in the treatment room.
A slender man in black clothes was standing beside Gu Mang's bed.
He was holding a machete in his hand, the sharp blade was still dripping with blood, and the dark red blood beads fell drop by drop. And Gu Mang sat on the bed, looking at the man who was slowly approaching him through the translucent fog gauze curtain.
Perhaps it was because the memories of his life had already stimulated him too much. Gu Mang didn't have much expression on his face, and only stared at this uninvited guest with an almost cold numbness.
Suddenly Gu Mang said, "Why did you want to kill Murong Lian?"
The man in black paused: "...how did you know it was me?"
Gu Mang stared at him: "Liao Guo tempers me like a wolf beast, I have my own wolf beast intuition."
The man in black: "So it is..."
Gu Mang gritted his teeth and said, "So why did you kill him!?"
In fact, he didn't originally hope that the man could answer, but the man in black slowly stopped. Then a low muffled voice came from behind the black scarf that covered his face.
"You are mistaken. Murong Lian was indeed my hand, but he was not the one I wanted to kill, I was just entrusted by others."
"… "
"But I know very well why the person who wanted to kill him wanted his life." The man in black said, "Murong Lian knows too many secrets. If it were me, I wouldn't allow him to live in this world."
Gu Mang asked again, "What about me? Why did you spend this week to kill me?"
"You're still mistaken. I didn't mean to kill you at all."
Gu Mang stared at the bloody bayonet and said, "It's really convincing."
The man in black stroked the blade and smiled lightly: "If possible, I really want to take your life directly. It's the cleanest thing to do. It's a pity that it's not easy to do."
"If your Excellency broke into the quiet room of the deep palace privately, it would be difficult to get Gu's head."
The man in black smiled slightly: "...As expected, Murong Lian knows too much, but you know too little." But he didn't seem to want to explain more to Gu Mang. After all, the Chonghua Palace is full of masters. No matter how good he is, if it drags on for a long time and help comes, he cannot guarantee that he can escape smoothly.
So he said, "I am here today to tell you a secret that you have been puzzled by before."
Gu Mang narrowed his eyes slightly.
He somewhat guessed the intention of the visitor.
According to the national teacher of Liao Kingdom, his current body is like a container that has been covered with fine cracks. As long as the stimulation carried by him reaches a certain level, he will completely collapse and become a person completely swallowed by the breath of the black devil. The walking dead. The visitor did not intend to kill him, but planned to tell him some secrets, obviously intending to stimulate his mind again and destroy his heart.
Gu Mang sat up straight, a pair of dark blue pupils staring at each other.
It's not that easy.
Rumors destroyed, Murong Lian's serious injury, Aunt Lin's identity, his clan... so many storms had hit him, his memory was indeed chaotic and disintegrated, but at least he could maintain his consciousness. wide awake.
He knew that once he was swallowed by the black demon, the situation would spiral out of control, so he did not fall into the abyss.
But what secrets does the other party have to defeat him
In such a short moment, countless guesses passed through his mind, and those guesses became the armor he put on for himself in advance - he thought that no matter what the other party said, he would not be more stimulated.
Until the man in black said four words to him.
"The oath of catastrophe."
Before Gu Mang could understand the deep meaning of these four words, the instinct of beasts made a buzzing noise in his head, and his blood flow became cold involuntarily.
His lake-like blue eyes widened slightly, and he could sense that the city defenses he had built and the armor he was wearing would all be pushed to the ground by these four words. He intuitively knew that he should try his best to stop listening, but just like moths are attracted by the fire, knowing that there is no way to die, they will also murmur: "… what?"
"Have you never thought carefully about why Your Majesty asked Mo Xi to take over your remnants?" The words of the man in black pierced Gu Mang's eardrums like sharp needles, "Back then, Your Majesty wanted him to take over the role of Chi. Ling army, why do you think he, the purest nobleman, will eventually become the commander of your northern army?"
The chill escaped from his chest.
The man in black clapped his lips and teeth, and said, "It's because of the oath of calamity."
Like thunder. All five burn.
"Just after you stabbed him with your own hands, he knelt down in front of the Golden Palace for three days and three nights, dragging a sick body and begging for your remnant in Chonghua." The man in black said slowly, " He's so arrogant... At that time, he almost stepped into the dust. He once spoke for you in front of the court, and defended you, but what did you get in return? It wasn't your heartbreak. !"
"Do you know how many people laughed at Chonghua back then?"
"He had a lot of hatreds in the first place, and those nobles who were no better than him on weekdays came out to ridicule him, saying that he didn't know people well, that he was obsessed, and even that a traitor like you appeared in the country was caused by his lack of awareness. .They feel that if he could have recognized your face earlier, those innocent people would not have died in vain."
"They blamed both the defeat and the defeat on his head. On the one hand, it is the accusation of the country and the country, on the other hand, it is your abandonment of him, on the other hand, it is the hatred of the traitor, and on the other hand, it is your long-standing friendship." Hei. Yiren spit out every word and sentence so clearly that he wished he could turn it into a sharp needle, each needle piercing Gu Mang's soul.
"You think you are the only one suffering, do you have any suffering to say? When you are in hell, he is also in the cracks. It is better to die. The difference is that you go to hell to know what you are for, but he is in the cracks. You are completely confused. All of you are hiding from him, making choices for him, and ignoring his true feelings. Gu Mang…”
The voice of the man in black seemed to be drenched in poison between his lips and teeth.
"You forced him."
Gu Mang shrank back into the depths of the curtain as if stung by a snake and scorpion, his face pale as paper.
"It was you who refused to tell him anything and blindfolded him. You were afraid that his retention would shake your resolve, so you selfishly sent him to the border—yes, you were decisive, but You don't even have a chance to let him say goodbye to you!"
"No... No..." Gu Mang hugged his head and huddled in the depths of the tent, "No..."
"Why not? Why not? Gu Mang, you have put out all his faith, dignity, and light. Just because you thought he would follow the path you arranged, you will live a life of innocence and peace of mind. . How stubborn you are!"
Severe pain split his head, Gu Mang curled up like a trapped beast, and mourned in a low voice.
"It's not like this... I don't want him like this..."
"What if you don't want that? It's the truth." The man in black sneered, "Because of your concealment, Your Majesty was able to threaten you with the lives of the 30,000 remnants for the second time. The first time you were threatened. As a spy, the second threat to him must not be reversed."
"The oath of calamity." The man in black said maliciously and listened to him.
"For a person who he thought left him forever, your Xihe-Jun cut his lifespan by ten years, and made an oath not to betray the emperor or Chonghua."
"Gu Mang, when you complained to him, did he tell you all this?"
Well-informed sentences.
But it was like a tanning whip that had been slapped on Gu Mang's body, causing him to tremble all over, his lips trembling white.
I don't know if he told you all this.
In front of him, Mo Xi's deep and handsome face seemed to appear again. When his long eyelashes fell, he covered all the ruins in his eyes.
Mo Xi pressed his forehead and whispered to him, "Senior brother, it's alright, it's all over. We have a lifetime left."
At the risk of his spiritual core being broken, he discovered the truth of Gu Mang's treason. He took Gu Mang to swim ashore, heard Gu Mang's pain, understood Gu Mang's sadness, and promised that no matter what happened next, he would be with Gu Mang. bear together.
The only thing he didn't show him was his wounds.
The only thing they didn't tell Gu Mang was that their whole life was actually no longer complete. Those ten years of Yangshou had long since become an oath to protect Gu Mang's remnants without the knowledge of few people.
"You know what the funniest thing is."
The man in black saw Gu Mang's pain on the verge of collapse, and took a step forward, his eyes filled with malice.
"The most ridiculous thing is, Gu Mang. His oath was made in vain at all. You and Your Majesty promised something early in the morning, but let him know nothing like a fool, so anxious that he can't sleep at night. In fact, even if If he doesn't make this oath, will Your Majesty really embarrass your remnants? No way."
He gurgled out his venom and stabbed into Gu Mang's muscles.
He was winning, and he could see from Gu Mang's expression how chaotic and collapsed Gu Mang's mood was at the moment.
Like a spider, wielding its eight pincers, he paced from the finely woven web to the prey trapped in the web. The last blow was like a sap shot down—
"The clever plan that you guys worked together to rectify, the first one was him. Gu Mang, if I am any relative who feels sorry for Mo Xi, my greatest hope is that he won't meet you in his life."
It was as if the porcelain surface was cracking finely, making a disturbing shattering sound.
"You hurt him badly."
As if the bowstring snapped, Gu Mang groaned in pain, his forehead slammed between the mattresses, his back was arched, his fingers were buried in the bun, and his throat was whining like a beast.
The oath of catastrophe.
The oath of catastrophe... ! ! !
Years ago, the wind in the school grounds seemed to have picked up again, the white birches rustled, and the beautiful young man who was holding the dumplings under the tree and biting in small bites noticed his gaze, stunned for a moment, and turned his eyes to look at him quietly.
Those dusty black eyes.
That young man, whom he thought was rare when he first met him... eventually became the first fallen chess piece on their chessboard, but he still didn't know it.
"Xihe-kun, Wangshu-kun, Lu Zhanxing... Gu Mang, you think that the sacrifices of these people have nothing to do with you, but you are wrong. When you became the king's arm and planned for your justice, they all It's become a chess piece in your hand. You never... never try to take yourself out."
After saying these words, the man in black put a small jade slip in front of Gu Mang's couch.
He glanced outside calmly.
He knew that he couldn't stay any longer, and there was already a strong spiritual force coming in the direction of Jingshi. He had to leave now.
But he was confident, he knew that it would be extremely difficult for Gu Manding to withstand this blow, not to mention that he managed to steal the jade slip that recorded this cruel past and handed it over to this man who was on the verge of collapse.
The man in black said in a low voice, "If you don't believe what I said, Yu Jian can't be fake, so take a good look at how miserable your wrong decision made him."
After he finished speaking, he put the knife back into the sheath, and before Mo Xi and the others arrived, the lightning swam up to the eaves and disappeared quickly.