Gemini Fall
Song Shiwen and Wen Jie supported each other as they moved through the increasingly deep liquid. However, Wen Jie's pain only grew worse. When he lifted his foot, he saw it was a bloody mess. The same was true for Song Shiwen, except that he now possessed the ability to regenerate flesh and blood. Just as Lu Cangyue had said, from now on, his body would be immune to disease and pain.
Wen Jie pushed the person away and said, "Go first, don't worry about me."
After saying that, he poured it into the man-eating liquid. Song Shiwen grabbed him, carried him over his shoulders, and continued to move forward.
However, by this time, the liquid had already reached Song Shiwen's waist. The coffin beside him slowly fell silently downward, and there was no place to rest. Looking at the exit of the tomb from afar, it was also filled with liquid.
What is going on?
Why did Hui Zifeng want to kill them?
Song Wenben had already had difficulty walking, and now, carrying the Wen ring, the deadly liquid piled deeper and deeper. Looking around, there was no way to escape. The splinters of wood fell on the surface of the liquid and quickly sank.
"Even if you let me go now, there's no chance of escape," Wen Jie said. This dead end was obvious. However, he still held on to a glimmer of hope and begged, "Shuixi, help! Shuixi!"
Shuixi is the Shuixi who is beside Hui Zifeng.
Song Shiwen thought so. Did the Hui family have so many secrets? What role did he play in them? Why was he dragged into this?
He had no hope. In his final moments, he thought about how his mother would react to the news of his death. But it was all meaningless.
At that moment, a figure suddenly leaped out from the chest-deep liquid. Song Shiwen, holding his ring high in both hands, was startled by the noise and tripped, dropping the ring. But he saw it hover steadily in mid-air. Then, a hand at his waist scooped him up, and like the ring, he floated in the air, away from the erosion of the liquid.
Although Song Shiwen's flesh and blood could regenerate after being damaged, he still had hideous scars on his skin. Not to mention Wen Jie's injuries, his feet were almost left with only white bones, and like rocks that had been corroded for many years, a lot of powder would fall off with the slightest rub.
The powder attracted many insects that had just hatched from the other side of the wall to chase them. The cloud of mist they were riding began to take shape, revealing Shuixi's appearance, glaring at them. Only then did the insects stop and open a path for them to the outside world.
The three of them emerged from the ground and landed in the center of Chaolai Pavilion. Shuixi, holding Song Shiwen in one hand and Wen Jie in the other, walked outside the pagoda. They heard a rumbling sound underground; something had collapsed. The ground beneath their feet also sank a dozen centimeters.
Song Shiwen was horrified. The surroundings were already in ruins.
"Don't worry, only the underground tomb collapsed, and there will be no changes above the ground."
"Has Cang Yue's secret base also been destroyed? If so, can she still live the same life as before?" Wen Jie said weakly with cold sweat on his face due to the pain.
"What does her secret base mean?" Song Shiwen realized that the place Wen Jie mentioned was unusual.
"You don't need to know." Wen Jie said.
"If you hadn't acted on your own, we wouldn't be in this situation now." Shuixi said as he squatted down and grabbed Wenjie by the collar, looking like he wanted to eat him. "Stay alive, you still have a lot of use."
Then he turned to look at Song Shiwen, "And you, just stay here and wait for me to reap the benefits. If you do anything weird again, I will never let you go."
"Where's He'an? Where is he?" Song Shiwen grabbed the corner of Shuixi's clothes as she was about to leave. He was not afraid of Shuixi.
Shuixi tilted his head slightly and said coldly, "He's dead."
Wen Jie climbed up and saw that his legs had recovered as before, but when he tried to stand up, he found that he was missing the most important kneecap. There was no doubt that the dangerous tomb had taken his legs forever, but Shui Xi helped him recover and did not want him to be able to move freely.
Song Shiwen also noticed this and was shocked by their behavior. He also realized that there was some kind of grudge hidden in it. For Lu Cangyue, he couldn't help but intervene.
"At this point, you still don't tell me what happened? Is Shuixi good or bad? What is he going to do?" Song Shiwen was furious.
"I told you, do you dare to believe it? Lu Cangyue lived over four thousand years ago." Wen Jie's eyes were filled with contempt. He felt that no one would believe this, and no one would believe that Shuixi was not actually human.
"Why wouldn't I believe it? Look at me!" Song Shiwen took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, and lifted his sleeves, showing Wen Jie his smooth skin. "Why am I not hurt?"
He was worried that Wen Jie wouldn't believe him, so he picked up a branch and scratched his arm lightly. Although it was a little painful, the small wound bled a little and healed quickly. He wiped away the blood, leaving nothing behind on the cut skin.
"And I was dying just a few hours ago, but now nothing can hurt me. This is because Zang Yue fed me a pill. She and her cat are both kindhearted, but He Ai is missing now. Zang Yue suddenly got together with Hui Zifeng. Shui Xi is Hui Zifeng's loyal dog, and I know Zang Yue definitely didn't do it on her own initiative. I have to get her back and save He Ai as well."
"I advise you not to force her," Wen Jie said with a smile. "Cang Yue has traveled through time and space thousands of times so far, and she has long forgotten everything that happened to her. She has no relatives or friends, drifting like duckweed. Only by finding her past can she feel the joy of being alive. She can't return to the time of her birth, but being with the one she loves is just the same. Did you know? When we opened that double coffin, the soul of the Hui family's young master from over 4,000 years ago was also released. Therefore, the current Hui Zifeng is truly Cang Yue's lover. They both come from that era and are deeply connected. Who can you say to interfere with their feelings?"
Song Shiwen was speechless.
"The Hui family has a history of over 4,000 years, and has always maintained the connection between the Hui family's young master and Cang Yue. Cang Yue has traveled so many times, and has always been around the Hui family. What can you use to know and stay with Lu Cang Yue? She is not someone you can covet."
"Then at least as a friend..."
"You can't afford to offend the Hui family."
This was all true. But Song Shiwen wasn't one to back down easily. While he was feeling frustrated and lost in his passion, he suddenly remembered something.
That was mentioned in the book of my great-grandfather's great-grandfather. The male protagonist was the heir to the Sitan. According to the law, he was not allowed to marry and have children. The younger son was always responsible for carrying on the family line.
"If the person in the coffin is the heir of the Hui family, then he couldn't be buried with Cang Yue, sharing a rank. If the person in the coffin isn't the heir of the Hui family, then who was Cang Yue in love with?" Song Shiwen grew increasingly agitated as he pondered this. While relying on a fabricated novel to speculate on the truth of this matter seemed weak, the similarities were so strong that it was inevitable to speculate that the novel depicted the story of Cang Yue and her lover.
He held Wenjie and talked to himself, "The Deer Riding Mountain God is less wise than you, and the Lion Roaring Love Coffin has not yet hidden the moon. Did you see that? The Deer Riding Mountain God in that poem refers to the then-heir of Yunsheng Hall, his name was Hui Jiqing. The next line of the poem in the painting inside the tomb reads 'The Twin Stars Fall, the Moon Hidden', while the line in the novel reads 'The Lion Roaring Love Coffin has not yet hidden the moon.' What does this mean? 'The Lion Roaring Lane' was only renamed in recent years, which means that the latter line was written by Lu Cangyue herself. She knew that her lover was Hui Jiqing. Does 'The Twin Stars Fall' mean that Hui Jiqing had a younger brother who looked exactly like him, hence the name 'Twin Stars'? Is the tablet placed next to Cangyue inscribed with 'Hui Jiqing', or something else? As long as we know this, we can tell, right? Where is the tablet and bones of the other Twin Stars? Since they are not in this tomb, they may not have been destroyed. Wenjie, tell me everything you know. I want to find out the truth."
"I'm afraid there's no chance." Wen Jie said.
Song Shiwen's first reaction was that Wen Jie was not cooperating, and he was angry and planned to use some special means. As a result, he saw two men in suits coming up from behind Wen Jie, holding Wen Jie up on the left and right, and nodded goodbye to Song Shiwen as a gesture of courtesy to the other party.
"Who are you? Where are you taking him?" Song Shiwen rushed forward to grab the man, but found that he couldn't touch them at all. The eyes behind the sunglasses looked at him unsure how to look at him, and Song Shiwen only felt a slight tension in the atmosphere. The two men used silence to give him another chance.
"They're from the Hui family. You'd better not interfere. Just like Shuixi said, you just sit back and reap the benefits. Take care." Wen Jie's legs drooped to the ground. He tried to walk again, but failed completely. He quickly accepted the reality and asked the two bodyguards to be more careful with his legs.
Sit back and reap the benefits? Just like Shuixi said? These people were all playing dumb with him. Wen Jie must know something, but now was no time to speak.
The tomb was destroyed, and little was known about it. Song Shiwen searched the ruins again, but found no useful information. Now, the only clue he could think of was the novel written by his great-grandfather's great-grandfather.
Oh, and there was Zhao Yuwei. He'd seen that kind of handwriting on street billboards before, but he hadn't realized it before. Now that he thought about it, it must have been unique to four thousand years ago. And since Zhao Yuwei used that script as his seal, he must have recognized it. There were some unannotated passages in the novel, and he could definitely tell them apart.
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