"Keep an eye on the Madam. If she makes any move, stop her."
Baili Xin said something to the two soldiers and walked to the door.
The soldiers just looked at each other, quickly wrapped themselves in thick cotton coats, and walked to the side of the eldest lady.
The eldest lady was still suffering from the nightmare, but she was not as panicked as before, and her expression was much calmer.
Baili Xin looked outside through the crack in the door.
The wind and snow outside were getting heavier and heavier. The snowflakes that were once the size of millet grains had now turned into heavy snow.
The north wind was howling, blowing the dense snow everywhere.
In the middle of the snow-covered courtyard gate, there lay a brazier alone, with a thin layer of snowflakes covering the black charcoal.
It lay there quietly. On this cold winter night, when the people in the ice cellar saw it, it was like a hungry person seeing a delicious meal.
Most people cannot resist this temptation.
Baili Xin thought of a word.
Provide timely assistance.
Let's say that everything that is happening now is a scene from the past.
Many things can be explained.
Why does charcoal become damp? When snow falls on it, even if you sweep away the snowflakes adhering to the surface, part of it will be soaked.
This part can be large or small, so it is not impossible for the charcoal to get damp.
Baili Xin feels that the temperature is now more than 20 degrees below zero. As a water town in the south, this temperature has never been lower. According to the climate here, the coldest temperature in winter is only minus 10 degrees.
This temperature is even several degrees colder than the snowy forest in the previous painting.
He remembered Xiao Xizi's words.
The winter of that year was extremely cold, and many people froze to death in the city overnight.
At this temperature, if you don’t have something to heat the room, you will definitely freeze to death.
Baili Xin stared outside the door, and in just a short moment of thought, the charcoal was already covered with a thick layer of snowflakes.
“It’s so cold.”
Hearing the voice, he withdrew his gaze and turned to face the eldest lady.
The lady was covered with a thick quilt, and in addition, two frozen soldiers had laid thick cotton coats on her.
Her body was almost piled up like a thick hill.
A soldier who was about to be frozen into an ice stick was chattering with his teeth. "We have covered her with all the cloth we found in the room, but it doesn't seem to have any effect."
"Why is she colder than us?"
Baili Xin looked at the eldest lady's face. The face that was just covered with cold sweat was now replaced by a thick layer of frost.
The lady's eyelashes were covered with a thin layer of crystals, and her lips were frozen white.
If the other person's eyelids were not moving and hot air was not exhaled from his mouth, people would even think that there was a cold corpse lying on it.
"It's so cold," the eldest lady cried, "Charcoal, I need charcoal."
“Knock, knock, knock.”
The sudden knock on the door was particularly abrupt in the silent snowy night. The few sounds immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the room.
After Dijia lowered his gaze to the gap outside the door, he said in a deep voice: "There are two pieces of news."
"First, the charcoal in the brazier was lit."
"Second, the brazier has been placed outside the door."
"If this is the revolving lantern of the eldest lady's death, if we want the plot to proceed, shouldn't someone open the door and bring in the brazier?"
Diga's words frightened the already trembling duo of soldiers so much that they shook like sieves.
Why did the admiral want to die
You are a smart and clever admiral, how could you choose to die?!
"Theoretically, it should be like this." Baili Xin returned to Dijia and looked outside through the crack in the door. As Dijia said, the brazier in the middle of the yard had been lit, emitting white mist that symbolized warmth, and the snowflakes on it were slowly melting and dissolving in the brazier.
It has now reached the door, and even though there is a door in between, he can still feel the warmth of the brazier.
How many people can resist the temptation that is right in front of them
It doesn’t matter who opened the door and brought in the brazier. The question is not who brought the brazier in, but who put the brazier here.
"But even if we open the door, we can't bring the brazier in due to the dislocation of time and space." Baili Xin pushed Dijia away, opened the door mercilessly, and leaned out.
It was still summer outside, there was no frost in the eyes and no brazier under the eyelids.
He pulled himself back, and it was the snowstorm and the brazier. The north wind even blew large flakes of snow into the room, causing the lights and bed curtains in the room to sway, and the shadows on the wall to become ferocious and violent.
Prisin tried to hold out only one hand.
From the visual point of view in the room, although his hand touched the brazier, his tactile sense did not feel the brazier.
As people outside the painting, it seems that there is not much they can intervene in.
Baili Xin closed the door again and locked the bolt.
"What's going on?" The soldiers only saw Baili Xin's actions and didn't know what he felt, so they asked curiously.
Baili Xin briefly explained his discovery to the two of them.
After hearing this, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, it turns out that we can't bring it in, then we are relieved."
"Between a warm death and a cold life, I choose a cold life."
Baili Xin closed the door and looked around the room with a puzzled look. Seeing his movements, Dijia asked, "What's wrong? Something's wrong?"
"I didn't find anything," Baili Xin shook his head, "but I felt like there was something extra. However, I looked around and didn't find anything extra."
He walked over to the eldest lady, who had already calmed down.
I don’t know if it’s because she’s no longer having nightmares, but the expression on the lady’s face looks comfortable and relaxed.
She changed from lying on her back to lying on her side, hugged the small quilt tightly in her arms, and murmured, "So warm, so comfortable."
So warm
But the room should be colder because I just opened the door.
He looked intently at the eldest lady's expression. The frost on her face had melted away, and her complexion became rosy.
The reason why nightmares can make people sweat is that the short-term stimulation of the cerebral cortex causes a rapid rise in adrenaline.
To put it bluntly, this is a rigorous physiological field.
He could understand that Madam Gang had a nightmare and was sweating, but the frost on her face later and her rosy cheeks now were truly supernatural.
If the environment and position remain unchanged, theoretically humans will not undergo such drastic changes in a short period of time.
The light flickered, and the shadow above my head swayed as well.
Baili Xin looked to the side and his eyes suddenly froze.
He slowly raised his head and looked upward. Above his head, a dark shadow was sitting there, and a round black shadow stood firmly in the middle of the room.
From time to time, a few irregular, light, misty black shadows floated out of the circle.
There were several shadows swaying around the brazier. They looked like four human figures, and the shadows were swaying as if they were rubbing their hands.
Everyone saw Baili Xin's eyes fixed on the top of his head, and they also raised their heads to look upward.
The two soldiers looked up, then looked down at the ground, then looked up again and then looked down again.
Every time they looked at it, their faces became uglier and uglier.
"That circle is, a brazier?"
"Are the four shadows around here the four maids?"
"Are those four maids warming themselves by the fire?! Fuck, this, this, this, are they human or ghosts? Why can't I see people but only shadows?"
"Help! Are we in the world of the living or the underworld now? I'm not afraid of fighting on the battlefield, but I'm born afraid of this, wuwuwu."
"But it's just the shadows moving, it shouldn't affect us, right? We'll be fine, right?"
Before the soldier's voice completely faded away, Baili Xin immediately smelled a strange smell in the air.
The smell of burning charcoal.
The moment I smelled the scent, the system prompt sounded.
Ding! Hallucinogenic toxins detected, the passive skill of poison resistance is activated, and detoxification begins.
Detoxification successful. Detoxification will continue as it detects that you are continuously immersed in toxins.
It seems that what happened to the shadow above his head was a replay of the scene from that year.
Although the reason is unknown, it is obvious that the scroll world and the three-year scene replay world have completed partial integration in various fields. Therefore, they can also feel the taste of the scene replay that should have been just a shadow in the scroll world.
Baili Xin looked towards the direction of the door and raised his head to look at the shadow of the door.
So the brazier was able to enter the room because the door had just been opened, giving the maids the opportunity to take the brazier
There is poison in the charcoal fire, a hallucinogenic toxin. It seems that someone put it in there.
This also explains why the four maids died in such a hideous manner.
Perhaps until they died, they did not realize that death was approaching and just thought it was a dream.
The dream was so real and terrifying that the four of them died tragically here.
Above his head, the four shadows had begun to tremble.
They staggered as if they had drunk some fake liquor.
On the other side, the condition of the two soldiers was also not right.
Their eyes began to become dazed, staring blankly at the direction, and suddenly a look of fear appeared on their faces. They grabbed their own necks, pinched them hard, and screamed at the top of their lungs: "Don't kill me, don't kill me."
The classic case of me killing myself.
However, Dijia was fine and still stood steadily beside Baili Xin.
Baili Xin glanced at Dijia and pointed at the two soldiers.
Dijia immediately understood and walked over reluctantly, carrying the two soldiers to the outside of the room, opened the door, and walked out of the room directly with the two soldiers.
The crisp sound of several slaps "Pa pa pa" echoed through the night sky.
Baili Xin: "..."
Well, that's pretty miserable.
A minute later, Dijia pushed the door open again and walked in. He shook his sleeves casually, "They have already fainted."
Baili Xin looked at Dijia meaningfully, said "hmm" softly, walked to the chair next to him and sat down, and hugged the four little foxes at his feet in his arms.
After doing this, he continued to look upwards.
Dijia's eyes fell on Baili Xin's arms, and he whispered, "Let me take care of these four little foxes. It's tiring for you to hold them."
Baili Xin turned his head and looked at Dijia deeply, "No, they seem a little afraid of you."
"You probably won't be scared, right?" Dijia coughed lightly, his voice slowed down, and he even stretched out his hand and patted it flatteringly, "Come here, come to my place, okay?"
Baili Xin looked up, but his eyes fell on the interaction between Dijia and the little fox.
The four little foxes, who used to be very afraid of Dijia, actually howled at them a few times because of Dijia's humble attitude. They anxiously crawled out of Baili Xin's arms one after another and crawled to Dijia's front along the square table in the middle of the chairs.
Dijia gently held the little foxes one by one in his arms, and even stroked their fur considerately.
Baili Xin calmly grasped his right wrist.
Dijia picked up a little fox and looked at it carefully for several times: "I told you they are not afraid of me, right? You didn't believe me."
Baili Xin chuckled, and his attention was once again drawn to the suddenly restless shadow above his head.
More and more smoke came out of the brazier, and the movements of the four maids became more and more exaggerated. They pinched their own necks with all their strength, tilted their heads high, opened their mouths wide, and leaned their bodies backwards, like fish that were short of oxygen.
The lady on the bed turned over and began to roll around in pain.
Baili Xin looked at the shadow of the eldest lady above his head, and that shadow was doing the same action.
He walked to the bedside. The eldest lady's expression was sometimes painful, sometimes comfortable, and the eyeballs in her eye sockets were shaking faster and faster.
Baili Xin tried to wake her up, but no matter how hard he tried, the lady continued to follow her script.
"She seems to be having a very tangled dream," Dijia had quietly stood behind Baili Xin without knowing when, "When it's painful, it's a nightmare, and when it's comfortable, it's a sweet dream."
"Switching between two emotions so frequently in such a short period of time would drive even a normal person crazy, let alone a sleeping person."
“How pitiful.”
Dijia said this with a slightly happy tone.
Baili Xin turned around and looked at Dijia in front of him, pursed his lips and said: "Is this your revenge?"
Dijia was stunned for a moment: "I don't understand what you are talking about."
Baili Xin chuckled and looked Dijia up and down: "Actually, they look quite similar. If you just look at the face, you can't even find a single flaw."
"But, it was summer when Dijia left the room, and there was no way it could snow. When you walked in from outside, a thin layer of snow fell on your shoulders, and you even shook your shoulders to get rid of the snow."
"Secondly, Dijia has always called these little foxes 'little beasts'. Of course, this is just a verbal name, and there is no intention of slander or disrespect. Please understand."
"Third, Dijia really won't be as patient as you in calling the little fox. Don't underestimate a man's jealousy."
"The fourth and most important point," Baili Xin opened his sleeves, revealing the beast pattern on his wrist. The black beast pattern had turned into light gold at some point. "I signed a contract with these four little guys. I can feel their emotions through the contract."
"When they are scared, it hurts me, and when they are happy, my wrists get warm."
"No matter how you pretend, the bond buried in your bones and blood will never be severed."
"You must be their father."
Seeing that his disguise was exposed, "Dijia" no longer pretended. "He" raised his head and laughed a few times, and his whole body began to change rapidly like gel.
After a moment, "Emperor Ga" disappeared, and was replaced by a man in a black robe.
The man was very handsome, with standard fox eyes, sharp gaze, and long black hair with a few strands of white hair.
He gently stroked the fox baby in his hand and sat back down. "That's boring. It turns out you saw through my disguise from the beginning."
The voice was low and hoarse, with a hint of wild beast's ferocity.
Baili Xin also walked over to the man and walked down, "Did you set the brazier just now?"
The man thought about it and said, "That's not wrong."
Baili Xin frowned slightly, "Is that correct? It means you are not the only one involved in this matter."
"Who?"
Man: "If you are so smart, why don't you find the answer yourself? I won't tell you. But I am curious, who are you?"
"You guys seemed to appear out of nowhere, just suddenly appeared here, but it seems that you didn't appear completely here."
"If you really want to say it, you can think of us as coming to the future," Baili Xin said, "Even if you didn't tell me, I actually guessed a little bit."
“Oh?” The man raised his eyebrows. “Tell me what you think. But even if you’re right, I won’t get any prize.”
"Let me tell you a story I made up," Baili Xin pondered for a moment and organized his words. "More than 20 years ago, a fox father came back from hunting and found that his wife and children had been killed. He wanted to kill the enemy and avenge his wife and children, but he was really hungry. The cold made it difficult for him to find much food, and his physical strength became very low."
"And the heavy snow covered up the smell. It searched for a long time and finally found its enemy at the foot of the mountain."
"Then perhaps there happened to be a fire at the house, and it was just halfway through the chase, and the smell of the fire covered up the smell of his wife and children."
"For some unknown reason, after the fire was out, the vengeful fox returned to the house, searched around, and found a living person inside."
"It is what rescued the living from it."
"The man and the fox depended on each other for survival, and finally found the rich man Li."
"The revenge plan has begun. I guess the person you rescued should be a person, right? Is it the daughter of the Liu family?"
After hearing this, the man laughed and said, "What an interesting story."
"I almost thought you were there, but unfortunately, you made a mistake."
"I did rescue someone in Liu Mansion at that time."
"It was similar to what you said, but I wasn't blocked by the smell of fire. It was just that I was lucky enough to catch the last transformation at that time."
"I was very weak at that time. Even if I caught up with them, I would just give them a fox skin for nothing."
"I was at a critical moment of transformation and could be in danger at any time. In order to prevent myself from failing in transformation and dying and not being able to avenge my great hatred, I planned to find an ally for myself."
"So I returned to Liu Mansion and rescued the one who was still alive. But his face was burnt and disfigured, and the skin all over his body was also burnt."
"But fortunately, she always holds on to her breath."
"That was all I could do, because I was already very weak and couldn't help her any more. After giving her a few instructions, I found a cave to transform."
"The transformation process is very long. When I left the cave, more than ten years had passed outside."
"The one that surprised me the most was the one I rescued. She..."
Baili Xin: "She is a great doctor. Not only did she cure her burns, but she also used some method to restore her face to a complete shape, right?"
The man looked at Baili Xin in surprise again: "How did you know?"
Baili Xin did not answer the man's question, but continued: "She not only changed her face, but also successfully sneaked into the Li family. In order to investigate the truth of the fire that year, she also wanted revenge for her parents."
"Her current name should be Feng Gu, right?"
The man suddenly stopped talking, and his eyes suddenly became sharp and cold, with murderous intent, "Why do you know so much?"
Baili Xin stared at the man for two seconds, then suddenly smiled, "It seems that Aunt Feng is really Liu Changfeng's son."
"I'm just making a reasonable guess."
"Liu Changfeng, Feng, Feng Gu. Of course, the name may just be a coincidence and cannot be used as evidence."
"Liu Changfeng is from a family of doctors and has great medical skills. Fenggu's medical skills are also great. I once investigated where Fenggu's medical skills came from, and the answer I got was that she learned it from her family. But when I asked where her family members were, she said they were dead."
"Of course, knowing medical skills is not a very special feature. I can only say that it is a coincidence that they use these two pieces of evidence, but it is completely a joke."
"Then tonight, whether it was during the performance or when Boss Bai bowed at the end, I was secretly observing the expressions of the people in the Li Mansion."
"Mrs. Li and Mr. Li were horrified, while everyone else was enjoying it and sighing."
"Only Feng Gu. She was actually very restrained, but I could tell from her clenched fists and resentful eyes that something was wrong with her."
"This kind of emotion cannot be experienced just by watching a play."
"If there are only one or two coincidences, then maybe they are really coincidences, but if there are many coincidences, then I'm afraid there will be some problems."
"But I'm not sure, so I just tested you and wanted to get an answer from you."
"Thank you, I understand now."