[Infinite Stream] Destiny Rubik's Cube

Xu Chi gently straightened Zhou Qi, who was suddenly unconscious, and adjusted his posture so that he was sitting on the mountain.

This is a man-made low-water depression.When Zhou Qi fell from behind, he was squatting on the edge of the puddle to observe the whereabouts of the lime powder. As a result of the momentary instability of the center of gravity, he and Zhou Qi rolled into a ball and rolled down.

The dim moonlight shone miserably, the visibility was very low, the puddles were soft and the soil was soft, the walls were covered with slippery moss, and the muddy water oozing out from nowhere covered half of the ankles.When he had to wade through the dirty and yellowed muddy water to inspect the surrounding situation, General Xu, who was a bit of a clean freak, was in a terrible mood.

This is all thanks to that Zhou who suddenly lost the connection while walking.

He was in the first-level alert state, and a murderous intent suddenly blew from behind his head. Xu Chi stabilized his lower body, his heels sank into the soft mud, and his upper body leaned back to dodge while aiming at the vital point.

Muscle memory is sometimes faster than eyes. The knife is about to fall, and the retina sends the familiar face back to the brain. Xu Chi's pupils shrink suddenly, and the knife temporarily changes its route to avoid the throat.

It was the pause of a few tenths of a second that the opponent seized the opportunity and kicked Xu Chi into the muddy water with a side kick to the chest.

"Cough cough..."

There was a strange smell in his mouth, whether it was the smell of blood or sewage, before he could distinguish it clearly, heavy punches followed.Xu Chi arched his body and held his head, and crossed his arms to take down the first strike with terrifying strength. In an instant, the muscles of his upper arm and his shoulder and neck were numb from the shock, and the bones of his forearm made a precarious cracking sound.

Zhou Qi's state is not right.

Xu Chi saw those eyes dominated by hatred from a close distance. They were bright, captivating, cruel, and filled with a terrifying sense of oppression.No, not only the mental state is wrong, but also the strength.The last time he fought against Zhou Qi, Zhou Qi's instant explosive power was far less terrifying than it is now.

Something inspired his potential.

The fist turned and fell towards the abdomen. Xu Chi didn't dare to resist any more, so he kicked Zhou Qi's calf with all his strength. Zhou Qi let out a muffled grunt and was forced to bend his knees. He slid out, and at the same time raised his kneecap to align it with Zhou Qi's hard jaw.There was a click.This time he didn't use all his strength.Zhou Qi is crazy, he is not crazy yet, even though he is about to be driven crazy by the mud all over his body, as long as he still has a sliver of reason, he will not be able to kill.So Zhou Qi's mandible was not cracked, he just clutched his chin in pain, and took two steps back.

But this also fully inspired the ferocity of the beast.

Zhou Qi let out a low growl, and rushed towards him without hesitation.

During the fight, Xu Chi thought of the wolf he had raised before.It was a dying wolf cub he had rescued during an assassination mission in the north. At that time, its stomach was hit by fragments of shells, and its snow-white fur was covered with blood. Gasping, dying.He carried it back to the car, took out the metal fragments, bandaged it with medicine, and drove to the nearest hospital, put a gun to the head of a doctor who was not a veterinarian, and ordered him to treat its dead body with the method of treating human patients The intestines were cut out and mended.It survived, he trained it, he carried it with him, and he was always on the lookout for the graceful but ferocious beast to snap off his neck in a moment of insanity.

Zhou Qi strangled his neck with both hands, he gritted his teeth and groped, touched the hem of the prison uniform on Zhou Qi's body, lifted it back hard, covered Zhou Qi's head, and wrapped the two strong legs with a strong cloth. The arm twisted a twist, then raised the leg and kicked the person away.

Zhou Qi thumped hard in the muddy water, trying to untie the clothes that trapped him. Just as his head was exposed, Xu Chi rode on his back and suppressed him severely.

"Shh..."

Xu Chi clung to his ear, picked up the back of his neck like Ti Liu's little wolf cub, and kneaded it gently.

Breathing out of rhythm drilled into the cochlea: "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, don't move."

Zhou Qi struggled frantically a few times, but his movements really slowed down.He turned his head sideways, moved his ears, and gradually stretched the bulging veins on his neck, which seemed to be effectively comforted.

"Xu..."

Sanity returned to his bewildered eyes.

In the next second, Xu Chi pushed that dazed handsome face into the muddy water.

"Umm... late... gurgling?"

Xu Chi let go of his hand and asked coldly, "Are you awake?"

"Bah, bah, bah!" Zhou Qi raised his neck, poohed the mud off his mouth, and cursed as soon as he regained his sanity, "Damn, you fucking want to drown me?"

Xu Chi stared at him seriously for a few seconds, and after making sure that he was back to normal, he stood up with his support against the wall, panting for breath and not answering.

The two looked at each other in blank dismay, looking half-baffled at each other.

The buttons of Zhou Qi’s clothes were torn apart, he simply took them off, wrung them dry and wiped his face, and after sitting in the mud to sort out the situation, he apologized generously: “I’m sorry brother, you didn’t hurt Bar?"

Xu Chi's bluish lips were stretched, his hair was still dripping, his chest heaved violently, his complexion was so pale that he would faint in the blink of an eye.He shook his head: "You...?"

"Cough, I accidentally stumbled upon it."

Zhou Qi touched his nose and felt that he couldn't escape, so he recounted the process half-covered, saying that he smelled the strong fragrance of pagoda tree, and then had hallucinations. The nightmare he didn't want to face in his life began to repeat repeatedly. I can't control it, and I don't want to vent it. The kind that life can't go on.

Xu Chi fell silent after listening, and didn't ask what kind of nightmare it was. He has never been curious about other people's privacy.

It took a while before he had a decent reaction.

"It seems that the Zhu family killed each other, and part of the reason is the old locust tree." Because of physical exertion, his voice was weak, "The fragrance of the locust tree not only amplifies people's own desires, but also stimulates the greatest desire in the human body. potential. If the potential is directly proportional to the desire, it can explain why a weak woman from the Min family has the strength to chop up Su Rong's corpse like that. She hates it too much."

Zhou Qi nodded thoughtfully, then raised his face and stared at Xu Chi with burning eyes: "Why is it only me?"

Xu Chi: "What?"

"Why am I the only one affected by the scent? Why aren't you? It's obvious that the two of us are together." Zhou Qi found a blind spot and raised a question.

"I don't know." Xu Chi shrugged and smiled, a little self-deprecating, "Maybe it's because I have nothing I want."

Zhou Qi automatically interpreted this sentence as: Maybe I am better than you than you.

Zhou Qi raised his eyebrows, once again falling into intense unwillingness and dissatisfaction.

"Let's go." Xu Chi brushed his wet hair back, his knuckles were skinned from the previous fierce fight, and now they were flushed, "Go out from here first, and we have to continue looking for the snake's den."

"Hiss, then what, I think we don't have to look for it." Zhou Qi pointed behind him, "We may already be in the base camp."

Xu Chi was startled when he heard this.I saw a lot of green fireflies silently appearing in the surroundings at unknown times—they were pairs of snake eyes glowing in the dark.

Zhou Qi's scalp was numb, and he took a breath: "How do you say people die after being bitten by a viper?"

"The venom paralyzes the nerves, dissolves the walls of blood vessels, and blood flows from all the holes in the body, including the eyes, ears and nostrils..."

"Okay, don't talk about it." Zhou Qi felt the chrysanthemum tighten and interrupted him quickly, "Do you know what snakes are most afraid of?"

Xu Chi: "Smell?"

"Tsk, didn't the little girl of the Zhu family tell you?" Zhou Qi bent down and rolled up his wide trouser legs to his thighs. There was a nylon tactical bag tied to his thighs. Originally, there should be all kinds of daggers in it, but Xu Chi watched Then he took out a palm-sized flat wine jug from it...

If it's not surprising, it should contain...

Xu Chi felt a little suffocated: "You don't even let the realgar wine go?"

"Alcohol is both a devil and an angel." Zhou Qi turned the metal bottle cap, raised his head and took a sip, with a naughty smile hanging from the corner of his mouth.This person is pretentious, regardless of the occasion, "You know that behind the Tianhe government, there was a small team of invisible special forces that was notorious. All their members have no names, only code names. It is said that before each expedition, they will put a knife on their neck A silver piece representing glory is hung on the inside of the silver piece. Inside the silver piece is a small suicide device. When the button is opened, the poisonous silver needle will pierce out, and the blood will seal the throat. For these war machines, there is no surrender, only Sacrifice. For me, alcohol is my 'poison needle'. Take a sip before death, and the king of Hades is also afraid of me..."

Xu Chi's hand, which was rubbing the black rope around his neck, dropped into his trouser pocket: "Don't make excuses for your severe alcohol dependence."

"..."

Being told, Zhou Qi simply gave up making excuses, took another sip of wine, then raised his hand and poured the remaining realgar wine on top of Xu Chi's head.The yellowish-brown liquor dripped from the raised eyebrows, dripped from the sharp chin, and meandered into the collar.

As soon as the approaching snakes smelled the pungent smell, they retreated frantically.

Xu Chi raised his wet eyelashes.

"Don't stare at me, I'm arming you." Zhou Qi refused to let go of a drop of wine, lightly scratched Xu Chi's chin with his index finger, stuck out his tongue and curled his fingertips, his whole body was full of alcohol The smell of alcohol made him nervous, his eyes lit up, and he sighed, "Xu Chi, right? You smell delicious right now."

Xu Chi raised his hand to wipe his face, and smiled sullenly: "The snake should also find it delicious when it hears about you."

Zhou Qi then put the empty jug back, rushed forward and hugged Xu Chi and rubbed him wildly, euphemistically saying: "Lend me some wine."

With a cold face, Xu Chi kicked him away.

Taking advantage of the fact that the snakes were dizzy from the realgar wine and unable to fight back, Zhou Qi squatted down, and Xu Chi stepped on Zhou Qi's shoulders to dig out a puddle more than four meters deep, and then tied their clothes together Zhou Qi hung down and acted as a climbing rope. With the tacit cooperation, Zhou Qi also successfully climbed up.

Just as he was putting on his clothes again, a strange flute sound suddenly came from nowhere.At the same time, there was a hissing and rustling sound from the pothole behind.

"After the calf, run!" Zhou Qi was still breathing, jumped up quickly, pulled Xu Chi up, and ran wildly!

Behind them, the venomous snake parading close to the ground frantically twisted its body, spitting out scarlet letters, and chased at full speed.

"The flute player can control snakes." Xu Chi managed to utter the words between running.

"I'm not deaf!" Zhou Qi felt the wind under his feet, gradually opened the distance, and then turned back, with an expression of hating iron but not steel, "Why are you not active in running for your life? Run fast!"

Xu Chi: "We seem to be going in the wrong direction, this is not going down the mountain..."

Zhou Qi didn't listen to him at all, and once again picked up people indiscriminately and ran away.

"I warn you, it's... nothing more than three..."

"Shut up, why are you doing this? Isn't this the third time yet?! Do you think I really want to run with people on my shoulders?"

"You should go back the same way."

"The original road is a fucking snake! You look back!"

Xu Chi: "..."

never mind.Admiral Xu thought decadently.Let it be fate.

Zhou Qi is a big animal in terms of physical strength. He carried Xu Chi on his back all the way and sang all the way. During the period, he was able to lift a huge boulder to kill dozens of snakes. He went straight into a spooky cemetery, and he stopped with a sudden brake .

Xu Chi had been fighting with the insane version of Zhou Qi in the depression for a long time before, and he had exhausted his strength, but now he was knocked to the ground again, and his eyes were full of golden flowers for a while, the world was spinning, and when his feet touched the ground, he was a man. Staggered, almost lost his footing.

"This... what is this place?" Zhou Qi said pantingly, with his hands on his hips, "There are so many graves, Chishan is a mountain of graves?"

Xu Chi overcame his dizziness and raised his eyes.As far as the eye can see, the first thing to see is a locust tree, and under each locust tree, there are several graves piled up.There are too many graves, almost all over the mountains and plains, and you can't see the end at a glance.

A faint fragrance floats in the air.

It's not Huaixiang, it's the smell of incense ash.

Zhou Qi and Xu Chi looked at each other, and their expressions were not very good-looking.

The swarm of snakes chasing after them stopped at the edge of the cemetery, as if they were afraid of something, and stopped moving forward.

Behind the group of snakes, there is a slim figure of a young girl.

It was Zhu Wenyun with a face as heavy as water.

Xu Chi supported a tombstone and sat down. After a few breaths, suppressing the turmoil in his stomach, he asked, "You killed Zhu Xiao?"

Zhu Wenyun lowered her head and turned the rough bamboo flute in her hand, not denying it: "Mother, she hates that man, and I hate that man too, but my mother couldn't bear to do it, so I had to do it for her and fulfilled her life's wish." , and help our mother and daughter get out of the sea of ​​suffering as soon as possible, and get the best of both worlds. Besides, don't you also hope that the heartless scumbag will die? His death has satisfied everyone's hearts. "

Zhou Qi: "But he is your father."

"No, he's not." Zhu Wenyun twitched her lips, "He's just Zhu Wenyu's father, not mine."

"Bring up Zhu Wenyu." Xu Chi coughed twice, his dark eyes were frosty, "He's just a child, he loves you and kisses you, why did you attack him?"

Zhu Wenyun looked at him sideways, with a bit of vigor looking forward to his appearance.

"It was an accident." Her tone seemed to be talking about the weather rather than the life or death of a loved one.

"Oh?"

"That day, I, Mrs. Su, and brother Wenyu were playing hide-and-seek by the pond. The little snake I carefully fed fell out of the brocade box I carried with me somehow, and happened to bite him."

Xu Chi sneered: "I don't know how? What a coincidence?"

Zhu Wenyun didn't care about the audience's reaction, and continued on: "Wenyu was poisoned, and he fell into a coma immediately. He was about to plant it in the pond. Su's sharp eyes quickly pulled it, but he only tore off a longevity lock. Afterwards, everyone Everyone thought that Wenyu drowned because of a mistake, and Su lied that she was not there at the time for fear of taking the blame. This woman is actually just stupid, and her heart is not too bad. With a heartbroken heart and self-blame and remorse, she wore the Longevity Lock on her body day and night. Unfortunately, this Longevity Lock was bumped into by my mother one day..."

"Miss Min mistakenly thought that her child was murdered by Su Shi, but you knew the truth, but you allowed her to take the misunderstanding seriously and make a big mistake?"

"The truth? What is the truth?" Zhu Wenyun covered her mouth and smiled. She was only 13 years old, but her frown and smile were enough to scare people. "Children are used to talking nonsense, who cares about what I say? They adults only believe in themselves If you want to believe it, once you believe it, no one will let others talk about it. Besides, do you think that all kinds of bitter fruits are mine?"

Xu Chi closed his eyes, too lazy to waste any more words.

"Do you think that if Zhu Wenyu is not dead, everyone will be happy?" Zhu Wenyun couldn't stop the chatterbox, Zhu Wenyun showed a complex look of resentment and sarcasm, "Mother killed Su for love. Zhu Xiao killed Zhu Yao, It was because of jealousy, angering my grandmother to death, and seizing power. I killed Zhu Xiao because I wanted to completely end the Zhu family, which had been rotten from the inside out. These murders have long been buried in the root of the disaster, and it will happen no matter what, sooner or later A mere Zhu Wenyu is nothing but the most insignificant fuse."

"Sounding fatalism." Zhou Qi, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't hold back, "If you say that, it's better to push everything to the locust tree spirit. According to your way of thinking, in the world, only killing people can solve the problem? Every family has a few bad debts, but there are still very few people who have raised family conflicts to criminal cases. You reflect on it, no, your family reflects on it, is it too extreme to be a ghost?"

Zhou Qi, who was bewitched by the scent of the locust tree just now and became insane and wanted to kill someone, talked about the truth, and Xu Chi felt sorry for him.

Under questioning, Zhu Wenyun got stuck.

It seems that the paranoid personality of this npc was set early in the morning as a way to solve family conflicts?Don't ask, if you ask, you will kill them all.

"Okay, don't stand so far away and talk, it's too much trouble." Zhou Qi may also feel that he is too shameless, so he stopped preaching while standing and talking without back pain, and waved to her, "Come on, come closer and talk."

Zhu Wenyun didn't move.

"What? You can't get close to this place?" Zhou Qi looked suspicious and rubbed his chin, "Hiss...could it be some kind of restricted area here? Your Rubik's Cube is not rigorously made, and there are bugs."

Zhu Wenyun kicked him firmly.

"Little girl, I think you may be a little nervous because you have nothing to say and talk so much." Zhou Qi put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked slowly along a row of crooked tombstones.This person has long legs, and he walks so lazily in his pocket, so he is very cool and eye-catching.The cool man put on his trademark smirk, and played with his mouth: "No one told you that the villain usually dies because of talking too much? If you have the ability, you come here? How can a bare-mouthed gun be used as a fart?"

"It's useless. It's time to choose." Zhu Wenyun's facial muscles were too tense and had some slight spasms. She gritted her teeth, "You can't save everyone."

"I never thought about saving everyone, and I don't have any thankless heroic complex." Zhou Qi casually inspected the tombstones, "But judging by your reaction, I feel that there may be hope that we can end this task early. Bullshit level. Because the two of us came here by accident and discovered a secret. As for what secret—"

Zhu Wenyun's eyes turned uncontrollably to a certain direction.

"Ah—it seems that the horizon is far away and we are right in front of our eyes." Zhou Qi has been paying attention to Zhu Wenyun's reaction from the beginning to the end, and he has accurately captured this facial detail.So he fixed the angle, turned back, stopped in front of Xu Chi, leaned over and squinted, and looked closely at the tombstone on Xu Chi's arm.Then, he irritably rolled his short hair, pointed to the writing on the tombstone, and then pointed to Xu Chi's plain face, with a ferocious expression: "Damn, you have already found out, and you are still sitting here listening to her nonsense Is it deep?"

"I'll take a rest." Xu Chi covered his face weakly, "Tired."

"Are you tired? Is it you or me who ran so far with a hundred-pound sandbag of human flesh? Are you still tired?" The irritable Zhou brother was speechless, his liver hurt with anger, and he roared in his ear, "Say it, It’s okay, don’t be picky eaters, give me more meat, calcium, and strength! Don’t expect me to run away with you on my back next time!”

Xu Chi thought he was noisy and covered his ears.

"Hey! That girl over there!" Zhou Qi shouted, then turned to point at Zhu Wenyun.

I don't know if it was a hallucination, but Zhu Wenyun seemed to flinch.

"You've died a long time ago, do you know that?" Zhou Qi stabbed the tombstone fiercely with his index finger, looking at the posture, wishing to pierce the stone slab, "Not only are you dead, come and see, your whole family died decades ago Absolutely! The Zhu family compound is a haunted house, and your family, old ghosts and little ghosts, closed the door and endlessly reviewed the past! Damn, what a fool, this is really fucking fatalism!"

"What did you say? I'm a ghost?"

When the truth was revealed, Zhu Wenyun obviously couldn't accept it. She had been living in the illusory world she woven for so long that she forgot her past and her identity.She shook her head and backed away again and again, like a stubborn child who knew she was wrong but refused to admit it, "I'm dead? I'm actually dead? Impossible!"

Zhou Qi rolled his eyes restrainedly: "People must have a clear understanding of themselves."

"Why did I die?" Zhu Wenyun tilted her head in confusion, her face was gradually distorted, and blood was slowly oozing from the corner of her mouth.She didn't understand, and repeated blankly with a pale face, "Who killed me? Who killed me!"

This is a good question.

Xu Chi and Zhou Qi looked at each other.

On the dilapidated tombstone in Chishan, the names of the Zhu family, from oldest to youngest, are neatly arranged, and the inscription of the person who set up the monument in vermilion is also engraved very clearly one stroke at a time—the surviving Min Huai.

The author has something to say:

Xu Chi: You poured wine all over me?Um?

Zhou Qi: If you don't mind, I can lick it all up for you...

Xu Chi: Get lost.