Blood in the sunset
"Are you stupid? You just let them do whatever they want?" Lin Yuan slammed the door angrily.
Yuan Xuanlang sighed, "When faced with grief, people always try to find fault, seek causation, to make themselves feel better. They're just trying to mask their inner despair and helplessness. Why bother taking it so seriously? All living things suffer. Why not give them some comfort, a little hope of survival?"
Lin Yuan seemed to understand something, and stood there motionless, slowly digesting these words.
Yuan Xuanlang lowered his head quietly and whispered in her ear, "So, why are you angry?" It seemed like I was making a big deal out of nothing. It was okay for him to be naughty occasionally.
The warmth of the breath reached her ears, flowed upstream to her brain, and made her heart beat excitedly.
Lin Yuan took a step back nervously and alertly, "You...speak properly, I can hear you."
He curled his lips and shrugged innocently, like a naughty boy who had done something wrong and pretended to be indifferent: "That's it, that's it."
Lin Yuan lowered his head and scratched his nose with his hand, as if I was making a big deal out of nothing. It was okay for him to be naughty occasionally.
"Brother, you are really full of wisdom. I can't argue with you."
Yuan Xuanlang:?
Suddenly, he grabbed Lin Yuan's hand and said, "Let's go back to the orphanage quickly while the people outside are crying and not paying attention to us."
Lin Yuan looked up in surprise: "Then why are you holding my hand?"
Yuan Xuanlang: "I'm worried you can't keep up."
Before he finished speaking, he pushed open the door and made eye contact with a group of men, women, young and old. In the eerie calm, he pulled Lin Yuan and ran away.
Seeing the two people running away like rabbits, everyone suddenly came to their senses, "Don't go!"
They immediately ran and gave chase.
Yuan Xuanlang asked Lin Yuan as he ran, "Why do you want to refute me? Doesn't what I just said make sense?"
Lin Yuan replied: "That makes sense."
"Then carry it out."
"Stop!" The people behind were chasing relentlessly.
Lin Yuan clutched her skirt and caught up with him: "It doesn't make sense... I have to do it! I can do it!"
"You don't dare to do it! You can't do it!"
Lin Yuan: "Ha—whatever you say."
In order to get rid of the people behind them, they went around several alleys before running to the orphanage.
"Hoo, hoo..." Lin Yuan leaned against the wall, bent over and panting. What was all this weirdness just now? This bizarre world!
Yuan Xuanlang also leaned against the wall and teased her jokingly: "Your... escape skills... are not good enough."
Lin Yuan raised her middle finger: "You... can't do that!"
…
Lin Yuan returned to the orphanage's residence and collapsed on the bed in a "big" shape.
"You don't dare to do it, and you don't know how to do it!" The voice echoed in my ears.
Okay, I admit that I am cowardly and inferior, and at the same time I want to selfishly abandon everyone.
What can I do?
Damn it! Do you think you know me so well? Do you think you're so great for exposing my evil deeds?
Lin Yuan punched a hole in the quilt.
…
Feeling depressed, she went out to get some fresh air and calm herself down. When she passed by Yu Luo's room, she stopped, knocked on the door, and waited.
After a while, Yu Luo opened the door. Her surprise was about to burst out, but something suppressed it. She said in a low voice: "Sister, Luo Luo heard everything the people who took you away yesterday said."
"So, what do you want to say?"
Lin Yuan had an indifferent expression, and her words were a little cold and frosty. She didn't know whether she was feeling hope or disappointment in her heart. It was as if there was a layer of mist covering her, and she herself couldn't see clearly.
She only knew that she was trapped in a condom, and even her expression of emotions seemed stiff.
Yu Luo gave a wry smile: "Sister, let's go inside and talk."
Lin Yuan agreed.
"Sister, thank you for not agreeing with that person. Everything Luoluo said before was true, and she definitely didn't have any intention of harming you."
She was silent for a moment, and could only come to this conclusion: "So you were being used?"
Yu Luo buried his head in his cloak and said in a muffled voice, "That's what Luo Luo thought. It seems like he's trying to shirk responsibility and clear himself of suspicion."
She was silent for a moment. Based on past events, Yu Luo wasn't a sinister person. That was why she was easily exploited. If my analysis was wrong, the worst that could happen was that I'd just stay away from her.
Perhaps because she was "a wanderer in the world", she gave a wry smile: "Everyone can be used as a tool, including me. I believe in Luoluo."
Yu Luo raised her tearful face and said, "Sister, Zhilan..."
It’s so hard to find my sister.
I found her, but my sister didn’t remember me anymore.
Now, I am also suspected by my sister.
Yu Luo hugged Lin Yuan's waist, the cloak on her head slipped off, spreading her long dark blue hair, and her tears soaked Lin Yuan's clothes.
Hey, are my clothes really so suitable to be used as rags? Lin Yuan touched Yu Luo's soft head helplessly. She didn't have many words of comfort and could only wait for Yu Luo to finish crying.
After Yu Luo recovered, he said, "Sister, I will go back to report to Master tomorrow. The herbs Master wants cannot be delayed any longer."
"If you're leaving so early, you should pack your bags quickly."
"Not much, just a cup of tea. Sister, please chat with Luoluo for a while longer."
Lin Yuan pursed her lips: "What are you talking about...why don't you tell me about your experience before you went to Jinghu Sect? If you feel uncomfortable, try something else."
Yu Luo hugged her again: "As long as sister wants to listen, Luo Luo is happy to listen."
Lin Yuan heard a very tragic story. Instead of following the logic and trying to understand the truth as usual, she chose to empathize.
But Yu Luo was smiling, as if telling an interesting story.
A little girl lived in a village. Because of her blue hair, she was called a disaster star, "a curse from the water goddess."
Her parents were forced to sell her to a wealthy family far away, but she ended up on a human trafficker's boat, and she and ten other people were imprisoned, waiting to be sold at a high price.
Fortunately, God blesses her and she is bought by her master and becomes a disciple of Jinghu School, where she learns medicine and saves the world.
The master was very kind to her, never scolding her harshly, and taught her medical skills with all his heart and soul.
As a child, she loved to play and often went down the mountain to visit the market. A few times, she couldn't find her way home. It was her master who found her, but she didn't get scolded...
Lin Yuan listened to her talk about the touching master-disciple relationship for a long time, and finally got away and returned to the room.
On the ground lay a basket of fruits and vegetables covered in dirt, as well as eggs with feathers hanging from them. A note was left on the table: "Thanks to the people. We have misunderstood those who are chasing us."
After reading the note, Lin Yuan felt warm in her heart and wanted to cry, but she held back after she shed a few tears.
"System, I'm going to do something." Lin Yuan wiped away her tears.
System: "What do you want to do, host? You are not allowed to burn, kill, or loot."
"Of course not. Just like you said—eradicate evil and eliminate wickedness!"
…
The orange sunset covered a corner of the sky, a few spring swallows chirped and flew back to their nests under the eaves, and peach blossoms fell on the lake, spreading a light aqua color.
In Yifang Pavilion, Lord Liang was lying on a reclining chair, leisurely sipping a sip of Pu'er tea. He stood up, picked up a brush and added a few strokes to the scroll, and the painting of sunset in late spring was completed.
He heard footsteps behind him, "Come here and give me a shoulder massage," he ordered.
A cold dagger was placed across his neck.
"If you miss, just scream." Lin Yuan held the knife behind him and threatened him.
Fort Liang gave an ambiguous smile. "Little girl, don't be impulsive. Would you like some tea? Fresh Pu'er tea..."
"No, Yellow Spring Water is more suitable for you."
"You are quite courageous. Let me be a clear-headed ghost. Why did you kill me?"
Lin Yuan brought the knife an inch closer, the blade stained with blood. Fort Lord Liang's breathing became tense, and she sternly said, "So much nonsense! Sign the deeds to the land and the house!"
She pressed a few sheets of paper on the table.
The Lord of Liang Castle smiled flatteringly: "No problem, no problem. Just a few plots of land. I'll consider it a benefit to the people. Haha."
He picked up the brush and signed the paper without hesitation. With this signature, thousands of acres of fertile land and millions of silver taels were given away.
After checking, Lin Yuan put the deed away.
"Bang--" He pushed the inkstone down calmly, and several thugs in uniform jumped out with knives in hand and attacked Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan dodged the knife and drew his sword to fight back. "System, you earn points in a thousand days and use them in a moment."
System: "Received! Force value +400! Current points balance is 400. Come on, host! The host is mighty!"
"You little girl, how dare you set your sights on your grandfather!" Fort Liang took a bite of his apple and watched the fight from the side.
After a while, he was dumbfounded. How could this girl be so powerful?
Lin Yuan thrust the sword into the heart of the last man. Six newly-produced men in uniform lay quietly on the ground, releasing their last breaths of heat into the world.
She walked towards Lord Liang, smiling brightly: "Wow—you are very smart."
The Lord of Liang's legs trembled, and he fell to the ground, backing away until his back hit the beam. "Lady, spare my life! I am blind. You can choose between a million gold and a thousand acres of fertile land..."
Lin Yuan wiped the blood from her face, a mixture of rouge and ink flowing down her face, reflecting the crimson glow of the sky and the setting sun. A line of blood splattered from her sword. Her amber eyes opened wide, and an innocent smile played at the corner of her mouth.
She raised the sword, opened her palm, and let the sword fall straight into the left leg of Lord Liang.
"Ah——" The scream was so shrill that it scared away the birds in the bushes.
Lin Yuan's lips curled up in a cold arc: "Oh, I'm sorry, I did it on purpose."
Lin Yuan drew his sword and walked away. He walked to a garbage dump, took off his shoes and threw them away.
"System, erase his memory of me."
System: "400 points for face scraping, 800 points for whole body erasure, 1000 points for memory erasure. Which one do you want?"
Lin Yuan sneered: "Which one do you think I can choose?"
Host: "Got it! Please give me a five-star rating."
Lin Yuan: "Humph! I won't give it to you."
System: It seems that there is nothing I can do.
The road was long and night was falling. Lin Yuan dragged his tired body around in the remote alleys.
She looked up at the starry sky at a 45-degree angle and sighed:
"Damn, I'm such a directionally challenged person!"
Lin Yuan simply squatted on the side of the road to rest, perhaps the road would be clear by dawn.
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