Chapter 73 I Haven't Called You Brother Yet
As night falls, a bright moon hangs high in the sky.
Two figures stepped on the ancient and glittering fairy swords, as if they were immortals traveling from ancient times, untainted by the dust.
The immortal sword exudes a faint light, which complements the silver moonlight. Sometimes it passes over towering mountains, and sometimes it shuttles through deep canyons. Every slight tremor seems to contain the mysterious power between heaven and earth.
A subtle and crisp whistle and the two people's whispered conversation faintly echoed in the air, as if coming from the sky beyond the nine heavens, adding a sense of remoteness and mystery to the quiet night sky.
"Lu Chen, it's snowing." Li Chengfeng stood on the magic sword and looked up at the sky.
The snowflakes were like thousands of elves falling from the sky, slowly spinning and interweaving around him, dancing lightly and gracefully, and finally blending silently into this quiet and vast world.
This is the first snow this winter.
Hearing this, Lu Chen stretched out his hand to catch a falling snowflake, lowered his eyes and said, "The snow here is exactly the same as that on Qingya Mountain."
Li Chengfeng also reached out to catch a snowflake, and watched it melt in his palm. He sighed, "It's snowing, how can there be no fried chicken and beer?"
Lu Chen nodded in agreement: "On a day like this, it's more suitable to find a pavilion, brew a pot of wine, play the zither and enjoy the snow."
But no matter what, it shouldn't be flying with a sword at an altitude of ten thousand meters, braving the cold wind.
Li Chengfeng turned his head and looked at the water snake tied to the end of the magic sword. He felt more and more annoyed.
If it weren't for this guy, he would have returned to his home in City C by now, enjoying the snow and the moon with Lu Chen, talking about ideals, drinking tea and brewing wine, and chatting about life.
The fairy sword accelerated suddenly, crossed a mountain, and the base building described by the water snake appeared in front of it.
"The people are being held there, right?" Li Chengfeng asked.
"No, no, no, that's right, it's right there." The water snake hugged the hilt tightly, trembling.
Although flying with a sword is a lifelong dream of many men, no one wants to be tied to the hilt of a sword and act as a human GPS for their first flight.
What's more, the sword flew so freely and without a safety belt, which made Shuishe, who was not afraid of heights, afraid of heights.
He had never felt so at ease stepping on the ground, and now he just wanted them to put him down quickly.
"OK, then let's walk from here." Li Chengfeng pointed to a forest near the base and motioned Lu Chen to stop there. After all, flying on a sword was indeed a bit too eye-catching.
Lu Chen understood what he meant, lowered his eyes and made a hand gesture. The magic sword began to travel rapidly in the air like a roller coaster, and then suddenly turned 90 degrees to the ground and began to fall vertically.
“Aaaaaa——”
As the screams of water snakes pierced the night sky, the immortal sword suddenly braked before hitting the ground and stopped abruptly two meters above the ground.
The water snake's heart almost stopped.
He finally came back to his senses from the free fall and thought everything was finally over.
Suddenly, someone kicked him in the buttocks and he fell to the ground from a height of two meters, landing flat on his face.
He fell with a bruised face and got up from the ground in shock. He watched the pair of men leisurely maneuvering the magic sword to the ground and then walking down from the sword.
Li Chengfeng gave Lu Chen a thumbs up and praised him: "I haven't seen Brother Lu for many years. Your sword-flying skills have become more and more sophisticated."
Lu Chen put away the magic sword and glanced at him.
Water snake: “Ugh—”
Look, is this human language?
Li Chengfeng pinched his nose in disdain and walked away from him, calling out to Lu Chen as he walked, "Brother Lu, this way, this way."
Lu Chen walked to Li Chengfeng and glanced at the water snake that was vomiting behind him. "Don't worry about him? What if he goes back and tells the truth?"
Li Chengfeng stroked his chin, thought for a moment and said, "A normal person who was beaten like that would not come after us again. Moreover, he was so scared that he peed his pants. It's so cold, the most urgent thing should be to find a new pair of pants to change into. It's a waste of time to take him with us, so let's go and rescue Ping An and the others as soon as possible."
Lu Chen nodded, it did make sense.
So the two of them ignored the water snake and walked side by side towards the base.
All that was left was a lonely, wet, and frightened water snake that was vomiting and having diarrhea.
Seeing that the pair of men actually left him like that, Shuishe vomited the last bit of acid in his stomach, raised his head, and there was a resentful look in his eyes.
He stood up with difficulty, leaning against a big tree, gasping for breath and shaking with anger.
Did those two people just treat him as a tool?
He really just left like that?
I can’t stand it. I simply can’t stand it!
"You, you look down on me too much." The water snake gnashed its teeth and said, "I will make you pay the price for this!"
He looked around and found that he was in a small forest.
This is his natural home ground, where his extraordinary abilities will be of real value.
"I will make you pay for the sin of trampling on my dignity." The water snake had a gloomy face and activated his superpowers.
The reason why Water Snake is codenamed Water Snake is because his superpower allows him to extend four transparent snake-like tentacles to entangle, sneak attack, and strike the enemy. In this forest environment full of vegetation, he is invincible.
After the water snake's superpower was activated, something in the air quietly changed.
In the invisible void, four snake-like tentacles flew rapidly towards Li Chengfeng and the other man.
Li Chengfeng couldn't help shivering as he walked. He shrank his neck, turned his head and said to Lu Chen, "Brother Lu, it's quite cold today. After we destroy this base, why don't we have a drink?"
Lu Chen: "Get out of the way."
The attack came suddenly, and no one knew where it came from.
Lu Chen floated in the air and looked at the place where he and Li Chengfeng were originally, with a frown on his face. It had become a ruin.
"Li Chengfeng, are you still alive?" he asked coldly.
The dust cleared, revealing Li Chengfeng's intact figure.
He stood at the bottom of a pit and dusted off his hands. "You scared me. What happened? What was that just now?"
Lu Chen floated in the air, looking into the distance, and immediately found the culprit.
"It was that person who just attacked us."
"What? He dares to come?" Li Chengfeng had a deeper understanding of the diversity of human biological species.
The water snake hid behind a big tree and had no idea that it had been discovered by Lu Chen.
He raised his index finger and cursed Li Chengfeng viciously.
Unexpectedly, such sneak attacks were actually avoided by the opponent.
However, he firmly believed that the opponent's luck would not always be so good. If the sneak attack failed once, he would try a second time, and he would always succeed in the end.
So, under the attack of the invisible tentacles, Li Chengfeng began to spin, jump, and roll non-stop.
These attacks were not worth mentioning to him, but because they were invisible, they were like a mosquito buzzing in your ear in the dark, which was very annoying.
After dodging the unknown attack for the Nth time, Li Chengfeng helplessly said to Lu Chen who was floating in the air: "Brother Lu, why don't you take action?"
Lu Chen put his hands in front of his chest and said leisurely: "Can't you solve it yourself? I see you are having a lot of fun."
Li Chengfeng: "It can be solved, but my move would be too noisy."
You can't blow up the whole house just to kill a mosquito, right?
Lu Chen said: "Your moves are loud, but mine are not?"
Li Chengfeng thought about it and decided to let him do it.
Using the Heavenly Sword to chop mosquitoes is indeed a bit of a waste of talent.
So how do we solve the current trouble?
Li Chengfeng was thinking hard.
Lu Chen waited and waited, and seeing that Li Chengfeng still didn't make a move, he couldn't help but urge him: "What are you still hesitating about? Stop playing."
Li Chengfeng: "Brother Lu, I have thought of 108 ways to defeat him. Which one should I use?"
Lu Chen: “…”
Seeing Lu Chen about to draw his sword, Li Chengfeng quickly snapped his fingers and said, "I've decided. Let's just use the simplest one."
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure disappeared from the spot and suddenly appeared next to the water snake at lightning speed.
Facing the water snake's confused gaze, he threw a punch, hitting the opponent in the face.
Under the huge impact force, the water snake's body drew a parabola in the air, and then fell heavily to the ground, splashing a cloud of snow and water.
In an instant, the world became quiet.
All the superpowers disappeared, and there were no more annoying mosquitoes buzzing in Li Chengfeng's ears.
In the face of absolute power suppression, these little tricks are simply not worth mentioning.
After the battle, Li Chengfeng walked to the water snake, confirmed that it was still alive, took out his cell phone and called the police.
"Meizi Street Police Station? I want to report a crime. Someone attacked me and I knocked him unconscious... I was acting in self-defense. I am a law-abiding citizen. How could I take the initiative to use violence against others?... I want to rescue someone. I can't send him there in person. I'll send you a location. Please send someone to pick up the criminal as soon as possible."
After hanging up the phone, he looked at Lu Chen who walked to his side and said, "It's all done, let's go."
Lu Chen looked at the water snake on the ground: "If the base is full of enemies of his level, the battle will probably be over in less than an hour."
Li Chengfeng smiled and said, "Maybe it won't even take an hour. The Glazed Sword I gave to Ping An stores my three sword intentions. Once released, it will be a devastating blow..."
Before he finished speaking, a sword energy shot up into the sky, breaking through the clouds, as if it was going to tear the sky apart.
In an instant, the sky was covered with dark clouds, lightning, thunder, and strong winds.
A huge crack quickly spread out from the distant base, winding like a giant dragon, swallowing everything.
Dust was flying, sand was splashing, and the whole earth was shaking.
Looking at this doomsday-like scene, Lu Chen sighed: "It really is the collapse of the heavens and the earth."
When he turned around again, Li Chengfeng had already ridden away in a hurry.
Only the lingering sound remained in his ears: "Fuck - that's my sword intent. How did Ping An use all my sword intent? This is going to be a disaster. Brother Lu, come with me to save people."
***
Li Ping'an was awakened by a knock on the door.
When she opened her eyes, she found herself lying on her bed at home, with a familiar pink princess canopy above her head.
Li Chengfeng's voice sounded outside the door, attracting her attention: "Ping An, are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?"
Li Ping'an climbed up from the bed, slowly found his slippers, and walked to the door with dragging feet.
She stood on tiptoe and put her hand on the doorknob, ready to open the door.
Li Chengfeng's voice continued to sound through the door: "Zhang Dongyang and Qi Yu had an accident and died... What happened that day? Why are you the only one who survived? Safe..."
Li Pingan couldn't hear clearly what he said next.
She thought her uncle was so annoying. Why did he keep saying things she couldn't understand?
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. She couldn't help but choke up and said in a crying voice, "Uncle, please stop talking. I'm not hungry. I don't want to eat. I want to sleep."
Hearing her words, the voice outside the door paused for a moment, then asked: "Ping An, what's wrong with you? Are you crying?"
Li Pingan pulled her hand back from the doorknob and wiped the tears from her face. She climbed onto her bed while sobbing, then covered herself with the quilt and answered the chattering voice outside the door: "I'm sorry, uncle, I'm sorry... I'm very tired, I really need to go to bed."
The knocking stopped, and Li Chengfeng's calm voice sounded outside the door: "Li Ping'an, you can't lock yourself in the room forever."
Why not?
She is really tired and really wants to sleep, why can't she get a good night's sleep?
Li Ping'an covered his head with a quilt to block out all the sounds.
My uncle's voice disappeared and the whole world became quiet.
Later, many people came to her room door, including Brother Xiao Qi, Zhang Dongyang's parents, and teachers from the Extraordinary Children's Academy...
Everyone wants to know what happened?
Everyone was asking her, "How did Zhang Dongyang and Qi Yu die? Where did the murderer go?"
Li Ping'an had so many things he wanted to say, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't utter a single word.
She doesn't know what's wrong with her?
Ever since she witnessed Zhang Dongyang and Qi Yu falling in front of her, she seemed to have returned to the day of the car accident three years ago, watching her close people leave her one by one, but being unable to do anything.
From that day on, Li Ping'an found that he could no longer speak.
Suddenly, she couldn't utter a word.
Li Chengfeng would come and knock on the door to call her every day, but Li Pingan could not say a word.
Later, even Li Chengfeng left, and her world became completely quiet.
She couldn't speak, so she could only vent her emotions on the drawing paper.
She painted and painted, from dawn to dusk, from sunset to sunrise.
She knew something was wrong with her, but she couldn't stop.
After the car accident three years ago, she closed her heart for the first time, and it was Li Chengfeng who made her speak.
But this time even Li Chengfeng left.
No one could open her door and pull her out of this dead place.
This time, no one could save her.
She became addicted to painting, and she thought it might be nice to paint like this for the rest of her life.
She wondered how long she had been painting in the room?
A week, a month, or a year.
Until one day, she was tired of painting, lying on the bed, turning her head, and saw a parrot perched on the windowsill.
She suddenly remembered that afternoon in the distant past, when someone used his special powers to control a parrot to fly to her home and said, "Little Junior Sister, tomorrow is your birthday. Can we come over to celebrate your birthday?"
But who is speaking?
She can't remember.
She suddenly felt scared. Her memory was slowly disappearing, and the traces of her existence were being erased bit by bit.
The moment her memory is cleared, will she completely disappear from this world, with no trace of her existence left?
Li Ping'an didn't want to disappear from this world like Chen Lu, leaving no trace of his presence.
She wanted someone to rescue her and pull her out of this predicament.
She called out and prayed countless times in her heart.
But no one came to rescue her.
No one appeared in front of her.
Everyone left her.
Who can come to rescue her?
Who can come to rescue her?
At that moment, just at that instant, a thought suddenly flashed through her mind.
Why do you have to rely on others to save you?
Why do we always wait for others to save us?
Why couldn't she save herself?
Like a seed breaking through the soil, she suddenly became conscious.
A real dilemma is one where no one will pull you out, otherwise it wouldn’t be a dilemma.
The world in which you are trapped needs you to walk out step by step with your own feet.
If you really give up, you will be like the morning dew, leaving no trace of your presence.
If no one saves her this time, she will save herself.
…
Li Pingan didn't know when he fell asleep.
A new day came when she woke up from her sleep, her tears soaking the entire pillow.
She remembered that the little boy who controlled the parrot to fly to her balcony was named Zhang Dongyang.
She also remembered that the little boy named Zhang Dongyang died in front of her.
She felt she should say something.
So, she said to the parrot: "Zhang Dongyang, is that you? I haven't called you senior brother yet."
The parrot flew away.
And she suddenly could speak again.
She is still the same person, with the same looks, voice and attire.
It's a new day, the sun rises as usual, and the room remains unchanged.
But she knew something was different.
Li Pingan got up, sat in front of the drawing board, and carefully finished his last painting.
Afterwards, she neatly put away all her paintings and took a look at the room where she had stayed for a long time.
Then he walked to the door and opened it.
It was pitch black outside the door, with no light at all, forming a sharp contrast with the warm light in the room.
But she knew that she had to take a step forward. She couldn't trap herself here forever.
She took the first step.
Then, the second step, the third step...
She spent countless days and nights in the welfare home, and also stepped over the corpses of countless of her companions on the ground.
She crawled around in the dark, not knowing how far she had gone.
Then, finally, there was a glimmer of light.
She took a step forward and ran towards the light.
But when he was about to arrive, he stopped.
Standing in the light were the two figures she was most familiar with.
Those are Li Ping'an's parents.
She stopped where she was and looked up at the two familiar yet unfamiliar faces.
The two of them also looked at her with a smile and opened their arms, wanting to hug her.
Li Ping'an couldn't hold back any longer and threw herself into her parents' arms, tears streaming down her tightly closed eyes.
She cried so loudly, as if she wanted to vent all the sadness and reluctance in her heart.
Mom and Dad hugged her gently and waited patiently for her to finish crying.
Then, he stretched out his hand and pointed forward.
Li Pingan stood up and left his parents' arms.
She was so sad and reluctant, she wanted so much to stay in the darkness with them forever.
But in the end, I still followed the direction they pointed and stumbled towards the light.
In a trance, she heard someone speak behind her: "Li Ping'an, go forward, go forward boldly, don't look back."
There is no light in the darkness, it is just that her parents burned themselves to illuminate the way forward for her.
Their time was forever frozen at that moment, but Li Pingan was growing up.
From now on, she has her own way to go.
Tears wet my eyes unconsciously.
Li Ping'an wiped away his tears, said goodbye to his past self, and walked towards the light without looking back.
The light was so small, just a tiny round hole, letting in a little light.
But this little bit of light is enough to bring immense hope to people in the darkness.
A sword appeared in Li Ping'an's hand at some point. She held the sword and seemed to have infinite courage in her heart.
She just stretched out her hand and waved it lightly, and a huge amount of energy burst out from the sword, breaking through the darkness and rushing towards the light with an unstoppable belief and cry.
Then, night fell and light came.
In the last second before stepping into the light, Li Ping'an turned around and saw her parents still standing there, looking at her with a smile.
She said silently in her heart: Goodbye, Dad. Goodbye, Mom.
Then, dawn came to her world.
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