Iron Armored Emperor

There was a sea of ​​flames behind, and the flames only illuminated the sky above, making the overwhelming pitch-black night even blacker.

At the foot, is the blood river.

A thick river of dark red blood fell from the sky illuminated by the sea of ​​flames, like the Milky Way covered with blood and pouring down to the ground.

The surface of the blood river is smooth and without waves, and only those who walk in it can experience the turbulent undercurrent below.Every step forward, under the impetus of thick blood and undercurrents, it becomes more and more difficult to walk, and the steps become heavier.

Gu Lie stared at the front and walked, there was no end in sight, but he never stopped.

The depth of the river of blood did not reach his knees, and in order to move forward, every time he took a step, he had to lift his feet vigorously from the thick blood.

There was a soft splash of water, and a thin arm hugged Gu Lie's calf, using his strength to struggle out from the bottom of the blood river. The boy floated on the river, staring at Gu Lie with blank eyes, and asked Gu Lie: "Why are you alive? died?"

Gu Lie didn't stop, and replied in his heart: I don't know.

"What happened to my back? Gu Lie? Why is my back rotten? Help me, Gu Lie, why didn't you save me?"

Gu Lie gritted his teeth, feeling guilty, but he could only move forward.

Can't stop, he is the king and grandson of Chu, the king and grandson of Chu who must avenge Baoyan, he can't stop.

The boy's arm holding Gu Lie's calf seemed to have no strength, so he let go of him and floated behind Gu Lie.

A pair of scorched big hands and a pair of swollen small hands grabbed Gu Lie at the same time. Their strength was much stronger than the previous children, and they dug into Gu Lie's flesh. The adoptive mother roared ferociously: "It's all you, Without you, my son would not die, and my husband would not kill me! You are a disaster! Your Gu family was exterminated because of you!"

Their strength also gradually slackened, and they drifted in the river of blood, following behind Gu Lie.

Then there were two hands, one big and one small, which were burnt yellow, black and scorched. They pulled Gu Lie's calf. The woman asked bitterly, "Son, my son saved you, and I even made chicken soup for you, what are you doing?" Said delicious, why did you let your adoptive father kill us? Why?"

……

Gu Lie stepped forward step by step, no matter what, he never stopped.

I don't know how long it took.

The sea of ​​fire suddenly extinguished, and the river of blood was silent. The sudden sunlight dazzled Gu Lie's eyes, causing him to close them unconsciously.

Open it again, the place it is in is no longer the dark red blood river, but a simple empty house, and I am sitting on the ground.

Under the shadow of the wooden table, there were rustling sounds. Gu Lie looked vigilantly, but saw a thin black cat stumbling towards him, meowing, and it was about to lose its stability and fall. up.

Gu Lie stretched out his hand to hold it, and the black cat rubbed his palm affectionately.

In the next second, the head of the kitten in Gu Lie's palm was crooked, and its body was cold.

His eyes went dark, and in an instant, his palms were empty, as if the black cat had never been here.

Gu Lie closed his eyes, trying to wake up.

There was a sudden weight in his arms, and the fragrance of night breath permeated the empty room.

"Gu"

Gu Lie didn't open his eyes, he clasped the person in his arms tightly to his chest, preventing that person from continuing to speak.

He hugged it too tightly, the handle of the heart-breaking dagger was just touching his heart, it was very painful, and he never let go.

At last.

His arms were still empty after all.

Gu Lie opened his eyes and truly woke up from his dream.

He lifted the quilt, put on his robe, and walked out of the handsome tent. At this time, the stars were hanging low, and the night wind was still a little chilly.

"Lord."

The tent guards saluted.

Gu Lie nodded, without stopping, he approached the general's tent not far away.

Di Qiye's private soldiers were all guards sent to him by Gu Lie. Since they were guards, there was actually only one master of them, and that was Gu Lie. So Gu Lie opened the curtain and walked in, and Not blocked.Konoe wanted to remind something, but didn't have time.

There is no one from Di Qiye in the general's tent.

Gu Lie looked around inside the tent, not counting the overly warm bed, the furnishings are actually very simple.

Maps, local chronicles and other utensils are scattered on the table in an order that only Di Qiye can understand. Apart from the Tiger Talisman that Di Qiye used as a paperweight, the most special thing is just a charcoal pencil rolled up with rice paper.

Such a person who doesn't care about anything except fighting, how bored must he be to have the heart to observe porcelain?

Gu Lie slowly walked out of the general's tent and asked, "Where are your generals?"

"The general took Wushuang for a walk."

"When did he go out?"

"Less than half a cup of tea."

"Ah."

Gu Lie responded lightly, and was about to return to the tent, when he remembered to ask one more question: "Has he ever worn fur to keep out the cold?"

"No."

Gu Lie paused, returned to the tent to take a brand new green fox fur, hung it on his arm, and asked the guards to lead the way to find someone.

The sky is high and the earth is wide, and the stars and fields are low.

Lush cattails sway in the wind along the banks of the Ural River.

Wushuang lay lazily, bent over the ground cattails, with jujube pits around his mouth, looked at how many big winter jujubes were left, raised his horse's face slightly, and yelled at Di Qiye, meaning there was not enough to eat .

Di Qiye lay on Wushuang's body, and slapped his big horse's face with his backhand.

He will eat all day long, and he is still a pig teammate after eating so much, hugging himself left and right, regardless of his master's life or death.

Wushuang was very angry.

If you don't give it, you won't give it. Why do you still beat the horse?

Di Qiye was not in the mood to fight with it.

He looked at the sky full of stars, pondering what Ao Yisong didn't seem to have said unintentionally when he made the thunder attack plan today.

At that time, Ao Yisong's eyes fell on him, and he joked: "When Leizhou is taken down, we all have to change our words to the lord, but unfortunately there is no change fee this time."

A Lang was fascinated, and said excitedly, "My lord is going to proclaim the emperor for me."

When Di Qiye first heard it, he felt it was funny: "Why are you still so excited? Isn't the goal of the Chu army's rebellion to restore Chu to the fallen Yan? You should have expected it."

He knew from the very beginning that Gu Lie would establish Chu and proclaim himself emperor, and he even knew how many years Gu Lie would be in power, so he certainly wouldn't feel surprised and excited when he chatted like this now.

A Zuo smiled and retorted: "Of course I will be excited, the one who ascends the throne is our lord."

Di Qiye replied subconsciously: "It's not that the person has changed, the lord is still the same."

"What's the difference?" Even Ah Hu disagreed, "Although it's the same lord, but when the time comes, the lord will be the master of the world!"

Abao nodded, and thought about it: "That's when the emperor, we kneel below, the lord sits on top, there are three thousand beauties in the harem, there are a lot of people to follow wherever we go, tsk tsk, that day."

They were laughing and joking, and the more they talked, the more they became biased, but Di Qiye followed their words and kept thinking about the present.

It's not that Di Qiye never thought that Gu Lie would become an emperor, but in Di Qiye's consciousness, this event was destined to happen, so he didn't think it was anything special.

In other words, whether Gu Lie is the king of Chu or the emperor, it is the same to Di Qiye.

But now Di Qiye had to think about it. Could Gu Lie's proclaiming himself emperor be the reason for Gu Lie's ambiguity in responding to him?

Because you want to be above one person, so you can't be with him?

Di Qiye subconsciously felt that Gu Lie was not such a person.

But he has been troubled by Gu Lie's attitude for a long time, and now there is such a seemingly reasonable reason in front of him, which makes Di Qiye feel even worse.

So Di Qiye, who couldn't sleep, simply went out to walk his horse to relax.

However, it seemed that Annoyance had gone out with him, so he had to pester him.

Di Qiye felt helpless, he had never been so troubled by a single person before, this kind of experience made him a little fresh, but he couldn't help but feel aggrieved.

The river breeze in early spring is very cold, and the smell of cattails blows, but it makes Di Qiye feel natural and lovely, and forgets the cold.

A piece of green fox fur fell from the sky and landed on him.

Di Qiye looked up, and there was a sea of ​​stars above his head, as well as Gu Lie.

Wushuang rubbed the huge horse's head against Gu Lie's boots, screaming aggrievedly, meaning you should take care of him.

Di Qiye was in a good mood and didn't bother to care about it.

Gu Lie walked up to Di Qiye, picked up the Qinglong Saber that had been placed there and changed its position, and sat down next to Wushuang's horse belly, asking, "Why don't you sleep out in the middle of the night?"

"Then why don't you come out in the middle of the night?" Di Qiye covered himself from the neck down with the green fox fur, only then did he realize how cold the Jiangfeng was.

Gu Lie tugged on the green fox fur on his body, which means: You are covered, why do you still ask me to come out?

Di Qiye hooked the corner of his mouth, and asked clearly: "So you came out to look for me? But what I asked was, why did you look for me?"

Gu Lie was stunned for a moment, and then concealed his words: "I heard from Jinwei that you came to look for you when you came out for a walk and didn't wear a fur coat to keep out the cold."

"Really?" Di Qiye narrowed his eyes, although he sounded impeccable, he always felt unbelievable.

This is the same as when Gu Lie said that the cat ran away. It seemed to be no problem, but Di Qiye believed that there must be something wrong with his own feelings.

Gu Lie didn't speak.

Di Qiye snorted softly, didn't want to look at him, and looked up at the stars.

"Are you homesick?" Gu Lie followed his gaze to Xingye Yemu and asked worriedly.

Di Qiye laughed: "What's the use of thinking about it? What's there to think about?"

He had never had the idea of ​​"homesickness" before, and he realized it only after being asked by Gu Lie, and found it interesting.

"General Di is really chic."

Hearing these words, Di Qiye looked at Gu Lie strangely again, always feeling that Gu Lie didn't seem to be praising himself.

"My lord," Di Qiye flipped through old accounts, "Your words don't count."

"Why don't my words count?"

Di Qiye repeated the rules between the two of them: "It's agreed to exchange one for one. If I ask you a question, you can also ask me a question."

Gu Lie was puzzled: "Isn't that so?"

"But you lied."

"When did I lie?"

Di Qiye watched Gu Lie's expression change, and said slowly: "That day you said that the cat you raised ran away. That cat really ran away, didn't it die of old age? Since you lied, didn't you Should I answer one more question?"

Gu Lie lowered his eyes, looking at the cattail that was crushed by Wushuang's horse.But other than that, nothing unusual.And it seems that he has made up his mind to keep silent and say nothing.

Di Qiye frowned unwillingly.

"That cat," Gu Lie said suddenly, his eyes still on the rush grass all over the floor, "My adoptive father thinks it's a waste of fun, so he wants me to kill it."

Di Qiye was taken aback for a moment, then he became angry, what adoptive father?What kind of weirdness is this?

"I didn't kill it. It was thrown to death by the adoptive father. I failed to save it."

Gu Lie had never complained to others before, so he felt extremely uncomfortable, and he finished his sentence in a difficult manner, frowning even tighter than Di Qiye just now, with mixed emotions in his heart.

"Gu Lie," Di Qiye said solemnly, ignoring Feng Liang, reaching out to grab Gu Lie's wrist, letting Gu Lie look at him, "the last sentence is superfluous."

"It was killed by your adoptive father, that's all, your adoptive father insisted on killing a cat, it's as simple as that. There's no 'I failed to save it' after that. You are not responsible for every life that concerns you, you You were just one person, and you were even a child at the time, and it should have been the responsibility of an adult, and if an adult neglected his duty, it shouldn’t be you who recited it.”

Gu Lie just wanted to ask back after listening, do you know that you are only one person?Why be so resolute and lonely, as if this world can't accommodate you, can't keep you?

As for the other things Di Qiye said, Gu Lie didn't think about it. There was no need. He had memorized it for too long, and he was used to it. He couldn't let it go, and he wouldn't let it go. What is it, this is the responsibility of being the king and grandson of Chu, Di Qiye just doesn't understand.

Di Qiye didn't know if Gu Lie listened to what he said. Gu Lie's expression changed less and less. If he deliberately concealed it, it would be difficult for even Di Qiye to notice it.

There was a moment of silence.

Gu Lie and Di Qiye met each other's eyes and were silent. Gu Lie pondered for a long time, but said: "I answered a question, can I ask you a question?"

I didn't expect such a sentence to come.

Di Qiye, who originally wanted to bargain for himself, was bargained instead. He couldn't laugh or cry, and rolled his eyes: "You ask."

Gu Lie picked up the Green Dragon Saber, and in this life it followed Di Qiye to fight everywhere, drank countless blood, and finally did not disgrace the name of the treasured sword.

Gu Lie stared at Qinglong Dao and asked: "Do you still think that if a sword is no longer useful, it should be broken, so as not to hate each other?"

Di Qiye asked angrily, "Otherwise?"

"If this knife is not willing to use it, how about letting someone set it up?"

How can there be such a knife in the world?It's not a smart mech.

"Why force it?" Gu Lie asked more and more strangely, Di Qiye just felt baffled, "This knife seems to have its own principles, should we force it to change?"

After hearing Di Qiye's answer, Gu Lie became even more silent.

Until the cool wind is more urgent.

He stood up and reached out to Di Qiye: "Go back?"

Di Qiye held his hand and stood up with strength, and Wushuang followed him to stand firm.

The two of them joined forces and walked back to Camp Chu under the starry sky.