He could clearly feel his back rubbing intimately with the earth beneath him.
A lot of noise passed through my ears, including the hissing of insects, the scraping of leaves, the roar of wild beasts, the fluttering of birds...
But in the end, these sounds were all covered up by the breathing of the girl above.
He saw a layer of sweat forming on the other person's slender back, and the snow-white dress was stained with mud and blood.
The girl's shoulder was pressed by a thick vine, which was pulling him lying on a net made of branches.
Zhao Lang wriggled his lips that were about to crack, and his throat was like a desert of ravines, unable to make a single sound.
Perhaps hearing his movement, Jiang Li stopped and turned his head.
Zhao Lang struggled to open his eyes and raised his head.
It was obviously very dark around her, but her outline was extremely clear, and her whole body was glowing white.
Those eyes were clear and cold, without any emotion, but seemed to be filled with the compassion of gods and Buddhas.
"Jiang..."
As soon as he uttered the sound, Zhao Lang fell into coma again.
It was already early in the morning when I regained consciousness.
In the dark virgin forest covered by the shade of trees, only a ray of light seeped in, but it has already roasted the forest like a furnace.
But Zhao Lang clearly felt that his throat was no longer so uncomfortable, and he could barely open his mouth.
He forced himself to sit up from the ground, but as soon as he made a little movement, a voice came from beside him.
"Three of the ribs on your back were broken, so I managed to use branches to stabilize you. If you move around again, I won't have the strength to continue bandaging you."
Zhao Lang turned his head and looked at the girl half lying next to him.
Her facial features were shrouded in a thin layer of mist, half hidden and half revealed with a hint of divinity.
Zhao Lang raised his hand slightly, but he could only touch the thin layer of fog.
He knew that Jiang Li had exhausted all his strength to weave a net that took him away from the bottom of the cliff where the beasts were.
If it weren't for her, he might have become a broken skeleton by now.
"Thank you for saving me."
Jiang Li glanced at him and closed his eyes again.
"You don't need to thank me. We are now settled. If it weren't for you, I would be the one with the broken rib now."
They are indeed lucky.
There was a tree under the cliff, which just held them up.
But because the weight of the two people was too heavy, and they had little physical strength, the branch broke after not supporting it for long.
At the critical moment, it was Zhao Lang who protected her in his arms.
She only suffered a small scratch, but his back hit the ground hard, breaking several ribs immediately and passed out.
Afraid that they would be attacked at night on the exposed cliff bottom, and afraid that Chen Xing would chase him, Jiang Li thought of a way to drag him into the forest.
Fortunately, the art of Xuanmen also includes astronomy and geography, so she could barely walk through the misty forest and basically never encountered any wild animals.
Zhao Lang smiled and looked at the foggy sky again.
"It seems that good luck will indeed happen if I stay with you."
Jiang Li then sneered, "Half your life is gone, what kind of good luck can you think of?"
Zhao Lang's eyes moved to his own bracelets.
"At least I'm still alive, so I'm satisfied."
A chuckle floated over, and then the string of Buddhist beads on his wrist was held by Jiang Li.
"You should really be grateful that you are still alive."
"Let me tell you a story. It is said that there is a Mani Pearl in the world. The Buddha once used it to ask the four heavenly kings what color they were. Four people gave four different answers, so there was a Mani Pearl.
"I don't know".
"But my master once took me to see a magic weapon trained by a Taoist monk. The beads were completely black, but when placed in the sun, they turned bright red. When they fell into the water, they became transparent again. The master told me
, this is the Mani Pearl that is hard to find in the world."
After Jiang Li finished speaking, he smiled and said, "Although the string on your hand is different in size from the ones I have seen, there is almost no difference in appearance or color. I have also tested it and it will indeed become transparent when exposed to water.
."
"In Buddhism, the person who uses Mani beads as a magical instrument is Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who controls the reincarnation of the world, saves all living beings, and does not fall into the three paths."
"But there's nothing strange about it. After all, you don't look like an ordinary person. It's normal to have such a treasure, but I saw your face and palm." Jiang Li withdrew his hand and his eyes became cold.
, "You are a short-lived person."
A few simple words have exposed all Zhao Lang's secrets.
He smiled self-deprecatingly, "I actually tried to hide it before. It seems like it was all in vain. Master Jiang is indeed amazing."
Jiang Li continued to fake a smile, imitating his tone and said: "Yes, Mr. Zhao has been wearing a turban on his head for almost a month, which covers the most important part of a person's face - Yintang, completely.
There is no meaning of three hundred taels of silver here."
Zhao Lang coughed awkwardly.
"I'm sorry, I did this for a reason."
"Oh, so why are you so wary of me and investigating everything about me?"
"Because you are the accident in all reincarnations."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Li was stunned, and a cold light flashed across his eyes.
Could Zhao Lang be like her?
If that's the case——
"Miss Jiang, don't be nervous. Although I am wary of you, I have no ill intentions."
Jiang Li looked towards him, but the latter had already retracted his gaze, pretending that he had not seen the gaffe she had just made.
"Anyway, we are already close friends. You have guessed that I won't hide it anymore. I just take it as an apology for investigating you in private before."
Zhao Lang raised his hand, and the string of Buddhist beads on his wrist turned bright red little by little under the direct sunlight.
"You guessed it right, and you are right. I am indeed not a normal person, but a short-lived person who died six times."
It's like a bug that appears in a given program.
When he first started reincarnation, he was at a loss and at a loss——
Obviously he is just an ordinary mountain man, but on the way back from herding cattle, he fell off the back of a cow and died accidentally, but he returned to when he was 3 years old.
He thought he was reborn, so he vowed to live a good life and avoid accidents.
But the accident came when he was 22 years old. He died again and returned to the age of 3.
After repeating it twice, he began to feel uneasy.
Afraid that I have been cursed, afraid that I will be trapped in this destined fate forever.
He kept looking for solutions, and in the process, he gradually discovered the mystery of his life experience and gradually understood the unknown darkness.
During his fourth reincarnation, he had calmly accepted this fact and began to use the power of reincarnation to expand his power.