Square inch by Kyushu

At this moment, it is afternoon, the sun is high and the sky is clear, but no one in Qilian Village is wandering outside. The whole village is as quiet as a tomb, but there are countless pairs of living people hiding behind the windows and trembling with eyes.

This time it was still Gu An, Li Muge, and Ji Yiran who stood at the entrance of the village, but this time the difference was that there were dozens of elites standing behind Ji Yiran.

"I said that resources are shared, and I will never break my promise." Ji Yiran did not keep his promise to Li Muge, but to himself.

"Naturally, I will do what I say. Don't worry, General." Li Muge looked at the other party meaningfully, with a smile on his lips.

Ji Yiran stretched out her hand to pat him on the shoulder, expressing that she certainly believed it.

Li Muge nimbly flashed the opponent's hand, and said with a smile: "The enemy is better to be careful at the moment." He is not interested in having intimate contact with a "poison".

Ji Yiran snorted coldly, and stood with his hands behind his back, noncommittal, since he didn't feel at ease anyway.

Gu An did not say a word from the beginning to the end. Although he was watching with cold eyes, he had a bad omen in his heart.

Li Muge and Ji Yiran seemed to have made some kind of deal in private, and for some reason, this deal made him feel deeply uneasy on his intuition.It seemed that he wanted to resolve the matter in front of him as soon as possible so that the two of them could be completely separated.

The man in black stood opposite them, watching them "you come and go", but he didn't say a word.

Standing face to face with him for the first time in the sun, Gu An found that although he was tall, he was as thin as a stick. Under the wide hood, the skin on his face was as pale as a ghost and withered as wood.

This time he didn't follow any evil thing behind him, he just stood alone with a bow.

"Where is the village chief?" the black-robed man suddenly asked. Although his voice was hoarse and low, it was gentle and gentle, and it didn't seem to be coming from such a ghastly and weird appearance.

The village chief who was hiding under the window of the house, who was concentrating on it, began to tremble when he heard this, and finally curled up into a ball and slid down the window sill to sit on the window base.

"I'm the village head." Ji Yiran stepped forward and raised her phoenix eyes, full of provocation.

"I've met the village chief. You don't look like him at all, but you look like..." The black-robed man snorted sinisterly, and Gu An stopped him just as he was about to utter the words.

"It's true that he's not the village chief, but he can do everything you need to find the village chief."

Li Muge looked at Gu An amusedly, and said in his heart: If you pretend to be ruthless, you will pass the show.How much more do you have to hide for him?

"I'm afraid he can't do it for you." The man in black slowly raised his head, his sharp eyes fixed on Gu'an.

"Since I can't do it for you, can I ask for it? Dare I ask why you are looking for the village chief?" Ji Yiran took a step forward and stood in front of Gu An, with a clear sense of protection.

Although he only had a little doubt about his identity, even this little doubt made it hard for him to let go.Just because he will never forget the moment when he lost Gu Yanxi.

The gaze under the black robe turned to Ji Yiran, only to hear his voice without a trace of warmth, as if the sky was gradually darkening, and the sunlight was weak: "I'm only here to fetch something today, not to take someone's life." The implication is I don't want to cause more trouble, let the other party cooperate quickly.

Ji Yiran couldn't help laughing loudly after hearing this, he had never been threatened in any way since childhood.

"What if I don't let you take it?" The moment the last word was uttered, several hidden weapons were fired at once, the barbed thorns first, followed by the poisonous needles. The needle goes straight to the opponent's fatal point.

"It's a handsome hidden weapon, but the 'Ten Buried Strategies' only taught you superficially, and the 'Yujun Cen' who taught you the art of poisoning is solid enough, not only teaching you all the money, but also 'promising with your body'."The black-robed man disdainfully threw all the hidden weapons that had just struck on the ground like scrap iron.

"Senior has good eyesight, I admire you." Li Muge stepped forward and bowed, with an angry look that I would dismantle Ji Yiran's stage as long as it was yours.

So An Wenyan was startled, it turned out that the person from the Demon Cult who was staying next to Ji Yiran was dumb Jun Cen?

But hadn't he been buried in that Jianghu massacre long ago?

"It's enough to deal with you with fur." ​​Ji Yiran yelled, more and more poisonous hidden weapons than before were released, when did he, who has always regarded himself so high since he was a child, ever suffer such humiliation?

But in the next moment, there was no perfect ending where the man in black turned into a sieve and died, nor did there appear the embarrassing scene where the hidden weapon was easily intercepted again.

Only a gust of wind blew by, and all the hidden weapons disappeared out of thin air in an instant that was out of reach of the naked eye.

Everyone was a little dazed, thinking it was a black-robed man's sorcery, so the vigilance in their eyes deepened, and the fear also deepened.

The black-robed man standing across from him didn't make any excuses, and the pale face hidden under the black hood was still weird and difficult to discern.

"General, the power of sorcery is irresistible to ordinary people, so don't get too entangled in it." Gu An stepped forward in time, setting a stage for Ji Yiran and smoothing the scene.

Afterwards, many elites echoed behind him, and Ji Yiran turned pale.

"Say it here, I think the village chief who is hiding in the house can hear it, I limit you to send all of Qilian's personal belongings left in the village before evening. Then send the room I asked you to leave It was all burned to ashes. If I didn’t see what I asked for before evening, this arrow would not have been shot here!” As soon as the words fell, a bloody arrow shot out of the air and shot straight at the village chief. In the village house where he was hiding, he pierced through the window and shot into the village chief's bun in an instant and nailed it to the wall.

No one saw how he set up the bow and drew the arrow, and no one saw clearly how the arrow was shot. No one even saw the scene in the house at this time, but heard the village chief's scream of being out of his wits.

Hearing the sound, Ji Yiran and others immediately ran to the village house where the village head was.When I kicked open the door to look, I saw that the village head had fainted from fright after being nailed to the wall by a long feather, and there was a puddle of yellowish water stains under his body.

Ji Yiran frowned and waved his hands. Immediately, some of his subordinates stepped forward to "take care" of the village chief, while he quickly exited the house with his sleeves covering his face. When he turned around, the black-robed man had long since disappeared.

"Do you think the village chief will wake up before evening?" Li Muge glanced helplessly at the village chief who was so frightened that he rolled his eyes. Li Muge's eyes showed infinite sympathy.

"You don't have to wait until evening, I can wake him up right away." Ji Yiran said coldly.It seems that this matter is getting more and more difficult. Would it be much easier if Yan Xi was there?Thinking of this, he calmly glanced at Gu An beside him—could such a pale, haggard and frail person really be him?

"It's windy, I'm weak and afraid of the cold, go back and get some clothes and go back quickly." Gu An shrank, turned and left.

As soon as the front foot left, Li Muge said: "I have a secret weapon that may come in handy in a while, so I'll go get it." After saying that, he followed up.

Ji Yiran sneered on the spot, and thought to himself: You better really have it!

When Li Muge came to the house, he didn't push the door open, but stopped outside the door to watch.

I saw that Gu An collapsed to the ground after not taking a few steps, a large pool of blood spewed out from his mouth, which splashed on the gray ground and turned into ominous black spots.

Li Muge's left hand desperately grabbed the right hand that was about to open the door, and he gritted his teeth to restrain the urge to go in and help him up.

At this time, the time has not come, and at this time, he really doesn't have to be a good person in vain.

Gu An, who fell on the ground, blood continuously surged up fiercely from the depths of his throat, drowning all senses, leaving only the salty smell in his chest.

The internal organs are also attracted together by a huge gravitational force. It seems that they are all displaced and squeezed together in an instant, and finally become a huge meat ball with heart, liver, spleen and lung embedded, and layers of insect eggs are attached to the center of the ball. Crazy erosion from the inside out.

Thinking of this, his stomach churned even more, and he vomited out together with blood and minced meat. This vomit seemed to take half his life, and he almost passed out.

Sweat had already soaked him, and at this moment, his whole body seemed to be lifted out of the water, which was really horrible.At this moment, a thin layer of thin skin was vaguely lifted from the hairline on his side, and as the cold sweat continued to ooze out, it became bigger and bigger, gradually revealing the white skin like jade inside.

Seeing this scene, Li Muge outside the door was a little short of breath, his always cynical smiling eyes were now stern and frightening.Although she always knew that he was only wearing a mask, and although she always knew that he was Gu Yanxi, she still wasn't Gu Yanxi in her eyes.

Now that they are finally meeting again after many years, he wonders if the answer he gave himself will be shaken?

Gu An also felt the strangeness on his own face, and when he reached out to touch it, he was shocked.With a wry smile, it seems that the treasures of the "A, B, C, D" of the No. [-] disguise family in the world are nothing more than that.

Forced to endure the pain and calm down, Gu An immediately closed his eyes slightly, but his ears on both sides moved slightly, his "ear kung fu" was exactly the same as Ji Yiran used that night.Li Muge immediately held his breath and hid his tracks. Fortunately, the other party was suffering from illness at this time, so he naturally avoided the "search".

After making sure that there was no one else around, An immediately crawled to the edge of the bed.Every movement is painful, but it seems like a century has passed for him to crawl through this short distance. When his fingertips touched the edge of the bed, he finally breathed out, and then pulled the edge of the bed with all his strength. Move to the bed.

While moving vigorously, several iron objects slid out from the cuffs, and it was Ji Yiran's hidden weapon that hit the black-robed man for the second time.

Li Muge smiled coldly outside the door, and he knew it was him.At the same time, the fingertips were deeply embedded in the palm to draw the blood.Is it jealousy?How can jealousy be jealous when it is so superficial?The sneer gradually turned into self-deprecation, the self-deprecation turned into bitterness, and the bitterness turned into anger...it must be hatred, unforgettable hatred.

At this time, I saw Gu An groping inside the bed board for a while, took out a pill and put it in his mouth, and then quickly moved his legs cross-legged to adjust his breath.During this period, the mask gradually peeled off with the sweat, and a face as white as snow and as clear as jade gradually appeared.

The eyebrows are ink-stained spring mountains, the eyes are like the moon reflected in the cold river, the nose is straight and the lips are light, seven parts heroic and three parts cool.What an unrivaled splendor that tops the world, what a beautiful Jiyue that I have not seen for many years.

It has been ten years since I saw this face again. Whether it is familiar or unfamiliar, only endless thoughts are left in the end.

Gu Yanxi, Yanxi, Yanxi... Li Muge closed his eyes and kept chanting silently in his heart. He took a step forward and turned around before his feet landed.

Now that this life is over, why bother to increase the obstacles in vain?

At the same time, Gu An suddenly felt a pain in his heart, and his true energy instantly dissipated into his internal organs for a long time... "I'm back so soon, what about Gu An?" Ji Yiran put down the clothes he was looking through, and looked behind Li Muge.

"I'll be back after picking up the things. Gu An suddenly had a stomachache and went to the toilet." Picking up the pile of clothes, Li Muge also looked at it.

"Where's your 'secret weapon'?" Ji Yiran stretched out his hand, beckoning him to hand it over quickly.

"Secret weapons are so important that they can't be announced until everyone is present. It's better to have fun alone than to have fun with everyone." Spreading out his folding fan, he took advantage of the opportunity to push away the other party's hand.

Ji Yiran glanced at him coldly, then simply withdrew his hand to see what tricks he was playing.

"Wow, although this dress is old and the style is very simple, but the texture is superior Suzhou embroidery, people who can afford it must be either rich or expensive. And look at the craftsmanship of this jewelry box, it is definitely from Wanbaozhai, a century-old shop Handmade by craftsmen of Tianzihao, the jewelry inside is also very expensive..." Li Muge turned to look at the village head at this moment, "How can you bear such a valuable thing and not turn it into a waste?"

The village chief, who was in shock for a while, heheed twice, and said embarrassingly: "To tell you the truth, in fact, the whole village has this heart since my father was the village chief, but in my generation, I don't have the courage. And this It was something left by a 'snake girl', and was closely watched by the 'black robe man'. Besides, we can't leave the village, and it's hard for us to trust people who come in from outside. After a long time, we won't think about it anymore. This is a windfall, but it is regarded as a kind of unreasonable disaster.”The village chief couldn't help but sigh.

"Snake girl?" Li Muge and Ji Yiran said in unison, and frowned in disgust at the same time after hearing each other's voice.

"Yes, I saw it when I was very young. Although the impression is very blurred, I vaguely remember that night when the fire was shining into the sky, a woman's skin was weak and cicada wings, and the blue and red blood vessels under the skin were clearly visible, like layers of snake scales. Yu was like a giant snake hiding in his body, she fell in the fire that day and kept wriggling, her eyes were yellow and bloody, her mouth was fangs, and her fangs were terrifying." Speaking of the situation at that time, the village head still had lingering fears, fat and fat. His body couldn't help but flinch.

"I don't talk about strange powers, and the snake girl's theory may also be caused by 'gu poison'." Gu An said as he walked in the door. He had changed into a blue cloth shirt, his long black hair was casually rolled up, and his face remained the same. Pale but quite refreshed.

"Gu poison? Sure enough!" Li Muge and Ji Yiran had no choice but to pretend that nothing happened at the same time again.

Gu An chuckled lightly, shook his head and said: "In the past, there was a kind of Gu poison in the Tianmo Sect called 'Longying'. The skin of the poisoned person became thinner and the meridians became thicker, the eyes were cloudy and yellow, the teeth were long and pointed, the limbs were weak, and the temperament changed drastically. The situation described by the village chief just now."

"Brother is really well-informed, but isn't General Li better at this matter of poison?" The implication is to mock Ji Yiran's question with him just now.

"Forgive me, there are tens of millions of Gu insects in the world, if they can be easily identified, know their habits and effects, then the Gu cultivators will not be feared by others, and the Heavenly Demon Sect will no longer have to mess around in the rivers and lakes!" Ji Yiran swore that sooner or later he would Will personally solve this pariah who always fights against him!

Li Muge smiled and did not fight back, but gently picked up a jade bracelet from the things he was looking at just now, pointed it at the sun and shook it slowly, the bland bracelet suddenly became radiant and radiant , and cast a row of light and shadow on the ground, with the change of the angle of the jade bracelet, it is transformed into a half-line of poetry——Seeing each other as if not seeing each other, why is love like ruthlessness?

"I remember that this kind of craft is called 'Tiang Tianguang', which is the unique skill of 'Qiaotian Palace', the number one jeweler in the north. It was first supplied to the royal family of the Xiang Kingdom in the previous dynasty. It seems that the black-robed man is inseparable from the Ji family. .”

Li Muge narrated his own analysis, and refuted Ji Yiran's questioning of his "knowledge" with practical actions.

After Ji Yiran heard this, her heart immediately sank to a bottomless depth.Not because of the verbal dispute just now, but because of the "royal inside story" revealed by Li Muge at this time.Of course he knew that the man in black was inextricably linked to his royal family of the Ji clan, but that didn't mean he wanted others to know too.

"Brother Li, you have good eyesight." Although he hated in his heart, he smiled on his face, and he had already made up his mind to silence him as soon as the matter was finished.This person is really too clever.

"After the Shengge is over, the wine is just waking up, and the moon is slanting and the people are quiet in the deep courtyard. It seems that they are resentful couples who miss each other but don't know each other." So An recited the last two lines of the poem on the bracelet, and changed the topic at the right time.

"Listening to my old brother's chanting is full of emotions, it seems that there is a feeling of sympathy and sympathy for each other?" Li Muge turned his head and asked, his eyes were layered and he seemed to be asking: Are you and I the same?

He had a sincere look on his face, but he was sneering in his heart: If you want to change the subject for him, then I will change the subject to you.Even so, the overly realistic questioning seemed to be tinged with some truth.

Gu An was caught by this gaze, all the past came to mind, although his heart was hurting, but his face was expressionless, he just said: "This is just a momentary feeling, Brother Li, don't put on a hat or wear it."

One of them pretended to be enthusiastic and the other pretended to be indifferent. After repeatedly exchanging tricks between warm-hearted and cold-faced and cold-hearted and hot-faced, they could only tacitly be buried in a bottomless secret cave with each other.

When Ji Yiran saw this situation, he felt it was extremely dazzling, so he interrupted: "If you want your children to grow in love, you two might as well go back to the house and talk again, Li Muge, now everyone is here, and the conversation is almost the same Now, it's almost evening, if you don't take out your secret weapon, I'm afraid the lives of the whole village will be lost in half."

Hearing the words, the village chief was so frightened that he lost all blood. Kneeling on the ground, he kept kowtowing to Li Muge, and kept shouting, "Heroes help, heroes help!"

Li Muge hurriedly supported the village chief and said, "Don't get excited, don't get excited, don't get excited!"

Then he took out a white jade porcelain bottle, and handed it to Ji Yiran with a mysterious expression.Gu An had a look on his face that he knew.

"The name of this thing is 'Thousands of Fragrances', and there is no other person in this world who owns this thing except me." The corners of Li Muge's lips turned up, and his words were not without pride.

Ji Yiran played with the body of the bottle, a trace of disdain flickered on his lips, and he thought: Is it the king's land under the whole world, is it the king's subjects on the shore of the land, after I rule the world, is there anything in this world that I can't have?At least half of the country is in my hands now.

At this time, Li Muge's voice sounded again: "This substance is colorless, odorless and cuts off the six senses. We only need to put a few drops on it, and the enemy will be able to tell us the truth!" He took the porcelain bottle back, uncorked the bottle and directly poured liquid poured on those clothes.

"Then brother Li will follow in secret for a while, so be careful." Ji Yiran couldn't believe that with the skill of the man in black, he couldn't detect that there was a big living person behind him.snort!If people overestimate themselves, they can only seek their own death.

"The general is worrying too much. Why do I need to do this kind of trivial matter myself? I have my own reasons..." Hearing this, Gu An glared at him, but Ji Yiran waited for him to finish his sentence before rushing back: "So General Anben is another There are arrangements, you can find someone else!"

Li Muge burst out laughing, and teased, "I said 'the butterfly behind me will do it for me.' Why should the general be nervous?" At the end, his tone suddenly dropped, and the teasing turned into vague hatred .

While speaking, the moment he stretched his hand behind Gu An's ear and brushed away the other's hair, he saw two ice-blue butterflies leaping out, fluttering their bright wings and scattering sparkles.

Ji Yiran seemed to be captured by this dreamy blue in an instant, and those usually cold and proud phoenix eyes were lost for a moment.

Gu An calmly looked at Li Muge's smiling eyes, and saw that the beautiful butterfly wings left a gentle arc in his eyes, like a pool of blue waves flowing quietly through it.

I didn't expect to see this pair of butterflies again, it was still so thrilling.Smiling helplessly, Gu An raised his fingertips and reached for the butterflies, only to see the pair of butterflies hovering twice carefully perched on the jade-like fingertips, shaking their wings a few times before gradually coming to rest.

The fingertips were slightly itchy, so Gu An smiled, revealing a row of white jade teeth, and a pair of eyes shining like stars.

This person and two butterflies stand leisurely, instantly refracted into a beautiful ink painting in the afterglow of the setting sun, every stroke is full of style, every part is full of meaning, eloquent, setting an unexplainable blank space for the other two.

The village chief who was standing aside had already been stunned, and couldn't help but let out an exclamation.It just happened to pull the disturbed two back.

"Aren't you going to show off the origin of your pair of 'rare treasures'?" Gu An looked at Li Muge and said strangely, with a look of disbelief.

No matter how many times he has changed in his heart, he still smiles with crooked eyebrows, "Am I so like a flaunting 'upstart'?"

Gu An shook his head and said, "Although he doesn't look like an 'upstart', he deserves his reputation as a 'show off'."

"Since that's the case, I won't pretend anymore." He stretched out his hand to lead the butterfly back, turned to Ji Yiran, and said very proudly: "General, my pair of butterflies are called 'Bright Goddess Butterflies', and they are rare ones I found from Western countries." Species, looking at the Central Plains, there is absolutely no second person. In order to follow the Romans, I gave him a new name, 'Lan Yuan'".

With a cold snort, Ji Yiran said: "Unique again? It seems that brother Li has a strong desire to monopolize? Then do you want to dominate the world and become a ninety-five lord?"

As soon as he said this, he meant to be sarcastic, but unexpectedly, the other party answered seriously.

Li Muge tilted his head and thought in embarrassment, "Hehe, to tell you the truth, I have thought about it, but later I felt that since ancient times, there are many kings, and it is more joyful to travel alone in the world and travel through the mountains and rivers."

"Superficial, for the king, the power is over the world, every inch of the world is in his hands, and no inch can be freely roamed. But you are a commoner, which one you really own, and which side you can roam freely." He is aiming at the world with a great cause in his mind, but how can the emperor's dominance for thousands of years be understood by ordinary people like you?

With a casual smile, Li Muge sighed helplessly: "The superior person lives to keep his career and dies to prosper the people, but he doesn't know that although this world belongs to him, he also belongs to this world. Although all the people are controlled by him, he is also controlled by the people. Confining each other and imprisoning each other, in the end, a thousand-year hegemony is just a dream, and the supreme kingship will eventually disappear in smoke."

Ji Yiran was rendered speechless by his refutation, and it was quite embarrassing to be stunned on the spot for a moment - but he never thought about it that way, since a long time ago, he saw his father galloping on the battlefield to compete in the world, and he believed that a man must succeed in life A great cause, and a great cause in troubled times should rule the world and command the heroes.

"If everyone thinks like you, who will govern this vast land? Who will care about all the people in this world? A man who establishes the world must have the world in his heart and keep all the people in his heart, and solve the catastrophe of the world and save the people from the fire and water If you are born only greedy for leisure and happiness, have the talents of latitude and longitude but only for your own selfishness, and have a beautiful body but no ambitions, then you are an 'accomplice', and it is even more abhorrent." Zhuji made Li Muge unable to refute for a while.

"The old brother's words are not unreasonable. It's just that people are not sages, and some things can only be judged by different people." Li Muge suddenly didn't want to continue this topic, so he changed the subject: "There are this pair of blue abyss butterfly larvae in Qianzhuxiang. The fragrance of the plants that live there, so we can follow them to find the lair of the man in black as long as we wait until midnight."

"It's getting late, hurry up and pack up your things and wait for him at the entrance of the village." Maybe because he also realized that he was too sharp just now, so An immediately turned away everyone's attention.

"Let's send it to the village chief in a while, it won't easily arouse suspicion." Ji Yiran looked at the village chief coldly.

Hearing the words, the village head immediately begged for mercy: "General, please forgive me, little one, little one..." At the end, he couldn't help crying.

"Why are you so useless?" Impatiently interrupting the village chief's begging, Ji Yiran flicked his sleeves and said, "If you go, I will protect your life. If you don't go..." He pulled the other party's collar vigorously , he said fiercely: "Death is certain."

The author has something to say:

I didn’t update it yesterday and made it up on a large scale today!