After the night passed, Xu Xingzhi regained some vitality. Although his knees were still a little trembling when he descended to the ground, he was able to stand firm.
The gold chain on his wrist has disappeared without a trace along with Meng Chongguang. Surprisingly, there is no red mark left on the place where he was bound, and there is no strong pain when moving.
Xu Xing got out of bed and found that the tub was full of hot water and was still steaming.
He was also welcome, took a quick shower, and after a little grooming, he touched the folding fan from the bedside and went out to let the wind out.
Outside the tower is dribbling rain. As soon as he left the tower gate, Xu Xingzhi saw Zhou Beinan, who was full of resentment with only one head above the ground.
Zhou Beinan's face turned blue as soon as he saw him, but he couldn't turn his eyes away, so he could only look up at him viciously from the horizon.
For some reason, when Xu Xingyi saw Zhou Beinan's gnashing teeth, he wanted to tease him.
He squatted down and said with concern: "What's the matter?"
Lu Yujiu, who was using a banana leaf to shield Zhou Beinan from the rain, said to Xu Xingzhi obediently, "He has been punished by Meng Chongguang until now because he played with his senior brother yesterday."
Hearing the whole story, Xu Xingzhi fanned Zhou Beinan with a fan and gloated: "That's really hard for you."
Zhou Beinan's face was full of "rolling".
The more this is the case, the more Xu Xingzhi wants to bully him.
He wanted to reach out and touch Zhou Beinan's head, but he felt empty, and then he remembered that Zhou Beinan had already died, and what was in front of him was just a soul, and mortals couldn't touch him at all.
As soon as Xu Xingzhi developed a little sympathy, Zhou Beinan glared at him and said, "...Xu Xingzhi, wait for me, and I will kill you when I come out."
Xu Xingzhi's sympathy disappeared in an instant.
He picked up a lock of hair hanging down from his temples, and smiled at Zhou Beinan: "Official man, you are here."
Zhou Beinan was so disgusted that he could not wait to climb out of the scourge immediately.
When he was happily flirting with Zhou Beinan, suddenly, Xu Xingzhi vaguely heard a woman singing in the mountains and forests.
Xu Xingzhi looked around and found that the bone girl who could perform the healing technique was transferred out of the bamboo forest.
After she met Xu Xingzhi's eyes, her singing stopped, and all the bones in her body trembled.
After staring at him for a long time, the bone girl suddenly realized something, turned and fled into the bamboo forest.
Xu Xingzhi remembered that he did write about a woman in the book, specializing in the treatment of different techniques, and she was indeed full of bones.
If someone was injured, as long as it didn't hurt the bones, she could transfer those wounds to herself and heal the wounded. Yesterday, she removed the burns on Meng Chongguang's body, using this special technique.
But Xu Xingzhi didn't know what she had to do with the original owner. When she saw herself, she seemed to just want to hide and refuse to meet.
Lu Yujiu stared at the back of the bone girl, then looked at Xu Xingzhi, and asked softly, "Senior brother, don't you recognize her?"
Most of Lu Yujiu's face was blocked by the hideous ghost mask, Xu Xingzhi couldn't see his expression, but he could hear unspeakable regret in his tone.
"Who is she?" Xu Xingzhi asked following his words.
Zhou Beinan clicked his tongue and motioned to Lu Yujiu not to speak.
Lu Yujiu pursed her lips: "She specifically told us last night not to tell you."
… but what’s so hard to guess
The long wispy hairband of the Bone Girl was exactly the same as the one on Meng Chongguang's hair, so it must be a token unique to Fengling Mountain.
Her bones were washed clean, and she was as white as jade. Even if there was only one long hair left, she had to comb it properly before she would go out. She must be a person who loves beauty.
In Xu Xingzhi's broken memory, there is indeed such a very beautiful woman. Her surname is Yuan and her name is Yuan Ruri. She is the youngest junior sister in Fengling Mountain. laugh.
But now she has only a skeleton left, singing and singing in the mountains and forests.
Xu Xingzhi knew something in his heart, but he pretended not to know. He shook the fan and said with a smile: "This is strange, I can't guess who it is. But just looking at the bones, it is very good, she is a beautiful embryo."
Zhou Beinan, who was buried in the ground, said disdainfully, "...what woman in the world is not beautiful in your eyes?"
Xu Xingzhi closed the fan and said, "Every woman in the world has its own beauty. Some are beautiful in their skin, and some are in their bones. You don't understand this truth."
The bone girl was hidden in the forest and listened to Xu Xingzhi's words thoroughly.
She shed hot tears, turned and ran away.
Her withered feet stepped on the dry bamboo leaves, making a fine rustling sound.
After teasing Zhou Beinan enough, Xu Xingzhi walked slowly around the tower, thinking about his own thoughts.
Everything here is slightly different from what he imagined. There is no grand scene of disciples and ghosts everywhere, just a lonely tower.
Meng Chongguang has been in the wilderness for more than ten years, but he has not cultivated his own subordinates. This is really puzzled by Xu Xing.
In Xu Xingzhi's view, this place is not like a dragon pond and tiger's den, but more like a peaceful natural residence, only for Meng Chongguang and a few of his friends to live in.
However, judging from the group of savage people who came to harass them yesterday, their life was not particularly clean.
Meng Chongguang didn't know where he went, Zhou Beinan was still planted in the ground, accompanied by Lu Yujiu, Zhou Wang was nowhere to be seen, and even the dozen or so ghost slaves that Lu Yujiu manipulated yesterday didn't know where to hide. Not even a ghost was seen.
Xu Xingzhi put his fan on his sleeves and wandered around the tower like a young man visiting Liyuan, feeling quite bored.
It's so annoying, I don't want to play anymore, I want to go home.
After walking around, Xu Xingzhi picked a dry place, sat on the floor, and said loudly: "... Come out."
Xu Xingzhi knew that since he left the tower, there has been a person behind him.
But the man was a gentleman when he followed him, he was silent, not far or near, and he was quite patient.
After being pierced, one person turned out from behind the tower.
Xu Xingzhi snorted.
This man was not the Meng Chongguang he imagined, but a young man dressed as a scholar.
He was dressed in a brown robe and was washed white, but he was better than clean and fresh. He held a plain white whisk in his hand, which was very elegant.
His face and facial features are very beautiful, as if he was naturally born for the four characters of "warm and jade-like".
The visitor walked to Xu Xingzhi's side and greeted with a slightly curved eyebrow, "... OK."
Xu Xingzhi pondered carefully, went through the person written in his book in his mind, roughly determined his identity, and frowned slightly.
He patted himself on the side, motioned for the person who came to sit down, and the person sat down, sitting in an orderly manner, with straight eyes and a loose back. Xu Xingzhi felt that his demeanor was no different from a pool of mud.
But of course he didn't intend to change the evil.
Xu Xingzhi recalled the name of the person he heard from Meng Chongguang yesterday, and tried to give him a seat: "Qu Chi?"
Obviously, Xu Xingzhi was lucky, and it was a guess.
The visitor smiled warmly at him: "... um."
Xu Xingzhi sighed.
... it's really him.
Qu Chi is gentle and gentle, and his tone of speech is also very gentle, as if filtered from a stream in Qing Lingling: "... Chongguang told me to follow you and protect you."
Xu Xingzhi couldn't play any fancy in front of him: "Thank you."
Qu Chi kindly mentioned: "Your sitting posture is not in line with the ceremony."
Xu Xingzhi continued to paralyze with peace of mind: "It's so comfortable."
He spoke easily, but his eyes stayed on Qu Chi.
Qu Chi naturally didn't know what Xu Xingzhi was thinking. He touched twice in his pocket and politely invited, "...Please have some candy."
Saying that, he opened his fist at Xu Xingzhi.
There lay two pieces wrapped in colored glass paper.
Xu Xingzhi took one, unfolded the glass paper, and found a small stone the size of a fingernail lying inside.
Qu Chi highly recommends: "It's delicious."
Xu Xingzhi poured the stone into the palm of his hand, weighed it twice, and asked, "...Is this sugar?"
Qu Chi nodded and vowed: "Yes, I want to eat candy. This is what Awang found for me. She said it is called candy."
Xu Xingzhi played with the small stone and found that the stone was very clean.
He confirmed it with Qu Chi again: "...You can't swallow candy, right?"
Qu Chi replied obediently, "No. Awang and Tao Xian didn't let me swallow. They said it was not good to swallow sugar."
Xu Xingzhi affirmed: "Yes, you can't swallow sugar."
He didn't hesitate any longer, he naturally threw the small stone into his mouth, and had a good time.
Qu Chi also put the remaining pebble in his mouth, with a happy expression not like an adult at all, but very much like a child.
Naturally, the stone has no taste at all, but Xu Xingzhi pretended to eat with relish.
Speaking of which, Xu Xingzhi's perception of this Qu Chi is indeed different from everyone else's.
When seeing Zhou Beinan, Xu Xingzhi did not have too strong emotional fluctuations for him because he was eager to kill himself.
When he saw Meng Chongguang, because he was full of thoughts about the task of killing the villain given to him by the so-called "knowledge of the world", he was too nervous to have more thoughts about him.
But seeing Qu Chi, Xu Xingzhi's mood was not so stable.
Because Qu Chi is the only person in the book whose history is set by Xu Xingzhi.
Combined with the original owner's thin memory, Xu Xingzhi learned that he was originally the senior brother of the righteous Danyang Peak, who was attacked by the magic way, and was beaten alive to suffer from heart disease.
In other words, Qu Chi's current mind is only five or six years old at most, and he can't even tell the difference between candy and rocks.
Xu Xingzhi conjectured that thirteen years ago, it was probably because of his mental disability that he helped Meng Chongguang steal the divine weapon, and thus fell into the wild.
Seeing Qu Chi, Xu Xingzhi couldn't help but think, if he had written a positive and interesting story, maybe the group of people in front of him would be much happier, instead of being trapped in this huge prison, crazy, paranoid Paranoid, stupid stupid.
When Xu Xingzhi was thinking wildly, Qu Chi, who had just shared the candy with him, suddenly changed his expression, shook the dust in his hand, and placed it on Xu Xingzhi's side.
Before Xu Xingzhi could react, there were several plum-blossom blades rushing from the right side like a stream of fire, hitting Qu Chi's whisk like a rush of rain, making a loud noise.
Qu Chi's wrist fluttered, and with a free and easy twist, a pull, a shake, he used the whisk to shoot all the blades of the sneak attack back to where they came from.
Suddenly, there were several screams in the forest, and the sound should have been tied into a sieve by the plum blossom blade they had just shot.
Qu Chi held the whisk in one hand, and pulled out the fish intestine sword with the other hand. He was fully alert, facing the mountain forest on the right side of the blade attack, and ordered Xu Xing: "Go back to the tower quickly. Chongguang said that if you go out If something happens, he will take all my candy."
… a very severe punishment.
Xu Xingzhi suspects that in Qu Chi's eyes now, he is a walking candy bar.
The slander returned to the slander, Xu Xingzhi still knew his weight, naturally he would not stay here to drag his legs, and he was about to run away, but was caught by a figure that flashed from the halfway.
Xu Xingzhi was stunned.
Qu Chi turned his head suddenly and saw who was coming, his nervous expression became much calmer: "Chongguang, bring Xingzhi into the tower quickly."
Hearing this, "Meng Chongguang" showed a sneer.
The hand holding his arm used too much force, and Xu Xingzhi suddenly felt a little abnormal.
He raised his eyes and saw that "Meng Chongguang"'s eyes flashed a bright yellow like a wolf.
The coming man grinned at himself, with two sharp canine teeth protruding, like a carnivorous monster, facing the newly caught scorpion under his claws, thinking about where to start.
Xu Xingzhi was horrified and said to Qu Chi: "Wait! He is not..."
Qu Chi didn't notice at all, and he pushed Xu Xingzhi into "Meng Chongguang"'s arms: "Hurry up and enter the tower."
Xu Xingzhi felt a chill in his heart, but before the chill penetrated into his heart, the proud smile of the person in front of him froze.
His body fell forward uncontrollably, Xu Xingzhi swiftly stepped aside, and watched him fall to the ground face down, twitching.
—The connection between his fourth vertebra and the fifth vertebra was clearly broken, and there was a finger-deep hole there, which was deeply sunken.
The real Meng Chongguang stood behind him, wiped his hands slowly with a handkerchief, and then gently pulled Xu Xingzhi back to his side: "Senior brother, are you injured?"
Xu Xingzhi shook his head in shock, looking at the fake Meng Chongguang on the ground.
The facial features of "Meng Chongguang", who was struggling underground, twisted around like dough for a few times, and finally returned to his original appearance, turning into a beast skin man with a blue complexion and a messy beard.
The animal skin man's back was broken, the pain was unbearable, he gritted his teeth and groaned: "Meng Zhongguang, why are you..."
Meng Chongguang squatted down and grabbed his hair, with a smile on his face: "If I always stay in the tower, how do I know who will attack my senior brother while I'm not around?"
The animal skin man's throat was soaked in blood, and his hoarseness was terrifying: "Just now... the spy clearly said that you were on the blue bridge slope a hundred miles away..."
Meng Chongguang's answer was too casual, as if he was playing an insignificant joke: "It's only a hundred miles. I run very fast."
The animal skin man knew that he would die, so he exhausted all his strength and let out a tragic roar: "Meng Zhongguang, you monster—"
Meng Chong's face did not change his expression, he curled his fingers into knots, and with a small smile chiseled into the uppermost section of the animal skin man's spine, turning his unspoken scolding into a mournful howl.
"Use my face to hug my senior brother." Meng Chongguang said, "Do you want to die? No, it's too cheap for you."
In front of Xu Xingzhi, he knocked all the spines of the animal skin into pieces like he was knocking on a walnut.
The animal skin man had already passed out, and after chiseling the animal skin man into a mess of mud, Meng Chongguang ordered Qu Chi, who was at a loss, "Qu Chi, bring back all those people in the mountain forest on the right, and keep them alive. I will kill them with my own hands."