Chapter 24 Chapter Twenty-Two

A ray of bright red light was protruding out of the screen, as if it had a gentle and strange call, making people have to stare at its floating image.On the horizon, a ray of purple light soared into the sky, illuminating all realms in the ten directions.The red clouds and mist swirl like layers of blooms, and at the junction of the purple light and the red clouds, the deep black waves and the wind gently intertwine with each other. An old man with long beard stretched his limbs and was nailed in the middle of the sky by a long arrow.His beard is so long that it almost covers the whole world, making his face hard to see clearly. What's even weirder is that his extremely thin hands and feet are as soft as the pale beard, floating gently in the air, circling Folding, without end, seems to stick out of the picture all the time.Except for the arrow buried in the beard and arm, there is no trace of blood in the picture, but surprisingly quiet, revealing a kind of mysterious gentleness.

Xiao Yan said: "It is said that King Asura started the war of gods and demons back then, and turned the two worlds of heaven and man into a prajna hell, and all living beings were poisoned by it. Shiva's divine arrow destroyed the Sanlian City, and the divine arrow was stained with Asura King's blood. From then on, as long as you are wounded by Shiva's arrow, your soul will be tortured forever and you will not be able to rebirth. In the painting is the fifth day sacrifice, which is the sacrifice to the incarnation of Shiva's god of war." He stared at the mandala, paused, and continued: "I just don't know whether it is the destroying Asura who appeared this time, or the great god Shiva who saved." There was a mocking sneer on his face, and he continued: "Master Fang has been a Jinshi for ten years, and has achieved two honors. The Beijing officials are satisfied with the blessings, and he is released to do foreign affairs. It is the time of his prosperity, but he unexpectedly made this sacrifice to the God of War."

"What?" Fang Tiansui lost his voice, "How about me?" Yue Jie also said in astonishment: "How does Your Highness know?" Xiao Yan leisurely pointed to the bottom of the screen and said, "It's right here." Everyone followed his fingers to look at the place, but there was a faint three-finger palm print on the bottom of the screen, the palm print was only a shallow layer, if you didn't look carefully, you really thought it was left by Tang Xiu'er when he was fighting with the boy just now. Fang Tiansui couldn't help staring at the palm print, only to feel that the palm print seemed to have a strange color in it, as if it could attract people's eyes.The palm print grew bigger and bigger, as if it was about to break through the screen and come out.He couldn't help shivering, and saw Zhuo Wangsun nodded slightly, and said: "The only room number that can be connected to San in this ship."

Yue Jie pondered for a moment, and said: "This palm print may really indicate the room number of the deceased, but although Mrs. Fang lives in Room No. 3 Huangzi, Miss Yu Xiaoluan from No. Miss Zishi, including Xuan San's Miss Tang, are all likely to be the objects of the Heavenly Sacrifice, so why does His Highness know that it is Lord Fang?" Xiaoyan said indifferently: "This is just my premonition." Zhuo Wangsun smiled and said: "It seems that in addition to literary talent and martial arts, His Highness can also predict the future." Xiao Yan said coldly: "If you talk about the ability to predict danger, how can I catch up with your Madam."

Yue Jie didn't understand what kind of meditation the two of them were playing, and murmured: "However, among these few people, only Mr. Fang, who lives with Huang San, has a beard, which matches the content of the mandala. If that's the case, look at that For the picture in the painting, the place to strike is in Mrs. Fang's room. It's just that this time I didn't tell the time... this..." Xiaoyan looked at Zhuo Wangsun and said: "The purple light is soaring into the sky, it is the time when dawn breaks, life will rise, and death will also rise. This is a foolish guess, can Mr. Yu think so?"

Zhuo Wangsun smiled and said: "Your Highness is very smart, so naturally he must hit the mark." Yue Jie sneered and said, "It's just that this time the murderer foretells the time so clearly, it can be said that he is advancing every step of the way! Even if this old man fights to get rid of this old bone, he will definitely fight him to the end!" Zhuo Wangsun smiled lightly, and said, "Bootou Yue is here again." Yue Jie cupped his hands and said: "This time Mr. Yu has to help anyway. The murderer knows that Mr. Yu is here, but he is still so arrogant. It is obvious that he not only despises me, Mr. Yue, but also does not regard Mr. Yu in his eyes. The old man dares to ask Mr. For the sake of human life, help the victim. Fortunately, what the murderer showed was the moment of dawn, and you must have a complete plan to capture the murderer."

Zhuo Wangsun said: "Then do you know who to help?" Yue Jie was stunned, and said, "Isn't it Mr. Fang?" Zhuo Wangsun said: "Master Fang is the responsibility of the head catcher Yue." Yue Jie said: "Young Master Yu's meaning..." Xiao Yan smiled slightly, and said: "Young Master Yu, what you mean is that Miss Xiaoluan naturally doesn't need to worry about you, Zi Shiji will be fully protected, and the rest of Miss Tang and Mrs. Fang can only rely on your honor." Yue Jie thought for a while and said: "Looking at the case of Xie Shan last time, it's not a good idea for everyone to gather in one place, after all, the murderer is among us, it might be better to act separately and keep each other in check."

Zhuo Wangsun said: "Since Mr. Yue thinks it's good, why don't you tell your subordinates to prepare quickly?" Yue Jie said: "I will immediately send someone to guard Huang Sanxuan's gate." Zhuo Wangsun smiled and said, "I'm telling you to tell your subordinates to prepare breakfast quickly." Yue Jie was stunned, "Why do you want my subordinates?" Zhuo Wangsun said with a smile: "Boss Ao is dead, but Mr. Yue brought the most people, wouldn't it be a waste not to prepare breakfast?" Yue Jie suddenly understood, his face was full of anger and shame, but he dared not speak out, so he could only say: "Young Master Yu, don't underestimate me, this time I will definitely..." Just as he was about to say a few more words, he found that the hall Everyone in the house dispersed at some point.

After noon, a thick fog suddenly appeared on the sea.At night, even the sea is invisible.The Tianchao was groping in the dense fog and slowly headed towards Hainan. There are tens of thousands of reefs distributed in this generation, which become extremely slippery under the moisture of the mist, standing abruptly in the dark sea water, appearing and disappearing from time to time.It makes people feel like the sea ship is passing through the belly of a huge sea beast. Without Ao Guang's guidance, the sailors seemed a little trembling.After all, as long as one of these reefs touches, it may tear the huge Tianchao apart.What's more, there are more hidden reefs hidden under the water surface, and they are more deadly.

In the middle of the night, the flute for emergency mooring sounded, and the Tianchao finally lost its direction in the thick fog, and had to stop on a nearby isolated island, waiting for the thick fog to disperse. It seems that the plan to arrive in Hainan in the early morning of tomorrow is going to be ruined. Xiangsi lay quietly on the bed, the tingling pain in her forehead and the tiredness intertwined with each other, making her half asleep and half awake.At some point, the hull of the ship shook slightly, which completely woke her up.She opened her eyes, as if she could see anxiety growing rapidly on the ceiling like a kind of rooted vine.

She shook her head hard, the pain between her brows getting worse.She covered her cheeks with one hand, and with the other hand, she slowly tidied up the pile of clothes beside the pillow, put them on carefully, and walked out. There was no sound of wind in the corridor, and the candles were all extinguished. In the silent corridor, there was only the soft rustling sound of skirts dragging the floor.She walked slowly through the door of each room, the damp mist and the cold night dew entangled her body like a ghost, with faint lights flashing from time to time. Suddenly, she stopped. In the darkness, her bright eyes are like two morning stars, flickering erratically. Wherever her eyes touched, there seemed to be a glimmer of light in the dark room, which happened to reflect the two dim words on the door: "Di San." She hesitated, not knowing whether to go in or not.At this time, there was a slight panting sound from inside. The voice was very soft and thin, revealing extreme pain, as if it came from a dying female animal. She pushed hard, and the door opened silently. The flickering candlelight in the house shines through the blue crystal lampshade, reflecting the whole room into nothingness, as if filled with transparent sea waves.On the big bed in the corner of the room, the curtains hanging from the floor had been torn apart, and layers and layers of it were scattered and wound around the carved bed beams. The whole big bed looked like a huge blue cocoon. In the center of the giant cocoon, a person sat down with two fingers resting on the center of his eyebrows, and the other hand made a seal on his chest.Within three feet of his body, a ring of crystal clear frost was covered. Xiangsi shivered, looked away, and saw Zishiji curled up not far away, her neckline was torn open, her entire chest was wet with blood, and her bare chest heaved continuously.She stretched out her hand with difficulty, as if she wanted to grab the man's sleeve, but as soon as she touched his body, she was shaken away by an invisible force. The silhouette of that person loomed behind Guanghua, but Xiangsi still recognized that it was Xiaoyan. He seemed to have gone to bed, the golden rings on his hair had been untied, and his long hair spread around him like a cloud.The dim light flickered on the snow-white nightgown, making him look like a demon king of the underworld, emerging from the mortal world.In the cold light, his long sleeves fluttered in the wind beside him, like spreading a pair of pure white wings. However, there was clearly no wind in the room. There was a dead silence all around, and the sea-like blue light was gradually condensed and reshaped by him.The cold air seemed to have condensed out, turning into countless ice and snow spirits cruising in the air, and turning into boundless rain of flowers falling from the sky, rotating and guarding him beside him. However, the boundless cold seems to be trembling. The shimmering light around him also flickered in and out, and eventually became dimmer.Beads of sweat gradually soaked on that ice-sculpted jade-like face, as if his body was enduring some kind of great pain. ——A kind of pain that even gods and demons cannot bear. Zi Shiji got up suddenly, grabbed her collar with all her strength, leaned back as hard as she could, and cried in a hissed voice: "Master, why is this so? Why don't you want my blood?" Xiaoyan shook her head in pain, and gently pushed her away. But she rushed up again, knelt at his feet, and hissed: "Kill me, maybe this can break Yueque's blood curse!" Her face was full of blood and tears, as if she was enduring an inhuman torture. Wan's face was also distorted. Xiangsi's face was pale, she tremblingly said: "What did you do to her?" Xiaoyan suddenly calmed down and slowly opened his eyes.The lingling divine light in his eyes is like this boundless night.Xiangsi's whole body turned cold, and she took a few steps back in shock, but finally stood still while holding onto the door rail, and said, "Let her go." Xiaoyan looked at her, with pity and desire entangled in pain on his pale face. That kind of compassion is like a master with high morals, at the moment when thousands of people are prostrating, he suddenly interrupted his sermon, stepped down from the pulpit, picked up the ever-burning lamp with his spotless fingers, rescued a fire moth, and then Looking at the dying creature in his palm. However, the light in his eyes changed, and a hint of devilish desire flashed from time to time. It was lust for her body. Xiangsi seemed to realize something, she turned around suddenly, and ran out the door. With the sound of the wind behind him, his snow-white robe sleeves swept towards her like a cloud.The strong cold fragrance made Xiangsi shiver uncontrollably. Just as she was about to strike back, her whole body seemed to be wrapped by butterfly wings. In a trance, she felt the light blue light around her spinning continuously. Suddenly, her body shook heavily. Suddenly, he was pressed on the bed. His eyes were only two inches from hers. There is only endless pain and sorrow in those eyes that are as wide as the ocean, as if they have understood all the sorrows of all living beings and are also bearing these sorrows. The eyes of the two met, Xiangsi suddenly felt confused.She seemed to have gradually forgotten the fear and pain, and she only felt that there must be an unspeakable secret hidden behind the strange behavior of the young man in front of her—a secret that made him willing to bear all the loneliness and pain. Just at this thought, the ice in her heart was like soaking in spring water, and slowly dissipated. She could hardly help reaching out to touch those eyes, wanting to talk to him gently, trying to help him, and relieve the pain he endured. suffering. At this moment, he flicked his sleeve lightly, and the door behind him closed silently.The colorful light on his slender fingers meanders, which is like a butterfly silk. He seemed unable to bear to look at her, and turned his eyes to the distance, but the butterfly silk on his fingertips pierced her eyebrows without hesitation.He seemed to sigh slightly, but he didn't seem to. The moonlight between his fingers is as soft as a fleeting dream through the midnight window.The more you want to remember, the more resolutely it sinks into the depths of your mind. This feeling is so gentle and sad, even if you die, you won't feel any pain. However, the heart of lovesickness seemed to be pierced by the soft moonlight, and the sympathy and tenderness receded in an instant, and the memories of panic, anger, and humiliation on the deck suddenly rushed out. She slapped him hard across the face. There was a heart-piercing pain from the fingertips, and the nail of her index finger was almost completely broken.And there was a bloodstain on his face. A drop of blood quickly flowed to his pale lips. The color of the blood seemed very light.Under the faint blue candlelight, there was a morbid blush. He reached out and wiped his lips slowly, and his eyes were suddenly flooded with madness like flames.He grabbed her by the hair, pressed her on the bed violently, and tore off her collar with one hand. There was a fragile sound of silk in the darkness, her body was almost completely exposed to the dim candlelight, and her creamy skin had already turned pink due to the struggle.Before Xiangsi had time to scream out, his cold hands had already lightly but firmly grabbed her neck. She looked up at him in horror. His pale lips were suddenly ruddy, as if the last patina of color had finally been applied to a statue God had painstakingly created. That radiant face was so perfect that even the gods couldn't help but sigh when they saw it. However, at this moment, only madness remained on that face.The burning desire in her eyes seemed to have opened two windows of hell, almost making her unable to breathe. This desire is not lust. It's appetite! Acacia was so frightened that she almost forgot to resist.Panting violently, she groped around her with both hands, and suddenly took off her earrings and stabbed at those eyes. This earring is like stars and moons, and it was originally one of her hidden weapons for body protection. Xiaoyan turned sideways abruptly, and two bolts of blue light were nailed to the wall like lightning.His loose long hair slowly fell to her chest, and there was a terrifying chill on his face. Sudden.He grabbed her both wrists firmly and buckled them heavily on the edge of the bed. This time Acacia was so painful that tears flowed out. She trembled all over, opened her mouth and bit his shoulder.Tears and the smell of blood mixed into a strange smell, causing her whole body to be in severe pain, and she couldn't figure out how she was fighting, all the moves and martial arts were useless, she just frantically tried everything possible to hurt the person in front of her. People, or rather, are hurting themselves. She knew that she was also crazy, she bit him tightly, and the strange pleasure flooded her whole body like a warm current.She wanted to vomit, but she couldn't vomit at all. Instead, she felt an unprecedented hunger—a hunger for the blood in his body.Or in other words, the blood in his body was bewitched by a kind of magic power, and became so eager, longing to be one with his blood. Could it be that the bodies of both of them have been controlled by the same kind of demon, so hoping to drink each other's blood? At this time, Xiaoyan's cold breath seemed to be between his eyebrows. A sharp pain between her eyebrows made her almost cry out.Did he want to pierce his forehead?Or with teeth... Xiangsi suddenly thought of the tooth-shaped wound on Zi Shiji's chest, and thought of the blood hole on Lan Pa's forehead, and a chill suddenly shot up from her back. Zi Shiji rushed over suddenly, grabbed his hand, and cried: "Young master, let her go, you want me, let her go..." Xiaoyan seemed to wake up a little bit. He closed his eyes and said in pain, "You can't! Only her blood can untie it... This is the last time." "I think it's better to forget it this time." Xiangsi seemed to be able to feel the blood in Xiaoyan's whole body suddenly go cold.He gently pushed her away, and with a wave of his hand, the purple robe embroidered with nine-petal chrysanthemum patterns by the bed flew up like a butterfly, and it was wrapped around his body in an instant. He stood up, tied his long hair behind his back, and said slowly, "So it's Young Master Yu." Zhuo Wangsun was standing at the door, with a cold light covering him, just like his cold expression. Xiangsi's face was flushed, as if she didn't know what to do.Zishiji had already covered her clothes, tore off half of the curtain and threw it to Xiangsi. Xiangsi held the broken curtain tightly with both hands, trembling all over, and suddenly flew into Zhuo Wangsun's arms. She tightly blocked her mouth with the curtain, and the feeling of suffocation and pain caused her whole body to twitch, as if she was about to faint at any moment.She was crying silently like this, tears rolling down his shoulders in strings. Without saying a word, Zhuo Wangsun slowly took off his clothes and put them on her body. Xiaoyan stared at them, and had returned to her usual elegant expression.He sighed softly and said, "If you want to kill me, this is the best time." Zhuo Wangsun said indifferently: "I don't need to." A trace of gloom flashed across Xiaoyan's face, and his face suddenly turned extremely pale.The body couldn't bear it any longer, and trembled slightly, and it became more and more severe. Xiaoyan closed his eyes and used his last strength to stand up straight.His wide sleeves were hanging down, and the frost was flying away. His posture at this moment was still like that of the Buddha before his death, proud and noble, impeccable.However, he himself knew that now was the time when his strength was at its weakest.As long as Zhuo Wangsun hits lightly, he will fall down like a puppet that has exhausted its life.All his secrets, pain, and patience will also disappear and be destroyed at this moment. He sighed and said, "If you don't act now, when I have a chance in the future, I will still kill her." Zhuo Wangsun said: "Is it necessary?" Xiaoyan paused for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "It must be." Zhuo Wangsun didn't reply again, suddenly there was a soft sound, and the door was closed. Only Zishiji's mournful sobs could be heard in the darkness.