"Tick."
A drop of water leaked from the crack in the cave and landed on the tip of Mo Xi's nose.
"… "
Mo Xi's eyelashes trembled slightly and slowly opened his eyes.
His eyes were a little distracted, and he didn't even know what day it was. For a while, he saw the chaos of the Bat Tower swaying in front of him, and for a while he saw Gu Mangmiao's back walking away in the dusk.
The heart was stuffed under the flesh, beating stuffily. Before that, it was almost destroyed to the point of stopping.
Mo Xi paused for a while, until his vision was no longer so blurry, he turned his stiff neck and looked left and right - he was lying in a cave, the cave was not deep, and he could see the starry night outside, a pile of firewood crackling The sound was burning vigorously, and there were three people sitting beside the fire pit, namely Gu Mang, Jiang Yexue, and Murong Chuyi. On the other hand, Yue Chenqing was lying not far from him, covered with Jiang Yexue's cloak.
Mo Xi had a splitting headache and closed his eyes in pain.
The memories before the coma were like electric flints, polished one by one in the brain.
In the past in the time mirror, Gu Mang carried Lu Zhanxing's corpse slowly away, and the old beggar's lotus flower rang out. With a sound of encirclement, the people were greeted like gods. Today's gold is gone, who will be restored, friends who are out of the group and hounds to cook...
And in the end, when they came out of the mirror, Gu Mang stood in the blood and rain, with a cold and cold face.
Mo Xi sat up abruptly, and the news reached the three people who were talking around the fireplace. Gu Mang was the first to notice it. He turned his head and met Mo Xi's eyes.
Gu Mang: "…"
Mo Xi: "..."
But Gu Mang's first words were not aimed at Mo Xi. He stared at Mo Xi for a moment, then turned to Jiang Yexue and Murong Chuyi and said:
"He's awake."
The other two immediately looked at him. Jiang Yexue walked in a wooden wheelchair and came to Mo Xi's side: "Xihe-Jun, how are you? Is there any discomfort?"
Mo Xi didn't answer, his heart pounding, still looking at Gu Mang sitting by the campfire.
After calming down, he was still stunned, dazed, and surprised by Gu Mang's sudden recovery—he even thought it was like a dream.
But when he closed his eyes and opened them again, it was still this cave, these people.
it is true.
The Time Mirror really stimulated Gu Mang's mind while taking Gu Mang back to the past, and actually gave Gu Mang a mind like yesterday!
"You..." Mo Xi's lips moved dryly, but his voice was hoarse.
Gu Mang glanced at him, and his blue eyes turned to the other side lightly. His expression was almost the same as that of the young man eight years ago in the Time Mirror, as if a thin layer of frost had formed.
Seeing that Gu Mang didn't answer, Jiang Yexue was afraid of Mo Xi's embarrassment, so he said, "Gu Mang is fine. Besides... when you were in a coma, he already told us everything about the memory recovery, you don't have to worry."
Mo Xi looked at Gu Mang, who was sitting by the fire pond without saying a word, across Jiang Yexue. Gu Mang's demeanor was very leisurely. They were all slightly torn open, which was the appearance of the military gangster back then.
Since entering the time mirror, Mo Xi has been stimulated too much before and after, and this last blow completely exceeded his expectations.
The moment Mo Xi realized that Gu Mang had regained his memory, he had a momentary sad and short-lived ecstasy. The ecstasy stemmed from the fact that they were finally jointly owned by the two of them in the past, but after all, it was only a fleeting moment. At this moment, he looked at him, and the violent pulsation in his chest cooled down little by little.
Gradually, this mood was crushed by the unknown, by anxiety, by being overwhelmed and by being confused.
He seemed to be thinking a lot in this fleeting moment, and it seemed that he had been tortured to the point of numbness and bruises all over his body, his mind was drowsy for a long time, and the final thoughts were like this - Gu Mang regained his memory, but it became less and less like what he had imagined. Senior Brother Gu, on the contrary, was very cold.
It was obvious that he was the first to notice that Mo Xi woke up, but he didn't get up, leaving Murong Chuyi and Jiang Yexue to handle it. He turned his face away and drank a cup of hot tea as if nothing happened.
Mo Xi looked at his silhouette, the heaviness in his heart deepened.
Seeing that he was silent for a while, Jiang Yexue only stared at Gu Mang in a trance, and said worriedly, "Xihe-Jun, are you alright?"
Mo Xi paused, took his eyes away from Gu Mang, and tried his best to calm down, "...Okay."
After a while, because he didn't want Jiang Yexue to see more, he made a mistake and asked, "...Where are we...?"
"It's still on Bat Island." Jiang Yexue replied, "It's too much trouble, Wuyan blocked the entire island, and we lost so much that we couldn't get out for a while."
"Who?"
"It's the female bat king of Bat Island. Her name is Wuyan."
Mo Xi said languidly, "...you're obviously a bat, how do you call yourself Yan?"
"Yeah, it's such a weird name." Jiang Yexue said, "When we entered the tower, Wuyan was in a critical juncture of retreating in the underground palace, so there was such a big commotion, and she never came out. Later, you ruined it. The clan who took over her entire tower, Chu Yi..." After uttering the name, she felt that something was wrong, and changed her words, "My uncle rescued Chen Qing from her secret prison again. After you fell unconscious, she just finished Zhou Tian and broke the barrier. Chase it out—fortunately, there is Gu Mang.”
Jiang Yexue said, and glanced at Gu Mang.
Gu Mang treats others politely, but he still grins at Jiang Yexue as if he hadn't defected.
Jiang Yexue didn't know how to respond, so she turned her face back and said, "Because Gu Mang can take care of himself, we can successfully escape and find this cave. But Wuyan is already mad, and now the whole Bat Island is full of whistling spells, and if you are not careful, she will find traces. I have placed a concealment spell here, which can be avoided for a while, so you don't have to worry about it."
Mo Xi raised his hand and pressed his throbbing temple, after a while, he turned his head to look at Yue Chenqing, who was still curled up in a sleeping room. However, after not seeing each other for more than ten days, Yue Chenqing lost a lot of weight, her originally round cheeks were sunken, and the lines of her cheeks looked particularly slender.
Mo Xi asked, "How is he?"
Just as Jiang Yexue was about to answer, she heard Gu Mang's voice: "If you have anything to say, come and say it. You can bake it and eat something."
There are thousands of scars and calluses all over my heart, but I still shudder in this slightly warm sentence.
Mo Xi raised his eyes to look at him, and just wanted to say thank you in a low voice, but the words were still in his throat, when he heard Gu Mang say again in a slow tone: "Or Xihejun is too delicate to walk. I'm on my way, need me to carry it?"
That thank you was instantly blocked. Choking in his throat, it was hard to even breathe.
He thought that they would be able to ease a little after they came out of the time mirror. At least he wanted to ease up with Gu Mang, he wanted to apologize to Gu Mang for his mistakes back then, and he wanted to try to ask Gu Mang the truth about that year.
But Gu Mang didn't think so. The hostility between Gu Mang's words was exactly the same as that of the former traitor who was loyal to the Liao Kingdom.
An unrepentant tone.
Mo Xi said softly, "Gu Mang..."
"Huh?" Gu Mang sneered, "Do you really want me to carry it?"
"..." Mo Xi's eyes darkened inch by inch, like a candlestick that was going to be extinguished after suffering for too long - Gu Mang extinguished the last light in his eyes.
Gu Mang's attitude after his recovery seemed to be yin and yang: "Mo Xi, you see that we are both like this, what else is there to talk about
Whatever the truth, whatever the past, hostile, we have no other choice.
Mo Xi gritted his teeth and got up, and despite the severe wear and tear, he walked to the fire pond. He gave Gu Mang a deep look, as if he wanted to speak, but in the end he turned his face away.
He sat silently beside Murong Chuyi, a place far away from Gu Mang.
Gu Mang naturally noticed the position he had chosen, smiled, but didn't say a word, as he turned the barbecue on the bonfire.
The silence around was uncomfortable, Mo Xi was silent for a moment, then turned to ask Murong Chuyi, "How is Yue Chenqing?"
Murong Chuyi looked very bad, and he lowered his eyes and said simply: "I have suppressed the injury for him, and there is no serious danger to his life. But he has been hit by the Bat King's worm, and I can't get rid of it."
Mo Xi was stunned. After listening to Shanyao's words before, Yue Chenqing was locked in a dark room with blood-sucking vines all over her body, but Shanyao did not reveal that Yue Chenqing was also hit by a Gu worm.
"What Gu?"
"I haven't seen it, it's a kind of gu poison that is not recorded in the cultivation continent. I forced the two high-level bat spirits guarding the dark room, but they didn't know much. I just said..."
Murong Chuyi paused for a moment when he said this, frowned in disgust, and coughed lowly.
Jiang Yexue came over and handed him a cup of hot tea: "Little uncle, drink some."
Murong Chuyi's face turned pale, she pushed the person away, and poured the tea on Jiang Yexue's sleeves.
Jiang Yexue: "..."
Murong Chuyi eased his shortness of breath due to coughing for a while, and then continued, "The only thing they say is that this Gu worm can wake up a corpse that has been drained of blood and become a living dead. Its appearance, voice, memory and even feelings, can be reshaped.”
Gu Mang was idle and bored, and played with the magic weapon bayonet in his hand. Then he put the bayonet into the fire as a tongs, and poked the flames even more vigorously. He heard the words: "Isn't this just killing a person, and then To create a new man from a dead body?"
"Indeed."
"What does the devil want to do?" Gu Mang turned the blade nimbly with his slender fingers, and asked while playing, "Who did she want to make with Yue Chenqing's body?"
"I don't know." Murong Chuyi said sullenly, "Those two high-level bat spirits are loyal. After I forced them to say these things, they exploded their spiritual cores and committed suicide. So I want to wait for the recovery. After some time, go to the island and catch a well-informed monster to ask."
He said, coughed a few more times, and said, "To relieve Yue Chenqing, the more you know, the better."
"...That's fine." Gu Mang simply said, "Then you don't think so. Anyway, I have a slave ring on my neck, and I can't run away. You guys haven't recovered yet, so I'll just go out and catch a suitable demon. Trial for you?"
Murong Chuyi raised her eyes: "...So kind. Why?"
"I just want to live better." Gu Mang smiled at Murong Chuyi, "I will help you save people now. In exchange, I would like to ask you gentlemen to do well and help, and don't say goodbye after returning to the city. Tell others about my memory recovery."
This remark was really unexpected, and the other three were a little silent.
"What are you doing looking at me like this?" Gu Mang turned the bayonet in his hand for the last time, and with a wave of his fingertips, it turned into a spiritual stream and dispersed into his palm, "Is this request very strange."
Jiang Yexue said, "Gu Mang, this is the crime of deceiving the king."
Gu Mang smiled. He was only angry with Mo Xi, who was so cold, and when he talked to other people, there was still some kindness between his eyebrows and eyes.
"I'm sorry, I know it's hard for you. But I can't do anything about it. If I let the other people in Chonghua know that I'm recovering, I'm afraid I'll be sent back to Luomei Bieyuan again, and the people who are looking for trouble for me will be one after another. Your Majesty will also take me for the Black Demon Trial, and torture me about my secrets related to Liao Kingdom."
Murong Chuyi's face was like ice and snow, and he said lightly, "Shouldn't you be treated like this?"
"I didn't say it shouldn't be." Gu Mang said shamelessly, "But I can always be afraid, right? Who would want to be killed all day long, or just lie in bed and wait to be raped..."
Such vulgar words naturally made Murong Chuyi's face turn blue: "You!"
Seeing this, Jiang Yexue tried to smooth things over: "If you don't want to go back to Meibieyuan, we will work together to protect you. But we can't hide it for you, and you should tell Chonghua the secrets of Liaoguo, which is what you should do. "
Gu Mang simply said, "I can't state it, I forgot."
"… "
Seeing the expressions of the three noble lords, Gu Mang said sincerely, "I'm sorry, I really forgot."
Mo Xi looked at Gu Mang's face across the bonfire, the organ in his chest was hurting too much, and gradually a bit of anger that was ignored was born. He closed his eyes, and the words between his lips and teeth were almost crushed: "Didn't you restore your memory?!"
"I didn't say that I remembered everything." Gu Mang said, "I've lost two souls, and no matter what, I won't be able to fully recover."
Mo Xi stared at him, the emotions in his eyes were clearly hatred and pain, but his thin face remained calm: "...How did you lose those two souls?"
The smile on Gu Mang's face faded. After a while, he said lightly, "Oh, this is also a part of my forgetfulness."
"… "
"Don't look at me like this, I really don't know how I lost my soul. Whether you believe it or not, if you don't believe it, you can use the soul-absoration technique to pour out your sins, whatever you do, you can ask. Count me as a loser."
Mo Xi turned his face away, and slowly squeezed his fingers on his knees. He was silent.
Murong Chuyi was always cold and calm, he didn't show any emotion, he only thought about everything Gu Mang said, and stabbed Yaoli again: "If you are afraid of being mistreated after returning to the city, why don't you just kill it right now. Are we running away?"
"Beauty, that's a good question." Gu Mang rubbed his chin and smiled, "As expected, cold and beautiful men are not easy to deal with. Xihe-jun is like this, and so are you, Mr. Murong."
Murong Chuyi: "..."
Mo Xi: "..."
Gu Mang smiled, his blue eyes swept across everyone in turn.
"In this situation, I seem to have a chance to kill someone and escape. Look at you guys, Brother Jiang is ill, and his spiritual power has been depleted too much. Brother Murong doesn't seem to be feeling well either. He was probably injured while rescuing his nephew. The younger brother of the Yue family didn't even wake up, it's easier for me to kill him than to kill a sparrow." His eyes finally fell on Mo Xi, but he just moved away lightly.
Gu Mang folded his arms and said with a smile, "My God, looking at it this way, it seems that I really can't justify not killing people and escaping for my life."
Murong Chuyi said, "So?"
Gu Mang flicked his fingertips and reshaped the bayonet Yongye. His behavior was sudden, but Murong Chuyi kept staring at him, and without hesitation, he summoned a golden talisman and instantly opened the protective barrier!
Gu Mang looked at the barrier, spread his hands, and said with a smile, "Look, isn't this over? If I kill someone, you will not fail to fight back. Even if I rely on my demonic energy, I have a chance of winning, but the spiritual core is broken. I may not be able to beat you guys. And even if I win, it will definitely hurt my vitality. When the movement attracts the female bat, am I going to lie down and squeeze a clay figurine for her?"
"..." Murong Chuyi stared at Gu Mang for a while, and the golden light between his fingers slowly extinguished.
He looked back at Yue Chenqing, who was still in a coma, and said, "Trust you once. You can help me honestly. After you go out, I won't say anything about your condition."
Gu Mang smiled and said, "It's useless for you to say it. Can you keep the mouths of your two lovely little nephews tight?" After a pause, his eyes finally swam to Mo Xi, who had been silent.
"And this Xihejun's mouth..." Gu Mang licked his upper teeth, still showing some details of the wolf dog's habits. He stared at Mo Xi's pale lips, his voice was low, sweet , "The most stubborn one. Brother Murong, please help me and ask him to see if he can compromise and cover up his two beautiful lips for me honestly?"
The author has something to say:
Yesterday, I saw a little friend asking why the vast memory of treason for 8 years was able to summon Yongye, that is because Yongye is a magic weapon, which is different from the summoning mechanism of Shenwu, and Murong Lian embarrassed him at the opening chapter. At that time, he had been summoned once because of the berserk, so even if he didn't have the memory of eight years of treason, he could still summon Yong Ye~~~
Ximei: How on earth did you lose those two souls, say!
Gu Mangmang: (Amnesia) I really can't remember, I try to remember, don't be angry QAQ
Ximei: How on earth did you lose those two souls, say!
Gu Mangmang: (recovers state) Beauty, your lips are very pretty, come on, let me take a closer look at Senior Brother, hey, hey? don't go-