Double world undercurrent

Chapter 22 Chapter 22
It was late at night, and the dark side hall was so quiet that it made people drowsy. The entourage in plain robes, sitting on the stool by the table, glanced at the shining curtain in the wall inadvertently, and yawned.

When he sent Song Yu back to the magic doctor's mansion earlier, the white sun and blue sky in the other world were dazzling, he didn't stop for too long, and immediately turned back here. The strong contrast between the light and the atmosphere made him feel unreal.

He propped one elbow on the edge of the table, resting his chin on the palm of his hand, and was lazily sleeping. Suddenly, the portal in the center of the floor opened, and a dazzling diamond-shaped light curse shot straight into the sky.

The entourage was startled, and stood up suddenly, seeing the light spell in front of him dissipate, and the stern body suddenly appeared, suddenly lost all sleepiness, and bowed respectfully.

"Your Highness..."

"Is the princess asleep?"

Ming Shuo stood upright, his eyes turned to the side of the curtain.

"This subordinate doesn't know, but the princess said she will wait for you."

Said the entourage in plain robes.

The curtain is originally a virtual image, but it is actually a barrier to pass through. Only through this barrier can one know the situation in the next room.

Ming Shuo moved in front of the curtain, his eyes turned slightly, and after a moment of hesitation, he walked through it with light steps.

The light in the inner room was dim, and Gu Xiaoxing had already fallen asleep on the white cloud bed.

She was sleeping on her side, her slender eyelashes were like butterfly wings, casting a faint shadow.Her black hair hung like a cloud around her neck, hiding her fair and translucent skin.Her face was moist and powdery, accompanied by even breathing, she slept very soundly.

The cloud of smoke on the cloud bed turned into a quilt and covered her body.She folded Mingshuo's phantom robe beside the pillow, and placed a small hand on it lightly, as if she was afraid that someone would take it away.

Ming Shuo stood beside the cloud bed, appreciating her sleeping appearance carefully, the tenderness in her heart turned into powerful wings, and the forbearance of love bloomed quietly in the depths.

It was a piece of pure land in his heart, he was so close to it...

He just looked at her quietly like this, longing to see her like this every day, every day, to look at her like this, until the end of the years...

Xin'er, I have greed for you after all...

In the late night of Yangcheng, the glitz has faded away, like a sleeping dragon lying among the mountains.The two rivers converged at the pier in the city to form a wider water area, which flowed eastward into the Lan Haili tens of kilometers away.

About seven nautical miles away from the coastline, there is a small island with strange rocks. The island is lined with towering black boulders, which seem to be chaotic, but they are arranged in an orderly manner.

On the back of the small island, on the steep cliff wall, there is a hole hidden. Under the protection of a powerful formation, the hole cannot be seen by others.

There are many passages in the cave, extending in all directions from the spacious main room, and the spatial structure is very similar to that of a giant spider.

In one of the passages, two people in witch robes were using magic to carry a magic weapon that looked like a tripod.

Among them, the one with a short cropped head and small round eyes said:

"This jade tripod is considered an antique. It has been put on hold for so long... Has it been eight or nine hundred years?"

"It's almost, huh, as if the two of us have experienced that war."

The one next to her has high cheekbones and a smile with fine lines at the end of her eyes.

"My great-great-great-grandfather experienced it. Although his old man has been a little delirious recently, he still remembers the wars back then. But he joined later. After all, we were going forward and attacking other worlds. More than 800 years, almost catching up with the first foreign world war..."

The short cut said with some pride.

"Hey! Then what's the matter with him, he must be thousands of years old, amazing, I don't know if I can reach such a high level of cultivation in the future."

"I think it's good if we can live for hundreds of years, like those monsters in other worlds, who can live for tens of thousands of years at every turn, how boring are you?"

The short-cut head said, rubbing his eyes inadvertently.

"Our current old wizard is more than 2000 years old. It is said that he is more than 1000 years older than the devil. Isn't he still living happily?"

"That can't be compared. For the demons, more than 1000 years old is still young, but for us witches, living one or two thousand years is already at the level of immortality. The appearance and mood are different."

They walked along the stone ladder, put the magic weapon into the corner of the underground darkroom, and then walked back.

"Hey, what do you think..." Short-cut head pondered for a moment, then asked again, "Are the artifacts Patriarch Li told us to carry are genuine or replicas?"

"Why do you think so much? Whether it's true or not, we'll just follow the rules. Maybe there are all replicas here, and the real ones are hidden in another place."

"Too……"

When the two of them walked out of the passage, they happened to bump into Jiang Feng. They saw his downcast, sad face, his usually sunny and handsome face, now pale and gloomy, and the witch robe on his body showed signs of fighting.

"Leader Jiang..."

They greeted Jiang Feng, who just nodded in response, and strode towards the main room on the other side.

"Did their team's exorcism not go well tonight?" Short-cut head speculated in a low voice.

"I don't know, anyway, I feel that the higher ups value him a lot. He is the youngest team leader of our Wu clan, he is actually many years younger than you and me."

"He is under the influence of his grandma..."

The short-cut head said a little sourly.

"...You must never mention his grandma in front of him..."

"Isn't it? Her grandma used to exorcise demons, temper, sacrifice, summon spirits... what can she do? She is proficient in everything, and she is very talented! If it wasn't for that accident..."

In the main room, Jiang Feng put away his staff and took a closer look at the cabinets in the corner, as well as the magical instruments of different shapes. The layout of them formed a small exorcism formation.

Even if some monster sneaked into this cliff cave among their crowd, it would be difficult to escape the strict precautions in this cave.

The door on the right side of the main room is half-closed, and the light inside is dim, accompanied by slight ringing, and flashes of blue light. Someone inside should be refining a new magic weapon, or it is in the debugging stage.

Jiang Feng was watching the scene in the crack of the door, when the door swung open, Patriarch Li walked out from inside, and closed the door leisurely.

For a brief moment, he saw a refining tool like an alchemy furnace inside.

"Patriarch Li, you asked me to come...?"

Jiang Feng seemed calm, but his eyes were dim.

Patriarch Li glanced at him, then put his hands behind his back, walked around with his head down, thoughtfully, then raised his head and said:
"Xiao Jiang, what happened between you and Gan Zhou in the ghost rain space tonight reminded me...you have to speed up your progress."

Jiang Feng nodded silently.

"If you are really embarrassed...I can understand, you can hand over this task to others."

"This task must be done by me."

Jiang Feng's eyes were cold and extremely firm.

Patriarch Li examined him.

"Then if there is a chance, you can hide the truth from the Demon King, directly throw her on the magic weapon to torture her, and explore her energy secrets, will you do that?"

"meeting."

"But you hesitated today."

Patriarch Li's sunken and narrowed eyes were extremely penetrating.

Jiang Feng's face became paler and gloomy.

"...I've already figured it out, so I won't hesitate in the future..."

"Then what if..." Patriarch Li asked him again, with a hint of cunning in his eyes, "The situation is out of control, you have to take the next best thing and kill her?"

Jiang Feng frowned, closed his eyes, and after a fierce inner struggle, gradually, the only starlight in his eyes disappeared, and a dark color appeared.

"If it's necessary...if it really comes to that point...I will kill her..."

When he said this, his nails almost dug into the palm of his hand.

Patriarch Li narrowed his eyes and looked at him carefully.

"I hope you remember... everything you said today..."

Jiang Feng squeezed out a word from his throat with difficulty:

"it is good……"

Immediately, Patriarch Li drew out his staff and waved it at the box on the table. The box opened, and a thumb-sized, cylindrical black bottle flew out of it, falling into Jiang Feng's hand.

The latter looked at the bottle tube, and saw that the body of the tube was covered with golden runes, and a short needle was inserted in the center of the cork at the mouth of the tube. When the neck of the bottle tube was twisted, the short needle was screwed into the tube.

"...This is a tube of divine essence," Patriarch Li said. "As long as a short needle is inserted into the ring finger of her left hand, a trace of her divine essence will be sucked in for us to explore."

He paused, then continued:
"...It was originally for you to try to get close to her, to probe her energy secrets in a more gentle way, and to find out where the demons are weak, but now...our time is too limited."

"...The Demon King will strengthen her strict protection, so you have to think carefully about how to get in touch with her without alarming the Demon King..."

Jiang Feng's clear eyes were as dim as dead gray, he nodded almost indifferently...

A low-pressure night sky with dark clouds.The salty sea breeze set off huge waves, slapping on the dark reef, stirring up snow-white waves layer by layer.

After Jiang Feng left the cliff cave, he wanted to come here to see the sea.He was alone, sitting quietly on the rocks on the shore, letting the sea breeze shuffle the corners of his hair and clothes, and the waves wet his white witch robe.

He felt exhausted physically and mentally. He wanted to see the vast sea and plunge himself into the endless darkness.

He remembered, that afternoon many years ago, he stood at the door of the classroom, looked at her on the desk, buried his head in the pile of books and dozed off, his love letter that he hadn't had time to send out, and would never send out in the future .

"Jiang Feng, something happened at your house..."

"Jiang Feng, don't disappoint your grandma's expectations of you..."

"Jiang Feng, if the demons are not destroyed, there will be no real peace in the world..."

These voices came from different people's mouths and merged into his mind.

That love letter was destined to be impossible to send out...

He also lost that heart long ago.

Just like that little rabbit, they lost it in the end.

They are destined to be opposites!
It's all predestined!
……

So... why is he so sentimental?

Jiang Feng suddenly felt that he was a little ridiculous.

Facing the sea breeze, he laughed at himself fiercely.

Laughing bleakly, laughing strangely.

He tried to pull himself together.

You have to find a way to get in touch with her.

These years, they didn't even have much contact.

How can she be lured out of the demon king's eyeliner in a reasonable and smooth way?
Jiang Feng thought to himself, at this moment, a notification sound came from the phone.

It's so late, who still sent a message...

He took out his phone and swiped open the screen.

"Brother, you've been in Yangcheng for so many days, yet you're so silent, don't you think you're my cousin?"

It turned out to be his message.

This distant cousin who grew up in the same community, who is closer than his own cousin, may be more distant than his distant cousin, but that doesn't matter...

Jiang Feng raised his eyebrows slightly.I have been busy with those complicated things during this period, and I haven't had time to visit this cousin yet. His family moved to Yangcheng the year before last. I don't know how he is doing now.He said some time ago that he was looking for a new job, I wonder if he has found a suitable one now...

Jiang Feng finally replied with some warmth...

(End of this chapter)