Huqi Mountain, Frost Stone Room.
Gui Li silently watched Baguio who lay peacefully on the cold stone platform, the woman sleeping in the curling white smoke, there seemed to be such a smile on the corner of her mouth forever. Does she still feel it at this moment, but does she still know that there is someone guarding her side
Or, in her heart, she never regretted it, so she fell asleep so peacefully
Regarding these, Gui Li asked himself countless times, but he never knew the answer, and he didn't dare to think about it, but every time he thought about it, he seemed to suffer more.
However, his health is getting worse and worse now, although he has gradually comprehended the true teachings of Buddha, Taoism, and demons these days because of the practice of the three volumes of the heavenly scriptures. However, the demon power of the Blood-devouring Orb seemed to be wandering in his body every day, like a lingering ghost, waiting for the last chance to die with him.
Gui Li has been so familiar with that cold feeling for a long time, it has been with him since he was a teenager until now! Even if it is death, it will feel so cold and die!
He smiled wryly in his heart, and took a last look at Baguio. This was the third day he had been guarding Baguio alone.
"You have a good rest, I will come back to see you soon." Gui Li said softly: "Don't be afraid, your father and I are only leaving temporarily now, even if we die, I will meet again before I die." Came back to see you."
He looked at Baguio, smiled lightly, then turned and walked out of the ice room. Light smoke drifted like a veil behind him.
"Boom!"
The heavy stone door closed slowly behind him, and Xiao Hui, who had been waiting by the side for a long time, jumped onto his shoulder with a "swish". Gui Li stretched out his hand and gently touched Xiao Hui's head, nodded and walked out. Along the way, he reached out to the walls and corners, or turned many detours to fiddle with the mechanism. Along the way, all the mechanisms in the main hall of Huqishan Ghost King Zong were activated, and more than ten heavy stone gates fell down.
In the belly of Huqi Mountain, there are sounds of mechanism buzzing everywhere at this moment, but there is only Ghost Li in the figure, and the others followed the Ghost King to the Wilderness Temple three days ago. At this moment, Huqi Mountain was cold and lonely, Gui Li walked all the way out of the mountain, when the sun shone on his body and brought a trace of warmth, he couldn't help but tremble.
"Boom, boom..." The last stone door closed slowly, covering the huge mountainside, and there was also a faint "click" sound mixed in, Guili heard it in his ears, and knew that it was the sound of a mechanism kicking back. In the future, if someone doesn't know how to open the mechanism here, and just wants to attack from the outside, facing this huge rock weighing more than 10,000 jin, then he must be as good as a god.
The warm sun shone on his body, Xiao Hui stretched out his arms lying on Gui Li's shoulders, stretched his waist, and yawned. Gui Li turned his head to look at it, and said with a slight smile: "What's the matter, you look bored and drowsy?"
Xiaohui uttered "Zhizhi" twice, rolled his eyes on the monkey's face, then danced his hands and feet, pointing to the outside of the mountain. Gui Li smiled and said: "You are bored! Well, speaking of the desolation, there are not many trees, no wonder you feel uncomfortable."
Xiao Hui immediately nodded desperately, jumped off Gui Li's shoulder, screaming and dancing. Gui Li took a deep breath, looked back at the entrance of the cave where Huqi Mountain had already merged with the mountain, no trace could be seen at all, nodded, and said: "Okay! Anyway, we have to wait a month before going in to visit Baguio, let's take advantage of this time to relax around."
Xiao Hui was overjoyed, jumping up and down on the ground, grinning loudly. Gui Li was infected by it, and couldn't help feeling much better, he laughed and scolded: "Okay, don't come up yet, otherwise you can just stay here by yourself."
Xiao Hui shrank his head, came back with a "swish", and climbed onto Gui Li's shoulder in a few strokes, laughing hehe. Gui Li shook his head, there was also a smile on the corner of his mouth, he flipped his hand, the familiar cold feeling reappeared, Gui Li seemed to think of something, hesitated for a while.
Xiao Hui wondered why Ghost Li didn't fly away, squeaked twice, Ghost Li looked back at it, then smiled lightly, and said softly: "Life is lonely, why bother to think so much?"
Xiao Hui blinked his eyes twice, obviously he didn't quite understand the two words that Ghost Li suddenly said, but Ghost Li didn't say anything more, flipped his hand, a blue light appeared, and the Soul Eater Rod was thrown out, carrying Watching them, one person and one monkey, go straight up to the blue sky and leave Huqi Mountain.
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The closest and inhabited place to Huqi Mountain is a small town two hundred miles to the northeast called "Sanfu Town". The population of Sanfu Town is not large, but there are a few villages around it, which are barely considered lively. In the past, in order to keep secrets, the Ghost King Sect usually purchased food, drinks and other daily necessities not in Sanfu Town, but went to further towns to purchase them, in case the Righteous Way or other factions of the Demon Cult discovered the location of the main hall. However, before the disciples of the Ghost King Sect returned to the mountain, many people would go to Sanfu Town to rest for a while.
In the past, Ghost Li and Xiao Hui also passed through Sanfu Town, although the number of times was not many, but Xiao Hui was extremely clever and remembered it firmly. Right now, as soon as he came out of Huqi Mountain, Xiao Hui was desperately waving his arm on Ghost Li's shoulder, pointing at In the direction of Sanfu Town, I obviously want to go to Sanfu Town to drink and eat. Gui Li shook his head, but didn't say anything, turned around and flew towards Sanfu Town.
The distance of two hundred miles is not too far for a cultivator flying in the sky. Between the blue sky and white clouds, I saw a faint blue light flickering and flying, passing by.
Xiao Hui lay restlessly on his shoulders, tilted his head from time to time, and swung his long monkey tail back and forth, wondering if he was thinking about the delicious food he would enjoy later. Ghost Li manipulated Soul Devourer while looking down at his feet. Needless to say, the area around Huqi Mountain was a desolate barren mountain. Looking down, there is only a desolate ancient road stretching alone in the wilderness in the distance, and I don't know where it leads
Gui Li suddenly sighed, but he didn't say anything, but Xiao Hui was a little strange and looked at his master twice more.
After flying to the northeast for less than half an hour, they had already flown to the top of Sanfu Town. From a distance, they could see a series of houses below, one after another. Next pointing.
Gui Li smiled and said: "Alright, let's go down now."
The blue light flickered and made a sharp "hissing" sound in the air, falling from the sky and landing on the streets of Sanfu Town. But as soon as he landed, Gui Li frowned. Xiao Hui jumped off his shoulders, stretched out his hands and scratched his head, looked around, obviously also a little confused. After a while, it seemed that it also felt something, and its three eyes lit up at the same time, its mouth squeaked, and its expression was a little nervous.
The Sanfu Town in front of me seems to have become an empty town, most of the surrounding houses are still intact, only a few damaged places can be seen, but the people in the whole town have completely disappeared up. A deadly silence enveloped this small town.
Gui Li snorted, and somewhat understood in his heart, needless to say, the change here is probably due to the catastrophe caused by the beast monster. The people in the town either escaped to the north earlier, or if they escaped slowly, it would be difficult to avoid the fate of becoming food in the mouths of beast monsters. A good small town has changed into this kind of appearance. How many other towns are like this in the vast land of China
There is a wind blowing in the distance, blowing some wind and sand on the street. On such a warm day, the wind blowing in this small town seems to be cold. Xiao Hui still seemed a little uneasy, approached Gui Li, and looked around at the same time, Gui Li bent down, hugged Xiao Hui, and said in a low voice: "It's okay."
Xiao Hui blinked his eyes, seemed to be with Ghost Li, and also became quiet. Gui Li took a deep breath, raised his feet and walked forward slowly, Xiao Hui climbed onto his shoulder, stopped making noise, and quietly looked around.
In the small town, except for the sound of the wind, there was no sound at all. Gui Li walked slowly, and halfway through the street, he saw that some of the doors and windows of each house were closed, and some had their doors open. I don't know if it was broken into by a beast monster. go in. It's just that no dead bodies were seen along the way. It seems that the people here got the news in advance, so most of them fled to the north.
At this moment, a gust of cold wind blew through suddenly, and a crumbling door on the left side of the street fell with a "bang" and hit the ground with a loud sound, which echoed in the empty street. Ghost Li and Xiao Hui both turned their heads to look at the same time, and saw an arm lying powerlessly on the wooden board behind the door, motionless, and at the same time there was a faint smell of blood in the air.
Gui Li looked in that direction silently for a while, then turned his head and continued to walk forward, Xiao Hui lay on Gui Li's shoulder, but looked back at that arm from time to time.
Ghost Li has been to Sanfu Town several times before, so he knows a thing or two about the situation here. He walked slowly, silent for a long time, and then said: "I remember there is a tavern in front, let's go there! Maybe I can find you something to eat."
Xiaohui squeaked twice.
The sound of footsteps on the street seemed to be particularly loud at the moment, and the cold wind was blowing from behind one after another, and soon, along the street, they came to the front of the tavern. The tavern's sign had fallen from the lintel and was flapped over the door, gathering a layer of dust. Gui Li glanced at the unknown wooden plaque, stepped on it, and left a footprint on it.
Suddenly, Xiao Hui let out a low cry, staring at the inside of the tavern, Ghost Li's body also stopped suddenly. A moment later, there was a deep roar from the tavern.
Is it a monster? This was Ghost Li's first reaction, but the roar seemed somewhat familiar.
"Hey..."
Xiao Hui suddenly let out a scream, and rushed into the tavern, Ghost Li was taken aback, he didn't know why Xiao Hui suddenly became agitated, but Xiao Hui has always been very close to him, it can be said that he is his only partner, no matter what No matter what, he couldn't let Xiao Hui face the mysterious things in the tavern alone. Seeing that Xiao Hui was about to enter the tavern in a blink of an eye, Gui Li's expression changed, his figure swayed, and he had already chased him in.
The next moment, he appeared in the tavern. When he saw the things in the tavern clearly, he couldn't help being startled.
The tavern was in a mess, pots, pans and pans were thrown everywhere, debris piled up in piles, the original tables and chairs were also placed in a mess, a few of them were still intact, and thick dust could be seen on the tables and chairs. But in such a dilapidated tavern, on a relatively intact table in the middle of the tavern, there was a jug of wine and a few wine glasses, and a young man in bright silk clothes was sitting next to him, And in the open space between him and Ghost Li, a monster confronted Xiao Hui, it looked ferocious and terrifying, its roar was low and there was a hint of shock, it was the evil beast "Glutton".
It was actually the mysterious boy who met Gui Li that day in the wild mountains and deep forests.
Taotie stretched out his long neck, stared at Xiao Hui with four giant eyes the size of copper bells, but Xiao Hui's expression was not as nervous as it was at the beginning, but rather happy, and he squeaked twice. He grinned, walked forward slowly, but wanted to touch Taotie's head with his hand.
Taotie let out a low growl, apparently a little uncomfortable with Xiao Hui's action, Xiao Hui paused, blinked his three eyes, walked around the body of the gluttonous beast twice, from left to right, and then from right again to the left. Taotie's long neck turned, followed Xiao Hui's body around, and let out a few low growls from time to time, but it sounded like the hostility was getting smaller and smaller. Obviously, Taotie also had some feelings for this three-eyed monkey. Good impression, I just don't know if it's because it's rare to meet a guy who is as greedy as it, so I look at it so differently...
At this time, the young man also saw Gui Li, he sat still and didn't move, but his expression seemed to be startled, obviously he didn't expect to meet Gui Li here again. But he quickly returned to normal, smiled slightly, and nodded to Gui Li.
Ghost Li was no less surprised than that boy, and at the moment he was even more confused about the identity of this mysterious boy, to be able to appear in such a tavern in such a dead town, the origin of this person is self-evident, it is very strange.
At this moment, Xiao Hui was already close to Taotie, suddenly opened his mouth and smiled, stretched out his hand, and patted Taotie's rough head. Taotie let out a low growl, and stared at Xiao Hui with four eyes, looking ferocious, but Xiao Hui didn't seem to be afraid at all, instead, he thought it was very funny, and clapped his hands twice, making a strange and A funny "puff puff" sound.
Taotie seemed to have no choice but to take the monkey, snorted, like a person snorting helplessly, lay down, and ignored Xiao Hui. But Xiao Hui seems to like this strange monster very much, he moves close to Taotie, touches it here and there, it looks very affectionate.
The mysterious boy withdrew his eyes from the two spirit beasts, looked at Gui Li, and said with a smile: "It seems that they are very good!"
Gui Li nodded and smiled slightly.
The boy patted the chair beside him and said: "Actually, we two are quite destined! The sky is so big, and we can still meet here. Brother, why don't you come and sit down, let's have a drink and chat A few words."
Gui Li glanced at Xiao Hui and Tao Tie who were getting together, and saw that Xiao Hui's attention seemed to be on Tao Tie at the moment, and said calmly, "That's fine." After saying that, he walked slowly over, but Instead of being next to the boy, he took another chair and sat down on the other side of the table.
There was a faint smile on the handsome young man's face, he reached out and took a clean cup, put it in front of Gui Li, then filled it up for him, smiled and said: "Brother, come to this deserted and deserted town , don’t know why?”
Gui Li didn't answer, looked at the young man, and said in a deep voice: "Then what are you doing for?"
The young man smiled slightly and said: "I was passing by here, and saw that there were still a few cups of wine here, so I rested here for a while, and poured myself a drink."
Gui Li turned his head and glanced at Xiao Hui, said: "If I say that I also bring this monkey here to find a drink, do you believe it or not?"
The boy was startled, glanced at Xiao Hui, suddenly laughed out loud, and stroked his palms: "Believe it, why don't you believe it! Come on, come on, you and I have a drink, life is lonely, it's rare that there is a person who is destined, In the remote corners of the world, let's find a drink together."
After finishing speaking, he raised his wine glass to Gui Li, and drank it down in one gulp. Gui Li took a deep look at him, and slowly repeated that sentence: "Life is inherently lonely, hehe, life is inherently lonely..."
He suddenly laughed too, and that smile was full of vicissitudes of life. He raised his glass and drank it in one gulp. A hot smell of wine descended from the throat to the stomach. The wine in this remote town is actually quite powerful.
The boy smiled and said, "How?"
Gui Li raised his eyes, stretched out his hand to take the jug, added wine for the two of them, said: "Good wine!"
The young man smiled even more, he slapped the table, and laughed loudly: "Okay, it really is a good wine." Amidst the laughter, the young man's expression gradually became passionate, and suddenly he chanted loudly: "The old times, the vicissitudes have passed, do you remember? A sad person. White hair with withered lamps wandering around the world, once lonely for a hangover... "
After singing, his voice gradually turned desolate, and there was a bit of loneliness on his face. After singing, he bowed his head and was speechless, Gui Li looked at him silently, and drank the wine in the glass in front of him in one gulp.
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At night, the cold wind gradually picked up, and the sound of "woo-woo" sounded in the lonely town, like someone crying quietly in the distance.
The night was deep, and the darkness was like a tide, drowning the earth. The monkey fell asleep leaning on Taotie, and the ferocious beast was also lazily lying on the ground. In the tavern, there was darkness, Gui Li and that young man were sitting in the darkness, neither of them got up to look for a candle to light it up.
Perhaps they felt more comfortable in the dark.
After a whole day, they just sat face to face, occasionally said a few insignificant words, occasionally drank a few glasses of wine, and more often they seemed to arouse each other's thoughts, silently meditating, and recalling the past.
On such a cold night, in a remote place at the ends of the earth, the two strangers seemed to have known each other all their lives and got along indifferently.