Chapter 70 Coma
When Xiaoli saw Ah Chou again, she was even more beautiful, wearing a beautiful red dress. But Ah Chou had become a ghost now. She would bring another ghost with her day and night. It wasn't really a ghost, but a living soul.
Achou's ghost would bring a disembodied soul to the boat to feed the fish all day and night. The two sisters would play and fight, and the little soul would wipe away Achou's tears.
But soon, the little soul stopped coming. Only Ah Chou came. Ah Chou stood blankly on the deck. In the distance, a young man in white came.
The young man was a lively person, as if he had just recovered from a long illness. His steps were slightly slower than those of ordinary people. He walked to the deck and put his arms around Ah Chou from behind.
Ah Chou seemed to be in a bad mood and said nothing.
The young man said, "Ranran, you should kill her. After today, you won't know when you'll have another chance."
Ah Chou did not answer, but said: "If you have made up your mind, die for me. After that, I agree to marry you."
A happy smile spread across the young man's lips. "Of course, I like Ranran. I'm willing to die for Ranran."
"As long as Ranran is no longer in pain."
After saying that, the young man closed his eyes, put the knife into his pale wrist, and twisted it violently. Immediately, blood spurted out, staining his white clothes. He repeated the same thing with the other hand.
A thin layer of sweat broke out on the tip of the nose, veins popped out on the young man's forehead, and his eyes were full of pity. He knelt on one knee and leaned over to kiss the skin on the woman's left wrist where someone had cut her wrist and bled.
"Ranran, don't be afraid. You will no longer feel pain soon." As long as you have endured twice the pain that Ranran suffered before her death, you can bear her current pain for her.
His hands were too weak, so he handed the dagger to the woman himself, "Ranran, do it, you will be free soon."
Ah Chou's expression was gloomy. "Do you know what you are doing? After today, you will be suppressed for eternity and endure my suffering and torment on my behalf."
The young man closed his eyes and raised his head high, "I know, Ranran, I am willing."
So she no longer hesitated and personally picked his tendons. The blood quickly spread on the white fabric like red plum blossoms in winter.
The young man bit his lip to suppress his groan, rested his forehead on the girl's soft abdomen, and whispered, "The long wind comes from the sky and slowly enters my arms."
The woman's raised hand was stunned, and in an instant, the cold rain flowed into Changfeng's eyes.
She hesitated to take action, and Changfeng closed his eyes and said, "Ranran, it's raining, or... are you crying for me?"
This really angered her.
"How could I cry for a man?" Finally, she stopped hesitating and pushed Changfeng into the water.
Changfeng did not struggle.
After an unknown amount of time, a third person appeared behind her. Upon closer inspection, it was the scholar who had harmed Ah Chou.
The scholar laughed and said, "You are truly cold-blooded and heartless. However, this body cannot be thrown away. I still have great use for it."
He waved his hand, and Changfeng, whose face had lost its vitality, broke through the water and his body fell at Achou's feet, splashing the ground.
"There's only one step left, let's get started."
The corner lamp burned dimly, and the dim warm light cast two figures on the deck.
A hand slowly grasped the man's hair crown and lifted it upwards. The dagger was thrust into Changfeng's throat by her own hand, and then turned. His head was lifted up, and the remaining half of his headless body lost its support and fell back with a thud.
Chen Qing seemed to be lost in thought when she heard this. She put a piece of rock honey into her mouth while telling the bloody and cruel story and asked, "Did you see what that scholar-like man looked like?" The young man was most likely Bai Shuisha. He always wrapped white silk around his limbs and neck to hide his hideous wounds.
However, since he has turned into a demon, physical scars should not appear on his demon body, unless... the dagger can penetrate the flesh and cut off the human soul.
It is no wonder that Xisangyao died five years earlier than Baishuisha, so he naturally absorbed five years more resentment than Baishuisha. If he wanted to make Baishuisha transform into a demon together with Xisangyao in a short period of time, he would have to absorb multiple times the resentment.
The more miserable the death, the more likely it is to attract resentment, not to mention the Baishuisha who drowned in life and suffered the pain of soul-cutting after death.
Xiaoli said, "I don't know. I could only see a mess on his face."
"What happened to the young man's body afterwards? What happened to it?"
Xiaoli thought for a moment and said, "A Chou was taken away by the scholar, and the man in white was put into a bag by several people and secretly taken away."
"Was there anything unusual afterwards?"
"No, that's all I know."
Xiaoli was a humanoid who had transformed a month ago. She had seen Ah Si Pozi, the woman Ah Chou had mentioned, kill two people, and had learned her method. Just as Ah Chou had said, a heartless man should be skinned alive.
But before Xiaoli could make a move, several terrifying auras from Yuanchun Tower frightened her so much that she stayed in the water for more than ten days. Only after she was sure that the terrifying aura had disappeared did Xiaoli dare to come out.
At this time, Yuanchun Tower was surrounded by layers of barriers, and no one, whether clients, servants, or the girls in the building, could leave the building.
So Xiaoli went into the building and searched and searched, and finally found a poor scholar who was trying to defraud a singing girl of her money.
The poor scholar said to the singing girl affectionately: "I will marry you when I pass the imperial examination."
However, the truth was that the poor scholar took the singing girl's money and went to the underground gambling house in Yuanchunlou, spending money recklessly. At the end, he smiled and said to his friends: "These women are so easy to deceive. They don't think about the fact that no one who can enter a brothel is a good and innocent man!"
So she became Xiaoli's first target.
However, just as he finished all this, Xiaoli was caught.
Chen Qing looked at Xiaoli and ordered someone to feed her a pill.
The pill melted in his mouth and he couldn't spit it out at all. Xiaoli rolled over on the spot and said, "Bad guy, what did you give me to eat! I've already told you everything you want to know!"
The cunning old man smiled and said, "Since you have killed someone, you should be punished. However, I will not kill you. From now on, you will stay in my house to look after the house."
She said, "What I'm giving you is poison. You need to come to me once a month to get the antidote. If you don't take the antidote, your stomach will start to rot and you will die in pain." She learned this trick from Li Daoxuan.
Xiaoli covered his stomach with his hands, his eyes filled with tears.
"Don't even think about killing someone to get the medicine while I'm away. If you intend to harm an innocent person, the poison will take effect immediately."
"Woo woo woo, bad guy!"
The “bad guy” Shen Qing waved his hand with a clear conscience and asked Cui Ya to throw the little carp into the pond in the backyard of the Shen Mansion.
After finishing the last thing, he walked to the window with a heavy heart, opened it, and looked at the cold moon in the sky.
The source of the previous doubts was finally found.
In Yuanchun Tower, apart from the dead Haitang and Shancha, there is also an old lady named A Si. All the old people in the tower in the past were replaced without anyone noticing, and now there are only new people. Is there anyone who is worthy of the Xisang Demon to expose himself and skin him alive?
The answer is no. It just so happens that there's been another murder and skinning case in the building, which makes it obvious that someone else is the one doing the skinning. Add to that the man-eating koi in Huachun Pond and the chilling, cold air beneath the water, and it's a perfect place for evil spirits to inhabit.
Sure enough, "Shadow" caught the culprit as soon as he arrived.
"System." After many days, Chen Qing finally called out the system again.
However, there was silence for a long while. Chen Qing frowned and said again: "System? 001?"
The last 001 fell, and a cold electronic voice finally emerged: "001 is here, what can the host do for you?"
"Is Li Daoxuan dead?" This is the thing she wants to confirm most at the moment. The bodies of the two demons have been destroyed, but after two days there is still no news of Li Daoxuan.
001 was silent for a moment: "Host, the second male's vitals are normal."
"Do you know where he is now?" It has been almost a month since Li Daoxuan fed her poison. Seeing that he had not returned for a long time, Shen Qing couldn't help feeling anxious.
What if he doesn’t come back after one month?
"Sorry host, 001 doesn't have this function."
Chen Qing was greatly disappointed: "Besides issuing tasks, what else can your system do?"
"I, I..." 001, having been scolded by its master, began to doubt itself. What else could it do? It seemed, really, that it could do nothing.
001There was silence for a long while.
"Forget it, forget it, don't come out."
001 I'm so tired of it.
As Shen Qing frowned, she suddenly felt a chill on her wrist. Looking at the now-shrunken black snake, she reached out and stroked its jaw. Qiu Ren's head rubbed against her fingertips, following her strength.
Looking at Qiu Ren with deep emotion, a thought struck him. Wasn't Qiu Ren a sword spirit? A sword spirit should know where its true form was!
Shen Qing immediately closed the window and got up to pack her luggage.
On the second day, she repeated the same trick and passed through the formation that Liu Jiuyue had carefully set up for her. She left the Shen Mansion through a side door unknowingly. Cui Ya was trapped in the barrier, looking at her with tearful eyes, like an abandoned bride.
Chen Qing, who was dressed in a dark green Hu suit, rubbed her head and said, "I'll leave my parents' affairs to you. Please help me delay it for as many days as possible."
Cui Ya said, "What about Deputy Envoy Liu? If he comes and doesn't see my wife, he will definitely be even more angry!"
Chen Qing said, "Senior brother respects me and won't trespass into my house. Just think that I'm still angry and don't want to see him."
After saying that, he left alone.
After leaving Chang'an City, she hired a donkey cart and headed in the direction Qiu Ren pointed.
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To the east of Chang'an and south of the Wei River is Weinan County.
In order not to attract attention, Chen Qing took a donkey cart for two days to arrive.
However, Qiu Ren did not enter the county town, but instead went to a remote place in the wild forest. Chen Qing had no choice but to follow him with his robe in hand.
The further he went into the forest, the more lush the trees became, and the more tangled the branches were. As he walked in, his shoes were covered in mud, making it seem like he was having a hard time moving forward.
Unexpectedly, the closer Qiu Ren got to the inside, the more irritable he became. He flicked his tongue anxiously and looked back at Chen Qing frequently, as if he wanted to ask her to go faster. However, Chen Qing was a mortal, and her speed was far inferior to that of the light Qiu Ren. In the end, without even waiting for Chen Qing to call him, Qiu Ren sped up and crawled in, and disappeared in half an incense stick of time.
Chen Qing stopped and looked up. Thick and messy branches and leaves blocked out the sun, which was not strong to begin with. The air around him gradually became moist, and there were weeds growing in front of him, as if something unknown would jump out in the next moment.
She couldn't help swallowing and continued to move forward patiently. Fortunately, it had rained two days ago, and the forest was already damp. The soil on the ground was not easy to dry, and animals would easily leave traces when passing by. Chen Qing followed the traces of Qiu Ren's crawling and finally came to the entrance of a cave.
It was here that Qiu Ren's traces disappeared.
The cave entrance, as tall as a person, looks like a skull eye, gazing deeply at the person entering the cave.
Since this was the place Qiu Ren had walked, there was no way that wild animals were lurking there. Chen Qing took out the tinder from his luggage, opened the lid, and entered the cave entrance in the light of the tiny flame.
As the firelight deepened, her back was gradually swallowed by darkness.
"Tick, tick—" The stalactites on the top of the cave are dripping water.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Chen Qing vaguely saw a figure leaning against the wall. She immediately quickened her pace and when she got closer, she saw that it was the long-missing Li Daoxuan.
Seeing someone with pale lips, her heart rose to her throat and she hurried over to reach out and feel his breath.
The breathing was a little weak, but it rose and fell regularly, indicating that the person was still alive. She breathed a sigh of relief.
But the person on the ground didn't move at all. He casually placed the Qiu Ren sword at his side. Qiu Ren on the ground did not dive into the sword, but coiled up his body and circled back and forth beside Li Daoxuan, like an ant on a hot pan.
Chen Qing raised the tinder to the side of his face and used the firelight to see his eyebrows and eyes clearly.
At this moment, he closed his eyes tightly, his face was pale, like a delicate and fragile porcelain figure.
"Li Daoxuan? Li Daoxuan?"
Facing Shen Qing's call, he didn't respond at all.
Just as Shen Qing was getting anxious, a woman's voice suddenly came from behind him: "This young man seems to be seriously injured. My servants and I happened to be passing by here. Why don't you take this young man with you to my calf cart and let my doctor take a look at his injuries."
Chen Qing was shocked and looked back. She saw a slim and graceful woman in a white dress standing behind her.
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