Leng Jiayun was forced to kneel next to the boy by the islanders. There were some bruises on her face, and she was sobbing with her mouth stuffed with linen. Her tearful eyes were full of unwillingness and anger, as if she was annoyed that she had not yet done so.
She was able to discover the mob behind her in time, and she seemed to regret that she should not have imagined this isolated island that had been away for more than twenty years too beautifully from the beginning. She suddenly realized that maybe she and her lover were yearning for each other, and
This so-called paradise for which we have sacrificed everything is just a dream that only exists in hope. Once people who lack education are faced with the choice of life and death, they will quickly transform into blind beasts, which are not controlled at all, and they have no control at all.
There is no truth to it.
The islanders obviously did not intend to give the two men another chance to beg for mercy. They saw Du Hang walking quickly behind Qi Ziyin, grabbing the hair on his forehead and forcing him to raise his head. The young man's neck was suddenly exposed to the cold
In the air, he struggled hard, but his shoulders were held firmly by two strong men, leaving him with nowhere to escape.
The dagger slowly touched Qi Ziyin's skin. For a moment, he couldn't even feel whether the sting caused by the sharp blade that was about to take his life was cold or hot. The young man closed his eyes in despair, feeling only the pain of death.
The shadow gradually blocked the cold sun hanging on the horizon. However, he did not feel the sharp pain when the sharp blade cut his throat, nor did he hear the gurgling sound when his own blood spurted out.
The ice beneath his knees shook without warning, and the low roar kept stimulating the young man's eardrums. Amid the exclamations surrounding him, the hand holding his hair suddenly relaxed. Qi Ziyin opened his eyes.
With his eyes open, he saw the islanders standing around him retreating to both sides, as if they were frightened by something in front of them——
It was a gigantic warship, heading straight towards Qingwan against the sun. Its size was far beyond the ordinary fishing boats on the island, and an iron ram was installed on the bow specifically for breaking ice.
Under the squeeze of the ship's hull, large ice floes shattered into pieces. The incoming ship also rushed forward quickly and stopped only when it was less than a hundred steps away from the crowd.
Floating on the top of the ship's mast was a white whale flag flying in the wind. The boy in white suddenly felt that he had seen this battleship somewhere before. However, before he could react, he heard someone on the ship angrily yell:
"Damn it, I'm not on the island, and you actually dared to attack Miss Leng and Mr. Qi. Do you want to rebel? Why don't you release them quickly!"
The other party's voice was rough and powerful, causing Qi Ziyin to squint his eyes and try to look towards the ship. Suddenly, he saw a tanned man standing at the bow of the ship holding a cable in his hand. It turned out that he had escaped from Hailing Island with him earlier.
After saying goodbye outside Mulu City, Fan Zhen was never seen again!
Du Hang also quickly recognized Fan Zhen, but did not obey the other party's order. Instead, he pulled Qi Ziyin and Leng Jiayun to his side, and pressed the dagger against the young man's throat:
"Why do you, surnamed Fan, order us to release them? Do you know that these outsiders are about to kill everyone on the island!"
"Fart! One of these two is the beloved wife of General Baili, and the other is his beloved disciple, how can they harm others!" Fan Zhen yelled back.
"If you don't believe it, go and see for yourself. The lives of these two people must be spared today, otherwise how should we explain to our dead relatives!"
"Whoever dares to touch a hair of these two people today, I will let them be buried together!"
Seeing that the other party refused to give in, Fan Zhen immediately waved his hand. Dozens of crossbowmen immediately appeared on both sides of the ship, bent their bows and arrows, and aimed at the islanders who had nowhere to hide on the ice.
As a result, Du Hang and the others finally became afraid and reluctantly let go of the hostages in their hands.
"Ziyin, are you okay?"
Leng Jiayun immediately rushed in front of the young man and inspected the small wound on the other's neck that was made by the dagger. Fortunately, the wound was not deep, and the blood that seeped out quickly solidified.
The young man in white didn't look too good. The woman thought he was too tired and reached out to hold the other man's shoulders to help him stand up. Unexpectedly, the young man's body softened and he fell down on the ice.
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"What's wrong with you, Ziyin? Don't scare me!"
Leng Jiayun quickly hugged Qi Zi into her arms. Unexpectedly, the young man was lying on her shoulder, trembling all over and vomiting. The filthy matter spurted out of his mouth was burnt, black and sticky, and it was exactly the same as those sick islanders.
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"He is—he actually contracted that strange disease?!"
Du Hang and others immediately panicked when they saw this situation. They took a few steps back as if they were avoiding the god of plague. They still didn't want to believe that Qi Ziyin was innocent. The woman in purple had no time to scold them anymore and immediately stretched out her hand to untie Qi Ziyin.
Qi Ziyin was wearing a thick coat.
Only then did she finally see clearly that there were patches of erythema all over the young man's body. The back was the most serious, and some areas had already suppurated and eroded. The woman was so anxious that she didn't even care that the vomit was all over her body.
, asked with a cry:
"Ziyin, tell Sister Jia, when did this happen?"
"Eight or nine days ago, I discovered it the night I came back from Uncle Zicheng's place."
"Idiot, you're already so sick, but why haven't you said a single word to me?!"
Tears suddenly welled up in Leng Jiayun's eyes, and they fell on the young man's face.
"I - I'm afraid that you will worry. What's more, if she knew that I was also sick, Sister Yijia would never allow me to run around again. In that case, it might be impossible to find the blue piece.
Snow’s liver—”
Qi Ziyin didn't care about his body at all, and stretched out his hand to point to the place where he fell.
Seeing this, Du Hang bent down and plucked the frozen blue piece from the ice at his feet, and asked with vigilance: "Does he want this thing? What is the use of this thing?"
"Of course it is used as a medicine to cure diseases and save people! You bastards, do you know that Ziyin has been dragging his sick body for three days and three nights without closing his eyes in order to treat the islanders? But when he was so desperately looking for medicine,
At that time, you didn't know what to do, suspected him and attacked him, don't you feel guilty in your heart?!"
“Can this thing really cure diseases?!”
Hearing this, the corners of Du Hang's eyes suddenly twitched a few times, and he stuffed the precious blue blood liver into his mouth without hesitation!
It was only then that Leng Jiayun saw large red spots on the exposed skin of the opponent's arms. She instinctively rushed forward to stop him, but unexpectedly, a sharp arrow pierced the air in mid-air. Before she could wait,
Du Hang's reaction hit him between the eyebrows!
As the body fell heavily, Lan Xue's liver also fell on the ice again, and Fan Zhen on the ship was heard yelling angrily:
"I see whoever dares to act rashly will suffer the same fate!"
The islanders on the ice knelt down tremblingly, not daring to think anything else. Qi Ziyin sighed and held his chest tightly:
"Why would you risk your life in vain... No matter who is on the island today, no matter what they have done, I will try my best to save it..."
The woman couldn't help but be shocked by the boy's generosity - even she was not fashionable and could not laugh it off when faced with such things. However, the child in front of her who still looked immature had a heart that was difficult for others to match.
The heart of an emperor who loves all living beings.
If the delay continues now, many people, including Qi Ziyin, will die. Leng Jiayun still tried to calm down his ups and downs of emotions, put away Lan Xue's liver, and together with Fan Zhen, put the young man on his shoulders and immediately walked towards him.
Rush to the city.
But before he could go far, the boy in white coughed violently. As the world turned around, a salty substance suddenly surged up from his throat, making him unable to control himself and vomited again. But this time
What he spit out was a dazzling scarlet color!
"Zi Yin! Zi Yin, cheer up, don't sleep, don't sleep!"
The last sound the boy in white heard was Leng Jiayun's panicked cry. However, it was really difficult for him to hold on. He only felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and the light blue ice floes in front of him were getting heavier and heavier.
Dark, getting darker...
When the young man woke up again, he had put on clean clothes and was lying on a warm couch. Beside him, a figure in purple was sitting by the stove that was boiling water, dozing off.
"Sister Jia, could it be that the blue blood liver worked?" Qi Ziyin opened his dry mouth with difficulty and asked.
Leng Jiayun woke up immediately and nervously stepped forward to press down on the other party who was about to get up: "Of course it worked, otherwise how could you still have the strength to speak now? How do you feel? Is there anything else that feels uncomfortable?"
Seeing the other party's nervous look, Qi Ziyin burst into laughter.
"You're such a heartless kid, you can still laugh. Do you know that if I feed you the medicine half a day later, you will never get your life back!"
The woman in purple scolded, but still poured a bowl of warm water and handed it to the young man's mouth.
"How are the other islanders doing? The blue blood I caught is not that big. It will definitely not be enough to make medicine for the whole city." Qi Ziyin took a few sips and asked quickly.
"The medicine brewed from the cod liver has saved more than thirty people who were in the most critical condition. Now I have asked Fan Zhen to send people to the open sea and try to catch fresh blue blood. If the quantity is enough, you can
Don’t worry.”
"Are those sea monster tears stored on the island still abnormal?" The young man suddenly remembered something and frowned tightly.
"Since the day we found the blue blood, the black crystal has stopped glowing. Whoever is behind it seems to have temporarily stopped casting spells to harm people."
"No, if the murderer is still hiding on this island, we must find him out quickly!"
"There's no need to bother. In the name of counting casualties, Miss Leng and I have conducted careful door-to-door inspections on the island in the past few days, and we haven't found anything suspicious. I'm afraid the person who cast the spell has already
Take advantage of the chaos and escape."
Before Leng Jiayun could continue to reply, another man suddenly walked in outside the house. It was Fan Zhen who returned to the island at the critical moment and saved the lives of the two of them.
"But--"
"It's nothing. We, a group of people, have lived on the island for a long time, and we are all very rough. Although sometimes our minds are not clear and we often go to extremes in doing things, it is definitely not directed at you, young master, and it is even more impossible to deliberately use curses.
Techniques can harm people. I know everyone on the island and I can guarantee this for them. For now, young master, you better not worry about it anymore. Taking good care of yourself is the most important thing."
After hearing the other party's words, the young man finally felt relieved. He also understood that even if the murderer was still on the island, convicting him with conclusive evidence would not happen overnight, so he turned to ask about the man's current situation:
"Brother Fan, how could you come back by boat at this time? I haven't had the chance to thank you in person for what happened to Hailing Island. Where have you been for more than a year?"
The other party sighed, bowed his head with some shame, walked up to the young man, raised his hands and bowed:
"This matter is a long story. After you escaped from Hailing Island and I sent you back to Wanzhou, I followed General Baili's order to sail north to the Nuanshui River in Guizhou. Until I heard that Ye
Something happened to the country, so I rushed back in a hurry, but unexpectedly I encountered an ambush on the way."
"The ambush soldiers...were they sent by Uncle Wang?"
"That's right. But fortunately, I was able to break out of the encirclement with the ship that General Baili gave me. For more than a year after that, I avoided the lingering Ye Guo Zhou Division in the Jinghui Bay area until half a month ago.
Finally I was able to get rid of them completely, so I hurried back to Qingwan. It’s so damn frustrating!”
The man recalled what he had encountered before, and the expression on his face told Qi Ziyin that he had also experienced a narrow escape from death this time when he went to sea. However, before the young man could ask again, Leng Jiayun beside him said first:
"Brother Fan, you risked your life to bring back Baili's remains this time. My daughter is very grateful. However, you said that you went to sea and went north again under Baili's order. Are you looking for clues about the ancestors again?"
In response to this, Fan Zhen did not answer immediately, but nodded cautiously, as if the word "ancestors" in the woman's mouth was a taboo for him that could not be mentioned easily in front of others.
Unexpectedly, Qi Ziyin shook his head nervously: "Maybe you two don't believe it, but the secrets of the ancestors that you and General Baili have been searching for may not be as beautiful as you imagined!"
"Miss Leng, have you told the young master everything?" Fan Zhen looked at the woman in surprise.
Leng Jiayun just raised a hand to indicate that it was okay, but her eyes never moved away from the young man on the bed:
"What does it mean to be less beautiful than you imagined? Ziyin, what else did you see in the ancient books of our ancestors?"
"In short - don't look for any more secrets of our ancestors. It does not have the power to resolve all the pain in the world. On the contrary, the power contained in it is the source of all the pain in the world, and will only bring chaos and
Death!" The young man in white refused to say it clearly and just shook his head.
"But what Baili told us at the beginning was not what you said!" The woman in purple immediately lost her temper and refuted loudly. However, Qi Ziyin on the opposite side said with great certainty:
"I know it may be hard for you to accept it, Sister Jia, but no matter what General Baili promised, he was wrong!"
"But if we don't search for the City of God and the ultimate power within it, how can Qingwan survive?"
"There are many places to go. I read in the ancient books of our ancestors that in addition to Qingwan, there is also a large area of land in the northwest of Chanyinghai, which is far away from the sphere of influence of the Great Sheng Dynasty. It is a place where the ugliness of the world has never set foot. A place where we have lived. All of us can go there and start a new life——"
"Even so, I will continue until I find it!" Leng Jiayun interrupted the young man.
"Why are Sister Jia so persistent?"
"Zi Yin, don't you understand? You don't know that the most terrifying thing in the world is not poisonous insects and beasts, nor floods and storms. The real threat to Qingwan is the human heart, the emperor of Yujing, and the princes The ambitions and greed of those powerful people in the country are infinitely expanding. No matter where we flee, if we don’t have any absolute power in our hands that can defeat the enemy, we will never be able to maintain peace. And this is the ultimate power that Baili must find. for the sake of!”
The overbearing arrogance of the other party made Qi Ziyin lower his head involuntarily. Seeing this, the tough-tongued woman seemed to be aware of her blunder, and tried hard to regain her former gentleness: "So, can you tell me now? What exactly did you see in the ancient books of our ancestors?"
"I saw it - a protracted war. The war destroyed all the beauty in the world, and turned the homes of the ancestors into a scorched earth. And the so-called ultimate power is not some apocalyptic salvation, but Unknowingly, it destroyed the ambition and greed of our ancestors! Isn't this what you are afraid of, Sister Jia?"
Ever since he discovered these vague but conclusive ancient records, this matter has weighed on the young man's heart like a huge boulder, making it difficult for him to breathe. However, now, after telling everything he knew, what was in his heart Not only did the burden not lighten, it actually became heavier.
From a young age, he has always longed for the solitary and secluded life in the sages' books. However, a series of changes that happened one after another made him gradually understand that there are some things that cannot be avoided at all, and he can only face them bravely and work hard to survive. It’s just that young people have never been able to understand that if they fight violence with violence, will they definitely get the desired results?
"So, you already know where the secrets of the ancestors are hidden?"
Leng Jiayun took a deep breath and continued to ask in a tone that was so calm that it was scary. It seemed that after experiencing Xiang Baili's departure, fulfilling her lover's last wish had become the only reason for her to live at the moment.
"Sister Jia, you don't understand that if that terrifying power is allowed to reappear in the world, those people you hate will become more and more unscrupulous in order to fight for this supreme power. No, not only them, but even ordinary people All the people, including you and me, will be seduced by that demonic power and fall into eternal madness!"
Qi Ziyin wanted to persuade him again, but the other party could no longer listen to anything:
"I won't. I just want to use those powers to protect you, Qingwan, and Baili's last thoughts in this world."
"But people change..."
Qi Ziyin suddenly realized that perhaps the best choice would be to let the secrets of the ancestors be buried underground and no longer known to the world. However, driven by his curiosity, he flipped through the obscure and difficult books in the White Pagoda.
When you understand the words, you have already made a complete mistake. And this mistake may bring the world to overthrow!
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