Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 119 I Woke Up from the Dream (5)
"I suddenly realized that this quicksand might be a way for the wanted criminals in the tribe to escape their pursuers. And if I accept this kind of favor, I'm afraid I can only be with those vicious criminals in the future. I have been a herdsman in the desert all my life. Although I am not a pampered waste aristocrat, but after all, I have lived in a very affluent environment since I was a child. Thinking that I will have to struggle in the vast desert for the rest of my life, it is absolutely a lie to say that I don’t hesitate. But Thinking about it carefully, people in the entire city-state regard me as an enemy. It is not easy to survive, and more importantly, the pain Qinger brought me is difficult to eliminate for a while, maybe I really need to hide This kind of place away from the world can slightly restrain the depression in my heart."

"So you accepted his proposal and took that medicine?" Xue Huaiqing's voice trembled slightly, "But I don't understand, why did your face become like this?"

"Actually, at the beginning, everything went smoothly," Xue Ji stroked the scar on his face subconsciously, "I took the medicine, fell into the quicksand according to the direction that person pointed out, and successfully deceived the pursuers. It's just that No one thought that on that day, there happened to be a nest of poisonous scorpions on that sand mountain..."

Xue Huaiqing shivered, and An Xingmian also felt very uncomfortable, as if a scorpion had crawled through his heart.An outstanding person like Xue Ji, after going through all kinds of hardships, was not hurt by his wife who betrayed him, nor was he hurt by the pursuers in Ningnan City, but was accidentally broken by the poisonous scorpion, which ruined his appearance, Also crippled a leg.Fate is so unfair that it seems superfluous to say anything other than making people sigh.Suddenly, he felt that he had a little more understanding of the spiritual liberation that Nagato was pursuing.

"After that, you stayed in the tribe all the time?" Xue Huaiqing asked, "Then how did the Cangyin Moon get into your hands? Wasn't it taken away by my mother? I heard a report from an accidental bystander that she once used the Cangyin Moon to kill a group of Yu Clan pursuers, and the time was that winter, which should have happened not long after you broke up."

A perplexed expression appeared on Xue Ji's face: "This is a mystery that I have never been able to solve in my life. Yes, Cangyin Zhiyue was indeed taken away by your mother at that time. I saw her take it away with my own eyes. , and as you said, she used it afterwards. But for some reason, it appeared beside me strangely..."

Thanks to the poisonous scorpion, when Xue Ji was pulled out of the quicksand, he almost died.Fortunately, under the influence of the rotting heart grass, his blood flow was extremely slow at that time, and the poison had not yet entered the heart, so he was rescued in the end, but his face became bumpy from then on, and he was no longer as handsome as before. Also left with a permanent disability.

Instead, his state of mind calmed down.For him, after losing the love of his life, what his face and body became didn't seem to matter much.So he accepted everything calmly, and began to live in the desert with a cane.Although he has a disabled leg, he is still good at kung fu, coupled with his extraordinary mind and insight, he is very respected in the tribe, although his life experience is fabricated.He gradually felt that maybe the rest of his life would go on like this without any ripples.

One day a few months later, he was arranged to go to the town with a few companions to buy necessary medicines, but before he could go back, a new sandstorm came. Seeing that it was getting late, they could only stay in the Stay in the town and prepare to go back when the sandstorm subsides the next day.

This is the first time in several months that Xue Ji has returned to the "normal" world. Although this is just a small frontier town, it is full of greasy but not delicate food, all kinds of rough and cheap daily necessities, full of Looking at the vulgar fans who came here to seek business, he still felt a trace of nostalgia that could not be erased.He was sitting on the second floor of a restaurant, looking at the bright lights outside the window in a daze, but his eyes didn't focus on any point, as if just the hazy and scattered lights were enough to make people intoxicated.After a long time, he suddenly realized that someone seemed to be watching him.

But when he turned his head, the uncomfortable feeling of being spied on just now had disappeared, and there were no suspicious people around, only some drinkers who lowered their heads and drank or toasted loudly.He thought it was an illusion and didn't pay much attention to it.

This night he slept on a soft bed in the inn, and soon fell asleep, but this sleep was very deep, which seemed a little unusual. When he woke up, he was surprised that the sun was high and his companions had packed up and waited for him. .He hurriedly got up to wash up, but at this moment, he found something extra on the bedside.

It was a long wooden box.

Xue Ji thought about it for a while, and somewhat understood why he fell asleep so fast. Someone must have secretly drugged him, and then sneaked into his room at night, leaving behind this thing.He checked carefully and found that nothing was missing, and his whole body was normal. That is to say, the intruder neither hurt him nor stole it. It seemed that the only purpose was to leave the wooden box behind.

He picked up the wooden box carefully, and suddenly smelled a faint residual fragrance, which was like a lightning bolt, making him almost unable to move for a moment.He opened the wooden box almost recklessly, and Cangyin Zhiyue was lying quietly in the wooden box, and the special material hardly reflected light in the sun.

Xue Ji threw this priceless silver moon on the ground, opened the window and looked out, only the bright sun was shining outside the door, but the familiar figure he was looking for was not in the bustling crowd.After a while, he regained his composure a little, realizing that the person who left behind the Candle Silver Moon must have disappeared long ago, so how could he see it when he opened the window?
He took a deep breath, picked up Cangyinzhiyue again, and examined it carefully.That's right, this is not a fake, but the genuine Cangyin Moon, a terrifying magic weapon that has killed countless souls.How many people couldn't help trembling when they mentioned it, and how many people dreamed of getting it, but now, it unexpectedly appeared on their bedside so easily and was held in their hands.

"Did you leave it to me?" Xue Ji murmured, "Why did you do this? Why?"

"It must have been left to you by my mother," Xue Huaiqing said, "No one can take the Cangyin Moon from her hand."

"That's for sure," Xue Ji said, "I will never forget the aura on her body. However, she obviously planned to use me to snatch the magic weapon, but why did she give the Cangyin Moon to me instead?" What? I can't figure it out at all."

"I can't figure it out either." Xue Huaiqing frowned, "Even if she let you go, she wouldn't give up Cangyin Zhiyue."

Xue Ji waved his hand: "I've been thinking about it for 20 years and I haven't figured it out. How can you solve it for a while? Let's not talk about it. My story is almost done. Let me tell you about you. Although I I also investigated some of your situation, but it is only a rough outline after all. I really want to know everything about you over the years, everything."

"Talk slowly, I'll go down for a walk." An Xingmian said with interest, and jumped from the open skylight.He thought that it would be better for the father and daughter to be alone at this time, although he could not be considered an "outsider" to some extent.

An Xingmian left the inn and came to the street, thinking about Nie Qing's unreasonable behavior all the time.Why did she leave Cangyin Zhiyue to Xueji?If she was moved by Xue Ji and repented, then the two could meet openly, why didn't she leave a word to explain after doing this?Although Xue Ji said that he hadn't figured it out after 20 years of thinking, but An Xingmian still couldn't help guessing the reason.

He walked casually, and unknowingly came to the coffin shop where he and Xue Huaiqing once hid together, remembering that he had played tricks on the shop owner and clerk in the shop before, and even broke several of their coffins, he felt a little guilty.Although our Mr. An is a long-door monk, he is probably the richest long-door monk of all time. He touched the bank note in his bosom, intending to slip one into the crack of the door quietly as compensation.

He took out a silver note with a face value of one hundred gold baht, came to the door of the coffin shop, bent down and was about to insert the silver note through the crack of the door, but suddenly heard a few conversations from inside.As soon as the voice of this conversation came to his ears, he froze, quickly took back the bank notes, and tiptoed to the side, suddenly cold sweat broke out on his back.

He heard the voice of Mr. Yuwen and Mr. Xu Mizi talking!
"If you must do this, then I can only obey. Who told me that my skills are inferior to others?" This is Mr. Yuwen speaking, "I also know that you are a proud person. I don't need to say anything unnecessary, but are you sure? Can you take those two with you?"

"It's not up to them whether to go or not," said Xu Mizi's usual arrogant voice, "They must go."

Before that, Xu Mizi had helped An Xingmian several times, but the temperament of this old monster was really unpredictable, so he was still very cautious and did not regard Xu Mizi as his own in his heart.But now it seems that such caution is definitely not unreasonable, because Xu Mizi actually stayed with Mr. Yuwen, and from the content of the conversation, the two formed some kind of alliance.As for why they were in the coffin shop, it was probably the same as what An Xue and the others had thought before: coffins are the most convenient place to hide people, whether they are living or dead.

"Take those two together," An Xingmian thought about this sentence.The so-called "those two people" probably refer to him and Xue Huaiqing, but where are they going?In any case, judging from Xu Mizi's tone, he and Xue Huaiqing will definitely be forced to obey, so the place to go to is probably not a good place.

He quietly retreated a few steps back, intending to go back to find Xue Ji and Xue Huaiqing, and leave here before making any plans, even if it is a nomadic tribe in the desert for a while.No matter how powerful Sumeru is, it may not be easy for him to show his power in the vast sea of ​​sand.But just two steps back, he felt something approaching behind him, and when he turned around, he saw a pale face and a pair of dull eyes—this was Xumizi's corpse servant.

"How good are your ears?" An Xingmian sighed helplessly, "I should have thought that in such a lively drama, the real ruthless character would always appear last."

"You are really getting smarter and smarter. I am so smart that I am reluctant to kill you." Xu Mizi's cold voice came from the crack in the door of the coffin shop.

A while later, An Xingmian brought Xumizi to the downstairs of the Yangliu Inn. Apart from Xumizi's corpse servant, he was accompanied by Mr. Yuwen and his two attendants.The female scout looked up at the top of the inn, a little worried: "You won't play tricks, will you?"

Before An Xingmian could answer, Xumizi had already said, "He doesn't have the guts. He knows very well that in such a small town, no matter where anyone hides, he will be caught by me, so why not Be honest and hand it over to someone to avoid unnecessary harm."

"Sometimes I really hate your arrogant self-confidence," An Xingmian said helplessly, "but I have to admit that you are telling the truth."

Xu Mizi snorted, and suddenly his figure flashed, and he had already left the position he was standing before. With a sound of "嗖", a long arrow flew across the air, and it was nailed to the place where Xu Mizi had just stood, and the arrow penetrated deeply into the ground.

"It seems that you are sensible, but some other people are not so sensible," Xu Mizi's words were filled with murderous intent, "then you can't blame me."

An Xingmian raised her head and looked at the night sky, where a white spot of light was circling high in the sky.That was Xue Ji holding a bow and arrow.

(End of this chapter)