Yu Wu

At the same time, Chong Hua Division's surgery table.

"Elder Zhou!"

"See Elder Zhou!"

Zhou He is a very rigorous person, and he has good dressing habits.Outside, he wears his family's uniform, but as long as he returns to the clerk's desk, no matter how important things are waiting for him to do, he will go to the bathing room to change into the clerk's robe—in fact, At his position, no one would care about whether he wore formal clothes on errands, but Zhou He didn't.

He must wear the priest's robes of a priest.

Every mechanism in Chonghua has a set of attire that can represent their functions.The most sought after by boys is Mo Xi's black slim-fit suit from the Military Aircraft Administration, with narrow sleeves and lapels, gold buckles on the brim, and a gold tassel ribbon on the lapel.The most popular among young girls is the Shennongtai dress, a blue silk gown woven with peacock silk thread, smoked with agarwood, and covered with a plain gauze gown.

In comparison, the dress of the Sishutai is not so good-looking. There is only a moon white gown with a stand-up collar and narrow sleeves, which is nothing special.

In this regard, some people interpret Zhou He's obsession with the robes as a mild obsessive-compulsive disorder, while others say that he is due to some kind of superstition, and there are different opinions.

In fact, the reason why Zhou He must change clothes is very simple:

He likes his errand, and he likes it so much that every time he accepts a task, there is an inexplicable sense of ritual, and putting on the robe must be the beginning of this ceremony.

He was about to enjoy the carnival that made him obsessed.

"Elder Zhou, the Gu worms and magic weapons for the trial have been prepared. The trial body has also been brought to the Shura room, and the current situation is very stable."

Zhou He was walking along the long corridor while adjusting the steel claw finger cot on his left hand. Hearing this, he was stunned: "Very stable? How stable?"

The attendant nodded: "There is no overreaction, very calm."

Zhou He didn't say anything immediately, but said in a low voice for a while: "It really is the legendary 'beast on the altar'."

The Shura room of the Sishutai was built underground. When Zhou He approached, the iron chain of the gate retracted automatically with a clatter, and the stone gate engraved with the portrait of Xing Tian slowly opened from left to right.

A piercing frost immediately spewed out from the gap in the stone door.

The guards standing around the stone gate saluted Zhou He, and then shook off a sable cloak that had been prepared long ago to put it on for the elder, but Zhou He raised his finger-gloved hand to signal that there was no need for it.Just walked in.

The Shura Room is a cold room about five feet wide and long. Since most trials need to be carried out in cold places, the inner walls of the Shura Room are made of Kunlun Wannian ice. At first glance, it seems to have entered the mirror palace in myths and rumors.

Gu Mang was in the middle of Shura's room, meditating with his eyes closed.

Zhou He walked over and looked at this man with great interest—he has come into contact with many trial bodies since he became an elder. The whole body is sifting through the chaff.But for a normal person like Gu Mang, he had never seen it before.

This person is completely stupid, so he doesn't know what he will face next?It was Liao Kingdom's black demon fusion that gave this mortal body some abilities, such as not being afraid of pain, not afraid of life and death...all of these.How interesting that would be to dissect.

Zhou He became more and more excited. He stretched out the tip of his tongue to lick his lips, and pressed his slender fingers on the "Falcon" on his waist.

Perhaps it was because of this person's identity and reaction, they were too special, so Elder Zhou, who had always been used to treating the trial body as a livestock, unexpectedly became a little curious about the object of analysis for the first time in his life.He couldn't help thinking, what was Gu Mang thinking at this moment?

As for Gu Mang, as if he had glimpsed into his inner question, he slowly opened his eyes, and his blue eyes looked at him.Say a word.

"cold."

cold?

Is this the only thought?

Zhou He stared at those clear blue eyes, as if he wanted to grab some more exciting emotions from them.

but.

How could there be.As long as Gu Mang didn't want to, how could Zhou He discover even a tiny bit of his true emotions—who was Gu Mang?

An undercover agent appointed by the king.

A secret agent who has been lurking in Liao Kingdom for eight years.Gu Shuai, who was burdened with countless misunderstandings, accusations, abuse, human life, and self-blame, could still grit his teeth and insist on a single road to the dark.

Back then when he defected to the Liao Kingdom, the opponent did not dare to trust him at first, and tried every means and tried all kinds of poisonous methods, but he couldn't pry a secret out of his mouth, how could Zhou He do it.

"It's okay." Zhou He said, "You won't care about the cold in a while."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and bent his knuckles. The followers who cooperated with him in the trial watched the order and entered the Shura room.Zhou He said: "Let's start."

Gu Mang raised his eyelashes, and through his thick long eyelashes, he watched the monks in white gowns line up in an array.Those people were dragging a wooden tray in their hands, which contained daggers, Gu worms, magic weapons, and wound medicines.Daggers are used to cut flesh and blood, Gu worms and magic weapons are used to conduct black magic trials, wound medicines are very precious, and the top-grade Tianxiang Life Renewing Lotion can hang him in a critical situation.

There was a roll of snow-white bandages in the tray of the monk closest to him. Gu Mang knew that it was not for bandages, but for padding his teeth to prevent him from biting his tongue and killing himself.

Gu Mang closed his eyes.

In his current memory, this was the second time in his life that he had seen such a battle.

The first time was in Liao Kingdom—yes, although the time-space mirror did not return all his memories after treason, but perhaps because it was too painful, this paragraph was an exception—

At that time, he buried Lu Zhanxing's head by the bank of Summoning Soul Abyss, and then according to the discussion with the emperor, he pretended to be forced to a dead end and turned against the enemy Liao Kingdom.

The main hall of Liao Kingdom is paved with golden red bricks and stones, the whole hall is like a raging fire, and all the civil and military personnel in the hall are like ghosts and ghosts, each with its own weirdness.The young king sits on a high throne wearing a crown. He is only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child, and he can't control the dancing demons under his seat. The man covered in gold.

Liao country's national teacher.

Gu Mang remembered that he knelt down on one knee and bowed his head to present his nomination certificate - a scroll of Jade Slips created by Chonghua's secret method for nearly a hundred years.

Although the most important spells have been stripped after discussing with the emperor, this scroll is still one of the most important secrets of the Chonghua Kingdom.When the officials of the Liao Kingdom saw the jade slips, everyone's eyes lit up. Even Liao Jun couldn't help stretching his neck, showing joy, eager to read it.

Only the national teacher laughed lightly through the golden mask with curved eyebrows and eyes: "Gu Shuai, don't talk about presenting gifts first, why don't you talk about why you betrayed Chonghua first."

Gu Mang then told the princes of the Liao Kingdom indignantly what happened after the defeat of Fengming Mountain. When he mentioned the place where his righteous brother was beheaded, he burst into tears and choked up several times.

In fact, before he defected to Liao Kingdom, many people in Liao Kingdom had already heard about the various experiences Gu Mang suffered after his defeat in Fengming Mountain.What he saw with his own eyes at this time, coupled with such a piece of jade slip from stealing the country, weakened his suspicion for a while.

Gu Mang finally said: "I have experienced all the shame of Lord Hua back then. Instead of staying in Chonghua and being humiliated by others, it is better to make the same decision as Lord Hua and betray Chonghua."

Hua Po An is the founding king of the Liao Kingdom, who in the room doesn't know the similarities between Hua Po An and Gu Mang?

Liao Jun was convinced right away, his voice trembling slightly, with uncontrollable excitement inside: "Qing, since Qing is so enlightened, then..."

The words were ordinary, but suddenly he felt that he was being more restrained, he couldn't help but shut up suddenly, looked at the national teacher beside him quietly, but looked at the national teacher with a smile on his eyes.Liao Jun's cold sweat instantly drenched his heavy shirt, swallowed his throat, and hurriedly said: "That, that, all listen to the advice of the national teacher!"

The national teacher narrowed his eyes, turned his head with his wide sleeves wrapped around a smile, and said to Gu Mang who was kneeling in the main hall: "General Gu's prestige of the beast on the altar is like thunder to my ears. The return of the beast is naturally God's blessing to my country. , I was overjoyed. It's just..."

The voice gradually weakened, and the national teacher suddenly opened his squinted smiling eyes, a pair of slender eyes staring at Gu Mang through the hole dug out of the golden mask, with a cold light shining inside.

"It's just, Gu Shuai." The national teacher said, "Do you know what the first thing Hua Guozhu did after he betrayed Chonghua?"

"..."

Gu Mang was stared at by those long and cold eyes, and felt the pain of being bitten by a poisonous snake.I saw the national teacher smiling, but there was no smile under his black eyes——

"Master Hua found a few personal dead servants of her own, and asked them to tie him up. It took three days and three nights to dissipate all the magic spells in his body... and inject them into the blood vessels of the chest cavity. He took the breath of the black demon. To show that in his life, no matter whether he is with Chonghua or his "mentor" Shen Tang, he will end his friendship with this."

Every time he uttered a word, the fierceness and cruelty in his eyes became more intense.

In the end, the golden mask seemed to be melted through by his blatant evil, and the vicious face behind the mask could almost be seen.

The national teacher smiled and said: "Gu Shuai, since you are willing to follow in the footsteps of Lord Hua, then what is the certificate of honor that you should present - you should be very clear, right?"

……

In the end, Gu Mang was escorted to Liao Kingdom's Soul Quenching Room.

It was a very similar place to Chonghua Division's surgery table, with the same Xuanbing cold room, the same moon white gown, and even the tray containing the magic weapon, Gu worm, dagger and gauze.

The interrogation and re-quenching were carried out at the same time, which lasted for three days and three nights.

During these three days and three nights, the flesh on his back was cut open along the spine, the Gu worms that devoured spiritual power were put deep into the wound, thousands of puppet threads spread along the muscles and blood vessels, and the Chonghua spell will be cast The spiritual flow and meridians of his body were cut off one by one and confused, which turned his lungs upside down.

And that national teacher, always sitting on the rosewood chair in the soul quenching room, crossed his legs, folded his hands on his knees, and looked at him leisurely.

When he was in pain, when he was howling, when his mouth was drooling, his mouth was bloody and his heart was broken, he asked him gently: "Gu Shuai, do you regret it later?"

"From white to black, and from black to white, it's not easy. You have to think about it clearly. Once you are filled with black magic spirit flow... the 27 kingdoms of Kyushu, only the Liao Kingdom can take you in." .”

"Is your hatred for Chonghua really that deep?"

Gu Mang's whole body was soaked in his own blood, but it was nothing. What he suffered the most was the puppet thread that was like a crab's octopus that penetrated deep into his flesh and blood from his back.

Among the countless steel wires, there must be those who have tempered the ability to tell truth.As soon as he lied, the steel wires all over his body erected sharp thorns, and billions of small thorns exploded in his flesh and blood in an instant, almost tearing his whole life apart! !

Gu Mang's eyes were already blurred, blood, tears, sweat... everything.

He heard Liao country's national teacher asking bewitchingly: Do you really hate them?

He hates them so much that he doesn't hesitate to confront them with spears, hates them so much that he doesn't hesitate to be their enemies for the rest of his life.

Gu Mang's throat was convulsed and he was about to vomit. He lowered his head and almost let out a choked laugh. He said, yes... yes, I hate it so much, so deeply...

The steel thorns are like bones, and the whole body is shaking like chaff.

Chonghua's beast on the altar can still bite his mouth, not saying anything, and not revealing anything.Still able to endure the severe physical and mental pain, his lips trembled and spit out fragmentary words.

Yes.

I hate.

I do not regret.

From now on, I, Gu Mang, have lost my friendship with Chonghua. I, Gu Mang...betrayed into the Liao Kingdom, devoted myself to the Liao Kingdom, and in order to avenge blood, I was willing to be tortured and fell into the devil's way. I will never regret it.

Yongzhi...do not regret...

Muddy blood and tears flowed down his face, he was tortured to the point of insanity, his hair and face were unkempt, like a ghost, laughing wildly mournfully.He didn't know how he held his teeth, but every time he couldn't hold on, he would try his best to recall the scenes of the past.

He thought of the king saying to him on the golden platform, Gu Shuai, please believe in Gu, in this life, Gu has never, and will never treat you as worthless running dogs, slaves and lowly people.

He thought of Lu Zhanxing telling him, Mang'er, you can go down, any choice you make, your Brother Lu will be happy for you.

He thought of Mo Xi...

Ink off.

Thinking of this name is a pain in the heart.

He remembered the summer breeze that blew when he first met Mo Xi, remembered the clear eyes when Mo Xi turned his face sideways, remembered the first time Mo Xi smiled at him and the sad look in his eyes when they parted at the last.

More than ten years.

It's not that he hasn't been tempted, it's not that he hasn't been impulsive to agree to Mo Xi's request desperately, believing that they can really cross the gap and have a lifetime.

but……

After all, they still can't fight for the sky, can't fight for their lives.

What will his highness the princess, his junior brother, look like when he finds out about his treason?Should hate him.

If you hate him, that's fine.

Don't be so impulsive anymore, don't be so stupid, go against the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and be willing to protect him or something... Don't do this...

Ink off.

sorry.Your senior brother really, really loves you.

Every word I love you and every wish I said before is true.

Every word I hate you and every sarcasm I say from now on are all lies.

You also must, must...don't feel regretful because you were not by my side when your brother treasoned, and you couldn't persuade me for the last time.

because……

Gu Mang's tears rolled down his face silently, mixed with sweat and blood, criss-crossing that shattered, almost human-like face.

Because the person who tried to transfer you to the border and delay your return to the country is not the king at all...

The person who made that suggestion was actually me!

it's me……

I am weak, I dare not let you watch me go, I dare not listen to your persuasion, and look at your sad eyes again.I'm afraid that if you look at me, I won't be able to leave.

I'm sorry, I have to travel far, I have to go—I'm sorry, I finally chose Chonghua, my brothers, and this road, but let go of you.

sorry……

Blood flowed down his forehead again, all the way into his eye sockets, the old man's handsome side face suddenly slid down along with his tears, and Mo Xi disappeared.He saw the fire and defeat of Fengming Mountain in a blur of scarlet.Seeing mountains and rivers painted liver and brain.I saw those who sat around the fire with him, drank wine with him on snowy nights, advanced and retreated with him, talked with him about daily necessities, and looked back at him from the other side of the Styx River.

Gu Mang had a strong hallucination, as if he was immersed in this vast river of darkness, eager to swim across it, eager to grab the hand of any of them——

Wait for me.

Wait for me, I'm here, I'll take you home, I'll pick you up.

But at this moment, a burst of severe pain struck his bones and bones, and the magic claw hook attached to his spine and white bones sucked up all the spiritual flow of Chonghua magic in his body, and opened his skin and flesh, and exposed him to the outside. On the bones of the body twitched violently——! ! !

"what……!!"

A robe of [-], an innocent soul, and a promising future.

In this ruthless tearing, he turned into nothingness... The black demon spiritual power mixed with the blood of the wolf demon poured into his body.

The smiling faces of the Paoze brothers in front of him gradually faded away in the crimson...

Gu Mang choked up.

He knew that from now on in his life, he would never be able to go back to the past.

no longer possible...

He knew that he could never return to them again.

"Tsk tsk..." The national teacher pinched his face at the right time, stretched out his thumb to stroke the bloody and dirty face, and said softly, "Gu Shuai, is your heart hurting? I regret that your upright mother country Is the technique stripped off?"

Gu Mang convulsed and shivered. His body was not strong. He was actually very afraid of pain and suffering. He was afraid of getting a barb on the edge of his nail and didn't want to pull it out. He didn't even want to drink medicine when he was sick.

But a soft body doesn't necessarily hold an equally soft soul. Gu Mang raised his eyes, his eyes were red, and said hoarsely, "No."

"..." The national teacher stared at his eyes quite unexpectedly, but did not see any wavering or deception from those black eyes.

Gu Mang's soft lips trembled, and he whispered weakly but stubbornly: "I don't regret it, I want revenge..." With tears streaming down his face, he suddenly lowered his face, wailing almost hoarsely, "Revenge! !!"

The national teacher's expression finally wavered a little.

He let go of the hand that was holding Gu Mang's chin, slowly lifted it to the side, and bent a bit: "Come here."

The attendant next to him saw the command of the national teacher, and immediately said: "Waiting for the command of the national teacher!"

The national teacher said: "Put all the black magic spells of Liao Kingdom into his bones."

"Yes!"

After he finished giving these words, he raised his hands, and as if a certain status was recognized, he covered the top of Gu Mang's hair with those blood-stained hands, and stroked them.

"Gu Shuai, do you know what this means?" There is an incomprehensible light and shadow flowing in the dark brown pupils of the national teacher, "This means that in your life, even if you lose your memory, even if your muscles and bones are broken, Gouging out your eyes and cutting out your tongue, as long as you have even one bone in your body, you will be under the spell of black magic. You will never be able to get rid of it."

"What you can use, what you know how to use, and what is engraved in your bones will always be our dirty spell that is despised by the world, and you will never forget it."

After he finished speaking, he grinned with white teeth and canines.

"Congratulations, Gu Shuai. You are now from my country."

……

The field of vision changes, and dreams and waking intertwine.

The face covered with a golden mask disappeared, replaced by Zhou He's frowning face.Zhou He raised Gu Mang's chin with the tip of the falcon's knife: "What are you thinking?"

Gu Mang didn't say anything.

He didn't know whether he was a general in the past who could still be accounted for, but, at least later, he had been doing a conscientious spy all the time.

Although the memory is falling apart, he himself has a lot of puzzles that he can't solve.

But he has always kept his secret.

Whether it is to Liao Guo, to Lu Zhanxing, or to Mo Xi.He kept the truth that he should never say.

From this point of view, at least for now, his spying is not such a failure.

Zhou He was probably offended by his silence, and said a little darkly: "I'll see how long you can last."

The spell light array lit up, and flying locks sprang out from all directions, securing Gu Mang's limbs and neck.

Zhou He ordered the left and right: "Let's get started."