Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 17
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An Xingmian waved his fist, and rushed towards the strange feathered guest who suddenly appeared.

Bai Qianyun has seen An Xingmian's kung fu before, and knows that this person is good at using strength to fight, he is very proficient in using various close-up joint techniques, and his mind is particularly flexible.According to his judgment, An Xingmian probably wouldn't lose even if he couldn't win against ordinary opponents.But what happened next made him completely unexpected.

An Xingmian had already rushed in front of the strange guest of the feather clan, and stretched out his right hand, grabbing the vital point of the other's throat, but the feather man remained motionless, not even blinking his eyelids.On the contrary, An Xingmian seemed to have lost all confidence, his fingers were only an inch away from Yuren's throat, but he stopped abruptly.

"I still can't find your flaw...I can't find it at all..." An Xingmian sighed, turned around and retreated, leaving the vitals of his back to the other party without any precautions, while Yu People have no intention of attacking at all.

"Let me introduce you," An Xingmian said to Bai Qianyun with a wry smile, "this man's name is Feng Qiuke, he can be regarded as my teacher in martial arts, and he can also be regarded as my fate. You said, when I joined Nagato, I actually hoped to get rid of this guy."

"What happened to him? You owe him money?" Bai Qianyun was puzzled.

"On the contrary, it's not that I owe him money, but that he owes my life." An Xingmian now has a really sad expression on his face, and his previous ease and ease have disappeared. "Many years ago, my father I did him a favor in an accident. Although both of them were never willing to tell me, it was obviously a kindness like saving the lives of his family. Since then, he has made an oath to protect our family for life. Now I Both of his parents died, so the only object of his protection is me..."

Bai Qianyun thought for a long time, finally understood, and couldn't help laughing.After laughing, he said to Feng Qiuke, "Please sit down and have a few drinks together."

Now there were three people sitting at the table, and the waiter was at the door as usual.This poor unlucky guy was first knocked unconscious by An Xingmian, then knocked unconscious by Feng Qiuke, and now his head is still groggy.However, such situations seemed to be commonplace for him, so he still waited there with his face unchanged, bringing in wine and food from time to time, one can imagine what kind of people his master Bai Qianyun usually made friends with.

Because of the arrival of Feng Qiuke, a feather man, Bai Qianyun asked his subordinates to bring some fresh fruits, but Feng Qiuke just sat on the side in silence, neither taking a sip of wine nor touching the fresh fruits.

"He never drinks alcohol, and he never eats food from strangers," An Xingmian explained to Bai Qianyun with a half-smile, "Among all the people I know, the second most boring is probably my Nagato teacher Zhang Hao. song, the most boring one is this one. Interestingly, both of them are my teachers."

"I'm not your teacher," Feng Qiuke said flatly, "I teach you martial arts, just to repay your father's kindness a little bit, you can think of it as paying for your meal."

"But I think you have already paid enough for your meal, and even paid more," An Xingmian continued with a wry smile, "My father has already gone, and now I am the master, you should pay off all your debts, okay? Otherwise, tell me the truth, what kindness does my father have for you?"

"Not enough. No." Feng Qiuke said six words briefly, then shut his mouth tightly and said no more.Bai Qianyun looked at An Xingmian, who had always been relaxed and indifferent, with a depressed face, and finally couldn't help asking: "Isn't this good? The world is dangerous now, and someone is willing to protect you. Isn't it saving you?" A lot of trouble?"

An Xingmian exhaled to the sky: "Save a lot of trouble? I'm afraid it will bring a lot of trouble. Just imagine that a long-door monk is teaching the common people knowledge, and a feathered man is sitting on the top of a distant mountain watching coldly. Looking at you, what is that like? Think again, you are meditating in a hut and need to concentrate, but there is a feathered man sitting on your roof at any time, like a totem sculpture on the eaves, can you still meditate ?”

He casually poured another glass of wine and held the glass in his hand: "Some time ago, I went to Qingshi City with my teacher, on the one hand, to help quell the cholera there, and on the other hand, I was really pestered by this old man." He is like a ghost, a shadow, almost everywhere. I managed to get rid of him for two or three months, and now I am caught by him again."

Bai Qianyun laughed loudly: "Speaking of it this way, it is indeed more of a headache than being in debt. But according to what you said, he usually just follows you from afar. Why did he come to drink with you in person today?"

An Xingmian was stunned: "It's because you reacted quickly. I was dizzy when I saw him, and I didn't even think about it. Mr. Feng, what happened when you came to me this time?"

"I'm here to stop you." Feng Qiuke replied briefly.

"Stop me?" An Xingmian was puzzled, "Stop me for what?"

"I heard the conversation between you and the long-door monk in Nanhuai City, and I know what you are going to do," Feng Qiuke said, "This is a road of no return, against the Emperor Donglu. You can't win. With you and a group of pedantic and dull monks, you will only be chewed to the bone."

"When it comes to pedantry and dullness, is there anyone who can beat you?" An Xingmian chuckled, "Besides, I don't necessarily have to fight against the emperor head-on, but I just want to find out that he wanted to hunt down the long monks." It’s just the real reason. If you find the reason, maybe you can use a softer way to resolve it, and it won’t be as unresolved as the Human Feather War.”

"Once the matter starts, it is out of your control. If you are chased and killed by dozens or hundreds of Jinwu guards, even I can only watch you being chopped into meat." Feng Qiuke said, "So I have to stop you in advance, even if it will make you very uncomfortable."

Bai Qianyun heard his subtext, and was a little annoyed: "Mr. Feng, this is my territory after all, and you don't give me face like this. Are you going to take someone here?"

"No, he won't." An Xingmian's expression became more and more relaxed, "He doesn't like any unnecessary conflicts and disputes. With you here today, he will definitely let me go, but as long as any day in the future, any Right when, any moment he gets the chance, he'll find a way to subdue me, catch me, and lock me up, like you locked up those long monks, until the whole thing fades away—that is, Until Nagato disappears from the Emperor's domain. That's the true definition of haunting."

"That's really annoying," Bai Qianyun scratched his scalp, "and what's even more annoying is that this Mr. Feng is an extremely alert person. After entering this room, he refused any food or drink, and seemed to be I chose the place to sit down randomly but carefully, just avoiding the traps I set up for self-protection. I originally wanted to arrest him and lock him up with the long door monks until you solve this problem It doesn't look like it's going to work."

"He is a great expert at setting traps and arresting people. He must have seen through your mechanism at a glance." An Xingmian drank the wine in his hand, "Actually, I have seen it too, but I believe you will not." Use those organs to deal with me, so just sit around."

"You really trust me enough that you don't worry that I'm actually a big villain?" Bai Qianyun sighed, and suddenly stretched out his palm and patted the corner of the table.Following this beat, the chair An Xingmian was sitting on suddenly flipped over, and several long steel clamps quickly stretched out from the ground, clamping him inside, unable to move at all.

Feng Qiuke stood up abruptly, but An Xingmian was restrained suddenly, and he did not dare to act rashly.After being stunned for a moment, An Xingmian quickly regained her composure, as if she understood what this newly reckless friend wanted to do.

"I'll give you two options. First, make an oath that you won't hinder Brother An from investigating the matter of the head monk." Bai Qianyun raised his right index finger.

"What about the second one?" Feng Qiuke asked.

"Second, I'll kill him right now," Bai Qianyun said viciously, "The bite force of this mechanism is stronger than you imagined, it can easily crush all the bones in his body, no matter how fast you move , can’t keep up with the speed I press the spring. If he dies, your oath to protect An’s family will be defeated, and all this is caused by you, are you willing to bear such a price?”

Feng Qiuke stood where he was, with an uncertain face.Apparently he hadn't experienced such near-rogue threats in the past.Indeed, An Xingmian and Bai Qianyun are friends, and the possibility of Bai Qianyun actually pressing the spring is not more than one in ten thousand... But the fear is just in case.What's more, these were two lunatics who were already half drunk, and the expression on An Xingmian's face was rather death-rather than surrender.He hesitated.

Bai Qianyun saw the other party's hesitation, sneered, put a little more force on his hands, the iron tongs creaked twice, and An Xingmian showed a painful look on his face.Feng Qiuke's complexion changed drastically, and he snorted angrily: "Okay, I agree with what you said. You don't need to swear when you say a gentleman. But I will still protect him, and this cannot be changed."

After speaking, he turned around and walked out the door quickly.Bai Qianyun smiled, and let go of the iron tongs: "You are really smart, obviously I have relaxed the iron claws a little, but you still know how to act with me."

An Xingmian stood up and stretched her muscles and bones: "Actually, it doesn't matter if you tighten up a little bit. I have learned a little bone shrinkage from Mr. Feng."

The two got drunk, An Xingmian was helped to the guest room to rest, and slept through the night.The next morning, Bai Qianyun led him back into the tunnel, and asked the head monk named Han Xinzhi about the situation related to the Yunzhong Monastery.

At this time, the Changmen monks already knew An Xingmian's identity, and they were undoubtedly dissatisfied with him for not persuading Bai Qianyun to release him.But the Changmen monk is the Changmen monk, and they probably quickly counted this as a hurdle in their cultivation process. They still respected An Xingmian as usual, without any blame or resentment.After learning that An Xingmian wanted to ask Han Xinzhi something, the other long-door monks stepped aside consciously, leaving the two of them to talk privately.

"This colleague, what question do you want to ask me?" Han Xinzhi asked.This man is said to be six or seven years younger than his boat owner's brother-in-law, but he looks older than the boat owner. It can be seen that the life of a long monk is hard, even worse than that of a boatman who comes and goes in the wind and rain.

"I'm actually here to return something." An Xingmian said as she took out the wooden plaque left by the old homeless Li Han from her bosom, and observed Han Xinzhi's expression carefully.He didn't expect that Han Xinzhi's reaction was more intense than he imagined.

"Li Han! Where is he? Have you seen him? Where is he?" Han Xinzhi jumped up, speaking incoherently, and twisted An Xingmian's lapel with both hands.Under normal circumstances, the long-door monks are gentle and polite, and are very good at controlling their emotions, but now Han Xinzhi doesn't have the slightest demeanor of the long-door monks, he looks like a madman.

"Tell me, where is Li Han? Tell me quickly! Tell me quickly!" Han Xinzhi's eyes seemed to turn blood red, and his whole body was shaking violently.The other long-door monks were startled, but none of them were from the Yunzhong Monastery. Even the monk who had been with Han Xinzhi to help the people didn't know the past of the Yunzhong Monastery. Looking at Han Xinzhi at this time, he seemed to be lost With a rational appearance, everyone wondered in their hearts.

"Calm down first." An Xingmian put his hand on Han Xinzhi's shoulder, "I will tell you everything I know, but you must calm down first. In your situation, I'm afraid you haven't found out where Li Han is. Where, I am anxious to death first."

There was a jug of wine on the table, but the monks did not drink, so they did not move.An Xingmian took the jug, poured a glass of wine, and handed it to Han Xinzhi.Han Xinzhi did not refuse, and drank it all in one gulp. An Xingmian poured him three more glasses of wine. After drinking, his hands finally stopped shaking, and his breathing gradually calmed down.

"I'm sorry, I lost my composure," he said hoarsely. "In fact, we have spent 23 years looking for Li Han and the 23 fellow disciples who disappeared with Li Han. It has been [-] years and they have never been seen. The news, and our Yunzhong Monastery has already disappeared because of that incident. The number of people in the Tianzang Sect is not many, alas..."

"Can you tell me about this matter in detail?" An Xingmian said, "This matter is very important, and it may be related to Nagato's life or death. Now we must try our best to guess what is going on in the emperor's mind , and how to deal with it. If no solution can be found, who in the world can compete with the emperor?"

Han Xinzhi was speechless for a long time, and it took a while before he opened his mouth: "Can you tell me first, how did you get Li Han's badge? Is he alive or dead now, where is he?"

"Sorry, he's already dead." An Xingmian told Han Xinzhi how she met Li Han.After hearing this, Han Xinzhi slowly had tears in his eyes.

"He still failed to come back alive to tell us what happened. It seems that this mystery will never be solved after all." He looked very depressed.

"No, the clues didn't disappear completely. Before he died, he said something," An Xingmian said, "What he said was: 'Don't blame me, Su Mizi is so powerful, I can't save them even if I take a shot!'"

When Han Xinzhi heard the word "Xumizi", he was suddenly a little excited, but he suppressed it forcibly, and in the end he just let out a big breath.An Xingmian hurriedly asked: "Who is this Sumeru? Neither my teacher nor I have heard of his name."

"Xu Mizi is the scariest corpse dancer of this era." Han Xinzhi tried to regain his composure, but it was still difficult to suppress the trembling in his words.

"Corpse Dancer?" An Xingmian frowned unknowingly, "Those monsters that can manipulate corpses, and even fight with corpses?"

"The word monster is inappropriate, and it's just a way of survival," Han Xinzhi said, "But they do behave strangely, they almost never interact with outsiders, and no one understands how they live except themselves. It was just a coincidence that I met a well-informed mystic, and I heard the name of Sumeru. He told me that people would rather meet Tianluo and Chenyue than meet Sumeru, because At least Tianluo and Chenyue won't kill you just because they saw your corpse."

"Looking at your corpse...that sentence is really strange." An Xingmian smiled.

Han Xinzhi didn't smile at all: "Don't laugh, that's what people fear about Sumeru. The corpses used by corpse dancers are all strictly screened and have their own set of unique standards. It's not about body. Strong and strong people must be suitable for use, and it is not necessarily useless for thin and weak people. Sumeru's vision is more vicious than others. He can judge whether he is suitable to be a walking corpse from the appearance of a living person at a glance, and as long as he is fancy Almost without exception, he killed and looted the corpses of those who died."

"It seems that this is a very powerful character," An Xingmian pondered, "According to this, according to Li Han's words, probably those of your fellow disciples were all taken by Xu Mizi, and you want to use them to act. corpse?"

"This possibility is very high," Han Xinzhi said in a sad and angry voice, "My friend who is a mystic told me that once, the head of a young bodyguard in a bodyguard agency in Lanzhou was spotted by Xu Mizi. Xu Mizi was so arrogant that he even He sent a letter to the Escort in advance, announcing that he would take away the young escort. The young escort's father, the chief escort of the Escort, was very annoyed and invited a large number of friends to help him, intending to kill him. Dead Sumeru, but I didn't expect..."

"In the end, everyone was killed by Xu Mizi, and the body of the young escort was also taken away?" An Xingmian asked.

(End of this chapter)