The old Taoist priest who laughed heartily was naturally Master Jin. Ever since he heard what Lin Tantan said that day, he had been thinking about how to deal with Lin Tantan. He still couldn't see the person and couldn't contact the other party. Ordinary means were of no use at all, so he could only take an unconventional approach.
He hadn't wanted to do this originally. The formation described in the records was enormously powerful, but it required human sacrifice, and many people at that. It was a forbidden technique and too damaging to the harmony of nature. But he had no other choice.
So the next question was how to get so many people needed for sacrifice, so he left Zhengyang Base and spent several days looking for Brother Fei. Sure enough, this person was still there, and he still had a grudge against the people in Zhengyang Base. He just told him about his purpose and plan, and the other party immediately agreed.
Seeing the blood-soaked light rising from the formation, Fei Ge, who was standing not far away and watching all this, was filled with surprise and excitement. He took a few steps closer and asked loudly, "Master, did it really work?"
Master Jin stroked his scruffy beard and nodded inscrutablely. But as he looked at the bloody light lingering above the formation, he narrowed his eyes slightly and shook his head. "The enemy is still holding out. This is just a moment away."
Fei Ge was overjoyed.
To be exact, he had no hatred against Lin Tan Tan, and he had never even seen her in person, but he was happy to cause trouble and losses to the people in Zhengyang Base.
He has lost his home, so why can that group of people get better and better?
Moreover, today is their wedding day. I believe this gift will be something Ye Xiao will remember for the rest of his life.
In this world, we are all destined to sink together. We don’t need any wise and powerful leaders, nor do we need any pure land where we can settle down and live happily. Wouldn’t it be good for us to be people without a tomorrow?
At this time, the wedding scene was in chaos. Those injured by the explosion were still screaming in pain, and the bride on the stage had fallen down without warning.
It even caused an exclamation.
"Tan Tan!!!" Ye Xiao was right next to Lin Tan Tan and hugged her immediately, but he still couldn't stop her from falling.
Lin Tantan's whole body went limp, as if his soul had been taken away in an instant. He opened his eyes blankly and unfocused, unable to feel anything around him.
Ye Xiao's mind was blank. He called her twice in horror and immediately picked her up. Hospital, yes, go to the hospital.
He thought in extreme panic, but he knew in his heart that going to the hospital was useless. Even so, he rushed out of the wedding scene.
The shaking of her body brought back some of Lin Tan's consciousness. She tried hard to gather her last bit of consciousness and strength, raised her hand tremblingly, and grabbed Ye Xiao's clothes.
Ye Xiao suddenly stopped and looked down: "Let's talk, are you okay?"
Lin Tantan's face was pale and bluish. It was hard to imagine someone's complexion changing from rosy and healthy to so unsightly in just a few moments. Her bloodless lips moved with difficulty: "Ye...Xiao, I think...I should leave."
Ye Xiao froze completely. He stood there for two seconds before slowly putting the person down on the lawn. He hugged her with trembling hands, his breathing unstable: "How could this happen... didn't you say before..." You even said that you wanted to stay here with him.
It must be that the man's self-explosion just now caused something, and she had to leave.
He choked softly in his throat: "Talk..."
Lin Tan Tan tried hard to smile, but she could no longer feel her facial muscles, and even controlling her lips and vocal cords was extremely difficult. She knew she was going to die, but she couldn't let him know that she was going to die.
She was worried that he wouldn't be able to accept the news.
She tried hard to grasp this last bit of time, her voice so weak that it was almost inaudible: "I'm sorry... My family... is there, I will be fine... You, don't be sad... I, I will go... look for you in the history books... It's not easy for you to get to this point... Don't give up..."
Ye Xiao was completely speechless. The man who always bleeds now has tears in his eyes. He wants her not to leave, but he also knows that it is not a matter of whether she wants to leave or not, but she probably has to leave.
He forced a smile that was uglier than crying: "Don't worry about me. Say hello to my father-in-law, mother-in-law, and my brother-in-law for me."
Lin Tan Tan moved the corners of his mouth, trying to give him a smile, but he couldn't.
Her eyes were red, filled with attachment, reluctance, worry, and deep love, but in the end, they all turned into emptiness. She tried hard to turn her gaze away and looked at the people who had gathered around her at some point. She found a familiar figure among them with great difficulty. Her eyes moved slightly, and she shook her head almost imperceptibly, then leaned on Ye Xiao's chest and slowly closed her eyes.
The second time she died, she had too many regrets in her heart, but at least, she had done what she wanted to do, met Ye Xiao, and changed his fate. She just didn't expect that this time, she would be the one who made him suffer.
She listened to his rapid heartbeat and his suppressed sobs, and for the first time she felt regret. If she had known this would be the outcome, she would have stayed away from him from the beginning, only helped him from afar, only been friends, and even shouldn't have let him know of her existence.
She shouldn't ask for too much.
Otherwise, leaving at this moment will only be perfect, blessed, peaceful, and without regrets.
Finally, the hand that was tightly clutching his dress loosened and fell onto the snow-white dress.
The veil and hair were blown by the wind, and the sunlight seemed to lose all its warmth at this moment, including all the colors in the world, which became dim.
Ye Xiao's body was as stiff as a sculpture. The next moment, strong winds blew around him, and the winds were like cutting knives. He hugged the body in his arms tightly, buried his head in the soft and warm neck, and tears rolled down one by one. Along with the sound of the wind, he could hear the low and mournful cry of a lonely beast that had lost its mate.
…
In a formation somewhere, the persistent red light finally dissipated bit by bit, leaving behind a formation rune that had lost its power and a pile of corpses. All the blood, including the blood, had been absorbed by the rune.
Master Jin couldn't contain his excitement: "It's a success, a complete success."
Brother Fei also laughed and immediately ordered people to clean up all the corpses and destroy the runes on the ground.
Revenge is one thing, but he has no intention of sacrificing himself, so of course he has to destroy the body.
It took these people an entire afternoon to clean up all the traces. They dug a hole and buried the body because they were afraid that burning would make too much noise.
It was almost dark at this time. After much thought, Brother Fei decided to leave Liang City. There would be plenty of opportunities to cause trouble in the future. Now that Lin Tantan was dead, who knew if Ye Xiao would go crazy? Although he was confident that he would not be discovered, it was better to stay out of the spotlight.
However, who knew that he and his brothers had just started working and had no time to escape when their secret base was discovered.
A group of murderous people and mutant beasts surrounded the area. A few people walked in. When Fei Ge saw the people coming, he knew that everything was over.
Everyone who came had murderous intent on their faces, and they looked at him as if they were looking at a dead person, or a private person who deserved to be cut into pieces.
Phineas knew them all.
The one in the middle is Bai Cheng from the Zhengyang base. He's said to be Ye Xiao's first deputy and the actual manager of the base's affairs. He's not a combat-oriented person, yet he actually went out in person.
The man on Bai Cheng's left with a murderous look on his face should be Mei Baisheng, whose special ability is very special and powerful.
The one on the right holding a bloody sword is Xu Li. He has no special powers, but is stronger than most people with special powers.
He also saw a tall and strong man in the distance, holding a big cat in his hand. That was obviously Zhong Xiong who was in charge of the beast group.
These four people actually went out together. Brother Fei smiled and said, "I didn't expect that I could actually trouble four of you. It's really my honor, haha..."
Halfway through his laughter, he felt as if his throat was being strangled. He stared at the last person who slowly walked in, exuding a dead aura, and his face gradually turned pale.
When facing the four people in front of him, he could still act nonchalant and ready to die, but when facing this person, for some reason, even the ready to die attitude didn't work.
This man was already intimidating when he showed his might before. He had never faced him head-on, but he had seen him deal with zombies.
That strength is indeed the best among the best, completely unable to resist, crushing, the kind that doesn't even allow one to muster the strength to resist.
At this moment, the man who seemed to have completely taken off his restraints was even more terrifying. There was no vitality in his eyes, only bottomless darkness, as if it condensed the meaning of destruction for the whole world.
Phineas took an uncontrollable step back.
Ye Xiao looked at the person in front of him without any emotion, as if he was looking at a ball of air.
Then--
Whoosh whoosh whoosh.
What's that sound? Fei Ge was horrified and subconsciously took a defensive stance, but found nothing happened. He put his hands down blankly, and suddenly felt something wrong with his legs. He looked down stiffly, and his trouser legs suddenly turned into a ball of powder and fell away, revealing his bare legs. Then, blood slowly oozes from the hairless skin.
Before Fei Ge could figure out where the wounds were, his legs suddenly exploded, and the flesh paste instantly exploded like watermelon pulp. He fell down into the flesh and blood paste, unable to react. The next moment, the pain that could not be expressed in words reached his mind. He howled miserably, almost blowing the roof off and alarming the entire city.
His brothers who were controlled were so scared that they pissed themselves. They wanted to escape, but when Master Jin was grabbed and dragged back, he collapsed completely, his face twitching and he couldn't utter a word.
The people in front of him still looked indifferent. Ye Xiao just watched Brother Fei howling and rolling with his inanimate eyes. The flesh and blood on the ground were smeared on his body, leaving only the half of his body above the legs, which looked funny and ridiculous.
He turned his head indifferently and looked at Master Jin who was lying limp on the ground.
Master Jin's face instantly turned pale. His teeth chattered as he shouted in a timid voice, "What do you want to do? Just because you're powerful, you can trample on other people's lives like this?"
At this time, Zhong Xiong walked in and said to Ye Xiao, "The mutant dogs dug a mass grave with at least 700 people buried in it. They all died today. The cause of death was that their necks were cut open, which matches the confession."
After he finished speaking, Bai Cheng asked, "You ask others not to trample on other people's lives, but you trample on them yourself?"
Master Jin gritted his teeth and yelled, "What do you know? Lin Tantan should have died long ago. She's just an evil spirit that's taken over someone else's body. As a cultivator, it's my duty to eradicate these evil spirits. Those people are people who can't live happily. It's their blessing that they can play a role before they die. This is a good deed, and it will bring them a good life in the next life."
Bai Cheng sneered: "Oh? So Taoists also cultivate for the afterlife?"
Master Jin's face twitched and he was speechless.
Ye Xiao walked towards him, and he tried to shrink back in panic, but the two people who were restraining him held him down tightly, making him unable to move.
Ye Xiao finally said his first words, his voice hoarse and emotionless: "What methods did you use on her?"
Although she said before she left that she would return to the original world, which was more than three hundred years later, Ye Xiao had no way to verify it. He was worried and couldn't let go. The only person who could give him an answer was the person who took action.
This matter is not difficult to investigate. Starting from the person who blew himself up, we can find out who he is and who he has been in contact with. It is easy to know that he has been in contact with Master Jin and others. There are still a few of those old Taoist priests left in the base. If we catch them and interrogate them, we can find out a lot of causes and consequences.
They were unwilling to participate in Master Jin's possible plan against Lin Tan Tan, and just wanted to stay in the base to retire, but from their information, Ye Xiao also noticed Fei Ge's line.
In addition, some people discovered that some survivors have been missing in recent times, and someone saw blood rising from the sky somewhere this morning.
It is very easy to follow the clues and trace them back to the real cause. If we catch a few people and interrogate them, we will know about the formation.
But those people only know one side of the story. If you want to know it thoroughly, you still have to ask Master Jin.
Master Jin was an old man, and he was devoted to his principles. He was even more steadfast than Lu Xin had been back then. He managed to withstand the pressure and sneered, "The person is already dead, so why are you still asking this?"
The atmosphere suddenly turned cold.
Qin Han came out: "Chief, let me try."
Mei Bosheng finally couldn't help himself and rushed forward, shouting with red eyes: "Let me beat him to death!"
"No need." Ye Xiao was unexpectedly not angry. He just raised his hand slightly, and the wind tightened. Master Jin's mouth was suddenly stretched open, and the strong wind rushed into him like a spirit snake, and went down along his throat.
In an instant, his esophagus and stomach were stretched, and then air continued to be pumped into his intestines. He felt like he was sieved, and he couldn't open his eyes and could only make vague "ah ah" sounds. At the same time, his stomach swelled up like a balloon, making him feel like he was in pain.
"Ah! Ahhhh!" Master Jin struggled frantically. Puff, puff, puff, his stomach kept making the sound of something exploding. It was the sound of his intestines being burst by the air.
Master Jin screamed madly: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything!"
Qin Han was sweating coldly. The leader was so fierce that he felt creepy when he saw his tactics.
Mei Bosheng looked pleased.
Bai Cheng frowned, looking at Ye Xiao, whose face no longer had any expression, with deep worry in his eyes. Ever since... he has always been like this, even if he has been crying while holding a corpse, even if he is furious and decadent, Ye Xiao is too silent at this moment, like the silence before destruction.
It's very disturbing.
But when he thought of Lin Tan Tan, he felt sad and couldn't say any words of persuasion.
Ye Xiao finally withdrew. Uncle Jin, nearing death, said feebly, "I don't know what that formation is called. I only know it's a method passed down from our ancestors to exorcise evil spirits. It requires human sacrifices; the more people, the greater the power. I just gave it a try." He tried to laugh but quickly suppressed it, panting through sweat, "This proves that Lin Tantan is indeed an evil spirit. I'm not wrong. Even if you torture me or kill me, it won't change that."
He suddenly raised his voice: "I'm not wrong!" He opened his mouth and was about to bite down on his tongue, but before he could bite down, a force stopped him. Ye Xiao's face remained calm. He said: "So, the formation was successful, and the target of the formation was expelled?"
The suicide attempt failed, and Master Jin became completely dejected. He knew that he would not have another chance, and was afraid of Ye Xiao's ruthlessness. He grunted for a long time, but he did not dare to say that the formation would most likely tear the evil spirit apart directly. What's the use of expelling it? Of course, he had to cut the weeds and eradicate them completely.
Unless there is a flaw in the formation, it will only have an expulsion effect.
But the formation was obviously very successful.
But at this moment, he didn't dare to say that he had turned into a corpse. He only said in a rough voice: "That's right. I don't know where it was expelled to."
Ye Xiao, Ye Xiao's expression relaxed, and he closed his eyes to hide the crystal clearness that suddenly appeared in his eyes.
That's good.
He felt a dull pain in his heart, but beneath this pain there was a sense of comfort.
Just be alive, no matter where you are, just be alive.
He opened his eyes, his expression returned to calm and cold, and he asked again: "How do you know her identity?"
"It was just a guess at first, but it was Lin Tantan who told me the truth."
Ye Xiao's expression changed slightly, and the others were also surprised. Master Jin continued, "It was that Lin Tantan, the original owner of this body."
Ye Xiao's face darkened: "Is she still here?"
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Zhengyang Base.
The atmosphere today is particularly different. If the morning was celebratory, joyful, lively and cheerful, the afternoon was bleak, sad and panic-stricken.
In a heavily guarded room, two women were guarding a corpse on a coffin. Their original dresses had been taken off and replaced with soft and decent clothes. Their makeup was also removed. The girl on the bed lay quietly with her eyes closed. Her body was stiff and cold, and her face was pale, no different from when she was alive.
The two middle-aged women sighed and said, "Doctor Lin was such a great man, but he just passed away like that."
"I heard they were attacked at the wedding. The leader was there, so many experts were there, how could it be..." A woman wiped her tears, "Doctor Lin is a good man, he saved so many people, why didn't he have a good ending?"
Another woman's eyes also turned red: "Yes, they were about to get married. I heard that the chief held her for a long time and cried in front of so many people. He refused to let go until she was completely dead."
"But I heard that after he got cold, he never looked at him again and never came here again."
"Don't talk nonsense. It seems that they have found the mastermind behind this and are out to arrest him. Many leaders have been dispatched."
"What's the point of catching him? He's gone."
At this time, the forest garden was as quiet as a dead garden in the night. All the mutant beasts had gone out to look for the person behind the scenes, including the swan mice that Lin Tantan raised. Logically, there should be no one here at this time.
But there was a figure passing through the winding path in the night, moving back and forth in the woods, as if looking for something.
Finally, he stopped by the lake and looked up at the tall tree that had grown by the lake.
As if it knew that something had happened to the owner of the forest garden, this tree, which was brought down from the mountain and planted here by the owner, was particularly silent tonight. The trunk, as thick as a bucket, seemed to carry endless sorrow, and the water droplets dripping from the branches and leaves seemed to reveal a sense of sadness.
The man looked at it silently for a while, then sighed softly, "So it's here."
He was about to go forward when suddenly a light shone from a distance: "Who's there?"
The man stopped and turned to look over. When the person came closer, he sobbed and said, "Xu, Minister Xu, I, I missed Doctor Lin, so I came to see him."
Xu Qin saw clearly that the man was Xu Tianjin. She didn't know what his relationship with Lin Tan was, but they were definitely friends.
His expression softened a bit, and as he looked at the lush tree, his face was heavy and sad. Who could have known something like this would happen so suddenly? A good person, just gone like that. But it seemed like she had a different story, and wasn't dead...
Xu Qin suddenly looked at Xu Tianjin, his eyes flickering slightly as he said, "It's late, don't stay here anymore. By the way, have you gone to see them and have a chat?"
Xu Tianjin was stunned. "Isn't it that the mourning hall hasn't been built yet and we are not allowed to pay our respects?"
"You are her friend, and she will be happy if you see her for the last time."
Xu Tianjin nodded with sobs, wiping away tears like a child: "Okay, thank you, Minister Xu."
So Xu Qin brought Xu Tianjin to the room. Seeing the person on the bed, Xu Tianjin couldn't stop crying. He sat on the floor beside the bed and cried. The two women standing by also wiped their tears. Xu Qin stood silently at the door, closed his eyes and sighed softly. He looked at Xu Tianjin, but couldn't see anything. At this moment, he suddenly heard Xu Tianjin sobbing and saying, "Doctor Lin, how could you do this? I sent you once, it wasn't enough. You want me to send you a second time."
The voice was too low, at least the two women didn't hear it, but Xu Qin heard it. Her eyes changed, and she suspected that she had heard it wrong. What did this mean?
He waited for a moment, but Xu Tianjin didn't say anything else. He cried for a while, wiped his tears, stood up, walked over to Xu Qin and thanked him: "More Minister Xu."
As he said that, he was about to leave.
Xu Qin wanted to ask something, but was worried that her question was inappropriate, so she didn't stop him.
Xu Tianjin walked a little further and then, in the darkness, looked back. His gaze was clear and calm, a stark contrast to the Xu Tianjin he had just been. He looked at Xu Qin's blurry figure and murmured, "The clues are hidden for thousands of miles. This is all I can do for you. Whether they can grasp this clue, or whether they are willing to do so, is not up to me to decide."
"To change your fate, you have to take the initiative yourself. I fought for a chance for you once, but look, it still ended up like this."
"You damned girl, you were so afraid of hurting your beloved that you didn't dare tell him the truth. Before you died, you even shook your head at me and told me not to tell you. You made me, an old man, pretend to be crazy and stupid. But it was an accident. It would be useless if I told you on my own initiative. So-called fate is that through countless coincidences, accidents, and carelessness, people step by step to that ending, isn't it? There can't be any deliberate factors!"
He muttered to himself with a faint sarcastic smile on his face. He looked up at the dark sky above his head, as if he wanted to see something through the night sky. When he lowered his head, he became the crying and heartbroken Xu Tianjin again.
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