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There are signs of rain tonight.
The sky is covered with thick clouds, the evening is foggy, and the cold wind passes by, chilling people.

Under a pale moon, the sparse and slanting shadows swayed endlessly, like ghostly shadows, protruding from each other's bones.

Jiang Baiyan only said one word, and the feeling of oppression was overwhelming.
Ah Li buried her face in Shi Dai's arms and heard her own accelerated heartbeat.

When did Jiang Baiyan come out?Did he hear it speak?
In the fresh aroma of bamboo and wood, Ah Li could smell the faint scent of blood.

Whose blood is it?

Its whole body was as tight as a fully drawn bowstring, and it didn't dare to move until it heard Jiang Baiyan speak.

His tone was very soft, with a hint of a smile: "It turns out that this is the tone when it speaks."

The white fox suddenly froze.
The coldness went from the soles of the feet upwards, through the back and straight into the brain. It had to endure it with all its strength so as not to tremble.

——There was murderous intent in Jiang Baiyan's voice.

This place was deserted, and any slight sound was amplified several times. There was no doubt that he heard the conversation between it and Shi Dai.

Shi Dai didn't expect Jiang Baiyan to be so straightforward, and felt a little embarrassed: "Well... yes."

Since the other party was straight to the point, if she kept it secretive, it would only add to the discord and suspicion.
It's better to admit it honestly and talk things out.

After all, Shi Dai also wanted to know what Jiang Baiyan was doing in the darkroom.

The ink cloud slowly surged in behind the thick fog, covering most of the moonlight.
The light and shadow are floating, and Jiang Baiyan stands alone, letting the night frost stain his clothes.

To be honest, Shi Dai was shocked when she saw him appear unexpectedly.

The night was pitch black, and Jiang Baiyan's thin shirt and face were highlighted with an extreme whiteness. Anyone who caught a glimpse of it would be shocked.
But she only had that moment of shock.

Shi Dai never made any malicious speculations about Jiang Baiyan.

Turning Ah Li's face towards Jiang Baiyan, Shi Dai smiled and said, "It is actually a little demon with enlightened intelligence. It is too shallow to know how to transform. It can speak a few words."

Due to the constraints of heaven, other people cannot know that Ahri is a fragment of heaven.
There are many examples of animals becoming spirits. If you use this reason, it can barely make sense.

Her mind was running very fast and her reaction speed was excellent. After hearing this, Ahri shook her tail and blinked her black eyes.
Then he nodded blankly towards Jiang Baiyan.

The young man's eyes were dark, and he looked at it with a faint smile.
The smile was cold and unkind, like the sharp fangs of a poisonous snake.

Ah Li was stiff all over.

It was hard to explain why it led Shi Dai to this place in the middle of the night.
Jiang Baiyan became suspicious.

"Ari was wandering around at night and found you out alone."
Shi Dai said: "I was a little worried about you and let it follow you all the way. I'm sorry."

She spoke impeccably, and after finishing her words, she couldn't help but wonder, did Ah Li care too much about Jiang Baiyan?
It was almost midnight, and Ah Li not only noticed Jiang Baiyan leaving the mansion, but also carefully followed him all the way.

In the past, it would have fallen asleep long ago.

Jiang Baiyan: "You let it follow me?"

"if not?"
Shi Dai looked directly into his eyes: "In Yuezhou, you went out like this once. I'm not worried."

That time he went to kill someone.

After she finished speaking, Jiang Baiyan lowered his eyes and said nothing, and the surroundings fell silent for a moment.

Ah Li quietly looked at Jiang Baiyan's expression.
His face was bloodless, as white as paper, and his pupils were so dark that it was scary.

He should...accept Shi Dai's words, right?

The mountain breeze blows and the spring trees rustle.
After a moment, Jiang Baiyan chuckled softly: "With its body skills, don't let it follow you in the future."

Suddenly aware of something, Ah Li twitched his tail and raised his head in shock.

Jiang Baiyan's voice was light, but the words he said made its hair stand on end: "When I discovered it, I wanted to kill it with a sword."

Shi Dai: "Did you discover it?"

The answer is self-evident.

Last time in Yuezhou, the reason why she was able to follow Jiang Baiyan all the way was because she used several superimposed talismans to hide her figure and aura.

As for Ahri——

Shi Dai silently glanced at the little fox.
It is called a fragment of heaven, but in fact it has zero aura, almost like a mascot.

There was a ball of white behind him, how could Jiang Baiyan not notice it.

Feeling the fox's trembling, Shi Dai touched its ears lovingly and asked Jiang Baiyan curiously: "Why didn't you do anything?"

Focusing on her right hand touching the white fox, Jiang Baiyan whispered: "I want to see what its purpose is."

On weekdays, he could feel the fox's strong fear of him.
I also know that it secretly peeks at him from time to time, with a bit of scrutiny.

A fox has no aura and cannot achieve anything. If it has evil intentions, there must be someone behind it.

When he realized he was being followed, Jiang Baiyan suppressed the urge to draw his sword.
He wants to fish out another person who has not yet appeared, and the fox is the bait he sprinkles.

Jiang Baiyan thought a lot about the identity of the other party.
The murderer who had a blood feud with the Jiang family, the Zhen'Esi detective who was wary of him, or some other miscellaneous people.

He didn't expect to see Shi Dai.

All the intrigues and intrigues were defeated in one fell swoop and turned into a straightforward "worry".

However, feeling uneasy, Jiang Baiyan still looked at her intently.
The next moment, Shi Dai whispered: "Why are you bleeding?"

Jiang Baiyan stood in the shadow of the door, his body seemed to be soaked in ink, and he couldn't see clearly.
At this moment, a corner of the waning moon was revealed, and through the halo, Shi Dai could clearly see his left hand.

It was clenched into a fist, with clear joints. There were a few drops of blood red in the pale and cold color.
Blood slipped from his fingers and fell to the ground drop by drop.

Shi Dai put Ah Li down, walked quickly to him, and pulled Jiang Baiyan's wrist.

He didn't struggle, his eyelashes trembled.

Jiang Baiyan's whole body was extremely cold. As soon as she came closer, she felt the cold air like winter snow and his breath that was so weak that it was difficult to detect.

The wound was on the forearm. When he opened the cuffs, he saw several shocking knife marks. Blood was pouring out, soaking a large area of ​​his clothes.
Ninety-nine percent of it was done by Jiang Baiyan himself.

Shi Dai raised her eyelids.

Jiang Baiyan: "...Sorry."

"What are you apologizing for?"
Shi Dai took out her handkerchief, gently wiped his blood, and whispered: "Staying with you, my ability to stop bleeding is almost as good as that of the doctor."

There are no more words to accuse or complain about.

Being in the abandoned house of the Jiang family, the reason why Jiang Baiyan cut himself could only be because he remembered the murder case.
If Shi Dai made judgments from a high position, it would definitely make him feel more uncomfortable.

Fortunately, she was careful before going out. Because she was worried about Jiang Baiyan, she took the medicine with her.

Blowing into his arm, Shi Dai asked, "Does it hurt?"

With his fingertips trembling slightly, Jiang Baiyan whispered: "It doesn't hurt."

"so--"
After roughly treating the wound, Shi Dai raised her head and asked, "What happened to the bones in the dark room?"

Since Jiang Baiyan heard the conversation between Ah Li and her, Shi Dai decided to open the skylight and speak out on this matter.

In the dim night, her almond eyes were particularly bright.

Coming out in a hurry, Shi Dai tied up her hair casually with a hair tie, and her black hair gathered into a stream of water, flowing down lightly.
The melon-shaped face without any makeup was shiny and white, except for the dark eyes, which cast a direct gaze that was hard to resist.

After a moment of silence, Jiang Baiyan smiled: "Want to take a look?"

There was no discernible joy or anger in this laughter, which made Ahri on the side tremble.
He really dared to let Shi Dai see it?
Shi Dai nodded, followed closely, and was held by Jiang Baiyan's right hand.His whole body felt cold, touching her wrist bones like ice.
Realizing the difference in body temperature between the two of them, Jiang Baiyan frowned and let go. Before his fingertips could move away, Shi Dai held her palm in reverse.

He smiled quietly and led her into the courtyard.

"This is where I used to live."
The surrounding countryside was quiet, and Jiang Baiyan's voice was gentle and quiet, like the soft sound of falling melting snow in early winter: "On the day of the family murder case, someone set fire to it."

His tone was calm, as if he was talking about a trivial matter that had nothing to do with him.

In the illusion created by the mirror demon, Shi Dai saw Jiang Mansion ten years ago.
There are pavilions, pavilions and pavilions, and deep corridors set among green trees and bamboos, which is quite poetic in the garden.

As of now, it is a gray ruin.
But it looks relatively clean. Looking around, there is very little dust and fallen leaves.

Did someone clean it on purpose?
Walking into the courtyard, Shi Dai shrank in the cold wind and saw Jiang Baiyan stop and put his coat on her body.
There is a little bit of thin heat, with a cold fragrance.

"Thank you."
Shi Dai took a breath, looked at Jiang Baiyan again, and was slightly startled: "Yourself...eh?"

Most of the buildings in the yard were destroyed, and there was a well under the wall.
Jiang Baiyan walked to the well: "It's okay, I'm not afraid of the cold."

He fetched some water with familiar movements, took a handful of it, and held Shi Dai's wrist with his other hand.

She had just applied medicine to heal his wounds, but her hands were inevitably stained with blood, which was sticky.
Jiang Baiyan brushed his fingertips, cleaning her blood bit by bit.

He has been practicing swordplay for many years, and his fingers are thickly calloused. When rubbed like this, they feel a little itchy.

Shi Dai moved her knuckles without suppressing the smile on her lips: "Don't you care about blood stains?"

She was almost used to Jiang Baiyan's body covered in blood.

Jiang Baiyan: "You don't like it."

The shadow of the moon fell like a gauze on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows. The person who looked like a ghost not long ago now revealed a hazy softness, like an ethereal painting.

Shi Dai was very conscientious and quickly kissed the tip of his nose. Yinjiang Baiyan suddenly paused.
His expression was a bit confused, and his eyes were slightly red.

This was the first time he was suddenly attacked like this. He paused for several breaths before picking up another handful of water.

After helping her clean up carefully, Jiang Baiyan washed his palms and led Shi Dai through the corridor to a side courtyard.

Pushing the door open, the creaking sound was like the groans of a dying person.
Shi Dai smelled the strong smell of decay and caught a glimpse of Jiang Baiyan twisting the vase in the corner.

"The order of the mechanisms," he said, "is left, left, left, left."

As soon as he finished speaking, the secret door in the corner opened. Looking inside, it was the secret passage Ah Li had mentioned.

Shi Dai held her breath.

The secret passage was not deep, and there was a lamp like a bean burning. At the entrance, there were two kneeling corpses.

One skeleton had no head, and the head fell a few steps away. The other had a large piece of bone on its chest, as if it had been shattered.
Exploring inside, there are more skeletons with different forms of death.

Some had their necks twisted, some had their arms and legs cut off, and even more, their bones were broken in pieces and scattered all over the ground, with dried blood underneath them.
It seems that the body gradually decomposed here.

Shi Dai glanced at the little white fox following her.
She finally understood why Ahri was so frightened when he woke her up in the middle of the night.

Ah Li looked at her miserably.

hateful.
If it wasn't worried about Shi Dai's safety, it would never have followed.

When he thought that when he was following Jiang Baiyan, his every move was clearly understood by the other party, his scalp went numb.

The entrance to the secret passage gradually closed, cutting off all sounds from the outside world. In the cramped and narrow space, it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

These bones are all in a kneeling position, a posture of atonement.
Who wants to atone for the Jiang family's sins?

Shi Dai unconsciously curled up her knuckles: "These..."
She felt something in her heart and asked tentatively: "Is he the killer in black back then?"

Jiang Baiyan: "Yes."

He only said one word, and his eyes were fixed on Shi Dai's face, without moving away even an inch.

Almost all the killers involved in the family extermination case were slaughtered, and this was a secret that only Jiang Baiyan knew.
He used various methods to take their lives with his own hands.

But not enough.

At that time, Jiang Baiyan had not met Shi Jingcheng and was still in Qingzhou. Calculating his age, he was only 15 years old.
Before the age of 15, he lived in the world as a puppet of an evil cultivator, indulging in endless pain and killing——

Jiang Baiyan's understanding of everything is different from others.

Sinners with blood debts must bring their parents to make amends.
But my parents are in Jiang Mansion, in this dark room that no one knows about.

They never left, they were always there.

Through the dim candlelight, Shi Dai looked towards the end of the dark passage.
It was a small square room with a wooden table placed inside.

Two skeletons were sitting at the table, one was wearing a black brocade robe and the other was lying on the floor in a white skirt. They were a man and a woman.
Looking at the table, there are two porcelain cups for drinking tea and an ancient book neatly arranged.

Even though she was mentally prepared, Shi Dai still heard the intensifying buzzing in her chest: "That's..."

Jiang Baiyan still held her hand.
Step by step, the two of them passed through the kneeling corpses and reached the depths of the secret passage.

His body temperature was unusually cold.

"It's my parents."
Blinking his eyelashes very slowly, Jiang Baiyan looked sideways.

Seeing this situation, what would Shi Dai do?
Fear, shock, confusion, or nausea?
Will she stop liking him because of this?

This is an unspeakable state of mind.
He wanted her to know more about himself and longed for Shi Dai to get closer, but he was also afraid. He even looked at her sideways with hesitation.

fear.
After being immersed in the sea of ​​blood in the corpse mountain for too long, Jiang Baiyan rarely had such emotions. When he thought about it roughly, it was always related to Shi Dai.

Afraid that she would be hurt, worried that she would be rejected, and afraid of her being away from me every time.

He should have drawn his sword and killed the fox the moment he realized it was following it.

The thought of killing was fleeting, and Jiang Baiyan looked directly into Shi Dai's eyes.

"My father died in the war ten years ago."
He spoke softly: "Everyone said that he rebelled against Zhao and turned to Xie Sui. Later, the Jiang Mansion destroyed his family, and some people came to celebrate by setting off firecrackers, saying that he deserved his death."

Shi Dai listened quietly, her palms getting cold.

"Two years ago, I brought him and his mother here, eating and sleeping with them."
Jiang Baiyan smiled: "I killed those people behind you."

I don't know if it was because of the cold night, but his laughter was as cold as ice chips.

Ah Li held her breath and didn't dare to move.
It could feel Jiang Baiyan's murderous intention that he tried his best to suppress.

"Drowning, beheading, disembowelling, breaking bones..."
Jiang Baiyan said: "I have killed many people. I regard killing and torture as a means of entertainment, and watched them die one after another."

Like self-flagellation, he opened up the secrets hidden in his heart.
Bloodthirsty evil thoughts, a miserable life experience, morbid obsessions, and all kinds of unspeakable emotions.
Dirty, filthy, and dripping with blood.

Two years ago, Jiang Baiyan lived in this dark room filled with corpses for several months.

I came here tonight because I wanted to talk to my parents about Shi Dai.

For unknown reasons, the pain spreads out in my heart, like a green vine, quietly sprouting on an early spring night.
The grip on Shi Dai's right hand gradually tightened, as if he didn't want her to escape.

Jiang Baiyan said: "I am not an innocent and good person."
The hand holding hers had been stained with blood countless times and was far from clean.

In the black blood stains everywhere, several skeletons had their eyes wide open, and the whole room looked cold and white.

He lowered his eyes suddenly, covering up all the obscure emotions and fleeting paranoid thoughts.
Jiang Baiyan said hoarsely: "Do you still want me?"

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