Chapter 1261: Sibling Strife (Part 2) [Requesting Monthly Tickets]
Lin Feng knew he couldn't be killed without even trying.
Just as her previous suicide attempt by cutting her wrists did not break the dream.
The good news is that Lin Su is also unable to harm her.
Xun Zhen, a passerby, kept glancing between the brother and sister, seemingly trying to discern something. Lin Su, disguised as Lin Feng, and Lin Feng, disguised as Lin Su, addressed each other somewhat strangely. However, he wasn't particularly interested in such things.
He asked Lin Su, "Is this your enemy?"
Lin Su said, "No."
Judging from the tense atmosphere between the two, Lin Su's answer was hardly convincing. He was more curious about who the boy Lin Su had just killed was, and what deep-seated grudge he held that made him not only cut off his head but also stab him in the heart?
Lin Su raised the head in her hand.
"Oh, him? This is the twelfth prince of the Ten Crows."
The owner of the head died with his eyes wide open, his face filled with fear and anger.
Lin Su raised her head, forcing the other person's gaze to be level with her own, and carefully admired the face for a moment: "What a pity about this face."
No matter how beautiful a person was in life, once their head is severed, their skin loses its original rosy vitality, and their complexion diminishes significantly. Lin Su was experiencing Lin Feng's past, so she naturally knew how swift and decisive his sister's first murder was.
She is the phoenix of the Lin family.
That's beyond doubt.
"To be so decisive on the first try is impressive."
Lin Feng was slightly surprised and said, "This isn't the first time."
The twelfth prince wasn't the first person she killed. Her second brother's words implied that before the army's departure, their teacher, Chu Yao, hadn't used the death row inmates outside the city to hone his courage. Lin Su was indeed experiencing her past, but not a complete, one-to-one replica.
There were slight deviations in the middle.
Lin Feng added, "He had killed people before that."
Xun Zhen's attention was focused on the deceased's identity, and his brow twitched violently.
With the death of this legitimate prince, the internal strife within the Ten Crows Royal Court will intensify, and there will be no peace. It's quite unexpected that such a significant head would be casually held by a young man. Xun Zhen then recounted the conversation from Lin Feng's memory, and asked Lin Su for the twelfth prince's headless corpse. He intends to use this body to cause some trouble, to give the Ten Crows a small shock!
Lin Su said, "I will leave it to you, sir."
Xun Zhen cupped his hands and said, "Young man, you are very generous."
Before carrying away the twelfth prince's headless corpse, he glanced at Lin Feng out of the corner of his eye, his gaze inquiring whether Lin Su could handle the situation. For the sake of the corpse, Xun Zhen didn't mind lending a hand, as a way of returning the favor.
Lin Su lowered her eyes and said, "No need, it's a family matter."
Xun Zhen then felt relieved and withdrew.
Before leaving, he asked for a few days' worth of rations and water, then cracked his whip and rode away into the vast wilderness. The guards who had come with Lin Su watched Lin Feng warily, fearing that he might harm Chief Clerk Lin.
Lin Su suddenly asked, "How are you going to preserve this head?"
Lin Feng said expressionlessly, "Let it marinate in salt."
Lin Su calculated her sister's age at this time, and said, "You're stronger than me. You can cut off someone's head without batting an eye, and you can pickle someone's head with salt without batting an eye. Only someone with a strong heart could do such a thing: 'You're stronger than me.'"
Lin Feng asked, "What are you planning to do?"
Lin Su casually said, "Shave off the meat and leave the bones."
Once the skull begins to rot, the stench lingers for three days. It's better to shave all the flesh off and leave a bald head.
As long as it's the same head, I can explain it to Chu Yao.
Lin Feng sincerely replied to her second brother: "You're being modest."
In terms of ruthlessness and depravity, Lin Su is far more ruthless than her. She kills when she kills, and hasn't yet committed the heinous act of deliberately mutilating the victim's body. At this moment, her classmate looked at Lin Su with a very complicated expression: "So—you are the real An Zhi? Why did you two switch bodies?"
Lin Su didn't answer, but just looked at Lin Feng.
Why did you bring him along?
Lin Feng didn't answer him, but instead asked his classmate.
When did you realize I wasn't him?
The classmate pursed his lips and whispered, "Anzhi is a gentle and kind person. He endured humiliation for the sake of his family and agreed to all sorts of unreasonable demands from his classmates. He did all sorts of errands, such as sweeping, running errands, and copying."
Lin Feng made no attempt to hide it.
He simply couldn't accept that this was Lin Su herself.
Lin Feng: "..."
She recalled the two weeks before she committed the murder; her classmates, familiar with her, treated her like a servant, but Lin Feng chose to ignore them. If anyone dared to be so oblivious, she would simply pin them against the wall with her sword sheath as a threat. After a few such incidents, no one dared to bully her anymore…
Lin Feng enjoys his solitude and leisure.
"I won't comment on your evaluation of Second Brother, but the fact that you used this to see through my identity is somewhat..." Lin Feng wanted to say something like a cruel joke, making it seem like Lin Su should just accept her fate. "Since you knew I was an imposter, why did you still dare to come?"
Or rather—
Why not just expose her directly?
Lin Su was also curious about the answer to this question.
The classmate frankly said, "Because I wanted to know where Anzhi was, I didn't dare to alert her. I just didn't expect you two to be family. Now I'm relieved. Anzhi, when can you two switch back? Is there anything I can do to help?"
"This is not your business."
Compared to the friendliness of her classmates, Lin Su was much colder.
Those who know him well know that beneath his cold exterior lies a surging anger, a fact that makes his classmates somewhat uneasy.
What is Anzhi angry about right now? Is he angry that he didn't kill the imposter the moment he noticed something was wrong?
Lin Su turned to finish her work, and her classmate followed her.
Before he could take two steps, Lin Feng grabbed his arm.
"We've buried a body together before, and traveled together through mountains and rivers. Are you really going to go with him?"
The classmate tried to shake off Lin Feng, but Lin Su's sneer came from ahead.
“You can come along too.”
As long as Lin Feng can endure it, it's fine.
After all, in this dream she was not Lin Feng, but Lin Su, a Lin Su who had no connection with the founding elders of Kangguo.
As the master of the dream, Lin Su is subject to the same constraints as Lin Feng, but he knows the inner workings of the rules and can choose when to enter the dream, giving him a significant natural advantage. If Lin Feng tries to stop her here, Shen Youli and the others will not let her get away with it.
Speaking of Kang Guo and his group...
Lin Su was quite moved.
When he first learned that his sister was still alive, he assumed Lin Feng had suffered greatly while wandering, but he hadn't expected her to be so well protected. He personally entered her dream to the time when she first met Shen Youli, only to find that he had chosen the wrong time. If it had been earlier, he could have intervened and delayed things, not only saving his grandmother's life in the dream but also getting to know Shen Youli.
Shen Youli is indeed a charming lord.
Lingde has a good eye for talent.
Lin Feng followed, his peripheral vision inadvertently glancing at the unfamiliar Wenxin monogram on Lin Su's waist. This Wenxin monogram was not the peach pink that had been with her for many years, and the seal knob was not an ear of wheat, but a bright and eye-catching bamboo green, with a coiled bamboo leaf green on the knob.
Even the literary style and the literary heart are different.
This discovery brought Lin Feng a great sense of relief.
The more different her second brother was from her in the dream, the more at ease she felt.
However, one can't help but wonder why this change occurred?
Lin Su didn't miss the change in Lin Feng's aura and the location of his gaze. She quickly guessed what he was thinking: "Simple, it's because you hadn't yet condensed your literary heart and refined your literary energy at that time..."
If he entered the dream after Lin Feng's cultivation, his current literary signature would be exactly the same as Lin Feng's. However, this would easily expose his identity as Lin Feng. Neither Shen Youli nor Ling De's teacher, Chu Yao, are easily fooled. Although the person in the dream is not the real person, they still have their own set of behavioral logic, and failing to fool them would be disastrous.
He cannot take the risk.
Let's choose to do it before we even meet.
The "Lin Feng" that Shen Youli and others knew was him.
This approach also has its drawbacks; Lin Su would find it difficult to obtain accurate information about Lin Feng, including but not limited to her methods of the scholar's way. Lin Su had long been curious about her methods of the scholar's way, but unfortunately, the opportunity had not arisen.
"Then what about me?" Lin Feng looked down at the Wenxin monogram at her waist. When she entered the dream, Lin Su had already condensed the Wenxin, but unfortunately, she had not yet obtained the Way of the Scholar. She gripped the sword hilt and pouted, "Second Brother is indeed cunning and treacherous, unwilling to suffer even the slightest loss."
She is not Lin Su, and cannot awaken the other's scholarly way.
Similarly, they dared not rashly attempt to awaken the "Essential Techniques for the Common People".
Lin Su is the master of the dream, who knows what privileges he has here? Could he know what Lin Feng is doing in the dream? Out of caution, Lin Feng tries his best to cultivate according to the notes left by Lin Su and avoids his old habits.
The only thing that has improved is his swordsmanship.
Along the way, he killed quite a few people.
Lin Su said, "Your virtue is the same, we're in the same boat."
The brother and sister each harbored their own ulterior motives.
Having taken the heads of the Ten Crows and Twelve Princes on this mission, Lin Su was certain to receive a reward for his meritorious service. Lin Su, assuming the identity of "Registrar Lin," led his guards to finish their work and rejoin the main army. To Lin Feng's surprise, the entire army was actually located not far from the canyon.
Even more bizarrely—
She also saw people who shouldn't be there in the military.
Luan Xin, Luan Gongyi.
Wasn't Minister Luan serving under his former master, Qiu Cheng, at this time? Why would he go to serve under the current lord? After thinking it over, Lin Feng guessed that his second brother might have used his foresight to recommend Minister Luan in advance in order to gain his trust as quickly as possible. That's possible!
With Luan Xin, this huge plot hole, Lin Feng didn't even care that Gu Chi was here too. Luan Gongyi could join in early, so why couldn't Gu Chi be on this battlefield? Lin Feng barely managed to compose himself and mustered his energy to deal with his colleagues.
She watched as Lin Su greeted the two of them in her capacity.
When Gu Chi learned that Lin Su had made a great contribution, he did not hold back his praise: "Truly, a great teacher produces a great student. You were able to behead this barbarian in your first battle. When the news reaches the Ten Crows Royal Court... Haha, I really look forward to seeing how those barbarians react. It's a pity I won't get to see it."
Lin Feng silently complained.
We haven't seen it yet, but in the future, when Shiwu becomes Wuzhou and Su Shiyilu, the enemy general, becomes a colleague, every time the Battle of Shiwu is mentioned, this old Deng will break down on the spot, his face showing interesting expressions.
There's plenty of time in the future, why worry about not having a chance to see it?
Luan Xin's reaction speed was as familiar as ever.
To the uninformed, however, he would simply appear calm and magnanimous, possessing the unwavering demeanor of a master scholar...
"Who are these two?"
Gu Chi and his companion noticed unfamiliar faces around Lin Su.
After all, they are siblings born of the same mother, so their eyes and eyebrows naturally have similarities. Gu Chi and the others could guess the answer just by looking at their faces. Lin Su introduced them with a calm expression: "This is my elder brother, Lin Su, courtesy name Anzhi. The other one is my brother's classmate and close friend who is traveling with him."
"Lingde's elder brother? That's one of us, so don't neglect him." Gu Chi confirmed Lin Feng's whereabouts in just a few words. She couldn't say goodbye now, or Gu Chi would keep an eye on her... Did Lin Feng not know what kind of person her colleague was?
He could only accept this identity with a forced smile.
It was supposed to be a reunion of siblings, but in reality it was a disguised form of house arrest.
However, this just happened to suit her wishes.
She wanted to confirm her guess.
Within this dream, neither she nor Lin Su could harm each other, nor could they escape the dream through suicide—through their previous tests, Lin Feng confirmed that he was highly likely trapped in a dream within a dream, or a dream within a dream. If he couldn't find the right way to break free, he might fall into an even deeper dream, and his real self might never wake up again—but what about the others?
Is it possible to wake up with the help of someone in your dream?
Or rather—
Can we use the person in our dreams to severely damage the other party?
Just as she put down her luggage, Gu Chi was about to throw a celebration banquet for Lin Su, and Lin Feng, as an outsider, was among the invitees. Lin Feng paused for a moment, her gaze quickly sweeping over Gu Chi, whose expression remained normal. She exhaled a breath of stale air, forcing a smile as she took her seat.
As perceptive as she was, she had already noticed that something was amiss in her surroundings.
This is most likely Lin Su's idea.
Forget it, let's go all in and risk everything?
Lin Feng secretly gripped the hilt of her sword, sweat beading on her forehead. Her classmates, who had come with her, also sided with Lin Su, subtly wary of Lin Feng. In this situation, overturning the table to break through the encirclement offered less than a ten percent chance of success. She looked at Gu Chi again.
Surrounded by enemies on all sides, the pressure still comes from my colleagues.
Despite the turmoil within, Gu Chi maintained a composed demeanor as he continued drinking and exchanging toasts. His good mood was palpable; he patted Lin Su's shoulder with a mixture of envy and pride, praising the young man's talent. A second-rank scholar with exceptional literary talent—their first battle was a peak many could never reach in their entire lives. He dared not imagine the extent of Lin Su's future potential; Chu Yao had gotten lucky.
As a "junior," Lin Su remained humble and polite throughout.
“Lingde, I will drink with you.”
Gu Chi filled his glass with wine.
While pouring the wine, Lin Su and Gu Chi exchanged glances.
Lin Su smiled and said, "Respectfully, Strategist."
Lin Feng also said, "Respect, Strategist."
The fragrant wine slid down my throat, but before I could even savor its taste, a cold blade pierced through my back, striking me squarely in the heart. As the metal sank into my flesh, the cup in my hand slipped and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces with a loud crack.
puff--
The blade was pulled apart by force.
Fresh blood gushed out from the wound.
Why?
What I really want to ask is, how could this be?
Gu Chi swirled the wine in his glass, the liquid moving back and forth within, his tone somewhat flippant: "Why? You can ask the King of Hell that question, don't ask me. Gongyi, well done."
Luan Xin's reaction speed was already slow, and switching back and forth between the ways of the scholar made it even slower, but his negligible presence perfectly compensated for this. Tsk, I really didn't expect Wu Zhaode to have such a gem under his command; the ways of the scholar and assassination are a perfect match.
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Lin Su knew about Gu Chi's scholarly ways, but not about other undisclosed aspects. He was wary of Gu Chi, unaware that Gu Chi would exploit his weaknesses.
P.S.: I've moved the first crossover bonus chapter from my public account's section. Other older books can't be updated or edited there, and since VIP access to my books requires payment, keeping it in the public section is much more convenient. You can find the related content by scrolling to before the first chapter in the table of contents. This is for entertainment purposes; update frequency depends on my condition, but I'll aim for one chapter per month.
P.S.: I only realized yesterday, after finishing writing the post, that Lin Su actually shares the same name as Bai Su _(:з」∠)_
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