Chapter 61 Chapter 61: Life and Death

Gu Yueming and Wu Zixu ran up to the city wall, looked over the battlements, and looked out of the city, Qiqi was shocked. "Boom boom boom—" Amidst the sound of war drums, thousands of enemies are forming a complete formation and advancing towards the city wall where they are. The wooden carts that hit the city, the ladders that climb the city, the arrow-blocking carts, and the trebuchets are constantly approaching with the enemy. . Wu Zixu looked down and said in a voiceless voice, "My God, the moat has been filled up, what can we do?" Gu Yueming carefully inspected the enemy army, which was mainly infantry, and roughly estimated that the opponent's strength was more than 5,000 people, and said with a tingling scalp: "We don't have any men, it's an empty city, what should we do?"

Wu Zixu looked at the menacing, wolf-like tiger, gasped and said, "We're just dreaming, we'll be fine when we wake up, right?" Gu Yueming said sadly: "It should be like this for ordinary people, but your situation is very special. The moment of waking up from the dream may be the moment of death." Wu Zixu said: "Don't mention such a big spoiler now, you are more assertive than me, tell me, how to deal with the situation in front of me? Can we treat them all as phantoms? Should we do something when they climb up from the ladder? ?” With a "click", a huge boulder was thrown from outside the city and fell on them.

The two rolled away to both sides at the same time. At the time when it was difficult to distinguish the truth from the falsehood, and they were dizzy, the terrible sound of the boulder hitting the city wall did not happen as expected. There was silence outside the city, and no abnormal noise could be heard. The two got up in a daze, moved to the battlements and looked down. The murderous siege scene just now had disappeared, and there were no traces of people on the grass. The two looked at each other, speechless. Wuzi breathed out a breath, and then he was shocked and said: "I'm not wrong! It's just a dream, a dream that can make us fall into it, unable to extricate ourselves, and unable to distinguish the real from the fake."

Gu Yueming looked at the Wuzhong River several miles away, and said: "Yes! You are right! I guessed wrong." Wu Zixu wondered, "What's the wrong guess?" Gu Yueming said dejectedly: "We didn't go back to Zhuan City thousands of years ago, but sleepwalked to Zhuan City in the memory of Goddess Yunmeng. In fact, Zhuancheng has become a ruin, which is a reality that Goddess Yunmeng can't change .” Wu Zixu asked: "To me now, there is no difference between the real and the fake. As long as my feeling is real, it is real, whether it is Zhuan City when it was first built thousands of years ago, or the memory of Goddess Yunmeng. But Why did you lose your heart because of this?"

Gu Yueming stretched out his hands, grabbed his shoulders vigorously, and said sadly: "I still had a glimmer of hope that Goddess Yunmeng can bring you back to life with the magic of immortality, but the enlightenment just now made me realize that Goddess Yunmeng Her mana is also limited, and in fact she has no ability to change what has happened. Alas! My friend, do you understand my pain? I should have died, and you should not have been shot for me." The sky turned dark, and the two looked up in surprise. The blue sky with white clouds was replaced by a starry night. The bright moon rose behind the city, and the moonlight sprinkled all over the lonely mountain city. The scene was strange.

Wu Zixu took a deep breath and said with a smile, "Friend! You don't have to be sad for me. In reality, I am seriously injured and dying, but here I am stronger and more vigorous than ever. What is death? One day I will die, I am just one step ahead of you. I am very happy, what I have been looking for all my life is the goddess of Yunmeng, she is calling me, death is not the end for me, but a beginning. Friends! We parted The time has come, and the goddess Yunmeng is urging us to turn day into night." Gu Yueming grabbed him even tighter in shock, and said, "Break up? Where are you going?"

Wu Zixu's face exuded a sacred radiance, and he said firmly: "It's the secret room behind the bronze door at the end of the doorway. The treasure hunting team found the Chu box from there. The goddess Yunmeng is waiting for me inside, and the answer is there." Gu Yueming smiled miserably: "Let me go there with you?" Wu Zixu picked up the hand that was holding his shoulder, shook his four hands tightly, and said happily: "Really don't be sad for me, send you thousands of miles, and you must say goodbye at the end, let alone on the road to Huangquan. After I die, I will leave you Buried in that secret chamber."

Tears welled up in Gu Yueming's eyes, and he said sadly: "How could I let you go like this?" Wu Zixu said: "If I tell others that Gu Yueming will cry, no one will believe it, but I probably don't have this chance. Friends! Live well." Gu Yueming burst into tears and said: "You are gone! What should I do?" Wu Zixu smiled and said: "We each do our own thing. Shuangshuang must be somewhere in this empty city. You go to her, and I'll go to my goddess. Don't disappoint my painstaking efforts and kindness to block that arrow for you." Gu Yueming finally let go of his hand.

"Let's go! Let's go!" Qiu Jiushi was the first to jump up and watched the wolves go away. Ji Shan hurriedly stood up, watching the wolves leave quietly in disbelief. Qiu Jiushi said: "It's less than half an hour before dawn, we need to hurry up." Ji Shan said: "On the left is the Endless River, less than three miles away from us. If we go straight, we have a great chance of encountering the enemy." Qiu Jiushi said: "Is there any good suggestion for cultivation?" Before Ruan Xiuzhen could speak, Baichun interjected, "How about letting me lead the way?"

The three looked at her in astonishment. Bai Chunmei's eyes sparkled brightly, and she said softly: "I have a very strange feeling, I seem to know the location of the ancient city, and I'm even familiar with this swamp land, how about giving it a try?" Ruan Xiuzhen happily said, "Please Baichun lead the way!" The rain stopped, but the fog became thicker and thicker, and the vision beyond Zhang Xu was blurred, making it hard to see clearly. Eunuch Feng sat on the grand master's chair moved from the boat, on the east bank of the Endless River, waiting for the results of the search, and even more looking forward to the dawn.

Mrs. Hua Meng was sitting on another grand teacher's chair, with a dull expression, her head lowered, as if she had resigned herself to her fate. A person came hurriedly from the thick fog, entered the range of the light of the torch, came to Feng Gonggong's seat, knelt down and said: "Report to the Grand Duke, we found the target." Eunuch Feng jumped up from his chair and said with great joy: "The whole army set out!" Gu Yueming walked towards the temple on the top of the mountain along the winding road built around the city wall.In this life, this is the second time for him to set foot on this road. The last time was to settle accounts with Ge Mo, which happened in the ancient ruins in reality, but now it is Zhuan City, which was first built in the memory of Goddess Yunmeng. At this moment, his mind was completely occupied by the life and death with Wu Zixu, and he barely remembered that Wushuangnv had mentioned to him that she had met him in the temple in a hallucination, so he gave it a try, without any expectations in his heart. But when approaching the mountainside, the environment changed suddenly. The mountain road was no longer flat, but full of scars. The road was full of rocks and arrows, and the ground was also uneven. The city wall was no longer complete, and many places collapsed. The bloodstains, sticking to the ground and the wall, were shocking.There are destroyed carts, trebuchets, and horse and human corpses everywhere, which is horrible.The houses next to the road even emitted black smoke, a scene of doomsday desolation. Gu Yueming felt like vomiting, thinking that the scene in front of him was caused by him alone, his heart was filled with shame, self-blame and remorse, and he felt extremely lonely and lost. Suddenly, he realized that what he was wearing was no longer the casual clothes just now, but the heavy ancient Chu armor, and the Wan sword with sheath hanging on his waist. The bright moon had climbed to the middle of the sky and illuminated the earth. This is just a phantom created by Goddess Yunmeng. She is full of despair, deeply repents for her actions, and is completely tired of war.The next moment, he was standing in front of the closed gate of the temple, and the square on the top of the mountain city was deserted. He looked up blankly at the horizontal plaque on the gate, and the stone plaque was carved with four characters "Hall of Mrs. Xiang". Gu Yueming took a few short breaths, and Wushuang's beautiful face appeared in his mind, which changed from blurred to clear, and a sorrow gushed out from the deepest part of his heart like a dike, swallowing him like a flood. Suddenly countless scenes flashed across his mind, he shouted loudly, and slammed into the door. The vast space of the temple unfolds in front of your eyes, and at the end is a stone statue of Mrs. Xiang, which is about ten feet high. An oil lamp is lit in front of the statue. In the shadow of the fire, a woman is kneeling in front of the statue, and she turns her head to look at him. It was a unparalleled woman who seemed to be holding a small bottle in her hand. Gu Yueming understood, the memory of the previous life was rolled back like a tide, and the heart-piercing pain gripped him tightly, Gu Yueming yelled wildly, and rushed towards Wushuangnv. Wu Shuang Nu poured the contents of the bottle into Gu Yueming's arms. Gu Yueming's heart was pierced by a knife, and she cried bitterly, just looking at her and shaking her head. Wushuang looked up at him, and said calmly: "I used to hate her to the bone, but later I realized that she is more pitiful than me. Don't be sad, death is the best relief for me, how can I bear to look at my beloved The man was in a desperate situation and ended badly." Gu Yueming cried: "Don't die! I am willing to do anything for you." Blood oozed from Wushuang's eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and she said softly, "If there is an afterlife, I hope we can start over." The head of the scorpion leaned weakly on his shoulder, and the fragrance of jade died away. Gu Yueming hugged the dead body and wept bitterly for an unknown amount of time. His eyes revealed a determined look, and he laid her dead body on the ground with great care, then knelt beside her, facing the god statue. At this time, Gu Yueming had only one thought in his head, and slowly pulled out the Wan sword, holding the hilt of the sword with both hands, the edge of the sword pressed against his heart, panting rapidly. "boom--" A thunder exploded above the temple, and lightning flashed outside the temple door.The time has come for the lady tree to blossom and bear fruit, but he is completely hopeless and regrets the past.For Xiangguo, he abandoned the woman he had loved since childhood, and now she made a silent accusation against him with death. A strong wind swept in through the open gate, the magic lamp on the altar was extinguished, and the hall was plunged into darkness that could not be seen. Gu Yueming used all his strength to insert the sword into his chest backwards. "Boom—" The thunderstorm became more and more intense, and it seemed like the heavens played a mournful song for this pair of men and women.