The village shrouded in mist is eerie and eerie. In the white world, abandoned and old houses are looming, and tall and straight green pines stand like giants overlooking them.

Jiang Ke walked quietly among them, alert to everything around him.

After Mo Qing left, Jiang Ke followed him immediately, but he didn't expect to be delayed in the chaos. When he escaped, there was no trace of Mo Qing.

Fortunately, he got lost in the fog last night but didn't encounter any monsters. He noticed the terrain problems at dawn and found the route recorded on the map he knew by heart.

But after the fog cleared, he wandered in the forest and lost his way.

He was like a ghost hitting a wall, spinning in circles over and over again. In desperation, he had to give up for the time being, take the opportunity to adjust his condition, recharge his batteries and wait for the fog to come again.

This time the fog interval is short.

As soon as it got dark, fog appeared, and a new road suddenly appeared in the forest that could never be walked out.

This time we didn't walk long before we reached the village.

Jiang Ke held a flashlight in his hand and when he arrived at a half-walled ruin, he was shocked to see blood all over the ground in a spray shape. He calmly looked around and half a meter forward, he was shocked to see a severed arm in the haystack.

The fracture was not smooth, as if it had been torn off by force.

Following the traces, the fragments became denser and denser, gradually pieced together into a human shape. Close to the fragments, there was a familiar backpack, which was torn open by brute force, and the contents inside were scattered on the floor.

That's the equipment of Xiao Yuqun's group.

——It seems that some of them ran into Xiwu Village by mistake.

——I don’t know how many people came.

Jiang Ke looked at the corpses on the ground and found the head. He squatted down to check. He had just determined that the person had been dead for no more than two hours and was about to evacuate the place quickly when something strange happened.

An invisible sense of crisis enveloped his whole body. Before Jiang Ke could react, his body took the first step and rolled sideways to avoid the dagger stabbing him.

Just as he dodged, the man attacked again.

The flashlight rolled to the ground, and the diffuse fog blocked his vision. Jiang Ke had no choice but to rely on intuition to dodge and resist.

"Well time."

After a few dodges, Jiang Ke suddenly raised his head and looked directly at the approaching dagger.

His voice was strong and determined.

The dagger paused in the air and stopped three inches away from the tip of his nose. The person holding the dagger was hidden in the white mist, and the outline of a figure could be vaguely seen.

The thick fog is ethereal.

Jiang Ke's gaze seemed to actually fall on Jing Shi.

"Did you design all this just to kill me?" Jiang Ke said every word in a calm tone.

Ever since setting off from the Imperial City, "Chi Shi" had been acting strangely.

Originally it was just suspicion, but now, Jiang Ke can almost conclude that "Chi Shi" has recovered his memory.

He is well time now.

When the fog first appeared, Jing Shi and Song Yiyuan disappeared quietly. It was probably arranged by Jing Shi. He took that opportunity to enter Xiwu Village and was fully prepared, waiting for Jiang Ke to come.

"yes."

In the thick fog, Jing Shi responded affirmatively.

Cold and determined.

Contains no emotion at all.

"Kill me because of Jiang Yan?" Jiang Ke asked.

Jing Shi said coldly: "If you die, he will come back."

Jiang Ke frowned very lightly: "How did he come back?"

"you do not need to know."

There was danger and murderous intent in Jingshi's tone.

The dagger swung and stabbed Jiang Ke's neck horizontally, but Jiang Ke remained motionless.

When the dagger touched Jiang Ke's skin, he paused. Jing Shi was silent for a while, and his voice was low and deep: "Why don't you hide?"

Jiang Ke didn't answer.

He said in a deep voice: "You won't take action because you still have something to say."

"Yes." Jing Shi did not deny it, "What else do you wish for?"

Jiang Ke said: "I want an answer."

Jingshi asked: "What's the answer?"

"The answer to my existence."

When Jiang Ke said this, his tone was very calm, as if he was talking about an ordinary thing.

Since he had the self-awareness of "Jiang Ke", he has no idea why he is living. Therefore, on his journey to find himself, he pursues any clues he encounters, but still finds nothing.

Until he met Mo Qing.

He has a natural affinity for Mo Qing. From his superficial behavior patterns and living habits to his underlying feelings and concerns, everything controls his approach to Mo Qing. It seems that the meaning of his existence is Mo Qing.

For a while, he even accepted the answer.

But it's unreasonable.

If Jiang Yan would be resurrected, there would be no need for him - even if he is just a puppet.

So he thought again that the meaning of his existence was to sacrifice - to Jiang Yan.

He lives just to die.

He didn't want to accept this answer, so he tried his best to avoid it.

Right now, the answer is in front of him, and Jing Shi will explain it clearly to him even if he has the slightest bit of kindness.

But he thought wrong.

Jingshi was indeed kind, but after looking at him silently for a moment, he said, "I don't know why you exist."

Jiang Ke's eyes flashed with surprise.

The fog is getting thicker and thicker.

The world was silent, covering all the light, and this place seemed to be isolated from the world.

Jing Shi's fingers holding the dagger tightened slightly, and his voice was as cold as that night: "Because, you are him."

Jiang Ke was stunned.

"To be precise, your current body belongs to him." Jing Shi took back the dagger and said slowly.

"But I'm not injured." Jiang Ke paused, as if to recover, "There's no hole in my head either."

"Of course not." Jing Shi said, "After Chief Jiang was shot, although he was not killed on the spot, he died not long ago. It was then that we discovered Xiwu Village. The residents here have superb medical skills and are not inferior to Mo Qing.

, I died once, but they saved me. So we sent Chief Jiang here as soon as possible."

Jiang Ke asked: "Jiang Yan was also rescued?"

Jingshi stood in the fog, silent, and didn't speak for a long time.

It wasn't until Jiang Ke thought he wouldn't say anything anymore that he heard his voice again: "No. My resurrection from the dead comes at a price. Chief Jiang refuses to be resurrected in this way."

Jiang Ke's expression froze slightly, waiting for him to continue speaking.

Itoki said: "He chose a method with a success rate of only 10% - falling into a long sleep and spending a long time recovering his body, but it is very likely that he will be like a vegetative state and difficult to wake up."

"Later, he stayed in Xiwu Village for ninety years. But for some reason, the last person in Xiwu Village was about to disappear. The place was full of dangers, so I had no choice but to take him to Dongshi City."

"Before the village chief of Xiwu Village disappeared, he told me how to wake him up. It took me almost five years before he showed any signs of waking up. But the New World has been tracking my whereabouts, and I may be in danger at any time.

We can only entrust him to Master Thirteen."

Itoki finished briefly talking about the events of the past hundred years.

The evening breeze stirred up the thick fog.

Jing Shi took a deep look at Jiang Ke in the dark night: "Chief Jiang told me before receiving treatment that if he forgets everything and becomes a different person when he wakes up, don't be surprised. He will come back, as long as he

you die."

"..."

After Jiang Ke listened, he fell into a long silence.

The cold mist enveloped him from all directions, attacking his skin pervasively, piercing into his blood and bone marrow, and the cold air in his body was sucked away bit by bit.

It wasn't until his limbs became stiff that Jiang Ke asked, "Did Jiang Yan tell you these words?"

"yes."

"The person who treated him said that he would lose his memory and become another person. Is this true?"

"No." Having said this, Jingshi did not hide any details and said honestly, "He said this is a medical skill recorded in ancient books. The sequelae are unknown, but this possibility cannot be ruled out."
To be continued...