Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Let's go to a place where it's just you and me...

After taking the medicine, the patients' conditions were well controlled. Even their skin began to heal. If this continued, they would see noticeable improvement within half a month.

Of course, this was Ruan Mingyu's initial prediction.

Things slowly started to feel off. For example, patients would often complain of stomachaches or convulsions after taking the medicine. Ruan Mingyu initially dismissed the idea as a normal drug reaction.

Later, he was nearly bitten by a patient, or nearly hit by a carriage while walking on the street.

Ruan Mingyu understood that all these were directed at him.

But he didn't have any enemies in this strange place. The most likely possibility was that someone didn't want him to use medicine to cure these patients.

Ruan Mingyu told Song Chenxi about what he had been experiencing recently.

After hearing this, Song Chenxi said, "If I ask you to leave now, you will definitely not want to. I will follow you tomorrow and follow you wherever you go."

"Thank you very much, Senior Brother." After saying this, Ruan Mingyu was suddenly stunned. Why did he take Song Chenxi's kindness to him for granted? When did he start to accept Song Chenxi's presence?

The scene fell into silence for a moment.

There was only one small bed in the tent, and with two people squeezed into it, even turning over was difficult. Ruan Mingyu seemed to have returned to his youth, which seemed a long time ago. He and Song Chenxi squeezed into the small bed on Yuantai Peak.

Back then, Song Chenxi wasn't as kind as he is now, willing to let him sleep in until noon. He would rise before dawn, before the rooster crowed, to practice swordplay.

Ruan Mingyu was full of Ruan Mingyu's torture.

Later, he thought of many ways, such as secretly hiding Song Chenxi's sword, or complaining to his master. But these methods did not work. Finally, he could no longer bear Ruan Mingyu and directly grabbed Song Chenxi's sleeve and begged him.

"Brother, I'm sleepy. Can you not get up so early to practice sword fighting?"

Song Chenxi glanced at him with a half-smile, put the sword back into the scabbard, and said to him:

"Unless you beg me."

Ruan Mingyu said without hesitation, "Please, Senior Brother, you're the best. Can you bear to see me go out with two big dark circles under my eyes every day?"

Song Chenxi kept his word. Since then, Song Chenxi never went to practice sword so early again, and slept with him until three o'clock in the morning every day.

Even after so much time, his memory is still very clear.

Song Chenxi reached out and pinched his face: "What are you thinking about? You're not even paying attention when you're talking to me." His dark eyes looked at Ruan Mingyu, trying his best to express his dissatisfaction, "Who are you thinking about? Shen Yanyuan, Gu Xiaoxiao, or someone else?"

Ruan Mingyu was a bit rude and immediately responded reflexively: "I'm thinking about you."

Song Chenxi let out a muffled laugh, put his arm around his waist and pulled him into his arms, kissing his forehead: "It's not in vain that I love you."

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At the beginning, Ruan Mingyu encountered various accidents, and later he stopped pretending and sent people to hunt him down.

I had originally planned to settle accounts with the city lord later, but now I have to put it on the agenda.

When night fell, the two of them sneaked into the city lord's mansion.

The City Lord's Mansion was peaceful and looked perfectly normal. The two searched the place but found nothing unusual. Just as they were about to leave, they saw the old City Lord returning from outside. His expression was grim, a stark contrast to his previous affable image.

The two of them jumped onto the roof. Ruan Mingyu carefully moved a tile away and looked down, but he didn't see the figure of the city lord!

I clearly saw him enter the house, but where did he go in just a moment?

The two looked at each other and knew there was something fishy going on.

After a while, there was still no movement in the room.

The two men jumped down from the roof and sneaked into the room.

On the surface, there was nothing strange in the room, but the city lord was nowhere to be seen.

"There must be a secret passage in here." Ruan Mingyu said in a low voice.

The two groped around in the room for a long time and finally found the entrance to the secret passage.

Ruan Mingyu turned the blue and white porcelain on the bookshelf, and with a "bang", the bookshelf moved backwards, revealing a secret passage.

Ruan Mingyu took a look inside. It was pitch black. He was hesitating whether to go in. Song Chenxi behind him pushed him aside and walked ahead.

Now Ruan Mingyu could walk behind with peace of mind.

It was pitch dark ahead, and Ruan Mingyu pulled Song Chenxi forward.

After walking for a while, they could see the light from the wall lamp in front of them. They stopped and found a secluded place to hide.

I could faintly hear someone's voice.

"Bite him!"

"Only the strongest deserve to live!"

Ruan Mingyu looked over and saw numerous creatures, neither human nor ghost, imprisoned inside. Their green faces and fangs were terrifying. At the city lord's command, they began to fight one another. They were all zombie-like patients, yet their fighting power was terrifying. Their physical strength was several times that of a normal person, and their teeth had such powerful bites that they could even bite off half of a person's face. The scene was so bloody that Ruan Mingyu felt sick to his stomach.

Ruan Mingyu actually saw his cousin. He was covered in blood and exuded a murderous aura. Even if Yu Sheng stood in front of him, he might not be able to recognize him.

There is more than just my cousin imprisoned inside. The city lord is letting these people hurt each other, just like raising a poisonous insect.

Song Chenxi's face was filled with a murderous look. He said to Ruan Mingyu, "I'll go and take care of the city lord later. You go and bring your cousin out."

Ruan Mingyu nodded.

Ruan Mingyu still had great faith in Song Chenxi's fighting ability, but he was afraid that the treacherous and cunning city lord might have some conspiracy or trickery.

The place was too small, and Song Chenxi couldn't use the sword formation, so he picked up his sword and went up.

"Who are you? Who told you to break in?" the city lord said sternly.

The city lord was really despicable and shameless. After exchanging two moves with Song Chenxi, he gradually lost the upper hand, so he ordered the poisonous people around him to take action. Those poisonous people were controlled by him and began to attack Song Chenxi.

These people could still be saved, after all, it was a life, so Song Chenxi was a little cautious when he attacked. The city lord took the opportunity to attack Song Chenxi again, and his sleeves were cut several times.

Ruan Mingyu couldn't help but worry for him. Song Chenxi gave Ruan Mingyu a look, and Ruan Mingyu instantly understood what he meant.

He took out a handful of immobilization talismans and stuck them on the heads of every poisoned person. Those people were instantly unable to move, and no one's orders were effective now.

Ruan Mingyu took one person in each hand, trying to bring as many people as possible, and immediately left the secret passage.

"What have you done to them? Stop it now!" the group leader roared.

Ruan Mingyu's figure quickly disappeared. He brought the person out breathlessly, away from the city lord's control. His cousin's pupils gradually focused.

Ruan Mingyu fed them some pills and said before leaving, "Cousin, when you get better, go back and see Yusheng. She misses you very much."

My cousin blinked, as if he understood what he said.

Ruan Mingyu continued to go back without stopping, and Song Chenxi was still inside.

Once again, he returned to the secret passage, but it was quiet and there was no one around. Ruan Mingyu was shocked. What was going on? He hadn't been away for long.

The ground was covered in traces of a struggle, and there was a pool of blood. Ruan Mingyu was panicking, but he forced himself to calm down. He searched around and finally found something odd. The bricks in the wall were loose, so there must be some other mechanism here!

Time passed minute by minute, and Ruan Mingyu was sweating profusely. He was worried that nothing must happen to Song Chenxi.

He fumbled on the wall for a while and finally pulled the wall lamp down.

"Bang!" The ground began to shake and sink, and Ruan Mingyu rolled to the lower level.

He fell, then climbed up, holding onto the wall. He walked forward along the road. The candlelight on the wall lamp flickered dimly. His foot gave way. What had he stepped on? He looked down and saw the corpses of the poisonous people...

Just now... if only he could take more people with him...

Without time to feel sad, Ruan Mingyu continued to move forward.

He heard Song Chenxi's voice.

"They are all innocent people, why are you doing this?"

The city lord's eyes were infatuated and full of greed.

"No matter how rich my Cangzhou is or how well it's managed, what's the use? I need an obedient army to march eastward and capture the capital. By then, not only will I have Cangzhou, but the entire world will be in my hands."

"I think you are dreaming. You can't even be the lord of a city, and you want to be the emperor." Song Chenxi still spoke in that sarcastic tone.

Ruan Mingyu turned the corner and saw Song Chenxi. He seemed injured, with blood oozing from his arm. Although the skin on his arm was not ulcerated, two bloody holes were clearly visible.

"Senior brother, you were bitten..." Ruan Mingyu said in shock.

Song Chenxi's expression changed: "Why did you come back?"

The city lord, who had already lost hope, seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw. He rushed over and put a dagger against Ruan Mingyu's neck.

"There's always a way out, hahaha!" He glared at Song Chenxi fiercely, "Don't come over here, or I'll kill him."

The city lord looked at Song Chenxi with a crazy look on his face. The original Poison King was dead, and now, a new and powerful body was about to become his most capable assistant. As long as a little time passed, the bitten Song Chenxi would become the new poison man.

Song Chenxi approached him with a sword in hand: "Who allowed you to touch him?"

The city lord stabbed the dagger into Ruan Mingyu's neck, and blood flowed out instantly. Ruan Mingyu showed pain on his face and tried to pry his hand away.

"You can't kill me now!" the city lord roared. "Even if I die, I'll drag you down with me! If I die, none of you will live!"

Song Chenxi glanced at the blood flowing from Ruan Mingyu's neck. His face was expressionless, with no visible expression. Only his hands were tightly clenched behind his back.

"What makes you think I care so much about his life?" Song Chenxi glanced at the city lord coldly, making people shudder. "Either let him go now, or you die now."

Before the city lord could react, Song Chenxi threw his sword, and the sword pierced into the city lord's head.

Blood instantly splattered all over Ruan Mingyu's face.

He stood there, his eyes devoid of fear, only a dead numbness. Some evil thought deep within his soul seemed to have been ignited. Everything before him turned blood red again. Was this the world Song Chenxi saw?

"Senior Brother, can you let me do this kind of thing next time?" Ruan Mingyu smiled and wiped the blood off his face nonchalantly.

Song Chenxi knew that he was also affected by Ruan Mingyu's delusion, and they were now almost the same. He used the last bit of clarity he had left to touch his brow with his finger.

Ruan Mingyu suddenly felt his mind became much clearer, and his brain was able to think again.

At the same time, a strong smell of kerosene permeated the secret passage... It seemed that the City Lord's words, "If he died, no one would live," were not empty words. He must have triggered some mechanism before his death, igniting the kerosene.

I have to leave here as soon as possible...

"Leave here immediately." Song Chenxi said to him.

Ruan Mingyu grabbed his collar and refused to let go: "Let's go together!"

Song Chenxi smiled at him gently, so tenderly.

The spiritual power in his body had been exhausted, so he could only bite his fingers and use his blood to build a teleportation array.

"Senior Brother!" Ruan Mingyu burst into tears.

"Don't worry, I won't die. Didn't you say I'm the protagonist?"

He pushed Ruan Mingyu into the center of the magic circle.

"Let's go, and don't come back this time."

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When he regained consciousness, Ruan Mingyu was already outside the city. He stumbled to his feet and, without a second thought, ran into the city.

Seeing that he was still running towards the city regardless of everything, the fleeing people tried to persuade him.

"Young man, run away! The city is on fire! Don't go back and die!"

Ruan Mingyu acted as if he didn't hear anything and continued running towards the city.

When they reached the city gate, which had been closed for half a year, it was finally opened, and the people rushed out.

"I can't stay in Cangzhou City anymore!"

"Plague! Fire! Why do you torture us like this?"

Ruan Mingyu stepped into the city again, and saw devastation before his eyes. Flames had engulfed everything here. Houses burned to charcoal, displaced people, and the helpless cries of the people filled his senses.

He looked at everything in front of him blankly, with only one thought in his mind: Is Song Chenxi still alive?

He no longer had the energy to save others, so he hurriedly sent a message to the sect, hoping that the people there could arrive as soon as possible.

After doing all this, Ruan Mingyu rushed into the sea of ​​fire against the crowd.

The thick smoke choked him so much that he couldn't open his eyes. He walked towards the direction of the City Lord's Mansion in his memory. The fire here was the strongest, and the flames seemed to be able to devour everything.

Ruan Mingyu didn't think twice and was about to cast a spell to build a barrier and rush into the sea of ​​fire.

Just as he was about to do so, he saw a man covered in blood walking out from the sea of ​​fire.

It’s Song Chenxi!

But he had already become completely demonized, his eyes were blood red, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Facing Ruan Mingyu, Song Chenxi pointed the sword in his hand at him.

Ruan Mingyu's heart trembled. Instead of retreating, he took two steps forward.

He held Song Chenxi's sword-holding hand.

"Put down your sword and follow me, okay?"

Song Chenxi's eyes were always fixed on him. Ruan Mingyu gently moved his hand down, letting him loosen his grip on the sword.

He obediently let Ruan Mingyu take his hand away, and Ruan Mingyu put his sword into the scabbard.

Song Chenxi is not serious about his relatives now, and I am really afraid that he will do something crazy.

The sword was no longer in Song Chenxi's hand, and his fingers slowly moved upwards. Ruan Mingyu predicted his thoughts, he grabbed Song Chenxi's hand and led him away.

"I don't like being choked."

Song Chenxi didn't follow him just now. Was it because he was afraid of hurting him? Ruan Mingyu shook his head. What was he thinking?

Things were not as bad as he had imagined. Song Chenxi was still alive. Although he had been completely demonized, he was still obedient.

As long as he could find a quiet place to recuperate, he would definitely be able to refine the elixir and cure Song Chenxi. Then they could return to the Seven Star Sect and continue to be brothers.

This was what Ruan Mingyu planned, but at this moment, a yellow talisman suddenly flashed before his eyes.

"We are outside the city, where are you?"

The fellow disciples had already arrived, but Song Chenxi couldn't be seen in this state. Ruan Mingyu made up an excuse, saying that they had already left the city and hoped they would stay to clean up the mess.

Ruan Mingyu immediately said to Song Chenxi: "Let's leave here first."

"Where are you going?" Song Chenxi whispered into Ruan Mingyu's ear.

"Let's go to a place where there's only you and me." Without having time to think about it, Ruan Mingyu urged him to activate the teleportation formation and leave immediately.

Song Chenxi smiled with satisfaction after hearing this:

"Yeah, it's a place where it's just Mingyu and I."

He seems...something's not right...