Mu Qin smiled contemptuously: "There are many ways to deal with me? Come on! Just come on! You can try as much as you want, as long as you can kill me!"
Faceless Man actually had nothing to do with Mu Qin's solitary and indifferent attitude. He emphasized to Mu Qin: "As long as you are obedient, I will not hurt you."
Mu Qin satirized him: "Good boy? Sitting on this chair as your doll? What do you think of me?"
"I just want to be with you, Mu Qin..." The faceless man held Mu Qin's hand.
"Yeah, we sat in this chair in a daze, cursing each other with the most malicious language, this is what you call 'together'!" Mu Qin almost sneered.
He really laughed out loud: "Haha! Seriously, I don't understand what you mean at all, I just think you're boring and have nothing to do so grab me to be your big doll? How old are you? Difficult Are you not weaned yet?"
Mu Qin made all sorts of cynicism, and his tone was extremely unpleasant. What's interesting is that the Faceless Man didn't make a sound to refute. The Faceless Man just held Mu Qin's hand tightly, lowered his head slightly and said nothing.
Mu Qin narrowed his eyes: "Why do you want to be with me? Do you like me? Do you love me?"
This sudden question seemed to make the Faceless Man stunned for a moment. He was stunned for a moment, then raised his head to look at Mu Qin, still unable to squeeze a single word out of his mouth.
"It seems that you don't love me." Mu Qin easily saw through his attitude, "You just regard me as someone's substitute."
"You said you were Ashin, but I don't think it's like that at all." Mu Qin continued, "Judging from the memories you revealed to me, Ashin doesn't have that kind of thought about his brother at all, he is a straight-forward heterosexual , what he likes is a good girl who is gentle, beautiful and kind."
Mu Qin couldn't help bringing his face closer to the Faceless Man, staring at him with wide eyes, "You actually look more like Ashin's brother, Mu."
"I'm not Amu." The Faceless Man finally retorted.
Mu Qin smiled: "Maybe you really think that you are not Amu, but it may also be that you subconsciously want to escape, for example... you want to evade your responsibilities as an older brother, your identity as an older brother, and yourself as Amu. You Maybe you feel that becoming Ashin will make you more relaxed and happy."
"Shut up!" The Faceless Man was irritated by Mu Qin again as expected, this time he no longer stretched out his hand to pinch Mu Qin's neck, but pinched Mu Qin's mouth, making Mu Qin unable to continue speaking.
Mu Qin didn't speak or move. He closed his mouth and was still pinched by the other party. The faceless man pinched for a while, then slowly let go of Mu Qin's mouth.
After the faceless man let go, Mu Qin naturally reached out and rubbed his cheek.
The faceless man no longer wanted to face Mu Qin's endless sarcasm and provocations, especially Mu Qin's mind was extremely sharp, and every word turned into a sharp knife pierced the heart of the faceless man with incomparable precision. So before Mu Qin spoke, the faceless man stood up and tried to leave, turned around and disappeared as before.
But this time, Mu Qin kept him, and when the faceless man got up, Mu Qin stretched out his arm and grabbed the corner of the faceless man's clothes.
"Don't run, Mu." Mu Qin knew that the Faceless Man must not escape this time. One is that Mu Qin was worried that after the faceless man left, he would find trouble with Zhou Yue. The second is that Mu Qin must get the information he needs from this guy.
Mu Qin wants to escape from the throne and the map of the throne, escape from the fringe world, and get rid of this faceless man who haunts him inexplicably. He wants to return to the present world alive and meet Zhou Yue alive.
"Don't call me Amu, I said..." The faceless man responded with a gloomy voice.
"You said you're not Amu." Mu Qin interrupted the other party and laughed, "But you never told me who you are."
"I'm Ashin." The faceless man said sullenly.
"Don't be like this, everyone can see through your stupid lie." Mu Qin changed the subject and tried to soften the other party's attitude. He knew that it was not a good choice to keep fighting each other. At the right time, he needed to follow the other party's direction. Meaning, "Okay, I'll take you as Ashin."
Hearing this, the Faceless Man finally gave up the idea of leaving, and looked back at Mu Qin: "Will you stay by my side obediently?"
"If you tell me why you want to keep me by your side, I can consider your request." Mu Qin lowered his voice, appearing very gentle, "I'm special to you, right?"
"You are indeed special." The faceless man turned to face Mu Qin, "You are very special... Mu Qin."
"Then are you willing to make some sacrifices for the special me?" Mu Qin's voice was very soft, a little bewitching.
"What do you want?" the Faceless Man asked.
Mu Qin shook his head: "No, I should ask you this question... What do you want?"
"I want you to stay here," said the Faceless Man.
"This answer is too general, we need to be more specific." Mu Qin said bluntly, "Since you want to keep someone, you have to give him a passable reason, right?"
"You have to know that if I stay in the marginal world forever, it means that I have died in the real world." Mu Qin said, "In order to stay here, I have to pay the price of death."
"Since you want me to pay such a huge price, but you don't want to tell me anything, and you don't want to give me anything, it's... too shameless for you to do this."
The Faceless Man understood what Mu Qin meant: "You want to know the truth."
"I have the right to know the truth," Mnuchin replied.
The Faceless Man seemed to have considered it carefully, and said to Mu Qin after a while, "I should really tell you the truth, but dictation is too troublesome... Just show it to you as before."
After the faceless man finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to grab Mu Qin's throat again. He didn't pinch too hard, but Mu Qin still lost consciousness instantly.
Mu Qin, who lost consciousness, fell into the memory shown to him by the Faceless Man.
Before Mu Qin, the reason why he was able to dream about the past of the two brothers A Mu and A Xin. In fact, it was all caused by spying on the memory of the faceless man after contacting the faceless man.
The wandering ghost in the library, and Jin who has been brainwashed by the faceless man for a long time. They can all spy on some of the Faceless Man's memory through "spiritual contact" with the Faceless Man, but what they can spy on is limited, and the Faceless Man doesn't mind their prying.
The faceless man's memory is quite large... Rather, he actually has the memories of many, many people at the same time.
For every player who dies in the marginal world, their spirit, memory, and even part of their personality will be swallowed and digested by the Faceless Man.
Yes, the dead players in the fringe world will become the "food" of the Faceless Man, which makes the faceless man's spirit and consciousness grow bigger and bigger, making everyone who notices its existence feel creepy … huge monsters.
But constantly devouring the spirit and memory of these people has also brought a negative impact on the faceless people. For example, when a faceless man invades other people's minds, if the invaded person's spirit is strong enough, that person can in turn spy on the faceless man's memory, just like Jin and Mu Qin.
It's just that this side effect is harmless, because the "memory" of the faceless man is too large, and what is spied on is only the feathers and horns. No matter how bad it is, the Faceless Man can completely erase other people's memories.
It's just that the negative effect is not only this.
More often than not, the Faceless Man is actually very confused, because he can't tell who he is.
Is he Ah Mu...or Ashin
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On the other hand, Muchin was immersed in the memory shown to him by the Faceless Man, returning to Estonia in 1721.
During this sensitive period, the relationship between Estonian aborigines and Russian colonists was in dire straits. As a Russian, Menshak held an adult banquet for his two adopted sons in his manor and invited most of the people in the village. Come to participate, and the village is basically full of Estonian aborigines except for the Menshak family.
Most of the rumors and gossips that have arisen in the village recently are aimed at Menshak. Menshak intends to use this banquet to clarify one by one, hoping to take this opportunity to regain the trust of the villagers.
When preparing for the banquet, in addition to arranging the venue, Menshak also made a lot of mental preparations. He even wrote a speech for himself, and filled the notes with various precautions. He expected that he might be ridiculed by some villagers Criticism, there must be malicious people against him.
Menshaq was prepared to deal with this, but he still never expected that a third party would appear at this banquet.
A group of rogue pirates who entered from the nearby bay suddenly appeared in the village.
When the bandits entered the village, most of the villagers had already left for the banquet at Menshak Manor.
When these vicious men carried knives and guns and entered the village blatantly and swaggeringly, no one noticed their invasion at all. Everyone gathered in the courtyard of Menshak Manor, attracted by the food and wine glasses prepared by Menshak with.
As the protagonists of this banquet, Amu and Ashin have already put on their dresses and are standing in the hall of the manor waiting for the guests. Before the banquet officially started, Ashin's gaze was caught by Su Lier who also came to the banquet. Attracted.
The beautiful Su Lier took off her capable hunter military uniform and put on a gorgeous long dress dress, which her father specially saved money to buy in the town, which made her immediately become the object of attention of many boys at the banquet .
Ashin's gaze was also deeply attracted by her, thinking that he had made a bold promise to confess to Su Lier on the day of the banquet, but when the matter came to an end, he hesitated and became frightened.
In order to be bold, when a waiter with a wine tray passed by his side, Ashin reached out and took a glass of brandy from the waiter's plate. Drunk.
As a result, as soon as the wine was poured in, Ashin choked on the spicy wine, and Ashin spit out all the good brandy, and even wet the white gift scarf on his chest.
A Mu had no choice but to wipe him with a tissue: "Ashin, if you don't know it, don't drink it."
Seeing Ashin's embarrassment, some young people next to him gloated and pointed at the two brothers and laughed.
A Mu glanced at those laughing people with sharp eyes, and was swept away by A Mu's cold gaze, those people quickly fell silent and turned their backs.
Amu then turned his head, held his younger brother's hand and said to him: "Your clothes are wet, it doesn't look good, go into the house and take off your coat, let the servant clean it."
Ashin nodded obediently, and was dragged into the back room temporarily by Amura.
But the brothers didn't know that something happened outside soon after they entered the back room.
Seeing that the village was empty and the doors of the houses were closed tightly, the invading pirates led their brothers along the village road for a while. Halfway through, a pirate with a burn scar on his face ran back from the front of the team and said to his leader, "Boss, the manor in front is brightly lit, and the people in the village must have gathered there!"
The leader of the pirates spat on the ground and said, "Brothers, are you hungry? We just escaped from the sea, and we haven't had a good meal for several days, and this group of people is still having a banquet here? Kill them and kill them." Kill them all!"
When the pirate leader gave an order, a group of desperadoes immediately raised their weapons and responded. A few of them rode horses they had snatched from nowhere, and rushed towards Menshak Manor first, and the rest followed closely behind. superior.
The guests in the manor were all immersed in the drinking and drinking, and no one noticed the approaching danger.
When these villains rushed through the door and cut off the head of the first person with long knives, the guests let out high-pitched screams after a brief silence, and immediately scattered and fled in all directions.
However, the bandits who rushed into the door had already expected that the people in the banquet would flee, so they had already sent people to the back door of the manor to intercept them.
Because the way of retreat was cut off, the Menshak Manor was in a mess. Powerless women and children gathered together, and the men tried to pick up objects that could be used as weapons to resist the invading villains.
Once the battle broke out, it immediately fell into a stalemate.
At this time, the two brothers Ah Mu and Ashin were still in the back room, and Ashin had just handed over his wine-soaked clothes to the servant for drying. After the servant left, Ashin changed into the temporary coat in the room, while Amu waited outside the door for his younger brother to change and come out.
Both brothers heard screams and cries from beyond the manor courtyard.
Ashin quickly put on his clothes, opened the door and glanced at his brother who was guarding the door, and asked, "Brother, what happened outside? Why is it so noisy?"
"I don't know." Amu didn't know what happened, seeing that his younger brother had already changed his clothes, he said, "Let's go out and have a look."
Ashin nodded and was about to go with his brother when their adoptive father, Menshaq, rushed in from the door, his face full of tension and urgency, and he shouted the names of the two brothers, Ah Mu and Ashin.
"Father!" The two brothers responded to Menshaq's call in unison, and Menshaq waved to the two of them: "Come here! Something happened outside! The pirates who entered the country landed at Sharon Pier next door and ran into our village coming!"
"Pirate?" Hearing the word pirate, Amu and Ashin looked at each other in fear. There was indeed a small pier near their village, and the pier was next to a bay. The bay was an endless sea.
Amu and Ashin often went to the beach with Menshaq to play when they were young, but recently they can no longer go there often. It is said that many deserters in naval battles became pirates and fled in the nearby waters. During this time, fishermen did not dare Go to sea again.
No one thought that these fugitive pirates would invade Sharon Wharf and land in Estonia.
"Listen, children. The purpose of those pirates is to rob our village. They blocked the gate and back door of the manor..." Menshak has rich experience in dealing with such things. In his early years, he visited countries all over the world, He has also participated in some local wars, and has walked on the tip of the knife of death countless times, so he appears very calm in the face of attacks.
"When I built this manor, I considered that something unexpected would happen, so I had the workers build an escape route in my study, which led to the nearby forest - where Taya and his daughter often went hunting. That forest."
Menshaq explained to the two children as concisely and quickly as possible: "Now, the men outside are taking up arms to resist those pirates, and I want the women and children to leave along the passage first. After leaving, you must Go to the nearby town as quickly as possible, ask for help from the Russian troops stationed there, and let them send troops to encircle and suppress these pirates!"
Compared with the mature Menshaq, the sixteen-year-old children obviously couldn't calmly deal with this sudden situation for a while. Ashin trembled and said to Menshaq: "Dad, what about you? You won't come with us !?"
"I can't." Menshak reached out and rubbed Ashin's head, "I am the owner of Menshak Manor, and I must stay here."
"But... Dad!" Ashin couldn't accept it. He grabbed Menshaq's sleeve and said worriedly, "What if something happens to you... What if..."
Menshaq stopped talking nonsense with Ashin, and turned to look at the more stable Amu: "Amu, take good care of your brother, I believe in you!"
"Don't worry, father." Amu stretched out his hand and held his younger brother's hand.
Menshaq nodded to Amu with relief: "There is a small statue of a snake wrapped around a cross on the bookshelf in the middle of my study. Twist that, and the secret door of the study will open. You go there first, and I will let Hull Dr. Qiu took the other children and left through the secret passage."
After explaining the matter, Menshaq turned around and left towards the outside of the house. At this moment, all three of them could hear the screams coming from the courtyard of the manor, the sound of gunshots, and various percussion noises during the scuffle.
"Hurry up!" Menshak shouted to them, picked up the shotgun hanging on the wall in the living room of the house, and strode out of the door of the house.
Ashin was still reluctant to part with Menshaq, while Amu held his younger brother's hand tightly, pulled his younger brother and turned around, and walked to his father's study.
"Wait!" Ashin looked at his brother in disbelief, "Did you leave Dad like this?"
"Otherwise? Shall we follow to die?" Amu held his younger brother's hand even tighter, "Don't be willful at this time! Do as father says!"
Even though he felt something was wrong in his heart, Ashin didn't have the ability to refute. He lowered his head anxiously and let his brother Amura drag him to the study. They quickly arrived at their father's study, and within seconds they quickly found what the father said - a figurine of a snake wrapped around a cross on a bookshelf.
"It should be this..." Amu twisted the small statue, and the bookshelf opened automatically in response to the sound, revealing the secret passage hidden behind the bookshelf.
Amu stood at the entrance of the secret passage and looked inside, only to see that there was a dark staircase leading down to nowhere.
After opening the secret passage, Amu quickly found an oil lamp, two fur coats belonging to Menshaq, and some biscuits on the desk tray, wrapped them in oiled paper and put them in the coat pocket.
Put on the coat by yourself, and then wrap another coat around your brother. A Mu held the oil lamp in one hand and A Xin in the other hand and both walked into the dark secret passage.
I don't know what kind of mechanism it is. After the two entered the secret passage, the secret passage door automatically closed behind them. At the same time, it also completely cut off the light leaking from the study. After the secret passage door was closed, Amu did not find any other mechanism in the secret passage that could open it again.
Ah Xin said in surprise: "Why did the door close by itself? If so... Dad, can they still escape from the secret passage?"
"The organ should only be opened from the study room, it can only be exited but not entered, so we can't go back after we come out." A Mu judged this way, and then comforted his younger brother, "Don't worry, father has traveled all over the world. He has also been on the battlefield, so he survived, how could he easily die in the hands of a few pirates?"
What Ah Mu said made Ashin relax a little, and then Ah Mu continued: "Let's go first. This road is too dark and too narrow. Doctor He Erqiu will bring other children to catch up with us later. , so many people squeezed in together, it would be very troublesome to leave, let's go to the exit of the secret passage and wait."
After all, the two of them bit the bullet and began to grope forward in the secret passage. The pitch-black passage was invisible, and Amu tried his best to hold the oil lamp high, and walked slowly down the stairs of the dark passage according to its faint light.
The underground passage seems not to be well repaired, the corners are supported by wooden brackets, without any decorations or lights, and the stairs are also very simple - the shape of the stairs is dug directly from the soil, irregular and a bit uneven .
When the two brothers walked all the way down the stairs, they found that there was water under the stairs. Fortunately, the water was not deep, it just covered the soles of their shoes, and there was a splashing sound when they stepped on it. The leather boots they wear are waterproof to a certain extent, so that they will not run with wet feet.
But this secret passage was too long and too cold. Although Amu had the foresight to find Menshaq's coat and put it on in advance, the cold air still penetrated through the collar and sleeves of the clothes.
Because of the cold, Ashin instinctively leaned against his brother, shoulder to shoulder and walked slowly.
When Ah Xin posted it, Amu turned his head and gave him a gentle look, then reached out and hugged his younger brother's shoulder.
"Is it cold? Don't worry, we'll be out soon."
The two brothers are similar in size, but for some reason, in the eyes of Ashin, his elder brother Amu always looks taller, which makes people feel a little dependent.
"Brother." After walking for a while in the cold and dark passage, Ashin couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you call Dad 'Daddy'?"
This question seemed to make Amu stunned for a moment, then he smiled and said, "Didn't I also call Dad when I was young?"
"But when you grow up, you only call 'Father'." Ashin lowered his head a little sadly: "I thought you had some conflict with your father, but after observing for a while, it seems that there is no... Dad doesn't seem to care about it at all. question."
"That's just a title, Ashin." Amu panted slightly holding the oil lamp, "It doesn't mean I don't care about my father."
"The title 'Dad' is more intimate." Ashin thinks so.
"But 'Father' is more respectful." Amu raised the lamp in his hand higher, and he seemed to see the end.
The two finally reached the end of the dark passage, and at the end of the dark passage was another staircase going up. When they raised their heads, they could see a faint light at the top of the stairs, and they could also hear the sound of the breeze blowing into the dark passage.