Chapter 49
Chapter 49
Lockholes or keys grow out of people.
If you use a keyhole to open the keyhole on the human body, the person will become something else, thus achieving complete death.
The paper house deed drifted to the ground like a ghost, Lin Qingquan picked it up.The people around him were fixed in place by Mumu, much like ice sculptures, ice sculptures as impeccable as Mumu.
Lin Qingquan held the house deed, but did not look at it, and kept his eyes on Mumu, "It seems that everyone is in your realm, don't you find it strange? You see, you can control and manipulate anyone, even animals. But I haven't seen you transform into a realm from the beginning to the end, and I don't know what your realm is."
He was half-joking, but the speed of his speech revealed his earnestness, "As long as I can know what you look like, I can die immediately."
Mumu frowned, "Qingquan, don't always talk about death."
"The true colors of your parents before they were alive are something that wise men of all ages can't comprehend. Just like the house deeds in your hands, you never thought that you were a living royal family before." The monk stepped on a pool of blood on the ground, and the corpse of the guard lay on him feet.
Lin Qingquan said to the bloody monk, "Why don't you recite a mantra for the dead?"
The monk smiled indifferently, "Compassion is the one-sided cognition of Biqiu from the outside world."
"Then tell me what comprehensive cognition is."
"The wise man." The monk replied earnestly, "The wise man should have the most comprehensive cognition. Wisdom is the source of compassion, and because of wisdom, one will choose to be merciful to others."
"You may not have much wisdom." Lin Qingquan was merciless, "After all, you can't see any mercy from your face."
"Because they died well." The monk was very calm, "So it's a happy death."
"Nonsense." Lin Qingquan shook the house deed a few times, "Where does the joy come from? This nobleman even eats human flesh in order to get rid of his magic power. I think he wants to live very much."
"He died where he deserved to die, why not joy and mourning?" said the monk, "like a moth dying when it touches a fire, like tasting the delicacy of puffer fish and dying of poison, like falling in love with the gentleness of a wandering girl and getting flowers Death from illness... Humans must die of happiness to prove how happy they are. Any price lower than death is not enough to prove this level of happiness!"
He gushed.Looking at him, he said, "Is that why you put keys and locks in people's bodies?"
The monk's face suddenly became ferocious, but Ting Mu Mu continued calmly: "You are a demon, I recognized it at the first sight."
Under the moonlight, the cyan cassock transformed into silk thread, the bald blue head was entangled with black hair, and the tall and slender male skeleton was loosened and reassembled.In this way, the monk changed back into the appearance of a maid in a deconstructed form.
"Even if I love her, sometimes I want to be myself at night." The devil said with emotion, "When she was not transformed into a devil, she often came to the pagoda temple to offer incense and make offerings to me... Maybe at that time, I was already tempted Bar."
It rolled its eyes and landed on Mumu, "It's like you are also attracted to the host, aren't you? We are the same."
"He's different from you!" Lin Qingquan was displeased, "He's very kind and doesn't know how to kill people." He felt that it was inappropriate to say that, "Even if he kills people, he kills the wicked people who deserve to die."
The demon shook his head and smiled lightly: "When I was a monk, I also regarded killing and death as important things like you when I became a monk. But after becoming a demon, I gradually realized that killing and dying are just very simple phenomena, not worth it. It is so serious to be seen. Killing and dying can be done by anyone, and it can be done in a short time. Such low-level behavior."
Lin Qingquan raised his head slightly, "What is your realm?"
"Happiness. Since the devil must kill, let people die worthwhile. All the people who are expected will enter my world, and keyholes will grow on their bodies; correspondingly, those who hope for them will have A key grows in it, and after a while, the key will fall off naturally. Use the key to open the keyhole, and the desired person will become the object of desire of others at the cost of death, fulfilling their wishes and bringing happiness to others.”
There is light in the magic eye, "Even if I want to kill people, I also want to bring happiness to mankind."
"You evaded my question." Lin Qingquan said, "You are talking about how to kill people with the world. I want to know what your world looks like."
"Not to be said."
"Why can't you say it?"
"Because it exceeds your cognition." The devil said, "Most of the realms of high-spirited devil embryos are high-level, and it's normal for people not to perceive them. If the level is too high, even the devil itself may not be able to perceive it."
"Is there a way to feel it?"
The devil's face is full of mystery, "There is a way to allow you to perceive all things, including the realm of the devil of course."
"What is it?"
"Out of phase."
The word appears a second time.Mumu asked, "What is separation?"
The demon laughed loudly and said, "Great Buddha and Demon Embryo, I admit that you have great supernatural powers. But you have to understand what separation is, and you are still too far away."
It looks back at the still tower temple.The glazed wind chimes hidden in the eaves and the tower spire above all things come into view. For it, everything is one. "Being attracted to her means that I am no longer worthy of being a Buddhist disciple. Letting the key come out from the right side is my right Buddha's final tribute."
The demon disappeared in an instant, just like before.
Mumu lifts the order for everyone.The black ants-like subordinates all scattered away.
"You let them go like this? Are they alive?" Lin Qingquan became anxious, "The one who died this time was the emperor's younger brother, and you even broke the hearts of the guards in front of them, if you don't silence..."
Mumu reached out to wipe the blood from his mouth, and then stared at him, "Don't you feel any pain?"
Only then did Lin Qingquan realize that he was in pain everywhere, especially the corners of his mouth and cheekbones were numb from the pain, and his mouth was full of rusty taste.
"It really hurts..." Lin Qingquan wiped the broken corner of his lips, "But it's not as painful as you inflicted on me. In terms of pain, you have to do it."
Mu Mu pulled him to the edge of the grass and pointed to a dark ant nest at the root of the grass.
These black ants are huge in shape, and their oily and watery shells are like polished inkstones. They silently carry, fight and entangle in corners that no one will pay attention to.
"They're all here, they're not going anywhere else."
"who are they?"
"It's those people just now." Mumu said, "I designated the direction of their reincarnation as the ant path, and if they accelerate their reincarnation, they will become ants."
Lin Qingquan was intimidated, "You have this ability...then you can punish whoever you want, and you can do whatever you want?"
"All of this is based on the premise of entering the boundary." Mu Mu said.
A black ant crawled up the grass veins to his fingertips and stung him.Without frowning, he gently flung the ant back into the grass, "Even if it turns into an ant, the habit of killing still won't change."
"Then what will these ants reincarnate after they die?"
"Look at their own good fortune." Mumu said, "I only intervene in their life, and I will not interfere with their fate in this life. Maybe they will reincarnate from ants to humans again."
He is upright, and the contours of his face are also upright, and there is a noble temperament between the raised eyebrows.Inspired by him, Lin Qingquan stood at attention, "Let's go to see Mingtaro now and tell him about the demon. This time the demon is too strong and must be controlled by the shogunate."
Mentaro's place is easy to find.
In the Imperial Palace, among the buildings decorated like Buddhist temples, only the people of the shogunate lived in the house.
Mentaro's house is specially built.The royal family, which lived by the shogunate, did its best to build houses in places with the best feng shui and arrange the most beautiful servants and servants.
There are heavy guards in front of the house.An attendant came out with a lantern and was overjoyed when he saw the two of them, "Doctor Xiaolin, why are you here? My lord is changing clothes, and I am going to pick you up personally!"
"I have something important to ask Mr. Mentaro, please report."
"What a coincidence! Your Excellency said that he also has something to look for you."
"What's the matter with me?"
"I'll have to ask my lord himself about it. It should be an important matter. He looks worried, which is very rare."
Entering the house, through a series of colorful Ukiyo-e doors.There is no need to push or pull, and a kneeling maid behind the door opens naturally.Walking from one room to another is like an endless cycle of colorful lights.
Finally at the end, I saw the shirtless Mentaro.
Mentaro looks good, but the shoulders on both sides are covered with dense keyholes, the keyholes are so tight that there are almost no gaps, and the silver is extremely bright, like dragon scales growing against the skin.
Visually, there must be at least two hundred keyholes.The density made Lin Qingquan's hair stand on end.
As the son of the shogun and the future ruler of Edo, countless people are eager to get something from him, and this kind of result is predictable.
He also has a key in his right armpit.Mentaro is hoped for at the same time as he is hoped for by others, so he is a person who has both a keyhole and a key in one.
"It's been a long time, Xiaolin's family and benefactor." Due to the imminent disaster, when Mingtaro saw Lin Qingquan and Mumu, he couldn't spare the energy to wonder why they were here.He was imposing, but his voice trembled like a moving fruit core in his throat, "I... I have entered the realm again."
He put on his clothes stiffly, and muttered, "How could I enter the world when I was in the room all day?"
"As long as someone wants something from you, you will enter the realm." Lin Qingquan explained everything, "...When the key opens the lock, you will become what that person wants. To be honest, Someone in the imperial residence has already died like this, and he is the emperor's younger brother."
A plump face is revealed in the bottom of my heart.Mentaro knew him, but he was in no mood to take care of others at this time.
He paced anxiously, pulling out the samurai sword he was wearing with grief and anger, "I will pass away soon. Rather than dying of magic power and making the shogunate laugh at the world, it is better for me to disembowel myself!"
Lin Qingquan stopped him, "Don't worry about dying. It suddenly occurred to me that there is a way to not die, and that is to separate the person with the keyhole from the person with the key. As long as the key and the keyhole never meet, people will not die." die."
Mentaro's face softened a lot, "Doing this... is there really no problem?"
"This is just a temporary solution. If you want to solve it completely, you still have to kill the demon."
"It's okay to postpone it." Mentaro wiped his sweaty forehead, "How do you plan to implement the isolation that your Excellency said?"
"Investigate one by one." Lin Qingquan said, "In the next few days, please ask all the people from the Imperial Palace to come over. I need to see everyone in the house. Those with keyholes and those with keys live separately and do not come into contact with each other. .As for some with both a lockhole and a key, you need to live in a separate compartment."
Mingtaro said: "Not to mention the small size of the Imperial Palace, every street in Edo is very crowded. Countless refugees cannot be resettled, and I am afraid that they cannot provide enough rooms and accommodation."
The conditions were realistic and harsh, Lin Qingquan lowered his eyebrows.
Mumu said, "It is enough to prepare a large room to isolate people with keyholes."
"What about those who have long keys?"
"I seem to be able to help." Mumu put his hand on Mingtaro's right shoulder, flipped the back of his icy white hand, and took out the key from Mingtaro's right flank, "I can take out a human body the key in it, like this."
"This, this..." Mentaro couldn't close his mouth in surprise.
"You are amazing!" Lin Qingquan's eyes sparkled with excitement.A strong sense of pride was palpable in him, but there was something else, more earnest.
"Qingquan and I looked inside together, and when we saw someone grow a key, we took it out." Mu Mu said, "Deprive all the keys, and deprive the conditions that trigger death."
Lin Qingquan thought for a while and said: "Since you can control the key, what about the keyhole, can you just remove the keyhole from the person?"
"No. I can't control the person who enters the boundary." Mumu said, "The condition for entering the boundary is to be expected by others. Therefore, only people with long keyholes enter the boundary. People with long keys are just containers for murder weapons. Not in the circle. So I can still control people who have keys, including the key in their right armpit."
Mingtaro nodded and said: "Only the key is enough. Everything is carried out according to benefactor's idea."
He wears a folding fan and a sword on his waist, and his gestures have the determination of a warrior family.If a person is determined and earnest, his words and deeds will make people feel that he is full of sincerity.
Eyebrows raised and eyebrows raised, "Aren't you suspicious? Anyway, what I do is not like a normal person."
"No. On the contrary, I admire you very much. I am a samurai of the Tokugawa family, and the family has always believed in power. In this chaotic world where magic is rampant, the shogunate hopes to find someone with great power to turn the tide and reverse the situation." Mentaro saluted , "Your Excellency is the person we are looking for."
"Even if it's not like ordinary people?"
"Even if you don't look like an ordinary person, I don't think you are a villain." Mingtaro said, "I never asked, what is your name?"
"Just call me Mumu."
Mentaro was puzzled, "But it doesn't look like a formal name."
Mumu smiled, "It doesn't really matter what my name is."
"Very important." Lin Qingquan suddenly interjected, "His name is Hei Mulian, and he has his own name."
Hei Mulian was surprised, and turned her head to meet Lin Qingquan's enthusiastic gaze.
He has lived too long in this world as a creature without an identity, holding a shady identity.Therefore, the affection and desire for Lin Qingquan also grew in the dark like bacteria that cannot see the light.
However, Lin Qingquan's calling of his real name is like a shining badge hanging on his chest.Lin Qingquan's approval is his ID card.
"My name is Hei Mulian." He confirmed, "The past, present and future are all Hei Mulian."
Mingtaro made a sincere kneeling salute, "Master Kuroki Ren, I will call everyone tomorrow. Please leave everything to me."
On the way back to the wedding room, Hei Mulian was very happy.
Like a long shot in a movie, his gaze was fixed on Lin Qingquan.At this moment, he especially wanted to get close to him, to touch his tender and warm skin, so that he could confirm that this person was real, and thus confirm that what he had said was also true and effective.
After finally walking under an empty tree, he ignored Lin Qingquan's screams, locked his hands and pushed him against the tree trunk.
In the thick and dense beech treetops, two birds sang and flew away.
Lin Qingquan chuckled, there was nothing but innocence in his eyes, "What are you doing?"
"Nothing, I just miss you." Hei Mulian said.
"But we've always been together."
Hei Mulian didn't make another sound, and raised her hand to touch his eyes.
This is his birthplace, and also the place where his avatar is placed, in other words, the place where he reunited with Lin Qingquan.
So looking into those eyes, he sees his birth, his desires, a condensed version of himself.
To peek at Lin Qingquan is to peek at himself.
"Qingquan," he reminded, "Qingquan..."
Lin Qingquan clenched his sweating hand, "It's me."
"Qingquan, I like you... I like you so much, I have liked you since a long time ago!" As soon as he faced Lin Qingquan, Hei Mulian's heart beat faster, like a knee jerk reflex, which became a purely physiological reaction, "I like you again You yearn for your flesh and blood, you want to swallow you alive, but you wish to give your life to you... There are hundreds of times every day that I am almost driven crazy by you!"
The sudden confession scared Lin Qingquan, "Are you in heat again?! No way, how long has it been... Don't tell me you won't be in heat all day!"
"No..." He restrained himself a little, "I'm just so happy."
Lin Qingquan breathed a sigh of relief, "Scared me, I thought you were going to eat me like this."
Hei Mulian was a little disappointed, "Are you still afraid of me?"
"To be honest, I'm afraid." Lin Qingquan said, "When you pressed me against the tree, I felt that I was not far from death, and I almost wanted to run away."
"Do you want to run?"
Lin Qingquan thought for a moment and said: "You looked scary just now, but every time you eat me, you are scary. I believe in you, but sometimes I don't believe in the instinct of demons."
Hei Mulian felt sad, "Then, will you...run away from me?"
Lin Qingquan stared at him, then suddenly grabbed his collar and kissed him.On a cold and dry autumn night, only the two of them were warm and humid.
"I won't run away." Lin Qingquan said softly, "Mumu, don't worry."
The two fought and walked back to the Japanese room. The first thing they saw was the yellow cloth with the pattern of auspicious clouds. The wooden steps from the front of their feet to the Japanese room were obviously a temporary new carpet.
"The descendants of the gods, the future rulers of the imperial court, must step on the auspicious clouds wherever they go." The waiter in the lake blue kimono stood at the end of the carpet, with his hands in his hands, standing dignified and arrogant.
Seeing Lin Qingquan's feet stepping on a yellow auspicious cloud, he couldn't help but frown, "How can you step on a carpet of auspicious clouds that only a son of God can step on!"
Lin Qingquan asked him back: "Who are you?!"
A small head poked out from the door, "Xiao Lin, it's me."
The flushing of this little face had pathological causes, and some kind of emotional arousal.
That inexplicable and stalking little prince is like a weed that keeps growing wildly after being mowed, no matter how hard you try to get rid of it.Now it's at your door again.
Lin Qingquan got a headache, "You come to my humble house...what's your business?"
"Looking for you." Prince Asuka confidently said, "Xiao Lin, tonight, you have to accompany me no matter what."
Lin Qingquan couldn't help laughing, "Why?"
"Because I'm sick." Prince Asuka said, "I'm sick, you must accompany me, otherwise it will be dereliction of duty."
Lin Qingquan walked up the steps, his skin glowed a soft misty yellow under the light, like the light source itself shining brightly in the little prince's eyes.
Hei Mulian had already healed all his wounds on the road, and even his fingernails were glowing bright pink.Only when a person is healthy enough will he let his words and deeds bring a layer of strength, so Lin Qingquan is already the most powerful among ordinary people.
"Let me take a look." He knelt down and observed the little prince carefully. Except for inflammation of the tonsils, there was nothing wrong with him. "Are you exaggerating?"
He became suspicious, and his eyes focused on the little prince's face.The hearts of the pair who looked at the little prince suddenly tugged, pounding like a demon.
"What's wrong with you?"
"I don't feel comfortable anywhere." The little prince promised.He lost the ability to speak loudly to Lin Qingquan.
Lin Qingquan observed for a while, and found that he had a key in his right armpit, but there was no keyhole in his body.
As the heir of the future royal family, many princes will live by him, but no one wants to profit from him.
"Mumu, come here, I think I've misread it." Lin Qingquan called his nominal doctor and attendant to him, "I didn't find the keyhole, are you sure he didn't enter the boundary?"
Hei Mulian met the little prince's resentful gaze, without humility, "No, it's just a cold."
"Sure enough." Lin Qingquan turned around and said to the little prince, "You are already luckier than most people. Strictly speaking, you are not sick at all. You don't need my company. Drink some ginger soup and sleep and you will be fine."
"Impossible! He's talking nonsense! He deliberately broke us up!" The little prince angrily said, "He has selfish motives!"
Lin Qingquan smiled, "There is no such thing in Mumu."
"He just has it!" The little prince jumped up, "If he has it, he has it!"
He was sick from being soaked in cold water for two hours, and almost passed out in the freezing water.Regarding the matter of being ill, the little prince was full of confidence, and because of this, he was full of anger, "I am cold and hot for a while, how could it be possible that I did not get seriously ill?"
Lin Qingquan's expression changed, "Serious illness? Do you know what a serious illness is? Some people left a pile of debts and died in order to cure the disease, and some Jiuju bed pillows lived worse than pigs and dogs. You are a pampered prince. Just say that you are seriously ill when you order something cold, so what are those seriously ill people? Are they living ghosts?!"
The little prince panicked, and quickly coaxed him: "I...I didn't mean that, you...don't be angry."
"I am not angry."
"Then you will stay with me tonight." The little prince was excited again, "Warm me up, serve me tea and water, wait on me to dress and boot, sleep with me until noon, wake me up , have lunch with me, give me medicine after eating..."
"It's impossible. I have something important to do tomorrow, and none of the requirements you mentioned can be met."
The little prince said angrily, "What's your business?"
"Exorcism." Lin Qingquan backed away, fighting side by side with Hei Mulian, leaning against him vaguely, like a confident cat.
"Who are you going to be with tomorrow?" The little prince felt cold in his heart, and pointed his finger at Hei Mulian unceremoniously, "It won't be this person again, right?!"
Lin Qingquan provoked a smile like thistles.This smile stung Prince Asuka, the dull pain was long and long, like a thorn that couldn't be pulled out and could only be left to fester, "Who else but him."
"I don't want it!" The little prince yelled brokenly, "I don't want you to be with him! I don't want me, I don't want me, I don't want me!"
"It doesn't matter whether you want it or not, this is an order from the shogunate."
"Then I'll go to the shogunate to cancel the order!" The little prince jumped up like a round spinning top.
"It's useless. I'm going to be with him tomorrow." Lin Qingquan said heartlessly, "Even if the order is cancelled, it has nothing to do with the order."
"Do you have to stay with him?!"
"Yes." Lin Qingquan remembered the promise he made under the tree just now, "What you have promised to others, you must do."
"Xiaolin Qingquan!" The little prince's eyes welled up with tears, "Why...why does he let you reject me again and again?! I am the Son of God, how can I not be more noble than him? What is he that can compete with me? ?! You tell me tell me tell me!"
Lin Qingquan was very angry.He is a person with a strong sense of boundaries. All the people and things that he puts into his self-boundary seem to have become one of his organs. Whoever moves his organs will fight desperately, "What are you talking about?! Don't think that You are a child and I will bear it."
"Forget about Qingquan, let's go in, don't be angry." Hei Mulian put Lin Qingquan's shoulders, and the two of them flew past Prince Asuka as if passing through the air.It's just that suddenly, for a split second, the little prince looked sideways at each other, their eyes met, and they could understand without saying anything.Seeing his aloof face, the little prince was like a mirror looking at himself, and he had the same thoughts about Lin Qingquan as he did.
"I won't let you go!" The little prince grabbed Lin Qingquan's clothes, "I won't let you go with him!"
Lin Qingquan laughed back angrily, "This is not over yet, is it?"
"I just don't allow you to go..." The little prince choked up when he got angry, stuck Lin Qingquan's leg like a dog's skin plaster, hugging him without letting go, tears streaming down his face, "I want you to accompany me..."
Lin Qingquan thought he was dirty and annoying, and wanted to move his foot back, but Prince Asuka went to hug him again.
While pulling, his hand swept across the keyhole on Lin Qingquan's back, at this moment, he felt the pain of being stung from his fingertips, extending to his right armpit.
Prince Asuka was stunned for a moment, the world around him seemed to go away like a hallucination, leaving only a voice in his empty head:
Xiaolin Qingquan is mine, and there is a key that can make him my own; this key is hidden on my right side, and it will fall off after seven hours.From then on, Xiaolin Qingquan is no longer the Xiaolin Qingquan who hates me now, but Xiaolin Qingquan who is tailor-made for Asuka, who is extremely gentle to me, and who can let me do whatever I want.
He had an epiphany.As long as the person with the key touches the keyhole made for him, he will be enlightened, and in an instant he will have an epiphany of what to do next.
"Okay, then I'll go." The little prince seemed calmer, "Before I leave, I want to ask you: Why did you choose him and not me?"
"Because he is kind." Lin Qingquan said, "He is kind, upright and strong."
"He's a big evil, he's a bad guy who leads magic! Even so, you think he's good?"
Lin Qingquan was very upset, "He is not a bad person, nor is he the kind of evil that others think..."
Asuka quickly covered his ears, raised his head to look at Lin Qingquan, and suddenly, as if going crazy, grabbed his palm and bit it.
He was too unexpected and determined, like a mad dog who won't let go.It wasn't until Mumu pushed him away that Lin Qingquan's hand was freed.
Lin Qingquan was bitten until he bled profusely.Hei Mulian looked at the deep imprint and the blood gushing out, and at this moment she felt murderous.
"If this bite can make you stop bothering me, it's worth it." Lin Qingquan was injured but didn't care, his eyes were cold.
"Don't even try to get rid of me, the two of us are endless!" The little prince shouted, "It's endless!"
He ran out after uttering harsh words, and the medical attendants who were waiting outside also left.
Hei Mulian quickly healed Lin Qingquan's injury.He was very angry, but he didn't say a word, he just looked at Lin Qingquan's hand without saying a word.First of all, he was angry that Lin Qingquan was hurt, and secondly, his own action of biting was done by others.
Anything that bites, eats, eats, or hurts Lin Qingquan should be done by him, right?
Lin Qingquan fell into his arms, leaned on his shoulder and said, "Are you angry? Didn't you tell me not to be angry?"
Hei Mulian didn't say anything, just grabbed his waist in silence.
"Qingquan, you were right just now." He said, "Actually, I've been longing for you all day, in every way."
Lin Qingquan's face became hot, "We really have to find the three artifacts quickly."
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