Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 15: Dance of the Dead (4)
"I may not necessarily seek revenge from him, but I need him to give me an explanation, an explanation about the truth," Xue Huaiqing said, "More than 30 years ago, my adoptive father's wife and newborn son were killed and killed. Burned to ashes, someone heard a murderer claiming to be 'Xing Wanteng'. I will not convict Xing Wanteng based on other people's narration, so I want to find him and listen to him tell me the truth... What's wrong with you?"

Xue Huaiqing noticed that Xu Fengzhang's face had changed.Before that, even though he was tortured half to death, his expression was always calm and indifferent, but after Xue Huaiqing finished speaking, many complicated expressions suddenly flashed on his face, including surprise, some Pain, more remorse and guilt.

"32 years ago, in September of the 11th year of Shengde. Your adoptive father lived in a small mountain village in Suohe Mountain, right?" he asked in a low voice.

"Are you also one of that group? Were you there that night?" Xue Huaiqing suddenly understood, "Then, is the narrative I heard true?"

Xu Fengzhang remained silent, as if he was trying to recall the situation back then, and finally he let out a sigh of relief: "If you want revenge, you can just find me. Xing Wanteng is my subordinate, and I am the mastermind."

"Then it's yours," Xue Huaiqing unequivocally said, "but Xing Wanteng is the one who did the knife himself, and I also need to find him. More importantly, I need to know the reason why you did it. A group of Jinwu guards, go What is this trying to embarrass an ordinary mother and son in a mountain village?"

"That's why I decided to tell you Xing Wanteng's address and let you find him," Xu Fengzhang leaned softly against the wall, "I don't have the strength to explain so much to you. I'm about to die, if you If we make it in time, maybe he won't die. He lives in Jiuyuan City in Yuezhou..."

"No, it's not that you don't have the energy to speak," Xue Huaiqing said after taking down Xing Wanteng's address, "You just don't want Xing Wanteng to die of torture like you, and you are even more afraid that if he can't stand the torture Tell me the whereabouts of your other companions. So you want me to rescue him from the hands of the officials and give him a good time."

"Smart girl...but I know you will definitely go. By the way, I haven't asked you yet," Xu Fengzhang said, "They have already laid a trap and are waiting to catch you, why did you kill them instead? ? Seeing how young you are, I didn’t expect your attainments to be so profound. Could it be that you are a mystic?”

"No, actually I was hooked, it's just that they have no experience in dealing with people like me, so I counterattacked," Xue Huaiqing replied, "Their trap succeeded and broke my master's neck , but then, my master killed them backhanded, because she was already a dead person, and she was not afraid of being wrung out. Speaking of which, we are not more difficult to deal with than ordinary warriors or mystics, but we are often caught by surprise. It will be overwhelming.”

"Ah, it turns out that you are a corpse dancer," Xu Fengzhang smiled, "Then when you meet Xing Wanteng and listen to him tell the story of the year, you will find that the whole thing is actually It's all blamed on a corpse dancer. This is really a fateful arrangement, interesting, interesting..."

"Corpse Dancer?" Xue Huaiqing was startled.

"You must have heard of his name," Xu Fengzhang said slowly in a weak voice, "His name is Xumizi."

He leaned against the wall, closed his eyes, and slowly stopped moving.

After leaving the Ministry of Punishment, Xue Huaiqing went to the outskirts and ordered the corpse servant to dig a hole in the ground, and then buried her.The broken bones in other parts can be restored with medicine, but the neck bone is too critical and difficult to repair completely, so it is no longer possible for the master's body to follow her without attracting attention like in the past.This corpse servant has essentially been abolished.

It's not a big deal.The fundamental purpose of cultivating corpse servants is to fight, and it is very common to destroy several corpse servants because of a battle, just change one.But at this moment, Xue Huaiqing's mood is a bit complicated. Xu Fengzhang's last words mentioned: "The whole thing is actually to be blamed on a corpse dancer named Xu Mizi." In Xue Huaiqing's ears, it was all too familiar.Not just because Sumiko is the most powerful corpse dancer in the last 100 years, not just because he is a moody, cruel and violent person who has committed many horrific crimes, but also because...

It is also because Master once deeply loved this man.

The name of Xue Huaiqing's master is Jiang Qinyin, the woman who is now buried in this pit without even a tombstone.This woman is a cruel and cruel corpse dancer, but she is not completely heartless. She also had a dream of pursuing true love, but in the end she only got an illusion.It was this Sumeru who brought her harm.

Another significance of Xumizi to Xue Huaiqing is that without Xumizi, she might not have succeeded in worshiping Jiang Qinyin's disciples.After all, this old bastard—in Jiang Qinyin's words—was still a benefactor she should be grateful for.

In Xue Huaiqing's memory, the master almost never smiled—except for the occasional sneer and sneer, but this really didn't match the first impression the master left on her.Many years ago, when she had worked so hard to find Jiang Qinyin's mountain hut, before she had time to knock on the door, she heard a burst of shrill laughter from inside the house.That was Jiang Qinyin's laughter.In fact, Jiang Qinyin has always had a good face, which can be regarded as beautiful, but her laughter is so ugly, every time she hears it, Xue Huaiqing feels chills in her bones.

Hearing the laughter, Xue Huaiqing froze for a moment, even with her superficial knowledge, she could hear that the laughter was full of resentment and sadness, as well as a strong killing intent.Even if she didn't know who the laughter came from, she knew that the person who was laughing could not be offended, and it was best to leave at this time.

So she backed away, hid behind a long grass, and watched the movement in the house from the cracks in the grass.This is a barren mountain, there is no human habitation in the surrounding area for more than ten miles, and the wild grass grows to the height of a person. For the corpse dancer, such a quiet and far away residence is really the best, but Xue Huaiqing is not satisfied How much courage to grope to find here.

After that burst of laughter, there was a brief moment of silence in the cabin.After a while, there were a few sounds that seemed to be the violent collision of some objects in the room, followed by a bang, and the outer wall collapsed.Two black shadows quickly jumped out from the wall.It was a man and a woman. The man was a big bald man with full muscles and looked very strong; the woman was slender and slender.The two of them fought together without saying a word.

Xue Huaiqing was not yet 12 years old at the time, so she didn't have much experience in the market, but her adoptive father Shen Zhuang often told her some stories about fighting in the market from a storyteller.According to the experience extracted from these stories, when two people fight like this, it should be roughly that the man fights fiercely and wins with strength; the woman is light and agile and swims quickly.But after looking at it for a while, Xue Huaiqing was surprised to find that the woman who looked so light on the outside, all her shots were head-to-head. When the man punched, she also punched. He also explained what the sound he heard just now was.

What's even more strange is that, judging by this woman's size, if she fought so many punches with others, her arm might have been broken long ago.But not only was she not injured, she didn't even have the slightest expression of pain on her face. On the contrary, the bald man opposite seemed to be unable to withstand the opponent's attack, and was beaten back step by step.Suddenly, with a click, his right arm was broken by the woman's right arm, and it hung down limply.

Taking advantage of the situation, the woman took a step forward and threw out another punch, hitting the door directly.The bridge of the bald man's nose was smashed to pieces, and his whole face became distorted and weird, but he didn't make a sound, but just stood there silently.The woman on the opposite side also stopped attacking, and the two just stood there silently, as if the previous vicious fight had never happened at all.In fact, ever since they appeared in Xue Huaiqing's sight, there was never any expression on their faces.

(End of this chapter)