Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: Ken Says Goodbye to the Red Dress

Zhuo Wangsun stood quietly on the sea. The storm began to cast shadows on this sea area, and everything that was clear and bright has gradually sunk. He is thinking. This game is undoubtedly very subtle, and it just hit his only weakness.If it wasn't for those red-clothed women who resembled Xiaoluan so much, even if there were one hundred and seventy of them, he could have stopped them all, living as they wanted, and dying as they wanted.But it just so happened that Xiaoluan was his only weakness, and he couldn't let her take the slightest risk. But he wasn't too worried.No one will be hostile to Xiao Luan, their target is always him.The more delicate the layout, the more at ease he will be.An exquisite game can only be laid out by a smart and calm person.

Such a smart and calm person will definitely know the consequences of killing Xiaoluan. He raised his head slowly, the world was full of anger, and it seemed that it was about to burst out at this moment.A large thick black cloud gathered above his head, so gloomy that even a ray of light could not penetrate.The sea water is pulsating slowly but powerfully. The waves are not big, but they seem to contain the power that can smash even the sky. A few days ago, the sea, which was calm and beautiful like a virgin, became so terrifying at this time. Zhuo Wangsun frowned and thought. Such a sea cannot be navigated by any ship.Smaller islands are afraid that they will be submerged by huge waves and turn into an underwater world.There is no place to rest on a stormy sea.

He scoured the sea for the past two days, and no matter what happened, he couldn't escape from his eyes.The white elephant enters the dream, the lotus grows in seven steps, and the dramas of marrying the princess are performed in front of his eyes, and the characters and scenery disappear out of thin air, so clean that no dust is left behind. He can be sure that no one can really escape from his eyes. Ninjutsu, light work, and blindfolding can all make people disappear instantly.But Zhuo Wangsun is Zhuo Wangsun after all, no matter how strong the deception method is, it is impossible to truly deceive the eyes, and as long as there is the slightest clue, he will definitely be aware of it.

But at that time, he just relaxed his attention a little, and everything disappeared into the thick fog.It was like sinking into the sea suddenly. — sank into the sea? Zhuo Wangsun Meifeng jumped suddenly. He couldn't help but look down. The sea water is deep, as thick as ink.It is also like a huge abyss, no matter what, as long as it falls, it will be swallowed up, and it will never come out again. Could there really be a hole in the sea, and all those people got into the hole? This seems too unbelievable. But a sneer slowly emerged from the corner of Zhuo Wangsun's mouth.He suddenly turned around and walked towards the bilge.

The painting boat floats quietly on the sea.Like a gorgeous, dying butterfly. Guo Ao stared at the glass of wine. The lamp is amber lamp, light red, full of grip, transparent and without trace.The wine is crabapple wine, deep red, like rouge coagulated blood.The person is the person in the painting, and the beauty is like a flower. There are faint traces on the wine cup, as if the fragrance from her lips still remains. He slowly said: "This boat reminds me of a person. A hundred years ago, his mechanism skills were unrivaled in the world. It is rumored that the mechanism man he built can surpass the first-rate masters in the world. The wood he set up Even the iron arhat who played out of the Shaolin Temple couldn't pass through the alley of people. This man is called the old man Xuanji. It is divided into two halves, separated from each other, and each stores different wine liquid, which is poured out from the spout, but there are two small holes on the handle of the pot. Pressing different small holes, the poured wine liquid will be different. Old man Xuanji Just use this Liangyi jug, half of which is filled with fine wine and half of which is filled with venom, to drink three cups with the Demon Cult's God Empress Dou Lao, and kill this Demon Cult protector who was almost invincible in the world at that time. It is famous all over the world. It is from that From that moment on, no one dared to underestimate tricks."

He pushed the glass of wine away a little. The wine is touching, but who knows if there will be murderous intentions hidden in it? Qiu Xuan smiled: "But I am not Liangyihu." Her dimple is like a flower: "The old man Xuanji has been dead for more than a hundred years." Guo Ao: "But a hundred years later, there was another machine genius. No one knew his background, nor where he learned the machine skills. All he knew was that he was smarter than the old man Xuanji, The mechanism made is also more delicate. He especially likes the Liangyi pot left by the old man Xuanji, and he spent half a year improving it. The improved pot can hold five different wines, and they will never mix with each other. Especially wonderful Yes, this jug looks no different from an ordinary jug in appearance, and almost no one can detect the mechanism of switching liquor. He regards this jug as his proud work and named it the Five Elements Pot. Later, he disliked the name It’s not elegant enough, so change it to Wumei Hu.”

He put the amber lamp back in front of Qiuxuan. "It is rumored that when you were young, you stole all the treasures collected by your parents and went to the rivers and lakes to make a big fuss. Among these treasures, is one of them Wumeihu?" Qiu Xuan couldn't laugh anymore. This jug is very plain, with a white porcelain base, only lightly painted with five plum blossoms. Qiu Xuan looked at him. Guo Ao also looked at her. Qiu Xuan frowned slightly with her beautiful eyebrows like distant mountains. "Do you think the wine I poured for you is poisonous wine?" Guo Ao was noncommittal.

Qiu Xuan: "Why did I do this?" Guo Ao: "Maybe you just want to rescue Acacia, maybe you just don't want to go to the desert with me." The spring water in Qiu Xuan's eyes is getting colder: "Maybe you just don't want to drink my glass of wine!" As she spoke, she waved her hand, and the amber cup rolled down on the deck, and the wine flowed all over the floor. She picked up another cup, slapped open the mud seal of the wine jar, filled another cup of wine, and said, "Now you should be at ease, right?" Guo Ao slowly shook his head. "Fifty years ago, a master was poisoned to death in this way. He thought he was cautious enough, but he didn't expect that the poison could be poured not in the wine, but in the wine cup."

Qiu Xuan held up the wine glass, looked at him quietly, and suddenly let go. The glazed cup slipped from her fingers and fell to pieces on the deck, and the intoxicating fragrance immediately overflowed. With her expression unchanged, she picked up another amber cup, put it in front of Guo Ao, and said softly: "Then check it yourself first, if you think there is no problem with this cup, then go to the wine jar to scoop a cup yourself, how about it?" ?” Guo Ao stared at the amber lamp.The lamp is light red in color and is carved from a whole amber.There is nothing in the cup, he can even test it with a silver needle, and even wash it dozens of times with sea water.No matter what kind of poison Zhanzhong has used, it is impossible to poison him again.

But Guo Ao still shook his head. "There is no poison in the cup." Qiu Xuan: "Then why are you shaking your head?" Guo Ao: "The wine jar is already poisonous!" Qiuxuan looked at him and sneered, "The wine jar is well sealed. It was prepared for me to drink by myself. Why did I poison it? Could it be that I want to poison myself to death? You brought the wine jar onto the ship yourself. Even if I want to poison, how can I have a chance?" Guo Ao said slowly: "Just now when you scooped wine from the jar, since the cup was poisonous, the wine would naturally be poisonous when scooped from the jar."

The charm in Qiu Xuan's eyes condensed little by little, turning into frost.Suddenly, she pushed the table away and stood up, and said coldly: "I understand, you just refuse to drink my wine. I sincerely want to buy you a glass of wine, but I didn't expect you to look down on me so much." As she spoke, she kicked the wine jar.The crimson wine poured out with a splash and flowed out along the deck.They sat near the downward stairs, and the drinks flowed down the stairs. Guo Ao remained silent, frowning, thinking about something. Qiu Xuan angrily kicked the flowers and trees in the pavilion, and suddenly sat down. She curled up on the imperial concubine's bed, hugged her knees gently, looked at Guo Ao, and a mysterious smile began to hang on the corner of her mouth again. Her anger disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.Laugh like a cat—a cat that finds a better toy instead of a fish. Guo Ao was thinking quietly. The boat was supposed to go to the desert, but somehow it landed on the sea.Qiuxuan packed her clothes, brought wine, and drums, originally to delay the time, but unexpectedly achieved her goal. What this woman did was not as simple as it seemed on the surface. But what her purpose was, he couldn't figure it out. Qiu Xuan smiled lightly.The boundaries between her emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy were not so clear. She was still angry just now, but a smile appeared on her face in the blink of an eye. She said leisurely: "If you are Zhuo Wangsun, you will definitely start to worry." Guo Ao: "What are you worried about?" Qiuxuan didn't answer, took out a silver braze, and carefully trimmed her nails.She inspected her fingers repeatedly, and felt that the nails painted with Kodan had reached perfection. She sighed with satisfaction: "The nature of water is downward, so it always flows to a lower place. The same is true for wine. The two glasses I poured down just now are one jar The wine may have flowed through the wooden ladder and reached the bottom of the ship. Although this ship is made of steel frames and sea willows, it is extremely strong, but after all, the main body is mostly wooden boards. Since there are wooden boards, there must be gaps, even if there are no gaps. , there must be some lines and small holes. The wine soaked in these pits will slowly seep out. Now that it has been so long, a lot of wine must have seeped into the sea water, and some of them have even been destroyed. Fish inhaled..." She raised her head, winking like silk: "If you are Zhuo Wangsun, you must know that these wines have a strong power to confuse people. Even people will be violent and restless after eating them, and they cannot suppress their desires and impulses, let alone fish." She lay down leisurely on the imperial concubine's couch.At the bottom of the boat, there was a sudden hissing sound. The sound was extremely weird, as if countless tiny teeth were gnawing on something.What was especially frightening was that the sound became louder and louder, gradually spreading from the bottom of the cabin to the surroundings, as if the devil was rising up from the depths of the sea, intending to devour the boat. The gloomy storm on the sea suddenly fell silent, leaving only a glimmer of light on the sea, and it was hard to tell whether it was dawn or dusk.The dry air is almost suffocating, and the sea is terribly quiet, which further sets off the strange hissing sound at the bottom of the boat. Qiuxuan said leisurely: "Desire is the best motivation. These fish are agitated by the wine, and they just want to bite through the ship's plank and drink more wine. Now they have become crazy and are extremely powerful. Even the steel will take a bite. In less than a quarter of an hour, they will eat through the bottom of the ship and rush into the ship." She blinked, her eyes full of cunning: "At that time, you must regret why you didn't drink those wines. Because they will treat people who smell like wine as the same kind, and frantically bite those who don't smell like wine. People. Oh, and of course, inhuman people get bitten." She raised her winking eyes and squinted at Guo Ao: "Do you have no taste of wine, or do you have no taste of humanity?" Guo Ao was silent: "What if I drank those two glasses of wine?" She spread her hands regretfully: "Then you are already a dead body now." What else can Guo Ao say? He had already seen that Qiuxuan used Wumeihu and poured poisonous wine, but he still couldn't figure it out, and he was still fooled by Qiuxuan.This woman is really a fairy. Qiu Xuan frowned: "What should I do? The ship is about to sink. You have to protect me." She suddenly smiled again: "You just need to protect me, because I have a way to protect her." She is Acacia who has been sleeping. This medicinal wine was brewed by Qiuxuan, so she naturally knew the properties of the medicinal wine very well.There is a way to deal with it, and it is not surprising.It just means that Qiuxuan originally planned to scuttle through the boat, use a group of crazy fish to make him hard to deal with, and take advantage of the chaos to escape with Acacia. This idea is very good, because he is indeed not sure how to control Qiuxuan in the vast sea.Maybe she will take out some treasure again, and run away without a trace. Perhaps, this is the real reason why Qiuxuan took the water and deliberately went the wrong way to the sea. This woman is really scary, scary enough to play with everyone in the palm of her hand. If she meets a scholar who studies hard in an isolated village, she is a flower demon and charming; if she meets a strong and stubborn king of gods, she is a witch. Qiu Xuan smiled leisurely, and began to trim her nails again. She seems to be waiting for the moment when the mad fish breaks the boat.As long as the ship sinks, she will have a way to get rid of Guo Ao's grasp. Guo Ao pondered, and suddenly stood up. He stood at the bow, and the hissing and chewing sound from the bottom of the boat became more and more intense, almost ringing in his ears.He stretched out his hand, and suddenly struck out with a flat sword. Blood shadows flew, this move was exactly the flying blood sword technique he had practiced.Although he didn't have a sword in his hand, but with full sword intent, a blood shadow rose from the bottom of his palm, shot out of the air like a scarlet rainbow, and fell into the sea. Qiu Xuan smiled and said, "It's useless. Even if you are unparalleled in martial arts, you can't kill all the fish in the sea." That's a good sentence.As long as the medicinal wine is still overflowing into the sea, the crazy fish will keep pouring in.Killing a thousand, killing ten thousand is nothing more than delaying the sinking of the ship.Overwhelmed water is hard to recover, unless the poured wine is recovered. is it possible? No way. So Qiu Xuan wasn't worried at all. The strange thing is that after this trick was used, Guo Ao no longer worried.He sat down slowly, sitting opposite Qiu Xuan. "The Flying Blood Sword Art is an evil sword. With my own hard work as a guide, my martial arts can be improved several times in an instant. But if I don't control it well, my whole body will be corroded, and I will die unexpectedly. The Flying Blood Sword Art taught me by Zhong Shizi , more evil and more different, the sword style displayed by this kind of swordsmanship, the blood is so strong that even a strong wind can't blow it away." He stared at the sea where Chihong fell. "I heard that there is a big fish in the sea called a shark. It has an extremely fierce temperament and feeds on fish in the sea. The shark's sense of smell is extremely sensitive, especially the smell of blood, which can often be smelled several miles away." He said lightly: "To the shark, the blood energy produced by my flying blood sword technique is like a sea battle that just happened, and there are corpses everywhere." He also raised his head and said leisurely, "I don't know how many sharks there are within this radius of fifty miles." Qiu Xuan's complexion changed! As if responding to Guo Ao's words, a shark fin suddenly sprang up from the sea.The pitch-black shark fin shot to the bottom of the boat like an arrow, and blood kept coming up. The sound of chewing and chewing at the bottom of the boat suddenly choked, replaced by the sound of the fish's tail slapping the water.On the gloomy sea, a few more shark fins rose up. The blood aroused by the flying blood sword technique is sharp and thick, to the shark, it is like opium.All the sharks within fifty miles were attracted by the strong smell of blood.To them, the fish that smacked into a ball at the bottom of the boat after inhaling the medicinal wine are almost a delicious meal on the table.They plunged in without hesitation, instantly turning the sea into a mess of blood. The blood, together with the medicinal wine, exudes a strong breath, attracting more and more sharks.The pitch-black shark's fin tore through the sea like a sharp arrow, and plunged heavily into the school of fish. The chewing sound at the bottom of the boat suddenly stopped. The group of sharks stirred up waves of blood, and by the time the seventeenth shark arrived, the place had turned into a pure killing feast. The fish, still attracted by the medicinal wine, could not stop coming, but just happened to run into this group of gluttons waiting for their rabbits. Guo Ao's face was pale and he didn't say a word.His eyebrows were slightly frowned, and there seemed to be a trace of pity in his eyes, he couldn't bear to see such a cruel scene. Qiu Xuan wished she could slap him across the face. Guo Ao: "You know, I am very familiar with this scene." He stared at the tumbling fish and the tumbling blood. "When Zhong Shizi trained us with the Flying Blood sword technique, it was very similar to this scene. He threw a bone, and we swam over to snatch it like these sharks. The other half became these fishes." There was no sadness in his voice, it seemed like it was just a memory. Qiuxuan couldn't get angry anymore.Because his gaze was like a piece of burnt coal, without any warmth.His heart seemed dead, so nothing could hurt it. Guo Ao: "There is an idiom called 'drinking poison to quench thirst'. I didn't know it until a long time ago. Looking back now, we killed each other in order to fight for a chance of life, but it was just drinking poison to quench thirst." Qiu Xuan sighed softly: "You know it was drinking poison to quench thirst, so what about this time?" No matter how strong the blood is, it will dissipate sometimes.The fish shoal was gradually devoured and killed by the sharks. Those sharks who had drunk the medicinal wine all floated to the surface of the sea with red eyes.They stared at the ship.There is a strong aura on this ship, which makes them eager to get it and willing. The destructive power of sharks is obviously much greater than those fish schools.Once they couldn't bear the temptation to attack the ship frantically, no matter how strong the ship was, it would only be broken into pieces. At that time, on the vast sea, they could only become the food of sharks. Qiu Xuan smiled: "Sharks have a very sensitive sense of smell, so they can smell the blood several miles away. Similarly, the sharks who are bewitched by the medicinal wine can also smell the large amount of medicinal wine hidden on the boat. They like this thing now Incredible." Guo Ao: "Then let's throw all the wine jars to them." Qiuxuan blinked her eyes: "That won't work. I have to keep two jars. What else should I drink? Besides, if you throw them down, they will be attracted to the jars temporarily, but after the jars of medicinal wine are gone, they will still be attracted to them." Chasing us...is not as good as this." There was a sly gleam in her eyes again, but this time it was clearly aimed at the sharks: "We pour the wine from the five wine jars into the drum, and then push it into the sea. They will be attracted by this strong breath, and will no longer chase our boat to bite." She couldn't help laughing. Guo Ao also agreed with this approach.Unexpectedly, this big bronze drum was actually of some use, and it was not in vain that he worked hard to bring it aboard.Although the bronze drum is heavy, it is empty in the middle, and it may not sink when pushed into the sea.As long as they can't sink, hold the sharks for a while, and they can escape calmly. Guo Ao got up and moved five wine jars out from the bottom of the cabin.Qiuxuan loosened the rope that tied the drum.She seemed extremely happy, and stretched out her hand and said, "Give it to me! Give it to me!" Guo Ao handed her the wine jar, and she pressed a few times on the beast button of the bronze drum, and the beast button slowly opened, revealing a hole.Qiuxuan broke the wine jars and poured them into the bronze drum, and then smashed the other wine jars, and poured all the wine liquid into the bronze drum. The moment the wine jar was broken, the aroma overflowed.Those sharks seemed to be stimulated by something, and swam frantically.From time to time, he headed out to sea, showing his sharp teeth towards the boat. Qiu Xuan waved her hands with a smile and said: "I won't give you a drink! I won't give you a drink!" After the five wine jars were all dumped, Qiuxuan reset the beast button, turned it a few times, tightened it, clapped her hands, and said with a smile: "Okay! You can push it down." Following the trend of the wind and waves, Guo Ao stirred up his internal energy, and with a loud bang, the bronze drum fell into the sea.After such a heavy burden was lifted, Huafang seemed to be suddenly relieved, and went straight forward.The bronze drum was ups and downs in the waves, and the sharks were attracted by the strong smell of alcohol and chased after the bronze drum. Qiuxuan sighed: "Actually, I like this bronze drum very much. It has extraordinary meaning to me. Today, in order to save lives, I discarded it, and my heart is really sad..." She covered her face and pretended to be crying, Guo Ao remained silent. The bronze drum was getting farther and farther away from the boat, one zhang, two zhang, three zhang... Qiuxuan suddenly said "ah", and exclaimed: "I accidentally put Acacia into the drum just now! This is terrible! What should I do? What should I do?" She cried out anxiously what to do, but couldn't help giggling. She looked at Guo Ao leisurely: "Now, you can no longer force me to kill her!" In the wind and waves, the bronze drum is about to shrink into a point that will never be seen again.Guo Ao made a sudden move and grabbed Qiu Xuan's wrist.Before Qiuxuan had time to react, Guo Ao's body had already risen from the ground, like a gray crane, his sleeves slapped the water, and he was flying in the air, flying across the waves in an instant, and landed on the bronze drum.With a flick of the sleeves, Qiu Xuan let go. The sharks sensed that someone was approaching, and all bared their teeth to the surface of the sea, roaring silently. Qiu Xuan clapped her hands and praised: "Good martial arts." She picked up the skirt, sat down on the edge of the bronze drum, and looked into the distance with her chin resting on her hands. Huafang didn't know that its owner had left, and was still driven by the mechanism to go far away.But the bronze drum remained motionless on the surface of the sea.Gradually, the painting boat disappeared. Qiu Xuan sighed: "Next time you do this kind of thing again, can you tell me first? I didn't even take my clothes." Guo Ao remained silent and turned the beast button. At that moment, his face suddenly tightened. Inside the bronze drum, there is nothing but strong liquor. Apparently, when he entered the cabin to fetch the wine jar, Qiu Xuan had already hidden Acacia—not in this bronze drum, but somewhere on the boat. He calculated thousands of times and was extremely careful, but in the end he fell for her tricks. Looking up, the painting boat has long since disappeared.Even if he has the ability to reach the sky, he can't ride the waves and return to the painting boat.But the sharks around were all looking at him with blood red eyes, waiting to bite him. Guo Ao thought quietly, and slowly sat down, sitting opposite Qiuxuan. "Why do you have to save her? Do you know our current situation?" Fresh water, food, and clothes were all left on the boat. They had nothing, but the sea was all around them. Even if he doesn't kill her, they are on the bronze drum, they can't go anywhere, there are red-eyed sharks under the water, and a big storm will come at any time.Why would she put herself in such a dangerous situation? Qiu Xuan smiled and watched him. "Do you believe that there is true love in this world?" Guo Ao nodded slowly. Qiu Xuan sighed. "There is one thing that I didn't intend to tell others, but it's like this, we may not even survive today, and you don't seem like a person who is not tight-lipped, so I'll tell you." "You are right. Six years and three months ago, the person I met was indeed her. It is true that from that moment on, I stopped fighting and chasing after anything." "Because the person I fell in love with was not Zhuo Wangsun, but her." Guo Ao looked at her in surprise. There was infinite sadness in Qiu Xuan's eyes. "Can you imagine that a woman fell in love with another woman? Since then, she can no longer love any man, but she also knows how such things are not tolerated by the world, so she can only hide under the crabapple flowers, hide In fine wine, the years are wasted." She raised her head and looked at Guo Ao quietly: "Tell me, how can she fight with her, and what can she fight for?" Guo Ao was silent. This answer is really amazing, but it seems to have some kind of rationality. Does Qiuxuan love Zhuo Wangsun?It seems that it should be love, otherwise why stay in Huayin Pavilion.But why can she tolerate Zhuo Wangsun flirting with other women? This may be the answer, because she also fell in love with Zhuo Wangsun's woman. How intolerable the world is, I can't mention it. Guo Ao thought about it, and said slowly: "Really?" He couldn't help but start to feel sorry for her.It turns out that under the crabapple tree, there are all her exiles for herself. Qiu Xuan: "Fake!" She couldn't help laughing, she couldn't stop laughing, the flowers trembled wildly. "You...you are so naive, you even believe...such things..." Her smile is very flamboyant, but it doesn't detract from her charm at all.Laughter echoed on the dull sea, the surrounding ink clouds sank, and the rainstorm seemed to be coming at any time. Guo Ao looked at her, and once again had the feeling he had already had many times: He couldn't see through her, never could see through her. Qiu Xuan suddenly said: "Actually, there is one more thing I haven't told you." Guo Ao: "..." Qiu Xuan: "Actually, this bronze drum is leaking." Guo Ao: "..." Qiu Xuan: "The water will get in more and more, and then it will sink." Guo Ao: "..." Qiu Xuan: "Hey, it's really sinking. Really!" Guo Ao: "..."