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It was late at night and everything was quiet. Except for Bai Linchuan, everyone had closed their eyes and was resting. Wei Si was leaning against a pillar, and a big man was lying beside the fire with his hands and feet tied.
It’s not clear whether he was asleep or not, but Mo Xue must have been in a deep sleep.
He lay on the altar, his chest rising and falling with a faint, regular rhythm. The altar was so narrow that one of his legs hung down.
Bai Linchuan's veil was very long, and Mo Xue had to tear off half of the cloth to make it enough. He was sleeping in a messy position, with his right leg sticking out of his outer garment, revealing a part of his tender white leg.
His calves were slender but powerful, and looked even whiter against the backdrop of his dark-colored clothes. When he was flying down the mountain with a sword in hand, it was hard to imagine that there was a pair of powerful legs under his robe.
The tattered jade lamp that Mo Xue had fought for was hanging on the beam. The wind blew the jade lamp, and the faint light shone on the statue. The statue looked at the altar and... the offerings below with hazy and deep eyes.
Mo Xie was asleep and knew nothing about it.
The fire had gone out, leaving only a little red glow in the ashes, emitting a faint light and occasionally making a few crackling sounds.
Bai Linchuan opened his eyes vigilantly, found that everything was normal, and closed them again. His breath hit the stuffy black cloth, and then returned to hit his own face. The air became hot.
In the hot air, Bai Linchuan fell into a drowsy sleep. Suddenly, he heard a faint noise. He opened his eyes and saw that Mo Xue had woken up at some point and was standing in front of him. He didn't know how long he had been standing there.
When the cold air hit him in the face, he realized that his veil had been taken off.
Mo Xue's eyes were dark and filled with painful hatred. The hatred overflowed and he wished he could kill Bai Linchuan to vent his hatred.
Bai Linchuan was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted, "You..."
At this moment, Mo Xue raised his magic sword and stabbed it straight into his chest.
Bai Linchuan opened his eyes wide in disbelief, blood flowing from his chest, staining his clothes. He heard him say, "Disgusting..."
…
"Disgusting?"
Blood turned into flames, and huge anger surrounded Bai Linchuan. His whole body was as hot as magma. The ground began to collapse, the wooden beams began to become illusory, the Buddha statue shed its skin, revealing the ghost underneath, and the compassionate smile turned into a smug sneer.
When he was dying, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Mo Xue's hand, and jumped into the lava with him, and they were submerged and sank together.
Bai Linchuan suddenly opened his eyes. The veil on his body was still there. The sky was pale. The sun had not yet risen. A gray and damp breeze blew in from outside the door. They were still sleeping, and Mo Xue was still in the same position.
The white gauze frame had dried up on the fire, so Bai Linchuan replaced it.
After Mo Xue woke up, Bai Linchuan returned the black cloth.
Mo Xue looked at the neatly folded black cloth and said with a smile, "It can't be sewn back on after it's been cut. I would be happier if Junior Sister accepted it."
Unexpectedly, Bai Linchuan was cold and threw the black cloth directly to him, with a cold breath all over his body, without saying a word.
Mo Xue scratched his head, confused for a while. He asked Wei Si, "Did anything happen last night?"
Wei Si shook his head and said, "You can actually sleep so soundly in such a damn place."
Bai Linchuan looked at the Buddha statue. The mottled brass revealed the dark iron sheet underneath, and his face was compassionate and smiling.
People who practice cultivation rarely dream, as most dreams are born from the mind. He hadn't dreamed for a long time, so he casually asked, "Did you have any dreams last night?"
"Dream? What dream?" Mo Xue asked.
Bai Linchuan glanced at him and said, "See you sleeping so soundly."
Mo Xie thought he was being whiny and said, "I will keep watch over my junior sister from now on. You can sleep peacefully."
Bai Linchuan: "..."
The big man couldn't wait any longer, "Can we get up and go now?"
"Don't be in a hurry, have breakfast first." Mo Xie walked out the door leisurely.
The big man asked, "Are you here to catch monsters or just for fun?"
Mo Xue said, "Of course it's to catch monsters and earn some spirit stones along the way."
The big man looked helpless, but the person was still in their hands, so he had to shut up.
Mo Xue followed Bai Linchuan. The big man's hands were tied and there were iron chains between his feet. Wei Si held the big man's hand, and the four of them walked on the empty street.
"Strange, why are these inns closed?" Mo Xue asked.
The big man explained: "There are no customers. It's a loss to keep it open."
Wei Si said, "That shouldn't be the case. After all, the Red Water Lake is the best in the world."
The big man said, "They say it's all in the past. Who would come now? What's more, the story of the water monster in Shu has spread, and no one dares to come. In my opinion, maybe there is no water monster at all."
"You seem very anxious?" Mo Xue glanced at the big man.
The big man snorted and said, "If I walk around the streets with you guys like this, what if I run into Ruan Yi and he sends others to kill He Shuangran?"
Mo Xue said, "Don't worry, if we can't get out, then he naturally can't get out either."
After walking around, he found that even the inn he had stayed in before was closed. There was no breakfast to eat, so Mo Xue had to deal with his business first.
"How can we not get out? Is there a barrier ahead?" Mo Xie asked, standing on the blue beach.
The big man said, "Shu is surrounded by the sea. If you want to leave, you must fly over the sea. However, once you reach the sea, you will be hit by huge waves."
The huge sand and pebbles under my feet were washed onto the beach by the sea water, white waves came one after another, and the sea was calm.
"What if we take a boat?" Bai Linchuan asked.
"You will only die faster." said the big man.
Mo Xue looked at the calm sea and flew up with his sword, "I'll give it a try."
He stood on the sword, with his feet apart, knees slightly bent, and the sword flew up quickly like an eagle. He had just flown over the sea, less than a few meters away, when huge waves came from the distance.
The huge wave was as high as a building. Mo Xue's eyes were cold. He flew into the huge wave with a sword in hand, breaking through the sea water and rising up. The sword was almost perpendicular to the ground. He and the sword became one, like a startled bird, running quickly and flying above the huge wave again.
Under the fence, Bai Linchuan lowered his eyes and his Adam's apple moved.
However, before Mo Xie had even flown for a while, a huge wave hit him again. This time, it was three stories high and covered the sky. Mo Xie looked up at the huge wave, which almost occupied his entire field of vision and instantly swept him into it.
"Mo Xue!" Wei Si exclaimed.
Bai Linchuan suddenly looked up, and found that he was no longer on the sea. He took out Ye Zhou and was about to get on board.
"Wait," Weiss called out to him.
I saw huge waves hitting the endless sea, the sea water rising and falling onto the shore, and a small black dot slowly flying towards me in the distance.
Mo Xue returned to the shore in a disheveled state, slumped down on the sand, spat out the sea water in his mouth, and picked the seaweed from his hair.
"No matter how high I fly, the waves will be higher. I really can't get out," he said dejectedly.
Bai Linchuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was fine, "Don't be impulsive in the future."
Bai Linchuan still held Ye Zhou in his hand. Mo Xue's hair was wet, and his eyes were wet too. He stared at him and smiled, "Junior Sister, are you concerned about me?"
Bai Linchuan took Ye Zhou back, his face expressionless, even with a hint of regret, "No."
When Mo Xue came back, he brought back a person with him. He was unconscious on the beach and suddenly coughed twice, and then everyone noticed him.
"Who is this?" Wei Si asked.
"I don't know, he was saved by a kind passerby." Mo Xue said.
Wei Si looked at him in surprise, as if questioning whether he had any good intentions.
After waking up, the man said that his name was Fang Zhuang and his family had been fishermen for generations. He went out to sea to fish, but he didn't expect to encounter big waves.
Mo Xie coughed and touched his nose. "Have you been fishing these days?"
"What will we eat if we don't go to the sea?" Fang Zhuang replied. He had the face of a rough man, with a scruffy beard, and his clothes were almost all patched up, almost like new clothes.
"It's not easy to go fishing at sea to support your family, including your wife and children." Mo Xue said with a sigh.
Fang Zhuang glanced at him and noticed that Mo Xue was staring at him. He quickly lowered his head and said, "There's no one at home. My parents died a long time ago."
"What about your wife?" Mo Xie asked.
Fang Zhuang replied calmly, "Break it."
Mo Xie squatted down, propped up his head and asked curiously, "How did you break it?"
Fang Zhuang frowned, "It's over, there's no emotion anymore." He stood up, "I'm much better, thank you for saving me." After saying that, he took off the fish basket hanging around his waist and gave it to Mo Xue, in which there were still a few unfortunate fish left.
Mo Xue gladly accepted it and said with a smile, "You're welcome. Saving people is my duty."
The big man was amazed and asked quietly, "How can he be so shameless?"
Mo Xue glanced at him and said vindictively, "There's no place for you."
By the time Wei Si found firewood and roasted the fish, Mo Xue's clothes were almost dry.
The big man watched the three of them eating the fish with relish. At first, he urged them impatiently several times, but later Mo Xue squatted directly in front of him and started eating. He then closed his mouth and turned his head away.
"There's just one left." Mo Xie finally handed him a fish. The big man hadn't eaten all day, and the smell of the delicious grilled fish made him starve. Seeing that Mo Xie and the others had eaten, he took the fish and started to bite it.
After finishing his meal, the big man wiped his mouth and said, "It's time to go now..."
Mo Xue patted his sleeves and said, "Well, how do we get there?"
The big man said, "If I knew how to get there, would I still need you?"
Mo Xue suddenly realized: "Oh, so you didn't know."
The big man shut his mouth tightly, and if he spoke again he would be called a dog.
Mo Xue walked in front, Bai Linchuan followed beside him, and Wei Si led the big man back to the street again.
Mo Xie suddenly said, "Junior Sister, where do you think we should go?"
First, the strange disappearance of Chishui Lake, and then the strange seal in Shuzhong. Bai Linchuan said: "Chishui Lake."
Mo Xie smiled, "We really are in sync."
Bai Linchuan: "..." He spoke unnecessarily.
Mo Xue walked to the foot of Chishan Mountain, looked back at the entire street, and suddenly stopped and said, "This Holy Land of Love is really an evil holy land."
No one responded for a long while. Mo Xue was not anxious and just stood there. It was Wei Si who spoke up, "Why do you say that?"
Mo Xue said, "Haven't you noticed? Every family here only has one person. Some may have a child at most, but they all have only a father or a mother."
Wei Si thought back to the two times they walked around the street today. They didn't see any couples. "That's true." Even young boys and girls didn't travel together.
"It's too much of a coincidence that the entire Shuzhong population is like this."
He muttered to himself as he went up the mountain. He saw an old lady carrying a basket. Her hair was gray and her eyes were full of wrinkles. She was staggering up the mountain and almost tripped over a rock.
Mo Xue stepped forward in time to support her, slowing down his pace to walk with her, "Grandma, you're going to climb the mountain to stretch your muscles."
Bai Linchuan, Wei Si and the big man followed behind them.
The wrinkles at the corners of the old lady's eyes were filled with a kind smile. "Go see my old man."
"Is he on the mountain?" Mo Xue asked doubtfully. After all, the Chishui Lake had dried up, the mountain was bare, and the scenery was bleak.
The old lady laughed and said, "He died a long time ago..."
"oh……"
Mo Xie's nose twitched as he suddenly smelled a sweet scent. He lowered his head and saw the peach blossom cake in the basket she was carrying. He asked casually, "Why bury her on the mountain? It's so troublesome to go back and forth."
She said, "He was on the mountain when he died."
Mo Xue turned around and looked at the three of them. "May I ask how he died?"
The old woman's steps were old, and she had to pause from time to time. She replied, "If someone asked me this when I was young, I would definitely say that he was killed by a wild beast, or that he fell down the mountain and died. But now I am old, and I don't know when he will die." She looked at Mo Xue with kind eyes and smiled, "So I can tell you clearly that he was killed by me..."
“?!”
Everyone paused, and Mo Xue was stunned for a moment. The old lady had rested enough, so Mo Xue helped her continue walking. She narrated the story, "Back then, when the Red Water Lake was still there, I pushed him down with my own hands."
Mo Xie asked for a long time: "Why?"
The old lady laughed heartily: "Why else? Of course I hate him. I wish he were dead."
Bai Linchuan asked from behind: "Why do you hate him?"
The old lady shook her head and said, "I forgot. He has been dead for many years."
Mo Xie asked, "Then you still go up the mountain to offer sacrifices to him?"
The old lady chuckled and said, "This is the thing he hated the most, so of course it should be placed on his grave."
Mo Xue laughed out loud, not expecting the old lady to be such a straightforward person. He said, "But climbing a mountain isn't easy, is it?"
The old lady tapped her leg and said, "Yes, after all these years, I almost can't find his grave. But, I can still use my leg, and it will lead me to him."
As they were approaching the mountain pass, Mo Xue finally joked, "He must be a weirdo. This peach blossom cake is fragrant, soft, and delicious, but he doesn't like it."
The old lady smiled gently and said casually, "Back then, when I was a girl, I still remember him standing under that peach tree.
He handed me a piece of peach blossom cake. I didn't know him, so I asked: "Why don't you eat it yourself?" He said... he doesn't like to eat this..."
"Then I'll bring it to you tomorrow."
"good."
The echo of time draws a circle. The peach blossoms of those years ultimately only remain in the old grandmother's heart. Her eyebrows and eyes are wrinkled, but she still remembers clearly, "The peach blossoms back then were much better than they are now..."
The smile on Mo Xie's face fell.
He looked at the old lady walking into the depths of the woods. She said she had built a cenotaph for him under the peach tree in the forest.
Wei Si was silent for a long time, then sighed, "Is this love or hate..."
Mo Xue lowered his eyes, looking at the dry bottom of the Red Water Lake, which was as dry as a wound in the earth, and said through gritted teeth, "So many people died in this lake!"
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