Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Liu Yi
Nie Yinniang was startled, then calmed down and looked back at the gate.
Through the crack of the door, a ray of early morning twilight shines through.
A heavy murderous intent also penetrated with the blue-white light, making the room very cold.
The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows behind.What is behind this wooden door?
Nie Yinniang blew out the candle, threw it aside, and walked towards the door step by step.Her long sleeves were hanging down, and dozens of silver needles trembled slightly at her fingertips.
The cold wind was chilling, she condensed her breath, and opened the door.
What came into view was a dirty rag doll.The doll's huge head was turned away from her, hanging limply, with a few randomly stuffed straws protruding from its body.
The one holding it was not the little girl back then, but a man.
The man was dressed in white and stood barefoot on the bluestone at the door. His long hair was loosely tied behind his head by a golden ring.He lifted up the dirty doll and smiled at Nie Yinniang.
Nie Yinniang looked dignified, and said slowly: "You are?" The man smiled and replied: "My name is Liu Yi." Knowing the other party's identity, Nie Yinniang calmed down instead, and the smile on her face gradually bloomed again, regaining her elegant and charming look. Gesture: "Legendary?" Liu Yi smiled and said, "Yes." Nie Yinniang's eyes seemed to thaw out of spring ice, and they slowly opened: "Your Excellency, come here now, do you want to get me and Pei Hang's tattoos?" She simply said it directly Come out and watch Liu Yi's reaction carefully.
But Liu Yi shook his head and said, "No, my name is Liu Yi, so I'm here to deliver the book." Nie Yinniang said, "Where is the book?" Liu Yi slowly turned the baby in his arms.
On the piece of white cloth covering the doll's head, a face was drawn impressively!
The ink is dark red, as if painted with blood, but the brushwork is very delicate and lifelike. The artist seems to have spent a lot of effort to draw it with a single stroke, depicting a face of horror and despair before death It is so lifelike that people will never forget it once they see it.
Nie Yinniang's expression suddenly changed.
——The painting on this face is clearly the Pei Hang she just killed!
Nie Yinniang asked gravely: "Where did you find this doll?" Liu Yi said: "When I walked across the small bridge in front of the inn, I saw a little girl hugging this doll, sitting on the steps by the river and crying." Nie Yinniang thought for a moment, and the light in her eyes flashed: "Could it be that she painted this face?" Liu Yi shook his head and said, "It should be impossible. This kind of painting is very delicate and experienced, it is definitely not from ordinary hands, at least ten years And that girl is only twelve or thirteen years old at most, so even if she started learning painting as soon as she was born, it would be too late. Besides, that girl is terminally ill, and I'm afraid she will die soon." Nie Yinniang frowned and said: " Then who could it be?" Liu Yi hesitated to speak, looked at the deserted street, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Can you invite me in to talk?" He always had a modest and polite smile on his face, making people look for him. There is no reason to reject him.
Nie Yinniang nodded her head, let him into the room sideways, and closed the door behind her.The two sat down next to Pei Hang's body.
Liu Yi glanced at Pei Hang, and said: "Yilan in the cloud is a very common poison, but it is mixed with a blood shadow needle, but it has become one of the most terrifying hidden weapons in the world." He smiled and said: "There is no need to say compliments. You haven't told me, who is the painter?" Liu Yi said: "I'm afraid you know this person." Nie Yinniang said: "Who?" Liu Yi said "Master." These two very common words seem to have the power of a secret demon, and the surrounding candlelight can't help trembling slightly.
Nie Yinniang was taken aback: "You said the master is also in this small town?" Liu Yi said: "Since the painter can predict the first deceased, he is definitely not very human. Perhaps all our actions are under his control. To do this, non-owners cannot."
Nie Yinniang pondered for a moment, then said, "Have you seen the true face of Master in the past ten years?"
Liu Yi said: "No. He always wears a mask to show others. If you want to tell the truth, I don't even know whether he is male or female, old or young."
Nie Yinniang smiled and said, "Me too."
Liu Yi said: "My other question is, since the master has trained us to be first-class killers, why did he let us kill each other in this operation?"
Nie Yinniang nodded and said, "I haven't figured this out either."
"Moreover, I suspect that exchanging the tattoos of eleven people for freedom is nothing more than a scam. The master's real purpose is not to leave anyone behind." There was a bit of teasing in his voice: "In other words, the legendary It’s useless, the master threw us into this small town like throwing away garbage, let us kill and die.”
Nie Yinniang didn't seem to be surprised at all, she just bowed her body, put on a posture of listening, and said with a smile, "I've thought about this too, but even if this is the case, what can we do? You know, the Twelve Legends, each There is a unique skill, but this unique skill is all taught by the master. In the eyes of the master, we are just twelve ants."
Liu Yi said seriously: "Ants are still stealing their lives, we can only unite and find our own way of life."
Nie Yinniang's smiling eyes revealed an extremely profound divine light, she looked closely at his face, and said word by word: "You want to rebel?"
Liu Yi smiled and said, "I just don't want to sit and wait for death."
Nie Yinniang smiled faintly and stopped talking.
For a long time, the house was silent.A rooster crowed outside the window, and the sky took on the color of a fish belly.
Liu Yi stood up and said, "I'm leaving, you can consider my words."
Nie Yinniang did not persuade her to stay.She only watched him walk to the door, and suddenly said: "Why did you find me?" When she said this, her voice no longer contained that seductive charm, but was mixed with a little tiredness.
Perhaps, she was already too tired, and occasionally, she would lift off the heavy mask to reveal her original appearance.
Liu Yi turned his head slightly: "I have seen you kill people, and I believe in your strength and wisdom."
Nie Yinniang smiled faintly: "Have you seen anyone else?"
Liu Yi shook his head and said, "No. But I know that there is another killer among us named Wang Xianke."
"You got his name roll?"
"Yes, but I didn't find him."
Nie Yinniang smiled: "Perhaps, you didn't look for it seriously."
Liu Yi sighed: "Maybe." He was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice: "Maybe, it's because I don't want to kill people anymore." After saying that, he strode out the door.
When he stepped out of the threshold, he waved his long sleeves, and the doll had been nailed to the eaves of the door, with a blue scroll covering his face: "This is Wang Xianke's famous scroll, it can be regarded as my meeting gift. In three days, I will come back to you again. I hope you can join hands with me to end this game together."
Nie Yinniang smiled and said, "In three days, I may have died at someone else's hands."
Liu Yi said: "I believe you won't. Even in the legend, no one can kill you easily." He paused, looked up at the sunlight on the roof of the attic: "Except for one person."
"Who?"
"Red line."
Nie Yinniang read these two words slowly: "Red line."
"Although the legends all have their own strengths, Hongxian is the only assassin who kills without any skill. ——She only uses the sword in her hand. She kills with one sword and never misses."
Nie Yinniang smiled and said, "In this way, her swordsmanship is incredible?" She suddenly suppressed her smile, "Then why don't you join forces with her?"
Liu Yi shook his head and said, "The red thread will never betray the master. It's not because of loyalty, but because of nature."
Nie Yinniang groaned, and couldn't help repeating these two words slowly: "Nature?"
Liu Yi said: "She is a natural killing machine, and blood is her only source of happiness. This game is a real feast for her..." He stopped talking, and sighed again: "I think, she has already I found your trace, you must be careful."
Nie Yinniang smiled and said, "I will."
Liu Yi said: "In that case, I'll take my leave first." He turned around and walked deep into the alley.
Nie Yinniang still didn't move, watching his back disappear at the end of the alley.
On the eaves of the door, the dirty rag doll swayed slightly in the morning breeze, a bright red coral branch submerged into its forehead, shining brightly under the shroud of the morning sun.
After an unknown amount of time, Nie Yinniang finally got up and walked to the door, reaching out to take the doll off.
Just when she was about to take off the scroll on the doll's face, a dazzling light came straight down from the roof!
The blue tiles were flying in all directions, and the dust covered the sky.And that brilliance is so dazzling, as if the entire radiance of the morning sun is absorbed in it, and as if the entire time and space are split by it into a deep gap, the white walls and blue tiles of the town, the arched bridges and alleys are torn apart in an instant For pieces of debris, go back to the ancient memory of tens of thousands of years ago, when the rocks were scattered across the sky, and the tigers roared and the monkeys cried!
Nie Yinniang's pupils shrank involuntarily, and the brilliance flowed, reverting to a light blue long sword between her eyebrows.The sword body is like a leek leaf, transparent and round, without a sword edge.However, the chilling killing intent came out from this sword without front, and the surrounding brilliant sun seemed to be frozen into a huge black ice by it!
In desperation, Nie Yinniang stepped back quickly and threw the doll in her hand onto the sword.
The direction of the long sword did not change in any way, but the tip of the sword bent slightly, and with a puff, it hit the baby's body.
The baby changed direction in an instant and rushed towards Nie Yinniang.
Nie Yinniang was stunned, she had retreated a few feet at this moment, but she still couldn't dodge Wawa's pursuit.With a muffled bang, the doll hit her chest hard.
Nie Yinniang spat out a mouthful of blood, her body fell back into the middle of the house like a kite with a broken string, and the messy wooden bed was instantly smashed to pieces.
Unexpectedly, this doll made of rags was actually heavier than a boulder hammer under the impetus of the opponent's sword energy.
Nie Yinniang was seriously injured, barely supported her body, and looked up at the door.
Among the colorful colors of the rising sun, a woman in purple stands holding Wenlong's sword.
I saw that her long hair was three feet long, tied into a black high bun on the top of her head, and a golden sparrow hairpin was picked at an angle. Her eyes were extremely light, like cat's eyes in the sun, extremely transparent, and her bloodless skin was covered in purple clothes. Against the backdrop of her skin, she was even more pale as paper, and it seemed that she could vaguely see the pale blue veins under the skin.On the smooth forehead, a row of names of Taiyi gods were written in cinnabar, densely packed, from the eyebrows to the temples.
Nie Yinniang coughed a few times, covered her chest and said, "Red thread?"
The woman in purple nodded slowly, but did not answer.After staring at her for a long time, the corners of her mouth twitched, and a strange smile emerged: "Y—" Her voice was extremely jerky, as if metal had passed through ceramics, and she raised the long sword obliquely in her hand, pointing directly at Nie Yinniang's eyebrows.
Nie Yinniang was stunned.
"Two—" Her cat-like eyes moved slightly, as if she was waiting for something.
Nie Yinniang suddenly understood that she wanted to give herself a chance to make a move before counting to three.
Nie Yinniang's expression changed drastically, and she finally gritted her teeth and sneered, "I won't fight with you, you heartless lunatic! Do you know that even if you kill me and everyone else, you will die at the hands of the master?" .”
Hongxian looked at her, a smile gradually appeared on his cold face.
Nie Yinniang was taken aback, there was no pretense in that smile, but the purest happiness, almost crazy happiness!
Could it be that she has already known the truth of this game, but she is so willing and happy to accept the ending?
Nie Yinniang was still hesitating, her red lips moved slightly, and she uttered an extremely gloomy word: "Three!"
There was a blue light in her hand, and the sword energy swept towards Nie Yinniang like an angry dragon that tamed the sky.The cold and brutal aura swept across the room. Once the furniture and beams in the room were touched by this sword aura, they would immediately turn into mustard powder!
There was a loud bang, and the whole room was split open by the sword, and bricks and rubble collapsed like a torrential rain. The two-story attic groaned in pain and fell to the ground in the aftermath of the sword energy.
There was rubble all around, and the red line stood motionless in the dusty sky.
In front of her, there was only a bed that had been torn in two.
Under the bed, there is a deep hole.Nie Yinniang has disappeared without a trace.
The escape route originally designed to deal with Pei Hang unexpectedly came in handy at this moment.
Chickens crowed and dogs barked, and the neighbors around heard the noise and rushed out screaming, making a mess.A few mature people secretly ran to report to the officials, and some women gathered in the distance to point and point, but no one dared to come forward.
There are more and more people, surrounded by a group, and there is no way to get through.
Hong Xian stood in the crowd with no expression on her face. She turned her head slightly, as if searching for Nie Yinniang's breath in the air, and her transparent eyes turned around, like a poisonous snake chasing its prey in the jungle.She stopped suddenly, turned around and walked out.
The crowd moved out of the way with a "wow" and let her go.
〖The Legend of Liu Yi
During the reign of Yifeng in Tang Dynasty, Liu Yi, a failed scholar, traveled to the edge of the Xiangshui River, and saw a woman herding sheep by the side of the road.Liu Yi asked the woman why.The woman said that she was the daughter of the Dragon King of Dongting and married the second son of the Dragon King of Jingchuan, but she was deceived by her husband and in-laws and was punished to herd sheep here.Liu Yi was extremely indignant and asked how he could help her.The woman asked him to deliver a letter home for herself.Liu Yi obligingly agreed.
Liu Yi brought the letter and came to Dongting. According to the woman's words, he knocked three times on the big orange tree beside Dongting, and saw a warrior emerge from the water and led him into the bottom of Dongting.But there is another world under the water, all made of sapphire coral, surrounded by colorful brilliance, like a fairy palace.Liu Yi was bold and bold, and he didn't think it was strange. When he saw Lord Long, he presented the letter.The tragic experience of Longnu made Hefu cry bitterly. The Dragon Lord was shocked and hurriedly stopped, because he was afraid that his violent brother would know.But it was too late, and I saw a red dragon roaring angrily, rolling up like mountains and waves, and going away through the air.There was thunder and lightning, and the wind and rain were swift, and Liu Yi couldn't help but fell to the ground in shock.Lord Long helped him up with his own hands, and after a while, when the weather was calm, a man in red came up to the hall to thank Liu Yi, and he knew it was the red dragon.The second son of Jingchuan Dragon King has been killed by him, and the dragon girl has also taken back to Dongting.
So Long Jun held a banquet to entertain Liu Yi.Taking advantage of his drunkenness, Chilong wants to betroth the dragon girl to Liu Yi.Liu Yi said seriously: "I send letters from thousands of miles away, not afraid of Dongting Hongbo and ghosts and gods, but because of a righteous word, if you kill your husband and marry your wife at this time, what is the difference with an animal?"
Chilong was furious, changed his original shape, and wanted to kill Liu Yi.Liu Yi proudly said: "Zunshen's body is more than a thousand times bigger than me, and his strength is more than a thousand times stronger than me, but Liu Yi has this righteous word in his heart, but he is not afraid of Zunshen's power."
The red dragon roared angrily, but in the face of the righteous Liu Yi, he still didn't dare to make a move.When Liu Yi walked out of the Dongting Dragon Palace, the Dragon Girl hid in the crowd and saw each other tearfully.Although Liu Yi adhered to the enlightenment of righteousness and refused to marry Longnu as his wife, but seeing her weak and tender, he couldn't help feeling very sad in his heart.
After Liu Yi returned home, he sold the treasures given by Lord Long and became a rich man.A matchmaker advised him to get married, and Liu Yi agreed. After the ceremony, he always felt that his wife was somewhat similar to a dragon girl.But the wife always refuses to admit it.After the two gave birth to a child, they confessed that they were the Dragon Girl of Dongting. Seeing that Liu Yi abided by the precepts of righteousness and did not expect to be rewarded for his kindness, they had no choice but to adopt this strategy.Liu Yi respected the dragon girl more and more, and the two fell in love with each other ever since. Later, their family moved to Dongting, and legend has it that they eventually became immortals.
Non-smoking case: How many people can not be confused when the dragon girl is beautiful; how many people can not be afraid when the red dragon is angry.The reason why Liu Yi is Liu Yi, and why this legend has become my favorite. 〗