Ring

Chapter 58

At that time, it was the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, and the Central Plains had long since lost its former prosperity.The ruler closed the country and was intoxicated in the dream of the heaven and the kingdom, but he didn't know that the disaster was coming.It wasn't until the artillery fire of the Eight-Power Allied Forces blasted the gate of the Old Summer Palace and looted everywhere in the beautiful summer palace that everyone woke up like a dream.They used warships one after another to load up beautiful stolen goods in an attempt to sail back to China, but all this fell into the eyes of Jiang Zeyue, who had just arrived.

Although Jiang Zeyue looks gentle and weak, as an onmyoji who is loyal to many powerful shikigami, she is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and she has a clear love and hatred in her bones.Unaccustomed to the burning, killing, and looting of these western robbers, Jiang Zeyue attracted strong sea winds and monstrous waves, and submerged this warship full of treasures in the moody sea.

Not long after, a Western woman came to the door.The makeup on her face was exquisite but not gaudy, and the corners of her raised eyes were painted with dark red eyeshadow.The color of her lips was almost dark red, and there was a hint of seductiveness in her sharp eyes. The French logo on the dark green military uniform proved the identity of the invader.

Jiang Zeyue frowned slightly.Having dealt with gods and monsters for many years, she sensed the aura from the other party that was different from that of a living person.Sure enough, the woman declared herself her family, the corners of her lips were full of insolence:

"I'm Natalie Neve Van Milion Bathory, a member of the vampire family." The woman raised her eyebrows and smiled, but pulled out the long knife at her waist, "Japanese onmyoji, you shouldn't meddle .”

"Master said that if you see injustice on the road, you must draw your sword to help, and I should act regardless of the situation or reason." Jiang Zeyue called out the Shikigami monster with him, "What's more, if you do many injustices, you will kill yourself. The French invaders, Do it for yourself."

The words were not speculative, and the two immediately started fighting, but they underestimated each other by coincidence.Natalie Neveu did not expect that this young onmyoji would subdue so many powerful shikigami, but Jiang Zeyue did not expect that this western vampire would be one of the five great families of the blood clan and the descendant of the Bathory family. .

That battle lasted three days and three nights.Natalie Neveu kept reciting black magic, and Jiang Zeyue also commanded the shikigami to fight against her.It's a pity that she is a human after all, not as powerful as a vampire.At the end of the battle, when Natalie Neveu slashed at her with a long black knife, she was powerless to fight back.The black pupils reflected the shining blade, Jiang Zeyue tightly closed his eyes.However, beyond her expectation, the piercing pain never came!

She opened her eyes in surprise, but saw a white figure floating in front of her.He just gently stretched out his hand, touched Natalie Neveu's heart, and pierced her heart with his fingertips.At the same time, the sharp blade pierced his body with a black breath, but no blood fell.All she could see was the figure of that person being gradually swallowed by the black aura.Jiang Zeyue couldn't control her tears from falling, but she couldn't utter a single word.I can only watch the person who thinks about it day and night gradually turn into a little bit of phosphorescence in front of me and disappear into the air.

Onmyoji turned his face to the side, looked at Jiang Zeyue with tears streaming down his face tenderly, and smiled softly.He opened and closed his lips, as if to say something.Maybe it was because the wind around was too strong, Jiang Zeyue didn't hear it.

Then, his figure gradually dissipated, leaving only a severed zither.

That day, a big fire burned down the summer palace in the east, and the flames soaring into the sky made the dark night red.Jiang Zeyue sat in the fire holding the broken kite.Far away, there were sounds of burning, killing and looting, mixed with the laughter and abuse of the invaders.All the sounds, in the beating firelight, were blurred into the old voice of the phonograph.

Jiang Zeyue quietly watched the flames spread to the surrounding carved buildings, but her thoughts drifted back to the hills far away in Kyoto, where she spent her childhood and youth.She thought of the sound of the master's piano and his words of loss before parting, and she finally smiled.

("You'll understand me eventually.")

In the past, Emperor Keiko hosted a banquet for his ministers on the hills in the southern part of Shenqi County, Iga Prefecture.Emperor Jingxing was very happy at the banquet, so he left the Aegin Zhuzizheng on the mountain as a souvenir, but he didn't know that the Zhuzizheng was no longer an ordinary instrument.It was once cherished by the emperor, so it has a soul, but it was left on the mountain by the owner who didn't know the truth.

Zhu Zizheng, who missed his master, turned into a human form, that is, Fu Sangshen of Qin, the ancient master of Qin in "Hundred Instruments in Vain Bag".He played the emperor's favorite music on the hills every night, waiting for the return of his master.However, he never waited until...

"Master, it took me 26 years to understand that there is a kind of waiting, which is fruitless after all."

"You spent your whole life waiting for Emperor Jingxing, and I also spent my whole life waiting for you."

"It's just that human life is too short. I want to live in this life forever and ever, and kill those western monsters for you."

The fire has completely surrounded the entire room, and even licked the corner of her clothes.The woman in the kimono put down the piano in her hand, tore off the sash, and carefully tied up the broken part.Then, she raised her hand and played Master Qin Gu's favorite piece of music.The harp that had been cut off made a hoarse and mocking sound, and along with the shrill flames, it circled up and spread throughout the burning night sky.

She was burned alive in the fire.

The fire subsided, but her soul was imprisoned in the ruins of Noda.Too much obsession made her gradually lose her consciousness, and turned into a wraith wandering in the capital, blindly looking for Natalie Neveu's kind.After an unknown amount of time, she met a female Taoist priest.

Her Dao talisman briefly curbed her hostility, and restored her sanity for a moment.Jiang Zeyue raised her head in a daze, and what caught her eyes was Fang Ruxue's long hair and a youthful face that didn't match the white hair.

"You are too hostile." The female Taoist priest said, "But is there any grievance in your heart that cannot be resolved?"

Jiang Zeyue lowered her head, looking at her own reflection in the water.The entire face has been burnt beyond recognition by the flames, rotten muscles are stuck to the thick white bones, and there is no shadow of the beautiful onmyoji back then.With this appearance...would Master still know her?

"I don't know... I seem to be waiting for someone... No, I seem to want revenge... My enemy is holding a black knife, and that knife can corrode people's flesh and blood... "

Her words were intermittent, and she looked foolish.

"My name is Wei Siyun." The female Taoist priest looked at her with pity, and said, "Why don't you come with me as a companion. When you remember your purpose, it's not too late to leave. "

Jiang Zeyue nodded ignorantly, quite like a child of a few years old.

"...My name is...Jiang Ze...Yue..."

"Miss Jiang?" Wei Siyun's pale lips drew a beautiful arc.She stretched out her hand to the terrifying grieving ghost: "Will you come with me?"

The soul of the onmyoji hesitated for a long while before placing the scorched, skinny and mutilated palm on Wei Siyun's white palm, and then shook it tentatively.Wei Siyun sighed lightly and smiled:

"follow me……"

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The sun rises and the moon sinks, the vegetation withers and flourishes, and the floating world in the world alternates with each other.Gradually, her parents passed away, and she sat alone facing the sunset for a long time.Jiang Zeyue didn't know how to comfort her, so he mobilized his vague memory and made a few paper cranes with Yin Yang technique to amuse her.Seeing her ignorant and cautious way of ingratiating and comforting him, Wei Siyun smiled through his tears.Her smile is not as beautiful as it was back then, but Jiang Zeyue still thinks she smiles very nicely.

However, Wei Siyun smiled less and less, because her country was in a critical situation, and the culprit turned out to be Jiang Zeyue's motherland.Jiang Zeyue has long lost her impression of her "motherland", and her intelligence has already dropped to the level of a baby.She could only try her best to make Wei Siyun happy, but failed.

Perhaps resentment was no longer enough to support her soul.Gradually, her intelligence deteriorated day by day, and she returned to the appearance when the two first met.Sometimes she would fight Wei Siyun.Every time at this time, those yin and yang techniques that had been forgotten in her mind resurfaced again, often catching Wei Siyun by surprise.

One day later, she woke up briefly, only to find that Wei Siyun was looking at her with very sad eyes.From her talking to herself, Jiang Zeyue realized that because her resentment was no longer enough for her to continue wandering in the world, she would weaken day after day and disappear one day.

She felt that she could not disappear.Maybe it's the reluctance to bear Wei Siyun, or maybe it's the reluctance to bear other things.

On that night, some long-forgotten memories suddenly came alive.Master Qin's gentle face and sad piano sound, the warships of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, Natalie Neve's blade, the fire in the Old Summer Palace...these memories flooded into my mind in an instant.The deep-seated resentment and hatred dominated her mind again, and she lost control of her body once again.

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Everything in front of me turned into white light spots again, dissipating in the darkness like fireflies.At the end of the dream, the woman's weak but happy voice sounded.Her voice was very young and pleasant, but she sighed deeply like an old woman who had seen all the changes in the world for a hundred years, all the flames of war, and all the entanglements of love and hate.

"Young Taoist master, descendant of Si Yun, please save me..."

"Please save me from this endless nightmare..."

"Please……"

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Wei Shenzhi slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw was the white ceiling of the hospital.The familiar smell of disinfectant wafted around, and the golden sun cast brilliant spots of light on the white walls.Even the annoying "tick tick" sound of the electrocardiogram sounds extremely friendly at this moment.Everything seemed to be waving and cheering to him, "Welcome back to the world."