After that burst of nonsense, I don't know whether Zhang Xiaofan's body was originally strong, or Baguio's persuasion had an effect, the high fever that had been going on and on gradually subsided, Zhang Xiaofan also slowly recovered his mind, and he became sober, but the condition of the disease Still not light, mostly lying down and resting.
On this day, Baguio wandered around in the cave with nothing to do, and finally walked to the four words left by Mrs. Jinling, looked at them carefully, and couldn't help sighing. Sitting next to him, Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help asking: "What are you sighing for?"
Baguio snorted, and said: "I sigh for Madam, she is so talented and beautiful, but she is let down by you stinky men, it's not worth the pain for a lifetime!"
Zhang Xiaofan was dumbfounded.
Baguio read these few sentences carefully again, and suddenly let out a "huh", but found something strange, the last word "bitter" in the last sentence of these four sentences, and the following "mouth" The words actually sunk in deeply, which was quite different from other words. When she rolled her eyes, she reacted almost immediately. She reached out and picked up the acacia bell on her waist for comparison. It was indeed the right size, and she couldn't help but let out a cheer.
Zhang Xiaofan asked in surprise from behind: "What's wrong?"
Baguio turned around and smiled at him, "It's saved!"
Zhang Xiaofan was startled, he regained his spirit immediately, and said joyfully, "Really?"
Baguio embedded the bell, but seeing no response, she tried to turn left and right again. After a while, suddenly there was a sound of "Kaka" in the cave, and the stone wall shook. With a sound of "Boom", the original smooth stone wall collapsed, exposing the inner layer, on which words were engraved like a scripture in the inner room.
Zhang Xiaofan was overjoyed at first, but after looking around the stone wall, his expression gradually turned ugly, it seems that this mechanism was just set up by Mrs. Jinling to cover up the words on the stone wall, there is no way out, this time he was extremely depressed.
But Baguio was staring at the words on the stone wall, the things left by Mrs. Jinling, and hidden so closely, must be something unusual. After a long time, her face was cloudy and uncertain, but she sighed heavily, and said in a low voice: "So this is the 'Curse of Infatuation'."
Zhang Xiaofan was impatient at the side, came over to take a look, but saw that the first few words were:
〖Nine ghosts, gods and demons of the heavens,
Take my blood as a sacrifice.
Three lives and seven lives, eternal fall into hell,
Just for the sake of love, even if you die, you will not regret it...〗
He knew at a glance that this was a vicious spell in the evil way, but seeing Baguio's expression, he was mostly happy, and couldn't help snorting, saying: "Is there any way out here?"
Baguio was stunned, and said, "No."
Zhang Xiaofan said indifferently: "Then what's the use of learning it?"
Baguio remained silent, before saying after a long while: "You don't know the origin of this infatuation curse, this curse has been handed down from ancient times by our holy religion, but it is said that no one has ever been willing to use it?"
Zhang Xiaofan heard this, but became curious, said: "Why?"
Baguio sighed, and said: "It is said that this incantation was comprehended by a wise female patriarch from the "Book of Heaven", but it can only be practiced by women. The curse is extremely powerful..."
Before she finished speaking, Zhang Xiaofan interrupted her, with contempt in his eyes, he said: "Then it's called 'Li Xue Curse', what about the infatuation curse, demon heretics, arty!"
Bi Yao's face changed, but then he was stunned again, and said in a low voice: "You are right, even an old lady like Mrs. Jinling, isn't it useless in the end?"
Zhang Xiaofan ignored her.
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The two stayed here for a few more days, Zhang Xiaofan went to read "Book of Heaven" in his spare time, while Bi Yao was often dazed by the words on the stone wall which she called "The Curse of Infatuation".
In the first volume of "Book of Heaven", there is actually no practical method of cultivation, and the entire text is difficult and difficult, which can be regarded as the general outline. But Zhang Xiaofan has learned the true teachings of Buddhism and Taoism, and he can still understand this passage, but only understand it.
Zhang Xiaofan still couldn't figure out the realm of the integration of Buddha and Taoism mentioned in "Book of Heaven". Could it be that he wanted to combine and perform the two true methods of "Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao" and "Da Fan Prajna" at the same time?
Although he knew that there was little hope of surviving, there was always some temptation in his heart. Zhang Xiaofan quickly tried to cultivate according to the directions mentioned in the "Book of Heaven", but it is not easy to use these two great methods at the same time, within a moment he was already full of energy and had to stop slumped. For several days, there was no progress at all.
What followed was a bigger problem facing the two of them—there was no food.
People who practice Taoism can go to the sky and enter the sea, but they are still mortal bodies after all. According to legend, the seniors with profound Taoism practiced the technique of bigu, and no one has seen it without drinking or eating. After entering this cave, Zhang Xiaofan's dry food has been lost, although fortunately there is still clear water to drink in this cave, but only Bi Yao brought the dry food, how can there be enough to eat? Even though the two saved again and again, they finished eating quickly.
So I don't know how long I stayed in the cave, I'm afraid it won't be more than two days, Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao stared at the empty food bag in a daze.
"Hey!" Baguio sat on the platform with the pile of dead bones next to her, but she didn't feel any discomfort at all. It seems that the demon girls are really different from ordinary people. But now, she is sad.
Zhang Xiaofan's condition recovered very quickly, the fever almost subsided, except for some weakness in the body, there was nothing serious about it. At this moment, he heard Baguio sigh, and turned his head to look at the demon girl.
What caught his eyes was the woman in water-green clothes sitting on the edge of the platform, with her feet in the air, swaying once and for all, and the acacia bell around her waist "jingling" If it wasn't for this environment and knowing her identity, Zhang Xiaofan almost thought she was an innocent girl.
Just looking at it this way, Baguio is much more haggard than when they first met. At her daughter's house, she still went to the small water curtain to wash and freshen up every day, so she still looked beautiful and didn't feel dirty, but these days, she was obviously thinner.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaofan's heart moved, since he was a child, he has heard the teachings of his masters and brothers, that people in the devil's way are all selfish and ruthless. But now in this cave, why would this demon woman divide half of the food she had for herself
Zhang Xiaofan was lost in thought, didn't notice that Bi Yao looked over, seeing Zhang Xiaofan stared blankly at him at some point, his face flushed suddenly, he said angrily, "What are you looking at?"
Zhang Xiaofan was startled, he turned his head away quickly, and said awkwardly, "No, it's nothing."
Baguio was behind him, but he didn't yell at him as he imagined, after a long time, he sighed, saying: "We are trapped in this cave, we are not far from death, you don't have to do that Restricted."
Zhang Xiaofan froze for a moment, turned around slowly, looked at Baguio, saw her thin but still beautiful face, with a faint and helpless smile, couldn't help blurting out: "Actually, when I was seriously ill, , you don't have to give me most of the dry food, so you can live a few more days, maybe... "
"Maybe it's all right?" Baguio suddenly interrupted him.
Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and said in a low voice, "Maybe you might be saved."
Baguio shook her head slightly, with a slight smile on her face, and said: "I don't want to die, but I don't want to wait slowly in front of a skeleton and another corpse that is gradually decomposing in the dead silence of this cave. Before anyone came to save me, I was afraid that I would go crazy first.”
Hearing the situation she described, Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help shivering, this is indeed not a human life.
Baguio glanced at him and said lightly, "Why, are you scared too?"
Zhang Xiaofan immediately straightened his back, and said loudly: "How can there be!"
There was a smile on the corner of Baguio's mouth, and gradually there was a hint of tenderness in his eyes, and he said softly, "Promise me one thing, okay?"
Zhang Xiaofan frowned, said: "What?"
Baguio smiled faintly, and said: "We have eaten all the dry food now, and there is nothing to eat except some water. I'm afraid we will starve to death within seven days."
Zhang Xiaofan remained silent.
Bi Yao's face was calm, but what he said next made Zhang Xiaofan turn pale with fright as if he saw a ghost: "In a few days, if I can't do it, then kill me first."
Zhang Xiaofan opened his mouth wide, pointed at her, but was speechless for a while! Unexpectedly, Bi Yao still calmly said the unimaginable and shocking words: "After I die, my body is still there. If you want to survive, you can eat my flesh, and you will probably be able to live for a while longer."
Zhang Xiaofan almost fell to the ground.
After a long time, he recovered from the huge shock, and immediately said to himself in his heart: "The people in this demon sect are indeed all monsters, they can even do such things!" But looking at Baguio Her expression was unexpectedly calm, and her heart felt even colder. She couldn't help taking a step back, and the fingers that pointed at her almost trembled, and said, "You, what are you talking about?"
Bi Yao looked at her, the tenderness in his eyes seemed to be stronger, but in Zhang Xiaofan's eyes, it seemed to be more poisonous than all the poisons in this world combined.
"Don't you want to go back to Dazhu Peak in Qingyun Mountain to meet your senior sister Ling'er? You still have a few fellow disciples who are in this ancient cave of ten thousand bats. They will definitely come to you. The longer you live, the more they will Isn't the hope of finding you greater?" Baguio lowered her head slightly, but her tone of voice was still so flat.
But Zhang Xiaofan didn't care about her tone at this time, he didn't even notice how she knew about Senior Sister Linger, he just pointed at her and said angrily: "You, you actually told me to eat, eat, eat... you guys These demons heretics are simply unreasonable! Shameless, disgusting, I, I... you, you... "
The more he spoke, the angrier he became, but his tongue was not very bright. He said "I, I, I" and "You you you" for a long time, but he didn't say anything. However, his reaction seemed to be expected by Baguio, she was not angry or ridiculed, but just stared at him blankly for a while.
When Zhang Xiaofan's panting gradually calmed down, she slowly said: "Eat me or not, that's up to you, but you must kill me first!"
"It's coming again!" Zhang Xiaofan said angrily, "Don't think that I will join forces with you demons, you give me some dry food, and I will use this body to pay you back. If you want to drag me into the water, you must definitely not!"
Baguio slowly shook her head and said, "No, I'm afraid."
Zhang Xiaofan said habitually: "Nonsense! I will never be fooled by you... Eh, what did you say?"
As if at this juncture of life and death, Baguio's mood had an unprecedented change, she seemed to be trapped in some kind of memory, a fear that Zhang Xiaofan had never seen in her appeared on her face, and then, she heavily He shook his head, as if trying to get rid of some thoughts.
"Do you know what it's like waiting to die alone?" She whispered.
Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, faintly aware that she seemed to have something else hidden, curious, said: "What?"
The muscles in the corners of Baguio's eyes seemed to twitch. At this moment of facing death, facing this young man who was the only one who accompanied her in the face of death, she was unable to control her feelings. Even her voice was hazy and vague. Kong Kong: "When I was six years old, my mother took me back to the 'Six Fox Caves of Huqi Mountain' to see my grandma. Unexpectedly, at that time, you were struck by the righteous way. Among them, the magic weapon of the Pufang evil monk in the 'Tianyin Temple', the Buddha Golden Bowl ’ The entire six-fox cave was shaken down, and my mother, grandma, and I were buried alive in the ground.”
Zhang Xiaofan's body suddenly trembled, a trace of bad premonition, even a kind of chill came from his heart, from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet.
At this moment, Baguio seemed to be completely immersed in painful memories, her eyes were staring straight ahead, empty, just like her tone of voice, flat and empty, but with the deepest pain: "At that time, I was so scared that I cried Crying, terrified. There was a small cave there, and we were able to survive because of the support of a few big rocks, but my grandma was seriously injured and passed away soon. My mother and I cried bitterly in the darkness. On the spot, I buried my grandma’s body.”
"We were buried deep in the ground. Except for a few drops of water coming from the cracks in the rocks, there was a piece of hard and cold rocks around. I was very scared, but my mother kept telling me: Xiaoyao is not afraid, Dad will definitely come to rescue us of."
At this moment Zhang Xiaofan held his breath and listened carefully, with a trace of indescribable weirdness and faint fear, as if he felt that something was about to happen.
"However, it was always dark there, and my father never came. In that dark cave, I was very scared, hungry, and kept crying. I still remember that my mother sighed beside me, He hugged me tightly in his arms and kept saying to me: Xiaoyao is not afraid, Xiaoyao is not afraid, mother will not let anything happen to you, your father will definitely come to save us!"
Bi Yao's face gradually turned pale, but she continued to say: "But, Dad still didn't come, but I was so hungry that I kept crying to my mother for something to eat. My mother looked for it in the cave again and again. , but I never found anything. In the end, I was so hungry that I didn’t even have the strength to cry. I just lay on my mother’s arms and moaned. Suddenly one day, my mother found a piece of meat!…”
Zhang Xiaofan saw Baguio trembling almost at the same time as she was speaking.
"I was so hungry that I didn't care about anything. I ate and fell asleep comfortably. At that time, my mother also laughed in the dark. In this way, my mother came to me every once in a while." A piece of meat, I survived like this, but my mother’s voice became weaker and weaker. Finally, one day, I called her, but she didn’t answer, and from then on, I waited to die alone in the dark.”
Bi Yao turned her head slowly, looked at Zhang Xiaofan, Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help feeling chills when he saw her eyes.
"Do you know what it's like to die alone? Do you know the smell of your mother's corpse slowly decomposing right next to you? Do you know what it's like to be forever blinded by your surroundings, living in constant fear? "
Every time she asked a question, Zhang Xiaofan's body trembled.
Bi Yao was silent, but Zhang Xiaofan didn't even dare to take a breath, finally, she seemed to wake up from a dream, but she didn't seem to wake up, she continued in a trance: "Finally, one day, suddenly, the shot above her head There was a light, and I screamed in fright, and hid in the deepest corner. Then, the light became brighter and brighter, and the hole above it became bigger and bigger. I heard my father calling my mother and me by name. Then, I saw Dad jumped down and stood in front of me."
"He didn't look at me first, but saw my mother first. When the light was on, I was so focused on looking up that I forgot to look at my mother. When I remembered, my father blocked me and I couldn't see my mother's body. But I clearly saw that my father was shaken, his whole body seemed to be turned into a stone, and then, Uncle Qinglong, Uncle Baihu and Uncle Xuanwu who jumped down with Dad, were all stunned in place, motionless."
"Suddenly I was very scared, even more scared than I was waiting to die in the dark. I called softly: Dad. Dad turned around slowly, and the three uncles stood in a row behind him, blocking mother's I still can't see my mother's body. I asked in a low voice, "Father, where is mother?"
Zhang Xiaofan could see clearly, every time Bi Yao uttered a word, his body would tremble, as if the girl who asked the question was right in front of them.
"Father didn't say anything, but his face was so scary. Although I was young, I knew, I knew, he really wanted to kill me, my own daughter! But he didn't do anything after all, he He saved me, hugged me in his arms, and left the dark cave. Before I left, I secretly looked down from my father's shoulder. My mother's body had been buried by three uncles, and only one hand, but I don't know why, that hand, that hand, that hand..."
Bi Yao's voice suddenly fell silent, Zhang Xiaofan was taken aback, looked at her, but saw that Bi Yao's face was pale, eyes closed, her whole body fell straight down, she seemed to have passed out. Zhang Xiaofan rushed up almost subconsciously, and supported her, only felt that the tentacles were cold, almost not like a living person.
He had just recovered from his illness, his body was weak, it took a lot of effort to put Bi Yao on the platform, looking at her pale face, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly realized that his whole body was completely drenched in cold sweat.
That night (actually, I don’t know if it was night, but Zhang Xiaofan intuitively thought it was night), Baguio was unconscious all the time, but in his dream he kept yelling “Mother” and “Father” from time to time, and the positions of the two suddenly changed. It turned upside down and became Zhang Xiaofan to take care of her.
It seems that this is an extremely painful past in Baguio's heart. In a coma, he screamed several times, dripping with cold sweat, Zhang Xiaofan was at a loss, until finally, Baguio waved his arms unintentionally, grabbed his shoulders, and snuggled up against him. In his arms, as if he had gained some support, he gradually calmed down and fell asleep peacefully.
But those hands were tightly gripping Zhang Xiaofan's clothes, even his nails got stuck in his flesh, Zhang Xiaofan grinned his teeth in pain, but for some reason, looking at Bi Yao's pale face, he couldn't bear to leave, forced himself to bear it Come down, let her snuggle into his arms and fall asleep peacefully.