Chapter 72: The Man Shen Jiu
Shen Qingqiu stood frozen in place. Seeing that he did not answer, Luo Binghe took a step towards him.
Shen Qingqiu instinctively wanted to grab his sword for self-defense, but his waist and hands were empty.
He yelled, "System! What the hell is this punishment program?! Are you telling me to fight the BOSS with my bare hands?!"
System: [Hello, during the penalty procedure, all other system functions, including inquiries, will be unavailable. Thank you for your understanding. Best of luck.]
Holy crap!
I have absolutely no idea what to do in this situation!
Luo Binghe tucked his hands into his sleeves and smiled, "Shen Qingqiu, what are you doing here?"
Okay, Shen Qingqiu is now certain that the person in front of him is definitely not Luo Binghe from this world!
Luo Binghe always addressed him as "Master" before and after, using sweet and affectionate terms. He would never dare to call him by his name directly, much less use such a casual tone.
Anyway, it's just a punishment procedure; he shouldn't die. Thinking this way, Shen Qingqiu relaxed a little.
He calmly said, "This is Qingjing Peak."
Luo Binghe looked around: "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have remembered."
Why can't I remember?
If this is indeed Luo Binghe from the original novel, then wasn't Qingjing Peak burned down like this by him?
Shen Qingqiu asked, "And why are you here?"
Luo Binghe shrugged: "I don't know."
Then, he gave Shen Qingqiu a strange smile.
That smile was like someone who had raised a dog and suddenly discovered that the dog could speak human language. Shen Qingqiu felt a chill run down her spine from his gaze.
Luo Binghe asked, "Aren't you afraid of me anymore?"
The one outside isn't afraid. The one inside is scared!!!
Luo Binghe raised a hand to him: "Come here."
If it were the original, Shen Qingqiu would have been terrified and obediently gone over after being beckoned by the corrupted Luo Binghe. Shen Qingqiu didn't want to be that stupid.
As soon as he turned around, the black figure appeared in front of him, blocking his path, almost colliding with him. Shen Qingqiu abruptly stepped back, nearly falling backward. Luo Binghe stretched out two fingers, tugged at his sleeve, pulled him back, and said gently, "Why are you running?"
Looking at that face now, Shen Qingqiu felt a mix of emotions and could no longer face it as simply and carefree as before.
I can't seem to win, and I'm afraid I won't be able to win decisively. I have mixed feelings.
He was still not giving up, frantically typing into the system: "Is this really the Luo Binghe from the original story?! Not the Luo Binghe of this world?! How do I pass the punishment? Do I have to beat him? Are you trying to trick me?!"
System: [Hello, the punishment procedure is in progress...]
Shen Qingqiu closed the chat window.
Luo Binghe stared at his face for a long time, then frowned and said, "Something seems off about you. Are you really Shen Qingqiu?"
Shen Qingqiu blinked, a glimmer of hope igniting in his heart. Luo Binghe gazed at his face, seemingly slightly confused, and slowly took his right hand in hers.
His palms were as dry and cold as ever. Shen Qingqiu's heart stirred slightly, and he was about to say something when suddenly, he felt a chill on his right shoulder.
In that instant, Shen Qingqiu didn't feel his right arm detach from his shoulder. He just watched something fly out, half of his body became lighter, and he was still dazed and didn't react.
Until an excruciating, earth-shattering pain suddenly surged through his entire body and brain.
Luo Binghe ripped off his right arm!
Having suffered a severe injury, Shen Qingqiu's body spontaneously rebounded with a wave of spiritual energy, which was immediately crushed by Luo Binghe's palm strike.
The gushing blood was completely unstoppable. Shen Qingqiu was dizzy and his vision was blurry. He might have heard someone screaming, or he might not have. His tinnitus was too sharp for him to tell. He only wanted to get away from the person in front of him as soon as possible!
He staggered backward, but after a few steps, he tripped over the charred bamboo stumps on the ground and fell backward.
The pain from the severed arm was so intense that he even forgot the sensation of his head hitting the ground. Luo Binghe calmly followed, this time gently stroking one of his calves.
Human stick!
Luo Binghe is now planning to turn him into a human stick!
Shen Qingqiu was in so much pain that she could hardly breathe. She grabbed him with her remaining arm, shaking her head wildly, gasping for breath, "No...no..."
Don't use that face to do this kind of thing.
Luo Binghe pinned Shen Qingqiu firmly to the ground with one hand, his gaze almost tender and affectionate.
He said softly, "Master, please don't refuse me again."
In an instant, a heart-wrenching pain spread rapidly from the root of his left leg throughout his entire body.
Shen Qingqiu could no longer bear it and let out a shrill scream!
Suddenly, the pain vanished, and Shen Qingqiu sprang up from the ground.
The system tablet's voice notification reads: 【Punishment ended.】
punish?
hehe.
System, you motherfucker!!!
Shen Qingqiu didn't even have the mood to complain or slap the system. He knelt on the ground, watching cold sweat drip onto the ground, and for a long time he still didn't feel the reality of having escaped.
A voice suddenly asked from the side, "What's wrong with you?"
He then realized that he wasn't the only one there.
Moreover, he didn't seem to have been pulled back to reality yet; this was still a dream. And this cave looked somewhat familiar.
The cave where the nightmare demon lurked in the form of black mist when I first entered the dream.
The person next to him was the Nightmare.
Shen Qingqiu barely managed to compose himself: "How did I get here?"
The Dream Demon said, "You have entered an extremely powerful dream, and your primordial spirit is trembling violently. Seeing that things seemed to be going badly, I pulled you into this barrier."
So, he was only spared being completely shredded into a stick thanks to the nightmare demon pulling him out in time.
In his memory, the nightmare demon shouldn't have liked him much, so he was slightly surprised that the demon would pull him out when things were going badly. He sincerely said, "Thank you. You've been a great help."
The Dream Demon snorted, "No need for thanks. I was merely surprised that you were actually able to hold out in the Holy Tomb until that kid woke up last time. You helped him quite a bit. Helping him is helping me."
Luo Binghe.
Upon thinking of that name, Shen Qingqiu couldn't help but hug his right shoulder with his left hand.
The excruciating pain of having an arm ripped off was deeply etched into his nerves, ready to be triggered at any moment.
He took a few breaths before he could utter the three-word name in a steady voice: "Where is Luo Binghe?"
Logically speaking, Luo Binghe should be the most eager and fondest of pulling Shen Qingqiu into his dreams. Basically, as soon as Shen Qingqiu falls asleep, he comes to bother him (…). But this time, the dream demon beat him to it and pulled Shen Qingqiu into the barrier.
The Nightmare Demon was annoyed: "How would I know? Ever since that kid mastered my Nightmare Technique, I've been unable to enter his dreams. He's the only one in the world who thinks and dreams like that, and I can't do anything about it."
If Shen Qingqiu couldn't see the obedient Luo Binghe soon, she felt she would go crazy, her limbs would ache from the mere thought of his name, and she would keep having wild thoughts.
Please, innocent young man, come out quickly and give him some reassurance!
The nightmare glanced at him sideways and saw that Shen Qingqiu's face was pale and his lips were white. He said with a stern face, "That kid will come looking for you on his own. What's the rush? Didn't you avoid him like the plague before?"
Is this... a form of comfort?
Looking at the dream demon who was pretending to be disdainful, Shen Qingqiu suddenly found the old man rather cute.
He paused, then suddenly remembered something: "Senior Dream Demon, earlier at the Holy Tomb, when I was leading Luo Binghe eastward, we encountered two people along the way, one of whom was a woman. Did you...?"
At that time, Qiu Haitang was unconscious for a while, and when she woke up, she went mad for no reason and fled in panic. Shen Qingqiu strongly suspected that she had encountered something in her dream during that moment of unconsciousness.
At the time, Luo Binghe was also unconscious, his mind burning like charcoal, so he naturally had no time to intrude into Qiu Haitang's dream. Therefore, the most likely explanation is that the dream demon tampered with it.
Sure enough, the Dream Demon stroked his beard and said, "It was indeed my little trick."
Although he said it was just a "small trick" and feigned nonchalance, he couldn't hide the arrogance in his tone. Shen Qingqiu couldn't help but ask, "What exactly did you show her?"
Generally speaking, for a nightmare to break a person's psyche, it's by showing them their darkest and most painful memories. Could it be that the nightmare has unearthed the memory of the Qiu family's massacre?
That's not right either.
If that's the case, then the first thing Qiu Haitang should have done upon waking up and seeing Shen Qingqiu wasn't that kind of reaction, but rather overwhelming hatred, stabbing him with her sword and leaving hundreds of holes in his body. Why would she cry and scream, then turn and run away?
The nightmare demon said, "What I showed her wasn't her memories, it was yours."
Shen Qingqiu understood immediately.
It was a remnant of Shen Jiu's memory that remained in his body!
He was very concerned about the parts about Shen Qingqiu that Xiang Tian had mentioned before, which were not written in the original setting, and immediately said, "Could you please ask the senior to retrieve them and let me take a look?"
The nightmare glanced at him, but didn't ask why he wanted someone else to show him his memories. She only asked, "You don't remember?"
Shen Qingqiu was about to make up some excuse about being possessed by a demon and having lost his memory, but he nodded and said, "That's right."
It's important to know that the probability of suffering memory loss due to qi deviation is extremely low. Surprisingly, the nightmare demon didn't press for answers or raise any suspicions, but instead said, "Some things are better left unremembered."
Stop teasing us like that!
Shen Qingqiu said, "I humbly request your assistance, senior."
The nightmare demon asked, "You really want to see?"
Shen Qingqiu nodded repeatedly. The dream demon extended a finger and touched his forehead: "Close your eyes, and open them again when I let go."
Shen Qingqiu closed his eyes as instructed. The nightmare demon continued, "Your memories are incomplete, disjointed, and fragmented, and you may see blurry figures. This is due to your own actions, so don't worry about it."
This actually emphasizes that if a bug occurs, it's a problem with your own source files, not with the other party's technology!
Shen Qingqiu silently counted to ten in his mind. When the pressure on his forehead disappeared, he opened his eyes and saw a thin, disheveled boy, bound tightly with hemp rope, kneeling on the ground in front of him.
The boy had a pale face and a pointed chin, with delicate features, but his expression carried an inescapable gloom, and there were two purplish spots on his lips and forehead. It was none other than the still-young Shen Jiu.
When Shen Qingqiu was in Huayue City, he escaped from Luo Binghe's dream barrier and accidentally fell into Shen Jiu's remnant memories, where he saw this scene.
After looking around, he found that it was a spacious room with a study and bedroom connected together, separated by a sandalwood moon gate. The room was richly furnished, and the walls were covered with beautifully framed calligraphy and paintings.
Shen Qingqiu crossed his arms and leaned against the display shelf, waiting quietly.
The carved wooden door in front opened silently.
Shen Jiutou remained frozen, his eyes rolling upwards, the reflection of the newcomer's figure appearing in his pupils.
The person who stepped across the threshold was a young man dressed in fine clothes.
Looking at his face, which bore a striking resemblance to Qiu Haitang's features, Shen Qingqiu knew that this must be Qiu Haitang's brother, the biggest victim of the Qiu family massacre.
At that moment, the figure in Shen Jiu's eyes was actually Young Master Qiu, which was unexpected. Shen Jiu looked like he had been abused for many years. Shen Qingqiu originally thought that the figure was a human trafficker.
Judging from this situation, Shen Jiu's life at the Qiu family's house was nothing like what Qiu Haitang had described as "treating him with great kindness."
Author's Note: Thank you so much, Mr./Ms. Awesome!
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Fan art time
Lu Guang GN's ninth brother! Finally, for once, the illustrations are keeping up with the plot, hahaha!
Zuo Dasi GN~ Here is Zuo Dasi GN's analysis: The butterfly symbolizes Master Shen's instability and fragility, while the lily of the valley represents the arrival of happiness. For Master Shen and Binghe, traveling together should be the happiest moment. At the same time, the lily of the valley also signifies the return of happiness, so this also represents that the two will eventually walk towards happiness again.
Reduplicated words form a phrase GN~ Master Shen's profile~ So aloof that you can't look him in the eye
Night is long and dreams are many Gn's character creation, a harem of three thousand beauties in the arrogant immortal demon path, quite the lucky guy from the original novel, Bing Ge.
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