"Drip."
A drop of water leaked out from a crack in the cave and landed on the tip of Mo Xi's nose.
"…"
Mo Xi's eyelashes fluttered slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.
His gaze was a little unfocused, and he didn't even know what time it was. For a moment, he saw the chaotic scene of the Bat Tower swaying in front of his eyes, and then he saw Gu Mang's faint figure walking away in the dusk.
His heart was stuck in his flesh and blood, beating dully. Before this, it had almost been destroyed to the point where it was about to stop.
Mo Xi rested for a while, and when his vision was no longer so blurry, he turned his stiff neck and looked left and right — he was lying in a cave. This cave was not deep, and he could see the starry night outside. A pile of firewood was burning brightly, and there were three people sitting by the fire pit. They were Gu Mang, Jiang Yexue, and Murong Chuyi. Yue Chenqing was lying not far from him, covered with Jiang Yexue's cloak.
Mo Xi had a splitting headache, and he painfully closed his eyes.
The memories before he fainted flashed through his mind like a flash of lightning.
All kinds of things happened in the Time Mirror. Gu Mang slowly walked away with Lu Zhanxing's body on his back, and the old beggar's Lotus Flower suddenly sounded — I was also once, lightly clothed and riding on a fat horse, leading thousands of people to the front of the mountain. Surrounded by demons and demons, the people welcomed them as if they were gods. Today, gold is scattered, who will regain it? Friends are separated, hunting dogs are cooked …
And finally, when they came out of the Time Mirror, Gu Mang stood in the rain of blood with a cold face.
Mo Xi suddenly sat up, and the movement spread to the three people who were talking around the stove. Gu Mang was the first to notice. He turned around and met Mo Xi's eyes.
Gu Mang: "…"
Mo Xi: "…"
But Gu Mang's first sentence was not directed at Mo Xi. He stared at Mo Xi for a moment, and then turned to Jiang Yexue and Murong Chuyi.
"He's awake."
The other two immediately looked at him. Jiang Yexue walked in a wooden wheelchair and came to Mo Xi's side, "Lord Xi He, how are you? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? "
Mo Xi did not answer. His heart was beating, and he was still looking at Gu Mang who was sitting by the bonfire.
After he recovered, he was still shocked, confused, and surprised by Gu Mang's sudden recovery. He even felt that this was like a dream.
But when he closed his eyes and opened them again, it was still the same cave and the same group of people.
It was real.
The Time Mirror really brought Gu Mang back to the past and stimulated Gu Mang's mind at the same time. Gu Mang actually regained his mind!
"You …" Mo Xi's withered lips moved, but his voice was very hoarse.
Gu Mang glanced at him, and his blue eyes turned to another direction. His expression was almost the same as the young man from eight years ago in the Time Mirror, as if there was a thin layer of frost on his face.
Jiang Yexue saw that Gu Mang did not answer, and was afraid that Mo Xi would feel awkward, so he said, "Gu Mang is fine. Also … when you were unconscious, he already told us about his memory recovery. You don't have to worry. "
Mo Xi looked across Jiang Yexue at Gu Mang who was sitting silently by the bonfire. Gu Mang's movements were very leisurely. One leg was curled up, the other was propped up, and his elbows were resting on his knees. Even his lapel was slightly open. He looked exactly like the military hooligan from back then.
Ever since he entered the Time Mirror, Mo Xi had been stimulated too much, and this last blow was completely out of his expectations.
The moment Mo Xi realized that Gu Mang had regained his memory, he had a moment of sad, temporary ecstasy. That ecstasy came from the fact that their past was finally shared by the two of them, but that was only a moment. At this moment, he looked at him, and the violent beating in his chest gradually cooled down.
Gradually, this feeling was crushed by the unknown, by anxiety, by helplessness, and by confusion.
He seemed to have thought a lot in this short period of time, and also seemed to have been tortured to the point that he was numb. His mind was in a daze for a long time, and finally, his thoughts settled on this — Gu Mang had regained his memory, but he was increasingly not like the Senior Martial Brother Gu in his memory. Instead, he was extremely cold.
He was clearly the first to notice that Mo Xi had woken up, but he did not get up. He just let Murong Chuyi and Jiang Yexue deal with it, and turned his face away, holding a cup of hot tea and drinking it as if nothing had happened.
Mo Xi looked at his side profile, and the heaviness in his heart became deeper and deeper.
Jiang Yexue saw that he was silent for a long time, and only stared at Gu Mang in a daze. He said worriedly, "Lord Xi He, are you okay?"
Mo Xi paused, and withdrew his gaze from Gu Mang. He tried his best to calm down and said, "… Okay."
After a while, because he did not want Jiang Yexue to see anything more, he changed the topic and asked, "… Where … are we?"
"We're still on Bat Island." Jiang Yexue answered, "Things have become too big. Wuyan has sealed off the entire island, and we've lost a lot of energy. We can't get out for a while."
"Who?"
"The female Bat King of Bat Island. Her name is Wuyan. "
Mo Xi said tiredly, "… She's obviously a bat. Why does she call herself a swallow?"
"Yes, it's such a strange name." Jiang Yexue said, "When we entered the pagoda, Wuyan was in seclusion in the underground palace. She was at a critical moment in her cultivation, so she didn't come out even though there was such a big commotion. Later, you destroyed her entire tribe in the pagoda. Chu Yi … "After saying this name, he realized that it was wrong and changed his words," Uncle also rescued Chenqing from her secret prison. After you fainted, she just finished her cultivation and chased after you. Fortunately, there was still Gu Mang. "
As Jiang Yexue said this, he glanced at Gu Mang.
Gu Mang was quite polite to others. He even grinned at Jiang Yexue as if he had not betrayed them.
Jiang Yexue did not know how to respond. He could only turn his face back and say, "Because Gu Mang could take charge of the situation alone, we were able to escape successfully and find this cave. But Wuyan is mad. Now, the entire Bat Island is covered with Howling Spells. If we're not careful, she'll find us. I've set up a Concealment Spell here. We can hide for a while. You don't have to worry. "
Mo Xi raised his hand and pressed on his throbbing temples. After a while, he turned to look at Yue Chenqing, who was still sleeping soundly under the big tent. They had not seen each other for more than ten days. Yue Chenqing had lost a lot of weight. His originally round cheeks were sunken. The lines of his cheeks were particularly thin.
Mo Xi asked, "How is he?"
Jiang Yexue was about to answer when he heard Gu Mang's voice, "If you have anything to say, you should come over and talk. You can light a fire and eat something. "
His heart was full of scars and calluses, but his heart still palpitated when he heard this warm sentence.
Mo Xi looked up at him. He was about to thank him in a low voice, but before he could say anything, he heard Gu Mang say slowly, "Or is Lord Xi He so weak that he can't walk and needs me to carry him?"
The word "thank you" was stuck in his throat. It was stuck in his throat. He choked so much that he had difficulty breathing.
He thought that after they came out of the Time Mirror, they could ease up a little. At least he wanted to ease up with Gu Mang. He wanted to apologize to Gu Mang for his mistake in the past. He wanted to try to ask Gu Mang the truth.
But Gu Mang did not think so. The hostility in Gu Mang's words was exactly the same as that of the traitor who was loyal to Liao Country.
He spoke in an unrepentant tone.
Mo Xi said softly, "Gu Mang …"
"Yes?" Gu Mang sneered, "Do you really want me to carry you?"
"…" Mo Xi's eyes darkened inch by inch, like a candlestick that was about to be extinguished after suffering for too long. Gu Mang extinguished the last light in his eyes.
Gu Mang's attitude after he recovered seemed to be saying sarcastically, "Mo Xi, look at us. What else is there to talk about?
No matter what the truth is, what the past is, let's be enemies. We have no other choice. "
Mo Xi gritted his teeth and got up. Although he was exhausted, he still walked to the fire pit. He looked at Gu Mang deeply. He seemed to want to say something, but in the end, he turned his face away.
He sat silently beside Murong Chuyi, at a place far away from Gu Mang.
Gu Mang naturally noticed the place he chose. He smiled and did not say anything. He turned the barbecued meat on the bonfire.
The silence around them was unbearable. Mo Xi was silent for a moment, then turned to ask Murong Chuyi, "How is Yue Chenqing?"
Murong Chuyi looked very pale. He lowered his eyes and said simply, "I have suppressed his injuries. He is not in danger for the time being. But he has been poisoned by Bat King's Gu. I can't get rid of it. "
Mo Xi was startled. He had heard from Shan Gao that Yue Chenqing was locked in the dark room and was covered with blood-sucking vines. But Shan Gao did not say that Yue Chenqing had been poisoned by a Gu.
"What kind of Gu?"
"I have never seen it before. It is a type of Gu poison that has never been recorded in the Xiuzhen Continent. I interrogated the two high-level bats guarding the Dark Room, but they didn't know much either. They only said … "
Murong Chuyi suddenly paused. He frowned as if he was disgusted and coughed softly.
Jiang Yexue came over and handed him a cup of hot tea, "Little Uncle, have some."
Murong Chuyi's face was ashen. He pushed him away and the tea splashed all over Jiang Yexue's sleeves.
Jiang Yexue, "…"
Murong Chuyi slowed down his rapid breathing due to coughing and continued, "They only said that this Gu can wake up a corpse that has been drained of blood and make it the living dead. Its appearance, voice, memory, and even emotions can be reconstructed. "
Gu Mang was bored, so he transformed a magic weapon into a bayonet and played with it in his hand. Then he stuck the bayonet into the fire like a pair of tongs and stirred up the flames. He said, "Isn't this just killing a person and using the corpse to create a new person?"
"Indeed."
"What does that she-devil want to do?" Gu Mang's slender fingers twirled the bayonet nimbly. He asked while playing, "Who does she want to create by grabbing Yue Chenqing's body?"
"I don't know." Murong Chuyi stammered, "Those two high-level bat demons are loyal. After I forced them to say these things, they self-destructed their spirit nuclei and killed themselves. So I want to wait until I recover a little before going to the island to catch a demon that knows something and ask. "
As he spoke, he coughed a few times and said, "To remove the Gu for Yue Chenqing, the more they know, the better."
"… That's fine." Gu Mang said straightforwardly, "Then how about this? Anyway, I have the slave locking ring on my neck, so I can't run away. Your bodies haven't recovered yet, so why don't I go out and catch a suitable demon for you to interrogate? "
Murong Chuyi raised his eyes, "… You are so kind. Why? "
"I just want to live a better life." Gu Mang smiled at Murong Chuyi, "I'm helping you save people now. In exchange, I want to ask you masters to do me a favor and help me. After returning to the city, don't tell anyone about my memory recovery."
This was really unexpected, and the other three were a little silent.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Gu Mang twirled the bayonet in his hand one last time, and with a wave of his fingertips, it turned into a stream of spirit that scattered into his palm, "Is my request strange?"
Jiang Yexue said, "Gu Mang, this is the crime of deceiving the emperor."
Gu Mang smiled. He was only weird and cold with Mo Xi, but when he talked to others, there was still some humanity between his eyebrows.
"I'm sorry, I know it's been hard on you. But I have no choice. If other people in Chong Hua know that I've recovered, I'm afraid I'll be sent back to Luo Mei Garden again, and people will come looking for me one after another. The emperor will also take me to the Hei Mo Trial and interrogate me about the secrets related to the Burning Country. "
Murong Chuyi's face was cold as ice, and said lightly, "Shouldn't you be punished like that?"
"I didn't say I shouldn't." Gu Mang said shamelessly, "But I can still be afraid, right? Who would be willing to be hunted and killed all day long, or lie in bed waiting for someone to take advantage of her … "
Such vulgar words naturally made Murong Chuyi's face turn green, "You —!"
Jiang Yexue saw this and tried to smooth things over, "If you don't want to go back to Luo Mei Garden, we can work together to protect you. But we can't hide it for you. You should tell the Chong Hua the secret of the Burning Country. "
Gu Mang said straightforwardly, "I can't tell you, I forgot."
"…"
Looking at the expressions of the three nobles, Gu Mang said sincerely, "I'm sorry, I really forgot."
Separated by the bonfire, Mo Extinguish looked at Gu Mang's face. The organ in his chest hurt so much that it gradually developed a bit of resentment at being ignored. He closed his eyes, and the words between his lips and teeth were almost crushed, "Didn't you recover your memory?!"
"I didn't say that I remembered everything," Gu Mang said, "I lost two souls, and I can't fully recover."
Mo Xi stared at him, his eyes full of hatred and pain, but his thin face was still calm, "… How did you lose your two souls?"
The smile on Gu Mang's face disappeared. After a while, he said lightly, "Oh, that's also part of what I forgot."
"…"
"Don't look at me like that, I really don't know how I lost my soul. Believe it or not, if you don't believe it, you can use the Mind-manipulating Technique or the Water of Guilt. You can do whatever you want, if you can get the answer, I lose. "
Mo Xi turned his face away, and the fingers on his knees slowly clenched. He didn't say anything.
Murong Chuyi, on the other hand, was cold and calm as usual. He didn't show any emotion, but after thinking about all the words Gu Mang had said, he hit the nail on the head again, "If you're afraid of being treated badly when you return to the city, why don't you just kill us now and run away?"
"Beauty, that's a good question." Gu Mang touched his chin and smiled, "Sure enough, cold and beautiful men are not easy to deal with. Lord Xi He is like this, and so are you, Mr. Murong."
Murong Chuyi, "…"
Mo Xi, "…"
Gu Mang smiled, and his blue eyes swept over everyone.
"In this situation, I seem to have a chance to kill and run away. Look at you guys, Brother Jiang is sick, and his spiritual power has been exhausted. Brother Murong doesn't seem to be feeling well, probably because he was injured while saving his nephew. Brother Yue hasn't even woken up yet, so killing him would be easier than killing a sparrow. " His gaze finally fell on Mo Xi, but it was just a quick glance, and he casually looked away.
Gu Mang crossed his arms and smiled, "My God, looking at it like this, it really seems like I can't explain myself if I don't kill and run away."
Murong Chuyi said, "So?"
Gu Mang's fingertips moved, and the bayonet, Eternal Night, was formed again. His actions were sudden, but Murong Chuyi had been staring at him the whole time. He also summoned a shining talisman without hesitation, and instantly opened the protective barrier!
Gu Mang looked at the barrier, spread his hands, and smiled, "See, isn't this settled? If I kill, you won't not fight back. Even if I have a chance of winning with the Devil Qi, my spiritual core is broken, so I may not be able to defeat you. And even if I win, my vitality will be greatly damaged. When the time comes, the commotion will attract that female bat, am I going to lie down and let her make a clay figurine? "
"…" Murong Chuyi stared at Gu Mang for a while, and the golden light between his fingers slowly extinguished.
He looked back at Yue Chenqing, who was still in a coma, and said, "I'll trust you this time. Help me honestly, and after we get out, I won't say a word about your condition. "
Gu Mang smiled, "It's useless if you just say it. Can you make sure that your two cute little nephews' mouths are sealed? "He paused, and finally looked at Mo Xi, who had been silent all this time.
"And this Lord Xi He's mouth …" Gu Mang licked his upper teeth, still showing some of the characteristics of a wolfhound. His gaze was dark as he stared at Mo Xi's pale lips, and his voice was low and sweet as he said, "It's the most stubborn. Brother Murong, can you help me ask him, see if he's willing to compromise and seal his beautiful lips for me? "
The author has something to say:
Yesterday, I saw that some friends were questioning why Vast could summon Eternal Night even though she had indeed betrayed the country for eight years. That's because Eternal Night is from MCMAU, and its summoning mechanism is different from Shenwu's. Also, when the Murong Lian was making things difficult for him, he had already summoned Eternal Night once because he went berserk, so even if he didn't have the memory of betraying the country for eight years, he could still summon Eternal Night …
Sister Extinguish: "How did you lose your two souls, tell me!"
Gu Mang: "(Amnesia state) I really can't remember, I'll try my best to remember, don't be angry QAQ
Sister Extinguish: "How did you lose your two souls, tell me!"
Gu Mang: "(Recovery state) Big beauty, your lips are pretty. Come, let me take a closer look, hey hey hey? Don't go … "
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