Chapter 28
The dust formed tiny flashes in the wind.
Dou Shiqiu flew up, her wings vibrating behind her. She passed over Bai Lang's kneeling body and was about to go up, but suddenly, she stopped.
Dou Shiqiu looked towards a certain spot in the yard of bones. After a brief moment of thought, he went down to the ground.
The wings on her back rose up, and soon they turned into a piece of silver gauze. Her feet tapped the air, causing invisible ripples. One step, then another, she stepped down from mid-air and stood in a place in the courtyard.
After the rain fell, the bloodstains on the ground disappeared.
Flashes formed by countless dust particles were blown by the wind, forming waves at the edge of Dou Shiqiu's skirt.
She stood there quietly, not saying a word. Transparent tentacles sprouted from her forehead, drooping down to her hands like flowers in a galaxy.
Immediately afterwards, the feathers behind Dou Shiqiu unfolded, revealing starlight and spiral star trails.
The spirit began to gather in front of her as she looked.
The transparent blue spirit gathered together and became a human shape.
Dou Shiqiu's pale pupils dilated, and then the spirit revealed her face. It was Qiu Niang who had been crushed to pieces.
She looked at the soul, and the soul was also looking at her.
Dou Shiqiu stretched out a finger and pointed it in front of him.
Invisible ripples spread out again, shaking in circles. Soon, Qiu Niang, who was behind the ripples, was also caught in it.
Dou Shiqiu retracted the tentacles on his forehead.
The wings also turned back into gauze.
Qiu Niang's soul went underground due to the shock.
He crawled into the crack in the ground and soon calmed down.
Flocks of silver moths began to fly away from the Hong Kong Coliseum. Dou Shiqiu did not stop.
She went away, to the end of the sky.
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When he woke up the next day, there was dew on the tip of Gu Luoyan's nose.
The night is slightly blue, and the day has not yet arrived.
My body felt like it was falling apart and I was in so much pain all over.
It was quiet all around. The bones in the yard had disappeared, leaving only a shrine without any god standing in the yard.
Soon, the two people beside her woke up. Chuntao rubbed her eyes, but seemed to be still asleep.
Xue Yi stood up first, helped Gu Luoyan and Chuntao up, and then looked around.
"The bones are gone..." she said.
"There's no bloodstain anymore." Gu Luoyan frowned.
"Ji Zi... Luo Yan, there is a fox over there." Chun Tao pointed to a place not far away in the yard and said to Gu Luo Yan.
The three of them supported each other and walked to the fox.
Gu Luoyan squatted down and held the fox in her arms. She took a deep breath, swallowing the cold morning air into her lungs. Only then did she finally feel a sense of victory.
Gu Luoyan looked around, smiled at them and said, "Let's go. Let's leave the Hong Kong Coliseum together."
The three people walked out of the yard and outside. The surroundings were already quiet and the daylight was awakening in the sky.
It had been a long time since I had felt the breeze and the comfort in the Hong Kong Coliseum. Gu Luoyan hugged the sleeping fox and felt genuinely happy.
The road under the women's feet was very flat, and it became wider and wider after passing through the path.
You will be free from now on.
They won.
They entered through the nearest tunnel opening and greeted the children. The three of them led them out of the Hong Kong Coliseum.
Xiuhua and Biyue were walking behind, each holding the other's hand. Biyue asked anxiously, "Can we really leave?"
Xue Yi, holding an old boy, answered them, "Yes."
"But where can we go?" Xiuhua lowered her head, which was rare for her, and fell into melancholy.
"The sky is high and the sea is vast, there is always a place for us to stay!" Chuntao, who was holding their hands, looked ahead and said excitedly.
Moving forward, everyone who enters the Hong Kong Coliseum is forced to do so.
From now on, those who walk out of the Hong Kong Coliseum may have no one to rely on, but their hope will never be extinguished.
Gu Luoyan stroked the soft fur of the fox in her arms and felt calm.
Fortunately, the Red Leaf Flower Mark was planted on an adult, and the children escaped harm. She consoled herself with this in her heart.
The fresh morning mist obscured some parts of the Hong Kong Coliseum, and all Gu Luoyan and his group saw were clusters of flowers and wide roads.
When the sky turned pale, they finally reached the main entrance of the Hong Kong Coliseum.
The heavy red-painted wooden door was pushed open from the inside. Several people looked at the world outside the Hong Kong Coliseum. At that moment, they found it difficult to control their emotions.
After stepping out of the threshold, I have no connection with the Hong Kong Coliseum anymore.
Gu Luoyan held the fox and looked at Chun Tao Xue Yi and the children.
She asked them, "What are your plans for the future?"
Chuntao said she hasn’t thought about it yet.
Xue Yi, however, looked at the child in her arms, touched his wrinkled face, and said with some heartache, "Those who enter the Hong Kong Coliseum are all poor children. I can't just leave them alone."
Then Gu Luoyan lowered her head again to look at Xiuhua Biyue, who was being held by Chuntao. "Do you two still remember your families?"
Bi Yue shook her head and said to Gu Luo Yan, "My family has all died, so the owner chose me for this reason."
Xiuhua said nonchalantly, "I am an orphan, originally a beggar. My aunt brought me to the Hong Kong Coliseum."
A look of pity appeared in Gu Luoyan's eyes.
She stood up and said to the two people in front of her, "There's still a lot of time left, so we can make plans later. As my sister said, the children are too young to worry about. Why don't the three of us sisters live together and raise them first before we think about anything else."
"Okay! I can go to work, and Luo Yan and Xue Yi will raise them well together!" Chun Tao's eyes lit up and she smiled freely.
"Look at what you can do," Xue Yi teased her. She patted the still sleeping boy in her arms and said, "Anyway, no matter how we live in the future, it will be better than living in the Hong Kong Coliseum."
Gu Luoyan smiled and nodded, saying yes. Then they hurried to the place where they rented a house in Mingjing.
There were few people on the road in the early morning, and the few people who had stayed in the museum for too long were really unaware of the world. They stumbled along the way, asking for directions and trying to tell the north from the south, and finally found the place.
It was almost noon.
After being given the cold shoulder by the owner of the house several times, the few of them finally settled on a house they liked.
Finally, they chose a small house in a secluded place, and used the gold jewelry that Gu Luoyan brought with her as collateral, and finally they had a place to stay.
The children were hungry. Only the fox was curled up in a ball, still sound asleep. Xue Yi went to the street to buy some vegetables to light a fire and cook. Chun Tao then went out, saying she wanted to find a job.
But in the evening he returned home covered in dust and shook his head at everyone, which really showed that he had been disappointed.
When they left the Hong Kong Coliseum, they took nothing with them. In order to make a living, they had to pawn some of their belongings, but this was not a long-term solution.
Gu Luoyan had sold all her accessories, and only had a yellow talisman left in her pocket, but she really couldn't think of what it was used for, so she put it aside and casually threw the talisman paper aside.
After Gu Luoyan changed the children into clean clothes, she bought bedding and cotton blankets, and prepared food for about two weeks. Now she was completely out of money.
The old, dilapidated house is leaking, and the increasingly cold weather after autumn waits for no one.
At night, several people and the children huddled together under cotton blankets, keeping each other warm.
They spent the night like this, and Xue Yi left early the next day.
The sleeping fox woke up that day, but it didn't transform into Nian Qing. It followed behind Gu Luoyan, watching her work, occasionally barking, and nothing else seemed unusual, as if it were just an ordinary fox.
Gu Luoyan had no time to take care of other things. She took care of the children with Chuntao, and when she had free time, she went to the street to look for some work opportunities.
Life outside the Hong Kong Coliseum is more difficult than you might imagine.
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Xue Yi left the house they rented and followed her memory to the most expensive place in the city.
After walking for three hours, Xue Yi saw the mansion of a wealthy or noble family.
Her parents, who were imperial merchants, lived here. Xue Yi looked at the mansion, gritted her teeth, and walked forward to knock on the gilded door.
Soon a servant came to open the door, but he looked at the woman outside with confusion.
Xue Yi saw him, recognized him, and relaxed a little. She said to the servant, "Xiao Hu, I'm Xue Yi. Do you still remember me?"
Before she got married, Xue Yi treated the servants in the mansion very well. People are all kind-hearted, and she didn't believe that the servants in front of her didn't recognize her.
But the thin servant looked her up and down and still didn't recognize her.
He finally shook his head: "Miss, I don't know you."
Xue Yi was a little shocked, but she figured it was because she had been away from home for so long that she wasn't familiar with them anymore, so she said, "Then please let them know that the girl from the Xue family is back."
"Xue family? Miss, have you lost your mind?" The servant showed displeasure on his face and said, "This place belongs to Duke Qian. It is an important royal place. You'd better not bother us here. If you offend the nobles, I can't afford it." After he finished speaking, he closed the door without leaving any room for negotiation.
Xue Yi stood outside the door in a daze, and she couldn't recover until the door closed.
She originally wanted to seek help from her parents, so, so...
But how could he forget the past when the entire Xue family was executed!
Xue Yi took two steps back, a cold sweat pouring down her face. She fell to the ground. Her heart palpitated for a moment, and she couldn't recover for a long time.
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Women are subject to many restrictions in this world.
A woman who is unable to work and cannot be independent needs to rely on a man to support her husband and raise children, which is considered to be a true chastity.
Gu Luoyan and Chuntao waited for two days, but there was no result.
Going out on the street again that day, Gu Luoyan felt a little depressed.
Maybe I can find some work at the market today.
Mingjing was already prosperous, and the Gu Luo Cigarette Shop was packed with people in the market, making it difficult to walk fast.
In the crowded crowd, a woman coming towards them was pushed by the men and fell over. Fortunately, Gu Luoyan grabbed her in time and prevented her from falling.
The woman expressed her gratitude, and Gu Luoyan looked at her and felt that she looked familiar.
While I was thinking, the woman had already left.
She was left alone in the crowd, being pushed forward.
The incense sold by the nearby vendors was lit. The scent of sandalwood mixed with some strange aroma lingered in the air, somewhat similar to the incense burned in the Hong Kong Coliseum.
Gu Luoyan's expression suddenly became serious.
Her pupils dilated and she couldn't breathe for a moment.
No, no, very wrong.
Forgot something? Forgot something!
The blood seemed to rush to his nose again. Qiu Niang's smile and Bai Lang's final kneeling posture with sword in hand were imprinted in Gu Luoyan's mind.
There was a buzzing noise.
Where did all the people at the Hong Kong Coliseum go?
Why did they forget? Why did those around them seem oblivious? The deserted Hong Kong Coliseum is no ordinary event.
Why didn't I feel confused when I left the Hong Kong Coliseum? Where am I now?
The crowd pushed Gu Luoyan forward.
The fear of rebirth climbed up from her thoughts and made her feel suffocated.
It's so weird. Everything is so weird.
Maybe the Hong Kong Coliseum incident is not over at all...
Gu Luoyan remembered the woman he had just met.
She was originally Ji Zi from the Hongguan Pavilion and was rescued by Gu Luoyan.
She would not fail to recognize me, but she saw me as if she were meeting me for the first time.
Gu Luoyan turned around suddenly, and was swallowed up by a huge crowd of people.
Gu Luoyan was breathing heavily, and his memory was slowly returning.
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Like a walking corpse, he has been running wildly.
The surrounding area was a barren river, and the dark forest was so dark that nothing else could be seen. Her shoes were worn out, and the soles of her feet were bleeding, a lot of blood.
But she still didn't stop.
Until he was tripped by a fallen tree and his face was disfigured.
Pain appeared on her face, and there was color in her eyes.
The moon rose and shone on the zenith.
Guan Qing sat up, his body covered in blood.
The Red Pavilion... the madam... the magic circle... Dou Shiqiu!
Guan Qing looked around, and the usually volatile man showed a rare look of panic.
She was manipulated.
It was as if the memory had been erased, becoming normal, impossible to notice. The incident at the Hong Kong Coliseum was too complex and must not be as simple as imagined.
What could make her so ignorant and so easily controlled by magic.
That is not something that ordinary demons can do.
magic.
An existence that is one level higher than monsters.
A chill arose behind Guan Qing.
There was a demon in Mingjing.
This was beyond Guan Qing's expectations. She endured the pain and stood up, stretched out her hands and chanted a spell. In an instant, the talismans around her flew up, passed through the treetops, and disappeared into the night.
A line of secret words is hidden in it:
Yijin encountered a demon in Mingjing and begged his master to come out and defeat the demon.
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