Chapter 83
Six hours ago.
The ragged man was named Gao Ruhan.
Before being taken into the taxi, he was wary of the large machine and hesitated to move forward. Until Gu Shuo sat in naturally, he hesitated for a few seconds before carefully following in.
Along the way, the driver in the driver's seat kept glancing at Gao Ruhan through the rearview mirror, and Gao Ruhan also watched the driver vigilantly. The atmosphere was very strange.
Watching the surrounding scenery rapidly recede, Gao Ruhan couldn't help but lean back against the chair. He swallowed hard, and tried to speak like a "man from the future": "...Where are you taking me?"
Gu Shuo looked ahead and said calmly, "Didn't you say you had no place to live? I was just about to take you to my place."
Gao Ruhan narrowed his eyes and looked at Gu Shuo: "...You are really kind-hearted. You can show such care for a stranger. Speaking of which, my last name is Gao Ruhan. I wonder if you, little brother...?"
The driver in the driver's seat listened to this strange way of speaking, and then looked at Gao Ruhan's attire, which looked like he had stepped out of the battlefield of an ancient costume drama, and his expression became more and more confused.
However, Gu Shuo, who was sitting next to Gao Ruhan, remained very calm.
He twitched the corners of his lips and said slowly: "My name is Gu Shuo."
Gao Ruhan's eyes suddenly darkened.
"I don't know why, but when I saw you, Mr. Gao, I felt like I'd seen you before. There was an inexplicable sense of familiarity," Gu Shuo said, turning around and chuckling. "Have we met somewhere before?"
Gao Ruhan thought to himself, it's not surprising that you feel like you've seen this before.
But asking such a question... Surely, the person in front of me is just the reincarnation of the Night Guard Commander, Sanlang of the Gu family?
After reincarnation, all memories disappear, which is normal.
He just didn't expect that he would meet this man as soon as he arrived at this place.
Or a reincarnated body that had lost its memory and was completely defenseless against him...
Should this be called "fate"?
Gao Ruhan curled his lips slightly, invisibly.
I don’t know whether half of this man’s spiritual core has come into this reincarnated body.
Thinking of this, he licked his lips, a hint of greed in his eyes.
Although Sanlang of the Gu family at that time was bedridden due to the surging spiritual power that could not be contained by half of his spiritual core, he was able to restrain his spiritual power to a level that outsiders could not easily perceive. But at this time, Gao Ruhan could not figure out the depth of this reincarnated body for a while.
Forget it, let’s wait until we get to a place where there is no one.
Now that his spiritual power is almost gone and he has come to such an unfamiliar era, he still has to act with caution.
Of course, we also have to thank the reincarnation of the Third Son of the Gu family for losing his memory, and actually treating his enemy as an acquaintance. Otherwise, he would probably have to find a place to rest in the wild tonight. Gao Ruhan sneered secretly.
He thought so sarcastically, but did not notice the coldness in Gu Shuo's eyes.
…
The taxi crossed half of the city and stopped in front of an apartment building.
As Gao Ruhan followed Gu Shuo into the apartment, he was terrified. Whether it was the elevator or the advertisements automatically displayed on the advertising screen on the elevator wall, they all scared him into a cold sweat.
I don’t know how many years have passed since this era and the era he lived in, but the changes are so great.
How many hundreds of years?
Even... thousands of years?
It was not until he actually entered Gu Shuo's apartment that Gao Ruhan, whose expression had been changing constantly, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It's okay.
Arriving at this place, he was finally safe.
——With this thought in mind, he followed Gu Shuo into the living room and said hypocritically, "Little brother, thank you so much. I wonder if you have any medicine for injuries or something to eat? I haven't eaten for a day and a night, and I'm really hungry."
Gu Shuo put down the things in his hands with his back to Gao Ruhan, his voice still sounding gentle: "I haven't lived here for a few months, so I haven't prepared any daily necessities or food. If Mr. Gao needs anything, why not wait a while?"
Gao Ruhan hadn't noticed anything strange yet.
He glanced at the fresh produce in Gu Shuo's bag and said, "That's not a problem. It would be fine if you could share some of the ingredients with me, little brother."
Gu Shuo smiled and said, "But I'm going to make those for Xuan."
Ah Xuan?
Gao Ruhan immediately became alert: "Is there anyone else coming here later?"
"No, no one will come." Gu Shuo turned around.
There was no light on in the house, and the light from the setting sun was already very dim.
Gu Shuo had his back to the light from the window, and the expression on his face was even more unclear.
Gao Ruhan could only listen to the man say, "There will only be you and me here."
Gao Ruhan was stunned: "Then 'Ah Xuan' is..."
Suddenly, Gao Ruhan felt something flash through his mind.
...Ah Xuan?
Ah Xuan?!
Gao Ruhan's back stiffened.
Wait, just now in that chaotic fight of that era, he seemed to have vaguely heard the Third Brother of the Gu Family calling out "Ah Xuan"...
Gao Ruhan's expression became unnatural.
He laughed and said, "Ah Xuan is your friend?"
As he asked, his instinct had already made him take a step back without leaving a trace.
Gu Shuo stood still and said softly, "Mr. Gao, don't you remember who Ah Xuan is?"
Gao Ruhan's heart beat faster.
Cold sweat quietly seeped out from my back.
He smiled stiffly and said, "This is the first time I've met you, little brother. How would I know who your friend is?"
"Really?" Gu Shuo walked towards Gao Ruhan step by step, his voice calm without any ripples.
"Mingming, you and the us from over a thousand years ago should have just met?"
——When the light tail tone fell to the ground, Gao Ruhan’s expression shattered.
He stared at Gu Shuo in disbelief, his whole body solidified into a stone statue, even his breathing disappeared in this moment of stiffness.
A few seconds of stagnation.
——In an instant, Gao Ruhan turned around and staggered towards the door, but before he touched the door, an invisible wall blocked him!
It's a barrier!
This man set up a barrier!!
Gao Ruhan's face became ferocious and his breathing became rapid.
This man didn't lose his memory at all. He remembered everything. He just pretended to have lost his memory to lure him here!
He actually fell into the trap so easily!!
"Thanks to Mr. Gao, I just remembered a lot." Gu Shuo's voice was very soft, and he always spoke so gently and pleasantly. However, at this moment, his voice only made Gao Ruhan feel a chill from the bottom of his heart.
"After that night over a thousand years ago, I sent people to search the mountain and its surroundings for seven days and seven nights, but couldn't find any trace of you. I thought you had already been reduced to ashes in the self-explosion. I didn't expect—" Gu Shuo's eyes slowly swept over Gao Ruhan's dirty and disheveled appearance, and he said calmly, "You actually escaped here. Was it the spiritual power of the explosion that opened the time-space tunnel?"
The afterglow was gradually pulled away from the world outside the window.
The whole room was suddenly plunged into darkness.
Gao Ruhan was so cold that sweat poured down like a waterfall, and his whole body was trembling with fear.
He was very clear about his current situation.
After the chaotic fight in that era, his body had almost become a hollow shell. An ant could crush him to death, not to mention Gu Sanlang who seemed to be in good condition.
He has no way out!
How could this be! How could this be!
He had clearly intended to die together with his fellow cultivators when he blew up half of his spiritual core, which he had painstakingly cultivated. However, he did not die and escaped to such a strange era!
Gao Ruhan originally thought that this was God's will to give him a chance to live.
After encountering Gu Shuo, who he thought had lost his memory, he thought it was a big fish God had passed down to him. If the reincarnated Gu Shuo still carried that half spiritual core and powerful spiritual power, then if he could just devour Gu Shuo, wouldn't he be able to return to his former strength?!
result--
Gao Ruhan clenched his hands into fists - he clearly told himself not to be impatient, but if he hadn't been so eager to devour, how could he have believed this man's lies so easily and followed him here like a fool!
And why did God take him away from that fight? !
To tease him?!
He was made to mistakenly believe he had escaped death, only to be thrown into a dead end the next moment—was God just trying to see him despair?!
Gao Ruhan's eyes were bloodshot.
With nowhere to escape, he turned around again, stared at Gu Shuo and said, "What do you want? If you want to do it, do it quickly and don't talk nonsense - Woo!"
An invisible spiritual power chain tied around his neck and pulled him in front of Gu Shuo!
He lay on the ground, coughing miserably, while the man in front of him pulled the spiritual chain, forcing him to raise his head.
Gu Shuo said coldly, "How did you manage to shatter Ah Xuan's spirit core in this state?"
Gao Ruhan painfully tugged at the spiritual chain tied around his neck with both hands. He choked twice upon hearing this and said inexplicably, "...What? Ahem, if the Ah Xuan you're talking about is that first-generation Pixiu... I, ahem, when did I ever shatter his spiritual core!"
Gu Shuo narrowed his eyes slightly, and the next second, another scene pierced his mind.
The chaotic images and sounds gave him a splitting headache. His pupils turned silver again, and the spiritual power chain on his hand loosened slightly.
Gao Ruhan seized this loophole. He pulled out an unused dagger from his clothes, and with a cold light flashing in his eyes, he stabbed Gu Shuo fiercely - the next second, he was knocked away and hit the barrier!
Immediately afterwards, the spiritual power chain pulled him back again!
He bumped into Gu Shuo, and the blood on his face stained Gu Shuo's clean white shirt.
The man grabbed his neck, a violent aura surrounding him, and a gloomy look in his silver eyes. "It wasn't you who shattered Ah Xuan's spiritual core?"
Gao Ruhan's face turned pale. He was keenly aware of something: "Ahem - your memory is messed up?! I have no idea what happened to that first-generation Pixiu. Ahem, he was still alive and well when I left that brawl, wasn't he?!"
He only did one other thing to that first generation Pixiu——
Gao Ruhan's eyes flickered slightly.
But of course he couldn't say it.
He didn't know what the relationship between Gu Shuo and that first generation Pi Xiu was, but it was obvious that if he said the next words, he would only die faster!
Gao Ruhan said quickly: "Don't make any mistake. If you still have your memory, think carefully about who hurt the Pixiu!"
Gu Shuo's breathing became heavy.
The images continued to flood into his mind.
He saw a pair of feet from Su Xuan's perspective.
The man was saying something, and Su Xuan was lying on the ground in pain, clearly feeling the remaining half of his spirit core in his body shattering bit by bit.
The man was laughing, and Su Xuan knew that he was doing it on purpose - crushing his spirit core so slowly on purpose, just to enjoy his pain.
Su Xuan held his face tight, not showing any pain on his face.
Gu Shuo felt as if his heart was torn apart.
And he saw more pictures.
A messy, tense, and bloody scene.
He saw a hand stabbing into Ah Xuan's left chest cavity - this scene happened before Su Xuan met "that person" with only half of his spiritual core left in his body.
Or rather, that was even at the beginning of the war.
The hand stabbed into Su Xuan's chest, and when it was pulled out, it pulled out half of his heart.
It is impossible for a generation of monster to die just because of losing half of its heart. Su Xuan took a step back and quickly used his spiritual power to heal his external injuries. At the same time, he barely used his spiritual power to create a fake half heart as a temporary replacement.
He staggered, knelt on one knee on the ground, and coughed up a mouthful of blood. At the same time, he was still thinking in a daze that he couldn't let Ah Shuo know that he had lost half of his heart... It's okay, it's okay, as long as he kills this turtle bastard and takes this half of his heart back from him...
Thinking of this, Su Xuan gritted his teeth and rushed forward after the man.
However, although losing half of his heart would not kill a powerful first-generation monster, it was enough to significantly weaken his spiritual power.
Not to mention that after that he gave half of his spirit core to Gu Shuo, Su Xuan was no longer intact from the inside out.
If I can rest well for a while, I can slowly recover.
Unfortunately, he met another person soon after that.
Or rather, another monster.
Zhu Yan.
...Mr. Zhu.
From then on, his spirit core was shattered and his mind was destroyed.
Gao Ruhan thought he still had a chance, and desperately said, "Don't take revenge on the wrong person! I've lost all my spiritual power now, I can't do anything, and I don't intend to do anything to you. As long as you let me go, I will definitely stay away from you - um!"
Gu Shuo's hand around his neck suddenly tightened.
Gao Ruhan's face turned red and he struggled in pain.
Gu Shuo whispered, "Do you know a first-generation Zhu Yan?"
Gao Ruhan was speechless and shook his head vigorously, his eyes full of horror.
Even though he had just said that he would come quickly when the action came, when the moment came, he was still afraid - afraid of death.
He wanted to say that he didn't know any Zhu Yan. Was that first-generation Pi Xiu injured by a first-generation Zhu Yan? Then go and seek revenge on that Zhu Yan!
And his inner voice seemed to be heard, and the next second, Gu Shuo let go of his neck.
Gao Ruhan was stunned.
However, before he could get ecstatic, he heard a "puff" sound and his whole body froze.
A hand stabbed into his left chest.
"Really?" the man in front of him said slowly, "Then let's put this matter aside for now."
"Give me back half of Xuan's heart first."
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