Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Seven Star Begonia

In the dark room, even the screams outside have disappeared, only the loneliness of death. He was pinned in a huge iron cage by a golden cable, locked together with the mastiff next to him, unable to move.The darkness surrounded him like a shroud, and he closed his eyes, which he could no longer see clearly, quietly waiting for death to approach step by step. That kind of feeling... seems to have happened more than ten years ago? "You, want to go out?" In memory, that voice kept asking him, with some kind of temptation and magic. "That group of ordinary people like pigs and dogs don't know that you are the messenger of the devil, and they don't know how powerful you are... Hitomi, only I know your power, and only I can inspire your true power. You want to talk to me go?"

"I want to get out! I want to get out! Let me out..." he yelled in the dark, feeling like he was going crazy. "Okay, I'll take you out. The voice smiled, but you have to submit to me, become my pupil, stand above the martial arts, and look down on the vast world and all living beings for me. Do you agree? —— Or, yes Being discriminated against, imprisoned, having your eyes gouged out and living in darkness for the rest of your life?" "Let me out!" He slapped the wall hard, remembering that today is the deadline that the patriarch said, his heart was broken, and he shouted desperately: "As long as you let me out!"

Suddenly, the darkness cracked open, and the light shattered his vision, leaving everything blank. In the blank space, blood burst out, accompanied by shrill screams. The man who was tied up in the iron cage by Jin Suo was shocked, his face was pale, and his whole body was shaking because of the pain—"As long as you let me out"—the words in a coma still echoed in his mind, shaking his mind. blank. Twelve years ago, when I was only fourteen years old, I made an agreement with the devil and sold my life! He finally couldn't bear it, and lowered his head in the darkness, his hands trembling slightly.

It is already the fourth day... The poison that gradually erodes the brain through the eyes has quietly erased most of his memories: such as the years of struggling to survive in the Shura field, such as becoming the number one killer in the Great Light Realm, Zongheng The thrilling past of seizing the heads of the princes in the Western Regions... All these glorious and bloody pasts have gradually faded away and can no longer be remembered. However, some extremely long-standing memories have survived, or even surfaced more clearly day after day. Why...why can't I completely forget it?

Such a memory is a day of torture if it is kept for a day.Wouldn't it be better to be a complete idiot? "If you can't kill Miaofeng, you must take the head of that female doctor." He clenched the golden cord on his wrist with his backhand, gritted his teeth in the dark, and suddenly slammed his head on the iron cage—he is really the most ruthless and shameless person in the world!Greedy for life and afraid of death, ungrateful, and wanting to kill the person who loves him the most! The wind suddenly penetrated into the dark prison.The heavy iron door opened silently, casting a glimmer of snow light in, and the mastiff in the cage next to it suddenly barked wildly.

—someone walks in. Is it the woman Miao Shui?He didn't bother to look up. "Mingjie." A voice rang out in the darkness, light and trembling. He trembled like an electric shock, and raised his blind eyes: Is it a hallucination?That familiar voice...is...! "Ming Jie." He didn't wake up from his trance until a warm and soft hand gently stroked his cheek. In the darkness, someone really came over, very close at hand.She stopped three steps away from him, as if she didn't know how to face him who was locked in the iron cage at the moment, she just kept whispering a distant name, as if calling for the soul of the boy in her memory .

Is it... Sister Xiaoye? He turned his head in ecstasy.is her?Is she here? ! However, in the next moment, he felt a hand gently touch his blind eyes, and he turned his head away as if he was being burned, avoiding the hand, and there was a fierce expression in his dull eyes. "Get lost!" Without even thinking about it, one word came out hoarsely and harshly. The woman sneaking up in the darkness was startled suddenly, her fingers paused, and she looked at him in disbelief: "Ming Jie?" "Miaoshui! What are you trying to do?" Tong gritted her teeth, and asked someone hiding somewhere in the darkness, her voice was murderous and angry, "Why did you let her come here? Why did you let her come here! I I told you not to bring her here!"

"Giggle... Occasionally, I will also show kindness." A soft smile came from outside the prison door, and Miao Shui let out a howl, calling out the mastiff dog that kept barking its teeth, and left a sentence: "Hitomi, let the blood flow!" The sword, I have already got it from the Cangbing Pavilion. Say goodbye, time is running out." He was startled, and wanted to ask something, but she closed the door and walked away. In the dark prison where you can't see your fingers, you fell into deathly silence again. Hitomi was silent in the dark, not knowing what to say or what to do, but her breathing began to become disordered uncontrollably.He knew that there was another person beside him, the familiar atmosphere was everywhere, and the memories in his heart poured out like a flood, howling in his heart, but he wished that he would disappear in this instant.

I don't want to see her... I don't want to see her again! Or, I just don't want her to see myself like this - covered in blood, with hands and feet bound by golden ropes, with a mastiff collar attached to his neck, pale face, dull eyes, no different from a cripple! Twelve years later, when all the tides of fate have receded, on the desolate beach, how could we meet her again in such a state! "Get out." He gritted his teeth and just spit out a word. However, a pair of soft hands landed on his eyelids instead, trembling violently—the eyes that once controlled the common people were already dimmed.Xue Ziye's voice began to tremble: "Ming Jie...how did you, your eyes become like this? It's the teaching king——"

He couldn't see her expression, but he could clearly hear the pity and pity in her voice. At that moment, he felt that the pain in his heart could no longer be endured. He pushed her away almost like crazy, and blurted out: "No need." You control! You give me—” Before he uttered the third word "roll", there was a rustling sound, and a tear fell on his face, which was hot and moist. At that moment, all the masks of pride and inferiority were ironed through. "You—" Tong felt that the intense emotions in his heart could no longer be controlled, and he lost his voice, and his throat could no longer make a sound.

"Ming Jie, have you finally remembered?" Xue Ziye's voice trembled, "Do you know who I am?" He felt that Xue Ziye had been staring at him in the dark, calling the name that had been buried for twelve years. This, what is this! ——Unable to bear such kindness and pity any longer, he suddenly raised his hand, grabbed the hand full of compassion instead, and ruthlessly pressed her against the iron cage wall! Xue Ziye was caught off guard, blurted out an exclamation, and raised his head to see those violent eyes in the darkness. Tong firmly grasped Xue Ziye's hands, pressed her against the cold iron cage, but closed her eyes, breathing rapidly, as if there were countless voices whistling in her chest, and her whole body was trembling.In just a short moment, countless torrents rushed in, and the severe pain seemed to make people die and come back to life. "You...do you really want to force me here?" In the end, he finally said, "Why do you want to come here?" However, before he could finish his sentence, tears finally fell from the corners of his closed eyes. "Why are you still here!" He yelled out of control, holding her hand tightly, "Your Mingjie is dead long ago!" Xue Ziye was shocked: such a proud person finally collapsed before his eyes. "Why are you still here?" Hitomi let go of her clenched hands, leaving a circle of bruises on her arm.As if the walls in his heart had finally collapsed, he let out a beast-like whimper, trembling to the point where he could hardly support himself, let go of his hands, supported the iron cage and turned his face away: "Why do you still have to come... to see that Ming Jie became like this?" Xue Ziye stretched out her hand silently and hugged him tightly. She embraced Hitomi in the dark night, as if embracing the boy she lost many years ago, feeling his shoulders trembling uncontrollably.This killer, whose nerves were like iron wire, seemed to have completely collapsed in an instant. She touched his thin cheek in the dark: "Ming Jie...Ming Jie. It's okay. The king promised me that as long as he cured his illness, he would let you go." Yes.The killing of his life started because of her, so, it should also end because of her. "It's useless..." After a long, long time, Tong gradually controlled her emotions, gently pushed her hands away, and said in a low voice, "It's useless—I was hit by the poison of the Seven Star Begonia." .” "Seven Star Begonia!" Xue Ziye exclaimed, his face pale in the darkness. As the owner of the pharmacist valley, she knows what this poison means better than anyone else. It is said in "The Secret Collection of the Pharmacist": Among the ten most poisonous poisons in the world, crane crest red, peacock gall, black spider juice, carrion paste, rainbow fungus Nine kinds of poisons, such as silkworm eggs, viper saliva, wood soft-shelled turtle, and sweet potato sprouts, are not the most powerful poisons, but the most terrifying one is the seven-star crabapple.This poison is colorless, odorless, without trace, no matter how shrewd and careful people can guard against it, until death, there is always a smile on his face, and he seems to be very safe and happy. It is a poison that destroys the mind and brain first, and then the body, and so far there is no antidote! She couldn't speak, she just felt that her mind was blank, and she subconsciously grasped it tightly, as if the person in front of her would disappear as soon as she let go. "You're so naive... The king didn't intend to let me go from the very beginning." Hitomi tried her best to control herself, and said in a low voice, "Negotiating conditions with him is tantamount to seeking skin from a tiger. Don't bother me anymore, find a chance to leave Here—Miao Shui promised me that she will take you away safely." Wonderful water?Xue Ziye was startled, looked up at Tong, a complicated smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. That woman, however, is also an invisible one.However, Hitomi, like himself, was so naive as to believe the promise of such a person—or, it was just that they had no other choice. "Little...Sister Xiaoye. Leave me alone," he called out the name that had been forgotten for twelve years with some difficulty, "Hurry up and try to get down the mountain...it's too dangerous here. I deserve what I deserve, and it's not worth your effort .” "Nonsense! No matter what you have done, I won't care...as long as I'm alive." Xue Ziye closed his eyes lightly in the darkness, as if he had made up his mind: "Ming Jie, don't worry—I There is a way." She lit the firebox, took out the medicine bag she carried with her, and gently pressed his shoulder: "Sit down, let me see your eyes." He sat down silently, allowing her to inspect his eyes and the wounds on his body - he didn't pay attention to what she was doing, and he didn't even realize that the eight major acupuncture points of his body had been gradually sealed, and he couldn't move at all.He just tried to open his eyes wide, trying to see her appearance clearly.I haven't seen you for twelve years...after tonight, or until I die. How much he wanted to see her appearance clearly - but, his eyes could no longer see. Xue Ziye looked at it silently for a while, then stood up: "I'll go out for a while, wait a moment." Hitomi smiled wryly in the darkness—what else can I do?This kind of poison, even her ancestors couldn't undo it. Outside the dark prison is the white snow that has not melted for thousands of years in the shade of Kunlun Mountain. As soon as Xue Ziye opened the iron gate, the snowy light shone in, and he saw the blue-clothed woman leading the mastiff not far away. "What? Master Xue, did you come out so soon?" Miao Shui turned her head back in surprise and laughed, "I thought you two would talk a little longer when you reunited." Xue Ziye stood at the prison gate, looked at Miao Shui for a moment, then suddenly opened his hands: "Give me the key." "What key?" Miao Shui was startled, and held down the growling mastiff. "The key on the golden rope." Xue Ziye stretched out his hand to her, expressionless, "Give it to me." Miao Shui looked at her in surprise, and suddenly laughed: "Master Xue, don't you think your request is too much? ——Why should I give you the medicine? Tong is a traitor, and I'm betraying the Pope by doing this!" "Don't go around in circles," Xue Ziye interrupted her coldly, bluntly, "I know you want to kill the king." As if a sharp arrow had pierced through her body, Miao Shui's laughter stopped suddenly, and she silently stared at the woman in purple with chilling eyes. "I can't detoxify the Seven Star Begonia, but I don't want Ming Jie to be chained to death like a dog—you give me the key, and I'll kill that old thing for you." Xue Ziye didn't change his face, "Tomorrow." Miao Shui stared at her, her eyes gradually came alive again, and chuckled lightly: "That's bold enough. Are you sure?" "My shot is always much more sure than your shot." Xue Ziye said coldly, stretching out his hand, "I must avenge Ming Jie and the Mojia clan! Give me the key——I will cooperate with you." Miao Shui hesitated for a moment, then raised her hand, and a bunch of golden keys fell into Xue Ziye's palm: "Take it." Anyway, that pupil has already been poisoned by the Seven Star Begonia, and he won't live for a month, so what's the point of making a little concession to her temporarily?At most, wait until the Pope is killed, and then go back and deal with the two of them. "Okay." Xue Ziye squeezed the key and nodded, "Wait for me for a while, and discuss it with you later." It's Xiao Ye who's back!The moment they heard the prison's iron door opened again, the people in the iron cage showed ecstatic expressions. ——She only left for a short moment, but to him in the darkness, a hundred years passed in a trance.Such a desperate darkness almost makes people lose all the courage to survive. He wanted to stand up to meet her, but he was locked tightly, the gold cord in his throat made him unable to breathe. "Ming Jie, sit down," Xue Ziye said calmly, gently pressing his shoulder, "I'll take care of your wound." He sat down in silence, docile and obedient.The wounds all over his body were hurting, and the poison was eroding minute by minute, but he gritted his teeth with amazing perseverance and kept silent, as if he was afraid that even the slightest sound would break the tranquility of this moment.Every moment spent together like this is extremely precious—— They used to be far away from each other for more than ten years, and they didn't know each other when they rubbed shoulders; And many years later, after a narrow escape, they meet again, but they are immediately faced with the separation of life and death. He didn't speak any more, just sat silently, enjoying the tranquility and beauty of this brief moment, the murderous intent and blood that had filled his heart for more than ten years disappeared like mist - at this moment he never thought of killing people, nor did he think of revenge, I just want to sit like this, say nothing, and just die quietly by her side. Xue Ziye didn't stop for a moment, pinned the torch to the iron cage, dipped his hands in the ointment, and wiped it quickly. It should be because it was too cold in the prison, she coughed intermittently, her voice was shallow and hollow. "Be patient." After all the wounds on his body were well-medicated, Xue Ziye moved his hand to his head, pressing his eyebrows and temples inch by inch. The silver needle pierced deeply into the brain from both sides in an instant! The temple and Tianyin points were sealed, and the silver needle penetrated two inches deep, but Tong remained silent under such severe pain. "Open your eyes." Hearing a soft command in his ear, he opened his eyes in the darkness. Still can't see anything... The eyes that have been eroded by the poison are completely blind. However, the moment he opened his eyes, something soft and moist suddenly came in and touched his blind eyes. "No!" Hitomi was startled, and subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but her body had been sealed in advance, and she couldn't even make a sound—at that moment, he understood what she was doing, and almost yelled. Xue Ziye just supported his shoulders, fixed his head tightly, leaned over and licked his blind eyes with the tip of his tongue. Hitomi wanted to close her eyes tightly, but found that she couldn't even close her eyes. She... had everything arranged early in the morning?What does she want to do? Shocked, Tong mobilized his inner breath, trying to break through the acupoint forcefully, but with such a serious injury, how could it work?Hitomi used his inner breath to hit the acupuncture points over and over again, but he couldn't move a bit.Xue Ziye hugged his head, gently and slowly licking the poison in his eyes. He only felt her breath blowing on his face, and the cool and soft touch continued to spread, and the severe pain in his brain also eased bit by bit. However, her heart was getting colder and colder——what was she doing? That is the Seven Star Begonia, the most poisonous in the world!How dare she taste it with the tip of her tongue? stop!stop!He almost wanted to shout out like crazy, but the intense shock made him lose his voice for a moment. In the dark prison, the fire was gradually extinguished, only the soft and warm touch of the tongue continued silently.Hitomi couldn't move, but she knew what the other party was doing, and knew that the terrible poison was being transferred from her body to the other party's body. Pain that he had never felt before shot through his heart like lightning, crushing his will.Tears silently filled the eyes that had been dry for more than ten years, but were licked away by the soft tip of the tongue.Salty and bitter, taste like poison. Time seemed to stand still at this moment. In the dark and cold snow prison, it was so quiet that one could hear the sound of hearts cracking into thousands of pieces. But after a while, Xue Ziye licked all the toxins that covered his eyes, spat it on the ground, sat up straight and took a breath. "Okay." With a faint smile in her voice, she took out a medicine from the medicine bag and gently wiped it in Tong's eyes. God, it should be fully restored." Tong's heart was cold, and he wanted to shout out, but his body couldn't move. "You..." The dumb acupoint was not sealed, but he didn't know what to say, his face was pale. "Can you see the shadow?" She stretched out her hand and waved it in front of his eyes, and asked. He was still speechless, but his eyes followed her hand subconsciously. "It is said that there is no cure for the Seven Star Begonia, it is really wrong." Xue Ziye laughed happily, "Twenty years ago, Master Linxia thought hard about this for a month, and died of painstaking effort - but, he finally found it. understand the law." "This kind of poison is dead when it touches the skin, and it spreads very quickly - but because of this, as long as the poison in the whole body is forced to one place with silver needles, and then let someone who knows medical principles suck the poison out with his body, he can be cured. You don’t even need any medicinal materials.” She said softly, with a kind of pleasure in conquering terminal illnesses in her voice, “It is mentioned in the last writing left by Patriarch Linxia before his death that a female doctor surnamed Cheng used this method to heal the disease. The poison of the seven-star crabapple—” She spoke calmly, but her voice gradually slowed down: "So, Seven Star Begonia is not incurable... It's just that most doctors in the world are unwilling to give up their own lives..." However, as soon as the terrible poison touched the tip of his tongue, it quickly spread out. Xue Ziye spoke more and more slowly, and felt dizzy for a while, his body swayed and almost fell down. "Sister Xiaoye finally couldn't help blurting out the first sentence. "It's okay." She hastily poured out a blue pill from her bosom and contained it in her mouth, calming down the poison of severe erosion. "Ming Jie, I won't let you die." Xue Ziye took a deep breath, smiled, his eyes were bright and firm, and took out a small jasper bottle from his bosom, "I won't let you be like Xue Huai." , like the whole village, died in front of my eyes." Under the flickering light, she carefully poured out a vermilion pill from the bottle, and the rich aroma immediately filled the room. "This is Zhuguoyuludan, you should have heard of it." Xue Ziye put the pill into his mouth - the medicine turned into nectar as soon as he took it, and he felt an indescribable comfort in his limbs. "Heal your wounds well," Xue Ziye let go of his hand after wiping off a line of blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, and whispered, "Don't worry about Jiaowang anymore." He was startled—don't worry about the Pope?Could it be, could she... "Ming Jie, the acupuncture points on your body will be unlocked after twelve hours." Xue Ziye left his side, and gently instructed, "I will unlock the chains for you now, and when you can see things with your eyes, you can open them." Leave on your own—as long as you recover your martial arts, nothing in the world can trap you anymore. But, listen to me, don't kill people indiscriminately." After a few nails, all the gold cords on the hands and feet fell off. Losing support, he fell heavily, but was supported by Xue Ziye halfway. "This thing should be the most precious thing in your teaching, right?" She helped him to sit down on the ground, put something into his arms, and said softly, with a calm demeanor, not like a person who was poisoned at all, "You take it. With this, you can do whatever you want in the future, and you don't have to be controlled by others anymore..." Hitomi touched something heavy and cold in the palm of his hand, and his whole body trembled: This, this is... the Holy Fire Order of the Holy King? With such careful planning, she actually seems to be managing everything after Zhou's body! "I don't want this!" Finally, he blurted out, his voice desperate and shrill, "I just want you to live well!" Xue Ziye was startled, and the tears she had held back for a long time finally fell down—the haggardness of years of torment and fire rushed to her heart, she suddenly lost the power to control her emotions, staggered back, stared at the dim eyes, and stretched out her hand to close her eyes. He put his head in his arms and wept bitterly. How did it become like this?How did it become like this? The two of them, one was supposed to be the proud daughter of heaven from a famous family in Xinglin, the capital of the imperial capital, and the other was supposed to be a poor boy from a village in the far north—their lives should have had no intersection at all, and they should have spent their lives carefree How could a lifetime turn into the situation it is today! It is this world that has been forcing them too hard. "Ming Jie, Ming Jie, I also want you to live well..." Her tears fell on his face, choked up, "You are my only family member in this world——I can't let you be treated like this Destroyed alive." "No. You don't understand what kind of person I am..." The hot tears falling on the face seemed to burn through the heart, and Tong murmured, "I'm not worth saving." "Stupid words." Xue Ziye choked with sobs, and smiled softly, "You are my younger brother." Outside the prison, someone suddenly knocked lightly, breaking the conversation between the two. Knowing that it was Miao Shui who was impatient to wait, Xue Ziye restrained herself and stood up: "I'm leaving." "Don't go!" Tong Tong yelled sharply—this time, it would be a farewell to life and death! The person who walked to the door suddenly turned around, hesitating. "Miao Shui's words cannot be believed after all." Xue Ziye murmured, took out a stick of incense from his arms, lit it, walked around the cage, let the smoke linger around Tong's body, and finally stuck the smoke in Tong's body. The ground in front of him was still about three inches long, emitting a strange lavender smoke.After everything was arranged, she straightened up and took out another medicine: "Take it." Knowing that she was setting up a barrier to protect herself before leaving, Tong suddenly sneered, and for the first time showed a sharp and unruly expression in her eyes. "Don't think I'm willing to be saved by you." He turned his head away, coldly, "I'd rather die." "Ha." Xue Ziye couldn't help laughing—this kind of Mingjie really looks like a boy twelve years ago.However, before the laughter fell, she raised her hand without hesitation, and a silver needle shot out like lightning, and it accurately pierced into the acupuncture point under her ribs! "You...!" Hitomi lost her voice, feeling her sanity collapse in an instant. "Be obedient, go to sleep. When you wake up, nothing will happen," Xue Ziye sealed his sleeping acupoint, murmured, and fed an antidote into his mouth, "Everything will be fine." There won't be any..." do not go!do not go! ——There was a voice in his heart screaming heart-piercingly, but his eyes could no longer hold back and closed.Gathering the remaining sanity, he looked up, trying to see her one last time—however, even at the last moment, there was still only a vague figure in front of him. The shadow that turned and left left an indelible mark on his entire rest of his life at the moment of merciless farewell. When Xue Ziye walked out, she saw Miao Shui holding the mastiff, leaning against the wall of the Snow Prison, waiting for her. This Loulan woman exudes a rich and mysterious fragrance, even as a doctor, she can't tell what kind of plant it is extracted from - as mysterious as this woman herself. "It's almost three o'clock." Hearing the sound of the door, Miao Shui said without looking back, "You stayed too long, doctor." Xue Ziye locked the cell door and said, "Now, let's make plans for tomorrow." "Strange..." Miao Shui turned her head incomprehensibly, patted the mastiff's head, and whispered, "She's not afraid of death, is she?" The mastiff vigilantly forgot to take a look at Xue Ziye, and let out a low whine. The snow fell very densely, fluttering like goose feathers, covering the figures of the two women on the top. No one heard what they were talking about except the mastiff. A quarter of an hour later, Xue Ziye nodded slightly to Miao Shui, uttered a word, turned and left.The goose feather and heavy snow kept falling, and the cold air was too severe in the late night. When she left, she couldn't bear it anymore, and coughed slightly while holding the cloak on her chest. Miao Shui looked at the purple clothes hidden in the secret passage, with a smile in his eyes. "She's really not bad... I didn't expect to find a perfect partner this time! Isn't it?" She patted the furry head of the mastiff, and the huge beast made a docile purring sound like a cat. Miao Shui stood In the heavy snow, staring at the rolling Kunlun Mountains in the snow, a sharp murderous look suddenly burst out in his eyes! "Okay, now that the deal is complete, now—" she patted the mastiff, turned around and pointed at Xue Prison behind her, and sneered, "You can go and eat that guy! He's useless already!" "Woo--" After receiving the command, the mastiff's hair stood up all of a sudden, and it whimpered excitedly, and rushed in. Miao Shui stood at the door, smiling sideways, playing with a piccolo in her arms, waiting to hear the sound of chewing flesh and bones in the prison. However, there was no sound inside. Her complexion changed slightly, she came to the door, looked inside, and sucked in a breath of air--in the darkness, there was only a little red light floating faintly.The huge corpse of the mastiff lay across the steps, and it died silently as soon as it threw itself into the door! "Heartbroken grass?" Seeing the floating purple mist through the faint light, Miao Shui exclaimed in surprise, and immediately tapped her feet and swept back three feet, her face pale. ——The woman in purple had already arranged everything!