Chapter 285 Eve
Yun Qingqing was just asking casually.
Hearing her say this, he nodded without thinking too much and asked again:
"What should I call you then?"
"To answer Miss Yun, my name is A'Du."
"Then I'll have to trouble Miss Adu." Yun Qingqing said in a gentle voice.
"Okay, then I'll help you." A'du secretly breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to support Yun Qingqing.
The thin young man suddenly stood in front of Yun Qingqing, blocking A'du.
"Miss Adu, just lead the way. I'm here for you." The boy's light grey eyes were slightly curved, with the corners of his lips curled in a perfect arc.
I don’t know if he pronounced unclearly or did it on purpose, but Adu was called Adu.
A'Du glared, his face slightly reddened by his blockade, and was about to open his mouth to refute, but the boy asked with a smile:
"Is it all right, Miss Du?"
This time he pronounced her name very slowly. A'du looked at him and his face suddenly turned pale.
She bit her lips hard, lowered her head and said softly:
"Well, then...please follow me, both of you."
The young man was not surprised by her retreat. The corners of his lips widened and he turned around and carefully pulled up the corner of Yun Qingqing's sleeve.
"Sister..." He hesitated for a moment, reached out and held Yun Qingqing's wrist, and said softly, "Sister, come this way."
Yun Qingqing felt a cool hand holding her wrist and raised her eyebrows in surprise.
She had long seen that Ahan extremely hated physical contact with others, and she could understand why he was like that, so she was very careful to keep her distance along the way and would not touch his boundaries even if she accidentally did so.
So she was already a little surprised when he helped her wipe the blood just now, and she was even more surprised now.
"Sister," the boy's voice suddenly sounded in my ears, "how do you want to cure your eyes?"
Yun Qingqing regained her thoughts, raised her eyebrows and tilted her head:
"Are you so sure that my eyes can be cured?"
"If it can't be cured, I won't be so relaxed forever." The young man seemed to laugh softly, "Lord Yan Jun seems to know this very well. He looks so worried about you, but he didn't even ask if your eyes can be cured."
A'Du in front of him paused slightly.
Yun Qingqing also paused: "Miss A'du?"
"Ah... I was just thinking about a difficult errand and my mind wandered a little. Sorry!"
A'du explained hurriedly and continued walking forward.
Yun Qingqing's thoughts were still on the previous sentence, and she chuckled:
"I was injured in Lord Yan's palace, so he would be nervous, but he can't be as nervous as you said, right?"
"As for the matter of my eyes, since he can sit in the position of Lord Yan, he must be very capable, so it's not surprising that he knows about it."
"Actually, you don't have to worry. My eyes are just overused. I don't need any treatment. I just need to go home and have a good sleep tonight and I'll be fine."
"I see." The young man felt relieved and responded calmly.
The pair of light-colored phoenix eyes looked at A'du's slightly hunched shoulders in front of him, and curled his lips meaningfully.
Yun Qingqing had sharp senses, and with someone guiding her, she was no slower than when she came here, and she quickly returned to the place where she had entered the underworld.
A'Du raised his hand to open the entrance to the Yin and Yang world, and stepped aside:
"Miss Yun, take care."
Yun Qingqing walked through the exit, turned around and nodded to thank him, when Zhiluo's exclamation exploded in her ears:
"What happened to you? You went to the underworld and injured your eyes like this! If I had known, I would have gone with you..."
At the other end of the underworld, A'Du looked deeply at Yun Qingqing, who was smiling and comforting others. He tightly pinched the corner of his sleeve, and his eyes gradually turned red.
She suddenly felt a cold gaze sweeping towards her, and saw a clear and beautiful young man looking at her. She waved her sleeves fiercely and closed the road to the underworld.
But it remained standing there for a long time before transforming into a ray of light and flying towards the direction of Yama Palace.
…
In the inn, Zhiluo started shouting and screaming.
I finally accepted Yun Qingqing's statement that "this is something that must be done, and my eyes will be healed overnight", and reluctantly asked her:
"So what do we do next?"
Yun Qingqing counted on his fingers and pondered for a moment:
"The rain is bound to change tonight, let's go directly to the hill behind Jinping Temple and wait!"
The rain outside is getting heavier.
Fortunately, Yun Qingqing had a teleportation array talisman, so she sent Zhiluo there first and asked her to set up the talisman array there.
However, the rain in Pingzhou’s main city was only slightly heavier than that in Loucheng, and Yun Qingqing’s target location was the mountain behind the temple.
Zhiluo searched for a long time and finally found a cave that could accommodate people, and then she set up the formation talisman.
Inside the inn, Yun Qingqing took the time to meditate and recover while waiting, with a layer of white gauze still covering her eyes.
The young man sat quietly at the table, his chin in his hand, looking at her without blinking, as if thinking about something.
Until a ray of light penetrated the rain curtain and window frame and flashed in front of Yun Qingqing.
The young man stood up suddenly and ran to Yun Qingqing nervously.
"elder sister!"
Yun Qingqing smiled slightly. She and Zhiluo had a contract, so they could sense each other without using their eyes.
"It's okay. Zhiluo sent me a message. We can leave now."
The boy's pupils flickered slightly, and he nodded obediently. He reached out to help her and asked casually:
"Sister, Zhiluo... isn't she a human? What is she?"
Yun Qingqing smiled calmly and said:
"She is a mountain ghost, transformed from the essence of mountains and rivers. Now she is worshipped by the local people and is considered the mountain god of that place."
"Oh." The young man nodded as if he understood something.
"So, when she said I was a vixen before, she was really complimenting me, right?"
Yun Qingqing paused for a moment:
"Yes... She really didn't mean any harm, but it's true that what she said hurt you. How do you... feel now?"
The young man looked at her deeply for a moment, and his cold voice became more serious:
"I thought she was human before, so I was angry."
"But now that I know she is not human, I am not angry anymore. After all, we are all aliens, and the thoughts of aliens are naturally different from those of humans."
Yun Qingqing didn't know what to say.
The child thought he was an outlier, and although he didn't agree, he couldn't refute it.
She sighed in her heart and said softly:
"Ahan, clear the center of the ground. I want to set up the formation."
But the young man seemed to have something else to say, pulling her sleeve and saying:
"Sister, you said that I have never committed any sin, but I have a heavy debt..."
He hesitated for a moment, and Yun Qingqing said softly:
"Just ask whatever you want to ask."
The young man seemed to have made up his mind and asked:
"Sister, have you seen my past life? What exactly is the cause and effect you are talking about?"
Yun Qingqing hesitated for a moment and gave him a gentle smile:
"That cause and effect is that you made a wish in a previous life, and you were willing to sacrifice everything for this wish."
The boy was silent for a while.
Just when Yun Qingqing thought he was not going to ask any more questions, the young man's voice rang out softly:
"What kind of wish is it? Can't you tell me?"
Yun Qingqing shook her head:
"The secrets of heaven are mysterious, so when I tried to pry into them, they would bite back and warn me."
"I can only tell you that in that life, you were willing to fulfill this wish."
She was silent for a while, then asked softly:
"Now that you know this, will you hate yourself in that life, or wish you didn't have this wish? In fact, if you are willing to pay a price, I also have a way to help you cancel the cause and effect of this wish."
She thought the boy would either agree immediately or think for a long time before making a decision.
But he didn't expect that as soon as he finished speaking, he heard him say without hesitation:
"Sister, I want to continue to fulfill that wish."
Yun Qingqing was slightly stunned.
She wasn't quite sure what changes had taken place in the child's heart when he was with Lord Yama, but his temperament was indeed completely different from when he was on the way to Yama Palace.
At that time, he thought that the world was better than hell, and he would rather stay there and be punished.
But now he knew that just because of a wish he would fall into an endless sea of suffering, but he became more determined.
"Sister," the young man's voice was like broken jade, and seemed to carry a bit of expectation, "Whatever wish is worth the price I have to pay to fulfill it, it must be worth it!"
Yun Qingqing was stunned for a moment, and then her mind suddenly became clear.
Isn’t this exactly the original appearance of the person she saw in the samsara mirror?
Yun Qingqing smiled gently:
"Yes, you think she is worthy."
The young man did not notice the change in her wording, and said no more, leaving the central space on the ground for her to set up the formation.
After a flash of light, the two appeared in a cave in the back mountain of Jinping Temple.
Outside the rain was pouring down heavily, accompanied by flashes of lightning and roars of darkness. It should have been daylight in the afternoon, but now it was already as dark as night.
Fortunately, this cave is halfway up the mountain, and the terrain is high inside and low outside, so there is no water accumulation.
Yun Qingqing had already prepared all kinds of supplies for camping. With the help of various talismans and Zhiluo's blessing, the few of them spent the night safely in the cave, and it was not difficult to endure.
It’s half past the Mao hour.
The sky was still pitch black, and the campfire in the center of the cave was half bright and half dim. Outside, the lightning and thunder were becoming more and more frequent, as if they were going to split a hole in the sky.
Yun Qingqing opened her eyes and sat up.
Zhiluo, who was on night watch, came in front of her in a flash, looked into her eyes carefully and said in surprise:
"Have your eyes recovered?"
Yun Qingqing was just about to remind her to keep her voice down, but she saw the young man next to her also sat up, not looking drowsy at all like he had just woken up.
She frowned slightly and asked:
"You didn't sleep all night?"
The young man pursed his lips, glanced at the cave entrance, and said calmly:
"It's just listening to the thunder for a night. It's nothing."
Yun Qingqing looked at his blue eyes, sighed, took out a pill from the space and handed it to him:
"After taking this, you should be able to sleep well. We will come pick you up later when things are finished."
The young man was stunned, and his pupils suddenly dimmed:
"Sister, you don't plan to take me with you?"
Yun Qingqing said in a gentle voice:
"You haven't slept all night, so there's no need for you to follow us and suffer. We'll be back when you wake up. Isn't that better?"
The boy shook his head:
"Sister, you don't know, although I didn't sleep last night, I have never felt so peaceful and at ease. It's not like before... Even if I fell asleep, it was all nightmares..."
"Sister, even if I fall asleep, I don't want to stay here alone. Can you take me with you?"
Yun Qingqing looked at his stubborn eyes, and suddenly the scene in the Questioning the Sky hexagram came to her mind again.
A pair of eyes that are half pure and half bloodthirsty.
Once this young man decides on something, he will become obsessed with it. If she just leaves him here, there is a chance that something bad will happen, as that variable would occur.
Thinking of this, Yun Qingqing stopped struggling and nodded:
"Okay, let's go together."
The young man didn't expect her to agree so quickly. He was stunned for a moment, and then a smile broke out on his face, which seemed to make the whole cave brighter.
Without further ado, Yun Qingqing tidied herself up and took out a rainproof cloak for herself and the boy.
Zhiluo curled her lips and raised her hand, transforming a cloak of the same style for herself, and the few of them walked into the vast rain.
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