The coachman picked up the riding crop and was about to stand up, but felt his legs felt weak and he couldn't hold himself steady and sat back down.
He bowed three times to Bai Qing humbly and in awe, then climbed out and continued driving.
The atmosphere in the carriage was a little depressing for a while. Except for the sound of horse hooves and wheels, and the faint murmur of Xu Zhiyi, there was no other sound for a while.
Lin Xixue stared blankly at the floor of the carriage.
If I were to handle it, what would I do?
Facing a group of hungry refugees, they won't listen, persuade or fight them away.
she does not know.
Bai Qing's approach seemed crude, but for a while, she couldn't think of any better solution.
As for choosing a few examples to scare the monkeys, it is actually no different from Bai Qing's methods and practices.
She smiled bitterly and shook her head. At this point, instead of continuing to worry about the fate of others, she should care more about herself.
She still had a lot of questions to ask Bai Qing.
After a long silence, Lin Xixue leaned her head on the carriage, took a few deep breaths, and calmed down a little.
"That day in the cave..."
She paused. She really wanted to know what happened in the cave that day, but now that she was about to face the real answer, she suddenly felt a little afraid again.
Do you really need to ask?
If I didn't ask, I could at least still swing between several identities, or maybe I could stubbornly and insistently decide that I was Lin Xixue.
But if the answer is not what I expected, how should I face myself in the future?
But she still gritted her teeth and made up her mind.
"What exactly happened in the cave that day?"
Bai Qing originally held her chin and looked a little gloomy, but after hearing her question, she still managed to gather her energy and reply.
"You mean, what happened after you forced Hong Yanzi out?"
"Yes, after I pierced the heart with the jade sword, it didn't take long for me to fall into an illusion. I wanted to know what happened at that time."
There was nothing unusual about Lin Xixue's tone, but she was extremely honest and kept jumping, and her palms were sweating continuously.
Bai Qing pressed her temples and began to organize the memories of that time.
"At that time, you asked me to borrow a sword, and then stabbed it into the heart. Then Hong Yanzi appeared, and I fought with him."
"Yes, I'm still awake up to this point."
"Then your wound continued to bleed, and you fainted soon after, but soon you stood up again like a zombie, calling Hong Yanzi grandpa."
"Did I lose too much blood and passed out?" From here on, her memory didn't match up.
In her memory, it should be her shadow blocking the wound.
Bai Qing nodded and affirmed: "Yes, when Hong Yanzi heard you calling her grandpa, she was extremely excited. She hugged you and ran away. I chased you all the way."
"But the rock walls of the tunnel seemed to be alive and actively blocked my way. I split the rocks along the way, which wasted my spiritual power and delayed my time. When I arrived, I saw Hong Yanzi was doing something for me.
You tie your hair in a bun."
Tying one's hair into a bun corresponds to the process in the fantasy world after conferring dharma vessels and robes.
So when Hong Yanzi tied my hair, it was not an illusion, or not entirely an illusion?
"What else happened after that?"
"I found you in front of a huge stone statue at that time. In addition to Hong Yanzi, there were a total of eighteen insect puppets beside him. Including Hong Yanzi himself, there were a total of nineteen people. There should be something in his mouth.
You are reciting some magic formula, but I can’t understand it.”
"These eighteen insect puppets originally surrounded you, but when Hong Yanzi saw me chasing after him, he sent these insect puppets to stall for time while he was still presiding over some kind of ceremony."
"This insect puppet is not a threat to me, but at this moment, my remaining spiritual power is less than 50%."
"So I must consider leaving enough spiritual power to kill Hong Yanzi. Instead of directly using thunder to kill the insect puppet, I chose to use as little spiritual power as possible to slowly kill it."
"After I killed more than ten insect puppets, I found Hong Yanzi stroking your head, and then watched you chewing a large black cake-shaped thing with relish."
Black cake? Could it be the chocolate cake I ate in the fantasy?
"And after that?"
"I was fighting with Hong Yanzi. After you finished eating the cake, you suddenly started wandering around, as if you were looking for something."
"Hong Yanzi was furious when he saw you standing up. At that time, his facial features were twisted into a ball, and he kept asking me, 'Soul-fixing Gu, why is the Soul-fixing Gu missing?' How do I know his Soul-fixing Gu?"
Why is Gu missing?"
Hiss... This soul-fixing Gu is obviously an insect taken out of his own body, but Bai Qing still thinks that the insect is the larvae of the corpse puppet, so she doesn't understand what Hong Yanzi meant at that time.
"Later, when Hong Yanzi saw you standing up, he took out a yellow talisman, said an order, and summoned some invisible things to try to push you back."
Trying to push me back, this should correspond to the scene where the security guard tried to push me to the ground.
"But at this time, you suddenly took out a black sword and chopped these invisible objects into pieces. Hong Yanzi was also shocked by you."
"But after you cut these things, you seemed to be overdrawn. Your nosebleeds kept coming, and you fell down."
"What happens after I fall?"
"Hong Yanzi's own strength is mediocre, but he is good at attrition warfare. This is very detrimental to me. At this time, my remaining spiritual power is less than 10%."
"So Hong Yanzi put you back on the altar and used the military talisman to hold me down while continuing the ceremony."
"But you suddenly woke up again, took out your black sword and stabbed him."
"In the end, you stabbed him, but instead of being angry with you, he was angry with me, saying that I was a liar and that he wanted to die with me."
"Then he turned the entire cave upside down, and the cave completely collapsed."
"At this time, my spiritual power was dissipated, and a large number of boulders crashed down. I managed to split a few pieces, but in the end, my spiritual power was exhausted, and I was knocked unconscious immediately."
"The cave collapsed, so why didn't it kill me?"
"I didn't know that. I was knocked unconscious at this time. I thought I would have to explain it when I went down the mountain for the first time, but I didn't expect you to save me."
"Is it strange that I would save you? I already told you that my body was not taken away."
"But I didn't know that at the time? Hong Yanzi tied your hair into a bun and looked at your kind face when you were eating black cakes. I really thought you were her granddaughter."
"To be honest, even now, I'm not sure who you are. There are always phenomena happening to you that I can't explain."
"So to be on the safe side, I have to take you back to the master and let the master handle it."
Lin Xixue nodded lightly and said nothing more.
She quickly compared her memory with Bai Qing's retelling of the scene, and came up with a bold hypothesis...