"Your Majesty..."
"Your Majesty..."
As the voices of Gao Lishi and Chen Xuanli came one after another, Li Longji's mood gradually gained the upper hand.
No one but him could understand the importance of the country of Tang Dynasty in his heart; no one but him could understand the pain in his heart when the beauty left.
The war between heaven and man back then is constantly playing out in my mind, forcing me to make the same mistakes he made back then.
My body involuntarily bowed slightly, but I suddenly grabbed the long knife in front of me, and slashed hard at my heel that was on the ground. One of my hamstrings broke when the blade passed by. I was in the scene. He sat back down in pain.
"Li Longji, if you think about it, I asked you to sit back." When the words I muttered to myself burst out from my mouth, there was a loud buzz in my mind, and it became chaos. Li Longji's Emotions seemed to suddenly go crazy in my mind, all kinds of emotions burst out in an instant, and I seemed like I couldn't figure anything out.
"Bump the door!" Chen Xuanli roared suddenly, and a large number of forbidden troops lifted up the knocking wood and blasted towards the door.
In just a few blows, the wooden door of the post station was smashed into pieces. Chen Xuanli led the crowd into the Buddhist hall: "Protect Your Majesty and kill the rebels!"
Chen Xuanli stopped mid-sentence. Without Xia Qingqing in the room, the so-called killing of rebels naturally ceased to exist.
Chen Xuanli held the sword in his hand and approached me step by step: "Your Majesty, at this moment, are you still stubborn? Is rebellion more important in your heart than the Tang Dynasty? Daji's plan to bring disaster to the country is still in my ears, but Your Majesty…”
I said coldly: "If the king's ambition is not changed, no one can bring harm to the country; if the king's heart is ruined, the country will be destroyed even if he does not become a monster. Chen Xuanli, aren't you loyal to the Tang Dynasty? The person who brings harm to the country is right in front of you. Take the knife!"
In history, Chen Xuanli conspired with Prince Li Heng to launch the Mawei Mutiny. After Yang Yuhuan committed suicide, he swore allegiance to Li Longji. Then he also escorted Li Longji to Shu. In the second year of his stay in Germany, he followed Li Longji back to Chang'an and was granted the title of Cai Guogong. He later died of illness and returned to Chang'an.
Chen Xuanli and Li Heng had the same opinion on the murder of Yang Guozhong, but Chen Xuanli was always loyal to Li Longji. Chen Xuanli escorting Li Longji to Shu was not necessarily a game with the prince Li Heng.
I deliberately provoked Chen Xuanli, which was just a test. I suspected that the other party was like me, someone who had merged with Chen Xuanli's will.
Chen Xuanli's expression changed several times, and then he knelt down in front of me: "Your Majesty, I am dedicated to serving the country! My loyalty can be seen from the sun and the moon..."
I looked at Chen Xuanli who couldn't help but kowtow for a long time before he slowly said: "Help me up."
"Yes!" Chen Xuanli put his hand between my left hands. My right hand suddenly grasped the handle of the knife and stabbed Chen Xuanli with my backhand.
The latter seemed to be well prepared. Before my blade touched the opponent, Chen Xuanli had already stepped back, drew his sword and struck me back.
I knew clearly that I was no match for Chen Xuanli, so I still raised my sword to face the opponent's weapon. Fortunately, Chen Xuanli didn't try his best, so I held his long sword in the air: "You finally took action!"
Chen Xuanli was shocked: "Your Majesty, I just..."
Before Chen Xuanli finished speaking, there was suddenly a loud sound of cracking wooden boards behind me. Xia Qingqing smashed the wooden board of the secret room from behind and broke out.
Before I could remember to turn around, I felt a sharp pain in my waist. When I looked down, a bloody knife tip had come out of my lower abdomen.
It's Xia Qingqing!
The knife she struck fiercely from behind penetrated my body directly and came out of my body with dripping blood.
Xia Qingqing said in a cold voice: "Chen Xuanli, Li Longji has died in front of your eyes now. I want to see how you can still be a loyal minister and a good general, and how you can protect the Tang Dynasty?"
"Demon girl" Chen Xuanli shouted angrily and suddenly slashed at Xia Qingqing with his knife.
But at this moment, I was carrying a bloody long knife and turned around desperately with my only remaining leg to block Xia Qingqing.
The moment I pressed my hands on Xia Qingqing's shoulders, Chen Xuanli's long knife also fell down on my shoulders. The sharp blade took one of my arms away in an instant, but at the moment when my own blood was flying, I tried my best to Pushing Xia Qingqing hard: "Go! Escape!"
"Your Majesty," Chen Xuanli's hoarse roar rang in my ears. I turned around again, opened one arm and threw myself in front of Chen Xuanli: "Go quickly, I believe you!"
I saw the cold light in Chen Xuanli's eyes for a moment, and the raging fire around the Buddhist hall suddenly disappeared without a trace, like a candle blown out by the wind.
The waiting Imperial Guards were like disillusioned shadows, disappearing one by one, row by row, leaving only an empty Buddhist hall and Chen Xuanli standing with his hands hanging down.
I barely supported my shaky body and looked at the other person. Chen Xuanli's body also had a hazy smoke like water mist, and soon there was only a shadow of a human figure left.
It was a woman, at least judging from the outline of the black shadow, it was a woman.
I couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but I instinctively felt that she was a stunningly beautiful woman.
The woman said calmly: "Why didn't you choose to lead Yang Yuhuan out of the siege, or choose to fight Chen Xuanli to the end, but you chose to understand the changes in Maweiyi in this way?"
"I want to break the situation!" I said solemnly: "No matter which way I choose to break out of Maweiyi, the final result will still be trapped in your illusion, and the love-hate relationship with Yang Yuhuan will never end from Li Longji's perspective. entanglement."
I looked at the other party and said: "I have thought of several ways. The only way to break the situation is to let one of us leave the illusion. If I let Xia Qingqing go and die in Maweiyi, I will completely overturn the Maweiyi era. Change, and everything will end."
The woman said with a smile: "You are sure that you can wake up, right? Do you think that if you break free from the illusion, you will be able to decipher the fox clan's secret technique?"
I shook my head and said: "I knew from the beginning of the plan that I would not be able to wake up first, and there was a 90% chance that I would die in the illusion."
"Oh? How can you see that?" The woman's smile became a little thicker.
I said calmly: "I said I won't wake up because you will definitely come out to find me. The fox tribe has a very strong revenge mentality and will not easily let go of their opponents, especially those who have defeated them once. I broke open In your illusion, you will definitely not let me out, but keep me in the illusion and watch me struggle so that it is more in line with your character."
The woman nodded and said: "That's right. Go on, why do you think there is a 90% chance that you will die in the illusion?"
I smiled nonchalantly and said: "I have had the experience of escaping from death in an illusion before. A brilliant illusion can make people die directly in the illusion."
I pointed to my broken arm: "Just like this arm, if I think it's broken in my mind, then after I go out, this arm will be completely useless."
The woman calmly said: "You are using your willpower to fight against my illusion now, constantly telling yourself that this is an illusion, and even trying your best to forget the pain, right?"
Seeing me nodding, the other party continued: "What you call a 10% chance of survival is actually with that girl just now. Are you betting that she can break the illusion in time and take you out to heaven?"
"That's right!" I nodded again: "Xia Qingqing will be more effective if she goes out than if I go out. If it were me who went out, I might not even have half a chance of survival."
The woman smiled and said: "Do you really believe that she will save you? What if the first thing she does after getting out of trouble is to turn around and run for her life?"
I said calmly: "I believe her!"
"Is she your lover?" The woman said with a half-smile: "Husband and wife are birds in the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster strikes! Aren't Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan the best examples?"
I shook my head and said, "Xia Qingqing and I are not husband and wife, nor are we lovers. We are comrades who live and die together. I trust the other person with my back, and naturally I can put my life in his hands."
The woman asked with interest: "What if she can't save you? Don't you complain?"
"Life and death are not determined. There is nothing to complain about." I shook my head and said: "If there is one person who will be injured, it is not me. The living will be more painful than the dead. They may be trapped for the rest of their lives. In the pain of being unable to rescue our comrades."
"Hahaha..." The woman smiled and said, "You are still a selfish person. You are not afraid of death, but you are afraid of living in self-blame. So you passed on this pain to Xia Qingqing?"
"You can put it like this!" I nodded and said, "There are some things that I can't deny."
The woman said: "Then let's wait and see if Xia Qingqing can rescue you? What I want to tell you is that you don't have much time left."
As soon as the woman finished speaking, blood spurted out from my severed arm again. I subconsciously reached out to cover the wound, and dazzling blood spurted out from between my fingers. The sharp pain from rubbing the wound with my fingers rushed into me instantly. In the mind.
The woman smiled and said: "You can't stop my illusion. Your will is not as strong as Xing Tianyi. I can kill you with only one percent of my strength. If I were you, I would give up. Resist and pray that your companions can break the situation as soon as possible, and perhaps die more comfortably, are you right?"
I could no longer hear what the other party was saying. The rapid blood loss had already started to make my eyesight go black and my ears were ringing.
Although I knew in my heart that this was just my imagination, my body couldn't help but tremble. The shivers from the blood loss were not because I was scared, but because I was chilling.
I only felt myself getting colder and colder, until I could no longer see anything clearly in front of my eyes. It was like I had fallen into a dark ice cave. I could feel only darkness, coldness and the passing of life.