Metaphysics, from getting started to giving up

Chapter 53

Putting on a heavy overcoat to protect against wind, sand and sun, Zhou Yi specially used the blank yellow paper he brought with him to wipe on two cool and cool talismans for cooling down, and wrapped them in the inner clothes under the outer shirt, so that he felt comfortable. some.

Riding on the camel that was tamed extremely docile by the frontier soldiers, that night, he left the city gate and stepped into the desert.

Although Zhou Yi is blind to any modern means of transportation, he has no way of doing it.But in fact, as the chief of Jinshan, he is proficient in the six arts, especially riding and shooting.

In the past, he could even tame wild horses, but now riding a camel is a piece of cake for him.

only……

The desert is too dangerous. Zhou Yi followed the crew of "Song" and only stayed in the Gobi for a week.He was cautious, comparing the stars all over the sky and the compass in his hand, predicting Xie Qianchou's direction and moving forward.

But after the sun rose, Zhou Yi was surprised to find that Xie Qianchou, who had been staying in one place, started to move! ?

There is no star map in the daytime, so his compass astrology can't play the best effect. To identify Xie Qianchou's exact position, he can only head towards the original place first, and wait until the last place where Xie Qianchou stayed. Act after nightfall.

But the longer it dragged on, the more uneasy Zhou Yi felt.

He didn't know how Xie Qianchou left.

If the opponent is following a large force, it is safe to say that there is an experienced Shake leading the way, at least life is safe.But what if...the other party, like him, acted alone?

Although Xie Qianchou is also a member of the Mysterious Sect, in Zhou Yi's view, the mystic arts he mastered are not up to the table at all.

His heart was heavy, and he was extremely worried about Xie Qianchou's safety.

Realizing that he was actually worrying about Xie Qianchou, Zhou Yi's mood became complicated for a while.

This kind of worry seems to be different from the worry when we were friends at the beginning.

In all fairness, he would not be overly worried if the whereabouts of the little junior sister from Jinshanmen who had the best relationship with him disappeared.After all, in his opinion, his little junior sister is extremely intelligent and has profound attainments in mystical arts, so she will never encounter any difficult situations.

And if Ye Minglang disappeared, he might still applaud for a while.Anyway, dead friends are not dead poor, Ye Minglang and him are just acquaintances, Zhou Yi even hates such an overly heartless guy like Ye Minglang.He estimated that he would only report the matter to Jindu Daomen, and then stop asking.

Only Xie Qianchou is an outlier.

Zhou Yi pursed her lips, waiting for the night to fall.

He has always regarded himself very high, and has always maintained a posture of controlling the overall situation, like an arrogant and arrogant god.

But now, in order to thank Qianqiu, he walked down from the altar.

Emotions have always been a mutual compromise between the two parties.

At the beginning, the prince admired him, but he loved power even more. He and the other party walked on the ladder, and the other party never came down. place.

Now, facing Xie Qianchou who had been standing at the bottom of the ladder, he stepped down instead and stood in the middle.

But Xie Qianchou didn't dare to go any further.

The other party was used to being unlucky, and he had no confidence in himself. He was afraid that if he stepped on that ladder, he would fall to pieces.

Zhou Yi is waiting for Xie Qianchou to come up, but if the other party keeps hesitating...

Although he will feel a little pity, he will still choose to stop the loss in time and terminate this first love.

***

Xie Qianchou collapsed on the yellow sand with some exhaustion, allowing the sand to penetrate through the gaps in the armor and erode him.

He clearly remembered that he was still on the set, watching Zhou Yi filming.

After the record board was played, the evil that possessed the heavy body did not end, and still looked at Zhou Yi, making Xie Qianchou a little worried whether the other party would be bad for Zhou Yi, so he was shocked and walked over. I want to save Zhou Yi from the siege.It's just that the knight hadn't walked to the side of the person he wanted to protect, but he was inexplicably absent-minded for a while, and after regaining his senses, he came to such an inexplicable place.

Countless pictures were running in his mind, causing Xie Qianchou to have a splitting headache.

He saw many things in a trance.

And those scenes seemed to be the past that he had personally experienced, but now he has forgotten.

In memory, he was originally the third prince of the current dynasty, but he was not the emperor's own son, but the product of the love between his mother and concubine and the person he loved.His identity is extremely dangerous, if the old emperor finds out, he must die.

Therefore, his mother and concubine took refuge in the current prince.

He accepted the prince's shadow guard training and became the opponent's two-way stand-in.

Prince Chenghui's ambitions are too great, the old emperor is hale and hearty and keen on fighting, at least he can stay on the throne for dozens of years, he can't afford to wait.Coupled with the fact that the current emperor favors the Seventh Prince, and has a hidden intention of abolishing the heir apparent, it makes Prince Chenghui even more depressed.

The other party secretly developed his personal influence, allowing him, the third prince, to create the illusion of a rich man, and then exchanged identities with him when necessary, allowing him to pretend to be the prince to complete some conspiracy plans that are inconvenient to be known to the public.

He thought that his whole life would be wasted away in such a frightening way, but he never thought that in the deep palace, he would meet that noble national teacher who was so elegant and elegant.

The other party seemed indifferent at first glance, but in fact he was gentle and polite.

He hid on the eaves, watching the white fungus who stayed up all night for the prince who pretended to be sick, and then was directly knocked down by the prince ruthlessly.Looking at the unmoving face, but with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes, God knows how much he hates His Highness the crown prince.

If... If the person the national teacher is looking at is himself, how good it would be...

It's just that he understands that he is not good enough for the other party.

Therefore, even if you have extravagant hopes, you don't dare to have extravagant hopes.

and then?

What kind of evil result did such humbleness create?

With his identity as the crown prince, he watched helplessly as the man was given a cup of poisoned wine to death by the enraged emperor.

When the originally straight back bent down, watching the other party fall in the dust, he completely collapsed.

Not to mention expressing his heart, the other party had never even met the third prince until his death, and had no idea of ​​a number one person like him.

In the end, with deep regret and despair, he ignited a sky-high flame on the night of the forced palace.

It's a pity that even if he died, he couldn't look at each other in Styx.

Xie Qianchou finally understood where the nightmare-like illusion that lingered in his mind came from when he was at Jinshan Gate.

That scene was simply something he had experienced before!

And Zhou Yi... is obviously the same person as the national teacher Zhou Jianyuan.

The resentful soul that lingered on the Jinshanmen school grounds and then possessed Shen Du was none other than Prince Chenghui.

This scene in the previous life was probably caused by the prince.

Although Xie Qianchou is far behind Zhou Yi in terms of mystical attainments, he is not a layman who knows nothing. He naturally knows that there is absolutely no way to reverse time in this world.

What I saw in front of me was very likely to be an illusion and confusion, and the real body of the person who was involved in the nightmare should have remained on the set.

but……

Even though he knew that this should be an illusion, Xie Qianchou couldn't bear it, and experienced the despair of seeing Zhou Yi die in front of his eyes but doing nothing.

He must go to see Zhou Yi again, and then say all the things he hasn't said before.

Moreover, he also speculated about the purpose of the prince: the other party was originally a ray of resentment, probably with the idea of ​​imprisoning Zhou Yi's spirit in the environment.Once the spirit and body are separated for a long time, Zhou Yi can only die.

At that time, the other party can completely absorb the resentment and linger in the world forever like the bone princess he saw before.

He will never allow it.

Gritting his teeth, facing the scorching sun, Xie Qianchou continued to march on the desert.

In his recalled memory, he had indeed replaced Prince Chenghui to conquer Ximan in person, and at that time, he was indeed captured by the opponent's general with the king-capture tactic because of poor consideration.At that time, Prince Chenghui sent two mysterious magicians under his command to rescue him.

But now, this is the fantasy world newly created by Prince Chenghui. The other party must know that he is the former third prince, and he will kill him out of jealousy.

"Oops...a piece of paper...a piece of paper, he should be in the imperial city..."

Xie Qianchou was completely exhausted at the end.

He didn't carry any supplies on him, so he could only infer the approximate direction based on the wind direction, and walked in the leeward direction.Severe dehydration and hunger made him unable to move his legs at all, so he could only crawl on the ground and crawl with difficulty.

"Zhou Yi...Zhou Yi..."

He chanted the name of his sweetheart, as if it was a word spirit that would allow him to regain his strength.

however.

The exhaustion of physical strength completely overwhelmed him.

As night fell, Xie Qianchou lost consciousness and passed out, full of resentment and unwillingness, as well as hatred for his own weakness.

This is what he saw when he was awakened by the freezing cold of the desert, and when he regained his thoughts.

He opened his mouth wide in astonishment, thinking that there was a mirage in front of his eyes.

The person who was on the tip of his heart appeared in front of his eyes at this time.

But, the situation is worrying.

***

Zhou Yi wanted to scold the street, and he couldn't help but wonder if he had been with Xie Qianchou for a long time, and the bad luck of this guy who shed tears and saddened him also infected him a little bit.

After nightfall, with the star map and compass location, he finally found Xie Qianchou's exact location.

He just rode a camel for half a night, and finally found Xie Qianchou who had passed out in the desert. Before Zhou Yi could save him, he woke up Xie Qianchou and gave him water, but suddenly bumped into something that made him even more headache. thing.

The desert is far away from the hustle and bustle, and there are countless strange beasts lurking.

During the day, the weather is scorching hot, and these creatures are not divine beasts. They can only curl up under the sand and wait for their prey after nightfall.

Now, desperately, he bumped into an extremely huge sand scorpion.

Thousands of years later, the spiritual energy of the world has been cut off, and the already harsh natural environment of the desert has deteriorated rapidly. Countless former oases have disappeared in the torrent of history.Those rare and ferocious beasts that were originally powerful and proud above the sand and dust were all exterminated.

But now is a thousand years ago, and it was the time when the strange beast group was at its peak.

The sand scorpion was as tall as a person, and it was waving the giant pincers on its forelimbs, showing off its might to Zhou Yi.

The sand scorpion has only hunted and killed animals in the desert. It lives in the depths of the sand sea, and this is the first time it has collided with humans who have broken into the sand sea.

Although it is mentally retarded, it can barely tell that the thing that fell in the sand over there and is covered with a carapace similar to it must be very unpalatable.But the two-legged thing in front of him, and the camel next to him, must be extremely delicious.

Zhou Yi confronted the sand scorpion warily, and the camel behind him trembled, as if he was terribly afraid of the scorpion.

Worried that the camel would run away in fright, Zhou Yi could only temporarily use a sleep talisman to force the camel to fall asleep, and then deal with the sand scorpion.

Seeing the camel fall, the sand scorpion couldn't help rubbing against the sand, making a series of rubbing sounds.

Although the camel is one of its prey, the lethality of the riot is still very huge.But now that the camel has also fallen, if the sand scorpion was a human being, it would definitely feel that it has won.

Zhou Yi took a deep breath, seeing that the sand scorpion seemed to want to defeat him first, and then hunt Xie Qianchou and the camel, so he was temporarily relieved.

He didn't want to accidentally injure Xie Qianchou or the camel while fighting Sand Scorpion.

"It's just a flattened crab..." Zhou Yi concentrated.

He quickly pulled out a piece of Tianlei talisman, and immediately, a gang sword appeared in his hand.There were bursts of thunder around the sword blade, and it exuded a cold silver glow under the moonlight, which made the sand scorpion a little confused about the situation.

The mentally retarded sand scorpion erected the tail needle behind it, swayed its limbs, and rushed towards Zhou Yi frantically!

At the very beginning, Zhou Yi was able to fight with the offensive talismans and sand scorpions carried on his body with the gang sword, but he was worried about the fainted Xie Qianchou and the camel, and the toxin on the sand scorpion's tail needle. Dare to open and close.

Hitting and hitting, he lost the wind and was suppressed by the sand scorpion.

The hard carapace on the sand scorpion had been bruised and bruised by the thunderbolts. It looked bleak, but the attack never stopped.Although Zhou Yi has good physical strength, he can't match this desert overlord.

Finally, he lost his mind due to exhaustion.

The huge tail needle pierced over and directly hit his right calf.

Zhou Yi groaned, and the gang sword in his hand was also blown away by the sand scorpion's tongs, and stabbed straight into the sand near Xie Qianchou.

Holding his injured leg, Zhou Yi gasped.

Oops, the sand scorpion's tail needle is highly poisonous... He obviously felt a little out of breath.

Seeing his defeat, Sand Scorpion excitedly raised the tail needle again——

Swish!

At this moment, a gang sword came through the air and pierced directly into the gap in the sand scorpion's carapace.It suddenly lost its footing and moved wildly.

Zhou Yi was startled, and looked in the direction Gang Jian was coming from, and saw that Xie Qianchou, who had fainted, had gotten up now.

Xie Qianchou, who had already lost his strength, gained strength from nowhere, and with all his strength, he threw the gang sword that fell near him.

The sand scorpion twisted its body in pain, threw out the gang sword, tucked its tail, turned its head and dived into the sea of ​​sand, and fled.

Zhou Yi raised his eyes to look at Xie Qianchou, trying to pull out a smile: "Damn it, you goddamn... finally, finally handsome... ah..."

Seeing him clutching his legs, Xie Qianchou felt a chill in his heart, and ran to Zhou Yi's side scrambling.

He sat on the ground, put the opponent's leg flat on his knee, and took off Zhou Yi's riding boots with trembling hands.Rolling up his trouser legs, he looked at the already blackened wound on Zhou Yi's calf, and his psychological defense almost collapsed.

"I was the one who got hurt...not you...you show yourself, show your crying face to someone." Zhou Yi scolded him.

Xie Qianchou shook his hands: "Does it hurt?"

"You are...you are talking nonsense." Zhou Yi didn't want to talk to him anymore.

Xie Qianchou didn't have time to think, so he buried his head down.

Zhou Yi pushed him away: "What are you doing!"

"I...I," Xie Qianchou also panicked, he was already seriously exhausted, and now he managed to support himself with the courage to protect Zhou Yi, "I want to help you suck out the poison ..."

"...With your IQ, it's a miracle that Chengfeng and Chengfeng haven't closed their doors. You've watched too many TV dramas...you...you still use your mouth to suck," he leaned against Xie Qianchou's arms, already a little confused , "The camel...there is a luggage over there, and there is an emergency...mass sealer in it, stick it on my leg, it should be able to temporarily stop the spread of the toxin...after that...hiss...we'll talk about it when I wake up."

He looked at Xie Qianchou, showing a rare weakness.

"Anyway, I have protected you for so long, so I should...reciprocate...let's go."

The toxin paralyzed Zhou Yi's nerves, and he finally passed out.

Xie Qianchou was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly carried Zhou Yi to the camel lying on the sand.

Qiang Zuo calmly pasted the talisman on Zhou Yi to stop the further spread of the toxin. He took off the sleeping talisman on the camel, and after the camel got up, he hugged Zhou Yi and flipped on it.

In Zhou Yi’s luggage, there is a compass that can be positioned, as well as a water bag and dry food. He eats all kinds of food to replenish some physical strength for the time being. It feels warmer in cold nights.

His heart beat wildly for no reason.

in fact……

I also have the ability to protect Zhou Yi.

Carrying his sweetheart, the knight rode a camel and marched slowly and firmly in the sand sea.