Hong Jun was short of breath and opened his eyes wide. The carp demon immediately said, "Don't think too much, Hong Jun, they said that's not Lu Xu."
Then, after a hard fight, Li Jinglong finally woke up Hong Jun, and the wolf carried them to the northwest. The carp demon and Mo Rigen planned to seek medical advice nearby, while Li Jinglong mentioned that he had heard from Hong Jun that he had relatives in Guazhou.
"Why?" Hong Jun asked again.
The carp demon said: "Mo Zhigen said that by the side of relatives and lovers, nightmares will go away. Sure enough, you will wake up the next day after arriving at Yumen."
Hong Jun recalled that after waking up for the first time, he fell into sleep again, but he didn't dream anymore.
"What's going on with Lu Xu?"
The carp demon hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Chang Shichai, he was captured by them and turned into what he is now."
Hongjun: "!!!"
The carp demon said: "When we meet again, is he dressed in black?"
Hong Jun remembered that the guard at the city gate said that Lu Xu was wearing a white scout uniform when he left, but he already had two, which didn't mean much.
"So, Liu Fei's return is also..." Hong Jun guessed the key from the fragmented information.
"I didn't say that!" The carp demon hurriedly waved his hands, "I didn't say anything!"
Liu Fei was carrying Lu Xu halfway, but he was attacked somewhere, so Lu Xu was taken away! Next, Xuannv controlled Lu Xu, and then Hongjun.
"He is the White Deer?!" Hong Jun almost shouted.
The carp demon didn't answer, but retreated into the barrel, and Hong Jun's heart suddenly felt like a mess. If Lu Xu was the white deer that Mo Zhigen had been looking for... But, how did the monsters control him and blacken him? of
"Hong Jun?" Li Jinglong asked outside the door, "Is it better?"
When Hong Jun heard Li Jinglong's voice, he instantly thought of the pain he suffered in his dream.
Li Jinglong walked into the room, knelt down in front of him, and looked at him worriedly.
"What did you dream about in the cemetery?" Li Jinglong asked.
Even Hong Jun himself couldn't confirm for a while how much of everything in the dream was real. What if it was a nightmare deliberately instilled by the blackened Lu Xu in order to manipulate him, his mind was already in chaos .
The carp demon said displeased: "Didn't I tell you not to trouble our Hongjun?"
Li Jinglong frowned and said, "I'm worried about him!"
Li Jinglong was in pain all over his body. He was hurt too badly by Hong Jun's flying knife before, but the bandages were wrapped inside. Under the uninterrupted pain, his temper would become extremely irritable, and he unconsciously used a harsh tone when he spoke. tone.
Hong Jun suddenly asked: "Jing Long, when you were young, did your family live in... Fuxingfang?"
Li Jinglong was startled, and said, "I said that? Yes, it's not far from Chongfu Temple."
Hong Jun observed Li Jinglong's eyes, and asked tentatively, "There is a pomegranate tree planted in your yard."
Li Jinglong laughed and said, "How do you know? I dreamed that I was a child?"
When Hong Jun heard this, his heart sank suddenly.
"When you were nine years old, do you remember what happened?" Hong Jun asked again.
Li Jinglong frowned and said, "Hong Jun, what did you dream about?"
"Answer me, Jing Long." Hong Jun said.
Li Jinglong looked at Hongjun puzzledly. Ever since he was manipulated by Lu Xu that day, Hongjun seemed to have become different. He had a lot of worries, and he was no longer carefree.
"According to my guess and Mo Rigen's." Li Jinglong replied, "Lu Xu should be the White Deer, the god with the power to enter dreams, but he was captured by the monster clan, and now he is no longer the Lu Xu we know. .”
Hong Jun said "um", avoiding Li Jinglong's gaze, and thought: "Let's go save him?"
"I have to wait until you recover from illness." Li Jinglong never left Hongjun's eyes, and asked, "Once the white deer is controlled by the monster clan, the black energy emitted can make people fall into a nightmare. Is this nightmare real? Yes, tell me, Hong Jun, what did you dream about?"
"Jing Long." Hong Jun said, "There is a monster living in my body."
Li Jinglong: "..."
"You know everything?" Li Jinglong was shocked.
"I didn't say it!" The carp demon immediately distanced himself from the relationship.
"It's right here." Hong Jun pointed to his heart, "It has nothing to do with Zhao Zilong, it's what I feel."
"That was just a dream." Li Jinglong said, "It's just a dream, Hongjun!"
Hong Jun's chest rose and fell violently, and Li Jinglong said again: "Believe me, there are no monsters in your body! Hong Jun!"
He stretched out his hand and tightly grasped Hong Jun's wrist. Hong Jun subconsciously wanted to break free, but a warm and bright force penetrated his meridians and poured into his whole body.
The light in Li Jinglong's palms gradually infiltrated him, reminding him of many happy things, the early autumn in the Exorcism Department, the rustling of sycamore leaves in the sun, the hot springs in the white snow, and the snowflakes falling in the pool. turned into nothingness.
Hong Jun gradually calmed down, only listening to Li Jinglong seriously: "Don't think about things, okay?"
Hong Jun nodded, Li Jinglong let go of his hand, pondered for a moment, and then said: "When I was nine years old, my father passed away, and I suffered from a serious illness. Many things in that year have been blurred in memory. I seldom remember things about it. Since you asked, I will naturally think about it later. "
"Now, Hongjun." Li Jinglong said, "Tell me, what did you dream about? Did you dream about the death of your parents?"
Hong Jun's heart twitched suddenly, and he stared at Li Jinglong in a daze, but remained silent.
With uneasiness and anxiety in Li Jinglong's eyes, he said, "Trust me, Hong Jun."
Hong Jun instantly remembered the moment in his dream when Li Jinglong held the Wisdom Sword and was possessed by the golden warrior. At that time, his eyes were the same as now, with pain, guilt, sadness, and anxiety.
Hong Jun hesitated again and again, but at this moment Jia Zhou knocked on the open door and said, "Excuse me, Silk Star, let's have dinner together?"
Jiazhou's wife passed away due to dystocia twelve years ago, both mother and child died, and there was no reunion for many years, and she did not want to return to the Central Plains. There seemed to be a lot of things to say at the moment, considering that my nephew had just woken up and was ill, I finally held back after thinking about it.
"It's been years."
During the meal, Jia Zhou smiled at Hongjun.
There are probably no people in this world who are too bored to identify relatives. When Hong Jun saw Jia Zhou, he was still very sad. It's just that there are too many complicated things that dilute his joy of reunion.
"It's hard for you to come to Hexi and bring something for uncle." Jia Zhou laughed again.
thing? Hong Junzheng was startled, Li Jinglong reminded: "I bought it in Chang'an City, did I forget?"
After being reminded like this, Hong Jun finally remembered. Before leaving, Li Jinglong bought a box of tea cakes, rouge, silk and pearl hairpins. At that time, the carp demon still teased him that he wanted to disguise himself as a woman.
"It's a pity that your aunt has been away for many years." Jia Zhou said, "In a few days, I will take you to see it and burn it for her."
Hong Jun nodded, and said: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, and the replacement of withered and prosperous, it is God's will. One day we will meet again."
Chongming once said this sentence when he was a child, he didn't understand it then, but he understands it now.
Jia Zhou said with a smile: "When I see you, I always think of your father. Your father was a famous doctor back then. I didn't expect you to become an exorcist when you grew up. Could it be that you were drugged by him when you were young? Is it really talented?"
Hong Jun replied: "It's my father's brother, who adopted me later, and taught me some spells to exorcise evil spirits."
Jia Zhou nodded, and said: "The year Kong Xuan came to Xiliang, he also showed his skills by recovering the demons for me..."
Li Jinglong has been absent-minded about Jia Zhouzhi's words, watching Hongjun's face, when Mo Zhigen suddenly asked: "What monster?"
Jia Zhou thought for a while and replied: "I forgot, it was a group of soldiers who killed each other in Yadan. Kong Xuan thought that there was a demon, so he went to get rid of the demon himself. After that year, nothing happened again. , Until this year when the monsters made trouble, they didn't wait for Kong Xuan, but they waited for you."
Jia Zhou looks tired and tired. He has guarded the border for many years, but he has not been promoted because his father, Grandpa Hong Jun, was the deputy envoy of Jiedu envoy. The township is transferred to the capital, but Jiazhou is the only one who guards in front of Yumen Pass. Ge Shuhan respected his ability to march and fight, but he was unwilling to promote him. Jia Zhou didn't think about it at all, he just planned to guard the memory with his wife here for the rest of his life.
Hong Jun replied: "Uncle, Chang Shi will solve this matter smoothly, so don't worry too much."
Jia Zhou thought for a while, but said: "Silk Star, to be honest, are you really going to be an exorcist? Do you have to make a living from this official position?"
Hong Jun was speechless after being told this, but Li Jinglong frowned.
Jia Zhou said to Li Jinglong again: "Li Jinglong, I don't know about the Kong family, but the Jia family, after so many years, passed down a silk star."
Li Jinglong's official position is equal to Jia Zhou's, and both are military officers. However, according to the unwritten practice of the Tang Dynasty, the military officers guarding the frontier always overwhelmed the Beijing officials when they were equal. Although Jia Zhou has always been polite, when talking about Hongjun , the attitude is revealed.
"I see you hunting monsters everywhere and fighting wars." Jia Zhou said, "I don't lack a nephew. Now that he is so sick, he almost lost his soul on the road. I don't know what monsters you encountered... How about just Waiting for me to revise a letter, submit it to the prince, begging him to sell me my old face, how about letting Xinger take care of me in Yumen?"
Li Jinglong frowned, and if he changed someone, he would definitely say that he dared to love your family for three generations, and I would be a group of brothers? But when you talk about brothers with Hong Jun, you must not contradict your elders.
"Look at Hongjun himself." Li Jinglong thought for a while and said.
"No." Hong Jun replied, "I still have to save Lu Xu."
"Let's talk about it." Jia Zhou said again, "Think about your father, and then think about your mother. Back then, your mother wanted to live a stable life. With you running around like this, you can't let your daughter-in-law follow you around in the future , isn’t it? If you had listened to me back then, you wouldn’t be alone and helpless now, and you will have to think about your child in the future…”
Although Jia Zhou expressed admiration for Kong Xuan, Hong Jun could easily feel that Jia Zhou always blamed his father for his mother's death.
Hong Jun suddenly said: "Uncle, it's actually none of my father's business. He treated my mother very well and loved me. In the final analysis, I killed my parents."
Hearing the words, everyone's expressions suddenly changed, and Mo Rigen showed a shocked expression, and Li Jinglong said angrily: "Hong Jun! What are you talking about?!"
When Jia Zhou heard this, Fang realized how much burden his little nephew was carrying, how much darkness there was in his heart, and how much he longed for redemption.
"How can you think so?" Jia Zhou put down his chopsticks, came to Hong Jun, put his arms around him, and comforted him, "Your mother said that the happiest thing in this life is having you. I don't know what happened to them." What is it, but you must remember, as you said yourself, life and death are fate, fate comes and goes, what passes is what passes, this has nothing to do with you, let alone your fault."
When Hong Jun heard this, he had mixed feelings, and almost came out together. He silently wiped his tears with his sleeves, and tried not to cry. When Jia Zhou looked at Li Jinglong, his eyes were quite reproachful. Li Jinglong saw it, but was anxious, but didn't know what to do.
That night, Li Jinglong stood in front of the porch to observe the sky, it was gloomy, with the atmosphere of a storm about to come.
"Xuannv's demon power is not strong, it is an ordinary snow day." Li Jinglong said, "It seems that you hurt her badly."
"I'm only worried about Lu Xu now." Mo Zhigen said, "I don't know what happened to the child after he was captured."
Li Jinglong comforted: "Since it has fallen into the hands of Xuannv and the God of Plague, they must have a place for him, and there will be no danger. I am only worried about how they can control Lu Xu. Zhao Zilong said that the black clothes Lu Xu, who is he?"
"Maybe it's like you and I guessed before." Mo Zhigen said, "When the white deer was reincarnated, it was disturbed by the monster clan. Part of it was reincarnated and entered the body of Lu Xu, who was still a baby. The other part was..."
Li Jinglong continued: "...Lu Xu in black."
Mo Zhigen's face was solemn, but Li Jinglong smiled wryly: "Damn, it's really embarrassing, this... who is the one you are looking for? It's fine if it's not a woman, and now there are two more?"
Mo Zhigen said: "We must try to rescue Lu Xu first, and we will discuss the rest later... I will go and see Hongjun first."
Mo Zhigen passed by Li Jinglong and left the corridor.
Hong Jun was lying on the couch thinking about something, the carp demon said: "Hong Jun, what you said today made me so sad."
Hong Jun didn't answer, but asked softly: "Zhao Zilong, do you think... Chongming hates my mother?"
The carp demon was taken aback and said, "Hong Jun! What are you thinking?!"
"He must hate my mother." Hong Jun said to himself, "He also hates me. If it weren't for me and mother, my father would never return to Yaojin Palace. I know he has always been at odds with my father. I'm angry, but my father is dead and can't go back, so he raised me."
"You're crazy!" The carp demon stepped out of the wooden basin, ran towards Hongjun, shook his tail and said, "Hongjun, Chongming loves you so much, it's not fake! What's wrong with you?"
Hong Jun replied: "Otherwise, why would they ask Yaojin Palace for help? Because Chongming is not willing to help them at all..."
The carp demon stared at Hong Jun in a daze.
After Hong Jun had that dream, he seemed to think a lot more clearly, and he also saw clearly the appearance that he didn't see through when he was carefree in the past.
"Did Lu Xu in black forcefully weave a nightmare for me?" Hong Jun said to himself, shaking his head, "No, I started to have such a dream a long time ago."
The first time he thought of the past was when he smelled the pollen of Lihun, in the courtyard of the Exorcist Division, for some reason, he saw the scene of his parents before they died. That scene almost completely coincided with what he knew and felt in the dream. The only difference is Li Jinglong.
If all this is illusory, then why did he know that Li Jinglong used to live in Fuxingfang, and there was a pomegranate tree at home? He said that he lost all his memories of when he was nine years old, and what he lost was the memory of all this.
What happened during this period? In an instant, Hong Jun felt as if he had been abandoned by the whole world. Zeng Chongming left him, but he still has Li Jinglong. However, after thinking of all this in a dream, Li Jinglong is his father-killing enemy and the murderer who killed his parents, so how should he deal with himself
"Do you know?" Hong Jun said to the carp demon, "Today when my uncle told me not to be an exorcist and stay by his side, I felt that maybe this is my destination."
The carp demon didn't expect Hong Jun to be in a daze without making a sound all day, thinking about so many things! Just as he was about to say a few words of comfort, he heard footsteps outside again.
Mo Zhigen came over with a bowl of herbal soup, Hong Jun turned over and sat up, thought for a while, and asked, "Are you looking for Lu Xu? When are you leaving?"
"Drink the medicine." Mo Zhigen said.
Mo Zhigen handed over the medicine bowl, but Hong Jun grabbed his wrist.
Mo Zhigen raised his eyebrows and looked at Hong Jun, but Hong Jun said, "What did you see in the snow that day?"
Hong Jun's breathing became rapid, and he said, "Is there a black air in my body?"
Mo Zhigen looked at Hongjun, pondered for a moment, put down the medicine bowl, and said to him: "Hongjun, what did you dream about? You don't want to tell Chang Shi, can you tell me? My brothers never thought of anything else..."
Hong Jun stared at Mo Rigen in a daze, but Mo Rigen stretched out his palm, spread it out in front of Hong Jun, and turned the back of his hand over.
"Hold." Mo Zhigen said suddenly.
Hong Jun realized that this is the etiquette for dogs to shake hands with people. Every time he saw Mo Zhigen turning into a tall and mighty wolf, he couldn't help but want to shake his paws with him, so he laughed.
He put his hand in Mo Zhigen's, and Mo Zhigen put away his five fingers and held it gently with him.
"Tell me." Mo Zhigen stared at Hongjun's eyes.
"I dreamed." Hong Jun whispered, "In my body, there is a demon seed."
Mo Zhigen replied: "So?"
Hong Jun tremblingly said: "It killed my parents, what is the demon species?"
"Hush." Mo Zhigen put his other hand around the back of Hong Jun's neck, gently hugged him to himself, and whispered in his ear, "That's not real, it's just a nightmare, it's Lu Xu who was controlled by the demon. , a nightmare planted in your heart."
When Hong Jun heard this, he immediately looked at Mo Zhigen in disbelief as if he had been pardoned.
"Listen, Hong Jun, I'm just going to ask you a question. Even Chang Shi doesn't know about it. I never mentioned it in front of him... Suppose you have a demon seed in your body." Mo Zhigen looked sideways at the door, as if After confirming whether the partition wall has ears, he said in a lower voice, "Then you will become the host for the resurrection of the demon, right?"
"What is Heavenly Demon?" Hong Jun frowned.
"In the cycle of a thousand years, the heavenly demon is resurrected." Mo Rigen explained, "Demon energy is the hostile energy and pain that cannot be purified in the veins of heaven and earth. This hostile energy gathers in the human world and cannot be dispersed for a long time, becoming a 'celestial demon'. "
Hong Jun thought of the book he was flipping through in his dream, and the last page was surprisingly "Heavenly Demon"! Instant memories became clear.
"Yes." Hong Jun replied.
Mo Rigen said again: "It doesn't matter if it's Canglang Bailu, or the power of Jianglong Xianzun inherited from the Yongsi family, or Artest, who is the son of Tochara, and even holds the Wisdom Sword in his hand to monitor the world's demons for King Fudoming. Whether it's Di Renjie who is angry, the ultimate goal is to defend the world, get rid of and purify the evil energy, isn't it?"
Hong Jun nodded, his eyes full of doubts.
"I can be sure." Mo Zhigen said, "There is no demon in your body, because Liu Fei can also confirm that the demon has appeared in advance. Think about what Lu Xu in black did."
Hong Jun suddenly woke up, that dark force appeared even when they burned the mountain of fox demons outside the Xingqing Palace. Hostility and pain rushed into the sky along with the black mist.
The black fire sprayed from the eyes of the nine-tailed fox, the roar of the dragon sons, and the black mist that was dispersed by Mo Zhigen when he awakened Liu Fei.
"That's the 'magic'?" Hong Jun frowned.
Mo Zhigen looked dignified, nodded, and said: "Since the demon has appeared, I don't know where it is hiding in the world, then you will not have a demon seed, and you will not be a demon, right?" Pointing at Hongjun's heart, he tapped lightly.
It seemed reasonable to say that, Hong Jun suddenly felt much better.
"But how can I explain my dream?" Hong Jun frowned.
Mo Zhigen looked at Hongjun quietly, and said: "Bailu has the power to travel through dreams. He not only spied on your dreams, but also spied on the dreams of many people, monsters, and creatures. Since Lu Xu is under control , and become the source of nightmares."
This seems to be explainable, Hong Jun nodded heavily.
"Is that so... um." Hong Jun pondered.
The carp demon was visibly relieved, and said, "Hong Jun, don't think about it."
"The top priority." Mo Zhigen said again, "It is to find him and save him from the Yaozu."
Hong Jun said: "Let's set off as soon as possible."
"I'm not sure you're getting better." Mo Rigen picked up the medicine, handed it to Hong Jun, shook his head and said, "Even if I worry about Lu Xu again, I won't leave."
When Hong Jun heard this, he felt Mo Rigen's tenderness, took the medicine and drank it.
"Go to sleep." Mo Zhigen said, "You will recover slowly, remember, stop thinking about it."
Hong Jun nodded, Mo Zhigen pressed his forehead, gently pressed him to lie down, and chanted a few mantras, Hong Jun's heart gradually calmed down, under the effect of the medicine, his eyelids became heavy, and he fell asleep .
Mo Zhigen put away the medicine bowl and returned to Li Jinglong's room.
"How?" Li Jinglong said.
"He believed it." Mo Zhigen replied wearily and guiltily.
Li Jinglong frowned all the time, but never opened it. Mo Zhigen said again: "He admitted it himself, saying that he dreamed that there was a 'devil seed' in his body."
Li Jinglong was shocked when he heard this, and the two looked at each other for a long time.
Li Jinglong said: "What will he become?"
Confusion appeared in Mo Zhigen's eyes, he shook his head slowly, and replied: "You must find his adoptive father, Chang Shi, I don't believe they don't know that Hong Jun has this thing on him, this is far beyond your and my ability. "
Li Jinglong's breathing became heavy, and he couldn't help but spin for a while. He pressed the wall with one hand, tried to stand still, and said, "The situation last time should not happen again in a short time."
"It's hard to say." Mo Zhigen replied, "Obviously, the polluted white deer induced the seed in Hong Jun's body, which made him completely uncontrollable in the snow. The monster race must now I already know about this matter... I can't guarantee whether the white deer will induce the demon seed for the second time."
Li Jinglong said irritably: "Then tell me, Hongjun's body is a demon seed, what kind of demon is he, and who is polluting the white deer?"
"How do I know?!" Mo Zhigen was also restless, "We have too little information! Maybe there are two of this monster? Three? Or, the one in Hongjun's body is actually not what we thought... "
Li Jinglong turned and went out, Mo Zhigen said again: "Where are you going? He just fell asleep."
"Blow the air." Li Jinglong said, "Calm down for a while."
He stood in the yard for a while, then turned around and gently opened the door of Hongjun's room. He was dressed in white and walked in barefoot. Hongjun fell asleep on his side. Li Jinglong sat on the couch, staring at him blankly.
Hong Jun slept like a carefree child, with one foot sticking out of the quilt, his trouser legs were rubbed up, revealing his fair ankles.
Li Jinglong said in a low voice: "Hongjun."
Hong Jun couldn't hear it, so Li Jinglong lay down beside him, folded his hands in front of his abdomen, closed his eyes, his brows were full of anxiety, and gradually fell asleep.