The Road Ahead/Five Elements/Knot
In the end, Ye Xuanling did not take his umbrella, nor did she answer him. She just covered her head with her hands and ran away in a hurry.
If he finds out that you're lying to him, he'll be very angry.
Ye Xuanling herself didn't know what she was thinking. She did doubt him, but she always felt that she was too credulous. She could believe anything he said, and she felt that she should believe him.
She didn't know where this inexplicable emotion came from.
It’s better to be on guard.
She'd only been in this position for less than a day, was she already getting angry so soon?
She shrugged and stopped thinking about it. She hadn't had a good night's sleep since Anping's fall, and blurry images would pop up in her mind from time to time, making her feel uncomfortable.
The nightmares never stopped and she couldn't let go of her worries.
The rain lasted for three days in a row. Ye Xuanling had been to those two places during these days, but she could only hide in the dark and observe so as not to alert the enemy. However, no one came to the two places, the ruined temple and the suburbs.
In the past two days, Ye Xuanling has been researching a weapon that suits her. Swords and daggers are too ostentatious and attract too much attention, so she has to keep a sharp weapon in her hand no matter what.
Bamboo needle.
Tonight is the night of the full moon on the 15th, when the yin energy is at its heaviest. The Jinyiwei and the government offices have made arrangements in both places, hoping that the Nuo mask man will show up so that they can know the truth.
Now Ye Xuanling couldn't determine whether the water eye was at the shrine in the ruined temple or at the entrance of the cave in the suburbs. After pondering for a moment, Ye Xuanling decided to follow Ji Yan to the ruined temple in Linxi.
Sanqi followed the orders and went with the officers to guard the cave entrance outside the city.
There was not much shelter in the dilapidated temple in Linxi, but fortunately it was night, and the officials were all wearing black clothes and hiding.
Ye Xuanling: "Ji Yan, I don't need to thank you, right? You also need to deal with this matter. It's just a coincidence that Anping and I are involved in the matter at hand."
"Really? If you don't thank me, are you going to thank me with something else?" Ji Yan chuckled, "Not really."
Ye Xuanling watched the officials getting ready to go, and she herself couldn't relax. When she came down from the secret passage of the ruined temple, the cold and desolate wind blowing on her body made her feel a little more sober.
Ye Xuanling stared at him for a long time without moving her eyes away, and no one knew what she was thinking.
"I've never asked you this before. When we first met, did you seem to know me?" Ye Xuanling asked.
Ji Yan turned away his eyes: "I just thought you looked familiar, why are you asking this all of a sudden?"
"Because I feel like I have seen you before, but you are not in my memory." Ye Xuanling said as she walked to the golden shrine and knocked tentatively.
Then, Ye Xuanling asked the question that had been hidden in her heart for a long time: "That's why I came to ask you, do you remember me?"
"Don't lie, your eyes don't seem to be deceiving."
Do they know each other? Should they know each other?
Or rather, if she hadn't lost her memory.
she.
Will you remember him?
Ji Yan lowered his eyes and said jokingly, "Yes, we do. We're old acquaintances. Have you heard of the term childhood sweethearts? When you were little, you always clung to me and asked me to buy you candied fruit."
"Your master also said that he would..." Ji Yan felt offended by his last sentence and swallowed the last three words back.
"Do you understand, my little childhood sweetheart?" Ji Yan smiled and lazily used his arm as a pillow, saying with a smile.
Unexpectedly, Ye Xuanling didn't buy his trick at all and didn't even glance at him.
"Okay, my childhood sweetheart, since I'm now a medical officer and we're old acquaintances, then giving me a raise is more important than anything else." Finally, Ye Xuanling ended with three words, "I'm very poor."
Telling lies with open eyes was this man's specialty. Seeing that she couldn't get any important clues out of him, Ye Xuanling stopped. She didn't know him at all.
Even for a piece of insignificant information, she showed him her current abnormality.
But at this moment, she had a strange and indescribable thought.
Lies may destroy a person.
Ye Xuanling pursed her lips and decided not to think about anything related to him anymore.
In the past few days, Ye Xuanling and Sanqi continued to investigate the identities of the suspects under the identity of Jinyiwei personnel, but there was no lack of hidden false information.
The heads of the yamen, the team leaders, the actors, the vendors at the inconspicuous stalls in Dianhai Lake, the garrison personnel and the people in the suburbs, formed a tight network.
That day, Ye Xuanling and Ji Yan took the secret scroll and medicine powder from the secret compartment of the shrine and copied an identical copy. The medicine powder and alkali blocks were only samples, and they arranged for people to return the things in the shrine as quickly as possible.
Dianhai is a city, much larger than Anping, and densely populated with people. But Anping was able to achieve such a feat with just an epidemic and a county magistrate. It was indeed different.
She had also visited the wealthy businessman Lin He these past few days. The servants of that family always praised Ye Xuanling's medical skills whenever she visited, calling her a rare and amazing doctor.
Ye Xuanling did not listen to these words. She felt that they were just nice words said to make her feel better. Maybe they were just to help her treat him better.
But the servant who went to get the medicine told her that even the chief doctor in the inn was amazed by the prescription.
The servants of this family were also dumbfounded by Ye Xuanling, the so-called itinerant doctor.
In Anping County, the medical skills her master taught her were just ordinary, so how come she was called a "miracle doctor" here? She didn't often read Ye Qing's medical skills. Her mind was quick, and she thought the basic knowledge above was too simple, so she memorized it after just one reading.
The prefect decided to tell the truth about the two missing people in the Lin family after this "child's play" so as not to cause panic among the people.
The Nuo mask man was determined to destroy the city, and his attitude of reporting to the gods made the prefect feel uneasy.
At present, Ye Xuanling did not know who was behind this group of Nuo mask figurines and who was behind the Luobu Network, but she had a premonition that the truth would soon come to light.
At the end of the hour of Hai, everyone was on edge, waiting for the fish to take the bait.
"Boss, we..." A rough voice broke the original silence.
The leader was a burly man, and he put his hand to his lips and said, "Shh!"
"According to the original plan, the Grand Master would chant the sutra and then throw the object into the river."
"yes."
In the dilapidated temple, many officials were hiding, observing their every move.
The leader with the gruff voice didn't walk in front when they entered the secret passage. Instead, a man dressed in white, with only his eyes visible, walked in front. He seemed to be the Grand Tutor the leader had mentioned.
There weren't many officials left at the ruined temple, firstly because they were afraid of being discovered, and secondly...
Ye Xuanling recalled the scene of that day again.
He stood in front of the rain curtain, leaning against the dim light, his voice somewhat sorrowful as he spoke slowly, "No matter what method I use, I will make this easier. I will protect everyone, including you."
Ye Xuanling was not moved, but the scene left such a deep impression on her.
She seemed to be secretly comparing herself to him.
Save her? Or think about how to save himself.
Unconsciously, Ye Xuanling glanced at his time.
【The remaining time for Ji Yan is 52 days.】
There is more than a month left.
After a while, she didn't look away until Ji Yan's eyes looked at her.
The Grand Master walked in front, reciting scriptures continuously.
Until the whole group of people stood beside the shrine and formed a circle, Ji Yan gestured to everyone, indicating that they should start the action.
Ji Yan's sword was magical and his skills were agile. In just a few rounds, he and the officers subdued the group of people. During this period, Ye Xuanling had no chance to attack at all.
Ji Yan's sword was pressed against the leader's throat, and his voice was cold: "Why don't you continue?"
Ye Xuanling dusted herself off, stood up, and walked quickly into the crowd, staring at the leader with a cold expression.
"Heh!" As if he was certain they wanted to get information from him and would not kill him, his attitude and tone showed no fear at all. "A dignified Jinyiwei! Would you resort to such a despicable and unpresentable tactic?!"
"Despicable?"
As if in tacit agreement, Ye Xuanling and Ji Yan asked the same question at the same time. They exchanged a glance, and Ye Xuanling squatted down and pulled off his face cloth.
Hen Su asked, "It seems you are not afraid of death, sir?"
The officials around were horrified when they saw such a face and looked at each other in confusion.
"Hmph! Pah!" The yamen's foreman sneered and spat at the person beside him. "You! You knew it all along! You knew I wasn't loyal to the yamen! And yet you still went to such great lengths to lure me out!"
Ye Xuanling couldn't hold back her expression and asked in disbelief, "Don't you think we shouldn't do this?!"
"What on earth makes you think that what you're doing, what you want to do, is natural and right?" Ye Xuanling grabbed his collar, her expression fluttering in shock. "In your place, human life is worth less than livestock?!"
Almost the next second, Ye Xuanling was about to pull out the dagger on her leg strap and stab him, but she didn't. Instead, she asked him in a calm tone: "Anping County, do you know?"
The squad leader laughed, leaned close to her ear, and whispered in a very low voice, "Anping, aren't they all dead?"
In an instant, Ye Xuanling took out a dagger and stabbed it into his wrist at the pulse point.
Bright red blood slowly flowed out, and a sweet and fishy smell lingered at the tip of the nose.
The squad leader laughed out loud: "Anping, Anping, what a nice name. It's just a pity..."
The squad leader lowered his eyes and said nothing. He raised his hand and sucked his own blood with enjoyment. Gradually, his movements became faster and faster, and he bit his arm.
Tear off a piece of meat.
madman.
Ye Xuanling looked at him coldly, without any extra expression on her face. She raised her eyebrows and made a "please" gesture: "Continue."
"Isn't warm blood the best nourishment for the body?" the squad leader said, his mouth wide open, his eyes unfocused. "Why don't you ask? Ask! Isn't Anping what you want to know most?"
"Judging from your behavior, you should bite your tongue and commit suicide." Ye Xuanling smiled faintly, "Or do you want me to know something?"
Ji Yan imitated Ye Xuanling, squatting down with her chin supported, looking straight at him and smiling at him.
Ji Yan pressed his sword even tighter: "Why don't I ask it instead?"
"Why did you poison the underground river at Dianhai? Who's behind you?" Ji Yan asked sternly, "Is the Jiangnan arson case related to the person behind you?"
The squad leader: "Why should I tell you?!"
"Okay, then you can go and die, as you please."
The squad leader's eyes were a little evasive. He lowered his eyes to look at the sword at his throat, but his body couldn't hit it no matter what he did.
Ye Xuanling held out the dagger: "I can lend it to you."
The squad leader's hands were extremely fast, and the dagger was about to stab towards his chest, but Ye Xuanling quickly grabbed his wrist!
But Ye Xuanling was not a person who practiced martial arts for many years, so her arm strength was naturally no match for the squad leader in front of her. She used the force of the man to turn the dagger and stab it towards his thigh.
"It seems you still want to live, so I won't kill you." Ye Xuanling smiled and stabbed the dagger deeper. "Answer the question."
Ban grimaced in pain, beads of sweat appearing on his forehead: "I... I..."
"I was forced! There is no good person in Dianhai! I want them all to die! Only then will I feel at ease!" The squad leader roared.
Ye Xuanling: "You said you were forced? But you hate the people of Dianhai. Isn't that contradictory? You are willing to work for your superiors, aren't you?"
"Yes!" The squad leader stared at her. "Come on, keep asking me questions. Why don't you ask me questions? Come and understand why I did such a thing, and why I was actually happy to be forced to do such a thing? Come, ask me."
Ye Xuanling's expression remained calm. "I don't think there's any need to ask. You just need to tell me who it is."
"Ask me! Ask me!" The veins on the squad leader's forehead bulged, and he was furious. "Why don't you ask me?"
The squad leader was no longer afraid of the sharp sword at his neck. He leaned forward without hesitation and wanted to grab Ye Xuanling's clothes, but his hands were blocked by Ji Yan.
Ye Xuanling calmly took a step back.
"Because you're a lunatic," Ye Xuanling said. "I don't want to communicate with a mentally unstable lunatic unless every word he says is completely true."
The squad leader's mind was a little off, his eyes darting around in panic and confusion: "I see it! I see it! Hahahahaha! You are the core of this operation! Kill you! If I kill you, no one will stop me from dedicating the entire city to the gods and Buddhas! No one will stop me!"
"Who forced you to do this?" Ye Xuanling asked, "What did Dianhai owe you?"
After hearing Ye Xuanling's question, the squad leader took a quick breath before returning to normal.
"Do you know who it is?" The squad leader looked at Ye Xuanling in panic, then suddenly lowered his voice, "It's God."
"Whoever owes someone something should return it! This is only natural!"
Ye Xuanling asked, "Who owes you?"
"Me." The squad leader pointed at himself, "Everyone in my family was killed by the Dianhai people!"
"Back then, an injustice took the lives of my family, but, but! Those people knew the truth, yet no one dared to stand up and clarify it for my family! They all deserve to die."
Ye Xuanling grabbed his hair and dragged him to the shrine: "Ask the Buddha! Ask the Buddha what the difference is between what you did and the people who took your family's lives?!"
"This human sacrifice couldn't have been yours alone." Ye Xuanling remained calm, unfazed by the squad leader's influence. "The Shisi grass, combined with strong alkali, led to an underground river that flowed throughout the city. There was also the arson in Jiangnan, and the ulcer in Anping. These all came from someone behind you. So who is he?"
"I'm telling you, you let me live!"
Ye Xuanling glanced at Ji Yan and motioned him to speak.
Ji Yan fully understood what she meant
"Okay, I can spare your life."
The squad leader concentrated intently: "It's a human sacrifice. He wants to overthrow the dynasty! He said that everyone in Qingyuan should die!"
The Grand Tutor in white had been held hostage by the police, waiting for an opportunity. He was not afraid of the swords beside him at all. He stood up suddenly, snatched the sword and stabbed the mad leader without hesitation.
Violently, piercing through his chest!
Ye Xuanling's brain buzzed and suddenly went blank.
Her eyes were blank, and she ignored anyone's attempt to stop her, and was not afraid of the sword that the Grand Tutor was waving wildly in his hand. She threw her whole body at him, and stabbed him with the dagger in her hand indiscriminately!
Ye Xuanling gritted her teeth, feeling neither the splash of warm blood nor the kindness in her heart as she stabbed him with each cut.
Blood flowed from the Grand Master's mouth as he slurred his words: "You won't find Him, you won't find Him!"
The Grand Tutor's eyes slowly closed, and he breathed faintly: "Guess who else is alive in Anping besides you? Oh, that person probably won't live long either—"
His white clothes were stained red with blood, and even one or two drops of blood splashed into Ye Xuanling's eyes.
When Ye Xuanling stabbed him for the last time, she had not yet pulled out the knife, and her hand was still tightly holding the dagger.
A drop of transparent, cold water fell on the back of her hand without any warning.
Then two or three more fell, and Ye Xuanling didn't even know what was happening to her or why she was crying.
Was it guilt? Ye Xuanling began to feel scared, her body trembling slightly.
Apart from her and the surviving Liu Dakou, the only person still alive in Anping County was her senior brother who worked in the Imperial Hospital in the capital.
Ye Xuanling looked at Ji Yan anxiously, tears streaming down the bloodstains.
She finally understood why.
Because killing made her feel refreshed, excited and happy.
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