Chapter 19 Chapter 19 He as a Senior Brother
On the second day of swordsmanship class, Meng Yuci appeared with Elder Xu.
He was dressed in a white robe as white as snow, with no patterns on it, only a green waist belt as an embellishment. He was tall and slender, with an amazing demeanor.
The cold and pale face was shrouded in a layer of coldness that kept people away from it, appearing as quiet and cold as a still pond of cold water.
The whole person is like a sharp sword hidden in its sheath, with murderous intent and coldness hidden under a calm and indifferent appearance, showing a bit of inhuman indifference.
He stood aside without saying a word. His naturally cold aura, coupled with the rumor circulating in the sect that "Senior Brother Meng kills without blinking an eye", had already scared the other disciples so much that they dared not look up and began to reflect on whether they had made any big mistakes recently.
In addition to being frightened, some disciples secretly glanced at him, marveling at how this Senior Brother Meng, who was rumored to be unkind, actually had such a stunningly good-looking appearance.
Meng Yuci swept his cold eyes over the disciples present.
Then, his pair of extremely beautiful eyes slowly narrowed, and his long eyelashes pressed down, casting a dark color in the bottom of his eyes.
After glancing at everyone present again, although his face remained expressionless, the air around him seemed to instantly turn cold.
"Where's Ji Chu?"
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Ji Chu is still in the "Burning Witches to Sacrifice to Gods" picture.
After trying many times, she found that no one, whether the villagers or Yao Chan, believed what she said.
If she hides and does nothing, Yao Chan will be caught and burned to death, the mission will fail, and she will be ejected directly.
However, if they fought with the villagers to save Yao Chan, someone would always start a fire when she wasn't paying attention, and the mission would still fail.
After much thought, I decided to start from the beginning.
So this time, after Ji Chu entered the brick painting, he kidnapped Yao Chan from behind without saying a word.
I originally wanted to hide her far away, but there were barriers around and I couldn't go far, so I could only drag her to the woods not far away and hide her.
From a distance, many villagers were seen rushing in with weapons, turning Yao Chan's house upside down but still unable to find him.
Ji Chu turned to Yao Chan:
"Now you believe me, they will really burn you to death."
Yao Chan's facial features are very beautiful, and her thin eyelids are slightly drooping, revealing a bit of mystery.
Ji Chu and her had experienced many times of "living and dying together", and their tone of voice unconsciously became close when they spoke:
"Don't be afraid, I won't let them take you away."
Yao Chan lowered his eyes and said nonchalantly:
"Those who are not of my kind must have different hearts. Do you think I would be stupid enough to trust the human race?"
Ji Chu was puzzled:
"Does the human race have a grudge against you?"
Fearing Yao Chan's suspicion, she added:
"Don't get me wrong, I don't usually go out, so I don't know much about it. Did something happen between the witches and the human race?"
Yao Chan's eyes swept over her face, not knowing whether he believed her words, and said:
"Killing is the easiest thing in this world."
After saying this, without waiting for Ji Chu to continue asking, she stood up:
"Untie it for me."
Ji Chu also stood up and shook his head:
"No, if you run out and get discovered, all my efforts will be in vain."
Yao Chan suppressed his anger:
"If they can't find me in the house, they'll definitely guess I'm hiding in the woods. Are they going to leave me here to die?"
Ji Chu said "Oh" and untied the rope.
The villagers couldn't find the person, so they assigned some people to search the woods. Others piled flammable wood inside and outside Yao Chan's yard. At a command, the fire quickly spread to the roof.
"Damn it, none of these witch things have faces, they're so creepy, burn them quickly..."
Someone picked up a rag doll with the tip of a knife and threw it hard into the flames.
The cotton doll burned quickly when it came into contact with fire, its body twisted and shrunken in the flames, and it occasionally made strange noises that sounded very creepy.
It's getting dark.
Ji Chu and Yao Chan hid behind a tree, looking at the house with thick smoke in the distance in silence.
This was the first time she stayed in a brick painting for so long.
Having come here so many times before, Ji Chu was already very familiar with Yao Chan's yard.
At this moment, watching the yard turn into ashes bit by bit with her own eyes, she felt very uncomfortable.
On the contrary, Yao Chan on the side looked indifferent.
The firelight made her cheeks flush, as if she was distracted.
At a certain moment, Yao Chan suddenly took a step forward, stepped on a branch and broke it, making a crisp sound.
Ji Chu was so scared that he quickly grabbed her.
"What are you doing?"
She was startled and reminded her in a low voice:
"Don't get caught."
Yao Chan turned to look at her with a cold gaze, which made Ji Chu feel scared.
She subconsciously let go of her hand and heard Yao Chan's ethereal voice coming with the wind:
"If you've been killing ghosts for days and suddenly realize you're the worst ghost, would you cry and lament for your dead companions, or pretend you didn't know and keep killing?"
"What?"
When Ji Chu heard Yao Chan's question, he was shocked and vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Yao Chan said again:
"Killing is the simplest thing."
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Elder Xu asked around and found out that no one had seen Ji Chu since the night before yesterday.
Even Xu Ying and Jiang Chengxu, who had always had a very good relationship with her, did not know where she was going.
Senior brother Meng Yuci was standing here, and he was too embarrassed to say something that sounded quite accusatory and humiliating, such as "Maybe your junior sister just skipped classes to have fun."
Although he did think so in his heart.
After all, how could a living person disappear in the sect?
Fortunately, Meng Yuci was always indifferent. Even though he could see what Elder Xu was thinking from his face, he had no intention of arguing with him on the spot. He just said:
"I'll go find it. Elder, please continue with your lesson."
Elder Xu wanted to say something else, but with a flash of sword light, the man disappeared.
Based on Meng Yuci's understanding of Ji Chu, skipping classes is indeed possible.
But he also felt that Ji Chu only looked disobedient, but was actually sensitive and needed care.
A little good thing can make her happy for a long time. Elder Xu has praised her talent in swordsmanship many times, and she is secretly happy. No matter how busy she is, she will finish the class before leaving. How could she do something like "skipping class" for no reason?
If she is wronged somewhere and no one comforts her, she will become obsessed with it, which will be detrimental to her character.
Others may not care, but as his senior brother, he always has to go look for him.
Meng Yuci put away his sword and stood in Ji Chuyuan.
The yard was empty, and a "Picture of Burning Witches to Sacrifice to Gods" was placed on the ground. The pattern on it was lifelike, and the flames on the altar seemed real, almost coming out from the inside of the stone bricks, smoked the faces of the people in the pattern red.
Meng Yuci looked at the scene in the painting with a gloomy look in his eyes.
Then he leaned over slightly and touched the brick painting with his fingertips. He felt the scorching heat and heard heart-wrenching cries in his ears. He couldn't tell whether they came from the painting or were always in the depths of his memory.
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Ji Chu realized that he had made a big mistake.
Why did she think that the mission was to rescue Yao Chan?
No one had ever told her how to complete the mission. Just because she and Yao Chan had been burned to death together in the previous attempts, she had a preconceived notion that she had to save Yao Chan.
It was not until now that she realized that Yao Chan was not the "poor persecuted person" she thought he was.
She personally showed Ji Chu what it meant that "killing is the easiest thing."
As the rag doll thrown into the fire was burned, countless rag dolls with flames all over their bodies jumped out from the flames.
They had the faces and facial features of the villagers, opened their bloody mouths and devoured every villager present. The people wrapped in flames let out shrill howls, which made Ji Chu feel extremely painful.
But she couldn't stop it.
She was sealed in a large cotton doll by Yao Chan. Her limbs could not move. She could only see the "cotton dolls" who were engulfed in flames and struggling desperately through the eyes of the cotton doll.
The fire burned for a whole day and a whole night without stopping.
The flesh and skin of the other people sealed in the rag dolls had been burned, but they were still alive, screaming and wailing in extremely twisted and weird postures.
The scene was like a grotesque purgatory.
Ji Chu, who was furious, found that it was useless. He took a deep breath for a long time before coming down and asked Yao Chan:
"Are you going to kill me?"
"How could that be? It would be such a shame to let you die."
Yao Chan smiled coldly:
"Aren't you going to save me? In return, I'm willing to give you a chance and invite you to watch a good show."
She also held a cotton doll in her hand. She cast some kind of magic, but the doll seemed to come alive, gradually growing bigger and taller, and a finely outlined face appeared on its blank face.
Yao Chan tapped his lips with his long fingers, and his voice was like bewitching:
"Your bodies have been burned, and you will die sooner or later."
"But I'll give you one chance... Whoever wins will get this indestructible body."
The people who were still wailing fell silent for a moment after hearing this, looked at each other, and suddenly began to tear the limbs of the people around them, completely forgetting that they were friendly neighbors who had eaten and lived together before.
The cloth could not withstand such tearing, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.
The black air oozing out of the tattered wound, coupled with the innocent smile on the rag doll's face, was truly terrifying.
Ji Chu clenched his fists little by little.
Yao Chan had admired her enough and turned to look at her:
"How is it? Is this play good?"
Ji Chu didn't respond, so she continued:
"I think it will be much more exciting than burning the witches to death..."
Before he could finish his words, the cotton doll wrapped around Ji Chu suddenly split in the middle.
Yao Chan was startled and found himself pinned against the tree trunk by Ji Chu's sword.
There was undisguised surprise in her eyes. She obviously didn't expect Ji Chu to be able to break her magic of exorcism.
The silk thread on Ji Chu's fingertips faded away quietly.
In her previous life, her meridians were blocked, and by chance she learned the "Thousand Silk Puppet Shadow".
This technique is a kind of evil magic, using the soul as a thread to control others. The lower the cultivation level, the lower the ability to control the thread, and the greater the probability of soul damage.
When her senior brother from her previous life found out, he scolded her severely. She had never seen her senior brother so angry and disappointed. She felt guilty and rarely used it again after that.
As a result, she was a little unskilled and it took her a long time to tear free the rag doll that was trapped around her.
Ji Chu withdrew his thoughts, looked at Yao Chan in front of him, and threatened with his sword:
"Let those people go!"
Yao Chan sneered:
"You're really interesting. One moment you save me, the next moment you save them..."
"What a pity... you can't save any of them!"
As she spoke, her expression suddenly changed, and a cotton doll emerged from her bun and rushed towards Ji Chu at a very tricky angle. Although the doll was small, two silver needles extended from its arms. The tips were bluish-black, obviously containing a strong poison, and they flew straight into Ji Chu's eyes.
Ji Chu was too close to her and it was impossible for her to avoid him.
She hurriedly took a half step back, and the needle tip was already in front of her eyes.
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Ji Chu still took the time to comfort himself in despair:
If she could leave the brick painting right after being stabbed in the eye, she would immediately run to find Elder Tan. Perhaps the person could still be saved. If Elder Tan tried harder, perhaps the eyes could still be saved.
The sword energy suddenly emerged, accompanied by a chill.
The silver needle stopped a few inches in front of her eyes.
The air seemed to be quiet for a few breaths, and Ji Chu blinked.
The rag doll flying in the air was instantly frozen into ice in front of her eyes. The cold sword intent attached to it, and in the blink of an eye it was crushed into ashes.
Ice chips fell all over the ground.
Ji Chu was still moving backwards when she suddenly bumped into a tall and cold figure from behind. The familiar cold fragrance enveloped her, and she felt like she was leaning in the other person's arms.
Her shoulders were gently held, and her long arms were slightly bent, supporting her body.
A bony hand stretched out from the side, its five fingers long and strong, easily wrapping her sword-holding hand completely. The palm was slightly cool but not hard, and it held the back of her hand.
An indifferent and gentle voice came from above her head, saying to her in an unquestionable tone:
"Kill her."
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Ji Chu: "Senior Brother is very fierce, that's just a rumor. If I get brave enough, I'll beat him up... knock him down! Hmm! (Head raised jpg)"
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