Chang'an: Qinglian Sword Song

Chapter 36

It's like waiting for all the actors to be in place for a long time.

The moment Li Boqing sighed softly, there was a sudden roar.

From above the stage, the cracked stage turned over, and the original dilapidated scene disappeared, replaced by meticulously drawn scrolls and outlines like buildings.

And, in the end, countless sidings were joined together under the push of the machine wheel, and it turned out to be a dilapidated house full of cracks.Compared with this gorgeous and luxurious mansion, it exudes a depressingly poor atmosphere.

But on the walls, doors and windows, there are traces of dark red.

It's like blood.

On the broken beams and bricks and tiles, there are still shallow cracks, like the traces made by the dead who woke up from the coffin and scratched with their nails.

Xun Qing screamed out.

What the hell is that!

"Don't be afraid, they can't hurt you." Li Boqing shook his head: "At best, they are just afterimages of the past...Why are you so trembling?"

"Is this how you entertain?"

Li Bai glanced at him coldly: "A good show?"

"No, I just want to let you understand some things." "Some things you don't want to think about after leaving them behind."

Li Boqing was leaning on the puppet in his arms, drunk like mud, his laughter was shrill like a night owl.

"Imagine it, folks, imagine..."

He raised his finger and pointed to his forehead: "Imagine, if you weren't you..."

"Let's imagine!"

His neck convulsed and twitched, like a ghost occupying that body, exhaling a vicious breath, "If you are poor and humble, you only have the status of a so-called nobleman, but you have never been famous... no one thinks highly of you, And no one cares.

You are poor and do nothing, even you know that you are a piece of trash, a product that deserves to rot in the mire! "

When he laughed wildly, the sharp sound hurt Li Bai's eardrums.

The will-o'-the-wisp in the eyes became more and more vigorous, so angry, so ferocious!
"Let's imagine--"

He said, "If only you were me!"

"There is a woman you are not worthy of, who likes you. Even if you are poor, I am willing to spend the rest of my life with you. I regard you as the greatest hero in the world, even if you accomplish nothing."

Li Boqing said, "After a while, you will have a small home where you can shelter from the wind and rain, a small table where you can eat together, and a quilt that has been covered for many years to keep you warm in winter."

"No matter how poor your life is, as long as you are with her, you can enjoy it, and happiness is like a dream!" He said, "You even have a daughter, a little child, holding it in your hand, warm , will look at you with a smile."

The man with disheveled hair got up, even jumped over the puppet protecting him, and walked towards Li Bai step by step, ignoring the sword pointed at him, and moved forward.

Put your hands in your arms.

It was as if, holding an invisible swaddle, she walked up to him and said to him, "You have to hug her."

Facing the clasped hands.

Li Bai froze in place.

But Li Boqing's expression was focused and serious, as if he was holding the treasure of the whole world, and sent her to Li Bai.

I hope Li Bai can be gentle.

He's crazy.

Li Bai didn't want to pay attention, but Li Boqing grabbed his hand forcefully, so hard.Put that invisible swaddle into his arms.

Preciously tell the person in front of you: "Protect her, this is the meaning of your life!"

Then, he took a step back, but his smile became mocking: "But suddenly one day, the sky fell."

"Like, like this..."

Snapped!
His complexion changed suddenly, and he waved his hand suddenly, knocking Li Bai's arm over.The invisible swaddle fell from Li Bai's arms and fell to the ground.

In the silence, there seemed to be a baby crying.

Li Bai's expression changed suddenly, he stepped forward, turned the hilt of his sword, trying to knock the lunatic unconscious.But the puppet's hands firmly resisted his wrist, not allowing him to interrupt Li Boqing's words.

Li Boqing said, "Then, the earth cracked."

Those ghost-like words echoed in their ears, and when they came out, there was a loud bang, and the whole hall shook violently, as if the non-existent story had become a reality.

The stage trembled violently and collapsed, causing the broken house on it to collapse as well.

The outline of the sun, the texture of the moon, the picture scrolls, and countless gorgeous scenery are all deformed with the stage, squeezed out of it, broken, and piled up together.

It was as if the world had been destroyed.

Those piercing voices overlapped and turned into unbearable screams.

Pierce into the bone marrow.

But Li Boqing, laughing hoarsely, stepped onto the collapsed stage, stepped on the debris, and walked towards the collapsed dilapidated house. When he looked back, he showed a crazy smile.

Pointing to the ruins in front of him, tell him the final ending: "The only two people who love you in this world are crushed inside this ruin, crying for help in the dark.

They will call your name over and over again, and in the end, there is no more sound... And the cruelest thing is, from the beginning to the end, there is nothing you can do.

You didn't see it until the ruins were dug up, dead bones embracing each other. "

Li Boqing stretched out his hand, stroked the broken bricks and walls in front of him, and showed it to Li Bai: "Look, this is their grave."

That's it, the end of the story.

Now it all started...

In the dead silence, Li Bai heard a frightened voice behind him.

It was Xun Qing who fell to the ground.

His face was pale.

It was as if he was captured by an invisible nightmare, captured and gradually devoured by the evil spirit wandering in his life.

Li Boqing, on the other hand, laughed.

"Now, I have money."

The crazy man spread his arms, "Power, wealth, wine, food, beauties, everything is at your fingertips. But what does all this mean to me.

I would use all the money in this world to exchange them back, Xun Qing, just like you...you understand what I'm talking about, right? "

Xun Qing froze, unable to make a sound.

But Li Boqing suddenly roared, roaring: "You understand, what have I lost!"

"Big... collapse..."

Xun Qing murmured dully, unbelievable, "You, you are also... a survivor of Anlefang?"

At that moment, amidst Li Boqing's big laugh, Li Bai felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

It was as if lightning flashed across his mind, tearing apart the chaotic thoughts and illuminating all shadows and mysteries.

Brings the final realization.

The smugglers on the Xi car, the mechanism workshop in the Yunjian building, the poisonous flower field, the lackeys and killers of the Qingshan Society, the forged mechanism core, the origin of Wu Yougong, and everything in front of us...

Every pile, behind every piece.

Where all the clues point to.

——Big collapse!

More than ten years ago, the accident that happened in Anlefang cast a shadow over Chang'an, causing 10,000+ people to be displaced and lose everything!

When he suddenly realized this incident, what Li Bai felt was a burst of unspeakable absurdity: Was everything he encountered along the way a coincidence?
Just luck?
Or, have I been like a puppet, dancing in the hands of someone without knowing it?
"It's not just you, Li Boxing."

He asked hoarsely: "Besides you, who else has become Wu Yougong's running dog? Who is Wu Yougong!"

Li Boqing just smiled, looking at him maliciously and mockingly.

"It seems that you have already guessed a little bit, right?" He asked softly, "Why don't you say it, Li Bai? Or, you don't want to believe it at all..."

I don't want to believe how many people can't struggle out of that quagmire of pain.I can't believe how many people are abandoned in that hell full of pain!
In the long, long nightmare, no one can escape.

I can only endure silently until my tears run dry, or I will collapse in the endless torture of the past!
In the dead silence, there were low footsteps.

Accompanied by a hoarse voice.

"As you guessed..."

That old figure slowly walked out from behind the screen, with mottled white hair like gray snow, thin and tall, with vigorous bones towering like a mountain.

That face is so familiar that it makes people forget to breathe.

他 说:

"—Old man, is Wu Yougong."

Lu Daoxuan!
In the darkness, there was a distant echo.

What the wind lamp illuminates are the narrow cracks that seem to be eternal, as well as the seemingly endless falling, and even countless huge machines.

It's like walking straight towards the dark hell after leaving the world.

This is the scenery Yu Hengsi's organists are accustomed to.

This is the world under Chang'an.

Or...the real Chang'an.A place where endless secrets, endless darkness, and even endless wisdom are hidden, the place where all mechanism techniques sprout.

Even if he became a well-known mechanism master in Chang'an City, no matter how many times he came here, Wei Wuya could sincerely feel how insignificant he was compared to the real miracle.

My tiny self trembled inwardly.

He rode on the back of the six-legged mechanism beast, and controlled the mechanism beast to move downward flexibly.

However, instead of following the route that Yu Hengsi had already patrolled and explored countless times, he went to the area where he felt abnormal during the daytime according to the blueprint of the division.

There are six in total, and four have been found to be normal.

Keep getting lost, and keep turning back.Fortunately, relying on the mark, he returned to the correct path by luck.If you get lost in this dark place, you may never return to the ground for the rest of your life...

For hundreds of years, Yu Heng's organists have been exploring continuously.However, they have never been able to fully control the mechanical transmission layer on the outermost layer of Chang'an City.

This city is constantly changing, and even the changes below the ground will be larger and more exaggerated than those above the ground.Every mode operation is tantamount to turning the underground into a chaotic labyrinth again.

In order to find out more mysteries of mechanism art, and at the same time to protect the stability of Chang'an, Yu Hengsi has been paying a huge price in secret.

Everyone has become accustomed to it, and never pays attention to the suspicious eyes of the outside world.

Truth never changes with tongue.

Compared with those colleagues who really sacrificed for the exploration, now Wei Wuya is just conducting a patrol inspection, not even hard work.

He re-checked the air tank on the back of the mechanism beast, and it was already empty.There were two left, but he was turning back when the next one was empty.

The mask covering most of his face is the technology recently developed by Yu Hengsi, which allows people to breathe smoothly even in the deep sea.

People are born with yang energy, and die when they meet yin qi, but in the underground of Chang'an, in some places, the yang energy is thin, and the poisonous yin energy is strong, and people can't breathe, and people will suffocate to death.

Sufficient energy made him calm down a little, but the uneasiness in his heart became more and more obvious.

The fifth place, the core area at the bottom of Fang City, is still normal.

But this is becoming more and more unreasonable.

According to his estimation, among the six places, there should be at least two abnormalities in the agencies, otherwise it would not be able to explain the weak sluggish operation of Chang'an Square City during the day.

Sometimes, the abnormality of the mechanism looks like sand stuck in the gears, but in fact the real reasons are various, often in unexpected places.

Or, there is no abnormality, it is really just my hallucination and paranoia?

Wei Wuya was silent for a moment, patted the mechanism beast on the forehead, and urged the mechanism beast to run to the final location again.But then, the mechanism beast stopped abruptly.

Wei Wuya's movements stagnated, and he lowered his head suddenly, stunned.

In the narrow gap covered with dust, on the ground, there unexpectedly appeared a section... traces of the wheels?

And instead of extending into the distance, it suddenly appeared from one side of the wall, leading to the thick wall on the other side.

Wall penetration?
Or……

Wei Wuya tapped slowly, and heard a hollow echo behind the wall.It was only then that he noticed that there were a large number of cutting and making up marks on the wall that were not careful and could not be detected at all.

For an instant, his hair stood on end.

"There is indeed a problem!"

Wei Wuya took out his pen and ink and wrote a short summary of the abnormal situation he saw. He put it into the belly of a mechanical bird, shook his hand, and the mechanical bird carried the information and flew away along the path he came from.

After doing all this, Wei Wuya activated all the traps he was carrying, got ready, urged the trap beast, and quietly tore apart the compartment in front of him.

What is revealed is the inner layer that has been cut and roughly destroyed beyond recognition.

Just looking at it is already infuriating.

But in the light of the wind lamp, in that narrow void, there are countless shambling figures emerging, in this dark darkness.

They staggered and walked in the huge hollow, were knocked down by things on the ground, and then climbed up as if they could not feel the pain, or simply stepped on the bodies of their companions and crawled upwards.

The inhuman stiffness and broken outline are like living corpses wriggling in hell.

But soon, he discovered that it was not a real living person at all.

It's nothing more than an outline of a mechanism.

They are even scrapped wreckages, random pieces of garbage assembled from body parts, and some don't even have shells, and the internal structure is exposed...

There are also those strange organ cores with empty colors!
Those are all monsters created by the fake mechanism core.

At this moment, one by one, they climbed out of the pile of boxes, climbed the walls, or overlapped each other, just like the mountain of purgatory, tirelessly upward...

Converging on the shattered dome.

When Wei Wuya raised his head and looked into the deepest part of the darkness, his eyes were stung by what he saw.

Involuntarily, trembling.

That is... the organ core of Fangshi.

The magnificent treasure hanging high above the dome like a bright moon is actually covered by countless living corpse puppets at this moment.They densely covered the organ core of Fangshi, like countless bugs.

"What the hell is... what?"

In the silence, no one responded.

Only behind him, a helpless sigh sounded.

When Wei Wuya turned his head back in horror, he saw the figure standing behind him who didn't know when, it was a real person... dressed in red, with disheveled hair and unkempt appearance.

As if he hadn't woken up, he was bleary-eyed.

But at this moment, in Wei Wuya's eyes, he was even more eerie and terrifying than those countless zombie-like mechanism monsters.

"Oh, have you been found?"

The man named Ji Xianke sighed regretfully, "It's a good thing he didn't leave because he was drunk, otherwise, there would be a big mess. I said, why are there birds flying around..."

As he said that, he let go of his hand and threw the chopped mechanism bird on the ground.

"It seems that you still want to report? This is a bit difficult..."

He raised his hand and pressed it on the hilt of the sword at his waist: "If possible, can I ask you to stay here?"

At that moment, on Ji Xianke's face, the smile was silently broken, and the maliciousness was ferocious!
Wei Wuya's eyes widened, and he raised his hand subconsciously:

"—Hum!"

The organ beast opened its mouth without warning, and what it spewed out was fiery thunder!

Facing the No. [-] swordsman in Chang'an, after losing the advantage of distance, he could only take advantage of the moment when the opponent had no time to draw his sword, and completely win with a devastating attack.

At this moment, the wandering lightning spewed out from the magnetic poles in the animal's mouth like an angry dragon, whizzed away, and instantly engulfed Ji Xianke's figure.

But at that moment, Wei Wuya actually saw that Ji Xianke seemed to be crazy, and raised his right hand at the lightning flashing towards his face.

Spread the five fingers, and then, hold them tightly.

boom!
Is that a hallucination or what?

It's hard to imagine that there is such a terrifying speed in this world, that it can crush the fleeting violent lightning in the hand!
"Wow, it's so dangerous."

Ji Xianke raised his head slowly, spread out his five fingers, his glove was already blackened, "Fortunately, he caught it, otherwise it would have been a disaster."

Wei Wuya felt cold all over his body.

Immediately afterwards, the organ beast roared, roaring, and a huge wave of air swept across, forming waves and pushing in all directions, forcing Ji Xianke back.

The heavy armor rolled up and enveloped Wei Wuya's body, and then, with overloaded power, rushed towards the only exit!
Just like that, he passed by Ji Xianke's side.

From the beginning to the end, Ji Xianke never made a move.

The palm covered with leather gloves slightly touched the hilt of the sword at his waist.

As a result, there were endless sounds of collapse and shattering.

Suddenly, two criss-crossing deep sword marks appeared in the devastated hall, and just behind him, the mechanism beast suddenly rolled and shattered into parts all over the ground.

Blood flowed out slowly from it.

No more sound.

Ji Xianke turned and left expressionlessly.

Soon, a stiff puppet came up to clean up the scene, and then erased all traces.

Restore.

Three hours later, the overdue alarm sounded from Yu Hengsi's observation room, and within a quarter of an hour, the emergency rescue team set off.

Four hours later, the rescue team returned.

Got nothing.

The next day, in the afternoon, in the silent hall of Yu Hengsi, the silent old man stepped on the escalator, and hung a new wooden signboard on the wall full of nameplates.

[Mechanism Master Wei Wuya, missing].

A gust of wind blew, and the countless wooden signs on the wall rattled.

Like the silent sighs of departed souls.

(End of this chapter)