Ji Qinghuai waited for Xie Yan at home all afternoon, seeing that it was getting dark and no one came back. During this period, Ji Qinghuai sent a message to Xie Yan, but Xie Yan never replied, which made Ji Qinghuai even more uneasy.
On Ji Qinghuai's left hand, the silver bell that he once disliked was tied to his wrist. With a slight movement of the wrist, the bell would ring, and every sound was a reminder.
But this kind of waiting without any response is really exhausting, Ji Qinghuai is impatient, so he can only walk back and forth in the living room to relieve his worries.
Xie Yan's body hasn't had time to recover yet, so don't let anything happen...
Just as he was thinking wildly, there was finally movement outside the door, and Ji Qinghuai's heart skipped a beat.
Xie Yan opened the door, and a chill rushed into the room. Ji Qinghuai ran over and hugged Xie Yan.
"You're finally back." Ji Qinghuai put his arms around Xie Yan's neck, and asked with concern, "Are you injured?"
Xie Yan let Ji Qinghuai hug him, and calmly replied: "No."
"That's good." Only then did Ji Qinghuai feel relieved, and glanced at the Band-Aid on Jianyan's neck inadvertently.
The wound on Xie Yan’s neck is still there. In order to cover up the scar, Xie Yan specially wore a turtleneck sweater today. Who would have thought that the wound is located neither high nor low. It happens to be at the collar of the sweater. Can't cover it.
Xie Yan had no choice but took a band-aid and pasted it on the wound to cover it up.
Ji Qinghuai helped Xieyan straighten the collar of the sweater, "Then have you found Xu Luo?"
"No."
"Ah?" Ji Qinghuai let go of Xie Yan, and said worriedly: "Xu Luo won't be killed too, right?"
"Don't worry." Xie Yan reassured: "It's a good thing for us that we didn't find the body, maybe Xu Luo is still alive."
Hearing what Xie Yan said, Ji Qinghuai felt relieved, he suddenly remembered something, grabbed Xie Yan and said: "Yanyan, I remembered something."
Ji Qinghuai pulled Xie Yan to go inside, Xie Yan didn't rush to ask what Ji Qinghuai remembered, and sat down on the sofa with him.
Then Ji Qinghuai said: "When I just finished filming the movie, I went to Luyun Street with Xu Luo to investigate the fake medicines sold in Xiang Yunfei's clinic. I ran into you the other day. Do you have any opinion on this matter?" impression?"
Xie Yan said: "The person you met that day was me."
"Oh."
Ji Qinghuai thought this would be a clue for reference, but it turned out to be a waste of thinking again, and he was a little disappointed.
Seeing this, Xie Yan raised her hand and touched Ji Qinghuai's head, her white hand moved down along the soft hair to hug Ji Qinghuai, and put it close to his ear.
"I mean, the person you met that day was me, not Xie Yan."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ji Qinghuai suddenly felt a pain in the back of his neck. Before Ji Qinghuai had time to react, his consciousness quickly lost consciousness, and he fell down in darkness.
Ji Qinghuai didn't know how long he had been in a coma. When he woke up, he found himself lying on a bed. There was a person sitting beside him. He had a familiar delicate appearance, a familiar noble temperament, familiar gold-rimmed glasses, and a familiar beauty. eyes.
But Ji Qinghuai knew that the person in front of him was not Xie Yan.
Ji Qinghuai wanted to sit up, but when he moved, he realized that his hands were tied by the rope. He struggled, and found that the rope was very strong, and he couldn't break free with ordinary strength.
Ji Qinghuai tried to mobilize the demon power, but gave up after only one attempt.
As expected, his demonic power could not be exerted, and was suppressed by something.
Ji Qinghuai sat up with difficulty, and asked the people around him, "Who are you?"
"Let me introduce myself first." The man unhurriedly took off the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, revealing the pair of red pupils under the lenses, "My name is Shen Qiuli."
Ji Qinghuai was startled, and then froze.
Red pupils are a unique feature of the Shen family, and the person in front of him is also surnamed Shen... This is definitely not a coincidence.
But Ji Qinghuai remembered that his father said that only Shen Zhanshen was left alive in the Shen family. Furthermore, why did Shen Qiuli look exactly like Xie Yan? Not even the slightest difference in sound.
There are too many doubts in my heart, but I can't solve them.
"I guess, you must have a lot of questions in your mind." Shen Qiuli put the pair of gold-rimmed glasses aside casually, "Let me tell you a story, after listening, all your doubts will be answered."
This is the fastest way to understand everything, and of course Ji Qinghuai would not refuse, so he changed to a more comfortable sitting position and "listen carefully."
Shen Qiuli glanced at Ji Qinghuai and began to tell his story.
"It started more than a thousand years ago." Shen Qiuli began to recall the past, "It was an eventful time, with wars and chaos everywhere, and people who were chatting and laughing one second may be decapitated the next second. The place, that era, is the eternal nightmare of all those who participated and survived."
"At that time, they all understood that if they want to stop the troubled times, they must do a large-scale cleansing of the monster race. Only by completely cutting off the evil spirits can they integrate the troubled times and stabilize the world. entrusted to the Shen family."
"The Shen family has innate talents. They seem to have been born just for this troubled world, and indeed they did as those people wished. The Shen family brought them the dawn of calming the troubled times, but unexpectedly, an accident completely wiped them out. It changed the lives of two people."
Ji Qinghuai listened quietly, silently guessing who the "two people" Shen Qiuli referred to.
Shen Qiuli said: "It was a destructive battle. God endowed the Shen family with outstanding talents, but destroyed these defective products with his own hands. In that battle, all the adults in the Shen family died, only the An underage teenager and a boy, that child is called Shen Yan."
"Shen Yan..." Ji Qinghuai said the name in a low voice, and suddenly realized.
Xie Yan!
Therefore, Xie Yan is also from the Shen family!
Seeing Ji Qinghuai's reaction, Shen Qiuli knew that he had understood, and continued: "The young man was forced to take over the unfinished burden of the Shen family, but no matter how talented he is, he is only a young man after all, how many people are willing to follow him, As a result, the morale of the army was shaken, and internal fighting began."
"This is undoubtedly in the arms of the enemy. How many people are waiting for them to fall apart, so as to reap the benefits of the fisherman, and some people are playing with the child's idea."
Ji Qinghuai's heart tightened.
Even though he knew that Shen Qiuli was talking about Xie Yan's childhood experiences, he still couldn't help but worry.
"There are many grievances and enmities in the war, if the heart is selfish, the chaos is endless." Shen Qiuli sighed, and continued: "Before the Shen family fell, the parents of the family had a fierce battle with a demon dragon, but because of some Because we couldn't kill it, we had to work together to seal it, and there were rumors later that if you want to break the seal, you have to sacrifice the orthodox blood of the Shen family."
Ji Qinghuai couldn't help frowning.
"Those people captured the child and pushed him into the abyss mercilessly, but in the end they didn't get what they wanted. Shen Yan died, but the seal was only loosened and not untied. Since then, rumors Self-defeating."
Hearing this, Ji Qinghuai, who hadn't figured out what was going on, was even more puzzled, "Isn't that child Mr. Xie?"
Shen Qiuli said: "It's him."
Ji Qinghuai thought for a while, "He didn't die at the time, but he changed his surname later to hide the characteristics of the Shen family, and left the Shen family?"
"Really smart." Shen Qiuli praised half-truths and half-fakes.
I see.
Ji Qinghuai finally understood.
No wonder Ji Xianzhi would say that there is only Shen Xie left in the Shen family, so that's what happened.
So the only question now is...
Ji Qinghuai asked Shen Qiuli, "What about you? Who are you?"
"I..." Shen Qiuli smiled, but there was some irony in the smile, "You can understand me as... twins."
"Don't fool me." Ji Qinghuai retorted: "Mr. Xie said that he has no brothers."
"He really doesn't have a brother." Shen Qiuli's tone turned cold, "He didn't even know there was such a thing as me."
Shen Qiuli has a face that is exactly the same as Xie Yan's, and his words and deeds seem to be carved out of the same mold. Even if they are really twins, it is absolutely impossible for them to have such a high similarity.
Ji Qinghuai had a bad premonition, and said vigilantly, "Who are you?"
Shen Qiuli didn't answer Ji Qinghuai, but asked him, "Do you know why Xie Yan didn't die?"
Shen Qiuli approached Ji Qinghuai, and said slowly, "Because I was the one who was pushed down."
The clear eyes suddenly widened, and Ji Qinghuai's eyes were full of disbelief when he was stunned.
This reaction was expected by Shen Qiuli. He explained: "Before Xie Yan was arrested, our master took his blood and part of his strength to protect him and created me out of wood; When I was pushed into the sealed place, because I did have the blood of the Shen family on my body, the seal was loosened a bit, so that it can not only create the illusion that Shen Yan is dead, but also dispel the rumors, killing two birds with one stone."
"Since then, there has been no Shen Yan in the world, and the only one left in the Shen family is that young man."
Having said this, the story is over, and Ji Qinghuai finally figured out what was going on.
Therefore, Shen Qiuli was created artificially, but problems followed one after another.
"Did you kill Ma Wenbin?"
"Yes." Shen Qiuli answered frankly.
Ji Qinghuai was puzzled and said: "He didn't provoke you, did he? Why did you kill him?"
"Because he was unlucky." Shen Qiuli said: "I went out to do errands that night, and he mistook me for Xie Yan and came to strike up a conversation with me. Such a meeting ceremony."
What Shen Qiuli said was calm, a human life was insignificant to him, and the body of an ant was not worth mentioning.
Ji Qinghuai asked again, "The person you met at the gate of the community is also you?"
"Yes." Shen Qiuli smiled, "You said that the juice is good, that's my second meeting gift for Xie Yan."
"What about Xu Luo?"
"Xu Luo was originally the third meeting gift." Shen Qiuli had a playful smile on his face, "You also know that Xu Luo and Xie Yan have a good relationship. If I throw Xu Luo's body in front of Xie Yan, what do you say?" How will Xie Yan react?"
Ji Qinghuai sincerely asked Shen Qiuli, "Are you sick?"
"It's true." Shen Qiuli didn't care about being scolded, "I'm not only sick, but also seriously ill, and I won't live long."
Ji Qinghuai was startled.
"Actually, I should have disappeared from this world long ago." Shen Qiuli laughed at himself and asked Ji Qinghuai, "Aren't you wondering why I'm still alive?"
Ji Qinghuai didn't answer, because he knew that it was destined not to be a pleasant experience.
Seeing Ji Qinghuai's serious expression, Shen Qiuli reached out to stroke his head to comfort him, that gentle movement made Ji Qinghuai feel dazed for a moment, as if the person in front of him was his Mr. Xie.
"When I was pushed down, I also died with the meaning of fulfilling my existence." Shen Qiuli said calmly: "After I fell into the barrier, I turned back into a puppet and was trapped in that dark place. The evil spirit there is very strong, constantly eroding my body and retaining my consciousness."
"Later, the enchantment was broken, and the monster dragon brought disaster to the world, and the God of War killed it. I used the evil spirit to transform into a human again, and finally ran out of that ghostly place, but..."
Having said that, Shen Qiuli paused and sighed, "After all, I'm just a puppet, my body has been corroded too badly by evil spirits, and I can't survive dragging this crippled body. Met someone."
"You must think that this man saved me, so I can live safely until now, but the irony is that he didn't save me out of sincerity, but planned to use me, and use me to take revenge on his former master."
The last sentence provided a very important piece of information. Combined with what Xie Yan said earlier, Ji Qinghuai guessed the identity of that person, "Zuo Lan?"
"En." Shen Qiuli said: "He and your father are also old acquaintances, and now he is a fugitive. Xie Yan has been tracking down his whereabouts."
really.
Ji Qinghuai looked up thoughtfully and asked, "Where is Mr. Xie? Where is he now?"
Shen Qiuli: "Dead."
Ji Qinghuai didn't believe this, "You, created artificially, have a numerological connection with Mr. Xie. If Mr. Xie dies, you probably won't be able to live either."
"I know quite a lot." Shen Qiuli smiled, "I'm locking up your Mr. Xie, but I can't guarantee how long I can live."
Ji Qinghuai's bound hands tightened, then loosened again, with a plan in mind.
"Although it is artificially created, your monster power should be comparable to that of Mr. Xie. How can someone as powerful as you be willing to be used by others? You must have been threatened by Zuo Lan in some way." Ji Qinghuai tentatively said: "Why don't we come Make a deal."
"I defected, and you give me back my freedom? Good idea." Shen Qiuli's expression suddenly turned cold, "But I don't have that plan."
Seeing this, Ji Qinghuai didn't want to play Tai Chi with Shen Qiuli anymore, so he asked bluntly, "What exactly do you want to do?"
"As I said earlier, my body can't last long on my own."
"Mr. Xie can help you." Ji Qinghuai tried to persuade Shen Qiuli, "You are kind to Mr. Xie, he will definitely help you, and you can live for a long time in the future."
"Having said that, how can you be sure that Xie Yan will help me?"
"he… "
Shen Qiuli raised his hand to interrupt Ji Qinghuai, "I know what you want to say, but I have a better way."
Shen Qiuli looked at Ji Qinghuai, "Do you want to meet your Mr. Xie?"
After finishing speaking, Shen Qiuli stretched out his hand, grabbed Ji Qinghuai's arm and brought him in front of him. Ji Qinghuai was startled, and shouted: "Hey, hey, talk well and don't move your hands. I'm a man with a partner, I'm not so Whatever, I... Hey don't touch my bell!"
Shen Qiuli turned a deaf ear, ignored Ji Qinghuai's struggle, and forcibly took off the silver bell on Ji Qinghuai's wrist.
"Give it back to me!" Ji Qinghuai tried to grab it, but Shen Qiuli dodged it.
"This bell originally belonged to my little uncle. Xie Yan is so generous to give you such a precious thing." Shen Qiuli rang the bell lightly, and the clear ringing sound rang in Ji Qinghuai's ears, "Do you know the use of this bell?" ?”
Ji Qinghuai shook his head.
"Then let me tell you." Shen Qiuli raised the corners of his mouth and smiled maliciously, "Don't you want to see Yan, I'll take you to see him right now."
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Thank you Jin Moran for the fleeting mines~