Chapter 20 (Overhauled)
Lian Yu's expression remained unchanged.
He calmly gathered his clothes and glanced around lightly:
"Do you think he dares?"
Gu Yuan pursed his lips.
"Who did this, then?"
"Gu Yuan."
The door suddenly opened.
Qin Yi stood in the backlight, his tall and thin figure looked particularly oppressive.
Gu Yuan frowned. "You're back? So soon."
Or maybe he didn't leave at all.
Lian Yu had nothing to say.
Only after almost threatening to "persuade" Gu Yuan to leave did Qin Yi come up again.
His hand was stuck between Lian Yu's collarbone, as if he was morbidly admiring the bite mark.
Lian Yu raised his eyes.
Qin Yi paused.
As if trying to avoid something, Qin Yi quickly withdrew his hand:
"Master, have a good rest. I'll go ahead—"
"I know what you're going to do."
Lian Yu's expression turned cold, and he seemed to have regained the dignity of an elder.
"You know very well that Mingzhu is using you."
"So what?"
Qin Yi straightened his neck.
"She used me, so should I stop using her?"
"What about the others?"
Lian Yu stared at Qin Yi's dark eyes:
"Even if you wanted to save me, you shouldn't have dragged innocent people into this. Where are you putting the people of this world?"
"I……"
Qin gritted his teeth:
"I'm not going to let that happen."
Lian Yu suddenly stood up.
Without waiting for Qin Yi to react, he grabbed the dagger at Qin Yi's waist.
The sharp blade with an ice-blue sheen was pressed against Lian Yu's throat.
Snap——
A drop of blood fell on the quilt, and instantly a blood flower appeared.
Qin Yi's hand holding the sharp blade was shaking.
Lian Yu lowered his gaze, hiding the emotions surging in his eyes.
"Look, you were right next to me, but you almost couldn't stop it."
Facing the young man's frightened eyes, Lian Yu whispered:
"If you dare to do it, I will die in front of you."
The smell of blood filled the room.
Lian Yu stood on the couch and watched Qin Yi's back as he fled in a panic.
Blood dripped all the way, like a winding riverbed on the verge of drying up.
A pair of long boots stepped on the end of the bloodstain.
Move your gaze upward.
"Master."
Gu Yuan had a complicated expression on his face, his eyes falling on Lian Yu's ankle.
Lian Yu instinctively took a step back.
Anklets jingled.
"what you do!"
Lian Yu didn't have time to lift the quilt to cover the shackles before Gu Yuan strode up to him.
Someone grabbed my ankle.
Lian Yu instantly got goosebumps all over his body.
"open--"
“Master!”
The volume suddenly increased, Gu Yuan frowned, staring into Lian Yu's eyes.
"Let me take you away."
——
The thin sunlight that filtered through the patio highlighted the dust floating in the air.
The shadows of light and dark divide the lips, a misty pink lip in the light, and a small bright red mole in the dark.
The sound of footsteps passing through the corridor is like the drumbeat of rain.
Mingzhu slowly opened her eyes.
"You're here."
Qin Yi stopped.
"Is everything almost ready?"
Mingzhu raised her eyebrows:
"Don't be nervous. Tomorrow, the Sect Master and I will be there—"
"I'm not doing it anymore."
Qin Yi suddenly spoke, his eyes not evasive, obviously he had made up his mind.
Mingzhu suddenly raised her eyes.
Qin Yi clenched his hands under his sleeves, prepared to waste some time arguing.
Mingzhu suddenly chuckled.
Yifan was no longer as gentle as before, but there was a hint of madness in Mingzhu's smile.
On the table, a blue-and-white porcelain plate was filled with a bunch of fresh yellow cherries, still with water droplets hanging on them.
Mingzhu didn't eat it, but just played with it with her fingertips.
She leaned lazily on the table, picking up and putting down the yellow cherries:
"Are you angry with Junior Brother Lian?"
Qin Yi said nothing.
"Silly child," Mingzhu sighed, "You're just angry. Even if it's a deep misunderstanding, how can it be more important than your master's life?"
As she spoke, Mingzhu reached out, as if to touch Qin Yi's head.
"I have a way." Qin Yi suddenly looked up.
Mingzhu stopped moving her hands.
Facing Mingzhu's stunned face, Qin Yi repeated:
"I have another way, so I won't do what we agreed to do."
Boom!
Lightning illuminated Mingzhu's face, which was twisted with anger, and then a loud thunder exploded from outside the skylight.
The yellow cherries burst between her clenched fingers, and the juice flowed all over her hands.
It's going to rain heavily.
Qin Yi made a gesture and waved his hand, and couldn't help but speed up his pace.
Before the rainstorm comes, he must quickly apologize to his master and take his master away from this damn place.
“Master!”
The door opened.
"us--"
The words died in mid-air.
The person on the couch had a peaceful face, as if he was asleep.
A hand hung limply from the edge of the couch, dripping with blood.
Tracing back upwards, there is a deep bloodstain on the neck.
Qin opened his mouth, but only made some meaningless sounds, like the howling of a puppy.
Master...
His body seemed to have lost its support and he suddenly fell to his knees.
Qin Yi stretched out his hand tremblingly, but was pushed away by Gu Yuan.
"You killed Master."
The eyes that always smiled brightly now stared at him, filled with hatred.
"You have no right to touch him."
Qin Yi was pushed to sit on the ground.
He felt his consciousness drifting further and further away, his vision gradually blurred, and in his field of vision, the hand hanging by the couch became the moon that was close at hand.
It's clearly right in front of me, yet I can't reach it.
But later, the moon gradually moved away from him.
Qin Yi just watched Gu Yuan carry Lian Yu's body on his back.
When he came to his senses, only the sultry summer wind was blowing through the corridor.
——
The wind was thick with moisture, as if a storm was brewing.
Lian Yu closed his eyes.
The damp fabric clung to his skin, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.
He and Gu Yuan had their spiritual power almost exhausted by the poisonous insects, and one of them had never properly learned the basic skills. It took them most of the day to finally find a small inn to rest in the town at the foot of the mountain.
The small room was simply furnished. Apart from a small bed, a bronze mirror hanging on the wall and a broken wooden chair, there was nothing else.
Lian Yu sat down in front of the bronze mirror.
My fingers unconsciously touched my neck, which had already returned to its former smoothness.
"Master."
Gu Yuan pushed the door open with his shoulder, holding a full basin of water in his hand.
He wrung out the towel neatly and handed it to Lian Yu:
"The environment is crude, Master, please make do with it for now. It will be fine once we settle down."
stable.
What a great word.
Lian Yu lowered his eyes.
The water in the copper basin swayed, reflecting the weak candlelight.
The towel was put back into the basin, soaked up water, and slowly fell to the bottom of the basin.
Gu Yuan's eyelids twitched: "Master, you take a rest first, I'll go, I'll go take a walk outside."
Lian Yu knew that Gu Yuan said this because there was only a narrow bed in the room and he was afraid that Gu Yuan would feel psychologically burdened and refuse to sleep.
But Lian Yu didn't refuse, she just nodded and looked at the sky outside the window:
"It looks like it's going to rain, be careful."
Soon, Gu Yuan's pacing figure appeared under the window.
Even two floors away, Lian Yu could still see the young man's frown.
Lian Yu closed the window.
"Hey, sir!"
It was a time when there were few customers, and the boss was sitting behind the counter, fiddling with his abacus. Seeing Lian Yu coming down the stairs with a searching look in his eyes, the boss perked up:
"What do you need? Just tell me!"
Lian Yu smiled friendly.
"Miss, can you please tell me a message, just say——"
He tilted his head to look at the door. From this angle, Gu Yuan was standing under the sycamore tree, looking up, as if searching for the window where he was. Lian Yu curled her lips:
"I'm leaving now, go live your own life."
The candle was pale, even the candle wax was bloodless, and the two flames were wide open, like the flickering pupils of a ghost.
The spirit flag flutters.
Qin Yi stood under the tree and looked at a palm-shaped scar on the trunk.
Finally, he was the only one left in the huge courtyard.
His tears have dried up.
"My condolences."
A man came up and stood shoulder to shoulder with him.
Qin Yi still stared blankly, as if he didn't hear the voice.
Mingzhu was not annoyed. She just took out a stack of copper coins made of yellow paper from the stone table and slowly put them into the fire one by one.
The embers swirled into the sky, and the red mole on her forehead looked even more vibrant.
"Why can't Junior Brother Lian let it go?"
She felt the person next to her suck in a gasp as if in pain, and then quickly walked into the house.
She came to pay her respects but was left alone in the yard. Even so, Mingzhu was not angry.
She threw the last piece of paper money into the fire and stood up.
But after only one day, the room began to smell of corruption, like a thousand-year-old tomb.
The light could not penetrate the tightly closed window, and Qin Yi's expression was hidden in the shadows, making it difficult to see clearly.
Mingzhu only felt that his back seemed a little stiff.
She sighed and placed her hand lightly on Qin Yi's back.
Before he could utter any words of comfort, Qin Yi's back suddenly shook dramatically.
"What's wrong?"
Following Qin Yi's gaze, Mingzhu saw a tidy couch.
There was not a trace of blood on the couch.
It doesn't seem to match the rumored way Lian Yu died?
Qin Yi suddenly spoke at this moment, his voice trembling like a kite with a broken string:
"You're right, my method is useless."
Mingzhu stopped thinking.
Her heart was beating rapidly and her blood was almost boiling, but her face remained calm.
She patiently induced:
"Why do you say that, nephew?"
"tomorrow."
Qin Yi's teeth grind:
"Yaotai, it's just as we agreed before."
After saying this, Qin Yi left quickly.
The laughter echoed in the empty room, making people feel creepy.
Mingzhu laughed so hard that she bent over. The hideous bones of one of her hands were like a spider crouching over her face, and behind the spider's legs was a mad look in her eyes:
“There is always a way out… There is always a way out!”
——
[Xiaoyu, are you still not going to leave?]
Tutu probed cautiously.
The street was bustling with people. Lian Yu sat by the window on the second floor, silently sipping the cold tea in his cup.
"Flowers for sale! Big, fragrant gardenias. Would you like to buy one for me?"
Amid the sound of flower vendors, the young man downstairs pinned a gardenia as white as snow on the girl's hair, and both of them blushed.
The little girl selling flowers took the copper coins and went off to sell her flowers somewhere else.
"Sir, be careful. I'll add more tea for you!"
Seeing that Lian Yu's teacup was empty, the new waiter ran up with a teapot in his hand.
Unfortunately, somehow, the spout of the kettle tilted and all the scalding tea spilled onto Lian Yu's hands.
Lian Yu's long eyelashes trembled suddenly, and the hand holding the teacup tightened.
The waiter's legs went weak and he was frightened to death.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sir. I deserve to die!"
Lian Yu grabbed the waiter who was kneeling down and shook his head.
After a series of thanks, the waiter stumbled away.
There was a red burn on the palm of my hand.
Lian Yu seemed to feel no pain. He stared at the tea dripping from his fingertips and finally spoke for the first time today:
"Walk."
To open the time tunnel, you need to find a place where no one is.
After leaving the teahouse, Lian Yu suddenly felt a little confused.
Pedestrians were busy on the road, rubbing shoulders with each other and shouting loudly.
The little girl selling flowers' eyes lit up and she ran straight towards Lian Yu.
"Sir, would you like to buy a gardenia for your sweetheart?"
A gardenia was handed to me.
Amidst the rich, overpowering fragrance, Lian Yu took the flower as if possessed. The satin-like petals brushed against his fingertips, and he suddenly came to his senses.
"No, I don't have a sweetheart."
“Master!”
Lian Yu suddenly looked up.
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