Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 78 Everyone in Kyushu is looking for you (2)
An Xingmian grabbed the woman's arm without exerting any strength, and asked coldly, "Why didn't you avoid it?"

"It's useless to dodge," the woman shook her head, "I can't beat you, so I can only use a sneak attack, but I didn't expect that a shot that was originally calculated to be impeccable still couldn't kill you, it would be better to be killed by you." Just kill it."

"I haven't planned to kill you yet." An Xingmian said, and let go of her hand.He knew that the woman had realized that it was useless to attack him, so she turned around generously, pulled up the chair and sat down again, but the woman did not attack again.

This is really an interesting woman, An Xingmian thought, and asked, "Who the hell are you?"

"I have heard that Changmen monk is very knowledgeable. Mr. An is especially knowledgeable. Can't you guess my identity from this ring?" It never existed.

An Xingmian sighed, and threw the ring back to the other party: "If I'm not wrong, it should be a ring of celestial drive. You are a celestial drive, right?"

Tianqi, Chenyue, and Nagato, these are the three organizations with the longest history in Kyushu.However, Tianqi and Chenyue fought against each other in different periods and fought endlessly, even to the point of life and death, but Nagato never participated in it.It is indeed a bit strange that a celestial exorcist samurai came to look for the bad luck of the monk.

What exactly happened here?An Xingmian was secretly surprised that the past two years were simply years of Nagato's subversion.As a sect that does not compete with the world and is dedicated to pure cultivation, Nagato was first tossed by the emperor as a deadly enemy, and now he was assassinated by Tianqi as a monk of Nagato, it was a complete mess.

"Don't get me wrong, I came to you and it has nothing to do with Nagato." The woman seemed to be able to read An Xingmian's mind, "It's just for you."

"For me?" An Xingmian was even more surprised, "You...are you from Ningnan City?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he immediately denied his own idea.If it was true that the feathermen from Ningnan City discovered his whereabouts, they would definitely try their best to surround the courtyard so that he would die without a place to bury him, and they would never just send a woman to sneak attack like this.

Sure enough, the woman shook her head.An Xingmian frowned: "I don't seem to have any enemies, not to mention that you are a heavenly exorcist, not a skylord who collects money to kill... Ah, I see!"

When the word "money" was mentioned, his heart suddenly moved, and he thought of valuable things, and finally guessed the purpose of the other party's visit.He looked at the cunning face of this female celestial being, and sighed: "You are for the magic weapon called Saxigaro, which is the 'gate to hell', right?"

"Mr. An is really smart, he guessed it so quickly," the woman smiled slightly, "So please hand Saxigaro to me, otherwise, I will haunt you from now on."

She thought for a while and added, "Maybe it's not just me. If you're unlucky, maybe people from all over Kyushu will come to you."

two

As the days passed, Xue Huaiqing gradually got used to the life of house arrest in Ningnan City.In any case, the feathermen didn't inflict any torture on her, they just tried to get out the memory in her mind every now and then. For her, it could be regarded as a kind of willpower exercise instead.Moreover, this kind of mind-reading technique brought an unexpected effect, that is, the constant intrusion of other people's mental power stimulated the rapid recovery of her own mental power. Although her body was still very weak and her movement was inconvenient, her mental power had slowly recovered. Quite a few, it has even reached the point where the corpse can barely be driven.But she kept her face on the surface and didn't show it. I hope this unexpected little achievement can catch the feather people by surprise at the critical moment.

For this reason, she is also secretly paying attention to the relationship between the Yu people, trying to figure out their identities and weaknesses.The person in charge of her interrogation, the Yuren who always attends every interrogation and likes to wear white clothes, is named Feng Yufan. He is only 32 years old, but he is already the deputy commander of the Huyi Division of the city-state.And his father was the former city guard of Ningnan City, Feng Qingzhuo, and he was a cousin of the dismembered lord Feng Baimu.

Every time Feng Yufan comes, he brings some different mystics with him, but one of them is always there, that is Yu Sheng, the most famous occultist in the city-state.This is an elderly man who looks sick on the surface, but he has profound skills in secret arts, but he is not to be underestimated, and he is quite ambitious.During Feng Baimu's reign, he had always served as a national teacher with a high position and authority. After the unfortunate lord was killed and dismembered, the new lord who succeeded him, Feng Ji, abandoned him. What a hate.He was indeed the one with the roughest attitude in every interrogation, always giving people the illusion that he might eat Xue Huaiqing in one bite.

Yu Sheng is now blind in both eyes, and his health is not very good. He always exudes an unpleasant smell of medicine. When he travels, there is always a disciple accompanying him. Xue Huaiqing noticed that the disciples who follow him are always changing. , she guessed that maybe this person was too picky, so he kept changing his followers.

In addition, another person worth mentioning is Ye Xun who has been in charge of serving Xuehuaiqing with tea and water.This man is a low-level handyman in the palace, taciturn and indifferent. The reason why he was chosen to serve Xue Huaiqing is very simple: his brain was severely injured when he was young, and his mental power is far different from ordinary people. Mystic technique, but it will not be bewitched by mystic techniques such as mind reading, and it will be difficult to be manipulated by corpse dance if it dies.Xue Huaiqing is an extremely important prisoner, Feng Yufan doesn't want any accidents.

And she also took every possible opportunity to observe the place where she was under house arrest.Through eavesdropping on other people's conversations and her own deduction, she judged that she was locked in a palace specially built for a certain human concubine in history, using an Eastern-style courtyard building.Such courtyards are all one-story houses, and the guard posts around them can monitor everything in the courtyard clearly. Just send out a signal, and the feather elites in the palace can fly here within a minute.It seemed that his hope of escaping was extremely slim. To be precise, no matter who was imprisoned here, the hope of escaping was not great.

But she was inexplicably full of confidence in An Xingmian.She believed that this man would be able to use his clever mind to find a way to save herself.In the past year, even in the face of the heavy pressure of the Donglu Dynasty, this Nagato monk, who seemed to have no firm beliefs and loved to sleep, still saved Nagato through his perseverance.Now this kind of heavy pressure is just replaced by the city-state of the Yu Clan. In Xue Huaiqing's heart, there is not much difference.

It's just that she can't help but think about where An Xingmian is now, what she is doing and what she is thinking.Is he still planning hard, or has he ventured into Ningnan City?He should be a cautious person, he would never break into the palace recklessly, right?That would be bad...

Xue Huaiqing was thinking, the door was opened, and Feng Yufan walked in, but this time she was alone, without Yu Sheng or other mystics.This is a bit unusual, Xue Huaiqing secretly became vigilant.

"I really want to say something that is condescending, but after thinking about it, you won't believe it when I say it." Feng Yufan sat down on the chair with a relaxed expression on his face, "These days, every time I come to see you You are bringing mystics to torture you, it is too late to pretend to be a good person now."

"It's really too late, but at least I'm sure of one thing," Xue Huaiqing said, "You are not as upright as you seem on the surface, and you are dedicated to serving the city-state. You can say this opening sentence, which means that you came to find I have another purpose."

"How should I say it?" Feng Yufan did not deny, "I have known for a long time that those mystics cannot pry something out of the brain of a well-trained corpse dancer, but I still keep on Trying in vain, in fact, is nothing more than going through the motions, so as to deal with the superiors."

"You are really straightforward." Xue Huaiqing shrugged.

"But that doesn't mean I don't have other personal ideas," Feng Yufan said, "Maybe we can make a deal. As far as my personal temperament is concerned, I don't like forcing others, and the favorite is reciprocity A fair deal for mutual benefit.”

"It's really touching to hear this. What kind of benefits are you going to give me?" Xue Huaiqing said.She was originally not very talkative, but after staying with An Xingmian for a long time, she gradually became able to tell some jokes and ironic sentences.

"Your lover, the long-door monk named An Xingmian, has come to Ningnan," Feng Yufan said deliberately slowly, "I know you don't care much about your own life and death, you corpse dancers probably That's all true, but don't you care about his life or death?"

Xue Huaiqing's heart seemed to be hit hard with a hammer, but at the same time another kind of warm feeling quietly emerged.He's here, he's finally here, at least I didn't trust him in vain, Xue Huaiqing thought, but now I would rather he hadn't come, because neither he nor I thought that the danger was so imminent.

"Your news is really enlightening." She had countless words to say, but the last thing she said was just this faint sentence.The practice of corpse dance is not for nothing, she has already learned to hide her feelings, even in the face of death, she can still look calm and calm.In particular, she understands that when the enemy wants to see you anxious and fearful, you must not show your inner emotions.

Xue Huaiqing's indifferent reaction was obviously beyond Feng Yufan's expectation.He looked at Xue Huaiqing with interest for a while, and suddenly laughed dumbly: "I was almost deceived by you. Your expression is impeccable, and even your eyes are so indifferent. For a moment, I really thought you were Don't care about him."

"But my body is too tense, there's nothing I can do about it," Xue Huaiqing sighed, "after the injury, I can't control my body as freely as before. Yes, I care about his life and death very much, so I want to Listen to what else you can say. For example, what do you really want."

"What I really want..." Feng Yufan stood up, walked around the room for a few steps, his face looked a little lonely, "Who in this world can say clearly what he wants ? Some things are just doing your best and obeying the destiny.”

Xue Huaiqing did not speak, quietly waiting for him to continue.From these two sentences, she can guess that what Feng Yufan needs must be something important and difficult.

"Let's put it this way, we imprisoned you here in name to find your father and solve the mystery of the lord's murder," Feng Yufan said, "but in fact, that was just a high-sounding excuse. Finding your mother may be more urgent than human beings."

"Is it because of something in her hand?" Xue Huaiqing said lightly.

Feng Yufan was startled slightly, thoughtfully: "It seems that you are smarter than I imagined."

Xue Huaiqing was quite sure in her heart that it really was for that weird "iron rod" that might be a magic staff.At the same time, she also roughly guessed that these feathered people must have finally chased after that village. Either they found the corpse under the cliff, deduced what happened from the condition of the corpse, or asked the truth from the little boy back then. .

These feathered people really attach great importance to that "iron rod", she thought, and at the same time felt an uncontrollable curiosity welling up in her heart: What is that thing?Why is it in the hands of the mother?Where the hell is mother now, and where is the damn iron rod?

Finally, she let out a long breath: "Well, even if you don't come to press me now, I really want to know where that thing is."

Feng Yufan stared at her: "What do you mean by that, you don't know?"

"Of course I don't know," Xue Huaiqing replied, "Actually, I've never met my parents—unless I've met them when I was two or three months old."

"So, you've been making fun of me these past few months? You obviously don't know anything, but you still pretend to be trying your best to hide the truth, and you've even fooled me." Feng Yufan remained silent. After a while, there was no anger on his face, on the contrary it was a kind of self-mockery.

This is a person who is very good at hiding emotions, Xue Huaiqing thought, and said to him: "That's not true, because I just want to hide the fact that 'that thing is in my mother's hands', I don't know, you and All I know is the same, otherwise I wouldn't have to work so hard. But can you tell me what it is?"

"You shouldn't care about this right now," Feng Yufan leaned back leisurely in his chair, "What you should care about now is, what reason can you give me not to kill you, not to kill your lover. Because if If you can't provide the information I need, you are a useless person. I will not keep useless people."

"I don't have any reason," Xue Huaiqing shook her head, "Looking at it now, having no parents is really a bad thing."

"Tonight, I will arrange the kitchen to cook you a sumptuous meal, especially the meat that you humans like to eat." Feng Yufan didn't seem to regard Xue Huaiqing, who was half-human and feathered, as a member of the same family at all. The Last Supper you practiced."

"Thank you." Xue Huaiqing said lightly.

After Feng Yufan left, she lay quietly on the bed without moving for a long time.A sore feeling surged from the bottom of my heart and flowed through my whole body.As a corpse dancer, Xue Huaiqing is not afraid of facing death, but at this moment, she can't help but regret the life she is about to lose, because there is still a person in this world that she cares about, makes her miss, and makes her reluctant to leave.She didn't really care that she might turn into a corpse, but the thought of someone grieving over her death made her want to cry.

If she had known this earlier, she might as well have died in that dark underground cave, she suddenly thought, at least she could have died in An Xingmian's arms at that time, instead of being alone like now.

The dishes delivered for dinner are really rich. There are not only Donglu-style exquisite food, but also Hokuriku roasted whole lamb that makes people salivate. Even An Xingmian, who is very picky about food, is here. Can't fault it either.But Xuehuai Qingshi was not reconciled to the taste, and the table full of food hardly touched a bite, and she was always thinking: If I die, what will An Xingmian do?
In fact, there is nothing to do, she thought, life must go on anyway.When I died, some people were happy, some people didn't care, and some were deeply saddened, but after the grief, the wounds would heal slowly, and I would be forgotten slowly.When her body gradually rotted and turned into bones, An Xingmian thought that there should be other women living in it.Will he suddenly think of himself at some point...

Xue Huaiqing was thinking wildly, her heart was sweet and warm and sometimes sad, she tried to use meditation several times to restrain the fluctuations in her heart, but then she thought: I am going to die tomorrow, why do I have to restrain my emotions?I have been restraining my emotions all my life, why don't I release it a little before I die?She simply let it flow, allowing her thoughts to swim eastward and westward in the river of memory, and let the emotions deep in her soul be unrestrained.

(End of this chapter)