As if sleeping for a whole lifetime, Hong Jun opened his eyes amidst a few bird calls.
"Wake up! Wake up!" Qiu Yongsi's voice said, "Call Chang Shi quickly."
As soon as Hong Jun moved, his whole body felt unbearable pain, followed by the sound of footsteps, and almost all the people from the Exorcist Division swarmed in.
"How do you feel?" Li Jinglong asked with concern with his red eyes open.
Hong Jun moaned: "It hurts..."
"The effect of the medicine is over." Mo Zhigen adjusted the herbal medicine, came over and said, "Take some more."
Hong Jun smelled the smell, it was Yanhusuo for pain relief and drowsiness, and said: "I can't eat too much..."
Mo Zhigen reduced the dose, Li Jinglong took it, and fed Hong Jun very carefully, everyone said that it was good to wake up, and they dispersed one after another, leaving Lu Xu still watching worriedly.
"Is everyone all right?"
"It's okay." Li Jinglong said with a smile, "Daming Palace didn't ask for compensation, so don't worry anymore."
Hong Jun said: "Only Zhao Zilong is gone, right?"
Li Jinglong didn't expect that the first thing Hong Jun did when he woke up was to ask Zhao Zilong, so he said "um" and said, "No one blames it."
"Jing Long, you already knew that Zhao Zilong was from the prison, didn't you?" Hong Jun asked again.
"Fish from the prison." Ashinaqiong corrected.
Hongjun: "..."
Li Jinglong remained silent, Lu Xu was afraid that Hong Jun would be angry, and said beside him: "Chang Shi guarded you for three days and three nights without closing his eyes."
Hong Jun turned his head with difficulty, and forced a smile at Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong's eyes were open, flushed from fatigue, he gently held Hong Jun's hand, lowered his head and kissed carefully.
"I'm sorry, Hongjun." Li Jinglong said.
"It's not anyone's fault." Hong Jun said, "If you want to blame, you can only blame me...too stupid."
Lu Xu said: "Take a good rest, everything... It's settled, we'll talk about it when you get better."
Hong Jun said "um", and Li Jinglong lay down next to him and asked, "Is it still hurting? Where does it hurt?"
Hong Jun's internal organs were in convulsive pain. He knew that this was the process of rebuilding the meridians after they were destroyed. Before Chongming used the phoenix's true power to open his meridians once, he encountered such pain. But fortunately, the power of Chongming still remained in the body, and under the protection of Li Jinglong's heart lamp, it was able to rebuild.
Now that I think about it, Yang Guozhong's strike actually used up all his cultivation, to make him a useless person, and then bring him back.
At that time, the only one who could possibly survive was Hong Jun, and without thinking about it, the rest of the exorcists, etc., would be slaughtered by Yang Guozhong after he inhaled the devil's energy and recalled the snake soul.
"I guess the only thing he wants to keep is your life." Li Jinglong lay on the side of the couch, looked at Hongjun like a child, and said, "Why didn't he kill us? It's because he wanted to suck back the magic energy, Then slowly torture the rest to death."
Hong Jun couldn't help shivering in his heart, and asked again: "Then... what about the prison?"
"Escaped." Li Jinglong said, "I must have found a place where no one was around, and hid to recuperate."
During a fierce battle in the Daming Palace, An Lushan was greatly frightened and fled, while Li Jinglong drove away all the demonic energy in Xie Prison. The snake soul was never recalled, but was severely injured, and disappeared that night. The carp demon that Hong Jun was most concerned about also disappeared. After he was injured, he was brought back by Li Jinglong. up.
"What should we do next?" Hong Jun said.
"Wait until you recover from your injury first." Li Jinglong was still very optimistic, and said, "We have already defeated two of the three souls in Xi Prison, and the remaining An Lushan has one soul and his devilish energy on him. It is expected that there will be another It’s a tough battle to fight, but it’s much better than before.”
Hong Jun thought about it, and under Li Jinglong's plan, they were getting closer and closer to the final victory. Although it paid a great price, it also successfully defeated the enemy.
Li Jinglong looked at Hongjun intently, and the two looked at each other quietly for a moment, and Hongjun said again: "How can you do this?"
Li Jinglong was stunned, knowing that what Hong Jun mentioned was that he burned his true energy to summon Fudoming King or light a lamp to descend on the gods to fight An Lushan decisively.
Li Jinglong sighed, and Hong Jun asked again: "Who taught you?"
"Kun God." Li Jinglong replied, "That day, when you were lying on his back and fell asleep."
It turned out that after Yuan Kun revealed the future for the two of them that day, when Yu Hongjun fell asleep, on the way back to Chang'an, Yuan Kun taught Li Jinglong another trick. It is a spell that burns the true essence as a sacrifice, temporarily raising the power of the heart lamp to the highest level, even breaking through the upper limit of what a mortal body can possess, and becoming a demigod in a short period of time.
Once this formula is activated, Li Jinglong's true energy will quickly dissipate and become the fuel connecting the wick.
"I have to purify all the devilish energy before the prison arrives." Li Jinglong said, "In this way, maybe I can do it all with one blow."
"Then what should I do?" With tears in his eyes, Hong Jun suddenly felt hopeless, and said, "Didn't you think about me when you did this?"
Li Jinglong didn't speak.
Hong Jun suddenly said: "Forget it."
Li Jinglong said: "Hong Jun."
Hong Jun turned his head with difficulty, tears streaming down and falling on the couch.
Li Jinglong said: "Yes, I was wrong. I expected that you would be angry, but I also thought about it clearly. It is my own decision from the heart. I will not make excuses."
"I want you to live well. After the successful exorcism, the world will be peaceful. If I die, the Exorcist Division will be disbanded."
"I know you will be angry with me for sacrificing myself and dispelling the evil energy; but as long as you survive, I don't care..."
"Because you love me, as long as you love me, you can forgive anything. In the next few months, you will go crazy with anger and feel like dying; but everyone will take good care of you, persuade you, and I will leave you I wrote a letter. After reading it, after a year or two, you will gradually calm down and stop being angry."
"When you think of us together again, you will feel uncomfortable, but until five years later, you will regard our love as a good memory... Ten or twenty years later, you will still remember, but you will not even remember my appearance. , I can’t remember clearly, when the time comes, you will start a new life... "
"After all, you still have a long life... and nothing can beat time..."
"Stop talking." Hong Jun choked up, "I hate you."
Li Jinglong said to himself: "I love you."
The only sound in the room was Hongjun's panting. After a long time, when he calmed down, Li Jinglong said, "Can I come up and sleep for a while? I'm really sleepy."
Hong Jun's sadness eased a little, and he replied: "No."
Li Jinglong ignored Hong Jun's refusal, climbed up to the couch, and hugged Hong Jun in a little, his movements were always light, for fear of hurting Hong Jun.
"The two of us are finished." Hong Jun said calmly, "I'm angry, and I want to divorce you."
Li Jinglong carefully placed his arm under Hongjun's neck, kissed his side face, and kissed away his tears.
"I'll buy you food." Li Jinglong said, "We will be together for a long time, you see, everything is coming to an end now, and you will be my wife for many years..." As he said, Li Jinglong hugged Hong Jun, Hong Jun couldn't move at all, so he had to let Li Jinglong manipulate him.
"I'll take you to Yangzhou, to Bashu...go to every place, just like when you were a child, we will live in a place for a few years until you get tired of living...this time no one will come to track down your whereabouts, Stay as long as you want…”
Li Jinglong wiped the tears off Hong Jun's face with his sleeve, murmured, and then leaned on Hong Jun's shoulder, snoring softly.
Hong Jun turned his head and looked at Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong still had a wound on his forehead that he didn't know when he left. It seemed that he had been shaved during the fierce battle. His face was almost gray and his seal was black, like a dying man. Like a human being, Hong Jun couldn't help feeling distressed when he saw it, and choked up again.
Li Jinglong just slept soundly, and never said a word again.
As the sun was shining, Qiu Yongsi stretched his waist, and Ashinaqiong's voice came from the hall, saying, "Eat, eat, everyone has been tired for a long time."
After the Xi prison case was over, not only did everyone not relax, but they were too busy trying to clean up the mess. Li Jinglong kept guarding the comatose Hongjun, and he couldn't listen to what others said. Mo Zhigen had to take everyone to arrange the aftermath. , including notifying Dali Temple, investigating Yang Guozhong's whereabouts, and looking for the carp demon.
Concubine Yang's birthday ended with singing and dancing. Li Bai and Li Guinian went to the palace and stayed in the palace. With an auspicious sound, Li Longji was coaxed away.
But Yang Guozhong's disappearance was unexplained. After a day, the Yang family panicked. Li Longji was not a fool. He vaguely felt that it had something to do with the affairs outside the Da Ci'en Temple. When he called Li Jinglong for questioning, But Mo Zhigen waited.
The Exorcist Division unified their caliber and didn't know anything about it.
Just after Yang Guifei's birthday, the prime minister of a country disappeared, and the Jiedu envoy ran back to his hometown without warning. The emperor didn't know what happened! The prince specially sent someone to investigate the exorcism, but found that the alley was like a ghost hitting a wall, no matter who you are, you are welcome.
So the birthday party ended in a mess. As soon as Yang Guozhong disappeared, the dissatisfaction of various ministries in the court was released in an instant. First of all, birthday flowers were used, which spent a total of 400,000 taels of silver from the treasury in three days. There were even more thefts and robberies in Chang'an city. There are countless criminals, such as criminals, criminals, etc., and the grievances of the Sixth Army are almost boiling, reaching their peak for a while.
Li Longji was busy appeasing the rest of the ministers. On the third day, there were already rumors in the court that Yang Guozhong was also a demon and had been killed by Li Jinglong's men. So the court's attention was focused on Concubine Yang for a while, and rumors about the Yang family's brothers and sisters had spread all over the city of Chang'an.
While Mo Zhigen went to Dali Temple to close the case, he led people around to track down the whereabouts of Xi Prison. And after Xie Prison escaped, there were two rains in Chang'an, and it seemed to have a new look, just like the time after the nine-tailed fox fell to death, the whole city regained its atmosphere of fireworks, and there was no longer a vague suffocation.
After three days of busy work, Hong Jun finally woke up, and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Mo Zhigen went in and brought a bowl of noodles, and sat on the porch with everyone to eat.
Artest picked a few and said, "It's too salty."
Lu Xu said, "I didn't shoot the beef."
Qiu Yongsi said: "I don't eat onions." He picked out the chopped green onions and threw them under the corridor.
Only Mo Zhigen didn't make a sound, and ate with a sigh.
"I don't think it tastes good, I'll make it myself next time!" Ashinaqiong said with staring eyes.
Everyone hurriedly praised that it was delicious, and then they appeased Ashinaqiong. Usually the carp demon cooks, everyone is used to eating, but now that the carp demon is away, it suddenly becomes a big problem for them to eat.
"What do you think the boss can't think about?" Artest said.
"He has been an undercover agent for a long time." Qiu Yongsi said with a smile, "Before I met us, I was a prisoner... The fish in the prison, we can't think about it."
Lu Xu said: "Get it back when it's empty, I quite like it."
Everyone sat in a row on the porch, thinking that they might have to eat the food cooked by Ashinaqiong every day in the future, they couldn't help feeling melancholy for a moment, and sighed in unison in despair.
Ashinaqiong said: "Didn't you Han people have a saying that if you lose your fortune, you don't know it's a blessing. Anyway, you can eat braised carp in the future."
Everyone: "..."
Hearing this, Mo Zhigen spat out his face with a "poof", and was slapped on the back of the head by Lu Xu. After everyone finished eating, they threw away their bowls and said to each other, "Go to work, go to work!"
Dali Temple had to close the case, April salary had to be applied for in advance, inquire about the whereabouts of the prison, go to Guo Ziyi to discuss the matter of Anlu Mountain, and see what happened to the other party... a lot of trouble.
Mo Zhigen sat by the well, washing the dishes, while Lu Xu was drying clothes in the yard, and everyone left.
While washing the dishes, Mo Zhigen looked up at Lu Xu in a daze. Lu Xu remembered something, and as soon as he turned his head, Mo Zhigen immediately lowered his head, pretending to look at the flowers and grass, avoiding his gaze.
"Why are you all wearing black clothes now?" Lu Xu said, looking at Mo Zhigen's military uniform in his hand.
Mo Zhigen didn't speak, Lu Xu said to himself: "It's too hot to wear black in summer."
Mo Zhigen said, "What are you doing in the afternoon?"
"Not going out." Lu Xu replied, "Stay with Hong Jun at home."
Mo Zhigen wiped the bowl with a cloth, and replied solemnly: "There is a long history to accompany, so don't interrupt."
Lu Xu said: "Hongjun feels very uncomfortable."
Mo Zhigen said: "Give him some sweet dreams, let him forget about Zhao Zilong."
Lu Xu mocked: "You can change the memory of whoever you are."
Mo Zhigen: "When something goes wrong, let people dream and change their memories. Don't you like this trick the most?"
Lu Xu: "Do you deserve a beating?"
Mo Zhigen: "No, my face is swollen by you."
Lu Xu: "The bowl in your hand is so wiped that it can be used as a mirror."
Mo Zhigen hurriedly changed one. Since the two had an ulterior fusion of soul and flesh in the bath that day, Lu Xu now doesn't know what relationship he has with Mo Zhigen. He clearly felt that there was no barrier between the two of them anymore, but after the fierce battle that night, Mo Zhigen actually acted as if nothing had happened the next day, and didn't mention the past at all. At the beginning, Lu Xu wondered if this guy would come to him nervously to talk to him... but he didn't.
Not a word.
Lu Xu couldn't help being furious, thinking that I'll just wait for you and see how long you can hold back.
After Mo Zhigen returned to the team, he returned to the original him. The slight difference is that the situation of pretending to be stupid and frightened in the past is gone. It seems that he is too lazy to cover up something. Instead, when he is alone with Lu Xu Not five o'clock is a bit glib.
According to Qiu Yongsi's evaluation, "the tail of the wolf that was tightly clamped in the past is finally exposed."
But everyone in the Exorcism Department is used to not discussing the right and wrong of colleagues behind their backs. It doesn’t matter who you are with or who goes to Pingkangli. No matter what, everyone doesn't care.
Anyway, Li Jinglong has to worry about it.