Wei Lu frowned, as if he was struggling to think, and said, "I... don't quite understand, what do you mean by saying so much?"
Su Wudao: "There has never been a judge who is above everything, whether it is the past or the future. Wei Lu, what you put all your expectations on does not have the power you imagined."
Wei Lu stood up slowly, stared at Su Wu, and said word by word: "I don't want to listen to those nonsense! The fact is, you have that ability, but you don't know how to do it, do you?!"
Su Wu sighed: "I can't interfere with the destiny..."
Wei Lu burst out and shouted: "You are the 'recipient', you can change everything! Didn't you see that Liu Che is already crazy? He killed so many people that his eyes were red! He even killed his own wife and children! Blood flowed like rivers in Chang'an City, and tens of thousands of people died. For such a person, every day he lives, every day he lives is another day of disaster!"
Su Wudao: "You only hate Your Majesty deeply because of Mrs. Li. This strong hatred makes you unable to see the facts clearly. In all fairness, Your Majesty is not as heartless and violent as you think. He has ruled the country for more than fifty years and has made many achievements. It's just that he grew up in the court, succeeded to the throne at a young age, and the growth experience of an emperor often makes a person form a different idea from ordinary people. If a person has been surrounded by the praises of "sage sage" and "sage candlelight" all day long, If everyone added sentences like "I am terrified and ignorant of death" to his report, if his understanding of the family ancestors is full of "copies with dragons", "with colorful clouds", and "dreams in his arms". If there are such myths, then he must have formed a firm belief that he is indeed the right man. He has never doubted that the destiny belongs to him, and he does not need to compete with anyone for the destiny. If there is evidence that contradicts this belief, He refused to believe it. This is His Majesty's greatest sorrow, he has been living in an unreal world. From this point of view, don't you think His Majesty is even a little pitiful..."
"Poor? Haha..." Wei Lu suddenly burst into laughter, "Then who will pity me? Who will pity Ayan? Who will pity the tens of thousands of innocent souls in Chang'an City? Who will pity the hundreds of thousands of dead bones outside Yumen Pass? He is dressed in jade Food, militarism, regard human life as worthless, treat the people as straw dogs. If you sympathize with such a single husband, where will you put thousands of dead?!"
Su Wu was silent for a while, and said: "If you change another one, you must do better than him? It is difficult to determine the merits and demerits of your majesty after thousands of years. Your majesty is a contradictory person: on the one hand, he kills and makes decisions, and power becomes powerful." On the other hand, he didn't even have the judgment and common sense of an ordinary person. The suspicion and killing in his later years were just because he couldn't accept the facts that were inconsistent with the beliefs he had insisted on for decades, so Immersed in the conjecture of witchcraft, ancient bamboo slips, stone mirrors, prophecy poems, "recipients"... are all the results of witchcraft. Have you seen the one who blindfolded himself and yelled 'you can't see me' A child? Your Majesty is like such a child desperately trying to maintain his own illusion..."
"He's not a child, he's an adult!" Wei Lu yelled, "If he goes crazy, he shouldn't be in that position and bring disaster to the country and the people! You are the only person in this world who can stop that madman. Torture, talking about the unbreakable destiny, don’t you feel any guilt?! Holding a sharp weapon but not doing justice for the sky, this is a crime in itself! It’s helping evildoers!”
Su Wu sighed and said, "Your Majesty has passed away."
Wei Lu and Li Ling exclaimed together, "What?!"
Su Wudao: "Just now, when you arrived here, His Majesty passed away in Wuzuo Palace. There was a secret edict at the end of his life, named 'Xiaowu'. He was the neutron of Emperor Jing, and the 'Zhong' on the ancient bamboo slips happened to be written 'Medium'. 'Who was ordered? King Zhong Ziwu'... He maintained the illusion that he was ordered by heaven until his death..."
Wei Lu opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it.His eyes changed from crazy and sharp to bewildered and dazed.It was like watching an extremely tall building collapse slowly and bit by bit.
Suddenly, Li Ling said: "I understand, you waited until this time just to let him die well! You want to repay him."
Su Wudao: "Your Majesty is indeed kind to me. He once picked me up when I was the least valued by others, but this is not the reason why I don't want to betray the Han. The Han Dynasty is not exhausted, and the fate is like this."
Li Ling said: "No, that's not right! The ancient bamboo slips say that the Han Dynasty suffered from six or seven disasters, and this is the era. Ziqing, do you still remember that Fu Zhongru said that your beauty is unspeakable! He was right, you should have replaced him .You... oh!"
Su Wudao: "Shaoqing, thank you for taking me to see the physiognomy that time. It was the first time I came into contact with the truth of my life - even though I didn't know anything about it at the time. Fu Zhongru is indeed outstanding, but he What he said may not be completely correct. He is a descendant of Fu Shuo and a servant of my former king, which made him unconsciously mix some habits of loyalty to the royal family in his predictions—maybe he didn’t even realize it himself Yes. I am just the king of a past country, but Your Majesty is my king in this real country, and he has the grace to know me..."
Wei Lu shouted: "Did your father lose your mind?! Liu Che should have died at your hands! He made you a general, and you gave up the whole world. Do you know what you lost? You just missed the best opportunity to recover the Protoss! Your allegiance to him is a violation of the true destiny! If you don’t take it, you will be blamed instead. You fool, you acted against the sky, You will be punished!"
Su Wu said indifferently: "No, you are wrong. Sixty-seven forty-two, the Han Dynasty has a lifespan of 420 years. Wei Lu, you may be disappointed, but this is the real destiny, and neither you nor I can change it. The person who ended the Han Dynasty is not me, but someone else. 'Dang Tu Gao' will appear, but now, it is neither the time nor the person."
Wei Lu said: "No! You are the 'Ordered One', you can save the world from fire and water, save all people from hanging, and you can destroy all injustice and darkness in this world..."
Su Wudao: "Wei Lu, your biggest mistake is entrusting the change of destiny to a higher level of gods. That is the most dangerous thing. Who told you that the order established by beings higher than mortals is bound to be higher than that of ordinary people? It is fairer and better now? Who told you that the higher the wisdom, the higher the morality must be? The instinct of life is self-interest, why should others dedicate their abilities to seek happiness for you? Human wisdom is higher than Beasts, the ones who kill and enslave the most animals are not human beings? Besides, no matter how much you hate the world today, it was created by all living beings in the world, and it cannot be attributed to the manipulation of one or two heroes. Back then, Chu and Han fought each other, and the heroes competed for the throne. Didn't the common people eat pots of milk to welcome Pei Gong, and made the Han family all over the world? If you choose, you have to bear the consequences. If you regret your choice, and the price you pay is unbearable, people will make the choice again one day , That is the real destiny that cannot be resisted. The destiny may not be as responsive and immediate as you expected, but all injustices will eventually be liquidated, and any violation will eventually have to pay the price. Tianxing There is permanence, do not exist for Yao, do not perish for Jie. You and I should be grateful for the existence of destiny. Destiny is the last talisman for the weak and the ultimate restraint for the strong. Atrocities have always been ignorant of morality and fear of others. The only thing that can make it restrain itself is a more powerful power. It's just that this power doesn't come from some alien god who is above all—"
"No! I don't believe it!" Wei Lu yelled, "'The mysterious bird of destiny descended to give birth to merchants', is it just a hoax?! Then who made up this lie in the first place?"
Su Wu sighed, and said: "You can understand the most difficult ancient prose, but you only ignore the most simple meaning of this poem. Think about it carefully, what is its original meaning?" , It is destiny that determines the appearance of the Xuanniao clan, not the other way around."
Wei Lu murmured: "'Destiny Mysterious Bird'...'Destiny Mysterious Bird'..."
Su Wudao: "Like many people, you regard the follower of the destiny as the representative of the destiny. If you miss a little bit, you will miss it by a thousand miles. In fact, you and I are under this destiny and cannot surpass it..."
"Ha..." Wei Lu looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, "What a gentleman who fears the destiny and is willing to keep his duty, tsk tsk, so noble that I am about to cry - but, what do you use to prove everything you said? I believe The records of the ancient bamboo slips, because it is a proof that cannot be tampered with. Maybe my reading may not be completely accurate, and maybe my understanding may be biased, but at least it is not a fiction made out of nothing! And your explanation of destiny is all out of nowhere. With your mouth alone, how can I be sure that it is true? What evidence do you have? How do I know that there is no fabrication by you with ulterior motives?"
Su Wu sighed: "When the ice and snow in the North Sea completely melt, you and Shaoqing bring that stone mirror over here, then I will show you the evidence."
On the empty ice, only Li Ling and Su Wu were left. Li Ling looked at Su Wu as if he was looking at a complete stranger. Su Wu smiled and said, "Why does Shaoqing look at me like this?" Li Ling said: "It's been so many years, why didn't you tell him from the beginning?" Su Wudao: "At that time, his heart was overwhelmed by hatred, and any advice would not be effective for him. The hardships he has suffered are far beyond ordinary people. For many years, he has painstakingly planned and sketched, just to find the 'ordered person', With the power of the "appointed" to subvert this world. He has placed too many expectations on the "appointed". If I tell him that all his sustenance is doomed to be unfulfilled, with his character, he will inevitably be out of despair. And he tried his best to provoke the Han-Hungarian war, until all the jade and stone were burnt, and the people were burned. He once gave me a second life, a second life in the true sense. Without him, I still don’t know where I came from and where I am going. And I owe His, but he can't abuse his abilities to repay him, so he can only, at least minimize his harm to others and himself. Now, Li Yannian has been punished, Li Guangli was designed to kill by him, and he was implicated and put to death along with the imperial physician. His Majesty has also passed away, and all his grievances and hatred have dissipated with his death. His revenge has no target, so I only told him the truth at this time." Li Ling sighed, nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Ziqing, you repeatedly mentioned 'destiny'. I have a question that I have been puzzled over." Su Wudao: "Just tell me." Li Ling said: "You said that the mysterious bird comes from the future, and you are a 'recipient' who knows everything that will happen in the future. Does that mean that the future already exists now? I'm a little confused, this, this Why does it sound weird?" Su Wudao: "Yes, that's exactly the case. There is a profound contradiction in it." He stretched out his hand and said, "Give me your copper coin." Li Ling said: "Han money is useless here, why would I bring it with me?" Su Wu pointed at his waist.Li Ling was stunned for a moment, then remembered, and untied the money wrapped with multicolored silk threads around his waist. Untie the silk thread on the top, and you can see the prayer "Easy to escape, suitable for descendants" engraved on the money. Li Ling stared blankly, with mixed feelings, closed his eyes, and squeezed it firmly in his hand, feeling that the coin in his palm Qian Qiao felt the pain, sighed, then let go, handed the money to Su Wu, and said, "What do you want this for?" Su Wu tossed the coin up, then stretched out his hand to catch it, and said: "Words or memorization?" Li Ling was stunned, and said, "Is it related to shooting?" Su Wudao: "Write or memorize?" Li Ling said: "Let's count it as words. Ziqing..." Su Wu spread his hands, but saw that the copper coin in his palm was facing upwards. Su Wudao: "It's memorization, you guessed wrong. However, you can't say that you are all wrong. If you throw and catch at will, the words and memorization should each account for 50%. If I throw and catch enough times, for example A thousand times, words and memorization will each account for about 500 times. The problem is, I only toss it once. Now when the back is facing up, where is the state of the word being up? Has it disappeared from the universe? ?No, it should exist! Otherwise it's a wrong universe because it's out of balance. So, when I toss this penny, maybe two worlds are born: one world, on its back, is This world we are in; the other world, with the word up. Other than that, there is no difference between the two worlds. You are still you, and I am still me, and everything is the same. Like this copper coin, the pole that causes the universe to split There are many, too many to count. Formless vitality and omnipresent particles make up everything in the world. This situation is called chaos. Any change will lead to division. All possibilities exist at the same time, and the unfortunate ending is just One of countless possibilities. You may be in the Northern Expedition to bring down the Hu, or you may still be an official in the court. Mrs. Li may be dead, or she may still be alive. Lao Dan described this state, one thing is black, and at the same time It is also white. A person is extremely clever and extremely stupid at the same time. Peng Zu may be extremely short-lived, and babies who die young may live the longest... Favor and disgrace, black and white, high and low, wisdom and stupidity, all may exist at the same time. Unfortunately, few people really understand After reading his words, they thought it was just a philosopher's helpless illustration of turbulent times. The world will keep diverging. You and I should have infinite possible futures, but unfortunately, we ruined those countless possible futures. When the monstrous flood flowed into the ruins, billions of billions of universes were annihilated, and a loop extending from the branches to the roots was formed. This history with a great flood was forever embedded in the root of the tree of time and became the future Part of the history that people know. People in the future, no matter what country or ethnic group, will know that their ancestors experienced a terrible flood. Therefore, we can only have one history, we can only live in a world that has long been A world that has been determined. The past determines the present, the present determines the future, and the future determines the past. When countless new forks are born, when other universes run towards infinite possibilities, we—the us you are aware of now, can only be here It is a difficult journey through a history, advancing along a fixed route. Because of the sins of human beings, we have created a loop for ourselves that we can never escape from life to life." Li Ling only felt that there was a roar in his head, as if countless crazy horses were rushing back and forth inside.He murmured: "Fork... the universe... God, what are you talking about?" Martial Su returned the coin to Li Ling and said, "For most ordinary people, this is actually nothing. They live the same way, have the same sorrow and joy, and are born and die the same way. A universe with bifurcations and a universe without bifurcations Yes, what is the difference to them? But to us, it is different. The existence of the Xuanniao tribe is a strange state. From the surface, we are mixed with ordinary people, and we have also been in this long history. We can float, but because of the time-spanning experience, we have obtained supernatural powers. We can know in advance where the river will flow and what kind of hidden reefs and eddies lie ahead. We can slightly adjust our drifting posture in this big river, so that we can Avoid the most dangerous situation, but we can't intervene too much, let alone change the river itself. For example, in order to survive, I will dig out some seeds stored by wild rats from the ground, and my demand will not exceed what is necessary for survival. However Since Chengtang, how many short-sighted Xuanniao people have relied on their invincible supernatural powers to plan more than one meal! Using wine as a pool, hanging meat as a forest, chasing each other naked, drinking for a long night, thinking they have a plan, Who knows, the more you grab, the stronger the retribution! Any intervention that breaks through the bottom line is drinking poison to quench your thirst and promote your own death. I can't tell Wei Lu about all this. He has just turned from hope to extreme disappointment. If you let him know , there may have been a result of him and Mrs. Li falling in love with each other and dying happily. He is an extreme person. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will not hesitate to use his death to obtain it. But the Xuanniao clan can't repeat that tragic mistake. I don't want to To rekindle his hope and then snuff it out again was a blow so cruel it could drive him mad."
The North Sea in late summer is extremely beautiful. The sea water is a blue color deeper than the sky, deep and wide, and endless. It is a peaceful noon.There was a small boat floating in the sea, carrying three people.Sitting in the boat, looking around, a few white clouds hang lazily above the deep blue sea, like clusters of pure white silk, so low that you can reach them with your hands. Su Wu took the stone mirror that Wei Lu handed over, it was a smooth blue-gray mirror, and it was very light to hold in his hand.Su Wudao: "Have you used it?" Wei Lu glanced at Su Wu and said, "Aren't you an 'appointed person'? There is nothing in this world that you don't know. I thought there would be no questioning sentences in your language." Su Wu smiled lightly, and said: "To know those things requires physical and mental strength. I will not try to understand everything. How many things have happened in the world at this moment? If someone describes them one by one and gives them to you, you will not have time see?" Wei Lu said: "I have used it a few times to summon Ah Yan's soul. According to the young man's method, I used Ah Yan's hair to be burned to ashes, and put it in the dew with this mirror, and Ah Yan really appeared. Fortunately, Ah Yan was Give me that pendant, on which she sewed the black bird pattern with her own hair. It’s just that the dew is hard to collect, and I can only see Ah Yan once in a few months. Over the years, the hair on the pendant has become It was stripped away by me a little bit." Su Wu picked up the stone mirror, weighed it, and said, "Have you noticed that this stone mirror is strangely light?" Wei Lu said: "Yes, it is as light as a feather, but it is extremely solid. I don't know what kind of material it is." Su Wu played with the stone mirror, and said, "I'm not talking about this. When you immersed it in the dew, did you ever think that such a light thing should not sink in water?" Throw it overboard. Wei Lu was startled by his actions and his mind suddenly went blank. After a while, he yelled loudly and jumped towards the place where the stone mirror fell into the water. Su Wu grabbed him and said, "Dangerous! You can't go down!" The water in the North Sea is extremely clear, through the water surface, you can clearly see the stone mirror sinking slowly, Wei Lu struggled for a while, watching the blue-gray circle in the water gradually shrinking, he was very angry, and suddenly turned around and brushed. He quickly drew his sword, slashed at Su Wu, and shouted, "Let me go!" Su Wu didn't evade, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the blade of the sword, saying: "This is the deepest place in the entire North Sea, you can't fish it up even if you go down." Wei Lu shouted: "Let go! Don't force me!" As he spoke, he pushed the sword downward, and a stream of blood immediately flowed out from Su Wu's palm, and fell drop by drop along the blade into the sea. Su Wu didn't let go, and said: "There are some things in this world that cannot be regained after being lost. You can only accept it! Mrs. Li and this stone mirror are the same." "Stop!" Li Ling swung his sword out, the tip of the sword resting on Wei Lu's back, and said eagerly to Su Wu, "Why are you stopping him? If he wants to jump into the sea, let him jump!" Without turning his head, Wei Lu said: "Li Ling, you can strike if you have the ability! I want to see who will die first today!" As he spoke, he pressed down hard on the sword in his hand.Su Wu still did not let go, but calmly looked at his hand holding the blade.More blood oozes from between the fingers, drips into the sea, and smudges in the sea water, turning into pieces of faint blush. "Why are you crazy?" Wei Lu yelled, "Do you think that you are invulnerable because you are an 'appointed person'? Do you really think I dare not kill you?" Li Ling was startled and anxious, and said to Su Wu: "What are you doing?! You can keep yourself from getting hurt!" Su Wu shook his head and said: "Strength is not equal to copper tendons and iron bones. The Xuanniao tribe also came from mortal bodies. From Tang to Zhou, all Shang kings are now only a pile of dry bones." Wei Lu looked at the sinking direction of the stone mirror, and said in despair, "Then why did you do this? Why?!" Su Wudao: "You saved me once, I don't want to see you go to a dead end. So I will try my best to save you once." "Save me? Ha!" Wei Lu laughed strangely, the laughter was full of desolation and anger, "You said you want to save me? You ruined my hope! This stone mirror can reflect another world! Ah Yan really It’s true, it’s the same as she was when she was alive! I told her to wait for me, and I will save her.” Su Wudao: "But did she answer you?" Wei Lu said: "She will wait for me! She will definitely wait for me! This time I will not let her down again!" Su Wudao: "Mrs. Li is dead, don't deceive yourself anymore. There has never been another world. What Shi Jing recalled was not Mrs. Li's soul, but a phantom. You see her as before when she was alive, just because of that It was originally the scene of her life. Why does she have no entity? Why can't she respond to you? Wei Lu, you can't live in the past forever. You were hurt in the past, but now, you are hurting yourself. " Wei Lu was startled, and immediately shouted: "You are talking nonsense! She will come back! I will find a power to break through all obstacles and bring her back to life!" Su Wu sighed, and said: "When Mrs. Li entered the palace, you had already lost her. You have been refusing to accept this fact. I understand all the things you do that are not acceptable to the world because of your feelings. But, now What stands between you and your wife is no longer status or power, but the limit of life and death. This cannot be overcome by manpower. Even the stone mirror cannot save you, it just deceives your eyes." Wei Lu's hand holding the sword began to tremble slightly, and said, "No! You are lying to me! There must be a way! The passage leading to your world is not sealed! I sent someone to check, the entire North Sea, the rivers flowing into it There are hundreds of them, but only one flows out, but it never overflows. There is clearly a bottomless pit in the depths of the sea! That abyss is still in operation! Whether you come from the future or from beyond the sky, there must be someone stronger than this in your world Much power to change everything!" Su Wudao: "Yes, the passage has not been completely closed. But do you know the result of crossing this passage? Have you ever seen those strangely thin sea fish caught by fishermen in the North Sea? Those are huge giants in the deep sea. Caused by pressure. The pressure caused by time span is billions of times greater than this. That kind of pressure is enough to crush the most resilient life into powder." Wei Lu said: "No, it won't! When Dayu released the flood, from black leopards to leeches, from all corners of the world, they were transported here, didn't they all be safe and sound? People must be able to pass through the flood channel alive! You are the 'leader', You must know how to get back!" Su Wudao: "No, I am not a 'guide'. The word 'guide' is a corruption of 'guide'. The task of the Xuanniao tribe is to guide the flood. I have no ability to go back. The transfer of space and the time Leaping is two different things. At the moment of passing through the time barrier, the weight of the last hair will increase to overweight Mount Tai. Any object as huge as Mount Tai will be condensed into a dense state the size of a needle in an instant, until it rushes out of the passage, Only then can it be restored to its original shape. The stone mirror is made of part of the material of the black bird. The peculiarity of this material is that it has almost no weight and can only sense the attraction of water to find the correct time and space where the flood is. The black bird can safely Through such compression and reshaping, the traits remain unchanged, but can you imagine that a living flesh and blood body can withstand such a tragic test?" Wei Lu's eyes were full of despair, and he slowly let go of the hand holding the sword. Su Wu held the blade upside down and pulled it out of Wei Lu's hand. Wei Lu said: "But... the mysterious bird is still in this world, in the deep sea under our feet, I will devote all my efforts to find the mysterious bird, as long as it can go back and bring the information here..." With a plop, the sword was thrown into the sea by Su Wu, the blood on the blade melted in the sea, and a long bloodstain appeared, extending straight to the depths of the sea. "The Xuanniao is dead." Su Wu dipped his scratched hand in the sea and slowly washed it, and said calmly, "It can't carry anything back. The language of the Shang royal family is very different from that of later generations." Tianming Xuanniao, Descend to give birth to quotient', Descend, not to fall, but to die." The sea water around the ship's side had been dyed light red. Li Ling put away his sword, tore off a skirt, and bandaged the wound on Su Wu's hand. Wei Lu said: "'Jing' means death? How is that possible? You are lying! The pronunciation of your language has long been banned by the Western Zhou Dynasty. There is no proof of death. You can just call the black bird a dog and a horse!" Su Wudao: "If you don't believe me, you can think about the "Book of Rites", there is evidence in it." ""Book of Rites"?" Wei Lu sneered with disdain, but after a while, his face became serious. Li Ling said: "What is written in the Book of Rites?" Wei Lu murmured: "'The death of the Son of Heaven is collapse, the princes are death, the doctor is death, the common people are death, and the feather bird is descending...'." Su Wu nodded and said: "Yes, in that era, 'falling' was used on birds, which meant death. The mysterious bird is dead. Just like the legend here, the divine bird fell into the sea with flames. This is Yu After the flood receded, Yu privately reported to Emperor Shun everything he had seen at the North Sea, and he described the Xuanniao as a god who watched all the actions of the world from above. He said that the people of Yidi described Xuanniao As the envoys of the emperor of heaven, they worship and pray to Xuanniao, accuse sin, ask Xuanniao to resolve disputes and bring blessings. With such a thing, ordinary people can bypass the emperors and priests in the world and communicate directly with heaven. The old After Shun heard this, he made a major decision. He ordered Chongli, the most adept at using fire at that time, to burn the Xuanniao at all costs. Chongli did it, and he mixed in with the crowd worshiping Xuanniao, approaching Xuanniao , a fire was ignited at the key part of the Xuanniao, and the Xuanniao was burned. Chongli also died with the Xuanniao. Yu ruled out his greatest threat in the world, and ascended to the throne as he wished, taking advantage of the great prestige established during the Great Flood , established the first hereditary regime - the Xia Dynasty. The burning of the Xuanniao by Chongli had such a profound impact on the direction of history, but it was not clearly recorded in the history books. Because this is a shameful thing. Only in the "Lu Xing" of the Western Zhou Dynasty are some ambiguous records, and they mistakenly wrote Beidi as Nanman. Later generations were even more confused by the few dozens of characters. It is unclear who the emperor is in the text. From Zhuanxu When it comes to Yao and Shun, you can say anything. Chongli is even said to be 'Chong' and 'Li'. Working for the king to do secret and dirty things, although they can't be publicly praised, they can get huge benefits. Reward. Because of Chongli's great achievements, his descendants were granted eternal dominion over the northern barbarians. To this day, Chongli's descendants are still ruling this land, although they have long forgotten the origin of their family— —'Chengli' is 'Chongli', and 'Chengli Gutu' is 'Son of Chongli'." Wei Lu and Li Ling were dumbfounded. Su Wudao: "That's right, don't be surprised, 'Zhou Li Gu Tu Shan Yu', the supreme ruler of the Huns, is the descendant of the ancient Huo Zhengzhong Li family." Wei Lu murmured: "...the emperor mourns the innocents who have been slaughtered, repays the cruelty with prestige, and suppresses the Miao people. There is no world under him, but his life is heavy, and the sky is the best...'It turned out to be like this..." Li Ling suddenly gasped and said, "What's going on? This, this sea..." Wei Lu followed his gaze and was also taken aback.I saw that at some point, a mist rose from the sea around them, and it was difficult to distinguish in the distance.The mist rose thicker and thicker, overwhelming the sky. Li Ling said in surprise, "Is this going to change?" Wei Lu said: "No! No!" Looking at Su Wu, his expression suddenly changed, and he said, "You are performing the spell! You, you are summoning the soul?" Su Wudao: "No, it's the stone mirror that is operating on the bottom of the sea." Wei Lu was taken aback, and said, "Without dew and gray hair, how could Shi Jing..." Su Wudao: "The stone mirror was originally set up for use in this place. The Central Plains couldn't find a second such clear water source, so we had to use the immortal dew plate to collect dew. It's not like what the young man pretended to be mysterious. What kind of 'rootless water' is used? Hair is blood, and using hair is not as good as using blood itself. The person who made this stone mirror is Qi, the first member of the Xuanniao tribe in the world. His name is also due to this incident The original meaning of Qie is to engrave. He recorded the ins and outs of everything on this stone mirror. Qie clearly foresees that the language and writing in the future will undergo uncontrollable changes. The records left behind will eventually become unreadable. Therefore, he uses this unique method to preserve the truth. The tool to read the truth is the key to the life of the Xuanniao clan. As long as the blood of the Xuanniao clan is still alive , the truth can be restored. Confucius was unable to store his own blood for hundreds of thousands of years, so he had to use his hair as a last resort. Hair is also a part of life, and the memory of the Xuanniao family is also retained in the hair The young man had only a half-knowledge. After reading the records left by Confucius, he mistakenly thought that the only way to summon souls was with hair. He bribed the eunuchs and got Mrs. Li’s hair from a grate. He was lucky. Mrs. Li was Bai Di, and she also had a little mystery Bird family blood. When she was dying of dystocia, she expected that her brother would not die well, so she refused to see His Majesty for the last time, and kept her most beautiful moment in His Majesty's heart, so that His Majesty would weaken his love for the Li brothers because of her beauty. The loathing of the Li family delayed the arrival of the catastrophe of Li’s extermination. The content displayed on the stone mirror is related to the blood of the Xuanniao people who drove it: if the blood is impure, it can only show a little fragment of his life; if the blood is pure, it can be traced back a long time Before, or even to demonstrate what happened in the first place—perhaps, it should be said, a long time later.” On the steaming sea surface, a strong flash of light suddenly appeared, so strong that the three of them could barely open their eyes.What followed was a loud bang like a landslide.When I opened my eyes, I saw an astonishing sight where the strong light receded: huge icebergs were slowly collapsing and melting, there were raging fires everywhere, and all kinds of charred and helpless The ruins of famous names fell on the glacier in all directions, and the glacier melted by the fire was slowly disintegrating. On the glacier, among the ruins, some tiny silhouettes of people fleeing for their lives can be seen in the distance.It was too far away to hear the panic calls from those people, but I could clearly feel the strong fear and despair.Farther away, one can vaguely see a few large gray birds flying in the sky, flashes of fire and light one after another, followed by rumbling and thunderous sounds.Those fleeing for their lives ran among the raging fire and collapsing icebergs, looking like ants that would be crushed to death by the giants at any time. Li Ling and Wei Lu held their breath, looking at those lives struggling in the ice and fire.Li Ling's whole body was trembling slightly, Wei Lu was gripping the side of the boat tightly, his knuckles were bulging and turning white from too much force. The flames are burning, the huge waves are churning, and the black ice is cracking.Occasionally, some survivors escaped from the claws of the flames, but the glaciers they were on broke, tilted, and wandered in the flames of war. The survivors wailed and slid into the sea full of flames. A huge sloping ice floe drifted in front of their boat. There were several people on the ice floe. They hugged the highest part of the entire ice surface and shouted to this side.Those people had weird clothes and strange looks. Li Ling and Wei Lu stood up suddenly. They couldn't understand what those people were shouting at all, but they could hear the strong meaning of calling for help in the voice.That is the scream that all life will make when it is on the verge of extinction. The ice floe floated only one or two feet away from the small boat. Li Ling couldn't help but stretched out his hand to the nearest caller, but that person didn't seem to see Ye Xiaozhou and the three people in the boat right in front of him. Passing over them, calling for help from afar over and over again. Su Wudao: "It's useless, we don't exist to them. What you see is just the refraction of the real image thousands of years later." Li Ling's hand pierced through the body of the caller, and there was nothing there! Li Ling withdrew his hand in surprise, looked at his hand in disbelief, and then at the caller. A big gray bird flew low towards this side, and the man followed the sound, his eyes immediately filled with death-like despair.Then, a dazzling bright light burst out in front of their eyes with a loud sound, and the intense stimulation produced by the light made them blind for a while.It took a long time before their eyes slowly regained their vision. The ice floes and rescuers just now had completely disappeared without a trace, and the sea water stirred up by the explosion turned into heavy rain from the sky.Wei Lu looked up and saw that the bean-sized raindrops mixed with black and red impurities were falling crazily.Wei Lu couldn't help raising his hand to block it, but when the raindrops fell in front of his eyes, they disappeared without a sound, and he didn't feel anything on his skin.I touched my face, it was nothing, nothing. Looking at Li Ling, he was also touching his cheek with a dazed expression. Pieces of shattered ice floes dangled on the surface of the water, and all signs of life had disappeared, only some charred wreckage and floating objects undulating on the sea. They saw a war close at hand but out of reach.明知是幻象，他们却恍惚感觉到周围的空气中好像充斥着浓重的血腥味。 李陵看着那些灰色的大鸟掠过垮塌的冰山，穿过一柱柱袅袅上升的黑烟，渐渐远去，突然想起一段话，不禁脱口而出喃喃地道：“……火爁炎而不灭，水浩洋而不息，猛兽食颛民，鸷鸟攫老弱……” 苏武道：“不错，这众所周知的民间传说，记述的是真实的图景。你们现在所见，也只是那场庞大的灾难中一个微不足道的片段而已。最可怕的场面，是无法呈现的。因为光是那种光芒，就不是人的肉眼所能承受的。当年玄鸟族先人被夏的追兵追杀至此，曾在这北海演示过一次，追杀者因为目睹那无与伦比的强光而瞬间失去视觉，目盲者十有八九。他们回到中原后，北海上发生的一切越传越广，人们无法理解这些是遥远的未来才会发生的，而误认为是上古发生的天神之间的大战。'共工怒触不周山'、'十日并出'这些时序混乱的神话，就这样渐渐散播开来。卫律，这就是你所念兹在兹要追寻的力量。四极废，九州裂，天不兼覆，地不周载……这不是神话，是事实。文明愈先进，手段愈野蛮。不战则已，一战就是苍生荼毒，万物绝灭。战火所及，城郭瞬间夷平，楼宇灰飞烟灭，远不是我们现在以刀剑戈矛为杀人利器、以血流漂杵为伤亡至惨的人所能想象的。你现在还觉得，最有力的，一定能制造美好吗？你现在还确定，这就是你所想要的吗？” 冰火交织的情景渐渐淡去，海面又恢复了原来的宁静。碧水蓝天，清新如画，白云依旧慵懒地沉垂在海面上空，就像什么也没发生过。 卫律呆呆地看着一望无际的大海。 苏武道：“卫律，你是个至情至性的人。李夫人活着的时候，你希望发生奇迹，让她回到你身边；她死后，你希望制造奇迹，让她起死回生。你比大多数人坚忍，你能为了一个目的，历经顿挫，百死不悔。然而，你又比大多数人脆弱，因为你不能接受一个明显的事实，那就是你失去她了，永远地、无可挽回地失去她了。我不能劝你说大丈夫何患无妻，因为李夫人对你来说确实是唯一的。我也不能对你说节哀顺变，因为节制哀伤并不能使曾经的伤害消失。我只能对你说，我很抱歉，不能帮助你减轻痛苦。你曾经救我一命，我却无法实现你的愿望。一直以来，你所做的一切，只是不甘认命。确实，命运对你并不公平。但是，命运对我、对李少卿，难道公平吗？每个人的一生，都会有不可避免的遗憾，如果执意于抹平这些遗憾，只会造成更多的遗憾。我是囚徒，然而我的心是自由的。你贵为王侯，却关在自己制造的牢笼里。卫律，赦免你自己吧。人生苦短，何苦让本来只是一时的憾恨，折磨自己一生呢？” 海岸边，满山青翠，喷薄着生命的颜色。卫律抱膝漠然坐在船头，他那瘦削而坚毅的脸上看不出表情的变化，只在一瞬间，眼中掠过一丝淡淡的悲哀。 李陵叹道：“你什么都看到了，自然能如此超脱。想必你的未来，总比我和他光明。你不是还留着汉节吗？'言旋言归，复我家邦。'原来不是光复，是归国。呵，到那时，你会是那边的英雄功臣，而我和卫律，将成为史书上永远的罪人。” 苏武道：“我的命运，不会是你想要的。是的，我会回去，我会加官晋爵，我会名满天下。我会看到朝局动荡，藩王谋逆。我会看到我的儿子卷进失败的那一方。我会看到元儿在漆黑的夜里被廷尉府的人锁走，他那惊恐而绝望的眼神，将是他留给我在这世上最后的纪念。我会一夜之间从万人景仰的英雄，沦为人人避之不及的逆案嫌犯。我会免冠跣足、白发苍苍地跪在比我年轻的昔日同僚面前请罪。大将军会怜悯我，只是杀我的儿子，没有诛杀我和我整个家族，我还要为此叩谢他的恩典……然而我还是要回去，你和卫律都不可能阻止我。你们能限制我的自由，但不能囚禁天上的所有飞禽，而它们终能为我带去这边的信息。我必须回去，我父兄皆已不在，我不回去，我的子侄便会在未来那场灾难中毁灭殆尽。我去，至少能以我这多年持节不降的微薄劳苦，换取家族一二孑遗的幸存。少卿，这就是我的未来。如果这能让你稍稍感到好过一点——” 李陵颤声道：“不！别说了……对不起……” 苏武站起身来，看着海岸边那一带远山，平静地道：“没什么，山有不周，日月有食，天地尚有缺憾，何况你我只是天地间如此脆弱的生灵。冥水汤汤，天命茫茫。今者不乐，逝者其亡。为过去的苦难伤感是枉然，为未来的灾难担忧同样没有必要。少卿，现在于我们才是最真实的存在。爱你的妻儿吧，他们才是你生命中的至重。” 远处北海岸边，一名黑衣女子怀抱着一个婴孩，翘首等待船只归来。那女子头上斜插着三根鸟羽，在海风的吹拂下不停颤动。 卫律道：“孩子起名了吗？” 苏武点头：“起了，达乌起的。她说，目睹过我的种种遭遇，只希望孩子平凡快乐，哪怕像个卑微的牧猪人，安安宁宁地度过一生，便是最大的幸福。呵呵，牧猪人，多么奇怪！随她吧，我不想重蹈我父母的覆辙，她为了生这个孩子，几乎丢了半条命，这点事，就让她做主吧……” “牧猪人？”李陵微微一怔，用胡语默念了一遍，点头道，“嗯，其实也不错……汉话读来就是'通国'。孩子的未来呢？你预测了吗？” 苏武闭上眼睛。 牧猪人，通古斯……呵，他能隐隐看到，那天真无邪的婴孩身后拖着的那条血色的道路；他能隐隐听到，孩子命运之路的远方传来的刀兵之声。 通国拥有仅次于他的异能，当这孩子长大，当他意识到这意味着什么，他会竭尽全力利用这能力。他知道玄鸟族几千年来的残酷命运，他很清楚，父亲的机遇不可能重演，世上再也不会有第二个“受命者”诞生，他也不想成为“受命者”。 他会寻找另一种成功的方式，而那是更容易实现的目标。他和他的子孙会有意和一些特定的家族通婚联姻，他知道那里有他需要的那一部分——不是异能的那一部分，而是力量、智慧和野心！ 千年的血与火……马踏长城，驰骋中原。杀伐与征战、奇谋与秘计……他们要夺回玄鸟族曾经的荣耀和权势……他们用世间最贵重的物质给自己命名…… 到底是福是祸？ 苏武摇摇头，他不想去细看——留着点希望吧！ 此时，北海之上，微风渐起，夕阳将万道霞光铺满海面，放眼望去，海面就像一片缀满无数璀璨宝石的锦毯，熠熠生辉，直铺到天之尽头。 (End of the book)
On the empty ice, only Li Ling and Su Wu were left. Li Ling looked at Su Wu as if he was looking at a complete stranger. Su Wu smiled and said, "Why does Shaoqing look at me like this?" Li Ling said: "It's been so many years, why didn't you tell him from the beginning?" Su Wudao: "At that time, his heart was overwhelmed by hatred, and any advice would not be effective for him. The hardships he has suffered are far beyond ordinary people. For many years, he has painstakingly planned and sketched, just to find the 'ordered person', With the power of the "appointed" to subvert this world. He has placed too many expectations on the "appointed". If I tell him that all his sustenance is doomed to be unfulfilled, with his character, he will inevitably be out of despair. And he tried his best to provoke the Han-Hungarian war, until all the jade and stone were burnt, and the people were burned. He once gave me a second life, a second life in the true sense. Without him, I still don’t know where I came from and where I am going. And I owe His, but he can't abuse his abilities to repay him, so he can only, at least minimize his harm to others and himself. Now, Li Yannian has been punished, Li Guangli was designed to kill by him, and he was implicated and put to death along with the imperial physician. His Majesty has also passed away, and all his grievances and hatred have dissipated with his death. His revenge has no target, so I only told him the truth at this time." Li Ling sighed, nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Ziqing, you repeatedly mentioned 'destiny'. I have a question that I have been puzzled over." Su Wudao: "Just tell me." Li Ling said: "You said that the mysterious bird comes from the future, and you are a 'recipient' who knows everything that will happen in the future. Does that mean that the future already exists now? I'm a little confused, this, this Why does it sound weird?" Su Wudao: "Yes, that's exactly the case. There is a profound contradiction in it." He stretched out his hand and said, "Give me your copper coin." Li Ling said: "Han money is useless here, why would I bring it with me?" Su Wu pointed at his waist.Li Ling was stunned for a moment, then remembered, and untied the money wrapped with multicolored silk threads around his waist. Untie the silk thread on the top, and you can see the prayer "Easy to escape, suitable for descendants" engraved on the money. Li Ling stared blankly, with mixed feelings, closed his eyes, and squeezed it firmly in his hand, feeling that the coin in his palm Qian Qiao felt the pain, sighed, then let go, handed the money to Su Wu, and said, "What do you want this for?" Su Wu tossed the coin up, then stretched out his hand to catch it, and said: "Words or memorization?" Li Ling was stunned, and said, "Is it related to shooting?" Su Wudao: "Write or memorize?" Li Ling said: "Let's count it as words. Ziqing..." Su Wu spread his hands, but saw that the copper coin in his palm was facing upwards. Su Wudao: "It's memorization, you guessed wrong. However, you can't say that you are all wrong. If you throw and catch at will, the words and memorization should each account for 50%. If I throw and catch enough times, for example A thousand times, words and memorization will each account for about 500 times. The problem is, I only toss it once. Now when the back is facing up, where is the state of the word being up? Has it disappeared from the universe? ?No, it should exist! Otherwise it's a wrong universe because it's out of balance. So, when I toss this penny, maybe two worlds are born: one world, on its back, is This world we are in; the other world, with the word up. Other than that, there is no difference between the two worlds. You are still you, and I am still me, and everything is the same. Like this copper coin, the pole that causes the universe to split There are many, too many to count. Formless vitality and omnipresent particles make up everything in the world. This situation is called chaos. Any change will lead to division. All possibilities exist at the same time, and the unfortunate ending is just One of countless possibilities. You may be in the Northern Expedition to bring down the Hu, or you may still be an official in the court. Mrs. Li may be dead, or she may still be alive. Lao Dan described this state, one thing is black, and at the same time It is also white. A person is extremely clever and extremely stupid at the same time. Peng Zu may be extremely short-lived, and babies who die young may live the longest... Favor and disgrace, black and white, high and low, wisdom and stupidity, all may exist at the same time. Unfortunately, few people really understand After reading his words, they thought it was just a philosopher's helpless illustration of turbulent times. The world will keep diverging. You and I should have infinite possible futures, but unfortunately, we ruined those countless possible futures. When the monstrous flood flowed into the ruins, billions of billions of universes were annihilated, and a loop extending from the branches to the roots was formed. This history with a great flood was forever embedded in the root of the tree of time and became the future Part of the history that people know. People in the future, no matter what country or ethnic group, will know that their ancestors experienced a terrible flood. Therefore, we can only have one history, we can only live in a world that has long been A world that has been determined. The past determines the present, the present determines the future, and the future determines the past. When countless new forks are born, when other universes run towards infinite possibilities, we—the us you are aware of now, can only be here It is a difficult journey through a history, advancing along a fixed route. Because of the sins of human beings, we have created a loop for ourselves that we can never escape from life to life." Li Ling only felt that there was a roar in his head, as if countless crazy horses were rushing back and forth inside.He murmured: "Fork... the universe... God, what are you talking about?" Martial Su returned the coin to Li Ling and said, "For most ordinary people, this is actually nothing. They live the same way, have the same sorrow and joy, and are born and die the same way. A universe with bifurcations and a universe without bifurcations Yes, what is the difference to them? But to us, it is different. The existence of the Xuanniao tribe is a strange state. From the surface, we are mixed with ordinary people, and we have also been in this long history. We can float, but because of the time-spanning experience, we have obtained supernatural powers. We can know in advance where the river will flow and what kind of hidden reefs and eddies lie ahead. We can slightly adjust our drifting posture in this big river, so that we can Avoid the most dangerous situation, but we can't intervene too much, let alone change the river itself. For example, in order to survive, I will dig out some seeds stored by wild rats from the ground, and my demand will not exceed what is necessary for survival. However Since Chengtang, how many short-sighted Xuanniao people have relied on their invincible supernatural powers to plan more than one meal! Using wine as a pool, hanging meat as a forest, chasing each other naked, drinking for a long night, thinking they have a plan, Who knows, the more you grab, the stronger the retribution! Any intervention that breaks through the bottom line is drinking poison to quench your thirst and promote your own death. I can't tell Wei Lu about all this. He has just turned from hope to extreme disappointment. If you let him know , there may have been a result of him and Mrs. Li falling in love with each other and dying happily. He is an extreme person. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will not hesitate to use his death to obtain it. But the Xuanniao clan can't repeat that tragic mistake. I don't want to To rekindle his hope and then snuff it out again was a blow so cruel it could drive him mad."
The North Sea in late summer is extremely beautiful. The sea water is a blue color deeper than the sky, deep and wide, and endless. It is a peaceful noon.There was a small boat floating in the sea, carrying three people.Sitting in the boat, looking around, a few white clouds hang lazily above the deep blue sea, like clusters of pure white silk, so low that you can reach them with your hands. Su Wu took the stone mirror that Wei Lu handed over, it was a smooth blue-gray mirror, and it was very light to hold in his hand.Su Wudao: "Have you used it?" Wei Lu glanced at Su Wu and said, "Aren't you an 'appointed person'? There is nothing in this world that you don't know. I thought there would be no questioning sentences in your language." Su Wu smiled lightly, and said: "To know those things requires physical and mental strength. I will not try to understand everything. How many things have happened in the world at this moment? If someone describes them one by one and gives them to you, you will not have time see?" Wei Lu said: "I have used it a few times to summon Ah Yan's soul. According to the young man's method, I used Ah Yan's hair to be burned to ashes, and put it in the dew with this mirror, and Ah Yan really appeared. Fortunately, Ah Yan was Give me that pendant, on which she sewed the black bird pattern with her own hair. It’s just that the dew is hard to collect, and I can only see Ah Yan once in a few months. Over the years, the hair on the pendant has become It was stripped away by me a little bit." Su Wu picked up the stone mirror, weighed it, and said, "Have you noticed that this stone mirror is strangely light?" Wei Lu said: "Yes, it is as light as a feather, but it is extremely solid. I don't know what kind of material it is." Su Wu played with the stone mirror, and said, "I'm not talking about this. When you immersed it in the dew, did you ever think that such a light thing should not sink in water?" Throw it overboard. Wei Lu was startled by his actions and his mind suddenly went blank. After a while, he yelled loudly and jumped towards the place where the stone mirror fell into the water. Su Wu grabbed him and said, "Dangerous! You can't go down!" The water in the North Sea is extremely clear, through the water surface, you can clearly see the stone mirror sinking slowly, Wei Lu struggled for a while, watching the blue-gray circle in the water gradually shrinking, he was very angry, and suddenly turned around and brushed. He quickly drew his sword, slashed at Su Wu, and shouted, "Let me go!" Su Wu didn't evade, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the blade of the sword, saying: "This is the deepest place in the entire North Sea, you can't fish it up even if you go down." Wei Lu shouted: "Let go! Don't force me!" As he spoke, he pushed the sword downward, and a stream of blood immediately flowed out from Su Wu's palm, and fell drop by drop along the blade into the sea. Su Wu didn't let go, and said: "There are some things in this world that cannot be regained after being lost. You can only accept it! Mrs. Li and this stone mirror are the same." "Stop!" Li Ling swung his sword out, the tip of the sword resting on Wei Lu's back, and said eagerly to Su Wu, "Why are you stopping him? If he wants to jump into the sea, let him jump!" Without turning his head, Wei Lu said: "Li Ling, you can strike if you have the ability! I want to see who will die first today!" As he spoke, he pressed down hard on the sword in his hand.Su Wu still did not let go, but calmly looked at his hand holding the blade.More blood oozes from between the fingers, drips into the sea, and smudges in the sea water, turning into pieces of faint blush. "Why are you crazy?" Wei Lu yelled, "Do you think that you are invulnerable because you are an 'appointed person'? Do you really think I dare not kill you?" Li Ling was startled and anxious, and said to Su Wu: "What are you doing?! You can keep yourself from getting hurt!" Su Wu shook his head and said: "Strength is not equal to copper tendons and iron bones. The Xuanniao tribe also came from mortal bodies. From Tang to Zhou, all Shang kings are now only a pile of dry bones." Wei Lu looked at the sinking direction of the stone mirror, and said in despair, "Then why did you do this? Why?!" Su Wudao: "You saved me once, I don't want to see you go to a dead end. So I will try my best to save you once." "Save me? Ha!" Wei Lu laughed strangely, the laughter was full of desolation and anger, "You said you want to save me? You ruined my hope! This stone mirror can reflect another world! Ah Yan really It’s true, it’s the same as she was when she was alive! I told her to wait for me, and I will save her.” Su Wudao: "But did she answer you?" Wei Lu said: "She will wait for me! She will definitely wait for me! This time I will not let her down again!" Su Wudao: "Mrs. Li is dead, don't deceive yourself anymore. There has never been another world. What Shi Jing recalled was not Mrs. Li's soul, but a phantom. You see her as before when she was alive, just because of that It was originally the scene of her life. Why does she have no entity? Why can't she respond to you? Wei Lu, you can't live in the past forever. You were hurt in the past, but now, you are hurting yourself. " Wei Lu was startled, and immediately shouted: "You are talking nonsense! She will come back! I will find a power to break through all obstacles and bring her back to life!" Su Wu sighed, and said: "When Mrs. Li entered the palace, you had already lost her. You have been refusing to accept this fact. I understand all the things you do that are not acceptable to the world because of your feelings. But, now What stands between you and your wife is no longer status or power, but the limit of life and death. This cannot be overcome by manpower. Even the stone mirror cannot save you, it just deceives your eyes." Wei Lu's hand holding the sword began to tremble slightly, and said, "No! You are lying to me! There must be a way! The passage leading to your world is not sealed! I sent someone to check, the entire North Sea, the rivers flowing into it There are hundreds of them, but only one flows out, but it never overflows. There is clearly a bottomless pit in the depths of the sea! That abyss is still in operation! Whether you come from the future or from beyond the sky, there must be someone stronger than this in your world Much power to change everything!" Su Wudao: "Yes, the passage has not been completely closed. But do you know the result of crossing this passage? Have you ever seen those strangely thin sea fish caught by fishermen in the North Sea? Those are huge giants in the deep sea. Caused by pressure. The pressure caused by time span is billions of times greater than this. That kind of pressure is enough to crush the most resilient life into powder." Wei Lu said: "No, it won't! When Dayu released the flood, from black leopards to leeches, from all corners of the world, they were transported here, didn't they all be safe and sound? People must be able to pass through the flood channel alive! You are the 'leader', You must know how to get back!" Su Wudao: "No, I am not a 'guide'. The word 'guide' is a corruption of 'guide'. The task of the Xuanniao tribe is to guide the flood. I have no ability to go back. The transfer of space and the time Leaping is two different things. At the moment of passing through the time barrier, the weight of the last hair will increase to overweight Mount Tai. Any object as huge as Mount Tai will be condensed into a dense state the size of a needle in an instant, until it rushes out of the passage, Only then can it be restored to its original shape. The stone mirror is made of part of the material of the black bird. The peculiarity of this material is that it has almost no weight and can only sense the attraction of water to find the correct time and space where the flood is. The black bird can safely Through such compression and reshaping, the traits remain unchanged, but can you imagine that a living flesh and blood body can withstand such a tragic test?" Wei Lu's eyes were full of despair, and he slowly let go of the hand holding the sword. Su Wu held the blade upside down and pulled it out of Wei Lu's hand. Wei Lu said: "But... the mysterious bird is still in this world, in the deep sea under our feet, I will devote all my efforts to find the mysterious bird, as long as it can go back and bring the information here..." With a plop, the sword was thrown into the sea by Su Wu, the blood on the blade melted in the sea, and a long bloodstain appeared, extending straight to the depths of the sea. "The Xuanniao is dead." Su Wu dipped his scratched hand in the sea and slowly washed it, and said calmly, "It can't carry anything back. The language of the Shang royal family is very different from that of later generations." Tianming Xuanniao, Descend to give birth to quotient', Descend, not to fall, but to die." The sea water around the ship's side had been dyed light red. Li Ling put away his sword, tore off a skirt, and bandaged the wound on Su Wu's hand. Wei Lu said: "'Jing' means death? How is that possible? You are lying! The pronunciation of your language has long been banned by the Western Zhou Dynasty. There is no proof of death. You can just call the black bird a dog and a horse!" Su Wudao: "If you don't believe me, you can think about the "Book of Rites", there is evidence in it." ""Book of Rites"?" Wei Lu sneered with disdain, but after a while, his face became serious. Li Ling said: "What is written in the Book of Rites?" Wei Lu murmured: "'The death of the Son of Heaven is collapse, the princes are death, the doctor is death, the common people are death, and the feather bird is descending...'." Su Wu nodded and said: "Yes, in that era, 'falling' was used on birds, which meant death. The mysterious bird is dead. Just like the legend here, the divine bird fell into the sea with flames. This is Yu After the flood receded, Yu privately reported to Emperor Shun everything he had seen at the North Sea, and he described the Xuanniao as a god who watched all the actions of the world from above. He said that the people of Yidi described Xuanniao As the envoys of the emperor of heaven, they worship and pray to Xuanniao, accuse sin, ask Xuanniao to resolve disputes and bring blessings. With such a thing, ordinary people can bypass the emperors and priests in the world and communicate directly with heaven. The old After Shun heard this, he made a major decision. He ordered Chongli, the most adept at using fire at that time, to burn the Xuanniao at all costs. Chongli did it, and he mixed in with the crowd worshiping Xuanniao, approaching Xuanniao , a fire was ignited at the key part of the Xuanniao, and the Xuanniao was burned. Chongli also died with the Xuanniao. Yu ruled out his greatest threat in the world, and ascended to the throne as he wished, taking advantage of the great prestige established during the Great Flood , established the first hereditary regime - the Xia Dynasty. The burning of the Xuanniao by Chongli had such a profound impact on the direction of history, but it was not clearly recorded in the history books. Because this is a shameful thing. Only in the "Lu Xing" of the Western Zhou Dynasty are some ambiguous records, and they mistakenly wrote Beidi as Nanman. Later generations were even more confused by the few dozens of characters. It is unclear who the emperor is in the text. From Zhuanxu When it comes to Yao and Shun, you can say anything. Chongli is even said to be 'Chong' and 'Li'. Working for the king to do secret and dirty things, although they can't be publicly praised, they can get huge benefits. Reward. Because of Chongli's great achievements, his descendants were granted eternal dominion over the northern barbarians. To this day, Chongli's descendants are still ruling this land, although they have long forgotten the origin of their family— —'Chengli' is 'Chongli', and 'Chengli Gutu' is 'Son of Chongli'." Wei Lu and Li Ling were dumbfounded. Su Wudao: "That's right, don't be surprised, 'Zhou Li Gu Tu Shan Yu', the supreme ruler of the Huns, is the descendant of the ancient Huo Zhengzhong Li family." Wei Lu murmured: "...the emperor mourns the innocents who have been slaughtered, repays the cruelty with prestige, and suppresses the Miao people. There is no world under him, but his life is heavy, and the sky is the best...'It turned out to be like this..." Li Ling suddenly gasped and said, "What's going on? This, this sea..." Wei Lu followed his gaze and was also taken aback.I saw that at some point, a mist rose from the sea around them, and it was difficult to distinguish in the distance.The mist rose thicker and thicker, overwhelming the sky. Li Ling said in surprise, "Is this going to change?" Wei Lu said: "No! No!" Looking at Su Wu, his expression suddenly changed, and he said, "You are performing the spell! You, you are summoning the soul?" Su Wudao: "No, it's the stone mirror that is operating on the bottom of the sea." Wei Lu was taken aback, and said, "Without dew and gray hair, how could Shi Jing..." Su Wudao: "The stone mirror was originally set up for use in this place. The Central Plains couldn't find a second such clear water source, so we had to use the immortal dew plate to collect dew. It's not like what the young man pretended to be mysterious. What kind of 'rootless water' is used? Hair is blood, and using hair is not as good as using blood itself. The person who made this stone mirror is Qi, the first member of the Xuanniao tribe in the world. His name is also due to this incident The original meaning of Qie is to engrave. He recorded the ins and outs of everything on this stone mirror. Qie clearly foresees that the language and writing in the future will undergo uncontrollable changes. The records left behind will eventually become unreadable. Therefore, he uses this unique method to preserve the truth. The tool to read the truth is the key to the life of the Xuanniao clan. As long as the blood of the Xuanniao clan is still alive , the truth can be restored. Confucius was unable to store his own blood for hundreds of thousands of years, so he had to use his hair as a last resort. Hair is also a part of life, and the memory of the Xuanniao family is also retained in the hair The young man had only a half-knowledge. After reading the records left by Confucius, he mistakenly thought that the only way to summon souls was with hair. He bribed the eunuchs and got Mrs. Li’s hair from a grate. He was lucky. Mrs. Li was Bai Di, and she also had a little mystery Bird family blood. When she was dying of dystocia, she expected that her brother would not die well, so she refused to see His Majesty for the last time, and kept her most beautiful moment in His Majesty's heart, so that His Majesty would weaken his love for the Li brothers because of her beauty. The loathing of the Li family delayed the arrival of the catastrophe of Li’s extermination. The content displayed on the stone mirror is related to the blood of the Xuanniao people who drove it: if the blood is impure, it can only show a little fragment of his life; if the blood is pure, it can be traced back a long time Before, or even to demonstrate what happened in the first place—perhaps, it should be said, a long time later.” On the steaming sea surface, a strong flash of light suddenly appeared, so strong that the three of them could barely open their eyes.What followed was a loud bang like a landslide.When I opened my eyes, I saw an astonishing sight where the strong light receded: huge icebergs were slowly collapsing and melting, there were raging fires everywhere, and all kinds of charred and helpless The ruins of famous names fell on the glacier in all directions, and the glacier melted by the fire was slowly disintegrating. On the glacier, among the ruins, some tiny silhouettes of people fleeing for their lives can be seen in the distance.It was too far away to hear the panic calls from those people, but I could clearly feel the strong fear and despair.Farther away, one can vaguely see a few large gray birds flying in the sky, flashes of fire and light one after another, followed by rumbling and thunderous sounds.Those fleeing for their lives ran among the raging fire and collapsing icebergs, looking like ants that would be crushed to death by the giants at any time. Li Ling and Wei Lu held their breath, looking at those lives struggling in the ice and fire.Li Ling's whole body was trembling slightly, Wei Lu was gripping the side of the boat tightly, his knuckles were bulging and turning white from too much force. The flames are burning, the huge waves are churning, and the black ice is cracking.Occasionally, some survivors escaped from the claws of the flames, but the glaciers they were on broke, tilted, and wandered in the flames of war. The survivors wailed and slid into the sea full of flames. A huge sloping ice floe drifted in front of their boat. There were several people on the ice floe. They hugged the highest part of the entire ice surface and shouted to this side.Those people had weird clothes and strange looks. Li Ling and Wei Lu stood up suddenly. They couldn't understand what those people were shouting at all, but they could hear the strong meaning of calling for help in the voice.That is the scream that all life will make when it is on the verge of extinction. The ice floe floated only one or two feet away from the small boat. Li Ling couldn't help but stretched out his hand to the nearest caller, but that person didn't seem to see Ye Xiaozhou and the three people in the boat right in front of him. Passing over them, calling for help from afar over and over again. Su Wudao: "It's useless, we don't exist to them. What you see is just the refraction of the real image thousands of years later." Li Ling's hand pierced through the body of the caller, and there was nothing there! Li Ling withdrew his hand in surprise, looked at his hand in disbelief, and then at the caller. A big gray bird flew low towards this side, and the man followed the sound, his eyes immediately filled with death-like despair.Then, a dazzling bright light burst out in front of their eyes with a loud sound, and the intense stimulation produced by the light made them blind for a while.It took a long time before their eyes slowly regained their vision. The ice floes and rescuers just now had completely disappeared without a trace, and the sea water stirred up by the explosion turned into heavy rain from the sky.Wei Lu looked up and saw that the bean-sized raindrops mixed with black and red impurities were falling crazily.Wei Lu couldn't help raising his hand to block it, but when the raindrops fell in front of his eyes, they disappeared without a sound, and he didn't feel anything on his skin.I touched my face, it was nothing, nothing. Looking at Li Ling, he was also touching his cheek with a dazed expression. Pieces of shattered ice floes dangled on the surface of the water, and all signs of life had disappeared, only some charred wreckage and floating objects undulating on the sea. They saw a war close at hand but out of reach.明知是幻象，他们却恍惚感觉到周围的空气中好像充斥着浓重的血腥味。 李陵看着那些灰色的大鸟掠过垮塌的冰山，穿过一柱柱袅袅上升的黑烟，渐渐远去，突然想起一段话，不禁脱口而出喃喃地道：“……火爁炎而不灭，水浩洋而不息，猛兽食颛民，鸷鸟攫老弱……” 苏武道：“不错，这众所周知的民间传说，记述的是真实的图景。你们现在所见，也只是那场庞大的灾难中一个微不足道的片段而已。最可怕的场面，是无法呈现的。因为光是那种光芒，就不是人的肉眼所能承受的。当年玄鸟族先人被夏的追兵追杀至此，曾在这北海演示过一次，追杀者因为目睹那无与伦比的强光而瞬间失去视觉，目盲者十有八九。他们回到中原后，北海上发生的一切越传越广，人们无法理解这些是遥远的未来才会发生的，而误认为是上古发生的天神之间的大战。'共工怒触不周山'、'十日并出'这些时序混乱的神话，就这样渐渐散播开来。卫律，这就是你所念兹在兹要追寻的力量。四极废，九州裂，天不兼覆，地不周载……这不是神话，是事实。文明愈先进，手段愈野蛮。不战则已，一战就是苍生荼毒，万物绝灭。战火所及，城郭瞬间夷平，楼宇灰飞烟灭，远不是我们现在以刀剑戈矛为杀人利器、以血流漂杵为伤亡至惨的人所能想象的。你现在还觉得，最有力的，一定能制造美好吗？你现在还确定，这就是你所想要的吗？” 冰火交织的情景渐渐淡去，海面又恢复了原来的宁静。碧水蓝天，清新如画，白云依旧慵懒地沉垂在海面上空，就像什么也没发生过。 卫律呆呆地看着一望无际的大海。 苏武道：“卫律，你是个至情至性的人。李夫人活着的时候，你希望发生奇迹，让她回到你身边；她死后，你希望制造奇迹，让她起死回生。你比大多数人坚忍，你能为了一个目的，历经顿挫，百死不悔。然而，你又比大多数人脆弱，因为你不能接受一个明显的事实，那就是你失去她了，永远地、无可挽回地失去她了。我不能劝你说大丈夫何患无妻，因为李夫人对你来说确实是唯一的。我也不能对你说节哀顺变，因为节制哀伤并不能使曾经的伤害消失。我只能对你说，我很抱歉，不能帮助你减轻痛苦。你曾经救我一命，我却无法实现你的愿望。一直以来，你所做的一切，只是不甘认命。确实，命运对你并不公平。但是，命运对我、对李少卿，难道公平吗？每个人的一生，都会有不可避免的遗憾，如果执意于抹平这些遗憾，只会造成更多的遗憾。我是囚徒，然而我的心是自由的。你贵为王侯，却关在自己制造的牢笼里。卫律，赦免你自己吧。人生苦短，何苦让本来只是一时的憾恨，折磨自己一生呢？” 海岸边，满山青翠，喷薄着生命的颜色。卫律抱膝漠然坐在船头，他那瘦削而坚毅的脸上看不出表情的变化，只在一瞬间，眼中掠过一丝淡淡的悲哀。 李陵叹道：“你什么都看到了，自然能如此超脱。想必你的未来，总比我和他光明。你不是还留着汉节吗？'言旋言归，复我家邦。'原来不是光复，是归国。呵，到那时，你会是那边的英雄功臣，而我和卫律，将成为史书上永远的罪人。” 苏武道：“我的命运，不会是你想要的。是的，我会回去，我会加官晋爵，我会名满天下。我会看到朝局动荡，藩王谋逆。我会看到我的儿子卷进失败的那一方。我会看到元儿在漆黑的夜里被廷尉府的人锁走，他那惊恐而绝望的眼神，将是他留给我在这世上最后的纪念。我会一夜之间从万人景仰的英雄，沦为人人避之不及的逆案嫌犯。我会免冠跣足、白发苍苍地跪在比我年轻的昔日同僚面前请罪。大将军会怜悯我，只是杀我的儿子，没有诛杀我和我整个家族，我还要为此叩谢他的恩典……然而我还是要回去，你和卫律都不可能阻止我。你们能限制我的自由，但不能囚禁天上的所有飞禽，而它们终能为我带去这边的信息。我必须回去，我父兄皆已不在，我不回去，我的子侄便会在未来那场灾难中毁灭殆尽。我去，至少能以我这多年持节不降的微薄劳苦，换取家族一二孑遗的幸存。少卿，这就是我的未来。如果这能让你稍稍感到好过一点——” 李陵颤声道：“不！别说了……对不起……” 苏武站起身来，看着海岸边那一带远山，平静地道：“没什么，山有不周，日月有食，天地尚有缺憾，何况你我只是天地间如此脆弱的生灵。冥水汤汤，天命茫茫。今者不乐，逝者其亡。为过去的苦难伤感是枉然，为未来的灾难担忧同样没有必要。少卿，现在于我们才是最真实的存在。爱你的妻儿吧，他们才是你生命中的至重。” 远处北海岸边，一名黑衣女子怀抱着一个婴孩，翘首等待船只归来。那女子头上斜插着三根鸟羽，在海风的吹拂下不停颤动。 卫律道：“孩子起名了吗？” 苏武点头：“起了，达乌起的。她说，目睹过我的种种遭遇，只希望孩子平凡快乐，哪怕像个卑微的牧猪人，安安宁宁地度过一生，便是最大的幸福。呵呵，牧猪人，多么奇怪！随她吧，我不想重蹈我父母的覆辙，她为了生这个孩子，几乎丢了半条命，这点事，就让她做主吧……” “牧猪人？”李陵微微一怔，用胡语默念了一遍，点头道，“嗯，其实也不错……汉话读来就是'通国'。孩子的未来呢？你预测了吗？” 苏武闭上眼睛。 牧猪人，通古斯……呵，他能隐隐看到，那天真无邪的婴孩身后拖着的那条血色的道路；他能隐隐听到，孩子命运之路的远方传来的刀兵之声。 通国拥有仅次于他的异能，当这孩子长大，当他意识到这意味着什么，他会竭尽全力利用这能力。他知道玄鸟族几千年来的残酷命运，他很清楚，父亲的机遇不可能重演，世上再也不会有第二个“受命者”诞生，他也不想成为“受命者”。 他会寻找另一种成功的方式，而那是更容易实现的目标。他和他的子孙会有意和一些特定的家族通婚联姻，他知道那里有他需要的那一部分——不是异能的那一部分，而是力量、智慧和野心！ 千年的血与火……马踏长城，驰骋中原。杀伐与征战、奇谋与秘计……他们要夺回玄鸟族曾经的荣耀和权势……他们用世间最贵重的物质给自己命名…… 到底是福是祸？ 苏武摇摇头，他不想去细看——留着点希望吧！ 此时，北海之上，微风渐起，夕阳将万道霞光铺满海面，放眼望去，海面就像一片缀满无数璀璨宝石的锦毯，熠熠生辉，直铺到天之尽头。 (End of the book)