70 Mirage Mirror (10)
◎No emotional drama in this chapter◎
The warm yellow candlelight in the room stretched the three figures further and further out. The broken lenses lay silently on the ground, like scrap metal that had lost its ability to tell a story.
"Alright, stop crying," Qi He glanced at the man sitting on the ground with his head drooping in dejection, frowning and saying impatiently, "Your junior sister didn't mean to hurt you. She was just confused by the illusion and lost her mind."
Qu Lingfei closed his eyes in pain and shook his head, his voice becoming hoarse. "I... I couldn't see that she was different, and I couldn't stop her from falling into this trap. If anything happened to Junior Sister, how could I, as her senior brother, have the dignity to live on?"
Some of Qi He's words had struck a nerve, but his face instantly turned pale. He swung his hand and struck him on the forehead. Qu Lingfei was dazed by the sudden blow. When he looked up from his daze, the culprit had already walked to the window with his hands behind his back.
He didn't have time to care about the burning pain on his face. He gritted his teeth and stood up, looking at the people on the other side for help. "Xie brother, are they... okay?"
Xie Changyan paused playing with the teacup, his eyelashes drooping, without raising his head, "No."
These two words made Qu Lingfei feel relieved. He took a deep breath and slowly turned his eyes to look out the window.
Outside the house, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. A crescent moon hung alone in the night sky. The cold wind was howling, making the leaves rustle.
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When the feeling of weightlessness that was so strong that it almost made him faint disappeared, Li Jintang had no luck or fear of escaping death. Instead, he lay on the ground very calmly, staring at the blue sky above without blinking.
Just when she was falling rapidly, a golden light covering her whole body appeared in her peripheral vision. For some reason, she had a premonition that she would never die.
The jade on her waist gradually dimmed. She stood up quickly, not bothering to tidy up her messy hair. She tilted her head upwards, reached to her waist, took out the jade and held it in her palm.
If Qiuyan accidentally fell down like me, I should still be able to save her in time.
"Atang..."
Unexpectedly, the voice did not come from above her head. Li Jintang turned around, but before she could stand firm, the girl ran up and hugged her tightly.
"Atang, you came to such a dangerous place to save me, but I couldn't protect you..." Qiuyan's voice was a little choked and intermittent, and she couldn't even finish a sentence.
After the cave collapsed just now, she ran along the rolling rocks. When she saw the girl lying on the ground from a distance, her heart was aching, fearing that something had really happened to her.
Li Jintang patted her on the back and said, "Sister Qiuyan, I came here to save you. How could I ask you to protect me? Don't blame yourself. Besides, I'm fine."
"Atang," Qiuyan let go of her hand, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, stared into her eyes, and suddenly smiled, "You are so kind."
When Li Jintang saw her smile, he felt much lighter in his heart. He looked around and was surprised to find that a large cloud of haze was sweeping towards them not far away.
"What is that?" Qiu Yan was now much calmer than before. She held the hand of the person next to her, fearing that the other person would disappear again if she was not careful.
She frowned slightly and added, "Those in the illusion are definitely not good people. Atang, let's find a place to hide first."
"wrong……"
"What's wrong?"
Li Jintang said, "I just encountered the same shadow. After being swept away, I saw you. Only Fellow Daoist Nangong is missing outside the mirror. This time... maybe I can see him."
It was really strange. She originally just wanted to go home, but since when, she had instinctively regarded these people as very important companions. If she encountered danger, she could not abandon them.
Qiu Yan didn't answer when she heard this, but she didn't pull her away anymore. Instead, she held her hand and stayed where she was, waiting for the shadow to surround them.
However, after the darkness in front of my eyes disappeared, what came into view was the complete opposite white.
The two of them couldn't help but feel creepy - because there was nothing here except white.
"Atang, you have to hold my hand tightly and don't get lost." Qiuyan said this, but in fact she was holding the sleeve of the person next to her tightly.
Li Jintang was also scared. A seemingly peaceful place like this is the most dangerous. Who knows if a monster will suddenly appear from some corner?
She suppressed her fear, patted Qiuyan's hand a few times, and whispered to herself: "Don't be afraid, sister. Xie An and the others are watching us outside. Nothing will happen." She didn't know whether she was comforting others or herself.
This place seemed to have no concept of time. After walking for an unknown distance, Li Jintang felt that his hands had become much lighter. He lowered his eyes and found that his sleeves were empty.
"Why did Sister Qiuyan let go? Didn't you say you were afraid of getting lost?" she asked curiously.
The girl beside her looked a little distressed. She reached out to hold her arm, but her arm slipped away several times. "I didn't mean to let go. I don't know why..."
Before they could finish their words, they both held their breath and looked at each other with fear in their eyes.
Instead of sliding down, it went straight through.
Their bodies were actually becoming transparent little by little...
The change was too sudden. The two were still immersed in great fear. When they looked up inadvertently, they saw a small town suddenly appeared in front of them, with vague figures walking in it. When they looked closely, they found that those people were in the same condition as them, or even worse, with almost their entire bodies transparent.
"This... are they human or ghosts?!" Qiu Yan's lips were completely drained of color. "They say that what you see in a dreamland is what you imagine in your mind. Why would Nangong Xiu come to such a place? Atang, I'm afraid we've come to the wrong place."
But even if I was wrong, what could I do? Looking around me, I was at a loss. Apart from this town, there was nothing else.
"Or... I'd better not go," Li Jintang hesitated and whispered, "Every time I encounter a town in a strange place, nothing good ever happens."
That’s true, but…
The two looked at each other for a while, then finally sighed and walked away resigned to their fate.
Then I found that this town seemed very different from the one I had encountered before.
There was everything here, and all kinds of flowers and plants were planted around. Even the out-of-season trees were blooming luxuriantly. They looked around as they walked, with a bit of novelty and lingering fear.
"Are you new here?" A voice suddenly sounded behind them. The two were stunned and took a big step back in unison, looking back at the person who spoke vigilantly.
The speaker was a man wearing a straw raincoat and cloth. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled innocently: "No one has been here for a long time. Girls, how did you get in?"
Just a few words gave them goosebumps all over their bodies.
The old farmer I met in the ancient city that day said the same thing, but ended up getting into big trouble.
Li Jintang was the first to calm down and said, "Uncle, would you mind telling us where we are? We were looking for a friend, but we ended up here by accident."
"Looking for a friend?" Sweat trickled into the old farmer's eyes, and he squinted in pain. He chuckled, "Then you've come to the wrong place. Your friend can't be here."
"unless--"
The old farmer paused for a moment and said mysteriously, "Your friend is a ghost."
What? !
"Stop your nonsense! The few remaining ghosts in the ghost world are all in the Ghost Market. How could there be ghosts here?" Qiu Yan immediately retorted, "We have no grudge against you, so why bother scaring people for no reason?"
He picked up the shoulder pole and walked forward cheerfully, shouting, "Believe it or not, if you don't listen to me, you will suffer the consequences..."
"uncle……"
Li Jintang was about to step forward to ask more questions, but was suddenly pulled back by someone behind him. "Why are you chasing him, Atang? He's just a liar."
She stopped and looked down at her joined hands. She said, "Huh?" "Are we back to normal?"
Qiuyan was also startled. She lowered her head to look, her gaze immediately falling to her waist. "Atang, is that stone yours? Why does it look familiar to me?"
Li Jintang took it out as she was told. The light of the black jade had not yet faded, leaving a crescent moon on her face. "Is this the treasure that you and Brother Qu carried with you before? But... this is given to me by Xie An."
She recognized the jade, which she had taken back from the bat demon with great difficulty.
"Nothing, I must have overthought it," Qiu Yan retracted her gaze. After all, Master had said that there was more than one of these treasures in the world. Daoist Xie was incredibly capable, so it wasn't surprising that he had found the rest. "There's something wrong with this place. It's safer to stay away from it."
Li Jintang thought the same as she did. The two of them turned around and suddenly heard a commotion. They saw that many people had appeared in the place where they had just entered. They were dancing and gesticulating as if they were trying to stop someone from coming in.
"Sister Qiuyan, are we going or not?"
That seemed to be the only way out, but I had no idea what those people were doing there...
"Of course I'll go. No matter what kind of monsters there are, it's better than being trapped here." Qiu Yan answered without any hesitation. She didn't want to experience the feeling of becoming transparent again for even a second.
Those people were all tall, and Li Jintang was squeezed in at the back, only able to see the huge crowd. She looked through the crowd and saw Qiu Yan, who had squeezed to the front. She was about to say "make way" to the person in front of her, but unexpectedly, her fingers went straight through his body.
Li Jintang's mind went blank for a moment, and before he could think clearly, he had already walked to Qiuyan's side.
"Sister Qiuyan..."
The other party did not react at all, just staring blankly at the most crowded place in front of him, like a petrified statue.
"Sister Qiuyan," Li Jintang touched the back of her hand and turned his head to look at her expression, "What's wrong with you?"
"I...they..."
Qiu Yan's lips trembled slightly, as if she had seen something indescribable and horrible.
At the end of the crowd, several young men and women stood holding swords, with white ribbons tied on their heads and white robes tied around their waists. They had handsome faces and were definitely not ordinary people.
Qiuyan's pupils constricted and her fingertips trembled uncontrollably.
A great fear engulfed her.
That was an even stronger emotion than the transparent "death" he had faced not long ago.
The people who came were clearly dressed like people from the fairy world.
She had just witnessed one of the disciples stabbing a child's chest with a sword with an expressionless face, and blood splattered on her skirt.
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