The old Taoist priest who laughed loudly was naturally Master Jin. Ever since he heard what Lin Tantan said that day, he had been thinking about how to deal with Lin Tantan. He still couldn't see him or contact him, so he couldn't use ordinary means at all. So he could only take an unconventional approach.
He originally didn't want to do this. The formation in the records was extremely powerful, but it required human sacrifices and many people. It was a forbidden technique and too damaging to the harmony of heaven. But he had no choice.
So the next question was how to get so many people for sacrifice, so he left the Zhengyang base and spent several days looking for Brother Fei. Sure enough, this man was still there, and he still had a grudge against the people in the Zhengyang base. He only told him about his purpose and plan, and the other party immediately agreed.
Seeing the blood rising from the formation, Fei Ge, who was standing not far away and watching all this, showed surprise and excitement. He walked a few steps closer and asked loudly: "Master, did it really succeed?"
Master Jin stroked his scruffy beard and nodded mysteriously, but looking at the blood light that refused to dissipate above the formation, he narrowed his eyes slightly, then shook his head and said, "The other party is still resisting stubbornly. It will take just a moment."
Brother Fei was overjoyed.
To be exact, he had no hatred against Lin Tan Tan, and he had never even seen her in person, but he was happy to cause trouble and losses to the people in Zhengyang Base.
He has lost his home, so how can that group of people get better and better
Moreover, today is their wedding day. I believe this gift will be something Ye Xiao will remember for the rest of his life.
In this world, we are all destined to sink together. We don't need any wise and powerful leaders, nor do we need any pure land where we can settle down and live happily. Wouldn't it be good for us to be people without a tomorrow
At this time, the wedding scene was in chaos. Those injured by the self-explosion were still screaming in pain, and the bride on the stage had fallen down without warning.
It even caused an exclamation.
"Tan Tan!!!" Ye Xiao was right next to Lin Tan Tan and hugged her immediately, but still failed to stop her from falling.
Lin Tantan's whole body went limp, as if his soul had been taken away in an instant. He opened his eyes blankly and could no longer feel anything around him.
Ye Xiao's mind was completely blank. He called her twice in horror and immediately picked her up, "Hospital, yes, let's go to the hospital."
He thought in extreme panic, but he knew in his heart that going to the hospital was useless. Even so, he rushed out of the wedding scene.
The shaking of her body brought back Lin Tantan's little consciousness. She tried hard to gather her last bit of consciousness and strength, raised her hand tremblingly, and grabbed Ye Xiao's clothes.
Ye Xiao suddenly stopped and looked down: "Let's talk, are you okay?"
Lin Tantan's face was pale and blue. It was hard to imagine that a person's rosy and healthy complexion would turn so ugly in just a short moment. Her bloodless lips moved with difficulty: "Ye... Xiao, I'm probably... leaving."
Ye Xiao froze completely. He stood there for two seconds before he slowly put the person down on the lawn. He hugged her with trembling hands, his breathing unstable: "How could this be... Didn't you say before..." You even said you wanted to stay here with him.
It must be that the man's self-explosion just now caused something, and she had to leave.
He choked up softly in his throat: "Let's talk..."
Lin Tan Tan tried hard to smile, but she could no longer feel her facial muscles. Even controlling her lips and vocal cords was extremely difficult. She knew she was going to die, but she couldn't let him know that she was going to die.
She was worried that he wouldn't be able to accept the news.
She tried hard to grasp this last bit of time, her voice so weak that it was almost inaudible: "I'm sorry... My family... is there, I will be fine... You, don't be sad... I will, I will go... to find you in the history books... It's not easy for you to get to this point... Don't give up..."
Ye Xiao was completely speechless. The man who always bleed had tears in his eyes. He wanted her not to leave, but he also knew that it was not a question of whether she wanted to leave or not, but she probably had to leave.
He forced out a smile that was uglier than crying: "Don't worry about me. Say hello to my father-in-law, mother-in-law, and my brother-in-law for me."
Lin Tan Tan moved the corners of his mouth, trying to give him a smile, but he couldn't.
Her eyes were red, filled with attachment, reluctance, worry, and deep love, but in the end, they all turned into emptiness. She tried hard to turn her gaze away, looking at the people who had gathered around her at some point, and with difficulty found a familiar figure among them. Her eyes moved slightly, and she shook her head almost imperceptibly, then leaned on Ye Xiao's chest and slowly closed her eyes.
The second time she died, she had too many regrets in her heart, but at least, she had done what she wanted to do, met Ye Xiao, and changed his fate. She just didn't expect that this time, she would be the one who made him suffer.
She listened to his rapid heartbeat and his suppressed sobs, and for the first time she felt regret in her heart. If she had known this would be the result, she would have stayed away from him from the beginning, helped him from afar, been just friends, and even shouldn't have let him know of her existence.
She shouldn't ask for too much.
Otherwise, the departure at this moment will only be perfect, blessed, peaceful and without regrets.
Finally, the hands that were tightly clutching his dress on his chest loosened and fell onto the snow-white dress.
The veil and hair were blown by the wind, and the sunlight seemed to lose all its warmth at that moment, including all the colors in the world, which became dim.
Ye Xiao's body was as stiff as a sculpture. The next moment, strong winds blew around him, and the winds felt like cutting from a knife. He hugged the body in his arms tightly, and buried his head in the soft and warm neck. Tears rolled down his face one by one, and along with the sound of the wind, he could hear the low cries of a lonely animal that had lost its mate.
…
In a formation somewhere, the persistent red light finally dissipated bit by bit, leaving behind a formation rune that had lost its power and a pile of corpses. All the blood, including the blood, had been completely absorbed by the rune.
Master Jin couldn't contain his excitement: "It succeeded, it succeeded completely."
Brother Fei also laughed and immediately ordered people to clean up all the corpses and destroy the runes on the ground.
Revenge is one thing, but he has no intention of sacrificing himself, so of course he has to destroy the body.
It took these people an entire afternoon to clean up all the traces. They dug a hole and buried the body because they were afraid that the burning would make too much noise.
It was almost dark at this time. After much thought, Brother Fei decided to leave Liang City. There would be plenty of opportunities to cause trouble in the future. Now that Lin Tan Tan was dead, who knew if Ye Xiao would go crazy. Although he was confident that he would not be discovered, it was better to stay out of the spotlight.
However, who knew that he and his brothers had just started their work and had no time to escape before their secret base was discovered.
A group of murderous people and mutant beasts surrounded the area, and a few people walked in. When Fei Ge saw the people coming, he knew that everything was over.
Everyone who came had a murderous look on their face, and they looked at him as if they were looking at a dead person, or a private person who deserved to be cut into pieces.
Brother Fei recognized them all.
The one in the middle is Bai Cheng from Zhengyang Base, who is said to be Ye Xiao's first deputy and the actual manager of the base. He is not a combat type of person, but he actually went out in person.
The man on Bai Cheng's left who looks like he's killing someone should be Mei Baisheng, whose special ability is very special and powerful.
The one on the right holding a bloody sword is Xu Li. He has no superpowers, but is stronger than most superpower users.
He also saw a tall and strong man in the distance, holding a big cat in his hand. That was obviously Zhong Xiong who was in charge of the beast group.
These four people actually went out together. Brother Fei smiled and said, "I didn't expect that I could actually trouble four of you. It's really my honor, haha..."
Halfway through laughing, he felt as if his throat was being strangled. He stared at the last person who slowly walked in, reeking of death, and his face gradually turned pale.
When facing the four people in front of him, he could still act as if he didn't care and was ready to die. But when facing this person, for some reason, even the attitude of ready to die didn't work.
This man was intimidating when he was in high spirits before. He had never faced him head-on, but he had seen him deal with zombies.
That strength is truly the best among the best, completely irresistible, crushing, the kind that prevents anyone from even mustering the strength to resist.
At this moment, the man who seemed to have completely taken off his restraints was even more terrifying. There was no vitality in his eyes, only bottomless darkness, as if it condensed the destruction of the whole world.
Phineas took a step back uncontrollably.
Ye Xiao looked at the person in front of him without any emotion, as if he was looking at a ball of air.
Then-
whoosh whoosh whoosh.
What sound? Fei Ge was horrified and subconsciously took a defensive posture, but found that nothing happened. He put his hands down blankly, and suddenly felt something wrong with his legs. He looked down stiffly, and his trouser legs suddenly turned into a ball of powder and fell off, revealing his bare legs. Then, blood slowly flowed deep into the hairless skin.
When Brother Fei still couldn't figure out where the wounds were, suddenly, his legs exploded, and the flesh paste burst out like watermelon pulp. He fell down into the paste of flesh and blood, unable to react. The next moment, the excruciating pain that could not be expressed in words reached his mind. He howled miserably, almost blowing the roof off and alarming the entire city.
His brothers who were controlled were so scared that they pissed themselves and tried to escape, but when Master Jin was grabbed and brought back, he collapsed completely, his face twitching and he couldn't utter a word.
The people in front of him still looked indifferent. Ye Xiao just watched Brother Fei howling and rolling with his body in an inanimate way. All the flesh and blood on the ground were smeared on his body, leaving only the half of his body above the legs, which looked funny and ridiculous.
He turned his head indifferently and looked at Master Jin who was lying limp on the ground.
Master Jin's face instantly turned pale, his teeth chattering as he shouted in a timid tone, "What do you want to do? Just because you are strong, you can trample on other people's lives like this?"
At this time, Zhong Xiong walked in and said to Ye Xiao, "The mutant dogs dug a mass grave with at least 700 people buried in it. They all died today. The reason for death was that their necks were cut open, which matches the confession."
After he finished speaking, Bai Cheng asked, "You ask others not to trample on other people's lives, but you trample on them yourself?"
Master Jin gritted his teeth and yelled, "What do you know? Lin Tantan should have died long ago. She is just an evil spirit that took over someone else's body. As a cultivator, it is my duty to eradicate such evil spirits. Those people are people who cannot live happily. It is their blessing that they can play a role before they die. This is a good deed, and they will have a good life in the next life."
Bai Cheng sneered: "Oh? So Taoists also cultivate for the afterlife?"
Master Jin's face twitched and he was speechless.
Ye Xiao walked towards him, and he tried to shrink back in panic, but the two people who were restraining him held him down so tightly that he could not move.
Ye Xiao finally said his first sentence, his voice was hoarse and emotionless: "What exactly did you do to her?"
Although she said before she left that she would return to the original world, which was more than three hundred years later, Ye Xiao had no way to verify it. He was worried and couldn't let go. The only person who could give him an answer was the person who took action.
This matter is not difficult to investigate. Start with the person who blew himself up. Who is he and who has he come into contact with? It is easy to know that he has come into contact with Master Jin and others. There are still a few old Taoist priests left in the base. If we catch them and interrogate them, we can find out a lot of causes and consequences.
They were unwilling to participate in Master Jin's possible plan against Lin Tan, and just wanted to stay in the base to retire, but from their information, Ye Xiao also noticed Fei Ge's line.
In addition, some people discovered that some survivors have been missing in recent times, and someone saw blood in a certain place this morning.
With all the clues, it is very easy to follow the thread and then capture a few people to interrogate them, and we will know about the formation.
But those people only know one side of the story and not the other. If you want to know it thoroughly, you still have to ask Master Jin.
Master Jin was an old man, and he was devoted to his morality. He was even more determined than Lu Xin was back then. He managed to withstand the pressure and just sneered: "The person is already dead, why are you still asking this?"
The atmosphere suddenly turned cold.
Qin Han came out: "Chief, let me try."
Mei Bosheng couldn't help himself and rushed over, shouting with red eyes: "Let me beat him to death!"
"No need." Ye Xiao was unexpectedly not angry. He just raised his hand slightly, the wind tightened, and Master Jin's mouth was suddenly stretched open. The strong wind rushed into his body like a spirit snake, and went down along his throat.
In an instant, his esophagus and stomach expanded, and then air continued to be pumped into his intestines. He felt like he was sieving chaff, and he couldn't open his eyes and could only make vague sounds. At the same time, his stomach swelled up like a balloon, making him look like a toad.
"Ah! Ahh!" Master Jin struggled frantically. Puff, puff, puff, his stomach kept making the sound of something exploding. It was the sound of his intestines being burst by the air.
Master Jin screamed madly: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything!"
Qin Han was sweating coldly. The leader was so fierce that he felt creepy when he saw his tactics.
Mei Bosheng looked pleased.
Bai Cheng frowned, looking at Ye Xiao, whose face no longer had any expression, with deep worry in his eyes. Ever since... he has always been like this, even if he has been crying while holding a corpse, even if he is furious and decadent, Ye Xiao is too silent at this moment, like the silence before destruction.
It's very disturbing.
But when he thought of Lin Tantan, he felt sad and couldn't say any words of persuasion.
Ye Xiao finally stopped. Master Jin was dying. He said weakly, "I don't know what the formation is called. I only know that it was passed down from our ancestors to drive away evil spirits. It requires human sacrifices. The more people there are, the more powerful it is. I just tried it out of luck." He wanted to laugh but quickly suppressed it. He panted and said, "This shows that Lin Tantan is indeed an evil spirit. I am not wrong. Even if you torture me or kill me, it won't change that."
He suddenly raised his voice: "I'm not wrong!" As he said that, he opened his mouth and was about to bite his tongue to commit suicide, but before he could bite it, a force stopped him. Ye Xiao's face remained unchanged. He said: "So, the formation was successful, and the target of the formation was expelled?"
The suicide attempt failed, and Master Jin became dejected. He knew that he would not have another chance, and was afraid of Ye Xiao's ruthlessness. He grunted for a long time, but did not dare to say that the formation would most likely tear the evil spirit to pieces. What's the use of just expelling it? Of course, he had to cut the weeds and eradicate them completely.
Unless there is a flaw in the formation, it will only have an expulsion effect.
But the formation was obviously very successful.
But at this moment, he didn't dare to say that he had turned into a corpse. He just said in a rough voice: "That's right. I don't know where he was expelled to."
Ye Xiao, Ye Xiao's expression relaxed and he closed his eyes to hide the crystal clearness that suddenly appeared in his eyes.
That's good.
He felt a dull pain in his heart, but underneath this pain there was a sense of comfort.
Just be alive, no matter where you are, just be alive.
He opened his eyes, his expression returned to calm and cold, and he asked again: "How do you know her identity?"
"It was just a guess at first, but it was Lin Tantan who told me the truth."
Ye Xiao's expression changed slightly, and the others were also surprised. Master Jin continued, "It was that Lin Tantan, the original owner of the body."
Ye Xiao's face darkened: "Is she still here?"
…
Zhengyang Base.
The atmosphere today is particularly different. If the morning was celebratory, joyful, lively and jubilant, the afternoon was bleak, sad and panic-stricken.
In a heavily guarded room, two women were guarding a corpse on a coffin. Their original dresses had been taken off and replaced with soft and decent clothes. Their makeup was removed. The girl on the bed lay quietly with her eyes closed. Her body was stiff and cold, and her face was pale, which was no different from when she was alive.
The two middle-aged women sighed and said, "Dr. Lin was such a great man, but they didn't expect him to be gone just like that."
"I heard that they were attacked at the wedding. The leader was there, so many experts were there, how come..." A woman wiped her tears, "Doctor Lin is a good person, he saved so many people, how come there is no good outcome."
Another woman's eyes also turned red: "Yes, they were about to get married. I heard that the chief held her for a long time and cried in front of so many people. He refused to let go until she was completely dead."
"But I heard that after he became cold, he never looked at him again and never came here."
"Don't talk nonsense. It seems that the mastermind behind this has been found and they are out to arrest him. Many leaders have been dispatched."
"What's the point of catching him? He's gone."
At this moment, the forest garden was as quiet as a dead garden in the night. All the mutant animals went out to look for the person behind the scenes, including the swan mice that Lin Tan raised. Logically, there should be no one here at this time.
But there was a figure passing through the winding path in the night, moving back and forth in the woods, as if looking for something.
Finally, he stopped by the lake and looked up at the big tree that had grown very tall by the lake.
As if it knew that something had happened to the owner of the forest garden, this tree, which was brought down from the mountain and planted here by the owner, was particularly silent tonight. Its trunk, as thick as a bucket, seemed to carry endless sorrow, and the water drops dripping from the branches and leaves seemed to reveal a sense of sadness.
The man looked at it silently for a while, then sighed and said, "So it's here."
He was about to step forward when suddenly a light shone from a distance: "Who's there?"
The man stopped and turned to look over. When the person came closer, he sobbed and said, "Minister Xu, I, I missed Doctor Lin, so I came to see him."
Xu Qin saw clearly that the man was Xu Tianjin. She didn't know what his relationship with Lin Tan was, but they were definitely friends.
His expression eased a little, and he looked at the big tree with lush branches and leaves, his expression was heavy and sad. Who knew that something like this would happen suddenly? A good person was gone just like that. But it seemed that she had another origin and was not dead...
Xu Qin suddenly looked at Xu Tianjin, his eyes flickered slightly, and said: "It's late at night, don't stay here. By the way, have you gone to see them and have a talk?"
Xu Tianjin was stunned: "Isn't it that the mourning hall hasn't been built yet and we are not allowed to worship?"
"You are her friend, and she will be happy if you see her for the last time."
Xu Tianjin nodded with sobs, wiping tears like a child: "Okay, thank you Minister Xu."
So Xu Qin took Xu Tianjin to that room. Seeing the person on the bed, Xu Tianjin couldn't stop crying. He sat on the floor beside the bed and cried. The two women standing by also wiped their tears. Xu Qin stood silently at the door, closed his eyes and sighed softly. He looked at Xu Tianjin, but couldn't see anything. At this moment, he suddenly heard Xu Tianjin sobbing and saying, "Doctor Lin, how can you do this? It's not enough for me to send you once, and you want me to send you a second time."
The voice was too low, at least the two women didn't hear it, but Xu Qin heard it. Her eyes changed and she suspected that she had heard it wrong. What did this mean
He waited for a moment, but Xu Tianjin didn't say anything else. He cried for a while, wiped his tears, stood up, walked over to thank Xu Qin, "More Minister Xu."
As he said this he was about to leave.
Xu Qin wanted to ask something, but was worried that her question was inappropriate, so she didn't stop him.
Xu Tianjin walked out for a while and looked back in the night. His eyes were clear and calm, and he was completely different from the Xu Tianjin just now. He looked at Xu Qin's blurry figure and murmured: "The grass snakes and gray lines are hidden for thousands of miles. This is all I can do for you. As for whether they can grasp this clue, and whether they are willing to grasp it, it is not up to me to decide."
"To change your fate, you have to take the initiative. I fought for a chance for you once, but you see, it still ended up like this."
"You damned girl, you were afraid of hurting your lover, so you didn't dare to tell him the truth. Before you died, you shook your head at me and told me not to tell you. You made me, an old man, pretend to be crazy. But it was an accident. It would be useless if I told you on my own initiative. The so-called fate is that people step into that ending step by step through countless coincidences, accidents, and carelessness, isn't it? There can't be any deliberate human factors!"
He muttered to himself with a faint sarcastic smile on his face. He looked up at the dark sky above his head, as if he wanted to see something through the night sky. When he lowered his head, he became the crying and heartbroken Xu Tianjin again.
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