand in hand, it was getting dark, and the city gate was under martial law at this time, it was inconvenient to enter the city, they needed to find a place to stay outside the city as soon as possible, and mixed in when the merchants and peasants came and went tomorrow morning.

Su Jin had already entered the city one day before them to inquire about the situation in the city, so she was not around at this time.

After walking forward for a mile, the appearance of the small village gradually emerged.This place was even more desolate than they had imagined. There were dozens of houses, but no one lived here, and the wooden eaves were covered with spider webs.

"There is no one here, good or bad." Ji Qianyao looked around and said softly.The surrounding area was terribly quiet, and Ji Qianyao's soft voice echoed in the village, appearing extremely ethereal.

Xia Qingshu knew what she meant, nodded her head lightly, held Ji Qianyao's hand tightly with her left hand, pressed the handle of the rusty sword on her waist with her right hand, and scanned the surroundings carefully with her eyes.

The two stopped at the door of a slightly clean house.

This house is not big, it is located in the middle of the village, in the small courtyard surrounded by bamboo fences, vines of various colors grow crazily.

Pushing open the courtyard door, the dusty rotating shaft made an ear-piercing babbling sound, Xia Qingshu pulled out his sword, held it in his hand, and carefully moved towards the main house.

Checking inside and outside, the house is empty, and there are very few rats and ants.

"Let's rest here at night, it's better than sleeping in the mountains." Xia Qingshu put the sword back into the scabbard.

Ji Qianyao tried to light the candles on the candlestick with a fire pocket.The flames stood up and lit up the room immediately.

With the illumination of candlelight, they could clearly see the dust accumulated in the room.

Ji Qianyao: "It seems that no one has lived in it for many years."

Xia Qingshu squatted down and carefully looked at the dust on the ground. After a while, Fang said: "There are no other people's footprints. Before we came, no one stepped in."

On their first night in Yunnan, both of them were a little too cautious.Ji Qianyao smiled: "Since there is nothing wrong, we can live in peace. There is a well outside, let's go and see if there is any water."

When they went out, they found that there was water in the well and the stove in the kitchen was not damaged. They were overjoyed.Xia Qingshu started a fire, and the smoke floated up the chimney into the sky.Ji Qianyao boiled medicine for Xia Qingshu and told her to drink it.

The smoke was quickly extinguished again.

After simply tidying up the bed, the candle lights in the bamboo house were also extinguished.Xia Qingshu hugged Ji Qianyao in his arms, the sword was still tied around his waist, and both of them slept together.

"It's late, go to sleep." Xia Qingshu and Ji Qianyao closed their eyes together, but her mind remained awake.

In a strange place, how could she sleep peacefully, she had to keep her eyes and ears awake and always pay attention to the movement around her.

But there are some things that sneak up quietly, making it impossible to guard against.

The author has something to say: The role of the sub-cp is almost done here, and the next pen and ink will focus on the main cp~

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